FORENSIC METALLURGY

BATSHIT CRAZY RUDY

2007-08-15T18:55:00.000-07:00

yes, batshit rudy is the only way this guy should be described.

i recall when my girlfriend and i first encountered him. it was at mickey mantle's joint in manhattan. rudy wandered in with a girlfriend and his goombah "pals" for a late night drink.

mantle's joint was virtually empty. my girlfriend and i were at the bar having a nightcap before retiring to the essex house[we were visiting manhattan].

now we became captured by a very inebriated mayor guiliani, his inebriated girlfriend, and his goombah "pals".

it was one of those situations that you hate to be caught up in. there was no way for us to escape that jerk. in fact, mantle's stayed open after hours to accommodate his honor the mayor. and my friend and i had to be captured until he and his entourage finally decided to depart[3AM].

we were pissed. we had an early morning flight to catch. and rudy is not all that pleasant to be around. nor the gunsells that were accompanying him.

i have always operated under the precept that where there is smoke there is fire. so, i would assert that there are hundreds[if not thousands] of stories like this out there in the naked city. and that the msm knows of them.

but fascist bastids that it is composed of, owned by, controlled by, this knowledge will not be related to the sheep.

only at the netroot level can the real rudy be revealed for the alcoholic, philandering, thoroughly dishonest human being that he is.

tear this gangster down from his pedestal.

i feel better now having said this. i shall feel much better when this guy becomes erased from the political lists.

SPIROCHETES

2007-08-14T23:59:00.000-07:00

an interesting form of bacteria.

syphilis is a form of spirochete. as is lyme disease.

i often wonder how much dementia has been caused by spirochete bacterial infection.

i do know this, when my mom, suffering from some form of dementia[alzheimer's] was treated with massive amounts of antibiotics[to combat pneumonia], she became much more sentient. as the pneumococcal infection subsided, and the admininstration of antibiotics diminished, her dementia returned.

how much do we really know about spirochetes and their devastation of the cerebral cortex?

very little i think.

THE MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE VERSUS 09/11/01 MANHATTAN

2007-08-03T22:54:00.000-07:00

this will be my last post for a number of weeks. i am off to the canadian maritimes.

but before i leave my computer behind, consider how the NTSB has responded to the collapse of a bridge[a full inquiry, all debris to be collected for reassembly] and contrast it with how the NTSB avoided such an investigation after the events of the day.

i heard the head of the NTSB call the minneapolis bridge site a crime scene. and that it would be dealt with accordingly.

think on how the "collision with terrain" sites of 11/09/01 were dealt with.

the sites were not preserved as crime scenes.

all the probative evidence was hauled away and destroyed.

no formal investigation was authorized.

in fact, the potus mandated the destruction of the crime scenes and the probative evidence.

i could say so much more. but just watch how this bridge collapse is subjected to more scrutiny than the "collision with terrain" sites of 11/09/01.

lastly, i just caught some usmc gunny with a show on the history channel. he is touring cheyenne mtn, colorado. the home of norad. there was an interesting bit when the gunny was shown the computer screens that monitored every bit of north amerikan airspace in real time.

on that day, the history channel camera aimed at a screen that was focusing on the northeast corridor. i paid a great deal of attention to that. it showed all aircraft flying within a 250 mile radius of new york control.

on 11/09/01, cheyenne mtn personnel watched the events of that day unfold.

to the best of my knowledge, none have ever been questioned. by any entity that would report the results of the questioning to the citizenry.

with this, i close for a few weeks and depart for halifax.

THE SECRET STATE

2007-07-28T22:48:00.000-07:00

ah, the historical concept of the "secret state".

perhaps it would be more accurate to label it the "unknown state". in the same sense that bruce cumings and jon halliday wrote a history of the amerikan invasion of korea[a history also made into a television documentary by thames television] and entitled it, korean: the unknown war.

now, why was that war "unknown"? because the usg wanted it to be, in the main, unknown to the amerikan electorate.

the enablers of this unknowness was the amerikan press[in that era, largely print].

the virtually "unknown" machinations of the amerikan state are the stuffing of the real historical record.

i start the film with president polk and the invasion of mexico. then we move to the corporate attorney, old honest abe, and his clients. a history that goes unmentioned because the statists decided to propagandize the enshrinement of old honest abe, the most astonishing homicidal maniac in the history of the 19th century.

the homicidal, imperial impulse next surfaces in that wealthy aristocrat teddy roosevelt. but, it is verboten to discuss him in this way.

his successor homicidal maniac is that purported "progressive, woody wilson and his counselor from houston, edward mandel house[and finally, his wife edith].

in my view, the stellar "secret state" action implemented by woody was the 1913 establishment of the federal reserve - a decision forced on him by the real gangsters of amerikan history[warburg, loeb, mellon, morgan, rothschild et alia].
decades later, this story goes unrevealed.

then, of course, there are woody's little wars in the hemisphere. the second invasion of mexico. the invasion of haiti, nicaragua, ad infinitum..

and then there was the war profiteers' paradise, the great war. a boon to all those who forced the creation of the federal reserve.

clare, how much further do i have to go?

well, just a little bit further. let us consider fdr for a moment. without going into his gangsterism for a bit, i have always marveled at how so little of his machinations at war profiteering have gone unexamined.

his first game of reinvigorating the secret state involved his deployment of the office of naval intelligence to spy on everyone and muscle any antagonists.

and then there was his recreation of the propaganda mechanism that woody first employed. similar names. fdr's was labeled the office for the coordination of information. it was the secret agency, run by donovan, to manipulate the usa to going to war.

pearl harbor. often described as a "surprise" attack. here again, this description is/has been a creation of the "unknown state".

there could be no surprise attack in 12/1941. the usa, britain, france, the netherlands declared war on japan in 04-06/1941 with the imposition of the trade and petroleum embargo. embargoes are acts of war. it gets little discussion in this very ignorant country, but after that embargo was declared, japan was within all rights to retaliate.

i could say much more about the recognition among the "white" powers that japan was going to retaliate....that the retaliation was more than expected, preparations were made. pearl harbor was no surprise attack.

i shall end it here for the time being.

what comes next, fdr's creation of a future war in korea when he decided to divide a historically undivided country - korea - at yalta. and truman's exacerbation of this war when he allowed the usa to restore the japanese to ruling roles. in addition to bruce cumings history, ORIGINS OF THE KOREAN WAR. long ago, the most accurate history was written by izzie stone, THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KOREAN WAR.

all of the decisions that provoked these conflicts were "unknown state" decisions.

conspiracies. oh, i know, the state prefers to discredit the idea of conspiracies, but i can assure you, that as a student of history, conspiracies are the armature of history. for example....

in the early pages of your book, you mentioned F O MATTHIESSEN. peter's grandfather, i think.

peter was a yalie. not skull & bones. scroll & key i think. and he became an employee of the outfit. and one of his mission's was to create a cultural bridgehead so as to control ideas....his partner was george plimpton. their cover was known as the paris review.

after plimpton's death, npr's weekend edition devoted the entirety of its air to promoting the false history of the paris review. was this the action of the secret state? i think so.

peter came out last year. was that an act of courage? i don't think so. he was being "outed" in a brit journal that concentrates on examining spookdom. if you don't know it, and you care about the influence of spooks on your life, the life of your country, it is known as LOBSTER. it is devoted to studying the secret state.

and then there is porter goss[yalie,book & snake] and the operation 40 group. another bunch of bushophiles that go undiscussed. another group of the secret state.

in my view, one has to go to great lengths to avoid this knowledge. but, most citizens do.

why is that? i have concluded that most don't want to know how corrupt it all is. they just want to get to the end of their lives without being picked up by the state and renditioned to the amerikan gulags.

so it goes

TILLMAN FERTITA

2007-07-28T22:25:00.000-07:00

perhaps some of you out there know of the italian restaurants in manhattan's little italy....where you could eat astonishing amounts of food for very little.

it was a money laundering affair, reportedly.

a few years ago, this scion of a galveston gangster family[las vegas before there was a las vegas], began taking over lots of restaurants. how did that happen? was it the result of the loan-sharking that is all too commonplace in the restaurant racket? i think so.

all those restaurants that borrowed some expensive goodfella money became so troubled that the goodfellas ended up owning their props.

and now, according to the nyt, it seems as if the goodfella may be about to do a bust-out...leaving his financiers high and dry.

tilman was very close to bill & hillary. somehow i think that he was also close to the bushies.

MARKET INN

2007-07-23T20:58:00.000-07:00

do you like crab cakes?

and don't want to make them yourself?

in my investigation into the deen boys' standards, i tried the market inn cakes.

i scored the maryland cakes a B.

thawed and flattened to a patty, i pan-sauteed them on a gas burner at medium.

2.5 minutes a side.

before serving, sqeezed the juice of a wedge of mexican key lime on them.

very tasty.

in my opinion, these cakes needed a bit more lump.

but, these are better than 99% of the cakes you will ever encounter in restaurants in north amerika.

try 'em. i am sure that you will like them.

DREAMLAND BBQ

2007-07-18T21:37:00.000-07:00

a few days ago, i surfed into a foodnetwork show entitled ROAD TASTED.

this is a show hosted by the sons of the savannah queen, paula deen.

on this episode, the boys were in tuscaloosa, at this rib joint. as i watched the rib cooking procedure, i said to myself, there is no way that process could result in edible ribs.

just to confirm that, i ordered up a slab.

now, my factory has at least 4 semi-pro barbequers. we tried these deen-recommended ribs.

absolutely horrible. as i thought when i saw the cooking methodology, they are uncooked.

dreamland ships them purportedly cooked, yet frozen. all you have to do is reheat them.

HAH!

these ribs have not been cooked sufficiently. tougher than a combat boot.

and the "famous" dreamland sauce....another joke.

ERNIE SCHWIEBERT

2007-06-14T23:48:00.000-07:00

as a trout-fisherman, as an entomologist-manque, as a librarian....today is a day of celebration.

volume 1 of ernie schweibert's last work on trout and aquatic insects, NYMPHS, arrived today.

it is the first half of his summa theologica.

i don't recall when i first encountered ernie. but up until that time, i was a fly-fishing nymph fisherman who was ridiculed by the dry-fly purists. even though i hooked[and released] more fish.

in 1973, ernie published his first commentary on these submarine trout delicacies.

it is in my angling library. it is a classic. along with ernie's masterly 2 volume study on TROUT.

now, this is not to say that i spurned the dry-fly. not at all. but i noted as a very young man that trout consumed more insects under the water surface than on it.

in fact, one of my favorite fishing stories was my first foray into new zealand. in the nelson district. and then the lochy in the wakatipu district. in each instance, my spotters advocated only nymphs. and argued against my ever using dry flys.

i loved it when i took a 8 pounder in the wairau on a #20 barbless elk-hair caddis.

and my favorite sty was putting a #12 rockhopper into an outfall into wakatipu on a cold and rainy day. what a hit. it was like saltwater fishing. when the hook struck, a monstrous fish went airborne, and within seconds he had taken me into the backing. the reel exploded. then my 6 wt loomis rod fractured. the fish was gone. i shall never forget it when it exploded out of the water upon feeling the barbless hook....a good 48 inches long. and very muscular. not a normal trout.

in one sense, i hated being beaten up. in another sense, i loved to see that strong desire of a wild thing to be free.

the next day, i fished the lochy only with dry flys. the toughest presentations imaginable. to get into a position for a drag-free dry fly was tough. i think i hooked and released 4 very large fish. and my gillie/spotter was going bananas. he did not advocate the usage of dry flies. why? because he knew that virtually 90% of the trout diet was underwater[nymphs].

at the end of his life, ernie schweibert distilled much of his entomological observations into what will be a large 2 volume set entitled NYMPHS.

if you have entertained the notion that fishing is just an excuse for goofing-off, i suggest that you delve into ernie's disquistion on the natural world, and how it works.

what a great gift to the world this study is. i would have loved to have talked to ernie in his last years. to have learned what he thought about the bushit "sportsmen" and the murdering of the rivers and streams that he knew.

MICROSCOPES

2007-05-16T19:02:00.000-07:00

there are some small pleasures. as i characterize them, there is a god and some times he smiles on you.

one of the finest microscopes ever made was a bausch & lomb pod with an sk stand. out of production for years.

i really need one of these, however. nothing else being made today equals that product.

i have been looking for one of these for some years. today, miraculously, one showed up on ebay.

first time i have ever used ebay. and i tuned in when this tool was within 2 hrs of auction closing.

i think that i was fated to own this instrument.

TOMMY HEFFELFINGER

2007-05-08T22:44:00.000-07:00

let' s talk about tommy heffelfinger for a moment. a member of one of the wheat aristocratic families.

in minneapolis, the hefffelfingers owned and operated the peavey company. their closest friends, the crosbys[general mills], the pillsburys[pillsbury], and the macmillans[the greatest agrogangsters of the age, cargill].

more than republican. they are all fascist bastids. tommy's family law firm used to be dewey, ballantine. as establishment and as fascist as could be imagined.

though infrequently discussed, during the nixon era, these families were some of the financiers/ the launderers of the campaign cash that preserved the nixon incumbency. in concert with the coors family and the stranahan family. to name but a few.

oh, they were also major financiers of the contras.

so, the bushies turning on a heffelfinger is very interesting. but, tommy will keep his mouth shut, i think. after all, in the long haul, the bushies will be advancing heffelfinger family interests.

and tommy should not need the job. he should have quite an inheritance sinecure.

more info that should tell you that the press is brain dead.

NANCY LAMOTT

2007-05-01T22:41:00.001-07:00

listening to her again, tonight, my heart breaks.

she was such a great singer.

and her arranger and pianist, chris marlowe, finessed her so perfectly.

i still laugh at her description of the tavern on the green. where i first caught her.

she had the gift. if you missed her live, you might find her cd's.

SINGERS & PLAYERS

2007-04-30T22:49:00.000-07:00

i have been invited to visit some friends. they asked me to bring some of my fave jass. at the moment, i have been tuned into singers. so, i asked them if they knew....

kenny rankin
jackie ryan
inga swearingen
marilyn scott
maureen mcgovern
elaine elias
robert mosci

they didn't. do you?

and for the unremembered horn player - bobby hackett. probably the most lyrical horn player ever. his instrument was the cornet. no one else has ever taken up that horn - so far, hackett owns it. even pops doffed his hat to bobby's lyricism.

there was this player by the name of wilbur harden, however, who could have been a contender. he made some recordings with early coltrane that are killers. but for reasons virtually unexplained, harden retired. but, if you can find the savoy recordings that he made with coltrane, play 'em. prepare to be blown away.

DON'T YOU CLOWNS HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO?

2007-04-30T22:32:00.000-07:00

i never know what individuals rely upon for information. i used to think that the nyt was a relevant source. but over the last 27 years, either it has devolved or it has revealed more completely its relataionship to the amerikan intell services.

i am mentioning this specifically because of the paucity of its reporting on the torture victims of gitmo. and the nyt is not alone in avoiding the realities of that story.

now, i say this because on sunday morning, i was confronted by one of the most extraordinary radio documentaries that i have ever encountered. it was broadcast on my local[kuhf] pbs station.

it was a show concerning habeas corpus. as prepared by ira glass and his show, this american life[on the net, of course. you can look it up]. i think it was entitled habeas shmabeus. find a way to listen to that broadcast. if you wanted any more proof of the high crimes of this administration, i think that this is the capper.

then there is the "newspaper of record's" coverage of that debate, which included former senator "mike" gravel. i may have missed it, but i did not notice any mention of his presence in that "newspaper of record".

more to the point, i read no mention of the extraordinary goebbelsian bias of the interrogators. for a daily tune-in to the prevarications of today's press, i recommend the daily howler[http//dailyhowler.com]. check bob's review of brian williams in today's edition.

some think that the press[media] has only recently moved into the fascist agitprop mode. of course this is not true. the amerikan press has been running dogs of the fascist bastids for decades. now some may doubt that. but if you have an open mind, you might read how it has worked in the past.

get your hands on george seldes' work. seldes was famous for his reporting on fascist italy. i think his best comment was, "tell the truth. and run."

seldes' inheritor was i f stone. branded a commie by the fascist amerikan right for his reporting that skewered the amerikan fascists, i have found that his reporting, in retrospect, told the real history of the eras in which he reported.

for many, stone's observations so dispute the "official" history, that stone was characterized as delusional. but, trained as a historian, i found his HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KOREAN WAR and his essays on TRUMAN'S incompetencies and gangsterisms, closer to the true scoop than what my high school and college textbooks promoted. it took decades until real, thorough scholarship [bruce cumings: origins of the korean war/korea, the unknown war/war and television] confirmed stone's insights.

suffice it to say, in imperial amerika, historical truth is unwelcome.

i read some regular the other day comment that he had given up on reading. i have found this reluctance to read, to become accurataely informed, all too commonplace throughout my life. i consider it the great crime in this republic. quite candidly, if you don't fertilize your brain, it will become lifeless...your role as a beacon of this constitutional republic will slip away.

health practitioners recommend 30-60 minutes of some physical exercise once a day. to keep the cardiovascular system in tune.

i am a brain practitioner. and i recommend 60 minutes a day of reading non-fiction. history. current events.

if you are lost for a reading list, let me know. i shall be happy to furnish you one.

lastly, today, you can listen to broadcasts that were unavailable to individuals that did not live in certain broadcast areas. you don't have to read. only to listen.

here are a few that i suggest to your ears....

uprisingradio
tucradio
democracynow
drugtruthnetwork
alternativeradio

you can search for the url's.

there is a country to regain. get as knowledgeable as you can is what i say.

why this rant? driving into houston this afternoon, i surfed into this agitprop zionist by the name of michael medved. made me wish that i could jump into the speakers and reappear at his mike and strangle him.

sic semper tyrannis

AM I HAPPY ABOUT THE GOOGLE TAKEOVER?

2007-04-29T23:22:00.000-07:00

NO.

I FORGOT ONE

2007-04-02T23:20:00.000-07:00

THE END OF THE LINE: HOW OVERFISHING IS CHANGING THE WORLD AND WHAT WE EAT.

isbn#: 9781595581099

FISHERIES & WATER

2007-04-02T22:51:00.000-07:00

this will not be my reflection upon my life as a fisherman. that will have to wait for me to reassemble some of my essays...

in the interim, here is a little reading list. books that i think relate important truths concerning this issue.

the first book i found was after my 1996 visit to hobart, tasmania. where i encountered the long-line fishers of the deep ocean fish, the patagonian toothfish. it is a book that confirmed my extrapolations. for your reading pleasure...

THE PLUNDERED SEAS: CAN THE WORLD'S FISH BE SAVED? isbn #: 0871569450.

to the best of my recollection, i first visited the edo bay fish market, tsukiji in the late 1970's. it took my breath away. if you wanted to see how mankind was bartering for the destruction of the oceans, this was the venue. several years ago, the university of california press published a story of this market....TSUKIJI: THE FISH MARKET AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD. isbn #: 0520220242.

for me, the most first hand history of the destruction of the oceans was written by a very wealthy new yorker. a champion sport fisherman. a republican. who was appointed by bush. and who hung out with rockefellers, tysons, etc. all of whom he discovered were really rapists of the oceans.

his memoir is entitled OCEAN BANKRUPTCY: WORLD FISHERIES ON THE BRINK OF DISASTER.

isbn #: 1585747947.

and then i care to seque to the issue of fresh water preservation. the most important study...WATER FOLLIES" GROUNDWATER PUMPING AND THE FATE OF AMERICA'S FRESH WATERS.

isbn #: 1559632232

these books relate verities that the msm, and most of the corporate-owned pols, prefer to ignore.

you will do so at your peril.

THERE IS PLENTY OUT THERE

2007-03-31T22:04:00.000-07:00

that is what the simpleton, reptillian, ben stein says in the advert he does for the alaskan fishery.

eat as much as you want, ben says, there is more out there.

hmmmmm.

is there?

i have been studying the world's fisheries for almost 30 years and i dispute reptillian ben stein.

at a later date, i shall discuss the depredations of the world's fisheries in greater detail.

a history that thoroughly blows ben stein out of the water.

les chansons des roses

2007-03-23T23:35:00.000-07:00

it was 4 years ago. i was driving the back roads from houston to corpus christi. and kuhf aired this piece of morten lauridsen.

it is a knock out of choral music.

tune into it. i think that you will like it.

CONSPIRACY THEORIST

2007-03-23T21:55:00.000-07:00

it is a pejorative construction. intended to throw the individual labeled with that epithet into a hole.

let me make it clear, the study of history is the investigation into conspiracies. that is what history is, in the main, a record of conspiracies.

i have never heard barbara tuchman described as a CONSPIRACY THEORIST. still, her histories concerning the origins of the first great war deal with conspiracies amongst the great powers.

then there is izzie stone. he wrote a very insightful analysis into the origins of our invasion of korea[THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KOREAN WAR]. i recall he was labelled a communist, unamerican, for this analysis. but never a conspiracy theorist. even in the 1950's, he was viewed as a historian, albeit wrong-headed.

oddly enough, in the early 1980's, a princeton scholar and historian, by the name of bruce cumings, under the imprimatur of the princeton university press, published a two volume history entitled THE ORIGINS OF THE KOREAN WAR. in a very real sense, this exhaustively comprehensive investigation validated stone's "conspiracy theory".

how was cuming's analysis/history reviewed by the amerikan arbiters of the record of the past? i think that it was ignored.

was there a conspiracy amongst the cognoscenti, the controllers, to hide historical reality from the amerikan populace? you bet there was.

the story of the united states of amerika-orchestrated coup in chile is another instance of how analysts of that event are labeled, pejoratively, as conspiracy theorists. i would like to think that we all recognize now that nixon, kissinger, and the intell apparat, the military apparat, conspired to effect the coup in chile .... destroying one of the older democratic republics in the western hemisphere.

how do they get away with the labeling of analysts of the events as conspiracy theorists? and this "they" encompasses the right as well as the purported "left". consider how it is that alexander cockburn, noam chomsky, david barsamian, disparage this analysis, those analysts.

who are the real conspirators?

let me mention once again, pete brewton. writing for the houston post, he analyzed the bushit family, organized crime, and the s&l crisis of the 1980's. pretty amazing stories. but astonishingly, oddly written. the lede was always buried. still, it became pretty stinky when the nyt and the wapo continued to ignore his stories. the implication was that brewton was crazed, didn't know what he was talking about. but it got so bad, that the columbia journalism review came to houston to review brewton's sources, notes. this was done with the intention to destroy brewton and his investigation.

well, brewton gave the cjr unlimited access to his files. and afterwards, in print, the cjr admitted that brewton's research was unassailable.

still, the nyt, the wapo, the ap, et alia, continued to ignore brewton's stories.

clearly there was a conspiracy to snuff pete brewton's work.

a similar conspiracy to snuff afflicted bob parry. and gary webb.

an overlooked conspiracy is how the press snuffed alan friedman's investigation into the reagan/bush arming of saddam hussein[SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ].

i want you to get over how the usg lied to you about panam 103. those prevarications were a part of a conspiracy. if you doubt that, here are some resources for you...

TRAIL OF THE OCTUPUS: FROM BEIRUT TO LOCKERBIE-INSIDE THE DIA

COVER-UP OF CONVENIENCE: THE HIDDEN SCANDAL OF LOCKERBIE

PANAM 103: THE LOCKERBIE COVER-UP

i was in ayrshire then. i an assure you that the us press functioned as a pr agency for the usg.

a conspiracy to impose disinformation, i think.

i close this way, if you adopt the position that the usg is always lying to you, you would be correct.

P SAINATH

2007-03-21T22:31:00.000-07:00

at this site...http://www.alternativeradio.org/

listen. he tells the story of how this country is killing everywhere.

EXPLORING MUSIC

2007-03-21T19:06:00.000-07:00

one of the losses in my life was the death of karl haas, whose radio show ADVENTURES IN GOOD MUSIC was a daily friend.

for the last year, i have been listening to EXPLORING MUSIC, the successor.

initially, i didn't think that karl haas could be equaled. this WFMT show is proving that it can equal karl's broadcasts.

over the last several weeks, there has been a concentration on composers for whom i have had a passionate affection over the years. richard strauss, samuel barber.

the close of the richard strauss retrospective was jessye norman singing im abendrot from the vier letzte lieder. too sad that all these songs weren't aired. i have always considered them the zenith of 20th century lieder. if you don't know them, i urge you to know them. gorgeous music sung by a fabulous voice at its peak with the great kurt masur conducting the leipzig gewandhaus.

i recall when i first heard the barber piano concerto. john browning was playing it with the columbus symphony orchestra. i was in high school. the adagio for strings is well known. but i have always considered the piano concerto one of the beacons of american music. along with the violin concerto. bill mcGlaughlin[sic] played a whole lot more of barber's stuff.

if you don't know this show, and it is broadcast in your area of the usa, tune in. it is a wonderful examination of what i consider to be the most mysterious of the deity's gifts, music.

TORTURE

2007-03-20T00:24:00.000-07:00

i think that torture will give you any answers that are demanded. don't you?

after KSM's admissions that he was a party to most of the assassination plots of the 20th century, we now have another poltroon, after months of torture, admitting that he orchestrated the assault on the USS COLE.

who could believe this if they knew anything about that assault?

1. who in their right mind, knowing the anti-imperialist history of yemen, would authorize a harboring of an aegis destroyer in aden?

2. no bomb in a lighter blew that hull. that was an exocet-style missile launched from a shore safe house. who launched it? the mossad or the shin-bet or some other branch of the israeli armed forces.

why? it was supposed to stimulate bill clinton to more acts of war against arabs.

3. the fbi was tasked to investigate. who was the investigator? an agent by the name of john o'neill.

the amerikan ambassedress, a perfervid zionist, by the name of babs bodine, now teaching at ucsantabarbara, didn't like o'neill's investigation.

i am sure that she recognized that he would be discovering that the assault on the cole was similar to the 1967 assault on the liberty.

4. as some of you may know, babs bodine raised such a fuss about the o'neill investigation that he was pulled and the investigation into the assault on the cole was terminated.

5. o'neill left the fbi after someone of his associates stole his computer at an fbi conference. the issue at that time was that o'neill was so negligent that he had to resign.

in my view, his computer was stolen so that the mossad/and its amerikan associates could learn what he knew about the assault on the cole.

6. 11/09/01 was o'neill's first day on the job at the WTC. as the chief of security.

he was eliminated with extreme prejudice that day.

7. oh, i know, you don't think it works that way. but it does.

the best way to cover a "hit" is in a catastrophe.

i urge you to think upon these aircraft accidents....many were killed to obscure the hit of the real "targets".

panam103, swissair111, twa800, egyptair990, alaskaair261. to name but the most recent.

think upon these realities for a moment.

KHALID SHEIK MOHAMMED WAS IN DALLAS

2007-03-17T19:24:00.000-07:00

though unreported, as he responded to the magneto driving his testicles, he was the real shooter that day. in the grassy knoll.

after more turns of the magneto's crank, he related how he shot malcolm.

more turns, he shouted out how he shot martin in memphis.

winding down the magneto, but still being shocked to shitting, he confessed that he was the shooter at the ambassador hotel, taking our RFK.

babbling, he also confessed to being in cholon and "offing" NGO DINH DIEM. and his brother, NGO DINH NHU.

he also confessed to assassinating sam giancana and johnny robustelli.

and george de mohrenschildt.

and it really wasn't jack rubenstein taking out the patsy, he did that deed, too.

it's amazing what we have learned from this man imprisoned at gitmo...

he has confessed to having been a member of the corsican mafia/oas and trying to assassinate president degaule.

he also claims to have been responsible for the extermination of dag hammerskold and patrice lumumba.

yes, it is amazing how the interrogators at gitmo have solved so many of the mysteries of the 20th century.

i wonder, will khalid get a wax sculpture at madame tussauds?

AIRPHONES

2007-03-16T22:57:00.000-07:00

so, when it became proven that cellphone calls could not have been made on 11/09/01, the defenders of the deception promoted the notion that the calls from the aircraft were made from the airphones.

once again, i am compelled to ask, have any of you ever been on a commercial aircraft and used an airphone?

i ask this because i put this issue to some researchers and none knew that in order to make an AIRPHONE call, you must swipe a credit card....the call cannot be initiated until a credit card is accepted.

as the defenders of the usg's prevarications would have you believe it, all one would have to do is pick up the airphone and dial....virtually an instantaneous connection.

doesn't work that way.

as i view the timings of the calls, correlated to the purported timings of the hijacking events, this has to be fictional. consider that on flight 93 a call is completed within a minute of the purported seizure of the aircraft.

since that call could not have been a cellphone call, it must have been an airphone call. but, no airphone call could have been initiated that rapidly.

think on the airphone process....and the timing.

1. the phone is removed from its fixture.

2. a wallet would have to be removed to obtain a credit card.

3. the credit card would have to be swiped and the airphone service provider would have to approve it.

having used airphones, this would take longer than a minute.

4. if approved, then the call would have to be completed.

5. my experience with airphones is that they rarely are operative. and generally, if they are operative, it will take more than 5 minutes to effect a connection. this reality does not jibe with the official timing.

6. since a credit card must be used to make an airphone call, there must be credit card records of these calls. have these been provided? are they available for review?

i seem to recall that verizon, the inheritor of gte's airphone business, refused to make 11/09/01 airphone records available....calling them an invasion of the callers' privacy. is that how it ended?

no telephonic records made public?

VALERIE PLAME WILSON

2007-03-16T22:17:00.000-07:00

valerie wilson was outed not to injure joe, but to destroy the undercover proprietary, her notional employer, brewster-jennings.

brewster-jennings was getting very close to proving the bushit-cheney-mossad links to the pakistani a q khan operations. that is the story that keeps being obfuscated - the nuclear materials trafficking in which many prominent reptillians[perhaps even some demtillians] are engaged.

it would be my guess that at least 1 or 2 brewster-jennings employees overseas have been eliminated with extreme prejudice. it would also be my guess that the bushit/cheney reorganizatin of the cia has resulted in the elimination of any successor research program into nuclear materials trafficking. the mossad and the israeli maffiyah are very pleased.

MICHAEL CUSCUNA

2007-03-16T22:03:00.000-07:00

what a great archivist.

saving, revivifying great jass.

at the mosaic label.

listening to a recapturing of bobby hutcherson's stuff, which i missed the first time, i can only say, thank you.

FLYING IN THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR

2007-03-16T18:41:00.000-07:00

t was a long time ago[1965] that i last flew a baron in the northeast corridor on instruments, on a clear weather day. i was flying from logan to teterboro, then teterboro to columbus,ohio. it was a nerve-wracking flight. lots of traffic in that area, and even though we were on instruments, on a flight plan, we had to use swiveling heads to watch out for vfr traffic. i never wanted to fly in that area again.

by 2001, i am more than certain that the congestion was worse, and that the radio/controller disciplines were considerably more complex.

i might not be getting it accurately, but as i view the "official" scenario, these four aircraft were essentially streaking along in very crowded airspace in a vfr mode. how was it that they were so blessed as to not collide with another aircraft?

it is my understanding that the fbi seized the controller tapes. and that the 911 cover-up committee never heard them. t or f?

if true, it makes me wonder if some of the tapes are controllers vectoring other aircraft out of the way of the airliners off transponder, deviating from flight plans. any thoughts on that issue?

as to the issue of the real skills of these saudi's, at one point i recall reading that they were saudi military trained in the usa...in fact, lived in military assistance housing at pensacola. t or f?

the most interesting stories about some of these saudis is being reported by a danny hopsicker. he has concentrated on atta and his time in venice, sarasota, naples, FL. rudy dekkers flight school and the strange drug-trafficking of wally hilliard[a friend of jeb's]. the msm avoids these investigative bits like the plague...the nyt owns the sarasota paper and refrains from discussing these issues[in fact, they attack hopsicker].

hopsicker's book is entitled WELCOME TO TERRORLAND. his previous book was an investigation into barry seal, BARRY AND THE BOYS. i think his website is madcowprod.com.

if you don't know of his investigation, i recommend it to you. it reveals what may be a significant part of the story concerning that day in september that the msm, and even a lot of the web, works assiduously to avoid.

i care to close this way, 11 september is an interesting date. 11/09/73 was the day that the nixon[reptillian] regime initiated the coup in chile - replacing one of the oldest constitutional republics in the hemisphere with a totalitarian dictatorship. i wonder if the 11/09 date has some significance for "gulps".

can we retrieve this republic? unfortunately, not via the ballot box. the demtillians area as keen on running a totalitarian state as the reptillians.

ZINO FRANCESCATTI

2007-03-14T21:01:00.000-07:00

how is it that someone owns a piece of music?

but when it comes to the beethoven violin concerto, signor francescatti owns it.

no one else comes close.

if you want to hear it, he recorded it on columbia with bruno walter conducting the columbia symphony orchestra.

NO PANCAKING

2007-03-14T20:43:00.000-07:00

don't put words in my mouth.

what my eyes reveal is the "blowing-up" of two skyscrapers[wtc 1,2]. a "blowing-up" that caused them to fall into their foundations in virtual free-fall speed.

if you concentrate on the demolition, i think that you will notice that it is possibly the most extraordinary destruction of a pair of buildings. it would appear to be a combination of techniques, implosion and explosion.

but perhaps the discrepancies of a classical implosion demolition were the consequence of a hasty deployment of charges. perhaps the explosive evidence was created so as to mask the principal mechanism, implosion demolition.

suffice it to say, unless the basements were explosively cratered, the debris from the collapsing would have been 20-40 stories high. but the tower's debris was less than 8 stories high. where was all the debris? a lot of it was explosively pulverized and explosively shot out into lower manhattan, to be sure. but another major component ended up in those basement craters that were created by explosives.

oh, i understand, that you resist this reality. but it is the reality.

i think that wtc 6 is the bell cow for subterranean demolition. there were no fires in wtc 6, it was explosively hollowed out. no debris caused this 'hollowing".

wtc 7 is a classical demonstration of implosion demolition. and everyone in the demolition industry knows it. there is no other explanation for that collapse. and even NIST recognized it...that is why NIST refrained from making any scientific conclusions about that demolishing. and NIST will never render an opinion concerning this building's collapse if it can help it...it prays that everyone will forget.

i close this way, as i have closed in the past.

these manhattan sites were deserving of being secured as crime scenes. and a full investigation of the debris was warranted[ordinarily, would have been the normal procedure]. but that normal procedure was obviated in all the aircraft "collisions with terrain" of that day. on whose orders? on the orders of the president of the united states.

so, instead of collecting the aircraft debris for analysis[as was done with TWA800], the debris in manhattan was taken to the phd of landfills, FRESHKILLS, and buried.

the structural steel was collected, hauled off by CONTROLLED DEMOLITIONS, INC. and sold as scrap to china/india for reprocessing.

by the way, the secure controlling of this steel was so critical that the FBI monitored all the truckloads. any significant deviation from a delivery timing resulted in the firing of the driver. there is the instructive story of a driver who stopped for a sandwich, leaving the steel unattended for a 30 minute interval. this dereliction caused him to be fired.

this has always led me to ponder, were some people at the highest levels of the usg scared that someone might acquire/photograph some of the evidence?

in the history of post ww2 commercial aviation, these 4 collisions with terrain that day, 11/09/01, are the only ones that i know of that were not investigated. and that those investigations did not occur was by order of the potus.

you cannot argue with that.

but you must ask the question, why did the potus not want normal investigatons to occur?

would a real forensic investigation repudiate the usg's fictional story of the events of that day? would it reveal that the aircraft debris did not belong to the aircraft purportedly colliding with the towers? i think so.

anyway, so much more could be said...

but time to cook dinner.

if you still doubt demolition as the modality, you might care to tune into...

911mysteries.com

check out the demolition dvd

and then there is this new compilation of the news footage of that day...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yIgoXQWiSlM

HOW MANY MERCENARIES IN IRAQ

2007-03-14T18:19:00.000-07:00

it was reported today, that according to jeremy scahill, probably the best student of mercs, in an interview on cbc's the currents today, the number is at least 100,000.

why do i bother bringing this up? because someone at the left coaster site went crazy when i used the figure 100,000 - 200,000. he insisted that the figure was closer to 20,000. i found that insistence pretty astonishing - clearly that poster was trying to minimize the roles of mercenaries in iraq.

since scahill also asserts that these mercenaries are not controlled by the us iraqi commmand structure, the big question is still out there: who do the mercenaries report to? george walker bush?

how do they fit into the us order of battle?

hearings need to be held concerning these issues. i have no congressperson that i can write to concerning this issue. i live in metro-Houston. senators are reptiles. as is my congressman.

but, perhaps some of you out there with a democratic rep/senator might write urging hearings into the mercenary issue.

here are some of the mercenary outfits that are operating in iraq...

blackwater, aegis[formerly sandline], dyncorp. undoubtedly there are others.

ERIC GILLEN

2007-03-14T02:25:00.000-07:00

eric gillen. THE BAG. April 2007 Esquire. page 133.

it's an interesting account.

but if floats some FALSE information.

on page 137, for instance, eric gillin says this, " The building burned uncontrollably at up to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit for sixty-two minutes."

sorry, eric, you are way off the mark. temperatures probably never exceeded 650 F[even the NIST report says this]. and as for the south tower, according to NYFD recorded assessments, the fire was confined to only a couple of floors and was virtually OUT before the demolition of the building. in fact, most of the jetA burned outside of the building[as all the photos reveal].

NO 1800 F. NO building burning uncontrollably.

eric continues to tell a false story. on page 141, he says this, "When the south tower came down, the massive concrete floors fell like a giant stack of pancakes..."

really wrong again, eric. you ought to have kept up with the NIST report. though there is much that is wrong with the NIST report, even NIST had to repudiate the falsity of the "pancake" theory.

it is so discouraging after all these years that so much bullshit about that day continues to be written, published.

you and your editor are either uninformed, idiots, or disinformation agents. which is it?

HOMOSEXUALS SHOULD RESIGN

2007-03-14T02:19:00.000-07:00

now, that would put the military's knickers in a twist.

and most of amerika.

when they become forced to realize how the defense of the usa is in the hands of "queers".

ALL ALONE

2007-03-13T00:31:00.000-07:00

no one else sees it my way.

so sad. just a pariah dog.

not.

there are many of us who see the lies of the bushits.

just a few.

http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/

FLYING HEAVIES

2007-03-11T23:59:00.000-07:00

let's talk about flying, mastering an aircraft, for a moment.

i have written previously on this topic. what i had to say then was greeted by the ignorants as some kind of elitist pronouncement. to those objectors, anyone could step into the flight deck of a commercial airliner and fly it.

as i read the comments, flying a commercial airliner is tantamount to flying an airborne automobile. therefore, the purported hijackers, with only limited flying experience, would have no problem in mastering a commercial airliner[on their first flying experience in a commercial airliner, by the way].

now, i never flew a commercial airliner. i started in a piper tri-pacer. then graduated to a beech banana, then a twin banana, a travelair, and finally a b model baron.

each one of these aircraft had its own peculiarities. just because you could fly a tri-pacer did not mean that you could master the bonanza.

to the best of my recollection, mastering each one of these recip light planes, in the 1960's, required some hours of "hands-on" experience. the baron was the toughest to master.

cockpit/flight deck familiarity is an important issue. that has been overlooked. just because i might have hundreds of hours in a light twin, i would have no capability to climb into the left seat of any commercial airliner and fly it.

have you ever observed the "office" of a md80, 737, 757, 767, et alia? i can assure you that my light twin experience would never have prepared me to fly any one of these commercial jet airliners.

so, imagine, the joker who couldn't fly a single-engine, recip, cessna[comparable to my old tri-pacer]. the joke that usg tells you is that this joker commandeered a 757 and flew it into the pentagram.

if you believe that could happen, you have been watching way too much television. or you are a bushitophile. or a zionist.

what is even more discouraging is to learn how fixed the amerikan press is on sustaining the fictions of that day. consider that after all these years, the press/media has never illustrated for you the flight deck complexities of a "heavy" as opposed to the little cessna that hamjour[sic] could not master.

recognizing this, i think that you would be compelled to conclude that the "official" story of that day is a crock of shit.

i wrote this some years ago. posting it at eschaton. wow. what an education. here was this purportedly "leftist" blogspot, and yet, posters there wanted to dispute my disquisition on what is required to fly a commercial jet airliner. the prevailing pov was that anyone could seize and fly a commercial airliner....that airline pilots falsely enhanced the skills that were required to fly them.

were these posters disinformation agents? or just supremely ignorant?

i think disinformation agents. i think that there is an office dedicated to disparaging truth tellers on the net.

i had abandoned this topic. abandoned eschaton. principally because aviation reality did not want to be recognized.

so, why have i resurrected this issue? because i tuned into an interview with john lear at pilotsfor911truth.org today.

john lear has the most certs for aircraft of any pilot. and he says, with a more professional background, what i have said....the notion that any one of the purported hijackers could fly those aircraft is beyond laughable.

and once you understand that reality, then perhaps you will understand how thoroughly the bushit regime has been lying to you about the events of that day.

WHEW

2007-03-08T23:05:00.000-08:00

here is what continues to astound me...why would anyone care about what i have to say about the events of 11/09/01? this site is a virtual backwater. i established it because steve gilliard[all forgotten, i pray for your recovery] erased me from the dailykos site - because i devastated a wrong-headed analysis of his concerning john kerry. and i encountered erasures at eschaton - i had become a troll[in retrospect, that seems to have been the result of my newspaper style of paragraphing].

but,in a very real sense, it is a vanity site.

virtually no one has visited it since i established it.

and then, some weeks ago, i wrote a bit on the leftcoaster site concerning the taliban and al-fresco and the perpetrators of 11/09/01. basically asserting that our invasion of afghanistan was as much a war crime as our invasion of iraq.

that seems to have been a shit magnet.

their vitriol is essentially composed of half-truths and well-crafted distortions of engineering realities.

and it blows me away. why would anyone waste their time deploying their agitprop to injure this backwater site?

even though i think that i reveal truths about that day, why would anyone bother with those truths that i reveal? virtually no one will be reading them?

so, it makes me wonder, does the state monitor the internet exhaustively? and has the state ordered its agents to go after anyone who contradicts the "official" story?

and are coa, coyote, snark usg agents? probably.

so, let us think about that day once again......

1. for me, as a former aviator, the most disturbing aspect of the four "collisions with terrain" was that there was no effort made to secure the collision sites and conduct an investigation. i consider this a conspiracy to obstruct justice, ordered at the potus level. a misprision of a felony, at the very least. in reality, treason.

2. an aspect of the wtc site that always commanded my attention, but mostly goes undiscussed, was the small rubble piles. imagine, multi-story buildings[1,2,7] collapse leaving virtually no rubble. and i say that in this sense, for 1 & 2, the rubble should have been 20-40 stories. how high was it really, no more than 8 stories.

now, why was that? well, for one reason, the towers were deposited into their basements that were blown-away. cratered for 5-10 stories. perhaps even deeper.

but, there is the reality that significant structural aspects of the building were pulverized into dust, small particles.

coa attacked me for saying that virtually all of the concrete was pulverized, turned into dust. and he used steve jones to support that. in one sense, he is correct...in another sense he is incorrect. as steve jones said, not all of the concrete was reduced to dust. according to jones, there were some fragments that measured 5cm X 2cm. not dust, to be sure. but smaller residue than could be expected.

3. the issue of symmetricity. three buildings collapse into their foundations. all within hours. none of them are subjected to any events severe enough or symmetrical enough to cause this.

you must know what it takes to put a building into its footprint. it requires a very skillful application of demolition technologies.

for a fine illustration of this, i recommend 911mysteries.com and their part 1 dvd entitled DEMOLITIONS.

4. BUT, it is the craters caused by demolitions of the basements, the subbasements of virtually all of these buildings that reveal that no aircraft "collisions with terrain" caused these collapsings.

5. the conventional wisdom is that jetA fires caused the collapsing of 1&2.

that is propaganda. the jetA fire in 1 was virtually out before its collapse.

and the jetA fire in 2 was mostly outside of the building.

both of these fires were virtually extinguished before the collapse.

these minimal fires could not cause the collapsing of the towers.

6. some say that the individuals that suicided by leaping out of the towers is proof that the fires were an inferno.

for a human being on a certain floor, yes it was. for structural steel, it wasn't.

650F for a human being is one thing. for a structural steel it is virtually unnoticeable.

my guess is that it wasn't the temperatures, however. it was the smoke from the dying fires. smoke kills more people in a fire than do the flames.

FAITH

2007-03-07T20:44:00.000-08:00

FAITH is a powerful force. and in the history of humankind, faith has, more often than not, squelched reality.

bruno was subjected to the stake because he refused to relinquish/renounce his empirical observations...observations that contested the worldview of the FAITHFUL, observations that were more accurate than the doctrine of the FAITHFUL.

the events of 11/09/01 appear to stimulate a similar hatred amongst the FAITHFUL for those who question the bushit catechism.

now, i think that there is no sense in arguing with these two crazed individuals. arguing with idiots is a fool's game.

i learned my lesson on this score when i posted my analyses of the completely bogus bushit assertion that saddam and iraq were acquiring yellowcake and constructing nuclear weapons. perhaps these two crazies were some of those who attacked me then.

concerning that issue, you had to be monstrously ignorant to believe that iraq was engaged in the construction of nuclear weapons.

similarly, you have to be monstrously ignorant to believe that the events of 11/09/01 occurred as the bushit regime told you that they occurred.

and had any investigation of the "collision with terrain" sites occurred, i think that we would know the dimensions of the deception.

for so many years[since the beginning of aviation], aircraft accidents have been investigated. with such regularity that i had come to an understanding that aircraft investigations had to be examined, and that the examiners had instant control of the accident site.

and perhaps that was the way it was until the formation of the NTSB. though the investigation protocols for the NTSB investigations of aircraft accidents would dictate a comprehensive examination, TODAY i discovered that there is an interesting escape clause in the protocols that prohibits the NTSB from controlling an accident site, if other authorities have taken control.

undoubtedly that is why joe albaugh's FEMA prepositioned itself in lower manhattan on 10/09/01. it was there to take control of that "collision with terrain" site.

that operation, secret for some months, was styled as OPERATION TRIPOD[1,2,7]

was it just joe albaugh's[a bushit acolyte and an iraqi profiteer] FEMA alone that took control of the site? no, ashcroft's FBI was a co-conspirator.

and that is how it was that the NTSB was prevented from conducting an investigation into the WTC catastrophes.

the NTSB was also prevented from investigating the pentagram accident site. as well as the shanksville site.

i thought that the prevention of this investigation would have required a residential order. apparently not. all that was required was the seizure of the accident site[s] by a law enforcement entity[FBI] and the NTSB could be excluded.

and that is what happened.

that is why the amerikan public have no empirical proofs of what happened that day.

and we know how diligently the bushit regime fought to prevent any investigation. and when the jersey girls finally forced one on them, i think most of us know it was a "fast-food" investigation. no nutrition.

two aircraft, carrying less than 10,000 lbs of jetA[kerosene] could not have caused the demolition, the freefall of the towers into their footprints.

no aircraft colliding with wtc 7, there is no other explanation for that building's collapsing into its footprint other than a controlled demolition.

no 757 collided with the pentagram. no matter what they tell you.

and shanksville. just another lie.

and the american public are realizing this now. they know that they have been lied to by the bushit regime so as to implement the invasion of iraq.

but there are these disinformationists that will say anything, anywhere to try and keep the populace enlisted in the imperialist objectives.

IS AL COA THE ENERGIZER BUNNY?

2007-03-06T21:09:00.000-08:00

who could have imagined that anyone would be so manic.

as to investigations of aircraft accidents....

"decades ago, when i first became an aviator, i subscribed to a publication, AIR FACTS. edited by richard collins, if my memory serves me accurately.

it was an interesting periodical. it was devoted to recounting FAA investigations into aircraft accidents. with a focus on general aviation.

over the years, the investigations into the causes of aircraft accidents has fascinated me.

now, there have been investigations that i think became compromised[panam103, sr111, ea990, as261, to name but a few] but at least there were investigations.

my recollection is that investigations of aircraft accidents has been mandated by regulation/statute since the earliest days of aviation.

one of the most salient aspects of 11/09/01 was that the normal investigation[s] into the "collision with terrain" sites was prohibited by the potus.

i know of only one other aircraft accident investigation that was similarly squelched. jfk jr's "collision with terrain".

from my perspective, instantly upon an aircraft "collision with terrain", by statute/regulation, the collision site[s] becomes a "crime" scene[s] and should have been handled accordingly. and i know this because of my cousin's accident...immediately, the farmer's field where he went down was cordoned off. and it was cordoned off until the investigation was finished. the fields were combed for parts. all parts of his bell ranger were identified by serial numbers. and all parts of the airframe were trailered to an FAA site for examination, reconstruction. this is the normal practice. and has been for decades.

but that didn't happen that day. why would the potus have prohibited the normal investigations of "collision with terrain" sites?

what would the american public have learned had there been a real investigation that commenced that day? well, we might have learned whether aircraft debris was a part of the purported colliding aircraft tail numbers.

let it not be forgotten,virtually all critical aircraft components are serialized. and that serial number can be traced to a registered airframe. because of the potus' prohibitions of an investigation, significant components at the collision sites, which would have been serialized, were collected and buried[at fresh kills?].

did the potus prohibit the normal investigation because significant component debris would reveal that the colliding aircraft were not the ones the state has told you were the colliders?

i do not doubt that aircraft collided with terrain that day. there is just no good probative evidence that the colliders were the aircraft according to the official story.

i want to close this way, i think this manic bastid asserted that the pentagon site was littered with aircraft debris. what an odd assertion. the salient aspect of that "collision with terrain" site was the absence of significant debris.

what you should have seen in that collision site was the engines, the tail assembly, most of the wings, lying on the ground in front of the building. as a lt col[karen kwiatkowski] reported, to her eyes, the most amazing aspect of that collision site was the absence of debris.

the bushit explanation for the disappearance of AA77 debris is that totality of that aircraft vaporized. let me say this, in the history of aviation accidents, no colliding aircraft has ever vaporized.

and i think that the usg's explanation of this site become even more fanciful. though the aircraft vaporized, the military's autopsists claim to have recovered passenger bodies and examined them.

though i think it true that a human being might require higher temperatures to become vaporized than would a 757, the usg account remains a story that doesn't meet the smell test.

the official story stinks.

ALUMINUM HAT-4/3/07

2007-03-04T23:32:00.000-08:00

there seem to be a lot of brain-damaged individuals out there. and any effort to reveal some of the realities of the events of 11/09/01 seems to summon them.

AL COA is one. when he first erupted, i was supposed to be the wearer of the aluminum foil. but, i think, as COA has continued to erupt, that he has revealed his hattery.

let us consider mr aluminum, for a moment.

1. observe the aerial photos of WTC 6. DO YOU REALLY THINK THOSE CRATERS WERE CAUSED BY THE NORTH TOWER DEBRIS? if you do, you are as much as a fruitcake as mr aluminum.

more to the point, those craters were created before the fall of the south tower, the furthest away from WTC 6.

2. i hear some say that there would have been no way for explosives to have been installed. huh? hello....

WTC 6 was exclusively a usg-tenanted building. much like the murrah building, a major tenant was the ATF.

3. and how about fixing explosives in the towers and WTC 7? how could that have been accomplished.

some say that it would have been impossible because of the 24/7 access to the buildings. but that wasn't always the case. in fact, several days prior to 11/09/01 the buildings were closed, for a weekend, upon little or no notice. ostensibly for the installation of communication wiring. hmmmmm. could it have been detonation wiring, instead?

4. many who poohpooh the possibility of shaped charges being installed, assert that no group of demolition techs could have had access to a public building. hmmm

let's think about that for a moment.

how many floors of the towers were vacant? 20? 40? suffice it to say, the towers were not 100% occupied. on those empty floors, could shaped charges be fitted? you bet.

5. how could the buildings be accessed? the most interesting method would be for demolition experts to access the buildings as moving crews. moving crews have access to the entirety of most office buildings. they can park their vans outside on the street. security gives them unlimited access. they might even be given exclusive access to an elevator.

let us not forget, now, that the israeli intell services were operating in the usa at this time under the cover of a "moving" company.

6. but, you could also access the entirety of the buildings with "credentials". con-ed, etc et alia. wear the right coveralls, have the right forged id's and you could go anywhere throughout the buildings.

7. and then there is the issue of the entity that controlled security for those buildings.

my recollection is that it was a company controlled by the resident's brother, marvin bush, and his cousin, will walker. securacom?

do you think it a matter of serendipity that this same company was responsible for concourse security at boston's logan airport, and dc's dulles international? the sites from which the purportedly "striking" airliners launched?

8. under statute, as soon as the the north tower was the victim of an airliner strike, the entirety of the wtc complex would have been a de jure crime scene. everyone would have been escorted out of that tower immediately. that didn't happen. why? upon whose order was that regulation erased?

9. the same strictures applied to all the other "collision with terrain" sites.

who suspended those rules?

the potus. or was it the vpotus?

10. by the way, had those rules been adhered to, the loss of life in the towers would have been significantly mitigated.

11. the fires were very low intensity[less than 650°F] and of short duration. completely unable to soften or melt structural steel.

12. an issue that goes undiscussed is the requirement for symmetricity if the towers and wtc 7 are to collapse as they did. what this means is that every bit of the structure had to fail simultaneously. not only couldn't happen. didn't happen. could never happen. unless there was a programmed demolition.

13. how has the media obfuscated engineering realities? exhaustively. NPR, THE HISTORY CHANNEL both produced shows[that they have not amended - and this is interesting since NIST HAS REPUDIATED THEIR STORY] that propounded the 'PANCAKE" theory of structural failure.

of even greater interest was the BBC broadcast on this subject of last week. despite the NIST repudiation of this scenario in 2005, the BBC asserted this methodology of the towers' collapse. hello.....

what is the reason that the BEEB continues to float a fiction?

14. now the NIST study has to be understood. explosive demolition was excluded from the investigation.

that is why the NIST conclusions as to the towers' collapse don't add up. without explosives, there isn't enough energy for the take-down.

and WTC 7 is so contradictory to the desired conventional reality, that NIST avoided it...NIST said that this building collapse was so anomalous that it had to be subjected to further study. STUDY THAT WILL NOT BE OCCURRING!

15. and to the best of my recollection, NIST didn't even consider the explosive blow-out of WTC 6. hmmmmm.

16. when i investigated the shoot-down of AS 261, what intrigued me the most was the destruction of the most probative evidence, the controller tapes. neither the NTSB, nor any plaintiff attorney, subpoened them within the 14 day statutory interval. hmmmmm.

it is my understanding that the fbi seized all controller tapes within hours of the 11/09/01 events. and that they have never been heard. t or f?

17. passenger manifests. no al-fresco's appear on those records. passenger manifests are the gold standard of accounting, by the way.

18. proofs of hijackings are predicated upon cellphone communications. a grotesque mistake. cellphone communications could not have occurred then. can't happen now.

i could say so much more. but i shall just close this way...there have been many discussions of FAITH recently. even at many irreligious blogs.but the most extraordinary illustration of FAITH is the individual who believes the bushit lies about 11/09/01.

that individual is a true believer in bullshit.

THE RUBBLE PILES

2007-03-04T21:38:00.000-08:00

you have to be able to think logically.

how high do you think the towers' rubble piles should have been? had explosives not blown up the subbasements? had not the towers' been subjected to a very sophisticated demolition?

somewhere between 10-20 stories. if the building could have completely collapsed. without explosives, the towers would probably have experienced a suspension of collapsing....not enough energy/nor structural weakness to effect a complete collapse.

how high were the actual rubble piles? less than 6 stories, to the best of my recollection. and why was that? because the basements had been blown out and most of the debris descended into subbasements that may have been 8 stories deep.

oh, and of course, the concrete was atomized. turned into dust. there was virtually no significant concrete residue in the rubble.

DID NIST CONSIDER WTC 6?

2007-03-04T16:33:00.000-08:00

i don't think that it did. hmmmmmmm.

do you think that NIST was trying to avoid considering uncontestable evidence that explosives were used on 11/09/01?

more photos of WTC 6....

http://killtown.911review.org/wtc6.html

WHAT CAUSED THIS CRATER WITHIN WTC6?

2007-03-04T15:57:00.000-08:00

this hole was blown virtually in synch with the aircraft collision into the south tower.

these are photos that i don't recall ever getting any significant air in the media.

were there explosives used to demolish buildings in the WTC complex of buildings?

the damage to this building would seem to be prima facie evidence that there was explosive-induced demolition involving WTC 6.

for the pix, go here

http://www.911studies.com./911photostudies120.htm

HERE IS WHAT MARK GAFFNEY SAYS

2007-03-03T23:27:00.000-08:00

No I don't know him.
You should tell the guy that I consulted with structural engineers, including Ron Hamburger, one of the leading structural engineers in the nation. Hamburger wrote one of the chapters in the FEMA report on the WTC collapse. I also consulted with engineers at the international code council (ICC), one of whom read over a key part of my report -- dealing with factor of safety -- and found no mistakes. I also consulted with staff at the NIST. In short, I did my homework.

MHG

On Mar 3, 2007, at 9:49 PM, albert champion wrote:

Is Mark H. Gaffney a structural engineer?

No. Of course he isn't. There isn't a single structural engineer who has challanged the NIST analysis of the collapse of the towers.

And of course, there's not a single shread of physical evidence of controlled demolition.

putz.

his nom de guerre is al coa. know of him?

FASCIST BASTIDS DON'T LIKE IT

2007-03-03T22:57:00.000-08:00

need i say more?

YOU CAN DECIDE FOR YOURSELF

2007-03-03T20:54:00.000-08:00

do you support assholes? or do you support reality?

for your reading pleasure.....

Dead On Arrival
The NIST 911 Report On The World Trade Center Collapse
By Mark H. Gaffney
12-15-6

Note to the reader: The following is a critique of the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) report on the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse. The 43 volume NIST report was the result of a 3 year investigation, and was released in September 2005. It remains the official US government explanation for why the WTC collapsed on 9/11. As you are about to discover, the report itself collapses under scrutiny. There is no doubt that the NIST investigation was politically controlled by limiting its scope. This is one way to kill an investigation.

* * *

Fires raged at ground zero for many weeks after 9/11. In fact, it was not until December 19, 2001 that the NYC fire marshall declared the fires extinguished.

The fires burned long into the cleanup. The removal of steel beams and debris from the top of the pile allowed oxygen to reach the fires smoldering below. As a result, the flames often flared up, hampering worker on site. Joel Meyerowitz, a photographer, made note of this in his 2006 retrospective book, AFTERMATH. Armed with his trusty camera Meyerowitz roamed ground zero for months following the attack. Police repeatedly ejected him, but he kept returning in order to document what had happened. Eventually Meyerowitz amassed an impressive photographic record. In his fine book he remarks that the ground in places was so hot it melted the workmen's rubber boots.

But Meyerowitz was hardly the first to comment on the pile's incredible residual heat. The first accounts of molten steel came just hours after the attack: from the search and rescue teams who were among the first on the scene. Sarah Atlas, a member of New Jersey Task Force One Search and Rescue, was one of these emergency responders. Sarah reported seeing molten steel in the pile even as she searched in vain for survivors.[1]

Many have denied the existence of molten steel at ground zero. But there are too many eyewitness accounts to dismiss, including the testimony of engineers, city officials and other competent professionals who toured the ruin. One of these, Dr Keith Eaton, Chief Executive of the London-based Institution of Structural Engineers, later wrote in The Structural Engineer about what he had seen, namely: "molten metal which was still red-hot weeks after the event," as well as "four-inch thick steel plates sheered and bent in the disaster."[2]

A similar account came from Leslie E. Robertson, an engineer who helped design the WTC. He is currently a partner at Leslie E. Robertson Associates, a structural consulting firm that was under contract to the WTC at the time of the tragedy. In a keynote address Robertson reportedly told the Structural Engineers Association of Utah that: "...as of 21 days after the attack the fires were still burning and molten steel still running."[3] Public health officials/experts also toured the scene of destruction. Alison Geyh Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at Johns Hopkins, was with one of these teams. She wrote that "In some pockets now being uncovered they are finding molten steel."[4] The fact was even reported to the 9/11 Commission by Kenneth Holden, Commissioner of the city of New York. He told the panel about seeing "molten metal" during a walkthrough.[5]

The evidence accumulated even as the cleanup progressed. Work crews removing the mountain of debris, piece by piece, discovered pools of molten steel beneath the pile, where the towers had stood. One pool was found at the bottom of the elevator shafts. Some of the pools were not found until 3, 4, even 5 weeks after 9/11.

Contractors working on site confirmed these discoveries. Such as Peter Tully, president of Tully Construction of Flushing New York, who was one of four contractors engaged by New York City to handle the cleanup. During an August 2002 interview Tully told the American Free Press that indeed workmen had seen the molten pools.[6] The same interview included a statement by Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc., who, years before, ramrodded the cleanup of the bombed Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Loizeaux was called in by Tully to draft the cleanup plan for the WTC site. Loizeaux said, "Yes, hot spots of molten steel were seen in the basements." Molten steel was also found under WTC 7.

These pools of molten metal have never been explained. Loizeaux told the American Free Press that the continuing fires were fueled by "paper, carpet and other combustibles packed down the elevator shafts by the tower floors as they 'pancaked' into the basement." Manuel Garcia, a physicist, has suggested that cars left in parking garages under the WTC contained gasoline that may have fueled the fires.[7] Both are probably correct. But none of these fires were hot enough to melt steel. Indeed, none of the combustibles in the wreckage burned anywhere near the melting point of construction grade steel beams (2800 °F). As noted, the smoldering fires for the most part were oxygen-starved.

sprayed on the pile long before it ever reached the bottom.

The Official Reports

the testimony of the New York city commissioner.

contradicted by the eyewitness accounts of the emergency responders, engineers, officials, and health experts already cited, not to mention the lead contractors who accomplished the cleanup.[9] After brushing aside the issue as irrelevant to the WTC collapse, the NIST report then suggests that:

Under certain circumstances it is conceivable for some of the steel in the wreckage to have melted after the buildings collapsed. Any molten steel in the wreckage was more likely due to the high temperature resulting from long exposure to combustion within the pile than to short exposure to fires or explosions while the buildings were standing. [my emphasis] [10]

The NIST never clarifies what the "certain circumstances" might be that produced molten steel after the collapse. Its statement about "long exposure to combustion" is absurd on its face, given that there was no energy source in the pile of wreckage remotely capable of melting steel. In fact, the NIST's above statement is an affront to our intelligence, since the hot spots identified by the US Geological Survey immediately after 9/11 and the molten pools were surely one and the same. There is no way to avoid the conclusion that the molten materials under the wreckage, as well as the smoldering fires, were a residual product of whatever caused the collapse of the WTC. Something on September 11, 2001 burned hot enough to melt steel in the basement of both towers. But such a deduction is too simple, evidently, or too provocative for the NIST, which made a decision not to go there.

When asked about what caused the molten pools Peter Tully suggested that perhaps jet fuel was responsible. But on this point, at least, the NIST report is surely correct. It's easy to show that jet fuel was not the causative agent. There were reports that burning jet fuel leaked into the WTC elevators moments after the first impact. A descending fireball possibly caused explosions many floors below. Witnesses saw critically burned people emerging from elevators. Something ripped through the WTC 1 concourse lobby at about the time of the impact, blowing out windows and crumpling steel doors like they were paper. The same blast knocked marble slabs off the walls in the lobby. Custodians also heard explosions in the WTC 1 basement. A machine shop was wrecked, as well as a car garage.[11]

world press erred in this respect. Indeed, in the emotional aftermath of the 9/11 attack the press often mangled the science as badly as the twisted steel beams of the WTC. One report posted by the BBC on September 13, 2001 quoted experts who stated matter-of-factly that the burning jet fuel actually melted the central columns, leading to the collapse.[12] Another report on The History Channel, The Anatomy of September 11th, claimed that the inferno turned the steel piers in in the WTC to "licorice." A 2002 PBS NOVA special "Why the Towers Fell" showcased a similar theory, and suggested that the fires reached 2000°F, which caused the steel columns to lose 80% of their strength.[13]

The same day NewScientist.com asserted that "raging fires melted the supporting steel struts."[15] On September 13, 2001 BBC radio interviewed Chris Wise, an engineer who explained that...

"It was the fire that killed the buildings. There's nothing on earth that could survive those temperatures with that amount of fuel burning. The columns would have melted, the floors would have melted, and eventually they would have collapsed one on top of the other."[16]

Elmer Obermeyer, the president of an Ohio engineering firm, also endorsed the meltdown theory in a story in the Cincinnati Business Courier. The paper noted that Obermeyer was a "guru in his field."[17] In October 2001 Scientific American.com posted an article summarizing the results of a 9/11 panel of MIT experts, one of whom, Eduardo Kausel, stated "that the intense heat softened or melted the structural elements- floor trusses and columns -so that they became like chewing gum, and that was enough to trigger the collapse.[18]

This is but a small sampling of many such reports that appeared in those first days. All of them were wrong. As Frank Gayle, one of the NIST's lead scientists, later pointed out: "Your gut reaction would be [that] the jet fuel is what made the [WTC] fire so very intense. A lot of people figured that's what melted the steel. Indeed, it did not, the steel did not melt."[19] Gayle was seconded by Thomas Eagar, a professor of materials engineering at MIT:

"The Fire is the most misunderstood part of the WTC collapse. Even today the media report (and many scientists believe) that the steel melted. It is argued that the jet fuel burns very hot, especially with so much fuel present. This is not true....The temperatures of the fire at the WTC were not unusual, and it was most definitely not capable of melting steel."[20]

2,800°F melting point of steel. Even this 1,000°C upper limit is very difficult to achieve, since, as Thomas Eagar pointed out, it requires the optimal mixing of fuel with oxygen during combustion, which can only be achieved in a laboratory. In fact, the clouds of black smoke that poured out of the twin towers on 9/11 were an obvious sign that the WTC fire burned at much lower temperatures, probably around 650°C (1,202°F) range, or even lower. This was due to the inefficient mixing of oxygen. It's why most building fires burn no hotter than around 500-650°C. (932 -1,202°F)

The NIST Report

Since the primary stated objective of the NIST 9/11 investigation was to determine the cause of the WTC collapse, the NIST should have conducted a forensic examination of the full spectrum of evidence.[21] Ground zero was a crime scene, was it not? Yes, and because many credible eyewitnesses, including firemen who were on duty that fateful day, reported that they heard and/or saw explosions, the NIST should have investigated this without bias.[22] It should have viewed this testimony as hard evidence: a starting point in its investigation. Instead, the NIST did a gloss. It posted a statement on its web site asserting that it had considered a number of hypotheses, including a planned demolition, but had found no corroborating evidence.[23] This disclaimer was no more than a last-minute attempt to deflect criticism, since a close reading of the NIST report shows that the agency never entertained other alternatives. It certainly never investigated the eyewitness accounts of explosions.

The NIST report assumes, start to finish, that the Boeing 767s were responsible for the collapse of the twin towers. The agency took it for granted that the impacts set in motion a chain of events leading to catastrophic structural failure. The assumption is even stated explicitly in the Executive Summary:

The tragic consequences of the September 11, 2001 attacks were directly attributable to the fact that terrorists flew large jet-fuel laden commercial airliners into the WTC towers. Buildings for use by the general population are not designed to withstand attacks of such severity; building codes do not require building designs to consider aircraft impact.[24]

The 43 volume NIST report confines itself to the sequence of events from the first plane impacts to the onset of collapse; and is governed throughout by ipso facto reasoning. Because the agency never entertained the possibility of a planned demolition, it never bothered to look for evidence of same. For example, it never tested steel samples recovered from ground zero for telltale traces of explosives. These omissions were irresponsible and smack of political interference, since in addition to the eyewitness accounts two scientific papers, one published in 2001, and another by FEMA in May 2002, had already detected sulfur residues on samples of WTC steel.[25] As Dr. Steven Jones, a physics professor at BYU, has pointed out, sulfidation of steel can be an indicator of the use of thermate (or other closely related compounds) developed by the military and commonly used to cut steel in demolitions work.[26] The possibility needed to be checked, if only to rule it out; but the agency, again, chose not to go there.

Let us now examine the NIST report in detail.

Why the WTC Survived the 767 Impacts

the WTC was hugely overbuilt: redundant by design. The towers simply transferred the load from the severed/damaged members to other undamaged columns.

Upon its completion in 1970 the World Trade Center was not only the world's tallest twin-skyscraper (1,368 feet), it was also a state-of-the-art achievement of modern construction.[27] Although the WTC's soaring lines gave the impression of a relatively light frame, in fact, the towers were extremely rugged, engineered to withstand hurricane-force winds and to survive a direct hit by a Boeing 707, the largest commercial jetliner of the day. In a 1993 interview the WTC's principal structural engineer, John Skilling, stated that prior to construction he performed an impact analysis of a 600 mph Boeing 707 impact, and concluded "that the building structure would still be there."[28] The architectural firm that worked with Skilling described his 1,200 page structural analysis as "the most complete and detailed ever made for any building structure."[29] Frank A. Demartini, onsite manager during the construction of the WTC, seconded this view during a January 25, 2001 interview, in which he noted that the study involved "a fully loaded 707." Demartini even declared that "the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door, this intense grid, and the jet plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting."[30] Demartini kept an office in the North Tower and was last seen on 9/11 assisting evacuees on the 78th floor.[31]

The original WTC design, the work of architect Minoru Yamasaki, was one of the first architectural plans to call for open space within a steel-frame building. This meant doing away with the forest of columns so typical of the steel high-rise buildings of former years. Chief engineer Skilling achieved the objective with a double support system: a dense array of 236 columns around the perimeter, and a network of 47 massive piers at the core. The creation of large expanses of unobstructed floor space within the WTC was a novel idea in the 1960s, but is commonplace today.[32]

slab of lightweight concrete. Probably Skilling's greatest innovation was to extend the truss diagonals up into the concrete floor, which added stiffness and strength. Each truss assembly/concrete floor behaved as a single unit.

all possible. In fact, the WTC had tremendous reserve capacity. An early article about the project in the Engineering News-Record declared that "live loads on these [perimeter] columns can be increased more than 2,000 percent before failure occurs."[33]

generated heat. Construction-grade steel begins to lose its tensile strength at 425°C (~800°F), and is only about half as strong at 650°C (1,202°F). The lightweight truss assemblies were especially vulnerable, since they consisted of rather thin steel members. During construction they were coated with spray-applied insulation. The much larger steel piers and columns had a fire-barrier of gypsum wallboard.

NIST's Official Explanation

which pulled the perimeter columns inward, causing them to buckle. The fires also weakened the central piers. The combination of these effects destabilized the structures and at a critical point the towers simply collapsed. The NIST concluded that the WTC would have survived the fires if the Boeing 767 impacts had not dislodged/damaged the fireproofing material, which, therefore, according to the NIST, was the critical factor on 9/11.

There are a number of serious problems, however, with this official narrative. In the first place, it is sharply at odds with the video record, which plainly shows that during each collapse perimeter columns and other structural members didn't simply fall to the ground. In many cases they were ejected up and out of the disintegrating structure at nearly a 45 degree angle: a cascade that hurled steel beams weighing 20 tons or more as much as 600 feet from the base of the buildings. One remarkable photo of ground zero taken from above shows that entire sections of WTC 1's western perimeter wall were thrown 500+ feet toward the Winter Garden.[34] Could a gravitational collapse do this?

Pulverization

workers found more than 700 body parts, e.g., slivers of bone, on the roof and within the doomed structure.[35] The question is: why? This bizarre report remains a mystery.

there were no resistance whatsoever. From start to finish they fell in only about 12 seconds, just 2 seconds longer than the time for a billiard ball to drop from the WTC roof to the plaza below. The question is why?

The NIST report failed to address any of these anomalies. In fact, it didn't even try. The NIST sidestepped the ejection of material, the vast pulverization of concrete, the many testimonials and other evidence of explosions, and the near-free fall by limiting its investigation to the sequence of events from the Boeing 767 impacts to the onset of the collapse. Incredibly, the NIST chose not to examine the collapse itself. The report makes reference to the "global collapse" of the WTC, but we never learn what this means because the NIST report never tells us. Once again, the agency decided not to go there. Evidently we are supposed to assume that gravity alone was responsible. But could gravity transform enormous slabs of concrete, hundreds of thousands of tons of material, into fine dust, in midair? Extremely doubtful. The NIST's decision not to investigate these important questions add up to more grave omissions.

But we haven't yet examined the NIST report itself. Let's do that, now.

The Special Projects

very little of it lends credence to the NIST's final, and official, explanation of the cause of the WTC collapse.

One of the most serious and persistent problems NIST investigators faced was the admitted lack of information about conditions at the core of the towers.[36] To be sure, thousands of photographs and hundreds of hours of videotape made it possible to study in detail the damage to the WTC exterior, and to gain a reasonable understanding about conditions in the outer offices. Fires were often visible through the windows, despite dense smoke, and sagging floors and other structural damage was discernible through gaping holes in the damaged exterior. However, as the NIST report states, "Fires deeper than a few meters inside the building could not be seen because of the smoke obscuration [sic] and the steep viewing angle of nearly all the photographs."[37] Thus, except for steel samples gathered after the fact the NIST had almost no other information about the dynamic conditions at the core of the WTC on 9/11.[38]

The agency sought to overcome this shortfall of information with computer simulations. This was problematic from the outset, since computer models are no better than the quality of input and the accuracy of the programmer's assumptions. As architect and critic Eric Douglas points out in his 2006 analysis of the NIST report: "a fundamental problem with....computer simulation is the overwhelming temptation to manipulate the input data until one achieves the desired results."[39] Did the NIST investigators fall prey to this insidious tendency? And did this lead them to overestimate the impact damage to the WTC interior? Let us now consider this question.

NIST's Global Impact/Collapse Analyses

In one of its most important projects (NCSTAR 1-2), NIST scientists developed a global impact analysis: to estimate the structural damage to the WTC caused by the Boeing 767s. In this study the NIST considered three different scenarios. These ranged from less damage to extreme damage, with a moderate alternative (described as "the base") in the middle. As it happened, all three scenarios accurately predicted the impact damage to the WTC exterior at the point of entry; although with regard to WTC 1 the moderate case was a slightly better match.[40] The three differed greatly, however, in predicting the number of severed columns at the WTC core, a datum obviously of great importance. In the case of WTC 1 the lesser alternative predicted only one severed core column, the moderate alternative predicted three, while the extreme alternative predicted five to six. In the case of WTC 2 the disparity was even greater: The lesser alternative predicted three severed columns, the moderate five, and the extreme case no less than ten.[41]

Although the NIST never satisfactorily resolved these differences, it immediately threw out the less severe alternatives, citing two reasons in the Executive Summary report: first, because they failed to predict observable damage to the far exterior walls; and second, because they did not lead to a global collapse.[42]

that none of the alternatives accurately predicted the exit damage.[44]

This admission, deeply buried in the 43 volume report, is fatal to the NIST's first rationale for rejecting the lesser alternative, since it was no less accurate than the moderate and extreme cases. (Or, put differently: It was no more inaccurate.) Which, of course, means that the NIST rejected the lesser alternative for only one reason: because it failed to predict a global collapse. The simulations for WTC 2 suffered from the same modeling defect. As the supplementary documentation states, "None of the three WTC 2 global impact simulations resulted in a large engine fragment exiting the tower."[45] Yet, here again, the NIST rejected the lesser alternative. We can thank researcher Eric Douglas for digging deeper than the summary report. Otherwise, this flaw, tantamount to the devil lurking in the fine print, might never have come to light.

from a predictive standpoint, than the extreme cases. In fact, with regard to predicting the entry damage to WTC 1, as noted, the moderate alternative was actually a better match.

The NIST report offers no scientific rationale for this decision, only the pithy comment that the moderate alternatives "were discarded after the structural response analysis of major subsystems were compared with observed events."[46] And what, pray tell, were these "observed events"? The report explains that "structural models....indicated that....the buildings would have continued to stand indefinitely."[47] Here, at least, the NIST is more forthright than in the case of the lesser alternatives.

Things only get worse.

As it happened, even the extreme alternatives required further tinkering to be acceptable. The report informs us that "Complete sets of simulations were then performed for cases B and D [the extreme alternatives]. To the extent that the simulations deviated from the photographic evidence or eyewitness reports, the investigators adjusted the input, but only within the range of physical reality."[my emphasis][48] In other words, NIST scientists worked backwards from the collapse, tweaking the extreme alternatives until their computer model finally spat out the desired result consistent with their assumption, which never wavered, that the 767 impacts ultimately were at the root of everything on 9/11. Of course, the NIST report never tells us what the "additional inputs" were.

That the NIST's impact study and subsequent global collapse analysis were biased, hence, unscientific, ought to be obvious. But I will go even further: The impact simulations were very nearly a waste of time, since by its own admission the NIST had almost no information about actual conditions at the WTC core. The NIST had no sound basis for rejecting the lesser and moderate impact alternatives; both were at least as plausible as the extreme alternative. Why were they not given equal weight? The reason is obvious: That would have compelled NIST investigators to entertain the unthinkable, i.e., the possibility that some other causative agent was responsible for the WTC collapse. Still, one has to admire, in a perverse sort of way, the NIST's triumph of circular reasoning..

The Metallurgical Studies

The NIST's metallurgical and fire studies were among the most important projects, and involved testing 236 samples of steel columns, panels, trusses, and other smaller parts recovered from ground zero. Thanks to the original labeling system used during the construction of the WTC, the NIST was able in many cases to identify individual steel members, and thus to determine their exact locations in the WTC. As it happened, some of the samples were from the impact zones and fire-damaged areas.[49] The collection represented only 0.25 - 0.5 % of the 200,000 total tons of structural steel used the two towers. But the NIST believed it had enough samples to determine the quality of the steel and evaluate its performance on 9/11.[50]

view of many about how and why the trusses failed on 9/11:

"...the steel had plenty of strength, until it reached temperatures of 1,100º to 1,300ºF. In this range, the steel started losing a lot of strength, and the bending became greater. Eventually the steel lost 80 percent of its strength, because of this fire that consumed the whole floor....then you got this domino effect. Once you started to get angle-clips to fail in one area, it put extra load on other angle-clips, and then it unzipped around the building on that floor in a matter of seconds. If you look at the whole structure, they are the smallest piece of steel. As everything begins to distort, the smallest piece is going to become the weak link in the chain. They were plenty strong for holding up one truss, but when you lost several trusses, the trusses adjacent to those had to hold two or three times what they were expected to hold."[51]

out.

Because the NIST did not have the necessary facilities, it contracted Underwriter Laboratories to conduct a series of fire endurance tests on trusses like those in the WTC. (The recovered truss samples were too badly deformed during the collapse to test them directly, so NIST fabricated new trusses identical in design.) The purpose of the tests was to establish a baseline, and the results were surprising. Not one of the truss assemblies failed during a series of four tests, not even the truss sprayed with the minimum amount of fireproofing. "The floors continued to support the full design load without collapse for over two hours."[52] The investigative team cautiously noted that the exposure of the floor systems to fire on 9/11 was "substantially different" than the conditions in the test furnaces, which was true enough. Yet, the team noted that "this type of assembly was capable of sustaining a large gravity load without collapsing for a substantial period of time relative to the duration of the fires in any given location on September 11."[53] The UL tests not only laid to rest the theory that the trusses were the cause of the collapse on 9/11, if anything, the tests demonstrated the fundamental soundness of the WTC truss design.

these findings support the NIST's official explanation for the WTC collapse. On the contrary.

The Fire Tests:
Core Weakening?

range where significant loss of strength occurs. When the test was repeated again with an insulated column, the steel did not reach 600ºC even after ten hours. The NIST concluded that "the fires in WTC 1 and WTC 2 would not be able to significantly weaken the insulated....columns within the 102 minutes and 56 minutes, respectively, after impact and prior to collapse."[my emphasis][56]

The NIST interpreted these results as validating its favored hypothesis that the critical factor on 9/11 leading to the global failure of the WTC's support columns was the damage to the fireproofing insulation caused by the Boeing 767 impacts. But was this an unwarranted leap? It certainly was not supported by the NIST's metallurgical analyses, which showed that not even one of the 236 steel samples, including those from the impact areas and fire-damaged floors, showed evidence of exposure to temperatures in excess of 1,110ºF (600ºC) for as long as 15 minutes.[57] In fact, out of more than 170 areas examined on 16 recovered perimeter columns, only 3 reached temperatures in excess of 250ºC (450ºF) during the fires.[58] And why ? Well, perhaps, in part, because, as Shyam Sunder, the lead NIST investigator, admitted, "the jet fuel....burned out in less than ten minutes."[59] Also, NIST scientists made another surprising discovery: The actual amount of combustibles on a typical floor of the WTC turned out to be less than expected, only about 4 lbs./sq. foot. Furthermore, "the fuel loading in the core areas....was negligible."[60] The shocking fact is that the World Trade Center was fuel-poor, compared with most other buildings. The NIST estimated that a fire in a typical area of the building would have burned through the available combustibles at maximum temperatures (1,000ºC) in about 15-20 minutes.[61] Not nearly long enough even at that temperature to cause exposed steel to lose 80% of its strength.

Nor is this all. I searched the NIST report in vain for any acknowledgment that here, as in the case of the truss assembly test, the actual fire conditions on 9/11 were substantially different from the UL laboratory furnace. In fact, with respect to the columns the differences were at least as significant as with the truss assembly test, and call into sharp question the NIST's conclusion that damaged insulation was the critical factor. Although the NIST took the position that "temperatures and stresses were high in the core area,"[62] as I've noted the investigation suffered from a persistent lack of information about real conditions at the core. The NIST had no hard evidence about the actual amount of protective insulation damaged/dislodged during the impacts. The NIST report acknowledges this,[63] then goes on to assume that all structural members in the debris path at the time of impact suffered 100% loss of insulation.[64] Surely, we are safe to conclude that the Boeing 767 impacts did cause damage to, or strip away, a substantial portion of the fireproofing material. Exactly how much is not knowable. But even if the NIST estimate of total loss of fireproofing is correct, there is virtually no chance that the fires on 9/11 weakened the WTC's core piers within the allotted span of time: 56/103 minutes.

A Vast Heat Sink

The reason for this, nowhere acknowledged in the NIST report, ought to be obvious: The WTC's support columns did not exist in isolation. This was no laboratory furnace. The columns in each tower were part of an interconnected steel framework that weighed at least 100,000 tons; and because steel is known to be an excellent conductor of heat this massive steel superstructure functioned on 9/11 as an enormous energy sink. The total volume of the steel framework was vast compared with the relatively small area of exposed steel, and would have wicked away the fire-caused heat almost as quickly as it was generated. Anyone who has repaired a copper water pipe with a propane torch is familiar with the principle. One must sit and wait patiently for the pipe temperature to rise to the point where the copper finally sucks the solder into the fitting. While it is true that copper is more conductive than steel, the analogy holds, regardless. The fact that only three recovered steel samples showed exposure to temperatures above 250ºC indicates that the steel superstructure was indeed behaving as a heat sink. The fires on 9/11 would have taken many hours, in any event, much longer than the brief allotted span of 56/103 minutes respectively, to slowly raise the temperature of the steel framework as a whole to the point of weakening the exposed members.

after the impact and waned thereafter. Temperatures were actually cooling across most of floor 96, including the core, at the moment of the collapse. But if this is true, the central piers were not losing strength at that point but regaining it.[66] How, then, did they collapse? Finally, the NIST's insistence that "temperatures and stresses were high in the core area" is not consistent with their finding that the fuel load of combustibles in the core was negligible.[67] On this point the NIST contradicts itself.

In short, the NIST report fails to explain how transient fires weakened WTC 1's enormous central piers in the allotted span of 103 minutes and triggered a global collapse.

The Fires in the Second Tower

more extensive impact damage of the core columns, helps to explain why WTC 2 fell first, even though it was impacted after WTC 1. Videos filmed on 9/11 do show inward bowing of WTC 2's eastern wall, although its actual extent and significance remain disputed. But perhaps the most serious challenge to the official view that fires were gravely weakening WTC 2 comes from an audiotape released in August 2002 by the Port Authority of New York. The tape, which was lost or neglected for more than a year, is the only known recording of firefighters inside the towers. When city fire officials belatedly listened to it they were surprised to discover that firemen actually reached the impact/fire zone of WTC 2 about 14 minutes before the building collapsed. On climbing to the 78th floor sky lobby Battalion Chief Orlo J. Palmer and Fire Marshall Ronald P. Bucca found many dead or seriously injured people, but no raging inferno. The audio transmission between Palmer and another fireman shows no hint of panic or fear, as the following transcript shows:

Battalion Seven Chief: "Battalion Seven ... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 Code Ones.

Ladder 15: "Chief, what stair you in?"

Battalion Seven Chief: "South stairway Adam, South Tower."

Ladder 15: "Floor 78?"

Battalion Seven Chief: "Ten-four, numerous civilians, we gonna need two engines up here."

Battalion Seven Chief: "Tower one. Battalion Seven to Ladder 15."

Battalion Seven Chief: "I'm going to need two of your firefighters Adam stairway to knock down two fires. We have a house line stretched we could use some water on it, knock it down, okay."

Ladder 15: "Alright ten-four, we're coming up the stairs. We're on 77 now in the B stair, I'll be right to you."

Battalion Seven Operations Tower One: "Battalion Seven Operations Tower One to Battalion Nine, need you on floor above 79. We have access stairs going up to 79, kay."

Battalion Nine: "Alright, I'm on my way up, Orio."[68]

Here, Battalion Chief Orlo Palmer calls for hoses to be brought up to put out the fires. His expression "10-45 Code Ones" is a reference to dead bodies, of which, evidently, there were many. The tape shows that the firemen were not turned back by heat, smoke, or a wall of flames. They were able to function within the impact zone and were prepared to help the injured and combat the small fires they found. Palmer even mentions that the stairwell up to the next floor, i.e., 79, was passable. Minutes later the building came down on their heads.

Inexplicably, the NIST never considered this important evidence. The question is why? Their omission is especially damning, since, as I've stressed, the NIST investigation suffered from a persistent lack of information about actual conditions at the core.[69] Here was real-time testimony from firefighters who were on the scene, and the NIST simply ignored it.

outside the path of Flight 175. Both samples were physically damaged, but the NIST reported no evidence of the kinds of distortion, i.e., bowing, slumping, or sagging that are typical of heat-weakened steel. Nor was the NIST able to glean any evidence of high temperatures from the columns.[70] On what, then, do they base their conclusion that "Dire structural changes were occurring in the building interior"?[71] If anything, the paucity of evidence calls into question the NIST's declaration that their sampling effort was adequate.

Moreover, as we've already noted, the NIST's computer simulation predicting extreme damage to the core of WTC 2 is dubious, since it is also unsupported by hard evidence. In fact, the NIST's preferred extreme alternative was, from a predictive standpoint, no better than the lesser alternatives, which the NIST rejected. Even the extreme alternative failed to predict a global collapse, without "additional inputs." As for the inputs, it would be interesting to know more about them. Unfortunately, the NIST's global collapse analysis is so highly technical as to be almost incomprehensible to a non programmer. I was struck by the number of assumptions it makes, one piled on another.

The Issue of Reserve Capacity

In order to show just how weak the official 9/11 narrative is, let us assume, for the sake of argument, that local fires did burn long and hot enough to weaken exposed columns in the impact zone of WTC 2. As I will now show, even if this did occur it still fails to account for the global collapse of the second tower. As the NIST report states,

both towers had considerable reserve capacity. This was confirmed by analysis of the post-impact vibration of WTC 2, the more severely damaged building, where the damaged tower oscillated at a period nearly equal to the first mode period calculated for the undamaged structure.[my emphasis][72]

to several of the project reports and supplementary documents. I also consulted with experts at the International Code Council (ICC) and with a leading structural engineer. I learned that estimating the overall reserve capacity of a steel structure is no simple task. Numerous factors are involved. Moreover, there are different ways to approach the problem.

Perhaps the simplest measure of reserve capacity are the standards for the material components of a building. In the late 1960s when the WTC was constructed the applicable standard was the New York City Building Code, which required a builder to execute computations for the various structural members to show that they met the specified requirements. However, the code also allowed for actual testing of members, in the event that computations were impractical. The testing standards applicable in 1968 give a good idea of the required level of reserve strength in the steel columns and other materials used in the WTC. For example, in the most stringent test a steel member had to withstand 250% of the design load, plus half again its own weight, for a period of a week, without collapse.[73]

Factor of Safety

Another widely used measure of reserve capacity is the so called "factor of safety." This varies for different structural elements, but for steel columns and beams typically ranges from 1.75-2.0.[74] The NIST report actually breaks this more general figure down into two separate and slightly different measurements for stress: yielding strength (1.67) and buckling (1.92).[75] For our purposes, however, the more general figure is adequate. So, for example, a steel column with a factor of safety of 1.75 must support 1.75 times the anticipated design load before it begins to incur damage. While this value is typical of steel beams in general, the actual reserve strength of the steel columns in the WTC was higher. When the NIST crunched the numbers for the 47 core columns of WTC 1 (between the 93rd and 98th floors) it found that the factor of safety ranged from 1.6 to 2.8, the average value being 2.1.[76] This means that the average core column in WTC 1 could support more than twice its design load before reaching the yield strength, i.e., the point where damage may begin to occur.

improbable worst case, in which many of the WTC columns lost half of their strength, there was still plenty of reserve capacity to support the building.

The Perimeter Wall

structure's gravity load, which overall did not change. Of course, the wrecked jetliner added substantial mass. On the other hand, due to the successful evacuation of people the live load, i.e., the total body mass of the occupants, was reduced by 75%.[82]

counts, due to insufficient evidence. Indeed, I would go further and call the evidence woefully insufficient.

Some Fire History:
For Sake of Comparison

Numerous steel beams also sagged and columns buckled.[83] But the overall superstructure, which was largely unprotected, never collapsed. The steel framework withstood the disaster, though gravely weakened. By contrast, most of the WTC's massive central piers and perimeter columns were never even touched by the fires of 9/11, which were confined to a few upper floors.

The Cardington Fire Tests

heat. The Cardington fire tests had relevance to the WTC collapse. The results were readily available and might have informed the NIST investigation. But to the best of my knowledge NIST scientists never considered the Cardington lab test data.

Conclusion:
Back to the Future

times on a single day. I say "three times" because, notice, I have not even discussed the case of WTC 7, which was not hit by a plane, hence, had no spillage of jet fuel, and suffered only some exterior damage and minor fires. Yet, at 5:20 PM on the afternoon of 9/11 the building suddenly collapsed in the manner of a controlled demolition. The video of this, captured on film for the world to see, clearly shows that the 47-story steel-frame structure dropped from the bottom up, into its own footprint. The collapse has never been explained, certainly not by the NIST, which has yet to release a final report about WTC 7.

others who have called for a NEW and truly independent 9/11 investigation, one empowered with the necessary resources and with subpoena authority. It's the only way we will ever finally answer the important question: Why did the WTC collapse? Only the truth about 9/11 can free us from the current tyranny of secrecy, lies and deceit which today is a far greater threat to our liberty than any foreign enemy.

Mark H. Gaffney's first book, Dimona the Third Temple (1989), was a pioneering study of the Israeli nuclear weapons program.
http://www.gnosticsecrets.com/pages/dimona.htm Mark's latest is Gnostic Secrets of the Naassenes (2004) Mark can be reached for comment at markhgaffney@earthlink.net Or: visit his web site at www.gnosticsecrets.com

Notes

1. Penn Arts and Sciences, Summer 2002. www.sas.upenn.edu/sasalum/newsltr/summer2002/k911.html
2. Dr Keith Eaton, The Structural Engineer 3, September 2002, #6.
3. James Williams, "WTC a Structural Success," SEAU NEWS, The Newsletter of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah, October 2001, #3.
4. Magazine of Johns Hopkins Public Health, late fall, 2001. When I contacted Dr Geyh she confirmed the report. She stated that people involved in the clean up effort told her they had seen molten steel in the debris.
5. Commissioner Holden's testimony before the 911 Commission is posted at http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030401-holden.htm
6. Christopher Bollyn, "Seismic Evidence Points to Underground
Explosions Causing WTC Collapse" American Free Press, August 28, 2002.
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/bollyn2.htm
7. Manuel Garcia, "The Thermodynamics of 9/11," November 28, 2006. posted at http://www.counterpunch.org/thermo11282006.html
8. The results are posted at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0429/thermal.r09.html
9. NIST is a nonregulatory agency of the Department of Commerce. The NIST investigation/report of the WTC collapse was conducted under the authority of the National Construction Safety Team Act, which was signed into law on October 1, 2002.
10. See question 13, Frequently Aasked Questions, posted at http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
11."We Will Not Forget, A Day of Terror", The Chief Engineer, October 26, 2006. http://www.chiefengineer.org/article.cfm?seqnum1=1029
12. Sheila Barter, "How the World Trade Center Fell", BBC news, September 13, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1540044.stm
13. A summary of the points presented in the NOVA special are still posted at PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/dyk.html
14 Kamikaze attackers may have known twin sisters' weak spot," Sundaytimes.com posted at http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/disinfo/collapse/sundaytimes_kamikaze.html
15. Kamikaze attackers may have known twin sisters' weak spot," Sundaytimes.com posted at http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/disinfo/collapse/sundaytimes_kamikaze.html
16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1604348.stm
17. "Carew Tower couldn't tolerate similar strike", Business Courier, September 14, 2001. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2001/09/17/story6.html
18. Steven Ashley, "When the Twin Towers Fell", October 09, 2001, originally posted at www.Scientific American.com. See the annotated version posted at http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/experts/articles/sciam01/sci_am1.html
19. Andy Field, "A Look Inside a Radical New Theory of the WTC Collapse," Fire/Rescue News, February 7, 2004.
20. T.W. Eagar and C. Musso, "Why Did the WTC Collapse? Science, Engineering and Speculation," Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 53/12 (2001): 8-11. This paper is also posted at http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html
21. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, Preface, xxxi.
22. After a FOIA request advanced by the New York Times the City of New York had to release the FDNY testimonials, which are posted as pdf files at http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html For a convenient look at some of them go to http://www.911review.com/coverup/oralhistories.html
23. See the NIST response to question two at http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
24. NIST NCSTAR, Executive Summary, p. xlvii.
25. J.R., Barnett, R.R. Biederman, and R.D. Sisson Jr., "An Initial Microstructural Analysis of A36 Steel from WTC Building 7," Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 53/12 (2001): 18; also see FEMA, "World Trade Center Building Performance Study," May 2002, Appendix C.
26. Steven E. Jones, "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?", in 911 and American Empire, edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott, Olive Branch Press, Northhampton, Mass., 2006.
27. In July 1971 the WRC won a national award when the Amercan Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) named it "the engineering project that demonstrates the greatest engineering skills and represents the greatest contribution to engineering progress and mankind." in Angus K. Gillespie, Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center, New Brunswick, Rutger's University Press, 1999, p. 117.
28. James Glanz and Eric Lipton, City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center, New York, Times Books, 2003, p. 138.
29. City in the Sky, p. 134-136.
30. cited at http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/design.html
31. Richard Korman and Debra Rubin, "Painful Losses Mount in the Construction 'Family'", posted at http://www.construction.com/NewsCenter/Headlines/ENR/20011001a.asp
33. "How Columnss Will be Designed for 110-Story Buildings," Engineering News-Record, April 2, 1964, p. 48-49.
34. The photo is posted at http://www.geocities.com/debunking911/columnd.jpg
35. This strange development came to light in July 2006, long after the cleanup of the Deutsche Bank had supposedly been completed. The announcement prompted a sharp letter of protest from the attorney representing the families of the victims. For more details go to http://www.911citizenswatch.org/print.php?sid=906
36. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 118; also see NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, Executive Summary, p. xli.
37. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 124.
38. The NIST recovered 12 core columns from the WTC, but only one (in two separate pieces) from WTC 2 turned out to be from the area affected by the impacts/fires. A number of flanges from the core were also recovered. See Table 5-2 in NIST NCSTAR 1-3, WTC Investigation, p. 35.
39. Eric Douglas, R.A., "The NIST WTC Investigation -- How Real Was The Simulation?", A review of NIST NCSTAR 1, October 2006, p. 8. Posted at www.nistreview.org
40. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, Executive Sumary, p. lxxxvii. The NIST also admitted this in its global impact study., which states "in terms of structural damage condition in exterior columns, Case Ai and Case Bi and similarly Case Ci and Case Di damage sets were identical." NIST NCSTAR 1-6D, WTC Investigation, p. 10.
41. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, Executive Summary, p. lxxv.
42. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. lxxv.
43. NIST NCSTAR 1-2B, WTC Investigation, p. 344.
44. NIST NCSTAR 1-2B , WTC Investigation, p. 345.
45. NIST NCSTAR 1-2B, WTC Investigation, p. 353.
46. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 142.
47. NIST NCSTAR 1-6D, WTC Investigation.
48. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 142
49. NIST NCSTAR 1-3, WTC Investigation, p. 39.
50. NIST NCSTAR 1-3, WTC Investigation p. 39.
51. The NOVA special "Why the Towers Fell" aired in 2002. The text of the NOVA interview with Thomas Eagar is posted at http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/experts/articles/eagar_nova/nova_eagar2.html
52. NIST NCSTAR 1, Executive Summary, p. xlvi.
53. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 141.
54. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 67.
55. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 67.
56. NIST NCSTAR 1, WRC Investigation p. 130.
57. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation p. 88.
58. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation p. 176.
59. Andy Field, "A Look Inside a Radical new Theory of the WTC Collapse," Fire/Rescue News, February 7, 2004. Sunder made a similar statement during an October 19, 2004 presentation. See "World Trade Center Investigation Status," S. Shyam Sunder, lead investigator, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST. This paper can be downloaded as a pdf file at http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/agenda_oct192004.htm
60. The NIST makes this important point in two seperate places in the text. NIST NCSTAR 1-5, WTC Investigation, pp. 49 and 51.
61. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation p. 127.
62. NIST NCSTAR 1-6, WTC Investigation, p. lxvix.
63. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, Executive Summary, p. xli.
64. NIST NCSTAR 1-5, WTC Investigation, p. xliv.
65. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 126-127.
66. NIST NCSTAR 1-5, WTC Investigation, p. 121.
67. NIST NCSTAR 1-6, WTC Investigation, p. lxvix; also see NIST NCSTAR 1-5, WTC Investigation, p. 51.
68. Jim Dwyer and Ksvin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, Times Books, 2005, p. 206; also see Jim Dwyer and Ford fessenden, "Lost Voices of Firefighters, Some on 78th Floor," New York Times, August 4, 2002; Christopher Bollyn, "Feds Withhold Crucial WTC Evidence," American Free Press, August 8, 2002.
69. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 5.
70. NIST NCSTAR 1-3, WTC Investigation, p. 95.
71. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 43.
72. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation p. 144.
73. In the code his was sub-article 1002.0, adequacy of the structural design. See NIST NCSTAR 1-1A, WTC Investigation, p. 32.
74. Conversation with Ron Hamburger, structural engineer, Dec 7, 2006.
75. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 66.
76. My thanks to the NIST WTC Investigative Team for helping me to understand the numbers. Although the calculations are expressed as demand/capacity ratios in the NIST report, this easily translates into a value, i.e., factor of safety, which is more comprehensible to the average lay person, which is why I'm stayed with factor of safety. Personal communication, December 14, 2006. See NIST NCSTAR WTC Investigation 1-6, Figure 8-9, p. 233.
77. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 66.
78. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. cxii; also see NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 84.
79. The NIST report states: "on the day of the attack the towers were subjected to in-service live loads (a fraction of the design live loads) and minimal wind loads." NIST NCSTAR 1-2 WTC Investigation, p. liv.
80. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 66.
81. I received clarification about this from the NIST WTC Investigation Team. Personal communication, December 14, 2006. The number 5.7 is derived from values presented in Figure 4-35, NIST NCSTAR 1-6, WTC Investigation, p. 101.
82. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 66.
83. Al Goodman, "The Windsor Tower Fire, Madrid," posted at http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/CaseStudy/HistoricFires/BuildingFires/default.htm
84. Kevin Ryan, a site manager for Underwriter Labs, was terminated after publicly questioning the conclusions of the NIST report.

Dead On Arrival
The NIST 911 Report On The World Trade Center Collapse
By Mark H. Gaffney
12-15-6

Note to the reader: The following is a critique of the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) report on the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse. The 43 volume NIST report was the result of a 3 year investigation, and was released in September 2005. It remains the official US government explanation for why the WTC collapsed on 9/11. As you are about to discover, the report itself collapses under scrutiny. There is no doubt that the NIST investigation was politically controlled by limiting its scope. This is one way to kill an investigation.

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Fires raged at ground zero for many weeks after 9/11. In fact, it was not until December 19, 2001 that the NYC fire marshall declared the fires extinguished.

The fires burned long into the cleanup. The removal of steel beams and debris from the top of the pile allowed oxygen to reach the fires smoldering below. As a result, the flames often flared up, hampering worker on site. Joel Meyerowitz, a photographer, made note of this in his 2006 retrospective book, AFTERMATH. Armed with his trusty camera Meyerowitz roamed ground zero for months following the attack. Police repeatedly ejected him, but he kept returning in order to document what had happened. Eventually Meyerowitz amassed an impressive photographic record. In his fine book he remarks that the ground in places was so hot it melted the workmen's rubber boots.

But Meyerowitz was hardly the first to comment on the pile's incredible residual heat. The first accounts of molten steel came just hours after the attack: from the search and rescue teams who were among the first on the scene. Sarah Atlas, a member of New Jersey Task Force One Search and Rescue, was one of these emergency responders. Sarah reported seeing molten steel in the pile even as she searched in vain for survivors.[1]

Many have denied the existence of molten steel at ground zero. But there are too many eyewitness accounts to dismiss, including the testimony of engineers, city officials and other competent professionals who toured the ruin. One of these, Dr Keith Eaton, Chief Executive of the London-based Institution of Structural Engineers, later wrote in The Structural Engineer about what he had seen, namely: "molten metal which was still red-hot weeks after the event," as well as "four-inch thick steel plates sheered and bent in the disaster."[2]

A similar account came from Leslie E. Robertson, an engineer who helped design the WTC. He is currently a partner at Leslie E. Robertson Associates, a structural consulting firm that was under contract to the WTC at the time of the tragedy. In a keynote address Robertson reportedly told the Structural Engineers Association of Utah that: "...as of 21 days after the attack the fires were still burning and molten steel still running."[3] Public health officials/experts also toured the scene of destruction. Alison Geyh Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at Johns Hopkins, was with one of these teams. She wrote that "In some pockets now being uncovered they are finding molten steel."[4] The fact was even reported to the 9/11 Commission by Kenneth Holden, Commissioner of the city of New York. He told the panel about seeing "molten metal" during a walkthrough.[5]

The evidence accumulated even as the cleanup progressed. Work crews removing the mountain of debris, piece by piece, discovered pools of molten steel beneath the pile, where the towers had stood. One pool was found at the bottom of the elevator shafts. Some of the pools were not found until 3, 4, even 5 weeks after 9/11.

Contractors working on site confirmed these discoveries. Such as Peter Tully, president of Tully Construction of Flushing New York, who was one of four contractors engaged by New York City to handle the cleanup. During an August 2002 interview Tully told the American Free Press that indeed workmen had seen the molten pools.[6] The same interview included a statement by Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc., who, years before, ramrodded the cleanup of the bombed Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Loizeaux was called in by Tully to draft the cleanup plan for the WTC site. Loizeaux said, "Yes, hot spots of molten steel were seen in the basements." Molten steel was also found under WTC 7.

These pools of molten metal have never been explained. Loizeaux told the American Free Press that the continuing fires were fueled by "paper, carpet and other combustibles packed down the elevator shafts by the tower floors as they 'pancaked' into the basement." Manuel Garcia, a physicist, has suggested that cars left in parking garages under the WTC contained gasoline that may have fueled the fires.[7] Both are probably correct. But none of these fires were hot enough to melt steel. Indeed, none of the combustibles in the wreckage burned anywhere near the melting point of construction grade steel beams (2800 °F). As noted, the smoldering fires for the most part were oxygen-starved.

sprayed on the pile long before it ever reached the bottom.

The Official Reports

the testimony of the New York city commissioner.

contradicted by the eyewitness accounts of the emergency responders, engineers, officials, and health experts already cited, not to mention the lead contractors who accomplished the cleanup.[9] After brushing aside the issue as irrelevant to the WTC collapse, the NIST report then suggests that:

Under certain circumstances it is conceivable for some of the steel in the wreckage to have melted after the buildings collapsed. Any molten steel in the wreckage was more likely due to the high temperature resulting from long exposure to combustion within the pile than to short exposure to fires or explosions while the buildings were standing. [my emphasis] [10]

The NIST never clarifies what the "certain circumstances" might be that produced molten steel after the collapse. Its statement about "long exposure to combustion" is absurd on its face, given that there was no energy source in the pile of wreckage remotely capable of melting steel. In fact, the NIST's above statement is an affront to our intelligence, since the hot spots identified by the US Geological Survey immediately after 9/11 and the molten pools were surely one and the same. There is no way to avoid the conclusion that the molten materials under the wreckage, as well as the smoldering fires, were a residual product of whatever caused the collapse of the WTC. Something on September 11, 2001 burned hot enough to melt steel in the basement of both towers. But such a deduction is too simple, evidently, or too provocative for the NIST, which made a decision not to go there.

When asked about what caused the molten pools Peter Tully suggested that perhaps jet fuel was responsible. But on this point, at least, the NIST report is surely correct. It's easy to show that jet fuel was not the causative agent. There were reports that burning jet fuel leaked into the WTC elevators moments after the first impact. A descending fireball possibly caused explosions many floors below. Witnesses saw critically burned people emerging from elevators. Something ripped through the WTC 1 concourse lobby at about the time of the impact, blowing out windows and crumpling steel doors like they were paper. The same blast knocked marble slabs off the walls in the lobby. Custodians also heard explosions in the WTC 1 basement. A machine shop was wrecked, as well as a car garage.[11]

world press erred in this respect. Indeed, in the emotional aftermath of the 9/11 attack the press often mangled the science as badly as the twisted steel beams of the WTC. One report posted by the BBC on September 13, 2001 quoted experts who stated matter-of-factly that the burning jet fuel actually melted the central columns, leading to the collapse.[12] Another report on The History Channel, The Anatomy of September 11th, claimed that the inferno turned the steel piers in in the WTC to "licorice." A 2002 PBS NOVA special "Why the Towers Fell" showcased a similar theory, and suggested that the fires reached 2000°F, which caused the steel columns to lose 80% of their strength.[13]

The same day NewScientist.com asserted that "raging fires melted the supporting steel struts."[15] On September 13, 2001 BBC radio interviewed Chris Wise, an engineer who explained that...

"It was the fire that killed the buildings. There's nothing on earth that could survive those temperatures with that amount of fuel burning. The columns would have melted, the floors would have melted, and eventually they would have collapsed one on top of the other."[16]

Elmer Obermeyer, the president of an Ohio engineering firm, also endorsed the meltdown theory in a story in the Cincinnati Business Courier. The paper noted that Obermeyer was a "guru in his field."[17] In October 2001 Scientific American.com posted an article summarizing the results of a 9/11 panel of MIT experts, one of whom, Eduardo Kausel, stated "that the intense heat softened or melted the structural elements- floor trusses and columns -so that they became like chewing gum, and that was enough to trigger the collapse.[18]

This is but a small sampling of many such reports that appeared in those first days. All of them were wrong. As Frank Gayle, one of the NIST's lead scientists, later pointed out: "Your gut reaction would be [that] the jet fuel is what made the [WTC] fire so very intense. A lot of people figured that's what melted the steel. Indeed, it did not, the steel did not melt."[19] Gayle was seconded by Thomas Eagar, a professor of materials engineering at MIT:

"The Fire is the most misunderstood part of the WTC collapse. Even today the media report (and many scientists believe) that the steel melted. It is argued that the jet fuel burns very hot, especially with so much fuel present. This is not true....The temperatures of the fire at the WTC were not unusual, and it was most definitely not capable of melting steel."[20]

2,800°F melting point of steel. Even this 1,000°C upper limit is very difficult to achieve, since, as Thomas Eagar pointed out, it requires the optimal mixing of fuel with oxygen during combustion, which can only be achieved in a laboratory. In fact, the clouds of black smoke that poured out of the twin towers on 9/11 were an obvious sign that the WTC fire burned at much lower temperatures, probably around 650°C (1,202°F) range, or even lower. This was due to the inefficient mixing of oxygen. It's why most building fires burn no hotter than around 500-650°C. (932 -1,202°F)

The NIST Report

Since the primary stated objective of the NIST 9/11 investigation was to determine the cause of the WTC collapse, the NIST should have conducted a forensic examination of the full spectrum of evidence.[21] Ground zero was a crime scene, was it not? Yes, and because many credible eyewitnesses, including firemen who were on duty that fateful day, reported that they heard and/or saw explosions, the NIST should have investigated this without bias.[22] It should have viewed this testimony as hard evidence: a starting point in its investigation. Instead, the NIST did a gloss. It posted a statement on its web site asserting that it had considered a number of hypotheses, including a planned demolition, but had found no corroborating evidence.[23] This disclaimer was no more than a last-minute attempt to deflect criticism, since a close reading of the NIST report shows that the agency never entertained other alternatives. It certainly never investigated the eyewitness accounts of explosions.

The NIST report assumes, start to finish, that the Boeing 767s were responsible for the collapse of the twin towers. The agency took it for granted that the impacts set in motion a chain of events leading to catastrophic structural failure. The assumption is even stated explicitly in the Executive Summary:

The tragic consequences of the September 11, 2001 attacks were directly attributable to the fact that terrorists flew large jet-fuel laden commercial airliners into the WTC towers. Buildings for use by the general population are not designed to withstand attacks of such severity; building codes do not require building designs to consider aircraft impact.[24]

The 43 volume NIST report confines itself to the sequence of events from the first plane impacts to the onset of collapse; and is governed throughout by ipso facto reasoning. Because the agency never entertained the possibility of a planned demolition, it never bothered to look for evidence of same. For example, it never tested steel samples recovered from ground zero for telltale traces of explosives. These omissions were irresponsible and smack of political interference, since in addition to the eyewitness accounts two scientific papers, one published in 2001, and another by FEMA in May 2002, had already detected sulfur residues on samples of WTC steel.[25] As Dr. Steven Jones, a physics professor at BYU, has pointed out, sulfidation of steel can be an indicator of the use of thermate (or other closely related compounds) developed by the military and commonly used to cut steel in demolitions work.[26] The possibility needed to be checked, if only to rule it out; but the agency, again, chose not to go there.

Let us now examine the NIST report in detail.

Why the WTC Survived the 767 Impacts

the WTC was hugely overbuilt: redundant by design. The towers simply transferred the load from the severed/damaged members to other undamaged columns.

Upon its completion in 1970 the World Trade Center was not only the world's tallest twin-skyscraper (1,368 feet), it was also a state-of-the-art achievement of modern construction.[27] Although the WTC's soaring lines gave the impression of a relatively light frame, in fact, the towers were extremely rugged, engineered to withstand hurricane-force winds and to survive a direct hit by a Boeing 707, the largest commercial jetliner of the day. In a 1993 interview the WTC's principal structural engineer, John Skilling, stated that prior to construction he performed an impact analysis of a 600 mph Boeing 707 impact, and concluded "that the building structure would still be there."[28] The architectural firm that worked with Skilling described his 1,200 page structural analysis as "the most complete and detailed ever made for any building structure."[29] Frank A. Demartini, onsite manager during the construction of the WTC, seconded this view during a January 25, 2001 interview, in which he noted that the study involved "a fully loaded 707." Demartini even declared that "the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door, this intense grid, and the jet plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting."[30] Demartini kept an office in the North Tower and was last seen on 9/11 assisting evacuees on the 78th floor.[31]

The original WTC design, the work of architect Minoru Yamasaki, was one of the first architectural plans to call for open space within a steel-frame building. This meant doing away with the forest of columns so typical of the steel high-rise buildings of former years. Chief engineer Skilling achieved the objective with a double support system: a dense array of 236 columns around the perimeter, and a network of 47 massive piers at the core. The creation of large expanses of unobstructed floor space within the WTC was a novel idea in the 1960s, but is commonplace today.[32]

slab of lightweight concrete. Probably Skilling's greatest innovation was to extend the truss diagonals up into the concrete floor, which added stiffness and strength. Each truss assembly/concrete floor behaved as a single unit.

all possible. In fact, the WTC had tremendous reserve capacity. An early article about the project in the Engineering News-Record declared that "live loads on these [perimeter] columns can be increased more than 2,000 percent before failure occurs."[33]

generated heat. Construction-grade steel begins to lose its tensile strength at 425°C (~800°F), and is only about half as strong at 650°C (1,202°F). The lightweight truss assemblies were especially vulnerable, since they consisted of rather thin steel members. During construction they were coated with spray-applied insulation. The much larger steel piers and columns had a fire-barrier of gypsum wallboard.

NIST's Official Explanation

which pulled the perimeter columns inward, causing them to buckle. The fires also weakened the central piers. The combination of these effects destabilized the structures and at a critical point the towers simply collapsed. The NIST concluded that the WTC would have survived the fires if the Boeing 767 impacts had not dislodged/damaged the fireproofing material, which, therefore, according to the NIST, was the critical factor on 9/11.

There are a number of serious problems, however, with this official narrative. In the first place, it is sharply at odds with the video record, which plainly shows that during each collapse perimeter columns and other structural members didn't simply fall to the ground. In many cases they were ejected up and out of the disintegrating structure at nearly a 45 degree angle: a cascade that hurled steel beams weighing 20 tons or more as much as 600 feet from the base of the buildings. One remarkable photo of ground zero taken from above shows that entire sections of WTC 1's western perimeter wall were thrown 500+ feet toward the Winter Garden.[34] Could a gravitational collapse do this?

Pulverization

workers found more than 700 body parts, e.g., slivers of bone, on the roof and within the doomed structure.[35] The question is: why? This bizarre report remains a mystery.

there were no resistance whatsoever. From start to finish they fell in only about 12 seconds, just 2 seconds longer than the time for a billiard ball to drop from the WTC roof to the plaza below. The question is why?

The NIST report failed to address any of these anomalies. In fact, it didn't even try. The NIST sidestepped the ejection of material, the vast pulverization of concrete, the many testimonials and other evidence of explosions, and the near-free fall by limiting its investigation to the sequence of events from the Boeing 767 impacts to the onset of the collapse. Incredibly, the NIST chose not to examine the collapse itself. The report makes reference to the "global collapse" of the WTC, but we never learn what this means because the NIST report never tells us. Once again, the agency decided not to go there. Evidently we are supposed to assume that gravity alone was responsible. But could gravity transform enormous slabs of concrete, hundreds of thousands of tons of material, into fine dust, in midair? Extremely doubtful. The NIST's decision not to investigate these important questions add up to more grave omissions.

But we haven't yet examined the NIST report itself. Let's do that, now.

The Special Projects

very little of it lends credence to the NIST's final, and official, explanation of the cause of the WTC collapse.

One of the most serious and persistent problems NIST investigators faced was the admitted lack of information about conditions at the core of the towers.[36] To be sure, thousands of photographs and hundreds of hours of videotape made it possible to study in detail the damage to the WTC exterior, and to gain a reasonable understanding about conditions in the outer offices. Fires were often visible through the windows, despite dense smoke, and sagging floors and other structural damage was discernible through gaping holes in the damaged exterior. However, as the NIST report states, "Fires deeper than a few meters inside the building could not be seen because of the smoke obscuration [sic] and the steep viewing angle of nearly all the photographs."[37] Thus, except for steel samples gathered after the fact the NIST had almost no other information about the dynamic conditions at the core of the WTC on 9/11.[38]

The agency sought to overcome this shortfall of information with computer simulations. This was problematic from the outset, since computer models are no better than the quality of input and the accuracy of the programmer's assumptions. As architect and critic Eric Douglas points out in his 2006 analysis of the NIST report: "a fundamental problem with....computer simulation is the overwhelming temptation to manipulate the input data until one achieves the desired results."[39] Did the NIST investigators fall prey to this insidious tendency? And did this lead them to overestimate the impact damage to the WTC interior? Let us now consider this question.

NIST's Global Impact/Collapse Analyses

In one of its most important projects (NCSTAR 1-2), NIST scientists developed a global impact analysis: to estimate the structural damage to the WTC caused by the Boeing 767s. In this study the NIST considered three different scenarios. These ranged from less damage to extreme damage, with a moderate alternative (described as "the base") in the middle. As it happened, all three scenarios accurately predicted the impact damage to the WTC exterior at the point of entry; although with regard to WTC 1 the moderate case was a slightly better match.[40] The three differed greatly, however, in predicting the number of severed columns at the WTC core, a datum obviously of great importance. In the case of WTC 1 the lesser alternative predicted only one severed core column, the moderate alternative predicted three, while the extreme alternative predicted five to six. In the case of WTC 2 the disparity was even greater: The lesser alternative predicted three severed columns, the moderate five, and the extreme case no less than ten.[41]

Although the NIST never satisfactorily resolved these differences, it immediately threw out the less severe alternatives, citing two reasons in the Executive Summary report: first, because they failed to predict observable damage to the far exterior walls; and second, because they did not lead to a global collapse.[42]

that none of the alternatives accurately predicted the exit damage.[44]

This admission, deeply buried in the 43 volume report, is fatal to the NIST's first rationale for rejecting the lesser alternative, since it was no less accurate than the moderate and extreme cases. (Or, put differently: It was no more inaccurate.) Which, of course, means that the NIST rejected the lesser alternative for only one reason: because it failed to predict a global collapse. The simulations for WTC 2 suffered from the same modeling defect. As the supplementary documentation states, "None of the three WTC 2 global impact simulations resulted in a large engine fragment exiting the tower."[45] Yet, here again, the NIST rejected the lesser alternative. We can thank researcher Eric Douglas for digging deeper than the summary report. Otherwise, this flaw, tantamount to the devil lurking in the fine print, might never have come to light.

from a predictive standpoint, than the extreme cases. In fact, with regard to predicting the entry damage to WTC 1, as noted, the moderate alternative was actually a better match.

The NIST report offers no scientific rationale for this decision, only the pithy comment that the moderate alternatives "were discarded after the structural response analysis of major subsystems were compared with observed events."[46] And what, pray tell, were these "observed events"? The report explains that "structural models....indicated that....the buildings would have continued to stand indefinitely."[47] Here, at least, the NIST is more forthright than in the case of the lesser alternatives.

Things only get worse.

As it happened, even the extreme alternatives required further tinkering to be acceptable. The report informs us that "Complete sets of simulations were then performed for cases B and D [the extreme alternatives]. To the extent that the simulations deviated from the photographic evidence or eyewitness reports, the investigators adjusted the input, but only within the range of physical reality."[my emphasis][48] In other words, NIST scientists worked backwards from the collapse, tweaking the extreme alternatives until their computer model finally spat out the desired result consistent with their assumption, which never wavered, that the 767 impacts ultimately were at the root of everything on 9/11. Of course, the NIST report never tells us what the "additional inputs" were.

That the NIST's impact study and subsequent global collapse analysis were biased, hence, unscientific, ought to be obvious. But I will go even further: The impact simulations were very nearly a waste of time, since by its own admission the NIST had almost no information about actual conditions at the WTC core. The NIST had no sound basis for rejecting the lesser and moderate impact alternatives; both were at least as plausible as the extreme alternative. Why were they not given equal weight? The reason is obvious: That would have compelled NIST investigators to entertain the unthinkable, i.e., the possibility that some other causative agent was responsible for the WTC collapse. Still, one has to admire, in a perverse sort of way, the NIST's triumph of circular reasoning..

The Metallurgical Studies

The NIST's metallurgical and fire studies were among the most important projects, and involved testing 236 samples of steel columns, panels, trusses, and other smaller parts recovered from ground zero. Thanks to the original labeling system used during the construction of the WTC, the NIST was able in many cases to identify individual steel members, and thus to determine their exact locations in the WTC. As it happened, some of the samples were from the impact zones and fire-damaged areas.[49] The collection represented only 0.25 - 0.5 % of the 200,000 total tons of structural steel used the two towers. But the NIST believed it had enough samples to determine the quality of the steel and evaluate its performance on 9/11.[50]

view of many about how and why the trusses failed on 9/11:

"...the steel had plenty of strength, until it reached temperatures of 1,100º to 1,300ºF. In this range, the steel started losing a lot of strength, and the bending became greater. Eventually the steel lost 80 percent of its strength, because of this fire that consumed the whole floor....then you got this domino effect. Once you started to get angle-clips to fail in one area, it put extra load on other angle-clips, and then it unzipped around the building on that floor in a matter of seconds. If you look at the whole structure, they are the smallest piece of steel. As everything begins to distort, the smallest piece is going to become the weak link in the chain. They were plenty strong for holding up one truss, but when you lost several trusses, the trusses adjacent to those had to hold two or three times what they were expected to hold."[51]

out.

Because the NIST did not have the necessary facilities, it contracted Underwriter Laboratories to conduct a series of fire endurance tests on trusses like those in the WTC. (The recovered truss samples were too badly deformed during the collapse to test them directly, so NIST fabricated new trusses identical in design.) The purpose of the tests was to establish a baseline, and the results were surprising. Not one of the truss assemblies failed during a series of four tests, not even the truss sprayed with the minimum amount of fireproofing. "The floors continued to support the full design load without collapse for over two hours."[52] The investigative team cautiously noted that the exposure of the floor systems to fire on 9/11 was "substantially different" than the conditions in the test furnaces, which was true enough. Yet, the team noted that "this type of assembly was capable of sustaining a large gravity load without collapsing for a substantial period of time relative to the duration of the fires in any given location on September 11."[53] The UL tests not only laid to rest the theory that the trusses were the cause of the collapse on 9/11, if anything, the tests demonstrated the fundamental soundness of the WTC truss design.

these findings support the NIST's official explanation for the WTC collapse. On the contrary.

The Fire Tests:
Core Weakening?

range where significant loss of strength occurs. When the test was repeated again with an insulated column, the steel did not reach 600ºC even after ten hours. The NIST concluded that "the fires in WTC 1 and WTC 2 would not be able to significantly weaken the insulated....columns within the 102 minutes and 56 minutes, respectively, after impact and prior to collapse."[my emphasis][56]

The NIST interpreted these results as validating its favored hypothesis that the critical factor on 9/11 leading to the global failure of the WTC's support columns was the damage to the fireproofing insulation caused by the Boeing 767 impacts. But was this an unwarranted leap? It certainly was not supported by the NIST's metallurgical analyses, which showed that not even one of the 236 steel samples, including those from the impact areas and fire-damaged floors, showed evidence of exposure to temperatures in excess of 1,110ºF (600ºC) for as long as 15 minutes.[57] In fact, out of more than 170 areas examined on 16 recovered perimeter columns, only 3 reached temperatures in excess of 250ºC (450ºF) during the fires.[58] And why ? Well, perhaps, in part, because, as Shyam Sunder, the lead NIST investigator, admitted, "the jet fuel....burned out in less than ten minutes."[59] Also, NIST scientists made another surprising discovery: The actual amount of combustibles on a typical floor of the WTC turned out to be less than expected, only about 4 lbs./sq. foot. Furthermore, "the fuel loading in the core areas....was negligible."[60] The shocking fact is that the World Trade Center was fuel-poor, compared with most other buildings. The NIST estimated that a fire in a typical area of the building would have burned through the available combustibles at maximum temperatures (1,000ºC) in about 15-20 minutes.[61] Not nearly long enough even at that temperature to cause exposed steel to lose 80% of its strength.

Nor is this all. I searched the NIST report in vain for any acknowledgment that here, as in the case of the truss assembly test, the actual fire conditions on 9/11 were substantially different from the UL laboratory furnace. In fact, with respect to the columns the differences were at least as significant as with the truss assembly test, and call into sharp question the NIST's conclusion that damaged insulation was the critical factor. Although the NIST took the position that "temperatures and stresses were high in the core area,"[62] as I've noted the investigation suffered from a persistent lack of information about real conditions at the core. The NIST had no hard evidence about the actual amount of protective insulation damaged/dislodged during the impacts. The NIST report acknowledges this,[63] then goes on to assume that all structural members in the debris path at the time of impact suffered 100% loss of insulation.[64] Surely, we are safe to conclude that the Boeing 767 impacts did cause damage to, or strip away, a substantial portion of the fireproofing material. Exactly how much is not knowable. But even if the NIST estimate of total loss of fireproofing is correct, there is virtually no chance that the fires on 9/11 weakened the WTC's core piers within the allotted span of time: 56/103 minutes.

A Vast Heat Sink

The reason for this, nowhere acknowledged in the NIST report, ought to be obvious: The WTC's support columns did not exist in isolation. This was no laboratory furnace. The columns in each tower were part of an interconnected steel framework that weighed at least 100,000 tons; and because steel is known to be an excellent conductor of heat this massive steel superstructure functioned on 9/11 as an enormous energy sink. The total volume of the steel framework was vast compared with the relatively small area of exposed steel, and would have wicked away the fire-caused heat almost as quickly as it was generated. Anyone who has repaired a copper water pipe with a propane torch is familiar with the principle. One must sit and wait patiently for the pipe temperature to rise to the point where the copper finally sucks the solder into the fitting. While it is true that copper is more conductive than steel, the analogy holds, regardless. The fact that only three recovered steel samples showed exposure to temperatures above 250ºC indicates that the steel superstructure was indeed behaving as a heat sink. The fires on 9/11 would have taken many hours, in any event, much longer than the brief allotted span of 56/103 minutes respectively, to slowly raise the temperature of the steel framework as a whole to the point of weakening the exposed members.

after the impact and waned thereafter. Temperatures were actually cooling across most of floor 96, including the core, at the moment of the collapse. But if this is true, the central piers were not losing strength at that point but regaining it.[66] How, then, did they collapse? Finally, the NIST's insistence that "temperatures and stresses were high in the core area" is not consistent with their finding that the fuel load of combustibles in the core was negligible.[67] On this point the NIST contradicts itself.

In short, the NIST report fails to explain how transient fires weakened WTC 1's enormous central piers in the allotted span of 103 minutes and triggered a global collapse.

The Fires in the Second Tower

more extensive impact damage of the core columns, helps to explain why WTC 2 fell first, even though it was impacted after WTC 1. Videos filmed on 9/11 do show inward bowing of WTC 2's eastern wall, although its actual extent and significance remain disputed. But perhaps the most serious challenge to the official view that fires were gravely weakening WTC 2 comes from an audiotape released in August 2002 by the Port Authority of New York. The tape, which was lost or neglected for more than a year, is the only known recording of firefighters inside the towers. When city fire officials belatedly listened to it they were surprised to discover that firemen actually reached the impact/fire zone of WTC 2 about 14 minutes before the building collapsed. On climbing to the 78th floor sky lobby Battalion Chief Orlo J. Palmer and Fire Marshall Ronald P. Bucca found many dead or seriously injured people, but no raging inferno. The audio transmission between Palmer and another fireman shows no hint of panic or fear, as the following transcript shows:

Battalion Seven Chief: "Battalion Seven ... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 Code Ones.

Ladder 15: "Chief, what stair you in?"

Battalion Seven Chief: "South stairway Adam, South Tower."

Ladder 15: "Floor 78?"

Battalion Seven Chief: "Ten-four, numerous civilians, we gonna need two engines up here."

Battalion Seven Chief: "Tower one. Battalion Seven to Ladder 15."

Battalion Seven Chief: "I'm going to need two of your firefighters Adam stairway to knock down two fires. We have a house line stretched we could use some water on it, knock it down, okay."

Ladder 15: "Alright ten-four, we're coming up the stairs. We're on 77 now in the B stair, I'll be right to you."

Battalion Seven Operations Tower One: "Battalion Seven Operations Tower One to Battalion Nine, need you on floor above 79. We have access stairs going up to 79, kay."

Battalion Nine: "Alright, I'm on my way up, Orio."[68]

Here, Battalion Chief Orlo Palmer calls for hoses to be brought up to put out the fires. His expression "10-45 Code Ones" is a reference to dead bodies, of which, evidently, there were many. The tape shows that the firemen were not turned back by heat, smoke, or a wall of flames. They were able to function within the impact zone and were prepared to help the injured and combat the small fires they found. Palmer even mentions that the stairwell up to the next floor, i.e., 79, was passable. Minutes later the building came down on their heads.

Inexplicably, the NIST never considered this important evidence. The question is why? Their omission is especially damning, since, as I've stressed, the NIST investigation suffered from a persistent lack of information about actual conditions at the core.[69] Here was real-time testimony from firefighters who were on the scene, and the NIST simply ignored it.

outside the path of Flight 175. Both samples were physically damaged, but the NIST reported no evidence of the kinds of distortion, i.e., bowing, slumping, or sagging that are typical of heat-weakened steel. Nor was the NIST able to glean any evidence of high temperatures from the columns.[70] On what, then, do they base their conclusion that "Dire structural changes were occurring in the building interior"?[71] If anything, the paucity of evidence calls into question the NIST's declaration that their sampling effort was adequate.

Moreover, as we've already noted, the NIST's computer simulation predicting extreme damage to the core of WTC 2 is dubious, since it is also unsupported by hard evidence. In fact, the NIST's preferred extreme alternative was, from a predictive standpoint, no better than the lesser alternatives, which the NIST rejected. Even the extreme alternative failed to predict a global collapse, without "additional inputs." As for the inputs, it would be interesting to know more about them. Unfortunately, the NIST's global collapse analysis is so highly technical as to be almost incomprehensible to a non programmer. I was struck by the number of assumptions it makes, one piled on another.

The Issue of Reserve Capacity

In order to show just how weak the official 9/11 narrative is, let us assume, for the sake of argument, that local fires did burn long and hot enough to weaken exposed columns in the impact zone of WTC 2. As I will now show, even if this did occur it still fails to account for the global collapse of the second tower. As the NIST report states,

both towers had considerable reserve capacity. This was confirmed by analysis of the post-impact vibration of WTC 2, the more severely damaged building, where the damaged tower oscillated at a period nearly equal to the first mode period calculated for the undamaged structure.[my emphasis][72]

to several of the project reports and supplementary documents. I also consulted with experts at the International Code Council (ICC) and with a leading structural engineer. I learned that estimating the overall reserve capacity of a steel structure is no simple task. Numerous factors are involved. Moreover, there are different ways to approach the problem.

Perhaps the simplest measure of reserve capacity are the standards for the material components of a building. In the late 1960s when the WTC was constructed the applicable standard was the New York City Building Code, which required a builder to execute computations for the various structural members to show that they met the specified requirements. However, the code also allowed for actual testing of members, in the event that computations were impractical. The testing standards applicable in 1968 give a good idea of the required level of reserve strength in the steel columns and other materials used in the WTC. For example, in the most stringent test a steel member had to withstand 250% of the design load, plus half again its own weight, for a period of a week, without collapse.[73]

Factor of Safety

Another widely used measure of reserve capacity is the so called "factor of safety." This varies for different structural elements, but for steel columns and beams typically ranges from 1.75-2.0.[74] The NIST report actually breaks this more general figure down into two separate and slightly different measurements for stress: yielding strength (1.67) and buckling (1.92).[75] For our purposes, however, the more general figure is adequate. So, for example, a steel column with a factor of safety of 1.75 must support 1.75 times the anticipated design load before it begins to incur damage. While this value is typical of steel beams in general, the actual reserve strength of the steel columns in the WTC was higher. When the NIST crunched the numbers for the 47 core columns of WTC 1 (between the 93rd and 98th floors) it found that the factor of safety ranged from 1.6 to 2.8, the average value being 2.1.[76] This means that the average core column in WTC 1 could support more than twice its design load before reaching the yield strength, i.e., the point where damage may begin to occur.

improbable worst case, in which many of the WTC columns lost half of their strength, there was still plenty of reserve capacity to support the building.

The Perimeter Wall

structure's gravity load, which overall did not change. Of course, the wrecked jetliner added substantial mass. On the other hand, due to the successful evacuation of people the live load, i.e., the total body mass of the occupants, was reduced by 75%.[82]

counts, due to insufficient evidence. Indeed, I would go further and call the evidence woefully insufficient.

Some Fire History:
For Sake of Comparison

Numerous steel beams also sagged and columns buckled.[83] But the overall superstructure, which was largely unprotected, never collapsed. The steel framework withstood the disaster, though gravely weakened. By contrast, most of the WTC's massive central piers and perimeter columns were never even touched by the fires of 9/11, which were confined to a few upper floors.

The Cardington Fire Tests

heat. The Cardington fire tests had relevance to the WTC collapse. The results were readily available and might have informed the NIST investigation. But to the best of my knowledge NIST scientists never considered the Cardington lab test data.

Conclusion:
Back to the Future

times on a single day. I say "three times" because, notice, I have not even discussed the case of WTC 7, which was not hit by a plane, hence, had no spillage of jet fuel, and suffered only some exterior damage and minor fires. Yet, at 5:20 PM on the afternoon of 9/11 the building suddenly collapsed in the manner of a controlled demolition. The video of this, captured on film for the world to see, clearly shows that the 47-story steel-frame structure dropped from the bottom up, into its own footprint. The collapse has never been explained, certainly not by the NIST, which has yet to release a final report about WTC 7.

others who have called for a NEW and truly independent 9/11 investigation, one empowered with the necessary resources and with subpoena authority. It's the only way we will ever finally answer the important question: Why did the WTC collapse? Only the truth about 9/11 can free us from the current tyranny of secrecy, lies and deceit which today is a far greater threat to our liberty than any foreign enemy.

Mark H. Gaffney's first book, Dimona the Third Temple (1989), was a pioneering study of the Israeli nuclear weapons program.
http://www.gnosticsecrets.com/pages/dimona.htm Mark's latest is Gnostic Secrets of the Naassenes (2004) Mark can be reached for comment at markhgaffney@earthlink.net Or: visit his web site at www.gnosticsecrets.com

Notes

1. Penn Arts and Sciences, Summer 2002. www.sas.upenn.edu/sasalum/newsltr/summer2002/k911.html
2. Dr Keith Eaton, The Structural Engineer 3, September 2002, #6.
3. James Williams, "WTC a Structural Success," SEAU NEWS, The Newsletter of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah, October 2001, #3.
4. Magazine of Johns Hopkins Public Health, late fall, 2001. When I contacted Dr Geyh she confirmed the report. She stated that people involved in the clean up effort told her they had seen molten steel in the debris.
5. Commissioner Holden's testimony before the 911 Commission is posted at http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030401-holden.htm
6. Christopher Bollyn, "Seismic Evidence Points to Underground
Explosions Causing WTC Collapse" American Free Press, August 28, 2002.
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/bollyn2.htm
7. Manuel Garcia, "The Thermodynamics of 9/11," November 28, 2006. posted at http://www.counterpunch.org/thermo11282006.html
8. The results are posted at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0429/thermal.r09.html
9. NIST is a nonregulatory agency of the Department of Commerce. The NIST investigation/report of the WTC collapse was conducted under the authority of the National Construction Safety Team Act, which was signed into law on October 1, 2002.
10. See question 13, Frequently Aasked Questions, posted at http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
11."We Will Not Forget, A Day of Terror", The Chief Engineer, October 26, 2006. http://www.chiefengineer.org/article.cfm?seqnum1=1029
12. Sheila Barter, "How the World Trade Center Fell", BBC news, September 13, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1540044.stm
13. A summary of the points presented in the NOVA special are still posted at PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/dyk.html
14 Kamikaze attackers may have known twin sisters' weak spot," Sundaytimes.com posted at http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/disinfo/collapse/sundaytimes_kamikaze.html
15. Kamikaze attackers may have known twin sisters' weak spot," Sundaytimes.com posted at http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/disinfo/collapse/sundaytimes_kamikaze.html
16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1604348.stm
17. "Carew Tower couldn't tolerate similar strike", Business Courier, September 14, 2001. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2001/09/17/story6.html
18. Steven Ashley, "When the Twin Towers Fell", October 09, 2001, originally posted at www.Scientific American.com. See the annotated version posted at http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/experts/articles/sciam01/sci_am1.html
19. Andy Field, "A Look Inside a Radical New Theory of the WTC Collapse," Fire/Rescue News, February 7, 2004.
20. T.W. Eagar and C. Musso, "Why Did the WTC Collapse? Science, Engineering and Speculation," Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 53/12 (2001): 8-11. This paper is also posted at http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html
21. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, Preface, xxxi.
22. After a FOIA request advanced by the New York Times the City of New York had to release the FDNY testimonials, which are posted as pdf files at http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html For a convenient look at some of them go to http://www.911review.com/coverup/oralhistories.html
23. See the NIST response to question two at http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
24. NIST NCSTAR, Executive Summary, p. xlvii.
25. J.R., Barnett, R.R. Biederman, and R.D. Sisson Jr., "An Initial Microstructural Analysis of A36 Steel from WTC Building 7," Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 53/12 (2001): 18; also see FEMA, "World Trade Center Building Performance Study," May 2002, Appendix C.
26. Steven E. Jones, "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?", in 911 and American Empire, edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott, Olive Branch Press, Northhampton, Mass., 2006.
27. In July 1971 the WRC won a national award when the Amercan Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) named it "the engineering project that demonstrates the greatest engineering skills and represents the greatest contribution to engineering progress and mankind." in Angus K. Gillespie, Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center, New Brunswick, Rutger's University Press, 1999, p. 117.
28. James Glanz and Eric Lipton, City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center, New York, Times Books, 2003, p. 138.
29. City in the Sky, p. 134-136.
30. cited at http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/design.html
31. Richard Korman and Debra Rubin, "Painful Losses Mount in the Construction 'Family'", posted at http://www.construction.com/NewsCenter/Headlines/ENR/20011001a.asp
33. "How Columnss Will be Designed for 110-Story Buildings," Engineering News-Record, April 2, 1964, p. 48-49.
34. The photo is posted at http://www.geocities.com/debunking911/columnd.jpg
35. This strange development came to light in July 2006, long after the cleanup of the Deutsche Bank had supposedly been completed. The announcement prompted a sharp letter of protest from the attorney representing the families of the victims. For more details go to http://www.911citizenswatch.org/print.php?sid=906
36. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 118; also see NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, Executive Summary, p. xli.
37. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 124.
38. The NIST recovered 12 core columns from the WTC, but only one (in two separate pieces) from WTC 2 turned out to be from the area affected by the impacts/fires. A number of flanges from the core were also recovered. See Table 5-2 in NIST NCSTAR 1-3, WTC Investigation, p. 35.
39. Eric Douglas, R.A., "The NIST WTC Investigation -- How Real Was The Simulation?", A review of NIST NCSTAR 1, October 2006, p. 8. Posted at www.nistreview.org
40. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, Executive Sumary, p. lxxxvii. The NIST also admitted this in its global impact study., which states "in terms of structural damage condition in exterior columns, Case Ai and Case Bi and similarly Case Ci and Case Di damage sets were identical." NIST NCSTAR 1-6D, WTC Investigation, p. 10.
41. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, Executive Summary, p. lxxv.
42. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. lxxv.
43. NIST NCSTAR 1-2B, WTC Investigation, p. 344.
44. NIST NCSTAR 1-2B , WTC Investigation, p. 345.
45. NIST NCSTAR 1-2B, WTC Investigation, p. 353.
46. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 142.
47. NIST NCSTAR 1-6D, WTC Investigation.
48. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 142
49. NIST NCSTAR 1-3, WTC Investigation, p. 39.
50. NIST NCSTAR 1-3, WTC Investigation p. 39.
51. The NOVA special "Why the Towers Fell" aired in 2002. The text of the NOVA interview with Thomas Eagar is posted at http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/experts/articles/eagar_nova/nova_eagar2.html
52. NIST NCSTAR 1, Executive Summary, p. xlvi.
53. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 141.
54. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 67.
55. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 67.
56. NIST NCSTAR 1, WRC Investigation p. 130.
57. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation p. 88.
58. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation p. 176.
59. Andy Field, "A Look Inside a Radical new Theory of the WTC Collapse," Fire/Rescue News, February 7, 2004. Sunder made a similar statement during an October 19, 2004 presentation. See "World Trade Center Investigation Status," S. Shyam Sunder, lead investigator, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST. This paper can be downloaded as a pdf file at http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/agenda_oct192004.htm
60. The NIST makes this important point in two seperate places in the text. NIST NCSTAR 1-5, WTC Investigation, pp. 49 and 51.
61. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation p. 127.
62. NIST NCSTAR 1-6, WTC Investigation, p. lxvix.
63. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, Executive Summary, p. xli.
64. NIST NCSTAR 1-5, WTC Investigation, p. xliv.
65. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 126-127.
66. NIST NCSTAR 1-5, WTC Investigation, p. 121.
67. NIST NCSTAR 1-6, WTC Investigation, p. lxvix; also see NIST NCSTAR 1-5, WTC Investigation, p. 51.
68. Jim Dwyer and Ksvin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, Times Books, 2005, p. 206; also see Jim Dwyer and Ford fessenden, "Lost Voices of Firefighters, Some on 78th Floor," New York Times, August 4, 2002; Christopher Bollyn, "Feds Withhold Crucial WTC Evidence," American Free Press, August 8, 2002.
69. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 5.
70. NIST NCSTAR 1-3, WTC Investigation, p. 95.
71. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 43.
72. NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation p. 144.
73. In the code his was sub-article 1002.0, adequacy of the structural design. See NIST NCSTAR 1-1A, WTC Investigation, p. 32.
74. Conversation with Ron Hamburger, structural engineer, Dec 7, 2006.
75. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 66.
76. My thanks to the NIST WTC Investigative Team for helping me to understand the numbers. Although the calculations are expressed as demand/capacity ratios in the NIST report, this easily translates into a value, i.e., factor of safety, which is more comprehensible to the average lay person, which is why I'm stayed with factor of safety. Personal communication, December 14, 2006. See NIST NCSTAR WTC Investigation 1-6, Figure 8-9, p. 233.
77. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 66.
78. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. cxii; also see NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 84.
79. The NIST report states: "on the day of the attack the towers were subjected to in-service live loads (a fraction of the design live loads) and minimal wind loads." NIST NCSTAR 1-2 WTC Investigation, p. liv.
80. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 66.
81. I received clarification about this from the NIST WTC Investigation Team. Personal communication, December 14, 2006. The number 5.7 is derived from values presented in Figure 4-35, NIST NCSTAR 1-6, WTC Investigation, p. 101.
82. NIST NCSTAR 1-2, WTC Investigation, p. 66.
83. Al Goodman, "The Windsor Tower Fire, Madrid," posted at http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/CaseStudy/HistoricFires/BuildingFires/default.htm
84. Kevin Ryan, a site manager for Underwriter Labs, was terminated after publicly questioning the conclusions of the NIST report.

AL COA

2007-03-02T19:14:00.000-08:00

AGENTS OF THE STATE....

i think that i have uncovered two. one identifies himself as SNARK. the other as AL COA.

these are trolls. who work out of some office in reptillian hq.

never forget it.

INTI-ILLIMANI

2007-03-01T23:08:00.000-08:00

i think it was one of their first concerts in america after the deposing of the gangster general, augusto pinochet ugarte.

at town hall. december of 1993? or 1994?

a great show. on one of the coldest nights in manhattan in decades.

if you get the chance, pick up their music.

HAYDN, ST-SAENS

2007-02-28T22:10:00.000-08:00

so, when the bastids are grinding you down, i recommend these recordings.

very uplifting...

the emerson string quartet's the haydn project. fabulous chamber music.

and then on the hyperion label, st-saens violin concerti.

if we are descending the maelstrom, listening to this stuff might make the swirl tolerable.

shuuuuuuush.

BRAIN-DAMAGE

2007-02-25T22:43:00.000-08:00

what are the reasons for the electorate's flight from reality?

i need some input. because i am freaking out.

i have known individuals who have had a good education. and are essentially irreligious. yet, they enlist in THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE, as chris mooney described it. WHY?

my background is an engineering one. i manufacture a product. i deal with issues of steel, nickel, copper, alumina oxide, glass, gold, palladium, and a variety of fabrication issues involving these materials.

furthermore, i have a long history in aviation. suffice it to say, i know things.

yet, i continue to encounter individuals who have no similar technical knowledge who support the bushit nonsense concerning the events of 11/09/01. and either dispute my knowledge or go to great lengths to ignore it.

why is that?

i have abandoned p.e.'s[republicans] that i have known who want to assert that a few minutes of exposure to jetA can melt structural steel.

these are the same p.e.'s that profess to know nothing about the demolition of WTC 7. and so many other aspects of that day. aspects that could never have been the result of anything other than a usg project.

the fascinating part of the scam is how certain bloggers of the purported left continue to bulwark the usg's notional story. i think of kevin drum, in particular.

still insinuating that sunni jihadists were responsible for the events of that day.

kevin drum is either a disinformation agent. or an idiot. probably both.

but what about our friends and family members? what causes them to go brain-dead?

i think of a friend's brother. he teaches school. at a fancy and expensive campus in marin. what causes him to become demented when it comes to analyzing the events of that day?

i think of my former best friend. who refuses to acknowledge reality. eric hufschmid, PAINFUL DECEPTIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACK actually called him to ask him why he was spurning the evidence that no "sunni jihadists" were responsible for the events of that day. my old best friend terminated the phone call. why?

why is it that so many want it to be the bushit way?

and this is clearly not an issue of left or right. liberal or conservative.

significant "LEFTIES" advance the notion that some muslims attacked icons of amerika. just like the "RIGHTIES".

and this proposition is inaccurate. no muslims had anything to do with the events of that day.

still, i find it tough to advance that understanding. consider kevin drum, and others, continuing to insinuate that sunni jihadists were responsible for the events of that day.

kevin drum is either seriously brain-damaged. or is an intell asset.

there is no there explanation.

WTC 6

2007-02-24T23:46:00.000-08:00

why is it that no entity has shown these photos of WTC 6?

if you wanted proof that the usg story of that day was a fraud, these photos sustain it.

911studies.com

WHO RUNS THE TERRORISTS?

2007-02-21T23:45:00.000-08:00

the usa has been training terrorists for decades.

i have posted this in the past, but of course, many posts are overlooked, ignored.

my earliest exposure to special ops occurred in the 1970's. there was this freight forwarding company on greens road, adjacent to IAH. it was the EGYPTIAN AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE COMPANY[EATSCO].

my air freight forwarder was its neighbor. one day, while delivering an emergency shipment, after hours, to my forwarder, the subject of EASTCO came up. SPOOKS is what i was told.

since i was, am, and will always be a student of spooks, i paid some attention to EATSCO. my observations informed me that lots of usn personnel were in and out of EATSCO...that EATSCO was probably a cover operation.

it has been at least 20 years. it was a thursday or a friday. i was flying into AMS. from milan, i think. my seatmate was ranting about terrorists. i let his rant unwind. then i told him that it was my country, and nato, that were running the terrorists. i thought that he would have a stroke.

after his attack on me ended, we were on final approach to AMS. before we disembarked, i advised him to pay attention, that he would soon learn the truth that i had imparted. he spluttered as i exited the aircraft.

the next morning, sitting down to breakfast, i opened my iht and found the sy hersh sty revealing the ed wilson/frank terpil ONI ops of which EATSCO was a part.

the oil industry is a great cover for intell ops.

what did EATSCO do? well it sent C-4 to libya. in 55 gallon drums labelled as drilling fluid. via lufthansa via frankfurt.

and what happened to this c-4 explosive when it reached libya? well the ONI,via its operatives, trained terrorists in how to use it.

who did the ONI train in the libyan desert? IRA. THE RED BRIGADES. THE TAMIL TIGERS. ET ALIA.

so, the usa has been running international terrorism for a long time.

as i said previously, the oil industry is a great cover for covert operations.

my next intersection with the usa's training of terrorists occurred in london, shortly after ronnie raygun's F-111 attack on libya.

i was stayin in the flat of an old friend in london. i was certain that my friend was a spook, but this episode confirmed it. one evening, my friend told me that i was going to have to move to the couch in the living room, that someone else, a superior, was traveling through london and was going to be using my bedroom. since i was a guest, i could only acquiesce.

since my old friend worked for marathon oil, i assumed that the visitor was going to be a higher ranking marathon employee.

imagine my surprise when i opened the door to a seal captain. i suppose that because i was ex-usmc , a guest of a retired[sic] lt commander, i was vetted.

we went out to dinner. an italian joint in st john's wood. the captain drank too much. i learned that he was traveling from algeciras, spain, to stornoway, isle of lewis.

marathon was operating offshore fab sites at both of these locations. but, as i listened to the conversation, those sites were covers for seal terrorist training operations.

and i shall never forget this seal captain. he was a murderer. and he spoke lovingly of his craft at that dinner. my friend was embarrased by his talking. i was astonished at such a breach of secrecy.

never forget this, when you ponder on terrorism, never forget, we created most of 'em, run most of 'em.

RELIGION/FAITH

2007-02-20T21:28:00.000-08:00

i recall that when i was being raised, religion[issues of faith], was considered a private matter. in that era, my faith was considered an issue between the deity and me. it was no one else's business.

i didn't care what church anyone else attended. i didn't care what god[s] any one else adopted. all i cared about was an individual's personal honor, integrity. if you were a deacon in a church, but i knew you to be a liar and a cheat, your churchly ways gained you no favorable standing with me.

my deepest family background is mennonite. an historic peace church. my father's branch of my ancestors first escaped hesse and the warmongering pressgangs in the 18th century, fleeing to bern canton in switzerland, then to the pennsylvania colony.

in many respects, i have considered the mennonite communities in the new world the singular inheritors of the new testament. still, even they have doctrinal ways that i abhor.

yet, let us recall what that great presbyterian president, woodrow wilson[the tool of amerikan capital and imperialism] did to the historic peace churches. he rounded up their young men for their refusal to submit to the draft. and imprisoned them.

woodrow wilson. purportedly the first progressive democrat. his closest adviser, edward mandell house. from houston. his secretary of war, who implemented the imprisonment of the mennonites, et alia - newton baker[any relation to james baker?]

to a very large extent, this protestant war on pacifist christians presaged this era's desire to create the totalitarian, christian amerikan state, the home of gladiatorial paganism, disguised as some mutant form of the gospel.

this is a chapter in the history of this country that is conveniently ignored.

eventually, i left all of organized religion. i adopted the faith of the founders of this country: deism. it is a very private commitment to honor, inquiry, veracity. deists have no church. i think we think that the conduct of our lives is our tabernacle. we are the message of the deity, with no filtration.

i recall my first encounter with a "born again". he was a vendor to my company. a graduate of princeton. a lapsed episcopalian. at some point, he became ostentatiously religious. announced that he had become a "born again" christian and joined an evangelical church. and soon thereafter, he became a creationist.

i should have discarded him as a vendor right then. little did i recognize that for many of these "born agains" it was a manuever that they hoped would atone for their prior transgressions. before becoming "born again", this guy had been stiffing his clients, his suppliers. to the tune of about $500,000 or more.

as i mentioned in earlier posts, go to www.uprisingradio.org. look for the documentary JESUS CAMP. and tune into the interview with chris hedges. both of these are very chilling.

i have no clues as to how to proceed to squelch this totalitarian religiosity. and neither does chris hedges.

but i, like hedges, think that the democratic party has accelerated this religiofascism by kowtowing to the bankers, the industrialists, the war profiteers, the israeli zionist-imperialists. and i, like hedges, do not think that the democratic party will be getting back on the correct side of this issue. the democratic party has sold its soul to the monied class. hell, the democratic establishment today is the monied class.

the fascists bought 'em all.

good morning to you.

MEK

2007-02-19T21:59:00.000-08:00

it is more than a guess that operatives of the commonwealth SAS have been operating in iran for many months. in concert with seconded israeli idf[mossad, shin bet] personnel.

they have adopted the MEK as their vehicle for destabilizing iran. and it wouldn't surprise me if they have created new terrorist orgs as well. after all, this was how the KLA was created and operated. and going back further into time, how the taliban was created and operated.

and though often forgotten, this was how the israeli imperialists created hamas.

if any doubt that this is the way empires create the fictions of conflict, i recommend daniele ganser's book to you.

NATO'S SECRET ARMIES: OPERATION GLADIO AND TERRORISM IN WESTERN EUROPE.

CABARET

2007-02-18T22:51:00.000-08:00

in what capacity do women really get it?

singing.

if you are in manhattan, get thee to the cafe carlyle. bobby's and mabel's old haunt. now playing is judy collins. a fabulous show.

and if you around the alqonquin, on a monday evening, stop in. babs carroll is knocking 'em dead.

babs used to own the bemelman's bar at the carlyle. i used to love dropping in and listening to her do all the chestnuts the right way. for reasons that i have never learned, the carlyle threw her out some years back. the upper east side's loss. midtown's gain.

i know of no men who have this cabaret routine down as well as these women.

other than perhaps tony bennett.

another great performance to catch.

catch 'em before they disappear.

ABSCAM JACK AND MERCENARIES IN IRAQ

2007-02-18T22:18:00.000-08:00

when you want to gain a better understanding of today's mercenaries, i heartily recommend this book.

THE WONGA COUP: GUNS, THUGS AND A RUTHLESS DETERMINATION TO CREATE MAYHEM IN AN OIL-RICH CORNER OF AFRICA. isbn#9781586483715.

all the mercs in that bit of homicidal adventuring have contracts with the usdod to perform similarly homicidal acts in iraq, iran, syria, lebanon.

watch abscam jack very closely. he promised marcy kaptur that he would conduct hearings into sandline[mercenary outfit] and its contract with the usdod. see if this ever happens. i doubt that abscam jack will ever conduct hearings into the hiring and utilization of mercenaries by the usdod.

GEORGE PLIMPTON

2007-02-17T22:59:00.000-08:00

so odd, picking up the 15/2/07 NYRB and seeing a full page advert advocating that a statue be erected to this spook's memory.

does no one know about george, peter... and who owned the paris review? the paris review was an outfit proprietary. george and peter were outfit employees.

should we erect a statue to a spook?

THE ATTEMPTED SILENCING OF GUILIANA SGRENA

2007-02-17T21:53:00.000-08:00

during her weeks as a captive, did she discover that the assets of the usa were destabilizing iraq? that she was, in fact, a captive of usa assets?

did the italian government violate some agreement with the usa when it financed her release?

and with the usa forces knowing of her travel to the bagdad airport, wasn't mario lozano, a national guard covered sniper, ordered to terminate her with extreme prejudice?

and nicola calipari, her rescuer, a major general in the italian intell service, must have sensed a usa betrayal. because he covered her with his body. and he took the round meant for her. in his temple.

to the best of my knowledge, sgrena has been silenced by this assasination.

but the italian populace may not be as terrified. it is my understanding that the italian electorate wants the usa out of italy. and is becoming demonstrably vocal on that issue.

i urge the italians to push us out. once that occurs, i shall feel so much more at home in italy. won't you?

MARVIN OLANSKY

2007-02-17T21:10:00.000-08:00

you can find him on cspan booknotes. a talk from 9 february 2007.

marvin identifies himself as a christian. when did that conversion occur? for most of his life, marvin was a zionist jew.

perhaps that conversion occurred when he became employed by the WORLD magazine. a subsidiary of the UNIFICATION CHURCH. OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON, an agent of the KCIA.

AND AN ALLY OF THE BUSHIT FAMILY.

MARVIN OLANSKY. NEVER FORGET THE NAME OF THIS AGENT OF EVIL.

COOKING

2007-02-16T17:36:00.000-08:00

i read that bit of ink in the nyt and thought to myself, is this another incident of hit-and-run misogyny?

anyone who conducts their cooking as a competitive sport[allows it to be a competitive sport] instead of an act of love needs an immediate dose of electro-convulsive therapy.

i grew up in a cooking family. my grandmother, in middle tennessee, was a phenomenal cook. my grandfather, though a country banker, was a phenomenal gardener. the times i spent visiting them were always the best. fresh ingredients lovingly prepared. and everyone had a part in the preparation. from shelling peas, to husking corn, to serving, to cleaning up.

my favorite memory were her breakfasts. my dad and i would go out early in morning with our fly rods and "popper" bugs and catch a mess of bream. after cleaning them, we would bring them back and tennessee grandmother would lightly flour them and pan fry them, with fresh, home-grown tomatoes. accompanied by her biscuits. a great treat.

her daughter, my mom, inherited her receipts. she was a stellar cook. but best at baking. i have never encountered anyone else who had her way with pies. her tour de forces were lemon meringue, and key lime.

my dad, loved good food. whenever we traveled, it was always his mission to find the best restaurant[s] wherever we ended up. and no matter what the expense, try them out.

i have so many fine memories of traveling with him and joining him on his culinary forays. my first and fondest memory is when he took me to nola. in 1958. i was eleven. we started at antoine's. my first oysters. the next night, arnaud's. and then finished up with his favorite, galatoire's. lunch was always felix'es oyster bar.

my dad was one of the masters of caveman cooking. his contribution to the family cooking was the application of the charcoal grill. in 1954, when we were living in OKC, he knew this guy by the name of grant hastings, inventor of the hasty-bake.
after we moved back to ohio, no meat was ever cooked indoors in an oven, in an oven broiler. i have these memories of the two of us standing at the edge of our garage, with snow on the ground, sub-zero weather, grilling lambchops on that barbie.

i became a caveman cook, i suppose, as a result. at harvard, i set up a yugoslavian grill in our fireplace in winthrop house, and we routinely did dinner parties with me grilling the meat, and all the other participants preparing the other ingredients. great fun and such better food than central kitchens offered.

long before alice waters, i had become a bocusian. ingredients were 90% of a successful dish. and simple prep of great ingredients was almost always a killer.

few of my womenfriends cared about cooking. they were more than happy with my performing that chore. and i was grateful that they were willing to perform clean-up.

visiting my sister and her family in LA is always a lot of fun. my nieces love my culinary experiments. my sister is a pretty good cook. but when i am out there visiting, many of the main courses of the meals are turned over to me.

her husband, doesn't care to cook. but what he loves to do is clean-up afterwards. what a great division of labor.

i close with suzanne goins. i encountered her first restaurant, lucques, shortly after its opening. one of the best in california, if not in the usa. i have taken my sister's family there everytime i visit. and i have watched my nieces grow up there. when i first took them there, all they would eat was plain pasta. but they have become quite adventurous. my best memory is the pasta girl deciding to have soft shell crab a couple of years ago. i was going to order it, but i figured that lucy would try it, abandon it, and i would clean up her dish.

boy did i find out how she had grown up in a year. she left me nothing.

suzanne goins is an heiress...the inheritor of paul bocuse, alice waters. ingredients, ingredients, ingredients. melded with some love.

if you are in LA, don't miss this cooking.

ORDER OF BATTLE REVISITED-12/2/07

2007-02-12T21:41:00.000-08:00

as i have commented previously, what is the order of battle? have you ever heard this issue discussed? ever read anything about this topic?

in the annnals of warfare, the order of battle is the critical method of determining how many forces must be deployed, and of what the forces will consist?

it is my assertion that there has been no valid opposition order of battle established for our military adventuring in iraq[the same will be obtaining concerning iran]. that would not be an error on the part of the military - that would be a directive from the potus[just as lbj and rmn directed an inaccurate opposition order of battle in vietnam].

what makes this bushit military adventuring so rife for deceit is that the usdod has hired at least two mercenary firms to conduct ops within iraq[and elsewhere in the region]. you know their names, blackwater and sandline.

as of this date, we know very little about who directs their operations. does centcom? or is it the zionist operation of special plans?

how are these mercs accounted for in the us order of battle? and what is their chain of command?

then we have the kurdish peshmurga. where do they show up in the order of battle? i think there is no doubt that the us special forces and brit sas have been arming and directing some level of peshmurga guerilla activities.

then there are canadian, ozzie, and kiwi sas personnel operating in the region. where do they show up in the order of battle? who is directing their activities?

and lastly the forces from the real instigator of all these mass-murdering, country-destroying hostilities, israel. who is operating them? directing them? how do they show up in the order of battle?

would israel create munitions to appear as if iranian? you bet they would. in a heartbeat.

would sandline mercs shoot down usa choppers? if the manager of the contract called for it, you bet?

as robert fisk might say, the great game is on in earnest...george bush, tony blair are in pursuit of complete control of middle eastern hydrocarbons. and i don't think that most citizens of the united states have a clue as to massive deceitfulness of the entirety of the campaign.

the congress has been whistling past the cemetery for years. the amerikan media functions as if p.r. outlets for aipac.

it is all going to go up. putting usn ships of the line into the arabian gulf is the most dangerous decision that could be made. i wonder what the usn's order of battle configurations look like?

i close with this little story, today on cspan's booknotes, ron olive's 11/06 address concerning his book, CAPTURING POLLARD, aired.

you might want to catch it. it is interesting for what is said. and for what wasn't said. what wasn't said was that the principal material that pollard furnished israel was all the targeting for the usa's mirved icbm's.

there are a number of individuals in the world's intell communities that are pretty certain that israel furnished most of this data to some other icbm-equipped countries.

in that context, you might want to ponder on the "outing"of valerie wilson...an outing that probably destroyed the usefulness of the cover prop, brewster-jennings. may have blown the covers and lives of others in that nuclear device surveillance project.

and may have prevented the uncovering of bushits, cheneys, the russo-israeli maffiya and their trafficking in conventional, as well as nuclear, weapons.

there is planet-destroying levels of international gangsterism running amok at the instigation, protection of the usa. and why is the congress so lame in its efforts to arrest it? graft,extortion, religious sentiment.

the gulf is going up. if you have children of draft age, i recommend that you send them to some other country. some place way out of the way.

TIM SPICER-MERCENARIES IN IRAQ

2007-02-09T21:47:00.000-08:00

JUST TUNING INTO THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE hearings on c-span.

marcy kaptur, congresswoman from toledo, ohio, mentioned the name off TIM SPICER. who apparently has a contract in iraq.

she wants to know more about this contract. and she stated that the dod has been stiffing her for the specifics of this contract. for months.

now, let's consider SPICER for a moment....

to the best of my knowledge, spicer is SAS. who was sent downstream to establish a notional independent mercenary outfit...SANDLINE. SANDLINE WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN WEST AFRICAN GANGSTERISM.

for a more "in-depth" history of amerikan-brit hiring of mercs for ops in west africa, i recommend to you this book, THE WONGA COUP.

now spicer, sandline, were operators for amerikan-brit interests in west africa. especially, sierra leone. but also cameroon, nigeria, sao tome. equatorial guinea.
the congo.

however, when sandline gangsterism was finally revealed[not in the usa press by the way], sandline was disappeared.

so, it interested me today to hear marcy kaptur ask the questions of the dod contracts with spicer's successor outfit, AEGIS.

you can see this on c-span.

of greater interest was the response to these questions by jack murtha. that supposedly anti-war ex-marine congressman. he shut her off.

the "regular" democrats do not want these usg relationships with the merc contractors examined. some might think that murtha is a straight guy - he ain't.

so, here is what the mercs that we have hired do....

they impersonate iraqis. and kill amerikan soldiers. so as to perpetuate the invasion, so as to try and inflame the amerikan electorate.

they also kill iraqi non-combatants so as to inflame the families of the decedents.

in viet-nam, both the french and the usg ran operatives such as this. so as to stir it up.

murtha, when shutting up kaptur, said that he would be examining this issue of mercenaries in iraq. watch. my bet, this guy will kill this investigation.

murtha is just another reptillian disquised as a demtillian.

someones out there need to interview kaptur about tim spicer and his mercenaries.

asap.

TIM SPICER

2007-02-09T21:26:00.000-08:00

JUST TUNING INTO THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE hearings on c-span.

marcy kaptur, congresswoman from toledo, ohio, mentioned the name of TIM SPICER. who apparently has a contract in iraq.

she wants to know more about this contract. and she stated that the dod has been stiffing her for the specifics of this contract. for months.

now, let's consider SPICER for a moment....

to the best of my knowledge, spicer is SAS. who was sent downstream to establish a notional independent mercenary outfit...SANDLINE. SANDLINE WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN WEST AFRICAN GANGSTERISM.

for a more "in-depth" history of amerikan-brit hiring of mercs for ops in west africa, i recommend to you this book, THE WONGA COUP.

now spicer, sandline, were operators for amerikan-brit interests in west africa. especially, sierra leone. but also cameroon, nigeria, sao tome. equatorial guinea.
the congo.

however, when sandline gangsterism was finally revealed[not in the usa press by the way], sandline was disappeared.

so, it interested me today to hear marcy kaptur ask the questions of the dod contracts with spicer's successor outfit, AEGIS.

you can see this on c-span.

of greater interest was the response to these questions by jack murtha. that supposedly anti-war ex-marine congressman. he shut her off.

the "regular" democrats do not want these usg relationships with the merc contractors examined. some might think that murtha is a straight guy - he ain't.

so, here is what the mercs that we have hired do....

they impersonate iraqis. and kill amerikan soldiers. so as to perpetuate the invasion, so as to try and inflame the amerikan electorate.

they also kill iraqi non-combatants so as to inflame the families of the decedents.

in viet-nam, both the french and the usg ran operatives such as this. so as to stir it up.

murtha, when shutting up kaptur, said that he would be examining this issue of mercenaries in iraq. watch. my bet, this guy will kill this investigation.

murtha is just another reptillian disquised as a demtillian.

someones out there need to interview kaptur about tim spicer and his mercenaries.

asap.

DIGBY ON TORTURE

2007-02-09T20:46:00.000-08:00

though these insights are mostly accurate, i think that there are individuals with no conscience. who can sleep despite their wicked acts of violence.

and who can escape society's opprobrium.

i think of bill clinton for instance. though reviled by many for his willingness to be fellated, i revile him for his imposition of sanctions on iraq. sanctions that routinely involved the aerial bombardment of infrastructure that propelled the country into a sewer. i have never heard bill[and his buddy, tony blair]apologize for all that death-dealing destruction.

and cruise missiles into afghanistan, somalia.

and then there is haiti.

but bill clinton appears healthy. seems to be sleeping well. but he has hands as bloody as any mass murderer in the history of this gangster nation.

and yet, he is cherished. oddly enough, cherished by many who despise his successor for perpetrating similar crimes.

i often think that if there was an almost perfect illustration of amorality, it is this.

i close this way. i think that generating violence of any sort is monstrously corrosive.

in my youth, i had the opportunity to diversify and manufacture munitions. i was initially very enthusiastic about harvesting those revenues.

then my dad asked me a question...did i really want to be a part of the state's murderings, complicit in mass homicide. was a dollar of revenue so important that you would join in perpetrating the dance of death.

this conversation re-awakened my moral foundation. i abandoned that munitions' diversification idea.

for all of bill's religiosity, he was comfortable with ordering mass murder.

i don't go to church. nor believe in any organized religion.

SLAVERY, SECESSION & CIVIL WAR

2007-02-08T23:46:00.000-08:00

there are many out there who think old abe was an honest fellow.

hah.

here is a very interesting book that might change your minds.

by charles adams[not the cartoonist].

isbn #9780810858633

clint eastwood

2007-02-08T21:57:00.000-08:00

deserves the same lower case as other fascist bastids..

he describes george walker bush as tenacious. and applauds that tenacity.

think about that for a moment.

boycott this man's movies.

george walker bush is way beyond tenacious. he is psychopathically homicidal.

he is as much mass murderer as was adolf hitler.

perhaps clint isn't getting enough vitamin B complex, has a thyroid shortfall, has had a number of trans ischemic attacks. perhaps that explains his love for a homicidal maniac.

on the other hand, perhaps clint is really just a homicidal maniac as well.

boycott his flickers.

make him pay for his lunacy.

EXPLOSIVE, TOXIC PETROCHEMICALS

2007-02-08T18:36:00.000-08:00

petrochemical plants, refineries. i have written about them previously. in fact, i have always considered the fact that these facilities were not struck on 11/09/01 as proof positive that the events of that day were not the acts of any real terrorists - that the events of that day were agents provocateur ops.

never forget, for a few minutes more of flying time, a much easier target would have been the exxon refinery/petrochemical complex. the loss of that facility would have killed scores of thousands, and effectively shut down the east coast of the united states for years.

similarly, why strike at the pentagon, especially the area of the pentagon that was impacted? when, once again, for a few more minutes of flying time, there were the petrochemical complexes of wilmington, delaware.

no, when these targets that would have really injured the great satan were avoided, you can bank on the fact that no "terrorists" had anything to do with the planning of the events of that day.

it is even worse than that, of course. forget about the manufacturing facilities and their vulnerabilities[then and now]. contemplate the chemical car freight trains that run throughout urban amerika.

all of these cars can be perforated with rounds from commonly available automatic weapons. study on the chemical freights that travel out of amerika's petrochemical complexes.

today in houston, for example, as i made a certain freeway/tollroad drive, i watched a chemical train being assembled. in the middle of a major amerikan city. let's consider the contents of those chemical cars....

unodorized lpg
glacial acrylic acid
hydrochloric acid
ammonia
gasoline

and those were the cars that had their contents identified on the outside of the car.

this freight was more than a mile long. 500 - 1,000 cars of very toxic, flammable chemicals. parked within yards of 4+million residents. alongside a roadway.

this situation exists throughout the conus.

that none of these freights has ever been assaulted, other than by graffiti artists[and that is a bit of fascination - graffiti artists accessing the roadbed and having the time to paint these cars containing hazardous substances], should inform you that there never has been any real terrorist threat within the usa. that there never was any terrorist action perpetrated within the usa.

i could say so much more. the amerikan populace is so frigging ignorant it is stupefying.

BRENNAN'S HOUSTON

2007-02-07T18:39:00.000-08:00

i haven't been there in over a decade. for innumerable reasons.

but i had a customer today who wanted to go there for lunch. so, i took him there.

it is a good room, not too noisy. you can have a private conversaton. no shouting required.

the service is very adroit. the staff knows how to respect a business lunch conversation.

but the food was disappointing. we tried the fried oysters. i don't do them raw these days, too many poisonings. i do better fried oysters.

my customer did the crab cakes, he liked them very much. i should have had them. the redfish was tasty, as was the jumbo lump that topped it. but the fried oysters on that plate were just overcooked.

and the haricot verts should have had their ends snipped. perfectly cooked, however.

a B - B+. could have scored an A if they had gotten the oysters correctly.

still, if you are in houston, visiting houston, it is one of the better venues.

oh, and never go beyond the seafood. don't order a steak here.

SENATOR MIKE GRAVEL

2007-02-06T22:04:00.000-08:00

i am looking at the top shelf of my library. and there they are, the six gravel volumes of the pentagon papers. published by the beacon press.

i wonder how rare it is that i have these.

gravel was/is another individual more honorable than the current members of the democrat party. sorry, the georgist contempt was accurate.

and gravel's contempt is accurate. he recognizes that the democrat leadership is disguised reptillians.

i think it takes him back into the nasty past. when the democrats supported lbj to invade viet-nam. and then joined with the reptillians to bomb and invade cambodia, creating the khmer rouge, pol pot.

and gravel knows why the democrat party supported this homicidal lunacy. it was the money. gravel knows everything. he knows that the demtillians have no moral standing.

we should all pay attention to mike gravel.

ART PEPPER

2007-02-06T01:01:00.000-08:00

STILL FABULOUS.

JOHN KERRY - THE BONER BROTHER

2007-02-05T23:44:00.000-08:00

it is an odd sty in today's NYT. the headline reads, A PRESIDENTIAL ALSO-RAN, KERRY ADJUSTS TO WHAT PASSES FOR A NORMAL LIFE IN THE SENATE.

look, let's get it clear, kerry was a frat brother of the lunatic. another skull and boner. a yalie. and his mission was to torpedo the democratic opposition.

the demtillian financiers put their thumb on the anti-bushit party so as to nominate their acolyte. and they accomplished their objective. kerry became the stooge candidate.

the most interesting proof of kerry's stoogism is related by mark crispin miller. at tucradio.org he related how he told kerry of the vote theft in ohio. and how shocked he was to learn how ignorant kerry appeared to be of the mechanism of the theft.

better still, after miller, in his book about the 2004 election, related his meetings with kerry on the vote theft, the kerry organization denounced miller, and denied that he had ever met with kerry.

of course, it only gets worse. miller relates his intersections with other demtillian congressgangsters that investigated the ohio vote fraud in 2004. the most astonishing story is charlie rangel's. who tried to pretend to miller that he was ignorant of the fraud. in spite of the fact that miller had the testimony that rangel heard when a congressional committe upon which he sat reviewed the ohio story.

these are very ugly stories. proofs that demtillians, in concert with reptillians, are stealing our birthrights.

i recall having lunch with a carol gilbert before the 2004 election. an energetic demtillian in LA. when i expressed my opinion of the demtillian boner, john kerry, the lunch went glacial.

but i recognized the scam. she didn't. kerry deserves his ostracism.

boner versus boner ain't no contest.

and let us never forget the former schtumper of his wife. just another gangster.

CHOPPERS CHOPPED

2007-02-05T23:20:00.000-08:00

someone responded that the number eliminated in viet-nam was 5,086.

seems like a too low number. but then, let us do some math. let us just figure 1965-1975. ten years. 120 months. with that understanding, helicopter deaths averaged 42/month. or more than 1 per diem. following that invasion, throughout that occupation.

so iraq has been much more benign. will that kindness be ending? that is the question.

BILL&TONY

2007-02-05T23:11:00.000-08:00

their recordings for fantasy records, i think. killer stuff.

tune in if you can find them.

ORDER OF BATTLE/MERCENARIES IN IRAQ

2007-02-05T20:43:00.000-08:00

the bushits opened pandora's box. anyone with a bit of wisdom would have known that it was better kept closed.

but there was this fifth column - mossadists, shin betists, zionists, maffiyaists - who promoted that opening of the box.

general shinseki appears to have been the only honorable man. he told the truth to the lunatics and was cashiered.

any general staff officer who refrained from resigning at that time indelibly stained his honor.

as i have written many times, the paradigm for this presidential regime was lbj & mac. it is like viet-nam all over again: in for a dime, eventually you will be in for a dollar. as it was then, it is once again - there is nothing like military misadventuring for the looting of the nation's treasury...and that is what this is about.

i would love to see the ORDER OF BATTLE equations for this catastrophe. i find it quite telling that the issue of ORDER OF BATTLE goes undiscussed. i always thought that it was the most overlooked aspect of the viet-nam invasion. it is a subject discussed most eloquently by the cia analyst, sam adams[RIP] in his memoir, WAR OF NUMBERS. another rip, colonel david hackworth was responsible for the publication of the adams' story.

as a rule, invasions of other countries are the unwisest of ideas. unless you have this orwellian pov that sees perpetual war as the course of perpetual enrichment for a certain class - the war profiteers. of course, general staff officers will be a part of that class. aand that is their incentive for playing ball with the resident and him myrmidons.

finally, the role of the mercenaries[blackwater, sandlines, et alia] needs to be discussed. where do they fit into the ORDER OF BATTLE? and who directs their activities? i think that the merc activities need to be scrutinized very closely...after all, mucho dinero is being sluiced to those entities. and it occurs to me that they just might have an interest in exacerbating, prolonging the conflict. succinctly, are the mercs placing ieds? shooting down usa choppers? functioning as death squads?

i could say so much more, but i think you get my drift....

ANNA RUSSELL

2007-02-04T23:48:00.000-08:00

if you like music, tune in.

bill mclaughlin on exploring music did a week on wagner. friday, he aired anna's synopses of the ring.

better than pdq bach.

anna gets it so accurately.

if you don't know it. know it.

BILL BUCKLEY IS DEMENTED

2007-02-04T23:26:00.000-08:00

after listening to dinesh de souse, and reading bill's applause of him, i realize that the amerikan right has a cerebral defect.

round 'em up. send 'em to montreal. where their minds can be juggled. by the new ewen camerons.

on my mark, scramble.

NIGHTINGALE, SOYER, SIKORSKY

2007-02-04T22:40:00.000-08:00

some months ago, i posted an essay at eschaton, i think, discussing the horribleness of modern warfare. and how supposedly "soldier friendly" advances turned out to be quite "soldier unfriendly".

the pivotal conflict was the crimean war[1854].

this was the florence nightingale war....the dove of warmongering. who brought nursing to the front. allowing more soldiers to survive. allowing the homeland to become more favoring of imperial warfare.

this was the alex soyer war...the chef of warmongering. who brought organized field kitchens to the front. allowing more soldiers to be nourished independent of foraging in an over-foraged land. again, allowing the homeland to become more favoring of imperial warfare.

fast forward almost 100 years. the amerikan invasion of korea. facilitated by sikorsky's technical development, the helicopter. once again, an imperial invasion was made palatable by this technology that allowed for soldiers' woundings to be ameliorated in nightingale-styled mash units.

and then there was amerika's invasion of viet-nam. where all those technologies were employed so as to promote the interests of the empire.

quite candidly, had it not been for the chopper, there would have been no way for the usa to have conducted that invasion. it was the technology that made that bout of mass murdering possible.

still, it was a highly vulnerable technology. and bell/textron loved it.

the helicopter. provably the most vulnerable imperial asset ever deployed. easily taken out by small arms ground fire. the turbine, the transmission are so vulnerable.

but, of course, small arms ground fire that damages the two very vulnerable rotors are equally destructive.

clearly, there is a new effort in resisting our invasion. something has changed. the choppers were always this vulnerable. but recently, the iraqi patriots have determined that the usa is the enemy. and that the choppers are fair game.

this change will radically alter the amerikan invasion forces. until this last week, they were allowed the freedom of the air. but something has changed. choppers have been determined to be targets.

that is good. the viet-nam history of invader choppers needs to be rubbed into the amerikan electorate.

in closing, how many amerikan choppers were taken out by small arms fire during the amerikan invasion of viet-nam? 3,000? 10,000? 30,000?

THE BOOKSTERS AT ESCHATON

2007-02-03T23:12:00.000-08:00

don't ever proffer real intellectual literature to this crowd. it will be spurned.

here are a few i have read recently...

1. CAPTURING JONATHAN POLLARD. isbn # 1591146526

2. the UNQUIET GRAVE: THE FBI AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF INDIAN COUNTRY. isbn # 1560257350

3. MISHIMA'S SWORD: TRAVELS IN SEARCH OF A SAMURAI LEGEND. isbn # 0306815133

4. SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS: AN UNCENSORED HISTORY OF AIDS. isbn # 1933633018

5. ONCOGENES, ANEUPLOIDY, and AIDS: A SCIENTIFIC LIFE & TIMES OF PETER H DUESBERG. isbn # 1556435312

6. CONJURING HITLER: HOW BRITAIN AND AMERICA MADE THE THIRD REICH. isbn # 0745321828

7. THE SECRET OF SCENT: ADVENTURES IN PERFUME AND THE SCIENCE OF SMELL. isbn # 9780061133831

8. DEEP WATER: THE EPIC STRUGGLE OVER DAMS, DISPLACED PEOPLE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. isbn # 0374281726

not light. not warm and fuzzy. but revelatory.

slanz

DEMENTIA

2007-02-02T23:41:00.000-08:00

i consider this a wake-up essay. in a sense, it involves politics. in another sense, it involves the propaganda that governs the public health.

i write this because of my experiences with a loved one.

you should know that alzheimer's is all too casually cited as the sole cause of dementia. i think it is a short-hand diagnosis that obscures the many other causes: a short-hand diagnosis that inflates the revenues of the medical industry.

i shall never dispute that alzheimer's syndrome is a cause of dementia. but what i shall tell you is that alzheimer's as the cause is mostly anecdotal, not an empirical finding.

and why is that? mostly because most victims of dementia, dying under a physician's care, are never autopsied. in fact, in my experience, trying to obtain a cranial autopsy is almost always defied. hmmmmmm.

unless someone can tell me that i am mistaken, i find that there is no formal NIH dementia registry. DO YOU FIND THAT AS ODD AS I FOUND IT?

so, here is my story. i think it reveals what i consider to be the more salient causes of dementia - vascular, nutritional, hormonal[endocrinal].

i don't remember when i first noticed it. it was sometime in the early 1990's. my mom stopped eating salads. stopped eating sources of B vitamins. at that time, i did not know that B vitamin shortfalls would destroy the brain. i could get her to eat a salad if it was small enough, but the standard restaurant monstrosity would cause her to reject it. and if i wasn't around, she abandoned salads altogether.

it was a week-end when i was out of town that she must have had a mini-stroke. her maid found her on the bathroom floor monday morning. i flew back into the country and took her to a doc.

the blood work-up indicated that she was suffering from a thyroid shortfall. and this doc prescribed for her a 30 day supply of synthroid. i met with him to discuss his diagnosis. he didn't mention the consequences of a thyroid shortfall. neither did he schedule a return visit so as to gage her synthroid dosage levels.

and i didn't research thyroid shortfall beyond that. my bad.

suffice it to say, hypothroidism will eventually cause dementia.

just as vitamin B shortfall will cause it.

SO, dementia might be countered by checking and maintaining thyroid levels.

and maintaining therapeutic levels of B vitamins. by the way, i don't think that you can achieve the necessary levels by diet. i think you must supplement. the only compounder of vitamins that i trust is bill sardi's recommendation - purity perfect.

and then there are those little strokes. trans ischemic attacks. anytime you think that you, or anyone you know, has had one of those, get to a cardiologist. get your bloodwork done.

it is my assertion that most dementia is not the result of alzheimer's syndrome. that the most significant cause[s] of dementia can be discovered and countered.

what interests me the most is why the medicos fail to tell us this.

SHE ALWAYS GOT IT ACCURATELY

2007-01-31T23:57:00.000-08:00

i shall miss you molly. you were the only populist "smithy" that i ever knew.

lamentably, you have no heirs. and i mean that in the journalistic sense.

i trust that i have been good enough to visit with you on the other side, if any such side exists. if it doesn't, then you lived a "true" life. and i celebrate your sense of humor, your audacity, your integrity.

i shall miss your essays in dugger's old rag.

kyrie eleison
christe eleison

agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi
dona eis requiem sempiternam

BLACKOPS IN IRAQ

2007-01-31T21:53:00.000-08:00

neither the left nor the right care to contemplate the reality of these tactics...

imagining that the potus, the vpotus would go so far as to order the murdering of usa soldiers by other usa soldiers is anathematic.

but i care to assert that is exactly what happened at najaf the other day. i don't know whether they were special forces, seals, sas, or mercs[blackwater, sandline], but whomever they were are in the employment of the usa.

could even have been mossad, shin bet. or some other secret israeli intell entity.

suffice it to say, this blackop mission was to create an excuse for initiating a war on iran.

PACIFICA ONE MORE TIME

2007-01-28T18:59:00.000-08:00

years ago, long before the pacifica revolt manifested itself, i became a critic of the lynn chadwick regime.

things i had to say about that regime, in the early days of the darpanet, received some "greetings". the most interesting was from a ken mccarthy. a san franciscan who saw it the way i saw it.

one aspect of the devolution of pacifica that ken shared with me was lynn chadwick's deal with the devil[ the corporation for public broadcasting].

when i learned that pacifica had sought, received, federal funds, all that happened to kpft during the garland ganter regime, all that happened to kpfk during the mark schubb[sic] regime, all that happened to kpfa after the "firing" of nicole sawaya was revealed to me.

i can assure you that i was an ardent enemy of mofu berry. i did everything this historian could do to try and get the president of the university of pennsylvania to curb her fascism. to no avail.

not being in california, i did what i could to try and get the pacifica "stakeholders" to seize the pacifica assets.

one of the things that i emphasized was that pacifica had to repudiate cpb funding.

spooner opposed that proposition.

and as i learned some weeks ago, pacifica is still sucking the federal teat.

as long as the cpb is a financier of pacifica, to any degree, there will be no more of my monies invested in pacifica.

when pacifica unsuckles, then you will see a restoration of my philanthropy.

and that is the way it is

EDWARDS PANDERS TO THE ZIONISTS

2007-01-28T18:55:00.000-08:00

firstly, it is not the jewish lobby.

it is the israeli [zionist] lobby.

there is a difference. if you don't think so, i recommend that you tune into norman finkelstein and mark elf[jews san frontieres]. and quite often, zymphora provides the mots justes on this issue.

that edwards is "pandering" to the zionists should come as no surprise to anyone who recognizes the real puppeteers in amerika. not only is there "real" money to be obtained from that fifth column, but there is a potential "save harmless" to be gained from the "zionist" -controlled amerikan media.

and of course, there is the view that dictates that bashing islam, arabs, the enemies of israel, curries the favor of the amerikan electorate. that has been the successful methodology for electability for some decades. i think that this invasion of iraq might have altered that equation if deployed successfully for the amerikan electorate.

which means that the "pandering" is a pursuit of funds tactic.

i suppose that is why al gore selected joe lieberman. and how that duo played out continues to go unexamined. was joe a mossad torpedo? did joe know how deeply the mossad owned the bushits? did joe know what mossad false flag operations were forthcoming? and recognized that they could not become operational were al gore to become president?

never forget, what you think you know about recent history has been shaped for you by the israeli intell services. just think of the pivotal roles usg players with dual citizenship have played: yossef bodansky[who created al-quaeda], michael chertoff[who ran the blind mullah], dov zakheim[comptroller of the rumsfeld pentagon who lost how many trillions?], douglas feith. those are the israeli intell agents of whom i am aware. how many others are there?

and what do the israeli intell services have on members of the us congress? knowing what i know, i can assure you they have videotapes of amerikan congresspersons taking israeli bribes. they have videotapes of all the congresspersons that they have inveigled into their honeytraps.

let us never forget, israel does not exist without the largesse of the usa. we take away our financing of that fascist state, israel would have to give up its goal of imperial israel....would have to learn to be neighborly.

when you see a us pol "pandering" to israel, you may be seeing a victim of mossad, shin bet extortion. you may be seeing a pol who believes in conquest and empire...considering israel an avant garde of amerikan imperialism.

you got the thrust of this new contest for emperor accurately. the democratic contestants will do anything that the mossad, shin bet[and their us financiers] tell them to do.

this is the chain that must be broken. will it be? i don't see how with the control over the us media that the zionists have seized.

ISRAELI RULES

2007-01-27T23:36:00.000-08:00

Standing prohibitions

* Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are forbidden to stay in the West Bank.

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter East Jerusalem.

* West Bank Palestinians are forbidden to enter the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing.

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter the Jordan Valley.

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter villages, lands, towns and neighborhoods along the "seam line" between the separation fence and the Green Line (some 10 percent of the West Bank).

* Palestinians who are not residents of the villages Beit Furik and Beit Dajan in the Nablus area, and Ramadin, south of Hebron, are forbidden entry.

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter the settlements' area (even if their lands are inside the settlements' built area).

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter Nablus in a vehicle.

* Palestinian residents of Jerusalem are forbidden to enter area A (Palestinian towns in the West Bank).

* Gaza Strip residents are forbidden to enter the West Bank via the Allenby crossing.

* Palestinians are forbidden to travel abroad via Ben-Gurion Airport.

* Children under age 16 are forbidden to leave Nablus without an original birth certificate and parental escort.

* Palestinians with permits to enter Israel are forbidden to enter through the crossings used by Israelis and tourists.

* Gaza residents are forbidden to establish residency in the West Bank.

* West Bank residents are forbidden to establish residency in the Jordan valley, seam line communities or the villages of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan.

* Palestinians are forbidden to transfer merchandise and cargo through internal West Bank checkpoints.

Periodic prohibitions

* Residents of certain parts of the West Bank are forbidden to travel to the rest of the West Bank.

* People of a certain age group - mainly men from the age of 16 to 30, 35 or 40 - are forbidden to leave the areas where they reside (usually Nablus and other cities in the northern West Bank).

* Private cars may not pass the Swahara-Abu Dis checkpoint (which separates the northern and southern West Bank). This was cancelled for the first time two weeks ago under the easing of restrictions.

Travel permits required

* A magnetic card (intended for entrance to Israel, but eases the passage through checkpoints within the West Bank).

* A work permit for Israel (the employer must come to the civil administration offices and apply for one).

* A permit for medical treatment in Israel and Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem (The applicant must produce an invitation from the hospital, his complete medical background and proof that the treatment he is seeking cannot be provided in the occupied territories).

* A travel permit to pass through Jordan valley checkpoints.

* A merchant's permit to transfer goods.

* A permit to farm along the seam line requires a form from the land registry office, a title deed, and proof of first-degree relations to the registered property owner.

* Entry permit for the seam line (for relatives, medical teams, construction workers, etc. Those with permits must enter and leave via the same crossing even if it is far away or closing early).

* Permits to pass from Gaza, through Israel to the West Bank.

* A birth certificate for children under 16.

* A long-standing resident identity card for those who live in seam-line enclaves.

Checkpoints and barriers

* There were 75 manned checkpoints in the West Bank as of January 9, 2007.

* There are on average 150 mobile checkpoints a week (as of September 2006).

* There are 446 obstacles placed between roads and villages, including concrete cubes, earth ramparts, 88 iron gates and 74 kilometers of fences along main roads.

* There are 83 iron gates along the separation fence, dividing lands from their owners. Only 25 of the gates open occasionally.

NANCY LAMOTT

2007-01-27T22:53:00.000-08:00

i think it was a sunday in 1993. the first snowfall.

my girlfriend and i were on our own in manhattan that evening. the voice wrote up a singer by the name of nancy lamott. called her the best cabaret singer in the city. and that sunday was her last performance at tavern on the green.

we booked a rez and walked from 57th @ park while snow fell.

a horribly kitschy space. but the performance was fabulous. chis marlowe at the piano. jay leonhardt on bass. and nancy lamott's fabulous voice.

sad to say, nancy succumbed to cancer at the end of 1996. just after she became noticed. but i play her self-produced cd's from time to time. and continue to be blown away by her finesse.

if you read this, acquire her cd's. i think that they are some of the best jass discs with a vocalist in the last 20 years.

SPITTING ON SOLDIERS

2007-01-27T22:01:00.000-08:00

i have not been allowed to post on kos for years. steve gilliard can tell you why - he didn't like me calling him out.

but as to the notion that opponents to the war on viet-nam spit on soldiers - i can assure you, it never happened.

i was opposed to the war before i became a marine. i can recall being attacked by my classmates for my opposition to the war in the summer of 1968. was it 2 on 1? or was it 10 on 1?

who could recall. broken jaw. broken nose. i think my dad, a ww2 vet sued the families of those "patriots". they settled.

it gets more interesting....none of those virulent "patriots" enlisted. all pretended that they were homosexuals when called to their draft physicals and were 4f'ed.

i did enlist. so that no one could ever indict my opposition to that invasion as an issue of cowardice.

but i know who the cowards are in central ohio. i shall never forget them.

FRENCH HEALTH CARE vs AMERIKAN HEALTH CARE

2007-01-27T21:26:00.000-08:00

Ahhh...now you hit me where I have first kidney
experience.

My father was a physician so I know all the crap he
had to deal with in the US fighting tooth and nail
with the HMO's that rule these waters. HMO's are
granted powers to over rule a doctor on diagnosis,
treatment, hospital stay, medication and then be left
blaimless if their actions cause a problem or death.
Again as most things here its about the $$$$...over
test, over medicate, over eveything, and prolong
treatment and not cure so that more $$$ can be made.

In 1999 my French doctor found I had a very large
kidney stone...he found this doing an examination in
his tiny office in a village and only using his hands.
He sent me in for xrays and they confirmed that I had
a stone of 4cm. Office exam was $35 and xray cost me
$60. Saw a specialist and his recomendation was
surgery to remove the stone since the ureter was
kinked in one area and that was the cause of the
kidney stones forming. Specialist exam cost me $75
and his cost for surgery was estimated to be $600 plus
hospital stay.

I then went back to the US and saw my doctor since I
wanted to have it removed here as I tought our care
was far better. Saw my GP, then a specialist, then
another, than xrays and injected dyes and in the end I
was out $7400. Recommendation was to go in for
ultrasound treatment to shatter the stone and to pass
all the bits and pieces. And if that did not work
they could always do surgery as a second step... but
they gave me an 85% chance of success using
ultrasound.

Sounded interesting to me, no surgery. I had a large
stone once before in 1984 and it was removed in a 3 hr
surgical proceedure. Same doctor as the one I was
seeing so he knew the history. I asked for a cost
since I was paying as I had no insurance in the US at
the time. I was told that the ultrasound would run
between $12k-$15 in total and that if I had to have
surgery it could be double or more on top.

With those types on cost I went back to France where I
had insurance and asked my GP and specialist what they
thought of my US doctors recommendations. They both
thought he was nuts as they said it was impossible for
any small bits to pass the kink in the ureter and that
they would not support that treatment.

Why I choose not to listen I will never understand but
I was hell bent on not having surgery so I went and
saw a few other specialists in France and got the same
answer...not one would touch the ultrasound in my
case. I finally went to the teaching hospital in Nice
and spoke with the doctor who ran their ultrasound lab
and convinced him to try the proceedure. I singed a
waiver that the hospital would not be liable and he
had several call with my doctor in the US about what
they were going to do. One day I went in with
Steph...had a 30 minute ultrasound session, felt
great...walked out and went home.

That afternoon when I was walking to dogs I was hit
with the most god awfull pains I have ever
experienced. Steph rushed me to the local hospital
where they found my kidney had swelled to the size of
a grapefruit. The stone had shattered but none of the
pieces had passed and were blocking it off completely.
I spent 5 days in the hospital.

After xrays and an evaluation by a specialist they
found that the stone had exploded and had lodged many
pieces into the kidney walls. Any surgery to remove
the pieces was out of the question until the kidney
fully healed. Three years went by before the kidney
was healed fully to perform surgery. During that time
I had 3 additional attacks. When I finally had
surgery in France they corrected the ureter probelm
using a micro surgery technique that no one has yet
seen in the US. My doctor had the tape on the monitor
saved for me so I could watch afterwards. They also
widened the whole ureter to the baldder so that in the
future I would pass stones if they formed...again
unheard of in the US. Surgery took 6 hrs...only left
me with two tiny scares less than 1 inch. I stayed in
the hospital 10 days to fully recover..had great food
and care and have never felt better. Total cost for
the whole nut was about $3600... including hospital
stay. And these were foreigned rates not French rates
as the French are fully covered for anything anywhere
in the world. What more can I saw.

In the US that type of surgery would have exceeded
$50k and they would have shoved my ass out the
hospital door in 24 hrs, sent me home with a bag of
meds, and charged me up the wazoo for the follow-ups.

Neither Steph nor I will vere have anything outside of
an extreme emergency done here.....I will gladly fly
to France where I know the system is designed to cure
and not to prolong.....

LUCA TURIN

2007-01-27T20:37:00.001-08:00

the sense of smell....

the most unknown mechanism in the operation of the brain.

chandler burr's bio of luca turin, THE EMPEROR OF SCENT, may be the most phenomenal essay into the realm of science in the last few decades.

but then there is turin's recent essay, THE SECRET OF SCENT.

tune in. turin is the einstein of "SMELLING".

PETER DUESBERG

2007-01-26T23:13:00.000-08:00

CELIA FARBER: SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS - AN UNCENSORED HISTORY OF AIDS.

HARVEY BIALY: ONCOGENES, ANEUPLOIDY, and AIDS - A SCIENTIFIC LIFE & TIMES OF PETER H DUESBERG

it's not funny, you know, how individuals who contest the bushit evidence to conduct an invasion of iraq, will accept the frauds of the NIH. and still support them. even though we know now that fauci, gallo, montagnier, baltimore, ho were promoting fraudulent research.

it is disconcerting..some think that this can be true. in one instance, the government is a prevaricator. but in another instance, the government is not a prevaricator.

these are two important books. i urge you to read them.

glen beck

2007-01-25T00:31:00.000-08:00

a name undeserving of caps.

a very evil individual. who cost me a friendship.

it was a day when mr riggs was listening to this asshole. i just happened to be visiting.

all of a sudden, beck started to denounce the victims of 9/11. specifically the jersey girls. i walked over and turned off that radio.

nothing was said at that time. but the owner of that radio has never spoken to me again.

he is a swallower of the kool-aid. what is so interesting is that he was more than physically qualified to enlist in the vietnam invasion, but found a way to duck it.

his son, another preacher of islamic invasions, is not going to enlist. another sunshine patriot.

and the wife, a fervent christian, believes that whatever that great christian gentleman, george walker bush, wants to do when it comes to murdering muslim noncombatants is quite all right with her faith.

and that is what we are up against...a host of homicidal lunatics, masquerading as christians.

DANNY HOPSICKER

2007-01-24T23:59:00.000-08:00

THE REAL DEAL

when it comes to investigating mohammed atta, kate harris, the gulf coast reptillian mafiyah.

yet, no one wants to accredit his investigation. this response is identical to what the purportedly progressive left did to bob parry.

oh, i know, parry has relinquished his anger. but i think that was a mistake.

you can find danny's real deal stuff at madcownews.

the only journalist going after the zionist establisment.

ZIONISTS

2007-01-24T23:53:00.000-08:00

THEY JUST CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THE MOST MONSTROUS MILITARY ENTITY ON THE PLANET CAN BE SO INEPT.

there must be other reasons that the united states of amerika is/has been such a loser.

such as a "defeatist" press. a "defeatist" fifth column of liberals. yah da yah da yah.

the reasons for amerika's invasion failures over the last 50 years are the insights of amerikan politicians. they have known that the war footage that would be required would not be countenanced. can you imagine the amerikan people being told that they would have to be taxed an additional 50%[or more], would have to be subjected to rationing, would have to submit their children to a draft that would have invested the required number of "boots" in iraq[1,000,000].

gwb employed the jfk/lbj manipulation: in for a dime, in for a dollar. and the amerikan public, believing the deceits concerning the events of 11/09/01, swallowed the agitprop.

there are still some "lefties" today that deplore the invasion of iraq, but applaud the invasion of afghanistan.

as if afghanistan, as a nation, had anything to do with the events of 11/09/01.

neither afghanistan, nor iraq, had anything to do with the events of 11/09/01.

and neither did al-fresco.

when you want to source the perps of that day, you have only to look on israel and the zionists in the bushit regime.

and that is the way it is.

JACKIE RYAN

2007-01-24T23:47:00.000-08:00

whenever you are in the bay area, try to catch her.

a GREAT JASS SINGER.

AND THEY WANT JAMES EARL CARTER

2007-01-24T23:17:00.000-08:00

to recant....

but here is the truth that even he fails to relate.

Standing prohibitions

* Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are forbidden to stay in the West Bank.

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter East Jerusalem.

* West Bank Palestinians are forbidden to enter the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing.

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter the Jordan Valley.

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter villages, lands, towns and neighborhoods along the "seam line" between the separation fence and the Green Line (some 10 percent of the West Bank).

* Palestinians who are not residents of the villages Beit Furik and Beit Dajan in the Nablus area, and Ramadin, south of Hebron, are forbidden entry.

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter the settlements' area (even if their lands are inside the settlements' built area).

* Palestinians are forbidden to enter Nablus in a vehicle.

* Palestinian residents of Jerusalem are forbidden to enter area A (Palestinian towns in the West Bank).

* Gaza Strip residents are forbidden to enter the West Bank via the Allenby crossing.

* Palestinians are forbidden to travel abroad via Ben-Gurion Airport.

* Children under age 16 are forbidden to leave Nablus without an original birth certificate and parental escort.

* Palestinians with permits to enter Israel are forbidden to enter through the crossings used by Israelis and tourists.

* Gaza residents are forbidden to establish residency in the West Bank.

* West Bank residents are forbidden to establish residency in the Jordan valley, seam line communities or the villages of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan.

* Palestinians are forbidden to transfer merchandise and cargo through internal West Bank checkpoints.

Periodic prohibitions

* Residents of certain parts of the West Bank are forbidden to travel to the rest of the West Bank.

* People of a certain age group - mainly men from the age of 16 to 30, 35 or 40 - are forbidden to leave the areas where they reside (usually Nablus and other cities in the northern West Bank).

* Private cars may not pass the Swahara-Abu Dis checkpoint (which separates the northern and southern West Bank). This was cancelled for the first time two weeks ago under the easing of restrictions.

Travel permits required

* A magnetic card (intended for entrance to Israel, but eases the passage through checkpoints within the West Bank).

* A work permit for Israel (the employer must come to the civil administration offices and apply for one).

* A permit for medical treatment in Israel and Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem (The applicant must produce an invitation from the hospital, his complete medical background and proof that the treatment he is seeking cannot be provided in the occupied territories).

* A travel permit to pass through Jordan valley checkpoints.

* A merchant's permit to transfer goods.

* A permit to farm along the seam line requires a form from the land registry office, a title deed, and proof of first-degree relations to the registered property owner.

* Entry permit for the seam line (for relatives, medical teams, construction workers, etc. Those with permits must enter and leave via the same crossing even if it is far away or closing early).

* Permits to pass from Gaza, through Israel to the West Bank.

* A birth certificate for children under 16.

* A long-standing resident identity card for those who live in seam-line enclaves.

Checkpoints and barriers

* There were 75 manned checkpoints in the West Bank as of January 9, 2007.

* There are on average 150 mobile checkpoints a week (as of September 2006).

* There are 446 obstacles placed between roads and villages, including concrete cubes, earth ramparts, 88 iron gates and 74 kilometers of fences along main roads.

* There are 83 iron gates along the separation fence, dividing lands from their owners. Only 25 of the gates open occasionally.

VOTE FRAUD

2007-01-24T22:11:00.000-08:00

so, john forbes kerry will not be a candidate for president for this next bit of fraudulent vote counting.

what does that tell us?

it tells me that he completed his mission as a loyal "boner". he torpedoed legitimate anti-reptillian, anti-bushit candidates. that he performed his role successfully preserving the incumbency of his "boner" brother - george walker bush.

john forbes kerry was one of those candidates who went looking for defeat. he didn't fight the swift boaters. he didn't fight the vote fraud. in my opinion, his objective was to insure the incumbency of his fellow "boner".

now, why do i say this? it was a speech given by mark crispin miller concerning his analysis of vote fraud in ohio and how kerry dealt with that analysis after learning of it[of course, there were other congressional demtillians who refused to acknowledge what they knew of that vote fraud - miller singles out charlie rangel, for instance].

miller relates how kerry told him how surprised he was to learn of the research into the ohio vote fraud, and how kerry relates that he should have fought instead of acquiescing to the fraud. and then miller relates how after he made this admission public, the kerry acolytes denied that miller had ever met with their boss.

it is this vote fraud problem that i find most disconcerting...both demtillians and reptillians appear to want to ignore the problem. why is that?

my conclusion is that the demtillians pray that someday soon, they will be able to defraud the electorate just like the reptillians did.

SLACK KEY GUITAR

2007-01-23T23:03:00.000-08:00

leonard kwan, led kapaana, et alia...

the best guitar playing of the age.

if you don't know the stuff, tune in at dancing cat records.

KENNY RANKIN

2007-01-20T23:21:00.000-08:00

i had forgotten what a great singer-stylist he was/may still be.

if you missed his PROFESSIONAL DREAMER album, tune in.

ECHELON

2007-01-19T22:03:00.000-08:00

it continues to be the damndest aspect of the commentary into the bushit's cointelpro pogrom.

the echelon program goes unmentioned.

it is almost as if the demtillians, the reptillians have met, made agreements not to discuss ECHELON.

i hear these sighs that the reptillians have contravened the constitution. and i hear these demtillians such as patrick leahy pretend to care about our civil liberties.

still, ECHELON goes unmentioned.

why would it be that this spying program continues to be considered a secret?

i know about it. why don't you?

the nastiest aspect of all this is how pacifica shows refrain from discussing ECHELON. i think of mark bebawi and pokey anderson, who are sheltered by KPFT. who could have discussed ECHELON many months ago. but have refrained from revealing that program to their audience. why i wonder. the influence of cpb dollars?

anyhoo, once you recognize ECHELON, then you will recognize that the state has been bugging the citizenry for years. and that the press has been working assiduously to hide this program from the citizenry. and that press includes the purportedly progressives.

are they all in the employ of the state?

i sure think so.

ECHELON

2007-01-19T21:40:00.000-08:00

MORE ON PREEMPTIVE WAR

2007-01-18T18:22:00.000-08:00

kevin drum seems to have provoked the topic. many have responded.

perhaps i missed the proper consideration. if so, mea culpa.

what i failed to read was anyone discussing the evil empire's real preemptive wars...those virtually secret wars that toppled foreign governments, foreign anti-imperial political movements, without the investment of regular usa forces.

some recognize the most salient ones - iran and guatemala during the eisenhower regime.

but the truman wars destroying the trade union[socialist] movements in france, italy, japan are mostly unremembered.

so, too, the eisenhower manipulations of venezuela go unremembered. and though nixon was showered by rocks and spittle during his visit to caracas as eisenhower's vp, by and large, eisenhower's stasi succeeded in suppressing anti-imperialist political movements in venezuela for another 40 years.

still, on occasion eisenhower had to go beyond spook manipulations and invest troops. don't forget his invasion of lebanon in 1955[sic]. marines were landed to deny an islamic government and install camille chamoun, and the christian, nazi falange as the government of lebanon.

and then there was ike's support and maintenance of papa doc in haiti.

undoubtedly, there are other preemptive spook wars that were conducted during the eisenhower regime.

and that brings us to the fascist jfk regime. he continued all the eisenhower preemptive wars. and added a new option....us special forces[green berets, seals, force recon]. these were semi-secret military orders that could be invested anywhere, anytime, without the knowledge of the congress, the amerikan electorate, on the orders of the potus. they were entitled to commit political assassinations...to do anything to another country and its inhabitants upon the secret orders of the potus.

one of the jfk secret wars that few recognize was the war that jfk conducted against british guiana and cheddi jagan.

and there was another one, where the usa cooperated with the brits, to destabilize and create the nigerian civil war. you might remember it as the biafran war.

this was preemptive, it preserved nigerian hydrocarbon extraction for the british and dutch royal families[royal dutch-shell].

now jfk becomes assassinated. and nothing about the energizing of these secret, preemptive wars of empire changes. lbj conducts himself as imperially as did truman, eisenhower, kennedy. when he discerns that even our south viet-namese puppets would prefer a unification of viet-nam and the end to even limited amerikan occupation, he sends the marines to invade.

when the dominican republic elects an anti-amerikan empire president, juan bosch, lbj sends the marines to invade the dominican republic and remove that regime.

and by the way, during the jfk/lbj eras, coincidentally, the usg is funding the french secret army organization[oas] in efforts to assassinate de gaulle so as to prevent the divestiture of algeria. it was a hydrocarbon thing, don't you know.

and then there are the preemptive seasian wars that go mostly undiscussed. the 1965 cia directed death squads in indonesia - eliminating the pki, an indigenous anti-imperialist political movement that saw sukarno as a puppet of the indonesian hydrocarbon extractors. estimates of those executed in months by the amerikan-directed indonesian military equal the numbers of jews, romas, homosexuals executed by ah from 1933-1945.

now, there is a significant preemptive war.

oddly enough, at the same time, the usa[and its brit allies] is fighting sukarno in the borneo[kalimantan] highlands. the very secret war. waged throughout the lbj era. by the commonwealth sas[uk, canada, australia, new zealand] and seconded special forces, seals. the objective: to prevent indonesia from seizing sarawak[the home of shell transport] and its hydrocarbons.

well, i think by now you should have an understanding as to how preemptive wars are really conducted. surreptitiously if at all possible. this was the reason for the establishment of the school of the assassins[amerikas] at ft benning. we would use the militaries of our client states to conduct the "secret", preemptive wars.

name the countries. honduras. guatemala. salvador. mexico. argentina. chile. ad nauseam.

this is the real thrust of preemptive war. death squads. assassins. imf financial restrictions.

and this effort of preemptive warfare is not limited to other nations. it happens right here....within the continental united states.

in part 2, i shall discuss that domestic preemptive warfare.

BLOWJOB BILL

2007-01-18T00:08:00.000-08:00

let's talk about pre-emptive war for a moment....

odd, isn't it how so many forget blowjob bill and asskissing tony's long-term war on iraq. conducted from 1991 - 2003.

no fly zones. continual aerial bombardment of civilians, and the iraqi infrastructure...such as sewage treatment facilities, water purification facillities, electricity generating facilities.

as all "progressives" should recall, blowjob bill launched more cruise missiles onto iraq than bushit 1 launched.

and of course, we have that female humanitarian secstate, maddy albright, who stated that the usa-britain killing 500,000 -1,000,000 iraqi noncombatants was quite all right.

what is the difference between bj bill and madman george?

quite minimal, upon examination.

old blowjob preferred to just kill iraqis. investing us troops into the maw of death wasn't his shtick.

but then there came his old buddy - and believe, me, bj and george were buddies - who said that nationalities other than iraqi should also be put at risk.

as you should recall, the demtillians had no reservations concerning blowjob bill's psychopathic, homicidal policies concerning iraq. just as they had no reservations concerning bushit 2's homicidal madness.

the only preemptive war that would benefit this planet is the extermination of the leadership of the usa and the uk.

NANCY LAMOTT

2007-01-17T23:53:00.000-08:00

i shall never forget the night in 1993.

the first snow in manhattan. a sunday.

i had read in the vv of a great chanteuse at the tavern on the green. and she was closing that night.

my girlfriend and i walked from park and 57th to catch her last set.

what a great voice. and what great accompanists. jay leonhardt on bass. chris marlowe on piano.

i continue to think her voice was one of the best i ever encountered. and that marlowe's arrangements were supreme.

after that performance, i never failed to try and catch her shows when travelling into manhattan.

a heartbreaking demise in 1996.

i miss her. you might still find her cd's. tune in. i think you will enjoy her talent.