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January 28, 2010
The 9/11 Post
Having complained of people posting off topic, it seems a reasonable solution to give an opportunity for people to discuss the topics I am banning from other threads - of which 9/11 seems the most popular.
I do not believe that the US government, or any of its agencies, were responsible for 9/11. It would just need too many people to be involved. Someone would have objected. There are some strange and dangerous people in America, but not in sufficient concentration for this one. They couldn't even keep Watergate quiet, and that was a small group. Any group I can think of - even Blackwater - would contain operatives with scruples about blowing up New York. They may be sadly ready to kill people in poor countries, but Americans en masse? Somebody would say it wasn't a good idea.
I asked a friend in the construction industry what it would take to demolish the twin towers. He replied nine months, 80 men, and 12 miles of cabling. The notion that a small team at night could plant sufficient explosives embedded at key points, is laughable.
The forces of the aircraft impacts must have been amazingly high. I have no difficulty imagining they would bring down the building. As for WTC 7, again the kinetic energy of the collapse of the twin towers must be immense.
I admit to a private speculation about WTC7. Unfortunately in construction it is extremely common for contractors not to fix or install properly all the expensive girders, ties and rebar that are supposed to be enclosed in the concrete. Supervising contractors and municipal inspectors can be corrupt. I recall vividly that in London some years ago a tragedy occurred when a simple gas oven explosion brought down the whole side of a tower block.
The inquiry found that the building contractor had simply omitted the ties that bound the girders at the corners, all encased in concrete. If a gas oven had not blown up, nobody would have found out. Buildings I strongly suspect are very often not as strong as they are supposed to be, with contractors skimping on apparently redundant protection. The sort of sordid thing you might not want too deeply investigated in the event of a national tragedy.
Precisely what happened at the Pentagon I am less sure. There is not the conclusive film and photographic evidence that there is for New York. I am particularly puzzled by the much more skilled feat of flying that would be required to hit a building virtually at ground level, in an urban area, after a lamppost clipping route - very hard to see how a non-professional pilot did that. But I can think of a number of possible scenarios where the official explanation is not quite the whole truth on the Pentagon, but which do not necessitate a belief that the US government or Dick Cheney was behind the attack.
In my view the real scandal of 9/11 was that it was blowback - the product of a malignant terrorist agency whose origins lay in CIA funding and provision. Also blowback in a more general sense that it was spawned in the nasty theocratic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia which is so close to the US and to the Bush dynasty in particular. As with almost all terrorist activity, I do not rule out any point on the whole spectrum of surveillance, penetration and agent provocateur activity by any number of possible actors.
But was 9/11 false flag and controlled demolition? No, I think not.
(Now I have given full opportunity to discuss 9/11 here, any further references on other threads will be instantly deleted).
Posted by craig on January 28, 2010 4:48 AM in the category War in Iraq
Comments
I know a guy who lives in DC and saw the plane hit the Pentagon. He says it was a plane. I believe him.
Given the tendency of conspiracy theorists to be woefully wrong, I choose to believe that the people grasping to straws out of desperation to believe in a unifying order that explains something (a very similar psychological process to the religious impulse, I find) are less credible than my friend.
Speculation about how it could not have happened, or was too difficult, is simply speculation.
Posted by: McDuff at January 28, 2010 6:14 AM
See also: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=6
Posted by: McDuff at January 28, 2010 6:22 AM
For a comprehensive, impeccably researched and thouroughly referenced demolition of the Popular Mechanics special report, read David Griffin's "Debunking 9/11 Debunking", and other works by the same author.
Posted by: david at January 28, 2010 6:39 AM
Good idea.
9/11 conspiracy narratives often overlook the SE Asian angle, the Ramzi Yusuf cell operating here in Manila in the mid-nineties, which mixed up various explosive concoctions and actually tried them out on a flight to Japan.
http://www.fact-index.com/o/op/operation_bojinka.html
It's all on the internet, but somehow does not register how international the 9/11 group was.
Posted by: Barbara at January 28, 2010 6:46 AM
If you want people to reiterate what they have blogged ad nauseam for years with the come on you've given, your results may be less than optimum.
Nonetheless, I was eventually struck with the sardonic notion that, however ridiculous a false flag attack seemed at first blush, the idea that the administration should issue a conclusive description of what happened complete with responsible parties for an episode that killed all involved within hours...is a worse stretch yet.
So whatever one thinks happened, the fact that no standard air crash investigation was made - in fact the rubble was secreted away, a seeming unlawful action - has my skunk detector on high.
Add to that my generally low regard for what I consider de facto institutional psyops in society - Orwellianism - and you begin to understand my thought that wild fantasies are nonetheless no less credible than the paid arrant nonsense that is the media.
Len Hart caught my attention some years back because he was following my blog. He has continually produced volumes of material researched to the nines and available at http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/ He is a guest blogger at Bluebloggin and also has posts at http://www.opednews.com/
911 Truth is another 'find' in the genre.
If you find these interesting, I have listed some that I have read somewhat and noted. See my index at my.opera.com/oldephartte/links "Collections Forwarded to Blogger"; Not 'P.C.' | NWO will be 911 oriented. "Perception Alteration" should be considered media bias related ideas.
Everybody spoofs 'conspiracy theories'. One recent article outlined a number of cases in which they were accurate. Just sayin'.
Posted by: opit at January 28, 2010 6:52 AM
Interesting. Me and the boys kicked this idea around last night..how we, as professional explosives experts (anyone who reads this blog will know I destroy land mines and UXO's)would rig the WTC buildings to collapse.
After a few beers at the UN club and some technical discussions on explosive type, det cord length etc, we came to this conclusion.
We would need approx 1 tonne of semtex, 2.5 miles of det cord, several hundred electronic detonators and about 2 weeks to rig it all.
We would then 'flash' the detonation, eg, the explosives would be detonated in sequence every 3 floors, allowing the floors above to collapse downwards in a chain reaction, therefore allowing gravity and the sheer wieght of the building to do the job by itself.
However, as the blast wave from each charge moves at over 300 meters per second, it would blow out every window and door on the floor it was set, so you would actually be able to see the detonation with the naked eye, dust,rubble and blast wind fanning out from the building. This is not the case if you watch all the news footage of the buildings collapse.
Our opinion, crashing a large jet into a skyscraper is enough to weaken the main support structure in itself. Addition of large amounts of explosives would just be overkill.
Posted by: Frazer at January 28, 2010 7:16 AM
Thanks for this Craig! I think it's a very reasonable solution and you have my word that I won't be bringing the subject up on other threads.
I also agree with you that there probably has been some CYA involved in the 9/11 Commission. In fact, as has been noted here, John Farmer who was part of the 9/11 Commission, has recently criticised the 9/11 Commission for what he thinks is the report's favourable impression it gives of Bush and Cheney's actions on the day.
There is no monolithic "official story". This is an invention of the Truthers. There have been numerous independent investigations including by "Counterpunch" and controlled demolition experts and structural engineering facilities at universities and while there have been disagreements over the particulars there is widespread agreement on the essentials "19 guys hijacked planes and flew them into buildings which then collapsed as a result of the damage."
The reason why those who disagree over the particulars are not Truthers is because they don't hold to the articles of faith that a) it was an inside job and b) that the Twin Towers and Building 7 were demolished by explosives/thermite etc...
There is also a tendency for Truthers to get so carried away with looking into tiny anomalies that almost no one cares about that they completely lose the bigger picture. Barbara is completely correct in pointing out that Operation Bojinka is a far more relevant precedent that Operation Northwoods, because a) it was rehearsed and a Japanese passenger was killed on a flight from Manila b) It was conducted by Ramzi Yusef who also attempted to demolish the World Trade Center and c) Yusef was the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Muhammed the presumed mastermind of 9/11.
They also ignore the repeated threats made by bin Laden, his role in blowing up embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, his involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole and his declaration of war on the US. (Instead they focus on some highly dubious article that is all but unsourced about him being visited in a Dubai hospital by the CIA).
As for the Pentagon, there may not be any photographs of the plane actually hitting the Pentagon but that couldn't be expected on the video that was released because of the low number of frames per second of the camera. The security services are also, as any Truther can tell you, notoriously stingy about how much information they are willing to share.
Nevertheless there have been plenty of eyewitness accounts of the 757 hitting the Pentagon (although some of it has been mined and cropped by Truthers), plenty of photographs of the debris and even a book on the firefighting operation in which body parts from the planes are gruesomely described. Truthers will often say that any description that doesn't fit with their theory has come from the goverment or is fabricated but these seem to me to be regular people giving THEIR account, THEIR story, not the "official story".
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 7:20 AM
"Yusef was the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Muhammed "
Whoops! That is to say that Yusef was KSM's uncle despite being younger.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 7:36 AM
No matter whether the buildings were properly constructed or not, the undisputed facts are that all three buildings collapsed in freefall time. Unless Newtonian physics were suspended in NY on 9/11, that implies that all of the potential energy the buildings possessed by virtue of their height had to be converted to kinetic energy to make it to the ground in the time they did. No further energy would be left to collapse the building and break the joints. It is impossible for the buildins to have collapsed of their own accord, particularly as the path was that of the greatest resistance
Posted by: Nikko at January 28, 2010 7:44 AM
"No matter whether the buildings were properly constructed or not, the undisputed facts are that all three buildings collapsed in freefall time."
I dispute that and so do thousands and thousands of others.
"It is impossible for the buildins to have collapsed of their own accord, particularly as the path was that of the greatest resistance"
The damage and fires helped out. Do I have to show this video again?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwFHEoiUZ7o
Please watch the video of buildings destroying themselves through the "path of greatest resistance".
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Posted by: isonnahor at January 28, 2010 8:02 AM
This is my and only post on this thread and i'm to even going to look at it again. This has to be one of Craig's biggest blind spots. I'll say no more...
P.S. Good luck 'debating' with the shills guys. Have fun! Ha ha ha.
Posted by: Jaded. at January 28, 2010 8:04 AM
Well I have to say that pretty much all the reasoning presented in this post is, to put it at its mildest, naive. So you spoke to 'a friend in the construction industry' eh? Try reading through the Architects and Engineers for Truth site - over 1,000 of some of the most highly qualified people on those types of building in the world. To dismiss their objections to the official narrative with 'I spoke to a friend' is not simply glib, it's frankly childish - a bit like a 6 year old defending Santa Claus and the tooth fairy against his 8 year old sibling.
As for your other objections along the lines 'someone would have objected and blown the whistle'. On the face of it they are indeed reassuring - even persuasive - but you are clearly NOT well read on the opposing literature. Would someone not have done the same these past 50 years on the JFK assassination for example - or maybe you still think that was the work of a mad lone assassin?
I have spent the best part of the past 3 years reading little else. I was drawn into it by the clear, simple principle which has always produced the the most telling and accurate results in any major criminal investigation, namely 'Qui bono?'
This isn't the place to rehearse the arguments, they are far too detailed, complex, counter-intuitive and downright scary for superficial treatment. Suffice to say that, dealing with the whole issue on a balance of probabilities basis, the official narrative -v- Deep State Agency orchestration/involvement runs somewhere around 10/90 to anyone who has given the matter serious studied attention. For sure the Keane-Hamilton report is as shot through with demonstrable wilful falsehoods and deliberate ommissions as ever the Warren Commission Report is.
As for it being 'unthinkable' that a government and/or its 'Deep-State' agencies simply 'would not do such a thing'; I'm afraid we're back in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy Land again. They HAVE done such things (ie attacking their own people in order to blame it on the enemy-du-jour for purposes which become crystal clear once ones childish blinkers are removed) on a regular basis and I'm surprised that a former UK ambassador should be so clearly unaware of the outrageous, sordid details of the whole post WWII Operation Gladio thing - for example.
Posted by: sabretache at January 28, 2010 8:08 AM
9/11.
Isn't it strange the way Obama is fighting for universal health care for all in gold ole US of A.
Maybe he should place images of all those sick 'the first responders' who are in the process of dying. Me thinks they deserve the title of 'patriots' and look how they are treated...NICE
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 8:12 AM
There is a theorem in mathematics which says that if a continuous function has both positive and negative values then it has at least one zero value. It's obvious. If you see a man walking down the street on one side of the road but looking again a moment later he is on the other, you will reason that he must have crossed the street at least once. Obvious though the result may seem, in pure mathematics one is nevertheless obliged to prove it, and occasionally proofs of the obvious can be difficult to find.
Imagine how much more difficult such proofs would be if the question were politicised, and one was required for respectability to deny the obvious; the function is never zero, and that man never crossed the street. 2+2=5. Ten floors fell on to 90 and crushed them out of existence - and as if they had never existed.
"I asked a friend in the construction industry what it would take to demolish the twin towers. He replied nine months, 80 men, and 12 miles of cabling."
Which begs the question: why is your friend not now converted to the much faster and cheaper option of blowing away a few floors near the top of the building, setting some office materials on fire, then just sitting back and letting nature take its course? It only takes a few hours, at most 19 people, and costs next to nothing in materials. He'd better get there before his competitors do!
Posted by: Vronsky at January 28, 2010 8:17 AM
@angrysoba.
Not possible mate, read my comments. No explosives used, if there were there would be evidence.
Posted by: Frazer at January 28, 2010 8:18 AM
Why is the PR of the terrorists not more obvious?
When the Palestinians, or ETA, or the IRA committed an act of terrorism, it was owned up to, for the purpose of their politics; but for 9/11, we are left with speculation.
Posted by: JimmyGiro at January 28, 2010 8:27 AM
Ironic that Craig mentions the LAMPOST TOPPING flight into the Pentagon - as the photos of the day show them facing AWAY from the building, i.e. as if blown out.
If any one bit of the story fails then something other than the official line must of occured. There are dozens or more discrepancies that stretch logic and physics to incredulity.
Posted by: LeeJ at January 28, 2010 8:28 AM
Great idea for a post Craig- lateral thinking at its best
Posted by: Geoff at January 28, 2010 8:31 AM
А вот сегодня я наконец-то подписался на ваш блог :)
Posted by: HTC форум at January 28, 2010 8:43 AM
did someone mention thermite residue?
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 9:12 AM
Craig how about a fish thread?
Posted by: arsalan at January 28, 2010 9:23 AM
I think the phrase 'Qui bono?' is much too simplistic when looking at complex political issues. People all have different values, world views and expectations, so even if we were to assume that all actors are 100% 'rational' (which I most definitely don't), it's not hard to see that people could do some very counter productive things without even realising it. According to 'Qui bono?', during the Vietnam war, American war policy must have been secretly dictated by the Soviets, because waging war on Vietnam was disastrous for the US. I guess Watergate was thought up by the Democrats and they tricked Nixon into carrying it out.
Posted by: CheebaCow at January 28, 2010 9:26 AM
"false flag"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv6EuukxqKQ
Posted by: George Dutton at January 28, 2010 9:33 AM
I was going to mention something that I know which most of you don't. And this is something which will disgree with both groups, the inside Job group and the outside job group.
But I can't because I have to get to a meeting now.
Bye.
Posted by: arsalan at January 28, 2010 9:38 AM
I couldn't resist. It's 'Invasion Of The Bodysnatching Shills' and they seem to have got to Craig. Eek!
Posted by: Jaded. at January 28, 2010 9:41 AM
arsalan -
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Posted by: CheebaCow at January 28, 2010 9:47 AM
Craig,
The reason I believed in the 'conspiracy'- it all seemed too convenient for the Bush administration.
My thoughts were remote control planes. It didn't seem plausible that a few people could take over a plane with a tin opener? That could have been kept between a few people couldn't it?- Extra explosives could have been loaded onto the planes by a small team.
In situations like this it isn't a case of how (comparable to a person’s own knowledge anyone can be fooled) but why, and who would get the most out of it...
How could Iraq and Afghanistan have happened without this crisis on American soil? How could the US have gotten any international sympathy?
How convenient that Bush, Cheney etc owned Mercenary companies, dealt in weapons, managed to buy so much gold, disguised the Enron fiasco?
Sigh. I believe in you as a person Craig. So perhaps it's time to put this one to bed based on what you've said. Double Sigh.
But if anyone could have a stab at the questions above?
Posted by: marcus at January 28, 2010 9:59 AM
@arsalan
You sound like Fermat's Last Theorem (deliberately?).
Writing in the margin of Diophantus' Arithmetica: "It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
Posted by: Vronsky at January 28, 2010 10:03 AM
@January.No thermite resedue was ever found despite extensive testing of rubble etc. Besides,thermite would not be suitable for collapsing a building such as the WTC. Personally, I love a good conspiracy theory..the Grassy Knoll, did we actually land on the Moon, Area 51, the Bigfoot to name but a few. Unfortunatly the WTC was just a tradgedy that happened due to a few fanatics. The buildings were so extensively damaged they needed no outside help to collapse.
Massive damage to internal structures and gravity was to blame.
Posted by: Frazer at January 28, 2010 10:07 AM
Oh dear. I have nothing much to say on the topic, I could just have all left it alone, if it wasn't for Craig's "They couldn't even keep Watergate quiet".
Which is true, but they did a better job with the Iran/contra stuff, and an even neater one with the Libby trial. Watergate was a long time ago, and people seem to have learnt. Plus, of course, it seemed to depend on a functioning media.
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 28, 2010 10:21 AM
"how about a fish thread?"
You might have to speak up a bit ...
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 28, 2010 10:25 AM
Craig,
I remain sceptical of ALL 9/11 theories, yours as well.
A doctor friend of mine, a psychiatrist, was convinced of the official line that Dr David Kelly committed suicide, in spite of there being circumstantial evidence to the contrary. His reasoning? That people of Dr Kelly's age have a tendency to top themselves and Kelly was also under considerable stress. Ergo, no need to look further.
Your thinking seems to be in a similar vein: posit a vague generalisation and then rely on it to support your specific assertion.
There are conspiracies all the time. Hell, the Iraq invasion was one. Some get found out and publicised, some don't. My view is that President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy but almost 50 years after the event the true story is still unclear. Surely someone would have had scruples, etc, etc? Well, possibly not.
Here's another incentive to keep quiet: you csan accept our payment of $20 million dollars to shut up or we'll kill (and your family). I know which one I'd choose.
Mike Rogers
Posted by: Mike Rogers at January 28, 2010 10:26 AM
Craig, I'm disappointed but not surprised by your post. I think Sabretache summed up my feelings best.
Posted by: Edo at January 28, 2010 10:26 AM
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor."
From the PNAC manifesto "Rebuilding America's Defenses" - September 2000.
Posted by: Roger Whittaker at January 28, 2010 10:28 AM
This is a rough outline of my understanding:
3 skyscapers exhibit an unprecedented rapid collapse phenomenon after being damaged by hijacked aircraft.
The 2 largest skyscrapers come down within minutes of each other despite significant difference in the height and internal pattern of initial damage.
3rd skyscraper's unexpected rapid collapse is reported live, 20 odd minutes before it happens by CNN and BBC, this wasnt noticed till 1997. The BBC news editor blogs that is was just a cock-up.
The Pentagon was also hit by a hijacked aircraft perfoming some remarkable manuevers. It had no air defenses due to a wargame. Luckily it was struck squarely in its only section being refurbished, minimising loss of life and damage. Disbelief in the details of the event is later officialy responded to with a few extremely blurred frames of footage showing a white blur and explosive flash at the impact location.
Days following the attacks, a blurred yet very obviously fake video of Bin Laden is released claiming responsibility.
Following documentaries and official reports on the building collapses, misrepresent the buildings structure, the effect of fire, do not explain large amounts of molten steel encountered and photographed in the wreckage. Official reports on the collapse have repeatedly retracted and changed their hypothesis. The nature of the collapses are to this day unmodelled, and unexplained.
Hundreds of relevant academics and proffessionals have gone on record to criticise the official accounts and explainations.
Posted by: crab at January 28, 2010 10:28 AM
http://williamrmullinsjr.com/myamerica/157/thermite-found-in-world-trade-center-rubble/
..and molten metal attest to the presence of something capable of melting steel..
Posted by: crab at January 28, 2010 10:32 AM
@Craig: "I asked a friend in the construction industry what it would take to demolish the twin towers. He replied nine months, 80 men, and 12 miles of cabling."
@Frazer: "We would need approx 1 tonne of semtex, 2.5 miles of det cord, several hundred electronic detonators and about 2 weeks to rig it all."
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 10:35 AM
Much as I admire your perspicacity on many matters, Craig, you're clearly not an engineer.
If you want an impressive account of what couldn't have happened, what must have happened, and what's still unknown because no proper, honest, unsteered, forensic and police investigation has yet been done, then -- as others have suggested -- find time if you can to study in depth David Ray Griffin's accumulated work on this matter. You'll warm to his intellectual honesty, his truthfulness, and his basic goodness. He's like you, Craig. But on this matter, unlike you, he's also right.
There's a growing network of similarly impressive, calm, honest and competent minds with useful input to offer too; but you'll come to them through studying David Griffin's work.
Catch yourself on, mate. This is a hole in your credibility. But despite this one criticism, I'm still a fan who's routing for all your honest truth-telling work. Keep at it, Craig! Cheers!
Posted by: Rhisiart Gwilym at January 28, 2010 10:41 AM
I'm with you on most things Craig, but not on this one.
It must be a Coincidence Theory!!
See 'A Coincidence Theorists Guide To 911':
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yajfj9o
Posted by: Bert at January 28, 2010 10:42 AM
@Frazer: "...the Grassy Knoll..."
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=8440302925206489846#
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 10:45 AM
We have a Russian signed up - after a long contemplation -
Добро пожаловать
"Was the steel tested for explosives or thermite residues? … NIST did not test for the residue of these compounds in the steel."
NIST Responses to FAQs, August 2006
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 28, 2010 10:54 AM
Criag, I'm sure you were just playing Devil's advocate with your post.
Regardless of all the discussion of the physics of collapsing buildings and the rest, the most obvious question that needs to be properly answered is;
How is it possible for four sets of hijackers to take control of four planes and fly them for over 40 minutes within the USA domestic airspace and not be intercepted by fighter aircraft? The USA is the most technologically militarised country in the world. It is beyond any belief that the airforce would not have been on to them within ten minutes if normal operational procedures were followed. Also the pentagon has radar and anti-aircraft guns in place which would have shot the plane down before it hit.
I suggest you read David Ray Griffin's books on this. He takes the whole thing to pieces bit by bit. Make up you own mind, however arguments such as this bloke in the pub said that you could do it with a few tons of TNT and some firecrackers are hardly science or a rigorous proof.
Posted by: Orwell at January 28, 2010 11:06 AM
@Mark Golding.NTSB did test as part of thier investigation. @January, thanks I need no convincing on that one.
Posted by: Frazer at January 28, 2010 11:12 AM
Remember the 1WTC, 2WTC were designed to withstand an off course aeroplane (a Boeing 707 I believe) flying into them according to the architect. I am assuming the buildings were constructed in accordance with the specifications.
The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and
Nano-Thermites
Kevin R. Ryan, 7-02-08
A selection of facts from this paper.
Hratch Semerjian, long-time director of NIST’s chemical division, was promoted to acting director of NIST in November 2004, and took over the WTC investigation until the completion of the report on the towers. Semerjian is closely linked to former NIST employee Michael Zachariah, perhaps the world’s most prominent expert on nano-thermites (Zachariah 2008). In fact, Semerjian and Zachariah co-authored ten papers that focus on nano-particles made of silica, ceramics and refractory particles. Zachariah was a major player in the Defense University Research Initiative on Nanotechnology (DURINT), a groundbreaking research effort for nano-thermites.
NIST has a long-standing partnership with NASA for the development of new nano-thermites and other nano-technological materials. In fact, Michael Zachariah coordinates this partnership (CNMM 2008).
In 2003, two years before the NIST WTC report was issued, the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) and NIST signed a memorandum of understanding to develop nano-technologies like nano-thermites (NIST 2003). Together, NIST and UMCP have done much work on nano-thermites (NM2 2008).
NIST has their own Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST 2008). Additionally, NIST’s Reactive Flows Group did research on nanostructured materials and high temperature reactions in the mid-nineties (NRFG 1996).
So, I ask why was ground zero not treated as a crime scene and the 'evidence' quickly disposed of, in fact, shipped abroad to China, India or both I believe?
Disclaimer:
I am not a 'conspiracy theorist' or 'truther' I was a naval engineer and an electronics design engineer formally with Marconi.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 28, 2010 11:19 AM
As I think was plain, I started this thread so that those commenters who complain when I delete irrelevant 9/11 posts on other threads, can have a full say and not complain about being censored.
Posted by: Craig at January 28, 2010 11:24 AM
Craig,
In my judgement, the substance of your post indicates you are in denial about THE POSSIBILITY of 9/11 being "an inside job" and more specifically, of the collapses of the three WTC towers being "controlled demolitions".
Why do I think so? Because of the way you are "corralling" to coin a term — drawing your statements into a tight circle that prevents an exploration of the facts and assertions as if they were wagons crossing the prarie that had just come under attack from a bunch of screaming injuns.
Indeed, your stance on 9/11 is quite similar to the stances taken by those who argue that David Kelly's death was a suicide and that "we" did the right thing in getting rid of Saddam. You are not open to argument on the issue, you resort to the argument from incredulity, and you balk at the scale of the deception, let alone the Chutzpah, that would be required to brig off such a coup. In shot, you've been caught in an emotional trap that prevents you from thinking about the issue clearly,rationally and in accordance with the scientific method a la Carl Saga, et al.
But let me finish by flattering you a bit. To my mind you are like Luke Skywalker training to be a Jedi. You have learned how to move rocks and pile one atop another down in the swampland of Degoba. But when it comes to moving sunken X-wing out of the water by the power of thought, you just can't wrap your head around it. "I can't! It's too big!" you cry out in desperation.
This is where David Ray Griffin, the truthers' version of Master Yoda, steps up and gives his "size-matters-not" speech. 9/11 and David Kelly are no different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearned what you have learned."
YOu know you are on the rigt path when you are calm. You know you are on the wrong path when you find yourself in agreement with Angrysoba.
Craig, we don't want to loose you to the Dark Side!
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 28, 2010 11:26 AM
Re Frazers advice:
"We would need approx 1 tonne of semtex, 2.5 miles of det cord, several hundred electronic detonators and about 2 weeks to rig it all."
(explosive demo would require a lot of explosives expertly placed throughout the building)
"crashing a large jet into a skyscraper is enough to weaken the main support structure in itself. Addition of large amounts of explosives would just be overkill."
(second thoughts, a plane crash in one bit would have sufficed)
Posted by: crab at January 28, 2010 11:29 AM
@Frazer.
Yes, I agree with you that there were no explosives used in the collapse of the towers. I am not a Truther.
The video I showed was to demonstrate that, despite what is claimed by many Truthers, a building's lower floors can indeed be crushed by its upper floors through the "path of greatest resistance". The by-products will be puffs of air that look like "squibs" and even "pyroclastic clouds".
A form of demolition called verinage is even predicated on the idea that this is perfectly possible.
Thanks also for adding your professional opinion about the amount of explosives and cabling necessary to bring down the towers.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 11:31 AM
No-one seems to be mentioning the large group of engineers and architects who say that the official story can't be true: http://www.ae911truth.org/
The official story of collapse is patently absurd to my mind as the chances of asymmetrical damage causing a symmetrical collapse is vanishingly small.
What did actually happen? Well, I don't know but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was some part of the Illegal Regime involved. They did, after all, manage to pull of a military coup without much fuss.
Posted by: selma at January 28, 2010 11:35 AM
"This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"
Posted by: Spartan at January 28, 2010 11:42 AM
"The Open Chemical Physics Journal"...
http://tinyurl.com/de6448
"Active Thermitic Material"...
tinyurl.com/d4yp5y
Posted by: George Dutton at January 28, 2010 11:43 AM
Funny how this issue has become more polarised over the years. Doesn't anyone argue over LIHOP, MIHOP, and "Limited Hangouts" any more?
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 11:57 AM
"It would just need too many people to be involved".
Well yes, except that every day hundreds of people are flown from Las Vegas to work at Area 51. Not a single one says a word publicly about the nature of his or her work. Are we to conclude from this that Area 51 doesn't exist?
"The notion that a small team at night could plant sufficient explosives embedded at key points, is laughable"
Why at night? Why not during the day, on one of the occasions during the previous months when thw WTC complex was swarming with workmen attending to 'elevator maintenance' and 'recabling'?
"Buildings I strongly suspect are very often not as strong as they are supposed to be, with contractors skimping on apparently redundant protection"
If this were the case with WTC I suspect these dodgy contractors would have been found out much earlier. WTC was built using a 'tube within a tube' design. Two 'tubes' of steel, one inside the other. Elevator shafts were inside the inner tube, office space occupied the area between the inner and outer tubes. The design is incredibly strong and, being made from steel sections, it is resistant to fire or local damage. But it does have a potential weakness: if the inner tube moves laterally even fractionally within the outer tube then the result is calamity. To prevent this it is an absolute necessity to have strong horizontal beams at each floor level keeping the two tubes rigidly and immovably together.
The reason shoddy or skimpy construction would be found out is because of something far more commonplace and banal than crashing aeroplanes. It's the wind. It may not seem much but think about it: the sides of those buildings acted as vast sails of several acres in area, every day testing the lateral rigidity of the design with a force far exceeding that of crashing planes. New York can get very high winds but the towers never buckled. Those towers were built to withstand a 150-year hurricane. That's how much redundancy was built in.
"The sort of sordid thing you might not want too deeply investigated in the event of a national tragedy"
The only reason there is so much continuing debate about the cause of the collapse of the towers is that accident investigators never had a chance to inspect all the rubble. 80% of the steel was immediately cut into bars and sold as scrap to China and India. This was in clear and flagrant breach of the law, which requires that whenever a building in excess of 8 stories collapses the rubble must be retained for analysis. No ifs, no buts.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 12:01 PM
Sabretache, "I have spent the best part of the past 3 years reading little else. I was drawn into it by the clear, simple principle which has always produced the the most telling and accurate results in any major criminal investigation, namely 'Qui bono?'"
With all respect, "cui bono" isn't a particularly useful starting principle given that those responsible don't always know how things would turn out.
Asking "who benefits?" throws up so many possibilities. It's clearly not a sufficient principle to work out who was responsible.
For example, A "cui bono" case could be made for China. They're now opening up copper mines in Afghanistan, have a Trans-Kazakhstan gas pipeline from Turkmenistan being developed and they can point to 9/11 to justify their suppression of Muslims in East Turkestan. They benefitted, so did they do it? Of course not.
A "cui bono" case could be made for David Ray Griffin. Before 9/11 he was an obscure theologian. After 9/11 he got to write six or seven or eight books on the subject and bask in the adulation of adolescent fantasy dissidents the world over. He benefitted, did he do it? Of course not.
But a "cui bono" argument can be made for Osama bin Laden too. He was on T-shirts the world over after 9/11 and jihadist groups the world over want to call themselves "Al-Qaeda in..."
So, not only can "cui bono" be used for a number of people, it is also guilty of the historian's fallacy. Just because we know what happened after doesn't mean that those who were responsible intended later events.
If a motive for bin Laden could be given then it is possible he would have thought of Hizbollah's bombing of the US barracks in Lebanon and Reagan's subsequent withdrawal from the country. He could have expected a similar retreat for the US following his own stike. He spelt out his intentions in his declaration of war and also with others in the article printed by al-Quds al-Arabi.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 12:12 PM
Dear Craig,
I don't feel that you are looking at the events of 9/11 objectively. 9/11 is a very emotionally and politically charged event, that's why we are scared to discuss such frightening notions as government complicity.
The Manhattan project was kept secret and that involved hundreds of people.
A government can vapourise 75,000 Japanese human beings but cares about its own people? Get real.
As for the WTC buildings, over 1,000 professionally qualified architects, structural engineers and scientists disagree with your short speculative analysis. See http://www.ae911truth.org/ and I highly recommend the presentation video you will find there by Richard Gage.
Posted by: Martin at January 28, 2010 12:16 PM
...Make that 150,000 Japanese human beings, but you get the point.
This comments thread is not the place to discuss 9/11; there are literally hundreds of discrepancies to discuss. Salient points will be lost in the noise.
Posted by: Martin at January 28, 2010 12:21 PM
"FBI says, it has “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”...
http://tinyurl.com/z2uwf
Posted by: George Dutton at January 28, 2010 12:23 PM
Come and have your fun, boys and girls. Get it out of your system on this thread made specially for you, then, afterwards, we can all go back to the real world where the lying snakes in power would never consider any act so mean as conducting a terror attack on their own people just so that they could deliver Shock and Awe, murder hundreds of thousands, grab territory to build strategic bases for resources and world power, and make acceptable their inflation of military spending to astronomical levels.
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 12:23 PM
"The video I showed was to demonstrate that, despite what is claimed by many Truthers, a building's lower floors can indeed be crushed by its upper floors through the "path of greatest resistance". The by-products will be puffs of air that look like "squibs" and even "pyroclastic clouds"."
Angrysoba,
So at least you admit that there were phenomenna emerging from the sides of the buildings observed during the collapses of WTC 1 & 2 that "look like 'squibs'" (the puffs sometimes seen when squibs explode)? Have we got your word of honour as a Decent on that one?
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 28, 2010 12:26 PM
I think I must say I'm with Tim Groves on this.
Great compromise on the face of it , Craig. But a tad like the way the American 'security' people 'enable' 'democratic protest' in tiny little corrals well away from the object of their protest - and the media.
And like the UK which now dictates (dictates on pain of arrest for serious criminal offences) when/where one can exercise one's legal and human rights to peacefully gather to demonstrate one's dissatisfaction with the powers that be or whatever.
Maybe that's going a bit far - because I for one need you to be our good-guy!
It's a very fine line, I appreciate. But there is a difference between those who hijack/derail your posts and comments and those who, after much consideration, use the example of 9/11 and its many anomalies to connect dots to various world calamities in the here and now.
Personally, I have read the PNAC doc end to end, the various papers presented by e.g. all the various professionals for truth, as well as the official 9/11 Commission's report (as well as the original doc in which the heinous Northwoods idea was posited)..
I'm afraid, for my money, the official version simply doesn't hold up. There is ample evidence to indicate the ease with which a determined inner cadre can enrol thousands of people in such nefariousness.
You live in the UK...have you experienced the raw end of public services? I mean, REALLY experienced the conspiratorial way in which they stymie ordinary, decent, truth-seeking citizens, refusing service and denigrating various of us? And most of the people involved actually don't have a clue they've been enrolled into such anti-citizen activities.
I'm not going to participate further on this thread because I believe the whole 9/11 project is intrinsically linked (in ways that will never become fully known as well as the more obvious ones - see Chilcot eg.) to all else you honestly blog about.
But at least I'll know that you have your limitations too. Hey! You're human!
Posted by: Sam at January 28, 2010 12:36 PM
"I started this thread so that those commenters who complain when I delete irrelevant 9/11 posts on other threads, can have a full say and not complain about being censored."
Is this a slippery slope that ends up with threads about who murdered Princess D., whether the alien space lizards are in league with the little green men / Prince Philip / both of these, was it the Illuminati or the Freemasons who killed Kennedy, and any other gibberish anybody feels like making themselves a bore over in any other thread ?
People can get a thread here on their very own obsessions just by disrupting every other conversation ? There doesn't have to be any end to this gameplaying at all, so long as gameplayers get what they come for.
Tell them to set up their own blogs and see what comments they get.
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 28, 2010 12:39 PM
"With all respect, "cui bono" isn't a particularly useful starting principle given that those responsible don't always know how things would turn out."
With out a great deal of respect, but I'm feeling generous enough not to errupt into outright insults just now, you do have the makings of what might grow up to be a point (if you give it a few years of intensive loving care) about "cui bono". However, "cui bono" is the starting point for almost all criminal investigations where something was dun and we dunno who dunnit, innit?
On the other hand, while we're going into Latin phrases, I think we should also consider Cui's brother, "Sony Bono". Did he really just ski into that tree or was there more to it?
The point is, my Irate Noodle, are you seriously suggesting that we dispense with "cui bono" as a principle of criminal investigation after all these millennia, or are you merely trying to make a single-case exception for 9/11? Riddle me that. And while were on the subject, would you like the laws of physics to be suspended for the big day too?
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 28, 2010 12:42 PM
Why wouldn't the US government encourage the 911 Truth movement. Never mind the
$708 billion Pentagon budget.
Posted by: ady at January 28, 2010 12:47 PM
Sam,
you believe that
the whole 9/11 project is intrinsically linked (in ways that will never become fully known as well as the more obvious ones - see Chilcot eg.) to all else you honestly blog about.
You are entitled to believe that. others believe that the Protocols of Zion, Bilderberg, Templars, Freemasons and various other permutations are intrinsically linked to everything.
The idea that an underlying obsession - sorry cause :-), explains everything is not in my view in any of these cases sufficiently plausible to make it always on-topic. So off-topic deletion will apply.
Posted by: Craig at January 28, 2010 12:48 PM
"Is this a slippery slope that ends up with threads about who murdered Princess D., whether the alien space lizards are in league with the little green men / Prince Philip / both of these, was it the Illuminati or the Freemasons who killed Kennedy, and any other gibberish anybody feels like making themselves a bore over in any other thread ?"
That's why Aristotle advocated the golden mean. Craig is doing his best to find a solution midway between total censorship and total anarchy. Let's give him three cheers for that. You wouldn't want to live in a world without any Gibberish at all, would you? Nor Balderdash, nor Bilge, nor Tosh, nor Gobbledegook, nor Piffle. Surely these delightful minority languages deserve to be treasured and protected?
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 28, 2010 12:54 PM
Shoddy buildings like those were bound to come down sooner or later, so what's all the fuss about?
Posted by: glenn at January 28, 2010 12:56 PM
As someone who has is an architect and and has a lot of knowledge regarding structure of a building i can confirm to you that it is entierly possible for a building to collapse when a plane is crashed into it. Skyscrapers are built with specific heavy loading but they are not built to take the impact of a 50 to 80 ton plance crashing into the side of them (how often does it happen?). The structure is usually fire proofed for at least 2hrs in a large building like this which gives enough time to evacuate everyone before the structural integrty is affected by the blaze. however, if the structure is damaged then this will reduce the fire resistance dramatically and reduce the structural integrity dramatically.
The impact and extra weight of the plane on the building alone could potentially bring it down but add fire to it and there is no doubt that it would collapse.
I don't know a lot about explosive used in demolition so I will not comment on that theory although it seems doubtful as most demolition that I have seen you can see explosions from a mile away even if they're in a huge plume of smoke.
Also I would like to make the point that David Ray Griffin is a theologist not a structural engineer or architect.
I know there are a lot of engineers and architect out there that believe the truther theory but from my experience there are a lot of crap architect and engineers who are desperate to promote themselves. Of the 1000 people signed up to the AE9/11truth website I haven't seen one notable architect to give it credibility, most are students with architecture degrees. Also most of the engineers are mechanical, software or electrical all of whom have little or no structural engineering experience.
If you asked the majority of experienced architects and engineers what they thought I can bet you would get a similar answer to mine.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at January 28, 2010 12:56 PM
Richard Robinson
"is this a slippery slope..."
Probably.
Posted by: Craig at January 28, 2010 12:59 PM
@Tim GrovesYes there were puffs of air exiting sides of the building as it collapses. This is air compression caused by the buildings internal collapse and air bieng forced out of it through lift shafts,stairwells etcIf explosives were used, any demolition expert would have spotted it. Mind you, I keep an open mind on the subject.
Posted by: Frazer at January 28, 2010 12:59 PM
Bigfoot isn't a conspiracy theory, is it? But as people like Frazer so often want to conflate it with alternative accounts of 9/11, let's accept it as such anyway. Along with the faked moon landings, the Loch Ness Monster, UFOs, lizard people, the Reichstag Fire and the Kennedy assassination.
But among all these 9/11 has a unique feature, aside from its obviously very grave political implications: it is the only case where evidence of at least one claim made by the conspiracy theorists is absolutely incontrovertible, and this claim alone almost inevitably requires involvement by elements of the US government or 'security' services.
It is physically impossible for WTC1 or WTC2 to have fallen as a result of the incidents we all witnessed. WTC7, though often touted by the 'Truth' movement as a smoking gun is in fact a red herring - the extent of damage to WTC7 is unknown and therefore no firm conclusions can be drawn as to why it collapsed.
However I can sympathise with Craig's position: he is a public figure and many have been ruined by ridicule or slander for expressing doubts on the official account of 911. If I were in his position I too would be very careful how I expressed myself. I have watched with great embarrassment people like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn simply evade the question - it doesn’t matter, they say. Wow! The slaughter by a state of 3000 of its own citizens in order to start wars which have killed millions is 'unimportant', a mere distraction from more useful activities? Chomsky and Zinn ordinarily occupy a much more radical position on the political spectrum than does Craig, and if there are things that they are scared to say, let’s not be too sore on Craig.
The great fear of angrysoba and his sponsors is that their strategy of suppression by ridicule, powerful though it is, might fail. It is quite a vulnerable strategy, as it is only necessary for a few prominent and respectable people to say that it is absolutely obvious that the two towers were brought down by controlled demolition, and then others like Craig will soon join them. There are now over 1000 architects and structural engineers who say that the towers could not have fallen for the reasons given, and controlled demolition is not just the most plausible hypothesis for their failure, but the only one. But you are required to believe that this sober array of masters degrees and doctorates are just a lot ‘foaming, swivel-eyed conspiraloons’, to borrow a phrase from angrysoba.
That the official account of 9/11 has survived so long says a great deal about the nature of our public institutions – but that’s another deeply worrying matter.
Posted by: Vronsky at January 28, 2010 1:01 PM
"This is air compression caused by the buildings internal collapse and air bieng forced out of it through lift shafts,stairwells etc"
What air compression? The building was destroyed floor by floor from the top down. Each floor was converted to dust, which went outwards and upwards. The weight bearing down on the lower floors was diminishing as time went on.
"If explosives were used, any demolition expert would have spotted it"
There is a widespread view that thermite was used, which is not an explosive. It just cuts through steel very quickly and efficiently.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 1:05 PM
MJ,
A reasoned analysis and we have evidence from a British IT manager about the shut-downs for cabling.
Angrysoba,
I have seen your type of post so many times, it attempts to draw posters into a perpetual circle, your 'cui bono' is fog to induce the fog lights, trouble is when the fog is cleared those lights become an irritant.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 28, 2010 1:11 PM
@Craig, on your 'The Partiality of Lord Goldsmith' post: "Have removed another ludicrous diversion effort by Alan, and reply from Mark."
Ah, yes, "ludicrous diversion". You use Tony Blair's expression -
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4943675105275097719#
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 1:11 PM
Vronsky,
As i said previously have a look at those degrees of the 1000 architects and engineers. There are no notable figures and a lot of the architects are not fully qualified and registered. This means they are probably students who don't really know that much about construction of skyscrapers.
Also as i said before there are a lot of mechanical, electrical and software engineers who I can bet know very little about the structure of a skyscraper. Also just rememeber that there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of architect and engineers working throughout the world and only 1000 have signed up to this. thats not a lot...
Posted by: chris, glasgow at January 28, 2010 1:12 PM
"There is a widespread view that thermite was used, which is not an explosive. It just cuts through steel very quickly and efficiently"
So does a plane flying at a couple of hundred miles an hour.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at January 28, 2010 1:14 PM
"I can confirm to you that it is entierly possible for a building to collapse when a plane is crashed into it"
Chris from Glasgow: would you care to cite one example when a skyscraper has collapsed as a consequence of being hit by a plane (it has happened before) or, for that matter, as a result of fire?
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 1:23 PM
"So does a plane flying at a couple of hundred miles an hour"
But that only accounts for the area of the impact, not the whole building.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 1:25 PM
Orwell: "How is it possible for four sets of hijackers to take control of four planes and fly them for over 40 minutes within the USA domestic airspace and not be intercepted by fighter aircraft?"
This is misleading as it suggests that there was an interval of forty minutes between the military being aware of a particular hijacking and the planes crashing.
"The USA is the most technologically militarised country in the world. It is beyond any belief that the airforce would not have been on to them within ten minutes if normal operational procedures were followed."
I don't know where you get that impression. The only "alert" stations were at Otis and Langley with a pair of fighters each. Otis scrambled its fighters to look for AA11 only a few minutes before the airliner crashed into the first tower. The hijackers had switched off the transponders so it wasn't immediately clear where the plane was. In fact, when Langley scrambled its fighters they too were looking for AA11 not realizing it no longer existed.
"Also the pentagon has radar and anti-aircraft guns in place which would have shot the plane down before it hit. "
I didn't know the Pentagon has anti-aircraft guns in place. Are you sure? Even if they did, it doesn't mean they could have shot AA77 down. Eugene Corder tried to fly his Cessna into the White House and he didn't get shot down.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 1:32 PM
"You know you are on the wrong path when you find yourself in agreement with Angrysoba."
I believe 2+2=4. Do you agree?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 1:35 PM
Re: cui bono -
A standard criminal investigation is usually limited to a few potential suspects or else is completely random event such a street mugging.
Geo-political events such as 911 are by their very definition so much larger in scope and contain so many potential variables that questions like cui bono are bound to be overly simplistic.
Damn....... I'm agreeing with angry on this one =P
Posted by: CheebaCow at January 28, 2010 1:39 PM
"it suggests that there was an interval of forty minutes between the military being aware of a particular hijacking and the planes crashing".
In the case of AA77 that is exactly the case. Yet Cheney waited until the plane was 10 miles away before ordering jets to be scrambled - and then from Langley AFB in Virginia rather than the nearby Andrews AFB in Washington, so were still over a hundred miles short of their target when AA77 hit the Pentagon.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 1:40 PM
To quote from the Institution of Structural Engineers July 2992 paper 'Safety in tall buildings':
"No _other_ case of a fire-protected steel-framed building collapsing totally in fire is believed to have occurred in spite of there having been several cases world wide of large uncontrolled fires in tall buildings, even where the fire has burnt out all combustible materials inside."
There are only therefore 3 cases of buildings which have _totally_ collapsed as a result of fire damage. These 3 cases occurred on 11th September 2001: WTC1, WTC2 & WTC7.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair
Posted by: Bert at January 28, 2010 1:44 PM
^ 2002 report.
Posted by: Bert at January 28, 2010 1:47 PM
Its also been expertly advised that a single plane impacting one area of the structure *did* cause the rapid collapses observed, yet to do something similar with explosives, would require a ton of semtex expertly distributed throughout the whole building.
How much semtex put in just one place in the building would cause a similar amount of damage to a jet impact?
Doesnt this question highlight the problem with the 'controlled demo was too difficult, yet a plane crash did it' ~idea ?
Posted by: crab at January 28, 2010 1:47 PM
"The great fear of angrysoba and his sponsors is that their strategy of suppression by ridicule, powerful though it is, might fail. It is quite a vulnerable strategy, as it is only necessary for a few prominent and respectable people to say that it is absolutely obvious that the two towers were brought down by controlled demolition, and then others like Craig will soon join them. There are now over 1000 architects and structural engineers who say that the towers could not have fallen for the reasons given, and controlled demolition is not just the most plausible hypothesis for their failure, but the only one. But you are required to believe that this sober array of masters degrees and doctorates are just a lot ‘foaming, swivel-eyed conspiraloons’, to borrow a phrase from angrysoba."
Vronsky, are you being paid by Richard Gage ;-)
Just kidding, of course, but I do note that his website's latest fund-raising is in aid of promoting the fact that there are now 1000 architects and engineers that believe in the Truth. Of course, as Chris from Glasgow has said these figures are a little cooked. For one thing Mr Gage had announced that this magic "Juggernaut" figure was due to have been arrived at much earlier and there had been a moving of the goalposts from degreed and licensed to simply degreed. Not to mention the fact that many of them are software engineers or in some other field that doesn't really qualify them in the way that is suggested.
I did go and listen to Richard Gage twice when he came on his AE911Truth junket to Japan. I got the impression of watching a stage magician sawing a lady in half. I certainly would have been as impressed as most of the audience if I didn't happen to know how the sleight-of-hand trick was performed.
I went there with an assistant professor of chemistry from Osaka University (which is one of the most prestigious universities in Japan). He doesn't believe in 9/11 Truth and tells me that the physics lecturers and engineers there don't either.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 1:50 PM
CheebaCow: "Damn....... I'm agreeing with angry on this one =P"
Hey! Don't let it get you down. I appreciated our previous conversation.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 1:52 PM
"In the case of AA77 that is exactly the case. Yet Cheney waited until the plane was 10 miles away before ordering jets to be scrambled - and then from Langley AFB in Virginia rather than the nearby Andrews AFB in Washington, so were still over a hundred miles short of their target when AA77 hit the Pentagon."
Was Andrews an "alert" site, MJ?
I only ask because the 9/11 Commission Report which you have read and David Ray Griffin has written a book about suggests that Andrews didn't have fighters on standby unlike Langley and Otis.
Besides the hijacking of AA77 didn't apparently get reported to the military early enough.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 1:56 PM
@MJ Actually not quite right. The WTC windows were hermetically sealed and could not be opened. When a building like this collapses air trapped within the structure has to go somewhere. In the case of the WTC towers it blew out from breaking windows as the floors above collapsed. It's called compression. This accounts for the gusts of air mixed with dust and debris seen as the towers collapsed. Admittedly, to the untrained eye they would look like some type of explosion.
As for the thermite charges, that is plain daft. Anyone with the faintest knowledge of modern day explosives would know you don't try to bring down a structure with thermite.
Good point though, but not realistic.
@Vronsky. As a Scotsman, I have an inborn belief in Nessie, but for the rest I keep an open mind.
Posted by: Frazer at January 28, 2010 2:00 PM
Bert: "There are only therefore 3 cases of buildings which have _totally_ collapsed as a result of fire damage. These 3 cases occurred on 11th September 2001: WTC1, WTC2 & WTC7."
You seem to forget the plane collisions in the case of WTC1 and WTC2.
You also seem to forget some other important sciency things:
Fire burns.
Fire can burn buildings.
Fire can burn buildings quicker if they have no fireproofing or their fireproofing is compromised.
Fire can burn buildings quicker if their fireproofing is compromised thanks to debris from a 110-story burning skyscraper falling on top of it and its sprinler system failing to work and allowed to burn for seven hours while the fire department is looking around in the rubble of WTC1 and WTC2 for their comrades.
By the way, just because a steel-framed skyscraper hadn't fallen down due mainly to fire damage didn't mean it could not.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 2:02 PM
Glen.
Finally getting around to responding to your response to my post on 9/11 on the murdered Dr Kelly thread.
I don't believe the 5 points I listed are straw men, they are as much as I could remember of the arguments of people who are suspicious that 9/11 was an inside job. Can't remember exactly where I came across the arguments, as I do a lot of internet browsing.
1/ That the twin towers collapsed neatly in their own footprints as if in a perfectly done controlled demolition;
Your answer: Limit the damage, given how much it would be already.
My answer: Why bother trying to limit the damage? If you are going to stage a terrorist event, false flag or otherwise the more damage the better. If chunks of the building fall in the street or on adjacent buildings that is great. In any case suppose that the hypothetical person who planted explosives on the same level that was coincidentally hit by an aeroplane did want to minimize the damage, then why not omit the explosives
and let the building remain standing after the fire caused by the coincidentally impacting air liner had burned out.
I am sure that everyone in the world has seen the video of each tower collapsing as have I many times. If you look at these videos you will notice that the collapse of each tower began at one of the floors affected by the aircraft impact and fire. One has to ask, how did the people planting the explosives know at what levels in the buildings the partly trained pilots were going to crash the planes.
The twin towers were constructed with most of the strength around the periphery so that there were no or very few internal columns to break up the floor space. My intuition and knowledge of physics tells me that as soon as the first vertical girder began to buckle it would transfer extra load to the girders nearest it which would then begin to buckle and this load transfer would very quickly run around the periphery of the building on that floor. Once a girder buckles that is it for its effectiveness in supporting anything above it. The whole N upper floors above the point of failure (I am not sure what the number N was and it was different for the North and South towers) would then fall at the rate of 1 earth gravity, ie. 980cm /sec/sec. After falling the height of one floor they would impact the floor below with a hammer blow. The impulsive force on the girders supporting the floor below would be many times the force that these normally support and would buckle them and so on.
2/ That building 7 which was not hit also collapsed;
My answer: It was close enough to be set on fire.
Your answer: Lots of steel-framed buildings have caught on fire. Yet this one came down in near freefall speed, in a perfect demolition. Never happened before or after that day. You could also have added the random damage from the twin towers, but building 3 was far more badly damaged but didn't spontaneously collapse.
My response.The sprinklers in Building 7 were not working and so the fire burned on for much longer than it would have normally. In a normal fire sprinklers and fire fighters would have had an effect long before the fire would have had time to weaken the structure. I believe that building 7 also had most of its strength around the periphery so the same transfer of load from girder to adjacent girder around the periphery as with buildings 1 and 2 would have caused the neat implosion. Craig's suggestion that maybe some of the building contractors had skimped on construction is plausible.
3/ That there was nothing left of the large aeroplane that hit the Pentagon and that the debris resembled that of a smaller plane.
My answer: When a big aeroplane hits a bigger building there is not going to be much left of the plane. Planes are rather fragile things really compared to buildings.
Your answer: You should always expect to see lots of wreckage (it would not vapourise), seats, luggage, and dead passengers. We saw a few randomly strewn little bits of metal. Same with the Pennsylvania crash. Strange too that the fragile plane - your term - punched such a hole through reinforced concrete like that. Was the nosecone solid iron, maybe?
My response. Most of the aircraft would have penetrated the Pentagon and the aircraft debris would be intermixed with the building debris. Most aircraft that hit the ground do not intersect buildings, therefore the aircraft does not get broken into small chunks, an aircraft hitting a building is a different matter. Even seats and passengers would have splattered by impact with the building. You are under the impression that the fragile aircraft structure could not penetrate the stronger building structure. You are under the wrong impression the relevant factors are momentum = mass X velocity and energy equal 0.5 Mass X Velocity Squared. A Boeing 757, a 100 tonne airliner impacting at 300kph has a lot of mass and a lot of energy. Even 100 tones of water hitting at 300 kilometeres per hour would have done the same amount of damage to the building.
In the case of the WTC the aircraft were Boeing 767s whose takeoff weights exceed 200 tonnes.
A lot of people point to the small size of the engine fan visible in the Pentagon debris and suggest that it came from a smaller remote controlled Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. I believe most airliners contain a small gas turbine in the tail to generate power while on the ground and the main engines are off. This small fan disc is in my opinion from that tail generator which may have been far enough back to for some of its parts to survive as recognizable.
4/ That it was physically impossible to fly an aeroplane into the Pentagon after clearing some obstacles that were in the way and were not damaged;
My answer: It might not be easy to do while respecting the control limits of the plane, but these guys did not need the plane afterwards and would not care if the overstrained it by suddenly initiating a steep dive after clearing the obstacle.
Your answer: "It might not be easy" - you don't say! Ask any real pilot just how probable it is a guy barely competent to fly a 1-engined Cessna pulled that stunt off. Try this: http://pilotsfor911truth.org/pentagon.html
I find it hard to take your answer seriously, in all fairness. I can just imagine the planning:
Ahmed: It'll never take that kind of maneuver, even if we have a skilled enough pilot! In the name of the Prophet, please - just crash the thing into the centre of the Pentagon, that will do surely!
B. Laden: No. It must hit that precise point, and the plane might be all knackered the moment after it's finished performing that tremendous stunt, but we don't care about that! Ha ha ha ha ha!
My response. Experiment trumps theory. Some people say that it was impossible to hit the Pentagon with a Boeing 757 after clearing certain obstacles, that is what theory says but obviously something pretty big hit the Pentagon without hitting the earlier obstacles and if it was not the flight 777 a Boeing 757 then what the hell was it and where the inferno is flight 777 and its passengers?
5/ That burning jet fuel is not hot enough to melt steel and cause a steel building to collapse.
My answer: Untreated steel might not melt, but it would lose the necessary strength (paraphrasing quite a bit).
Your answer: Many thousands of tons of interconnected steel acts as an enormous heatsink. Most of the fuel burned off in the first few seconds (in the case of the second crash, outside of the building in a huge fireball). A dirty flame will not produce enough heat to appreciably weaken even a small amount of detached steel, let alone bring a vast structure up to the temperatures required to initiate a collapse.
Planes are not fueled to capacity when taking domestic flights, that would be a huge weight burden. They take not much more than they need, plus a reasonable safety margin.
My response.
Most of the fuel would not have burned off in the first few seconds. Combustion requires two things, fuel and oxygen and the initial flare was limited by the amount of oxygen available. If all the fuel did burn in one or two seconds that would have been a colossal fire ball equivalent to a fuel air bomb or 30 or 40 tonnes of TNT. Only a small amount that could vaporise burned in the first few seconds, the rest dripped through the broken floors of the tower pooling on those floors that did not break and acting as kindling to ignite everything combustible that was already in the building.
the maximum fuel capacity of a Boeing 767 200 is 90,000 litres. Lets assume it was only carrying 12,000 litres this would still be ten tonnes of fuel.
As for the heat sink idea it would not be as effective as you think. Girders are long and thin and heat does not propagate that well along long thin things. The fire in any case went on long enough to overload any theoretical heat sink.
My conclusion "In my view before 9/11, anyone designing a building capable of withstanding the impact of a jet liner would have been crazy, I think the expectation that the WTC towers should have remained standing is crazy."
Your answer: As it happens, the designers allowed for _multiple crashes_ of the heaviest airliners at that time. Don't forget the Empire State Building was hit by a B-25 bomber and is still standing.
Like it or not, the case it not cut and dried, and anyone who calls doubters/ sceptics "crazy" for not finding the Official Story obvious has clearly not looked into it that hard.
My response.
Air liners are getting bigger and faster. If you design a building to resist the impact of the biggest airliner available today there is no guarantee that it will resist the impact of the biggest aircraft of ten years in the future. Maximum takeoff weight of a Boeing 707 is about 100 tonnes that of a Boeing 767-200 is more than 200 tonnes, that of a 747-400 is over 400 tonnes and that of an Airbus A380 is 560 tonnes.
Posted by: Carlyle Moulton at January 28, 2010 2:06 PM
Recently i saw the film Avatar, well worth the money in my view... however i've noticed in USA produced films that the weaponry depicted even in stories way off into the future (Avatar is based in 2154) that the hand weapons used are still based on the bullets and guns system available in the 20th century. It may be that modern day Americans like this image (to which they can relate) and so they continue to use them when you would have expected in another 140 years or so that much more sophisticated weapons systems would have been invented.
My point in all this in relation to the discussion on collapsing buildings is we are assuming that only conventional technology was used to demolish them whereas for all we know the Yanks may have devloped much more impressive demolition systems than is generally known about.
There are many black projects researching all sorts of advanced applications of physics and being good blood thirsty americans, many of them will be linked to warfare, have no doubt of that !
Posted by: Orwell at January 28, 2010 2:11 PM
"The inquiries Act" - 2005
Opening criticized by the Law Society of England and Amnesty International.
In America it has been described by a Senator as 'the public inquiries cover-up bill!'
Perhaps this needs to be explored before 9/11 and 7/7? (Not meant to be a ludicrous diversion)
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 28, 2010 2:14 PM
MJ
I haven't ever heard of a 767 aeroplane crashing into a skyscraper. I know that a bomber crashed into the empire states building in the war but it was a 10 ton aircraft that had significantly reduced it's speed to avoid two other skyscrapers. It caused a lot of damage but didn't collapse the building.
However, a 767 aeroplane is not 10 ton or even the 50 to 80 tonnes that i estimated before, it is 200 tonnes. If you were to add 200 tonnes to the top of a skyscraper it would most likely not be able to take such a heavy additional load.
"But that only accounts for the area of the impact, not the whole building"
What if the area of impact extends far into the building? The instability of a large area of structure being taken out by the force of a high speed impact (it didn't swerve to miss another building) it would be entirely possible for the building to collapse.
9/11 was unique as nobody had ever tried intentionally to fly a huge plane into a building before. So you are not going to get much evidence of such instances.
Also the reason no skyscraper has collapsed due to fire ever is that fire fighters have always put out the fire before the structural integrity has been destroyed enough to collapse the building but in theory it is perfectly plausable for a fire to destroy a building. Steel and concrete are not impervious to fire that is why they are fire protected and even that can only do so for a certain length of time.
If I can't give you example because there aren't any that is not a bad thing. All I can tell you is what is technically possible based my knowledge of design and structure. From that I can see that it is possible for a plane that size and weight to take out one of the twin towers.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at January 28, 2010 2:14 PM
Glen.
In my previous post I forgot to include the weight of the B25 that hit the Empire state building.
The weight of a B25 Mitchell Bomber is about 15 tonnes and it is a lot slower than a jet liner.
Posted by: Carlyle Moulton at January 28, 2010 2:14 PM
"is this a slippery slope...""Probably."
Tim G.'s right too, re. deserving applause for trying to find a good way through, I'm sorry if I'm sounding unduly negative, the (comparative) peace is indeed very welcome. I think my main point is to be wary of solutions that involve you having to shoulder the load of other peoples' pisstaking. On the other hand, the only real long-term solution (people learn to spot troublemaking and deal with it) isn't quick enough ... I don't have any solutions to sell, i just hate to see it so defenceless. If I can help, let me know.
Oh, and Tim G - 'Irate Noodle' is nice. I'm fluent in Shite, myself.
Silly me, I forgot Roswell.
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 28, 2010 2:18 PM
"Recently i saw the film Avatar..."
Have you been listening to Mahathir?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 2:24 PM
Craig, this post is an excercise in futility. Give your readership a place to discuss something you feel isn't relevant in other threads? (with the threat of post deletion if this topic is brought up anywhere else?)
Who needs to discuss 9/11? - the time for discussion is over. You either believe 19 Arab hijackers did it, or you believe it was a covert operation by various 'security' services working together...
Believe what you will, I've made up my mind. I can't be arsed trying to convince others to see the world through my eyes. In fact, I wouldn't blame them for not trying. It's a fucked up. Everything Craig writes confirms this (present post excepted)
Posted by: Edo at January 28, 2010 2:27 PM
Frazier,
"Yes there were puffs of air exiting sides of the building as it collapses. This is air compression caused by the buildings internal collapse and air bieng forced out of it through lift shafts,stairwells etcIf explosives were used, any demolition expert would have spotted it. Mind you, I keep an open mind on the subject."
Angrysoba and I have had some extended exchanges on this subject in the past, but haven't managed to agree yet. I will say this: if anyone can convince me that the "squib" explosions at the WTC were actually caused by air compression, I would happily drop all my other objections to the idea that 9/11 was an outside job and go back to attacking Monsanto.
The reasons why I haven't been able to accept the air compression hypothesis at WTC 1 & 2 is that squibs are observed emerging 10 or 15 stories below the collapse front. Air is notorious for eqilibriating (quickly reaching the same pressure throughout a single enclosed space), and to increase its pressure enough to break windows would require a lot of compression. (You can't usually smash a window just by slamming the door of a room.) The WTC buildings were essentially partition free, with each floor forming a single air space and the elevator shafts, stairwells and air conditioning shafts providing conduits for air to move downwards from the collapse zone, but with not nearly enough cross-sectional area to allow enough air in to raise the pressure high enough and fast enough to smash windows 10 or 15 floors below the collapse front.
Further, as the building was collapsing, the walls and windows of the collapsing section were being destroyed, which provided a much larger cross-sectional area for the air of a collaping floor to escape straight out into the sky above Manhatten. Also, the outside pressure would have been lower than the pressure in the building below the collapse front, so I don't see how sufficient air compression to smash windows 15 stories down could have occured. Imagine compressing a syringe that doesn't have a good seal around the plunger: the air will not compresss very much if it has plenty of opportunity to leak out of the sides. You can try this with a syringe full of water.To get it to come out of the needle, you need to have the rest of the syringe well sealed.
And even if the pressure inside the lower part of the building could be made to rise — what's the word? — "explosively", it would be likely to blow out a whole floor of windows simultaneously - not just blowing one window and releasing a jet of gas and debris that has so much kinetic energy that it would, if it was the result of air compression on a given floor, have blown out most or all of the windows.
Conversely, if we assume a modest squib placed close to a window, there is no problem visualizing why only one window popped. That's a much more plausible model, all other things being equal.
And finally, I saw a video a couple of weeks ago that seems to show a "squib" going off at one of the corners of the North Tower, where there was no window.
That's why I'm unable to accept the no-explosives theory at present. I am quite willing to be convinced, and as you and your colleagues know a thing or two about bangs and blasts, you might be just the people to work out this puzzle so the rest of us can understand it.
But Angrysoba's method, which consisted of calling Richard Gage a Chacerian fraud, David Ray Griffin a Cleudo player, and Steve Jones a Mormon, followed by some of his favorite YouTube videos, didn't do it for me. Wickedly entertaining though it was, It didn't address the central issue for me of how could a single window, 15 floors below the blast wave, pop out with explosive force, while all the other windows on the same floor and the floors above and below it remained unaffected? Could a large, general, non-specific air blast do that? I think it more likely that a small, powerful, localized explosion was the cause.
Soba,
"I believe 2+2=4. Do you agree?"
That depends on how you define "believe", "agree", "+" and "=".
It also depends in what base you are adding up in and what values you are attributing to the numerals in question.
So there's plenty of scope for differences of opinion.
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 28, 2010 2:28 PM
Chris,
I mentioned that the buildings were designed to withstand the weight of a 707 (similar take-off weight to a 767) by a 'net' concept and loading force calculations. As a design engineer (in a different field) one always (with good design) finds a failure constant and then applies an over-load factor or safety margin. Now whether the design included a full fuel load is under debate. I have a full set of blueprints for the one of the towers and the loading constants and I will report back on the strength of the building here if desired. I am sure this exercise has been done before by professionals and is available somewhere on the www?
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 28, 2010 2:29 PM
to Angrysoba, just seems odd to me that normal procedures to deal with planes in USA civil airspace that go off course or fail to respond to radio calls weren't followed in the same way as they were before the 11th Sept 2001 and were allowed to go where they wanted without interception. Just seems odd... but so does three buildings falling down on the same day in what appears to be a controlled demolition. Just odd that's all...
Posted by: Orwell at January 28, 2010 2:31 PM
- and of course to the lay-man the buildings stood for about an hour before falling - so good design saved many lives.
I am not convinced by the temperature curves involved that the steel melted or even sagged because the fuel burned off very quickly and the black smoke gave some indication of temperature.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 28, 2010 2:37 PM
"to Angrysoba, just seems odd to me that normal procedures to deal with planes in USA civil airspace that go off course or fail to respond to radio calls weren't followed in the same way as they were before the 11th Sept 2001 and were allowed to go where they wanted without interception."
Well, it needs to be established what normal procedures were for dealing with four hijackings at about the same time in which the hijackers switched off the transponders and flew the planes themselves.
I don't believe there were normal procedures for that situation.
"but so does three buildings falling down on the same day in what appears to be a controlled demolition"
Except they don't appear to be controlled demolitions because we didn't hear any detonations of explosives. Or see any flashes of explosives. Nor has any controlled demolition I have ever seen look like the Twin Towers collapses.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 2:38 PM
"That depends on how you define "believe", "agree", "+" and "=".
It also depends in what base you are adding up in and what values you are attributing to the numerals in question.
So there's plenty of scope for differences of opinion."
I agree with you.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 2:39 PM
"I know that a bomber crashed into the empire states building in the war but it was a 10 ton aircraft that had significantly reduced it's speed to avoid two other skyscrapers"
There again, the Empire State is a small and weaker building than WTC.
"9/11 was unique as nobody had ever tried intentionally to fly a huge plane into a building before"
Does it matter whether the impact is intentional or accidental?
"Also the reason no skyscraper has collapsed due to fire ever is that fire fighters have always put out the fire before the structural integrity has been destroyed"
Not true. Sometimes they are left to burn themselves out because they are too dangerous. A good example is the tower block in Madrid in 2005, which burned uncontrollably for 24 hours. The whole building was like a huge torch. But it didn't collapse. Only the top 6 storeys gave way.
"Steel and concrete are not impervious to fire that is why they are fire protected and even that can only do so for a certain length of time".
The Madrid tower burned for over 24 hours without collapsing. WTC2 collapsed less than one hour after impact (WTC1 about 90 mins). Any views on that?
"If I can't give you example because there aren't any that is not a bad thing"
But it would help your case enormously.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 2:41 PM
To Mr Angry, you must be making a mint today from your sponsors, is Criag getting a kick-back from you for putting this post up?
Posted by: Orwell at January 28, 2010 2:42 PM
"To Mr Angry, you must be making a mint today from your sponsors, is Criag getting a kick-back from you for putting this post up?"
If only. Who's paying you by the way?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 2:43 PM
"The Madrid tower burned for over 24 hours without collapsing. WTC2 collapsed less than one hour after impact (WTC1 about 90 mins). Any views on that?"
Yes, was the Madrid Tower fireproofed and did a 767 fly into it at 500 mph?
Thankyou.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 2:44 PM
The Inquiries Act 2005
More on this insidiuos legislation, passed into law 1 month before the 7/7 attrocities.
More here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yk2fmhv
The same legislation will be used to undertake the inquests (NONE OF WHICH HAVE BEEN CONCLUDED YET) into the 56 deaths of July 7th 2005.
The Inquiries Act 2005 will allow secret inquests under goverment selected (privvy councillor) high court judges & inquests without family members or/or juries present.
Posted by: standaman at January 28, 2010 2:46 PM
MJ,
I have shown this video of a steel-framed building collapsing due to fire before. The fire doesn't look like its blazing too much but the burning section does collapse and crush down to the floor as far as I can make out.
It also comes with "squibs"!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ff1_1210707903
No one was harmed in the making of this video.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 2:48 PM
Carlyle,
"My response. Most of the aircraft would have penetrated the Pentagon and the aircraft debris would be intermixed with the building debris. Most aircraft that hit the ground do not intersect buildings, therefore the aircraft does not get broken into small chunks, an aircraft hitting a building is a different matter."
Then why have we not recovered most of the structure of United Airlines Flight 93 that allegedly crashed on soft ground in Shanksville, Penn on 9/11? We got plenty of bits of Pan Am fight 103, which blew up over Lockerbiem Scotland and came down over a wide area. We got almost the entire skeleton of TWA flight 800, which went into the Atlantic and had to be picked up by divers in small pieces dotting several square miles of sea bed. Where's the bits and pieces of UA Flight 93? Enquiring minds want to know. Defenders of the official theory, put up or shut up.
No, really. If you don't produce at least this much of the Flight 93 airplane....
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060708/060708_TWA10th_hmed_7p.hlarge.jpg
... and you still want to go on believing the official story, then I'm afraid it's T-shirt time. We're going to have to start calling you what you are, 9-11 Reality Deniers.
Posted by: TIm Groves at January 28, 2010 2:50 PM
@Tim An interesting point and I think I have seen the same 'squib' video myself. It is my opinion that as the floors collapsed, the entire building was twisting and shuddering. What you may have thought was an explosion was probably the reinforced concrete fracturing under tremendous force and blowing out at the structural points under force. I looked again at the video and no way is that some type of controlled detonation. You can see the same type of thing happen when large buildings are demolished, such as that casino they blew up in Vegas some years ago. It is a pretty common phenomenon if you collapse a structure floor by floor. With all the debris flying around as well it is easy to misinterpretate. Again I do though keep an open mind.
The squib theory is great, but the 'explosion' is far too small to do any significant damage to the structure. To make a building collapse like the WTC did with explosives, you would have to use enough, that the effects would be clearly visible to anyone watching,eg windows blown out etc. If I were to do it, I would place charges at the structural strongpoints. For a building that size I would place 2kg at each point, and believe me that makes a significant blast and you would see it a mile away.
Posted by: Frazer at January 28, 2010 2:50 PM
"Yes, was the Madrid Tower fireproofed and did a 767 fly into it at 500 mph?"
According to your beloved NIST report it was the heat of the fires that did it. Kerosene heating huge steel sections so they give way, within an hour. I was hoping you were going to tell me about the conductive qualities of steel.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 2:51 PM
Cui Bono.
"Cui Bono" does not always tell you who to suspect for a particular crime because it is not who actually benefits but who thinks perhaps wrongly that they might benefit or who has an agenda that they think perhaps incorrectly will be advanced by the action.
When events like 9/11 occur we try to get from the visible facts to the underlying facts. For any set of visible facts one can postulate multiple sets of underlying facts that could be the cause.
In the case of the 9/11 airlinerings they advanced the agendas of both Osama Bin Laden and George W Bush and the neo-cons. There are several possible sets of underlying facts which could explain it:-
1/ People working for Osama Bin Laden did it on their own with no collusion by the US government.
2/ People working for Osama Bin Laden did it but elements of the US government had spies in Bin Laden's organization and knew about it but did nothing to stop it;
3/ A US mole in Osama's organization suggested the idea to Osama.
4/ George W Bush and Osama Bin Laden got together and agreed that they both wanted war in the middle east and George suggested to Osama that if he could arrange for his guys to hijack airliners and fly them into some tall buildings that would give George a pretext to start their war.
In my opinion the probabilities of scenario 4 is low but it is still above zero. The first three scenarios have higher probabilities.
Posted by: Carlyle Moulton at January 28, 2010 2:51 PM
The Madrid Tower was of reinforced concrete construction - the WTC towers were primarily steel construction. WTC 1&2 were designed for the forces resulting from aircraft collision. The WTC 1&2 towers were designed to withstand as a whole the forces caused by the horizontal impact of a large commercial aircraft of the time, a Boeing 707.
NIST struggled to explain the collapse mechanisms & took over 8 years to produce a final report, which has been debunked by sceptics, as tNIST fall equations assume that freefall of the buildings had to take place at some point during the collapse.
Just wait till people start mentioning that there were no planes (only missiles) involved on 911.
The Bigger the Lie.......
Posted by: PeteG at January 28, 2010 2:56 PM
"As for the thermite charges, that is plain daft. Anyone with the faintest knowledge of modern day explosives would know you don't try to bring down a structure with thermite".
It does happen, if only rarely. It's occasionally used when it is necessary to bring down a very high building neatly into its own footprint to avoid damaging adjacent buildings.
Only a handful of companies have the expertise to do it. One of those is Controlled Demolition Inc. As luck would have it they turned up in NY on the evening of September 10 and assumed responsibility for the clear up operation the next day. It is they who ensured most of the steel was removed and chopped up before accident investigators could get there hands on it.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 2:58 PM
Tim Groves: "But Angrysoba's method, which consisted of calling Richard Gage a Chacerian fraud, David Ray Griffin a Cleudo player, and Steve Jones a Mormon"
Yes, I think Richard Gage is a Chaucerian fraud. He's very personable and all that. Ironically he's also good at fleecing those who like to call others "sheeple" but I'm sure those thousands of dollars raised on FOIAs won't be wasted.
David Ray Griffin isn't just any old Cluedo player but one who declares at the beginnig of the game that it was Colonel Mustard, in the basement with the thermite and no matter what transpires throughout the game he will remain convinced and can't be swayed whatever evidence to the contrary exists. Instead he'll muse on the significance of the coffee stains left from a previous game or the fact that Mrs White bears a striking resemblance to Dick Cheney.
As for Steven Jones, I don't believe his Mormonism is an issue. After all the good folks at the structural engineering department and the physics department of Brigham Young University find Jones to be just a little too attracted to outrageous ideas which could just make or break him. I feel a bit sorry for him and think he's not a mean-spirited person.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 3:01 PM
Tim Groves.
Well I accept the designation of 9/11 reality denier in your estimation.
However I make up for it by believing that the murders of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King were not done by lone nutters but by powerful interests in the US possibly including agencies of the US government. I also believe global warming really is happening and that there really is a UFO phenomenon though it is too early to jump to the conclusion that people are seeing spaceships from other planets. Such an explanation may not be weird enough.
Posted by: Carlyle Moulton at January 28, 2010 3:01 PM
To begin with the FBI have admitted that they have no evidence linking Osama to 9/11.
In 1989 a report stated that due to galvanic corrosion WTC 1+2 needed to be demolished. Also the towers were full of asbestos. The cost of demolition was a prohibitive $5 billion. After fellow tribal members went to work and forced the NYPA to privatize the WTC complex, Larry Silverstein picked up the lease for $146 million annual rent. He put down a $15 million deposit, slapped terrorist insurance on the complex and picked up $3.5 billion in insurance.
Flight 11. Mohammed Atta catches a connecting flight from Portland to Boston where he later hijacks Flight 11. Must be the first hijacker in history to catch a connecting flight to the one he intends to hijack..
Flight 175. A news reporter, its on youtube, describes 175 has having no windows and looking like a cargo plane.
Flight 93. On board 93 was an American football team, they be big bad guys. And yet they are cowed into submission by a couple of five foot nothing Arabs wielding box cutters. Sure. At the crash site in Shanksville when asked by reporters where all the plane wreckage was, the local Sheriff replied that the plane crashed vertically into the ground and was buried below the 15 by 25 foot crater. OK. Apparently 95% of the wreckage was recovered and is in storage. But nobody is saying where.
Flight 77. The data stream from the flight data recorder (FDR) for American Airlines flight 77 shows that the cockpit door never opened during the entire 90 minute flight. The data was provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which has refused to comment.
Also there are witnesses to an explosion in the Pentagon. While 77 is said to have crashed into the Pentagon at 0836, many clocks in the building stopped at 0832. The department that suffered the most damage was the Army Accounting dept. It was this department which was investigating the disappearance of $2.5 trillion from Pentagon accounts when the comptroller of accounts was a tribal member by the name of Rabbi Dov Zakheim. Thereafter the investigation ceased.
And where is the footage from the 86 cameras around the Pentagon.
WTC7. When the clips of the collapse of WTC7 started to appear on youtube I contacted two of the few men in the UK licensed to use explosives in demolition. After they viewed these clips they confided to me that "they would have been proud of that one".
The company in charge of security at Newark and Boston on 9/11 was the same company that ran security at Orly where shoebomber Richard Reid boarded his flight. It is the same company that runs security at Schipol where the infamous croch bomber boarded his flight. And it is the same company that ran security for London transport on 7/7. The companies name is ICTS, and it is Israeli.
If it looks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck and if it walks like a duck, it aint no chicken.
Mr. Murray poses the question as to how thousands would remain silent if there was a conspiracy other than that involving dreaded Muslim terrorists. The current hoax regarding man made climate change is a good example of how thousands are involved in propagating a lie.
Millions of Germans were killed or left to die after WW2. How many people have heard of that.
For over 60 years the Palestinian has been portrayed as the terrorist and the Jew the victim. How many thousands have been in involved in prolonging that lie.
When a foreign government controls many of the world's governments, the UK has been occupied territory since Oliver Cromwell became the paid servant of a Dutch Jewish banker by the name of Menassah ben Israel, and controls most of the world's media then the promoting of a lie is really no problem. BTW, Churchill's mother was Jewish.
I'm surprised that Mr. Murray has to even ask the question.
Posted by: neil turner at January 28, 2010 3:06 PM
"According to your beloved NIST report it was the heat of the fires that did it. Kerosene heating huge steel sections so they give way, within an hour. I was hoping you were going to tell me about the conductive qualities of steel."
I'm not in love with NIST, but I do believe they mentioned that the fireproofing was knocked off by the impacts, which themselves weakened the structure.
I showed you video before of the steel apparently buckling and giving way. In the off-chance you watch it this time I'll repost it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rbfLLp7rBI&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 3:08 PM
Neil Turner, you have just produced a bone fide example of what I believe is known as a Gish Gallop.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 3:14 PM
Tim Groves.
When the cause of an air crash is unknown, great care is taken to recover as much as possible of the debris to determine the cause. In the case of the four aircraft hijacked on 9/11 the cause is already known, the people at the controls flew them into buildings. With the one that crashed in Pennsylvania the only question is whether the hijacker deliberately crashed it before the rebellious passengers and crew broke into the cockpit or whether he was simply distracted or whether the passengers managed to overpower the last high-jacker in the cockpit and the crash occurred as or after they were doing that?
Posted by: Carlyle Moulton at January 28, 2010 3:14 PM
Angry,
How does this failed demolition in Hackney fit in with your theories?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsePUn5-88c&feature=fvsr
And this one in Cankiri?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7z-FQUrfhc&NR=1
Or this epic fail in Goodnessknows where?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiNrzmbdC1Q&feature=related
What do these three all have in common that sets them apart from the WTC collapses? (Apart from the fact that we know these were demilitions and failed ones at that.)
(Sorry, I don't know how to put in links on this site.)
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 28, 2010 3:17 PM
"The Madrid tower was a completely different structure and smaller scale to the twin towers"
Therefore weaker.
"It was mainly concrete"
Concrete and steel of course.
"There was steel at the top and guess what happened it, it collapsed!"
After 24 hours, not 1 hour.
"the circumstances to 9/11 were completely unique"
So unique that the laws of physics were suspended for a day? Please tell us about the conductive qualities of steel and how they were suspended for one day only.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 3:18 PM
...normally when an aircraft hits the ground there is considerable damage in the immediate area, any pictures of such crashes will show that.
In the Pennsylvania incident the wreckage was spread over a trail lasting many miles, more consistent with damage caused by a bomb or missile hit. It would appear the aircraft broke up in flight and not when it hit the ground.
The "cospiracy theorists" argue this plane was taken out because the passengers had taken control of it and captured the hijackers. Of course the plan was that they would be killed outright and not suffer any future interrogation or trial where the truth might emerge. Its called burying the evidence...
Posted by: Orwell at January 28, 2010 3:22 PM
Carlyle,
"When the cause of an air crash is unknown, great care is taken to recover as much as possible of the debris to determine the cause. In the case of the four aircraft hijacked on 9/11 the cause is already known, the people at the controls flew them into buildings."
That is circular reasoning. We do not know the cause of the crash of Flight 93. But even if we did, the authorities would still be legally obliged to do a thorough investigation as it was allegedly both an air crash and a mass murder incident. Are you seriously suggesting it was not necessary to collect the remains of Flight 93 and try to piece together what happened to it?
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 28, 2010 3:24 PM
"In the Pennsylvania incident the wreckage was spread over a trail lasting many miles, more consistent with damage caused by a bomb or missile hit. It would appear the aircraft broke up in flight and not when it hit the ground."
You need to upgrade your software to Troof 3.0. You're still on stuff that Popular Mechanics debunked.
Scattered debris was found in places which were a few miles BY ROAD but just over the brow of a hill as the debris flies.
"The "cospiracy theorists" argue this plane was taken out because the passengers had taken control of it and captured the hijackers. Of course the plan was that they would be killed outright and not suffer any future interrogation or trial where the truth might emerge. Its called burying the evidence..."
That sounds silly and I'm sure there are number of Truthers shaking their heads and saying, "Don't look at me guv!" right now.
You didn't tell me who was paying you by the way.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 3:28 PM
If anyone wants to find out the truth about anything, that may conflict with their core beliefs, then they have to make the effort to find it for themselves.
There is very strong in-built resistance to this, because the very foundations of your self image of the world is liable to be swept away.
People naturally have trust in their government, in a relationship somewhat similar to a child and a parent.
Its like the wife of a loving husband and father, denying that he could possibly be the local serial killer. He keeps coming home late at night covered in blood, and says to his wife, he's been helping his mate down the local butchers shop. His wife knows, that the local butchers shop closed down years ago, so she assumes he must have been working in Sainsbury's. She doesn't interrogate him, because the truth is too painful. The Son cowers in his bedroom, worrying who will be his next victim.
There is overwhelming evidence that all 3 towers were brought down by controlled demolition. You simply need to examine it objectively, and try and remember the very basic physics you should have stayed awake for at school.
Try a Google or Youtube search of something like 9/11 Evidence of Controlled Demolition Physics.
You will get an extremely large number of results including some junk science and disinfo. Some of the junk is extremely professionally done and convincing, but it still doesn't stand up to the basic laws of physics. If you don't have any understanding of those, then you are at a big disadvantage.
You could however look at the detailed photographic evidence, that actually shows people moving and alive, at the very point were the aircraft hit and exploded. You will see some black smoke and some flames, but what you are looking at is an obviously cold fire, that could not possibly be hot enough to melt or even deform steel, because people are alive and looking out threw the hole hoping to be rescued.
But the chances are, like the Roman Catholic Priest who's very existence both now and after death is dependent on his faith, he will not go anywhere near deep historical research, that will blatantly challenge his faith with facts. The facts are too dangerous and best ignored.
What is indisputable, unless you believe in aliens, 9/11 was done by humans, and it was a very evil act. Whilst Muslims got the blame for it, what exactly would be their motivation? They must have known that the response to such an attack would be the overwhelming destruction of their own culture.
Now try and think objectively which culture has actually exhibited the most tremendous evil. Is it Muslims, or is it Us?
And then think about the actual technical capabilities of the different cultures required to pull off such an event.
If you want links, find them yourself. If you are comfortable believing the official story, then stay with it.
Discovering the truth about 9/11 is like losing your religion. However I have never heard of anyone who once having convinced themselves of all the clear facts, has gone back to believing the official story.
Tony
Posted by: tony_opmoc at January 28, 2010 3:30 PM
Hi All,
I want to ask some questions; not "Just Asking Questions" questions; real questions, because my memory fades or could be imperfect.
I watched live TV coverage for a while on 911, probably BBC. I remember the coverage cutting away at one point, to pictures of children. Where, I ask myself. Gaza? Palestine? The voice-over told me that I was seeing children celebrating the disaster. I couldn't say either way. I saw a few children, quite young, I think, not a dense crowd. I remember one ran left a bit, and then sort of retreated, looking back and smiling at the camera as if looking for approval. The child seemed too young to understand about such an incident.
The pictures alternated with pictures of what the kids were allegedly watching, which was an enormous television. Not the sort of thing you have in your home, but one of the huge things they put above the stage at rock concerts so that people at the back can see what's happening on stage. This enormous screen was set up outdoors, and was showing TV coverage from New York.
I remember thinking this was very odd. I'd seen pictures of Gaza before, the poverty and the destroyed buildings, and I couldn't imagine what one of these huge screens would be doing there; incongruous. And I remember wondering how anyone had noticed these children, and why they'd assumed that the children were celebrating. They just looked like kids mucking about in the street to me, there was only the voice-over to tell me that they were celebrating the destruction. It all seemed a bit artificial, a set-up.
I've looked around the Web to see if I could find a clip of this, but the only clips I've found on the subject show a completely different scene which has no resemblence to my memory.
So my questions are:
does anyone else remember this, and if so, what are your memories?
and
Can you link to a clip to refresh my memory?
I'm not going to sit watching this thread, but I'll be back later to check for answers. All help appreciated.
Posted by: Clark at January 28, 2010 3:30 PM
"When the cause of an air crash is unknown, great care is taken to recover as much as possible of the debris to determine the cause. In the case of the four aircraft hijacked on 9/11 the cause is already known"
Oh dear, this what is known as teleological reasoning ie presupposing what you're supposed to be trying to demonstrate.
The official account of 911 wasn't announced until 48 hours after the event. Of course you retain the wreckage in all instances, whatever theories you might have. The wreckage is kept because it is a valuable source of clues. The wreckage of the Lockerbie plane was kept and sifted through meticulously even though it quickly became obvious it was a terrorist bomb that caused the crash.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 3:34 PM
Frazer,
I appreciate your informed response about the explosives, and I will try to reciprocate by trying to re-open my mind, which I admit has been closed on this subject for sometime.
Carlyle,
The 9/11 reality denier label was made tongue in cheek. I often think it was a wise spokespan for empire who said "we make our own reality."
I'm with you as an JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King lone nutter denialist. And by the way, Angrysoba told me he believes Oswald did JFK on his own.
I belive climate is always changing due to factors far more significant than the CO2 concentration and that the IPCC AGW/climate change gravy train (driven by a former train driving agenda benda named Rajenda, by the way) is the scam of the century. However, we're going to have to do something about our fossil fuel habit regardless.
As for UFOs, I'm with Carl Sagan all the way. But if aliens do come to visit, I hope they aren't going to turn out to be lizards with David Icke haircuts.
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 28, 2010 3:44 PM
"Six miles to the southeast, at New Baltimore, a town of 630 people, Andy Stoe was in his yard Wednesday night when he found two scraps of paper -- one an endorsed check for $698, made out to a San Jose, Calif. man who was not on the passenger list. The other paper was a financial statement, singed around the edges.
In Indian Lake, another crumpled financial statement lay amid thumbnail-size pieces of fabric and charred plastic, scattered across backyards.
On the Lowery farm, it rained financial statements -- enough that Lowery and wife Gerry had a handful in the three one-gallon plastic bags of debris they turned over to investigators.
"They said they found unopened mail," Gerry Lowery said of the mix of state police and FBI searchers who walked almost shoulder-to-shoulder through their fields all day Wednesday and yesterday. "They found a picture, a snapshot of a baby. That just caused goose bumps for me.""
In other words much of the debris that was found was paper which was blown by the wind.
http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20010914scene0914p2.asp
They did find the data recorder and body parts so unless you want to claim they were faked then I am not sure what is left of your United 93 conspiracy.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 3:45 PM
Further to my description above, I also seem to remember that not all of the children seemed to be interested in the big screen, and the ones that were didn't give it their full attention; mostly, they just seemed to be involved in their street game, which was kicking a ball or some stones about, I think.
Posted by: Clark at January 28, 2010 3:46 PM
MJ
Why have you assumed that the Madrid towers were weaker because they were smaller? It wasn't, in fact it was a far stronger design as it had a central solid concrete core which was far more robust than the steel frame of the twin towers.
Also it was not alight for 24 hours it was alight for 18 hours and in fact by 14hours the fire was under control. It wasn't left to burn like you said.
The steel didn't collapse after 24hrs it collapsed after 5 hours.
Again this is a completely different fire as it was started at a single point of a floor and then it spread.
9/11 the fire started throughout a full floor not a single point.
I have to ask the question, are you a structural engineer? The reason why I ask is that you seem to be making a lot of assumption which would lead me to believe that you are not.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at January 28, 2010 3:47 PM
"Oh dear, this what is known as teleological reasoning ie presupposing what you're supposed to be trying to demonstrate."
Actually, MJ, I think it is question-begging. Teleological thinking is mostly about the purpose of something. "What is the reason for this?", "Why does this exist?" etc...
Posted by: angrysoba at January 28, 2010 3:54 PM
Re: Tim Groves:
There are 10 sorts of people:
those who know binary, and those who don't.
Posted by: Clark at January 28, 2010 3:56 PM
Clark,
I think this is the clip you remember
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vOJCQr1Now
From wiki
"Annette Krüger Spitta of the ARD's (German public broadcasting) TV magazine Panorama states that footage not aired shows that the street surrounding the celebration in Jerusalem is quiet. Furthermore, she states that a man in a white T-shirt incited the children and gathered people together for the shot. The Panorama report, dated September 20, 2001, quotes Communications Professor Martin Löffelholz explaining that in the images one sees jubilant Palestinian children and several adults but there is no indication that their pleasure is related to the attack. The woman seen cheering (Nawal Abdel Fatah) stated afterwards that she was offered cake if she celebrated on camera, and was frightened when she saw the pictures on television afterward."
Tony
Posted by: tony_opmoc at January 28, 2010 3:59 PM
Teleological thinking is mostly about the purpose of something. "What is the reason for this?", "Why does this exist?"
It can be, for instance in some of the arguments people make against evolutionary theory. But it has a deeper philosophical meaning than that and I am using it correctly in this case. Indeed, "what is the reason for this?" is the sense in which I'm using here, really.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 4:01 PM
"The steel didn't collapse after 24hrs it collapsed after 5 hours"
5 hours is pretty good. Shame WTC2 didn't hold out for that long. 58 minutes!
"9/11 the fire started throughout a full floor not a single point"
But did not spread. A rather small-scale local fire really.
"are you a structural engineer?"
No, but I've picked up some of the basic principles along the way out of interest in the subject.
I know about the conductive qualities of steel for instance. Do you?
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 4:07 PM
A reply to Chris in Glasgow who said;
"Neil Turner, you have just produced a bone fide example of what I believe is known as a Gish Gallop".
Others would call it truth.
Unfortunately some people are educated beyond their intelligence.
Posted by: neil turner at January 28, 2010 4:10 PM
Vronsky
This is what my margins can't contain:
Before 911 the Muslim world in general(or at least the ones Craig's friends in quilam call Islamists) called the Taliban American agents.
They also used this term to a lesser degree for Uthama bin Ladin.
We believed that the Taliban were created by America to stabilise the country for the pipeline.
The Taliban received all their funding and fuel from Pakistan, as well as their arms. And it wasn't much of a secret that all this was being paid for by America.
During that time Period the Taliban were allowed to collect funds and distribute their newspaper openly in the UK. They were able to travel everywhere to give talks in the UK. We remember senior members of the Taliban going to America to have meetings with senior members of the American administration.
Because we knew how infiltrated both the Taliban and Uthama bin Ladin's entourage were by the CIA, we just called them the CIA.
That was our name for them, and we called their supporters, the supporters of the CIA.
We laughed at them and treated them as a joke.
So to say Bin Ladin did it, would not contradict saying it was an inside Job done by rouge agents. Because we still remember him getting funding and arms from the CIA.
Remembering how infiltrated his Entourage were, remembering that he was completely dependent of the Taliban and the Taliban were completely dependent on Pakistan and the CIA for founding and supplies. Remembering how infiltrated the Arab Mujahideen, the Taliban and Pakistans ISI were by the CIA, really does mean I can't see a contradiction between saying it was an inside Job and a outside Job.
But my personal opinion, which I do not believe is held by anyone else. Is that it wasn't done by Bin Ladin, because he was under the house arrest by the Taliban at the time. They had removed all of his phones so he had no means of communication to direct such a thing. Even if he did have such a means, he was already on watch list because he had admitted attack America in Somalia.
The Taliban has nothing to gain by such an attack, and Uthama had given what is known as a Bayat to Mulla Umar. What this means was Uthama bin Ladin was under a religious obligation to obey Mullah Umar.
What I believe is an Anti-Taliban group could have been responsible. This may have happened with or without the collusion of agent provocateurs. I have reasons for this belief, but my margins can't contain them.
My forum my contain them though?
Posted by: arsalan at January 28, 2010 4:24 PM
I have been fascinated for some years by a short piece of film in Loose Change 2nd Edition. The clip, starting at 34:35, shows the towers after the first plane has hit.
The cameraman, who appears to be using a hand-held camera, keeps the camera focused on the towers, even when there is the roar overhead of the second plane coming in, and a voice is heard, saying what sounds to me like "Ah, oui".
Wouldn't he duck or run, or at least look up, when he is looking at a building that had just had a plane crash into it and he hears another plane roaring in? And is that voice saying "Ah, oui"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yx9NRX37SM
Call me a twoofer, but it seems to me like two French Canadians have been commissioned to capture the moment.
Posted by: hawley_jr at January 28, 2010 4:40 PM
I wasn't going to mention anything about 9/11 again.
Here's a building which burned pretty well, though:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29099142
That's the Beijing's Mandarin Oriental. And don't tell me it stayed intact because some water got sprayed on it, _please_.
Posted by: glenn at January 28, 2010 4:41 PM
hawley_jr wrote: "Call me a twoofer, but it seems to me like two French Canadians have been commissioned to capture the moment."
Are you talking about the Naudet brothers? They're actually French originally. (Why do you think they're Canadians?) They were doing a documentary on the NYPD. What's so odd about that? Happens all the time.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 5:45 PM
hawley_jr, I just looked briefly, and it's not the Naudet brothers, so I was wrong.
Nonetheless, that's some very silly evidence for an inside job!
If no videotape existed, then it's a conspiracy.
If videotapes exist, then it's a conspiracy.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 5:48 PM
Nothing odd about that footage of Bush sitting in the classroom reading billy goats gruff for ten minutes after news of the first crash was very quickly wispered in his ear. -phew- Nothing strange about that scene at all.
Posted by: crab at January 28, 2010 5:51 PM
Everyone take a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQSV3BBtZ4&feature=player_embedded
Why did I post it?
America can not use the excuse of dead Americans to case dead Muslims just as the Zionists can not use the excuse of Dead jews to cause dead Muslims.
Don't let the bastards use their crocodile tears to call for the extermination of millians.
Posted by: arsalan at January 28, 2010 5:56 PM
standaman,
Thanks for picking up on that point,just a thought; I'm hoping Craig spotted that raindrop in a sea of 9/11, needs to be reviewed before the next major public inquiry. 7/7??
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 5:58 PM
"Nothing odd about that footage of Bush sitting in the classroom reading billy goats gruff for ten minutes after news of the first crash was very quickly wispered in his ear. -phew- Nothing strange about that scene at all."
1. The teacher was reading; he wasn't reading. Get it right.
2. If he had known the attacks were coming, the better staging of the response would have been for him to confidently rise to his feet, confidently travel to Camp David (and stay there!) and have some great stills and video of him taking control of the situation.
Posted by: Patrick from Cincinnati at January 28, 2010 5:59 PM
"the better staging of the response would have been for him to confidently rise to his feet,"
Ah yes, too strange to be strange. That covers it nicely :p
But yes, Standaman's note shouldnt get noised out:
>>
passed into law 1 month before the 7/7 attrocities.
The Inquiries Act 2005 will allow secret inquests under goverment selected (privvy councillor) high court judges & inquests without family members or/or juries present.
The same legislation will be used to undertake the inquests (NONE OF WHICH HAVE BEEN CONCLUDED YET) into the 56 deaths of July 7th 2005.
More here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yk2fmhv
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 6:17 PM
1. Of course Bush wasn't reading. He can't read.
2. Bush claimed to have seen the first crash _before_ going into the classroom, commenting that he thought "that's one terrible pilot". The guy whispered into his ear about the _second_ plane, while he was sitting there, pretending to read along.
Now of course, Bush couldn't have seen the plane hit the first tower, nobody did. He wouldn't have even seen about it, because pictures weren't broadcast at the time he went into the school. Bush either knew about it in advance, or he was lying when recalling the event.
Posted by: glenn at January 28, 2010 6:19 PM
Glenn, while you're making things up, why don't you just write that Bush was standing there with a plunger that was wired into the WTC? In your mind, what's the downside to making things up? Nothing.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 6:24 PM
What!!!! You call a plane full of fuel, burning, a small scale fire!!!! Did you see the impact????
I saw the impact and its net result, after the fuel had burned off in the fireball. A small-scale localised fire. Nothing controversial there. We've all seen the pictures.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 6:33 PM
Tim Groves: "Conversely, if we assume a modest squib placed close to a window, there is no problem visualizing why only one window popped."
BWWWAAAHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Why the fuck would your Men in Black place "modest squibs" right by the window?
BWWWAAAHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
The term "squibs" has been amusing me for years. They might be useful in the movie industry to fake bullet penetrations, and have some other small-scale explosive uses, but it would be quite silly for a demolition team (whether ninja or not) to employ squibs to demolish a building. My guess is that the truthers saw the air exiting each floor (as can be predicted and is testable!) and decided that it looked like squibs used in buildings and there you have it.
Btw, there are even larger "explosions" coming out of the windows where there are atrium levels.
Not that anything would talk you out of your religion.
You people give me all sorts of laughs.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 6:47 PM
"I have a csv file from the flight data recorder information recently released for Flight UA 93 which I am analysing"
Interesting. Check to see if the cabin was ever opened. On AA77 it wasn't, apparently.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 6:51 PM
"If anyone can provide additional information on these three aspects I would be very grateful."
Here's your additional information:
19 Arab Muslims did 911
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 6:52 PM
Larry, why not 18 or 20?
Why do you think is was 19?
Arab's and not Afghans?
Are you sure?
So tell Obama to remove his troops from Afghanistan.
Posted by: arsalan at January 28, 2010 6:58 PM
Is that the reason for the Iraq invasion?
After 911 they invaded Afghanistan, and then they realised it was Arabs and not Afghans so decided to invade an Arab country.
Does that mean they will soon invade Saudi and Egypt when they realise their stoy says no Iraqis were involved?
Posted by: Arsalan at January 28, 2010 7:01 PM
19 Arab Muslims did 911
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 7:12 PM
Were you in all four planes to count them?
Posted by: Arsalan at January 28, 2010 7:25 PM
Firstly, its worth pointing out that the official story is a conspiracy theory - it just happens to have official backing. The label 'conspiracy theory' is just a cheap rhetorical device to attack certain views, and more importantly to close down questioning and discussion.
There are lots of holes in the official account. Equally some alternative accounts are bizarre and wholly implausible. They could themselves be just deliberate distractions - trolling if you will.
I agree with Craig, in particular when he says "As with almost all terrorist activity, I do not rule out any point on the whole spectrum of surveillance, penetration and agent provocateur activity by any number of possible actors."
There is no particular reason I can see to doubt that the 19 hijackers were the immediate cause of the destruction of WTC1 and 2, but other people not mentioned in the official theory could still have been involved.
Posted by: Phil at January 28, 2010 7:29 PM
"Were you in all four planes to count them?"
I can count the planets.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 7:38 PM
hmmm planets, pretty Zen.
A psychiatrist freind of mine told me it would take years of expensive pyscotherapy to demolish any true believers conviction in the Magic Arab theory ... or a suitably glamourised History Channel documentary.
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 7:52 PM
nips, that was mue
Posted by: crabiatrist at January 28, 2010 7:54 PM
Tony_opmoc,
thanks for your post at January 28, 2010 3:59 PM, but that's not the clip that I remember.
Posted by: Clark at January 28, 2010 7:56 PM
Maybe Craig thinks he will lose credibility by standing up for 9/11 truth? Maybe he does believe it was an inside job? If he does imagine a loss of stature, then I think he is wrong. Just some thoughts...
Posted by: Jaded. at January 28, 2010 8:02 PM
19-19-19-19-19-19-Na-na-na-na-na-nineteen! Remember that song? Why is it never played these days? The average age of a GI in the Vietnam War. Because of the lack of an overt draft in the USA, the average age of US soldiers in Afghanistan is 30. Perhaps there should be a draft again.
S-s-s-s-s-sev-seve-seven-seventy-seventy-70-70-70-70-70- is the number of countries the USA has invaded since the end of WW2.
S-s-s-s-s-sev-seve-seven-seventy-seventy-70-70-70-70-70-is the number of countries in the world in which US soldiers are stationed.
You wanna count the planets? The stars? You wanna gaze at the constellations, up there in the black sky? I have a better idea. Count the body-bags instead.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at January 28, 2010 8:10 PM
"History shows beyond doubt that this lot had the motive,the form and the means to carry out 9/11".
Steelback: I'm not saying you're wrong but having sifted through the evidence I just don't see clear proof of Israeli involvement. The evidence just isn't there. There's evidence of Israeli foreknowledge of course - the Mossad folk caught filming it all - but that's not quite the same thing.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 8:15 PM
Well this has been enlightening!
Just a rehash of thoroughly debunked claims from 2004, as invented and spread by insane conspiracy-minded right-wing Americans when they're not focusing on Mexicans and aliens.
I have to say that I'm quite impressed with industry experts showing up here! And I could, of course, predict their outlook.
One difference between this and the standard relitigation of the issues from 2004 is that this is a British site, so the Jews were going to be blamed fairly immediately.
I still find it hilarious when lefty Brits get manipulated by nutter right-wing Americans.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 8:33 PM
Here's an odd thing:
As the Bazant & Zhou white paper of September 2001 forms the basis of subsequent analyses of the collapses, I thought I had best at least familiarise myself with it ('Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?—Simple Analysis'). So I read it - twice. Putting aside the temperature claims (which we now know were considerably lower), I concluded that it was a quite reasonable and certainly scientific explanation of the events.
I thought it wise to compare the paper with the actual events, though. For this, I studied the footage from the mainstream documentary 'WTC- the first 24 hours'.
Compare this statement by Bazant & Zhou:
"At that moment, the upper part has acquired an enormous kinetic energy
and a significant downward velocity. The vertical impact of the
mass of the upper part onto the lower part stage 4 applies enor-
mous vertical dynamic load on the underlying structure, far ex-
ceeding its load capacity, even though it is not heated."
with the actual observed events:
http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii303/frankverismo/collapseseq.jpg
The top segment simply disintegrates as it descends and in no way falls as an intact unit. As such, the 'enormous vertical dynamic load' simply doesn't exist. Drop a closed sack of sand on someone from 10 floors up and you'll probably kill them. Drop only the sand and the dynamic load is so dispersed as to be virtually harmless. Note also that as the upper part descends, the intact floors below remain stationary.
A door I had hoped to close merely opened wider. Science cannot explain events in a vaccuum - they have to accord with the observed phenomena or they are without merit.
Further investigation only seemed to throw up more problems that it solved. For instance, the 47 steel columns that
form the vertical load-bearing core of the towers are approx 6 inches wide at the roof, tapering down to a colossal 4 and a half feet where they meet the bedrock. Not only does the building self-destruct through the path of most resistance, that resistance is increasing by several orders of magnitude. That this can be achieved by the actions of a disintegrated upper section at roughly 1.5 x freefall speed, to me, stretches credibility beyond breaking point.
Posted by: frank verismo at January 28, 2010 8:37 PM
Count the body-bags, count the body-bags...
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at January 28, 2010 8:38 PM
yeh right larry 'industry experts' means Frazers offhand calculations that demo would require hundreds of explosive charges placed everywhere, OR a plane crash ... and an 'architect' called 'chris' who cant generalise about the properties of steel alloys used, claims aircraft strikes arent considered in skyscraper design and then misquotes airliner weights when its pointed out that they are -and then just resorts to bemoaning others lack of expertese.
And the Jews werent blamed 'fairly immediately' they have only just been mentioned by a very uncharacteristic commentor.
You are just full of crap and hysterical jinks larry.
Posted by: crab at January 28, 2010 8:43 PM
Hi All,
I'm still looking for the video clip I described at January 28, 2010 3:30 PM.
Anyone?
Posted by: Clark at January 28, 2010 8:47 PM
Sorry Clark I didnt see that bit of News. Remarkable that you recall it after all this time!
Posted by: crab at January 28, 2010 8:56 PM
Hi Crab,
it struck me as incongruous at the time, which is why it lodged in my mind. Of course, my recollection could be wrong, which is why I'm after the clip.
There was lots of stuff that day that was odd, like deja vu. A friend 'phoned, he said "put the TV on, you just won't believe it", and you know what? I never really have. I got the TV going between the impacts, and sat there wondering if there'd be another, and there was. I looked at the burning tower, sort of knowing that it shouldn't collapse, but also knowing that it would. Somehow, I wasn't surprised to hear about Building Seven in the evening.
So it's probably all my fault, a figment of my warped imagination somehow made real.
Have you visited the "Global Consciousness Project"?
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
Apparently, the whole world knew it was going to happen before it did:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/911formal.html
Posted by: Clark at January 28, 2010 9:09 PM
I'm totally confused with UA93 data:
Here is another analysis in a video presentation:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread336720/pg1
Posted by: Mark Golding at January 28, 2010 9:22 PM
Part of the problem with all this is the way people keep overstating things. It seriously reduces the chances of converging on the truth...
Posted by: Clark at January 28, 2010 9:32 PM
On second thoughts, I overstated that; the quality of argument here has generally been pretty good.
Posted by: Clark at January 28, 2010 9:38 PM
"WT7 collapsed for no apparent reason"
did you happen to notice the building falling on it?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 9:39 PM
"Frazer, my friend also destroys land mines and UXO's and believes 9/11 wa an inside job.?
If that's true, he should speak up. Compared to some of the silly gooses that serve as "experts" for the inside job hypothesis, his expertise on the subject would be GROUNDBREAKING.
However, I don't think it's true. I don't think he exists.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 9:43 PM
"did you happen to notice the building falling on it?"
No, but I saw it get a liberal coating of dust.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 9:47 PM
Hi Clark,
I wasnt expecting to see the tower/s collapse, when i did i new they werent just collapsing/falling apart/toppling, they were doing something that begged explaination... I bought the first 'structural' explaination documentary i saw, until i checked on the controversy and found that the documentry had completely omitted the towers internal structure...
Anyway, it was later i started picking up on cognitive stunts, the fake obl video, the closing of the statue of liberty, the ill glamours in news reporting... I cant be sure about the extents and details of population perception control involved, so i dont dwell on the subject, but I cant deny the towers collapse were never properly investigated or explained.
Greater thinkers and doers than i might get round to dealing with it all someday, in the meanwhile i have my little well meaning unrelated projects. And ongoing curiousity and shame at the suffering in the world.
The princeston noosphere project looks like a pretty game to me, i could have a dig in their data and graphics sometime - it looks etherial. Im of the Derren Brown school of conciousness these days, but i do hold onto a little dream of paraphysical concious effects :]
Posted by: at January 28, 2010 9:51 PM
twas i again' but nighto'
Posted by: crab at January 28, 2010 9:51 PM
I think David Kelly was murdered. I don't think JFK or MLK were murdered by loners. I think the CIA, possibly through Blackwater, probably had a hand in the Tashkent "bombs" of 2003/4. I helped blow the whistle on extraordinary rendition and torture - that's one hell of a secret conspiracy.
I am not scared at all to take on the "Establishment" line. But I think about 9/11 precisely what I have posted about 9/11.
Posted by: Craig at January 28, 2010 9:51 PM
Craig,
Do you feel like you've read enough to state without equivocation that JFK and MLK were killed not by loners? Have you read the books that answer every single one of the so-called "anomalies."
Is your belief that David Kelly was murdered on the same level as your belief that JFK was murdered by someone other than a loner?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 9:56 PM
We're supposed to believe that highly paid law graduates from "one of the best law schools in the USA" go around foreign blogs yelling
"BWWWAAAHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!"
Please ... Larry sounds more like a teenager.
-------------------------------------
"It would just need too many people to be involved. Someone would have objected."--Craig
This is my biggest problem with believing it was an inside job - despite the fact that I agree that there are strings of holes in the official story.
Why no film has been released from so many cameras around the Pentagon is a mystery to me.
I saw two grainy bits that (I think) came from only two cameras. I saw no plane. One assumes that anything to do with national security goes on inside the building and not outside on the footpaths or green spaces, or indeed the lamp-posts. If the plane was caught on camera, they need only release a small piece of footage. So where is it? And why was the hole in the wall so small? And if the wings were sheared off, where are they in the aftermath pics? And the engines that should be with them?
But an 'inside job' would appear to mean an awful lot of people prepared to mass murder Americans (and others), and sworn to some secrecy agreement afterwards. And that's where I come unstuck. Is anyone aware of a site where an estimate has been made of the number that would have had to be involved, and who kept their mouths shut ever since? That would be interesting.
And Larry, the plural of silly goose is not silly gooses.
Posted by: dreoilin at January 28, 2010 9:57 PM
"I saw the impact and its net result, after the fuel had burned off in the fireball. A small-scale localised fire. Nothing controversial there. We've all seen the pictures."
Fair enough but I suggest you go to the optician and have your eyesight tested because the fireball I saw was around fifteen storeys in diameter which is about 50 metres and subsequent fire didn't seem small scale.
If that is all you have left to say, a small localised fire, then you are an idiot and I won't bother to continue as it is clear you can't listen to facts that don't suit you view.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at January 28, 2010 9:59 PM
"Just a rehash of thoroughly debunked claims"--Larry
As a lawyer, Larry, you won't mind me pointing out that that is about the sixth or seventh time you've talked on this blog about something being "thoroughly debunked" without pointing us in the direction of the debunking.
Posted by: dreoilin at January 28, 2010 10:01 PM
chris: you appear to have missed the "after the fuel had burned off in the fireball" bit. I'm talking about what was left after the fireball - geddit?
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 10:03 PM
"The Assassination of John F. Kennedy"...
http://tinyurl.com/zxnjr
"Dorothy Kilgallen"...
tinyurl.com/ra962
Posted by: George Dutton at January 28, 2010 10:06 PM
"BWWWAAAHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!"
Yes, he does that a lot. I wonder whether he types it out each time, or has it in a little text file on his desktop so he can copy and paste as required.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 10:06 PM
Larry -
No. There are better books to read and only one life to live.
"I think that" is not in the least an unequivocal statement of fact. It is actually the opposite.
Posted by: Craig at January 28, 2010 10:09 PM
Craig,
As to JFK:
I'm sure you're familiar with Vincent Bugliosi; I recommend his book on the subject: Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
(reclaiminghistory.com).
I'll assume he's got solid bona fides with you, as he wrote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prosecution_of_George_W._Bush_for_Murder
Craig, it's just a bit disturbing that you would declare, positively and without question, that JFK was not killed by a loner. It does shed some light onto your belief that David Kelly was murdered.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 10:09 PM
Merkin:
"What is factual is that WT7 collapsed for no apparent reason - not even a plane crashing into it for a fig leaf."
The disparity between NIST's analysis and the observed events are even more pronounced when it comes to Building 7. Is it possible for a steel-frame hi-rise to collapse in a textbook controlled demolition fashion and yet not be a controlled demolition?
Being a US government body, no one need feign surprise that NIST's answer was 'yes'. However, if such a thing were possible, their models of the collapse should closely, if not exactly, match the actual observed collapse. Despite more than 7 years of study and a sizeable budget, they do nothing of the sort.
If NIST claim something is possible, but then fail to demonstrate said claim, despite plentiful time and resources, the only logical conclusion to be reached is that that claim is false.
Posted by: frank verismo at January 28, 2010 10:12 PM
"And Larry, the plural of silly goose is not silly gooses."
Steven Pinker would disagree. Not that he matters or it matters; language can change.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 10:13 PM
dreoilin,
Every silly goose claim on this thread was answered years ago.
You apparently have questions about the Pentagon. Here are answers:
http://debunk911myths.org/topics/Pentagon
Will you read through this link? Promise me you'll read through this link, OK?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 10:24 PM
frank verismo, do you think there was ANY truther who said, when the NIST report on WTC 7 came out, "Well, looks like I was wrong"? No, there wasn't.
this is a religion to you people.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 10:29 PM
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about how elites operate.It is pathetically naive to assume that elites have our best interests at heart.This is emphatically not the case.
Anglo-American elites have traded arms,narcotics,and slaves (black and white)over centuries.They have run revolutions,subversion,wars and revolutions.In concert with organized crime and fifth column networks established centuries ago these elites see eugenics and scientific dictatorship as the best means to continue their domination and maintain their real estate assets.
Without some historical understanding of how the British Royal-Rothschild Empire drug cartels and attendant Hofjuden-financed intelligence and offshore banking networks operate 9/11 will remain an unsolved crime.
Check out this ground-breaking study from 1978.As true now as it was then.
Read Dope Inc
http://www.freedrive.com/file/304835,dope-inc---britain-usa-drug-trade--war.p
Posted by: Apostate at January 28, 2010 10:30 PM
frank verismo, as to Building 7, please read this:
http://debunk911myths.org/topics/7_World_Trade_Center
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 10:37 PM
By the way, folks, you can always read more or ask questions at
http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=64
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 10:41 PM
"Will you read through this link?"
I've read it Larry. Pretty thin isn't it?
Firstly, the pictures of odd pieces of debris make the sceptics' case really. The question is: where's the vast hulk of a passenger jet?
Secondly, the "impact" photo is shrouded in smoke. Why didn't they show instead one of the photos clearly showing the the scorched window through the plane apparently flew?
Thirdly, the pictures of victims' remains are most likely to those of Pentagon staff.
Fourthly, it's a little disingenuous to cite Barbara Olson's alleged phonecall when even the FBI concedes it didn't happen.
Fifthly, none of the security camera frames show a plane.
Do you really find this stuff convincing?
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 10:41 PM
passenger jet pics:
3rd and 4th picture of the second column here:
http://debunk911myths.org/topics/Pentagon_debris
Of course the plane is not intact - it crashed.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 10:44 PM
Look at this picture of the ValuJet crash - WHERE IS THE PLANE! OH NO! CONSPIRACY!
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/us/valujet/valujet.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 10:45 PM
"Thirdly, the pictures of victims' remains are most likely to those of Pentagon staff."
You understand how DNA identification works, right? Someone here previously needed some elementary knowledge; not sure if it was you.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 10:46 PM
Larry
It really isn't difficult. There is some stuff I know, like that Jack Straw was lying to the Iraq Inquiry, because I was an eye-witness to events. That goes for most of the torture extraordinary rendition stuff I do.
I always make it plain when I am claiming privileged or first hand knowledge.
When I am not, I make no claim my view is any more valid than your view. This blog makes no claim to infallibility.
On JFK I have an opinion on an intelligent assessment of articles or documentaries I have seen so far, and like most people I've seen them on both sides. But I don't in any way claim superior authority to you on that subject. I just mentioned it as an example to disprove the notion that I am scared to admit to a non-establishment view.
We all have opinions on numerous subjects based on our state of knowledge to date. There's nothing strange about it.
Posted by: Craig at January 28, 2010 10:47 PM
Larry:
"do you think there was ANY truther who said, when the NIST report on WTC 7 came out, "Well, looks like I was wrong"? No, there wasn't."
Quite. For the very reasons I outlined. NIST's modeling bears no resemblance to the actual, observed events.
Posted by: frank verismo at January 28, 2010 10:48 PM
"You understand how DNA identification works, right?"
Frankly Larry, I've always been a little suspicious of the Pentagon's claim that it found DNA of all the passengers, particularly since the analyses were conducted 'in house' rather than by civil authorities.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 10:57 PM
I have a present for the truthers here that you will not find in any truther site.
Because this is from my own knowledge and research, which unlike is being carried out in a University's Engineering Labs and not at 5th grade. I work with composite Structures.
Composite structures fail in two phases, because two different Materials(or more) are used, each with its own maximum stress and strain levels.
What this means to you peasants is if you have something made out of one material, like a stone bridge, and you put a great big thing on it, heavier than what it can take, it will break at once. And the something goes for a bridge made of steel.
But if you take a bridge or building made from a composite of two materials, like lets say a building made from steel and concrete, and place a stress which causes a strain greater then what it can take, the brittle phase will fail first followed by the ductile phase.
What that means is the fire and impact, if it did cause it would have caused the concrete to start breaking off first, and then the steel.
To require a composite structure to fail as a single phase, a weak point will have to be created. Sort of like the fuse in an electrical circuit, If a the building had a couple of floors weakened, beams cut etc. The weakening effects of the impact and the fire could cause it to fail at that location. Materials Engineers use this, when we test materials we cut a little notch to cause failure at a set location.
I am not a truther though. I think I am undecided on the issue, because I have read both sides and I am still unconvinced. I think, like most things, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle of a poler debate.
People probably did attempt to do what happened, and the people who are paid to stop it happening found out about it and decided to facilitate it happening. I am not stating this as fact. Just as a thought. But what I wrote about how two phase structures fail is fact. It is up to you lot to debate whether it is a relevant fact or an irrelevant fact.
Posted by: Arsalan at January 28, 2010 11:02 PM
MJ, just to be sure who you're accusing of mass murder:
http://www.dcmilitary.com/dcmilitary_archives/stories/112901/12279-1.shtml
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 11:03 PM
Perhaps the key point to the entire implausibility of the 'pancake collapse' theory is considering a very old law - conservation of momentum.
Conservation of momentum comes from Newton's first law. A body will remain at rest or travel in uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by another force.
Consider the initial collapse of the top sections, which in each case would have the lightest top portion of the building, being the thinnest part of the core. We are expected to believe that as it suddenly (with a flash) lost all its structure and fell onto the floor below, the combined weight of the section above the disintegrated floor lands on the floor below. That causes the floor below to collapse under the strain, and the entire new mass falls onto the next floor. This progression continues neatly all the way down.
That's fine, apart from one very important detail - how does each new floor suddenly assume the accumulated velocity of the falling floors above? We're talking about a progressively heavy core structure (it having been built to bear the weight of the entire structure above, at each stage). So why did it not _substantially_ arrest the downward motion?
As Frank Verismo points out, a great deal of the mass was pulverised in any case, so the full weight of the above sections were dispersed each time a new floor was reached by the downward progression.
How did the really heavy mid to lower sections suddenly start moving at the same pace as the falling upper sections, unless they were offering _virtually no resistance at all_ - unless they were already falling themselves immediately before the progression hit them.
The towers did not come down quite at free-fall speed, but it was not far off it. It was way too close to free-fall acceleration to believe even for a moment than a substantial structure of increasing strength was being crushed by the powdered remains of the floors above.
*
If the motion was entirely downwards, with no other force than downward gravity operating after collapse was initiated, why do we see massive steel girders ejected out laterally for hundreds of feet? Why did tiny body parts (sections of finger, etc.) appear on rooftops hundreds of yards away?
In standard building collapses, one would find at least a few things intact. A chair, a monitor, something. How come the biggest items found were fragments of telephone keypads?
Look at the column on the last picture on this page: How did it acquire that precise cut, consistent with a controlled demolition?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/thermite.htm
*
But back to conservation of momentum. Inertia dictates that a mass will not suddenly assume the velocity of the moving object falling onto it, even if it is so tenuously structured that a feather falling onto it would initiate its collapse. In this case, we are talking about an increasing substantial structure the further down the building we go. Yet it offered little more resistance than fresh air on the day of 9/11.
Posted by: glenn at January 28, 2010 11:05 PM
I looked at your link, Larry:
http://debunk911myths.org/topics/7_World_Trade_Center
It did precisely nothing to address the issues I raised. Furthermore, under the title 'Damage to 7 World Trade Center' are several images of the wrong building. WTC7 can be seen in the extreme background.
Try not to completely waste my time again.
Posted by: frank verismo at January 28, 2010 11:14 PM
Glenn,
If you think thermite causes precise cuts, then you're a moron and you can't be helped.
Thermite.
Precise cuts.
Really?
Debunked by a child.
Moron.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 11:16 PM
frank verismo, a structural engineer would laugh at you.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 28, 2010 11:17 PM
The twin towers collapse looks amazing to me but the offical line seems plausable.
On the other hand. The WTC 7 collapse seems to defy any logical explaination. But when I have the time Larry, I will check out your link and see if it can shed any light.
Posted by: Chris Dooley at January 28, 2010 11:21 PM
I quite like quorn. I'm not a vegan, or even a veggie, but I eat it ocasionally. Maybe it helps not to expect it to be meat ? It's just something else to eat.
"I think I will eat more fish and tell you all about it."
Whale meat again.
Don't know where, don't know when ...
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 28, 2010 11:26 PM
9/11
9 - Numerical equivalent of the word Baha'
11 - Twin towers
This post dedicated to David Christopher Kelly, CMG 1944–2003 RIP PBUH
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 28, 2010 11:34 PM
Larry:
"frank verismo, a structural engineer would laugh at you."
Folding so quickly? I'm not surprised. All you've done so far is hide behind (incompetent) 3rd party websites and indulge yourself in ad hominem attacks.
Seriously - is this how you behave in the real world, Larry?
Posted by: frank verismo at January 28, 2010 11:35 PM
"is this how you behave in the real world, Larry?"
Omigod no, he's a highly-paid lawyer from one of the USA's best law schools.
Very intellectual chap.
"Debunked by a child"
See? He's been playing with thermite since he was 11. Expert.
I should be in bed ...
Posted by: dreoilin at January 28, 2010 11:58 PM
Frank: You do wonder. If the Larry's of this world really thought our statements were so utterly ridiculous, why not leave them stand, so everyone could see for themselves? Why are the Larry's so desperate that they throw tantrums to get attention?
The more screaming and shouting a Larry-type does, the more one should pay attention to that which they want to distract. I'll look out the next time "larry" screaming-fit occurs, because a good post must have preceded it. A Larry-type might actually serve a useful purpose here in flagging decent posts - so he should keep up the good work :)
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 12:02 AM
Hi Crab,
yes, I like Derren Brown, too. I like the ones where he does something impossible, and then explains how it was possible. I recognise some of his techniques from my brief interest in Neurolinguistic Programming (Bandler and Grinder) some decades ago.
Physics will have to come to terms with consciousness at some point, I reckon, and so does Roger Penrose. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics can't just have some undefined phenomena collapsing all the wave functions, after all.
RetroPsychoKenesis. You can try this one at home:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/experiments/bellcurve/
The whole Fourmilab site is worth a look.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 12:02 AM
dreoilin:
"Omigod no, he's a highly-paid lawyer from one of the USA's best law schools."
He told you this? Good grief. Move over, Perry Mason.
Posted by: frank verismo at January 29, 2010 12:13 AM
There's plenty of evidence that suggests the Bush administration did nothing to try to prevent the 9-11 attacks - despite repeated warnings from flight school instructors, FBI agents, CIA agents and German intelligence.
Well before 2001 the Project for a New American Century - which included many people who would be senior members of the Bush administration - suggested it would require another "Pearl Harbour" to get public support for the increases in defence spending and "regime changes" in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran which it's members wanted.
That may be why Bush and friends ignored every warning and had the upper ranks of the FBI ignore warnings by field agents.
For more on this, with sources supplied see these two posts on my blog
http://inplaceoffear.blogspot.com/2008/11/9-11-warnings-ignored-timeline-summer.html
http://inplaceoffear.blogspot.com/2008/11/they-didnt-even-try-to-keep-americans.html
Posted by: Duncan McFarlane at January 29, 2010 12:14 AM
Glenn:
"Why are the Larry's so desperate that they throw tantrums to get attention?"
It did occur that Larry's intention was to derail the thread. Any appearance of sincerity he began with petered out quite swiftly.
"A Larry-type might actually serve a useful purpose here in flagging decent posts"
Fair point!
Posted by: frank verismo at January 29, 2010 12:17 AM
Just got back from working out.
I was a highly paid lawyer.
It's still the case that I graduated from one of America's best law schools. I previously brought that up to make a point about who is qualified to assess the legality of an action under international law (and I don't think it's the exclusive province of public international lawyers).
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 12:33 AM
"suggested it would require another "Pearl Harbour" to get public support for the increases in defence spending and "regime changes" in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran which it's members wanted."
LIE. And you know it. For one thing, they were talking about rebuilding America's defenses. A "new Pearl Harbor" (to the extent mentioned) had nothing to do with foreign interventions.
Once again. FAIL.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 12:38 AM
"Frank: You do wonder. If the Larry's of this world really thought our statements were so utterly ridiculous, why not leave them stand, so everyone could see for themselves?"
You might be right. Your movement has failed, after all. You look like idiots. Do the anti-war people in the UK really embrace you, or do they treat you as idiots, as they do in the U.S. and Canada?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 12:40 AM
Larry what you did by trying to to say "You lot disagree with me because you all hate Jews" is despicable.
And don't deny it. That is what this sentence of yours as well as many others you have used means:
"One difference between this and the standard relitigation of the issues from 2004 is that this is a British site, so the Jews were going to be blamed fairly immediately."
Your use of attacks on Jews to justify yourself and attack your adversaries is a slap in the face of every Jew who has suffered from antisemitism. Both you and another person on this site have made a habit of that, and you should stop such childish behaviour.
That sort of behaviour is very common amongst Zionist war mongers and it is the only way they can shut the mouths of those who disagree with them when it comes to justifying the unjustifiable.
You behaved like this little girl on this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQSV3BBtZ4&feature=player_embedded
And you should be treated just like that little spoilt girl who cries antisemitism because she can't defend the murders of the Innocent in any other way.
So Larry if you have to defend the indefensible, do it like a man, and stop whimpering antisemitism like a bitch on heat who fails to attract the dogs.
I see you people who use racist attacks on Jews as slogans to win arguments in the same light as I see those who desecrate the grave of Holocaust victims.
Posted by: arsalan at January 29, 2010 12:47 AM
Glenn -
Look at this picture of the ValuJet crash and tell me where the plane is:
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/us/valujet/valujet.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 12:58 AM
Arsalan: That youtube reference (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQSV3BBtZ4&feature=player_embedded) was brilliant, thank you. It called these despicable anti-gentiles out with their games full on.
May I suggest you do not rise to the bait, and just use these "wide-stance" Larry types for their function - getting all hysterical whenever a good post has been made.
We've had no less than four L-stars for my latest argument concerning a controlled demolition by demonstration of the laws of inertia and momentum, for instance. So I say, keep it up, "Larry" - keep flagging those posts which need attention!
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 1:00 AM
Do you guys even get that Craig Murray doesn't believe your silly conspiracy?
And he's seen the worst of the U.S./UK governments!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 1:00 AM
Glenn, what was your argument? I must have missed it.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 1:01 AM
"Do you guys even get that Craig Murray doesn't believe your silly conspiracy?"
So what?
Posted by: at January 29, 2010 1:04 AM
And when a 911 Denier brings up "the laws of inertia and momentum" they sound EXACTLY like an Evolution Denier bringing up the law of conservation of energy.
Evolution Deniers: believe that there is a conspiracy among the vast numbers of experts in biology to deny their faith in intelligent design
911 Deniers: believe that there is a conspiracy among the vast numbers of experts in structural engineering (and many other fields) to deny their faith in inside jobby job idiocy
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 1:05 AM
Arsalan,
good post.
Larry,
you're out of order.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 1:07 AM
Which post by Arsalan was good?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 1:12 AM
Larry,
I like most of Arsalan's posts; he has a good sense of humour and he makes good and moral points. But I was particularly referring to his 12:47 post. His most recent post on this thread.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 1:15 AM
MJ: "Frankly Larry, I've always been a little suspicious of the Pentagon's claim that it found DNA of all the passengers, particularly since the analyses were conducted 'in house' rather than by civil authorities.
Posted by: MJ at January 28, 2010 10:57 PM"
MJ, didn't we already go over this?
The Pentagon DID NOT claim to have the DNA of all the passengers. A link that YOU posted showed that the remains of Dana Falkenberg - who was two or three years old - were never found. They also said they couldn't identify the remains of a number of Pentagon staffers.
It's strange that you demand extra evidence for the deaths of the passengers and hijackers than you do for the deaths of the Pentagon staffers.
You even wanted me to dig up newspaper reports of the funerals of the passengers as proof. Which I did. Only you went on to say that you didn't believe the reports.
What evidence do you need to see that you will believe?
Would you believe the testimony of the firefighters in "Firefight" which describes finding the remains of the passengers?
If your "hypothesis" is unfalsiable then it is no hypothesis.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 1:21 AM
glenn, Norman Finkelstein is cool and he dresses well too.
Here is another one:
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/finkelstein-on-holocaust-remembrance-day/
I think what America is using 911 in the exactly the samething Israel uses the holocoast.
They both use the dead to justify killing.
We should not allow them to. The worse way to insult the people who died in 911 is to use their deaths as an excuse to kill others. The worst way to insult the people who died in the holocoast is to use their deaths as an excuse to kill others. And that is what is happening.
Posted by: Arsalan at January 29, 2010 1:22 AM
Clark, I wasn't the one who brought up the Jews. Someone above brought up Jewish bankers, etc. etc. I mentioned that this is a British thread, so Jews will be blamed for 911 immediately, and then Arsalan went off on me bringing up Jews.
So that's a good post for you, is it?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 1:24 AM
Larry,
see, there's another one by Arsalan. He sees clearly past the surface to issues of right and wrong, and he makes the right choice.
If only the same could generally be said of lawyers. The law is becoming divorced from right and wrong, and that is worrying.
Such issues are far more important than arguing over the details of 911.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 1:28 AM
"You even wanted me to dig up newspaper reports of the funerals of the passengers as proof. Which I did. Only you went on to say that you didn't believe the reports."
Angrysoba, damn, was that the weasel that didn't believe the passengers died? I get these people mixed up?
What a religion these people have. It would be easier to turn a Sunni into a Shiite.
You're probably familiar with Mark Roberts - he talks about confronting people at Ground Zero with actual evidence, and they turn their heads away. They just don't want to see the evidence; it's like they're afraid.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 1:29 AM
Interestingly, those with the best credentials on this thread don't believe in the inside job.
Frazer, works with explosives and says the controlled demolition "theory" is impractical and that the buildings collapses don't have the signature features of a controlled demolition.
Chris from Glasgow is an architect and has no problem believing that the plane impacts and fire brought down the towers.
Craig Murray is aware of how MI5/MI6 and other government bodies and intelligence agencies work and he finds it implausible that it was an inside job.
Larry and I are New World Order agents and we know they never did an inside job. No sireee!
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 1:31 AM
Larry,
it's a good post because it calls you out. I've said that you're a bully; you've improved somewhat, but you still let your skill at argument obscure the truth, for yourself as much as for others, I believe.
Larry, it is better to be good and compasionate than it is to appear right.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 1:32 AM
"You're probably familiar with Mark Roberts - he talks about confronting people at Ground Zero with actual evidence, and they turn their heads away. They just don't want to see the evidence; it's like they're afraid."
Yes, I have seen him. He's very good. His demolition of Alex Jones who was blaring out his usual rubbish was a joy to watch. I don't think I've ever seen Alex Jones so completely flustered and unable to counter.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 1:34 AM
Clark, I forgot which one you are. Now I remember - you're the guy who claims superiority because of your ripe age of 47. Nice try at condescension, as you cozy up with crazy people (whether Islamic believers or otherwise)
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 1:36 AM
I'm not interested in arguing over 911 and no one found the video clip I was looking for. I'm heading off to bed now, to get enough sleep before I go off and express my disgust at another lawer that can't tell right from wrong.
Goodnight.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 1:36 AM
9/11 Airliners...
http://tinyurl.com/yc24883
Posted by: George Dutton at January 29, 2010 1:37 AM
"I don't think I've ever seen Alex Jones so completely flustered and unable to counter."
It's just so easy to destroy these people, isn't it? They're used to hanging out with their own kind, or spewing their crap to people who don't know much about 911 (or who don't have minimal critical thinking skills).
I think if you or I ever confronted Alex Jones, it would also take only a few short minutes for him to yell out "STRAW MAN! STRAW MAN!"
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 1:38 AM
MJ, you haven't answered my questions about Andrews airforce base. Do you have any evidence for saying that Andrews airforce base had fighters on standby?
I ask this because the 9/11 Commission report explicitly says that Otis and Langley were the only alert sites with a pair of fighters each. Aircraft were later scrambled from Andrews but presumably weren't on standby before that.
You have read the 9/11 Commission report so I would expect you to know this. David Ray Griffin wrote a BOOK on this report. Did he read it?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 1:38 AM
"and express my disgust at another lawer that can't tell right from wrong."
yeah, and you cozy up to crazy people and EXPLICIT racists. FUCK YOU! (Now is that not nice? Please tell me.)
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 1:40 AM
Frank Verismo: "The top segment simply disintegrates as it descends and in no way falls as an intact unit. As such, the 'enormous vertical dynamic load' simply doesn't exist. Drop a closed sack of sand on someone from 10 floors up and you'll probably kill them. Drop only the sand and the dynamic load is so dispersed as to be virtually harmless."
Really? If you dropped a load of unbounded water on someone's head do you think it would wash straight off?
Look what happens when you put your theory into practice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7BHSOVtMs&feature=related
What do you think would happen with falling steel beams and concrete?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 1:50 AM
Larry,
I saw your 1:40 post, and then went to bed. I then got up and restarted my computer to give you this message.
I'd like you to consider the possibility that I continue to converse with you because I think there may be some point, whereas I don't answer or argue with the racists because I expect that there is none.
Bed now, and that's final!
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 1:58 AM
Glenn: "Perhaps the key point to the entire implausibility of the 'pancake collapse' theory is considering a very old law - conservation of momentum.
Conservation of momentum comes from Newton's first law. A body will remain at rest or travel in uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by another force."
As far as I am aware, the "pnacake theory" is the initial hypothesis of the FEMA report and the one that NIST intitially used. After putting it to the test did they not reject it and formulate a new hypothesis?
As far as I know this is the scientific method in operation. You find some initial facts. Develop a hypothesis and then test it. The hypothesis must be capable of being falsified. If not it is impossible to test because testing can only confirm the hypothesis making it meaningless.
NIST only gave the explanation for collapse initiation, which was all it was tasked to do.
It seems clear that the top stories were no longer connected to the perimeter columns meaning that it was now falling through the floor which, as Leslie Robertson said, couldn't possibly hold the weight of so many stories.
Once the first floor gave way it fell to the next story, which was unsurprisingly no more able to support the weight of the descending upper stories and so on, down to the ground.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 2:00 AM
Larry, please don't be mean to Clark.
Clark, with this thread the ambassador is really spoiling us. He's allowed us to talk about 9/11 so please don't come on to the thread and announce that you have no interest in the topic.
I'll try and look out for the video of Palestinians. It sounds vaguely familiar but I don't know.
Just speculating here, but maybe what you were watching was a replay of the events that day put up on a big screen maybe by Hamas.
I have heard that the attacks were celebrated in Baghdad. Conversely, in Iran I seem to recall that prayers were said for the victims instead of the usual "Marg Bar Amerikkka!" chants at its Friday sermons.
Incidentally, North Korea also condemned the terrorist attacks.
As far as I know, Tehran and Pyongyang haven't jumped on the Truther bandwagon.
(Then again, I could be wrong about Tehran. I have heard there is an "inside job" exhibit in the old US embassy).
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 2:09 AM
"The cameraman, who appears to be using a hand-held camera, keeps the camera focused on the towers, even when there is the roar overhead of the second plane coming in, and a voice is heard, saying what sounds to me like "Ah, oui".
Wouldn't he duck or run, or at least look up, when he is looking at a building that had just had a plane crash into it and he hears another plane roaring in? And is that voice saying "Ah, oui"?"
What the cameraman is looking at and what the camera is pointing at may be two different things.
But it doesn't really matter. All you are saying is you can't believe a person would behave like that. It hardly counts as evidence for an Inside Job.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 2:18 AM
"A Larry-type might actually serve a useful purpose here in flagging decent posts"
He could. The idea that there are people out there who will bite you if you say something silly is a very useful tool, and a constructive role to play, done nicely.
Sadly, he seems to be too self-indulgent to be any good at it. "You all believe stupidity so you're all stupid" doesn't contain enough detail or thought to be any use, he lets himself get carried away all the time.
But he must be concerned, or he wouldn't be here, even if he doesn't like to actually come out and say so ?
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 29, 2010 2:37 AM
angrysoba: You said "As far as I am aware, the "pnacake theory" is the initial hypothesis of the FEMA report and the one that NIST intitially used. After putting it to the test did they not reject it and formulate a new hypothesis?"
(Was that a sly reference to the PNAC, btw?)
You then went on to argue against this point, as if I posited my entire case upon "NIST says this and..." whereas surely you know I didn't.
I don't care what NIST says for this line of reasoning, and I never brought it up. If someone also said something along the same lines then changed their mind, what the heck difference does it make? This is the sort of trick one might mistake another for taking as being "slippery", please pardon the expression because I know you are well above that sort of thing.
Instead, how about tackling the point I raised in Jan 28, 2010 11:05 PM, and discussing that, instead of arguing about something someone else might have said along those lines but then retracted, together with a distorted simplification?
I don't consider you a simple minded person, and your final sentence/paragraph does not justify your intelligence, if you considered that as a fair summary of my post on inertia.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 2:43 AM
"But he must be concerned, or he wouldn't be here, even if he doesn't like to actually come out and say so ?
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 29, 2010 2:37 AM"
Mr Robinson,
What is wrong with being concerned about people spouting 9/11 Truth? Are you saying 9/11 Truth is merely a harmless little hobby or parlour game?
I don't care about people saying that the Moon landings were faked or that Nessie exists. But 9/11 Truth is presumably not like that. Many Truthers make all kinds of sordid allegations against the families of passengers who died on the planes, the firefighters, Larry Silverstein or Jews. Their evidence is incredibly flimsy but they have this infuriating supercilious attitude that they know better because they are "awake" and don't trust the mainstream media and they know the laws of physics etc...etc... and they are keen to dismiss anyone who actually has got credentials, or refer to those who don't agree with them as morons or shills.
The same goes for David Kelly. These people never even met the guy and they believe they can know more about him than Dr Kelly's wife and daughters. I wonder on whose behalf they are campaiging.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 2:53 AM
Angrysoba said: "Larry and I are New World Order agents and we know they never did an inside job. No sireee!"
Very droll and all, but do you really want to align yourself that much with the most thoroughly contemptible poster on this blog? Seriously? Because it's remarkable how much you align, and that is not a compliment. I would suggest your public cuddling hurts your own credibility, because what - to your discredit - is seen as your counterpart has none whatsoever.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 2:54 AM
"(Was that a sly reference to the PNAC, btw?)"
Whoops! Cat's out of the bag now!
Glenn, my point was that the collapse sequence you are talking about didn't happen:
"Consider the initial collapse of the top sections, which in each case would have the lightest top portion of the building, being the thinnest part of the core. We are expected to believe that as it suddenly (with a flash) lost all its structure and fell onto the floor below, the combined weight of the section above the disintegrated floor lands on the floor below. That causes the floor below to collapse under the strain, and the entire new mass falls onto the next floor. This progression continues neatly all the way down.
That's fine, apart from one very important detail - how does each new floor suddenly assume the accumulated velocity of the falling floors above? We're talking about a progressively heavy core structure (it having been built to bear the weight of the entire structure above, at each stage). So why did it not _substantially_ arrest the downward motion?"
I'm not sure how much clearer I can make this, but the core and the perimeter were supposed to hold up the building. Each floor, as in the bit that people walk on, was NOT strong enough to hold up the stories above it. Leslie Robertson explicitly said this in his debate with Steven Jones.
So, what happened? You must have seen the photographs of the top of the towers tilting (with the south tower this was far more pronounced). It shows definitively that it was not a symmetrical top-down PNACake collapse. The top of the building had come loose at its moorings, so to speak, so it is unreasonable to assume it would have slid down a few stories and arrested. Instead you have to picture the floors internally giving way and the perimeter columns being peeled outwards almost like a banana. In fact, plenty of video shows the permimeter columns falling outwards and later photographs show the columns splayed out over a large area on the ground (indeed the WTC7 was hit by the debris as we know) proving that it didn't collapse neatly into its own footprints.
That is what I mean by a hypothesis that was rejected.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 3:06 AM
"Very droll and all, but do you really want to align yourself that much with the most thoroughly contemptible poster on this blog?"
Oh that is simply not fair, Glenn!
Larry gets a lot of abuse simply for being American. I find it embarrassing as an Englishman to read my campatriots writing such nonsense as, "You Yanks are so fick! You obviously don't know nuffink cos everyone nose Yanks don't no nuffink!" (I am of course employing hyperbole so please don't ask me to find the direct quote).
On top of that there are some exceedingly contemptible posters expressing explicit Jew hatred here. Bizarrely Larry and I have been blamed for their presence.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 3:13 AM
Angrysoba said:
"Whoops! Cat's out of the bag now!"
Heh - now we have your credentials on the table! :)
But you're not getting it, Soba, deliberately or not I cannot tell. Laws concerning inertia dictate that a mass does not magically assume the velocity of the object that lands upon it. Please re-read my "January 28, 2010 11:05 PM" post, I would far rather respond to criticism of that that reiterate the entire point.
Would it help if I declared myself to be a professor in physics, and said I was "Glenn from Edinburgh" or something?
*
Aside:
How come only nit-picking has occurred in so many recent posts, most of which are initiated or continued by the 9/11 truth deniers? And where is even one decent picture of the Pennsylvania OR the Pentagon crash, OR any the aftermath thereof? How come no True Believer has managed to explain how all of these Magic Arabs carried out their missions - death or destruction of the target - perfectly?
How come none of the Magic Arabs were tackled successfully, on any flight, even though people knew what was going on, and - most improbably! - used their mobile telephones to say what was going on? Why did tough-nut ex-forces pilots give it all up to a few crazed terrorists? How did the Magic Arabs prove to be such immensely good pilots? How did it all go so incredibly well - air force stands obligingly down, passengers and crew so obliging, all the terrorist teams hit their targets and things go even better to plan than was imagined, etc. etc. - for one day like that? Perhaps Americans want to put their hands up and say, "Yup. We are an amazingly stupid and incompetent people, and we like giving our planes over to nutty box-cutter wielding foreigners."
But I don't buy that about Americans, sorry - they're just not that weak, lazy and stupid.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 3:34 AM
Angrysoba:
"Look what happens when you put your theory into practice:"
Hmmmm. Several tons of water versus a flimsy aluminium car. Hardly 'my theory'. If you insist on using it though, consider what that same volume of water would have done if contained: the car would've been crushed flat. To really stretch the analogy, what we've got with Bazant & Zhou is your 'unbounded water' but resulting in the car being crushed to a height of two inches.
And we both know that ain't gonna happen.
Posted by: frank verismo at January 29, 2010 3:36 AM
"Larry gets a lot of abuse simply for being American"
Perhaps I should start by saying "many of my friends are black" ?
"Larry" is not viewed with near universal contempt for being American, Larry is held in contempt because of his expressed opinions! Come on now.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 3:39 AM
angrysoba:
"and they are keen to dismiss anyone who actually has got credentials, or refer to those who don't agree with them as morons or shills."
Yes - repellent, isn't it? I've only spotted one person accusing another of being a 'moron' on this thread. Have a look through and see if you can find who it is. Let me know how you get on.
Posted by: frank verismo at January 29, 2010 3:41 AM
Glenn:
""Larry" is not viewed with near universal contempt for being American, Larry is held in contempt because of his expressed opinions! Come on now."
Larry's American?
Posted by: frank verismo at January 29, 2010 3:47 AM
Glenn -
Look at this picture of the ValuJet crash and tell me where the plane is:
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/us/valujet/valujet.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 3:53 AM
"Your movement has failed, after all."
Have *some* decency, man. Our bowel problems are none of your business.
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 29, 2010 3:57 AM
Glenn, I think we are talking at cross puposes here.
Now, just to be very, very simplistic, if you put a bowling ball on a piece of paper, the paper can't hold the bowling ball and will break. The bowling ball will fall through.
Now, imagine 110 pieces of paper all the way down to the floor. Which piece of paper will arrest the bowling ball's fall?
None of them, and the bowling ball will probably fall practically at free-fall.
I haven't tried the experiment, so I don't know if it will work. I realize there are plenty of problems with my analogy, of course, but I am using it to demonstrate approximately what I think happened.
We may be talking at cross-purposes here though.
Your next lot of many questions:
"And where is even one decent picture of the Pennsylvania OR the Pentagon crash, OR any the aftermath thereof?"
At many crash sites almost all the plane can burn up leaving little left. I don't have a problem believing a plane crashed in Shanksville. They found the FDR there, after all.
We talked about the Pentagon ones before. Here's a question. You do believe that Pentagon staffers were killed there don't you? Have you seen picutres of their dead bodies? No, neither have I and I don't want to. I won't demand that I see the bodies of the passengers either.
"How come no True Believer has managed to explain how all of these Magic Arabs carried out their missions - death or destruction of the target - perfectly?"
They weren't magic and they didn't carry out their mission perfectly. One plane crashed in Shanksville, remember.
"How come none of the Magic Arabs were tackled successfully, on any flight, even though people knew what was going on, and - most improbably! - used their mobile telephones to say what was going on?"
They were on United 93 otherwise people reacted as people have reacted on many, many other hijacked aircraft. The crew and passengers mostly complied with them.
Cell phones? Well, as we know many of them used airphones. Do we really need to go through that again?
"How did the Magic Arabs prove to be such immensely good pilots?"
They weren't magic. They had pilots licenses and had done simulator training. Why do you keep asking these questions which I've answered so many times already? They weren't immensely good pilots. They only had to fly straight into buildings.
"How did it all go so incredibly well - air force stands obligingly down, passengers and crew so obliging, all the terrorist teams hit their targets and things go even better to plan than was imagined, etc. etc. - for one day like that?"
There was NO stand-down. I told you that planes were scrambled from Otis and Langley. Why do you persist in asking questions which I have answered already and then bring them up again while claiming that we are ignoring them?
Besides, how do you know things went better than imagined?
"Perhaps Americans want to put their hands up and say, "Yup. We are an amazingly stupid and incompetent people, and we like giving our planes over to nutty box-cutter wielding foreigners.""
Again, with the canards and the strawmen. According to phone calls, the hijackers claimed to have bombs. Only Barbara Olson mentioned box-cutters, the other callers mentioned knives and mace. The hijackers were clearly very dedicated and highly trained, not magic. The passengers were clearly very scared and the pilots probably behaved according to regular procedure which was to comply with hijackers' demands. What makes you think they would have behaved differently?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:01 AM
"Larry's American?"
Yes, Larry from St. Louis, is I believe American.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:03 AM
"Larry gets a lot of abuse simply for being American"
Larry hasn't received nearly as much abuse as he's been handing out. I hope you're not suggesting that acting the aggressive arsehole is purely a function of coming from the USA ?
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 29, 2010 4:06 AM
"Larry hasn't received nearly as much abuse as he's been handing out. I hope you're not suggesting that acting the aggressive arsehole is purely a function of coming from the USA ?"
No, I'm not the one making the connection. Apparently you are.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:12 AM
"Yes, Larry from St. Louis, is I believe American. "
That's the last time I use litotes on this site!
Posted by: frank verismo at January 29, 2010 4:18 AM
Here's a coincidence:
On Wednesday, I was in a book shop with a friend of mine and picked up Catcher in the Rye. "Did you know J.D Salinger is still alive?" I asked. I said this because I had thought, for years, that he had died years ago.
Anyway, he died later that day at the age of 91.
Did I have anything to do with Salinger's death? I don't think so. But coincidences and strange things happen all the time. It doesn't mean they are all planned or they're all purposeful.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:22 AM
"No, I'm not the one making the connection. Apparently you are."
Cause-and-effect doesn't work, for you ? It's bedtime.
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 29, 2010 4:25 AM
"That's the last time I use litotes on this site!
Posted by: frank verismo at January 29, 2010 4:18 AM"
Good! And stay off the magic mushrooms while you're at it.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:25 AM
"It's bedtime."
Remember, The New World Order never sleeps!
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:30 AM
The sun never sets on the government within the government!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 4:37 AM
This is the strength of truther evidence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhKiAUkw7SY
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 4:48 AM
"Good! And stay off the magic mushrooms while you're at it."
You really are a killjoy, aren't you?
Posted by: frank verismo at January 29, 2010 4:51 AM
"You really are a killjoy, aren't you?"
Alright, you can keep on the magic mushrooms as long as you remember what they do to people's minds.
Hey look! I made a new post:
http://angrysoba.blogspot.com/2010/01/j-d-salinger-dies-i-didnt-do-it.html
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 5:04 AM
Glen, you rock man! And your advice to Soba is spot on. I gave him a similar finger-waving lecture last year, but to no avail. The boy is going downhill and getting into seriously Bad Company, and I don't mean the guys who sung "running with the pack".
Soba, "Interestingly, those with the best credentials on this thread don't believe in the inside job." And intriguingly, there's not a single structural engineer among them. There isn't even a theologist. And amazingly, I find that you haven't responded to any of my very reasonable questions about collapsing buildings. Well, you can lead a horse to water, they say.
Larry, you're so full of excrement that if you gave yourself an enema, what was left of you would float off into the air like ripe dandelion seeds on a breezy spring evening. You take care now and enjoy yourself with your fellow Randi boyscouts. And don't overdo the rootbeer.
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 29, 2010 5:05 AM
"I find that you haven't responded to any of my very reasonable questions about collapsing buildings."
I haven't seen any. Would you mind pointing them out or restating them?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 5:10 AM
I did just have a root beer lollipop. (Just quit smoking).
What a coincidence. But I don't think Randi would be impressed.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 5:17 AM
Angrysoba,
Tim Groves relies on the argument from incredulity and resurrects the existence of squibs. Do you remember squibs? They got a lot of attention from the conspiraloons in 2004. You might have seen them in the movie The Usual Suspects - when, at the end, Keyzer Soze shoots the Kevin Pollack character and for some reason the film directors thought it would be cool to keep the special effect in the movie (or perhaps they didn't catch it in the editing). In any event, if you're a movie director and you want to fake gun shots or small explosions, you use squibs.
Truthers, for whatever reason, believe that small explosions were placed by the windows of the Towers. I'll never understand why they argued that - it would seem that they would want to admit that it was air that was escaping, but maintain the argument that really big explosives or whatever were placed on the columns. By and large, they've dropped the squibs concept.
But then there's Tim Groves. Tim, you failed to address the following:
Tim Groves: "Conversely, if we assume a modest squib placed close to a window, there is no problem visualizing why only one window popped."
BWWWAAAHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Why the fuck would your Men in Black place "modest squibs" right by the window?
BWWWAAAHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
The term "squibs" has been amusing me for years. They might be useful in the movie industry to fake bullet penetrations, and have some other small-scale explosive uses, but it would be quite silly for a demolition team (whether ninja or not) to employ squibs to demolish a building. My guess is that the truthers saw the air exiting each floor (as can be predicted and is testable!) and decided that it looked like squibs used in buildings and there you have it.
Btw, there are even larger "explosions" coming out of the windows where there are atrium levels.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 5:30 AM
Well, I have posted videos which also shows "squibs". In one, it is a burning steel framed building in which smoke is ejected out of the windows during its collapse.
In another, there were many explosiveless demolitions using the verinage technique in which "squibs" were visible.
They both demonstrate that the Truthers are wrong to assert that the "squibs" on the Twin Towers could only be explained by explosives. In fact, they don't behave like explosives because they billow out continuously, increasing in volume as the collapse front descends the building towards those "squibs" coming out of the building. Explosives would surely seem to emit their "ejecta" in one large burst. The opposite behaviour to the "squibs" which continue increasing for several seconds.
Anyway, that's enough for me for one day. I'm off to the my local standing bar where the vast majority of customers neither know nor care about 9/11 Truth.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 6:28 AM
Another coincidence!
I was watching something for entirely different reasons, and I found Tim Groves' squibs!
Start at 2:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrCJX7c8gvo&NR=1
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 6:33 AM
Soba, since it's Friday evening, and I don't want to spoil your weekend, I'll just restate one point for now.
I posted links to three controlled demolitions that went wrong. In two cases, despite an intial drop of one or more floors triggered by the "pulling" of the load-bearing members, the bulk of the buildings above the blast zone came to a halt and did not disintegrate further.
Since you are aware that in the case of WTC 1 and 2, the "block" above the impact/initial structural failure zone was ground down to powder, I wanted your opinion of why the same thing didn't happen in these other cases in which the structures involved were much less robust than those of the WTC towers.
Remember, NIST argued that once collapse was initiated then total collapse was inevitable. And I believe this is your view too.
As Clive mentioned in the post, a domestic gas appliance explosion caused the entire corner of an East London tower block (Ronan Point) to collapse. Let me refer you to a video of a similar roughly 30-story East London tower block that resisted global collapse despite being well and truly initiated and the "block" decending nine floors or over 20 metres at a good fraction of free-fall speed. This piece of shoddy old-Labour sixties reinforced concrete and breezeblock Stalinist slum-clearance construction was not nearly as robust as the state-of-the-art massive-central-cored steel-framed WTC "blocks", so why didn't it disintegrate? Call it a Saganite test of your hypothesis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsePUn5-88c&feature=related
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 29, 2010 7:40 AM
I'll make it easy for you, as I'm really not a vindictive man, nor an angry one. The building was Northaird Point in Hackney.
Some details were covered in this book:
http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=4eerqvOPhnoC&pg=PA277&lpg=PA277&dq=%22Hackney%22+%22demolition%22+%22tower+block%22+%22Northaird+Point&source=bl&ots=WMjXRHvnMB&sig=MIAJZiS7mGcwuG5Z5d31gTFwUHQ&hl=en&ei=zpRiS4G7FMqOkQWikojpBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Hackney%22%20%22demolition%22%20%22tower%20block%22%20%22Northaird%20Point&f=false
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 29, 2010 8:01 AM
LMFAO. What a thread! I think the good guys (the brills) have clearly notched up a 2-1 half time lead over the shills. Roll on the second half lads. Lamby, I am sending you off for swearing. No insolence now. You can watch from the sidelines and moronically shout 'U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A. whilst rhythmically girating your flab. Woooohoooooooo!'
Posted by: Jaded. at January 29, 2010 8:19 AM
I'd like to inroduce angrysoba to an unexpected (and I'm sure unintentional) ally of the 9/11 Truth movement: Cass Sunstein. Read his paper at tinyurl.com/3jv4wo.
It's one of those unfortunate pieces of writing that Ernest Gowers (or was it Orwell?) deplored, that inadvertently establishes the opposite of what it intends. From a US government point of view it also reveals a little too much.
Says Sunstein:
"In a closed society, secrets are not difficult to keep, and distrust of official accounts makes a great deal of sense. In such societies, conspiracy theories are both more likely to be true and harder to show to be false in light of available information. But when the press is free, and when checks and balances are in force, government cannot easily keep its conspiracies hidden for long."
Few would characterise the US as an open society, with a free press and 'checks and balances'. It seems that on Sunstein's advice we should have a presumption in favour of the conspiracy theories.
Then taking this:
"An especially useful account suggests that what makes (unjustified) conspiracy theories unjustified is that those who accept them must also accept a kind of spreading distrust of all knowledge-producing institutions, in a way that makes it difficult to believe anything at all. [...] How many other things must not be believed, if we are not to believe something accepted by so many diverse actors?"
...together with this...
"For most Americans, a claim that the United States government attacked its own citizens, for some ancillary purpose, would make it impossible to hold onto a wide range of other judgments."
...one can begin to see the source of Sunstein's anxiety. If US complicity in the attacks of 9/11 is established as fact, surely it's the end of the line for the neo-cons, and all dependent mythologies? Myself, I wouldn't be so sanguine - America is a funny place.
It's clear from reading the paper in its entirety that Sunstein is not really concerned about, or even interested in, conspiracy theories in general. It's just that big, bad, nasty one - 9/11. He even discusses the 'synergistic' merit in attacking all conspiracy theories in order to cloak this interest in just one of them.
If it was the remit of angrylarry to supress discussion of 9/11 and heap abuse and ridicule on anyone who attempted it, then I think they will fare badly in their next performance review. The posts here reveal the 'foaming, swivel-eyed, conspiraloons' as the people with evidence and reason (not to mention the laws of physics) on their side, and the debunkers as merely repetitive and unimaginatively abusive bores.
As a result of the activity of the debunkers we've all discovered that we're not crazy - that there are perfectly sane, literate and educated people who believe that 9/11 was a false-flag attack. We also get to pass around links to information that might never have turned up otherwise - the conspiracy of conspiracists turns out to be a wide one. Here for your collection are some more foaming, swivel-eyed conspiraloons:
Michael Meacher (perhaps the only man of principle left in the Labour Party): tinyurl.com/2tojtw
Professor David Proe & Ian Thomas (University of Melbourne comment on NIST report on WTC7): tinyurl.com/yg69ec7
Robert Fisk (journalist, The Independent): tinyurl.com/3lwadm
It only remains for me to thank angrylarry for his work here.
Posted by: Vronsky at January 29, 2010 8:59 AM
'the whole 9/11 project is intrinsically linked . . . . .
You are entitled to believe that. others believe that the Protocols of Zion, Bilderberg, Templars, Freemasons and various other permutations are intrinsically linked to everything'.
I am disappointed at the conflation by Craig of skepticism about 9/11 with belief in the Protocols.
As a Jew - though not a Zionist - who does believe there is something fishy about the collapse of these buildings, I am quite insulted.
Posted by: spot at January 29, 2010 10:20 AM
Are we here to discuss 911 or respond to AngryLarry?
Are we here to exchange ideas about 911 or are we here to respond to AngryLarry?
From what I have seen AngryLarry have managed to take control of the entire forume. They decide what we talk about, not us.
I think we should read each other's posts more than we read theirs. And I think we should respond to each other more than we respond to them.
I am going to cut and past what I wrote at the top, read it, think about it and respond. And I will think about what you say about what I say.
This is what I wrote:
I have a present for the truthers here that you will not find in any truther site.
Because this is from my own knowledge and research, which unlike is being carried out in a University's Engineering Labs and not at 5th grade. I work with composite Structures.
Composite structures fail in two phases, because two different Materials(or more) are used, each with its own maximum stress and strain levels.
What this means to you peasants is if you have something made out of one material, like a stone bridge, and you put a great big thing on it, heavier than what it can take, it will break at once. And the something goes for a bridge made of steel.
But if you take a bridge or building made from a composite of two materials, like lets say a building made from steel and concrete, and place a stress which causes a strain greater then what it can take, the brittle phase will fail first followed by the ductile phase.
What that means is the fire and impact, if it did cause it would have caused the concrete to start breaking off first, and then the steel.
To require a composite structure to fail as a single phase, a weak point will have to be created. Sort of like the fuse in an electrical circuit, If a the building had a couple of floors weakened, beams cut etc. The weakening effects of the impact and the fire could cause it to fail at that location. Materials Engineers use this, when we test materials we cut a little notch to cause failure at a set location.
I am not a truther though. I think I am undecided on the issue, because I have read both sides and I am still unconvinced. I think, like most things, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle of a poler debate.
People probably did attempt to do what happened, and the people who are paid to stop it happening found out about it and decided to facilitate it happening. I am not stating this as fact. Just as a thought. But what I wrote about how two phase structures fail is fact. It is up to you lot to debate whether it is a relevant fact or an irrelevant fact.
Posted by: Arsalan at January 28, 2010 11:02 PM
Posted by: Arsalan at January 29, 2010 1:49 PM
Soba: your 'analogy' is no such thing. Bowling balls and pieces of paper? Which -
in your analogy - would be the bowling balls, and which would be the pieces of
paper? Are you seriously expecting anyone to believe that the twin towers were
of such feeble construction that they in any way resembled a teetering 110 story
construction of bowling balls suspended on pieces of paper?
Far more accurate an analogy would be if you had a tower of 110 bowling balls
with several iron rods running up the middle of them, holding them in place.
And then if one whipped a couple of bowls out of (say) positions 88-90, you
(personally, you) would expect to see the bowls 90-110 crash down onto bowl
88, and they'd all crush each other down to the bottom at near free-fall speed.
As should be obvious, no such thing could possibly happen.
Anyway, we're not talking about bowling balls or pieces of paper. We're talking
about an increasingly strong structure being progressively destroyed by the
pulverised remains of the tower above and _offering no resistance at all_
to that collapse.
That massive plume is the powdered remains of floors as they disintegrated.
That fine dust which coated lower Manhattan used to be the building. Gravity
induced collapses simply would not do that.
Gravity induced collapses would not cause large steel girders to leap out
horizontally for hundreds of feet, nor would it turn people into tiny little
pieces, so that minute body-parts would land on rooftops far distant.
Gravity acts straight downwards after all.
*
Other points - the Magic Arabs did carry out their tasks perfectly as I said:
death or destruction of the target. Those in Pennsylvania achieved the
former.
*
You ask "We talked about the Pentagon ones before. Here's a question.
You do believe that Pentagon staffers were killed there don't you? Have
you seen picutres of their dead bodies? No, neither have I and I don't
want to. I won't demand that I see the bodies of the passengers either."
With all due respect to your sensibilities, of course Pentagon staffers
might have been killed by virtue of the damage done to their building.
But you're boot-strapping in assuming there were passenger bodies
because you've assumed a passenger plane hit the Pentagon. Bodies
do not vapourise, so where were they?
*
Passengers were supposedly telephoning people to say goodbye,
because Magic Arabs were going to destroy the flight. Would they
have remained seated, belt fastened, seat in upright position and
the tray properly folded away in such circumstances? I sure as
hell wouldn't have!
*
They didn't flight "straight into buildings" by any means - have you
even looked at the routes they took? Nothing straight about that
at all. A few hours in a simulator does not prepare one for such
a feat, you need to stop claiming you've explained that point.
And I know you're exasperated, but you haven't explained how they
became such good pilots, nor how mobile cell 'phones all worked
so well, nor why procedures were not followed that day in
intercepting the planes.
It is _not_ standard procedure for pilots to give up the controls to
hijackers, where did you get that one from? Why did you claim pilots
were just following standard procedure?
Please - enough of the strained patience act. You haven't gone
near an explanation of my points on inertia. Bowling balls and
pieces of paper indeed!
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 1:50 PM
Oh sorry, I should have put in the missing words.
After "own knowledge and research, which unlike" read the words "Larry's Fission research"
Posted by: Arsalan at January 29, 2010 1:55 PM
Arsalan says:
"Are we here to discuss 911 or respond to AngryLarry?
Are we here to exchange ideas about 911 or are we
here to respond to AngryLarry?"
(May I please suggest hitting return after 60-odd
characters, because a long line is burdensome to read,
with the page width set way wider than our browsers.)
I've been responding to the Official Liners - at least,
to Soba - because he's at least attempting to explain
away the impossibility of what we all saw that day.
I don't bother with "Larry" - he's a busted flush but
without ever having shown any potential.
But you're right, it's time to move on from repetitions
from people who are just expressing their disbelief,
and wriggling around to avoid the obvious.
You are right about different components failing at
different times, and we would not expect to see an
entire couple of floors fail as a unit (with a mighty
bang and flash!) neatly onto the section below, so that
it cleanly and progressively falls down. That is just
not going to happen.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 2:08 PM
Tim,
Thanks for that. I believe that what happened was that you posted a comment which contained too many links putting it into moderation. This is why I hadn't noticed it before.
The videos you present show demolitions that fail but don't seem to rule out the fact that a gravitational collapse CAN happen. All they seem to show is that they SOMETIMES DO fail.
My opinion, which is by no means expert, is that they failed because the forces bearing down on the lower part of the building were too weak to break it. However, in the case of WTC1 and WTC2 the load was much greater than that in the building you showed and, more importantly, SHIFTED from its supporting columns to the FLOOR, ie it had come loose from the perimeter walls which were supposed to hold up the structure.
As I showed with the verinage demolitions, sometimes all that is needed is gravity and a large weight to crush down the floors below. We have to agree that that IS possible otherwise they wouldn't attempt it with such a success rate.
In fact, if your videos are supposed to prove anything they only prove that controlled demolitions with explosives don't always work which actually detracts from your hypothesis.
Now, here is a video of a steel-framed building collapsing with "squibs" being emitted from the windows.
Do you agree that this building crushed the lower floors down to the ground and that "squibs" needn't be actual explosives?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ff1_1210707903
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 2:13 PM
Glen.
Up until 9/11 no one had conceived of the possibility that hijackers would deliberately crash an aeroplane so it was normal for passengers and crew to obey the high jackers. Certainly pilots would not expect to turn control of the aircraft over to the hijackers but they would expect to allow them into the cockpit and ask to be flown to some specified place. Probably the hijackers killed both pilots as soon as they entered the cockpit. Box cutters are enough for slitting a carotid artery. Only on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania did passengers and remaining crew become aware of the hijackers plans and they were no longer intimidated by a few men with box cutters.
Posted by: Carlyle Moulton at January 29, 2010 2:25 PM
Glenn, you keep making silly remarks about "Magic Arabs". You are yet to explain what makes the hijackers "magic" and are expecting me to defend a silly hypothesis of your own making.
Many of your points are way too nebulous for me to respond to and require me to do too much work. I'm not interested in writing out a full summary of what I understand to happen on that day as you will only ask me to explain more and more about highly technical things that neither of us know about.
You think you can JAQ off about such technical matters and the fact that someone can't answer them means it was an inside job, but you were convinced about an inside job because of things that have since been debunked.
Could I also ask what would count as evidence that will falsify your hypothesis that it was an inside job? If you can't provide me with what will convince you that you are wrong then you can't claim to be approaching this rationally or scientifically.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 2:28 PM
Glenn, you have no idea how you would react in a frightening situation like the passengers aboard those flights.
Stop pretending you would be some all-conquering hero because despite what you believe to have been the case there have been many hijackings prior to the 9/11 hijackings and many of those passengers probably would have believed themselves as brave as you say you are.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 2:35 PM
Carlyle Moulton writes:
"Up until 9/11 no one had conceived of the possibility
that hijackers would deliberately crash an aeroplane"
Indeed? From thinkprogress.org :
CLAIM: “I don’t think anybody could have predicted that they would try to
use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.”
- National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 5/16/02
FACT: On August 6, 2001, the President personally “received a one-
and-a-half page briefing advising him that Osama bin Laden was
capable of a major strike against the US, and that the plot could
include the hijacking of an American airplane.”
In July 2001, the Administration was also told that terrorists had
explored using airplanes as missiles.
- [Source: NBC, 9/10/02; LA Times, 9/27/01]
This is largely why Bush slept on an aircraft carrier at the G-8
meeting a couple of month earlier. There was also talk about
terrorists crashing planes into the conference.
In any case, the crew would not give up the controls to hijackers -
that is not standard procedure.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 2:55 PM
Glen.
You are allowing the emotional reaction to seeing the towers come down in what looks like a perfectly arranged controlled demolition to override your rational thought processes. The logic you are following is that since it looked like a controlled demolition therefore it must be a controlled demolition.
If I follow that logic for a moment and postulate that there must have been demolition charges placed in the building and coincidentally placed at different floor levels in the two towers and coincidentally at that level in each tower into which on the same day they were to be detonated some people flew 200 tonne jet airliners. The charges went off some time after the serendipitously arriving planes.
Do you realize how absurd the coincidence would be? The people who placed the charges in each tower knew at what floor the hijacked airliners flown by amateur pilots would arrive and when they would arive so that they could time their explosives to go off less than two hours afterwards. Also the fire started by the aeroplanes did not prematurely incinerate the explosives. High explosives will only detonate if set off by a detonator and sometimes a train of intermediate explosives, but if ignited they will burn without exploding. (Vietnam era soldiers used to use blocks of C4 for their cooking fires). Explosives placed at the level in the towers of the plane impacts would have burned to nothing before their supposed detonation time.
One of the principles of science is too choose the simpler of competing explanatory hypotheses, this is known as "Occam's razor". The simpler explanation is that the aircraft impact and fire damaged the WTC and the damage and weakening of the structures was sufficiently uniform that the building collapsed in a way reminiscent of a controlled demolition.
Incidentally the fuel capacity of a Boeing 767-200 is some 90,000 litres. The WTC planes may not have had full tanks but they would have had some tens of thousands of litres of fuel, enough to start a very big fire very quickly. The WTC air crash fires were very big and very intense, much more so than the kind of fire expected in a building which starts at one location and only has the combustibles normally in the building as fuel.
The WTC towers may have been designed to resist the impact of a 707 but the maximum takeoff weight of a 707 is only about 100,000 Kg as against 200,000 Kg for a 767. Incidentally all these aircraft statistics can be found in 30 seconds using Google.
Posted by: Carlyle Moulton at January 29, 2010 2:57 PM
The fact that the twin towers began collapsing at the impact points seems to mean nothing to Truthers.
Hey, Glenn, would you explain to me how the buildings were rigged to fall apart from those very impact points and how the planes' impacts were unable to detonate whatever explosives or thermite charges were pre-planted in the buildings when they struck?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 3:06 PM
Glen.
Before 9/11 passengers and crew on hijacked aircraft did not normally think that the hijackers might want to use the plane as a kamakaze missile.
No, it is not normal procedure for pilots to give control of the aircraft to a terrorist but do you think that the pilots in this instance had any choice in the matter if two men came up behind them and slit their carotid arteries? People seated in for example a pilots seat are at a disadvantage when attacked from behind, especially if they are not expecting an attack.
Posted by: Carlyle Moulton at January 29, 2010 3:06 PM
I think the passages below form an excellent snap-shot of the current situation with 9/11 research...
Vincent Salandria was perhaps the first JFK researcher to come to believe that the truth of the assassination could be better approached by large-scale considerations than by focusing on details. Here is a brief selection from Gaeton Fonzi's 1993 book The Last Investigation that vividly expresses this sentiment, which has now been adopted by many researchers:
QUOTE -"By late 1975, when I was beginning work as a Government investigator on the Kennedy assassination, I had not seen or spoken with Vince Salandria for a number of years... I moved to Florida and, because of other demands, found little time to devote to the assassination. But Vince Salandria had become something of a legend among the growing circle of Warren Commission critics. Almost everyone who planned to write a book about the Kennedy assassination first journeyed to Philadelphia to probe Salandria for insights and perspective...
But before starting my new job, I returned to Philadelphia to draw upon Salandria's vast knowledge of the evidence and get his opinion about the most fruitful areas of investigation. Salandria was most cordial, and we spent a long winter Sunday talking. Yet I sensed a certain balking in his attitude, a feeling of disappointment in what I was about to begin. Eventually, he explained why he was no longer actively involved in pursuing an investigation of the assassination. It gave me a surprising insight into how far Salandria's thinking had evolved.
"I'm afraid we were misled," Salandria said sadly. "All the critics, myself included, were misled very early. I see that now. We spent too much time and effort microanalyzing the details of the assassination when all the time it was obvious, it was blatantly obvious that it was a conspiracy. Don't you think the men who killed Kennedy had the means to do it in the most sophisticated and subtle way? They chose not to. Instead, they picked the shooting gallery that was Dealey Plaza and did it in the most barbarous and openly arrogant manner. The cover story was transparent and designed not to hold, to fall apart at the slightest scrutiny. The forces that killed Kennedy wanted the message clear: 'We are in control and no one -- not the President, not Congress, nor any elected official -- no one can do anything about it.' It was a message to the people that their Government was powerless. And the people eventually got the message. Consider what happened since the Kennedy assassination. People see government today as unresponsive to their needs, yet the budget and power of the military and intelligence establishment have increased tremendously.
"The tyranny of power is here. Current events tell us that those who killed Kennedy can only perpetuate their power by promoting social upheaval both at home and abroad. And that will lead not to revolution but repression. I suggest to you, my friend, that the interests of those who killed Kennedy now transcend national boundaries and national priorities. No doubt we are dealing now with an international conspiracy. We must face the fact -- not waste any more time microanalyzing the evidence. That's exactly what they want us to do. They have kept us busy for so long. And I will bet, buddy, that is what will happen to you. They'll keep you very, very busy and eventually, they'll wear you down."
Posted by: Edo at January 29, 2010 3:08 PM
The planes were:
Boston to LA (x2)
Washington DC to LA
Newark to San Fransisco
While a few English people might point to the fact that these were domestic flights we are not, of course, talking about Stansead to Manchester or even Gatwick to Edinburgh.
These planes were flying from East USA to West USA and had large fuel reserves. It is quite likely the hijackers picked planes such as these for that purpose.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 3:11 PM
Edo,
What you quoted is utter crap.
Besides we're not talking about JFK. We're talking about 9/11.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 3:14 PM
I think Edo's post above is very insightful and explains why whoever murdered Dr David Kelly did such a bad job at making it look like suicide. They want people who might be tempted to blow the whistle on dark Goverment secrets to know that it could happen to them.
Maybe it also explains why Barak Obama has adopted the right wing corporatist agenda of the Bush administration, he knows that he can be whacked if he disappoints the oligarchs and it all will be explained as the action of a lone member of the KKK.
Posted by: Carlyle Moulton at January 29, 2010 3:19 PM
Thank you angrysoba. From you I'll take that as a compliment. Those who understand the jist of the quote know exactly why I posted it.
Posted by: Edo at January 29, 2010 3:28 PM
Glenn, once again you twist around the fact for your own purposes.
Why do you always seem to rely on hearsay upon hearsay? Why don't you just go to the source?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0409041pdb1.html
Yes, a hijacking was discussed. To gain the release of the blind sheik. You don't gain the release of the blind sheik by immediately destroying the plane.
If you read the second page of that memo (highly unlikely, of course), you will see that the FBI and the CIA were taking action. No plea for more resources.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 3:47 PM
If you want to talk about JFK, first read this:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
Then find a forum to dicuss it. (Or, perhaps ask Craig if he will make a post on it).
I hope to make a post on JFK at some point on my blog. But I haven't even craked open Vincent Bugliosi's tome yet.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:04 PM
"Thank you angrysoba. From you I'll take that as a compliment. Those who understand the jist of the quote know exactly why I posted it."
In other words you're being willfully obscure and think that by not explaining what you mean makes you very profound.
Great! Welcome to World of the Strange...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7XfsT0bxw
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:11 PM
"In other words you're being willfully obscure and think that by not explaining what you mean makes you very profound."
I know exactly what Edo means. And no, I'm not going to spell it out for you.
Posted by: frank verismo at January 29, 2010 4:18 PM
Frank,
What's your response to the fact that the verinage demolition technique exists?
Do you even have a response?
Should the French and Belgians immediately stop using such a technique because the demolition will stop midway?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 4:23 PM
"Maybe it also explains why Barak Obama has adopted the right wing corporatist agenda of the Bush administration, he knows that he can be whacked if he disappoints the oligarchs and it all will be explained as the action of a lone member of the KKK. "
This is rubbish! Barack Obama has had to become more mainstream for the same reasons that Clinton had to become more mainstream. Not because he was scared of being whacked but because of simple political expediency.
When JFK was assassinated, his successor turned out to be one of the most liberal, big-spending civil-rights endorsing presidents that the United States has ever had. He was an uber-Kennedy which commpletely undercuts the nonsense that the "Deep-state" had JFK whacked.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:24 PM
And if someone does take a shot at the President, it will likely believe some right-wing nutter screaming about FEMA camps and telling everyone to google building 7.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 4:30 PM
Frank,
By the way, you forgot about all the jet fuel. Don't you think that should be a factor? Do you know how much energy was contained in the fuel?
In any event, you'll always be able to point out a demolition gone wrong, which means that ninja warriors entered the World Trade Center prior to Sept. 11.
Apparently placing squibs by the windows. No reason, really. Just because.
But wouldn't all those folks with windowed offices at some point notice the ninja warriors placing squibs?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 4:33 PM
Larry, this is for you:
http://angrysoba.blogspot.com/2010/01/silly-goose-tony-gosling-on-77-bombings.html
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 4:33 PM
Angrysoba,
I have some relevant personal experience with the Towers - I closed two deals down there. Dozens and dozens of lawyers and even more support staff running around - that kind of thing. Well into the night. I slept for a few hours on a couch in a conference room. Not at night, but in the day, as I had been up all night.
I was also smoking like a chimney back then, and it caused some real problems for me. In any other building, I could just zip down, have a quick smoke, and zip right back up without anyone noticing if I did it right. At the WTC, that was not possible. Besides the two elevator banks, I also had to deal with WTC security every time. So if I went down to have a smoke (which was sadly unavoidable), I had to make sure that a support person at our hosting law firm would take a call from security to let me back up. In other words, every time I went back in, I had to go through the same procedure as an entirely new entrant.
In Truther world, such procedures didn't exist, or the bomb teams were also ninja warriors, or something else inspired by the movies, or whatever.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 4:40 PM
Larry,
I don't have so much experience but when I was about thirteen or fourteen I went to New York and went up to the top of one of the Twin Towers.
On the same trip I went to Washington D.C as my uncle was serving there as a liason officer in the British army. This was the first time I ever heard about the war of 1812 and remember being amused to hear that us Limeys beat the Americans in a war.
I can't remember much about my trip to the Twin Towers. I can't even remember how long it took to go up in the elevator.
I think I may have said, "Look at all those people down there! They look like ants!"
And my dad saying, "They are ants, we haven't gone up the elevator yet!"
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 5:07 PM
Talking about Ninja warriors:
"Councillor Yukihisa Fujita provided a stunning presentation to the National Diet of Japan. Now Asahi Weekly (circulation 268,000) has just published a four-page article with the headline "9/11, Terror in NYC – American Architects Group Demands Reinvestigation!"
In provocative contrast with the United States, whose major media outlets and legislative body won't touch the issue with a 30-foot steel column, Japan is now asking serious questions about how exactly the World Trade Center buildings were destroyed, and who was responsible for the attacks. And who can blame them? Twenty-four innocent citizens of Japan were killed in the terrorist atrocity of 9/11, and their deaths (together with the deaths of the citizens of more than ninety countries who perished on 9/11) pose real questions that require real answers.
"Asahi" means "morning sun" in Japanese. That the Asahi Shimbun (the national newspaper with a daily circulation of over eight million – making it one of the largest newspapers on our planet)."
http://tinyurl.com/ninja-warrior
Posted by: Mark Golding at January 29, 2010 5:07 PM
Angrysoba,
Yeah, it was you and those damn Canadians. And you burned the capitol! The capitol!
(I'll let you handle what few Japanese folks are asking questions about the WTC. I betcha not many more than were in that sarin gas cult.)
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 5:12 PM
The verinage demolition technique involves, simply, detatching a buildings vertical supports from their supported structures by forcing them out of position lateraly.
Proposing something similar could have occured in each of the WTC towers rapid collapses, would immediately be unusual since there is no reference to such an effect in any of the official reports.
Basicaly, if the steel cores of the towers were strong and rigid enough to have carried enough laterial force, from the impact site to their fixings at lower floors, they would certainly have the strength to remain sticking up in the sky after a resulting collapse of the rest of the structure.
Edo,
The Vincent Salandria quote was great:
"Salandria said sadly. "All the critics, myself included, were misled very early. I see that now. We spent too much time and effort microanalyzing the details of the assassination when all the time it was obvious, it was blatantly obvious that it was a conspiracy. Don't you think the men who killed Kennedy had the means to do it in the most sophisticated and subtle way? They chose not to. Instead, they picked the shooting gallery that was Dealey Plaza and did it in the most barbarous and openly arrogant manner. The cover story was transparent and designed not to hold, to fall apart at the slightest scrutiny. The forces that killed Kennedy wanted the message clear: 'We are in control and no one -- not the President, not Congress, nor any elected official -- no one can do anything about it.' It was a message to the people that their Government was powerless. And the people eventually got the message."
- That was the message I got when i watched the room full of assorted reporters watching a video of a man who was claimed to be OBL yet looked nothing like OBL, all act as they couldnt really see the difference.
Great posts from Vronsky and others too.
AngrySoba,
You could confuse your understanding of newtonian mechanics even more, if you could upgrade your bowling ball to a car battery, and sheets of paper to cobwebs :P
Clark - I really appreciate the fourmilab and noosphere links last night thanks, im going to let myself be distracted :)
Posted by: crab at January 29, 2010 5:19 PM
Mark Golding,
This is garbage. Almost no one in Japan believes that 9/11 was an inside job.
There's a woman called Yumi Kikuchi who believes in UFOs and that John Lennon was killed by the CIA who also advises Yukihisa Fujita that 9/11 was an inside job. Between them they also managed to get Richard Gage to come to Japan and have a slideshow. I met Gage twice while he was here and Yumi Kikuchi too.
A while back there was a left-wing newspaper called the jinmin shinbun (People's Newspaper) that believed that 9/11 was an inside job which hosted David Ray Griffin in a debate. But Griffin was so completely demolished in the debate that the editors of the paper, who had previously supported Griffin, realized he was full of shit and dropped their endorsement of him.
William Rodriguez came here too.
There are a few Japanese who are interested in the subject but most of those who I know are debunkers.
There is a university called Tsukuba in which the structural engineering faculty disagrees with the mechanism of collapse that NIST describes but agrees that 19 guys hijacked planes and flew them into buildings.
Good luck with your revolution anyway!
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 5:26 PM
"The verinage demolition technique involves, simply, detatching a buildings vertical supports from their supported structures by forcing them out of position lateraly.
Proposing something similar could have occured in each of the WTC towers rapid collapses, would immediately be unusual since there is no reference to such an effect in any of the official reports."
So it doesn't matter that there were visible tilts which show those blocks of ten or more stories came loose at their moorings?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 5:29 PM
"AngrySoba,
You could confuse your understanding of newtonian mechanics even more, if you could upgrade your bowling ball to a car battery, and sheets of paper to cobwebs :P"
Who cares?
If you know what happened to the Towers that aren't described in reputable engineering journals then how about you write a report explaining exactly what happened to those towers or finding someone who can and then submit them to such publications?
I mean, I know your level of physics and engineering would allow you to do that, right?
Or is there some international conspiracy that will prevent you even getting your work published by Pyongyang University Press?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 5:34 PM
Mark,
One more thing.
You know the Mormons?
Let's say that this year they convince 1 million Japanese people to be Mormoms. Won't remotely happen of course, but let's just say.
1 million more Japanese people believing in the Mormon myth does not in any way increase the likelihood that Jesus traveled from the Levant to America in a wooden submarine.
You understand that, right?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 5:34 PM
That being said, Mark Golding, Steven Jones does believe that Jesus came here on a submarine. And he believes that he can prove it, just like he believes thermite was planted in the Towers.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 5:37 PM
""Asahi" means "morning sun" in Japanese. That the Asahi Shimbun (the national newspaper with a daily circulation of over eight million – making it one of the largest newspapers on our planet).""
So what?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 5:43 PM
Hang on a minute...
"AngrySoba,
You could confuse your understanding of newtonian mechanics even more, if you could upgrade your bowling ball to a car battery, and sheets of paper to cobwebs :P"
How does Newtonian mechanics change depending on whether we're talking about bowling balls or car batteries?
You Truthers are so full of shit! Who the fuck do you think you impress? Your own narcissistic selves?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 5:47 PM
Edo: Excellent quote from Vincent Salandria, and that is precisely the point. There'll be plenty
of people who'll call you a "conspiracy loon" should you postulate that JFK (or Robert Kennedy,
or Dr. King) was not killed by a lone nut. The True believer will stand back with hands on hips,
demanding you prove (to their satisfaction) exactly who did the assassination and how, and
call you all sorts of names, and scoff and snicker all the while.
Likewise, I get asked (here) to explain precisely how the WTC buildings were demolished, and
what happened to the real plane (and passengers) if it didn't hit the Pentagon.
Instead of playing silly games, I need only reply that the Official Story is entirely unbelievable,
so the Official Story clearly needs a lot of work. It's not my onus to prove an alternative
theory if I doubt theirs. Indeed, anyone who accepts the testimony of Bush and his
henchmen as being the untrammeled truth has a level of credulity of which a Scientologist
could only dream.
I think this thread has proved very well that - far from the raving "loons" the True Believers
would have us 9/11 sceptics portrayed - we simply have a lot of very good questions and
observations that cannot be brushed off with hand-waving explanations and insults.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 6:13 PM
What "testimony of Bush"?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 6:19 PM
Glenn -
Look at this picture of the ValuJet crash and tell me where the plane is:
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/us/valujet/valujet.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 6:19 PM
You've brought up exactly no good questions, Glenn. You've brought up the same stupid crap from 2004.
I did find it fun that the squibs were resurrected.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 6:23 PM
"I think this thread has proved very well that - far from the raving "loons" the True Believers
would have us 9/11 sceptics portrayed - we simply have a lot of very good questions and
observations that cannot be brushed off with hand-waving explanations and insults. "
Glenn, all you do is ask a few questions. Ignore the answers and then say that you not listening to, or understanding the answers means you are correct.
Question 1.
Do you believe WTC1 and WTC2 and WTC7 were brought down by controlled demolitions?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 6:30 PM
To buy their version of events, all Angrysoba et al need to explain is how come newtonian mechanics went AWOL in NY on 9/11. Until then I'm with Glenn 100%
Posted by: Nikko at January 29, 2010 6:34 PM
Nikko,
99.9% of the structural engineers of the world disagree with you. Perhaps you think your understanding of structural engineering is superior.
Don't forget that such people learned a great deal about buildings on 911, as they always learn when buildings collapse.
But I imagine that 99.9% of the structural engineers of the world could never convince you on the sufficiency of the airplane strikes in collapsing the Towers.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 6:45 PM
"To buy their version of events, all Angrysoba et al need to explain is how come newtonian mechanics went AWOL in NY on 9/11."
Would you like to expand on that? Give me some useful figures and explain to me why no one has used such simple understanding of Newtonian mechanics to write a paper on the destruction of the Towers.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 6:47 PM
I don't know about you Larry, but I am getting the distinct impression that Truthers are a bunch of liars or bullshitters.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 6:49 PM
Larry
please quote the source of your statement that "99.9% of the structural engineers of the world disagree...". Until I see that and their reasoning I'll continue to believe that the official version of events does not stack up.
Posted by: Nikko at January 29, 2010 6:57 PM
The count so far, out of 344 posts
62 posts from Soba
54 posts from Larry
And I thought I was overdoing it with 14!
Quantity is no substitute for quality, fellows ;)
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 6:57 PM
"Would you like to expand on that? Give me some useful figures and explain to me why no one has used such simple understanding of Newtonian mechanics to write a paper on the destruction of the Towers"
It is not necessary to provide an alternative theory for the collapse to disprove the official version.
"I don't know about you Larry, but I am getting the distinct impression that Truthers are a bunch of liars or bullshitters."
Is this the best you can do for a convincing argument?
Posted by: Nikko at January 29, 2010 7:01 PM
Angrysoba - you see? They just change the subject!
Their movement is dead. The anti-war movement rejected them from the beginning.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 7:02 PM
"Is this the best you can do for a convincing argument?"
You and the rest are lying sacks of shit!
Explain how the towers came down!
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 7:07 PM
"The count so far, out of 344 posts
62 posts from Soba
54 posts from Larry
And I thought I was overdoing it with 14!
Quantity is no substitute for quality, fellows ;)"
Glenn, do you believe the Towers were brought down in a controlled demolition?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 7:09 PM
"It is not necessary to provide an alternative theory for the collapse to disprove the official version."
Angrysoba, I've encountered this silly statement here more than anywhere else.
Just a thought - perhaps the Holocaust deniers have made more of an impact in this context. After all, that is one of the Holocaust deniers' favorite things to say.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 7:10 PM
"Just a thought - perhaps the Holocaust deniers have made more of an impact in this context. After all, that is one of the Holocaust deniers' favorite things to say."
Holocaust deniers tend to focus in on weird and obscure details such as how a door might close. Truthers do something similar.
BUT Truthers claim that the Towers COULD NOT have come down in the way they did without explosives.
Amazingly there are thousands and thousands of people all over the Internet who know that fact and yet there is not one of them who know enough to have written a paper explaining it and able to get it published in an engineering journal.
Why not?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 7:17 PM
Soba wrote "do you believe the Towers were brought down in a controlled demolition?"
Well of course - things like that wouldn't just demolish themselves!
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 7:30 PM
"Well of course - things like that wouldn't just demolish themselves!"
What demolished the buildings?
TNT?
Thermite?
Nanothermite?
Could you at least give us all a hint and explain where you have been for the last nine years?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 7:35 PM
Glenn, you do it very well but its already been covered.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ygsq7bo
Plausible theories
* distributed explosives
* thermobaric devices
* thermite preparations
Larry&Soba
There has been an intellegent 911 discussion on craigmurray.org.uk besides your worst efforts.
All you two eegits can do about it now is try and relieve yourselves at the end of it, with your characteristic pram rattling, inane whataboutery and randiforum linkages. Who wants or needs to repond to your sorry charade? Ambassadors for sense and sanity?? The rest of us can all actualy agree to disagree. Have a look at how 'loons get on - read your own posts!
Posted by: crab at January 29, 2010 7:45 PM
Hey Soba... you ask why someone wouldn't be able to publish a paper
which hypothesised an explanation of why the towers came down.
The answer, of course, is that to do so would not be good for the career
of the editor who accepted such a paper. Because that editor would be
very heavily leaned on.
Not wishing to change subject, but you must know full well that self-
censorship takes place all the time on all matter of issues, from Palestine
to US-trained deathsquads. I recall reading a journalist saying that if
we were to write an article critical of Israel, he might as well clear his
desk the moment it was submitted. Same has happened with people
that want to speak out on the events of 911 - academics and engineers
have been dismissed.
What is more curious is why engineers and architects are not filling the
pages of their respective magazines, urgently figuring out how to
retrofit all existing steel framed buildings, and why safety codes have
not demanded that nobody occupies them until doing so.
Then again, here's a building nobody commented on earlier which
burned rather well without collapsing, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B1OnhSucP8
You can tell the heat from the colour of the flames, and they were no
less hot than fires in the WTC buildings.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 7:47 PM
"Hey Soba... you ask why someone wouldn't be able to publish a paper
which hypothesised an explanation of why the towers came down.
The answer, of course, is that to do so would not be good for the career
of the editor who accepted such a paper. Because that editor would be
very heavily leaned on."
Don't be ridiculous! You've been reading too many US isolationist/survivalist sites and come to the conclusion that if you can't work in Buttfuck Alabama you can't work nowhere!
Don't be silly. I asked YOU! YOU! YOU! and all the other anonymous brilliant minds to explain how those towers were destroyed and none of you Truthers can explain it because you're all liars, charlatans and fantasists.
Why can't you get a paper published in Japan? China? North Korea? Iran? France?
Because you are sucking on the stupid pipe that Alex jones fed to you.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 7:57 PM
Larry,
Do you specialize in Chapter 11 bankruptcy - how come you got so much time to spend here? Are you a paid distraction or just a flag waver.
I was goin to say 'with respect' but of course if someone throws you a bundle to talk shit - who needs respect.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 29, 2010 7:57 PM
Why do you keep bringing up Chapter 11? I don't get it.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 8:04 PM
Glenn,
You and the other Truthers are just a bunch of liars and fantasists.
Deep down I am sure you know it.
Always an excuse about why you and all the other supercilious eggheads can't get their papers published.
Why don't you just admit that you are a liar and you don't know what you are talking about. Just like MJ and Tim Groves.
You say that you know more about physics and structural engineering than the experts and yet none of you have ever written a paper on the subject and none of you ever will because none of you have any idea what you are talking about.
You're a bunch of fantasy dissidents. Like David Ray Griffin.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 8:06 PM
"Why can't you get a paper published in Japan? China? North Korea? Iran? France?"
Plus, there's another venue.
It's used by other silly 911 nuts to disseminate their so-called "peer reviewed" papers.
If it's good work (relative to other truther scholarship, that's not too difficult), truthers would love to disseminate it.
Here's the other venue.
It has a name.
Here it is.
The Internet
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 8:06 PM
And you ask Glenn simple questions and he can't answer them because he's afraid to.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 8:07 PM
Larry,
Well you wouldn't get it as a 2 bit lawyer - as demonstrated by your shit posts - I ask again - are you being paid to chat shit here? simple yes/no.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 29, 2010 8:11 PM
"What is more curious is why engineers and architects are not filling the
pages of their respective magazines, urgently figuring out how to
retrofit all existing steel framed buildings, and why safety codes have
not demanded that nobody occupies them until doing so."
I have to admit - that one is original!!!!!!!!!!!
Listen here - the idea is to get terrorists to not fly into buildings in the first place. Regardless of whether a building is completely demolished, it's still a bad thing to have a plane fly into it. Yet, you would expect all buildings to go through the cost and non-use for being able to withstand thousands of gallons of jet fuel pouring into their veins (not to mention the plane impacts).
This argument actually goes the other way - why the fuck do you think they put fireproofing on steel columns? Should they stop doing that?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 8:13 PM
crab: Thanks, and you're right.
(very) Angrysoba: Calm down, mate, you're going to fret yourself into an early grave.
You've got the entire government behind you, the established MSN, most people don't
give a toss anyway, and I'm nobody at all writing on a free blog-space Craig Murray
has kindly provided.
So why are you go angry? What are you so concerned about, just because somebody,
somewhere doesn't agree with you?
And you've come nowhere near answering my post on inertia (January 28, 2010 11:05PM),
apart from bringing up some utter silliness about bowling balls and paper.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 8:16 PM
As to me, this is why I'm sometimes angry:
1. I had one friend and one acquaintance die in the Towers. They found my friend's head some weeks later in the pile.
2. I have friends in the FDNY.
3. 911 troof doesn't bother me in the States, but it bothers me when I travel. I have family in Europe. Since I'm American, people want to bring this up all the time. And it's the same rehashing of silly claims.
4. I hate lies, and I hate arrogant douchebags.
5. 911 troof only contributes to problems between the West and Islam.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 8:20 PM
"Well you wouldn't get it as a 2 bit lawyer - as demonstrated by your shit posts - I ask again - are you being paid to chat shit here? simple yes/no."
Who the fuck is paying you?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 8:21 PM
"I ask again - are you being paid to chat shit here? simple yes/no."
What would whether I practice in the area of corporate bankruptcy have to do with whether I'm getting paid to chat here? You're not making any sense, and I'm sure you're fellow truthers would agree.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 8:23 PM
Larry,
As I thought - silence and emotional crap.
FDNY have suffered lung and other problems, what do you care - have you represented any for compensation? again yes/no is all I need
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 29, 2010 8:28 PM
"And you've come nowhere near answering my post on inertia (January 28, 2010 11:05PM),
apart from bringing up some utter silliness about bowling balls and paper."
That's because you don't even know what you are talking about.
Now, you say that engineers and physicists are too scared to lose their day jobs by writing a paper on how the twin towers came down (they might get leaned on). Yet, someone like you who is much braver than those pussies and also has the requisite knowledge about physics still won't publish a paper.
I have to wonder why...
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 8:29 PM
"FDNY have suffered lung and other problems, what do you care - have you represented any for compensation? again yes/no is all I need"
Mark, there are many conspiracy theorists who have implicated the FDNY. Those people, such as Alex Jones, are scum.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 29, 2010 8:31 PM
"FDNY have suffered lung and other problems, what do you care - have you represented any for compensation? again yes/no is all I need"
it would be a bit difficult for me to represent a member of the FDNY from my current location in the Midwest, wouldn't it?
are you under the impression that they are not getting the proper legal help?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 8:33 PM
Hey Larry mate,
"I have friends in the FDNY." yeh and I've got friends in Iraq - wot u done to help your friends Larry eh? Oh chapter 11? Being paid?
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 29, 2010 8:53 PM
Hey Soba... you didn't answer my post on inertia (apart from to come up with that tripe
about bowling balls) because I don't know what I'm talking about, eh?
That's fine - just please refer me to any point in that post which is factually incorrect.
And no weasling with the likes of "It all is! ... phhhttt... phhhttt ", please.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 8:54 PM
Larry,
While you ponder, I'm some place else.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 29, 2010 8:59 PM
Larry,
I know I was pretty hard on you early this morning (in my time zone), so I want you to know that I'm sincerely sorry about your friend and your aquaintance that you lost on 911.
I had speculated that you might have lost someone that day. I can understand now why this matters so much to you.
I consider your post at January 29, 2010 8:20 PM to be the most serious things you've written about 911.
I wish you well.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 9:00 PM
Mark,
"wot u done to help your friends Larry eh? Oh chapter 11? Being paid?"
Please please tell me what corporate bankruptcy has to do with 911, me posting here, the FDNY, Craig Murray, JFK, the Joooos, anything.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 9:06 PM
Larry,
911 is a hard thing to argue about - hard on the emotions, I mean, because it was such an extreme event. Ironically, that makes it very EASY to get involved in arguing about it, but (and because) it fires the emotions.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 9:13 PM
Larry,
you may find it easier to cope with "Truthers" if you consider that their obsession with pushing certain ideas is their reaction to the extremity of that event, too.
I think that us humans don't really cope with emotional extremity very well. Events like this are (thank goodness) situations that we don't get much practice with.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 9:22 PM
Clark: You don't actually believe the soab when he says
"1. I had one friend and one acquaintance die in the Towers. They found my friend's head some
weeks later in the pile."
That's a steaming crock. I'll stick my neck out here, and say Larry is lying his miserable arse
off. Perhaps he could post some reference to any find of detached heads, and the chances
of "a mate" of his being found this way are approximating zero.
ok, Larry, I'll give you a fulsome apology if you prove me wrong. What was the name of this
mate of yours? Let's have one of your legendary rapid responses, and we can look up to see
whether his head was indeed found.
Posted by: glenn at January 29, 2010 10:04 PM
Glenn,
you just can't do that. Think. If it's true, then what you're asking is incredibly insensitive. If it's false, then telling a lie like that is a matter for Larry's conscience alone - it'll catch up with him.
Remember Glenn, Larry is in the 'States - he's more closely connected to 911 than me - I'm assuming you're in the UK.
But yes, I do believe him, because the other four points make a lot of sense, too.
The values surrounding 911 are more important than the physics. And my physics is pretty good, it was my best subject.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 10:15 PM
Jaded:
Ok, we are nearing the end of the game and the shills have been completely overrun by the brills. It has now turned into a rout and the shills have no hope coming back from 6-1 down in the last few minutes. I will soon have to put them out of their misery and blow the final whistle. Nice try though lads. It's the taking part that counts... ;-)
Posted by: Jaded. at January 29, 2010 10:18 PM
Glenn, I refuse to be offended.
I once made the mistake of telling truthers about my friend, which is why I rarely do it now. They asked for his name, and I made the mistake of telling them his name. They were already convinced that I was a secret agent man, so they went back to confirm that my friend had existed .... in any event, that exchanged left a bad taste in my mouth. And I can't be sure that those truther assholes did not violate the privacy of my friend's family.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 10:20 PM
"and the chances
of "a mate" of his being found this way are approximating zero."
Remains of individuals were found months after the event.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 10:22 PM
Strange that human remains were found and one of the hijackers passport, but not the aircraft black boxes
Posted by: Nikko at January 29, 2010 10:29 PM
Nikko:
More on the black boxes:
http://911myths.com/index.php/The_Black_Boxes
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 10:40 PM
This sobering exchange brings it back to what is important: people's lives. Families destroyed by war, whether it be in the USA, Iraq, Palestine, the UK or Israel. We have Larry's terrible and moving story of his friend's death, we have Mark Golding's shocking, gut-wrenching pictures of burned and maimed children in Iraq and this brings back my own memories of the aftermath of Lockerbie, during which I assisted with some of the post-mortems (in the curling-rink), it was horrifying, surreal. Someday, I may write in detail about it, but to be frank, beyond a mention like this, I never have, not even sublimated in my fiction, perhaps because there is a certain respect for the dead and I wouldn't want to be seen (by myself) to be exploiting them in some way. Whatever our views of who did what, I think it is important that anyone who cares about people all should try and work for peace. This may sound woolly, but as has been proven, it is the most difficult path of all, and is the one which requires oceans of stamina. It does not exclude - and indeed, must include - striving for justice - but not vengeance. Vengeance gets us nowhere.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at January 29, 2010 10:48 PM
I was referring to Larry's post of 1040pm in my last post, of course. Steelback's irruption is unwarranted and strikes me as being motivated by someone who wants to bring down the site. I have no idea what the link s/he posts is about but the title sounds abhorrent and a kind of poison-trap. I speak as an anti-Zionist, btw.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at January 29, 2010 10:51 PM
Larry
talk was of the towers - thanks for confirming that black boxes were not found there
Posted by: Nikko at January 29, 2010 10:53 PM
Nikko, the lack of black boxes does not even rise to the level of an anomaly. Did you happen to notice the big fires and the towers falling?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 11:02 PM
That's right folks - Craig Murray is officially part of the conspiracy!!!!!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 11:03 PM
(and I do find it funny that other truthers feel that their trutherism is superior to the trutherism of people like Steelback)
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 11:04 PM
Larry, if human remains can be found then certainly a steel box designed to survive an impact. You need to make your mind up what you believe
Posted by: Nikko at January 29, 2010 11:08 PM
Suhayl Saadi,
thank you for the peace you bring.
Posted by: Clark at January 29, 2010 11:13 PM
This has all turned to shit.
Posted by: Edo at January 29, 2010 11:30 PM
Nikko, so what are you saying? That they found the black boxes and then hid them? Why would your Men in Black do this? Why would it be necessary to do this to support the conspiracy?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 11:47 PM
And Nikko, it really depends on where things were when the fire and collapse happened, doesn't it?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 29, 2010 11:48 PM
Goodnight.
Posted by: Clark at January 30, 2010 12:13 AM
That pretty much draws this chapter to an end. Soba - and you other True believers - you
said you'd already posted some strong stuff for your case, but nobody replied to it in other
threads. Very possibly, because the "debate" got drawn out a long time over many posts.
But we're here now.
I take it you concede the - modesty aside - concluding point about inertia. You've had all
day and made dozens of posts but done nothing to even suggest a flaw in my argument of
January 28, 2010 11:05 PM. That means your favoured theory (i.e. believing the
government 100%) cannot hold. Squealing about my lack of published papers does
not counter that fact.
What it comes down to at the end of the day, is that you really believe that 19 Magic Arabs
managed to pull off this tremendous feat, even suspending the laws of physics for a day,
getting every law of man and nature on their side, and bring the mightiest nation in
history to its knees. And you're very angry with anyone who doesn't share your rather
staggering credulity.
Yes indeed, 19 Magic Arabs can do such a thing. But secret services? Some dark, stealthy
group operating on behalf of the monied interests, the Powers That Be, a rogue squad?
Why, how absolutely preposterous! Such a thing could never happen. Magic Arabs can
do _anything_, as we know full well. But how could any internal arm of the real power
of society be even conceived as having done _the exact same thing_ ? Of course our
agencies couldn't have done it - we don't have caves in Afghanistan from whence such
fiendishly diabolical plots can be forged, just for starters.
I mean... these vast interests wanted a new Pearl Harbour (viz, PNAC), wanted an
excuse for war, wanted a shift towards control through fear, even wrote and published
their requirements, but - nah! - that's just impossible in sobaworld. Only crazed non-
practicing Muslims could do that. Because they are Magic, you see.
Couple of hundred thousand bucks, and Magic Arabs can fly like angels, fight like
daemons, navigate like homing pigeons, and die like hero warriors. Even if they can't
stay off the sleaze, booze, pork and women, and keep their heads down just before
their most important mission ever just days before.
But the idea that _we_ could engineer the same... don't make me laugh! Not at any price!
*
This is the thread for 9/11, so please - Soba etc. - bring your strongest stuff on here
if you feel aggrieved that something dead good went unanswered.
If you ever have a killer point, I'd concede it. The rest of you ask "what would it take
to convince you [that the government is telling the whole truth]". I might ask in return,
since you bring it up, what would give you pause before believing every last word the
government tells you like the Good Germans that you obviously are?
Posted by: glenn at January 30, 2010 1:11 AM
Suhayl - "[working for peace] may sound woolly, but as has been proven, it is the most difficult path of all"
Did you ever hear of General Rondon, of Brazil ? Rhetorical question, I want to tell it even if you do.
Story seems to be (I don't know a whole lot about it, but so far as I can make out ...), 100-ish years ago, Brazil was using its army to build communications infrastructure, telegraph lines etc, and they sent him off into the unknown Amazon headwaters to do that. Full of unknown numbers of people of an unknown number of unknown tribes of unknown locals. So they gave him an army, to do it with. And he gave them a standing order, to the effect of "these people won't have a clue who you are, or what to do about it. And we don't know what they might do about that. You may *not* kill them. If necessary, you must allow them to kill you, before you hurt them".
I think, over a hundred of his people did get killed, in the course of their getting to know each other.
And it made him a national hero, and the Brazilian state invented the post of Marshal in order to award it to him, and that area is now called Rondonia.
(I rather fear that not everybody that came afterwards shared such attitudes).
I can't find a whole lot about it. I guess there could be a lot more if I read Portuguese.
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 30, 2010 1:45 AM
Clark - "you just can't do that."
Agree. He says something real, and this reaction isn't going to encourage him to do it again, or make him glad he gave the other stuff a rest.
This is an unexpectedly interesting thread. But it's still got a way to go to catch up with "What We Did On Craig's Holidays".
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 30, 2010 1:51 AM
Suhayl - "Steelback's irruption is unwarranted and strikes me as being motivated by someone who wants to bring down the site. I have no idea what the link s/he posts is about"
But, hey, if it tells other likeminded people not to come here, that doesn't sound bad to me.
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 30, 2010 1:53 AM
"Even if they can't
stay off the sleaze, booze, pork and women, and keep their heads down just before
their most important mission ever just days before."
Glenn, OK, so you believe that lie as well.
You'll believe any lie as long as it fits with your conclusion.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 2:17 AM
"19 Magic Arabs"
Prior to Sept. 11, standard practice was for airline crews and hostages to stay quiet. There's all sorts of evidence of that. However, we know how passengers changed their minds when they found out the planes were to be used as missiles rather than negotiating tools. The passengers rammed the cockpit.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 2:22 AM
Glenn,
PNAC discussed a "new Pearl Harbor" within the context of rebuilding America's defenses. It had nothing to do with invading other countries. And they released that document, didn't they? They weren't hiding it, so it wasn't some super-secret plot that only you, James Bond 007, could find out.
Glenn, I'm starting to believe that you can't read. You've had years and years to read that PNAC document. Are you able to understand what it says by reading the words? It should be easy.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 2:25 AM
Three star "larry" alert! Interesting post made recently!
Posted by: glenn at January 30, 2010 2:28 AM
Glenn:
1. The silly 911 truth movement has failed. The very vibrant anti-war movement wants nothing to do with you; they find you're quite silly fantasists, and that you distract from the anti-war message. Even Craig Murray doesn't back you up. Noam Chomsky is sick of your silliness.
2. Every single one of your claims was invented and pushed by the American right wing. Is this something you're proud of?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 2:28 AM
Glenn, look at this picture of the ValuJet crash - WHERE IS THE PLANE! OH NO! CONSPIRACY!
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/us/valujet/valujet.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 3:05 AM
Angrysoba,
Going out getting drunk on a Friday evening and then crawling back to the keyboard in the small hours to talk dirty to strangers on the internet — aren't you ashamed?
I stopped arguing with you before because I couldn't put up with the spite that all to often weaves its way into you comments. You say it comes from frustration and you excuse it on those grounds. I implore you to get it under control while you are still young because if you go on like this it will come dominate your character in time.
"Except they don't appear to be controlled demolitions because we didn't hear any detonations of explosives. Or see any flashes of explosives. Nor has any controlled demolition I have ever seen look like the Twin Towers collapses."
Have you considered that there has never been any controlled demolition like what took place at the Twin Towers? They were singular structures and they may have been knocked down by a unique method. IF IT WAS A DEMOLITION, then most of the big explosives and incendiaries would have gone off in the central core area in and around the elevator shafts, which is why they wouldn't have been visible from outside.
You are quite wrong to say that "'we' didn't hear any detonations of explosives" unless you are referring to the royal 'we' of you and Larry. I saw and heard some on video, and quite a lot of eye-witnesses reported seeing and hearing them. There's a big difference between "not many" and "none at all". Even a dozen flashes low down the towers in the seconds before and at the onset of the collapse is a dozen more than your hypothesis calls for.
"As far as I know this is the scientific method in operation. You find some initial facts. Develop a hypothesis and then test it. The hypothesis must be capable of being falsified. If not it is impossible to test because testing can only confirm the hypothesis making it meaningless.
NIST only gave the explanation for collapse initiation, which was all it was tasked to do.
It seems clear that the top stories were no longer connected to the perimeter columns meaning that it was now falling through the floor which, as Leslie Robertson said, couldn't possibly hold the weight of so many stories.
Once the first floor gave way it fell to the next story, which was unsurprisingly no more able to support the weight of the descending upper stories and so on, down to the ground."
Unsurprising for you, perhaps, but shocking for almost everyone who watched it live including Peter Jennings and Dan Rather, if I remember correctly. So why didn't the collapse end with the descending upper stories sitting on a pile of rubble? Please go on. This is fascinating.
"The verinage demolition technique..."
The term is new to me but the principle is straightforward. You linked to a video that shows how it can be used to bring down a building by disloging all the columns on one floor in uinson to initiate a collapse and let gravity do the rest. I linked to another video that shows how even when the basic technique of dislodging all the columns is employed (in the Hackney case they removed all the columns on a two-storey section simultaneously) it doesn't necessarily work.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is htat the verinage technique is not applied to tall steel-frame structures because it would not work on them. Even with intrisically weaker and less robust reinforced concrete structures, verinage collapses slow down after the first jolt as the resistance of the lower structure absorbs the momentum of the decending block faster than gravity can add to it, slowing its progress and eventually bringing it to a stop.
I think that bringing up "verinage" in the context of the WTC collapses is a bit of an own goal for your non-demolition theory because such a collapse would result in an initial jolt (not observed at the WTC) and because such strong steel-framed structures would resist the collapse sufficiently to stop it from proceeding all the way to the bottom.
So in the spirit of chivalry, like helping an adversary get up during a duel when he's been tripped over by his own shoelaces, I'm going to offer you Ryan Mackey, who knows a thing or two about tension, compression, shear, torque and torsion, not to mention why things fall down and why they don't.
Tony's considered opinion is that the WTCs came down without the use of explosives and I think that anyone who wants to argue against that is going to have their work cut out in debunking his ideas. I'm not saying he's correct, but he is challenging. Sadly, he's a bit of a JREFeree too, which makes him insufferable and obnoxious at times. But he definitely isn't boring and he just might be right.
www.911myths.com/images/c/c6/Rm_hardfire_szamboti_ann.pdf
Ryan is known for his debunking of Debunking 9/11 Debunking. But he himself has been debunked by another debunking Ryan — Kevin Ryan.
ww.journalof911studies.com/letters/b/MackeyLetter.pdf -
And so it goes.
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 30, 2010 3:15 AM
A five-star "larry" alert!
Larry - be useful for a moment, before your function is replaced by someone
more competent. Reference a public document referring to a decapitated
head being found and identified in the wreckage of the Twin Towers.
Perhaps you're going to tell me that that sort of thing isn't going to get a
mention even in a local paper, given how much you detest anything
suggesting salacious detail in the US an' all?
Yet this really happened - a head was found, and it happened it belong to
your personal mate.
Gosh, given your record, why should anyone doubt that for a moment?
Soba: This is the personal you tie yourself to, who just lies, and lies, and lies.
Posted by: glenn at January 30, 2010 3:22 AM
Right. Kevin Ryan. The water tester.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 3:23 AM
"Reference a public document referring to a decapitated
head being found and identified in the wreckage of the Twin Towers."
Why would I? It wouldn't change your mind about anything.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 3:25 AM
Larry on proof; " Why would I? It wouldn't change your mind about anything."
But Larry... possibly it might make the casual reader think that maybe,
just this one time, that you weren't completely full of it?
Oh, drat that you always have the perfect excuse to never providing even
a shred of proof! Huh... guess we'll have to take you at your word then.
Posted by: glenn at January 30, 2010 3:32 AM
Larry,
I too have lost "loved ones" in violent circumstances, but I don't like to talk about it. We English learn young to keep a stiff upper lip. We don't show our feelings as freely as you Yanks — it's not the done thing — but we do have them. Apart from Angrysoba, that is, but then again he's got a few pints of Scottish highlander blood in him.
Interesting link to the ValueJet crash.
But I fail to see what precisely is your point?
The plane crashed into a swamp in the Everglades. After several months of effort, 75% of the plane was recovered, and despite the presence of aligators 36 bodies were recovered too.
How does this compare with the UA-93 case? How much of that plane was recovered? How many bodies? How many aligators hindered the search?
Everyone can have hours of fun reading about UA-93, here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x37066
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 30, 2010 3:38 AM
"I too have lost "loved ones" in violent circumstances, but I don't like to talk about it. We English learn young to keep a stiff upper lip. We don't show our feelings as freely as you Yanks — it's not the done thing — but we do have them."
As if I didn't see that coming. In a previous thread, Clark wondered whether or not I lost someone on Sept. 11. I didn't respond. Above, Glenn asked angrysoba why he was so angry. I threw in my two cents with a very quick statement. Otherwise, on no thread have I mentioned losing a friend. At another time I did mention it in the company of truthers, but that was also a situation of me being pressed to state why I'm so concerned with 911.
And then I hear the same boring British anti-Americanism. Of course, it's of the lighter variety, but it's still ethnic stupidity on your part.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 3:47 AM
"Why would I? It wouldn't change your mind about anything."
Why would you want to change Glenn's mind about anything?
You brought up the subject of the head, and now you won't give us a little bit of head info. You're such a tease.
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 30, 2010 3:50 AM
My point about the ValuJet crash was that anyone can point to pictures of it and say "Where is the plane?" and build a naive conspiracy merely on the lack of pictures. That was in response to Glenn's anomaly hunting (but then, they're not anomalies).
Much was recovered of Flight 93. Not as much as the ValuJet crash, but the terrain was entirely different, so it would be quite odd for the recoveries to match exactly.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 3:53 AM
Tim Groves:
"now you won't give us a little bit of head info."
Tim, I think there's something a bit sick about you.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 3:56 AM
"And then I hear the same boring British anti-Americanism. Of course, it's of the lighter variety, but it's still ethnic stupidity on your part."
Now you've cut me to the quick and wounded my vanity. (Sob!) We bigots have feelings too, you know. "Ethnic stupidity": That's a new one for the PC lexicon. I'll have to remember that and find out under what circumstances I am allowed to use it. Not against Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims or the Irish, obviously, but it should come in very handy for flagellating my fellow non-hyphenated Snow Whiteys.
Posted by: at January 30, 2010 3:58 AM
"That's a new one for the PC lexicon"
I rather think that, when I describe British anti-Americanism as "ethnic stupidity", that I'm the one undermining any PC lexicon.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 4:04 AM
"Tim, I think there's something a bit sick about you."
I tend to play "tit for tat". When people gross me out, I do my best to reciprocate. But if they make nice, I can make nice too.
I see and accept as valid your point about the Valuejet and UA flight 93 crashes. Although I haven't seen very much of what was recovered of Flight 93 and I would have liked to see what could be picked up of the fuselage put together in a hanger so that the plane could have been indentified clearly enough for all to see, as is usually the case. But in any case I've never tried to look deeply at Flight 93.
Now, isn't it refression to hear somebody say "I accept your point." You know, in all my years crossing swords with Angrysoba, I don't think he's ever done me such a courtesy. Of course, it could be because he's never been wrong, or more likely because he's never noticed that he's been wrong. On the other hand, I could be wrong abut him.
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 30, 2010 4:10 AM
"When people gross me out,"
but I thought you were English and kept a stiff upper lip about such matters.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 4:13 AM
"I rather think that, when I describe British anti-Americanism as "ethnic stupidity", that I'm the one undermining any PC lexicon."
I rather think that part of the problem is that you are playing by a set of culturally constructed and subliminally absorbed and internalized rules that you are assuming to be universals, so that you are apt to get judgemental when people a different culture fail to conform to your rules, which they couldn't expect to be aware of in the first place by virtue of never having learned them.
But no need to apologize. I do the same thing myself all the time.
Posted by: at January 30, 2010 4:16 AM
That blank one above was me.
"but I thought you were English and kept a stiff upper lip about such matters."
That's the big issue, isn't it? Whether to swallow or spit, or in Angrysoba's case, barf it out.
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 30, 2010 4:19 AM
"I rather think that part of the problem is that you are playing by a set of culturally constructed and subliminally absorbed and internalized rules that you are assuming to be universals,"
Certain rules are universals. It's immensely predictable that some people from every tribe will condescend to individuals of other tribes on the basis of perceived tribal superiority. I believe there is ethical value in destroying this impulse; in fact, if all humans gave up on this and other manifestations of early tribalism, we'd all experience greater peace and prosperity.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 4:39 AM
Tim Groves writes: "[Ryan Mackey] just might be right."
I accept your point.
Actually, I made a friend request to Tony Szamboti about two or three months ago on JREF and he accepted.
I have watched Mackey and Szamboti on Hardfire and I have to say Ryan Mackey won that exchange.
The point that I keep trying to make and which no Truther seems to accept is that the Towers didn't simply crush down like a coke can "through the path of least resistance". The top of the towers had been observed to tilt. This means the mass was not being supported by the supporting columns but going through he floor itself.
They appear on Hardfire, the New York Libertarian TV channel with the rockin' soundtrack and the fashion guru Ronald Weick!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1u3KO9kUdE
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 4:49 AM
When I heard about 9/11, I picked an argument with a couple of policemen by overtaking them dangerously before swinging in front of them through the gates of the mosque.
A debate ensued. I said, the twin towers couldn't have been done by Muslims. It wasn't the mindset of a Muslim to cast aside the fear that Allah might count such an attack as murder.
I was in cloud cuckoo land, was the conclusion of the local bobbies, who were going round in an old LDV checking the local mosques, as it happened. The elder from the mosque agreed with them, firmly.
I do believe that government agencies, including foreign government agencies operating in Western countries, infiltrate groups and incite them to questionable acts. I remain exhilarated by the sheer defiance of 9/11.
I haven't been on the bad end of the local police as a Muslim in Birmingham, because they are trained to conceal the comprehensive surveillance systems of MI6 in a fog of surface respect.
I try not to speculate about things about which I have no knowledge. Those who know US culture seem to be saying that the 9/11 plot would have unravelled if it had been an inside job. They are assuming that all policemen are the same. In the UK this is not the case.
In our Metropolitan areas, prejudice is strictly concealed and there is a strong liaison between the spooks and the bobbies on the beat. They know where we are coming from and we know where they are coming from. If anybody wants to do something heroic for Islam, they are ready to change it into something heroic for the police and security services.
The rest of the time we carry on taking not notice. Except when they try and fool us they aren't using technology. They are, and there is absolutely no doubt at all that they knew about 9/11 in the US, if Birmingham is anything to go by. But of course that's cloud cuckoo land .wink wink.
Posted by: anno at January 30, 2010 4:52 AM
Yeah, Alex Jones occasionally has someone from his message board start shooting people. I imagine anno will crack when some poor female kafir looks at him the wrong way.
The new Axis of Evil: the British Left / the Muslim Right / the American Right
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 5:05 AM
"The term is new to me but the principle is straightforward. You linked to a video that shows how it can be used to bring down a building by disloging all the columns on one floor in uinson to initiate a collapse and let gravity do the rest. I linked to another video that shows how even when the basic technique of dislodging all the columns is employed (in the Hackney case they removed all the columns on a two-storey section simultaneously) it doesn't necessarily work"
It doesn't matter that demolitions don't necessarily work. The point in my posting of verinage is that they CAN.
I could say that someone getting hit by a speeding car won't necessarily die but citing examples is not sufficient to prove that someone can't die if hit by a speeding car.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 5:12 AM
"I think that bringing up "verinage" in the context of the WTC collapses is a bit of an own goal for your non-demolition theory because such a collapse would result in an initial jolt (not observed at the WTC) and because such strong steel-framed structures would resist the collapse sufficiently to stop it from proceeding all the way to the bottom."
Where do you get this idea from? The verinage demolitions don't show such "jolts". Maybe they do slow down but the collapse of the towers weren't exactly the same as the examples in the videos.
It is highly impractical to use exact ananlogies with the Twin towers because you would need to build new ones and attempt to inflict the same damage using a plane.
Of course, even if you did Truthers could still claim that it was rebuilt using pre-planted explosives/thermite.
"You are quite wrong to say that "'we' didn't hear any detonations of explosives" unless you are referring to the royal 'we' of you and Larry. I saw and heard some on video"
Then you won't mind re-posting the video of the audible explosions.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 5:17 AM
"We English learn young to keep a stiff upper lip. We don't show our feelings as freely as you Yanks — it's not the done thing — but we do have them. Apart from Angrysoba, that is, but then again he's got a few pints of Scottish highlander blood in him."
Irish actually.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 5:18 AM
"Irish actually."
Maybe we can get Tim to chart out for us his understanding of how stiff people keep their upper lip according to tribe (or tribal blood).
Of course, it won't really work as he's already stated that my mentioning the recovery of my friend's head "grossed him out."
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 5:22 AM
"A debate ensued. I said, the twin towers couldn't have been done by Muslims. It wasn't the mindset of a Muslim to cast aside the fear that Allah might count such an attack as murder."
Well, fine but there are plenty of people who call themselves Muslims who will blow up, for example, crowds of people watching volleyball tournaments.
There are plenty of people who call themselves Christians who will blow up wedding parties.
Your reasoning doesn't mean that Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed weren't behind the 9/11 attacks.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 5:25 AM
Angrysoba: "Once the first floor gave way it fell to the next story, which was unsurprisingly no more able to support the weight of the descending upper stories and so on, down to the ground."
Tim Groves :"Unsurprising for you, perhaps, but shocking for almost everyone who watched it live including Peter Jennings and Dan Rather, if I remember correctly. So why didn't the collapse end with the descending upper stories sitting on a pile of rubble? Please go on. This is fascinating."
It IS unsurprising that the floor below that at which the collapse began wasn't appreciably stronger than the floor above it.
Do you really think that a floor designed for people to walk on was designed to hold the weight of a ten to fifteen story block of steel and concrete? No? Then it was unsurprising that each successive floor was no less able than the one above it to hold that weight.
I think you're reading with a broad brush and not taking any time to absorb what I am actually saying and instead responding to what you think or hope I am saying.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 5:31 AM
Also, the verinage technique shows that the building is NOT left with a big block sitting on a pile of rubble. The upper stories also smash to pieces. You did watch that video, right?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 5:32 AM
One thing on thermite that has never been explained to me by trooferdom:
Thermite is an incendiary, not an explosive. It is used to destroy horizontal surfaces. That is, a thermite grenade is used to destroy the engine block of a vehicle by pulling the pin and walking away. The super-heated material drips down into the structure to render the structure useless. So ... the remnants of thermite reactions would be immediately apparent ... we would see splatter patterns and drip patterns. However, we see exactly none. Truthers will find a neatly cut column and claim that that's evidence of thermite, but that's exactly the opposite of what thermite does (and, in fact, those cuts were most likely caused by the steelworkers using oxyacetylene torches after the fact).
The thermite claim has always been very weird - but the truth movement started with it, and by golly they don't seem able to jump off that wagon.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 5:34 AM
"Have you considered that there has never been any controlled demolition like what took place at the Twin Towers? "
I agree with you. There has never been a controlled demolition like the one you think happened at the World Trade Center.
Now, how does that help your argument?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 5:35 AM
Hullo Craig,
As much as I'd like to post my comment here, it's too late and besides this place is infested with obvious shills here for no other purpose than to make the conversation so disagreeable everyone sensible leaves.
So I slung my comment over at my place where I thought it might amuse the regulars. It's called 'Craig Murray's Mental Horse'. If anyone here wants a read, just click the moniker below. Oh, and it's got pretty pictures too.
Posted by: nobody at January 30, 2010 5:46 AM
"this place is infested with obvious shills"
*Eyeroll*
Who's paying you, Nobody?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 5:51 AM
Ok, the final whistle has been blown and it's game over for the shills. They tried hard, but despite a lot of huff and puff could make no meaningful penetration. You lost fair and square kiddos. Any after match pitch protests will be frowned upon. Take defeat gracefully. ;-)
Posted by: Jaded. at January 30, 2010 7:03 AM
Just been watching some of that Hardfire episode. Tony Szamboti's getting a bit angry.
Ronald Weick asks: "Are you saying the explosives were primed to go off at the exact impact sites?"
Szamboti: "No, just above."
Weick: "But surely the planes would have set off the explosives"
Szamboti: "Now you're using the argument from incredulity!"
Weick: "But demolition experts say this is absurd!"
Szamboti: "Now you're using the argument from authority."
And on and on...
Szamboti DOES admit that there is a problem of no audio evidence. Fortunately Tim is about to rescue him by showing some videos of audible explosions.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 7:11 AM
"Where do you get this idea from? The verinage demolitions don't show such "jolts". Maybe they do slow down but the collapse of the towers weren't exactly the same as the examples in the videos."
You never passed your physics O level, did you? Conservation of momentum, etc. When the supports are pulled the upper stories begin falling at an acceleration of about 9.8 metres per second per second. When they hit the lower stories, they transfer some or all of this momentum and so make a rapid deceleration. This is the "jolt".
I often think that if you would stop trying to prove your conclusion by grabbing at whatever "evidence" appears superficially useful and rejecting anything that doesn't, and instead took a course in basic physics includng mechanics, materials science and structural engineering, you would make more progress.
"It is highly impractical to use exact ananlogies with the Twin towers because you would need to build new ones and attempt to inflict the same damage using a plane."
Precisely my point. But if you are going to be picky, WHY DO YOU INSIST ON INFLICTING half-baked INEXACT analogies on us? Why are you allowed to make analogies between the WTC destructions and "verinage" demolitions when we're not?
"Then you won't mind re-posting the video of the audible explosions."
Right after Larry posts documentation and still photos of "the head".
"Irish actually."
Sam thing. You're all denizens of the Celtic fringe. Me too, actually.
"It IS unsurprising that the floor below that at which the collapse began wasn't appreciably stronger than the floor above it."
It WAS suprprising that the towers fell at all to most observers. It WAS also surprising that an asymmetric damage and fire pattern led to near similtaneous failure of all the colunms on each floor, and it WAS bloody GOB-SMACKING that the central cores did not resist the collapse enough to slow it to a stop within a few stories.
"Do you really think that a floor designed for people to walk on was designed to hold the weight of a ten to fifteen story block of steel and concrete? No? Then it was unsurprising that each successive floor was no less able than the one above it to hold that weight."
How did it come about that a floor had such a weight placed on it? Dear Soba, Dear Soba. Were there no Central columns? Was there no interlocking mesh of load-bearing perimiter columns? No large corner columns? No beams linking the whole shebang together transversely? Are you sugggesting that this steel skeleton was not designed to support five or six times the weight above at any point it even in a 100 mph hurricane? If so, give me your own ideas about how much load the structure was designed for and we can all have a good laugh.
"I think you're reading with a broad brush and not taking any time to absorb what I am actually saying and instead responding to what you think or hope I am saying."
Then we're both going to have to be a bit more patient. But really, how do you expect others to make the effort to take you seriously when so many of your comments are abusive and contemptuous of those of us who do not share your views on 9/11? If you think that's an appropriate manner for dealing with other people is it any wonder they don't hang on your every word?
"Also, the verinage technique shows that the building is NOT left with a big block sitting on a pile of rubble. The upper stories also smash to pieces. You did watch that video, right?"
Right! But that isn't always the case with the verinage technique, is it? And when it happens, do you know why it happens?
And the verinage technique is a meticulously planned CONTROLLED DEMOLITION, isn't it? They have to work out where to PULL the structure in order to make it work, right?
And although it can produce "squib"-like puffs of smoke and debris, with the verinage technique, these are never produced below the collapse front, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY3nj728WPY
So the verinage technique is irrelavent to the discussion of the WTC collapses, right?
So why bring it up?
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 30, 2010 7:51 AM
"I think that bringing up "verinage" in the context of the WTC collapses is a bit of an own goal for your non-demolition theory because such a collapse would result in an initial jolt (not observed at the WTC) and because such strong steel-framed structures would resist the collapse sufficiently to stop it from proceeding all the way to the bottom.
So in the spirit of chivalry, like helping an adversary get up during a duel when he's been tripped over by his own shoelaces"
Tim, there are a number of points I am covering by showing the videos of the verinage technique. Again, not what you think I am saying but things I have EXPLICITLY said.
One of those is that the buildings being demolished by verinage also exhibit "squibs" and "pyroclastic clouds" as well as the fact that the top of the building can be completely demolished.
All of this shows that explosives ARE NOT NECESSARY to produce the phenomena that are pointed to as incontrovertible evidence of explosives.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 7:59 AM
"One thing on thermite that has never been explained to me by trooferdom:"
I have no idea if thermite was used at the WTC although I wouldn't rule it out. You on the other hand have a completely closed mind. I HAVE EXPLAINED to you before (although I don't count myself as "trooferdom") that there are all kinds of thermitic materials. But you just don't get it because you just don't listen. As Chinese Cultural Atache Ben Ni Hiru used to say, "Why you no risen? You stupid irriot!"
The Jones team claims to have identified Nanothermite in the dust and nobody else has come out to try to disprove their findings yet. But you yourself have debunked the work, and not by falling back on your woodwork and cooking skills or even your philosophy degree, but by farting, burping and casting aspersions at the quality of the scolarship involved — a truly revolutionary piece of scholarship. Congratulations!
Posted by: TIm Groves at January 30, 2010 8:02 AM
"Tim, there are a number of points I am covering by showing the videos of the verinage technique. Again, not what you think I am saying but things I have EXPLICITLY said.
One of those is that the buildings being demolished by verinage also exhibit "squibs" and "pyroclastic clouds" as well as the fact that the top of the building can be completely demolished."
Soba, with verinage the "squibs" are not found several stories below the collapse front. Please check for yourself. Also, you have shown no evidence that the verinage would work on steel-framed skyscrapers, have you?
"All of this shows that explosives ARE NOT NECESSARY to produce the phenomena that are pointed to as incontrovertible evidence of explosives."
NO! IT BLOODY DOESN'T!!!
But if you can find a steel-framed skyscraper that was demolished by the verinage technique and displayed the phenomena in question, then it would.
BUT SO FAR YOU HAVEN'T, SO IT DOESN'T!
Posted by: at January 30, 2010 8:09 AM
"Precisely my point. But if you are going to be picky, WHY DO YOU INSIST ON INFLICTING half-baked INEXACT analogies on us? Why are you allowed to make analogies between the WTC destructions and "verinage" demolitions when we're not?"
Where did I say you couldn't use your own half-baked inexact anaologies?
You can, and you do. I am merely saying that showing a video of a building NOT COLLAPSING is not evidence that the WTC couldn't have collapsed.
It is necessary for you to discover the impossibility of the Towers collapse not sufficient to show examples of other buildings not collapsing.
"You never passed your physics O level, did you? "
No, it had been replaced with science GCSEs in my time. I did earn myself that though.
"When the supports are pulled the upper stories begin falling at an acceleration of about 9.8 metres per second per second. When they hit the lower stories, they transfer some or all of this momentum and so make a rapid deceleration. This is the "jolt"."
Well, then you would need to show some figures and perhaps take your own advice and:
"instead took a course in basic physics includng mechanics, materials science and structural engineering,"
Maybe then you could write a paper on it and get it published in a real journal. If the science is right you would become famous.
"How did it come about that a floor had such a weight placed on it? Dear Soba, Dear Soba"
I believe I have posted videos of this before. The steel lost its integrity and the top column essentially sank into the building. *****Importantly, the top of the building didn't come down exactly onto the supporting columns but onto the areas not designed to support the weight******
" Were there no Central columns? Was there no interlocking mesh of load-bearing perimiter columns? No large corner columns? No beams linking the whole shebang together transversely?"
Sure there were but they could support the weight at a particular alignment. The load had shifted, as I pointed out above. This is why buildings are built in a parcular way and girders are not haphazardly stacked on top of each other. If they are they could fall down.
"And the verinage technique is a meticulously planned CONTROLLED DEMOLITION, isn't it? They have to work out where to PULL the structure in order to make it work, right?"
Yeah, I noticed that Tony Szamboti tried that one too. It could have been verinage, he suggests.
"And although it can produce "squib"-like puffs of smoke and debris, with the verinage technique, these are never produced below the collapse front, right?"
I don't know if they never are. That may well be a good point and I'll have to check it out.
"So the verinage technique is irrelavent to the discussion of the WTC collapses, right?"
No, it isn't.
"So why bring it up?"
See above.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 8:24 AM
"Soba, with verinage the "squibs" are not found several stories below the collapse front. Please check for yourself. Also, you have shown no evidence that the verinage would work on steel-framed skyscrapers, have you?"
No, but I am not saying that the Towers were demolished by verinage. Obviously.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 8:27 AM
On the jolt, I have said before and I'll have to say again, the towers did not simply fall down complelely vertically down the strongest perimeter columns.
There was a tilt. This is important because it shows that the load shifted.
Guess what, Ryan Mackey agrees with me.
On this programme from about 5 minutes in Ryan Mackey is explaining this to Tony Szamboti:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDvDND9zNUk&feature=related
Which just goes to show that you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know there was no controlled demolition but one can be found to say so.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 8:47 AM
Hey angrysoba! I pissed myself at your half arsed attempt over at nobody's blog. You really are something.. haha.
Posted by: Edo at January 30, 2010 8:51 AM
"Hey angrysoba! I pissed myself at your half arsed attempt over at nobody's blog. You really are something.. haha."
Edo, nobody clearly doesn't care which of his or her evidence is genuine.
The glow in that photograph comes from a flashlight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW1jsUXoRgs
No, go to the bathroom and clean yourself up.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 8:57 AM
Verinage technique, nano explosives ?
To throw some reason back in here, the WTC towers were NOT destroyed by any type of controlled explosion using ANY type of explosives used today. There will always be conspiracy theories about this for a long time to come, but in the end it was a tradgedy caused by a group of people flying passenger jets into them. Speculate all you like, I am telling you that no explosives were used, and I know what I am talking about. Loons, the lot of you !
Posted by: Frazer at January 30, 2010 8:58 AM
Yes, Frazer, I agree.
There was no controlled demolition.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 9:17 AM
oh what a barny.
As posted earlier, many options for how the buildings could have been rigged to rapidly disintegrate here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ygsq7bo
Plausible theories
* distributed explosives
* thermobaric devices
* thermite preparations
But why argue with substance when you can make fun of how people carry it to you?
Frazer, vernage technique was tossed in earlier by Larry who demanded a comment on its relevance, and nano-thermitic particles found in WTC dust samples were documented in a paper by dutch academics last year. Your footstomping is childish. Your case is that demo was too difficult to manage, yet was actualy achieved TWICE by plane collisions -each the equivalent of ONE bomb and ONE fire - is a very confident, modestly qualified yet comletely unsubstantiated, contradictory assertion. If you cant see that its because you refuse to look, simply.
This was to be the thread about 911, its clear who tried to be responsive and thoughtful and who tried to be dismissive and distruptive.
Best quote of the thread:
"Salandria said sadly. "All the critics, myself included, were misled very early. I see that now. We spent too much time and effort microanalyzing the details of the assassination when all the time it was obvious, it was blatantly obvious that it was a conspiracy. Don't you think the men who killed Kennedy had the means to do it in the most sophisticated and subtle way? They chose not to. Instead, they picked the shooting gallery that was Dealey Plaza and did it in the most barbarous and openly arrogant manner. The cover story was transparent and designed not to hold, to fall apart at the slightest scrutiny. The forces that killed Kennedy wanted the message clear: 'We are in control and no one -- not the President, not Congress, nor any elected official -- no one can do anything about it.' It was a message to the people that their Government was powerless. And the people eventually got the message."
Posted by: crab at January 30, 2010 10:05 AM
Characteristically the main participants in this controlled discussion above are gatekeepers or gamers.
Conventionally objective debate consists in trading evidence and information to support a given position.The mutual exchange of research-based insight is the lifeblood of real dialogue.
Notwithstanding the fabricated and utterly synthetic "discussion" above there will remain enough people who in the face of the censors and disinformationists have retained enough natural human curiosity to want to follow this link:
http://jewishcrimenetworkdid911.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Steelback at January 30, 2010 10:59 AM
Chris Bollyn has some insightful commentary on "strange and dangerous" Moschepoche involvement in 911 too.
www.bollyn.com/index.
Bollyn has a photo of himself after a Moschepoche attack.It's the only language they know.
Posted by: Apostate at January 30, 2010 11:09 AM
"The steel lost its integrity and the top column essentially sank into the building."
The steel lost it's integrity? You are beginning to sound like the Global Warming Alarmists who now that the Arctic ice cap has made a comeback are calling it "rotten ice".
How, prey tell, did the steel lose its integrity?
"the top column essentially sank into the building."
Did it, indeed? I admit that the sentence does give me some mental images. But it's hardly nobel-prize-winning sciencespeak, is it. How did the steel that lost its integrity give way? Did every column on one, two or three floors snap or break simultaneously, or did the columns bend and bow one at a time a bit at a time so that the "top column" sank gently into whatever was supposed to sink into?
On momentum: "Well, then you would need to show some figures and perhaps take your own advice and:"
No I wouldn't. If you can't wrap your head around the principle of the conservation of momentum, then all your hard work on trying to explain "how the towers fell" will have been in vain.
Not only do you seem to be remarkably ignorant of physics, you are also ignornant of your own ignorance.
"No, but I am not saying that the Towers were demolished by verinage. Obviously."
I'm glad to hear that. After all, the kind of structures that verinage has been used on (reinforced concrete) could not have been safely built to the height of the Twin Towers. Although he material has excellent compression resistance so that you could theoretically build a tower miles high out of it, It would never stand up to hurricanes if built to more than about 30 storeys.
But what you are really saying is that a Verinage collapse produces something akin to a pyroclastic flow too, so that a pyroclastic flow at the WTC doesn't prove it was a controlled demolition. Point taken.
What I (and you) would have to look into here is whether the verinage collapses produce hot pyroclastic flows of the kind that burned and scorched people, cars and various objects at the WTC. Has anyone measured how hot the verinage dust clouds and blasts are? In any case, the difference in the size and height between a verinage event and the WTC events would make it difficult to compare temperatures directly. You'd expect the WTC clouds to be hotter as the amount of gravitational energy converted to heat would be much greater.
"There was a tilt. This is important because it shows that the load shifted."
Yes, there was a tilt. Especially in the case of the South Tower there was a very pronounced tilt of the upper block. But then a funny thing happened. The block disintegrated in mid-air, dissapating it angular momentum in the process, much to the chagrin of all those engineers and physicists who are trying to explain the collapses without using some kind of demolition technique. Because 10-storey blocks of steel-framed building don't normally do that.
"Loons, the lot of you!"
You're proably right, Frazer. But we're only doing a bit of hyperthetical speculation. None of us on this thread really knows what went on (apart from yourself, perhaps) and none of us are going to do much about it, so our beliefs don't add up to a can of beans, do they. And it is a full moon tonight, so where's the harm in howling like loons?
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 30, 2010 11:27 AM
"Notwithstanding the fabricated and utterly synthetic "discussion" above"
It's a fair cop! I freely admit it. I fabricated my part in it out of whole words and sythesized them from an alphabet soup of letters.
But I think there's a world of difference between who dun 9-11 and how 9-11 was dun. I'm much more interested in the latter. Perhaps Craig might be gracious enough to open another thread for those who want to peel the onion on who was behind the people behind the people behind the people behind the people behind the various antics that add up to what we now call "9-11".
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 30, 2010 11:35 AM
Steelback's eminently sensible 4 step inquiry method was censored out of this thread.
The references to the importance of NY as the venue for 911 have also met the same fate.
It's therefore worth reiterating that NY is HQ to the Lobby,B'nai B'rith,ADL,Mishpucka,et al.All these groups were decisive in fomenting the anti-German hysteria in 1916-17 that led to US entry into WW1.
The same decisive Lobby power
shaped the Zionist position taken by Woodrow Wilson.
It was from NY in 1933 that Samuel Untermeyer declared World Jewry's trade boycott war on Hitler's Germany
in 1933 that culminated in WW2.
From NY Reform and conservative Jewry maintained their influence with FDR to ensure no Jews gained entry to Palestine during the war years.This was the blood sacrifice of the lesser brethren known as the Holocaust.
The Lobby's form,means and motive were consistent throughout the twentieth century and the PNAC document was only one of a succession of such that evidenced their determination to use the alliance they had forged with the neo-cons at that time to involve the US in wars for "full spectrum dominance" across the Middle East in particular.
The catalyzing Pearl Harbour event we call 911 again is just one more in a succession of cassus belli/triggers for war that run through from Cuba in 1898,1912,1933,to Tonkin in 1964....ad nauseum.
War is the agreed means the Lobby has had since 1908 (Carnegie Endowment for Peace) to transform the US into the type of society they see as most compatible with their long-term goals.
Posted by: tungsten at January 30, 2010 11:38 AM
"Best quote of the thread:
"Salandria said sadly. "All the critics, myself included, were misled very early. I see that now. We spent too much time and effort microanalyzing the details of the assassination when all the time it was obvious, it was blatantly obvious that it was a conspiracy. Don't you think the men who killed Kennedy had the means to do it in the most sophisticated and subtle way? They chose not to. Instead, they picked the shooting gallery that was Dealey Plaza and did it in the most barbarous and openly arrogant manner. The cover story was transparent and designed not to hold, to fall apart at the slightest scrutiny. The forces that killed Kennedy wanted the message clear: 'We are in control and no one -- not the President, not Congress, nor any elected official -- no one can do anything about it.' It was a message to the people that their Government was powerless. And the people eventually got the message.""
Agreed!
Mike Ruppert said much the same thing about 9/11 in 2003 and warned that discussing the physical evidence would lead nowhere. The State has to go after people of interest with subpoena power, interrogation under oath, getouttajailfree cards and the entire RICO playbook. But if the State itself is the criminal, it is not going to investigate itself short of regime change. The primary proof that 9/11 was an inside job is that it happened, period. The secondary proof is that it has never been properly investigated. Everybody knows this instinctively even if they don't all grasp it intellectually. And many people have become mentally unbalanced, sick at heart or twisted because despite their instinctive knowlege, they can't consciously acknowledge it. And the more people deny the truth, the sicker they get.
Still, I like talking about the possible mechanism for the destruction of the WTC in the same way I like talking about whether there was a big bang or why did marsupials and placentals both evolve bears, wolves, rats and cats. It has no bearing on who did 9-11. Steelback's got a point there.
Posted by: Tim Groves at January 30, 2010 11:50 AM
Steelback presents a few lofty lines on history and principles, and follows them with an summarised b-grade link which directs all responsability towards Jews. A ruse.
Posted by: crab at January 30, 2010 12:16 PM
And the prize for
'Most Obsessed with 9/11'
goes to Larry & Soba
with half of all comments on this thread.
-------------------------------------
angrysoba,
I cannot understand what your motive is, here or on your own blog. I can understand those who doubt the official explanations of terror events; they need to have the anomalies cleared, because they see that a terrible crime may have been committed - a crime far worse than attacks by foreign agents, and with ominous consequences. But if you are so sure you know the answers and that the official explanations are true, why don't you just get on with your life, like much of the populace, believing that our leaders are properly taking care of matters?
Or is it simply an intellectual exercise for you, in sourcing evidence and refuting claims? But, if that is so, why do you, as you said on another thread, "finally get fed up and start hurling abuse", which suggests you have emotional involvement?
Posted by: hawley_jr at January 30, 2010 12:27 PM
Clark, thanks (1113pm). Richard (Robinson)(145am), I didn't know about the Brazilian general - an intriguing account, I appreciate you letting me know about it.
Btw, as a point of curious interest and maybe to lighten things up a bit (because life really is too short), around the late 1990s/ early 2000s a small fiction publisher based in Glasgow, Scotland was established called Neil Wilson Publishing and they put out a fiction imprint called, '11/9' (this was some time before '9/11', of course). The publisher used to be based - at that time - in The Pentagon Building, Washington Street, Glasgow (someone in the City Council, or elsewhere, must have had a sense of humour). We used to joke about their address whenever I bumped into them - they've put out some good material over the years and I see they're still around: http://www.nwp.co.uk
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at January 30, 2010 1:04 PM
"The steel lost it's integrity? You are beginning to sound like the Global Warming Alarmists who now that the Arctic ice cap has made a comeback are calling it "rotten ice".
How, prey tell, did the steel lose its integrity?"
It became soft. Less able to hold up the weight ablove it.
Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rbfLLp7rBI&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 1:05 PM
"Did it, indeed? I admit that the sentence does give me some mental images. But it's hardly nobel-prize-winning sciencespeak, is it."
Oh, you want nobel-prize sciencespeak now do you?
Strangely enough, I thought you might permit regular metaphoricalspeak like the rest of us and didn't think you needn't my help to produce in you mental images.
"No I wouldn't. If you can't wrap your head around the principle of the conservation of momentum, then all your hard work on trying to explain "how the towers fell" will have been in vain.
Not only do you seem to be remarkably ignorant of physics, you are also ignornant of your own ignorance."
I think I'm detecting some bluster and projection on your part. You're quite happy with the notion that about 99 percent of structural engineers around the world couldn't get their physics O levels but you're applying your physics knowledge correectly.
Thing is Truthers dutifully parrot the old "conservation of momentum" mantra but it is no good if you can't explain exactly how you are applying it to the collapse of the world trade center.
If you can, well...that really would be nobelsciencespeak.
" The block disintegrated in mid-air"
No, it did not. You're making that up.
"But we're only doing a bit of hyperthetical speculation. None of us on this thread really knows what went on (apart from yourself, perhaps) and none of us are going to do much about it,"
So, the Truthers are just poseurs with no plans to do anything about their special knowledge.
Right, that's that established then.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 1:16 PM
"Steelback presents a few lofty lines on history and principles, and follows them with an summarised b-grade link which directs all responsability towards Jews".
Crab, I must correct you. He provides a link that returns a page with the message: "The blog you were looking for was not found"
Posted by: MJ at January 30, 2010 1:19 PM
"I cannot understand what your motive is, here or on your own blog. I can understand those who doubt the official explanations of terror events; they need to have the anomalies cleared"
And I'm trying to clear them up. If people have questions, why shouldn't someone answer them expecially when the claims are so easily cleared up. "Why weren't the hijackers on the manifests?" etc...
"Or is it simply an intellectual exercise for you, in sourcing evidence and refuting claims? But, if that is so, why do you, as you said on another thread, "finally get fed up and start hurling abuse", which suggests you have emotional involvement?"
If someone seems to have their fingers in their ears it annoys me. Especially, after patiently explaining something I'm having my explanations deliberatly twisted or if that person goes back to making exactly the same claim after being shown it is demonstrably false.
I was annoyed when MJ asked me to find evidence of funerals and body parts of passengers at the Pentagon and wouldn't accept newspaper reports of funerals.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 1:28 PM
Larry,
"the very vibrant anti-war movement wants nothing to do with you"
In another thread I asked you respectfully after you declared yourself as a lawyer, your speciality. I was interested in you. You failed to answer - a simple yes/no.
People here have read your comments elsewhere when you tried hard to vilify Craig, your host, and blacken his reputation. This, to a genuine humanitarian, a man, one in a million, a former ambassador of my country willing to stake his reputation for the anti-establishment anti-war movement.
Then you mention the New York Fire Department in a single bullet list.
Brave men who are suffering today from the effects of 9/11.
Here later, I am going to tell people about these brave men, how they suffered, and what their experiences were on that sad, traumatic and catastrophic day. Many legal disputes are still in the legal law process 9 years on.
I am no 'truther' as you say 19 Arabs crashed planes, but something is wrong with the analysis, something that propels many professional, intelligent men and women including military personnel, reject the official account as it stands, without the detail of a public inquiry, that the families of loved ones lost and dying have called for. You Larry, by your clib comments are in a small way preventing that inquiry.
Myself, I believe gross incompetence occurred on that day, one event, as witnessed by a young American, who was stood next to Cheney watching the track of an attack on the Pentagon and Cheney did zilch. Subsequently Norman Mineta's testimony was ignored.
You are a man of straw Larry and I stand by my harsh comments.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 30, 2010 1:35 PM
"Mike Ruppert said much the same thing about 9/11 in 2003 and warned that discussing the physical evidence would lead nowhere."
Do you think cops do that when investigating a crime? Pretty dumb if they do.
"The primary proof that 9/11 was an inside job is that it happened, period."
With that kind of logic I would suggest some different reading matter.
"The secondary proof is that it has never been properly investigated."
According to you. Besides, you do forget the fact that CYA is an important factor in some people not wanting to look at some things.
"Everybody knows this instinctively even if they don't all grasp it intellectually. And many people have become mentally unbalanced, sick at heart or twisted because despite their instinctive knowlege, they can't consciously acknowledge it. And the more people deny the truth, the sicker they get."
LOL!!!!1!
Mentally unbalanced unlike, say, David Icke, David Shayler, Jimmy Walters, Alex Jones or Sean Fitzgerald?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmLZRFXQ48
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 1:45 PM
Or Kevin Barret, Charlie Sheen, Judy Wood etc...
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 2:08 PM
The very vibrant anti-war movement
wants nothing to do with you
In another thread I asked you respectfully
after you declared yourself as a lawyer, your speciality. I was interested in
you. You failed to answer - a simple yes/no.
People here have read your comments
elsewhere when you tried hard to vilify Craig, your host, and blacken his
reputation. This, to a genuine humanitarian, a man, one in a million, a former
ambassador of my country willing to stake his reputation for the anti-establishment
anti-war movement.
Then you mention the New York Fire
Department in a single bullet list.
Brave men who are suffering today from the
effects of 9/11.
Here later, I am going to tell people about
these brave men, how they suffered, and what their experiences were on that
sad, traumatic and catastrophic day. Many legal disputes are still in the legal
law process 9 years on.
I am no 'truther' as you say 19 Arabs
crashed planes, but something is wrong with the analysis, something that propels
many professional, intelligent men and women including military personnel,
reject the official account as it stands, without the detail of a public
inquiry, that the families of loved ones lost and dying have called for. You
Larry, by your glib comments are in a small way preventing that inquiry.
Myself, I believe gross incompetence
occurred on that day, one event, as witnessed by a young American, who was
stood next to Cheney watching the track of an attack on the Pentagon and Cheney
did zilch. Subsequently Norman Mineta’s testimony was ignored.
You are a man of straw Larry and I stand by
my harsh comments.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 30, 2010 2:12 PM
" was annoyed when MJ asked me to find evidence of funerals and body parts of passengers at the Pentagon and wouldn't accept newspaper reports of funerals".
Now now, you know full well I didn't ask you to find evidence, only to let me know if you came across any. You also know full well that the reports you provided could not possibly have been of funerals because they referred to the weekend immediately after 911. Clearly not enough time to complete the identification process using DNA, which we know wasn't completed until November 16.
Posted by: MJ at January 30, 2010 2:27 PM
"I believe gross incompetence occurred on that day, one event, as witnessed by a young American, who was stood next to Cheney watching the track of an attack on the Pentagon and Cheney did zilch. Subsequently Norman Mineta's testimony was ignored".
Mark: it is most charitable of you to describe this as incompetence. I for one interpret it as Cheney doing his job. This, by default, is the much-rumoured stand-down order, plain for all to see.
Posted by: MJ at January 30, 2010 2:38 PM
MJ
A stand down is for sure. Soon I hope to fall on the side of truth regarding 9/11, but I am in the middle of a complicated (if it was planned it took 2, 3 or more years) unravelling, including decryption.
Scientists and others are looking again at the forces involved, especially after the analysis of 'Ground Zero dust'
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 30, 2010 3:03 PM
"Judy Wood etc..."
Actually, I'll take that back about Judy Wood.
I like her website and Star Wars laser beams is probably no more silly than most of the inside job claims.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 30, 2010 4:06 PM
Angrysoba - that's right, and she's got a PhD, and she was/is a professor, so there's gotta be something to her directed energy weapons!
(at least as good as every other truther claim)
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 4:37 PM
Yep, here's someone who's got his read right according to Tim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ccX_PQtlMY&feature=related
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 4:40 PM
Tim wrote:
"Yes, there was a tilt. Especially in the case of the South Tower there was a very pronounced tilt of the upper block. But then a funny thing happened. The block disintegrated in mid-air, dissapating it angular momentum in the process, much to the chagrin of all those engineers and physicists who are trying to explain the collapses without using some kind of demolition technique. Because 10-storey blocks of steel-framed building don't normally do that."
Tim, this is cartoonish!
1. Where did you get the idea that the angular momentum of the collapsing floors dissipated? Why wasn't that observed in the verinage videos? Why wasn't that observed in any of your videos? It's as if you expected around 3/4 of each tower to remain standing as the floors above the plane impact level did what - just blow away? Am I getting that right? You expected the top floors to disappear like ghosts in some form of whispering essence?
2. Once again you ignore all the jet fuel.
Do you understand that the planes came into the buildings with thousands and thousands of gallons of jet fuel?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 4:50 PM
""Then you won't mind re-posting the video of the audible explosions."
Right after Larry posts documentation and still photos of "the head"."
Again, you're just sick. First you wanted newspaper articles. Now you want stills of my friend's head.
Then you'll show us evidence of audible explosions?
First, obviously the two have nothing to do with one another. angrysoba and I certainly seem friendly to one another, but we don't know each other, so we're hardly a team. Plus, THE TWO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ONE ANOTHER.
Second, you're obviously a very sick person.
Third, there might be some good reason for me to hold back any more information about a victim on 911 on a public forum (especially with people like you and the JOOOOO-haters around - and that includes people that I'm convinced are potential terrorists, like Apostate)
Fourth, I never claimed to have the evidence you were looking for. You've pestered me for evidence of a dead friend - but do you think I ever looked to find evidence of my dead friend? If you have a friend die, do you thereafter look on the Internet in case you have to prove it some day?
But YOU are claiming to have evidence of audible explosions at the WTC. You mentioned videos. You claim to be holding them back in a bizarre, twisted childish game.
Actually, I'm not interested in your links, and I imagine angrysoba isn't as well. There were no audible explosions at the WTC. We know that videos have been doctored to add them in, but that's simply because the people who have sold you the conspiracy are frauds, but that's nothing new.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 5:00 PM
Just to keep angrylarry fully exercised, I should point out that there are other fuses smouldering along towards the keg of gunpowder his fat arse is parked upon.
tinyurl.com/yhgeeh2
Posted by: Vronsky at January 30, 2010 5:13 PM
Vronsky, that makes no sense.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 5:19 PM
Evidently this site is now listed as gamer/Mossad-penetrated at Bob Goldman's leftgatekeeper.com
Doesn't it show.Contributions to this thread in particular have given precedence to Zionist or elite-subsidized dissidents who forward the establishment left's agenda of ideological warfare against conspiracy researchers.
When conspiracists get through the censor their contributions to the thread are usually telling.
I was struck by Steelback's 4 step research method,the link re-Dov Zackheim's role in 9/11 and those provided to the work of Kevin MacDonald on the Franfurt School and Christopher Bollyn's output.
Following Goldman's tracking vigilance procedure that involved my having to read the interminably puerile contributions from the likes of Larry from St Louis and angrysober and numerous others whose agenda was patently on the disinformation/psy-ops track I found that the most important links were being systematically erased.
It seems to be the case that once the Zionists get a site in their grip they begin to call the shots.Most left-gatekeepers are terrified by the prospect of being fingered as having hosted any material deemed critical of Israel or the history of the Lobby that might be labelled "antisemitic".
The distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-semitism gets conveniently lost due to this typically leftist loss of nerve.Hence topics like the Holocaust or Jewish involvement in 9/11 are not well covered on such sites.
Gamers and psy-ops are given free rein by these hosts whose sites inevitably succumb to Zionist pressure and moderate out the better researched contributions to the discussion.
This is clearly the case here where another ostensibly cutting edge anti-establishment site has ended up acting as a cypher for corporate media disinformation.
Goldman found that such sites infected terminally as they are by the tapeworm of Zionist propaganda soon received fewer hits and lost ground to the genuine anti-Zionist or conspiracy sites.
Goldman's research on left-gatekeeper sites is here:
http://questionsquestions.net/topic/leftgatekeepers.html
Posted by: Freeborn at January 30, 2010 5:24 PM
Out of courtesy to Craig - and anyone interested:
Not wishing to further increase the round-and-round-in-circles futility of 500 odd comments and counting, I've joined 'Nobody' with a separate blog post on this.
Posted by: sabretache at January 30, 2010 5:36 PM
Goldman seems to have identified sites that soon after go the way of all flesh!
The vast majority seem to have been Foundation-funded and their sponsors will have returned to backing more middle ground mainstream output after they crashed.
Rest assured the best trail-blazing sites retain remarkable energy and staying power probably because there's such a treasure trove of material out there that's never been subjected to the proper scrutiny by professional researchers free from Foundation strings-attached funding.
For research resources Tragedy and Hope takes some beating.Named after Carol Quigley's magnum opus it's replete with trailblazing often censored material on elite NWO planning.Check out Propaganda Matrix too.
Both these sites retain message boards where real discussion and engagement are highly valued.
Posted by: Apostate at January 30, 2010 5:49 PM
Proud, Craig?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 5:59 PM
You tried hard Lamby. Despite getting nowhere Craig will be proud of you. Chin up my son. ;-)
Posted by: Jaded. at January 30, 2010 6:10 PM
Larry,
Let's get a discussion going on the open paper by Niels H. Harrit, The Open Chemical Physics Journal
Volume 2
ISSN: 1874-4125
without condemning the author
What are your views
I am interested.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 30, 2010 6:13 PM
tungsten
You ran with my theme of the specific NY provenance of 911 being a clue to the atrocity's true authorship.
Reference was also made to landholdings and real estate in NY generally and at the WTC specifically.Larry Silverstein (Moschepoche) was landlord at WTC 7.It was the CIA station and various Enron tax record documents-the smoking gun of the operation.
On the history of false-flag terrorism in Italy during the 1970s the work of Sanguinetti and Guy de Bord's Society of the Spectacle is particularly relevant.Sanguinetti made the point that recourse to false-flag terror on the part of elites as means to control domestic populations becomes increasingly addictive.
The more threatened they feel the more inclined they are to up the ante.
Posted by: Steelback at January 30, 2010 6:54 PM
Mark, we already started discussing that with the laughable claim of planted thermite. As I asked above, where's the splatter or drip pattern on any of the columns?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 7:02 PM
"various Enron tax record documents"
Steelback, you hate Jews; we get that - you're a hateful person. But are you stupid beyond that? You know that there are copying machines, digital records, email trails, SEC disclosure requirements and all documents to fulfill those requirements etc. etc.
Troofers live in a dream world where a major corporation's documents are kept in one place.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 7:05 PM
Mark, read this about your journal:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17288-spoof-paper-accepted-by-peerreviewed-journal.html
fail
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 7:08 PM
After all these years, I still am unable to be certain about this issue of the destruction of the WTC, etc. in 2001.
Unlike Craig, I do not think that any sense of morality or nationalism would have inhibited the Bush Administration from killing Americans; governments have always killed their own people en masse, usually by sending them off to war.
What might weaken the 'inside job' argument is the practical difficulty entailed in pulling off such a complex operation - especially from the almost incompetant people who proved unable to control Iraq, who seemed at sea with New Orleans and who botched Afghanistan (in their own terms, I mean).
However, the statement that 'surely someone would have blown the whistle' among the many who would have to have been involved, the answer of course is that many have done exactly that - the FBI agent told to pull away from an investigation; some of the people told not to fly, etc., etc. - and there seem to have been many of these types of people from within the engine of the US state not normally given to wild theorising who have expressed their uneasiness, not to mention more recently some of the actual investigatory commission members. The problem is, each person was responsible for only a small part of whatever might have been the rubric and so can tell us only about their part; they don't know the big picture (if indeed there is one).
And so, my view is that it's best to keep an open mind, not to allow either fantastical hypothesising or rigid denial to possess one but to remain deeply skeptical of the official narrative (and of official narratives in general).
It seems to me to be best to focus on the fact that wars have been launched by the USA in recent years on a number of countries in the world, particularly in the Middle East and Central Asia and that these wars have resulted in the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands, possibly more, men, women and children and continue to result in a daily resume of death and misery, to the enrichment of those who profit from violent death, to the generation of further conflict (history shows us that one war tends to lead to another) and to the continued destabilisation of the world. This demonstrates the true measure of the amorality at work and this is the the machine which needs to be opposed.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at January 30, 2010 9:15 PM
Tim Groves: Good work!
Larry & Soba: Not seen that really strong evidence you were claiming about yet,
which finally proved everything, but nobody saw it because the blog moved on.
Rather than scratching about looking for them, would you mind just cut&pasting
the best of them here?
Thanks!
Posted by: glenn at January 30, 2010 9:58 PM
Glenn,
What evidence were you looking for?
Didn't you just repeat a bunch of questions? Was there something specific that you needed?
One more thing - look at this picture of the ValuJet crash - WHERE IS THE PLANE! OH NO! CONSPIRACY!
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/us/valujet/valujet.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 10:12 PM
These Shin Bet budgerigars have been at the Trill again.
angri,Larry the simpleton,techniprick et al-these saddoes were wittering on till 3 a.m. yesterday morning.
The references to their enemies as "Troofers" is quite characteristic of the level of degeneracy they seem to think passes for debate.
The fact that these guys can't spell the word,"truth" is clearly down to their being utter strangers to it.
Posted by: Apostate at January 30, 2010 10:12 PM
Mark, about thermite:
As I asked above, where's the splatter or drip pattern on any of the columns?
You seem to want to ignore my question. It's a real problem for people who are still arguing for thermite after all these years.
You're an engineer pushing this claim - why can't you just answer the simple questions of a non-engineer?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 30, 2010 10:16 PM
Hello. And Bye.
Posted by: XRumerTest at January 31, 2010 2:50 AM
I'll give you a reply once in a why Larry. You deserve that, since you try so hard. So maybe you
could try to answer to this (you have several days before my next reply to you, so make it a good
one!) That plane you reference (about a third the size of a standard jumbo) crashed into a
freaking swamp. A swamp is likely to sink and cover up crashes a heck of a lot better than
ordinary terrain. Or a pristine lawn outside a well monitored government building, and let's not
even get started on how engines off a jumbo don't even scratch the glass of windows they've
supposedly bounced off, on Magic Arab Day, before vapourising completely. Yet the delicate
nose-cone smashes through several levels of reinforced iron and concrete before, err,
vapourising entirely itself.
It's actually a struggle to think which part of your "magic Arab day" hypothesis is the more
ludicrous. So help you out here. Which part of the whole thing did you find the hardest to
swallow? That buildings should collapse most improbably? That hijackers find their victims
so obliging, they just call in "goodbye" messages? That they are flying aces? That they were
the luckiest guys on Earth, just happening to do their stunts the _very day_ air defences are
being all half-arsed, given it's a demo day and... Jeez... when does one stop?
(Answer - as a True Believer - absolutely nothing the government said is in the slightest
way odd! As a Good German, I believe my government about everything, particularly if it
is important for them that you do so.)
*
I must say, Angrysoba/larry - you cover yourself in much glory, how many other people
would go to real lengths, stick their neck out, post night and day to support their
government from a bunch of total, stupid, tin-foil drooling "loons" who might suggest
some silly notion other than the Official Story?
Posted by: glenn at January 31, 2010 3:11 AM
Glenn, you're still doing your usual thing of trying to ridicule basic facts by claiming an "Official Story" in which there were these "Magic Arabs".
Nonsense. You don't need to be magic to fly a plane. It is silly to say that an ability to fly a plane is magic when an Arab does it. Silly and racist.
On the other hand you do say that an unkown substance that may as well be pixie dust allowed the buildings to be demolished in a controlled demolition unknown to anyone in which there were silent noisy explosions.
So which is the most likely?
Posted by: angrysoba at January 31, 2010 4:24 AM
It's been over 6 hours without a post from angrylarry. Does anyone think he just keeled over stone dead or something? I am genuinely worried for him.
Posted by: Jaded. at January 31, 2010 4:27 AM
Angrysoba,
Here's a sad equivalent of Glenn:
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1506
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 31, 2010 5:28 AM
"Mike Adams, editor of Natural News, is, in my opinion, a dangerous conspiracy-mongering crank. There is simply no way to be kind to his views and the nonsense he spreads on his website. His intellectual sloppiness is indistinguishable from dishonesty, as he peddles dubious cancer cures, pseudoscience such as homeopathy, and attacks vaccines and effective therapies for AIDS and other serious diseases."
I know someone who is a big fan of Mike Adams at Natural News. Perhaps unsurprisingly this fan is a Truther.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 31, 2010 5:35 AM
I spoke to soon... :-(
Posted by: Jaded. at January 31, 2010 6:25 AM
Just to jump on the same bandwagon as "nobody" and "Sabretache" I made my own post:
http://angrysoba.blogspot.com/2010/01/reality-deniers.html
Posted by: angrysoba at January 31, 2010 7:24 AM
Larry,
Well, I'll look into your 'dripping
colums' but let's face it there 'aint
many columns I can investigate because
you are fully aware, the crime scene was
busted and disposed of.
Some 'souvenirs' have been kept I
believe and have been investigated.
Torch cutting was done after the
collapse, further contaminating the
scene, so it is difficult now to
analyse.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 31, 2010 8:21 AM
Personally I take great exception to Craig Murray's blatent rigging of this thread to allow Shin Bet budgerigars like angrisober and Larry precedence over real researchers like Steelback.
Mr Murray is wiping Steelback contributions that link to sites that finger the Mishpucka network for 9/11.
Here's one I found.Read before the censor gets to it.It explains why Larry Silverstein didn't turn up for his bacon sandwich at the WTC on 9/11.
Now this will make the budgies choke on their sunflower seeds!
http://newsfromthewest.blogspot.com/2009/09/israel-did-9-11-here-is-the-proof.html
Posted by: Apostate at January 31, 2010 8:32 AM
Well said,Apostate.
A key Moschpoche figure among the plethora of dual citizen Israelis/Mossad assets involved in 9/11 is this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder#judaism
His Yiddisher Mama was Estee Lauder but there's nothing that smells sweet about this guy.
The phrase-form,motive,and means comes to mind.
Tell Craig the budgie cage is in a hell of a mess this morning! angri,Larry et al have regurgitated their Trill again.
Posted by: tungsten at January 31, 2010 8:50 AM
You know those pictures of dumb-ass ADL agents posing as al Qaida militants in fake videos.
It's angri,Larry and the gang-I'm sure of it!
Like Disney did the voice for Mickey Mouse these guys do the voices for Intel Center,the Jewish company out of Alexandria,VA.Intel does the voices for the fake Jihadi videos the corporate media inflicts on us.
Intel's not a million miles from St Louis.....are you thinking what I am?
Like they make megabucks out of wars,"Holocausts",now they doing it off the 100% phoney "War on Terror".
Make up a crock of lies and sell it to the gullible Goy.It's a bit like Hollywood.
Check out the Intel website:
http://www.intelcenter.com/
You can order the Xmas 2009 Attack Wall Chart now($29.95).This was already out in the run-up to Xmas!Or there's the Intel World Threat map that lights up every time the Mossad patsey jihadi team strikes somewhere!
Larry's got both....don't tell his boss though,guys!
Posted by: Apostate at January 31, 2010 10:00 AM
(2 ^ 9) + 1 comments and counting...
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 10:32 AM
Suhayl Saadi,
thank you for your post at January 30, 2010 9:15 PM, which so clearly says so much that I've been thinking for years.
Posted by: at January 31, 2010 10:40 AM
Suhayl Saadi,
sorry, that was my comment 10:40 above.
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 10:41 AM
I wonder whether our host will terminate this thread when it becomes inundated with the overwhelming evidence for 911 being a false-flag op.
I'm on the net 24/7 and just hit on this thread.I can't believe you got people here who still believe the 19 Saudi hijacker beloney.
It's like coming up against the wall of blind obedience and ignorance behind the medieval mindset.Stunning!
Anyone with a scintilla of perception should have worked out by now that Bologna,Bali,9/11,Madrid,7/7 and Mumbai all bear the indelible imprint of an international terror network bent on forwarding Western geopolitical interests.
In fact the correspondences between 9/11 and 7/7 are glaring.The hired patsies,parallel security exercises,immediate ascription of blame without evidence to jihadi groups,involvement of Israeli front companies,intelligence networks and offshore banks.
The bus bomb at Tavistock Square where Israeli white hire vans appear in all the pictures just like they did on 911 are key clues.
Maybe you guys need to research Tavistock too.I don't mean the town in N.Devon,I mean the psy-ops clinic.
Welcome to the 21st century!Time to do some of your own research,guys.
Dear Mr Ambassador-please run a thread on 7/7.
Posted by: juniper at January 31, 2010 10:45 AM
Apostate,
Steelback,
Tungsten,
there are ways to express your opinions without seeming anti-Jewish. I can't understand why you don't use them, if your concern is for the truth. I followed one of Steelback's links a few days ago, and found myself at a totally racist site.
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 10:55 AM
Clark,
I'm guessing that those three posters are all the same person.
Their styles and pathological behaviour are remarkably similar.
I would also recommend not clicking any of their links. If anyone is here to cause trouble it's them/him.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 31, 2010 11:08 AM
Angrysoba,
my critical facilities are in tact, thankyou. You have no more way of ascertaining if these posts come from one person or three than the people who accuse you of being the same person as Larry.
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 11:20 AM
Apostate
I reckon Larry,angri,technicoloured et al were the Jews caught dancing and filming on 9/11.Chertoff had them returned to the masonic state where all the Moschepoche/sayanim crooks end up.
They went to Intel after blowing their "cover"!
On Juliani and the Rothschild Brit Royalty 9/11 input:
http://ziopedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani
Posted by: tungsten at January 31, 2010 11:21 AM
"You have no more way of ascertaining if these posts come from one person or three than the people who accuse you of being the same person as Larry."
No, I don't. But you do, don't you?
Or maybe Craig does.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 31, 2010 11:41 AM
Angrysoba,
no, I only have analysis of writing styles and content. What makes you think otherwise?
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 11:45 AM
"where's the splatter or drip pattern on any of the columns"
There are plenty of pictures/videos of molten steel dripping down the buildings prior to collapse eg here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2I3vRbxMWo
After collapse of course we are somewhat hindered by the fact that the steel was whisked off, cut up and sold before accident investigators could get their hands on it.
Posted by: MJ at January 31, 2010 11:51 AM
angri
Don't pull the psycho-analytic bull.That Freudian crock of unscientific horseshit worked just like the Frankfurt hocus pocus re-the "Authoritarian Personality" as means to pathologize cohesive resistance to elite Jewish subversion and supremacism.
Such resistance comes as a natural consequence of resource competition in which Jewish community cohesion and high investment parenting have afforded that group enormous advantages over the individualist,fragmented low investment parenting now endemic as a result of "sexual liberation" and anti-authority Franfurt/psychoanalytic cultural engineering over decades in the West.
Pathologizing people's growing awareness of the existence over a century of a deeply ethnocentric,ethnic networking-adept,endogamous,highly intelligent and wealthy Jewish elite is less likely to work these days.
Ownership of the means of cultural production gives the elite you defend decided advantages in the mainstream realm but they've left you to fight their corner here on the net with nothing but a flock of budgerigars!
Not working,dude!
As an elite,the Jews have wielded power vastly disproportionate to their numbers so that anti-Jewish attitudes and behaviour are odds-on phenomena when Jewish power conflicts with the interests of the vast majority.
The various themes of modern anti-semitism come down to the Jewish role as a hostile elite with attitudes nad behaviour that are in conflict with the interests of others:economic domination in parts of eastern and central Europe prior to WW2;cultural subversion via the Jewish role in the media and intellectual life;and in the context of 9/11 in particular dual loyalty because of Jewish sympathies with foreign Jews,especially Israel since 1948.
The history of Jews as a hostile elite in the Soviet Union when that country became the most murderous regime in European history decidedly was not in the interests of the 30m victims of famine and gulag.
If saying that some resistance to these forms of elite behaviour is only natural provides legitimacy for anti-semitism I would counter by saying that Zionism provides intellectual legitimacy to the dispossession of the Palestinians and all the horrors that go with that primal evil.
Now go and clean up the droppings you and your budgie friends left in the cage last night!
Posted by: Apostate at January 31, 2010 12:20 PM
"angri
Jewish subversion... Jewish community...wealthy Jewish elite ...the Jews ... anti-Jewish attitudes ... Jewish power ...
Jewish role as a hostile elite ... the Jewish role in the media and intellectual life... dual loyalty because of Jewish sympathies with foreign Jews,especially Israel since 1948.... provides legitimacy for anti-semitism ...Zionism..."
and on and on and on...
Posted by: angrysoba at January 31, 2010 12:37 PM
"What makes you think otherwise?"
I thought you might be able to see their IPs. If not then sorry about that.
Posted by: angrysoba at January 31, 2010 12:39 PM
Apostate,
if you have a message, it is getting obscured my your obvious aggression. Are you sure that this is what you want?
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 12:41 PM
Thanks, Clark. This thread, with a few notable exceptions, seems to have sunk into a rather dispiriting yet predictable quagmire of accusation and counter-accusation. The openly anti-Jewish posts (who seem constantly to complain about not being allowed to post) are utterly counter-productive and abhorrent to any rational discourse. Do the people who post this stuff actually know personally any Jewish people?
It is important to state that whilst one can, and should, expose and criticise the actions of the Israeli state especially towards the Palestinians and the inordinate leverage exerted by that state on US foreign policy in relation particularly to the Middle East, it is completely another matter - and, I would suggest, completely unacceptable - to proceed from the very different premise of visceral hatred for 'Americans' or 'Jews' or 'Muslims' or whatever, and consequently to view the sum total of reality through that distorting prism.
Such input simply has the effect of conflating criticism of empire with rabid racism. I think that everyone who wants to has probably expressed everything there is to express about '9/11' and there are a surfeit of links on the web for people to go exploring should they wish to do so, and so perhaps like other threads, it will peter out. Maybe I too ought to avoid feeding it! Best wishes.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at January 31, 2010 1:51 PM
Suhayl Saadi,
again, I thoroughy agree. Best wishes to you, too.
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 2:30 PM
MJ, as to your new video - the page below is what's called a thorough debunking. However; I'm not under any illusion that you'll stop saying such silliness. This is a religion to you.
http://11-settembre.blogspot.com/2007/02/ups-on-81st-floor-of-wtc2.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 31, 2010 2:32 PM
Also, the investigation of the WTC remains was one of the most involved investigations in history.
The idiot Jesse Ventura now has a conspiracy show in the U.S. Apparently there's still a significant amount of steel out at JFK airport for the purpose of study. It's in a warehouse, apparently protected by - get this - a locked door!
The upshot is that that conspiracy freak pretended that he wasn't allowed access, as there was video showing him peering into the window, without being allowed to get through the door. But get this - the same week, a real newsman did a report on the WTC wreckage, and he toured the facility with cameras. Turns out there was really nothing to hide behind that one locked door with a window.
Who do you believe?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 31, 2010 2:42 PM
this is what happens when truthers get confronted with questions:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvKgj_EjUDw
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 31, 2010 2:44 PM
"The 9/11 Post"...
http://tinyurl.com/y9gcyvb
Posted by: George Dutton at January 31, 2010 3:16 PM
George,
I did my best to avoid such a scenario, but to no avail. Thanks for making me laugh.
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 3:41 PM
"I did my best to avoid such a scenario, but to no avail. Thanks for making me laugh." - Clark.
Likewise.
And see also http://xkcd.com/386/
Posted by: at January 31, 2010 4:08 PM
"the investigation of the WTC remains was one of the most involved investigations in history"
Hampered somewhat by the hasty and illegal removal and sale of the evidence (I'm sure you meant to add).
Posted by: MJ at January 31, 2010 4:18 PM
The xkcd cartoon link there is me, sorry.
I need a "Remember to remember me" metabutton ...
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 31, 2010 4:40 PM
"Hampered somewhat by the hasty and illegal removal and sale of the evidence (I'm sure you meant to add)."
Evidence?
No?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 31, 2010 4:47 PM
Evidence, yes.
Posted by: MJ at January 31, 2010 4:50 PM
No, you have no evidence for your claim.
The material was investigated. Conclusions were made. The remains of people were searched for.
Truthers seem to think that the world owes them a favor - that ALL of the WTC material should be sitting on an island somewhere for them to investigate. That's not how it works. But there's plenty of steel at a warehouse at JFK airport. It's behind a locked door. Either break into the door, or schedule an appointment.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 31, 2010 5:08 PM
"No, you have no evidence for your claim"
For goodness sake Larry, do your research. Over 80% of the steel was illegally removed, cut up and sold to the far east before investigators could look at it. Even the most blinkered and committed believers in the official account do not dispute this.
http://tinyurl.com/yfvgpk5
Posted by: MJ at January 31, 2010 5:24 PM
Again, where's the photographic evidence of thermite?
Why would anyone want to do a demolition using thermite?
http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/photosoftorch-cutsteel
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at January 31, 2010 5:37 PM
January 31, 2010
"9/11, Deep Events, and the Curtailment of U.S. Freedoms"
"A talk delivered to the New England Antiwar Conference, MIT, January 30, 2010."...
http://tinyurl.com/yftnp7d
Posted by: George Dutton at January 31, 2010 7:32 PM
Larry,
why was the steel evidence taken away?
Why is there clear evidence of nanothermite in WTC dust - (not red paint! - that appears to yield high energy when exposed to a naked flame. Do you think it was planted?
Listen I have seen evidence of WTC steel columns that looked like swiss cheese (holes)
Can somebody find these images, I have forgotten the link.
Larry,
The images exist - are they fake?
Posted by: at January 31, 2010 7:38 PM
"That was from Bill Manning"
What's your point Larry? That Manning is lying? You're clutching at straws. I picked that link pretty much at random. It's well-established that the steel was removed and sold. It's even in the link you provided:
"Nearby scrap recyclers have begun cutting, shearing, shredding and shipping the biggest volumes of metals they have ever faced. Recycling the steel and other metals could net a few tens of millions of dollars (NYT Oct. 9, 2001)"
"Again, where's the photographic evidence of thermite?"
It's in the nature of the collapses; the rivulets of steel dripping down the buildings pre-collapse; the molten steel beneath the rubble for weeks after.
It's only a theory however. If the steel had been retained so investigators could analyse it, as was required by law, there'd be no need for theories.
Where's the photographic evidence to support NIST's theory, or FEMA's now discredited theory?
There should be no need for theories by now. The steel would have told its own story. But it was destroyed. Get over it.
Posted by: MJ at January 31, 2010 7:38 PM
Larry,
it is Mark.
Apostate,
I tried your link which gave me a warning and the cert. was unsigned, when I allowed it, the site was unknown. Have you another link?
Posted by: Mark Golding at January 31, 2010 7:41 PM
Larry,
you're making much better comments than when you started. Disproving explosives / demolition really is your strong point. How long have you been doing this?
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 7:48 PM
MJ,
I followed a link, oh, over a week ago, regarding uninteruptable power supplies in one of the towers; very convincing explanation for the molten metal seen streaming from the side of the building prior to collapse.
Molten metal beneath the rubble? I can't explain this.
Posted by: Clark at January 31, 2010 7:54 PM
The best sites on 9/11 and most other topics are the ones that provide you with the research resources to explore for yourself.
Unless,like the vacuuous angri/Larry brigade you have an aversion for doing your own research check out the James Corbett's Open Intelligence site.
James has done 7 podcasts on 9/11,all exhaustively documented.The most recent was:
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode097_91109.mp3
At the very least you will come away from the broadcast with your appetite for real information thoroughly whetted.You will certainly realise there's a world of difference between the corporate media's drip-fed disinformation and what you can discover yourself from following the right leads.
James's documenation trail for this one episode ranges from Colleen Rowley who blew the whistle on the PTech software that may have been used to plan,coordinate and perpetrate the 9/11 attacks and was allowed by its creators to fall into the hands of terror financiers to William Bergman's Fed insider expose of the 9/11 money trail.This latter of course makes it abundantly clear that major financial players had foreknowledge of the coming attacks and made sure they were in position to profit therefrom.
As has been previously stated the war-mongers have false-flag form over 100 years or so when it comes to igniting the fear,hatred and general emotive force for wars that otherwise would have been distinctly unpopular with the public.
That 9/11 falls into this category there is not one shred of doubt.
Posted by: Steelback at January 31, 2010 9:02 PM
Many conspiracy theorists complain that the "controlled demolition" hypothesis wasn't tested. But the problem is that they haven't given a coherent account of this controlled demolition that can't be refuted.
NIST, for example, explain why they didn't test for a controlled demolition.
There are no sounds of explosives on the video evidence that exist.
The steel didn't show any signs of being blasted by explosives. (Apparently an explosive signature is very distinctive according to explosives experts). So even if much of the beams were shipped off to China blackened and smouldering like exploded cigars in a Bugs Bunny cartoon you'd have to account for why the Chinese didn't notice.
There were no explosive-related injuries reported and then there are also the objections made by Frazer earlier.
Here's also the account of talk by explosives expert Ron Craig who disputes the explosive controlled demolition hypothesis. The point is that if the Truthers can't refute each of these points then their hypothesis is not even worth testing as it is a weaker explanation for the collapse of the towers than the NIST report.
http://recursed.blogspot.com/2009/03/911-truthers-meet-their-waterloo-ron.html
So, in order to escape from the fact that no signatures of explosives exist they have to rely on thermite (or one of its variants).
Again, this hypothesis is completely impllausible given the fact that thermite isn't used in controlled demolitions. If it is not used to do this then this destroys one of their claims to skepticism which is something along the lines of "no-steel-framed building of approximately 110-stories has ever fallen down after being hit by a plane full of jet fuel and then fallen down and yet two came down on the same day!"
The reason for "skepticism" is absurd. Thermite, or thermate, or nanothermite or whatever has never been used for such a purpose either.
Ron Craig also delves into why thermite is unlikely given its lack of chemical signature in the same link I provided.
Also there are examples which refute the idea that steel-framed buildings can collapse due to fire.
All in all, there is really nothing left of the Truthers claim that a controlled demolition hypothesis need to be taken seriously and that is why NIST didn't test for it.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 12:56 AM
Angrysoba,
were you replying to someone? No one else had posted anything for hours... Especially not about that.
Posted by: Clark at February 1, 2010 1:11 AM
Ok, to sum up, it's been conclusively proven on this thread that 9/11 was indeed an inside job. Thanks to all for participating and keeping it mostly civil. I salute you!
Posted by: Jaded. at February 1, 2010 1:18 AM
Seconded!
Posted by: Jaded's Buddy. at February 1, 2010 1:20 AM
"were you replying to someone? No one else had posted anything for hours... Especially not about that."
No one has been talking about explosives, steel and thermite?
Really?
Anyway, if you read the link I posted Ron Craig also goes into the molten metal claim that you were asking about.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 1:36 AM
Angrysoba,
yes, I missed it, somewhere way back, I suppose. I'm sure there's a simple explanation.
Night night!
Posted by: Clark at February 1, 2010 1:43 AM
Here's a video on the "pools of molten steel" claim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YXzjAKJQOg&feature=related
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 1:46 AM
Night night!
Sweet dreams.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 1:52 AM
Ok, so 9/11 was an inside job then. All sorted.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 1, 2010 1:53 AM
"Ok, to sum up, it's been conclusively proven on this thread that 9/11 was indeed an inside job. Thanks to all for participating and keeping it mostly civil. I salute you!"
Seconded!
Incidentally, I posted a "final" comment with links to videos about (1) "audible explosions", (2) "conservation/transfer of momentum at the WTC" and (3) "conservation of angular momentum in the case of the South Tower" but craig's automatic filter stopped it from being posted. The same thing happened a few days earlier although he later let that one through. So maybe he'll do the same with the "final" one.
Anyway, Angrysoba, I appreciate that you are sincere in your beliefs (or "a true believer" if you prefer) and that you're not a paid shill, but you are in deep denial about the salient facts of 9/11. Refusing to understand the evidence presented to you is not the same thing as debunking it. Refusing to concede a point because it weakens the case you are making, even when you know the point is valid is intellectually dishonest. I don't mind people whose opinions differ from mine on important issues, but I find it hard to respect people whose regard for their own opinion causes them to ignore facts and to deride anyone who has the audacity to present them.
And this is my "final, final" comment on this thread.
Posted by: Tim Groves at February 1, 2010 2:01 AM
So many years in, it's obviously a religion to you.
I can be convinced that 911 was an inside jobby job. I just need to see evidence. As Sagan told us (I'm sure others said it before), extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm sure Angrysoba feels the same way.
By the way, where's the evidence of detonation cord? They found my friend's head months after; why didn't they one piece of detonation cord?
Were the steelworkers in on the conspiracy as well?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 1, 2010 2:06 AM
"They couldn't even keep Watergate quiet, and that was a small group."
I'm not persuaded by the 9/11 conspiracy theories at all. But I'm not sure the above is correct. For how long did Bletchley Park remain secret? And how many were involved ... many hundreds, including quite junior staff? And how many employees and former employees have told us about GCHQ? Watergate was quite different, it seems to me.
Posted by: Richard at February 1, 2010 2:15 AM
Ok, to sum up again, it's been conclusively proven on this thread that 9/11 was indeed an inside job. Thanks to all for participating and keeping it mostly civil. I salute you!
Posted by: Jaded. at February 1, 2010 3:56 AM
Tim Groves wrote: "Anyway, Angrysoba, I appreciate that you are sincere in your beliefs (or "a true believer" if you prefer) and that you're not a paid shill, but you are in deep denial about the salient facts of 9/11. Refusing to understand the evidence presented to you is not the same thing as debunking it. Refusing to concede a point because it weakens the case you are making, even when you know the point is valid is intellectually dishonest."
I don't know about you, Larry, but I am struggling to understand where evidence exists that I have refused to understand.
Again, no audible explosions. I'll have to assume that they are somewhere in the ether.
I STILL have never heard a coherent argument for controlled demolition, and Tim Groves, MJ and Glenn et. al. seem to have simply skirted over it or said that they don't need to provide evidence or any counter-theory.
I simply won't concede that the towers couldn't collapse on the basis of a video that shows a controlled demolition once went wrong. It's irrelevant.
So where is the evidence?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 3:57 AM
""Ok, to sum up, it's been conclusively proven on this thread that 9/11 was indeed an inside job. Thanks to all for participating and keeping it mostly civil. I salute you!"
Tim Groves: Seconded! "
CONCLUSIVELY PROVEN???!??!?
Do you have any idea what those words mean?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 4:00 AM
Larry: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm sure Angrysoba feels the same way."
Sure, but I'm feeling generous and so I'll say, "A claim requires evidence".
Again, its next to non-existent and the "theory" requires all kinds of deus ex machina to pull it out of its many holes.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 4:04 AM
Ok, to sum up yet again, it's been conclusively proven on this thread that 9/11 was indeed an inside job. Thanks to all for participating and keeping it mostly civil. I salute you!
Cheers for the additional comments guys. ;-)
Posted by: Jaded. at February 1, 2010 5:07 AM
Jaded/Borat - but I thought you thought that the Jews did it.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 1, 2010 5:18 AM
You do get some funny ideas Lamby. I suggest no one listens to this man's incoherent ramblings.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 1, 2010 5:31 AM
Well, Soba, if you are going to take that crowing like a cockerel on top of his own pile of chicken shit attitude, I suppose I'll have to make a post-final comment or two.
You want evidence of "audible explosions" at the Twin Towers. This compilation of MSM news reports should clear that up for you. But let's see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW4WtRXqwVQ
Posted by: Tim Groves at February 1, 2010 5:55 AM
Here's the South Tower, just prior to the global collapse (at about 1 minute into the vid), you can clearly see a corner of the tower - aluminum cladding and major steel column/grid - no windows here — being eaten away by something very hot and red before giving way, then comes the explosive outburst from all around the same floor simultaneously, putting out a much lighter colored smoke/dust than had been emerging until that point. Note too how close to the corner the cloud is tinged with red. Not too how powerfully it explodes from the first. Finally, note how so many of the eye-witnesses who wern't screaming "Oh my God!" was describing the event as "an explosion", "a huge expolosion", "exploding", etc. This was, of course, before the official word that there were no explosions had gotten around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhyu-fZ2nRA&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: Tim Groves at February 1, 2010 6:26 AM
For an easy-peasy guide to how conservation of angular momentum would have prevented what was observed when the WTC South Tower collapsed, please sea here.
http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2009/08/conservation-of-angular-momentum-in.html
Posted by: Tim Groves at February 1, 2010 7:56 AM
For an easy-peasy guide to how conservation of angular momentum would have prevented what was observed when the WTC South Tower collapsed, please sea here.
http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2009/08/conservation-of-angular-momentum-in.html
Posted by: Tim Groves at February 1, 2010 7:58 AM
F**k me, I think he actually really has buggered off!
Posted by: Jaded. at February 1, 2010 8:07 AM
With only a bunch of sayanim budgerigars to defend it the official 9/11 cover story was bound to be proven a crock of horsecrap!
The 1976-79 House Assassinations Committee found the murders of JFK and MLK to be the result of CONSPIRACIES.Moreover these were found to have been conspiracies in which the FBI and investigating authorities had been woefully negligent to the point of allowing them to proceed unimpeded.
angri and Larry and the other sapskulls who stand by the official 9/11 story are peddling the myth that the government doesn't do conspiracies!LOL! Their hopeless naivety is built wholly on the utterly ahistorical and fallacious idea that the elites who rule us have only our best interests at heart.
They're either peddling this myth because they're sayanim,government agents or because they're just so dumb they actually believe it!
In the case of 9/11,individuals who were actually doing their job trying to protect the US and prevent the attacks were actively discouraged from doing so by their superiors.These superiors were rewarded with promotions.
One example of someone,among many,just trying to do his job was Michael Springman at the Visa Express Programme in Jeddah.He was prevented by the CIA from stopping militants tied to Bin Laden from getting US visas.
It's the same story researchers encounter when they investigate things like the US perennial "War on Drugs".The Bureau of Narcotics founded in 1930 was so successful that when it began to uncover the Establishment's ties to organized crime it had to be shut down by the CIA and FBI!
At the highest level of the state investigative authorities charged with protecting the US there appears to have been active collusion on the part of the dual nationality/neo-con elements in the Bush administration with the Moshcepoche/Mossad intent on bringing off their "new Pearl Harbour" cassus belli.
Check out Greg Felton's The Host and the Parasite to uncover the extent of dual nationality treachery in the Bush administration.
Felton has been accused by ADL et al of being "anti-semitic"-now you can't get a higher recommendation,a surer suggestion that the guy's on to something than that!
Posted by: Apostate at February 1, 2010 8:39 AM
I think you know full well that that is not what I am talking about.
I am talking about audible explosions that caused the Twin Towers to collapse.
The first explosion, with the firefighters talking on the phone, is, if I am not mistaken from Steve Spak's documentary made at the site.
The towers had already fallen by the time it was made.
The rest of that mishmash involves people talking about suspicious parcels or possible car bombs. They are clearly not the type of things are talking about.
Cars were known to have overheated and exploded at the site and no doubt that can be found video on which that was heard.
I am talking about a video of the COLLAPSE in which explosions are audible. I am sure I have made that stipulation clear.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 8:40 AM
Chris Bollyn posted yesterday on the latest impediment to the relatives' bid for justice and our getting to the truth-another 9/11 Trial Cancelled:
http://www.bollyn.com/index.php#article_11656
Bollyn also posted on the Zionist PTech front software company earlier this month.
Bookmark Bollyn!
Posted by: tungsten at February 1, 2010 9:05 AM
The second video... well... all I can say is you see things very differently to me.
The corner gave way, yes. But that is the same camera angle as I had shown before to show that it was a structural failure due to the steel losing its strength.
"aluminum cladding and major steel column/grid - no windows here — being eaten away by something very hot and red before giving way"
Hot and red? Fire, perhaps? No windows? I don't understand the relevance.
"Finally, note how so many of the eye-witnesses who wern't screaming "Oh my God!" was describing the event as "an explosion", "a huge expolosion", "exploding", etc. This was, of course, before the official word that there were no explosions had gotten around."
The collapse made a noise. No one is saying that it was silent. And given that as far as I understand the collapse began with a large amount of the steel being unable to support ten ot fifteen stories of steel and concrete which swung downwards into the impact zones before scything through the floor I would expect a large noise. But that is different to the sounds of explosives.
Click on the link to any of these from Implosion World for a controlled demolition sound:
http://www.implosionworld.com/cinema.htm
"This was, of course, before the official word that there were no explosions had gotten around."
You might have to explain this a but more. Are you saying that people knew there were exlosions consistent with a controlled demolition but somehow none of the videos picked them up and then the people who made the claim were told to hush up about it?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 9:35 AM
I'll have to get back to the conservation of angular momentum.
I don't have time to look at it right now.
Thanks for posting it.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 1, 2010 9:36 AM
"I am talking about a video of the COLLAPSE in which explosions are audible. I am sure I have made that stipulation clear."
I heard explosions while the buildings were collapsing in the video I posted. Also, many ey witnesses are quoted as having heard explosions, some at the time of collapse, on that video. And there are other videos on YouTube in which explosions are audible at the time of the collapses.
Of course, there is none so deaf as he who will not hear. Are denying that there were any audible explosions or that none of the noises audible during the collapses was due to an explosion? And are you going to say that the entire burden of proof is on me to prove that some of those noises were explosions? How tiresome!
I'm afraid I'm no more able to tell the difference between the sound of a bunch of explosions and the sound of a falling skyscraper or the sound of a heard of buffalo galloping across the praries than you are. But some people are quite skilled at such thing.
For example, this guy, rebelforgod, has done an audio spectrum analysis and he says he identified demolition charges, so there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDSGm2jhdA0&feature=related
Posted by: Tim Groves at February 1, 2010 11:23 AM
"The collapse made a noise. No one is saying that it was silent. And given that as far as I understand the collapse began with a large amount of the steel being unable to support ten ot fifteen stories of steel and concrete which swung downwards into the impact zones before scything through the floor I would expect a large noise. But that is different to the sounds of explosives."
And you can discriminate between these different noises? When picked up by a camcorder mike 100 meters or more away in the middle of a noisy Manhatten major disaster? You're ears are better than mine.
Also, you state that "understand the collapse began with a large amount of the steel being unable to support ten ot fifteen stories of steel and concrete". What makes you that that would happen. Steel is a very good heat conductor. It would be hard to heat a section of it to the point where it was hot enough to become unable to support the load above it with jet fuel (which would have burnd off or ran down the outside walls or stairwells in a couple of minutes anyway) and office furnishings for fuel. Fires much bigger, brighter and longer have failed to heat steel to the point where it lost its load-bearing capacity.
Moreover, as Frank Legge has observed, " even if the steel did get hot enough for collapse to start, the manner of collapse could only be explained by explosives. This proof rests on the fact that steel hardens as it distorts thus the initial movement must be slow as extra heat has to be supplied to overcome the hardening. No such slow initial movement can be seen."
Soba, the WTC towers were constructed of three-dimensional steel grids that would have resisted any tendency to collapse all the way and would have absorbed the energy of a collapse had it started, which it wouldn't have.
Also NIST's own experimental and simulation work found no evidence that the steel could have been hot enough to give way when it did. Legge (2006) goes on (and on and on...:
"The conclusion of the NIST report is that fire and aircraft damage caused the initiating event that brought down the towers. Within the body of their report however is the statement that no steel was found which had been heated above 600 oC.This arouses suspicion as such temperatures should not be sufficient to bring about collapse. The NIST report provides diagrams depicting plane damage and data derived from their fire and temperature simulations. The report asserts that the simulations correspond to a satisfactory degree with the observed fires as recorded in videos and photographs. From these it appears that the initial collapse in WTC 1, if it had occurred, would have been at storey 95 or 96. That is the region where the building was most damaged by plane impact. There is little damage shown for storey 97. There is at least one video showing collapse starting at storey 96.
Study of the NIST diagrams shows that at the time of collapse the perimeter columns were not hot enough to place the building at risk. Most significantly the diagrams also show that the core areas of all storeys listed, from 92 to 99, spanning the plane damaged region, had cooled down substantially prior to collapse. The core area was hottest at the 30 and 45 minute readings but collapse did not occur until 102 minutes had elapsed, by which time the environment of the core had dropped to be mainly in the range 100 to 600 oC. Roughly half the area is shown in shades of blue, indicating temperatures no higher than 150 oC. Videos show that the core started to collapse before the perimeter."
Posted by: TIm Groves at February 1, 2010 12:11 PM
Tim: Thanks for those posts about the explosions, bombs in the basement. I didn't manage to turn up such a good compilation while looking the other day.
A short while back there were these yucking sounds emanating from True-Believer posters while they typed about "silent explosions". There's not much silent about the explosions we heard on those reports, which many witnesses testified about. Unless one sticks their fingers in their ears and says "LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA" for the duration. Sadly, that is exactly the approach taken by a True Believer when appeals to authority, ridicule, and pointing to a sacred NIST document doesn't do the job.
And now, we can say "9/11 was an inside job - motion carried!"
Posted by: glenn at February 1, 2010 4:49 PM
"NIST's own experimental and simulation work found no evidence that the steel could have been hot enough to give way when it did."
Have you read the full report? Have you also read the conclusion of the report which stated that the cause of the collapse of WTC 1 and 2 was the combination of the impact of the plane and the fire burning within.
You should read the actual document instead of copying what someone had put on a website.
Cesar Pelli, the architect of the Petronas towers in Malaysia made an accurate comments that "no building is prepared for this kind of stress."
Another report by three engineers at the University of Edinburgh provisionally concluded that the fires alone (without any damage from the airplanes) could have been enough to bring down the WTC buildings.
Even the chief engineer who built the WTC said that it was not built to take the impact of a 767 flying a full speed. Although this is disputed there is no conclusive evidence to show otherwise. He also said that it was a testiment to the building design that it remained in tact for a hour to allow so many people to escape.
But I guess this will still not convince you...
Posted by: chris, glasgow at February 1, 2010 5:02 PM
Chris, the chief engineer might have said the WTC "was not built to take the impact
of a 767 flying a full speed", and surely it wasn't built to house someone carrying
a mobile telephone either, for obvious reasons. But that doesn't mean it couldn't
do so and besides, the 767 was not flying at full speed.
Is there any evidence that any steel had been heated by the fire above 600 degrees F,
and even then for more than a short period? There were people clearly standing in
the gap created by the planes, so it's unlikely there was a huge furnace raging away
in there.
Have you read the NIST report yourself? It concerns itself with events up to the
initiation of collapse, and does not explain how the standard laws of conservation of
momentum are not observed in the collapse itself. That is something a promising and
honest O-level student should declare to be a sticking point. It assumes a heat-
weakened core, and neglects that the core was the primary structure - the backbone
of the WTC buildings - rather than the external structure. "Global collapse ensued",
we are told, but not how that global collapse itself proceeded.
Lofty assertions from a set of government stooges do not convince me, but apparently
that's more than enough "evidence" for yourself.
Posted by: glenn at February 1, 2010 5:39 PM
Tony Blair has told the Chilcot Inquiry
that 9/11 is the key to everything in
understanding why he invaded Iraq.
Reinvestigate 9/11 agrees with this but
calls on Chilcot to examine suspicions
widespread in many countries, that in
some way 911 was an inside job. After a
series of devastating leaks in the US it
is no longer possible to claim that the
9/11 Commission satisfactorily explained
how, armed with plastic knives, 19
fanatics, several known to the CIA, were
able to evade arrest, take over and
accurately control large modern jets with considerable skill.
So far Chilcot has failed even to
acknowledge the submission sent to his
inquiry by Reinvestigate 911.
Ian Henshall, co-ordinator of
Reinvestigate 911, said:
"Chilcot has been charged to examine and
report on how we went to war over Iraq and its non-existent WMD. Many will find
it ironic or even dishonest if he now
bins our submission and takes the
official 9/11 story on trust."
Chilcot's brief starts in June 2001.
This was when, as the 911 Commission confirmed, the White House was turning a deaf ear to warnings of an imminent
attack within the US. After 9/11
officials deceitfully told the media
that the attacks had been unimaginable
and unforeseen.
Reinvestigate 9/11 calls on everyone of
goodwill to join our demand for a
real investigation into 9/11 and
supports those calling for a public
inquiry into the events of 7/7 in
London. There is an accumulation
of evidence which strongly suggests that all is not as it seems with the war on
terror. There are some very odd
coincidences and many who should not
have done have benefited from 9/11. For
instance we now know that Blair and the
neocons were planning to invade Iraq -
not after 9/11, but before.
Reinvestigate 911 says in the US and UK
there has been a worrying lack of
interest from the corporate media in
these issues, and has condemned the
BBC's Conspiracy Files programmes on
9/11 as failing in its duty of
impartiality.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 1, 2010 6:29 PM
What angri and the disinformationists above don't want you to factor into your 911 enquiries is the Zionist input into the atrocity.
This input leads all the way back to the Rothschilds whose agents have controlled Obama and all who came before him since the time when Colonel Edward House controlled Woodrow Wilson.
B'Nai B'rith,the Rothschild-sponsored fringe masonic group;ADL another offshoot;Mossad-the Rothschild intelligence service all played their part.Now these guys can pull a stunt like 911 at the drop of a hat and cover it up afterwards.
http://theupliftingcrane.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-zionist-elephant-in-the-room/
Funny how angri,Larry and the guy with crabs didn't mention any of this?
Posted by: juniper at February 1, 2010 7:01 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUatnbaNfEo
Posted by: Cross Jerrry From Derry. at February 1, 2010 9:10 PM
"Is there any evidence that any steel had been heated by the fire above 600 degrees F,
and even then for more than a short period? There were people clearly standing in
the gap created by the planes, so it's unlikely there was a huge furnace raging away
in there."
Can I ask where the photos are of the people standing in the gap created by the planes??? All I could see was smoke when I watched the news and all the other footage. Also how do you know there wasn't a huge furnace raging away? Stop making unsubstantiated assumption, it isn't very scientific. One point you should consider and this is from Barbara Lane.
Barbara Lane is the leading structural fire expert with Arup Engineers, the top engineering firm in the world, and she did a study on the WTC which concluded that:
"Arup’s analysis concluded that the effect of thermal expansion on the perimeter columns of the towers—even without the airplane impact—could have led to collapse due to the severity of fire occurring on multiple floors and the resulting thermal expansion of structural elements, particularly the floor systems. The Arup analysis conclusively illustrates that even with code-approved fire protection, a severe fire—without aircraft impact—could still lead to collapse."
The people who you don't believe are experts in their field, I know as i have worked with arup and i know how good they are, and have produced an indepth study on the collapse of the WTC.
The point is that nearly every conclusion from every analysis points to the fire and structural damage causing the building to collapse. Just because they came straight down doesn't mean that law of physics was abandoned as it is all dependant on which section of the structure was damaged and when.
If you can't get that into you head then I suggest you go and become a structural engineer and prove everyone wrong because at the moment all you are doing is ignoring the evidence that is in front of you.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at February 1, 2010 9:53 PM
"the disinformationists above don't want you to factor into your 911 enquiries is the Zionist input into the atrocity.. ..the guy with crabs didn't mention any of this?"
Because i cant judge it, im not a great reader of such subjects, and sorry, but yours comes partly at least from sites which dont discriminate between, eg. Niburu myths and presentable analysis.
I think the visible case that 911 was a false flag operation, maintained properly by groups like: www.scholarsfor911truth.org
- is only weakened when its linked to fogged out realms of secrecy and espionage.
---
"Arup’s analysis concluded that the effect of thermal expansion on the perimeter columns of the towers—even without the airplane impact— COULD have LED TO collapse..."
So, we read, it has been concluded that several impact and fire damaged floors COULD have failed. The following rapid over energetic collapse, is an entirely unexplained matter Chris.
Each of the towers took 10 to 15 seconds (at a stretch) to pulverise, throw off and plummet their mass completely after their contestable initial failures.
The simplest physical model of the North Tower, with no structural or frictional resistance takes at least 10 seconds to drop onto itself.
With a 20% loss of kinetic energy to smashing pulverisation and tearing steel, the time is 21 seconds.
The official reports dam themselves by not commenting on the energy and speed of the collapses -that may have followed structural failure at a crash site but are not explained by it.
http://www.journalof911studies.com/
The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation...
"In order to keep a sense of reality as we discuss NIST's theory it may be useful to label the three interacting parts of the North Tower, as they are pictured by NIST, as RB-12+, DS-6 and RB-92. Where RB stands for Rigid Block, DS stands for Damaged Structure, and the numbers following the letters refer to the number of stories in each structure. The upper block comprised 12 stories of 99-110 as well as the roof structure with antenna and hat truss; the intermediate area was damaged by plane impact and fire and was 6 stories high (93-98 inclusive); and the lower block was rigid and comprised, in addition to subterranean levels, the first 92 stories of the building.
These designations actualy underestimate the contrast between RB-12+ and RB-92, because the latter was not only largely undamaged by fire but was more massive per story. It was also stronger: the towers columns tapered as they ascended. Yet the fall of RB-12+, we are supposed to beleive put a catastrophic end to DS-6 and RB-92.
What NIST essentially says, agreeing with Bazant, is that the lighter weaker part initally fell with a powerful jolt onto the heavier and stronger part, which could not withstand its momentum, and that this caused a progressive collapse to initiate smashing the lower block to bits all the way to the ground."
The feild of Structural Engineering does not contain the only (or even necessarily -the best) methods to scrutinise these matters.
Posted by: crab at February 1, 2010 11:29 PM
Great idea, thanks for this tip!
Posted by: Roulette æddemål at February 1, 2010 11:34 PM
Tim Groves: "I heard explosions while the buildings were collapsing in the video I posted. Also, many ey witnesses are quoted as having heard explosions, some at the time of collapse, on that video. And there are other videos on YouTube in which explosions are audible at the time of the collapses."
I don't know which video you are talking about now, but the one that begins with the message claiming to be "unbunkable" is junk evidence. Why? Because it doesn't prove what you are trying to.
Saying that explosions were heard on that day is meaningless, because what we are trying to determine is whether or not there was a controlled demolition and such explosions were consistent with that.
As I pointed out, the first explosion - and yes, I certainly agree that was an explosion - occurred after the Twin towers had fallen. It couldn't have played any role in their destruction, then could it?
Why was it included here? Because Truther evidence is often cobbled together to be suggestive and not to true to the timeline or the events it is purporting to be about.
We also have a load of commentators saying, "explosion...bomb...van...carbomb...secondary explosions....etc...etc..." Again, this is made in a suggestive way without any attempt to analyse each claim.
For example, if we're talking about a suspected carbomb, we have to have established the fact that it was packed with explosives. Has it been? I have never seen a Truther unearth that information.
We also have to have explained to us how a car bomb or some other "device" is part of a controlled demolition. But it hasn't been. So, I wonder what that video is supposed to show.
Tim Groves: "Of course, there is none so deaf as he who will not hear. Are denying that there were any audible explosions or that none of the noises audible during the collapses was due to an explosion? And are you going to say that the entire burden of proof is on me to prove that some of those noises were explosions? How tiresome!"
The only people claiming here that the answer has been "conclusively proven" are the Truthers. You seconded that comment and then Glenn came into say that he had carried his own motion. If you think that something has been proven conclusively by shoddily and dishonestly put together videos made by some kid in his bedroom then you won't mind a bit of skeptical quizzing of you now that you've declared victory.
But such hasty declarations of victory show just why you deserve the label Truthers (or even True Believers) while your claims to skepticism should be treated with, well, skepticism.
A skeptic looks for the best explanation, while Truthers look for the best story.
So, what are the best explanations for the eye-witness (or ear-witness) testimony of explosions?
Well, many of those do talk about what they thought were secondary explosions which came after each tower had collapsed. With the available material we can account for those. If you look at the NIST report of building 7, you'll find there were burning cars some of which exploded (this can also be seen on the BBC's Conspiracy Files... a whole row of burnt out cars) and also reports from news reporters who said there were vehicles which exploded. Presumably there would also be generators that could have exploded and some of those who worked at the Trade Center did report that they heard noises that sounded to them like generators exploding.
Ashley Banfield reported hearing explosions, but again, I believe these occurred after the collapse of the towers making it unlikely that they were the cause of the collapse of the towers. She also later reported that the fire department expected building seven to collapse and was on the scene when it did.
"I'm afraid I'm no more able to tell the difference between the sound of a bunch of explosions and the sound of a falling skyscraper or the sound of a heard of buffalo galloping across the praries than you are. But some people are quite skilled at such thing."
"And you can discriminate between these different noises? When picked up by a camcorder mike 100 meters or more away in the middle of a noisy Manhatten major disaster? You're ears are better than mine."
Well which one is it? Are my ears no better or better?
I'm not necessarily talking about noises on a camcorder (although nice strawman). We also have my favourite reporter Ashley Banfield back again who was interviewing a woman with a baby when building seven collapsed. A controlled demolition would be, according to experts Ron Craig (whose points you have ignored) and Frazer and many others deafeningly loud and presumably quite sharp.
So, why is it that we have Ashley Banfield leisurely turning to see building seven collapsing as it rumbles to the ground instead of how I or you would react if a building was suddenly being destroyed by TNT. We quite clearly don't seem to be listening to a controlled demolition. If you don't believe me please listen again to the controlled demolitions on Implosion World and tell me that that sounds like a herd of stampeding buffalo. I'll find it hard to believe.
Remember also that there have been several people who were quoted as saying they heard what sounds like explosions or even bombs. But lets imagine ourselves for a second or two a little better at recognizing metaphors and similes that Dylan Avery is.
Louie Caccioli, for example has said that People magazine misquoted him and wants to have nothing to do with Truthers. There were a group of people interviewed in hospital who mentioned "bombs" but were clearly quoted out of a context that would clarify things and there are many others who have since been used by Truthers when they were clearly explaining the aircraft impacts etc...
9/11 Mysteries also did this and a commentary of it showing all the distortions is available on Google video.
Looking at all this "evidence", I really can't quite believe that it has been made honestly or that it is believed in sincerely. Yet it does seem to be.
I find that strange.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 2, 2010 1:33 AM
Frank Legge: "The conclusion of the NIST report is that fire and aircraft damage caused the initiating event that brought down the towers. Within the body of their report however is the statement that no steel was found which had been heated above 600 oC.This arouses suspicion as such temperatures should not be sufficient to bring about collapse."
I haven't read the NIST report because at 10,000 pages long, I do have better things to do. But I always get a bit suspicious about sentences that have been cherry-picked as if they tell the whole story. Shame on me for treating Truthers with suspicion but they have well-earned themselves suspicion with their wildly dishonest claims.
The problem I have with Legge's essay here is that he presents little evidence for saying that temperatures below 600 degree centigrade (yes, Glenn, it is centigrade not fahrenheit!) couldn't bring the towers down. It seems to be simply an assertion.
I've shown the video before of the steel-framed building that collapsed all the way to the floor from fires which didn't look especially hot (though I don't claim to be an expert or to know how hot the building actually was). There were never any comments on that either.
Tim Groves: "Soba, the WTC towers were constructed of three-dimensional steel grids that would have resisted any tendency to collapse all the way and would have absorbed the energy of a collapse had it started, which it wouldn't have."
Again, I can only point you to what Leslie Robertson said about the Towers which was that if the load was only being supported by the floor of one of the stories then the floor would give way instantly (he clarified that by saying he meant instantly only insofar as we could perceive it).
Although NIST didn't go beyond what intiated global collapse (Legge seems to be of the impression that NIST was supposed to show how they collapsed and used "papers" by Ross and Ryan etc... to show that the tower couldn't pancake to the floor), Ryan Mackey has pointed out that the beams in the towers were bolted as opposed to welded, which would have made them comparatively weaker and accounts for their lack of resistance to 10 to 15 stories of steel and concrete.
Are Truthers saying that Leslie Robertson is lying? Or mistaken? May I ask what Mr Legge's qualifications?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 2, 2010 1:50 AM
Crab: Tony Szamboti and Ryan Mackey debate his paper on Hardfire. I have posted links to this already.
A sticking point seemed to be that Szamboti refused to believe there was a tilt in the North tower prior to collapse. Mackey doesn't understand how he can deny it as he finds it quite clear that it was there. I agree with Mackey.
It seems to be important as this was, I believe, an answer to Bazant whose own paper on the collapse of the towers, produced only a couple of days after the collapse itself offered THE POSSIBILITY of a pancake collapse, but which was written before Bazant had a lot of evidence to base it on. His suggested collapse was biased in favour of the towers NOT collapsing but has since been picked up as evidence by Truthers that a collapse was not possible.
(It is weird that Truthers think there is some kind of subtle subversion going on where there are all kinds of explicit messages delivered by the REAL culprits of the terrorist attack: "Hey! Larry Silverspoon admitted to demolishing the towers on TV! FEMA said that towers' collapse was impossible! NIST said that it was impossible too! Ronald Dumsfeld said he shot the plane down! Some news guy said it was a cruise missile!" etc... etc... etc...)
Anyway, Crab, if you've got a lot of time to kill you may want to wade through this discussion of Tony Szamboti.
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=140639
(Interestingly it starts with the suggestion that the Journal of 9/11 Studies is rather partial about which papers it accepts - i.e not those that follow the "official line"!)
I will say that I think Tony Szamboti is completely honest and genuinely believes what he is saying. But like all those who are genuine, I think he's misapplying certain knowledge and getting too carried away trying to cling on to an apparent anomaly.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 2, 2010 2:07 AM
Oh, I'll reprint that comment here now.
This is from "Dave Rogers" on the JREF forum talking about the Journal of 9/11 Studies (or JON-ES as he calls it here):
"Several months ago, Gregory Urich submitted a paper to JON-ES analysing the dynamics of the collapse, and demonstrating that the collapse times - and, clearly, the fact of collapse itself - were consistent with a gravity driven process. His paper was rejected on the grounds that JO-NES was ceasing publication, because they felt that no further evidence was necessary to demonstrate that the official story of 9/11 cannot stand up to scrutiny and must therefore be re-investigated. Please note that there was no criticism of Urich's methodology, reasoning or conclusions; the paper was simply rejected. Now, however, it appears that JON-ES is not only still publishing, but still publishing on the specific subject of the dynamics of the Twin Towers collapses. Since they have neither published Urich's paper nor, as far as I know, informed him of any adverse peer review result that would justify its rejection, it seems clear to me that their only possible motivation for its rejection is that it does not agree with their preferred conclusion concerning 9/11. I felt certain that this was already the case, but the subject matter of this latest paper places the matter beyond question. The Journal of 9/11 Studies is therefore shown to be no more than a propaganda organ of the 9/11 truth movement. Ironically, this active suppression of any dissenting opinion is exactly the behaviour of which all mainstream media are accused by the 9/11 truth movement, usually without justification.
The behaviour of this "journal" is reprehensible and repulsive."
Posted by: angrysoba at February 2, 2010 2:10 AM
Oh God!
What am I talking about?
Tony Szamboti's as credulous as the rest of you Truthers. He, like you, believes it because he wants to believe it.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 2, 2010 6:17 AM
Budgerigars trilling among themselves re-structural engineering etc. is merely a heavy-handed attempt by disinformationists to extinguish the thing they fear most.
Natural human curiosity.
They mean for you to be so frustrated by their meaningless debate that you'll stay away from this site and be thoroughly turned off the idea of doing your own research.
The propagandists for the appallingly threadbare official 9/11 account are running around like the little Dutch boy trying to plug the dykes.
They know and are deeply apprehensive about the prospect of millions of people coming to the realisation that on 9/11 and the elite NWO plan generally they have been the victims of a none too subtle mind control operation.
Any researcher worth their salt will ultimately be led to the structures of power in New York,London and Tel Aviv who had the the form,means,motive and power to cover it up as the perpetrators of 9/11.
Conspiracists are ahead of the game quite simply because they are more vigilant about defending humanity against those who plan our enslavement.
9/11 propagandists like angrisober,Larry,technicolored are way behind the game and they know it.
Conspiracy's gone mainstream,guys!
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17295
Too late to plug the dykes you saps!
Posted by: Steelback at February 2, 2010 8:35 AM
You'll find no references to the Our Crowd NY banking elites,British sponsorship of the Dope Inc network and affiliated assassination bureau in 9/11 propagandist accounts.
They rely on the public not delving into the history of a network that has initiated assassination,economic take-down and war over the centuries that have followed Palmerston's setting it up.
9/11 was a piece of cake for them.
Nice summary here:
http://thirdworldtraveller.com/Drug_War/DOPE_INC_part3.html
Posted by: tungsten at February 2, 2010 10:04 AM
"Szamboti refused to believe there was a tilt in the North tower prior to collapse"
Whether the upper section of the North tower tilted or somersaulted before collapse doesnt alter its potential to smash through the rest of the tower below it at an impossible rate. Im not interested in Szamboti's performance on in jib-jab debates, he has just co-authored a fine article which you prefered to immediately direct away from.
"Several months ago, Gregory Urich submitted a paper to JON-ES analysing the dynamics of the collapse..."
angrysoba, i can find no so such paper available online. JO-NES does host a paper of Urich's which documents the towers mass and construction. It doesnt comment on the towers ability to coll-plode(sic) at inordinate speed.
If there is a paper by Urich that does, JO-NES are really as responsible for publishing it as the IPCC are for demonstrating sun spots are the true cause of global warming!
Posted by: crab at February 2, 2010 11:50 AM
The oligarchy that enjoys the unique form of political control that comes from control of narcotics,dominant positioning in the precious metals and gems markets and above all its ability to bring a multi-hundred billion dollar cash flow to bear on the corruption of lagal organs and sovereign states shares an ancient Babylonian conception of humanity.
We are but "talking beasts",creatures of appetite who can be manipulated by our experience of pain/pleasure inflicted via the leading institutions of international finance to do the bidding of the elite.
This conception of men as "talking beasts" rings true for the prattling DISINFO team here that includes Airhead Larry,angridickbrain,itchy crabs,teckni(can't spell his own name)culer et al.
LOL!
Posted by: Steelback at February 2, 2010 11:58 AM
crabs
Mindless,phoney debates on this thread with friends who have deserted you will,unfortunately for someone with your condition,not wash.
No-one is dumb enough to follow your disinformation trail.
Get Larry on the case!
Your last best hope thinks Bildeberger is a cake with squares in it,the Illuminati are a tourist attraction in Blackpool,England and thermite is a tropical insect of the Isoptera order weaponized by Al Ciada on 9/11!
Send for Mindless of Missouri!
Posted by: tungsten at February 2, 2010 12:13 PM
"Can I ask where the photos are of the people standing in the gap created by the planes???"
There are several here: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtc1_woman.html
Posted by: MJ at February 2, 2010 12:31 PM
paranewsguys - You cant just throw zionism, banking, bilderberg, masons, templars, illumaniti, harpp, chemtrails... and then 911 into a big thread and call it the hidden truth. Each subject needs focus to establish its details.
My comments might not be greatly mindful, but they arent phoney.
Posted by: crab at February 2, 2010 12:42 PM
"Conspiracy's gone mainstream,guys!
http://globalresearch.ca/"
NOW this just highlights the necessary over-arching delusion of 911 truthers. They have to believe that their conspiracy theories are now being accepted by the mainstream public (after years and years). Otherwise, they would have to face their own deviant beliefs. They have to continue to believe that this will happen any time now.
Someone above said "motion carried" merely because angrysoba and me did not get back to them on something irrelevant.
Sorry, nutters. The public will never view you as anything other than nutters. The anti-war movement has rejected you (I DARE you to show up at an anti-war rally with a "911 was an inside job" sign). Craig Murray does not believe in your 911 conspiracy theories.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 2, 2010 2:58 PM
It's hard to believe the retarded idiocy of these peasants who can't make basic logical inferences from obvious premises. It's time to educate these shills and simpletons, yes 911 was an inside job duh!!! Obviously.
FACT 1: The north tower ACCELERATED through the lower section at a uniform 64% freefall, which means that the lower section exerted resistance equal to 36% of the weight of the upper section, Newton's third law of equal and opposing forces states that the top block thus exerted 36% of it's weight, which means it’s exerting much less force than when supported at rest. This means a large portion of the resistance was removed by explosives.
FACT 2: The top section of the North Tower almost fully disintegrated before the lower section started to explode downward, this disintegration would absorb any momentum and expelled the mass laterally, there was NO piledriver left to cause any kind of gravitational collapse!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG2y50Wyys4
FACT3: The top section of the South Tower topples to an angle of 22 degrees. Basic physics shows that the shift in center of mass due to the angle means that any torque imparted by gravitational pressure on the lower section accelerates the rotation of the top mass. The base of the top section acting as a fulcrum.
The more gravitational pressure the top section provides, the more toppling would occur. discontinuation of the upper section's toppling proves the removal of the lower section's resistance, disproving gravity induced collapse and proving explosives.
An off centre, leaning mass CANNOT cause a symmetric collapse.
FACT 4: The symmetric, even collapse of WTC7 is IMPOSSIBLE without demolition as all structural supports must be removed simultaneously across each floor, and this repeated in sequence for each successive floor.this is impossible in a collapse resulting from structural or fire damage, as such causes result in organic uneven damage.
Even a slight integrity inequality ALWAYS leads to a messy uneven and in most cases partial collapse.
FACT 5: The 2.2 seconds of Freefall in WTC7 that NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) ADMITS to is IMPOSSIBLE without Controlled demolition as all structural supports must be removed ahead of the collapse front, otherwise ANY intact structural resistance would slow the collapse to a rate less than freefall.
Freefall means all the object's gravitational potential is converted to motion, in order to crush tonnes of structural steel and concrete, a large part of that gravitational potential must be used, which would slow it down to a rate much less than freefall.
Verinage demolition is non-analagous to 911 for the following reasons:
The building materials were very flimsy and not reinforced anywhere near to the degree the towers were.
The whole Verinage buildings represent a small upper segment of the towers proportion-wise so there is no time for the net upward force to reduce the acceleration and absorb the momentum before it hits the ground, whereas in the towers you would see the (proportionately much less) momentum be absorbed rapidly. Also you DO see a slow down in the Verinage collapses unlike 911 where there is constant acceleration.
Also the twin towers suffered asymmetric damage making a symmetric collapse impossible, the verinage buildings were arranged to have the top block fall symmetrically.
Lastly, there is the possibility due to the nature of the Verinage collapses that demolitions or structural pre-weakening was used and it was part of a plan to support the official story. This however is speculation, the above physical evidence however is irrefutable proof of the fallacy in using Verinage to explain 911.
Controlled Demolition proven, you can all go home now
GAME OVER
Posted by: Sabretruthtiger at February 2, 2010 3:15 PM
Craig Murray, your foolishness and ignorance is legendary............Cables???!!! WTF???!!!!
Ever heard of remote control detonation?!!! Lol!
We have the wheel now too in case you hadn't notice those strange rolling circles on the bizarre metal beasts.
Posted by: Sabretruthtiger at February 2, 2010 3:20 PM
Zounds!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 2, 2010 5:43 PM
There is nothing more funny than British anti-Americanism.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 2, 2010 6:53 PM
juniper
You bin'at der gin,agin?
Check out this exhaustively detailed and fascinating piece on how the Naudet brothers filmed the first plane hitting the Towers.
The brothers were with the NY fire department making a film about their work.The firefighters were working on a drain,traffic had been stopped.......when out of the blue along came this plane no-one but these guys knew was coming!
http://www.spingola.com/jules_naudet.htm
Posted by: Freeborn at February 2, 2010 7:11 PM
So does everyone here include the firefighters in the list of saboteurs? This Freeborn person makes it explicit, but I imagine that Glenn and others likewise think that the NY firefighters must have been involved in planning 911.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 2, 2010 7:30 PM
"Folks say that the last time that Larry flew back into St Louis he was navigating for Charles Lindbergh!"
Doesn't writing something like that show what a moron you are?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 2, 2010 7:31 PM
"9/11 & 'War on Terrorism'"...
http://tinyurl.com/8r63h
Posted by: George Dutton at February 2, 2010 7:45 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4izUFafakmg
Posted by: at February 2, 2010 8:03 PM
Damn it,Larry yo'sore at me or somethin?
I know you musta gotten mighty tired when Mr Sabre goin' thru all dem facs bout 911 an'all.Wuz justa tryna 'plain ta 'im you ain't as sharp assa you once wuz,das'all.
Ain't no damn reason for you an'me gwine fall out,tis'it now?
Jew take a look dat bitty dat Freeborn guy dun posted 'bout dem Naudet Brothers?
Hell,now dem dam 'spiracy theorists tryna tell us we canna trus our own guvment now neither we can't trus alluz own fire department!
Ain't right,Larry.We oughtta get dat Craig Murray here rite now and tella him 'bout all dese 'spiricists takin' over dis here damn site!
I don't care if we gotta git dat Craig guy outta bed in hissa dare kilt an'all,we gown do it,right Larry?
An'wassa dis 'lluminati shit dey startin' out wid now? I's still trine get my hedda roun' dam 911-so help me!
An' wassa dese here Mosser Bros workin'outta dat Isreel you workin' fo'?Yo sure shounna bin dancin' all roun' New York der day dey done dat 911.Das mighty 'criminatin,Larry boy!
Say what youz me an angri,anna techni, an clark,an dat guy wid crabs gettin' down town tonite so we can all plan de nexa move we gown do gainz dese 'spiricists.
I really wanna make up wid yer,Larry,you hear me?
Posted by: juniper at February 2, 2010 8:39 PM
juniper,
Aren't you a silly goose - the countrified type of American, who revels in ignorance and prays to Jesus everyday, is highly represented in the 911 Truth Movement. Truthers in the States are overwhelmingly Christian and religious as that (I would say well over 90%) and are otherwise idiotic. The vast majority of callers into Alex Jones are the type of redneck that you're trying to ridicule.
So you've scored an own goal. Great job.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 2, 2010 8:48 PM
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. --Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
Posted by: at February 2, 2010 9:16 PM
Right, but that does not make the pleas of the village idiot any more listenworthy.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 2, 2010 9:27 PM
I am the village idiot - and proud of it! 1st principles, man.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 2, 2010 9:29 PM
@Edo at January 29, 2010 3:08 PM: "Vincent Salandria was perhaps the first JFK researcher to come to believe that the truth of the assassination could be better approached by large-scale considerations than by focusing on details."
Thanks, Edo, for your comment on Salandria (and thanks to Vronsky for noting it on a later thread). I looked him up and found this interesting bit about Salandria's method:
"As I examined the evidence I was confronted with an unvarying pattern. Whenever evidence of a conspiracy emerged - and mountains of facts were supplied by the government for us to scrutinize - the government refused to act on that evidence. On the other hand, whenever any data emerged, no matter how thoroughly incredible, which could possibly be interpreted as supporting a lone assassin theory - the government invariably and with the greatest solemnity declared that such data proved the correctness of the lone assassin myth. That is not the earmark of an innocent, blundering government.
I posited that an innocent civilian government would have in an unbiased fashion accepted, made public, and protected all of the assassination data. An innocent government would have fairly evaluated the data irrespective of whether or not they supported a particular conclusion. An innocent civilian government would never have accepted an improbable explanation of data while other probable explanations were extant."
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsalandria.htm
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 2, 2010 11:34 PM
Some Truther: "We have the wheel now too in case you hadn't notice those strange rolling circles on the bizarre metal beasts."
The delusions never cease!
Yep, you truly terrorise the websites of the tender-headed.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 3, 2010 12:13 AM
hawley_jr
http://tinyurl.com/y94dgx6
Posted by: George Dutton at February 3, 2010 12:13 AM
Sorry, hawley. Just WHAT has JFK got to do with 9/11?
Truthers here keep swooning over that quote and I just don't see the relevance.
It's only useful if you are a serial conspiracy theorist and think that massive conspiracies involving thousands are normal occurences.
But if you're not convinced that JFK was killed in a massive conspiracy then it doesn't really work as "evidence".
JFK conspiracy theorists usually use just as much kooky evidence as Truthers then they whine about how they don't want the burden of proof and insist on others simply drinking the Kool-aid.
Truthers on this site have already declared an inside job to have been conclusively proved and yet when asked to prove that there were explosives have utterly failed to turn up any evidence, complained about why they have to PROVE it then flounced off in a huff.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 3, 2010 12:24 AM
I'm still wondering how, when the planes hit the Towers, the explosives / incendiaries / superduperthermite didn't immediately go off, and why, when it was hit by a Tower, the explosives / incendiaries / superduperthermite in Building 7 didn't go off. This is a big problem if you're a failed Mormon physicist or a slimy Danish pseudoscientist with crazy hair. Or should I say, unless you're a failed Mormon physicist or a slimy Danish pseudoscientist with crazy hair.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 12:29 AM
"turn up any evidence"
Posted by: George Dutton at January 28, 2010 11:43 AM
Posted by: George Dutton at February 3, 2010 12:32 AM
"I'm still wondering how, when the planes hit the Towers, the explosives / incendiaries / superduperthermite didn't immediately go off"
Well, obviously they were held in blast-resistant fireproof containers.
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Posted by: angrysoba at February 3, 2010 12:35 AM
http://orphia-nay.blogspot.com/2007/01/911-truther-credo.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 1:10 AM
"Controlled Demolition proven, you can all go home now"
Well, this is apparently where things go for Truthers once they have satisfied themselves. They go home.
"The building materials were very flimsy and not reinforced anywhere near to the degree the towers were."
Oh really? Then if the material being crushed is flimsy then how would equally flimsy material crush it? Isn't this like trying to smash a polystyrene block with a polystyrene hammer? After all these are the "expirements" that Steven Jones with his concrete blocks and Richard Gage with his cardboard boxes want people to emulate to prove that this material can't smash the same material.
In the towers a big heavy wieght smashed through a weak part of the structure and compromised the rest of the structure.
And the collapses were not "symmetrical". There were bits and pieces falling off the towers and peeling down asymmetrically. Bits of the towers were still standing briefly after the rest had collapsed.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 3, 2010 2:14 AM
I can't for the life of me understand what angry-noodle and larry-the-laugh get out of arguing so hotly in favour of the official "line". As hawley_jr said above.
Makes no sense at all that private individuals would devote *all this time and effort* into telling us that it happened just as the US government said it did.
Defending official stories doesn't even come into the category of hobbies, let alone obsessions. But these two are as devoted as Opus Dei members defending Catholicism.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 3, 2010 2:15 AM
"I can't for the life of me understand what angry-noodle and larry-the-laugh get out of arguing so hotly in favour of the official "line". As hawley_jr said above."
I see. You're upset because someone's criticising your religion and you don't understand why.
There are people who debunk ghosts and UFOs and other stuff like that.
Then there are people who debunk harebrained conspiracy theories.
I don't think anyone here is saying you must always believe the "official line". I think it should always be questioned. But when alternative hypotheses aren't supported by evidence then they should be rejected.
It's simply about evidence. None of the evidence I've seen points to an inside job and all the "structural engineering hypotheses" that Truthers come up with don't seem convincing. Especially given that they come from people parroting dogma they've read about on the Internet rather than coming from anyone with any real knowledge in the subject.
Absolutely NO controlled demolition experts agree that the Twin Towers were brought down with explosives.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 3, 2010 3:11 AM
So it was an inside job then. I see.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 3, 2010 3:24 AM
Larry, weight does not equate to structural integrity, you can drop several tonnes of water on several tonnes of more water and it's still going to follow the path of least resistance, laterally and multidirectionally.
Wrong Larry the collapses WERE symmetrical, in such tall structures if they were asymmetric the imbalance would be accumulative and deflected away from the tower early on, in order to collapse all the way to the ground it has to be perfectly symmetric, which is impossible from the asymmetric damage.
Really Larry I went over all this. Watch the footage, the south tower top section leans to an angle of 22 degrees, the lower section then explodes downward perfectly symmetrically (watch the collapse front in the video). This is impossible from an asymmetric leaning off centre mass, basic physics.
Read my previous posts....slowly...then watch the footage of the demolitions then you'll see I'm right.
Posted by: Sabretruthtiger at February 3, 2010 4:00 AM
Jaded wrote: So it was an inside job then. I see."
I will concede one thing to the truth movement. Your recruiting efforts will indeed have some success. Every year, there are all sorts of hate-filled dickless Brits and narcissistic empty-headed Americans aging into a period of extreme gullibility in their lives. So 911 Truth will remain a force, although it will become increasingly pathetic.
Forget about converting people with brains. Won't happen.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 4:47 AM
I believe you know that you are like an amoeba compared to me. I understand you can't admit it though. It's ok Lamby. No worries chum. ;-)
Posted by: Jaded. at February 3, 2010 5:31 AM
Jaded, you don't seem to understand that your blatant racist anti-Semitism has done more to discredit truthy truthers than I could ever match.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 6:03 AM
You keep believing that Lamby, you keep believing that. As for racist accusations, I believe the previous thread went very quiet after I asked for quotes. Just like this one will... ;-)
Posted by: Jaded. at February 3, 2010 6:21 AM
@Saber
In many years I have never read such fanatical bullshit as you have posted here, you are really deluded. Do you live on a small farm in Montana surrounded by guns and underground bunkers ? Please get a life !
Posted by: Frazer at February 3, 2010 7:20 AM
angri,Frazer and Larry and all your other pseudonyms have been argued off the floor.
It's over guys.
You're in denial re-the patent complicity of your own government in the atrocity.You're in denial re-your intellectually challenged position on this,not to mention all the other topics on which you post and make complete arses of yourselves.
You're now just turning yourselves into an utter laughing stock! It's as patently obvious you guys are sharing a brain cell as the fact that 9/11 was an inside job!
Posted by: Steelback at February 3, 2010 8:00 AM
"I see. You're upset because someone's criticising your religion and you don't understand why."
--angrynoodle
I have already said that I tend to agree with Craig. Get your facts straight before you shoot your mouth off.
And tell us why you or anyone else would spend hours, nay, days and days, defending the official line -- about anything. It's beyond reason.
"There are people who debunk ghosts and UFOs and other stuff like that."
To the extent that you and Larry do here? You must be kidding me. You're a joke, the pair of you. Nothing but a joke.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 3, 2010 8:01 AM
Hell Larry,jussa had Massa Sunstein roun' here 'gain.
Massa Sun says you anna angri,an Clark,techni,Frazer bin taken offa the disinfo team.
He say you no damn good,Larry and yawl jusssa makin' tings mighty sight worsa thanna they was befo'.He say cossa you now-E'BODY KNOW 911 WASSA A INSIDE JOB!
Massa Sunstein he say he want yawl to jus shutta yourself up cos he done foun' hisself another disinfo team thassa got them some brain cells betweena dem.
Larry,why don yoy jussa listen to Massa Sunstein an' Massa Steelback cossa the game sure is up by now!
P.S. I's lookin' affer yo'wife now cos I jus don' like wassa this'all doin'to 'er.Sure ain't fair,Larry.
Posted by: juniper at February 3, 2010 8:14 AM
That's great news Juniper?
Posted by: Jaded. at February 3, 2010 9:01 AM
Enjoy, juniper.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 3, 2010 9:25 AM
"To the extent that you and Larry do here? You must be kidding me. You're a joke, the pair of you. Nothing but a joke."
Conspiracy theorist stomps her feet!
Posted by: angrysoba at February 3, 2010 9:44 AM
That's the best you can do in response to someone who agrees with Craig?
Poor you, angrynoodle. You've completely run out of answers.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 3, 2010 9:51 AM
dreoilin, I've no idea what your point is. Are you just here on this thread to declare your non-interest in the topic?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 3, 2010 11:20 AM
Most of us know that it was the likes of angrisober,Larry,crab,technicolor et al who forced Craig into opening this 9/11 thread.
They were obsessively bringing up the topic in every thread on the site.
When they got their 9/11 thread it was beholden on them to fight their corner and make their case.
They have proved signally unequal to the task to put it mildly.
In fact I think juniper for all his linguistic shortcomings has it right.
It's thanks to Larry,angrisoba et al that everybody now knows that 9/11 was indeed an inside job!
Posted by: tungsten at February 3, 2010 12:28 PM
Once again tungsten and the crew of clowns don't cite anything specific.
You children - it's not enough to REALLY REALLY want 911 to be an inside job. You have to come up with some proof.
Can anyone tell me why the superduperthermite did not ignite when the planes struck the buildings?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 12:46 PM
"It's thanks to Larry,angrisoba et al that everybody now knows that 9/11 was indeed an inside job!"
Do I really need to point this out again? EVEN THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU IDIOTS.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 12:49 PM
"It's thanks to Larry,angrisoba et al that everybody now knows that 9/11 was indeed an inside job!"
Probably best not to get too triumphant yet, still lots of work to be done. One of the distinguishing features of 911 is the absence of key evidence, either missing or destroyed and, before a proper independent inquiry, neither side can claim conclusive victory.
Although the angrylarrys are clearly most comfortable handing out insults than discussing evidence, they do sometimes make a fair point. Larry's comment for instance that "I'm still wondering how, when the planes hit the Towers, the explosives / incendiaries / superduperthermite didn't immediately go off" is a reasonable one.
The Naudet Brothers have been mentioned and their clip of AA11 hitting WTC1 - 'The Fireman's Video' - is worth looking at it some detail. It is full of clues. It appears to show a small plane with no engines on its wings, just like all the eyewitnesses said. The impact creates a much smaller fireball than did the second plane, which is interesting given that both planes should have had roughly the same amount of fuel on board. And it clearly shows a separate explosion taking place in the adjacent wall of the building, which might lead one to speculate that there were pre-planted explosives to create some of the impact damage. Look out for the anomalous pattern of mini explosions as the plane strikes and the interesting flash just prior to impact.
It's really worth checking out, particularly in slow motion.
Posted by: MJ at February 3, 2010 12:55 PM
"It appears to show a small plane with no engines on its wings, just like all the eyewitnesses said."
No, not all the eyewitnesses said that. Maybe 3 did. Who knows. It certainly wasn't all.
MJ, so you know, if you start pushing that story, you start violating truther pseudo-orthodoxy, and you might not be welcomed at their sparsely populated meetings.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 1:07 PM
"No, not all the eyewitnesses said that. Maybe 3 did".
No eyewitnesses said they saw a passenger jet.
"if you start pushing that story, you start violating truther pseudo-orthodoxy"
I don't care. I'm only interested in the evidence.
I try not to link to 'truther' sites but the following article is interesting because it is the only one that attempts an analysis of some other other aspects of the first plane:
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/spencer03.htm
Posted by: MJ at February 3, 2010 1:20 PM
anon - "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. --Galileo Galilei"
This appears to be more like a religion.
Posted by: Richard Robinson at February 3, 2010 1:25 PM
"Larry's comment for instance that "I'm still wondering how, when the planes hit the Towers, the explosives / incendiaries / superduperthermite didn't immediately go off" is a reasonable one."
I dont think so, bombs arent neccessarily too sensitive (except when made to be), consider when aerial bombs fail to explode because they arent properly armed, despite impacting targets at 100s of mph.
Even if a plane where to have taken out a device or two in the crash area, with the lack of footage of the first strike and fireball spectacle of the second, how visible need it be?
"The Naudet Brothers have been mentioned and their clip of AA11 hitting WTC1 - 'The Fireman's Video' "
The problem with this evidence is it is blurred and compressed to hell. Its of some speculative interest to people openly reviewing the events, but can always be attacked as an example of "seeing what you want to see" by believers.
Posted by: crab at February 3, 2010 1:27 PM
"No eyewitnesses said they saw a passenger jet."
Do the other truthers hear this? Isn't this an example of the crazy that you've let in to your big tent?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 1:31 PM
MJ, this is what the author of what you think is evidence also believes:
"... but I'll tell you what I see. Immediately before the plane strikes it fires a missile that blows a hole in the building's façade. This is the cause of that brief flash. The plane then begins to disappear neatly into this hole, leaving no wing impressions. Just before it disappears however it fires two more missiles from somewhere near its tail. One goes to the left, one to the right (and up a bit) and it is the blast holes from these three separate missiles that form the great gash across the building."
Even by truther standards, this is crazy.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 1:34 PM
Larry, I repeat: no eyewitnesses said they saw a passenger jet.
I don't think your quote is from the article I linked to. In the article I linked to his comments about FEMA's diagrammatic rendition of the scar are spot on - you can test it yourself. Also what he says about the seismic records is interesting.
"The problem with this evidence is it is blurred and compressed to hell"
True, but the explosion in the adjacent wall is clear enough.
Posted by: MJ at February 3, 2010 2:05 PM
MJ, wrong; a friend of mine was standing on top of his brownstone in Brooklyn and saw the second plane - a passenger jet - fly in.
Does the photographic evidence not work for you?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 2:26 PM
"I don't think your quote is from the article I linked to."
Right, but the Spencer guy is a crazy person who believes that missiles shot from the plane. In fact, that's one of his central beliefs.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 2:28 PM
No-one doubts the second plane, there are lots of pictures. I'm talking about AA11, the first plane.
Posted by: MJ at February 3, 2010 2:29 PM
"the Spencer guy is a crazy person who believes that missiles shot from the plane"
He may be wrong about that. I was inviting you to read another, more forensic, articles of his. His comments can be easily verified.
Posted by: MJ at February 3, 2010 2:31 PM
Here are some, among many, eyewitness accounts. Some don't mention "passenger" plane, but that's because the world is not out to prove or disprove your conspiracy within a conspiracy.
http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/whattheysaw%3Aeyewitnessaccountsofthenycai
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 2:40 PM
"His comments can be easily verified."
Nope, it's just a bunch of babble. Apparently this guy doesn't even exist, let alone have any qualifications.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 2:44 PM
So let me get this straight:
1. The first plane WAS NOT a passenger plane;
2. The second plane WAS a passenger plane.
Why the hell would the Men in Black do it that way?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 2:45 PM
The Men wear white.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 3, 2010 2:51 PM
"Here are some, among many, eyewitness accounts"
Thanks for those Larry. I suppose I was referring to those eyewitnesses who were interviewed by TV/radio immediately after the event and before the official account was in circulation. None of these is quoted on your link, but they give a rather different picture. It seems that an extraordinary number of senior fire department officials were in the vicinity time, but were not interviewed.
You may recall that even General Myers acknowledged that the early reports were of a small plane.
Posted by: MJ at February 3, 2010 3:01 PM
"His comments can be easily verified."
Of course they can. All you need is a copy of FEMA's Building Performance report.
"apparently this guy doesn't even exist"
The article must have written itself then. Either way it makes some important observations. The only qualification you need is to be able to count. Obviously FEMA didn't make the grade.
Posted by: MJ at February 3, 2010 3:07 PM
Hell,Larry!
Yo'an Robinson,angri,and dat guy wid crabs still all makin' complete arses yo'sels bout dat 911 ting?
You no Massa Sunstein tol'yawl yo makin'tings mighty far sight worser dan dey was before.All da people down here in Missouri know yo'makin'complete arses yoursel'
Issa only some debate you doggone got whipped in.Ebody know likes a Massa Sabre,Steelback,Freeborn and tungsten done made yawl look a bunch a fools.Yawl oughta juss cut yo'losses an jussa pack up an'come home now.Y'aint never spoke one word a sense bout thissa ting anyways.
Aint no folks down here in Missouri gon'tank ya fur sendin'their boys down that Iraq and dem otter places on backa load o'ol lies.Our boys jussa get their arses blown to bits for bunch a mean drug peddlers and bankers inna New York and Lundun!
Now you and angri an'ol'crab tell dem 'spiricists yawl bout had nuff an' yo gwine pack up now!
P.S. I's still havin' a fine time wid yer wife an'all.We both unstan if yo wanna carry on makin arse yo'sel!
Posted by: juniper at February 3, 2010 3:11 PM
"bombs arent neccessarily too sensitive (except when made to be"
crab: yes, true of bombs, which need detonators, but there is an issue with thermite, which needs only ignition.
Posted by: MJ at February 3, 2010 4:28 PM
George,
Thanks for that link. Another nail in the coffin of truth.
"February 21, 2006
U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review
By SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians.
The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the Central Intelligence Agency and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton. It accelerated after the Bush administration took office and especially after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to archives records."
And a commenter quotes from Deep Politics Quarterly:
"But heres the catch: if you are a historian/researcher and possess copies of the reclassified documents, even though you haven't been told what they were (or to return them) you could find yourself in violation of federal statutes that prohibit individuals from being in possession of "secret" material. You could face Federal Felony charges for possession of secret documents that you obtained in a totally legal manner."
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 3, 2010 4:37 PM
This seems the appropriate place for this link;
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/02/02/who-was-that-well-dressed-man/
Posted by: Mac at February 3, 2010 5:11 PM
Wow - breaking news from 4 years ago!!!!! In those 4 years, has anyone faced a felony charge for possessing a reclassified document? That sorta helps defeat your claims of conspiracy. Own goal!!!!!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 5:37 PM
Jumpin Juniper!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 3, 2010 6:29 PM
Oh my gosh!! Larry nailed everyone!!!!
Posted by: dreoilin at February 3, 2010 8:53 PM
"George Galloway talks to this American 9/11 expert, who gives a bunch of conspiracy theories regarding 9/11. Part 1-4 was originally broadcasted on 17th April 2009."...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78P6-LHfKo8
Posted by: George Dutton at February 3, 2010 9:10 PM
Ties up with previous link;
http://www.christopherketcham.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Final%20PDF%20of%20CounterPunch%20article%20re%20Israelis%2001-29-07.pdf
Posted by: Mac at February 3, 2010 9:17 PM
I don't have time to listen to Galloway and a crazy American.
But just to note that Galloway doesn't believe in the silliness of 911 conspiracy nutters.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 3, 2010 9:54 PM
!!Jumpin Jack Flash!!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 3, 2010 10:59 PM
Crab: "Even if a plane where to have taken out a device or two in the crash area, with the lack of footage of the first strike and fireball spectacle of the second, how visible need it be?"
Take out a device or two? Those planes took out many stories each and created a burning hole in the side of the building.
Are all those explosives not rigged up to create a chain reaction of exlosions or were each and every one of the hundreds or thousands of explosives that CTers estimate to have been there detonated remotely?
MJ makes a perfectly good point that the superduperloopy thermite should have been ignited by such a fireball and we still have the problem of no sounds of explosives.
The controlled demolition is looking shakier than ever, Truthers!
Posted by: angrysoba at February 3, 2010 11:34 PM
"Thanks for those Larry. I suppose I was referring to those eyewitnesses who were interviewed by TV/radio immediately after the event and before the official account was in circulation. None of these is quoted on your link, but they give a rather different picture. It seems that an extraordinary number of senior fire department officials were in the vicinity time, but were not interviewed.
You may recall that even General Myers acknowledged that the early reports were of a small plane."
MJ, what the blithering Hell is this supposed to be about?
What point would there have been flying a small plane into the first tower and a passenger plane into the second?
Is this a red-herring stealth attack on the "official story"?
Do you not think that it could be explained by "expectation bias"? Someone says a plane flew into the World Trade Center. People hearing this will assume it was a small plane because passener jets tend not to do that. Even one person recording the second strike yelled, "Oh My God! What a coincidence!"
It wasn't because an "official story" hadn't circulated until then it was because few people immediately assumed it was a terrorist attack.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 3, 2010 11:45 PM
"MJ makes a perfectly good point that the superduperloopy thermite should have been ignited by such a fireball and we still have the problem of no sounds of explosives."
Quoting myself here to say that obviously Larry made the point about the thermite but MJ agreed.
It's funny that with crab saying the explosives going off could have been concealed by the initial fireball and Tim Groves saying the sounds of the explosions were masked by the clatter of the falling towers (and maybe a bit of traffic) we're left with no more evidence for explosives than Carl Sagan's friend's dragon in his garage. Saying that all the evidence seems to have been masked by other phenomena which we do know was there is the same as saying that we have no evidence.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 4, 2010 12:35 AM
So, when all is said and done, and on balance, it certainly looks like 9/11 was an inside job then.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 4, 2010 1:10 AM
911 truthers cannot answer the questions presented, and they cannot tell us when their conspiracy theories will be accepted by the antiwar movement.
911 truthers are increasingly ridiculous.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 4, 2010 1:34 AM
Larry has been thoroughly discredited on this thread. Everyone should ignore his insane ramblings.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 4, 2010 1:59 AM
Actually, any reasonable person would say that I've been "credited".
Good try though. 911 was a horrible terrorist action committed by 19 Arab Muslim zealots.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 4, 2010 2:03 AM
As I said, no one listen to this crazy man.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 4, 2010 2:11 AM
Jaded, I think you work for the New World Order.
Your comments are so utterly stupid that you're clearly a disreputo agent paid to make the Truth movement plumb new depths of stupid.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 4, 2010 2:39 AM
Chris wrote: "Can I ask where the photos are of the people standing in the gap created by the planes??? "
Sure - here's a woman waving in one: http://thewebfairy.com/911/edna/2seconds.htm
This one is a bit more clear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWjHVDjk87s
Still image: http://www.prisonplanet.com/images/january2005/170105woman.jpg
(prison planet! Can you hear the foam and spittle starting to fly already?)
I recall from the day that a banner had been unfurled calling for help, couldn't
find that. But this was easy enough to find:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN1XEMByEs
Surely you could have looked yourself, Chris, instead of sending me off to do
searches for you, particularly as you expressed incredulity with a "???" at the
end of your sentence? You think I'm your secretary or something, or are you
just really bad at searches? That lot took me maybe 2 minutes, including checking
them for content.
The rest of your comments are simplistic argument by appeal to supposed
authority on the matter.
As for your charge of "ignoring evidence"... you're not very good at finding
evidence - heard of webcrawler yet?
Posted by: glenn at February 4, 2010 2:42 AM
Moreover, angrysoba is almost as crazy as Larry. It's a close run thing though. Everyone needs to watch out for these two.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 4, 2010 2:51 AM
Jaded is a typical truther - unable to fashion an argument.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 4, 2010 3:02 AM
Larry is absolutely bonkers. It is proven beyond doubt.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 4, 2010 3:40 AM
The key question is: Who is wearing the pink tie?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 4, 2010 7:14 AM
"What point would there have been flying a small plane into the first tower and a passenger plane into the second?"
Don't know. I'm just following the evidence. The fact that one can't immediately grasp the point of something is neither here nor there. It is not evidence.
Posted by: MJ at February 4, 2010 11:37 AM
The two impacts were very different. One thing the Fireman's Video does show clearly is that the fireball created by the first strike was much smaller and of a different colour than the second. This despite the fact that, according to the official account, both planes should have had roughly the same amount of fuel onboard.
Posted by: MJ at February 4, 2010 11:41 AM
Angrysoba wrote - "we're left with no more evidence for explosives than Carl Sagan's friend's dragon in his garage. Saying that all the evidence seems to have been masked by other phenomena which we do know was there is the same as saying that we have no evidence."
Angrysoba, you'd do well to read my posts. I've proven beyond any doubt that explosives were used. Basic physics proves it. Ok, I'll go through it one more time:
FACT 1: The north tower ACCELERATED through the lower section at a uniform 64% freefall, which means that the lower section exerted resistance equal to 36% of the weight of the upper section, Newton's third law of equal and opposing forces states that the top block thus exerted 36% of it's weight, which means it’s exerting much less force than when supported at rest. This means a large portion of the resistance was removed by explosives.
FACT 2: The top section of the North Tower almost fully disintegrated before the lower section started to explode downward, this disintegration would absorb any momentum and expelled the mass laterally, there was NO piledriver left to cause any kind of gravitational collapse!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG2y50Wyys4
FACT3: The top section of the South Tower topples to an angle of 22 degrees. Basic physics shows that the shift in center of mass due to the angle means that any torque imparted by gravitational pressure on the lower section accelerates the rotation of the top mass. The base of the top section acting as a fulcrum.
The more gravitational pressure the top section provides, the more toppling would occur. discontinuation of the upper section's toppling proves the removal of the lower section's resistance, disproving gravity induced collapse and proving explosives.
An off centre, leaning mass CANNOT cause a symmetric collapse.
FACT 4: The symmetric, even collapse of WTC7 is IMPOSSIBLE without demolition as all structural supports must be removed simultaneously across each floor, and this repeated in sequence for each successive floor.this is impossible in a collapse resulting from structural or fire damage, as such causes result in organic uneven damage.
Even a slight integrity inequality ALWAYS leads to a messy uneven and in most cases partial collapse.
FACT 5: The 2.2 seconds of Freefall in WTC7 that NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) ADMITS to is IMPOSSIBLE without Controlled demolition as all structural supports must be removed ahead of the collapse front, otherwise ANY intact structural resistance would slow the collapse to a rate less than freefall.
Freefall means all the object's gravitational potential is converted to motion, in order to crush tonnes of structural steel and concrete, a large part of that gravitational potential must be used, which would slow it down to a rate much less than freefall.
This proves beyond any doubt that the resistance was removed by explosives. The ONLY building collapses involving freefall speeds are controlled demolitions.
FACT 6: Office fires don't burn hot enough to weaken the steel. Steel has a high thermal conductivity, the large steel frame would draw away heat rapidly from hot spots. Quote from the FEMA report (Appendix A). "Recalling that the North Tower suffered no major structural damage from the intense office fire of February 23, 1975, we can conclude that the ensuing office fires of September 11, 2001, also did little extra damage to the towers."
The team at NIST could not get their computer model to collapse, in the end they managed a partial asymmetric collapse that looked nothing like the actual event by removing all thermal conductivity!!!
The smoke emanating from the towers turned black for a while preceding the collapses. Dark smoke implies the presence of soot, which is composed of uncombusted hydrocarbons. Soot is produced when a fire is oxygen-starved, or has just been extinguished. Soot also has a high thermal capacity and may act to rob a fire of heat by carrying it away.
Videos of people standing in the gash from he plane before the collapse proves the fires had progressed past their hottest point and combined with the sooty smoke, were cooling. Steel strengthens when it cools, it had survived it's weakest point. Why should it fail?
No steel high-rise has ever fully collapsed from fire.
FACT 7. Nanothermite a high-tech military-grade explosive was found throughout the WTC dust and analysed by top scientists, and published in the peer reviewed Open Chemical Physics Journal. All throughout the dust, iron-rich micro-spheres were present, the only way they can be formed is through a highly explosive, extremely high temperature event whereby the steel is vaporised, forming small round droplets due to surface tension.
I'm afraid that there is no doubt that all towers were collapsed by controlled demolition.
The science is settled. The only question is how do we bring the perpetrators to justice?
Posted by: Sabretruthtiger at February 4, 2010 11:45 AM
Good post Sabretruthtiger.
"The team at NIST could not get their computer model to collapse"
Which is presumably one reason the NIST report stopped short of analysing the collapse itself and was satisfied to describe only the conditions for the collapse.
"Nanothermite a high-tech military-grade explosive was found throughout the WTC dust"
The issue remains however: why wasn't some of the thermite ignited during the initial fireball? One explanation might be that thermite was only placed below the impact points, but that still leaves the issue of how the top-down collapses were initiated.
Posted by: MJ at February 4, 2010 12:37 PM
Sabre Truther,
Some of what you wrote is all-Greek to me because I am not a structural engineer.
However, it is clear that neither are you and your assertion that the science is settled is nonsense.
You have no reason to believe the fires were cooling just by observing the colour of the smoke. Or even the person poking their head out of the gash. The fire was still raging in many other videos and photographs of the building right up to the collapse.
"No steel high-rise has ever fully collapsed from fire. "
So What? So Fucking What? This doesn't mean it can't happen!
"Nanothermite a high-tech military-grade explosive"
Garbage! Now I know you are making shit up or repeating stuff Gage and Jones have made up. It's not an explosive and it isn't known to be used at all.
Besides, you're avoiding the question:
Why didn't the plane impacts set off the thermite or explosives in the buildings?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 4, 2010 12:39 PM
The proportion of the buildings which were damaged by fire is the extent to which preplanted devices where vulnerable to premature destruction.
That proportion is indicated in the flaky official reports -somewhere- its a safe bet that its not more than 50% of each of a maximum of 6 stories, making it about 1/40th of the entire building.
Planners of such an event could anticipate approximate level and direction of impact and take measures to protect and distribute devices away from vulnerable areas.
The more destruction anticipated by the intial imapact, the less requirement there will be for further damage to that area.
The notion of sobas that planners would have built in a fail-unsafe chain reaction to their system indicates again his lack of judgement in these matters.
Posted by: crab at February 4, 2010 12:40 PM
"Planners of such an event could anticipate approximate level and direction of impact and take measures to protect and distribute devices away from vulnerable areas."
I think those planners left approximately zero margin for error given that the buildings fell apart at the exact level of impact.
"The notion of sobas that planners would have built in a fail-unsafe chain reaction to their system indicates again his lack of judgement in these matters."
I lack judgment when it comes to planning a controlled demolition that would be disguised as a structural collapse of a skyscraper hit by a 767?
Yes, I must admit I do.
You probably think all this is fairly routine stuff down at NWO HQ.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 4, 2010 1:00 PM
"those planners left approximately zero margin for error given that the buildings fell apart at the exact level of impact."
You maintain that the plane crash damaged the area so badly, that the area not only failed on its own, but resulted in the whole building "falling apart"
The building will fail at its most weakened part so only some extra damage need be applied around the crash level to begin (perhaps connected to the molten metal filmed pouring out of its perimeter)
But a great deal of damaged needed to be applied below to achieve what happened next, for which "fell apart" is an diminutive euphemism.
"I lack judgment when it comes to planning a controlled demolition that would be disguised as a structural collapse of a skyscraper hit by a 767?
Yes, I must admit I do."
Abandoned judgement:
2 skyscrapers, identical, explosive, rapid, symetrical awe and war inspiring demolishment>collapse.
Accompanied by penetration of pentagons air defenses and crash into section closed for refurbishment by an unphotographed hijacked passenger jet. Followed by the rapid symetrical total unexpected yet preannounced collapse of WTC 7
Followed by obviously fake OBL video, anthrax attacks...
Preceeded by the ruling political ideologies PNAC document actualy outlining a desire/requirement for such events.
(Abandoned judgement)
Posted by: crab at February 4, 2010 1:47 PM
Are you people still at it?
hahahaha. Sheesh.
Posted by: Edo at February 4, 2010 4:00 PM
Yup, 700 comments and still going strong.
Posted by: MJ at February 4, 2010 4:58 PM
Someone mentioned a few hundrred comments back about the guys who fake the Al Quaida videos.
Well I reckon we found a new job for Larry,techni,crab,Dutton and the disinfo team currently infesting this site.
Ever wondered why these Al Quaida guys turn out to have names like Cohen and Pearlman? Or Larry,crabs and angri.
Here's why:
http://www.subvertednation.net/al-quaida-is-a-hoax-war-is-a-lie/
Strange,but I don't think the angri-Larry mob have mentioned Al Ciada at all.
Now we know why....
Posted by: Freeborn at February 4, 2010 5:49 PM
Given that the Washington Post is reporting that intelligence officials are telling a Senate committee that another Al Qaeda attack on the US is certain in the next six months it's probably about time people wised up to the likely source of the attack.
Canadians have voiced concerns about an even more imminent attack at the Winter Games in Vancouver.These Canadians have a good idea where the attack will come from too:
http://ziofascism.net/blog/2010/02/olympic-terror-dread/
Posted by: tungsten at February 4, 2010 6:03 PM
Freeborn,
1. You link to a site that says that 911 is a JEW attack. Hardly surprising, as this is Craig Murray's blog.
2. I certainly mentioned Al-Qaeda when I brought up the 19 Arab Muslim terrorists who did 911.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 4, 2010 6:10 PM
tungsten,
1. You link to a site that says that a future attack on the Canadian Olympics will be a JEW attack. Hardly surprising, as this is Craig Murray's blog.
2. If there is no terrorist attack in Canada, will you admit a certain degree of stupidity and gullibility?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 4, 2010 6:21 PM
Hell,dammit Larry you still spouting?
My,my-I told yer what a fine time I'z havin' wit your wife,didn't I?
Sho'nuff seem you ain't gon come home.You know Massa Sunstein say he gotta new assignment for you an'angri,crabs,dem disinfo guys youz hanging roun'awl'time.
Massa Sunstein say yawl gotta get your asses offa the internet an get up to Canada.He say sometin' gonna blow an' yous gotta be dare for it.
Larry,jussa take your skis and ski....daddle like Mr Sun say.Yawl no ev'ting gettin' mighty hot for yer with Mister Craig-he just sicka yawl turnin' up like a bad nickel an'spoutin'that pile a horseshite yooz talkin'bout 9/11.
Jussa do e'body a favour one time,Larry-take a hike to Canada.
P.S.Iz still happy lookin' afer yer wife.She say she down min' one bit if you wanna go off on another job for Mr Sun.We both no you's the most patriotic guy 'roun,Larry.
Posted by: juniper at February 4, 2010 7:07 PM
juniper, you take crazy to a whole new level.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 4, 2010 7:35 PM
Sounds like Larry's trying to frighten Craig half to death again.The Ziofascist war on the internet is alive and well with Larry,angri and the disinfo. crew.
Happily Craig hasn't succumbed to their threats yet.
Ziofascism.net is the site to which Larry refers though he obviously can't bring himself to use the phrase.The site's host complains that no Canadian politician dare mention 9/11 and Zionism in the same breath for fear of the consequences.
It is further contended that Canada has gone Ziofascist because the ruling class is nothing more than a Shabaz Goi elite that's succumbed to an Israel First Globalist Agenda.
Now that's pretty much how it looks in the US and UK as well.
Re-9/11-Larry neglected to mention the part in the Ziofascist piece on the Olympic terror threat referring to the role of the Verint security company whose cameras failed so conspicuously on 7/7.Evidently Verint has secured the contract to run security round Vancouver and Montreal.
Some of us wonder how a company with such an appalling track record on public safety got the contract.
Ziofascism might have had something to do with it:
http:/ziofascism.net/blog/2010/02/israel-first-globalism/
Posted by: tungsten at February 4, 2010 8:44 PM
How the BeJeez can Larry think falling back on the idea that 19 Saudis with box-cutters carried out 9/11 is kind of redeeeming feature in his argument?
Looks like they set a trap and you,Larry boy walked slam-dunk into it!
In case you hadn't noticed my Missouri mucker that Al Ciada is wearing a little thin by now.
http://www.subvertednation.net/al-qaida-attack-certain/
Check out:
http://www.alqaedadoesntexist.com/
Get real,Larry!
Posted by: Apostate at February 4, 2010 9:00 PM
"Looks like they set a trap and you,Larry boy walked slam-dunk into it!"
I actually think that Craig Murray set a trap for himself.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 4, 2010 9:26 PM
And by the way, it's impossible to walk "slam dunk" into something.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 4, 2010 9:53 PM
No civilian trials for 911 suspects:
http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/washington/2010/02/senators-introduce-bill-regarding-civilian-trials-of-911-suspects.html
Posted by: troof at February 4, 2010 10:43 PM
"No civilian trials for 911 suspects:"
Self-debunked: senators-introduce-bill
Can truthers get anything right?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 4, 2010 11:56 PM
"Can truthers get anything right?"
The answer is, "no".
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 1:38 AM
Lamby:
'And by the way, it's impossible to walk "slam dunk" into something.'
Not if you are as tall as Osama Bin Laden.
I have read the thread in full and it seems all the evidence points to 9/11 being an inside job. Lamby and angrysoba are both crazy people. No one listen to their insane gibberish.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 5, 2010 1:48 AM
Then when will all of the non-crazy people in the world start believing you? You certainly haven't been able to convince even Craig Murray. The antiwar movement hates you people.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 2:14 AM
They do believe Lamby. Craig is focused on torture and doesn't want to get involved with this. It's just you wild crazies that cling on to your insane beliefs...
Posted by: Jaded. at February 5, 2010 3:05 AM
Jaded, I dare you to show up at an antiwar demonstration with a "911 was an inside job" sign.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 3:21 AM
Ah, but all the non-crazy people in the world aren't in the STWC you loon. Now get back to your drugs crazy man. I do not suffer idiots gladly.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 5, 2010 3:41 AM
"Ah, but all the non-crazy people in the world aren't in the STWC you loon"
Jaded, according to the grammar of this sentence the STWC is entirely made up of crazy people because the set of all non-crazy people and the set of all members of the STWC does not overlap.
You'll probably have upset a few people who comment here with that remark.
It also doesn't preclude the possibility of crazy people not being members of the STWC so whether you are a member or not it doesn't mean you're not crazy.
"I do not suffer idiots gladly."
You must be sick of the sight of yourself.
What kind of person would answer the question, "Do you suffer idiots?" with the response, "I do so gladly." Except your mother and your carer, I suppose.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 4:13 AM
Absolute nonsense. I suggest you carefully reread all of that and try to figure out the flaws in your logic. I suspect you have been taking some of Larry's drugs you big fruitcake. This man is utterly and completely deranged everyone. Don't listen to a word that spews out of his foaming mouth. As I said, I don't suffer idiots gladly.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 5, 2010 4:34 AM
Crab:
"2 skyscrapers, identical, explosive, rapid, symetrical awe and war inspiring demolishment>collapse."
What? There were no explosives. There were two skyscrapers that came down in a similar fashion because they were both attacked in similar fashion even the type of plane that hit them was the same.
They were domestic flights, yes, but they were flying coast to coast so they carried an awful lot of jet fuel.
This precipitated the collapse itself AT THE POINTS OF IMPACT. The man who probably knows the towers best says that there was no way the towers could have resisted or arrested the collapse. On the other hand, you quote a scholar of Buddhism, a retired theologian and a couple of crappy and debunked mechanical engineers who beg to differ.
Oh, and an architect who seems to have forgotten the use of fireproofing and sprinklers because he doesn't mention those factors when talking about the collapse of WTC7. And a physics professor that his uni thinks has gone a bit potty who has a long history of attraction to kooky ideas. And an assortment of serial conspiracy theorists, anti-semites and miscellaneous loons.
"Accompanied by penetration of pentagons air defenses and crash into section closed for refurbishment by an unphotographed hijacked passenger jet."
Could you explain for all of us here wha the Pentagon's defences were and how they were supposed to thwart a passenger plane's attempts to ram the building?
Also, the plane was not unphotographed. And was witnessed by numerous people and identified variously as a passenger jet, a 757, an American Airlines jet etc...etc...
"Followed by the rapid symetrical total unexpected yet preannounced collapse of WTC 7"
How was it preannounced and unexpected? In fact, it was expected. The news media were alerted and many reporters announced that it was expected to fall. The FDNY created a collapse zone to prevent people being injured from its collapse. If you don't believe me then please look at the various videos. I've collected a few on my blog (Dec 2009) which you may want to watch.
"Followed by obviously fake OBL video, anthrax attacks..."
I don't know that the OBL videos were obviously faked. The anthrax story IS strange, I agree with that. But almost no Truther seems interested in it which is ALSO weird.
"Preceeded by the ruling political ideologies PNAC document actualy outlining a desire/requirement for such events."
Well, now... It doesn't actually say, "What we really want right now is for some Arab guys to take over planes and ram them into buildings."
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 4:53 AM
Indeed, he is an offical line 'twoofer'.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 5, 2010 4:56 AM
""Preceeded by the ruling political ideologies PNAC document actualy outlining a desire/requirement for such events.""
The PNAC document is a public document - always has been - and it states no such thing.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 5:23 AM
What can be stated with certainty is that 9/11 was an inside job. Furthermore, it has been well proven that both Larry and angrysoba are both deluded nutters. No one listen to a word they splutter. They are 9/11 Commission 'Twoofers'.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 5, 2010 5:31 AM
"polish bark partnersthe geneva circles pointsfor asphalt consisted spirituals dollars gpms"
This makes more sense that most of the Truthers.
In fact it does sound a little like a list of their suspects.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 5:38 AM
See everyone, more evidence of this unhinged 911 Commission 'Twoofer'.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 5, 2010 5:42 AM
Whilst this thread has turned into a 'How not to manipulate public opinion' handbook for would-be disinformation personnel, there has been some sad news.
Eustace Mullins, original seeker of truth, protégé of Ezra Pound, author of "Secrets of the Federal Reserve", "Murder by Injection" and hundreds of other books and articles, died this week at the age of 83.
Rest in piece Eustace. Your work will live on.
Posted by: Edo at February 5, 2010 8:46 AM
Yes, I heard that yesterday. Very sad news.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 5, 2010 9:15 AM
My,how the level of debate nosedives overnight when the mindless moron from Missouri and his intellectually challenged soulmate begin to twitter!
In his masterpiece on the spectacular level of elite domination now achieved Guy Debord noted that the prime instrument by which such power was established was the elite's capacity to make history disappear.This was particularly the case with all rational information and commentary on the most recent events.
Masterfully elites organize what is about to happen and,immediately afterwards ,the forgetting of whatever has been understood from it.The most important parts of the event are the most hidden.
Elites can now luxuriate in the knowledge that "henceforth we will live in a world witout memory ,where images chase eachother,like reflections on the water." Moreover the elite's power to outlaw history obscures its own history of recent world conquest so that its power seems familiar,as if it has always been there.
With the destruction of history contemporary events retreat into a fabulous distance,among its unverifiable stories,uncheckable statistics and unlikely and untenable reasoning.
DeBord notes finally that those who govern have no lack of false witnesses,though they may be unskilled but what capacity to detect this clumsiness can remain among the spectators who will be the witnesses to the exploits of the false witnesses?..or false documents,which are always highly effective."
Well,DeBord certainly describes rather presciently the world of hyper-reality and dissimulation we now inhabit.And when he talks about unlikely and untenable reasoning and the clumsiness of false witnesses you just know he had angri,Larry,crab and the disinfo team in mind!
Posted by: Steelback at February 5, 2010 11:59 AM
"Eustace Mullins, original seeker of truth, protégé of Ezra Pound, author of "Secrets of the Federal Reserve", "Murder by Injection" and hundreds of other books and articles, died this week at the age of 83. "
Good!
It's a shame there's not a Hell for the fucker to rot in!
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 1:15 PM
"It's a shame there's not a Hell for the fucker to rot in!"
You don't like it when someone speaks truth do you, Angrysoba?
Never mind eh? Eustace's words will be read by many more people than yours, for a lot longer than yours, and inspire more than yours. So you have yourself a nice little gloat over the fact he's dead, like the sick fuck you are, and i'll keep singing his praises.
Got that? Good. Now get fucked.
Posted by: Edo at February 5, 2010 1:37 PM
The Wit and Wisdom of Eustace Mullins is encapsulated in the following extract of his magnum opus "The Biological Jew" (No, seriously, that's what it is called!):
"One of the specialized modifications of the Jew is his ability to suck the blood of the gentile host without alarming his victim, weakening it without being discovered, through the highly sophisticated and refined instruments and techniques which the Jew has developed over a period of centuries for these specific purposes, and which have no counterpart in any other species. In view of these techniques, need we be surprised that some of the gentiles who have been most weakened by the blood-lettings of the Jew are among his most vociferous defenders, and who will fight to the death to protect their Jewish ‘benefactors’. They are totally unable to recognize their danger, or the insidious nature of the parasitic attack."
So you anti-Semitic pricks go on and sing his praises all you want but don't be surprised if sane and rational people don't weep at his passing.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:03 PM
I was wondering how long it was going to take you to start waving the anti-semite flag... You don't disappoint me Angrysoba. Rather you prove my point.
By the length of your response I'd say you had to go back to your handlers and ask how you respond to my comment.
I can just imagine the conversation!
haha.
The last thing you want, is people reading Eustace Mullins' work.
Like I said, people do read Mullins' work, and they come away being better informed than they were before. Unlike with the shit you spout.
Nice try mate.
Posted by: Edo at February 5, 2010 2:11 PM
angry wrote:
"2 skyscrapers, identical, explosive, rapid, symetrical awe and war inspiring demolishment>collapse."
What? There were no explosives."
Not hard to parse that i used the word as an adjective there, which is undeniably qualified by the record of the 'collapses' where shattered and pulverised concrete and steel was thrown upward as well as outward considerable distances.
A non-explosive collapse indicicates mass simply disintegrating and slipping over edges.
"Could you explain for all of us here wha the Pentagon's defences were and how they were supposed to thwart a passenger plane's attempts to ram the building?"
The Pentagon is well known to be one of the most securely defended military complexes in the world.
"Also, the plane was not unphotographed. And was witnessed by numerous people and identified variously as a passenger jet, a 757, an American Airlines jet etc...etc..."
No clear photographs or film of the plane are released. Support your rejection of this basic fact.
-
"Followed by the rapid symetrical total unexpected yet preannounced collapse of WTC 7"
How was it preannounced and unexpected?
It was acidentaly announced about 20 minutes prior to its supposed "structural failure" as having just collapsed, by the BBC and CNN. The BBC News Editor explained it as a "cock-up" on his blog. Quite incredible, just search "BBC Announces WTC7 Collapse before it Happens" for actual footage.
-It happened!
angrysoba wrote:
"I lack judgment when it comes to planning a controlled demolition that would be disguised as a structural collapse of a skyscraper hit by a 767?
Yes, I must admit I do."
-That was classic noodle, sums up your points nicely :D
Posted by: crab at February 5, 2010 2:16 PM
"Like I said, people do read Mullins' work, and they come away being better informed than they were before. Unlike with the shit you spout."
The shit I spouted was a direct quote from his work, was it not?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:16 PM
Crab:"Not hard to parse that i used the word as an adjective there"
Crab, don't give me that nonsense. You believe there were explosives, don't you. Don't pretend that just because you were using the term as an adjective this time means you aren't saying there were explosives. You believe there were explosives.
Yes or no?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:19 PM
"The last thing you want, is people reading Eustace Mullins' work."
Looks like an interesting character. I couldnt find any work online to read. His old website has been removed from the wayback machine by a stupid holding page for the url. grrr
Posted by: crab at February 5, 2010 2:19 PM
"The Pentagon is well known to be one of the most securely defended military complexes in the world."
Explain what you mean!
There were no tanks parked outside it. I saw no troops. Most picture of it show no weapons.
How was it "securely defended"?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:21 PM
Crab: "Looks like an interesting character."
No! looks like a rabid Jew-hater.
Crab: "I couldnt find any work online to read."
Here's his "work":
http://www.rebelnews.org/downloads/The_Biological_Jew.pdf
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:23 PM
"No clear photographs or film of the plane are released. Support your rejection of this basic fact."
I will support what I said which is that there were photographs of the plane and also eye-witness testimony.
Look at this website.
http://www.flight77.info/
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:26 PM
Crab, if you want to read Mullins, Start with "Secrets of the Federal Reserve", written in 1952 after two years research in the library of congress. If it wasn't for Mullins, nobody would know how the Federal Reserve came about. Bankers that were there at the crash of '29 later commented to him, "I was there and I didn't know what caused it until I read your book".
Just search for the title and include pdf in your google search and it will pop up somewhere. plenty of people sharing...
Posted by: Edo at February 5, 2010 2:29 PM
"It was acidentaly announced about 20 minutes prior to its supposed "structural failure" as having just collapsed, by the BBC and CNN. The BBC News Editor explained it as a "cock-up" on his blog. Quite incredible, just search "BBC Announces WTC7 Collapse before it Happens" for actual footage.
-It happened!"
I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW that BBC announced its collapse before it happened. My point was that its IMMINENT collapse was reported by the New York Fire Department BEFORE it collapsed and some of the media got themselves mixed up and reported it had already collapsed!
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:29 PM
"angrysoba wrote:
"I lack judgment when it comes to planning a controlled demolition that would be disguised as a structural collapse of a skyscraper hit by a 767?
Yes, I must admit I do."
-That was classic noodle, sums up your points nicely :D"
No...In typical Truther fashion you cut up my sentence to make it one that served your purpose. All of your eyewitness tesimony does this. Manipulating people and ripping their words from context to serve your own agenda. It is dishonest, of course, but by now not surprising to see Truthers do this.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:34 PM
youve gone of your rails soba:
"Look at this website.
http://www.flight77.info/"
Weird site, some videos of a flash,
mentions of video released in 2006
and an unattributed still of a plane.
soba wrote:
How was it preannounced and unexpected?
-then-
I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW that BBC announced its collapse before it happened.
Just think, at least a little bit, before embarrassing yourself anymore. Turn over a new leaf man.
thanks Edo:
Crab, if you want to read Mullins, Start with "Secrets of the Federal Reserve", written in 1952 after two years research in the library of congress....
Just search for the title and include pdf in your google search and it will pop up somewhere. plenty of people sharing...
Posted by: crab at February 5, 2010 2:43 PM
"soba wrote:
How was it preannounced and unexpected?
-then-
I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW that BBC announced its collapse before it happened."
Because it was pre-announced AND expected! (Or, if this makes it clearer to you, pre-announced BECAUSE it was expected!)
That's why!
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:46 PM
soba:
No...In typical Truther fashion you cut up my sentence to make it one that served your purpose.
Stop kidding on, that was naked quote of yours 'no cutting' up involved.
Posted by: crab at February 5, 2010 2:47 PM
Oh, and Crab, of you really are going to read that junk of Eustace Mullins then you're more of a fruitloop than I thought. (I actually thought you were one of the nice Truthers).
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:48 PM
Yeah Crab! Don't read it! Don't! Don't even turn the first page!!!
Oh AngrySoba... you do make me smile.
Posted by: Edo at February 5, 2010 2:52 PM
"Stop kidding on, that was naked quote of yours 'no cutting' up involved."
Actually, yes you're right and I apologize.
I do think, however, that it lost its obvious irony when you quoted it back at me, but whatever.
You still have a lot of questons to answer, sonny jim!
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:52 PM
soba:
"Because it was pre-announced AND expected! (Or, if this makes it clearer to you, pre-announced BECAUSE it was expected!)
That's why!"
Expectations are many and easily reported. As a 'spontaneous structural failure' investigated at length yet unmodelable by the fema report, it wasnt ever technicaly expected.
The 'firefighters told us it was probablymaybe going to happen and we misheard them' excuse, is incredible.
Posted by: crab at February 5, 2010 2:54 PM
Edo, I make you smile?
Well, this quote of Mullins, from the Biological Jew makes me vomit:
"Nazism is simply this — a proposal that the German people rid themselves of the parasitic Jews. The gentile host dared to protest against the continued presence of the parasite, and attempted to throw it off"
Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 2:55 PM
"The 'firefighters told us it was probablymaybe going to happen and we misheard them' excuse, is incredible."
Why?
The firefighters said it was certainly going to happen. They moved people out of the area and talked of its collapse.
Reuters reported it HAD collapsed and other news media which may not have known which building they were talking about (it wasn't famous then!) read the report and repeated it.
Also, watch the videos here:
http://angrysoba.blogspot.com/2009/12/damage-to-wtc7.html
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 3:00 PM
"Nazism is simply this — a proposal that the German people rid themselves of the parasitic Jews. The gentile host dared to protest against the continued presence of the parasite, and attempted to throw it off"
Can't say really. I've often wondered what the point of Nazism was.
I do know, that my mention of Eustace Mullin's passing has turned this thread into a anti-semitic free for all, with you flinging all the shit. And, seeing as this tactic is frequently employed by people who have interests to protect, or paychecks to collect, I'm not surprised you think that by asking me to comment on one (or two) lines from one book out of dozens is just a tad obvious.
Are you asking me if I'm anti-semitic?
Do you even know how the use of that statement has changed over the last 100 years?
Fill your boots Angrysoba, and in the mean time, I may catch up on some of Eustace's other excellent books, "Murder by Injection" or "Curse of Canaan".... tally-ho
Posted by: Edo at February 5, 2010 3:07 PM
"Can't say really. I've often wondered what the point of Nazism was."
So you can't really say whether you agree with the statement or not?
Is that because it would be impolitic of you to agree and too much of a humiliating climbdown to disagree?
"I do know, that my mention of Eustace Mullin's passing has turned this thread into a anti-semitic free for all"
No. Your mention of an anti-semitic writer has resulted in people questioning your reasons to mourn him. You haven't distanced yourself from any of his bigotted comments but pretended that anyone who objected to them is some kind of paid off shill.
"Are you asking me if I'm anti-semitic?"
No, but if the jackboot fits...
"Fill your boots Angrysoba, and in the mean time, I may catch up on some of Eustace's other excellent books, "Murder by Injection" or "Curse of Canaan".... tally-ho"
I'm sure it's highly edifying reading.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 3:28 PM
http://i49.tinypic.com/1zqvnua.jpg
says it all really. Good day to one and all.
Posted by: Edo at February 5, 2010 3:31 PM
Crab:
Please also watch these videos, particularly the last one with Ashleigh Banfield.
It is as clear as anything that the reporters were expecting WTC7 to collapse:
http://angrysoba.blogspot.com/2009/12/wtc7-collapse-not-controlled-demolition.html
Posted by: angrysoba at February 5, 2010 3:41 PM
Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 5, 2010 4:01 PM
No Vronsky. Your silliness isn't any less silly just because you quote something in Latin.
However, I will respect you a little more if you can explain how the towers were brought down by controlled demolition... in Latin.
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- That was cool Edo
Soba - misrepresentative and unjudicious - here is my confesion: I cant be arsed to espond to any more of your challenges (such as establishing the defensive capabilities of pentagon!). If you managed to cling onto a point of order or two, eg a blurred picture of flight77 etc. then fair play to you.
But your arguments have been almost entirely based on miscomprehension and mispresentation, even somehow unabashedly self acknowledged as such.
You owe it to your own reputation to +self moderate+ and reduce the quantity of your follysome inputs. I have also failed in that regard by over engaging with them. We can but learn. Our positions are overstated. Peace be with you.
Posted by: crab at February 5, 2010 5:20 PM
Angrysoba,
I gotta admit that that's a mighty cool pie chart. We'll have to tell Section K that we need that application.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 5:51 PM
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Posted by: Vronsky at February 5, 2010 6:07 PM
9
ἐκ νεφέλης πέλεται χιόνος μένος ἠδὲ χαλάζης,
βροντὴ δ’ ἐκ λαμπρῆς γίγνεται ἀστεροπῆς·
ἀνδρῶν δ’ ἐκ μεγάλων πόλις ὄλλυται, ἐς δὲ μονάρχου
δῆμος ἀϊδρείῃ δουλοσύνην ἔπεσεν.
λίην δ’ ἐξάραντ’ οὐ ῥᾴδιόν 5 ἐστι κατασχεῖν
ὕστερον, ἀλλ’ ἤδη χρὴ πάντα νοεῖν.
11
εἰ δὲ πεπόνθατε λυγρὰ δι’ ὑμετέρην κακότητα,
μή τι θεοῖς τούτων μοῖραν ἐπαμφέρετε·
αὐτοὶ γὰρ τούτους ηὐξήσατε ῥύσια δόντες,
καὶ διὰ ταῦτα κακὴν ἔσχετε δουλοσύνην·
ὑμέω ^ ν δ’ εἷς μὲν ἕκαστος ἀλώπεκος 5 ἴχνεσι βαίνει,
σύμπασιν δ’ ὑμῖν χαῦνος ἔνεστι νόος·
ἐς γὰρ γλῶσσαν ὁρᾶτε καὶ εἰς ἔπος αἰόλον ἀνδρός,
εἰς ἔργον δ’ οὐδὲν γιγνόμενον βλέπετε.
But whose 9? Whose 11? Is it terrible to be an American, knowing nothing of civilisation? Or is it comfortable? Is it sweet, to know nothing of nothing? Does the amoeba feel good? Report.
(Have I made your researchers busy? There are many allusions).
Posted by: Vronsky at February 5, 2010 6:55 PM
Yeah, we didn't need any confirmation of the anti-Jew hatred of many of the readers of Craig's blog, but bringing up this Eustace Mullins guy provided a bit more flavor.
And we also didn't need any confirmation of the link between the nutter British left and the nutter American right. Apparently you people are now in bed with McCarthy's soldiers. From Wikipedia:
"Eustace Mullins, who was a researcher at the Library of Congress in 1950 when McCarthy asked him to look into who was financing the Communist Party, was the keynote speaker at a dinner Sunday evening sponsored by the Sen. Joseph McCarthy Educational Foundation. I've come to believe in recent years that he started to turn the tide against world communism, said Mullins." (The Capital Times, Madison, WI, May 21, 2001, p. 3A. Full Text Newspapers. Thomson Gale)[2]
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 7:03 PM
Vronsky writes: "But whose 9? Whose 11? Is it terrible to be an American, knowing nothing of civilisation?"
You seem entirely ignorant of how the world works.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 7:15 PM
Larry: answer the questions.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 5, 2010 7:32 PM
Vronsky: what questions?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 7:39 PM
"Vronsky: what questions?"
Posted by: Larry
Larry has spent at least half his time here asking people to repeat themselves.
It's one of his time wasters/fillers.
That's when he and the Soba are not telling people they're fruitcakes -- which, as an argument, wouldn't pass muster in a high school debate.
Neither of them seems to realise that we, and anyone else reading here, are perfectly capable of making up our own minds about who is reasonable and who isn't, who has answers and who hasn't.
Clearly Soba and Larry don't have enough answers. Only a religion, or a mission. Along with a propensity for throwing the word anti-semitic around, as if we don't already know that it's the most popular word on the internet. For obvious reasons: Like massacres of Palestinians and a vicious blockade of Gaza.
As for 9/11, they have failed and failed miserably.
Posted by: at February 5, 2010 10:02 PM
Fantastic researcher,wonderful wordsmith.A supressed historian who was utterly unsupressable.Like Anthony Sutton,Mullins was "always persecuted but never prosecuted."
The sheer breadth of his ouvre,the dark recesses of the history of elite domination he uncovered will inspire researchers who come after us.
Eustace Mullins defined the difference between official history paid for by the Rothschilds/Rockefellers and real history embarked upon by someone inspired by nothing more than his commom humanity with people around him.
Mullins was inspired to track down those who would debase and enslave us by the incarceration of Ezra Pound,his academic mentor.Like Captain A.H.M.Ramsay in England,Pound had been imprisoned for warning of the approaching apocalypse planned by elite bankers intent on propping up the international money system that fed and aggrandized them-by instigateing another world war.
Once Mulins discovered the elite plotters responsible he ran with the ball and simply refused to put it down again.His corpus fingers the Rothschild media monopoly,their sponsorship of Karl Marx and Israel,NWO financial systems like BCCI and BIS,the sheer fallacy of the elite-sponsored Left/Right paradigm,Congressional criminality,Fed financing of the Soviet economy and war machine,the Federal Reserve scam,the medical and legal trusts,the education monopoly,the predictability of 9/11,Chatham House and the Tavistock Institute,the secret history of the atom bomb,elite-sponsored agricultural depressions,mind control and the LSD culture,the drug monopoly,parasitic US foundations,Freud-you name it Mullins covered it.
Like all great researchers,Mullins came to his subject from a different discipline.Untrammeled by elite supervision his work,though shunned by publishers when he was alive,is now all over the internet.He certainly had the last laugh in this respect.
Mindless of Missouri,the angri dimwit,crab and the rest couldn't hold a candle to this guy.To mix metaphors they're not fit to lick Mullins's
boots.They haven't read anything by Mullins all they know is that Mullins exposed their sponsors.
He did more than that he laid them bare.
RIP Eustace.
Great tribute with links here:
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/
And here:
http://www.johnkaminski.info/
Posted by: Steelback at February 5, 2010 10:06 PM
Steelback, are you blaming the Jews for LSD?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 10:13 PM
Larry: So you want solders to march into your house and eat your food?
Opponent: The Third Amendment isn't even relevant anymore.
Someone else: He's right, there haven't been enemy soldiers on U.S. soil in 150 years, the possibility of it happening now is almost impossible ever since the creation of the National Guard.
Larry: So you want enemy soldiers sleeping in your bed?
Posted by: at February 5, 2010 10:23 PM
Larry: What's great about it?
Opponent: Red Son is brilliant because it's a hypothetical story that asks a cool question: What if Superman landed in the Ukraine instead of Kansas?
Larry: If you lived in the Ukraine would you still think it was brilliant?
Posted by: at February 5, 2010 10:26 PM
Steelback, you will decieve yourself a little if you think im a phoney, ive just been sticking to subjects which i find i can examine directly. Im no where near well read enough to deliberate this guy Mullins worldview, but dont rule much out of hand. I dont like nation/race even institution focused attributions, or rigid naratives, though i understand they might possibly sometimes be merited.
I think you should try to deliver your outlook as mildly and diplomaticaly as it allows, and consider that we are all imperfect and a least a little guilty of something. I dont think you are a phoney as was previously speculated.
Peace on.
Vronsky
I bow to your perspicacity!
Posted by: crab at February 5, 2010 10:43 PM
Steel
You're spot on re-Mullins.
Angri and the schmuck disinfo team hate Mullins like they hate Koestler.Both of these writers exposed the plot for world domination that spread east to enrol Khazarian "Jewry" in the plan for its fulfillment-before it spread west again with the Khazarian migrations.
angri and the gang are so dumb they probably have a list with Koestler and Mullins's names on.As for actually reading a book themselves-well it's patently obvious that's never going to happen.
By the way Koestler,like many before him who had the courage to expose the said plot,was reported to have died in a double suicide with his wife in 1983.
An ex-communist who had started to write in his book The Ghost In The Machine about his work on the brain and mind control while at the UN was clearly becoming a liability to is former handlers.
Some believe the Koestlers took a Moschepoche hit.
Posted by: Apostate at February 5, 2010 10:46 PM
Apostate,
Do you think you could move that discussion to Craig Murray's latest thread?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 11:26 PM
I just love the fact that someone brought up the 3rd Amendment. I have no idea what the writer was trying for, but I'm not sure he does either.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 5, 2010 11:28 PM
I keep hearing that about the Pentagon's awesome defences and the heavily militarized airspace over Manhattan but no one seems to want to explain what they mean.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 6, 2010 1:15 AM
Yes, well I have reread the thread again in full. It seems to be a cast iron fact that 9/11 was an inside job. Furthermore, it is blindingly obvious that Larry and Angrysoba are a pair of deluded loons. I would advise anyone to simply ignore their unhinged comments and focus on some of the intelligent and reasoned arguments that have been aired on this thread.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 1:26 AM
Jaded, is Craig Murray also a deluded loon for sharing our belief that 911 was not an inside job?
And why is it that the Stop the War Coalition wants nothing to do with trooferism?
http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/stop-the-war-coalition-conspiracy-groups-distraction-at-best-antisemitic-at-worst/6208/
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 6, 2010 1:35 AM
These two kooks are some of the greatest fantasists I have ever encountered. They are incapable of presenting rational arguments and must be some of the biggest idiots that walk this earth. No one listen to these 9/11 Commission 'Twoofers'. It is proven beyond doubt that 9/11 was an inside job.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 2:44 AM
These two kooks are some of the greatest fantasists I have ever encountered. They are incapable of presenting rational arguments and must be some of the biggest idiots that walk this earth. No one listen to these 9/11 Commission 'Twoofers'. It is proven beyond doubt that 9/11 was an inside job.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 2:45 AM
Jaded, is Craig Murray also a deluded loon for sharing our belief that 911 was not an inside job? What about the antiwar movement?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 6, 2010 2:58 AM
Ha, Craig Murray is clearly focused on torture. You 911 Commission 'Twoofers' seem obsessed with the STWC. No one listen to these buffoons. They even make Murdock out of 'The A-Team' look rational.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 4:14 AM
Jaded, you seem to be of limited intelligence, but I'm sure your limited ability to understand the world does not preclude you from absorbing some of what Craig wrote above in the second paragraph.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 6, 2010 4:42 AM
You have just proven your lack of intelligence beyond any doubt, as it has clearly been proven that it was black ops that did it. No one listen to this deranged 911 Commission 'Twoofer' any more. He needs to be mentally liberated from his nutty viws.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 4:46 AM
Jaded, I'm just being rational, and you sound like a pathetic evolution denier. I met an evolution denier once; I defeated him on all grounds; he had not even considered the arguments against his claims; he ultimately retreated to a position of name-calling and non sequiturs. I'm just curious if you've looked at evolution denial - do you understand that you sound just like those sad people?
But then, I recall that you might be religious, so that might explain it.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 6, 2010 4:53 AM
Jaded: what's the best piece of evidence that 911 was an inside job?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 6, 2010 4:54 AM
Yes, all you can do is throw around ad hominem abuse. You are one of the most deluded individuals I have ever encountered. Still, not something that would surprise me coming from a 9/11 Commission 'Twoofer'.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 4:58 AM
Jaded: what's the best piece of evidence that 911 was an inside job?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 6, 2010 5:44 AM
You...
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 5:48 AM
Larry - get a life.
911 was, and is, a pre-planned operation involving the CIA, NSA, some duped followers of Islam (maybe) and the full knowledge of various insider groups within the corridors of power in the US Government.
Sacrificing a few thousand Americans is a small price to pay for the freedom it gave to the USA to attack and destroy wherever it wanted. Iraq first, maybe Iran next.
After all why should the accident of geography give the Arabs all the oil?
Keeping the crime a secret? Well destroying all the evidence and prepping the USA population by intense media brainwashing covers a lot - after that, you simply tell people that they are part of the rebuilding of USA world power and that God is on our side.
Most rednecks in the US would do the Governments bidding and never tell anyone, Why? Because its great to be 'on the inside'.
Its a grand ego trip for your average 'merkin.
Of course the UK govt. killed Kelly - he is only one of many.
Wake up. Thats what a government is voted in to do - TO KILL OR STOP ALL THAT ARENT WITH US.
Its only in the last 30 years that we had a crazy idea that the world had become a beautiful place - well that short-lived easy life has gone.
Welcome to the new world of madness - if you lived in the years from 1955 - 1975 as a healthy person you witnessed the best of the west.
Now its the beginning of the nasty times......
Posted by: harry at February 6, 2010 6:01 AM
A bit more on your hero, Eustace Mullins. I knew the guy was a bit unhinged but, my God... he's worse than I thought.
He was apparently an editor of both the American Free Press and the Barnes Review. (Both of these are unashamedly far-right anti-semitic and all-round racist white supremacist publications). He was a guest on the Political Cesspool, which is a radio show syndicated by Stormfront. A white supremacist neo-Nazi organization.
His book, the Biological Jew, was published by the Aryan League of America.
Are you seriously suggesting there is any debate about what kind of person Eustace Mullins was, Edo, Jaded, crab et. al?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 6, 2010 6:05 AM
Oh and BTW, there is no such thing as 'democracy', either.
Posted by: harry at February 6, 2010 6:05 AM
And your alter ego Angrysoba of course. ;-)
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 6:09 AM
harry: "Most rednecks in the US would do the Governments bidding and never tell anyone, Why? Because its great to be 'on the inside'.
Its a grand ego trip for your average 'merkin."
Actually, the crazy Bibles, bullets and bunkers American rednecks you are talking about happen to be on your side.
"Of course the UK govt. killed Kelly - he is only one of many."
Don't tell me... they also killed Robin Cook, Mo Mowlam, John Smith, Tony Banks etc...etc... right?
"Wake up. Thats what a government is voted in to do - TO KILL OR STOP ALL THAT ARENT WITH US.
Its only in the last 30 years that we had a crazy idea that the world had become a beautiful place - well that short-lived easy life has gone.
Welcome to the new world of madness - if you lived in the years from 1955 - 1975 as a healthy person you witnessed the best of the west.
Now its the beginning of the nasty times......"
All you conspiracy nuts get all gooey-knickered about the idea there will be a mass chacotic meltdown of civilization.
I hope you're stocking up on gold and I hope you've built your bunker out in the wilderness.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 6, 2010 6:12 AM
"Oh and BTW, there is no such thing as 'democracy', either."
Harry, you're so profound!
There may well not be such thing as a perfectly-implemented democracy but there certainly are places where there is a system of government that is far better than others to live under.
You are being utterly fatuous if you are saying that living in Britain is no different to living in North Korea or that living in the United States is no better than living in Iran or that living in Japan is no better than living in Burma.
But Harry, what is your evidence for saying 9/11 was an inside job?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 6, 2010 6:17 AM
"Most rednecks in the US would do the Governments bidding and never tell anyone, Why? Because its great to be 'on the inside'."
1. Silly anti-Americanism.
2. People on the East Coast are from the East Coast. They're certainly not rednecks (although they have their own problems).
3. As Angrysoba pointed out, the Bible-thumping rednecks are on your side. Virtually all 911 truthers in the States are Christians who believe in an impending judgment day.
A very minor (seriously, Angrysoba, very minor) subset of them HATE JEWS. Apparently, those are your people.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 6, 2010 6:27 AM
"A very minor (seriously, Angrysoba, very minor) subset of them HATE JEWS."
I agree. I don't think that many rednecks hate Jews but those that favour the Barnes Review, the American Free Press, the Political Cesspool and Stormfront are ALL Jew-haters (and racists in general). It's so odd that so many commenters here are willing to ally themselves with people affiliated to those groups.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 6, 2010 6:40 AM
At least, at the end of the day, we can all see that 9/11 was clearly an inside job. We can all hope that Larry and Angrysoba get the medical treatment that they so obviously need.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 7:24 AM
Jaded: what's the best piece of evidence that 911 was an inside job?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 6, 2010 7:35 AM
Angrysoba,
Yeah, I have to admit I never heard of Eustace Mullins before. Must have been a reason!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 6, 2010 7:55 AM
Gilad Atzmon, Benjamin Freedman, Norman Finklestein, Israel Shahak, Myron C. Fagan....
All jews, all one-time subscribers to the Zionist ideals... all orators or writers that offer a good insight into the failures of Zionism. I'm sure you've heard of some of them Angrysoba... Why not try your anti-semitic attacks on them? Oh right... hmmmm... they're Jewish.... must be self-hating Jews right?
Give me a break.
I dare you to listen to Ben Freedman 1961 address in the Willard Hotel.
Why not read Gilad Atzmon's writings?
or how about watching 'defamation' by Yoav Shamir, an Israeli Jew...
Then try your predictable tarring.
Posted by: Edo at February 6, 2010 8:48 AM
This idea that STW wouldn't be seen dead on the streets with 9/11 Truth is psy-op codswallop.
I picked up my first 9/11 Truth DVD on a STW march.I met David Shayler the MI6 whistle-blower on a STW march.He gave me a free copy of his DVD:Mind The Gap re-the 7/7 inside job.
The STW official line on 9/11 that we must abjure from conspiracy theory and to even mention the role of Israel is "anti-semitic" is the reason STW cannot get anyone out on the streets anymore.
If they had led from the front and identified 9/11 for the inside job most of us know it was,as the kickstart catalyst corrupt elites used to start wars of aggression-then millions of us would still be on the streets today.
Typically the left displayed instead an utter failure of analysis and abject loss of nerve in its pathetic bid to retain its respectability.Left-gatekeeper hacks and theorists,like Cockburn-even Chomsky, were bought and sold by the corporate media to marginalize any gathering perception amog the masses that 9/11 had been planned and executed by the very people allotted with the task of protecting us.
Such an impasse has STW/Respect come to that invariably when they put up Galloway or Salma Yacoub these spokespersons are struck dumb the minute some BBC Zio-nut like Melanie Philips spouts off about how we had to deal with Saddam after 9/11 etc.
Because they're terrified of the consequences of challenging-the very raison d'etre for the War on Terror the initiative stays with the Zionists and their fellow conspirators.
Pathetic really but we can only guess how deeply infiltrated STW and Respect are by the likes of Larry,angri,techni disinformationists.
If I ever go on another STW march-when we're about to attack Iran probably-it won't be in the hope that the STW leadership will enable us to prevent the coming war.Nor will it be to listen to listen to great rousing speeches from Galloway,German,Eno,or even Craig Murray-no,it'll be in the hope I'll pick up another DVD!
Posted by: Steelback at February 6, 2010 9:17 AM
Larry:
'Jaded, what's the best piece of evidence that 911 was an inside job?'
Larry, you big loon, I already answered you. You...
I think that this man is actually unhinged. No one listen to his insanne ramblings.
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 9:24 AM
Oh look, Larry the Lamb seems to have run off into hiding. Poor little Lamby... :-(
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 9:48 AM
Steelback:
'Pathetic really but we can only guess how deeply infiltrated STW and Respect are by the likes of Larry,angri,techni disinformationists.'
Lol, yes, aren't they pathetic specimens of humanity! I bet they have taken time off to go and to do some torture or something... They are not fit to lick the shit from the soles of Craig's boots, let alone contribute to his blog. Craig has already branded them as agent provocateurs as it is. They expect people to believe their whimpering remonstrations? Be gone you foul, stinky, little weasels before we get cross with you and spank your bottoms until they are red and angry. LMFAO. :-0
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 10:06 AM
Larry: what are your two best pieces of evidence that asking people for their two best pieces of evidence is not, ipso facto, evidence of imperviousness to evidence?
Posted by: Vronsky at February 6, 2010 10:18 AM
Ha, I knew it, he has no answer and is completely flummoxed. ;-)
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 11:01 AM
Larry: what's the best piece of evidence that supports the official?
Is it those holdalls with the flying manuals and copies of the Koran? Or is it those (impossible) cell-phone calls from UA93?
It must be one of the two cos there's precious little else.
Posted by: MJ at February 6, 2010 11:17 AM
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xc1x9BEPG6E/SaPhhwIh2cI/AAAAAAAAEr0/wKob8zkOMq0/s400/Jim%2BWright%2BBoss%2BHog.jpg
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 2:30 PM
Angrysoba.
Gilad Atzmon, Benjamin Freedman, Norman Finklestein, Israel Shahak, Myron C. Fagan....
Comment please. Don't leave now. It's just starting to get interesting.
Posted by: Edo at February 6, 2010 3:23 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEnE4nakqW4&feature=PlayList&p=456FF980EBAA11A6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=35
Wooohooooooo!!!!
Posted by: Jaded. at February 6, 2010 3:44 PM
Democracies that see themselves as perfect have to invent enemies."Terror" even of the synthetic variety fits the bill.Such societies want to be judged by their enemies rather than by anything they themselves achieve.
In such societies the public must never know everything about terrorism.They only need to know that compared to terrorism everything else is more rational and democratic.
Thus the images of 9/11 present the public with a simplified version of the perceptible world.Images selected are those most likely to facilitate the mass psychology of submission.DeBord understood the succession of images chosen by the corporate media to represent such events as a "perpetual arbitrary surprise" leaving the spectator with no time for reflection.The presentation of the images was entirely independent of what s/he might think or understand from them.
In the concrete experience of submission to the image diffused the psychological origin of the general adhesion to what is;an adhesion the spectator recognises ipso facto as a sufficient value is evident."Pre-spectacular" knowledge,as DeBord saw it,demands making extemporised judgements on an ad hoc basis.
Reading is just such an activity in which "pre-spectacular" knowledge becomes accessible.Books,the right ones of course,the internet are the source of real information wherein lies our salvation.
Paying overmuch attention to corporate disinformation supplied by "experts"/ "terrorologists" who DeBord defined in anticipation as "the most useful experts...the ones that lie"-is capitulation to the NWO the terror sponsors seek to establish at the expense of our freedom.
Don't be fooled by the images or the decontextualied presentation of them by the media.They are not the truth.
Posted by: Steelback at February 6, 2010 4:04 PM
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/columnists/14-irfan-husain-the-lessons-of-history-620-zj-08
Posted by: at February 6, 2010 5:21 PM
Now, people, here is a question: does anyone have two pieces of evidence that prove conclusively and irrefutably the existence of human consciousness?
"I think... therefore I may be... maybe."
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 6, 2010 5:41 PM
"does anyone have two pieces of evidence that prove conclusively and irrefutably the existence of human consciousness?"
Me sir, I do sir!
1) You wrote that post and
2) I read it
Do i get a gold star Suhayl?
Posted by: MJ at February 6, 2010 5:51 PM
Define consciousness.
Neurological evidence suggests that we are unconscious of most of the activity in our brains.
:)
Posted by: dreoilin at February 6, 2010 6:28 PM
You probably don't even realise you wrote that dreoilin.
Posted by: MJ at February 6, 2010 7:07 PM
Gold star, MJ!
Pardon me, I thought this was a dream in the eye of... or an eye in the dream of... [sound of a distant supernova-which-has-no-sound...] I think I think, therefore I think... [sound of steam and clanging]... I... I... [small explosion]... [tone in the note C, sustained to infinity]
Yes, well, I was always a Beatles fan.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 6, 2010 9:18 PM
Disinformation,according to DeBord,is not a multi-purpose instrument of social control it is only good for counterattack purposes.It must be kept in reserve then thrown into the fray to drive back any truth that has managed to arise.Disinformation is used to refute all ctitique that has not been sufficiently made to disappear.
False attacks are used to protect elite domination.Imbecility believes all is clear when television has shown a beautiful image and commented on it with a brazen lie.
DeBord clearly foresaw our modern predicament in which imbeciles become just another branch of "experts".They are currently engaged vainly seeking to shore up a elite paradigm in which general belief is wavering.
The recourse to a strategy of defensive terrorism by the state against its own citizens can lead to only momentary and precarious successes.Grave social crisis,real or feared precipitate the state's use of its arms against the population.
The recourse to the disinformation agents and "gamers" has proved desperate and hopelessly misguided.The budgerigars here have proved so inept they've probably converted many who were formerly unconvinced to the idea that 9/11 was indeed an inside job.
Posted by: Steelback at February 6, 2010 10:50 PM
"Gilad Atzmon, Benjamin Freedman, Norman Finklestein, Israel Shahak, Myron C. Fagan....
All jews, all one-time subscribers to the Zionist ideals... all orators or writers that offer a good insight into the failures of Zionism. I'm sure you've heard of some of them Angrysoba... Why not try your anti-semitic attacks on them? Oh right... hmmmm... they're Jewish.... must be self-hating Jews right?"
Gilad Atzmon comes out with some of the shrillest anti-semitic tropes of modern times. Essentially he believes Jews have to ask themselves why the Nazis killed them in the Holocaust suggesting it was at least partly their fault. Nonsense. Anti-semitic nonsense.
It doesn't surprise me that you're a fan. You probably get exctited reading his screeds and think, "If the Jews are saying it too then this stuff is bullet-proof". No, it's just anti-semitic.
Norman Finkelstein comes out with some dangerously suggestvie stuff in the Holocaust Industry. Essentially much of it wouldn't be out of place in anti-semitic Holocaust-denying literature. (Jokes about the Holocaust, the same allegation that Jews may have been partly responsible for their treatment etc... etc...)
Israel Shahak has some stuff which is also similar to the two above (seems to be a theme here. Wonder what you like about these authors).
What do these authors have in common, Edo? Please comment.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 7, 2010 12:44 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEnE4nakqW4&feature=PlayList&p=456FF980EBAA11A6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=35
Wooohooooooo!!!!
Posted by: Jaded. at February 7, 2010 3:14 AM
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xc1x9BEPG6E/SaPhhwIh2cI/AAAAAAAAEr0/wKob8zkOMq0/s400/Jim%2BWright%2BBoss%2BHog.jpg
Posted by: Jaded. at February 7, 2010 5:35 AM
Aaah.. Angrysoba. You're back.
So these authors are anti-semitic? Despite being Jewish? Yeah Yeah.
And especially interesting that you left out Ben Freedman. Did you bother listening to that 1961 address in the Willard Hotel? I'll let you google it, or maybe you have a copy already in your files eh?
As for what they have in common?
Duhhhh!!!! They're telling truth old boy! Run along now.
Posted by: Edo at February 7, 2010 7:17 AM
Well, Edo.
If they're not anti-semitic then why did YOU connect them to Eustace Mullins, who incontestably is, by bringing them up in a discussion of him?
I have never heard of Benjamin Freedman or the others on your list and I don't think I'd be interested in reading or listening to their stuff if you are a representative fan.
It probably takes considerably less courage than you pretend it does to listen to some guy droning on in a hotel so I won't bother if it's all the same with you.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 7, 2010 8:12 AM
Of course you wouldn't Angrysoba.
:-)
Posted by: Edo at February 7, 2010 8:40 AM
I think Steelback has made a very astute point in the past two posts. All too often, the society of the spectacle is now our (for many of us) our unquestionable, perceived, constructed 'reality'. We need to throw spanners into the works, puncture the illusions, view matters from multiple planes (sorry for the pun).
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 7, 2010 8:52 AM
angri hasn't read much of anything nor has he spent much time thinking.
Thus it comes as no surprise that he is utterly ignorant of the Jewish writers cited above.Just how angri comes to believe that he can continue to participate in the discussion with such glaring chasms in his personal store of knowledge remains unclear!
angri,Larry et al's resort to the anti-semite charge from the outset to try and silence anyone who criticizes the behaviour of Israel,the Lobby,or the powerful Jewish elites involved in NWO planning via the UN,IMF,WHO,RIIA,FRB and BoE shows they've been on the backfoot from the get-go.
The disinfo team have been trying to fight an amateurish rearguard action bereft of any real weapons with which to defend themselves.How else do we explain angri's willingness to admit he's never heard of prominent writers like Atzmon and Finkelstein.
angri-Have you been living on some extra-terrestial plane recently colonized (with the help of Gentile armies,naturally)by the "Chosen Ones"?
You seem so clueless as to earthly events this seems more than just a possibility!
The Willards Hotel speech by Benjamin Freedman is a classic in which the speaker exposes the Khazarian phallic-worshipping origins of today's Ashkenazi "Jews",and the preposterous claims of Zionism to a state in the Holy Land.
The Zionist claim to the Holy Land is,according to Freedman,as ludicrous as the idea of the 50m or so muslims in China claiming the right to a state in Arabia!
What troubles people like angri et al is that from reading and listening to insiders like Freedman we might begin to wise up to the whole conspiracy that began when the word,"Jew" was first coined.Freedman makes the point that the very word is a fairly recent invention.It was borne of the plot to manipulate Anglo-American acquiesecence with the Khazar scheme to facilitate a land-grab by inflicting a forced exodus on the indigenous population of Palestine.
What makes Freedman's testimony so vital is that he is an NY Our Crowd insider,protege of Bernard Baruch,a Presidential adviser right up until his death in 1965.He speaks lucidly with a deal of black humour but he is deadly serious.
His speech to a Washington military audience in 1974 extends his insights in the Willards speech.He describes how Rothschild Inc.banker and AJC head,Jacob Schiff,financed the Democratic Party at the beginning of the last century in order for it to become the party the banking cartel could dictate to on matters like the US policy toward Tsarist Russia,and who was to be next Democratic nominee for President.Schiff was later to finance both the Bolsheviks and Nazis.
Party to the plot himself,as confidential assistant to Democrat Finance Committee boss,Henry Morganthau,Freedman relates how Wilson became the Lobby's nominee.
For Freedman Wilson was "a rascal who wasn't worth the powder to blow him to Hell!" A most unlikely President "who didn't know enough to come in out of the rain!"
Wilson's place in the White House was secured by the ruse of using a Schiff/Rothschild-financed "Bull Moose" Party fronted by Teddy Roosevelt,another tool of the Anglo-US banking cartel,to split the Republican vote.
Samuel Untermeyer,another major player in the Lobby cabal,"had the goods on" Wilson and together with Colonel House,another Rothschild agent,they made sure Wilson became their "creature",as House put it in a novelized version of these events,and did their bidding.
What followed Wilson's election was the setting up of the Fed central bank in 1913,US intervention in WW1 in 1917,and in WW2 in 1941-all engineered by the cabal described by Freedman.
Oh,nearly forgot,the long Rothschild plan for a "Jewish" state in Palestine came to pass in 1948.
No conspiracy there then!
http://erichufschmid.net/TFC/Freedman1974speech.html
Citing the testimony of anti-Zionist Jews like Freedman bears witness to the longevity of the deeply humanistic strain within World Jewry that will stand as a consistent source of reproach to the elite supremacist cabal
that has manipulated both Gentiles and the Jewish "lesser brethren" over centuries-with such vast human consequences.
Denying that such a moral stand is taken by many Jews worldwide is the real "anti-semitism".
Shame on angri,Larry and the elite-manipulated mindless morons who are the real "anti-semites"!
Posted by: Apostate at February 7, 2010 11:35 AM
Apostate
That angri-led rearguard action you mention-methinks you just laid waste to it,mate!
Another Jewish writer on the state of Israel is Jack Bernstein.It's another book angri won't have heard of,though it might be on his list for the Ziofascist incinerator!
The title of his book The Life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel is self-explanatory of Bernstein's perspective.But he is also insightful on such topics as Soviet duplicity in its dealings with the Arabs,the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967,and the Moschepoche crime syndicate.
With his exposure of Ashkenazi supremacism and discrimination against Sephardim in Israel,Bernstein's account is another taboo with Zionists.Bernstein also wrote a sequel,My Farewell to Israel:The Thorn in the Middle East.
Again the title is a pretty clear indication of where he was coming from.
So keen were the Zionists that you should not read him,the Mossad had him killed.Presumably this was their response to Bernstein's challenge to debate the ADL on TV?
We'll never know.
More stuff the Zionists don't want you to know here:
http://www.rense.com/general71/zzon.htm
Posted by: Freeborn at February 7, 2010 12:10 PM
Angrysoba,
Larry,
I'd be interested to know your views on Israel, Zionism, and the influence of groups like Friends of Israel on UK/US foreign policy.
Apostate,
Steelback,
Freeborn,
Juniper,
Tungsten,
I agree with Suhayl Saadi, that you have raised important points about the illusions presented in the Mainstream Media. I also believe that supporters of the modern State of Israel wield disproportionate power within various governments and the Mainstream Media. I don't discount conspiracy, but I don't think its the main factor, either.
Zionism is a subset within imperialism, and various imperialist objectives tend to support each other. For instance, arms manufacturers and economies with large arms manufacturing contributions always have an incentive to encourage conflict. Media sales are higher when there's a war to report. I hope you can see how such interests converge.
Regarding Angrysoba, Larry, etc, I think you would do better to ask them pertinent questions, rather than just dismissing them as the "Disinformation Crew".
I expect that you will call me an agent of disinformation for the following, but I have come to believe that posts under all five names above are from the same author. I'm talking about MY degree of respect for YOU here: if you wish to enhance the respect I hold for you, and thus your views, you should use a single identity honestly. I expect that other readers here feel the same.
Angrysoba,
Larry,
I repeat, you are not off the hook with me. You keep shouting "Anti-semitism"; I want to know where you stand on the modern State of Israel, how it treats its neighbors and the various ethnic groups witin its citizens, its expansionism, and its influence upon world politics.
Posted by: Clark at February 7, 2010 2:08 PM
Howdie Mr Superman Kent
I reckon 'stead a mixing me up with dem 'spiricists by name a Freeborn,Steelback,Apostate and tungshen you oughtta check out where my man Larry gone.
Iz still havin' a fine time with his wife an'all but we gettin' mighty worry 'bout where de Goddam he gone by now.
I let you into a little secret from down here in Missouri.We all nose Larry workin' for dem Moss Brothers an'dem Mishpucka B'nai B'rith ADL freemasons.If you ain't worked it out yet thenna shame on you,boy,with alla'your educasion an'all!
Larry an'crab,an'angri all dem guys allus go mighty quiet when dem 'spiricists speak true 'bout Izreel.
Ol'Jack Bernstein ussa livva roun'thissa ways fore he marry dat Iraqi sephardi gal an'wen'off ta Izreel.When he made dem charges agin'Izreel sayin' it bein' a racist apartheid supremacist state first off Larry and de boys kep real quiet hopin' he gon shutta hisself up.Deys hopin' dem charges don' stick at all an get any kin'a traction wit ussa US taxpayers.
When ol'Jack woun' shut hisself well youz know wassa happen to him.And he by no means der only one who died cossa he fingered dem banksters an dare frens.
My avice to you Massa Kent is jussa keep low cossa when Larry get mad 'bout somethin' aint no tellin' what he might do.Dem's already threatening Massa Craig wid der ADL an'all!
P.S.You see Larry-jussa say I ain't never sayed anything at all.An' he better remeber Iz still lookin' affa hissa wife!
Posted by: juniper at February 7, 2010 3:09 PM
Unlike you, I use my real name on the Internet, so you shouldn't have mocked. You'll never win listeners this way. Oh well.
It's 9:35 Sunday morning in St Louis; I expect Larry will be here later.
Posted by: Clark at February 7, 2010 3:34 PM
Clark: great post. I too would be very interested to hear the response of the angrylarrys to your challenge.
Posted by: MJ at February 7, 2010 5:29 PM
Bit sad,Clark waiting around just for the air-head from Missouri to wake up and give us the benefit of his pearls of wisdom.LOL!
juniper seems to be up and about already.For all his inarticulate ramblings that guy seems to know exactly how the Larry team works.When someone mentions the Moschepoche,the ADL,or B'rai B'rith they lie low because they don't want any of us to work out the deeply criminal roots of the Zionist conspiracy.
Their job is to make sure none of this stuff becomes public knowledge.As juniper says it's not going to go down well with US taxpayers to discover that they have paid the price in blood and taxes over decades for all those wars that helped the state of Israel into existence,financed the wars for further extension of the state's territory,and the latest wars of US aggression on its behalf.
The parasitic dual-citizen cabal that has been buzzing round Washington through over a century's worth of US administrations has,especially since the Meirsheimer and Walt book on the Lobby,become more than a sore point with millions of Americans.
The sordid history of Zionism is beginning more and more to see the light of day.
Perhaps Larry et al never mentioned that ADL was formed as a PR front for the branch of organized crime founded by Meyer Lansky under the patronage of leading establishment Anglo-US interests.Lansky was Mr Moschepoche himself and thoroughly intertwined with the Anglo-US banking and intelligence cartel.He ended up where they all do-in Israel!
Check out bronfmanmafia.html @conspiracy archive while you're waiting for Larry.
On the identity crisis you seem to be having I can vouchsafe that although I've come across Freeborn on another blog,I don't know Apostate or Steelback from Adam.And of course juniper lives in Missouri!
Does that make 5?
I think I can speak for the others when I say we are united in our distrust of official mainstream sources and to describe us as "conspiracy-minded" would probably not be unfair.
We may resemble one person because, between you and me,researchers can spot eachother pretty quickly and we will instinctively follow eachother's links.Even if they don't work as some of Steelback's notoriously don't the other guys and I will root them out sooner/later.
If you ventured further afield than this venerable blog of Craig's you would know by now that conspiracy theorists have taken over the internet.To assume that one of us is the same guy is probably to grossly underestimate how many of us there actually are.
I probably don't need to point out that the people Larry and angri refer to as "nutters" and "conspiraloons" vastly outnumber themselves.
One final point to note is that mainstream and gatekeeper sources are far more research-averse than conspiracists who research obsessively.When one posts a link the other knows another researcher will follow it to its ultimate conclusion.
The links are certainly not meant to try and win the approbation or approval of those who rely on mainstream sources who will by reason of their research-aversion be unlikely to read them anyway.
Hope this helps and doesn't come over as "mocking",like juniper sometimes does.
Posted by: tungsten at February 7, 2010 6:04 PM
tungsten
Who are you calling a conspiracy theorist?
My links were being deleted for a while that's hardly my fault is it?
And do you really think I go to all the trouble of writing them down so people won't bother reading them?
Speak for yourself-you're a bigger plagiarist than sodding Shakespeare!
I see Apostate's been turning the anti-semite jibe right back in the faces(have I spelt that right-shouldn't it be "faeces")of the disinfo.crew.
Between just us both,I reckon he was in Willards that night when Freedman spoke!
The Koshernostra's done a bunk tonight-the PEACE is blissful and unheard of the long history of Zionism.
They're probably in Canada or Iran by now-so the next Zio-sponsored war's just round the corner,I reckon.
No links for you,from now on Mr T-you plagiarist!
Posted by: Steelback at February 7, 2010 6:35 PM
"You keep shouting "Anti-semitism"; I want to know where you stand on the modern State of Israel, how it treats its neighbors and the various ethnic groups witin its citizens, its expansionism, and its influence upon world politics."
I keep shouting anti-semitism because that is what is repeatedly being epoused. Much of the time, those commenters I accuse of anti-semitism don't even bother hiding it. They are explicit about it.
Now why must I give my views on the state of Israel in order to say that? What has identifying explicit Jew-hatred got to do with my view of Israel?
Isn't this the 9/11 thread? Why does it need to be further sidetracked by a discussion of the policies of Israel or some group calling itself the Friends of Israel who I have never heard of and have no interest in?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 7, 2010 8:05 PM
tungsten
You make conspiracists sound like bloody freemasons!You'll be telling people we got a special secret handshake next!
The research-averse mainstream is phobic re-even approaching conspiracy sites because they're encouraged to believe that they'll become obsessive,paranoid nuts whose lives and reputations will be utterly trashed.
You just made those fears ten times worse,dude!
For those who share this trepidation re-visiting 911 Truth or conspiracy sites generally you can break yourself in gently by checking out corporate 911 news reports as they originally aired- arhived here:
http://CoreOfCorruption.com
Also available on YouTube.
Go on lose your virginity s.l.o.w.l.y.
P.S.What goddam site you know me from,anyway?
Posted by: Freeborn at February 7, 2010 8:44 PM
Angrysoba,
most of us can see and assess "anti-semitism" for ourselves, thank you; you don't need to point it out to us, or not for our benefit, anyway.
(I placed "anti-semitism" in quotes, as various people have been using the term "semitic" to refer to certian peoples indigenous to the near and middle east. I have been using the term "anti-Jewish" to avoid confusion.)
You can find out more about "Friends of Israel" with a quick Google. They seem to be very influential in the British government. Although you are in Japan, Angrysoba, you claim to be a British subject. Therefore I would expect you to be interested in this powerful lobby group within the British government, especially if it is influencing British foreign policy in a direction that provokes terrorism.
We are NOT off-topic here. The US and UK governments knowingly used 911 to falsely justify an invasion of Iraq. They may well have been influenced to do so by Israel. Further, Osama bin Laden said that 911 type attacks would continue until there was justice for the Palestinians, amongst other things.
Your move.
Posted by: Clark at February 7, 2010 8:51 PM
Angrysoba....
I brought up Eustace Mullins' death, thats true. It was you who started the anti-semitic slurs straight off the bat.
I think it's only fair that you give us your views on Israel and Zionism, seeing as it was in part down to your comments we're talking about this in the first pace.
So, I'l ask Clark's question one more time, "I'd be interested to know your views on Israel, Zionism, and the influence of groups like Friends of Israel on UK/US foreign policy."
Posted by: Edo at February 7, 2010 8:57 PM
angri
You seen Larry? Them 'spiricists Freebon,anna Steelback,an'dat guy name a tungsen outta Arizona bin layin' waste yawl while you woza bed man.
Ebody thought all youz gone upta Canada or Iran or somethin'.Massa Sunstein say they gon'use lotta agents provokers like yawl roun'them two places.
You ana Larry oughtta jussa cut yo'losses now cos all dem Brits gonna bed now anyways.You might jussaswell have a conversation witha yorsel'
Tell Larry me and hiz ol'lady doin'jussa fine.We listenin' one your ol'records jus'now in fact.Some guy call Jean Pitney-he some kinda faggot or sumtin'? Heza singin' 24 hours from tungsen...Iz mighty fine song Massa angri!
Posted by: juniper at February 7, 2010 8:58 PM
"most of us can see and assess "anti-semitism" for ourselves, thank you; you don't need to point it out to us"
I disagree. Many people here simply can't recognize blatant anti-semitism.
"I placed "anti-semitism" in quotes, as various people have been using the term "semitic" to refer to certian peoples indigenous to the near and middle east. I have been using the term "anti-Jewish" to avoid confusion"
Yes, well I'll just use the term "Jew-hatred" if people are getting themselves willfully confused.
"You can find out more about "Friends of Israel" with a quick Google. They seem to be very influential in the British government. Although you are in Japan, Angrysoba, you claim to be a British subject. Therefore I would expect you to be interested in this powerful lobby group within the British government, especially if it is influencing British foreign policy in a direction that provokes terrorism."
There are all kinds of lobby groups and interest groups. Why does the Israeli one exercise you the most?
"We are NOT off-topic here. The US and UK governments knowingly used 911 to falsely justify an invasion of Iraq. They may well have been influenced to do so by Israel."
I don't think so.
" Osama bin Laden said that 911 type attacks would continue until there was justice for the Palestinians, amongst other things."
If you think OBL cares about justice for the Palestinians and that his demands must be heeded on the strength that he demands them then you're rather silly.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 7, 2010 9:08 PM
Perhaps you could respond to my original questions before we tackle points arising from my need to reiterate them.
Posted by: Clark at February 7, 2010 9:12 PM
Angrysoba,
you have had more than two hours to answer my questions; it has been over an hour since your last evasion. Am I to assume that you do not wish to answer, because you support the State of Israel and its murderous, racist policies?
Posted by: Clark at February 7, 2010 10:13 PM
Assume what you like Clark.
Israel is clearly a hobby-horse of yours, not mine, and as such it was you that brought up the topic.
Strangely you are doing exactly what so-called "anti-Zionists" such as yourself complain about. They get very upset when people mix up the topics of anti-semitism with criticism of Israel and say the two shouldn't be confused. So, why did you bring Israel into a topic about anti-semitism?
Also, anti-war protesters often get incensed about how 9/11 is brought into the conversation when Iraq is mentioned saying that the two have nothing to do with each other. You have played the same gambit by saying that the invasion of Iraq should come into a discussion of 9/11. Why? Because, you say, Israel was behind the scenes. Hmmmm...okay, Clark, whatever you say!
I'm not at your beck and call, Clark and I don't owe you my opinions on Israel. I don't, for example, ask you if you were one of the morons carrying "We Are all Hizbollah, now!" or "We Are all Hamas, now!" placards when the "anti-Zionists" and their dim-witted "pacifist" buddies. So, you assume what you like. I'm not evading anything, I just won't bite when you offer distractions.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 7, 2010 11:32 PM
"I'm not evading anything, I just won't bite when you offer distractions." = Angrysoba.
haha.
Won't. Bite.
:-)
Posted by: Edo at February 8, 2010 12:54 AM
Angrysoba,
I am proud to have participated in the demonstration opposing "Operation Cast Lead". You are perfectly entitled to ask me which placard I carried; if I remember correctly, it read "Free Palestine"; does that make me a "moron" in your opinion?
Re: Iraq, retired Israeli general Brom:
In an article in Strategic Assessment, a publication of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, Brom said weapons of mass destruction probably would not be found in significant quantities in Iraq.
Brom told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that "Israeli intelligence was a full partner with the United States and Britain in developing a false picture of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction capability."
He said Israeli intelligence "badly overestimated the Iraqi threat to Israel and reinforced the American and British belief that the weapons existed."
Brom said the Israeli assessment may have been influenced by politics. "Israel has no reason to regret the outcome of the war in Iraq," he wrote, noting Saddam was an implacable enemy.
Posted by: Clark at February 8, 2010 1:10 AM
Angrysoba,
evidence, evidence. Plenty of evidence points towards Israel as a major destabilizing force in international politics.
No, Angrysoba, you do not "owe" me your opinions on Israel, you do not owe me anything at all. But can you advertise your opinion with pride? It doesn't seem so.
Posted by: Clark at February 8, 2010 1:17 AM
Clark,
This thread is riddled with anti-Semitic racism and you want to change the debate to what Angrysoba thinks of the State of Israel. The thread was originally about 911, and, as this is Craig Murray's site, the fantasy-prone Jew haters had to show up. Without condemning them, you're quick to change the subject.
Can you recognize extreme, intolerable racism when you see it? Do you understand the Holocaust occurred because of the virulent strain of anti-Jewish hatred that we see on this thread? You understand that 6 million Jews died because of this very strange hatred, right? And I don't mean objections to what Israel does, or even objections to the existence of the State of Israel. I'm talking about people who need to hate other people, and early on in life pick out the Jews.
You've been a bit coy, but it's quite telling that you can easily gloss over such hatred.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 8, 2010 3:24 AM
Here's that Benjamin Freedman speech at the Willard Hotel in 1961.
Angrysoba, Larry, I suggest you listen to it.
http://tinyurl.com/yc9abn7
Posted by: Edo at February 8, 2010 7:46 AM
angri,Larry
You dingbats bleating re-anti-semitism again.The vast majority of World "Jewry" are Ashkenazi i.e.descendants of Turkic-Mongols who worshipped their own willies!
Now we can fully understand you guys empathising with people of the willie persuasion but turning them into sacred idols who are above criticism is hero-worship not history.
The next standard instrument of the Jewish supremacism that you espouse is the "Holocaust"-you conveniently forget all the Holocausts in which the Jews themselves enthusiastically participated in the Soviet Union and Turkey to name but two.
The Jews have no right to any kind of sacrosanct monopoly on suffering.Nor does the Jewish Holocaust merit special ring-fencing to protect it from analysis and research as you "hate-speech" advocates pretend.
Without its "anti-semitism" and Holocaust props the moral supremacy story used to justify Israel's genocidal treatment of the Palestinians,all the wars,weaponry and false-flag terror used to sustain its wars against all its perceived enemies is exposed for what it is:a mythical nationalism manipulated by elites intent on world domination.
Another message from that constituent of World Jewry that believes in truth above propaganda:
"The Jewish community should expose 911 because the secret actions of a few Jews(and non-Jews)has put all Jews in jeopardy.Instead Jews stupidly implicate themselves by attacking truth-seekers.All 911 conspiracy deniers are accomplices in the cover-up."
Dr Henry Makow.
So you willie-worshippers can take a hike!
Posted by: Apostate at February 8, 2010 8:40 AM
Hey Apostle!
Know what...Larry's wife say he try an' convert her to dat willie-worship thang!
Now Larry gon an' she wit me she don' need any kin'a convertin' t'all!
No,sirree!
Posted by: tungsten at February 8, 2010 8:49 AM
Massa Tungsen
Iz wid Larry's wife now an'ain't 'bout share her wid yer!
Iffa catcha yer roun'thissa way agin Iz gown send yer back all der way to Tungsen,Arizona just as fast I can!
Lassa ting Larry wan' issa TWO guyz sharin' hizza wife.Hell,no,he got 'nuff his plate since he an' dem Izreel-firsters lost they job wid Massa Sunstein.
You an'me better watch out when Larry get back from Canada on hissa bobsleigh.My,dares gon' be summa kin' sparks flyn' roun,den,boy!
Posted by: juniper at February 8, 2010 9:00 AM
The more they get blown away with evidence and rational argument the more they bleat "anti-semitism"/Holocaust.
Larry,angri and the Koshernostra got used over decades of corporate propaganda to holding the moral high ground.The "anti-semitism"/Holocaust fundamentalism narrative that underpins Israel's nationalist mythology has now been brought under closer scrutiny.
An aggregate of new circumstances has brought about a situation with which the disinformation propagandists are very uncomfortable.
The corporate monopoly control of information is now,with the advent of the internet,free DVDs etc.,far less entrenched.Official corporate and Foundation-sponsored historical narratives are increasingly threatened by independent research and the proliferation of internet resources that facilitate it.
Unsurprisingly it is the internet that is now under elite attack.The recourse to cyber-censorship in China and most recently New Zealand and the employment of disinformation teams like the hopeless Larry mob here have only made more people aware that the powers that be are losing the vice-like grip on the flow of information they formerly enjoyed.
The imminent implosion of the international central banking system with its already apparent economic and human consequences is making the destinationless circularity of our history as a consequence of elite avarice and mismanagement all the more apparent.
The corrupt elite that brought us the central banking debt enslavement scam along with the catastrophic wars that feed it-not to mention the state of Israel and the "War on Terror"-now falls back on the only weapons it knows to sustain its domination.
(i)disinformation and propaganda
(ii)false-flag terror
(iii)repression and scientific dictatorship
(iv)war
Support any one of these and you'll end up getting the other three as well.
Posted by: Apostate at February 8, 2010 10:28 AM
Open source intelligence on the current terror threat hype is available at:
http://mediamonarchy.blogspot.com/
False-flag terror is often deliberately bungled too so look out for the infamous Bronfman-Rothschild-Rockefeller mafia "ballon d'essai".The current hype is akin to the swine flu vaccination psy-op last year.
The elite UN,WHO,RIIA cabal likes to try things out to gauge exactly to what extent the public is ready for their NWO and all the police state security measures it will entail.
Don't you just love being a guinea pig?
Posted by: tungsten at February 8, 2010 11:07 AM
Larry,
Firstly, I remind you that my questions were addressed to YOU, as well as to Angrysoba. You have already missed one chance of answering.
You wrote of me: "you want to change the debate to what Angrysoba thinks of the State of Israel". No, I do not wish to "change the debate"; I wish to understand motivations.
Yes, anti-Jewish comment irritates me also; it interferes with debate. But the matter of bias in the media has been raised, an example is linked via my name below.
We are discussing conspiracy theories. I am interested in their origin. A biased Mainstream Media leads to distrust, which in turn fosters conspiracy theories.
Posted by: Clark at February 8, 2010 2:35 PM
Hark, I see a shadow. Is it a bird? Is it a 'plane? No, it's Jack Straw, lying till he's high in the sky, again and again, and again.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 8, 2010 8:16 PM
Clark,
You're really just a conspiracy theorizing loon yourself, aren't you?
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Posted by: UGG Boots at February 9, 2010 1:22 PM
"but it's quite telling that you can easily gloss over such hatred."
The only reason you're here, Larry, is to look for such hatred -- and try to link it to Craig. It's been your mission from day one. You bore everyone to tears in the process. You're a nincompoop who has proved nothing in relation to 9/11, and whose main interest is Jews. Jew-hatred. Zionism. Zionism-hatred. Israel. Hatred of Israel. Blah blah blah. Megaphone personified.
Fly away and do something useful. You haven't succeeded in smearing Craig, which was, and is, your primary purpose here.
Posted by: at February 9, 2010 2:51 PM
You're really just a conspiracy theorizing loon yourself, aren't you?
Posted by: angrysoba
says the idiot who believes the official conspiracy theory. My my my ... try growing up.
Posted by: at February 9, 2010 2:54 PM
test
Posted by: Clark at February 9, 2010 3:11 PM
"and whose main interest is Jews."
No, your fellow conspiracy loons keep bringing up the Jews. They can't help themselves. And Craig should both take note of the kind of people that he attracts and the comments on this site that he won't delete.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 9, 2010 3:28 PM
Hey Larry
You in bed by now.E'body bin a'callin' yer agin' here on Massa Craig.Dem sayin' you ain't nothin'but a no good numbskull wot tryna git Massa Craig shut down cossa all dem 'spiricists anna anti-semis.
Looks like you bout as popular as a bacon sandwich atta Bar Mitzvah boy!
Yo wife confidin' in me all der wile you bin gon.She say you an'der B'nai B'rith and Moss Bros done fo' yo' marriage coz she 'bout had nuff,Larry.I mean yoo ain't hardly here in St Louis no more what wit spending time wid angri an'techni,oilman,an'dat guy got crabs.
Issa over,Larry we don' min'if yer stay away all a time now cossa ebody roun' here fed right up wit payin' taxes anna helpin' Izreel fitin' all dem wars and fooling wid all dem false flag 911-type attack onna innocent people.
Ebody know dat Al Ciada jus'a load ol' Jews and disinfo guys like you ana angri dresst up look like Lawrence Arabia-nobody gon'fall for it no mo',Larry so you best jussa quit cossa da game issa up,right now.
You jussa tryin' do Massa Craig outta hissa new job on da web.Hell you worsa dan dat Jack Straw guy!
P.S.We sittin' onna porch now gettin' thru yo'Bobon whiskey big time!
Cheers,Larry!
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Posted by: BEATA at February 10, 2010 10:43 PM
Seven-five percent (75%) of the occupants of the four planes that crashed with no survivors were connected to the Pentagon.
It has been suggested to me by persons unknown (for now) in military circles that all these men and women might have had some evidence (and thus potential whistle-blowers) of the technology used to fly unmanned planes.
Further investigations are ongoing with emphasise on the following companies:
Boeing
Raytheon
Northrop Grumman
XonTech
Vrendenburg
BAE Systems
Metrocall
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 10, 2010 11:37 PM
Mark, those are stupid claims, and you're a sick person. You clearly have a problem distinguishing between reality and your fantasies.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 11, 2010 12:58 AM
"potential whistle-blowers"
Red herring, I think, because (a) that whistle got blown anyway and (b) depending on how you define 'connected to' there might be nothing surprising in the 75% figure. In my home town of about 20,000 population it was said that everyone either worked for Singer or was related to someone who did, and it was true.
The planes *had* to be remote controlled as, given that the buildings were already mined, it couldn't be left to the dubious skills of such as Hani Hanjour to hit them.
Shame UA93 was 40 minutes late on take-off and therefore had to be downed (it would have been downright embarrassing if it had got to WTC7 after all that time).
Posted by: Vronsky at February 11, 2010 8:14 AM
@Mark Golding: "...the technology used to fly unmanned planes..."
Reading that, I thought of Rabbi Dov Zakheim. These are some bits I picked up about him on a search:
Dov Zakheim's was CEO of SPS International, part of System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor majoring in electronic warfare technologies, including remote-controlled aircraft systems, and the notorious Flight Termination System (FTS) technology that could hijack even a hijacked plane and land or crash it wherever.
SPS subsidiary, Tridata Corporation, oversaw the investigation of the first “terrorist” attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. (This would have given them intimate knowledge of the security systems and structural blueprints of the World Trade Center.)
Zakheim was appointed as Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller of the Pentagon by President Bush in May 2001.
Zakheim is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and, in 2000, was a co-author of the Project for the New American Century’s position paper, 'Rebuilding America’s Defenses'.
In May 2004, Zakheim took a position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy consulting firms in the world. Booz Allen's core business is contractual work completed on behalf of the US federal government, foremost on defense and homeland security matters, with limited engagements of foreign governments specific to U.S. military assistance programs.
Booz Allen Hamilton is now majority owned by private equity firm The Carlyle Group,
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 11, 2010 12:05 PM
I came across this too:
"The first plane that went into the towers passed over Indian Point nuclear power station, on the Hudson river just north of the New York City suburbs. The alleged "al-Qaeda" is described as wanting to do as much murder and mayhem as possible, yet chose to avoid a target that would have caused unbelievable devastation (how would all of New York city, or New England, be permanently evacuated?)."
http://www.oilempire.us/remote.html
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 11, 2010 12:08 PM
And this:
"The public's reluctance to question official doctrine on this matter is a symptom of the societal role for which most of us have been bred and trained: to be ever-faithful hounds, tails thumping the floor as we contentedly slurp the hand of class authority. Such credulity also becomes inevitable when the alternative is so unbearable: if someone in Bush's position is capable of lying to us about something as huge, as gut-wrenchingly horrible as 9/11, then everything we believe about this country - about the nature of civilization itself-might just be childish nonsense.
Most people simply don't have the guts to go there. Given a desperate enough need to sustain the childish belief in government-as-benevolent-father, a person will adapt that belief to any circumstance. The behavioral end result can resemble courage; indeed, we are taught to regard it as the DEFINITION of courage. Actually, it's one of cowardice's darkest moments. Even a casual examination of Nazi Germany, where this phenomenon was rampant, will drive this point home."
http://911truth.wetpaint.com/page/Zacheim
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 11, 2010 12:11 PM
The point about the nuclear power station in New York not being targeted is interesting in the light of T Blair's justifications at Chilcot.
"The point about this terrorist act was that over 3,000 people had been killed on the streets of New York, an absolutely horrific event, but this is what really changed my perception of risk, the calculus of risk for me: if those people, inspired by this religious fanaticism could have killed 30,000, they would have."
"The point about this act in New York was that, had they been able to kill even more people than those 3,000, they would have, and so, after that time, my view was you could not take risks with this issue at all, and one dimension of it, because we were advised, obviously, that these people would use chemical or biological weapons or a nuclear device, if they could get hold of them - that completely changed our assessment of where the risks for security lay,.."
http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/media/43909/100129-blair.pdf
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 11, 2010 12:45 PM
"It has been suggested to me by persons unknown (for now) in military circles that all these men and women might have had some evidence (and thus potential whistle-blowers) of the technology used to fly unmanned planes."
Yeah, and I have read on the Internet that the people who jumped from the Twin Towers were in fact "whistleblowers" being thrown out one by one.
WHY?
Well, to stop them from talking obviously!
If you think that sounds utterly insane then you now know how I feel when reading the nonsense that resident Miss Marples such as Mark Golding and anyone who links to "oilempire" spout.
Seriously, do you really consider this garbage to be "research"?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 11, 2010 1:57 PM
angrysoba,
The oilempire link is about the nuclear power station on the Hudson river. Does your disgust at this source mean that you do not believe there is a nuclear power station there? Or are you just pulling your frequent trick of trying to diss what doesn't fit your view?
It's good you're back again: I thought you'd gone off in a hissy fit because Clark had pwned you. Are you going to answer his question now you're back?
Clark at February 7, 2010 2:08 PM:
"Angrysoba, Larry,
I repeat, you are not off the hook with me. You keep shouting "Anti-semitism"; I want to know where you stand on the modern State of Israel, how it treats its neighbors and the various ethnic groups within its citizens, its expansionism, and its influence upon world politics."
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 11, 2010 3:30 PM
I wonder if what Craig has thought of his record breaking blog-post?
Craig, have you kept up with the conversation here? Has it offered you anything new? Has your opinion been swayed?
Posted by: Edo at February 11, 2010 4:30 PM
The reason they probably didn't aim for the nuclear power plant is that:
1. The main building of a nuclear power plant is much smaller than the WTC and therfore more difficult to hit.
2. There is usually a 1m thick reinforced concrete box around the reactor so a plane hitting it would not get near the reactor to set it off.
I would imagine that these two reasons would be enough to knock that idea on the head.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at February 11, 2010 5:11 PM
hawley_jr wrote: "It's good you're back again: I thought you'd gone off in a hissy fit because Clark had pwned you. Are you going to answer his question now you're back?"
What question was he asking angrysoba? His opinion on Israel?
Clark was trying to steer the conversation into anti-Semitic territory, which is familiar ground on this blog. I hardly think that Clark pwned angrysoba, but you're delusional, so you'll think what you must.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 11, 2010 5:22 PM
hawley_jr wrote:
"Most people simply don't have the guts to go there. Given a desperate enough need to sustain the childish belief in government-as-benevolent-father, a person will adapt that belief to any circumstance. The behavioral end result can resemble courage; indeed, we are taught to regard it as the DEFINITION of courage. Actually, it's one of cowardice's darkest moments. Even a casual examination of Nazi Germany, where this phenomenon was rampant, will drive this point home.""
Well then I guess Craig Murray is one of those sheeple. Apparently he's too childish and cowardly to understand that the Joooooos used remote-controlled planes to strike buildings in Lower Manhattan that the Joooooos had already wired with explosives.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 11, 2010 5:25 PM
911 was a notch up on the scale admittedly but the assassination and terror network involved in its perpetration is the same one used to jump-start wars over centuries.You can count on these guys turning up with the jump-leads every time.
Corrupt members of the US cabinet seek to the cover the tracks of the conspiracy,including the leading narcotics mobs and ethnic-based secret societies and at least one foreign government.The public dose not believe the alleged perpetrator/s acted alone but the weight of the cover-up,the silence of the corporate media and the deaths of whistle-blowers and witnesses blur the trail from the public's view.
Come on,we've been here before haven't we?
Britain,Israel and the US have run an array of intelligence fronts and worldwide assassination bureau over decades.911 was just a matter of their showing us and them-our designated enemies-who is still boss.
Posted by: tungsten at February 11, 2010 5:44 PM
tungsten wrote "Corrupt members of the US cabinet"
Ha! Who? Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson?
And which "ethnic-based secret societies"?
Are you saying that the Mafia did it?
Are you saying that 911 was done by the Jews and the Sicilians?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 11, 2010 5:54 PM
Larry from St Louis wrote:
"Apparently he's too childish and cowardly to understand that the Joooooos used remote-controlled planes to strike buildings in Lower Manhattan that the Joooooos had already wired with explosives."
This is just the sort of anti_Semitic paranoid nonsense that should be deleted from pages like this.
Posted by: at February 11, 2010 7:14 PM
Despite myself have to point out that hawley junior is falling into Blair's trap. The reason the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were targeted is surely obvious: they were the visible symbols of the USA's financial and military power.
Posted by: technioclour at February 11, 2010 7:45 PM
"The main building of a nuclear power plant is much smaller than the WTC and therfore more difficult to hit."
Pish. Harder to the hit than the west elevation of the Pentagon?
"There is usually a 1m thick reinforced concrete box"
That'll be why the plane that hit the Pentagon ground to a halt at the outer wall. Oh, wait...
"The reason the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were targeted is surely obvious"
And not Indian Point? Yes, it is obvious - spectacular, cinegenic damage does not require cutting off the nose to spite the face. A few thousand dead will do to start a war.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 11, 2010 8:04 PM
technicolour,
(Not 'hawley junior', but the initials 'jr'.)
How 'falling into Blair's trap'? He said: "The point about this act in New York was that, had they been able to kill even more people than those 3,000, they would have, and so, after that time, my view was you could not take risks with this issue at all,.."
He based his argument for his change in attitude towards Iraq after 9/11 on this specific point. He did not base it upon the Twin Towers and the Pentagon being "the visible symbols of the USA's financial and military power".
What is your point in this context? What is 'Blair's trap'?
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 11, 2010 8:37 PM
"This is just the sort of anti_Semitic paranoid nonsense that should be deleted from pages like this."
You're going to have to work on sensing sarcasm.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 11, 2010 8:41 PM
Hey Larry
The ethnic secret societies were organized from London by Palmerston in the 1860s to ease the narcotic traffic,set up assassinations and fifth-column subversions in the US.Ethnic groups involved included Chinese Triads,B'nai B'rith,Italian Mafia.
The subversion campaign Britain ran against the US intensified through the 19th century.In 1843 the B'nai B'rith was founded by Seligman in NY as an exclusively Jewish masonic group.It was simply a covert intelligence front for its British sponsors the Montefiores and Rothschilds.
B'nai B'rith was the US version of the Order of Zion funded by London-based Hofjuden whose links with the British oligarchy are traceable to the founding of the Bank of England.Certain Marrano gold dealers in London before the said Bank was even founded like the Moccatas,Goldschmids,Montefiores became lynch-pins in money laundering profits from the British oligarchy's narcotic traffic.
The current organized crime networks in N.America were put in place by the de Hirsch family's London-based control of the Jewish migration into Canada.
The British Board of Deputies president from 1835 was Moses Montefiore,who with Disraeli and the Rothschilds set up the British subversion and organized crime networks as well as nurturing the men who were later to lead the Confederate secessionist government through the Civil War that ended with their assassination plot against Lincoln in 1865.The facts re-the assassination alone are a case history illustrative of the power of the narcotics trade's criminal networks.
Another British asset was Yechiel Bronfman brought into Canada from Rumania in 1889 with the help of the de Hirsch family fund for settlements.To this day Romanian Jews figure prominently in both US organized crime and Mossad undercover work.
Supplemented by the Sicilian migrations promoted by Mazzini on behalf of Disraeli,Montefiore and the Rothschilds
the Hofjuden-controlled crime networks and Mafia now constituted a formidable tool of British subversion of the US.The New Orleans godfathers,both Mazzini proteges,Machecha and Matrenga,took over the city' franchise on behalf of the Palermo mob.
By 1868,Machecha was backing Democrat politicians whose funding came via Rothschild agent,August Belmont.Machecha's shipping line merged with 4 others and went on to form United Fruit whose management was the NY Our Crowd bankers.
Flash forward to DA Garrison who famously linked remnants of the old Machecha mob to the murder of JFK.The Orleans mob fell into the hands of Marcello in the 1950s and the network had by then spread across the South,Carbbean and Central America maintaining ties with Lansky and British nodes in the Caribbean.
The London-based cycle of international trade from cotton to opium cultivated a group of key British East India Company allies in the US including the Astors who made money from the lead,opium,and silver trades.The opium profits were leveraged into Manhattan real estate.
Big name Anglophile families in Boston Philadelphia:Girard,Forbes,Perkins,and Hathaway intermarried through mutual interests in the slaves and later the narcotic traffic to China. Barings was especially close to the Boston Brahmins.
Old Joe Kennedy sought to emulate the Brahmins when he obtained his British liquor delivery contacts during Prohibition.
Are you getting it yet?
The criminal network that gave you 911 is the same one that gave you the War of 1812,Civil War,WW1,WW2 and any number of black ops,and assassinations.
Abou time you knew your own history isn't it?
Posted by: tungsten at February 11, 2010 9:01 PM
Interesting. Larry thinks (oxymoron?) that being sarcastically anti-semitic is preferable to just being anti-semitic.
You still haven't answered any of those questions, Larry. If this goes on I might have to ask to be referred to your supervisor. Sorry, and all that.
What are your two best pieces of evidence for not having a supervisor, btw? (Ask your supervisor if you're not sure).
Posted by: Vronsky at February 11, 2010 9:11 PM
What questions?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 11, 2010 9:22 PM
"The criminal network that gave you 911 is the same one that gave you the War of 1812,Civil War,WW1,WW2 and any number of black ops,and assassinations.
Abou time you knew your own history isn't it?"
Of, fuck off. You sound like fucking Mel Gibson. Both in real life and in the movie "Conspiracy Theory"
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 11, 2010 9:24 PM
Now I know you're a bit sore about juniper and me looking after your wife and knocking back your bourbon but surely you can make a better fist of elevating the debate than that last contribution.
Fact is,most of us think it's about time you fucked off,Larry.
Don't they have the Samaritans in the US? Someone as intellectually challenged as yourself must get quite depressed when you get wiped out night after night.You must go to bed feeling like shit,pal.By the time we make the 1000th comment on this thread you'll be in dire need of therapy!
Can you count that high? Do you have any concept of self-esteem?
Probably not.
Seems like you can't distinguish between a fairy story and a conspiracy theory.The official 911 account about the 19 guys with box-cutters is both.
Do yourself a favour and stop making a complete arse of yourself in public.The guys that do their homework on this site are making mincemeat of you,angri and the disinfo team.
Sleep well,dickbrain!
Posted by: tungsten at February 11, 2010 11:23 PM
"By the time we make the 1000th comment on this thread you'll be in dire need of therapy!"
Nah, I've actually been stalked by your American right-wing counterparts (that is, those idiots in America who believe that 911 was an inside job). And I assume they have guns. So some little pissant lefty anti-Semitic limey is not much of a burden to me.
Have you yet digested the fact that Craig Murray doesn't believe in your fantasies? Why do you keep coming back here if he thinks that you're deluded?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 11, 2010 11:37 PM
I found this article useful in a paper I am writing at university. Hopefully, I get an A+ now!
Thanks
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Posted by: UGG Boots at February 12, 2010 2:03 AM
UGG Boots. Right. Okay. So, where do they fit in ? Are they Good or Bad ? Are they part of the plot, or are they only trying to confuse us ?
Posted by: Richard Robinson at February 12, 2010 2:40 AM
"It's good you're back again: I thought you'd gone off in a hissy fit because Clark had pwned you. Are you going to answer his question now you're back?"
Clark had not pwned me, you dick! I was ignoring Clark because his questions about Israel had nothing to do with 9/11. He was simply jumping on the bandwagon that was being steered by the resident Jew-haters.
I don't have many opinions on Israel and I think Clark's opinions on Israel have been fed to him by Jew-hating propagandists and he's too thick to realize he's being manipulated.
Now, the nuclear power plant thing is just silly.
Why didn't the hijackers fly into that? Who the fuck knows. Maybe they didn't realize there was one there, it took you dozy 9/11 conspiracy theorists... sorry RESEARSHERS, 9 years to work out the hijackers flew over it why should the hijackers have realized they were flying over it on their way to their targets?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 12, 2010 3:56 AM
Does anyone actually read the crap tungsten types?
I fear the answer might be, "yes" but whenever I try to read it my eyes glaze over. After a while one tedious anti-semitic rant reads like any other one.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 12, 2010 4:05 AM
Larry and angri
Are you still spraying everyone with bullshit? You pair of dingbats!
The history you call,"conspiracy theory",is drives a coach and horses through your mind-numbingly vacuous arguments.
Hollywood might have brainwashed you into thinking organized crime in the US was run by the Italian mafia.In point of fact as tungsten shows it is leading members of the Zionist Lobby who have controlled the crime syndicate since the 1920s.
The Moschepoche might have convinced you they were all philanthropists most of us know different.
That this network had the form,motivation,and means to execute the 9/11 atrocity and cover it up is beyond dispute.
Notwithstanding the Hollywood programming that has so warped your sense of reality Don Corleone is off the radar on this one.
LOL! You saps.
Posted by: Apostate at February 12, 2010 7:50 AM
http://i48.tinypic.com/t7g1f6.jpg
He who talks a lot, says little.
Posted by: Edo at February 12, 2010 8:48 AM
"That'll be why the plane that hit the Pentagon ground to a halt at the outer wall. Oh, wait..."
The pentagon walls aren't made up of a solid 1m thick reinforced concrete shell though.
Also a nuclear reactor building is about 40x40m in plan and around 25 to 35m high. Far smaller than the whole pentagon building. Just remember that the terrorists were aiming for the whole building.
Crashing a plane into a nuclear power plant would cause a lot of damage but would probably not cause enough damage to blow up the reactor.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at February 12, 2010 10:07 AM
I absolutely laugh at the concept of "blowing up the reactor" with an explosion. Very funny.
Though Chris - we do have to give credit for the truthers coming up with something original, as it's been years since they said something original.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 12, 2010 3:36 PM
Yawn.
Posted by: Edo at February 12, 2010 4:23 PM
Hey! Why didn't the hijackers fly into the White House or the Statue of Liberty?
The fact they didn't proves it was an inside job - smoking gun!
Posted by: angrysoba at February 12, 2010 4:43 PM
Technicolour yawn.
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 12, 2010 5:09 PM
Angrysoba,
Larry,
I see that neither of you have chosen to answer my civil and reasonable questions.
However, I do see a couple of other things. From Larry we have a very vague accusation-like thingy: "Clark was trying to steer the conversation into anti-Semitic territory" (eh?), and from Angrysoba we have this:
"...Clark... was simply jumping on the bandwagon that was being steered by the resident Jew-haters.
I don't have many opinions on Israel and I think Clark's opinions on Israel have been fed to him by Jew-hating propagandists and he's too thick to realize he's being manipulated."
Well thank you very much, Angrysoba. In fact I can think for myself, and my opinions of Israel result from reliable reports of its appalling policies and actions.
For some time I've suspected that you, Angrysoba and Larry, are Zionists. I don't mess about like the Apostate multiple character - I do the decent thing, and ask directly. You can engage in a forthright manner, or you can evade.
So, Larry, Angrysoba, my questions remain. I'd like to know where you stand on Israel. I doubt that you'll answer, because I think you're ashamed. But I'll look in here every day or so to see if you've answered. Until you do, you will have little respect with me.
Posted by: Clark at February 12, 2010 5:50 PM
"why should the hijackers have realized they were flying over it on their way to their targets?"
Given that they were flying blind it's remarkable that they were able to find the Pentagon for that matter.
"The pentagon walls aren't made up of a solid 1m thick reinforced concrete shell though".
chris g: I think you'll find that the wall in question had been recently rebuilt with the express purpose of resisting impact and collecting debris. All the more reason to wonder what happened to the plane.
Posted by: MJ at February 12, 2010 6:51 PM
Larry and angri-you bird-brains,you're straight of a mumble-core movie what the BeJeez do you know about originality?
You can't write off your country's history as "conspiracy theory" you jerk-offs.
If you haven't factored the Anglo-American Establishment and the Moschepoche into your calculations you'll never begin to account for 9/11.
Mind you most of us think you're in the business of keeping everyone off the scent rather than accounting for it.
You've signally failed to account for the physical anomalies-the patently obvious controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and WT7.You can't account for the disturbingly unusual events at the Pentagon or in Pennsylvania.
The 911 Money Trail is a another aspect that leads straight to those who had foreknowledge of the attack.Corbett Report episode 67 concerns this specifically.
Silverstein and Zakheim are just two of the names that crop up repeatedly.These guys are Moschepoche not philanthropists! Silverstein made billions out of his insurance on the Twin Towers.He'd only bought the lease for $15m that Spring.
And what happened to the Bank of Novia Scotia gold buried at Ground Zero?
The trillions that went missing from the Pentagon?
William Bergman's money laudering investigation terminated by the Fed.
And the scoop and dump policy Guiliani and Fire Commissioner von Essen adopted with regard to the vast debris and evidence at Ground Zero? In November they restricted the number of firefighters then searching Ground Zero for bodies to just twenty-five.Up to that point up to 300 had been at work daily.
Even a cursory look at these discrepancies and the modes of operation at work points straight to the Zionist network that controls organized crime:MISHPUCKA.
You're working your butts off trying to bury the truth-it's not working-schmucks!
Posted by: Steelback at February 12, 2010 6:51 PM
The blanket coverage on this thread by Larry and Angrysoba is worrying.
I understand the intense activity by Larry who claims some shocking stories relating to his friend(s) in NYFD.
I have yet to witness his remorse and appreciation for the terrible consequences of first responders affected by the poisonous fumes
and dust after the collapses.
I have spoken to a British lady who frequented the WebCameron board and who was an ardent activist in the UK
against wind farms being built near populated areas.
She was in America I believe the week before 9/11 and while in New York her helicopter flight was delayed by a
small black helicopter carrying a number of Arabs wanting to fly round the twin towers.
She was 'taken back' by one of the passengers who she said, "looked remarkably like Bin Laden."
Just a story, but one that has prompted me to contact this lady again and ask
her for anything else she can recall.
Obviously this story is open to ridicule (Larry?Angrysoba?) but it is of course the smallest detail that will eventually
unravel the 'unknowns' associated with 9/11 and the inadequate and unscientific inquiry.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 12, 2010 7:23 PM
Mark Golding, you always seem to be in the middle of everything!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 12, 2010 8:19 PM
Clark wrote: "For some time I've suspected that you, Angrysoba and Larry, are Zionists."
First, I don't know what you mean by "Zionist." I've been to Zion National Park; nice place. I know what "Zionist" meant in the first half of the 20th century. I know what "Zionist" means on websites like stormfront, and I know what it means when people like bin Laden say it. But I'm not sure what you mean.
Second, Clark, for some time I've suspected that you're a Holocaust denier and a conspiracy nut. You seem to not have a problem with the Jew hatred and the conspiracy insanity around here. Do you really think that the secret agent men are harassing Roderick Russell because he quit his job? Do you think that an acquaintance of Mark Golding saw bin Laden fly in a helicopter around NYC? (a BLACK helicopter at that - oh no!) Do you really think that secret agent men were planting supersecretnanothermite in the Towers prior to 911 without getting noticed?
I take it from your silence on such issues, and your insistent and consistent challenging of me and angrysoba, that these are things that you find plausible.
Which leads me to suspect that you're a Holocaust denier. Everyone here on the other side (save Craig, I suppose) seems to be.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 12, 2010 8:30 PM
Doobie-doobie-doobie-doobie-doobie-do-do-do!
San Lorenzo de la Puta, 1313 AD
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 12, 2010 9:31 PM
MJ
It was still not 1m thick was it. The fact is that a 1m thick wall can stop a train (more solid than a plane) travelling at 100mph dead in it's tracks without affecting the structural integrity so a plane (lighter and less solidly built) would probably break up into many pieces when it hit a 1m thcik RC wall. It may cause more damage to the all but it isn't going to puncture it and crash into the reactor. Impossible.
Posted by: chris, Glasgow at February 12, 2010 10:25 PM
Larry Old Chap.
Why don't you explain what it is you know about:
a Zionist in the early half of the 20th Century
a Zionist on a stormfront website
and a Zionist when Bin Laden talk about them
I'd really love to hear YOUR understanding, so we know we're talking about the same Zionsists?
Cheers!
Posted by: Edo at February 12, 2010 10:36 PM
@chris, glasgow: "Crashing a plane into a nuclear power plant would cause a lot of damage but would probably not cause enough damage to blow up the reactor.":
"September 21, 2001: NRC admits uncertainty that the nation’s 103 plants could withstand the same kind of impact that leveled the World Trade Center."
"June 2004: The 9/11 commission and its witnesses divulge that additional air-based terrorist attacks have already been attempted, that more major attacks are likely in the near future, and that nuclear power plants are top al-Qaeda targets."
http://www.ipsecinfo.org/1952.htm
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 12, 2010 11:33 PM
"She was in America I believe the week before 9/11 and while in New York her helicopter flight was delayed by a
small black helicopter..."
Ah ha ha ha ha!
Will you at least look at this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter
"... carrying a number of Arabs wanting to fly round the twin towers.
She was 'taken back' by one of the passengers who she said, "looked remarkably like Bin Laden.""
Oh Christ! Yes, I'm sure that Bin Laden flies around on black helicopters being told by the pilot (Prescott Bush? Kim Jong-il? Bernie Madoff? Elvis?) which targets he can hit ("That's the nuclear power plant. Don't hit that now!")
"Obviously this story is open to ridicule"
Yuh think?
"but it is of course the smallest detail that will eventually
unravel the 'unknowns' associated with 9/11 and the inadequate and unscientific inquiry."
That "of course" has no business being there. Why should it be the "smallest detail" which overturns the vast body of evidence that shows 19 guys flew planes into buildings?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 12, 2010 11:57 PM
@Suhayl Saadi: "San Lorenzo de la Puta, 1313 AD"
Brilliant.
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 13, 2010 12:16 AM
"For some time I've suspected that you, Angrysoba and Larry, are Zionists."
And I suspect you are a paranoid 46-year old virgin with a Miss Marple complex.
Look, if you want Craig to put up a post on Israel why don't you ask him. Maybe we'll get a bit clarity on the other contributors here.
I don't exactly know what you mean by "Zionist" but if you mean the belief in self-determination for Jews then yes, I am a Zionist. Of course, if you are an anti-Zionist by that description then why are you so vocal about Jews not having self-determination.
I wonder what your stance is on Abkhazian statehood, or Boluchi statehood, or Tamil statehood, or Western Sahara or East Turkestan, or the people of Diego Garcia? You could probably see how this topic can spiral out of control so I don't see why I should let you derail the thread with anymore of your demands to be indulged.
So, you've had my answer and I don't care whether you think I should be "ashamed" because I'd be ashamed of some of the associates the so-called left makes common cause with if I were you.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 12:16 AM
Larry,
Angrysoba,
temper, temper, boys. I don't think I've said anything to upset you, have I? All those things you say I "might" be, well, what wonderful imaginations you seem to have. Do show me the evidence behind your accusations.
No, I'm not the least bit worried about people believing odd things about 911. Ultimately, it's pretty harmless.
No, I'm not especially worried about Apostate and his many sock-puppets. I find it quite amusing when his various characters start chatting to each other for want of anyone else to talk to.
I'm not sure how you manage to take it so seriously.
It's Craig's blog, he can delete my comments / questions if he wishes. But he probably has better things to do than to read this thread.
So you don't know what I mean by "Zionist". OK, just tell me what you think of Israel, as I asked before. Or should this be a forbidden question?
Posted by: Clark at February 13, 2010 1:32 AM
Hawley jr. This is from a CRS report into terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants.
"In light of the possibility that an air attack might penetrate the containment building
of a nuclear plant, some interest groups have suggested that such an event could be
followed by a meltdown and widespread radiation exposure. Nuclear industry
spokespersons have countered by pointing out that relatively small, low-lying nuclear
power plants are difficult targets for attack, and have argued that penetration of the
containment is unlikely, and that even if such penetration occurred it probably would not
reach the reactor vessel. They suggest that a sustained fire, such as that which melted the
structures in the World Trade Center buildings, would be impossible unless an attacking
plane penetrated the containment completely, including its fuel-bearing wings.
Recently completed NRC studies “confirm that the likelihood of both damaging the
reactor core and releasing radioactivity that could affect public health and safety is low,”"
If you think a plane could penetrate a 1m thick RC core reactor building and cause an explosion then you need to go to uni and learn a little bit about structural engineering cause you don't have a clue.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at February 13, 2010 2:42 AM
Angrysoba - no, Clark is actually 47. He pulled that out from the beginning to suggest that his arguments must have more weight because he's 47. And you of course notice that he dodged the Abkhazia Question (on this thread about 911!). Perhaps he's too ashamed of himself. I can't tell if he's a Resettlement Zealot, a Territorialist or a Caucus Universalist. In any event, I'm sure it's not good.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 13, 2010 2:52 AM
"And you of course notice that he dodged the Abkhazia Question (on this thread about 911!)."
I know. It is VERY revealing.
"Perhaps he's too ashamed of himself."
How could he not be?
Clark, your cheeks must be burning red as you read this!
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 4:06 AM
Of, fuck off. You sound like fucking Mel Gibson.
Posted by: Larry
I know. It is VERY revealing.
Posted by: angrysoba
It is?
What a pair of rank amateurs. One of you supposed to be a lawyer "from one of the best law schools in the USA". Thank god you're not defending me. I can just see you now, steely eyes, cold face, walking up to the witness box and fixing the prosecution witness with a look of utter contempt and saying, "Oh, fuck off. You sound like fucking Mel Gibson. Both in real life and in the movie "Conspiracy Theory'!" ... and the judge raising his gavel and intoning in a bored voice, "Case dismissed for lack of evidence" ... and the cheers in the gallery, and the press rushing out the door to file their stories: "Famous defense lawyer does it again"
Posted by: dreoilin at February 13, 2010 7:47 AM
Clark, your cheeks must be burning red as you read this!
Posted by: angrysoba
Don't think so, angry. Trying to pretend that you've covered yourself in glory to the detriment of others here won't work. People can read.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 13, 2010 7:51 AM
When did I suggest that I was a civil litigator or a criminal defense attorney? You really don't know how the world works, do you?
Plus, commenting on some loony tunes blog is a bit different from a professional context. But I don't imagine that you'll understand that.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 13, 2010 8:08 AM
Hell,Larry-a lawyer?
He'd make 'bout the baddest,most dumb- ass lawyer in der state a Missouri!
I can jussa see him now wavin' that virgin passapo' longin' ta Momed Atta up da noses da jury in dat 911 courtroom.
Larry be sayin',"Yessa yo'honor Massa we got de'vidence right here yawl! Thissa der passapo' Momed Atta whossa der 911 ringleader.Anna'now yawl betta fin' Massa Atta anna der 18 accomplis GILTY on awl cownts mass murder!"
Dassa Larry's dream since he wassa small bo'-dat he gonna makka name fo' hissa'sel' in da lo' an' gonna get to prosecu' all our enemes.He dream alla'lon' he gwine get speshal award offa da Queen offa Inglan'.
He wassa a mitey bit mif wenna ol'Jewliani gon' get it in hissa sted!
Larry binna brown-nosin dem Mishpucka ADL anna B'nai B'rith so long an'alla he got wassa thissa job workin' for Missa Sunstein.
'Tween ebody here I don' think nider Larry no' angri,oilman,tecni or dat guy widda crabs got a brain tween'em bigga dan da size a walnut!
Dat team a Massa Sunstein got one hella way to go 'fore dey gon take down Massa Craig,Ambasser to Kazaristan-no chance!
P.S.Issa still lookin' affa Larry's wife wile he away all da time.Lookin' like Larry ain't nefer gon' get to taka hissa Lady to da Buck Palace now!
Posted by: juniper at February 13, 2010 10:14 AM
@chris, glasgow: "If you think a plane could penetrate a 1m thick RC core reactor building and cause an explosion then you need to go to uni and learn a little bit about structural engineering cause you don't have a clue."
No need to get tetchy with me, professor. I haven't said that I thought a plane could penetrate 'a 1m thick RC core reactor building'. I have simply referred you to notes that said the experts at NRC and at the 9/11 Commission saw a danger. Matter of fact, I don't think a plane could bring down the WTC, as was, either. Nor do I believe there was any danger of an attack on Indian Point, for the reason Vronsky gave:
"And not Indian Point? Yes, it is obvious - spectacular, cinegenic damage does not require cutting off the nose to spite the face. A few thousand dead will do to start a war."
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 13, 2010 10:51 AM
Yo Juniper!
You still knocking back Larry's gin?
If airhead Larry had a brain he'd have made a great Mishpucka lawyer.Like the ones mentioned here by ex-cop,Gary Wean:
Google Gary L Wean Meshpocheh.htm
It's a great expose of the Mishpucka apparatus the angri disinfo team definitely would prefer you to leave well alone.Wean covers Meshpocheh women like Diana Feinstein who was exercised recently over the necessity for 911 "mastermind" K.Sheik Mohammed's trial to be relocated away from NY.
The engagement of the disinfo team in the 911 money trail issue is curiously conspicuous by its absence.If you want to get to the bottom of the 911 atrocity you'd do well to follow the disinfo team absentometer.
If they won't discuss it it registers high on the absentometer and it's a sure sign you're on to something!
Try out the corporate media absentometer too!
Posted by: Apostate at February 13, 2010 11:15 AM
Thanks, hawley_jr!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 13, 2010 11:32 AM
"Don't think so, angry. Trying to pretend that you've covered yourself in glory to the detriment of others here won't work. People can read."
"People can read", says the Wren!
You can teach a wren to read but you can't make her understand irony.
- Old Abkhazian proverb
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 12:38 PM
"No need to get tetchy with me, professor."
Conspiracy theorist gets petulant!
Hawley, just because Chris knows something that you don't it doesn't mean you should hold it against him.
Most conspiracy theorists - especially those who learnt physics reading reports from infowars about Steven Jones - should also try to learn that while skepticism about the "official line" is all well and good (and in fact exercised by the structural engineers who participated in the NIST engineering reports) it should also be applied to their own harebrained theories and shouldn't be resented just because it comes from those who may know what they are talking about such as Chris or Frazer. To the contrary, if you are really interested in the truth (as opposed to the Troof!) you should welcome their insights more.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 12:50 PM
Juniper: "Larry binna brown-nosin dem Mishpucka ADL anna B'nai B'rith so long an'alla he got wassa thissa job workin' for Missa Sunstein."
I think if Juniper (and his sock-puppets), Clark, the Wren and the vast majority of commenters here got together and typed out a stream-of-consciousness paranoid rant then together they could come up with something that resembles the Hamas Charter:
"For a long time, the enemies have been planning, skillfully and with precision, for the achievement of what they have attained. They took into consideration the causes affecting the current of events. They strived to amass great and substantive material wealth which they devoted to the realisation of their dream. With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there."
http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 1:11 PM
In fact, that part is sometimes translated as:
"The enemies have been scheming for a long time, and they have
consolidated their schemes, in order to achieve what they they have
achieved. They took advantage of key-elements in unfolding events, and
accumulated a huge and influential material wealth which they put to the
service of implementing their dream. This wealth [permitted them to] take
over control of the world media such as news agencies, the press,
publication houses, broadcasting and the like. [They also used this]
wealth to stir revolutions in various parts of the globe in order to
fulfill their interests and pick the fruits. They stood behind the French
and the Communist Revolutions and behind most of the revolutions we hear
about here and there. They also used the money to establish clandestine
organizations which are spreading around the world, in order to destroy
societies and carry out Zionist interests. Such organizations are: the
Free Masons, Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, B'nai B'rith and the like. All of
them are destructive spying organizations. They also used the money to
take over control of the Imperialist states and made them colonize many
countries in order to exploit the wealth of those countries and spread
their corruption therein."
It looks even more like Steelback-Juniper-Apostate-Tungsten prose now.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 1:18 PM
"...and carry out Zionist interests."
Like you do here.
Let Norman Finkelstein tell you something of your masters, you who "don't have many opinions on Israel" -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AtO_KGE-I
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 13, 2010 2:06 PM
Oh, so you agree with the Hamas charter do you, hawley?
I can't say it surprises me. It is one big Conspiraloon Charter with an oddly self-serving solution.
Have you read the Hamas Charter?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 2:22 PM
Do you agree with Norman?
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 13, 2010 2:33 PM
"Do you agree with Norman?"
Hawley, I haven't watched the video you sent and probably never will. So I don't know what it is Norman Finkelstein said that you are asking if I am in agreement with?
Have you read the Hamas Charter?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 2:39 PM
"When did I suggest that I was a civil litigator or a criminal defense attorney?"--Larry
I don't believe you're any sort of lawyer, honey. :)
"Plus, commenting on some loony tunes blog is a bit different from a professional context."
So you leave your brain in a basket when writing blog comments. I understand.
------------------------------
"You can teach a wren to read but you can't make her understand irony."
Posted by: angrysoba
Omigod, I am mortally wounded.
I'll have to change my handle to something intellectual. Like Biscuit. Or Noodle. And only use English.
--------------------------
How this 32-year-old 'angrysoba' who is involved in "education" in Japan, and the other one, 'Larry-the-lawyer', can spend so much time here *desperate* to defend the official version of 9/11 is beyond me. So what drives them? They're both making fools of themselves so I hope they're well paid ... or climbing some ranking ladder.
"Have you read the Hamas Charter?"--angrynoodle
heh heh, can we get to the crux of things now?
[I'm going off to watch the rugby. Have fun.]
Posted by: dreoilin at February 13, 2010 3:03 PM
"I'll have to change my handle to something intellectual. Like Biscuit. Or Noodle. And only use English."
?
"heh heh, can we get to the crux of things now?"
The crux of things is 9/11. Other people want to talk about Israel.
You want to express your amazement that anyone wants to continue on-topic and so your contributions are pointless.
"I'm going off to watch the rugby."
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 4:14 PM
Angrysoba,
Osama bin Laden wanted to talk about Palestine, and you can't talk about Palestine without talking about Israel. Are Osama bin Laden's views off-topic on this 911 thread? Er, only if you think he had nothing to do with 911, I suppose.
Come on, make sense.
Posted by: Clark at February 13, 2010 4:46 PM
Clark, you really need to educate yourself. I think there's some amount of hope for you, which distinguishes you from the jihadis on this site.
Bin Laden didn't focus on Israel until he figured out that there was a perception among the media and lefties in the West that that was his big gripe.
Bin Laden was quite offended by the presence of American soldiers and other soldiers on Saudi ground, especially since he offered to liberate Kuwait with is "Afghan Arabs."
The genesis of bin Laden's hatred was Sayyid Qutb, his ideological grandfather. Qutb, and everyone who followed Qutb, and bin Laden, have been far far more concerned with modernization in the Muslim world than they've been concerned with Israel.
If you think that Saudi Muslim terrorists really care about the Palestinians, you really need to learn more about the world.
You should start with the book The Looming Tower. It's been out for a while.
Educate yourself.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 13, 2010 6:50 PM
6WTC
Kurt Sonnenfeld, the FEMA videographer filmed the sub-basement levels of WTC 6.
Sonnenfeld saw that the huge vault beneath WTC 6 had been emptied, most likely during the previous night. This information is essential to understanding the crater that was created in the U.S. Customs House (WTC 6) during the demolition of the South Tower. It appears to have been a tremendous blast that originated in the sublevel vault of WTC 6.
When the North Tower fell, the US Customs House (6WTC) was crushed and totally incinerated. Much of the underground levels beneath it were also destroyed. But there were voids. And it was into one of those voids, recently uncovered, that I descended with a special Task Force to investigate. It was there we found the security antechamber to the vault, badly damaged. At the far end of the security office was the wide steel door to the vault, a combination code keypad in the cinderblock wall beside it. But the wall was cracked and partially crumbled, and the door was sprung partially open. So we checked inside with our flashlights. Except for several rows of empty shelves, there was nothing in the vault but dust and debris. It had been emptied. Why was it empty? And when could it have been emptied?
6WTC was evacuated within twelve minutes after the first airplane struck the North Tower. The streets were immediately clogged with fire trucks, police cars and blocked traffic, and the vault was large enough, 15 meters by 15 meters by my estimate, to necessitate at least a big truck to carry out its contents. And after the towers fell and destroyed most of the parking level, a mission to recover the contents of the vault would have been impossible. The vault had to have been emptied before the attack.
Customs at first claimed that everything was destroyed. That the heat was so intense that everything in the evidence safe had been baked to ash. But some months later, they announced that they had broken up a huge Colombian narco-trafficking and money-laundering ring after miraculously recovering crucial evidence from the safe, including surveillance photos and heat-sensitive cassette tapes of monitored calls. And when they moved in to their new building at 1 Penn Plaza in Manhattan, they proudly hung on the lobby wall their Commissioner’s Citation Plaque and their big round US Customs Service ensign, also miraculously recovered, in pristine condition, from their crushed and cremated former office building at the World Trade Center.
7WTC
Kurt Sonnenfeld: What happened with Building 7 is incredibly suspicious. I have video that shows how curiously small the rubble pile was, and how the buildings to either side were untouched by Building Seven when it collapsed. It had not been hit by an airplane; it had suffered only minor injuries when the Twin Towers collapsed, and there were only small fires on a couple of floors. The collapse of Building 7 was hardly mentioned by the mainstream media and suspiciously ignored by the 911 Commission.
Kurt Sonnenfeld: The Secret Service, the Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of Emergency Management’s “Crisis Center” occupied huge amounts of space there, spanning several floors of the building. Other federal agencies had offices there as well. After September 11, it was discovered that concealed within Building Seven was the largest clandestine domestic station of the Central Intelligence Agency outside of Washington DC, a base of operations from which to spy on diplomats of the United Nations and to conduct counterterrorism and counterintelligence missions.
There was no underground parking level at Seven World Trade Center. And there was no underground vault. Instead, the federal agencies at Building Seven stored their vehicles, documents and evidence in the building of their associates across the street. Beneath the plaza level of US Customs House (Building 6) was a large underground garage, separated off from the rest of the complex’s underground area and guarded under tight security. This was where the various government services parked their bomb-proofed cars and armored limousines, counterfeit taxi cabs and telephone company trucks used for undercover surveillance and covert operations, specialized vans and other vehicles.
Also within that secured parking area was access to the sub-level vault of Building 6.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 13, 2010 7:43 PM
6WTC
Kurt Sonnenfeld, the FEMA videographer filmed the sub-basement levels of WTC 6.
Sonnenfeld saw that the huge vault beneath WTC 6 had been emptied, most likely during the previous night. This information is essential to
understanding the crater that was created in the U.S. Customs House (WTC 6) during the demolition of the South Tower. It appears to have been a
tremendous blast that originated in the sublevel vault of WTC 6.
When the North Tower fell, the US Customs House (6WTC) was crushed and totally incinerated. Much of the underground levels beneath
it were also destroyed. But there were voids. And it was into one of those voids, recently uncovered, that I descended
with a special Task Force to investigate. It was there we found the security antechamber to the vault, badly damaged. At the far end of the security office was the wide steel door to the vault,
a combination code keypad in the cinderblock wall beside it. But the wall was cracked and partially crumbled, and the door was sprung partially open.
So we checked inside with our flashlights. Except for several rows of empty shelves, there was nothing in the vault
but dust and debris. It had been emptied. Why was it empty? And when could it have been emptied?
6WTC was evacuated within twelve minutes after the first airplane struck the North Tower. The streets were immediately clogged
with fire trucks, police cars and blocked traffic, and the vault was large enough, 15 meters by 15 meters by my estimate,
to necessitate at least a big truck to carry out its contents. And after the towers fell and destroyed most of the parking level,
a mission to recover the contents of the vault would have been impossible. The vault had to have been emptied before the attack.
Customs at first claimed that everything was destroyed. That the heat was so intense that everything in the evidence safe had been
baked to ash. But some months later, they announced that they had broken up a huge Colombian narco-trafficking and money-laundering ring
after miraculously recovering crucial evidence from the safe, including surveillance photos and heat-sensitive cassette tapes of monitored calls.
And when they moved in to their new building at 1 Penn Plaza in Manhattan, they proudly hung on the lobby wall their Commissioner’s Citation
Plaque and their big round US Customs Service ensign, also miraculously recovered, in pristine condition, from their crushed and cremated
former office building at the World Trade Center.
7WTC
Kurt Sonnenfeld: What happened with Building 7 is incredibly suspicious. I have video that shows how curiously small the rubble pile was,
and how the buildings to either side were untouched by Building Seven when it collapsed. It had not been hit by an airplane;
it had suffered only minor injuries when the Twin Towers collapsed, and there were only small fires on a couple of floors.
The collapse of Building 7 was hardly mentioned by the mainstream media and suspiciously ignored by the 911 Commission.
Kurt Sonnenfeld: The Secret Service, the Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission
and the Office of Emergency Management’s “Crisis Center” occupied huge amounts of space there, spanning several floors of the building. Other federal agencies had offices there as well.
After September 11, it was discovered that concealed within Building Seven was the largest clandestine domestic station of the Central Intelligence
Agency outside of Washington DC, a base of operations from which to spy on diplomats of the United Nations and to conduct counterterrorism and counterintelligence missions.
There was no underground parking level at Seven World Trade Center. And there was no underground vault.
Instead, the federal agencies at Building Seven stored their vehicles, documents and evidence in the building of their associates across the street.
Beneath the plaza level of US Customs House (Building 6) was a large underground garage, separated off from the rest of the complex’s underground
area and guarded under tight security. This was where the various government services parked their bomb-proofed cars and armored limousines,
counterfeit taxi cabs and telephone company trucks used for undercover surveillance and covert operations, specialized vans and other vehicles.
Also within that secured parking area was access to the sub-level vault of Building 6.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 13, 2010 7:53 PM
Just a few of the many anomalies in the indecently threadbare official 911 story that the Airhead Utd.disinfo team have yet to deal with:
If the evidence of your own eyes wasn't enough anyway the thermite found in 911 debris proves it was a controlled demolition.Thermite having been pre-planted on every floor.
Parallel miltary exercises,drills.As during 7/7 these utterly disarmed and prevented the security apparatus from functioning.
Roles of Moschepoche,ADL,B'nai B'rith,Feinstein,Silverstein and Zakheim.
Role of Israel,Mossad.
Pentagon's missing $trillions.
Bank of Nova Scotia's missing $billions gold.
Accelerated removal all debris,evidence from crime scene.
Naudet film only one numerous examples foreknowledge 911.
The 911 Money Trail:including Termination Bergman research Fed money laundering for narcotics and terror.Surge in N1 currency notes issue in July,August 2001,especially $100 denomination.
Silverstein's massive $4.55 billion insurance pay-out after 911.
BBC Jane Stanley's report on WT7-a clincher for many of us.Indicates prior knowledge of major corporate media.Stanley's ham-fisted defence later that the BBC had based their premature reports of the building's collapse on Reuters!Reuters for those unaware is a Rothschild outfit.
Oral testimony late independent film-maker Aaron Russo on Rockefeller foreknowledge 911 attacks.
Forget about the Hamas Charter,the Holocaust,anti-semitism or any other diversion they run past you.
Larry and angri are the most inept disinfo team in the business.They are engaged in a patent distraction enterprise that seeks to cover up the glaringly obvious fact that 911 was a false flag terror attack.
They are the best recruiting sergeants the Truth Movement ever had!
Go on then make our day and clear up the above anomalies for us....we're waiting-you bird-brained shysters!
LOL
It's never going to happen.....
Posted by: Steelback at February 13, 2010 8:14 PM
Hey Larry-you there?
Them spiricists binna callin yer gin.I dam well tell ya yo no clever 'nough bandy wid dem educated Inglis people.Hell you tink "erudite" is da name a sum typa glue dey sell down Wallmart!
Massa Sunstein say yous gotta do lot mo reserch fo'yo bandy wid likes Goldin', Steelback,anna Freebon.Dem guyz got da proper edacashion you ain't got.An'dat angri anna crabs sure ain't helpin' yer nun ether!
Now get yosel' home from dem Lympics afo' you gone braka yo neck on dat slalem or sumtin'.
P.S.Me anna Massa Tungzon still enjoyin' yo'lady.Only Massa Tung spen' so much time onna dat laptop o'yos Iz gettin' mucha better share o'her danna he iz!
P.P.S.Can you get Massa Sunstein getcha sum mo' borbon we all dun finish ev'ting here ceptin' yo' gin?
Cheerz Larry!
Posted by: juniper at February 13, 2010 8:36 PM
Finally got a link on the Mishpucka that they keep mentioning on this thread.It's Hilary Clinton's notorious faupas at Rahm Emmanuel's roast back in 2005.Obama was there too.It was a Koshernostra bash in Chicago so she thought she'd got away with it.
'Fraid not:
http://mybigfatanti-zionistlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/hillary-clinton-said-mishpucka.html
I think I'll boomark this site too-I just love the name:Zionism Stinks!
Posted by: Freeborn at February 13, 2010 9:03 PM
Larry,
the US / UK / Israel group (and other countries to a lesser extent) have done all manner of things to anger the whole Muslim world. Can you not see this? Look at foreign policy in the Middle East; deliberate destabilisation, a succession of puppet rulers, Israeli expansionism, using the Afghanis against the USSR, exploitation of resources especially hydrocarbons, arming and supporting corrupt dictators, the list goes on and on.
Larry, I just despair of you. If these conflicts are ever to be resolved, every side must take responsibility for their own wrongs, and be forgiving, understanding, of the reactions that they have provoked.
I hope that you DO want these conflicts resolved. Just what do you suggest?
Posted by: Clark at February 13, 2010 9:28 PM
"the US / UK / Israel group (and other countries to a lesser extent) have done all manner of things to anger the whole Muslim world. "
Oh, bollocks!
Saying "allah" in a Christian church offends Islamists. Writing a fucking novel angers Islamists. Living in Mumbai, or going up the wrong mountain angers Islamists. Being a tourist in the wrong country angers Islmaists.
Have you read the Hamas Charter?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 13, 2010 10:42 PM
Have you read the Hamas Charter?
Posted by: angrysoba
Have you read the Hamas Charter?
Posted by: angrysoba
The crux of things is 9/11.
Posted by: angrysoba
Have you read the Hamas Charter?
Posted by: angrysoba
You're doing great, noodle, keep it up.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 13, 2010 11:02 PM
The nebbish team finally admitted defeat!
Larry's ADL pay check was late and he threw in the towel.Poor guy had so much tsoris and trouble at home with two guys making out with his wife since this thread started-he must have lost his mind.
What's that...Larry never had a mind in the first place?
You're probably not wrong on that one!
angri ought to get down to St Louis fast.It's all his fault leading Larry astray.
I'll bet Sunstein's real sore about hiring a pair of kibitzing nebbishes like those two.
Posted by: Apostate at February 13, 2010 11:09 PM
Angrysoba,
yes, I read the Hamas charter.
And?
Posted by: Clark at February 13, 2010 11:17 PM
I haven't read the Hamas Charter, myself, but from your excitement about it I imagine it must be useful to "Zionist interests". In other words, an excuse to delay peace, bash and cripple more Palestinians and steal more land.
But, then, that was probably Israel's original intent in encouraging the founding of Hamas; and despite later claims that it was a 'fatal error', it still performs a useful function in assisting overall Israeli policy.
"So there’s plenty of evidence that the Israeli intelligence services, especially Shin Bet and the military occupation authorities, encouraged the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood and the founding of Hamas. There are many examples and incidents of that. But there were armed clashes, of course, on Palestinian university campuses in the ‘70s and ‘80s, where Hamas would attack P.L.O., PFLP, PDFLP and other groups, with clubs and chains. This was before guns became prominent in the Occupied Territories.
Even that, however — there’s a very interesting and unexplained incident. Yassin was arrested in 1983 by the Israelis. On search of his home, they found a large cache of weapons. This would have been a fairly explosive event, but for unexplained reasons, a year later Yassin was quietly released from prison. He said at the time that the guns were being stockpiled not to fight the Israeli occupation authorities, but to fight other Palestinian factions.
That and other incidents gave rise to — a number of diplomats and intelligence people who I interviewed, saying that there was plenty of reason to think that the Israelis were fostering the growth of Hamas. And, of course, Yasser Arafat himself, in a famous quote to a newspaper reporter a number of years ago, explicitly described Hamas as, quote, “a creature of Israel.” And he said that he discussed this with Yitzhak Rabin during their Oslo process. And Rabin told Arafat that it was “a fatal error” for the Israelis to have encouraged the growth of Hamas. The theory of it, of course, was that Hamas would be a force against Palestinian nationalism. And I think it’s clear that it ended up, to a shocking degree, backfiring against overall Israeli policy."
http://www.williambowles.info/isrl-pal/2006/0106/hamas_israel.html
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 14, 2010 12:04 AM
"Larry's ADL pay check was late and he threw in the towel."
Jesus Christ, I was out buying a house.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 12:58 AM
"Saying "allah" in a Christian church offends Islamists..." (etc)
And discussing 911 in terms anything other than uncritical acceptance of the official account offends Zionists no end. I find this an interesting phenomenon.
While I have found no conclusive proof of Israeli involvement in 911, there is nonetheless rather strong evidence of Israeli foreknowledge, ie the Mossad chaps caught filming the impacts and their aftermath in NY. Make of this what you will; personally I just wish the FBI would release the footage they took of the first plane.
Silverstein of course did very well out of 911, particularly since he luckily renegotiated the terms of the insurance policy - to include damage or loss caused by terrorism - only a few months before the attack. Also he finally got his wish of demolishing the twin towers, permission for which had only recently been refused by the NY Port Authority.
Another interesting Israeli connection is the alleged presence on AA11 of Daniel Lewin, a member of Israel's Sayeret Maktal anti-terrorism unit. (Lewin also set up the IT software company Akamai, which provides download management services to Microsoft among others, using software that can read the contents of your hard-drive if you're configured to allow automatic updates from Microsoft, but that's another story).
The Israeli connection to 911 is therefore a rather interesting one and deserves closer examination, however much discomfort and offence that may cause Zionists and their apologists.
Posted by: MJ at February 14, 2010 1:01 AM
Mark,
Kurt Sonnenfeld?
Kurt Sonnenfeld?
You really are a stupid person, aren't you?
You'll believe anything, won't you?
Even if I grant that he was a FEMA photographer (which I'm not ready to grant), why the hell would that qualify him to know anything about U.S. clandestine operations? Why would they tell a loser like that anything? He sounds vastly similar to that guy who made up the "Tim Osman" lie. He's a deranged lunatic who thinks he's the center of the world. Idiots like you take him at his word.
Mark Golding, were you the moron who brought up the thoroughly debunked Tim Osman claim? Have you written to that meth cooker in prison to find anything else out?
Sonnenfeld is a lot like the criminal who made up the Tim Osman lie, if only because it appears that HE MURDERED HIS WIFE!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 1:11 AM
Mark, are you really dumb enough to believe that the CIA blew itself up?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tenants_in_Seven_World_Trade_Center
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 1:17 AM
Mark, so Kurt Sonnenfeld is the type of person who qualifies as an unimpeachable source, eh?
http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2009/06/well-well-well-another-troofer-murderer.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 1:18 AM
Clark, now I've heard it all. In addition to you stupidly thinking that bin Laden was so concerned with the liberation of Palestine, you also seem to think that the West should feel guilty about "using the Afghanis against the USSR."
Just like we used the Polish and Dutch against the Germans.
My God, you're stupid.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 1:23 AM
screwloosechange expose! hicarrumba stupipMoronCurseBinhead Collapse!
sososoba -ease up on the wretched bigotry wee man!
Posted by: crab at February 14, 2010 2:00 AM
"Angrysoba, yes, I read the Hamas charter. And?"
What do you mean, "And?"
You're the one who has been saying that if only we can find ways of accommodating Islamists and if only there were ways of trying to be less forceful in the world and ways of being more like quiet little mice then there would be no reason to worry about Islamist terror. Oh, and you say that terrorist attacks could be avoided if we all learnt to do what Osama bin Laden wants.
Here is Hamas on the Israel/Palestine problem:
(From Article 7)
"The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam and his brethren the fighters, members of Muslim Brotherhood. It goes on to reach out and become one with another chain that includes the struggle of the Palestinians and Muslim Brotherhood in the 1948 war and the Jihad operations of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1968 and after.
Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim)."
And from Article 13:
"Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that. For the sake of hoisting the banner of Allah over their homeland they fight. "Allah will be prominent, but most people do not know."
Now and then the call goes out for the convening of an international conference to look for ways of solving the (Palestinian) question. Some accept, others reject the idea, for this or other reason, with one stipulation or more for consent to convening the conference and participating in it. Knowing the parties constituting the conference, their past and present attitudes towards Muslim problems, the Islamic Resistance Movement does not consider these conferences capable of realising the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Muslims as arbitraters. When did the infidels do justice to the believers?
"But the Jews will not be pleased with thee, neither the Christians, until thou follow their religion; say, The direction of Allah is the true direction. And verily if thou follow their desires, after the knowledge which hath been given thee, thou shalt find no patron or protector against Allah." (The Cow - verse 120).
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
So, it appears that only the destruction of Israel is acceptable to Hamas. If this is the case then the choice is the destruction of Israel or the maintainance of Israel.
I favour Israel's maintainance. According to Crab this seems to make me a bigot.
Hawley hasn't read the charter so Hamas' own words are of no interest to him/her, apparently. But Hawley does have a handy get-out-of-jail clause. If the words are really bad then it is Israel's fault!
Great!
He seems to have a problem with Israel for letting Sheikh Yassin out of jail. You see if Israel arrest a member of the PLO then they're helping Hamas. If they arrest a member of Hamas who accept nothing less than Israel's destruction then they're arresting "political prisoners" (not terrorists). You can't win with anti-Zionists because they will only ever accept one solution.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 14, 2010 6:10 AM
Vronsky,
Classic.
Posted by: hawley_jr at February 14, 2010 10:45 AM
Larry,
Angrysoba,
you've misrepresented what I wrote again. I'm not surprised, as misrepresentation has been a technique that you have both used repeatedly.
It is infuriating. I have recognised its source (you), and I am calming myself. You repeatedly accuse anyone who you disagree with of stupidity. You seem to have an agenda, which includes making your opponents angry. Well, I claim jurisdiction of myself, and I refuse to be angered.
Larry,
you repeatedly say that I stated my age in order to be condecending. If you look back to the original incident, you will see that I was asking your age; I wanted to get a better idea who I was conversing with. It seemed rude to ask you something that I hadn't revealed myself.
Larry,
Angrysoba,
I am bored with arguing with both of you. I find it unpleasant rather than stimulating. So I don't feel like doing it any more.
There. You won, you beat me. OK?
So let's "cut to the chase". Yes, Angrysoba, Hamas are militants, amongst other things. They are also elected, so they must have some popular support. So what do you suggest? Why don't you each write a few paragraphs, setting out how you would like foreign policy in the Middle East to proceed from here onwards.
Posted by: Clark at February 14, 2010 10:52 AM
Larry out buying a house?
That's probably how Larry Silverstein, the guy you seem not to want to talk about,described it when he bought a new link in his chain of brothels.
In case you nebbishes hadn't noticed Silverstein and the ADL Mishpucka nexus,you and angri's paymasters,is the tapeworm that's rotting America's insides out.They are also the leading suspects in the 911 atrocity.That small case of mass murder you're trying vainly to stop us from getting to the bottom of.
Their machinations have infected the body politic of the U.S.administration,Defense Department,and law.Central to these subversions of US Constitution and law is the ADL.They are airhead Larry's employers with several rather large expensive offices in St Louis-no wonder this nebbish who would,under normal circumstances be crashed in the gutter,is out buying houses!
The $multi-trillion financed outfit with offices in every big US city is a secret illegal cult organization set up within the US government with thousands of paid and volunteer(sayanim)agents planted throughout government agencies and in Congress.They are fed by a maniacal dedication to subvert American government and law.By and large in just over a century they have managed to achieve this.
Find out re-Silverstein's background in the sex industry which is indispensable to their political control.Their most notorious mishpucka madam was of course Heidi Fleiss but there are many others you never get to hear about.Such madams and their staff got to dispose of Judge Spitzer just as soon as he remembered he was an American BEFORE he was a Jew.
Spitzer was opening up an investigation on the Silverstein 911 insurance scam and Larry's career in the sex industry and as ADL always ensures had skeletons in his cupboard that facilitated his swift removal.ADL Mishpucka doubtless has the same stuff on Obama and will use it when they think the time is right.
Here's who paid for airhead Larry's new house:
http://www.rense.com/general/81/bushislv.htm
Most U.S.citizens are losing their houses and Larry just bought up a string of brothels.
It ain't right!
Posted by: Apostate at February 14, 2010 11:05 AM
Larry,
Or should I say Mr Googling scurrying around for any debunking crap.
"Even if I grant that he was a FEMA photographer (which I'm not ready to grant)"
Advice - Don't smoke dope, fry your hair.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 14, 2010 2:16 PM
Sonnenfeld has reportedly claimed that his videotapes prove top U.S. government officials had prior knowledge of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
In an interview last summer with an online news group called voltairenet.org, Sonnenfeld said the government took action to protect expensive
equipment in the World Trade Center complex housing CIA offices that collapsed several hours after the attack.
"The attacks on the World Trade Center gave them the justification they had been seeking" to attack Iraq, Sonnenfeld wrote.
While promoting his book, he has made appearances with Adolfo Perez Esquivel, the 1980 Nobel Peace
Sonnenfeld is shown with Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in recent years.
Prize winner, whom he met while filming a documentary for French journalists.
Esquivel and associates wrote an amicus brief to
Argentina's supreme court opposing Sonnenfeld's extradition. Sonnenfeld and his new wife, Paula, are directors of a home Esquivel founded for children with HIV and AIDS.
"He stands for us any time we ask him to," Sonnenfeld said in his e-mail.
Sonnenfeld claims he has the backing of a dozen national and international human rights groups and even some people close
to Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Troubled marriage
Sonnenfeld is adamant that Nancy killed herself.
In his e-mail, Sonnenfeld said that his wife had repeatedly attempted suicide during their nearly 10 years of marriage and
that close friends and family members had also committed suicide.
Their marital troubles escalated to Nancy's decision to separate from Kurt during a vacation to Thailand, where, according to several sources,
she caught him using heroin and with other women. One friend said he was with two prostitutes.
The two returned to the U.S. separately, and Nancy filed for separation.
Sonnenfeld wrote in an e-mail that he was not "addicted" to heroin when asked whether he used heroin on the
Thailand trip. He said he "absolutely" did not hire a prostitute, an allegation he called a character assassination.
At 1:40 a.m. on New Year's Day 2002, Sonnenfeld called a police dispatcher and reported that his wife had shot herself at their home
at 1410 Clayton St.
Police smashed a window to get inside his house when Sonnenfeld couldn't find a key to the door, he said. His right eye was turning black and his chin had a cut.
Police at scene of death
Police found Nancy Sonnenfeld sitting in a chaise lounge in the corner of an upstairs bedroom with a bullet entry wound behind her right ear.
The bullet exited upward and to the back of her head at the crown, Sonnenfeld said in his e-mail.
Because of her positioning, it was impossible for anyone else to have shot her, he wrote.
Police found evidence — blood spatter on the wall and a second pool of blood on the floor — that indicated
Nancy had been moved from the edge to the center of the lounge after she was shot, the affidavit says.
Although Sonnenfeld later told police he was in the other room checking e-mails when he heard a gunshot, officers
reported seeing high-velocity blood spatter on his face, indicating his proximity to the shot.
A crime-scene analyst also found gunpowder residue on his pants and jacket. And tests would show his computer had not been used that night.
Nancy's fingerprint was found on the magazine of the .45-caliber gun, and there was gunpowder residue on her hand, indicating
she was close to the gun when it fired.
The path of the bullet suggested an implausible if not impossible angle for someone to shoot herself, police noted.
It was one of the first indications Nancy's death was a homicide, the affidavit says.
But tests showed Sonnenfeld had no gunpowder residue on his hands, and his fingerprints were not on the gun,
found about 6 feet in front of Nancy on the floor.
Sonnenfeld was arrested and interviewed at the police station. He was charged with first-degree murder.
In June 2002, prosecutors dropped the case because of insufficient evidence but maintained the right to refile.
Adding to the evidence
Subsequently, two former inmates who had been in jail with Sonnenfeld came forward — one in July 2002, the other in January 2003 — and claimed that
Sonnenfeld told them he killed his wife.
Both offered details about the case that hadn't been reported, said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver district attorney's office.
Inmate Robert Dreyer said Sonnenfeld told him the reason police didn't find gunpowder residue on his hands was that he wore gloves and wrapped his arms in cellophane.
Sonnenfeld admitted killing Nancy, while telling Dreyer police were too "stupid" to figure out the "puzzle," Dreyer said
Sonnenfeld allegedly told him that he should have "put the gun lower in Nancy's hand" to dispel police suspicions.
Dreyer said that what angered his wife most was his sexual liaison with a woman in Thailand. That detail had not yet been reported.
Sonnenfeld said he didn't know either of the inmates, who he said lied to get leniency.
"These 'witnesses' too, were planted by U.S. authorities as an attempt to give credence to their desperate attempt to return
me to American soil," he wrote in his e-mail.
He said charges were dropped after his defense team found a suicide letter police had ignored.
It said: "What indeed is finally beautiful except death and love — Kurt please get help," and the word "love" was crossed out.
Eleanor Campbell said her daughter copied the phrase from a book written by Walt Whitman and was not suicidal.
She had a high-paying management job and had previously weathered a divorce.
New life in new country
Sonnenfeld went to Argentina in early 2003 for a two-week stay.
He met and married his wife Paula, an attorney who speaks English, Italian and Portuguese besides her native Spanish,
and the couple have twin 3-year-old daughters.
A warrant for Sonnenfeld's arrest under a new murder charge was filed in 2004, and Sonnenfeld was arrested
in Buenos Aires on Aug. 24, 2004, by Interpol agents.
His campaign to prove that he was the victim of a U.S. plot to silence his 9/11 conspiracy theories began soon after.
Argentine authorities released Sonnenfeld from an infamous Buenos Aires prison after an Argentine federal judge rejected
an extradition request from the U.S. Although Denver has repeatedly assured Argentina that it will not seek the death penalty,
all extradition appeals and requests have been rejected.
And Denver authorities dispute Sonnenfeld's suggestion that local prosecutors are colluding with U.S. agents to cover up what he knows
about 9/11 or get his tapes.
"That's ridiculous," Kimbrough said. "His charges stem strictly from allegations that he killed his wife."
A serious case and describes the type of vilification we not in another thread.
Does this case mean some people might go to extraordinary lengths to prevent the real truth (truff) of 9/11?
Perhaps even here on this board where angrysoba and Larry have contributed more than third (1/3rd) of the posts
we witness this obsession to deny the families of the deceased a proper inquiry (except of course the bereaved who were paid $millions).
Courtesy Denver Post.
I might ask Craig to check the logs for their IP's and MAC addresses to confirm their crudentials. But Craig is far too busy to even think about these doods.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 14, 2010 2:54 PM
"crudentials" ?
Posted by: Richard Robinson at February 14, 2010 3:55 PM
Richard,
Exactly 'crudentials' [sic]
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 14, 2010 4:04 PM
So ... Kurt Sonnenfeld murdered his wife and he gets away with it because he can spin a tale about 911 truthiness.
Where's his evidence to his boring claims? And what is he claiming?
He says: "I have video that shows how curiously small the rubble pile was, and how the buildings to either side were untouched by Building Seven when it collapsed."
MORONS. DOLTS. IDIOTS. There's plenty of evidence that shows massive damage at WTC 7. A fucking building fell on it. Like a true truther, he might have edited some footage to show less damage. Truthers have even added explosive sound effects to support their truthiness. We don't know, because he hasn't released any videotape.
Another claim: "The Secret Service, the Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission
and the Office of Emergency Management’s “Crisis Center” occupied huge amounts of space there, spanning several floors of the building. Other federal agencies had offices there as well.
After September 11, it was discovered that concealed within Building Seven was the largest clandestine domestic station of the Central Intelligence
Agency outside of Washington DC,"
1. Complete and utter bullshit.
2. Why would the DoD and the CIA and other federal agencies decide to blow themselves up?
If you think the state authorities in Colorado are cooperating with the Men in Black and are trying to frame this guy, you really are a moron.
Why don't they just shoot him? He's just ONE FUCKING LOON. According to you, the Men in Black WIRED THE WORLD TRADE CENTER! Why wouldn't they just put a bullet in his head and "disappear' his damning videotape of WTC7?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 5:41 PM
"Crudentials - claims of authority that consist of shouting ugly things at those who question them".
Smashing. Thanks, Mark :-)
Posted by: Richard Robinson at February 14, 2010 6:20 PM
Shit,Larry
You gettin' 'sterical,boy!Massa Goldin' on to sometin' dat fo' sho'.
E'body down here St Louis mighty fed up wid yer now dey hear bout yo string a cat-houses!
How could you sink so low,boy? Running a house a sin wear all our good Christan gals get 'ploited fo'money.T'aint rite an'you know t'aint.
Your Missy bout endda her tedder wid ya,now.She say yo bin suck in by dem Mishpucka anna ADL an'youz just doin' dare biddin'all da dam time now widout no fort for her an'all da famly.She say youz gotta stop all dis tang now,Larry.
Yoon,angri,oilman,tecni,anna dat guy wid crabs dunna Godorful nuff job for Massa Sunstein tryna put Massa Craig outta bizness-an now youz gon'makka worser job wid dis cat-house a Massa Sunstein.
Iz jussa tryna get some senz innaya Larry cos people down here jussa bout had nuff yawl messin' wid da good name St Louis an dey don'lika yo' nasy way makin'a livin' nyder.
P.S.Missy say thissa string cat-houses jussa da last straw wot brake da camel's back,boy!
P.P.S.Wot your Mishpucka ADL frenz gon'do 'bout dis Sonnefeld guy.Dissa sine,Larry yo'911 fishal story all 'bout fallin' part at de seam!
Fanks to yo'an angri,tecni,oilman,anna dat guy wid crabs ebody noze 911 issa inside job!
Posted by: juniper at February 14, 2010 6:47 PM
You'll have to excuse me for a bit - someone just gave me a copy of the Furtwangler performance of Beethoven's 9th at Bayreuth. Organic and emotional.
http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Symphony-Furtw%C3%A4ngler-Schwarzkopf-Recordings/dp/B00000GCA7
Listen and be healed, angrylarry. Pleasure was given, even to the worm.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 14, 2010 7:12 PM
..but honestly, how can you guys be such shites when this is around?
Ihr stuerzt nieder, Millionen?
Posted by: Vronsky at February 14, 2010 7:21 PM
Listen to music now when I'm splitting my sides re-Larry's latest cat-house exploits?
You've got to be kidding!
If you noticed anything psychopathic re-Larry,angri and the disinfo team-and it has to be said they're all a shrink's perfect case study-put it down to Zio-psychosis.
http://criminalstate.com/2010/02/zionism-unmasked/
Posted by: tungsten at February 14, 2010 8:38 PM
"Listen to music now when I'm splitting my sides re-Larry's latest cat-house exploits?"
The new house is awesome, actually! Not too big, because I don't like to be wasteful. Damn I love living in America!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 8:43 PM
I'd spit on a Green Card, Larry dear. I have ten times your quality of life.
"Damn I love living in America!"
Interesting phraseology. Not "Damn I love being an American". So where did you live previously, Larry? Where were you born?
Posted by: dreoilin at February 14, 2010 9:48 PM
Airhead Larry's outraged that another 911 whistleblower's going to spill the beans!
Methinks the airhead protests too much.
The stuff re-Sonnenfeld using heroin and prostitutes in Thailand is classic ADL Mishpucka smear tactics.As is the collusion of Denver prosecutors with US agents.
Typically Larry's ADL training and adherence to mishna law leads him to insist Sonnenfeld was guilty of killing his wife.Funny then that the prosecution in the original case was so certain of his innocence that it was they who requested the dismissal of the charges.
What troubles Larry is the sense that those dams are bursting.Sonnenfeld makes it clear in the voltaire interview that FEMA had foreknowledge of the 911 attacks.FEMA and several other agencies were deployed to their Pier 92 command centre on 10th September.
Clairvoyant or what,Larry?
The Sonnenfeld footage (included in the voltaire interview) includes shots of the tyres from the landing gear.Sonnenfeld also noticed parts of seats and fuselage-all of which gives the lie utterly to the official claims that the planes were vaporized.He also remarks on the absurdly small size of the turbine engine he saw that positively did not come from any Boeing.
As to the underground levels of WTC7 Sonnenfeld speaks these as home to several federal agencies including Secret Service,DOD,FBI,IRS,SEC and a CIA listening post wired to the UN.
The NY location for the UN baffles the uninitiated but you're getting an idea now why it's here rather than somewhere more neutral!
Again the NY location is key to the authorship of the atrocity.
The disinfo team is noticeably quiet again tonight.Classic disinfo tactic- they pray for a while that no-one picks up on the story in the hope it'll go away.
I bet angri is bollocking airhead Larry right now about drawing attention to the Sonnenfeld story by denying it so vociferously.Larry's that daft he never thought to read the voltaire piece before entering the fray.
Mind you reading is a problem for that young man!
http://www.voltairenet.org/article160636.html
Posted by: Apostate at February 14, 2010 10:42 PM
"As to the underground levels of WTC7 Sonnenfeld speaks these as home to several federal agencies including Secret Service,DOD,FBI,IRS,SEC and a CIA listening post wired to the UN."
Exactly. And it's these sorts of crazy claims that convince any normal person that Sonnenfeld is an insane man. He goes way too far with his lies. If he said that he saw bin Laden in a black helicopter, you'd probably believe that too.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 11:03 PM
"Interesting phraseology. Not "Damn I love being an American". So where did you live previously, Larry? Where were you born?"
Nope, try again, you dumbass conspiracy loon.
Do you idiots get ANYTHING right?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 11:06 PM
"They are airhead Larry's employers with several rather large expensive offices in St Louis-no wonder this nebbish who would,under normal circumstances be crashed in the gutter,is out buying houses!"
Where are the ADL's nice offices in St. Louis?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 14, 2010 11:11 PM
"So where did you live previously, Larry? Where were you born?" (me)
"Nope, try again, you dumbass conspiracy loon." (Larry)
Drunk. Obviously.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 14, 2010 11:46 PM
Clark,
I don't know what to say. You repeatedly asked me what I thought of Israel and accused me and Larry of being - gasp! - "Zionists" while I consistently asked you not to divert the topic. Instead you made lots of tenuous links between Israel and 9/11 and continued demanding that I say what I think of Israel. Israel simply doesn't occupy a lot of my thoughts.
But when I finally tell you what I think. You storm off in a huff. It's not my fault that Hamas wrote what they did in their charter but given that they did and given that they demand no solution to the Israel-Palestine problem than the demolition of Israel then there can really not be much of a compromise.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 15, 2010 12:05 AM
dreoilin, think through it slowly; I wrote "Damn I love living in America!" and you concluded something that was a bit silly and unnecessary to conclude.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 12:10 AM
Angrysoba,
I'm sorry that I've stormed off in a huff. You are right, there can be no compromise. What do you hope happens next?
Posted by: Clark at February 15, 2010 12:16 AM
You answered two questions beginning with "Where" with the word "Nope". You're an idiot and a bore, Larry. And not very well educated. And as I sad, I'd spit on a Green Card. I have ten times your quality of life. G'night, honey.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 15, 2010 12:21 AM
Larry,
I'm sorry, insults don't come naturally to me, but I'll try to take your example, as I really wish to learn.
Larry, you fucking stupid moron, I asked you before, remember? I fucking asked you what the fuck should happen in the fucking middle east, and how we should stop all this fucking terrorism.
Please fucking tell me.
Am I fucking improving yet?
Posted by: Clark at February 15, 2010 12:29 AM
Larry,
I'm sorry, insults don't come naturally to me, but I'll try to take your example, as I really wish to learn.
Larry, you fucking stupid moron, I asked you before, remember? I fucking asked you what the fuck should happen in the fucking middle east, and how we should stop all this fucking terrorism.
Please fucking tell me.
Am I fucking improving yet?
Posted by: Clark at February 15, 2010 12:29 AM
It's quite amazing - breathtaking even - that so many commenters here are outraged by posts by Larry and me. Why aren't they upset about the clear bigotry on offer from Steelback, Apostate, Juniper et al?
It's simply not true that they are just being ignored. They aren't!
Posted by: angrysoba at February 15, 2010 12:29 AM
"You are right, there can be no compromise. What do you hope happens next?"
I'm sorry, I don't know how to fix the problem in the Middle East. If I did I'd get the Nobel Peace Prize (they've dished them out for far less).
I do not think supporting Hamas and turning a blind eye to their behaviour is the way to go, however. Nor do I think that obsessing over "The Lobby" is the way to go either.
I could offer one small idea. Buy Palestinian! Instead of insisting on not buying Israeli, which is the usual destructive "solution" the left in Britain promotes. How about buying Palestinian products and assisting its fledgling economy. Once people in Gaza realize that things are going much better in the West Bank where the politicians have at least a scintila of sanity they'll hopefully kick Hamas out and they'll be a chance of compromise. Then I think the ball will be in Israel's court.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 15, 2010 12:38 AM
"a fucking building fell on it" - the "falling" builing, was 400 feet away!
Nuclear power stations are quite resilient to ariel attacks dont you know - due to a meter thick reinforced concrete wall, which is nice, tsk, someone read a report,education education..
Islamic terrorists attack us! Islamic crazy people hate books! You have to let us dicks fuck these... God bless our defensive clusters.
You are ignoring the holocaust deniers and the Jew blamers. Terrible Islam is to blame! oh bollocks.
moreon anon an on...
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 12:53 AM
Many thanks Apostate for the voltairenet link to the Sonnenfeld interview. At last; some new evidence to chew over after all these years. The pics look very interesting.
Larry's position I take it is that since Sonnenfeld was fitted up on a patently ludicrous murder charge, we must not take judicial notice of his photos and pretend they don't exist. Does this kind of drivel really work in St Louis?
Posted by: MJ at February 15, 2010 12:56 AM
well flagged -a remarkable interview.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article160636.html
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 1:14 AM
"How about buying Palestinian products"
Since illegal settlers have taken over most of the Palestinians' arable land the only Palestinian harvesdts we're likely to see are human organs.
"they'll hopefully kick Hamas out and they'll be a chance of compromise. Then I think the ball will be in Israel's court".
I thought the many UN resolutions requiring Israel to withdraw to its 1967 borders were the compromise. The ball has been in Israel's court for decades.
Posted by: MJ at February 15, 2010 1:18 AM
"well flagged -a remarkable interview."
So now you idiots will believe anything a murderer will say. Those photographs prove nothing.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 1:19 AM
Who did he murder?
Posted by: MJ at February 15, 2010 1:20 AM
I'm tired of having to listen to the claims of Kurt Sonnenfeld the Murderer or Richard Gage the Failed Architect or Steven Jones the Mormon Apologist or Sean Fitzgerald the Murderer.
Here's some good discussion of Sonnenfeld's craziness:
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=146399
Best comment on the thread:
"According to this guy the 9/11 conspirators let an uninitiated man roam free with a camera to document the aftermath of their crimes, and failed to kill or otherwise silence him afterward.
Yeah. That makes a whole lot of sense."
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 1:24 AM
"Since illegal settlers have taken over most of the Palestinians' arable land the only Palestinian harvesdts we're likely to see are human organs."
Oh God! Here we go!
I suppose you believe the Israelis put the blood of Christian children in their Passover matzohs too don't you?
Actually, I buy Taybeh beer. It's very tasty. I recommend it.
http://www.taybehbeer.com/
Posted by: angrysoba at February 15, 2010 1:55 AM
"Here's some good discussion of Sonnenfeld's craziness:
http://forums.randi.org/"
No, thats just a bunch of dislocated randibots shit talking actualy.
Given -this is the best comment in the thread:
"According to this guy the 9/11 conspirators let an uninitiated man roam free with a camera to document the aftermath of their crimes..."
- He wasnt uninitiated, he was experienced and security cleared.
"...and failed to kill or otherwise silence him afterward."
They failed to kill or silence him therefore he must be lying?(!)
"Yeah. That makes a whole lot of sense."
ah, unqualified smartarsed sarcasm - !case closed in larrlyland
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 2:10 AM
Crab posts this: "ah, unqualified smartarsed sarcasm - !"
And immediately follows it with this:
"case closed in larrlyland"
Posted by: angrysoba at February 15, 2010 2:46 AM
When Larry has to ask why the CIA and other agencies would blow themselves up you begin to realise the guy really is living with the fairies.
No-one is suggesting the CIA intended to be in WTC7 when it blew up you dickbrain!What is clear is that WTC7 was the nerve centre for the entire operation.
Like the debris and evidence at Ground Zero Sonnenfeld confirms as being removed as quickly as possible the evidence in WTC7 that would have nailed 911 as an inside job had also to be destroyed.
In the cited interview Sonnenfeld also describes the willed blindness to reality of those like the disinfo team here that insist in the teeth of the mountain of evidence accruing as we speak on the veracity of the official 911 story.
"Sometimes it seems to me that the "nuts" are those who hold to the truth of what they've been told with an almost religious fervour despite all the evidence to the contrary-the ones who won't even consider that there was a conspiracy."
Well we'd already worked out that with Larry,angri,techni we were dealing with people who are either clinically insane,educationally subnormal or a disinfo team-or all three!
For this hopeless shower of sad losers one piece of advice:far better to keep your mouth shut and let everyone think you're stupid than to open it and leave not one shred of doubt.
LOL:You saps!
Posted by: tungsten at February 15, 2010 8:49 AM
Larry,Massa Sunstein bin roun' agin.He say you an angri broke evy rule wot dem taught at da ADL training school.
When someone say sumtin' wot true you spose keep mighty quiet so not ta draw 'tenshun to it.You done gone strayt in dare shoutin' yo mouth bout how Massa Sonnenfeld hassa killd hissa wife anna he insane an' all dat stuff. Massa Sunstein say you done blown da cover,man.
Yo startin' smeerin' da guy fore youz bin silent an Massa Sunstein say you izza finlly finish now.He don' wan yer on da team no more.He jussa come roun' with a pay check for you an'angri,an techni.
So Larry you brung all dis shame on yosel' an all yer got left is dat Goddam string a cat-houses youz working fer Massa Silverstein.
Well Iz hope you jussa bout satisfy!
P.S.Me ana tungson well in wid yer wife an'alla frenz now.In fact we jussa openin' uppa dem checks from Massa Sunstein.We be able get sumo' Bobon now boy!
P.P.S.Ebody down hereabouts St Louis beleef yu rite ol' weasel an ponce fer workin' alla da vitoo outta da bodies our Chrishun gals lak yu doin'now.Yo' mighty not welcome down here no mo',boy!
Bye,bye,Larry!
Posted by: juniper at February 15, 2010 9:13 AM
"'Comment of the thread' - Vronsky's"
--hawley_jr
LOL - Agreed - and juniper's a hoot.
Mind you, I've learned a lot. And it wasn't from AngryLarry. I may not be a fence-sitter much longer.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 15, 2010 11:16 AM
"juniper's a hoot."
No, Juniper's an anti-semite.
"I've learned a lot."
I'm sure you have.
"And it wasn't from AngryLarry."
Well, that's a relief.
"I may not be a fence-sitter much longer."
That's also a relief. To the fence anyway.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 15, 2010 2:41 PM
copycat :p
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 4:41 PM
"I may not be a fence-sitter much longer."
Right, because the claims above are so compelling. Which one finally got you? That Mark Golding knows someone who saw bin Laden in a black helicopter buzzing around the WTC? That the JOoooooos did it? That someone said there are audible explosions in many videos, without providing a single video?
I can just imagine how you would react if you attended a talk on "why aliens exist" or "why the Holocaust didn't happen."
You really need to work on your skeptical faculties. Or just merely demand evidence.
In any event, we don't care.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 6:24 PM
1,006 comments - hey-ho. What, are we trying to re-build the Tower of Babel? Forgive this little pebble.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 15, 2010 6:27 PM
"No-one is suggesting the CIA intended to be in WTC7 when it blew up you dickbrain!What is clear is that WTC7 was the nerve centre for the entire operation."
Ever heard of a document shredder, dumbass? Or, more broadly, what evidence needed to be destroyed? Documents? Do you know how hard it is to ensure that there's only one copy of any document?
Collapsing a building is not a way to get rid of evidence, moron. You don't know what will or won't be destroyed.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 6:27 PM
Check out the gathering momentum 911 Truth has gained in forcing the international corporate media to allow open and serious debate on the provenance of the atrocity over the last nine months.
This momentum is a product of all the independent expert research carried out in the succeeding years since the atrocity.Elizabeth Woodworth in her second piece on the phenomenon out today on globalresearch also finds it to be due to the devastating blow to the official account dealt by the Harrit study of last April.
Harrit found that nano-thermite of US military laboratory provenance had brought down the towers.
Woodworth also discusses other research findings that have forced the corporate media to give air-time and column space to the anomalies in the state-sanctioned 911 account.
The flight recorder boxes were bright orange and heat resistant and do not disappear in the wake of a crash.Though they can be made to officially vaporize!
The FBI has admitted that it has no proof that OBL was responsible.
While architectural engineers found 10 features of controlled demolition in the WTC collapses against 3 features of fire-caused destruction which were entirely absent.
Isn't it about time the gullible plonkers who still credit the government story admitted that it bears no scrutiny whatever.I think the parallel universe that their contributions to this thread suggest they inhabit precludes the likelihood of their accepting this reality.
While they're vainly trying to shore up a fictional edifice that is visibly crumbling into its own footprint before their very eyes it might be a good idea for the parasitic shills who currently infest the blog to prepare their reasons why we should support their plan to start WW3 by attacking Iran.
They may find that a harder sell than the one they so abjectly failed to find a buyer for here.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17624
Posted by: Freeborn at February 15, 2010 7:42 PM
Shit,Larry
Wotsa alla dis callin'me an antisemi?
You dun thrown dat one at ebody sins yu start wokin' for dem Mishpucka ADL.If dey aint antisemis den deys 'Caust-denials.
Well Iz gwine put yu strate,boy.Jussa cos we all mitey fed up wid all dem wars our boys fitein' now for Izreel,an wid der Fed Reserve scam an'all,an all dat pornog anna cathouses yo'an'yo'Mishpuck runnin'....anna jussa cos me anna tungson atta all yer bacon ain't yo got no rite call us antisemis!
P.S.Yu doin' da worsest ting you can do prostitutin'alla dem good Chrishun gals likka yu doin'.
P.P.S.Ebody in St Louis jussa hate you now boy!
Posted by: juniper at February 15, 2010 7:57 PM
Does anyone really want to defend what "juniper" writes as funny? I realize that the British have a somewhat different approach to humor, but do you people entertain yourselves with the sort of thing that "juniper" is writing?
And it really does seem like he's making fun of black people. I suppose that's funny to the English.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 8:38 PM
Boom-boom-boom-boom!
Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Basil Brush
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 15, 2010 9:22 PM
Larry i havent heard you explain yet how a building fell on wtc7 when the nearest Tower was 400 feet away?
Please do explain.
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 9:59 PM
Crab,
Did you happen to notice that the Towers were really, really tall?
You've been manipulated by not-so-clever right-wing Americans, who have cherry-picked the best video they can find to manipulate the gullible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1suwmOgBfNM
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 10:21 PM
More on WTC 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhY9c_iemA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60A86cg16KQ&feature=related
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 10:33 PM
Larry, the towers where about 1350 feet tall. Wtc7 was 750 feet tall. So when you say "a fucking building" fell on top o f it, you are saying some of Wtc1 travelled over 400 feet sideways while "falling" downwards 600 feet.
The videos you posted are pointless, the first is a mood peice and the second is a 20 minute long softly spoken empty headed debunklet.
Neither vids show any sign of "a fucking building" haven fallen on wtc7.
-Naturaly because Wtc1 was 400 feet away!
geddit yet you nonsense yelling slowcoach?
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 10:50 PM
I'm pretty sure juniper's making fun of you,Larry!
In his own inimical way he's also made some telling points re-who you probably are and why you're here.There's two vital existential questions you've self-evidently not got covered yet!
You appear to want to spend more time evaluating juniper's satire than responding to any of the points raised by Freeborn re-the fast collapsing edifice of lies that constitute the 911 fairy story you've been trying to sell us.
Likewise the question will soon arise as to your position on an attack on Iran.Given the likelihood that this will be triggered by some new synthetic terror attack can we assume you and angri will take the same position as you've done on 911?
Doubtless you've not bothered to follow Freeborn's link either which means your contribution to the continuing debate will be another quite pointless polemic against anyone who questions the official 911 account.They will be described as "anti-semites","Holocaust-deniers" and "conspiraloons".While new sources of evidence are likely to be called "murderers" and "terrorists".
It has to be said as contributions to debate and knowledge these rhetorical feats of yours leave a lot to be desired.
You'd be far better off debating Dubya Bush over some pretzels on which you both manage to choke yourselves.
Getting down to Crawford,Texas might be better for you than going home right now!LOL!
Posted by: Steelback at February 15, 2010 10:50 PM
Good new article on globalresearch.ca here:
The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17624
IV. Summary and Concluding Observations
1. In the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired examinations of the issue, which were all – with the exception of the National Geographic special – reasonably objective, examining the issue as a legitimate scientific controversy worthy of debate (not as "conspiracy theorists" vs. science and common sense).
2. Eight countries – Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Russia – have allowed their publicly-owned broadcasting stations to air the full spectrum of evidence challenging the truth of the official account of 9/11.
3. These developments may reflect a relaxation in the international media following the change in the US and British leaderships.
4. These developments definitely reflect, in any case, the fact that scientists in the 9/11 Truth Movement have recently succeeded in getting papers, such as the nano-thermite paper, published in peer-reviewed journals.
5. These developments surely also reflect the general professionalism of the 9/11 Truth Movement, as exemplified by the emergence of not only Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth but also Firefighters, Intelligence Officers, Lawyers, Medical Professionals, Pilots, Political Leaders, Religious Leaders, Scholars, and Veterans for 9/11 Truth.
6. These developments seem to reflect, moreover, an increased recognition of the importance of the 9/11 Truth Movement, which is demonstrated by two honors given to its most influential member, Dr. David Ray Griffin, that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago: the choice by Publishers Weekly of one of his books as a "Pick of the Week," and his inclusion in the New Statesman's list of the most important people in the world today.
This more open approach taken in the international media – I could also have included the Japanese media – might be a sign that worldwide public and corporate media organizations are positioning themselves, and preparing their audiences, for a possible revelation of the truth of the claim that forces within the US government were complicit in the attacks – a revelation that would call into question the publicly given rationale for the military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The evidence now being explored in the international media may pave the way for the US media to take an in-depth look at the implications of what is now known about 9/11, and to re-examine the country's foreign and domestic policies in the light of this knowledge.
Elizabeth Woodworth is a retired professional health sciences librarian, and a freelance writer. She is the author of two published books and many articles on political and social justice issues.
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 10:55 PM
"Larry, the towers where about 1350 feet tall. Wtc7 was 750 feet tall. So when you say "a fucking building" fell on top o f it, you are saying some of Wtc1 travelled over 400 feet sideways while "falling" downwards 600 feet."
BWWWWWAAAAHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
A building can be damaged without a direct hit on the roof!!!!!! Do you understand that? Do you think all the buildings in Dresden and Hamburg experienced direct hits?
BWWWAHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 11:01 PM
Larry,
You really have got a lot of explaining to do dood. Chapter 11? WTC7 that had a 'building fall on it' Oh Larry wot about ypur 'angel dust' from 4 different locations at G0 - it sure went poof! when somebody put a light to it! Bit like the stuff Guy Fawkes put in his barrels eh? Wot 'bout that big crater in 6WTC Larry - it wasn't where a Boeing engine fell - Oh talking 'bout engines have you got any serial numbers from that big engine on the sidewalk? I need to look then up - got a link?
Listen Larry I don't want the skids you give others here - I want some facts - larry f a c t s - Flight 77 cabin door closed - never opened - how did the 'hijackers' get into the cabin Larry with their boxcutters - you know those things that were found when the Israeli/Mossad boys were arrested - remember them do we - some say they made a video laughing at the WTC smoke.
Look Larry to debunk you have to know your stuff and not come here with bullshit - so let people here really see you can answer questions without Googling the debunking debunkers.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 15, 2010 11:04 PM
crab, i just scanned your last post, and I noticed this:
"These developments definitely reflect, in any case, the fact that scientists in the 9/11 Truth Movement have recently succeeded in getting papers, such as the nano-thermite paper, published in peer-reviewed journals."
You really are that stupid. You think a vanity publication like Bentham is peer-reviewed. You don't know how science works. You've been manipulated by idiots.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 11:04 PM
heh, now that is a fun read over at globalresearch.ca
These idiots are still clinging to the notion that the 911 Truth Movement is going anywhere ... hope, it's increasingly losing followers ... their numbers on Sept. 11 every year are fewer and fewer ... they can't even get people to attend their silly movies
Do you know that 40,000 - 50,000 people go to that Roswell convention every year?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 11:07 PM
"Flight 77 cabin door closed"
Lie, you moron.
You've been manipulated by the American right wing.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 11:09 PM
Oh and that Lady you took the piss out of - she is an 86 year old senior who kindly told me her wonderful story, especially flying in a helicopter; she is very dear to me and those Saudi men did spook her, were very abrupt and told her she must wait for their flight before she could take off.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 15, 2010 11:11 PM
Larry,
See what I mean dood, insults, you are incapable of debate - go back to junior and instead of nuclear fusion start learning how to interact with your peers.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 15, 2010 11:16 PM
Larry wrote:
"BWWWWWAAAAHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
A building can be damaged without a direct hit on the roof!!!!!! Do you understand that? Do you think all the buildings in Dresden and Hamburg experienced direct hits?
BWWWAHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"
Do calm down Larry, your overcompensating screams demean us both.
You said there is lots of evidence of damage to Wtc7 that explain its freak collapse. You havent shown any, just some videos showing a quite unscathed building actualy.
You said "a fucking building fell on it" but now we are just talking about wether some bits managed to glance the side of it. (from 400 feet away)
Try to not clutter the place up with fictional imagery so much.
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 11:18 PM
Mark, let me get this straight. You seriously believe that an octogenarian woman saw bin Laden and some other Saudis at the WTC prior to Sept. 11. And they were very rude to her.
Are you fucking serious?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 11:19 PM
crab,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1249885/New-World-Trade-Center-9-11-aerial-images-ABC-News.html
Did you see the new images yet?
You can't be convinced.
The experts have chimed in, and you still rely on theologians and discredited architects.
You're afraid of the truth, and a pawn of the American right wing.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 11:24 PM
Just so we're clear - the "911 Truth Movement" is a failed group composed of very dumb stragglers. A few smart anti-war people were sympathetic to the idiocy at the start, but they've long since abandoned those sympathies. You idiots lose more and more people all the time. The Stop the War Coalition and other anti-war groups want nothing to do with you.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 11:38 PM
More pictures of DUST larry. Not a single image of damage. Really, wasnt SOME kind of damage photographed to even weakly support your incredible claim?
You must be feeling sheepish now, cant find a single presentable image of this "massive" damage to Wtc7 that youve been cursing about.
Stop hassling Mark about his anecdote you crazy thug. And whats 'Octogenarian' got to do with it, you slandering people for being old now too?
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 11:39 PM
"Stop hassling Mark about his anecdote you crazy thug"
so do you think it's possible that bin Laden was buzzing the WTC in a black helicopter prior to 911?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 11:42 PM
crab, and so you move the goal posts.
I really really wish you had been standing 400 feet away from the Towers as they fell. In your opinion, it was just dust, so it couldn't cause any damage.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 15, 2010 11:45 PM
Didnt cause any photographable damage DID IT dustman?
And yes I fucking do believe Marks anecdote Larry! If mark said that she said, then we all HAVE to believe, that bin laden did actualy survey the scene, in a black helicopter just before it happened. And YOU were in the helicopter too -stroking Bin Ladens beard, asking him if he really loved you. But he didnt, and now you spend your days cursing at people on unmoderated internet forums, because of that fateful day.
Let it go Larry..let.it.go.
Posted by: crab at February 15, 2010 11:56 PM
So then you do believe Mark's story, don't you, crab? As a follow-up question - who do you think is more insane - you or Mark?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 12:10 AM
Im a crazy crab! Whats your best two peices of evidence that a fucking building fell on wtc7 from 400 feet away crazy bin larry?
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 12:20 AM
there's plenty of evidence that the collapse of the North Tower caused the collapse of building 7
Do you think Craig Murray is a dumb person for not believing your conspiracies?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 12:33 AM
"there's plenty of evidence that the collapse of the North Tower caused the collapse of building 7"
Name one solid piece of evidence Larry. There's hardly any. The idea doesn't really stand up to serious scrutiny.
Firstly, the debris from WTC1 that hit WTC7 was mostly dust. That's what happened. The towers just crumbled to dust. Eyewitness reports from people involved in the clear-up say that's really all there was. Just dust. They found no pieces of concrete bigger than a house brick.
Secondly, it's pretty obvious from footage of WTC7 - after the collapse of the twin towers but before its own collapse - that it is undamaged. There isn't even a broken window.
On the matter of peer review, you may do well to reflect on the fact that NIST's report has not and cannot be peer reviewed because NIST did not provide computer models for others to test its analysis. That's just one reason why it's such a Mickey Mouse report.
Posted by: MJ at February 16, 2010 12:47 AM
Then why do have to make stuff up Larry?
That you cant support?
"a fucking building fell on it"
"theres plenty of evidence"
Where is your evidence for your four hundred foot flying building you fucking octogenarian bashing, terror talking lawschool shit slinging smart ass?
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 12:55 AM
oh, and what MJ said too!!
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 12:59 AM
"Secondly, it's pretty obvious from footage of WTC7 - after the collapse of the twin towers but before its own collapse - that it is undamaged. There isn't even a broken window."
You people are FUCKING MORONS! The firefighters knew that the building was in danger of collapse! They pulled their men out!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 1:16 AM
I have to give Craig Murray credit for not believing stupid conspiracy theories, especially this one about WTC7.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 1:16 AM
I just love the idea of old ladies spotting bin Laden at the WTC prior to September 11! And on a black helicopter!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 1:18 AM
Larry, you referred people to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter
Apart from its use to refer to people as conspiracy theorists, the article gives at least four or five legitimate reasons why people WOULD see 'black helicopters' in the USA (and in the UK). Your feigned delight is completely overdone.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 1:25 AM
"They pulled their men out!"
Probably told to. So what.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 1:30 AM
Larry: the point is that there was no damage to the exterior of the building. That is evident from the pictures.
Whatever caused WTC7 to callopse neatly and symmetrically into its own footprint at freefall speed, it wasn't due to getting a liberal coating of dust, was it? This is Alice in Wonderland stuff.
Posted by: MJ at February 16, 2010 1:35 AM
No, I didn't link to that wikipedia article.
I don't plan on looking at it, but do you believe that people WOULD see black helicopters because bin Laden (who was wanted for the Cole and embassy bombings) was buzzing around the WTC?
Are you people THAT STUPID?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 1:42 AM
I've come to the conclusion that you people are horribly deranged.
Mark Golding brought up a story about bin Laden buzzing around the WTC prior to 911 - in a black helicopter! - and you people seem to believe that this is possible.
God damn you're hilarious!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 1:44 AM
Larry Silverstien sums up:
24 second clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WYdAJQV100
"mmmm just pull it.. and we made the decision to pull, and we watched the building collapse"
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 1:45 AM
"Larry: the point is that there was no damage to the exterior of the building."
There was plenty. You refuse to believe it because you have chosen to remain manipulated.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 1:45 AM
As to WTC 7, do you idiots believe yourselves to be more knowledgeable than the firefighters at the scene, who abandoned the building because of the damage and risk of collapse?
Do you believe that the firefighters were part of the conspiracy?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 1:47 AM
Plenty of damage shown here, you morons:
http://www.debunking911.com/WTC7.htm
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 1:53 AM
"Do you believe that the firefighters were part of the conspiracy?"
I believe the firefighters left the building because they were told to. There were fires inside the building, started by dust falling on it according to your theory.
You don't think perhaps you're the manipulated one, believing this ludicrous stuff, just because your government tells you?
Posted by: MJ at February 16, 2010 2:00 AM
http://www.debunking911.com/WTC7.htm
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 2:12 AM
I rely on a number of sources of evidence - mostly non-government.
On the other hand, you rely on mostly right-wing Americans and Holocaust deniers.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 2:13 AM
I believe what Marks friend reported ~might~ have been the result of theatrical stunt to add bullshit and confusion to the whole bullshit event.
Or since i dont know her, she might just have made it up..
It doesnt matter, like 400ft matters..
So larry you finaly turned up some photos of damage -a little damage ~maybe 1 percent of a facade.
It doesnt quite match up to your "fucking building fell on it" description does it?
And now you can explain how perhaps a building which is 'collapsing' on itself, manages also to throw bits of itself sideways enough to seriously damage the structure of a building that is 400 feet away...
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 2:14 AM
There is no doubt this is a 'hairy' thread that will at a glance prove too distasteful to some
and many will turn away, diverting their eyes from the battlefield.
I therefore ask you sincerely to look for the many 'nuggets'of truth in vulgar relativism.
What I mean can be seen as the reaction kindly noted by an astute 'Apostate' to the 'Sonnenfeld' observations.
Here we note a critical area where we discern the 'trap' of our own human weaknesses that produces a response
worthy of further investigation. Even a cursory look reveals a failure to produce a valid and sustained argument
that one can believe in, instead we note an emotional outburst that reveals to us an essential place where one can 'dig' further and explore all the available information and more.
I mention just one instance but that could be one of many, exponentially increasing as this thread gets longer.
So, again I ask you kindly to omit the bile and attend to the reality that 'apostate' 'juniper'
and others have seen that might provide that gentle nudge one way or the other that crystallises beliefs on the events
of that fateful day 11/9/2001.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 16, 2010 2:17 AM
"And now you can explain how perhaps a building which is 'collapsing' on itself, manages also to throw bits of itself sideways enough to seriously damage the structure of a building that is 400 feet away..."
I'm afraid the 'debunking' sites that Larry scuttles off to for comfort don't address awkward questions like that. They prefer detailed close-ups of minimal damage and lots of speculative diagrams and 'artists impressions'. Impressive stuff.
Posted by: MJ at February 16, 2010 2:38 AM
Take a look at the second picture at that link ("SW Corner Damage").
In any event, you conspiraloons will just continue to move the goalposts.
I've presented you with plenty of evidence. You dismiss it without thinking through the issues.
You were manipulated by one or two images of WTC 7 suddenly collapsing, and that fit into your worldview, so now you're sticking with it.
You have an unfalsifiable view.
Thank heavens Craig Murray, while a bit of a nutter himself, is not enough of a nutter to believe any of this bullshit.
And again, the 911 Truth Movement = failure. I dare you to show up at an anti-war rally with a truther sign.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 2:51 AM
"lots of speculative diagrams and 'artists impressions'"
Do you know how engineering works, you dumbass?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 3:09 AM
"No, I didn't link to that wikipedia article."
My mistake, it was Angrynoodle, on February 12.
"I don't plan on looking at it, but do you believe that people WOULD see black helicopters because bin Laden"
I didn't mention bin Laden. I was responding to you writing, "And on a black helicopter!" -- as if "black helicopter" in itself proved something or other, which it doesn't.
"Do you know how engineering works, you dumbass?"
You turn it on? hehe
"Thank heavens Craig Murray, while a bit of a nutter himself, is not enough of a nutter to believe any of this bullshit."
That's about the fifth time you've dragged in Craig. Why should his beliefs change the beliefs of the folk arguing here?
"I dare you to show up at an anti-war rally with a truther sign."
That's about the fifth time you've mentioned the anti-war movement. Why should what they believe change anyone's mind here? And how do you know what all of the anti-war folk individually believe?
You're grasping at straws. It's what you've been at since day one, in between screeches of bwahahaha. Not impressive, Larry.
And since there were ~83 cameras around the Pentagon, could you give me a link to your best picture of a plane flying into the Pentagon please?
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 7:33 AM
"Oh Larry wot about ypur 'angel dust' from 4 different locations at G0 - it sure went poof! when somebody put a light to it! Bit like the stuff Guy Fawkes put in his barrels eh? Wot 'bout that big crater in 6WTC Larry - it wasn't where a Boeing engine fell - Oh talking 'bout engines have you got any serial numbers from that big engine on the sidewalk? I need to look then up - got a link?"
Burning buildings collapse and cause damage to nearby buildings. If they are very big and heavy they cause even more damage.
Very simple.
Also, no one said angel dust, which is slang for PCP. I said it was pixie dust because it has magical qualities despite being nothing of the sort.
David Aaronovitch has a good expression for conspiracy theorists:
"formulated by the politically defeated and taken up by the socially defeated."
Conspiracy theories are for losers, in other words.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 16, 2010 9:10 AM
Think Larry's still looking for that picture of the "plane" hitting the Pentagon!
In point of fact that hole in the building-the one that was way too small to have been caused by a plane impact- stands as a metaphor for the entire 911 official bullshit.The state-sanctioned account has this and several other glaring unaccountable great holes in it.
Alternatively we could see the hole in the Pentagon as the vital exit route required by Mishpucka Zakheim who left a huge hole in the Defense budget.Indeed Rumsfeld had publically stated the day before 911 that they couldn't account for trillions of dollars worth of the public money that had disappeared over the years on Zakheim's watch.
The video of Rumsfeld's questioning by Cynthia McKinney before a senate committee is instructive in that like "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke before a similar "investigative committee" more recently Rumsfeld singularly failed to provide any answers to probing questions re-trillions of US taxpayers money.
Millions of Americans are waking up to the breathtaking extent of government corruption as the populist pitchfork/Tea Party movements suggest but these movements are being infiltrated by neo-cons and elite agents who want to see them fail.
The Truth movement has the same insidious enemies.As we have seen on this site these guys don't amount to a hap'orth of beans.In fact,being so inept they bear witness to the level of desperation among the elites who resort to false-flag terror to control their populations.
Another hole in the official fairy story-the disinfo team would have us believe-is the fact that the Pentagon was evidently left undefended hours after the planes had already hit the twin towers.Webster Tarpley has written extensively re-the numerous drills ongoing that day that account for this gaping hole in US defences that day.
Tarpley it was who first uncovered the Gladio NATO-sposored terror network that used the infamous Red Brigades to inflict carnage on innocent civilians and politicians like Aldo Moro in the 1970s.
In the abjectly ahistorical accounts peddled by the disinfo team here and in the corporate media no attention is given to these earlier decades when governments were so intimidated by their domestic populations that the recourse to domestic terrorism against their own people became an option.
Those that studied this phenomenon of false-flag terror in earlier decades, like Gianfranco Sanguinetti and Guy Debord,agreed that as the perceived threat to them from their domestic populations intensified these elites found false-flag terror addictive and used it increasingly to disarm their opponents.
These are ominous warnings from history we ignore at our peril.
Posted by: Steelback at February 16, 2010 10:05 AM
Yo,Steel!
Many thanks reminding me re-Tarpley.His book:911 Synthetic Terror:Made in the USA describes 911 as the Myth of the 21st Century.He notes the importance of Leo Strauss to the neo-con mindset and how Strauss had understood the need for "mobilizing myths" to bind the masses to the oligarchy that governed.
Thus in the neo-con fin-de-siecle paper,"The New American Century" and all the Foundation elite think-tank propaganda for full-spectrum dominance we find among Strauss's disciples a hunger for "some new Pearl Harbour" to catalyze US public opinion to support the agenda of permanent warfare that sustains the oligarchy.
Huntington's "Clash of Civilisations" was another key ideological thread to this fin de siecle neo-con drive for permanent war.The need for an enemy image is a manifestation of the oligarchy's awareness that their irrational impulse to dominate would not long survive the public scrutiny to which it would be subjected in peacetime.War provides the social cohesion on which elite domination depends to sustain it.
These are clearly the ideological underpinnings of an elite group that would have no trouble whatever accommodating a crime on the scale of 911.The idea of instigating a spurious national emergency as means to remove all legal impediments to tyranny leads us back to the Reichstag Fire in 1933 with which 911 has accurately been compared.
Follow the elite planning trail for 911 in sources like CFR-sponsored Foreign Affairs magazine.A paper co-written by neo-con,Philip Zelikow,in Nov-Dec 1998 called "Catastrophic Terrorism" speculated on an atrocity that would become a watershed in US history.Its peacetime impact would be great enough to put US security so much in doubt as to make putting the country on a permanent war footing a necessity.
The impact of said atrocity would resemble that of the 1949 Soviet nuclear test allowing for a draconian drawdown of civil liberties including state detention,surveillance and state reecourse to use of deadly force against perceived enemies.
Interestingly Zelikow presupposed the allegiance of the "state-media-nexus" for uniform dissemination of the propaganda that would sustain the mobilizing myth re-the provenance of the atrocity.
Strauss's belief in society needing to be run by an elite group of philosophers who lie and deceive the foolish populist masses,and who used politics,religion and the dissemination of myths to keep the population in clueless servitude would be our lot were we to heed the mythologies peddled by the Straussain disinfoteam here resident!
Here's to clueless servitude in St Louis!
Posted by: Apostate at February 16, 2010 12:28 PM
"I've presented you with plenty of evidence"
You've presented evidence of some damage to the building prior to its collapse comprising one close-up photo, one heavily doctored photo and several speculative diagrams.
It is unclear whether the damage was caused by falling debris or by the explosions heard inside WTC7 - prior to the collapse of WTC1 - by Emergency Coordinator Barry Jennings.
"Burning buildings collapse and cause damage to nearby buildings. If they are very big and heavy they cause even more damage".
And if they're 400 feet away and turn entirely to dust before they even hit the ground they cause little or no damage. This is a rather important point and needs an answer. You won't find in the 'debunking' sites. They won't go there. You'll have to show you're not manipulated and come up with something sensible off you're own bat I'm afraid. Good luck.
"avid Aaronovitch has a good expression for conspiracy theorists"
Since Aaronovitch was an enthusiastic proponent of one of the most preposterous conspiracy theories of modern times - the one about Iraq having WMD - I feel we should take his words with a generous pinch of salt. The man is a buffoon.
Posted by: MJ at February 16, 2010 1:11 PM
Wasn't Aaronabitch the guy who said if the eltes he'd listened to were proved wrong and Saddam turned out not to have WMD he would never believe anything they said again?
I think he was.And was he true to his word? It seems not.
UPDATE ON THE CORPORATE HACKS WHO SOLD US THE IRAQ WAR.
The same goes for all these guys who sold the war too:
Anne Applebaum on the Washington Post insisted that in the light of France and Germany's failure to take Saddam's WMD seriously they be expelled form the international community.She now spends all day propagandizing the danger to us should we make the fateful decision to leave Iran unmolested.
There is also the need,according to Applebaum,to freeze Russia out as well should any new Cold War manifest.
Con Coughlin couldn't find Iraq on a map but his propaganda for a war to disarm Saddam did his career no harm at all.He went on to become Chief Foreign Editor at the Telegraph.
Christopher Hitchens and Janet Daley propagandized us for war and are still regular pundits on the corporate media today.
Likewise Andrew Roberts,Rothschild historian of royalty and the Empire, had a recent book endorsed by Dubya Bush.Not quite high academic affirmation but hey when you've been so wrong on Iraq Hell you might as well go the whole hog and get it signed by someone who took a leading role in the events you purport to be describing.
Then there's Richard Littlejohn formerly of the Sun but now frothing equally profusely on behalf of Israel in The Mail.
Servile hacks aka.Rothschild pens who do elite bidding will not want for work until their readers demand better fare.
And that's not going to happen any time this side of Hell freezing over.
Posted by: tungsten at February 16, 2010 4:37 PM
It just occurred to me-I think there's a real danger we just laugh re-Larry,angri and the disinfo team.
They're doing the same as the corporate media propagandizing to get us behind the elite myths that are used to trigger wars.
Can anyone doubt that scumbags like Larry and angri would have us go to war over manufactured incidents like the underwear or shoe bombers?
911 was no different from any of these patently false-flag attacks.Immeasurably greater in scale but it came with exactly the same message from exactly the same people.
Give in to assholes like the disinfo crew here and the elites whose bidding they do will walk all over us.
Posted by: Apostate at February 16, 2010 5:01 PM
"one close-up photo, one heavily doctored photo and several speculative diagrams."
Of course you think it's heavily doctored. If it were real, it would violate your religious beliefs and finally convince you that all these years you've been manipulated by right-wing Americans.
What's your evidence that it's heavily doctored?
And there you go again moving the goalposts.
What do you demand? That an IMAX camera was stationed right beside WTC 7 for your benefit? But well all know that even if it had been, you'd still figure out a way to weasel out of the obvious conclusion that Building 7 suffered serious damage from that falling building.
I really wish we could create a demonstration and have you stand 400 feet away. Or 600 feet away.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 5:19 PM
"And if they're 400 feet away and turn entirely to dust before they even hit the ground they cause little or no damage. This is a rather important point and needs an answer. You won't find in the 'debunking' sites. They won't go there. You'll have to show you're not manipulated and come up with something sensible off you're own bat I'm afraid. Good luck."
All answered here:
http://www.debunking911.com/WTC7.htm
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 5:23 PM
The doctrine that's being peddled is the old one of Trotsky's permanent revolution/war.
Actually it was more the innovation and applied practice of one Alexander Helphand aka.Parvus.He was one of the more enigmatic figures you won't read about in official history books.The vast sums of money and the influence Helphand had at his disposal made him indispensable to both the Young Turk and Bolshevik Revolutions.
Warfare was deemed after long discussion by the Carnegie Endowment in 1908 to be their best bet for remodelling US society along lines they thought consonant with their elite agenda.To get the wars they wanted they sought control of the Defense Department.This was engineered via their Council of Learned Societies that oversees all appointments to the DOD to this day.
http://www.larouchepub/other/2005/3237cheney-perm_war.htm
Carnegie morphed into the CFR
Posted by: Steelback at February 16, 2010 5:50 PM
"What's your evidence that it's heavily doctored?"
The photo in question is here. http://www.debunking911.com/wtc7swd.jpg
Make your own mind up. Personally it took me a while to work out if it was a real photo or a graphic.
Posted by: MJ at February 16, 2010 5:55 PM
"since there were ~83 cameras around the Pentagon, could you give me a link to your best picture of a plane flying into the Pentagon please?"
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 7:33 AM
Do you think you could rustle up an answer, Larry?
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 6:11 PM
"since there were ~83 cameras around the Pentagon,"
Prove that.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 6:16 PM
"Personally it took me a while to work out if it was a real photo or a graphic."--MJ
Me too. If it was damaged in such a way at the corner, surely it would topple sideways? And why would the damage be worse at the bottom than at Floor 18?
"Prove that"
sez Larry, who can prove nothing to anyone.
Don't worry about the [approximate] number 83, honey, just post *your link to your best picture of the plane*.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 6:32 PM
You didn't answer these either, Lar-boy:
That's about the fifth time you've dragged in Craig. Why should his beliefs change the beliefs of the folk arguing here?
and
That's about the fifth time you've mentioned the anti-war movement. Why should what they believe change anyone's mind here? And how do you know what all of the anti-war folk individually believe?
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 6:37 PM
Just so we are clear Larry, you have retreated from your wilder claim that Wtc1 fell _on_top_of_ Wtc7, to the case that during its progressive structural collapse it managed to somehow throw off enough heavy chunks to glance the side of Wtc7 leading to its rapid straight down collapse 7 hours later.
The massive damage which you have exagerated, cursed and screamed about here for peoples doubts, was at times obscured by smoke and dust, yet stood for 7 HOURS only to be recorded by a handful of blurred off angle photographs, requireing speculative reconstructions to appear in faithful debunking articles.
This accompanying breif comment by the buildings owner on the farce, you left completely uncommented btw -
Larry Silverstien sums up:
24 second clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WYdAJQV100
"mmmm just pull it.. and we made the decision to pull, and we watched the building collapse"
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 6:53 PM
crab,
you fucking moron ... you're so deafened by the noise of your 911 religion, you can't even hear correctly ... listen again to what Silverstein said ... is your quote correct, you silly moron?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 7:27 PM
Hey shithead,Larry!
Abuse Craig and STW one minute then cling to their coat-tails the next to bolster an argument you and the disinfo team lost utterly.
Won't wash you nebbish!
Posted by: Steelback at February 16, 2010 7:58 PM
Silverstien makes a strange big mumble in the middle.. ill transcribe again:
"i remember getting a call from the uh fire department commander..telling me that they were not sure that they were gonna be able to contain the fire. I said you know weve had such terrible loss of life ~um mus ma smn mss(??) just Pull It(!) eeer and they made tha decision to pull and den'we watched the building, collapse"
Larry: "crab,you fucking moron ... you're so deafened by the noise of your 911 religion, you can't even hear correctly"
I got one "we" mixed up with "they" -it doesnt change the meaning. He was either advising or just being agreeable with the fire department commander.
The crux is how you choose to interpret "just pull it" and "the decision to pull". (in the light of everything else that was remarkable about how wtc7 'collapsed')
Nice work screaming moron over an irrelevent typo larry lecter.
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 8:23 PM
it's not an irrelevant typo ... most conspiraloons cite it as "we made the decision"
so ... are you accusing Chief Nigro of having blown up WTC 7?
it's also what you think of the word "pull"
"pull" meant "pull out the firemen"
there are contemporaneous references to that as the meaning
jesus this shit was part of the dumb conspiracy in 2004 ... the conspiraloons in the States won't even touch this one because it's obviously a dumb argument
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 8:31 PM
I just looked up the claim of "83 cameras"
I'd love to know where that number came from originally, but I'm sure that it was some dumbass right-wing American truthtard who pulled it out of his ass.
you people are so fucking manipulated.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 8:36 PM
http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics/Larry_Silverstein
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 8:41 PM
dreoilin,
In addition to the photographic evidence, what do you do with the massive mountain of other evidence?
http://debunk911myths.org/topics/Pentagon
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 8:43 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkxRh2sXGdI
Larry there is a video of your old sweet heart, hes wearing the watch and the ring you gave him. That not him? Strange, your whitehouse released it to world claiming it was him admitting to the 911 attacks.
Are you sure its not him larry? Hes got that loveable beard, and hes wearing a turban!
Oh i dont know what to believe anymore.
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 8:52 PM
Do you people understand your cult thinking? Do you not realize that you've joined a cult?
If someone had been standing at the Pentagon pointing an IMAX camera at the point that the jet smashed into the building, you wouldn't believe it.
There's no convincing you morons.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 8:53 PM
Lots of (officialy encouraged) fog around the pentagon attack, beware.
http://911research.wtc7.net/faq/pentagon.html
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 8:55 PM
"Lots of (officialy encouraged) fog around the pentagon attack, beware."
Crab, you're an idiot with narcissistic personality disorder.
Yes, there are other morons out there who suggest that there was no plane at the Pentagon, or that laser beams took down the Towers, but they're just people like you who signed on for a different aspect of the cult.
You call them disinfo agents; they call you disinfo agents.
And the rational people of the world sit back and laugh.
The government wants you to pay your taxes and not commit crimes. Otherwise, they don't care about you. Even though you really need them to do so.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 9:03 PM
Don't worry about the [approximate] number 83, honey, just post *your link to your best picture of the plane*.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 6:32 PM
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 9:12 PM
Why do you think there would be a crisp picture in the first place?
You seem to be suggesting that an event did not occur if there's not a perfect picture to document it. You're perfectly comfortable ignoring all of the forensic evidence, other photographic evidence and all other evidence.
Do you not think that a plane hit the Pentagon? And don't give me the "just asking questions" bullshit; you nutters have had almost 9 years to come up with something definitive.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 9:29 PM
larry wrote:
are you accusing Chief Nigro of having blown up WTC 7?
"pull" meant "pull out the firemen"
there are contemporaneous references to that as the meaning
jesus this shit was part of the dumb conspiracy in 2004 ... the conspiraloons in the States won't even touch this one because it's obviously a dumb argument
--
It's not a dumb arguement, it is an ambiguous but suspicious recording.
"Just pull it" could possibly mean "give up fighting the (supposed) fires"
"Just pull OUT" would have explicity meant that. (These fires that were so big that raged for 7 hours, yet there is only a handful of blurry photos of them on dummiesdebunking.org)
"They made the decision to pull"
Is a little more explicit, but still ambiguous.
The ambiguity is explained by the psychology of lying, freudian slippage, since the rest of the terror myth is bullshit larry.
Non-explosive yet rapid collapses of sturdy modern skyscrapers shooting supershrapnel 400 foot indeed!
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 9:30 PM
Crab, are you accusing Chief Nigro of having blown up WTC 7? Are you also now accusing him of blowing up the Towers? (or igniting the supersecretthermite, or whatever you nuts are now claiming)
Are you holding Chief Nigro personally responsible? Did he kill hundreds of his fellow FDNY?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 9:34 PM
dreoilin,
Craig Murray doesn't merely disagree with you ... he calls you a "conspiraloon" (his term).
So why do you visit this site? You're a nutter to him.
Before you ask ... I come here because this is where the nutters are!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 9:36 PM
Larry: Did he kill hundreds of his fellow FDNY?
Larry, you shout moron at people all the time, but you ask for stupid responses. Do you think i would take Silverstien at his word?
Do you think?
"Crab, you're an idiot with narcissistic personality disorder."
Coming from the most disordered personality in St Louis, ill take that as a compliment thanks :x
Posted by: at February 16, 2010 9:44 PM
"Larry, you shout moron at people all the time, but you ask for stupid responses. Do you think i would take Silverstien at his word? "
So apparently you were prepared to blame Silverstein for blowing up WTC7, right? But when I point out to you that Chief Nigro made the decision to "pull" (that is, pull out the firefighters), are you trying to run away from your obvious accusation that Chief Nigro killed hundreds of his fellow FDNY?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 9:55 PM
If you World Trade Center conspiracy nutters don't understand that you're accusing the Fire Department of New York of the mass murder of firefighters, then you're dumber than I thought.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 10:01 PM
L: "But when I point out to you that Chief Nigro made the decision to "pull" "
I see whats happened here, you have an inflated opinion of your own credibility Larry. -You may point out Chief Nigro made the decision to put sugar in his starbucks chocamocha, no one believes you until you site some reasonable source or arguement. Which you never ever do, big L
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 10:10 PM
Fire! Fire!
Fire! Fire!
Fetch the engine, fetch the engine!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 16, 2010 10:11 PM
Crab, you got lost in your own silly claims. Silverstein was on the phone with Nigro. Your video, which you linked to, from which you attempted to make a case, and which you subsequently misquoted, had Silverstein saying that they made the decision to pull. He was talking about the FDNY, you moron. And he was talking about Chief Nigro, because Nigro was in charge and he was on the phone with Nigro.
You can't keep your crazy straight.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 10:13 PM
Larry, try and collect you thoughts. The video wasnt of the phone call, it was Silverstein recalling the supposed phone call - it doesnt prove anything, its just Silversteins strangely worded account.
Secondly YOU said, they pulled the FDNY out of wtc7, and so did Silverstein by your faithful interpretation (pull it).
So even in the strange concocted charge of yours, wtc7s collapse did not kill hundreds of FDNY.
You need to take a good break buster.
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 10:27 PM
Why did you post the Silverstein video?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 10:32 PM
Larry you dingbat!
Evidently you're bringing up 911 on the other threads as well.Seems like you lost your way big time,nebbish!
This idea you've taken it into your tiny mind to purvey that those who challenge the 911 story are mind manipulated is fantasy on your part.
What the Bejeez do you think 911 was if not an exercise in mass brainwashing?
Mind control research has been carried out over centuries by intelligence agencies like MI5 and the CIA.Have you never heard of Tavistock or MK Ultra?
Torture and repeated trauma on individuals yields lessons that can be applied to society at large.That's one of the reasons they do it,dickbrain-or are you in denial re-US/UK participation in torture as well as re-911?
Such thinking re-the potential of torture,shock to control people motivated the 911 planners.German psychologist Kurt Lewin appointed Tavistock director in 1932 pioneered the idea of inducing terror on a widespread basis into society.Society would then revert to a tabula rasa=blank slate that could be used by elite planners to elicit compliance from domestic populatins.
Lewin's plan was to use controlled chaos to induce the population to submit to greater control.Society should be driven to a state equivalent to an early childhood situation.
It's clearly worked with this guy,Larry whose frequent infantile regressions bear eloquent witness to the efficacy of Lewin's system.
911 was designed by elite planners like Lewin for its shock value.Its aftermath allowed them to impose a security crackdown,an expensive military build-up and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on a stunned population.
Lewin laid out the blueprint long before 911 knowing the potential for mind control that deliberately induced fear,anxiety or excitement in a population might elicit.
Tavistock also envisaged assassinations could be used for similar shock value.JFK for example with his numerous health problems could easily have been disposed of in a less public way.Instead the shock of the President being shot down like a dog in the street delivered the US public into the near comatose state to render them susceptible to a bout of general reprogramming.Standard Tavistock modus operandi.
If anybody is the victim of mind control it's saps like airhead Larry and angri who after nine years are still so traumatized by the events of 911 that they cling to official fantasies like the state-sanctioned account with all the tenacity of small children clinging to their favourite toy.
Degenerate dickbrains!
Posted by: Apostate at February 16, 2010 10:47 PM
lry: Why did you post the Silverstein video?
Because i think he made a clear freudian slip, he should have said "pull out" or "pull them out" but he said "pull IT"
And the reason why your feigning confused questions about it larry is, it is weak evidence compared to the 400ft flying supershrapnel from wtc1, 7 hour photovoid, classic freefall footprint collapse, media's 20minute preannouncement of its ever so neat collapse, Sonnenfeld's story, etc..
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 10:50 PM
Once upon a time, in the Land of Nod...
In Greenwich Village, there is a shop shaped like a triangle, taller than it is, long, in which at one end there sits a man on a high stool. The man is smoking a curly pipe.
Go there.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 16, 2010 11:13 PM
"The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight." - Michael Lind
Posted by: dreoilin at February 16, 2010 11:46 PM
crab, if you could read, you'd know that there were contemporaneous expressions that day of "pull it" meaning "get the firefighters out"
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 11:46 PM
"American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions"
You see, that's why I bring up the fact that Craig Murray and the anti-war movement in the UK want nothing to do with you.
You're trying to twist the fact that Americans don't tend to believe in conspiracies on the naivety of Americans. This has happened many times before.
What people like you forget to think about is that the same percentage of people in the UK don't believe in this nonsense. Craig Murray and the vast majority of the anti-war movement serve as evidence of this.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 11:50 PM
And dreoilin - Michael Lind doesn't remotely believe in your dumbass Pentagon conspiracy theory. Try again.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 11:55 PM
crab, you posted that video thinking that Silverstein made a Freudian slip. My God you're stupid. You completely misquoted him, because your cult leaders have misguided you.
Chief Nigro made the decision to pull the building. The firefighters were pulled. It was an excellent decision in the middle of chaos.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 16, 2010 11:58 PM
lry: expressions that day of "pull it" meaning "get the firefighters out"
Here is a read -> Your sacred Fema report, chapter 5 [wtc7 building performance]
"WTC 7 collapsed approximately 7 hours after the collapse of WTC 1.Preliminary indications were that, due to lack of water, no manual firefighting actions were taken by FDNY."
What does that mean larry?
nighto'
Posted by: crab at February 16, 2010 11:59 PM
crab writes: "7 hour photovoid"
Fuck off.
Did you happen to notice the chaos of that day?
The FDNY had just lost hundreds of men. Other city services were similarly affected.
Given other priorities, they didn't feel so compelled to pull out cameras and start snapping pictures of WTC7.
The only reason they would have done so would have been to stifle the claims of inevitable conspiracy nutters. But they weren't really think of the inevitability of people like you coming along.
And it DOESN'T MATTER. You've obviously signed up with a cult, without having realized that you've done so. What an idiot you are - your mind is now being manipulated by American right-wing nuts and Muslim terrorist sympathizers.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 12:05 AM
Once again the conspiracy nutters back up their claims with a quote mine.
Again, if you didn't notice, the FDNY was decimated by the collapses. It was very difficult for them to mount an attack on the fire in Building 7. However, they were still on the scene, and they needed to be pulled.
Really, Crab, are you this dumb?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 12:29 AM
Once again the conspiracy nutters back up their claims with a quote mine.
Again, if you didn't notice, the FDNY was decimated by the collapses. It was very difficult for them to mount an attack on the fire in Building 7. However, they were still on the scene, and they needed to be pulled.
Really, Crab, are you this dumb?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 12:30 AM
Once again the conspiracy nutters back up their claims with a quote mine.
Again, if you didn't notice, the FDNY was decimated by the collapses. It was very difficult for them to mount an attack on the fire in Building 7. However, they were still on the scene, and they needed to be pulled.
Really, Crab, are you this dumb?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 12:44 AM
Larry's hilarious.
Posted by: at February 17, 2010 12:47 AM
and as thick as two bricks.
Posted by: at February 17, 2010 12:57 AM
"Michael Lind doesn't remotely believe in your dumbass Pentagon conspiracy theory. Try again."
Posted by: Larry
Stop jumping to conclusions. You've wrecked your credibility here by doing it too often already.
And since the FBI confiscated the tapes, you could have said, "I have no link to a photo of a plane crashing into the Pentagon", but you don't have the balls to be that honest. You waffle about people stopping to snap pictures.
"you nutters have had almost 9 years to come up with something definitive."
So did you, chicken, so did you.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 17, 2010 1:13 AM
Where did you come up with the 83 number for the cameras at the Pentagon? Why not 183?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 1:34 AM
Michael Lind has written extensively about the silly New World Order / Rothschild / Jew conspiracy theory. Not favorably!
And he writes extensively on all subjects that touch on 911. Don't you think he might mention that the U.S. government blew up the Towers and there was no plane at the Pentagon, if he believed such silliness?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 1:50 AM
"and as thick as two bricks."
Look, I'm just backing up what Craig Murray thinks.
He called you conspiraloons.
He detailed some reasons above.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 1:52 AM
Узнао много новенького 5м
Posted by: HexGexiacem at February 17, 2010 5:57 AM
Santa Lorenzo dei Ghibellini. Busy, busy, busy bee. But where is the queen?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 17, 2010 8:19 AM
"Don't you think he might mention that the U.S. government blew up the Towers and there was no plane at the Pentagon, if he believed such silliness?"
And WHERE did I say he did?
I told you not to jump to conclusions. You're doing it all over the place. I posted a link about black helicopters and straight away you were asking me about bin Laden. Stick to what people SAY and not the reason that YOU IMAGINE they are saying it.
Did you do any debating at high school? Did they teach you how to debate at that fancy law school that you supposedly attended? Because it doesn't look like it to me. You spend at least half your time here putting words into people's mouths. And believe me, that's very stupid.
Either you can't read, or you don't comprehend English.
Have a nice day
Posted by: dreoilin at February 17, 2010 8:20 AM
"I posted a link about black helicopters and straight away you were asking me about bin Laden"
No, you silly person; it's not all about you. Mark Golding indicated that it was possible that bin Laden and some other Arabs were buzzing the WTC in a black helicopter prior to Sept. 11. I was addressing that silliness.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 8:28 AM
"No, you silly person; it's not all about you."
So you weren't addressing me at at February 16, 2010 1:42 AM when you wrote:
"No, I didn't link to that wikipedia article.
"I don't plan on looking at it, but do you believe that people WOULD see black helicopters because bin Laden (who was wanted for the Cole and embassy bombings) was buzzing around the WTC?"
Go away, Larry. You don't know your arse from your elbow.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 17, 2010 8:56 AM
dreoilin, OK, so now you posted that link. It was actually Angrysoba that posted it first. In any event, do a word search on helicopter and you'll see where the genesis of that comment was.
I just can't believe that you think it's possible that bin Laden was buzzing the WTC in a black helicopter prior to Sept. 11.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 9:06 AM
"You spend at least half your time here putting words into people's mouths. And believe me, that's very stupid."
Posted by: dreoilin at February 17, 2010 8:20 AM
Posted by: dreoilin at February 17, 2010 9:19 AM
What the hell was your point with commenting on the black helicopters issue?
And I'm not accusing you of believing that - I'm suggesting that you're not insane enough to believe Mark Golding's story.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 9:35 AM
Crab: "Because i think he made a clear freudian slip, he should have said "pull out" or "pull them out" but he said "pull IT""
Larry Silverstein didn't make a Freudian slip. He was talking about getting firefighters off the scene.
There may have been no firefighting operations as such but there were people digging into the rubble of the Towers. Some people were still alive in there.
And yes, there were pictures, Steve Spak made a video of the events there.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 17, 2010 1:54 PM
Crab, what do you think "pull it" means?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 17, 2010 1:56 PM
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Posted by: BurberMut at February 17, 2010 1:57 PM
Here's a good video on the controlled demolitions shown by Richard Gage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFVoencqfZw&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: angrysoba at February 17, 2010 1:59 PM
Now, as far as I know this guy is an anti-Zionist or something and even he thinks you are conspiraloons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10YTDOdyju0&feature=related
Posted by: angrysoba at February 17, 2010 2:00 PM
"Go away, Larry. You don't know your arse from your elbow."
She says as she sits on her elbows.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 17, 2010 2:05 PM
Hi Suhayl,
Was in Glasgow today, after babysitting grandchildren for the morning. At a place you would like - a little blister in spacetime, not here or there or anywhere. The Violin Shop, out near the Kelvingrove museum. Their restorer is an astrophysicist - he once fixed a fiddle for me. Today I was out for a set of strings for the fiddle. And a bone blank.
That 'ud I mentioned - the nut is softwood - try to tune it, and the strings just cut into the wood. I'd fixed it up in the past, to play (with great difficulty and much emendation) the Skene and Balcarres stuff that you know. It was banished to the loft. After J's B, I brought it down, dusted it off, decided to replace the nut. Hence the bone blank, sold to me by an astrophysicist for (rolling his eyes upward) oh, two pounds. So it will have a new nut made of bone.
...it is changing.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 17, 2010 4:55 PM
Note to Larry
You must be on minimum wage for this work. You'd get paid a bit more as a checkout operator up at our local supermarket, and a job like that allows you to preserve some personal dignity. Think it over.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 17, 2010 5:21 PM
Oh - same offer of an opportunity to angrywotsit, of course. You could sweep up or something - you needn't attempt any of the more complex tasks like stacking shelves.
Tell us more about those black helicopters, if you like - that sounded really interesting! Are they very black? Have they no white bits at all? Or do you find that in the really good ones the white bits are still quite black? We're all dying to hear your views!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzn3KaO2Vyk
Posted by: Vronsky at February 17, 2010 5:32 PM
Vronsky, that is really fascinating!! I am so pleased that you've picked up your 'ud again and if 'Joseph's Box' encouraged you to do that, gosh I'm really very moved, humbled and elated by that. Wood as soft as skin, a bone plectrum...! Happy playing!
I suspect that both the shop and the astrophysicist are out there, way beyond the Heliopause, close to the Bow Shock.
Feel the intergalactic tides, man.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 17, 2010 6:52 PM
The disinfo team here is certainly of decidedly low calibre which suggests their patrons are reconciled to the fact that the 911 story fell apart some time back.
The low-level operatives,Larry and angri et al,game the site by setting up straw man arguments that are useless or weak pieces that can easily be debunked.The straw-man argument is presented as a lynchpin in their opponents' argument which,once debunked allows those who opposed it after setting it up in the first place to insist how correct they were all along!
Sometimes the leading gamer acts as the Judas Goat who with various colleagues will set up various straw men which his confederates will proceed to knock down which then allows them all to claim that veracity is on their side.
With time on your hands you can do a content analysis of the messages left on this thread and you will get an idea of how these guys work.
We should note that a more sophisticated disinfo sting may contain Judas Goat shills who once established as truth-tellers(Christopher Bollyn and Eric Hufschmid have been mentioned as such)then go into self-destruct mode by getting involved in publicity stunts that help smear conspiracy research by association.
Hufschmid's disinfo crew post under multiple handles so they can attack opponents of Jewish supremacism,terrorism and corruption-i.e.us the ordinary peace-loving truth-seeking humanity!
Another shill tactic we've grown used to is the "no planer" tactic again used with the same goal of tarnishing the Truth movement by association with a loopy idea.David Shayler lately seen dressing up in women's clothes and studying Kabbalah is one of these no-planer shills.
Check out this link for the low-down on how 911 disinfo teams work,the ties of the 911 conspirators to Israel,the Lobby and organized crime:
http://www.takeourworldback.com/911realitydeniers.htm
Pay special attention to the Eisenberg link that references Greg Felton's Host and the Parasite as its source on the vested interest both Eisenberg,Chair of the NY Port Authority,and Silverstein had in straight-down collapses of the Twin Towers and WT7.Symmetrical implosion is not best suited to achieving the terrorist goal of inflicting the maximum number of casualties.These would be more cheaply and easily facilitated by "natural" topple-down collapses.
Look out for that old disinfo tactic of arguing via omission that is when the disinfo team go "deaf" and pretend they're too busy "arguing" with each other to notice any intervening posted message.That message will be the one they want you to ignore of course!
Posted by: Freeborn at February 17, 2010 7:19 PM
Greg Felton's Host and the Parasite is now in its second edition.The original book deal with Dandelion,a Zionist outfit,fell through and Felton has been selling personal copies.
Used copies fetch over $100 so the cost is prohibitive.Amazon reviews were all 5 star.If Americans could get hold of the book they'd be fuming re-the Lobby and Israel.They'd probably lynch Larry and the disinfo crew!
Mind you,didn't a US President once say they could get away with anything because Americans don't read?
He was probably right and they probably did get away with it!
Posted by: tungsten at February 17, 2010 7:31 PM
Let's just be clear on one point. You nutjobs brought up the black helicopters. I know you 911 Deniers have little grasp of reality, but I'm sure you can do a simple word search on this thread.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 17, 2010 7:35 PM
Suhayl
The cultures are closer than you perhaps know. Here's a friend of mine (who says that he speaks of mysteries that he cannot see).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aay0JXri7Ao
Another pal includes some old Scottish lute - sound free to download;
http://www.rmguitar.info/ScottishGuitar.htm
With best regards from Vronsky
Posted by: Vronsky at February 17, 2010 8:06 PM
Steelback & kin, some of your comments read alright to me but, ~like, that takeback site just linked, to me its deranged, sorry. The jew blaming stuff is just not on -maybe in some places because its the law, but here because muslim blaming isnt on either, maybe christian blaming too but its occasional since.. its.. local?
Attributing blames in response to troubles is a most difficult and circumspect endevour. Plenty of people are close enough to the truth of 911 ,77,war,espionage,corruption to want the wounds lanced and the damage healed.
But different prescriptions on exactly who and how to blame, to solve matters, there is no coherence and little confidence in.
Idealy people of proven merit and insight, sympathetic to the human condition, could be appointed to investigate matters and design resolutions, and they would be respected for their work and special qualifications by everyone.
Maybe a super AI/ digital messiah, will generate effective answers someday.
~A crab waffles, just think the subject needs exceptional, level, benevolent heads to crack. Not more hard asses and hate.
Larry i do wonder if you are comissioned to disrupt craigs comments. If not i think you are very troubled. Either way what youve been putting your efforts into doing here -trying to be distruptive and unpleasant regardless of reasoning- is unhealthy. Harassing and insulting other people is a bitter degenerative activity that harms your own world. I sincerely wish you find a better excercise.
Vronsky and Suhayl - great links and form guys. Im wishing you dexterity and precision Vronsky to seat the peice right and pass the strings soundly.
And im looking forward to tuning in to your works soon Suhayl.
Posted by: crab at February 17, 2010 11:39 PM
Crab: "Steelback & kin, some of your comments read alright to me but, ~like, that takeback site just linked, to me its deranged, sorry."
Crab, this is the same stuff they've been consistently linking to since either I or they arrived. I've pointed out that it's anti-semitic numerous times and all I got for my troubles was to be asked about my stance on Israel.
Are the scales ever so slowly dropping from your eyes?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 17, 2010 11:52 PM
Ive been aware of this aspect of Steelbacks and Apostate and others prospectus, but im not sure how much of it is just taboo teasing.
I didnt find the jew blaming on the site anymore unsettling than i find muslim blaming in the daily papers here -but it all does turn me off.
night'
Posted by: crab at February 18, 2010 12:15 AM
Angrysoba,
I believe that you have deceived me, and I wonder why.
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 12:43 AM
Crab, to equate the horrible things written on this site about Jews with what is written in mainstream newspapers about Muslims is just plain stupid.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 1:03 AM
Larry,
This article (also linked below):
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-we-not-only-have-a-right-to-use-torture-we-have-a-duty-1899555.html
claims that security services have a duty to torture wives and children of suspects implied to be Muslim.
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 1:14 AM
Has anyone seen this website?
http://www.debunking911.com/freefall.htm
It explains pretty well from video footage how the buildings were not dropping in free fall but each floor collapsing on top of each other and gathering momentum as the weight becomes greater.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at February 18, 2010 1:25 AM
To state the obvious:
1. That's a unique and controversial article.
2. He's not talking about Muslims.
So you think Jew hatred is justified because some guy named Bruce Anderson wrote that torture is sometimes good.
And he wasn't expressing hatred of Muslims for being Muslim.
Once again you fail to prove anything, other than you'll bend over backwards to support the claim of someone who hates Jews and probably believes that you should be living under Muslim rule.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 1:29 AM
Larry,
you get a lot of stick 'cos you keep pissing people off. Like this. NO. I do NOT approve of Jew-hatred. I do NOT approve of Muslim-hatred. YOU piss me off when you say that I do.
But isn't that your point? Are you not trying to upset people?
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 1:41 AM
Clark,
Why the hell did you link to an editorial written by Bruce Anderson about torture? Why?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 1:45 AM
Larry,
the article specifically mentions Muslims and Islam. It has a picture of Muslims. It is quite clearly suggesting that the people who should get tortured are Muslim. It is disgusting. It's not about atrocities that happened 65 years ago, it's about the immediate future. It normalises dehumanisation of Muslims, and could only be published in an atmosphere of Islamophobia.
So I linked to it in response to your answer to Crab at 1:03.
Now answer my question - are you deliberately trying to upset people and raise tempers?
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 1:54 AM
Larry,
I can't link to Daily Star articles, as they don't put such articles on their website. But pick up that paper almost any day, and you'll find articles about Muslims that are designed to incite fear and hatred.
And you, Larry. I believe that you have done the same thing, when I was chatting to Anno, I believe, as he believed, that you posted under the pseudonym of Omar.
And now I see your reply to Anno on the Jack Straw thread - why do I even ask you if you are deliberately upsetting people? You are obviously full of hatred.
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 2:11 AM
Still at it, eh? Blimey.
It seems Larry wants everyone to stay in the playground: where the children believe that their governments are merely an extension of their parents, that heads of state are really people just like us. People who have compassion for the common man and would never countenance the idea of treating them like pawns to be used to advance a 'noble' cause.
These people are not like us. The patrician class consider the common man to be of inferior stock. A quick flick through Burke's Peerage will give you a taste of this. Bush and Kerry are cousins, as are Cheney and Obama. David Cameron is a direct descendant of King William IV. Unlike us, these people keep their gene pools small and exclusive. We are not in their club. We are fair game.
There is nothing outrageous about 9/11. It's simply another example of sacrifice to advance long-term agendas. Some on this thread have talked about 'goyim' being treated like cattle by 'jews'. It's actually simpler than that. The common man is treated like cattle by elites of all stripes. Ultimately, power needs no creed; only more power. It has always been so.
We can't stay in the playground with you, Larry. Having seen, there's little point in pretending to be blind again. You won't like these words, I know. Perhaps a torrent of abuse will follow. But I mean you no ill.
Posted by: frank verismo at February 18, 2010 4:00 AM
Thanks, Vronsky, will check out the links, sounds fascinating!
Btw, I was in Orkney as part of the very first Skald in 2001, along with Angus Calder, George Gunn, Dilys Rose and Alastair Gray - a great time!
Do you know Rob MacKillop, the lutenist?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 18, 2010 8:59 AM
There's an important point re-the shill-orchestrated debate going on each night between Larry,angri,oilman,crab et al.
As it gets more tedious by the minute its provenance becomes all the more obvious.
The link:911 For Reality Deniers posted by Freeborn was a watershed for this debate in that it foregrounded luminously the fact that those who deny the reality that 911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB have lost the argument decisively and have nothing left on which to fall back apart from the deception scam that underlay the 911 operation in the first place.
The shills would have you believe that any evidence re-the perpetrators of 911 that contains a profusion of Jewish names like Silverstein,Eisenberg,Zakheim etc. is a "hate site".They would say the same re-sites that challenge Holocaust fundamentalism,or describe how the Lobby has hijacked US foreign policy,or document the Jewish supremacist agenda underlying of all these.
The Felton book's 911 section posits the likelihood that 911 was in the first instance a vast insurance scam attributable primarily to Silverstein and Eisenberg.They both had a vested financial interest in having the Towers reduced to rubble.The latter had significant links to the Israeli leadership and the Lobby.These are links that crop up repeatedly in any serious research.
Caricaturing such evidence as Jew-baiting is a familiar Zio-shill tactic.They know how reticent the soft left in particular is about the need to move beyond the Jewish victimhood sterotype.They are quite keen for you not to do that.
If you really want to understand 911 IGNORE THE PHONEY DEBATE SHILLS:Larry,angri,oilman,crabs et al.They're here to prevent you overcoming your Frankfurt brainwashing in time to notice the way they parrot the terrorists' deceptions,aid and abet the deceivers,act against the vast majority of humankind by allowing governments to perpetuate wars,torture and the erosion of civil liberties.
http://takeourworldback.com/911realitydeniers.htm
Posted by: tungsten at February 18, 2010 9:35 AM
Breath of fresh air,tungsten!What a blessed relief.
Apparently the shill budgies have been at the Trill again.They've stunk the place out and left a nasty fetid air behind them.
The takeourworldback.com link came from Ziofascism's most recent 911 coverage.
http://ziofascism.net/blog/2010/02new-911-images/
Shill-baiting's legal still isn't it?
Not if Sunstein and the disinfo crew have their way it won't be!
Posted by: Freeborn at February 18, 2010 9:46 AM
"The link:911 For Reality Deniers posted by Freeborn was a watershed for this debate in that it foregrounded luminously the fact that those who deny the reality that 911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB have lost the argument decisively and have nothing left on which to fall back apart from the deception scam that underlay the 911 operation in the first place."
Cuckoo..... You are a bit mental aren't you! I haven't seen a single actual fact that supports this crazy theory let alone the theory that it was an inside job. But hey, each to their own!!
Posted by: chris, glasgow at February 18, 2010 9:57 AM
Мне понравился стиль, кое-что хотелось бы поподробнее узнать 4ч
Posted by: dioroRorEpife at February 18, 2010 11:30 AM
"Do you know Rob MacKillop, the lutenist? "
I had his first collection of adaptations from Skene etc when he was still just plain Robert Phillips. We've never met, but exchange emails occasionally due to the overlapping interest, and we have friends in common. I expect we'll bump into each other at some point. I think we also have a shared political point of view - not difficult to infer, I suppose. You might also like (for musical interest and lightly veiled radicalism) Purser's 'Scotland's Music'. He caused quite a stushie a few years ago with a radio broadcast on Robert Burns, during which those things were said which must never be said. Ian Anderson (who you may know) was also squeezed, for his music broadcasts which always seemed to have a whispering ground-bass of subversion. I once tried to persuade him to broadcast Inti Illimani's 'En Libertad' a few days before a general election - he wouldn't, though.
Back to McKillop - the 'ud was set up to get as close as I could to old lute tuning. Chords aren't easy on a fretless instrument, of course, but the old Scottish lute music just hits the occasional bass, so mostly do-able.
Also just took delivery of Curt Sachs' 'Rise of Music in the Ancient World - East and West'. A musicological detective story, highly recommended. There is more to the Damascus Drum, too...
tinyurl.com/thedrum
tinyurl.com/enlibertad
Posted by: Vronsky at February 18, 2010 12:11 PM
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Posted by: JetePreta at February 18, 2010 12:16 PM
I am going to investigate the destruction of 7WTC and 5WTC in the next few weeks.
Then move on to what we know about the 6WTC.
On 7WTC Larry Silverstein said this:
I remember getting a call from the, eh, fire department commander, telling me they were not sure they
are going to be able to contain the fire, and I said you know we're had such
terrible loss of life
an' the smartest thing to do is pull it[the building],
eh, eh, and they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 18, 2010 12:56 PM
"Angrysoba,
I believe that you have deceived me, and I wonder why."
No idea what you're talking about.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 18, 2010 1:26 PM
Mark Golding: "I am going to investigate the destruction of 7WTC and 5WTC in the next few weeks.
Then move on to what we know about the 6WTC."
We can't wait. It took NIST hundreds of structural engineers thousands of hours and millions of dollars to do what Mark Golding is about to perform in a few afternoons armed with nothing but Google and a nose for conspiracy.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 18, 2010 1:32 PM
"I remember getting a call from the, eh, fire department commander, telling me they were not sure they
are going to be able to contain the fire, and I said you know we're had such
terrible loss of life
an' the smartest thing to do is pull it[the building],
eh, eh, and they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
Okay, Mark. Your investigation needs to get it right from the beginning in that he wasn't talking about pulling down a building. He never said that.
Could you explain why you think "pull it" is significant to inside job theories? Crab didn't bother to answer that question.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 18, 2010 1:35 PM
"an' the smartest thing to do is pull it[the building],"
It's so interesting that the conspiraloons think they have a slam dunk with that quote, yet they always seem to need to improve on it. Someone above adjusted it to say "we made the decision"
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 2:11 PM
"Could you explain why you think "pull it" is significant to inside job theories?"
You might try asking the BBC. In their documentary debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories, when showing the footage of Silverstein they cut before he reached the words: "and we watched the building collapse". Ask them why.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 18, 2010 2:13 PM
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Posted by: JetePreta at February 18, 2010 2:19 PM
Понравился стиль автора, неординарный 5с
Posted by: nuGnoiceempon at February 18, 2010 2:53 PM
Vronsky: totally fascinating!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 18, 2010 3:00 PM
It will be interesting to see what you come up with, Mark. What's desperately needed is a rigorous review of the literature and a chasing of everything back to primary sources. It's time to stop playing around with chrisangrylarry - we should speak only to each other. I do believe the shills are worth reading, though - they clearly did not study history, and seem unaware of the pitfalls of unwitting testimony.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so what evidence we can find must be sifted carefully. I suspect Suhayl might argue that a claim that the US government murdered 3000 of its own citizens is not particularly extraordinary, and mathematically I'd probably agree - in Bayesian terms, the prior probability of such a thing is not especially low. But (alas) we must deal in political terms and resistance to the thesis is so high (both naturally occurring and artificially maintained) that only the toughest evidence can be admitted for consideration.
You're off on a long journey, so you might want to consider a tool like Zotero (a Firefox add-on) - I've found it very handy. Just Google it. I believe it makes it possible to share research databases with others, but I haven't tested that bit of it yet.
Back to fixing a new nut on the 'ud. I think I might have to restring too.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 18, 2010 3:37 PM
Ok Ok we will get slowly - right now I have to say after many years in the Navy I have never heard a commander be so disrespectful under severe conditions to call brave men from a damage control party
------------ 'it' ----------
Having said that, we can move on.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 18, 2010 3:54 PM
Vronsky,
I hope you will include the report done by Dr Barbara Lane, structural fire design solutions expert of ARUP, into the "extraordinary evidence" as it was actually done by someone with a huge amount of experience and not by a bullshit artist.
"It's time to stop playing around with chrisangrylarry - we should speak only to each other."
Is that because everything that you have come up with is a load of old crap? Also don't fucking label me a shill, I commented on this post because I have some expertise in this area and I wanted to highlight mistakes made by some people but you like many others clearly have your blinkers on and won't listen to that!!! It is very frustrating when people with little understanding about a subject think they can become experts by simply reading a few websites. If you really want to understand the collapse of the WTC buildings then go back to uni and learn structural engineering and stop reading other unqualified peoples shit research.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at February 18, 2010 4:01 PM
Chris,
Thanks for that mate, I am no expert, but I hope to be able to source the best
research
online and here from experts, presented in a concise way(instead
of perpetual circles).
I am of the opinion that there was foreknowledge, that is all.
I personally welcome you Chris
and hope we can all get into
reasoned and intelligent points of view that hopefully will lead to our
best efforts for a viable conclusion.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 18, 2010 4:58 PM
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Posted by: nuGnoiceempon at February 18, 2010 5:00 PM
Looks like these shill cockroaches include an alcoholic from Glasgow too!
The nebbish network comment under several different handles.Quite obviously they don't like the 911ForRealityDeniers link.More than one has tried to pretend it's a "hate-sight".
What they don't like re-this link is that it describes in a fair amount of detail how these shills operate and how to spot them.
It's a fairly good rule of thumb to take it that when any of the shills:Larry,angri,crabs,oilman,clark,
techni et al tell you not follow a particular research link you can be pretty sure they don't want you to know the stuff that's there.
The serious researchers on this site:Freeborn,Aposate,tungsten et al are posting some first-rate links.Keep up the good work,guys!
I think Craig should feel quite important re-the fact that his blog is infested with disinfo shills.His work as ambassador in Central Asia has obviously led intelligence circles to think he might be disseminating information re-subversion,torture in that part of the world they would rather remained out of the public domain.
Perhaps they even thought he might have put two and two together re-911! I think they're being a bit paranoid on that one!
I think what they most fear is unmoderated comment boards like this one.They're really not happy re-the way the internet technology they invented for military intelligence has blown up in their face.The idea of free speech terrifies them even more.
For the serious researchers still in residence who need some further help identifying the higher level Zio-shills check this:
http://www.planetquo.info/spottheshilldebunked.htm
Poseidon reckons "911 AND THE HOLOHOAX ARE THE ZIONISTS' TWO GREATEST ACHILLES HEELS"-I reckon the shills will be complaining to Craig re-my spelling too!
I'm pretty sure there'll be some guys here who'll have something to say when Craig posts on the "Holohoax"!
Anyone for shill-baiting?
Posted by: Steelback at February 18, 2010 5:09 PM
Apostate,
Steelback,
Juniper,
Tungsten,
Freeborn,
I am still convinced that you are all the same person. I know I'm not a 'shill', though of course I have no way of proving that, any more than you can prove your five supposed identities.
If you wish, you may contact me directly. My name below links to a page with my e-mail address. I'd rather talk to the 'Apostate' incarnation, please.
Larry,
you can contact me too, if you wish. I'm still convinced that your agenda includes angering as many people here as you can. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 5:31 PM
Here's another one the shills-who stage phoney debates and try and bore you shitless so you go away-would rather you never saw.
News as reported at that time that somehow(LOL)slipped off the radar is a coreofcorruption.com speciality.This one's re-the 4 squatters they reported in the corporate press as being in WTC before 911.The story was subsequently dropped,the four were linked with the Mossad crew who were picked up on 911.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da9MvV-SrCo
Posted by: tungsten at February 18, 2010 5:44 PM
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Posted by: Envilikip at February 18, 2010 5:54 PM
FAO Massa Kent wot ain't got no hoomer in ya t'all-
You tink Massa Craig runnin' sum kina dating site or wot?
You mussa know by now I ain't gonna contact yer!Iz got alla ma time took up wid Larry's lady jussa now.
Massa tungzon say you a no good shill gamin' with Larry anyway.He say you a trayter to our country jussa lak Larry anna angri,dat guy widda crabs,tecni,anna that guy drinkin'all da time in Scolan'
Dere woz hole lotta people died dat day inna NY anna millions a dyed since an' you an' that Larry Mishpucka crew jussa trynna stop ebody finin' who dun it cossa dey payz you lotta money,boy!
Youz jussa coverin' dare treasonos asses,boy!
I mite not had a me much educashun but I know Massa tungzon got his hed screwed alrite anna he say deres gonna be lotta trouble for people like you wenna God Almity say the dey da truth gon come out-dares some mite angry people gwine explode coz dey bin leffa wid nothin'!
Massa tungzon say same people what shelled out our rich country left us wid jussa 7% peuple left in making indusry-dassa pre-Civil War dayz-deyz da one wot dun 911.Issa same loada c---suckers wot doin'it!
Lotta peuple gettin' mad at angri anna Larry coza dey trayters wot workin for dem Mishpuck B'nai B'rith.
We gettin' mad bout this motherf---er too:
http://wtclies.googlepages.com/semiliterateparanoiacsaboutt
Anna nexa time you see Larry and dem numskull shills Massa tungzon say yu wanna ax him if Larry Silverstein don' wan anybody to tink he done 911 den why de Hell ain't he got ridda dat f---in' great bomb crater at Groun Zera yet?
Dassa wot give t'all away,man.Now you dumb shills gon' tella him bout dat!
Posted by: juniper at February 18, 2010 6:33 PM
Bored with this endless carousel.
Has anyone, seriously, been swayed in opinion either way? I doubt it.
I could care less what any of you thought about 9/11. What's important to me is what I think about it. What's important to you people? I'm sure none of you could give a shit what I think. (and that's fine by the way).
Only those with penetration into public opinion should care about what people think of them, after all, they're talking to you!
Craig has made it clear he in the camp of the official narrative (or story). I am in complete disagreement with him.
Posted by: Edo at February 18, 2010 6:47 PM
Angrysoba, you wrote -
"It took NIST hundreds of structural engineers thousands of hours and millions of dollars to [find an explanation for what WTC7 did]...
...and you don't find that odd?
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 6:53 PM
Edo,
no, that's not what Craig wrote.
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 6:55 PM
More on debunking disinfo teams.This is their modus operandi in a nutshell.
This is Larry,angri,techni,clark,and oilman's training manual.After you've watched try out the twelve 911 coincidences on them(LOL).
911 Debunking For Dummies is here:
http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/
If they show their dumb faces here again you just know what they'll be covered in!
New site up soon:shillbaiters.com
Posted by: tungsten at February 18, 2010 7:02 PM
Clark,
which bit of "I could care less" didn't you understand?
Posted by: Edo at February 18, 2010 7:05 PM
Sorry Edo.
Why are you still reading, then? And posting?
"Has anyone been swayed either way?" - well, sort of... I have learned some stuff. It has been mostly disappointing, though.
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 7:10 PM
Hi,yawl!
I tol' ya Massa tunzon hadda hiz hed screwed right on.Yu shills lookin' mity stupid now ain't ya! Talk 'bout not bein' able use your own critcal facultees anna followin' da herd instink insted!
Ebody down here inna St Louis jussa bustin' dare sides laughin' so loud lookin' dat debunkin' film wid yawl in it exposed for wot yu really are!
Hell,Larry you ain't never gon' show yer face on Massa Craig's site agin now are yer?
I gotta feelin' you oughta jussa spend time tendin' wid Massa Silverstein's cathouse now.Yous anna da disinfo team includin' dat angri,clark,anna oilman mussa jus gotta finish it all or youz all jussa gon' makka youselv looker even mo' stupid.
Massa tungzon say hezza waitin' for yawl!(LOL)
P.S.Larry issa true yu ritin' a book real soon? Issa call HOW TO MAKE A COMPLETE ASS OF YOURSELF..For Dummies?
P.P.S.Massa angri yu ougtta be shame yoursel',boy.Wot wid yu got a blog an' all anna you makin' out you doin' your own reserch anna yu cribbin' all da time ouuta dat Debunking for Dummies book!
Tink Iz gon check your blog soon anna let em know whatta cheapskate shallow scarlatan you are,boy!
Posted by: juniper at February 18, 2010 7:20 PM
tungsten
I just watched 911 Debunking For Dummies.
I knew this disinfo team was low grade but maybe I gave them just far too much credit.They're not ADL or B'nai B'rith or even Mishpucka-far too dumb for that.
As was said a long time ago on this thread this crew are just a bunch of saddoes who worship their own willies when everyone else is in bed!
There's a couple more just come out of woodwork tonight.This must be the disinfo subs bench!
Don't hold your breath!
Posted by: Steelback at February 18, 2010 7:37 PM
Silly sod, multiple character Apostate. "Tungsten's" link doesn't work. How could anyone have followed it?
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 7:43 PM
For anyone who missed it:911 Debunking
For Dummies is here:
http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/
Rumour has it Larry and angri thought this site might be a source of ammunition for them against the Truth movement.
Did they make a mistake!
Posted by: tungsten at February 18, 2010 7:45 PM
Clark wrote:
"...and you don't find that odd?"
Clark, only a truther would think the way you do.
1. It was a unique collapse.
2. NIST spends an equivalent amount of time on similar events.
3. Knowing the causes of the collapse was very important for building engineering.
4. If NIST had not dedicated such resources, people like you would think it was "odd." Since they did dedicate such resources, people like you think it's "odd."
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 7:51 PM
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Posted by: Envilikip at February 18, 2010 7:53 PM
Clark
It works dickbrain.
You still trying to cover their asses?
Bit late,now.
Humourless Shill.(LOL)
Posted by: tungsten at February 18, 2010 7:56 PM
Larry,
I'm not a "truther". Just curious.
Angrysoba:
"Unique" = odd.
"Tungsten":
Yeah, I got the wrong link.
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 8:01 PM
Larry you showed up!
Had a feeling you were that dumb.You've been rumbled pal.We found your training manual.
http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/
You and the disinfo team had your cover blown big time.
Are you sure you want to carrying on making a complete arse of yourself?
Feeling lucky punk? (LOL)
Posted by: Steelback at February 18, 2010 8:06 PM
Dingbat Larry!
I knew you were a complete phoney.Maybe you get some kind of high from rubbing shoulders with people who are far and away your intellectual superiors-I mean people like juniper seem to be able to wipe the floor with you!
Did you fake your legal qualifications too?
You've been exposed as a fourth-rate 911 shill.Go away and hide would be my advice.
Free academic qualifications here:
PhDsForDummies.com
Go for that Wallmart check-out job tomorrow.Not in St Louis though!
Posted by: Apostate at February 18, 2010 8:16 PM
I ain't laffer so much sinz I red 'bout ol'Dubya chokin' onna pretzeel!
Gon' mitey quite yawl.I reckon Larry,angri,clark,edo,anna dat guy wid crabs all lookin' in dat book.Dat 911 Debunkin' Fer Dummyz!
Hell dey got mitey lotta cribbin' for dey get on back to yawl!
You tink dey mita jussa bord 'chother bout shitless wid dat 911 horseshite dey allus talkin'?
Dey startid out trine bore usta dead an now dey done gon' done to deyselfs!
Issa eether dis or maybe 'tween you an'me dem disinfo debunkin' guys jussa little bitty shame deyselfs anna bitty embarass an' all bout lookin' so stupid.
Tink Issa jussa gon mosey my way over to dat angri's blog.He oughtta get hissa message board moderated mitey quick,yawl! I got few tings I gon say ta him bout bein' a scarlatan tendin' he doin' all his own reserch.
Now we all know he wassa jussa cribbin' ev'ting outta this here book:
911 DEBUNKING FOR DUMMIES
http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/
Posted by: juniper at February 18, 2010 9:24 PM
"Has anyone, seriously, been swayed in opinion either way? I doubt it."
--Edo
They rarely are in internet comment threads like this. Clark and I may have found out a few things we didn't know. I'd say that's about it.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 18, 2010 9:38 PM
One subject that never came up here (I think?) was insider trading -- financial transactions in the week or so before the attack indicate that individuals used foreknowledge of 9/11 to profit from it in huge figures.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 18, 2010 9:39 PM
Btw, after a good look at their comments I agree with Clark: Apostate, Freeborn, tungsten, Steelback, and juniper, are seemingly one and the same person. I never bothered to check before.
I suspect the truth lies somewhere between the magic Arabs and an inside job. A plot that was hatched, and then aided and abetted, or deliberately allowed to come to fruition, probably by Cheney (that evil torture-loving so-and-so.)
Posted by: dreoilin at February 18, 2010 9:41 PM
Just watched http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/
It's a hoot - LarrytheLawyer to a T.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 18, 2010 9:42 PM
1. Huge figures? Right. Reminds me of Austin Powers - "one million dollars!!!!!!!" Actually, the dollar figure involved was more like 5 million dollars. As a young corporate attorney in NYC at around that time, I saw so many private equity firms throwing around 5 million dollars at lots of silly Internet ideas. At that time, that was throw-away money to financial institutions.
2. The volume in futures trading for the relevant stocks was similar to the volume in previous periods.
dreoilin, like almost everyone else here, you strike me as someone who's never read a response to your positions.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 9:45 PM
And dreoilin, with that little note on "insider trading" - you completely demonstrate how much you've been manipulated by right-wing Americans.
The following link would clear up the issue for a normal rational person:
http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Put_Options
But then I know you'll continue to dedicate your mind to conspiracy ideas created at sites like prisonplanet.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 9:50 PM
dreoilin, so you're also guided around by people like juniper ("Massa") and Steelback and tungsten.
You're in bed with some sick folks.
But then you're the person who met one or two Americans that thought Ireland was part of the UK and based on that made sweeping generalizations about a country with over 305 million people.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 9:54 PM
Larry's just done a classic number from
"911 DEBUNKING FOR DUMMIES"!
:))
I'm off to play the guitar, folks. Seeya on some other thread.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 18, 2010 9:58 PM
By the way, Larry, this
"The volume in futures trading for the relevant stocks was similar to the volume in previous periods."
is a lie.
seeya kiddo
Posted by: dreoilin at February 18, 2010 10:03 PM
No, I made several relevant and rational points. You, however, are an idiot.
"Seeya on some other thread."
Truthers are so easily defeated. No matter, dreoilin, from studying truthers, you'll be talking about the put options for years to come. It's a religion to you.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 10:05 PM
"is a lie.
seeya kiddo"
Apparently you lack the ability to read. Are you not able to read the following?:
http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Put_Options
One strange thing about you is that you don't have a problem reading and believing American right-wing extremists and Muslim right-wing extremists.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 10:07 PM
Oops, and so is this:
"you're the person who met one or two Americans that thought Ireland was part of the UK and based on that made sweeping generalizations about a country with over 305 million people"
and anyone who wishes to check this particular LIE can read the thread entitled "Jack Straw Forgets His Lies" for him or herself.
Gotta fly - I'm needed to record a demo of a song.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 18, 2010 10:07 PM
dreoilin, you mentioned that you met some Americans who didn't know that Ireland was not part of the U.K.. The last sentence of your paragraph was the following:
"One does wonder what Fox News does for the American people. (Or just how badly their standards of education have fallen.)"
It's the old "I met an American" argument. Somehow such events impact on all of America - we've heard this before.
But I'm beginning to doubt that you even met such people. You're incredibly deceptive.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 10:12 PM
"You're incredibly deceptive."
You haven't one example, or one shred of evidence, to make such a statement. In fact you're being very deceptive by not quoting the exchanges from that thread. Which, as I said, can be read by anyone, at any time. I clarified *exactly* what I was talking about. And you had no answers, Mr Pseudo-lawyer.
I didn't realise you were quite such a gobshite until now.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 18, 2010 11:39 PM
dreoilin, but I did quote from that thread!
Let's review.
Someone said something about authorities in Dubai.
You said you had met some Americans who weren't knowledgable about the world.
You concluded with "One does wonder what Fox News does for the American people. (Or just how badly their standards of education have fallen.)"
Did I miss anything?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 18, 2010 11:50 PM
Dreoilin,
it was when Larry charicterised your concern for the Haitians as political opportunism that I really started to suspect how little humanity resided in his heart. When Arsalan pointed out how Larry uses the Nazi Holocaust for exactly the purposes he accused you of, I knew that Larry had no morals. And then he revealed that he's a lawyer, and I thought of Blair, and I knew just how our world has ended up in this awful mess.
Posted by: Clark at February 18, 2010 11:53 PM
claimed: "The volume in futures trading for the relevant stocks was similar to the volume in previous periods."
fwiw disputed:
http://www.911research.wtc7.net/sept11/stockputs.html
The Bloomberg News reported that put options on the airlines surged to the phenomenal high of 285 times their average.
Over three days before terrorists flattened the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, there was more than 25 times the previous daily average trading in a Morgan Stanley "put" option that makes money when shares fall below $45. Trading in similar AMR and UAL put options, which make money when their stocks fall below $30 apiece, surged to as much as 285 times the average trading up to that time.
(just another delusion?)
.....
Yeh, the thread has been pretty mental, with so many perspectives pushed and contested. Ive gotten involved in squabbling which i wouldnt have done in a normal thread -or if i was a bigger person. One of the reasons it is so easy to bother the ,bothered crew is that the official narrative has to be stretched so much in order to account for the multiple events multiple pecularities. (putting it diplomaticaly i think) Defending it involves constant appeals to cultural norm and attacks on critical faculties, even intuitive and technical ones.
Its been years since ive debated this subject and ill be content to leave it be again. Ive found it encouraging to see how many of craigs finest commentors do not "not tolerate CONSPIRACY THEORIES" ahem. Thankfuly there is a good section willing to apply their best judgement regardless of such scare terms.
Im ducking out now guys but always follow the blog and hope to contribute and chat properly sometime. Im sorry i couldnt engage more.
Thanks for the chats and keep well youre a great bunch'
...but I cant resist leaving a little challenge for the distinguished Chris :]
Chris, Larry established that Wtc1's collapse generated some supershrapnel which managed to glance off Wtc7 from almost 400 feet away. Could you advise us of the rough speed (indicated by the distance involved perhaps) and mass of the shrapnel required to cause the damage to wtc7 (included in a couple photographs on the debunking site you linked to earlier).
I would guess conservatively around 50 mph and several tonnes, but you could demonstrate your expertese by outlining a proper calculation, or failing that linking to someone elses decent analysis. Any ideas of how a gravity driven collapse could generate such lateral ejections could also be instructive.
Good luck all'
Posted by: crab at February 19, 2010 12:09 AM
Dreoilin, I bickered with Larry because he was/is always being an arse and i can be an arse back. But ive noted you're quality ms you neednt bother with him. Let him bust his keyboard :)
Clark, im gonna email you sometime about a little project you might find interesting and have an idea about..
cya
Posted by: crab at February 19, 2010 12:20 AM
Dreoilin wasn't concerned with the Haitians - she was concerned with finding additional reasons to dislike Americans. She's decided to dislike Americans, and she goes out and finds supporting evidence. She couldn't make it any miore clear.
And I have no idea why you think I "use" the Holocaust for such reasons. Yes, I think Nazis are bad. The Holocaust is fairly good evidence for that. Arsalan was probably making a different point, but his Jew-hatred makes it hard for me to interpret his ramblings.
I have no morals?
Fuck off.
And now you're going to whine, whine, whine, whine about me telling you to fuck off.
Because that's what you do Clark.
And, by the way, you making the argument that lawyers = Blair = bad is the best argument you dumbass conspiracy nuts have made on this thread.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 12:23 AM
Crab,
I'll be looking forward to that project.
See you, too.
Posted by: Clark at February 19, 2010 12:38 AM
angrysoba: "It took NIST hundreds of structural engineers thousands of hours and millions of dollars to [find an explanation for what WTC7 did]..."
Clark: "...and you don't find that odd?"
No, of course not. It was an unprecedented event.
And as Larry said, the findings of such an engineering report, particularly into the effects of fire damage, is probably very useful to people tasked with designing buildings.
But feel free to contact some university engineering faculties or some architectural firms or engineering firms and ask them if the amount of time and effort they put into determining the cause of a skyscraper collapse was odd.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 19, 2010 12:45 AM
"It took NIST hundreds of structural engineers thousands of hours and millions of dollars"
The oddest thing is that despite all the manhours and money they didn't get round to providing computer models to illustrate and substantiate their work. Any ideas as to why that might be?
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 12:50 AM
Crab: "Chris, Larry established that Wtc1's collapse generated some supershrapnel which managed to glance off Wtc7 from almost 400 feet away. Could you advise us of the rough speed (indicated by the distance involved perhaps) and mass of the shrapnel required to cause the damage to wtc7 (included in a couple photographs on the debunking site you linked to earlier)."
Crab, this is silly. No one is talking about massive amounts of "shrapnel" being blasted across Manhattan. This is you trying to suggest explosive detonations by stealth.
Okay, given that your calculation of the distance between WTC1 and WTC7 is 400 metres, how much force would it take for debris from the WTC1, which was over 1300 feet high, to fall on the base of WTC7?
Answer: Almost none at all as the building was peeling outwards.
BUT supposing it was the plan to demolish the WTC7 by first demolishing the Twin Towers with explosives. How would the conspirators have guaranteed that ANY of the debris of the Twin Towers would have reached the WTC7?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 19, 2010 12:54 AM
"The oddest thing is that despite all the manhours and money they didn't get round to providing computer models to illustrate and substantiate their work. Any ideas as to why that might be?"
No, because I'm not an engineer but please feel free to try what I suggested above.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 19, 2010 12:57 AM
Angrysoba, he's talking about NIST not providing such evidence. But then he's lying, as NIST did provide such evidence.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 1:03 AM
"But then he's lying, as NIST did provide such evidence".
If so then only you and NIST know about it. They provided no computer models. If you have information to the contrary then kindly provide it.
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 1:21 AM
MJ, you'll just move the goalposts.
As Angrysoba noted above, "I was annoyed when MJ asked me to find evidence of funerals and body parts of passengers at the Pentagon and wouldn't accept newspaper reports of funerals."
You're a dishonest religious nut who has no intellectual interest but plenty of hateful interest.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 1:33 AM
MJ,
I admire your ongoing and calm requests for evidence. I really don't know how you cope with all Larry's slurs. Well done.
Posted by: Clark at February 19, 2010 1:42 AM
Again, Clark, you say some harsh things, but then you whine whine whine when a rational person does the same thing.
Heh MJ - tell us more about Area 51!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 1:45 AM
"the building was peeling outwards"
The building went straight down into its own footprint. What went outwards was dust. The concrete just turned to dust. The people clearing up found no pieces of concrete bigger than a house brick.
Here's a pic from your favourite site: http://www.debunking911.com/WTC7.h5.jpg. WTC7 hasn't even been covered in enough dust for it to be visible on the roof.
NIST's failure to provide models of its analyses is highly significant. It means that other engineers are able to test NIST's hypotheses. You are happy to denigrate Steven Jones's scientific credentials, yet he has never produced a piece of work as crass and amateurish as this.
The reason they didn't provide models is because they were unable to reproduce a symmetrical, near to free-fall speed collapse into its own footprint that didn't involve explosives.
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 1:48 AM
"MJ, you'll just move the goalposts"
I'm asking you for evidence that NIST provided computer models. A perfectly reasonable request, particularly since you had the gall to call me a liar for pointing out - correctly - that they did not.
"As Angrysoba noted above, "I was annoyed when MJ asked me to find evidence of funerals and body parts of passengers at the Pentagon and wouldn't accept newspaper reports of funerals.""
And as I'm sure angrysoba will concede, I have responded perfectly adequately to that - twice! I suspect he simply overlooked it the first time.
"You're a dishonest religious nut"
Yawn. You are clearly rattled. Computer models anyone?
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 1:57 AM
MJ, I'll get back to you in about 2 hours.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 1:58 AM
I'm to bed now so take your time Larry. I think you'll need it.
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 2:03 AM
well i'm working and the girlfriend needs some luvin
i'll try to work you in
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 2:26 AM
"The global models of the towers extended from several stories below the impact area to the top of the structure."
From: http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/NCSTAR1-6ExecutiveSummary.pdf
Therefore the models did not address the collapse, only the conditions in the area from the impact points to the top of the buildings. Well well.
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 2:31 AM
Hey Larry,
I hope you're not mixing business and pleasure?
Posted by: Clark at February 19, 2010 2:36 AM
"University of Manchester, UK, professor of structural engineering Colin Bailey said there was a lot to be gained from visualising the structural response.
'NIST should really show the visualisations; otherwise the opportunity to correlate them back to the video evidence and identify any errors in the modelling will be lost, ' he said".
http://www.nce.co.uk/wtc-investigators-resist-call-for-collapse-visualisation/537313.article
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 2:40 AM
From the same article:
"But it [NIST] said it would 'consider' developing visualisations of its global structural collapse model, although its contract with the finite element analysis subcontractor was now terminated".
Heck, that's a pity.
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 2:49 AM
MJ, thank you for bringing up Colin Bailey. So in 2005 he stated he had problems with NIST's methodology. Fine - although other professionals differ. But two things -
1. Has he said anything on this in the last 5 years; and
2. He doesn't seem to believe in your supersecretnanothermite claim, does he? That is, he doesn't believe in the grand conspiracy theory, does he? If that were the case, we'd have heard something from him since then. He would be sitting on such valuable information!
Why don't you give him a call just to check?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 3:45 AM
MJ, I'm not going to provide you with anything new - I just wanted a chance to go down this thread.
In any event, it would seem like it is time for people like you to start telling us what you think really happened and why.
For starters, if they had already brought down the Towers with super-thermite, after the plane crashes, why would they have wanted to destroy WTC7, where admittedly no plane had crashed? Can you answer that question?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 3:48 AM
"The building went straight down into its own footprint. What went outwards was dust. The concrete just turned to dust. The people clearing up found no pieces of concrete bigger than a house brick.
Here's a pic from your favourite site: http://www.debunking911.com/WTC7.h5.jpg. WTC7 hasn't even been covered in enough dust for it to be visible on the roof."
The computer I am using is a bit crap so I can't see the picture you posted but I don't understand the point you're making.
There was no dust on the roof? Even if that's true it warrants a "So what?" The WTC1 building didn't simply collapse "into its own footprints" massive sections of the building can BE CLEARLY SEEN peeling of the tower and collapsing against the side of WTC7. There are several videos of this. No, it didn't land on the roof of WTC7 but that building was very tall.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 19, 2010 4:02 AM
Thanks guys (Clark and crab).
I'll be back shortly, but not necessarily on this thread.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 19, 2010 12:02 PM
A decidedly muted performance from the shills last night.
Can you wonder at it?I just checked out the Debunking For Dummies film and those disinfo guys now seem so pathetic it's almost cruel on my part to even engage with them.They're simply not remotely qualified to discuss these topics.
The topics I mean are connected to the very idea of what it means to be human and therefore cannot realistically be tackled by people who have no real conception of history or philosophy or indeed their own humanity.
Check out the film link on this page by suraci.It's the film,Defamation,by an Israeli film-maker called Yoav Shamir.
In narrative terms it follows a group of Israeli teenagers on a visit to Auschwitz.In philosophical terms it tries to make the case for a decoupling of two concepts the shills are very keen for us to conflate.These are the concepts of anti-semitism and anti-Zionism.
For radical Zionists the two concepts overlap so that all criticism of Israel is evidence of latent but persistent anti-semitism.ADL activists led by Abe Foxman are seen propagating this view throughout the movie.But anti-Zionists like Finkelstein,Meirsheimer,Walt and David Hirsch also take part.
Hirsch has a memorable near death experience at an Israeli Foreign Office event organized by the Zionist establishment to discuss these issues as they are raised in the Lobby book by Meirsheimer and Walt.
After three days where speaker after speaker had denounced the book as anti-semitic Hirsch got up and reminded them that world anger against Israel comes not from anti-semitism but from disgust at Israel's use of state power to humiliate,occupy and punish the Palestinians in W.Bank and Gaza.
You can hear a pin drop! Hirsch holds his ground and notes the irony of his situation to Shamir that back home in UK he's often denounced as a neo-con,Israel-supporting,anti-Palestinian racist.
The film has both humour and at times unbearable poignancy.There are other unforgettable moments and you're unlikely not to sit down and think after you've watched.
http://suraci.blogspot.com/?zx=18d144f264b02d35
Personally it seems to me that elite planners wanted a an aggressive militant state in the Holy Land to forward their long-term geostrategic agenda.Those elites are still working to cultivate the siege mentality that feeds that militancy in Israel in the next generation today.
No mention whatever is made of 911 but the film will be resonant for anyone interested in the issues that attend that event.
Posted by: Freeborn at February 19, 2010 12:07 PM
"There was no dust on the roof? Even if that's true it warrants a "So what?""
My point was that if not a great deal of dust made it WTC7, what chance would heavy debis have? t would have to be a huge chunk of steel, which would still be lying around after the impact. But the steel sections didn't 'peel'. They went straight down. Also, WTC7 was shielded from the twin towers by WTC6, which was undamaged.
"Why don't you give him a call just to check?"
Larry, your preoccupation with personalities rather than evidence is both tiresome and revealing. I quoted Bailey to hammer home the point that NIST did not publish models of the collapse to support its analysis, which was the point at issue. You called me a liar for suggesting such a thing. I take this pathetic dissembling to mean that you now accept that NIST did not publish models. Thank you.
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 2:20 PM
I think this piece by Elizabeth Woodworth is a little optimistic - but perhaps there is a sea change.
http://tinyurl.com/genieoutofbottle
Posted by: Vronsky at February 19, 2010 3:29 PM
Vronsky,
No, the 911 Truth Movement continues to hemorrhage followers.
Yes, there are, once in a while, a few mentions in certain media outlets. I'm thinking mostly of Russia Today, which is clearly a propaganda arm of the Kremlin.
As mentioned above, you people seem to not understand the concept of peer review. As a refresher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review
One indication that that Danish professor is batshit crazy is that he thinks his paper has been peer reviewed. At a minimum, the silly goose does not understand how science works. He submitted his paper to a vanity publication, which was happy to publish his paper for something like $800.
You likewise can have your paper published there for $800.
Then I suppose you'll be able to say that you've published a peer-reviewed scientific paper.
You people make this too easy.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 9:04 PM
MJ,
In any event, it would seem like it is time for people like you to start telling us what you think really happened and why.
For starters, if they had already brought down the Towers with super-thermite, after the plane crashes, why would they have wanted to destroy WTC7, where admittedly no plane had crashed? Can you answer that question?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 19, 2010 10:46 PM
Larry: while I think there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate pretty conclusively that the official account is wrong, I don't think there is enough evidence to state with any certainty what did actually happen. There are several hypotheses out there, take your pick. One or any may have a grain of truth, who knows? I have a few ideas but they're only speculation.
"why would they have wanted to destroy WTC7"
Some have speculated that WTC7 was the operational centre and destroying it was an efficient way of destroying the evidence. Maybe it was so Silverstein could collect the insurance money. Maybe it was for some other reason. What do I know?
Posted by: MJ at February 19, 2010 11:20 PM
Dreoilin,
Songs of freedom :)
Larry,
I didn't 'blow' your cover even though I mentioned 'debunking the debunkers' several times.
But thanks for spreading my 'little black helicopter' around.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 19, 2010 11:21 PM
Some people say to me, 'Mark, why waste your time on 911. So where does this absurd
driving force come from?
I believe 911 was so shocking, so frightening that for a while, several years in fact, 911 affected
thinking profoundly. It warped the mind and like a genie out of the bottle, invoked an overpowering human feeling of revenge.
That change, that combined strength of feeling (as witnessed here on this thread)warped rationality
and that lead to war on Iraq and the murder of so many innocent,
still in pain, still suffering, still dying, nine years on.
I feel that pain - it never relents, it never goes away; a constant reminder and the reason I am here.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 19, 2010 11:51 PM
I spoke with my bother-in-law Dave. His only knowledge of 911 was watching the newsflash in disbelief.
Without prompting from me, he said 'how can a building turn to dust" before your very eyes."
Well - how can it?
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 20, 2010 12:01 AM
Mark, have you learned nothing in this thread?
That's the classic argument from personal incredulity (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity)
Dust?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwFHEoiUZ7o
In the second video, it appears that they're using water sprayers to control the dust.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 20, 2010 2:39 AM
"That's the classic argument from personal incredulity"
The problem being, of course, that the fallacy cuts both ways, and can apply to either side of the argument.
I have to say that I'm pretty sure that neither you nor angrywotsit yourselves believe the official account of 9/11 - else it is difficult to explain the energy (and vacuity) of your posting here. Conjurors don't believe in magic.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 20, 2010 1:23 PM
Vronsky, once again you make no sense.
I just looked at the thread above and I missed the fact that you attempted to imply that the BBC also might be part of the conspiracy.
You are a loon.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 20, 2010 2:12 PM
For the next Honours List, I propose Sir Lawrence of Saint Louis, for at least a KBE, for services gratefully rendered to Empire. Who will second this?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 20, 2010 3:57 PM
"My point was that if not a great deal of dust made it WTC7, what chance would heavy debis have? t would have to be a huge chunk of steel, which would still be lying around after the impact. But the steel sections didn't 'peel'. They went straight down. Also, WTC7 was shielded from the twin towers by WTC6, which was undamaged."
Massive sections of the building DID, indeed, peel outwards as you can see in this video. And if you think WTC6 shielded WTC7 could you explain the relative heights of the two buildings?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSq663m0G8
You can just click on my name if you want to watch the video.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 20, 2010 5:29 PM
"Without prompting from me..."
In other words you knew immediately it was an inside job-controlled demolition in which thermite dissolved a steel building into dust and even your brother-in-law knew it?
Mark, you're a little full of yourself. Does anyone ever tell you that?
Posted by: angrysoba at February 20, 2010 5:44 PM
Message in a bottle for Suhayl:
http://tinyurl.com/ygwt9q4
...to be continued...
Posted by: Vronsky at February 20, 2010 6:51 PM
"Mark, you're a little full of yourself. Does anyone ever tell you that?"
Oh my gosh, it's true - Americans have no sense of irony.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 20, 2010 10:53 PM
Vronsky, that's an anti-American fail.
Angrysoba is not an American.
So, in other words, you're not generalizing on the basis of 1 out of 305 million people ... it's much worse than that ... you're generalizing on the basis of someone who's not 1 out of 305 million people.
No big deal; this happens quite often.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 20, 2010 11:39 PM
MJ: "Some have speculated that WTC7 was the operational centre and destroying it was an efficient way of destroying the evidence."
So anything that had been put onto compauters would have been destroyed? I don't think that's the most efficient way of doing it and it is hardly certain. How do they know the data doesn't exist elsewhere on back-up discs or can be accesssed from other computers. And if the stuff is on paper files then this seems like the perfect way to get such evidence scattered all over Manhattan not to destroy it.
Posted by: angrysoba at February 21, 2010 1:23 AM
Not to mention they would subsequently have to blow up the operational center that was used to blow up that operational center, and the operational center that was used to blow up that operational center ... turtles all the way down!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 21, 2010 2:05 AM
Heh troofers - did you know that Steven Jones PhD is now writing about chemtrails and weather modification and man-made earthquakes?
He's already expounded on Jesus' coming to the great United States in a wooden submarine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051124053614/http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/jones/rel491/handstext+and+figures.htm
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 21, 2010 8:34 AM
Larry,
Steven is solid - I though his solar powered cooker was a gift.
Dr. Jones has given several hundreds of the aluminized-mylar Solar Funnel Cookers to families in developing countries in Haiti, Bolivia, Kenya, Turkey and Ecuador, with the most recent solar-cookers given to folks in Mali (2006, see photo below) and Mozambique (2007). More will go to help refugees who have fled from Iraq and/or Kenya.
Beats spending hours and hours debunking the debunked!!
So what are the volatile substances in the dust Larry - or were the experiments some sort of sick joke in your eyes.
Apart from calling everyone loons and morons(silly goose sits OK with me - I like geese) you are repeating yourself about faith -and Jesus -and wooden submarines.
Give us a definitive argument Larry - not condemn the publishers -
Wot are the volatile substances found in 4 separate samples, in four separate locations at G0 by joe public?
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 21, 2010 2:51 PM
What do you mean by "volatile substance"?
Oh, and, heh, did you clear up whether bin Laden was buzzing around the WTC in a helicopter prior to 911?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 21, 2010 5:46 PM
Larry,
You know what I mean - you read the analysis that used some of the most advanced analytical methods known to man.
No point in answering a question with a question - unless of course you are a politician, or, a two bit lawyer.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 21, 2010 6:01 PM
What? Where?
The word salad is not enough.
I'm not sure what exactly "the most advanced analytical methods known to man" are, but surely it's not the work of a lonely narcissistic creepy mad scientist.
By the way, how does it feel to take part in a failed movement?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 21, 2010 7:09 PM
Oh and Mark, the death porn on your website is really really sick. I know you don't really care about the children of Iraq. Pics of blood and gore are fetishes to you. It's quite obvious that you fit into that diagnosable pigeon hole.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 21, 2010 7:11 PM
" quoted Bailey to hammer home the point that NIST did not publish models of the collapse to support its analysis, which was the point at issue. You called me a liar for suggesting such a thing. I take this pathetic dissembling to mean that you now accept that NIST did not publish models."
MJ, NIST didn't publish a computer model on the collapse because they only investigated to the point of collapse. I guess that they felt that they only needed to understand what lead to the collapse not how they collapsed. However, if you look at Dr Barabra Lane's investigation into 9/11 she modelled, with the help of edinburgh uni, the collapse of a similar structure to WTC and found that the fire alone would have been enough t0 cause the collapse. I can see why Colin Bailey would say that as he wants to see if NIST have made any errors in their calculation or if they match the video footage but I don't think you can label him in with the 9/11 truth squad because of that quote.
Posted by: chris, glasgow at February 21, 2010 10:56 PM
"I guess that they felt that they only needed to understand what lead to the collapse not how they collapsed"
I guess everyone else felt they needed to know how and why the rest of the building collapsed, right to the bottom, into its own footprint and at near freefall speed. Quite why NIST did not feel it needed to explain this startling phenomenon is beyond me.
"if you look at Dr Barabra Lane's investigation"
Is there a visualisation? Does the model produce a near freefall speed total collapse into its own footprint, caused only by localised fires and damage near the top of the building? Have her calculations/assumptions/data been peer reviewed?
"I don't think you can label him in with the 9/11 truth squad because of that quote"
If you pay attention to what I wrote you'll see that I didn't. I was simply using his quote to prove once and for all to Larry that models were not published. I would imagine his view is that's NIST's case is unproven until they provide models. Checking for errors is of course rather important. I understand they failed to factor in the conductivity of steel...
Posted by: MJ at February 22, 2010 12:07 PM
I actually went to the trouble of reading the Barbara Lane stuff - there really isn't much of it. She says she has a computer model that explains what happened.
But to begin, let's do as the shills do, and poison the well. Ms Lane works for ARUP, consultants to NIST, and sure as shit this lady is not going to reach any conclusion different from the official one (else she wouldn't be published and you'd never have heard of her). Also, her business is fire protection, so she murders the NIST theory. Fires, says Babs, would have been fine just by themselves to bring the house a-tumblin' down - no planes needed, no Arabs need apply. This lady has a product to sell.
Accepting that the lassie has to sell her services (a'body gin mak a crust*, as we say in Scotland) there are two practical considerations. I worked with computer simulations for many years, and I learned (the hard way) that you can make them come out with any result at all. People resort to simulation when a problem has a very large number of variables, and even someone like me, with an inordinate gift for mathematics, cannot write out simple lines of calculus to describe the problem. Nevertheless one tends to find in higher management a belief bordering on the religious that if a process is deterministic then it must be determinable. Of course the briefest of acquaintances with chaos theory, or fluid dynamics, or philosophy, or even poker - will tell you that this is not true. So Ms Lane's predicament is familiar to me: she has been told what the result must be, and she must investigate what initial conditions will yield that result. Happily it is always possible to find such conditions. Less happily, it is not always possible to persuade your employer that the assumptions you have made are plausible in the real world - but relax: he never asks unless your model says something he doesn't like. So the first point is that we know that the assumptions in the model were not freely made - they were constrained to give a particular outcome. I'm sure that Dr Lane could have as easily defined a set of initial conditions that would have had the WTC towers launch into space - that would be no more improbable than what we saw.
Secondly, a minor point of arithmetic. Lane's model proposes a 'compression pulse' which is transmitted from a fire damaged floor to the next below, then from that to the next below, and so on down through the floors. Relating this to WTC1, 90 absolutely undamaged floors succumbed to this pulse in around 10 seconds, or a little over a tenth of a second each. As my old Irish mother would have said, if you can believe that, you'll eat all you see.
*Everyone is entitled to make a living
Posted by: Vronsky at February 22, 2010 8:29 PM
Thanks, Vronsky! The pics are fab - including the cool cat! 'Tree of strings', wow, that's amazing! I know a clarsach player, Phamie Gow, who makes some amazing music. Her album, 'Lammermuir' inspired some of the 'Michael Scot' material in Joseph's Box', it being said that the great mgus split the Eildon Hills, in the Scottish Borders, in two by the power of his magic.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 22, 2010 10:00 PM
Vronsky: And the Damascus Drum Seattle band are amazing! A fantastic, and internalised, commonality, I love that about folk music, it's the pulse of the earth. Do you know of a US band called Kaleidoscope?
crab, from earlier in this, surely longest, of threads, thanks, hope you dig the work! As I always seem to say, much of it goes well with lots of Turkish coffee.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 22, 2010 10:18 PM
"it being said that the great magus split the Eildon Hills, in the Scottish Borders, in two by the power of his magic. "
..and Finn McCool's army sleep beneath the little hill of the Eildons, and if you can find your way into the cave there is a horn on the wall, and if you blow it, they will ride out again. I suspect you might like Fiona Davidson, archetypal stories with harp, 'The Language of Birds'.
tinyurl.com/ygl2kbe
Warning: bruja blanca..
Posted by: Vronsky at February 22, 2010 10:19 PM
Oh, and got the new nut on. I'd previously tuned the 'ud to something approaching the old Scottish lute tuning, but decided just to bring the strings up to where the tension in them felt right. Did that. Intervals of a fourth between strings is easy to set by ear, so did that. Top string ended up at middle C, way below where I used to have it. Checked on the web - traditional Arabic is tuned in fourths, middle C at the top. Spooky or what?
Posted by: Vronsky at February 22, 2010 10:29 PM
This thread is looking friendly at present, so I'll post.
Suhayl Saadi,
I've just read The White Cliffs, the only book of yours that my library holds. Thank you for it, it is very moving.
Crab,
I'm still looking forward to that 'project' that you promised me...
Posted by: Clark at February 23, 2010 9:12 AM
I won't pretend you didn't upset Larry; I can no longer debate with you.
You are here to spread hate, chaos and insults.
Conversely I have some respect for 'angrysoba' who is prepared to put rationality and honesty behind most of his comments.
It is reasonable to tell me I'm a little full of myself; a comment that promotes inner thought not disgust.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 23, 2010 10:49 AM
"I have some respect for 'angrysoba' who is prepared to put rationality and honesty behind most of his comments"
I second that. Unlike Larry, angrysoba is well-informed and knows his stuff.
Posted by: MJ at February 23, 2010 1:42 PM
Clark, that's great, really glad you liked 'The White Cliffs'. I dramatised that story for the stage a few years ago; as a two-hander, of course, and with a strange backstory added...
You know, there is actually a tea-room on the cliffs above/ close to Eastbourne which fits the description of the one in the book, though with a different name of course.
Vronsky, Middle C, that sounds cosmic (and I'm sure it does!), will check out the link, thanks again.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 23, 2010 4:13 PM
"I won't pretend you didn't upset Larry; I can no longer debate with you.
You are here to spread hate, chaos and insults."
[speaking in best and most terrifying Glasgow accent]
Ur you talking tae me, jim?
Posted by: Vronsky at February 23, 2010 6:12 PM
The Fiona Davidson storytelling-and-harp is spellbinding! Thanks for sharing the link.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 23, 2010 8:26 PM
Larry,
My site was uploaded after a long and painful amount of soul searching. Several weeks after the site went live I received an email with a very large picture of a dead Iraqi baby in the back of a black polished hearse. The baby had no coffin.
Below the picture was a one liner that read, 'What do you think of this Mark?'
I relied to the Hotmail address, remarking how sick and disgusting this email was. I received no reply.
Some time later another gmail read, 'Go out after 8 o'clock at night and you will be fucking dead, you c*nt, I hate you.
That was 2005 - coia.org.uk stayed and its pictures are used on a multitude of sites, most deeply sad, mourning the thousands murdered and many more trying to help those in Iraq left disfigured, in pain and traumatized.
I have found just two others in this sea of charity, just like your sick comments Larry, have use my pictures to insult, to vilify, to hide the truth of an atrocity, to shroud a massacre with despicable lies.
Larry, only a child hides under the covers from the bogie man.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 23, 2010 8:56 PM
I would suggest that the last two comments, made by 'anarchore' are completely unacceptable and racist and possibly designed (their very focused content suggests this) simply to give the site a bad name and have it blacklisted. My view is that they should be removed.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 25, 2010 6:54 PM
That was quick! Thanks. The comments have now been removed.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 25, 2010 8:47 PM
You recognize, people always enact comments when anything is predicted to take place in 2012, like “fairly that is if the faction is subdue here.” You do effectuate that the Mayans suggest the humanity will end on Dec. 21 (or 23rd)? So in all strong if anything is accepted to take place in 2012 there is only the slimmest chance that the everybody will take ended before it happens.
[url=http://2012earth.net
]switch to consciousness 2012
[/url] - some truth about 2012
Posted by: Astronomical picture at February 25, 2010 11:17 PM
Syntactically, this sounds like the great Stanley Unwin, thematically, more like David Icke.
I predict that... it will rain somewhere in Britain today.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 26, 2010 6:59 AM
Since we're thoroughly off-topic now, excerpt from an email to an American friend:
The 'rogue cop' legend is interesting, maybe important. It's funny how pretty much all modern fictional cops conform to the stereotype - they don't follow regular procedure, they behave pretty badly altogether, but they always get the bad guy. The strong suggestion is that rules are only for those who aren't fully committed to winning the game - only wimps follow the rules. Of course it would be hard to make a drama out of real police methods - it's pretty dull stuff, which I suppose is why we call them 'plods'. Having said that, Dirty Harry's model of justice seems in danger of becoming the pervasive one. At the movie level he breaks all the rules, but it's made to seem the right thing to do. At the level of global politics, it means ignoring the UN, international law and the Geneva Conventions and then defending this with some sort of 'Dirty Harry' rationale - we are justified in all this because we will vanquish the evildoers. Those who want to abide by the law are portrayed as ineffectual hand-wringers.
In the real world Dirty Harry would have died in the street early in his career - it only needs one punk to get lucky. American/British lawlessness in the Middle East carries the same risks. If we prefer murder to the rule of international law then that will be what we get. The US and UK mainlands will increasingly become targets of retaliatory violence - oops, I mean terrorism. Remember what the IRA said after they narrowly failed to assassinate Margaret Thatcher: you have to be lucky all the time, we only have to be lucky once. Arab response to western aggression has the potential to be more extensive, more prolonged and better resourced than the IRA could ever dream.
Feeling lucky, punk?
Posted by: Vronsky at February 26, 2010 9:09 AM
Vronsky, to define terrorism as retaliatory violence is just sick. Have you ever heard of Sayyid Qutb? Do you understand the genesis of Al Quaeda? Should the intl community (including Syria, France and Japan) stayed out of the Gulf War and allowed the annexation of Kuwait by Iraq? Should Saudi Arabia refused to allow the presence of American troops on Saudi soil and instead relied on bin Laden's Afghan Arabs to kick Hussein out of Kuwait?
I don't think that a lack of faith in international law has anyting to do with Clint Eastwood movies from the early 70s. I think it might have to do with the experienced outcomes of irrational adherence to international law, like the outcomes in Bosnia and Darfur.
What did the international community do to stop ethnic cleansing in both areas?
When you bring up "Dirty Harry", you reveal a complete lack of imagination. If only because Clint Eastwood's continuing evolution as a filmmaker and actor should be some clue to you that things actually do change.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 26, 2010 1:55 PM
They're coming to get you, larry.
tinyurl.com/burningfuse
Posted by: Vronsky at February 26, 2010 4:12 PM
I love lying Anglo-Kike vermin like Craig Murray.
He completely ignores the fact that military grade nano-thermite was found in the wreckage, and proceeds to finger his own rectum for things that will point people away from the murderous Isr-elis that control America, who every single thread of evidence points to.
The resulting pile of stench is then rolled around in by other Kikes in his comments section.
The only thing you’ve proven, Craig, is your complicity in perpetuating toxic J-daic rule
Posted by: anarchore at February 26, 2010 4:47 PM
More racist, insulting garbage from anarchore.
Clint Eastwood - an intriguing and hugely talented actor-director. I do see your point though, Vronsky. If we're looking for negative icons, Rambo and some of Arnie's movies and all those aggressive computer-games are perhaps more aligned with 'gung-ho-ness'.
Do people agree that anarchore's recent comments are unacceptable? They add zilch and simply link to what looks like a very dubious website.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 26, 2010 4:59 PM
Vronsky, so you point me to another conspiracy site.
Millions and millions of people receive vaccines without adverse effects.
Gullible people like you get tricked by twisted fucks like Andrew Wakefield.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 26, 2010 5:55 PM
Suhayl, you gatekeepers have lost... give it up and hang up your filthy Rothschildian star.
Who are you to determine 'dubious websites'?
My top ten instances of Zionist control in Canada, sent shockwaves through the internet, where you scum try to manage public opinion.
Google ziofascism... dubious website? No, a very true, sure and established site, the NWO is running scared from.
Posted by: anarchore at February 26, 2010 6:18 PM
anarchore, who do you think did 911?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 26, 2010 6:34 PM
Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity, 'tis said. But I wonder. The rather unwelcome group of posters who appeared here a few weeks ago have a common theme - they either pose as anti-semitic, or raise accusations of anti-semitism. A conspiracy theorist might easily imagine that they were making common purpose, as there seems a particular desire to link scepticism of the findings of the Kean Commission with anti-semitism - note larry's rather bald invitation to 'anarchore' immediately above. I suppose we've had relative peace - their primary objective (place discussion of 9/11 off limits) was achieved, and remarkably quickly.
Anyway - I thought Dirty Harry carried police work into the realms of vigilantism and the United States, the self-appointed policeman of the world, has followed the same trajectory. Whatever we do is right, because we do it - and anyone who says otherwise is anti-semitic, it would appear.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 26, 2010 9:24 PM
Suhayl Saadi,
I agree with you that Anarchore's comments are racist, insulting and unacceptable, and contribute nothing.
Vronsky,
I too see the common theme that you describe. I also note that posters on both sides of that argument are aggressive and extremely unpleasant.
Posted by: Clark at February 26, 2010 10:33 PM
" particular desire to link scepticism of the findings of the Kean Commission with anti-semitism"
Stop whining.
I don't automatically regard 911 conspiraloons as anti-Semitic nuts, because I know some of them who aren't conspiraloons and the two don't exactly equate, but the conspiracy nuts make it very difficult for me. They use many of the same tactics and sources of the Holocaust deniers. In any event, many many many just come out and say that the Jews did 911.
"United States, the self-appointed policeman of the world, has followed the same trajectory. Whatever we do is right, because we do it - and anyone who says otherwise is anti-semitic, it would appear."
Now you should really quit whining about this.
On many occasions I've vehemently disagreed with U.S. foreign policy. I was never called anti-Semitic. Sometimes I agree with it, but I don't automatically call my opponents anti-Semitic.
You're just a whine machine.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 27, 2010 4:02 AM
And Vronsky, in addition to stopping the whining, you should stop being so narcissistic.
There's no conspiracy against you. You're inconsequential.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 27, 2010 4:04 AM
larry, what you perceive as whining may be something else.
http://tinyurl.com/yzkwoth
Posted by: Vronsky at February 27, 2010 9:18 AM
For anyone who can take a little light mathematics, here is a very succinct proof that the towers could not have fallen as a result of fire and gravity.
tinyurl.com/yhootwe
Eppur si muove?
Posted by: Vronsky at February 27, 2010 9:47 AM
"Vronsky ... whining ... narcissistic.
no conspiracy against you ...inconsequential"
I have seen this rubbish posted so many times on US blogs and websites - a list of words and phrases that they learn off by heart, and throw back at anyone who disagrees with them, apparently mistaking them for argument. It is intensely boring.
I'm surprised he hasn't told Vronsky yet that he's "looking for validation" and that Larry is not going to give it to him - so there. Nyah nyah.
"many just come out and say that the Jews did 911"
I notice you refer to 'Jews' all the time, Larry. If I'm accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza (which I do) I use the term Israelis. I have nothing against Jews and I know that the majority in Israel are in fact atheist. Israel has used Holocaust blackmail on the rest of the world for long enough. It's past time the country was held accountable for its crimes. And even in Israel they are recognising that the hoary old anti-semitic argument just doesn't fly anymore.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 27, 2010 11:28 AM
"many just come out and say that the Jews did 911"
Even more come out and say that the Muslims did 911. Including you Larry. Does that make you anti-semitic or is that what the evidence shows? If the latter then please: name your two best pieces of evidence that Muslims did 911.
Posted by: MJ at February 27, 2010 12:04 PM
Vronsky, yes, there's a long tradition of 'frontier justice' vigilantism in US cinematic culture. Think of Gary Cooper and all the other 'outsiders', Clint Eastwood's 'Spaghetti Westerns' (and later, Dirty Harry) as being examples of this theme. Batman too. It may go right back to the beginnings of the 'frontier' in C17th as well as to self-reliance/ C18th individualism, a kicking-back against British aristocracy and the taxes of the Crown and so on. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (capitalist extraordinaire)...
I find it fascinating and some of the best films in specific genres - crime, Westerns - have concerned themselves with such themes. But I entirely agree that of course there is a danger if in one's mind one begins to confuse this kind of existentialist art with geopolitics and I think that reliance on such iconic portrayals to bolster/ justify political machismo is a tactic that the many right-wing 'shock-jocks' with their endless aggressive adages, for example, utilise constantly in their choreic ejaculations.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 27, 2010 1:17 PM
Yeah, Clark, actually I tried to post again last night to make the point Vronsky made about the 'call-response' dynamic, which seems almost eerie, but I think maybe the 9/11 thread had been frozen for a while.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 27, 2010 1:26 PM
"I have seen this rubbish posted so many times on US blogs and websites"
dreoilin, perhaps because Americans are a bit smarter than the British. Perhaps because we're given a better education in skepticism - that is, we're taught to demand evidence before we believe in silly conspiracy theories.
Were you personally involved in the Crop Circle Movement of the last century?
But then again, I don't think that's remotely true. I think there are roughly the same number of Brits and Irish people and Americans who believe in conspiracy silliness, and also the same number who have rational minds.
dreoilin, you're just pure anti-American. Nothing new; I've seen it before. You met ONE American who said that he thought that Ireland was part of the UK and you thought that that person's ignorance reflected on education in the U.S. and how Fox News is having an influence. (I was giving you the benefit of the doubt before in believing that you met 2 or 3 Americans who might have said this, but you and I both know that it was only 1).
In any event, you've decided to hate Americans, and you're out in the world right now finding whatever evidence that you can come up with.
You state that "narcissistic" and "inconsequential" are "words and phrases that they learn off by heart" - how incredibly silly of you. To the extent that you see such words on American blogs, (i) I wonder what blogs you're reading - certainly not conspiraloon blogs, because they don't allow comments that interfere with their religion and (ii) non-Americans would be just as quick or slow to say such things.
But dreoilin, I'm willing to bet that you never saw such "rubbish" on American blogs and websites "so many times." I think that, once again, you're deluding yourself.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 27, 2010 2:07 PM
"For anyone who can take a little light mathematics, here is a very succinct proof that the towers could not have fallen as a result of fire and gravity.
tinyurl.com/yhootwe
Eppur si muove?"
OK, Vronsky, so the crazies came up with a new word salad.
Thank you for confirming the parallel between 911 deniers and evolution deniers.
Evolution deniers also have a few PhD'd scientists who write jibberish in vanity journals.
Why didn't David Chandler submit his paper to a respectable journal? Why is he afraid of peer review?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 27, 2010 2:21 PM
And David Chandler is INTENTIONALLY misleading. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhY9c_iemA
Just the sort of idiot that you idiots will listen to.
David Chandler has an impressive degree. And then he became a high school teacher. Must be some fucked up psychology there.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 27, 2010 2:41 PM
"we're taught to demand evidence before we believe in silly conspiracy theories"
That's great. Perhaps then you might care to answer my question from earlier: name your two best pieces of evidence that Muslims did 911.
I'm sure you didn't subscribe to the official silly conspiracy theory without satisfying yourself that the evidence in its favour was strong...
Posted by: MJ at February 27, 2010 3:29 PM
Ted Olson went on CNN’s Larry King show and claimed he received several cell phone calls from his wife Barbara Olson (watch his interview w/ Larry King below) - however this was later debunked by the FBI who now claim that Barbara Olson had not managed to place any calls. (in 2001 Cell Phone calls from airliners were impossible and that 757 was not equipped with seat phones).
Olson’s Story Contradicted by the FBI
The most serious official contradiction of Ted Olson’s story came in 2006 at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker. The evidence presented to this trial by the FBI included a report on phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. In its report on American Flight 77, the FBI report attributed only one call to Barbara Olson and it was an “unconnected call,” which (of course) lasted “0 seconds.”9 According to the FBI, therefore, Ted Olson did not receive a single call from his wife using either a cell phone or an onboard phone.
Back on 9/11, the FBI itself had interviewed Olson. A report of that interview indicates that Olson told the FBI agents that his wife had called him twice from Flight 77.10 And yet the FBI’s report on calls from Flight 77, presented in 2006, indicated that no such calls occurred.
This was an amazing development: The FBI is part of the Department of Justice, and yet its report undermined the well-publicized claim of the DOJ’s former solicitor general that he had received two calls from his wife on 9/11.
Here we have Ted Olson speaking on LarryKing live, just after 911 attacks, about the conversations with his wife. Watch from 3:00. He doesnt seem too unhappy and he sounds so emotionally fake...
archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/pentagon.olson
edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/14/lkl.00.html
s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/telegraph030502.html
intelfiles.egoplex.com/2008/03/911-commission-fbi-source-documents.html
9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/staff_statement_16.pdf
911research.wtc7.net/cache/planes/analysis/chic_remembered.html
Posted by: undercover_agent at February 27, 2010 4:08 PM
Heh conspiraloon,
That Ted Olson bullshit has been debunked
over
and over
and over
again.
And what a disgustingly creepy claim it is. The woman is dead, and like a weasel you're hunting for anomalies.
And why are you all of a sudden believing everything that the FBI says? Aren't they supposed to be part of the conspiracy?
Do you people believe that Barbara Olson is still alive?
Did she sacrifice her life?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 27, 2010 4:29 PM
Agent Coulson here:
We knew about 911 for fucking ages but 'certain' people wanted to take advantage and hit the White-house. That's why they fucked up the Pentagon strike because their hard planned thought out fucking decoy plot was compromized. Two fucking years they planned, the bastards nearly lost the key player through dirty women, fucking alcohol, coke and money. Good riddance Rummy no wonder they crippled ya - my advice was a hit.
Posted by: undercover_agent at February 27, 2010 5:00 PM
"That Ted Olson bullshit has been debunked"
And it was the FBI who debunked it. No phonecalls from Barbara Olson to her husband. He therefore started telling 911 porkies before the dust had even settled. Has he no respect for the dead - or the truth?
Come on Larry: your two best pieces of evidence supporting the official story if you don't mind. Any more prevarication and I'll start thinking you can't think of any, or are ashamed to say it. (Handy hints: holdalls; flying manuals; copies of the Koran; passports; impossible cellphone calls...)
Posted by: MJ at February 27, 2010 5:35 PM
larry - please explain the fault you find in Chandler's mathematics.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 27, 2010 7:23 PM
For all you critical thinkers, here are some thoughts on the pseudo-science of American high school teacher David Chandler: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=168450
Posted by: Truthers will fall for anything at February 27, 2010 7:25 PM
"You met ONE American who said that he thought that Ireland was part of the UK and you thought that that person's ignorance reflected on education in the U.S. and how Fox News is having an influence." --Larry
Post your fiction, Larry, it changes nothing. It doesn't change the numbers, and it changes none of what has been said to me in the past 5 years of arguing/debating on right-wing American blogs. And since you weren't there, and know damn-all about it, I really don't care tuppence about your fantasies.
As for falling standards of education in the USA, I posted you links and an excerpt on the other thread, where I mentioned the right-wingers and Fox fans. You ignored them. And here you go all over again, trying to claim that I'm a liar. God help you. You're pathetic.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 27, 2010 8:06 PM
dreoilin - be honest. How many Americans have you personally met who thought that Ireland was part of the U.K.?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 27, 2010 8:20 PM
"For all you critical thinkers, here are some thoughts"
No, those are not thoughts, that is abuse. And Randi as a source? Oh, you really are having a laugh now. Here's one choice quote from the thread you link: "I cannot believe that someone with enough brain function to breathe can write something like this. How retarded do you have to be to write that resistance to impact = weight ?"
Well, you just have to have learned Newton's laws of motion, which in the UK at least most people encounter about the same time as the onset of puberty. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Ring any bells?
Check here - http://tinyurl.com/cyn5sn - for a simple explanation in large type and bright colours.
The poverty of the language and the staggering ignorance of elementary physics displayed on the Randi site is highly suggestive of pre-pubescent posters. However if you wish to present this material as characteristic of the quality of argument against Troofers, I am more than happy to support you.
Chandler's mathematics is actually very simple - if it contains an error you should be able to point it out quickly and unemotionally. I'm waiting (but not holding my breath).
Posted by: Vronsky at February 27, 2010 8:47 PM
Firstly, what's wrong with Randi? His debunking of homeopathy and crop circles? But of course, I'm not citing Randi - I'm citing the people who congregate at his site and debunk silly claims like Roswell being an alien contact, fluoride being used for mind control and space beams being used on the World Trade Center.
Why doesn't this high school teacher get his paper published in a respectable journal? Why doesn't he submit his paper to proper peer review?
You'll note on that Randi thread how the proponent of that paper can't help but dodge genuine criticism. I encourage anyone to read that thread, and any thread on Randi's site as regards 911 conspiracies (or the various myths of religion, alien visitation, cryptozoology, etc.)
Posted by: Truthers will fall for anything at February 27, 2010 9:44 PM
And I'm not an expert in mathematics. I haven't touched the subject in many years.
I'm also not any sort of expert in biology. The link below is to a paper written about some unique properties of the bacterial flagellum. The claims are being used to add support to the so-called theory of intelligent design. The paper sounds science-y. I can't demonstrate why it's so wrong. But I know it's so wrong, as I trust the well-reasoned arguments of those in the field, and I trust the scientific consensus.
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?id=389
Posted by: Truthers will fall for anything at February 27, 2010 9:56 PM
"the proponent of that paper can't help but dodge genuine criticism"
On the contrary, he patiently addresses the few pieces of substantive criticism. It's the hysterical name-calling, which makes up the majority of the responses, that he ignores.
Since Larry seems tongue-tied on the issue, let me put my question to you, 'Truthers will fall etc': in your opinion, what are the two best pieces of evidence supporting the official story?
Posted by: MJ at February 27, 2010 10:04 PM
don't getit here - why the fuck worry bout our 9/11 shit - yr MI5 screwed up we heard. You let the fucking terrorists bunk off - only to shoot the fuckers outside the hotel at your Canaries Sidewalk. Now that is fucking British - then ya shoot some poor bastard in the head right in front of people on a tram!!! Fucking dumb appeasing Brits. Gotta get out of here.
Posted by: undercover_agent at February 27, 2010 10:45 PM
"why the fuck worry bout our 9/11 shit"
Because it was a defining moment in modern history and because the perpetrators left enough clues at the crime scene to make it interesting.
You said something in an earlier post that intrigued me, undercover_agent. You said:
"That's why they fucked up the Pentagon strike because their hard planned thought out fucking decoy plot was compromized"
Could you elaborate on that?
Posted by: MJ at February 28, 2010 12:22 AM
So you don't understand maths, but you know Chandler's maths are wrong because someone who has never heard of Newton's Third law told you so? If you are going to surrender your judgement to authority, you might at least try to select more respectable authorities.
And this thread is not about crop circles, homeopathy or mind control - on those matters you can nourish your infantile need to feel superior over at Randi's. And read a few more of the posts on that thread you linked to - they're the best argument against intelligent design I've seen in a while.
Posted by: Vronsky at February 28, 2010 1:04 AM
"but you know Chandler's maths are wrong because someone who has never heard of Newton's Third law told you so?"
Right, so if someone does not support what high school teacher David Chandler writes down on a vanity journal / website, it must mean that they've never heard of Newton's Third Law.
Why doesn't David Chandler submit his paper to proper peer review? If his conclusions are so obvious, wouldn't the many journals who publish such subject matter be happy to entertain such ground-breaking work?
But that will never happen. He'll continue to teach high school and otherwise help fools like you in reinforcing your beliefs.
I also don't believe David Chandler because he's lied in the past. There are various videos of Building 7 falling. He chose a video that supports his conclusions. He ignored all the other videos.
Posted by: Truthers will fall for anything at February 28, 2010 2:24 AM
I see Larry has changed his name. What next.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 10:46 AM
It seemed such a simple and obvious question.
What are the two best pieces of evidence supporting the official account of 911, I wanted to know.
I thought "we're taught to demand evidence before we believe in silly conspiracy theories" Larry would leap at the opportunity to pull out a couple of aces and trump all us nuts once and for all.
I thought "Truthers will fall for anything" would be all too eager to demonstrate that his handle is not self-deprecatingly ironic and that the evidence he finds so convincing is as solid as a rock.
Yet so far there is only silence. This reluctance to make your case is making you look increasingly flaky.
Let me repeat the question:
What are the two best pieces of evidence supporting the official account of 911?
Come on chaps, spit it out. Cat got your tongue?
Posted by: MJ at February 28, 2010 12:19 PM
Listen up you Brits - Look, you like America don't you?? - Hollywood - Disney for the kids. Leave this shit alone - you'all wasting your fucking lives - go do some gardening - thats what Brits like yeh?
Heads up Brits I told you enough - fucking law enforcement were shut down onall this - we knew what was going down - it stinks
but after 9years no fucker here in the States will touch it.
So 19 terrorist screwed us - we knew - but were stuffed with a fucking branch down our gobs - for the greater good.
FOR THE GREATER GOOD - so go some place else and shut this house down. forget it - go plant vegetables of make bacon - yeh make bacon we love it - the shit from canada aint nothing like the Brit bacon - forget 911.
Agent Coulson
Posted by: undercover_agent at February 28, 2010 12:38 PM
undercover_agent,
Let me give you some advice on sounding like an American, so you can, next time, sound like a better secret agent American.
We don't write "compromized" - we write "compromised"!
BWWWAAAAHHHHHAHHHHHHAHHHHHHAHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA!
We certainly don't write "the White-house".
And your vocabulary is way off, as often happens when Brits try to imitate Americans. Your crazy text reads like movie dialogue from the 1950s (What are our gobs? Our mouths?).
Tremendous fail. But all that we can expect from a truther attempting to use a new tactic.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 1:09 PM
Hey Larry, why don't you try a new tactic and state the evidence that supports your case?
Posted by: MJ at February 28, 2010 1:30 PM
Truthers will fall for anything!
They will apparently believe anything that Steven Jones writes, because Steven Jones is a scientist so his opinion about super-thermite being at the WTC site is sacrosanct.
Do they also believe that Jesus was an American who came to America on a wooden submarine?
tinyurl.com/2qp23k
Steven Jones wrote a paper about it!
Also, Dr. Jones is now talking about his theory that the U.S. created the Haiti earthquake to exploit their abiotic oil!
When he publishes his "paper" at his website, will the truthers believe that too!
Yes! Because truthers will fall for anything!
Posted by: Truthers will fall for anything at February 28, 2010 1:59 PM
Hey amish mennonite - I suggest you read James Kirkpatrick Davis. you on the pad here?
What you doing in a engine-powered vehicle, ran a red light eh? you better hit the mattress.
Go raise cattle and grew soybeans in the Everton area.
Posted by: undercover_agent at February 28, 2010 2:32 PM
undercover_agent, please keep ranting on like a typical truther.
I think you've still got MJ intrigued - he thinks it's quite possible that you are a secret agent man.
Keep ranting. Do no compromize the integrity of the mission.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 2:49 PM
dreoilin, I'm still waiting on you to substantiate your claim that there were 83 cameras around the Pentagon.
Was your source a right-wing American troofer website? Sounds about right.
Was this your source?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtliol7kU4Q
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 3:01 PM
I think I'll leave larry/undercover/truthers talking to himself, and tiptoe quietly from the room...
Posted by: Vronsky at February 28, 2010 3:01 PM
Vronsky, you're a moron who believes what he believes because some nut American high school teacher non-published a non-paper in a non-journal.
No wonder the truth movement is an abject failure.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 3:21 PM
Hey Larry, why don't you try a new tactic and state the evidence that supports your case?
Posted by: MJ
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 3:24 PM
dreoilin - this is the sort of dumbass American that you take your cues from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhKiAUkw7SY&feature=related
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 3:55 PM
And dreoilin - you are pretty pathetic, aren't you?
You spend way too much time in your life making fun of Americans. You search out reasons to make yourself feel superior to them.
And then you allow the verifiably most stupid Americans guide you down the path of thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory.
What's your source on the 83 cameras?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 3:59 PM
"I think you've still got MJ intrigued"
You've got me intrigued Larry because you won't respond to my simple request to tell me the two strongest pieces of evidence supporting the official account.
The same goes for 'Truthers will fall for anything'. It's like you're both avoiding the question. Why is that?
Come on guys. Chop chop. Take a few moments off from vacuous abuse and stun us with your evidence. Your coyness is getting a little tiresome.
Posted by: MJ at February 28, 2010 4:05 PM
Larry is a bot who asks questions. He then misquotes the answers.
He doesn't answer any himself.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 4:16 PM
Larry,
I have to agree with MJ a true debunker at least answers questions with some evidence; to illustrate this point it is well known that implosionworld.com
has a paper that tries to explain the collapses although fails to explain the collapse of 7WTC and interesting goes on to agree that their own seismographic traces do not prove or disprove any explosion activity.
The scientific paper that found 'volatile' substances in G0 dust, or, in other words particles that display high energy levels when exposed to heat,
is interesting because to date this evidence has stood up to debunking in that only the publishers have been derided not, repeat not, the analysis.
So Larry I ask you again, explain to me, or point me to some evidence that this analysis is a
sham, wrong, misinterpreted, false or a natural phenomena.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 28, 2010 4:34 PM
Mark,
But you'll believe anything!
You believe that bin Laden was buzzing the WTC prior to 911 in a black helicopter!
Do you also believe that the Haiti earthquake was caused by the U.S.? Steven Jones wants you to believe that!
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 4:40 PM
A declassified 'top secret' report reveals that as many as 60 CIA employees knew 18 months ahead of the 9/11 attacks about two Al Qaeda operatives who later became hijackers of the flight that crashed into the Pentagon.
The two men lived in San Diego, California, but the CIA only notified the FBI in late August, 2001.
“What this demonstrates is how large the problem was in terms of information-sharing and the willingness to overcome the culture of secrecy,” said Rand Beers, a Former National Security Council official.
http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/oig-911.pdf
Dubai was the backdrop of a secret meeting between Osama bin Laden and the local CIA agent in July [2001].
A partner of the administration of the American Hospital in Dubai claims that public enemy number one stayed at this hospital between the 4th and 14th of July.
While he was hospitalized, bin Laden received visits from many members of his family as well as prominent Saudis and Emiratis.
During the hospital stay, the local CIA agent, known to many in Dubai, was seen
taking the main elevator of the hospital to go [up] to bin Laden hospital room.
A few days later, the CIA man bragged to a few friends about having visited bin Laden.
Authorized sources say that on July 15th, the day after bin Laden returned to Quetta [Pakistan], the CIA agent was called back to headquarters.
In the pursuit of its investigations, the FBI discovered financing agreements that the CIA had been developing with its Arab friends for years.
The Dubai meeting is, so it would seem, within the logic of certain American policy.
The CIA would have us believe Tenet and other CIA leaders were clueless and maybe they were.
However, as Chossudovsky noted in November, 2003, the hospital mentioned above directly under the
jurisdiction of the Pakistani Armed Forces, which has close links to the Pentagon. U.S. military advisers
based in Rawalpindi. work closely with the Pakistani Armed Forces. Again, no attempt was made to arrest America's best known fugitive,
but then maybe bin Laden was serving another better purpose.
Rumsfeld claimed at the time that he had no knowledge regarding Osama's health. Needless to say, the CBS report is a crucial piece of information in the 9/11 jigsaw.
It refutes the Bush administration's claim that the whereabouts of bin Laden were unknown.
It points to a Pakistan connection, it suggests a cover-up at the highest levels of the Bush administration.
But, for the neocons, ever aware of the feeblemindedness of the average American (except when it comes to football scores),
such refutations are less than meaningless, as such a report can be splashed across corporate media headlines and
few challenge the bankrupt and wholly transparent premise that the CIA was out to lunch on September 11, 2001.
In fact, the CIA was squarely in the driver's seat.
Moreover, if the CIA was indeed interested in hunting down and smoking out Osama and his dour cave-dwelling patsy terrorists,
they may have asked General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan's military intelligence, the "ISI” responsible,
at the behest of the CIA, for creating al-Qaeda in the first place as he was in Washington at the time of the attacks,
brunching it up with then Republican Congress critter Porter Goss and Democratic critter Bob Graham.
It is said they were discussing Osama. In fact, as the Guardian reported at the time,
Ahmad had a bagman, one Omar Sheikh, deliver $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, or somebody who claimed to be Atta.
Times - London
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 28, 2010 5:07 PM
Larry,
You have proved to everyone here you are a strawman or in my words "a two bit lawyer"
incapable of serious debate, incapable of even asking questions.
Without prejudice and with apologies I think it better you inane comments are totally ignored,
in fact, it is only Craig's ardent hospitality, grace and freedom of expression,
I believe, you are still invited to this place.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at February 28, 2010 5:16 PM
"A few days later, the CIA man bragged to a few friends about having visited bin Laden."
You are so full of shit it's still very hilarious.
Now what is the source on this.
It is almost equally valid for me to write that bin Laden is actually Zorg from Planet X.
Do you remotely understand how to parse through claims to find out what is based on evidence and what is based on make-believe?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 6:04 PM
"Mark, But you'll believe anything!"
is Larry's daft explanation for not providing any evidence whatsoever.
He still won't reply to MJ.
He's busy now trying to drag the topic off elsewhere. As he has done a dozen times before. Straight out of that 9/11 Debunking for Dummies vid.
Answer MJ, Lar. Assuming you can.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 6:09 PM
"Do you remotely understand how to parse through claims to find out what is based on evidence"
Precisely what's been done with you. You've provided none. So far.
Answer MJ.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 6:11 PM
"In fact, as the Guardian reported at the time,
Ahmad had a bagman, one Omar Sheikh, deliver $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, or somebody who claimed to be Atta."
Now, Mark and your fellow trooofers, your lies are out of hand. YOU REALLY WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING! The original claim on the $100,000/Atta issue was that the ISI wired $100,000 to Atta just prior to the 911 attacks. It was completely made up - and, just think for a second - what was Atta gonna do with the $100,000 after 911? In any event, the claim is now being twisted into what Mark wrote.
And, pathetically, trooofers like dreoilin will believe that some "bagman" delivered $100,000 to Atta. Just because an insane person like Mark mentioned it.
Heh Mark, and new news with respect to your acquaintance and bin Laden in a helicopter buzzing around the WTC?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 7:30 PM
dreoilin,
83 cameras.
Pentagon.
Source?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 7:38 PM
Still distracting, Larry.
Answer MJ.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 7:38 PM
I found it quite funny that Michael Lind has written extensively about the silly New World Order / Rothschild / Jew conspiracy theory. And then you quote Michael Lind as if he would look favorably upon your nutty conspiracy theories.
dreoilin, have you seen The Men Who Stare at Goats? What's it feel like to be on the side of the guy who ran into a wall thinking he could go through it?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 7:50 PM
Perhaps then you might care to answer my question from earlier: name your two best pieces of evidence that Muslims did 911.
Posted by: MJ | February *27*, 2010 3:29 PM
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 7:50 PM
Larry: how about demonstrating:
1) that you won't just believe anything, and;
2) that you understand how to parse through claims to find out what is based on evidence and what is based on make-believe
by giving us your two best pieces of evidence supporting the official account. I've lost track of the number of times I've asked this simple, basic question and it's getting beyond a joke.
Posted by: MJ at February 28, 2010 7:59 PM
And the same goes for 'Truthers will fall for anything'; more so really, with a name like that.
Until you do, perhaps you should consider changing your handle to 'Supporters of the official account don't even need evidence to believe what they're told'.
Not so snappy, but closer to the truth I suspect.
Posted by: MJ at February 28, 2010 8:07 PM
Heh dreoilin - you're just not a very intelligent person. You made up the fact that you met an American who thought that Ireland was part of the UK. You then said that, because of this person that you DID NOT run into, there must be something wrong with the American education system.
Also, dreoilin, why did you believe in the 83 cameras at the Pentagon thing? Is it because you believe anything that dumbass right-wing Americans tell you if it fits your anti-American purposes?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 8:58 PM
I wish undercover_agent would show back up here and pull his pathetic attempt at being Mr. American Secret Agent Man.
MJ fell for it!
Just like MJ fell for Controlled Demolition Inc. somehow being involved in the destruction of the WTC!
Btw, the claim about Controlled Demolition Inc. comes STRAIGHT from the Alex Jones team!
If Tim McVeigh were still alive, would you also be in bed with him?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 9:06 PM
Here's MJ's main source! Even crazier than most crazy right-wing Americans!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot-AGY8xDqE
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at February 28, 2010 9:11 PM
My God, he's desperate not to answer MJ's question.
Ducking and diving in every direction only the one he was asked.
Larry, hello? MJ asked you a question.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 9:19 PM
"I wish undercover_agent would show back up here and pull his pathetic attempt at being Mr. American Secret Agent Man."
:)
'Course you do. It would be yet another distraction.
Now could you answer MJ?
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 9:22 PM
"Here's MJ's main source!"
My main source for what? Asking you a simple question? Still waiting Larry...
Posted by: MJ at February 28, 2010 9:46 PM
There might be a mix-up between "83 cameras" and "85 videos":
http://www.flight77.info/85videos.html
Posted by: at February 28, 2010 10:03 PM
Question - isn't "Men Who Stare at Goats" a comedy?
Posted by: at February 28, 2010 10:27 PM
Bush was panicking post 9/11, the deed had been done and in his opinion there really wasn't enough solid
evidence to back-up the rouse that Bin Laden was responsible for the attacks.
Bush pressed Tennet hard to come up with more evidence from the
Zubaydah diary which had been translated by a
CIA team in the first few days after the Shabaz cottage was cleaned out.
But Zubaydah was a fixer, a logistics man.
Tennet knew there was nothing 'operational' in the diary,
just fucking nonsense and nothing to link him to the US embassy bombings in
Africa or anything else for that matter.
The administration had created a reality; what it had to avoid in the immediate aftermath of
9/11 was 'a real attack' because now that would be a disaster and right now
Bush needed transparency and accountability.
The 'war on terror' needed validity.
Bush the 'wartime' President wanted freedom from rhetoric and he grasped the opportunity at Greenwich, Connecticut.
In front of a roomful of Republican Party contributors he said,
"The other day we hauled in a guy named Abu Zubaydah.
He's one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and
destruction on the United States. He's not plotting and planning anymore.
He's where he belongs,"
That message was repeated time over by Cheney and Rice in the months that followed.
Dan Coleman told Tenet the diary was bullshit, nothing found and Zubaydah was a nutter.
While Bush was out in public claiming Zubaydah's grandiose malevolence, we had nothing at Langley.
At one of those high pressure daily briefings, Bush snapped at Tenet,
"You're not going to let me lose face on this, are you?"
It was after that meeting that Tenet knew Zubaydah, now fit and well, had to be tortured, had to speak,
had to tell us what we needed. Something he could deliver to Bush and Cheney.
We were worried about misleading the public for no apparent reason except short-term political gain.
Bush had pounded his law advisors for months over the detainment, interrogation,
and prosecution of captives in the "war on terror" as well as debates over which 'debriefing' techniques
would work most effectively on al Qaeda.
The United States would torture a mentally disturbed man and then fuckingleap,
screaming, at every fucking word he uttered.
Zubaydah was waterboarded creating a sensation of drowning. He was punched in the stomach,
he was repeatedly threatened witha gun, and made certain of his impending death. His pain medication was withheld.
He was bombarded with deafening, continuous noise and harsh flashing lights.
He was, as a man already diminished
by serious injuries, more fully at the mercy of interrogators than an ordinary prisoner.
Under this duress, Zubaydah told them everything
they wanted and every city in America was put on high alert.
Fuck you Larry - I was trying to use Brit talk - We will meet soon - conspiraloon!
Agent Coulson
Posted by: undercover_agent at February 28, 2010 10:28 PM
Fascinating. And Blair and our dear rulers were, and are, in bed with these guys. No, sorry, correction: they are waiting hand-and-foot on their masters. Top-class butlers, m'lud, top-class butlers.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at February 28, 2010 10:43 PM
Aha! Agent Coulson arrived as desired!
I think you're going to look a fool if you don't answer MJ, Larry.
(Even more so if you start posting as Anonymous)
So why not respond to his question? Are you not able to, Larry?
You mean you don't have your own theory on how it all happened, after all?
I'm keeping an eye on '9/11 Debunking for Dummies'. This 'Coulson' guy is most likely your back-up -- or even yourself. Pretend arguments are a great distraction. 'Agent Coulson' my arse.
What's needed is your best two piece of evidence for the Arabs, Larry!?
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 10:47 PM
Now, don't you think that 'Agent Coulson' would know that George Tenet's name was spelled with one "n"?
"which had been translated by a CIA team"
LOL! So tell me, how many translators did you have at that time, exactly? Because you were distinctly short of them in Baghdad when you built the Embassy and staffed it.
"Fuck you Larry - I was trying to use Brit talk"
Why? How idiotic! LOL! And you called me a liar.
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Larry, MJ is still waiting!
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 11:02 PM
Dreoilin,
Anonymous above (two posts) was me. Coulson speaks sense - look up Zubaydah. "Agent Coulson" is a character from Marvel comics.
I'm not sure that Larry is alright in the head...
Posted by: Clark at February 28, 2010 11:07 PM
Clark,
You could well be right about Larry.
I doubt if "undercover agents" post on public blogs though. Unless they have a 100%-absolutely-untraceable connection, and nothing better to do. All that material about Zubaydah is on the web.
Posted by: dreoilin at February 28, 2010 11:29 PM
Sorry, Clark, you posted this?
"There might be a mix-up between "83 cameras" and '85 videos'"
Not on my part. I had said 'approximately 83' (I had read 83 somewhere) when I asked Larry for a photograph or video frame of the plane going into the Pentagon. Naturally he supplied no link to a picture, but still persisted in asking me for a source for the 83 -- as if it was sacrosanct.
Must go to bed, I'm exhausted today!
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 12:08 AM
Anyway, I think we can assume Larry isn't prepared to state the evidence for his case.
I can't say I blame him really because it is laughably feeble. The two best (indeed only) pieces of hard evidence that support the official story are:
1) a couple of holdalls found at Logan airport allegedly containing flying manuals, a letter and some wills, pilots' uniforms and copies of the Koran, and
2) those cellphone calls from Barbara Olson on AA77 and various passengers on UA93.
The problem with the holdalls is that it sounds suspiciously like planted evidence. The problem with the phone calls is that it wasn't possible in 2001 to get a connection with a cellphone from a plane flying above 8000 ft or so and faster than 250 mph. This is why the FBI quietly ditched most of that evidence in its submissions to the Moussavi trial.
This then is why critics of the official account are often to be found discussing physics, while the would-be debunkers are reduced to little more than personal abuse and name-calling. This is why the would-be debunkers tend to run away whenever they are asked to defend their own position.
The reason the majority of people still believe the official is not because of the evidence that supports it but because it has simply been repeated ad nauseum by the MSM. That's often called brainwashing.
Yet one indignant supporter of the official account on this thread amusingly calls himself 'Truthers will fall for anything'!
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 12:10 AM
Here's Steven Jones!
The Truther's top scientific mind on Haitian oil and "generated crises".
http://angrysoba.blogspot.com/2010/02/steven-jones-flirts-with-haarp.html
LOL!
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 12:25 AM
“1) a couple of holdalls found at Logan airport allegedly containing flying manuals, a letter and some wills, pilots' uniforms and copies of the Koran, and
2) those cellphone calls from Barbara Olson on AA77 and various passengers on UA93.”
No, the problem is that there isn’t an “official story”. There are vast amounts of overlapping pieces of evidence that explain what happened on that day.
There were phone calls from EVERY plane, not just one from Barbara Olson on AA77 and some from UA93. Conspiracy theorists like to comb through them to pick up anomalies that they seem to believe proves an inside job. Apparently, if various people making phonecalls on that chaotic and no doubt terrifying day don’t agree on every detail that Truthers think they should agree on then that proves the government brought down the Twin Towers with nanothermite after flying something that wasn’t a passenger plane into one of the towers. (Or something. I can’t make out what it is that Truthers believe most of the time).
I’ve gone over this numerous times how the suspects were identified. Much of it no doubt came from a process of elimination as well as other evidence that agreed with it (such as the holdalls which probably don’t figure as the major evidence). By the way, MJ, do you know why any of their bags were held off the plane?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 1:18 AM
dreoilin - you got the number 83 from right-wing American conspiracy-mongers. Google it. Apparently you'll believe anything that those crazies write.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 1:25 AM
"The reason the majority of people still believe the official is not because of the evidence that supports it but because it has simply been repeated ad nauseum by the MSM. That's often called brainwashing."
Is that you morons always go around chanting: "9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!"
And continue bringing up the long-debunked canards about freefall, cellphones, flight manifests, nanothermite, explosive demolitions, no plane at the Pentagon, no Tom and Jerry shape on the Pentagon wall etc...etc...?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 1:58 AM
The reason most people don't believe conspiracy theory drivel is because the conspiracy theories are incoherent drivel.
Despite what you appear to believe about the monolithic nature of the Mainstream Media, 9/11 conspiraloons have had many platforms both in the "mainstream media" and on the Internet in which to spout their nonsense. The nonsense lost.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 2:01 AM
"There were phone calls from EVERY plane"
No. Apart from those mentioned there was allegedly a long call from a stewardess on AA11 to a booking clerk at Logan. None from UA175 however.
"Conspiracy theorists like to comb through them to pick up anomalies"
The fact that the cellphone calls were impossible is quite an anomaly!
"There are vast amounts of overlapping pieces of evidence that explain what happened on that day"
Is that right? You ought to tell some of your like-minded pals on this thread about it. They all skidaddled when I asked them for the best bits.
"the holdalls which probably don’t figure as the major evidence"
Do you recall how the FBI came up with the whole story within 48 hours? That's solely because of the names on the wills and letter found in the holdalls.
"do you know why any of their bags were held off the plane?"
One was found in an abandoned hire-car in the Logan car park. It wasn't so much a case of 'held off' as 'forgot to take on'. The other was Atta's and we are led to believe that it was mistakenly not transferred to AA11 when he switched from the Portland plane. These things happen. It happened to me once and I was bloody annoyed.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 2:05 AM
"No. Apart from those mentioned there was allegedly a long call from a stewardess on AA11 to a booking clerk at Logan. None from UA175 however."
Look, MJ. In two seconds of Googling I can find phonecalls from all of the flights. Even posted by a Troofer looking for anomalies. Betty Ong's phonecall from AA11 is in the public domain. At least part of it.
http://www.911research.wtc7.net/planes/evidence/phonecalls.html
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 2:24 AM
"Is that right? You ought to tell some of your like-minded pals on this thread about it. They all skidaddled when I asked them for the best bits."
More phonecalls:
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?day_of_9/11=complete_911_timeline_alleged_passenger_phone_calls&timeline=complete_911_timeline
EVERY flight had phonecalls made from it.
There were also recordings of things spoken by the hijackers as well.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 2:30 AM
"long-debunked canards about freefall..."
Long debunked? The speed of the towers' collapses has yet to be adequately explained.
"...cellphones"
Long debunked? Hardly. No-one seriously argues these days that cellphone calls could have been made at that speed and altitude.
"...flight manifests"
Long debunked? These documents have never been made public.
"...nanothermite"
Long debunked? The discovery of thermite in the dust is rather significant.
"...no plane at the Pentagon, no Tom and Jerry shape on the Pentagon wall"
Long debunked? Here's a good photo of the impact point: http://tinyurl.com/yhac8zb . No plane wreckage to be seen. No hole for it to have passed through. Do you not see the problem here?
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 2:38 AM
“The speed of the towers' collapses has yet to be adequately explained.”
What would count as “adequately explained” for you? Leslie Robertson who built the bloody things has said that even floor would have given way “instantly” or as far as human perception is concerned “instantly”. It is strange that Truthers like to pretend that the collapse of WTC7 – the so-called “smoking gun” - was covered up by the mainstream media (a lie, of course as it was filmed and reported on at the time and plenty of video evidence exists of it) but the one thing that was VERY, VERY publicly broadcast was the collapse of the towers and yet all but a handful of crappy architects (mostly software) engineers seem to have no problem with the explanation of how the towers came down and don’t think of them as controlled demolitions.
“Hardly. No-one seriously argues these days that cellphone calls could have been made at that speed and altitude.”
Popular Mechanics debunked this in 2006.
“First, communications experts state that cell phone conversations at such altitudes are quite possible. Rick Kemper, director of technology and security at CTIA-The Wireless Association, said, “Cell sites have a range of several miles, even at 35,000 feet [10,670 meters].” Paul Guckian, vice president of engineering for cell phone maker Qualcomm, stated, “At the altitude for commercial airliners, around 30,000 or 35,000 feet [9,145 to 10,670 meters], [some] phones would still get a signal.” (Debunking 9/11 Myths, Popular Mechanics, pp. 83-84.)”
http://www.skepticforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=10830&start=40
“These documents have never been made public.”
Yes, they have. You can see them in Terry McDermott’s book, Perfect Soldiers, about the hijackers. I’ve shown them to you. You didn’t believe they were manifests. You seem to forget that the whole reason there ever was a question about the manifests is because David Ray Griffin couldn’t find the hijackers names on CNN’s victims list because he evidently didn’t realize the hijackers weren’t classed as victims. Do you really have so much trouble with that? You seem to believe the Dubai hospital story without very much evidence.
“The discovery of thermite in the dust is rather significant.”
The discovery that Steven Jones is loonytunes is also significant. What do you think of his recent belief that Haiti has more oil than Venezuala and the US may have “generated a crisis” with the earthquake?
“No plane wreckage to be seen. No hole for it to have passed through. Do you not see the problem here?”
There was plenty of wreckage found and plenty of witnesses saw it. There is even a book out by firefighters who helped put out the blaze who describe what they saw. The remains of all passengers were found except those of Dana Falkenberg. Care to explain why they left her off and yet claimed to have found all the others?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 3:19 AM
Good morning, everyone. And Goodnight, good afternoon and good evening... as the Truman Show used to say!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 1, 2010 7:37 AM
MJ
Good work - "One was found in an abandoned hire-car in the Logan car park. "
Does that remind you of Luton - my god it does!!
Larry - will you answer my question? Dust G0? Spoofed evidence? Red Paint? Contaminated? Opinion please.
I have been trying to find out why the routine video surveillance tapes of 9/11 passengers on flights at Boston's Logan, Newark's Liberty and Washington's Dulles international airports are ALL unavailable. I suspect ICTS but Ezra Harel was unavailable for comment ;-)
Has anyone got a copy of the Motley Rice surveillance tape? It is an important piece of evidence I need.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 9:51 AM
Angrysober,
I can talk to you and at least get some sense. You have a blog site and I have respect for your views.
Clark said, he is not sure Larry is right in the head.
He does seem to act like a child, I mean he seems to be on a juvenile level, playground stuff like repetition, abuse and outbursts when confronted with facts he cannot dispute.
So, what is your opinion on the dust research, even if (in your opinion) Dr Steven Jones is 'looneytunes'
- please remember the pressure he has endured - even so the scientific research holds up and even before this scientific revelation, most Netherlanders believed Bin Laden was NOT involved in 9/11 and SOME now seem to agree there was foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
Attorney Spong has received criticism for upsetting some family members of 9/11 victims,
- but I believe his prime time show was ground-breaking considering also the Dutch are -
- grappling with anti-Islamic sentiment following the murder of Dutch director Theo Van Gogh in 2004 by a Muslim extremist.
Our own main media should now be examining the facts of 9/11 in more detail.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 10:58 AM
Here's that book that Angrysoba mentioned: tinyurl.com/yl53hn7.
Suddenly all the people involved in MJ's conspiracy just grew exponentially! He's even got Controlled Demolition Inc. involved - there are dozens and dozens of thousands of people conspiring against you, MJ!
I find it absolutely fascinating that the silly gooses that inhabit this blog have seemed to have decided on the WORST possible conspiracy theory about 911. That is, pre-planted thermite but no plane at the Pentagon. This really is amateur hour here, isn't it? Or, rather, the conspiraloons here haven't evolved much since around 2005.
At least the true no-planers (that is, people who believe that planes did not hit the Towers), though equally nutty, can tell a somewhat consistent story.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 11:08 AM
Pity you can't tell one of your own, Lar.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 11:45 AM
"What would count as “adequately explained” for you?"
A properly structured and reported scientific investigation into the collapse. One that contained within it the means for it to be disproved by others. Not like the risible NIST report, which not only did not attempt to explain the collapse but did not provide models, so others could not test it for errors.
"communications experts state that cell phone conversations at such altitudes are quite possible"
In which case the phone companies wasted their money when they spent millions developing the technology to enable phone calls from planes. The obvious omission by these 'experts' is the vital element of speed, in addition to altitude.
"You can see them in Terry McDermott’s book, Perfect Soldiers"
McDermott may have got them from the FBI. The FBI may have got them from the airlines. We don't know. The airlines have not publicly released the official manifests. This may or may not be significant.
"The discovery that Steven Jones is loonytunes is also significant"
It isn't actually. He may be as mad as a hatter but fortunately on this occasion his analysis followed a proper scientific method. This means that it can be repeated by others and its failings, if any, demonstrated (vacuous name-calling doesn't count I'm afraid). Compare and contrast with the NIST debacle.
"There was plenty of wreckage found and plenty of witnesses saw it"
Some debris was found. Not a lot. Look at the picture.
"The remains of all passengers were found except those of Dana Falkenberg"
So the Pentagon says. No evidence of this. No funerals (as opposed to memorial services) reported for any of the passengers.
"Care to explain why they left her off and yet claimed to have found all the others?"
Adds a veneer of authenticity to a tall tale?
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 11:48 AM
Larry,
I note your RSS feed
The scientific paper on thermite came out in 2007 - that was a defining point in time for me - because like you I believed the official story.
As a qualified engineer, that analysis raise doubts in my mind.
Here is AE911TRUTH - at the Commonwealth Club - Jan 2009 - membership growing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbtmshpFGgw
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 11:49 AM
Heh dreoilin - yesterday at Ikea I saw a guy act like a real asshole. Parked in a place where he wasn't supposed to park, all the while on a cellphone. Really annoying. Presumably he was American. Just doing you a favor there - adding to your bag of "Americans are malevolent" anecdotes. At least this one's real.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 12:14 PM
Mark:
"Does that remind you of Luton"
Yes. There are a number of significant similarities between 911 and 7/7, particularly in respect to evidence and the nature of the investigation. In both cases the authorities came up with a full explanation within 48 hours, but their evidence has never been subjected to formal testing and scrutiny.
In both cases the alleged perpetrators planned devastating terrorist attacks under the radar of the security services but, when it came to the day itself, were spraying around reams of incriminating and identifying documentation. It's a wonder they weren't hauled up under anti-litter legislation before they could do the deed.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 12:19 PM
"No funerals (as opposed to memorial services) reported for any of the passengers."
Again with the funerals / memorial services. You are fucking sick, MJ. Also quite stupid.
Do you understand what the families went through? Various people from various agencies searched and searched for remains for people to have some form of closure.
You laugh at all those people.
They found my friend's head months later. It was a tragedy for so many people, and you're misusing it for your own sick purposes.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 12:26 PM
MJ, are you saying none of the listed victims died? You're quite sick.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/pentagon-attack.htm
I hope someday you say all this to the wrong person.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 12:28 PM
I'm laughing at no-one Larry. I'm simply pointing out that there have been no reported funerals for the passengers of AA77. This despite the fact that the Pentagon claims to have recovered body parts of the passengers. It's a gruesome topic I know, but potentially important evidence nonetheless.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 12:30 PM
and why don't you think there were any funerals? because no one died? was there not an explosion at the Pentagon?
are you completely insane?
no explosion? no death?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 12:34 PM
Plenty of Pentagon staff died that day Larry. No dispute there. You appear to be quite spectacularly missing the point.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 12:36 PM
MJ, you are a particularly dumb truther.
All of the conspiracy could be true. Whatever form that the conspiracy theory is in - whatever. I have no idea what crazy right-wing American conspiracy you buy into - but whatever. A missile blew up the Pentagon? Fine.
But, you idiot, there would still be victims, wouldn't there? So there would necessarily be funerals or memorial services.
So local newspapers are not using the exact words that you want to hear. So what. It means nothing - the world is not set up to cater to crazy people like you.
For harping on the "no funerals" claim, I think you're really embarrassing the other truthers. Even the looniest truthers I've heard have not claimed that no one died that day.
You're just a sick person.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 12:38 PM
"Plenty of Pentagon staff died that day Larry"
OK, so what's your point about the funerals.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 12:39 PM
"you are a particularly dumb truther"
Perhaps, but at least I have some grasp of the evidence on both sides of the argument. Unlike you Larry, who showed yourself unable even to cite the evidence that supports your own beliefs! How dumb does that make you?
"So there would necessarily be funerals or memorial services"
Of course. Several memorial services for the passengers were held a few days after 911. The Pentagon however claims not to have completed its DNA analyses until mid-November. The body parts would then have been returned to the families for burial or cremation, ie funerals. But there are no reports of such funerals taking place. That is the point.
Does this make me sick? Or does it just mean that I'm following through the Pentagon's claims to their natural conclusion and finding them wanting?
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 12:50 PM
Am I not correct in saying that Bush would only give evidence *along with* Cheney at the investigation, insisted on being behind closed doors, that they would not be under oath, and that no notes could be kept, either taped or in written format? Is there any precedent for this?
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Loved your IKEA story, Larry. I've never used the word malevolent on this site.
No, I did not get the figure of 83 on a right-wing website. I believe I read it here actually, on another thread. The right-wingers were avid Bush/Cheney fans and referred to "truthers" as nuts.
You sit there throwing pebbles and sticks and mud-balls, but you can't give us your own version. You're hilarious, really.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 12:57 PM
“Angrysober,I can talk to you and at least get some sense. You have a blog site and I have respect for your views. Clark said, he is not sure Larry is right in the head.”
Mark, I’m a bit of a softie at heart so when you say you can respect my views I think that’s all very nice. However, I think you are insane. I think that you have a lot of very serious problems that probably are no fault of your own but make you feel as if you are a kind of guardian angel to people you don’t know. (Possibly because at some point you failed to do what you believe you are doing now for someone that you were supposed to do then and you feel guilty – that’s just my cod-psychology which is almost certainly worthless so forget about it if you want).
Larry, on the other hand, is almost certainly “right” in the head. And right when it comes to 9/11 too. There is a serious problem, these days, of people being led astray by charlatans who can talk a good talk even while promoting some of the most ludicrious conspiracy theories.
If you really want to be anti-war and be a serious spokesperson for children in the Middle East then I sincerely hope you will drop this nonsense of inside jobs on 9/11 etc…
I sincerely hope you could lobby the British government to change certain aspects of its foreign policy and…hey! How about this…Tell radical Islamist fuckers not to behave in ways that will also lead to children being brutally treated according to some sick ideology.
I’m sorry, but there is no way we can meet even half-way until you realize that you are you are promoting insane conspiracy theories and being an apologist for insane extremist religious bigotry.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 1:01 PM
Larry takes the same approach to Pentagon bodies as he does to Mark's website. In fact we owe it to the dead to see how horribly they died. There is far too much hidden away from the American and British public (and the 'West' in general). On the likes of Channel 4 News, they warn of "upsetting" content when they show dead bodies lying in the earth. We do not need to be protected from the effects of war. We need to be shown more of it - and not the Hollywood version that I got in my youth.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 1:03 PM
"There is a serious problem, these days, of people being led astray by charlatans who can talk a good talk even while promoting some of the most ludicrious conspiracy theories."
Absolutely! and 9/11 is one of the most obvious. Doesn't hang together for toffee.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 1:07 PM
MJ: "The Pentagon however claims not to have completed its DNA analyses until mid-November."
MJ, we've been through this. Just because the DNA analyses weren't completed until the end of Nov, doesn't mean that none of the materials were realeased before then.
The very article I showed you says that the procedures took an inordinately long time because they were trying to exhaust every possible means of discovering the identity of certain remains.
I don't believe you know how much was left of, for example, Barbara Olson, but how about looking up "Firefight". Perhaps reading it and deciding for yourself whether the book is credible.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 1:07 PM
dreoilin: "I believe I read it here actually, on another thread."
Right, you'll believe anything you see on conspiraloon sites, without any thought of having a critical eye.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 1:08 PM
Little Miss Wren: "Absolutely! and 9/11 is one of the most obvious. Doesn't hang together for toffee."
What is the most difficult to believe aspect of what Truthers call "The Official Story"?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 1:10 PM
Now I'm off for my afternoon nap. Have at it, Lar and Angry!
I think you'll have to do better than "you are a particularly dumb truther" and "promoting insane conspiracy theories and being an apologist for insane extremist religious bigotry", because they are not facts. They are merely opinions.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 1:12 PM
"Right, you'll believe anything you see on conspiraloon sites, without any thought of having a critical eye"
Sweetheart, the point of my post was not the number of cameras. It was to ask you for a photo of the plane. Which you never provided. Now why don't you give us your two best pieces of evidence for the magic Arabs?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 1:13 PM
"Doesn't hang together for toffee."
dreoilin, you previously called yourself a fence-sitter. Are you now what Craig Murray would call a conspiraloon? You also claim that you like to spend time on right-wing American blogs (which ones, I can't even imagine). You were still a fence-sitter back then? But something on this thread convinced you? What was it? The black helicopters carrying bin Laden around the WTC?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 1:15 PM
"Just because the DNA analyses weren't completed until the end of Nov, doesn't mean that none of the materials were realeased before then."
But not identities, one assumes?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 1:16 PM
"MJ, we've been through this"
I know. I just can't make even a passing reference to funerals without setting Larry off.
"Just because the DNA analyses weren't completed until the end of Nov, doesn't mean that none of the materials were realeased before then".
The analysis would have been completed when every single body part had been DNA tested and all the parts then collated. It would not have been proper to release the parts before this had been completed otherwise there would have been a severe risk of inter-mingling or bits left over.
In any event, it is impossible that any parts could have been tested, identified and returned to relatives by the weekend of September 15-16, the date of most of the memorial services. The process of analysis itself takes longer than that.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 1:17 PM
"Little Miss Wren"
I'm not a Miss, Angry. My eldest son is the same age as you, and I've been married for 35 years. Grow up boy. Now, I need a rest as I have a heart condition. Do you mind?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 1:19 PM
"Now I'm off for my afternoon nap."
dreoilin, could I point out something really annoying about you? It's OK that you sleep so much - but do you have to describe your sleep schedule to everyone at this blog? We know you sleep. We get it. Other people do as well.
Let me assume that you're an Irish woman for a moment. (I think that's the case).
So you've annoyed me with this very specific annoying behavior. In the future, when I meet other Irish women, what will this matter?
Not one bit, actually.
Do you understand the lesson here?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 1:21 PM
Mark: "So, what is your opinion on the dust research, even if (in your opinion) Dr Steven Jones is 'looneytunes'
- please remember the pressure he has endured - even so the scientific research holds up and even before this scientific revelation, most Netherlanders believed Bin Laden was NOT involved in 9/11 and SOME now seem to agree there was foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks."
Mark, I have no idea what Steven Jones’ experiments are supposed to show. I have read elsewhere that it is nothing surprising and I seem to remember that Steven Jones was throwing the bags of “thermite” around at a press conference and doing his giggly, “Ooh, goodness!” nonsense as he did it.
I think it is quite possible that some of your heroes believe what they say they do but it is quite clear to me that many of them are liars and many of them are ignorant and that there are plenty who are both.
As for the “pressure” he has undergone, Steven Jones was probably offered one of the most generous packages a university could. That is, they PAID HIM and allowed him to follow his own research. He was never FIRED despite what many conspiraloons will have you believe.
In my opinion he probably should have been fired but the good folks at BYU are clearly bigger bleeding hearts than I am.
Now, what do you think of Steven Jones’ latest nonsense?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 1:24 PM
"The analysis would have been completed when every single body part had been DNA tested and all the parts then collated. It would not have been proper to release the parts before this had been completed otherwise there would have been a severe risk of inter-mingling or bits left over."
Do you know that what you said there is true?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 1:26 PM
MJ, you still haven't told us what your point is with the victim identification.
Your fellow truthers would want you to stop harping on this. It's a dead end - you're searching for anomalies that aren't there. You've already granted that people died. There were funerals or memorial services or both so children could have some sense of closure. What path are you going down? What's your point?
You seem to lack the ability to even briefly put yourself in the shoes of the people who were dealing with that tragedy. You can't even slightly do so. You're quite possibly a sociopath.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 1:28 PM
There were about 20-25 of them, Lar, but they left in dribs and drabs because I wouldn't give up and go away. I was posting facts and reports and excerpts from books, they were quoting Rush, and Glenn and O'Reilly. Opinions. I learned a lot about the far-right fringe in the US. The Sarah Palin supporters. And I wouldn't say I liked it, but it was certainly an education.
I'd point out a few somethings that are really annoying about you, Lar, but I don't like to be too rude. At least not in one go. And I've been up since 5am honey. So I don't "sleep so much".
Do you have an answer for MJ yet? Or not? Why don't you have one?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 1:32 PM
I'm not a Miss, Angry. My eldest son is the same age as you, and I've been married for 35 years. Grow up boy. Now, I need a rest as I have a heart condition. Do you mind?
Oh Jesus! Enough with the self-pitying martyrdom already! I'd love to sit and chat but I have terrible diarrhea, now let me forthwith to the bathroom before I pebble-dash my swivel chair!
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 1:32 PM
Grow up, boy. Just grow up. It may take a little time. But you'll make it.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 1:35 PM
"Do you know that what you said there is true?"
How could it possibly be otherwise? Every family had to provide sample DNA. Every body part then had to be tested and matched against those samples. Only once they'd completed that for every single part would they be able to collate the parts and ensure that the bags of parts returned to each family were complete and contained no wrong bits.
By the way, this lambasting of Jones is both tiresome and pointless. His analysis of the dust followed a proper scientific methodology. It can therefore be tested and repeated by others. That is the only issue of significance.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 1:43 PM
"MJ, you still haven't told us what your point is with the victim identification".
Larry, you really are quite monumentally dense. My point is that the Pentagon's claim to have recovered body parts of the passengers on AA77 should be held in some doubt, because there is no evidence that any body parts were returned to the families for burial or cremation.
Get it now?
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 1:49 PM
Um, gee, peer review? Have you heard of it?
Also, describe the chain-of-custody on the so-called samples.
Also, at some point you silly gooses will have to answer why thermite would ever be used to take down a building.
In other words, for that and other reasons, the work must satisfy a minimum plausibility check.
Now how is it testable and repeatable?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 1:50 PM
". My point is that the Pentagon's claim to have recovered body parts of the passengers on AA77 should be held in some doubt, because there is no evidence that any body parts were returned to the families for burial or cremation."
But even if we assume your conspiracy - truck bomb? missile? space laser? - why the fuck would the super-secret Men in Black mess with the victims' remains?
Are you merely making an argument about bureaucratic inefficiency or bureaucratic fraud?
How does this fit into your conspiracy?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 1:54 PM
Also, MJ, to ask the obvious, why aren't the families complaining about this?
You do really seem like a sociopath, but I can assure you that such things are important to normal people when they've lost a loved one.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 2:08 PM
"why the fuck would the super-secret Men in Black mess with the victims' remains?"
One possibility of course is that there were no passenger remains found at all.
"why aren't the families complaining about this?"
Good question. One very interesting thing is how different are the families of those who died in the towers from the families of those on the planes. The former are angry, organised, critical of the government, calling for inquiries etc. The latter on the other hand are almost without exception serene, uncomplaining and supportive of the government. Have you noticed that?
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 2:36 PM
No, but I have noticed that the families of those who died in the towers have more sports cars than the families of those on the planes.
They also have more kids in college.
There's also greater incidence of cancer and heart disease.
It's the numbers, moron.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 2:44 PM
Approximately 250 passengers in all, a statistically significant number.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 2:59 PM
Why is that a "statistically significant number"? With respect to what?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 3:02 PM
Large enough for it show the same random variation of characteristics as the larger number of victims in the towers.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 3:13 PM
That's gibberish.
But it still remains the case that the families of those who died in the towers have greater incidence of cancer and heart disease than the families of those on the planes.
Conspiracy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 3:19 PM
Good afternoon, everyone. And Goodnight, good morning and good evening...
I'm sure it's occurred to people that by now, 8.5 years on, in the absence of some massive new revelation, it is unlikely that those with doubts about the official narrative will cease to have doubts and that both those who who have no doubts about the official nrrative and those who have no doubts about there being a completely different explanation will begin to harbour doubts about their respective conclusions.
I made this point around 500 posts ago.
I feel that perhaps it would not be of any detriment to the universe we all inhabit for me or someone else occasionally to make this point, say, every half-millenium posts or so.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 1, 2010 3:24 PM
I know your 'debating' techniques well enough now Larry to realise that when you branch off into wild non sequiters it means that you are tacitly conceding the point you were originally arguing.
So, no funerals for the alleged passengers of AA77 then. Thank you. How interesting.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 3:39 PM
Suhayl: I know you're right. It's just that we enjoy it.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 3:40 PM
"How could it possibly be otherwise? Every family had to provide sample DNA. Every body part then had to be tested and matched against those samples. Only once they'd completed that for every single part would they be able to collate the parts and ensure that the bags of parts returned to each family were complete and contained no wrong bits."
This is obviously silly...
If someone were to die in an awful helicopter ejector seat accident, they wouldn’t hold off the funeral until every little last bit of the person were found. For a start, they wouldn’t even know if they HAD found every last piece. What you seem to be saying is that if any body part of anyone is discovered then all funerals must be put on hold until that piece is identified. Do you really think things work that way?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 3:45 PM
I think I plainly demonstrated how you lack the ability to think through an issue. There were far, far more victims in the WTC than there were on the planes. The number of family members of the victims expanded that difference.
What was your issue with Barbara Olson's funeral?
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-78278130.html
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 3:47 PM
"What you seem to be saying is that if any body part of anyone is discovered then all funerals must be put on hold until that piece is identified. Do you really think things work that way?"
Yeah, MJ is odd - even for a truther. I've never heard a truther make such a silly claim, and I've heard a lot of silliness from truthers.
I don't think MJ has the ability to empathize. He can't imagine what it was like to be a family member of one of the victims - to have to make the decision to hold a funeral to, for instance, help the children move on. MJ's inability to empathize might not actually be sociopathic - perhaps he lacks a theory of mind and is a high-functioning victim of autism.
MJ is really not like the other truthers.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 3:52 PM
"If someone were to die in an awful helicopter ejector seat accident, they wouldn’t hold off the funeral until every little last bit of the person were found"
You're missing the point. In your example the identity of the single victim is already known. In the Pentagon case they would have us believe there were scores of victims whose body parts were mixed together and had to be individually identified and separated. This is why it took so long. Remember on the Arlington site how keen they were to stress that the few remaining unidentifiable parts had been separated from the rest and buried together?
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 4:13 PM
"MJ is really not like the other truthers."
In a way, MJ isn't so bad. He clearly believes what he says but the strange thing is that he seems to misunderstand the reason for doubt in the first place.
IF the hijakcers had not been on the flight manifests then ABSOLUTELY that would be wierd and worth looking into. But when it turned out that DRG had simply assumed a CNN "VICTIMS" list was the manifest then it should have been put to bed.
But some Truthers have been convinced to go on and on and on and on about this non-lead.
It makes me wonder how they could play Cluedo. I'm sure that DRG would suspect Colonel Mustard in the Ballroom with the revolver because for so many Truthers no other scenario could possibly compute. Even after all those possibilities have been eradicated they'd have to question how the board got a coffee stain...etc...
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 4:15 PM
"You're missing the point. In your example the identity of the single victim is already known. In the Pentagon case they would have us believe there were scores of victims whose body parts were mixed together and had to be individually identified and separated. This is why it took so long. Remember on the Arlington site how keen they were to stress that the few remaining unidentifiable parts had been separated from the rest and buried together?"
Jesus! There are wars and suicide bombings and all manner of things that go on all the time. They often entail multiple victims and yet funerals of such events don't usually have to held off for two months until every last sinew of flesh has been separated. My God! Don't you get the point that they were looking for identifiable remains of each person and took such a long time finding those?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 4:20 PM
"There were far, far more victims in the WTC than there were on the planes"
Indeed, by a factor of 10 to 1 approx.
"The number of family members of the victims expanded that difference".
Indeed, by roughly the same ratio perhaps.
"What was your issue with Barbara Olson's funeral?"
Keep up Larry. That the service on 16th September could not have been a funeral. It must have been a memorial. Nowhere near long enough to identify her by DNA.
My empathy and respect for the victims and their families is such that I feel thet deserve to know the truth, not fobbed off with some cynical fairy-tale.
Since it now appears you are a psychologist Larry, perhaps you could let me know why you were unable to cite any evidence that supports your own most cherished beliefs. Any views?
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 4:24 PM
"Keep up Larry. That the service on 16th September could not have been a funeral. It must have been a memorial. Nowhere near long enough to identify her by DNA."
You're really fucking sick, man.
At that point, for each of the victims, the threat existed that no DNA would be found.
That doesn't mean that they had to hold off on either a memorial service or a funeral, in hopes that the evidence would come out later.
I was in the middle of all that shit. I was living in NYC, and I knew people involved. Many knew that their loved ones had died even though for many of them THERE WAS NO DNA AT THE WTC. THEY STILL HAD FUNERALS YOU FUCKTARD. But many could not accept that their loved ones had died, so they held off on the funerals.
It is fairly clear that Barbara Olson's family held a funeral because they were convinced that she was dead.
All those victims at the WTC - should funerals have not been held? Is that what you're saying, fucktard?
You really don't have the ability to think through these issues, do you?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 4:35 PM
Larry, you really seem to have a problem grasping the difference between a memorial service and a funeral.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 5:15 PM
"They often entail multiple victims and yet funerals of such events don't usually have to held off for two months until every last sinew of flesh has been separated"
Maybe you're right. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the folk at the Pentagon lab are wrong, along with the those at the Arlington Memorial. Maybe they didn't really go about their task with the painstaking care, thoroughness and sensitivity that they claim. Maybe they put all the body parts out with the trash and sent everyone a tin of dogfood.
The bottom line howevewr is this. The only memorials recorded for the passengers on AA77 took place on the weekend of 15-16 September. A basic piece of DNA analysis takes longer than this. It is a lengthy process. If the families were sent anything in this time it would not be possible to determine through DNA analysis whether it belonged to their loved one or not.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 5:24 PM
"The bottom line howevewr is this. The only memorials recorded for the passengers on AA77 took place on the weekend of 15-16 September. A basic piece of DNA analysis takes longer than this. It is a lengthy process. If the families were sent anything in this time it would not be possible to determine through DNA analysis whether it belonged to their loved one or not. "
MJ, this has been the most confusing line of conversation for me and I've never worked out what your point is.
It seems that youu are pushing the idea that no passengers were ever confirmed dead (no matter what we were led to believe with the DNA testing.)
So, what are you implying? Why do you find this significant? Why do you find it so hard to believe that someon could have been buried without all bits and pieces accounted for? (This happens all the time by the way with people who get blown up with, for example, explosives).
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 5:38 PM
Angrysober,
I gave you a bit of rope and you went away and hung yourself. Yes, I agree your 'cod-psychology' is almost certainly worthless.
My attention turned to 911 when scientific analysis proved the official report was flawed. The more I examine, the greater my concern. It has been proved the criminal Bush and his cohorts used 911 as a catalyst for an illegal strike on an innocent country, murdering and maiming the Iraqi children I love.
You too Angrysober are a disgrace in that you are blinded by the official evidence, incapable of rational thinking, unwilling to question the immerging evidence and essentially lacking thought and compassion to the the bereaved families desperate for closure and fighting for a public review.(1)
Therefore my cause is just, my motives sound, my integrity intact. I have supported the impeachment of Bush and Cheney and the sacking of Yoo who is another disgrace to the American legal system is that he condoned barbaric torture. Even if it takes the rest of my life I will find the truth and when I do I will expect you to hang your head in shame.
(1) 40 family members of those killed on 9/11 today announced the release of the 911 Truth Statement, a call for immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur. The Statement supports an August 31st Zogby poll that found nearly 50% of New Yorkers believe the government had foreknowledge and "consciously failed to act," with 66% wanting a new 9/11 investigation. (New York Times)
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 5:52 PM
"hung yourself."
Hanged yourself.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 5:55 PM
The wee boy does it again.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 6:01 PM
"My attention turned to 911 when scientific analysis proved the official report was flawed. The more I examine, the greater my concern."
Yes, and that writing is exactly the type you will find on an intelligent design essay.
" It has been proved the criminal Bush and his cohorts used 911 as a catalyst for an illegal strike on an innocent country, murdering and maiming the Iraqi children I love."
You mean that Bush and Cheney could think of no way of convincing the world of doing what Bill Clinton was on the verge of doing in the late nineties without flying planes into the Twin Towers? Nay! Without demolishing the twin towers with faerie dust AFTER flying planes into them?
You silly muppet if you believe that!
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:02 PM
"You too Angrysober are a disgrace in that you are blinded by the official evidence, incapable of rational thinking, unwilling to question the immerging evidence and essentially lacking thought and compassion to the the bereaved families desperate for closure and fighting for a public review.(1)"
Don't be a fucking supercilious arse!
Leslie Robertson told Steven Jones that the family victims he spoke of find your Truther garbage far more hurtful than your "official story".
People such as Barry Jennings, whose family is not allowed to privately mourn before a pack of ghouls descend on them asking , "Did Gubmint do it?"
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:06 PM
"Therefore my cause is just, my motives sound, my integrity intact. I have supported the impeachment of Bush and Cheney and the sacking of Yoo who is another disgrace to the American legal system is that he condoned barbaric torture. Even if it takes the rest of my life I will find the truth and when I do I will expect you to hang your head in shame."
This is garbage because you have already said that you are looking for the truth and think that the truth will make me hang my head in shame.
Why? How do you know that the truth is not the same as what I believe?
I thought you were not a Truther?
What would you do if you discovered after all your years of Investigoogling that Muhammed Atta et al, really did fly planes into buildings?
Would you say, "Oh well, maybe they did but that still doesn't excuse the Iraq War?"
And if you did then wouldn't that have been a monumentally pointless waste of effort?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:12 PM
"The Statement supports an August 31st Zogby poll that found nearly 50% of New Yorkers believe the government had foreknowledge and "consciously failed to act," with 66% wanting a new 9/11 investigation. (New York Times)"
New York Times? Beeeeep!
Mainstream Media alert!
August 31st of what year?
Does it matter how many people think the Moon is made of cheese?
Also was the Zogby poll worded in such a way as to say that X numbers of people believed it was an inside job?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:16 PM
Insanity rules Angrysober - another strawman - yes it matters when loved ones are lost dood. Oh I forgot, to you it is just an English exercise - get a life!
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Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 6:28 PM
"So, what are you implying? Why do you find this significant?"
I think the whole story about finding body parts is a fabrication. I an yet to be convinced that whatever hit the Pentagon (if anything) had any passengers on it at all.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 6:31 PM
That's spam Mark!
I didn't read it.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:31 PM
"the family victims he spoke of find your Truther garbage far more hurtful than your "official story".
Do you mean the victims' families? Naturally they would. It is far more hurtful for families to get their heads around, much less accept, the notion that their own government could have had a hand in it. It's a mental leap that many would find too wrenching to make. That's blatantly obvious. But you're not one of them, so your never-ending denials are hard to understand.
"Don't be a fucking supercilious arse!"
You seem to be more angry than usual today, mo bhuachaill.
"Does it matter how many people think the Moon is made of cheese?"
Indeed it does. They might be Sarah Palin fans and they have a vote.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 6:32 PM
"I think the whole story about finding body parts is a fabrication. I an yet to be convinced that whatever hit the Pentagon (if anything) had any passengers on it at all."
Okay, now we are getting somewhere.
What hit the second tower? Not a passenger plane?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:33 PM
"Indeed it does. They might be Sarah Palin fans and they have a vote."
Well, yes. Imagine if the whole world went Truther! kiss goodbye to civilization!
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:36 PM
Didn't he say the Pentagon?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 6:38 PM
"kiss goodbye to civilization!"
Gosh, you're really hooked on the official version, aren't you ...
I didn't notice anyone here arguing that the moon was made of cheese. Do point to them.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 6:40 PM
Angrysoba,
You ignored the concern of survivors, the 1st responders dying from lung cancer and other respiratory diseases; those families that refused the government bribes ($) to stay silent, still mourning, still frustrated, still confused. You ignore the very essence of democracy, truth and justice.
Like you ignored my question - Why were military-grade explosive chips found in the towers' dust throughout Lower Manhattan?
When the manufacturer of these chips is discovered - you will get my calling card Angrysober - I want answers - answers that you and Larry are incapable of providing.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 6:52 PM
"Didn't he say the Pentagon?"
Yes, he did little wren, but to what end?
We all agree that a passenger plane hit the second tower and I think we all agree that four planes went missing that day never to be seen again. So what was the purpose of flying a real passenger plane into one tower and then, say, a Global Hawk - cruise missile...
Into the Pentagon?
Which is only put forward because of one solitary quote from an eyewitness who said the plane “looked like a cruise missile with wings”. LOOKED LIKE! LOOKED LIKE! Understand a simile?
Is there any coherence to this theory at all?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:54 PM
"You ignored the concern of survivors, the 1st responders dying from lung cancer and other respiratory diseases; those families that refused the government bribes ($) to stay silent, still mourning, still frustrated, still confused."
People absolutely should be compensated if they were exposed to environmental risks that they weren't told about. But that has NOTHING to do with whether or not 9/11 was an inside job. Surely you should realize that!
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:57 PM
"Like you ignored my question - Why were military-grade explosive chips found in the towers' dust throughout Lower Manhattan?"
They weren't.
Steven Jones and his friends are liars and fantasists. I don't expect you to have realized that yet because your personality is quite similar.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 6:59 PM
"Didn't he say the Pentagon?"
"Yes, he did little wren, but to what end?"
Dreoilin is perfectly correct. I was talking about the Pentagon. To the end of figuring out what happened at the Pentagon.
"Which is only put forward because of one solitary quote from an eyewitness"
No. Put forward because of the material evidence available regarding the Pentagon event. That photo is astonishing. No wreckage on the pristine lawn, yet no hole in the facade that a 757 could possibly have flown through.
"Is there any coherence to this theory at all?"
Not a lot. But substantially more than the official account. The Pentagon stuff is very confusing from an evidential point of view.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 7:06 PM
"Dreoilin is perfectly correct. I was talking about the Pentagon. To the end of figuring out what happened at the Pentagon."
Oh Christ! A fucking plane flew into it!
"No wreckage on the pristine lawn, yet no hole in the facade that a 757 could possibly have flown through."
It didn't "fly through a hole" you silly goose! It crashed and made the hole!
Posted by: angrysoba at March 1, 2010 7:18 PM
Angrysober,
No! Angrysober - no twisting - I am talking about the findings, NOT the scientists involved - the results of analysis by cutting edge scientific methodology.
You implied, 'the peer reviewed paper' that describes the analysis of dust samples from G0 is a bunch of lies, untruths, garbage, made-up and fantasised.
If you agree, we have a starting point.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 7:20 PM
"It crashed and made the hole!"
What hole? There isn't one. http://tinyurl.com/yhac8zb
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 7:37 PM
"cutting edge scientific methodology."
Lack of plausibility.
Disputed chain of custody.
No repeatability.
Not peer reviewed.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 7:42 PM
wow, MJ, you can cherry pick a picture. Congratulations. Just like that Dylan Avery, who was held back in high school. Meaning of course, it's not that fucking hard to cherry pick a picture.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 7:45 PM
MJ, you said there were no funerals.
It's quite sick for you to think that the families of the victims were too stupid to notice, and people like you - conspiraloons who are typically uneducated morons - were just smart enough to discover the trick that the big bad government pulled.
But again, you said there were no funerals.
And then I pointed out a funeral.
And then you said that it just couldn't have been a funeral! It just couldn't have been a funeral!
You really are a nutjob, MJ. I can provide evidence of 20 funerals, and you would still say that there were no funerals.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 7:49 PM
Gosh, Larry's a bit frantic too, about defending the official version.
What fuels these people?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 7:56 PM
"wow, MJ, you can cherry pick a picture"
Are you saying it's not genuine?
How come you talk and talk and talk and ask questions ad nauseam, but you can't answer MJ's question?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 7:58 PM
"No repeatability"
What's that supposed to mean?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 7:59 PM
"wow, MJ, you can cherry pick a picture"
Cherry picked for clarity. It's one of the few pictures that show the facade clearly before a section collapsed and when it wasn't obscured by smoke or foam from the fire engine. I take it you'd prefer a less clear picture, like the 'debunking' sites. Cherry picked for lack of detail.
"And then I pointed out a funeral"
Whose?
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 8:01 PM
"Gosh, Larry's a bit frantic too, about defending the official version.
What fuels these people?"
In Larry's case certainly not evidence. He doesn't even know what it is.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 8:03 PM
dreoilin, shut up you dishonest pretend-fence-sitting cunt. Don't you have a nap to attend?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 8:15 PM
Oh look, he's getting as angry as Angry.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 1, 2010 8:20 PM
Larry: I don't normally object to mindless abuse but in this instance I'd be most grateful if you could refrain from addressing dreoilin in that way. She is our Irish wren and we love her to bits.
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 8:23 PM
Lack of plausibility:
The red/gray chips found all had uniform red/gray layers and identical composition. In nano-thermite, at least either the aluminum or iron oxide particles are 100 nanometers (nm) (100 billionths of a meter) or less. The red layer contains plate-like aluminum components 40 nm in thickness mixed in a solidified matrix with highly uniform iron-rich rhomboid components.
Sounds plausible.
Disputed chain of custody:
Just Joe Public with a plastic bag kept in a cupboard. 4 independent samples used. Seems fair.
No Repeatability
4 samples tested - seems fair
Not Peer Reviewed:
Quote from the Peoples Forum:
There is absolutely no evidence that The Open Chemical Physics Journal is not a peer-reviewed journal. All the evidence suggests that it is in fact a peer-reviewed journal. It looks like a peer-reviewed journal and acts like a peer-reviewed journal. Bentham, the publisher, says that it is peer-reviewed. The journal editors and the journal contributors say it is peer-reviewed. So until someone provides evidence to the contrary The Open Chemical Physics Journal is, as far as we know, a peer-reviewed journal.
Seems reasonable.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 8:25 PM
Did Angrysober leave the building or is Larry and Angrysober the same person - Hmmm - just asking?;-)
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 8:28 PM
Angrysoba's in Japan so it's probably bedtime. The intellectual giant that is Larry 'I don't know the evidence that supports what I believe but I sure do believe it without question' from St Louis is in the US and may be with us until the small hours...
Posted by: MJ at March 1, 2010 8:36 PM
Mark Golding, your logic is pathetic.
Bentham is a sneaky pathetic vanity publisher.
tinyurl.com/yleotjy
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 9:04 PM
"It looks like a peer-reviewed journal and acts like a peer-reviewed journal. Bentham, the publisher, says that it is peer-reviewed."
Mark, you really are one of the most stupid people I've ever encountered.
What a laughable vanity website. It's set up to bilk hard cash out of morons.
You're no engineer. Perhaps you were able to get a degree, but with your lack of intelligence, I doubt that you'd be able to hold down an engineering job for more than a month or so. Your coworkers would quickly figure out what a moron you are.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 1, 2010 9:07 PM
Larry,
Well, proves one thing - you have not got a clue who I am or what I am capable of.
Stop pontificating about the publisher, I'm not interested.
"The People's Forum seeks to promote thoughtful and civil dialogue between people from many countries having diverse backgrounds, with differing political opinions and religious beliefs. Our attention is focused upon, but not limited to, world events. It is hoped that these discussions prove educational for all, leading to a better understanding of the world in which we all live."
Seems a good idea Larry - bilk hard cash - where?
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 9:44 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbRc1BhXjvA
'Eyes to the Left' have it!
Nite Nite - thanx :)
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 1, 2010 10:15 PM
Mark: that film is excellent. Hilarious.
Posted by: MJ at March 2, 2010 1:07 AM
Suhayl
Wondered if you were aware of the Melanie Desmoulins/Opus Pistorum coincidence?
Posted by: Vronsky at March 2, 2010 9:50 AM
Sigma-Aldrich in St Louis have the pre-cursors to build nano-thermite.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 2, 2010 5:35 PM
What sort of precursors do we have at Sigma-Aldrich?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 2, 2010 6:35 PM
angrylarry seems to have slept in. Just to keep things moving, allow me to advise you all that you are morons, silly geese, and foaming swivel-eyed conspiraloons. That's my argument, and it's a damn good one.
I'm resisting the temptation to embellish with something awkwardly European, like saying that you are also cretins. Culturally, it doesn't do - Americans have recently abandoned this insult, as they pronounce it in a way which suggests that their target is a native of a particular Greek island rather than characteristic of a particular Swiss valley, and of course our colonial cousins would never wish to appear to be cretinous (or perhaps from Crete).
I'm going to stop deputising now. Being sonorously dim is by no means as easy as angrylarry makes it look.
Posted by: Vronsky at March 2, 2010 9:54 PM
Vronsky, you really do fail in your anti-Americanism, don't you?
Etymology? Really?
What is so pathetic in your life that you have to take shots at Americans?
Especially based on etymology. To remind you - above in response to something Angrysoba wrote, you wrote
"Oh my gosh, it's true - Americans have no sense of irony."
Angrysoba is British.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 2, 2010 10:16 PM
"Angrysoba is British"
No you're not.
Posted by: Vronsky at March 2, 2010 10:25 PM
"Sigma-Aldrich in St Louis have the pre-cursors to build nano-thermite."
Mark, they don’t call you Sherlock Holmes…
Seriously, are you now trying to say that Larry is one of the creators of nanothermite and is here to prevent Craig Murray’s trusty band of conspiraloons from discovering the inside job and unwittingly helping you to uncover the secret?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 3, 2010 2:24 AM
I doubt it very much. If anything Larry 'I don't know the evidence that supports what I believe but I sure do believe it without question' from St Louis is an asset of the Truth movement.
His woeful grasp of facts and his tendency to hide behind ridiculous abuse when rattled (which is often) seems to win heart and minds for the other side.
Posted by: MJ at March 3, 2010 4:22 PM
The way Larry spoke to dreoilin was shocking. He has no decent place in any forum.
Posted by: at March 4, 2010 12:21 AM
The Washington Times is one of the first main stream papers to carry an article that questions the events of 911.
The five star article by Inside the Beltway columnist, DC journalist on media, public opinion, Americana
Jennifer Harper says:
There is also evidence of "advanced explosive nano-thermitic composite material found in the World Trade Center dust," Mr. Gage says.
The group's petition at w+w+w. ae911truth.org is already on its way to members of Congress.
"Government officials will be notified that 'Misprision of Treason,' U.S. Code 18 (Sec. 2382),
is a serious federal offense, which requires those with evidence of treason to act," Mr. Gage says.
"The implications are enormous and may have profound impact on the forthcoming Khalid Shaikh Mohammed trial."
h+t+t+p://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/22/inside-the-beltway-70128635/comments/
Comment courtesy Alan Miller:
Many senior veterans of the US Intelligence Services also do not believe the official account of 9/11.
- William Christison, Former Director of Regional and Political Analysis, CIA,
"The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center almost certainly did not collapse and fall to earth because hijacked aircraft hit them.
A plane did not hit Building 7 of the Center, which also collapsed. All three were most probably destroyed by
controlled demolition charges placed in the buildings before 9/11." -
Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, Former Commanding General US Army Intelligence, "They didn't fall down because airplanes hit them.
They fell down because of explosives went off inside. Demolition." -
Terrell Arnold, Former Deputy Director of Counter-terrorism, US State Dept.,
"I'm not satisfied by the notion that planes hitting buildings constructed as these would have caused them to collapse.
The last building to fall was not even attacked. ... The chances of two buildings of that height and structure merely collapsing in their own footprint are extremely slim." -
Ray McGovern, Former Chairman, National Intelligence Estimates, "I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up.
The 9/11 report is a joke." (NIE's are the consensus report of all US
Intelligence Services and according to the CIA "are the Intelligence Community's most authoritative written judgments on national security issues.")
For more information, see h+t+t+p://www.PatriotsQuestion911.com
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 4, 2010 9:10 PM
The Washington Times is one of the first main stream papers to carry an article that questions the events of 911.
The five star article by Inside the Beltway columnist, DC journalist on media, public opinion, Americana
Jennifer Harper says:
There is also evidence of "advanced explosive nano-thermitic composite material found in the World Trade Center dust," Mr. Gage says.
The group's petition at w+w+w. ae911truth.org is already on its way to members of Congress.
"Government officials will be notified that 'Misprision of Treason,' U.S. Code 18 (Sec. 2382),
is a serious federal offense, which requires those with evidence of treason to act," Mr. Gage says.
"The implications are enormous and may have profound impact on the forthcoming Khalid Shaikh Mohammed trial."
h+t+t+p://w+w+w.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/22/inside-the-beltway-70128635/comments/
Comment courtesy Alan Miller:
Many senior veterans of the US Intelligence Services also do not believe the official account of 9/11.
- William Christison, Former Director of Regional and Political Analysis, CIA,
"The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center almost certainly did not collapse and fall to earth because hijacked aircraft hit them.
A plane did not hit Building 7 of the Center, which also collapsed. All three were most probably destroyed by
controlled demolition charges placed in the buildings before 9/11." -
Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, Former Commanding General US Army Intelligence, "They didn't fall down because airplanes hit them.
They fell down because of explosives went off inside. Demolition." -
Terrell Arnold, Former Deputy Director of Counter-terrorism, US State Dept.,
"I'm not satisfied by the notion that planes hitting buildings constructed as these would have caused them to collapse.
The last building to fall was not even attacked. ... The chances of two buildings of that height and structure merely collapsing in their own footprint are extremely slim." -
Ray McGovern, Former Chairman, National Intelligence Estimates, "I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up.
The 9/11 report is a joke." (NIE's are the consensus report of all US
Intelligence Services and according to the CIA "are the Intelligence Community's most authoritative written judgments on national security issues.")
For more information, see h+t+t+p://w+w+w.PatriotsQuestion911.com
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 4, 2010 9:11 PM
I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
All these fine men and women call for a proper investigation into the catastrophic events of 911:-
Lt. Col. Robert Bowman PhD USAF (ret)
"official theory of 9/11 is a bunch of hogwash"
Lt. Jeff Dahlstrom USAF (ret)
"Everything that seemed real[9/11]turned out to be fake"
"Treason; a false flag operation"
Capt. Daniel Davis US Army (ret)
"something is rotten in the state"
Major Jon I Fox US Marines (ret)
"I knew from personal experience they [government] were lying"
Commander Ralph Kolstad US Navy (ret)
"something stinks to high heaven [9/11]"
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski PhD USAF (ret) - Pentagon
"Secretary of Defense [Donald Rumsfeld] referred to a "missile attack"
Lt. Col. Shelton Lankford DFC US Marines (ret)
"We demand an independent, honest and thorough investigation[9/11]"
Lt. Col. Jeff Latas USAF DFC (ret)
"Americans need to demand further investigation[9/11]
Commander Ted Muga US Navy (ret)
"not one of the 4 hijacked planes ever transponded a hijack code-
which is most, most unusual..."
Col. George Nelson MBA USAF (ret)
"the most heinous conspiracy in our countries history[9/11]"
Maj. John Newman PhD Assistant Director National Security
"the immediate investigation was never addressed"
Capt. Omar Pradhan USAF
"I warmly endorse the pursuit of comprehensive truth[9/11]"
Col. Ronald D Ray US Marines (ret)
"the dog that doesn't hunt"[9/11]
Lt. Col. Guy S Razer MS USAF (ret)
"It is time to take our country back"
Major General Albert Stubblebine
General Wesley Clark
Captain Edgar Mitchell DSc
Col. Ann Wright
Col. Dorm de Grand-Pre
Lt. Col. Paul F Getty DDS
Major Douglas Rokke PhD
Major Brian Power-Waters
Major Charles E Dillis PhD
Captain Russ Wittenburg
Major Glenn MacDonald
Captain Gregory M Zeigler PhD
Lt. Col. Antony Shaffer
Captain Scott J Phillpott
Major Erik KleinSmith
Col. David Hunt MA
Col. James R Uhl MD
Lt. Col. Debra B Simmons MD
Lt. Col. David Gapp
Commander Dennis Henry BS CE PE
Col. Michael Harley
Col. Thomas W McGuire Jr
Lt. Col. Stephen L Butler EdD
Lt. Cdr. Bernard S Smith
Major Jon Bjornson MD
Lt. Col. Jochen Scholz
Lt. Col. Albert A Stahel PhD
Lt. Col. Said Huber
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 4, 2010 10:56 PM
"The Washington Times is one of the first main stream papers to carry an article that questions the events of 911."
The Washington Times is not the Washington Post. It's owned by the Moonies. It's wacko!
Posted by: at March 5, 2010 7:22 PM
The archbishop of Canterbury has renewed his criticism of Tony Blair by urging the former prime minister to recognise his "absurdity" in the wake of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war — and suggesting he read more Dostoevsky.
Repeating a previous quip that Blair is "very strong on God, very weak on irony", Rowan Williams said the former prime minister had perhaps not done enough soul-searching.
Speaking at a lecture on the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, Williams was asked by an audience member how he viewed Blair's appearance at the hearing last week in the context of his studies of the Crime and Punishment author.
Williams said: "I think Tony Blair is one of the most un-Dostoevskian characters in Britain."
Dostoevsky I believe was the precursor of 20th-century existentialism.
Before Blair decided to preach he should have re-evaluated his concept of caring and thought more about the virtues of humility, submission, and suffering.
I suggest Mr Blair it is about time you understood that the individual is solely responsible for giving his own life meaning and living that life passionately and sincerely. In reality however, like Gordon Brown, you snubbed this suggestion from Robin Cook and went on to murder innocent children by con - vincing the British public that we were in imminent danger from nuclear and biological weapons.
Oh one more thing, Blair - Bush told you Saddam "tried to kill his dad."
For one thing, Saddam, according to the Duelfer Report, was convinced that the CIA had thoroughly penetrated his regime and thus would know not only that he had dismantled his WMD (which the CIA apparently did not), but also would know about his plans for important intelligence operations. Under those circumstances, it is hard to understand why he would then order an assassination attempt on the former U.S. president.
Even more interesting, according to the report, was Saddam's ''complicated'' view of the U.S. While he derived ''prestige'' from being an enemy of the U.S., he also considered it to be ''equally prestigious for him to be an ally of the United States -- and regular entreaties were made during the last decade to explore this alternative''.
Indeed, beginning already in 1991, according to the report, ''very senior Iraqis close to the President made proposals through intermediaries for dialogue with Washington.''
''Baghdad offered flexibility on many issues, including offers to assist in the Israel- Palestine conflict. Moreover, in informal discussions, senior officials allowed that, if Iraq had a security relationship with the United States, it might be inclined to dispense with WMD programs and/or ambitions,'' it added.
The report even concluded that Iraq was willing to be Washington's ''best friend in the region bar none''.
From the report again, Saddam seems to be not a madman, but someone who would understand very well the consequences of an assassination'', notes Gregory Thielmann, a former senior State Department analyst who specialized in Iraq's WMD programs.
So, all is not what it seems, and the reason why America wanted a quick trial and hanging, which by the way, was attended by senior agents of the CIA.(1)
(1)Ahmed al-Neda
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 6, 2010 6:00 PM
Vronsky, no I don't think I wasn't aware of the Melanie Desmoulins/ Opus Pistorum coincidence (unless I once knew but have forgotten, and then have forgotten that I have forgotten). Erotic novel by Henry Miller, right? I haven't read it, though I did read as many in that genre as I could at the time I was researching to write 'The Snake'. Tel me more, please - what's the coincidence?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 7, 2010 8:45 AM
Ah, interesting, yes, I seem to recall The Golden Ass, though perhaps it's because one of my pals, (and translator of Italian, publisher of intellectual monographs and more besides), Allan Cameron (Lewis-based, or maybe Skye-based) wrote a book drawing on The Golden Ass; I reviewed it for The Sunday Herald, I seem to recall - 'The Golden Menagerie' - and a very good it was, too! He's unafraid of being labelled, 'intellectual', something which in the current (esp. UK) climate, is courageous indeed!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 7, 2010 8:50 PM
Odd, and not inappropriate, that the thread peters out with some ruminations on erotic writing. Embarrassment always besets statements of the obvious.
Posted by: Vronsky at March 7, 2010 11:06 PM
Below is a list of people who question what our (US) Government has said about 9/11.
The list proves - once and for all - that people who question 9/11 are *dangerous*.
Email this list to everyone you know, to prove to them that 9/11 truthers are all dangerous nut cases!
Senior intelligence officers:
Former military analyst and famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said that the case of a certain 9/11 whistleblower is "far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers". He also said that the government is ordering the media to cover up her allegations about 9/11. And he said that some of the claims concerning government involvement in 9/11 are credible, that "very serious questions have been raised about what they [U.S. government officials] knew beforehand and how much involvement there might have been", that engineering 9/11 would not be humanly or psychologically beyond the scope of the current administration, and that there's enough evidence to justify a new, "hard-hitting" investigation into 9/11 with subpoenas and testimony taken under oath.
A 27-year CIA veteran, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many other senior government officials (Raymond McGovern) said “I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke”, and is open to the possibility that 9/11 was an inside job.
A 29-year CIA veteran, former National Intelligence Officer (NIO) and former Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis (William Bill Christison) said “I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe. ... All three [buildings that were destroyed in the World Trade Center] were most probably destroyed by controlled demolition charges placed in the buildings before 9/11." (and see this).
A number of intelligence officials, including a CIA Operations Officer who co-chaired a CIA multi-agency task force coordinating intelligence efforts among many intelligence and law enforcement agencies (Lynne Larkin) sent a joint letter to Congress expressing their concerns about “serious shortcomings,” “omissions,” and “major flaws” in the 9/11 Commission Report and offering their services for a new investigation (they were ignored)
20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer (David Steele) stated that "9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a pretext for war", and it was probably an inside job (scroll down to Customer Review dated October 7, 2006).
A decorated 20-year CIA veteran, who Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh called "perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East”, and whose astounding career formed the script for the Academy Award winning motion picture Syriana (Robert Baer) said that "the evidence points at" 9/11 having had aspects of being an inside job
The Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs, who served as Senior Analyst from 1966 - 1990. He also served as Professor of International Security at the National War College from 1986 - 2004 (Melvin Goodman) said "The final [9/11 Commission] report is ultimately a coverup."
Professor of History and International Relations, University of Maryland. Former Executive Assistant to the Director of the National Security Agency, former military attaché in China, with a 21-year career in U.S. Army Intelligence (Major John M. Newman, PhD, U.S. Army) questions the government's version of the events of 9/11.
Congressmen:
According to the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House (confirmed here)
Current Democratic U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy said "The two questions that the congress will not ask . . . is why did 9/11 happen on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen? Why did they allow it to happen?"
Current Republican Congressman Ron Paul calls for a new 9/11 investigation and states that "we see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on"
Current Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich hints that we aren't being told the truth about 9/11
Current Republican Congressman Jason Chafetz says that we need to be vigilant and continue to investigate 9/11
Former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel states that he supports a new 9/11 investigation and that we don't know the truth about 9/11
Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee endorses a new 9/11 investigation
Former U.S. Democratic Congressman Dan Hamburg says that the U.S. government "assisted" in the 9/11 attacks, stating that "I think there was a lot of help from the inside"
Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and who served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee Curt Weldon has shown that the U.S. tracked hijackers before 9/11, is open to hearing information about explosives in the Twin Towers, and is open to the possibility that 9/11 was an inside job
9/11 Commissioners:
The Commission's co-chairs said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements (free subscription required)
9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says "I don't believe for a minute we got everything right", that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue
9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said "We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting"
9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: "It is a national scandal"; "This investigation is now compromised"; and "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up"
9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that "There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . ."
And the Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) - who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry - recently said "At some level of the government, at some point in time...there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened". He also said "I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described .... The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years.... This is not spin. This is not true."
Other government officials:
U.S. General, Commanding General of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, decorated with the Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart (General Wesley Clark) said "We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time."
Former Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Warning under Nixon, Ford, and Carter (Morton Goulder), former Deputy Director to the White House Task Force on Terrorism (Edward L. Peck), and former US Department of State Foreign Service Officer (J. Michael Springmann), as well as a who's who of liberals and independents) jointly call for a new investigation into 9/11
Former Federal Prosecutor, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan; former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and currently a widely-sought media commentator on terrorism and intelligence services (John Loftus) says "The information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defense of incompetence."
The Group Director on matters of national security in the U.S. Government Accountability Office said that President Bush did not respond to unprecedented warnings of the 9/11 disaster and conducted a massive cover-up instead of accepting responsibility
President of the U.S. Air Force Accident Investigation Board, who also served as Pentagon Weapons Requirement Officer and as a member of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, and who was awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses for Heroism, four Air Medals, four Meritorious Service Medals, and nine Aerial Achievement Medals (Lt. Col. Jeff Latas) is a member of a group which doubts the government's version of 9/11
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan (Col. Ronald D. Ray) said that the official story of 9/11 is "the dog that doesn't hunt"
The former director of the FBI (Louis Freeh) says there was a cover up by the 9/11 Commission
Director of the U.S. "Star Wars" space defense program in both Republican and Democratic administrations, who was a senior air force colonel who flew 101 combat missions (Col. Robert Bowman) stated: "If our government had merely [done] nothing, and I say that as an old interceptor pilot—I know the drill, I know what it takes, I know how long it takes, I know what the procedures are, I know what they were, and I know what they’ve changed them to—if our government had merely done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the Twin Towers would still be standing and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. [T]hat is treason!"
Numerous other politicians, judges, legal scholars, and attorneys also question at least some aspects of the government's version of 9/11.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 8, 2010 9:24 PM
What is the source of that article dreoilin?
In a similar vein, a useful assessment of various 911 whistleblowers can be found here: http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20100305_911_whistleblowers.htm
Posted by: MJ at March 9, 2010 12:40 AM
Oops! Sorry, it's Information Clearing House, here:
http://tinyurl.com/ykt6otm
and originally from "Washington's Blog" apparently, where there are lots of hot links included in the above list.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 9, 2010 7:07 AM
1. How completely out of context most of those quotes are.
2. Why would you believe American military people and politicians in this case, when you don't believe them in other cases?
3. To the extent that they believe 911 was an inside job (and very few of them do), where is their evidence?
4. People like Wesley Clark and the Commissioners do not believe that the U.S. gov't did 911. At best, they might believe that the prior administrations screwed up the intelligence gathering and response. Your source lumps those people in with genuinely crazy people like Bob Bowman and Stubblebine.
5. I believe that we should have had a better investigation of what the FBI and CIA knew prior to the attack. I think heads should have rolled. That doesn't mean that I believe that a missile hit the Pentagon or there were explosives pre-planted at the WTC. That's a vast gulf.
So above when you wrote "I may not be a fence-sitter much longer" in response to my harsh language, you were lying, weren't you?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 9, 2010 2:05 PM
Just to reassure larry with a somewhat pro-American post. I received today a digitally remastered CD of the Canadian pianist Van Cliburn playing Chopin. I first discovered this on a visit to family in southern California, hearing him play 'Winter Wind' on KOGO FM - then serendipitously happening across the LP the next day. Always a wonderful memory of being sixteen, and in sunny San Diego. Did some surfing too.
http://tinyurl.com/yhdx4s4
Recommended.
Posted by: Vronsky at March 9, 2010 8:53 PM
Freefall and Building 7 on 9/11
By David Chandler
When Building 7 "collapsed" on 9/11 we know that the falling section of Building 7 did not crush the lower section of the building because the top section of Building 7 fell at freefall.
It didn't just fall at something close to freefall. It fell for about 2.5 seconds at a rate that was indistinguishable from freefall. If the falling section of the building had crushed the lower section,
the lower section would have pushed back with an equal but opposite force.
But that would have slowed the fall. Since the fall was not slowed in the slightest, we can conclude that the force of interaction was zero... in both directions.
How can this be?
There were explosions in Building 7 heard by many witnesses throughout the day. One such explosion is recorded in a video clip,
available on YouTube (search You Tube for "Explosions on 911"),
where several fire fighters are gathered around a pay phone calling home to assure their families they are alright.
Suddenly they are startled by a very loud, unmistakable explosion. This is one of the Building 7 explosions that occurred long before it fell.
Shortly before the ultimate collapse of the building the east penthouse and the columns beneath it suddenly gave way. NIST (the government agency assigned to investigate the building collapses)
attributes the collapse of the east penthouse to the failure of a single column, in a complex scenario involving thermal expansion of beams supporting the column.
But it is much more likely that at least two and possibly three supporting columns were "taken out" simultaneously. Three columns supported the east penthouse.
One of our German colleagues has pointed to evidence that the east penthouse fell through the interior of the building at close to freefall, evidenced by a ripple of reflections in the windows as it fell.
Yet the exterior of the building retained its integrity.
NIST claims that the collapse of their one key column led to a progressive collapse of the entire interior of the building leaving only a hollow shell.
The collapse of the building, seen in numerous videos, is described by NIST as the collapse of the "facade,"
the hollow shell. They have no evidence for this scenario, however, and a great deal of evidence contradicts it.
After the collapse of the east penthouse there is no visible distortion of the walls and only a few windows are broken at this time.
Had the failure of interior columns propagated throughout the interior of the building, as asserted by NIST,
it would surely have propagated to the much closer exterior walls and distorted or collapsed them. (Major crumpling of the exterior walls,
by the way, is exactly what is shown in the animations produced by NIST's computer simulation of the collapse.)
But the actual videos of the building show that the exterior remained rigid during this early period.
At the onset of collapse you can see in the videos that the building suddenly goes limp, like a dying person giving up the ghost.
The limpness of the freefalling structure highlights by contrast the earlier rigidity.
Furthermore, there are huge pyroclastic flows of dust, resembling a volcanic eruption that poured into the streets following the final collapse of the building.
If what we saw was only the collapse of the facade, why was the pyroclastic flow not triggered earlier when NIST claims the collapse of the much more voluminous interior occurred?
And why did the west penthouse remain to fall with the visible exterior of the building? Its supporting structure clearly remained to the very end and was "taken out"
along with the rest of the building support all at once. NIST is scrambling to find a plausible scenario that will allow it to escape the consequences of what is plainly visible.
(If you have not seen the collapse of Building 7, find it on YouTube and watch for yourself. For most people simply watching it collapse is all it takes. Most people are not stupid.
Most people can recognize the difference between a demolition and a natural building collapse with nothing more being said. If you have never seen the collapse of Building 7
you might also stop and ask yourself why the mainstream media did not repeatedly show you this most bizarre event as it did the Twin Towers.)
After the east penthouse collapsed,
several seconds elapsed, then the west penthouse began to collapse, at nearly the same time the roofline
of the building developed a kink near the center, then all support across the entire width of the building was suddenly removed, a vertical swath of windows under the
west penthouse were simultaneously blown out, the building suddenly went limp, and (within a fraction of a second) it transitioned from full support to freefall.
I am not using the term "freefall" loosely here. I used a video analysis tool to carefully measure the velocity profile of the falling building using CBS video footage from a fixed camera aimed almost squarely at the north wall.
A video detailing this measurement is available at YouTube/user/ae911truth.
I calibrated my measurements with the heights of two points in the building provided in the NIST Building 7 report released in August 2008, so I know the picture scale is good.
My measurements indicate that with sudden onset the building underwent approximately 2.5 seconds of literal freefall.
This is equivalent to approximately 8 stories of fall in which the falling section of the building encountered zero resistance. For an additional 8 stories it encountered minimal resistance, during which it continued to accelerate,
but at a rate less than freefall. Only beyond those 16 stories of drop did the falling section of the building interact significantly with the underlying structure and decelerate.
Freefall is an embarrassment to the official story, because freefall is impossible for a naturally collapsing building. In a natural collapse there would be an interaction between the falling and the stationary sections of the building.
This interaction would cause crushing of both sections and slowing of the falling section.
I have done measurements on several known demolitions, using similar software tools, and found that they typically fall with accelerations considerably less than freefall. Building 7 was not only demolished, it was demolished with tremendous overkill.
Freefall was so embarrassing to NIST that in the August 2008 draft release for public comment of their final report,
the fact of freefall was denied and crudely covered up with the assertion that the collapse took 40% longer than "freefall time."
They asserted that the actual collapse, down to the level of the 29th floor, took 5.4 seconds whereas freefall would have taken only 3.9 seconds.
They arrived at their figures with only two data points: the time when the roofline reached the level of the 29th floor and an artificially early start time several seconds prior to the beginning of the obvious, sudden onset of freefall.
They started their clock at a time between the collapses of the east and west penthouses when the building was not moving.
They claimed they saw a change in a "single pixel" triggering what they asserted was the onset of collapse,
but anyone who has worked with the actual videos will recognize that the edge artefacts in the image of the building make this an unrealistic standard. Furthermore,
even if there was a tiny motion of the building at that point, it continued to stand essentially motionless for several more seconds before the dramatic onset of freefall collapse.
The fact of a cover up in NIST's measurement is underlined in that the formula they point to as the basis for their calculation of "freefall time" is valid only under conditions of constant acceleration.
They applied that equation to a situation that was far from uniform acceleration. Instead, the building remained essentially at rest for several seconds, then plunged into freefall,
then slowed to a lesser acceleration. Their analysis demonstrates either gross incompetence or a crude attempt at a cover up. The scientists at NIST are clearly not incompetent,
so the only reasonable conclusion is to interpret this as part of a cover up. (It is important to stand back occasionally and recognize the context of these events.
This was not just a cover-up of an embarrassing fact. It was a cover-up of facts in the murder of nearly 3000 people and part of a justification for a war in which well over a million people have since been killed.)
I had an opportunity to confront NIST about the easily demonstrated fact of freefall at the technical briefing on August 26, 2008.
I and several other scientists and engineers also filed official "requests for correction"
in the days that followed. When they released their final report in November 2008, much to the surprise of the 9/11 Truth community, they had revised their measurements of the collapse of the building, including an admission of 2.25 seconds of absolute freefall.
However, they couched the period of freefall in a framework of a supposed "three phase collapse sequence" that still occupies exactly 5.4 seconds. The recurrence of 5.4 seconds,
even in a completely revised analysis, is very puzzling until you realize its context. NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder told the audience in the August 26,
2008 Technical Briefing that their computerized collapse model had predicted the collapse down to the 29th floor level would take 5.4 seconds, well beyond the 3.9 seconds required for freefall.
From the events at the Technical Briefing it appears that a team headed by structural engineer John Gross dutifully fabricated a 5.4 second observation to exactly match the prediction.
Anyone with any experience in laboratory measurement would have expected some amount of uncertainty between the prediction and the measurement.
They would have been doing extremely well to come up with a computer model that would predict the collapse time within 10%. But no...their measurement exactly matched the prediction to the tenth of a second.
Keep in mind that their computer model was constructed in the absence of the actual steel, which had long since been hauled away and destroyed.
According to NIST's records, none of the steel from Building 7 remains. (Pause and ponder that fact for a moment.
Anyone who has watched CSI knows the importance Of preserving the physical evidence in a crime scene.
Destroying a crime scene is in itself a crime, yet that is exactly what happened in the aftermath of 9/11, and it happened over the loud protests of the fire-fighters and others who had a stake in really finding out the truth.) Back to our story. NIST's computer model predicted 5.4 seconds for the building to collapse down to the level of the 29th floor. John Gross and his team found the time the roofline reached the 29th floor, then picked a start time exactly 5.4 seconds earlier to give a measurement that matched the model to the nearest tenth of a second. They took their start time several seconds prior to the actual start of freefall when nothing was happening. The building was just sitting there, with the clock running, for several seconds. Then it dropped, with sudden onset, and continued for 2.5 seconds of absolute freefall.
So, NIST now acknowledges that freefall did occur. How do they explain that? They don't. They simply state, without elaboration,
that their three-phase collapse analysis is consistent with their fire induced collapse hypothesis.
The only thing about the three-phase analysis that is consistent with their collapse hypothesis is the 5.4 second total duration, measuring from their artificially chosen starting time. In other words, they make no attempt to explain the 2.25 second period of freefall.
They just walked away from it without further comment.
The fact remains that freefall is not consistent with any natural scenario involving weakening, buckling,
or crushing because in any such a scenario there would be large forces of interaction with the underlying structure that would have slowed the fall.
Given that even known controlled demolitions do not remove sufficient structure to allow for actual freefall,
how could a natural fire-induced process be more destructive? Add to that the synchronicity of the removal of support across the whole width of the building,
evidenced by the levelness of the roofline as it came down, and the suddenness of onset of collapse,
and the immediate transition from full support to total freefall. Natural collapse resulting in freefall is simply not plausible. It did not happen. It could not happen.
Yet freefall did in fact happen. This means it was not a natural collapse. Forces other than the falling upper section of the building suddenly destroyed and removed the
supporting columns for at least eight stories across the entire length and width of the building.
The freefall of Building 7 is one of the clearest of many "smoking guns" that proves explosives were planted in the World Trade Center buildings prior to 9/11, 2001.
David Chandler received a BS degree in a hybrid physics and engineering program at Harvey Mudd College,
Claremont CA and a MS degree in mathematics from Cal Poly University, Pomona CA. He has taught physics, mathematics, and astronomy since 1972 at both the high school and college levels.
He is active with the video and writing teams of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
His 9/11- related videos are featured on AE911Truth.org and YouTube.com/user/ae911truth.
His own 9/11- related web site is 911SpeakOut.org.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 9, 2010 9:59 PM
Well there you go - British truthers, who are normally anti-American, getting their so-called "evidence" from an American high school teacher.
All debunked.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 10, 2010 12:32 AM
"All debunked"
So Newton's laws of motion are untrue? The differential calculus is a load of codswollop? The rules of arithmetic are not what we thought? Gosh - who knew.
Posted by: Vronsky at March 10, 2010 5:55 AM
Hee hee
Posted by: dreoilin at March 10, 2010 9:35 AM
dreoillin: Look at all my quotes!
Mark Golding: Rubbish paper!
Vronsky: Why can't I misapply Newton's laws?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 10, 2010 9:41 AM
Angrysoba: Debunked!
Posted by: dreoilin at March 10, 2010 10:12 AM
Oh, and dreilouin. Don't forget:
"The September 11 attack on the US and collapse of twin towers were parts of complicated intelligence move to give enough excuses for them to prepare the ground for invasion of Afghanistan under pretext of fighting terrorism"
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
and...
"There is strong evidence that the attacks were staged. If they can make Avatar, they can make anything"
Mahathir Mohamad
Posted by: angrysoba at March 10, 2010 10:20 AM
dreiloon, why did you sign a comment on my blog under the name "jews"?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 10, 2010 10:28 AM
"Well there you go - British truthers, who are normally anti-American, getting their so-called "evidence" from an American high school teacher.
All debunked".
It is of course impossible to debunk your evidence Larry because you refuse to provide any. You may consider this a brilliant and flawless strategy but as a lawyer you shouldn't need reminding that if one party fails to produce evidence their case is thrown out.
Posted by: MJ at March 10, 2010 12:32 PM
Jeffrey Archer; Ronnie Biggs; Jonathan Aitken; Neil Hamilton; Jim Davidson; they all believe the official account!!
QED!!!
Posted by: MJ at March 10, 2010 12:40 PM
"Jeffrey Archer; Ronnie Biggs; Jonathan Aitken; Neil Hamilton; Jim Davidson; they all believe the official account!!"
How do you know? Have you asked them? Have they made any statements about the "official account"? Did they bury their family members when they died or are their deceased family members actually still alive in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Morocco?
Just asking questions.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 10, 2010 4:57 PM
An interesting aspect of the Chandler analysis is that if the fall of the building is accelerating, then controlled demolition must have been used. In other words, it is not necessary to have the building collapse at or near freefall speed (accelerating at the rate due to gravity) - *any* acceleration results in the force on the collapsing structure being less than the weight of the floors above. Since the lower floors were designed to support several times the weight of the floors above, clearly they could not be crushed by some lesser load. QED.
Two best pieces of evidence that the official account is wrong?
(1) Larry from St Louis
(2) angrysoba
Posted by: Vronsky at March 11, 2010 9:13 AM
"An interesting aspect of the Chandler analysis is that if the fall of the building is accelerating, then controlled demolition must have been used. In other words, it is not necessary to have the building collapse at or near freefall speed (accelerating at the rate due to gravity) - *any* acceleration results in the force on the collapsing structure being less than the weight of the floors above. Since the lower floors were designed to support several times the weight of the floors above, clearly they could not be crushed by some lesser load. QED."
WRONG!
The Towers weren't unvariegated blocks of mass despite Richard Gage's cardboard box demonstrations suggesting that they were.
Imagine you live in a high rise apartment. Detach the whole building from the tenth floor and move the top part six inches to the side. Do you not see that the walls from the bottom “block” no longer line up with the walls above it?
Now drop the structure above the tenth floor to the bottom floor. None of the vertical supports line up so it will drop straight through the floor. This is quite obvious surely. Buildings are designed so that just any old arrangement of the stuff at the top of the building can be rested on any old arrangement below it. That’s why they get specially trained structural engineers to design skyscrapers and not high school teachers.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 11, 2010 1:39 PM
"Detach the whole building from the tenth floor and move the top part six inches to the side."
Ok. So now you want to ignore the Principle of Moments and the Conservation of Angular Momentum. Why don't you just say it was magic?
Posted by: Vronsky at March 11, 2010 1:57 PM
"Ok. So now you want to ignore the Principle of Moments and the Conservation of Angular Momentum"
No, I'm pointing out that you are not describing the structure as it was, not describing the collapse.
You are talking about it as if the top and bottom were solid blocks.
I'm not going to pretend to know how skyscrapers fall apart, you, David Chandler and Richard Gage can do that.
Be sure to submit your results to a reputable engineering faculty too.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 11, 2010 3:21 PM
"I'm not going to pretend to know how skyscrapers fall apart"
Finally.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 11, 2010 11:44 PM
dreoilin, excellent quote-mine. You're a true trooofer.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 12, 2010 1:24 AM
"You are talking about it as if the top and bottom were solid blocks."
You do realise that what you are attacking now is the official explanation for the collapse - the so-called 'pile-driver' theory, whereby the top dozen or so floors remain intact and plunge downwards crushing the 90 stories below, before being themselves destroyed when they reach ground level. Absurd, isn't it?
You know angry, from your last couple of posts I really don't feel your heart is in this.
Posted by: Vronsky at March 12, 2010 7:51 AM
"You do realise that what you are attacking now is the official explanation for the collapse - the so-called 'pile-driver' theory, whereby the top dozen or so floors remain intact and plunge downwards crushing the 90 stories below, before being themselves destroyed when they reach ground level."
NIST didn't say that at all.
I don’t know whether the top block was intact until it reached the ground or whether the experts believe it was. But I don’t see the problem in believing the building wasn’t designed for such a structural failure. Given that it fell apart from the impact points and that the columns were no longer aligned we don’t have to think of it as one small block of X crushing another larger block of X. That’s far too simplistic.
Presumably you believe the top block was destroyed by explosives or something else. Pixie dust, perhaps.
“You know angry, from your last couple of posts I really don't feel your heart is in this.”
That’s because I can’t really be bothered much anymore. Believe whatever you want just as long as you don’t go on any shooting sprees.
:P
Posted by: angrysoba at March 12, 2010 1:06 PM
"That’s because I can’t really be bothered much anymore."
And you got a whole thread to say that.
Dearie me.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 12, 2010 3:12 PM
"just as long as you don’t go on any shooting sprees."
You're the barbarians who go on shooting sprees. That is what this is all about, you cheap little clerk - we need to find some way to stop your handlers destroying the planet.
Posted by: Vronsky at March 12, 2010 5:35 PM
"You're the barbarians who go on shooting sprees. That is what this is all about, you cheap little clerk - we need to find some way to stop your handlers destroying the planet."
Did you really write that?
You could always wear a sandwich board which reads, “The End of the World Is Nigh!”
Posted by: angrysoba at March 12, 2010 6:46 PM
"And you got a whole thread to say that."
Dreiloon, there are probably about 2000+ comments here by now. If you’re not convinced by now then I don’t see much point in me continuing.
Posted by: angrysoba at March 12, 2010 6:48 PM
The End of the Thread is Nigh!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 12, 2010 9:44 PM
"I don’t see much point in me continuing."
There isn't. But you will. As the kamikaze pilot said: 'It's a livin' innit?'
Posted by: Vronsky at March 12, 2010 10:08 PM
The discovery of pieces of an extremely explosive form of super-Thermite in the dust of the
World Trade Center is of profound importance because it is evidence of
the actual nano-Thermite used to demolish and pulverize the Twin Towers.
The red-gray chips found in the dust by Dr. Steven E. Jones of
Brigham Young University disprove the government claims about what caused
the destruction of the three towers on 9-11.
Fragments of the nano-composite explosive were analyzed by an international
team of nine scientists and the evidence presented in a peer-reviewed paper in March 2009.
Fragments of the highly explosive super-Thermite found in the dust of the World Trade Center.
The discovery of super-Thermite in the dust exposes the government-funded
reports as fabrications created to conceal the explosive demolition
of the Twin Towers and WTC 7.
The 9-11 reports produced by the federal agencies FEMA and NIST were
written to mislead the public and media about what really happened to the
buildings – and the thousands of people trapped within them.
This is to say that the U.S. government and controlled media have
intentionally deceived the public for eight years.
The highest officials of the Obama administration have the evidence discussed in the
Jones paper but have ignored the discovery of super-Thermite
in the rubble and refuse to discuss the evidence of explosions in the
towers on 9-11.
On May 18, 2009, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden was personally given a
copy of the 25-page Jones paper during a visit to Los Angeles and asked
about the administration's position on the need for an investigation in
light of this discovery.
Biden refused to answer the journalist's questions, but took the paper and immediately left the event.
The government and the controlled media claim that the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed
due to fires caused by the crashes of the two airplanes that hit them.
It needs to be clearly understood that the evidence presented in the Jones
paper completely disproves the government claims about what
happened on 9-11.
The publication of the evidence of super-Thermite in early 2009
marked the end of the government version as an acceptable explanation for
the events of 9-11.
It exposes the official version to be nothing but a pack of lies used to
start the Israeli-designed
"War on Terror" – and a very real war of aggression in Afghanistan.
OUR POLITICAL PREDICAMENT
The evidence of super-Thermite in the dust of the pulverized Twin Towers
puts every American in the unpleasant position of having to decide what
to believe about 9-11 and the war in Afghanistan.
If the evidence of the extremely powerful nano-composite explosive in the dust is correct,
as it certainly appears to be, it would mean that the Obama administration,
members of Congress, and the media are intentionally deceiving the American
people about what happened on 9-11.
This deception, which began on 9-11, was used to send U.S. forces to
invade and occupy Afghanistan.
If this is the case, the officials engaged in this deception are
committing high crimes and treason.
This is clearly an unacceptable situation that cannot be tolerated.
The officials who are supporting the deception about 9-11 and the wars of
aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq need to be removed from office and
held accountable for their actions and crimes.
This is the political predicament that faces every American citizen today.
Although this dilemma is most acute in the United States,
other nations face similar predicaments.
Some forty nations are involved in the U.S.-led occupation of Afghanistan
and in each of them the public has been deceived about the real reasons
for the war.
One can almost gauge the degree to which a nation is Zionist-controlled
by the number of troops it has sent to Afghanistan.
The United States and Britain have sent the largest contingents,
followed by Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands,
and Romania.
TYRANNY OF LIES
When Joe Wilson, a Republican representative from
South Carolina, shouted, "You lie," during President Barack Obama's
recent speech to Congress about healthcare on September 9, 2009,
it was a perfect example of the expression,
"the pot calling the kettle black." Rep. Joe Wilson has been deceiving
the American people about the real reasons for the war in
Afghanistan since 2001.
As a member of the House Committee on Armed Services and the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Wilson has access to highest level
intelligence and cannot claim ignorance as an excuse for the lies
he tells the public.
In an interview with Greg Corombos of Radio America on
September 21, 2009, Representative Joe Wilson repeated, once again,
the fundamental deception about 9-11 and the war in Afghanistan:
We know that September the 11th, the attacks on New York, Pennsylvania,
and Washington, were directed from a valley in Afghanistan.
We should not have to learn that again.
What we are doing is truly protecting the American
people by providing for a stable government in Pak… in Afghanistan.
About the war in Afghanistan, Wilson repeated the lie he has been
telling for years, using the word "truly," as he often does.
"This is truly an issue of protecting American families at home by
defeating the terrorists overseas," he said.
If Wilson is correct about 9-11 being "directed from a
valley in Afghanistan" it would mean that Osama Bin Laden
and Al Qaida terrorists managed to place many tons of a very
sophisticated explosive film of nano-Thermite in the
Twin Towers before they were demolished.
This would mean that Bin Laden, working from a cave in Afghanistan,
one of the poorest nations in the world, had access to state-of-the-art
nanotechnology and the wherewithal to secretly apply the super-Thermite
and other explosives to the surfaces and core columns of the
well-guarded towers in New York City.
Like all other supporters of the government deception about 9-11,
Wilson can only make such absurd and incredible statements by
completely ignoring the scientific evidence of super-Thermite
in the dust of the pulverized Twin Towers.
It should be noted that most members of Congress support the false claims
articulated by Rep. Joe Wilson.
Blaming Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida for 9-11 was evidently
the master plan behind the false-flag terror attacks.
The corrupt government officials and the controlled media
cannot address the evidence of super-Thermite presented by
Dr. Jones because that would expose the pack of lies about
9-11 and the war in Afghanistan,
a deception they have supported for eight years.
The first response to 9-11 by the administration of
George W. Bush was the military invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
This indicates that invading Afghanistan was the real reason
for the terror atrocities that ushered in the Zionist-designed
fraud known as the "War on Terror."
That is to say that thousands of Americans were
killed on 9-11 to provide an
excuse to invade and occupy Afghanistan.
WHY AFGHANISTAN?
The administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama II
are Zionist-dominated and controlled governments.
Rahm Emanuel, for example, the Chief-of-Staff of the Obama White House,
is actually an Israeli citizen and the son of a Zionist terrorist
from the Irgun, the most radical terror gang in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s.
The Zionist influence in these administrations can easily
be seen by the placement of pro-Israel agents in
different positions at every level.
Israeli influence within the U.S. military and
intelligence spheres is as extensive and deep as it
is within the Oval Office.
Israeli military intelligence has a great deal of influence in
every sphere of the U.S. government which is involved in making
the decisions that go into taking the United States to war.
That the U.S. government would accept Israeli intelligence on
the Middle East from a state that has been at war with nearly every other nation in the region
since 1948 is clearly an absurd and biased situation but
that is how it is.
This is how the United States was
taken to war in Afghanistan in October 2001 – and why we are still there.
Although no group claimed responsibility for the attacks,
Israeli political and military leaders were well prepared to
immediately interpret the meaning of 9-11 and spoke to the mass media
with one voice.
On the very day of the attacks, for example, Shabtai Shavit,
the former head of Israel's Mossad, said: "The attacks
symbolize the conflict between extremist Islam versus the Western democracies."
The Mossad then provided fabricated evidence to
support its claims via its agents in the U.S. government, such as
Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff,
the key official in the cover-up of 9-11.
The Israeli politicians Benjamin Netanyahu and
Ehud Barak were the very first people to blame Osama Bin Laden
for 9-11 and call for military action against the Taliban-led
regime in Afghanistan.
They used the terror attacks and the controlled media to begin
the Zionist fraud known as
the "War on Terror," an
Israeli military strategy long promoted by "Bibi" Netanyahu.
Israel's current Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and
Defense Minister Ehud Barak called for U.S. military action against
Afghanistan immediately after 9-11.
On 9-11, Ehud Barak, the former
Israeli prime/defense minister/military intelligence chief,
was the first person to call for the U.S. to attack Afghanistan.
Barak told Rupert Murdoch's Sky Television in London that
Western governments needed to make a concerted effort to combat
terrorism: "Most obviously my guess is a bin Laden organization...
We have to stand firm against such terrorism," Barak said.
"We have to coordinate to launch the same kind of fight that
our forefathers gave to the fight against piracy on the high seas -
mainly terrorists should not be allowed to land at any port or airport,"
Barak said. "The leadership of the world should be able to take action.
It is time for action. The world is not going to be the same place
as before," he said.
"Bin Laden sits in Afghanistan,"
Barak said on 9-11. "We know where the terror sites are.
It's time for action."
When Barak specifically called for military action against Afghanistan,
he was speaking for Israel's military intelligence establishment,
an organization he has headed for many years.
Barak is Israel's current minister of defense and has been at the
top of Israel's military intelligence organization for several decades.
He was head of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate
(AMAN 1983-1985), head of Central Command (1986 - 1987),
and Deputy Chief of the General Staff (1987-1991).
He was Chief of the General Staff between April 1, 1991 and
January 1, 1995.
Barak went on to serve as Minister of the Interior (1995)
and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995-1996).
He was elected to the Knesset in 1996, where he served as a
member of the Israeli government's committees on foreign affairs and defense.
In 1996, he became the leader of the Labor Party and was
elected to be prime minister in May 1999.
He served as prime minister until early 2001,
when he went into business, primarily in the United States.
An article in the Israeli press entitled "Ehud Barak Ltd."
discussed some of the people involved with Barak's business
dealings and his penchant for secrecy: "None of them really has the
whole picture of Barak's business dealings - in business,
as in politics, his policy is
strict compartmentalization and secrecy."
Why would Ehud Barak, the most senior member of
Israel's military intelligence establishment, call for the U.S.
to invade Afghanistan before any investigation of the
terror crimes of 9-11 had even begun? How would Israel benefit
from a U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan?
As Robert Anton Wilson said, "Every war results from the
struggle for markets and spheres of influence."
The war in Afghanistan is certainly no different.
The Israelis are determined to use their influence in the
United States to advance their interests and influence in Central Asia
while limiting those of Russia and Iran.
Following the break-up of the Soviet Union,
Israeli agents sought to gain control of the strategic assets of
the newly independent Soviet republics. In mineral-rich Turkmenistan,
a Mossad agent named Yosef A. Maiman was very successful
in gaining control of the republic's immense resources
of natural gas.
Yosef Maiman, born in Germany in 1946, grew up in
Peru and studied in the United States before becoming an Israeli citizen in 1971.
As an agent of Israeli intelligence, Maiman heads a network of
Mossad-controlled companies that serve Israeli interests.
As the chief executive of the Merhav Group,
Maiman has long controlled the development of Turmenistan's gas resources,
which are considered to be second only to Russia's.
Maiman's key colleagues at Merhav are the former head of the
Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, and Nimrod Novik, chief adviser to
Shimon Peres, the current president of Israel.
Mossad agent Yosef A. Maiman
controls the gas resources of Turkmenistan.
Maiman was described as "a leading miner" of Central
Asian gas fields by the Jerusalem Post in 2004.
Given the fact that he controls the immense gas resources of
Turkmenistan, the Israeli Maiman, his Merhav company,
and his fellow Mossadniks would all profit immensely --
if and when the U.S.-led coalition were able to "pacify" and
control Afghanistan so that the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI)
gas pipeline could be built allowing the gas of Turkmenistan to be sold to energy-hungry India.
The TAPI pipeline project would bring billions of dollars into
Mossad coffers every year.
This is the real reason for the war in Afghanistan and why the
Zionist-controlled Obama administration has increased the
war effort in Central Asia.
It really has nothing to do with "Islamic terrorism" or 9-11.
The Merhav Group is a private company. Maiman is president
and chairman of the board.
He is also chairman of Ampal-American Israel Corporation,
Israel's Channel 10 (which he owns with Ron Lauder,
Rupert Murdoch, and Arnon Milchen), Gadot Chemical Tankers and Terminals Ltd.,
and Arnon Milchen's agro-chemical company, Milchen Brothers Ltd.
Maiman's Merhav Group is a
Mossad-controlled network of companies.
Maiman's network reveals the Mossad-controlled companies
linked to 9-11 and the war in Afghanistan.
Maiman, for example, is an owner and director of Eltek, Ltd.
an Israeli manufacturer of printed circuit boards,
along with Eytan Barak.
Barak is also a director of ICTS International N.V.,
the Israeli aviation security company that owns Huntleigh USA,
the passenger screening company directly involved with the
planes and passenger screening operations on 9-11.
Barak is a director of ICTS, a member of the supervisory board, audit
committee, and compensation committee. Huntleigh is a
key defendant in the 9-11 tort litigation but the
Mossad-owned company has been protected by the Zionist
Alvin K. Hellerstein, the U.S. District Judge who has prevented any
9-11 trial from finding those responsible for the terror
atrocity that changed the world.
Bollyn
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 13, 2010 12:10 AM
Yeah, why don't you just end the thread with some Jooooo hatred? And from Christopher Bollyn, a criminal on the run.
Stay classy truthers.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 13, 2010 12:41 AM
http://www.firehouse.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107457
Posted by: Troofy Firefighter at March 13, 2010 3:39 AM
Where'd you copy this from?
This is all insane ...
but your last point (17) is just insane.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 14, 2010 1:51 AM
It's all insane. Therefore I have debunked it.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 14, 2010 8:19 AM
yes, it's insane to think that Wesley Clark and Louis Freeh believe that 911 was an inside job.
Anyone can quote-mine. You, dreoilin, demonstrated this above. You're obviously a person of limited intelligence, but you managed to quote-mine Angrysoba above.
It takes just a bit more intelligence to understand nuance and to hold competing thoughts in your head.
btw here's your own tea party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp9oE_ElP1I&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 15, 2010 12:41 PM
Larry: I think you were going to provide us with the evidence upon which you have arrived at you own view on 911. Any reason for the delay?
Posted by: MJ at March 16, 2010 12:44 PM
The End is in the Beginning.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 16, 2010 4:23 PM
Larry,
It is time you and other Americans like you start seeing the bigger picture and there is a real need for you to start stepping away from your ego driven nationalism and total ignorance as witnessed on this blog where many questions asked of you just fail to enter your consciousness.
I have been inspired by the good work of American David Swanson who wants to change America, willing to even to take a peaceful fight to the streets and march on the Capital. The American way of life post 9/11 has been destroyed and this is my 'heads up' to you. Don't be a mouse learning to be rat, become part of a new future for America.
Get a grip Larry instead of obeying your masters to continally cause confusion using a fog of mindless accusations.
PNAC is not dead - it is on the back burner while scenarios are worked out and tested. Lies are difficult to float because of the Internet and bloggers, therefore careful planning is essential. The Neo-cons have not finished their work and many scenarios exist to provide an excuse to attack Iran and light-up an enormous fire against Islam that they hope will trigger WW4.
The psychological effect of 9/11 is wearing off in America and despite threat levels at 'severe' and the efforts of your masters Larry, the American people are becoming unconcerned about another 'terror' attack, so about time to murder more Americans and keep criminals like Michael DeLong happy.
Another conspiracy Larry? Well forever in my mind is the true story by buddy human rights lawyer Phillippe Sands when she exposed the plot discussed by Bush and Blair to provoke an attack on Iraq by 'painting planes in United Nations colours' an American spyplane was proposed to lure Saddam into war.
Change your tactics or tell your boss that you are not smart enough to damage the 911 truth movement and quit your job.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 17, 2010 10:54 PM
Mark, the 911 troofer movement has failed. The Roswell hoax attracts far, far more followers.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 18, 2010 1:42 AM
"I have been inspired by the good work of American David Swanson who wants to change America, willing to even to take a peaceful fight to the streets and march on the Capital."
"Capitol" or "capital". Not "Capital".
Posted by: angrysoba at March 18, 2010 3:36 AM
It takes a troll to pick on grammar, spelling, etc, when they can't think of anything better to say.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 18, 2010 12:07 PM
The End is not nigh!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 18, 2010 3:18 PM
18 Mar 2010
"In a letter obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the 9/11 Commission was refused permission to question terror suspects, with the Bush administration arguing that by doing so the panel would "cross" a "line" and obstruct the administration's efforts to protect the nation.
Citing the need to "Safeguard the national security, including protection of Americans from future terrorist attacks," the government officials demanded the Commission not make further attempts at conducting a deeper probe into the September 11 terror attacks."
Now ain't that interesting. I'm off to the ACLU to see if I can find that letter.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 18, 2010 4:57 PM
Beyond the End, there is No End
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 18, 2010 8:59 PM
Dreoilin,
ACLU letter
http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/CIA.pdf
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 18, 2010 10:10 PM
!There is life after death!
Even on this thread.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 19, 2010 7:09 PM
Thanks Mark!
Posted by: dreoilin at March 20, 2010 1:32 AM
Where are the Larries? Are they being rolled-over by some miscellaneous Muslim or other? St Louis - and Osaka - are full of such miscellaneous Muslims, just waiting to roll over the Larries.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 20, 2010 7:32 AM
They has run away cuz they they R afraid ov us.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 21, 2010 3:22 AM
dreoilin, Afraid of British/Irish people being manipulated by the American right wing to believe their nutjob conspiracy theory? Even Michael Moore couldn't believe in any of your stupidity. I hardly think that you're anything to fear.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 21, 2010 2:36 PM
Dammit, spoke too soon.
Posted by: MJ at March 21, 2010 4:40 PM
"!There is life after death!"
Bummer - no escape then? But the *really* bad news is that some infinities are bigger than others. There is an infinity of integers and an infinity of real numbers - but (wait for it) - there are more real numbers than integers.
So this thread could on forever, and then some.
Posted by: Vronsky at March 22, 2010 9:10 AM
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/scepticism/drasin.html
Scroll down to 'How to debunk just about anything'
Posted by: Vronsky at March 22, 2010 6:20 PM
What is worth investigating Larry is the lack of coordination in your neurons
that makes you oblivious of the extremely volatile man-made particles
found in G0 dust from a number of locations,
kept honestly in bags by honest people willing to put their name to the
samples and which cannot have been derived
from existing material used in the buildings.
Nobody has 'debunked' this smoking evidence that eventually will
burst into flames and
singe the hairs on your back when the terrible truth of this
catastrophic event eventually seeps into the consciousness
of those like you who refuse
to contemplate the catalytic, preplanned
nature of this abomination.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 22, 2010 7:13 PM
“It takes a troll to pick on grammar, spelling, etc, when they can't think of anything better to say.”
Is that what you told your English teacher?
“There is an infinity of integers and an infinity of real numbers - but (wait for it) - there are more real numbers than integers.”
Yes, and there are only half as many even numbers as cardinal numbers yet the sets of both are infinite. Paradox! End of the World!
“Nobody has 'debunked' this smoking evidence that eventually will
burst into flames and
singe the hairs on your back when the terrible truth of this
catastrophic event eventually seeps into the consciousness
of those like you who refuse
to contemplate the catalytic, preplanned
nature of this abomination.”
Homer Simpson to his trampoline: “You may have one this time, but one day you will rust, rust, RUST! AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
Honestly, your Scooby Doo detective antics are amusing. But it isn’t really serious politics is it?
Posted by: angrysoba at March 23, 2010 5:14 AM
“You may have one this time, but one day you will rust, rust, RUST!"
What does that mean?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 23, 2010 10:04 AM
"What does that mean?"
one=won
Troll!
Posted by: at March 23, 2010 12:32 PM
"What does that mean?"
"one=won"
Ahh ... I don't watch the Simpsons. Or "Scooby Doo". My sons used to, when they were younger.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 23, 2010 5:17 PM
dreoilin, so you continue to spew the worst truther bullshit, after earlier telling people that you were just a fence sitter. You're a liar.
Only a sick person like yourself would continue to exploit the tragedy of the death of Barbara Olson.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 23, 2010 7:23 PM
As usual, you can't dispute the content, Larry, so you sling mud. Juvenile.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 23, 2010 7:42 PM
I assume this is the quote on which you base your accusation of me being a liar:
"Mind you, I've learned a lot. And it wasn't from AngryLarry. I may not be a fence-sitter much longer."--dreoilin
Where do you get "liar"?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 23, 2010 8:31 PM
Maybe it was this one:
"I suspect the truth lies somewhere between the magic Arabs and an inside job. A plot that was hatched, and then aided and abetted, or deliberately allowed to come to fruition, probably by Cheney (that evil torture-loving so-and-so.)"--dreoilin
Was that where I "lied" Lar?
Posted by: dreoilin at March 23, 2010 8:41 PM
You claim to have been a fence-sitter, and then repeat (like an easily impressionable moron) the worst troofer lore. Anyone who's looked into conspiracy nuts has seen it before.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 24, 2010 8:03 AM
Where did I lie, Larry.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 24, 2010 10:04 AM
And if you're afraid to answer that, deal with the Flight Deck door. Otherwise, stop wasting everyone's time.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 24, 2010 10:08 AM
The job of the larries is to waste everyone's time, dreoilin. The sweatshop larries have been briefed in some detail on '9/11' but are at sea on any other topic and so resort to hurling abuse. They are unable - they have not been authorised - to cogitate independently which is why they do not answer direct and simple questions.
Vronsky, with its big, iron, Hakluyt portals, Vauxhall imagines that its power is infinite, but the power of numbers is greater still.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 24, 2010 3:26 PM
You lied because you were a truther from the outset.
Kinda like the shill in the audience when a snake oil salesman is demonstrating his miracle cure.
But then, if you were finally convinced of 911 inside jobby job because of this thread, then you have all sort of other problems.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 24, 2010 4:23 PM
OK, dreoilin, I just clicked through that link you provided, and there is no evidence of anything.
Wow. Is that all it takes for you to believe something?
Once again you're being manipulated by right-wing Americans. What a pathetic life you've had, for it to come to this.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 24, 2010 4:28 PM
Bullet-points, for the Afghan thread. That's a bit lazy, larries. You're supposed to transmute and ejaculate it through your own consciousness(es). How's Vauxhall these days? D'you get to visit? Doubt it. Nice supermarket nearby though.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 24, 2010 4:34 PM
"The job of the larries is to waste everyone's time, dreoilin"
--Suhayl Saadi
You're right. I shouldn't indulge him.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 24, 2010 4:50 PM
Surprised he hasn't appeared on the Netanyahu thread yet - or hadn't last time I was there.
Posted by: dreoilin at March 24, 2010 4:51 PM
"How's Vauxhall these days?"
What's that mean?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at March 24, 2010 5:12 PM
No answers, until I get an answer to my very simple question.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 24, 2010 6:43 PM
"Wow. Is that all it takes for you to believe something?"
What has it taken for you to believe the official account Larry? You still haven't told us. What are the two best pieces of evidence in your view?
Posted by: MJ at March 25, 2010 12:35 AM
"there are only half as many even numbers as cardinal numbers"
Jeez. No brains, and no fucking education either. Those sets are the same size, as you can set up a one-to-one correspondence between their members. (I'd have inserted the word 'obviously' somewhere in there if I'd been talking to a Brit).
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/cardinal_number.html
Posted by: Vronsky at March 25, 2010 3:04 PM
Where is Professor Prostate?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at March 26, 2010 8:46 PM
The Huffington Post Bans 9/11 Truthers
The Huffington Post bans 9/11 Truthers, and equates them with birthers
(as if they are similar lunatics).
Additionally, for an article or blog to be published with 9/11 Truth references, it must be derisive in tone.
Realism: “the birther movement includes . . . members of Congress”
(none of whom has been run out of town), “while connection to the truther
movement can help cost [an] . . . obscure administration official his job.” Moreover, when it comes to the
Huffington Post, even commenting along those lines
(as a mere reader with a profile) will get you banned:
“More full disclosure: I despise 9/11 ‘truther’ conspiracies.
Indeed, one of the guidelines for bloggers on HuffPost is a ban on
posts putting forth those kinds of theories.
The 9/11 ‘Truthers’ are fringe-dwellers. . . .”
Thus, clearly, “truthers” (who have volumes of credible information)
are relegated to the same level as “birthers” (who have no logical
or remotely upstanding basis). Indeed, from Arianna Huffington herself,
there is a “ban” on “those kinds of theories” – since they are “[despicable].”
It is then assumed that (the late Aaron Russo) Rosie O’Donnell,
Martin and Charlie Sheen, David Lynch, Ed Begley, Jr., Janeane Garofalo,
Ed Asner, Harry and Gina Belafonte, Woody Harrelson, James Cromwell,
Peter Coyote, James Brolin, Richard Linklater, and Rory O’Connor
(to name a few) would be considered “fringe-dwellers” – thus,
not welcomed to blog or comment in relation to their theories on 9/11, or support of the truther movement
(in some specific areas). (Jesse Ventura: Confirmed.)
(Along other lines of stature, what about the celebrated, brave,
whistleblowing, former FBI agent Coleen Rowley? Are her relative views and stands prejudged as irrelevant,
zany antics?)
Further, beyond not being welcomed to posit, would it also be
rational to assume that, as far as Arianna Huffington and her
staff is concerned, Janeane Garofalo, for example, is just
another lunatic?
If so, my previous suggestion of a written debate between
Bob Cesca and David Ray Griffin (as a means of clarity)
will most likely never even receive consideration.
That’s sad, in various aspects – one being “9/11 Truthers mainly base their cases of question,
and desire for an independent investigation, on scientific and documented evidence”;
“birthers” base theirs on none. (All of the latter, excluding updates,
was, of course, Rejected as a reply.)
Another aspect is one where, since Cesca is so vocal in equating
birthers
and truthers together as
“wackaloons,” shouldn’t he relish the opportunity of a supposedly
easy task of mopping the floor with Griffin – over facts?
Yes, and if he ever went into the written or in-person debate,
mopping would definitely take place, unexpectedly –
because, obviously unbeknownst to Cesca, Griffin is a
world away from the likes of Orly Taitz.
Van Jones Resigns, Backpedals, and Disavows
“QUESTION: . . . he was on an organizing committee for a 9/11 Truther march.
Your administration has been very active in knocking down
the so-called Birthers, . . .
who allege without any evidence, and despite all evidence to
the contrary, that the president was not born in the United States.
How can the administration tolerate somebody who subscribes to
a different insane conspiracy theory, as a senior adviser?”
To again clarify significant extremes: Centered 9/11 Truthers
are all about “evidence to the contrary” – but, of the official version –
where overwhelming facts in many areas/facets beg for more light.
Most of the 9/11 Commission, for instance, completely ignored
(WTC 7, eyewitness accounts, etc.)
or purposely obscured considerable “evidence to the contrary” of
their predetermined results/goals.
As far as conspiracy theories, a
passage from Debunking 9/11 Debunking:
“Assuming that one of the two conspiracy theories about 9/11 is irrational,
because it is contradicted by the facts,
is it the official theory or the alternative theory?”
In direct relation, and as a result of these ongoing
public floggings of Truthers, a “30-percent open[-minded]”
visit to the web sites of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and 9/11
Scholars for Truth is recommended for substance – after,
or in combination with, a reading of The New Pearl Harbor.
Further, for those of the Spirit who “fight the good fight”
in ultimately Just causes, a quote from David Ray Griffin’s
Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action:
“If 9/11 is not a religious issue, then I don’t know what is.”
Questions, History, and Stances:
“Inactivity” – Before 9/11
Paul Begala’s article, “Mr. Cheney,
You Did Not Keep Us Safe” ended
with a time-line of “inactivity” – Before 9/11. Response:
“Combined with all the ‘coincidental’ inactivity and seeming
indifference, which just happened to benefit the hijackers’
goals (such as the FBI’s quashing of reports from Phoenix,
Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York, and John O’Neill’s resignation
from the FBI over what he considered ‘repeated obstruction of his
investigations into al-Qaeda,’ etc.), there was also significant
‘activity’ – behind closed doors.
Qwest Communications (e.g.) was served with National Security Letters
(as were other tele-coms), before 9/11, in relation to a
(secret and illegal) Warrantless Surveillance program.
Many could wonder: with all the supposed apathy going on
previous to the planes striking their targets, what was the
‘ticking time-bomb‘ scenario which led them to covertly bypass FISA –
well before they ever hit?”
WTC (“Pull It”) 7
Exoteric: Without having been hit by a plane, WTC 7
was the third steel-frame building (on the same day)
in history to “collapse,” totally (including core columns),
from fire damage – in a free-fall.
Senator John Kerry’s version
(as if it was common knowledge, and completely devoid of nefarious
implications): “I do know that . . .
wall, I remember, was in danger –
and I think that they made a decision based on the danger that
it had of destroying other things,
that they did it in a Controlled Fashion.”
(Question: How believable is it that WTC 7 was planned and rigged
for demolition in under, say, five hours?)
So, which proposed Theories are credible? Esteemed “alternative” researchers,
impartial scientists and engineers – or officials – purposely looking in,
and for, other ways?
As far as evidence, another passage from Debunking 9/11 Debunking:
“As Steven Jones has written: ‘The likelihood of near-symmetrical
collapse of WTC 7 due to random fires . . . –
requiring as it does near-simultaneous failure of many support columns –
is infinitesimal.”
Yet, NIST’s “Thermal Expansion” as a simple scientific wonder
was an “official” explanation. What about Senator (“Controlled Fashion”) Kerry?
Overruled by NIST.
Still, if he was (bluntly) correct, and the reception by
unbiased peers on “Thermal Expansion” has been pure, confirming mockery –
what would the cover for the revelation of Demolition be?
Unsurprisingly, they might come up with a statement like:
“Well, NIST did what they were directed to do.
But, now that this has come out (where, undeniably, we could not have set WTC 7 up – while it was burning),
our currently released position is one where we have been secretly rigging
buildings all over the U.S. – ahead of time – just in case it’s needed –
for many years.”
In turn, public recognition: “How ‘insane[ly]’ convenient!”
Retort: “Classified scenarios of such a volatile level were
(and to the greatest extent, remain) far beyond your ‘need to know’ status.”
Shoot, or Stand Down?
Norman Mineta: “There was a young man who had come in and
said to the vice president,
‘The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out.’
And when it got down to,
‘The plane is 10 miles out,’ the young man also said to the vice president, ‘Do the orders still stand?’
And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said,
‘Of course the orders still stand.
Have you heard anything to the contrary?’“ In context of the overall
situation – and a localized outcome (the Pentagon was hit),
what determination is more rational –
an order was given to Shoot Down, or Stand Down?
A Moderate’s View on The Truth of 9/11
“Surveillance/inside information led to Knowing It Was Coming.
Based on the latter, covert actions were implemented that would Enhance the Outcome.
Then, Standing Down (just long enough) during the occurrence
assured an expectation of success.”
Finally, though this blog post could go on (for at least)
another twelve pages just focusing on self-evident information,
the following statements are a (momentary) conclusion.
As an avid reader of the Huffington Post since its inception,
it has been intensely disillusioning to discover such absolute ludicrousness by way of shamefully
distorted associations and uninformed positions.
Howard Zinn, historian, author, and playwright, on
“The New Pearl Harbor” : ‘[T]he most persuasive argument I have
seen for further investigation of the Bush administration’s relationship to that historic
and troubling event.’
By contrast, his likely take on the birthers:
“The most unsustainable, unconvincing, and unsupported-by-facts pile of Beckish rubbish ever
brought forth in relation to the Obama administration.”
In spite of blanketing assertions attempting to label
Truthers and birthers into the same box of “insanity,”
they are not similar – to an extreme.
One side is completely blinded
(and manipulated like clueless sheep) – thus, irrespective of facts and shaded political realities.
The other is analytically grounded, critically aware of political
possibilities, and pushing forward with ultimate Reason.
Update:
A surprising admission:
“Some, but not all, of the left thought Bush had prior
knowledge of the September 11th attacks.
It’s a matter of record that he knew an attack might be
imminent based upon the famous PDB titled
‘Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.’
So that one was partially true.”
Undoubtedly, Bob Cesca knows what doors are then opened – by invitation.
However, if one should step up and try to go (rationally)
within, he or she would be ridiculed as just another “wackaloon.”
Is that objectively reasonable, or “partially” acceptable?
Neither. Once an area of truth so astounding (and implicative)
is revealed, the naturally following exploration of
related questions ought to be welcomed – without denigration.
Update II:
Obama Confidant’s Spine-Chilling Proposal:
“In 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a
truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government
employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-”independent” advocates to “cognitively infiltrate”
online groups and websites —
as well as other activist groups — which advocate views that
Sunstein deems “false conspiracy theories“ about the Government.”
(Sunstein and Beck Fire Shots Across Our Bow)
Update III:
Mike Green was allowed to publish an article with
9/11 Truth references on the Huffington Post (03/07/2009)?
Unannounced changes? Progress? No. (Exploring the angle.)
h+t+t+p://seaclearly.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/the-huffington-post-bans-911-truthers-birthers/
w+w+w.youtube.com/watch?v=877gr6xtQIc
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at March 31, 2010 5:18 PM
Mark, there are answers to all of those concerns. Start at the JREF.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at April 1, 2010 12:40 AM
Let's hear them then Larry. While you're about it why not humble us with the evidence that supports the official narrative and which you find so convincing.
Posted by: MJ at April 1, 2010 4:21 PM
As a result of a decision by a high court judge today that
President George W Bush's warrantless wire-tapping by the NSA was and is illegal
(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html),
I have posted the following statement to Congress:
It has to be said that the Obama administration’s
effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed
counterterrorism policies of former
President George W. Bush is very worrying.
Also the scientific discovery of explosive particles in
'Ground Zero' dust collected from four different locations by
American citizens who have signed a declaration that the contents
of the containers in which the dust was deposited was a true and legal
sample of material ejected when the
WTC towers fell, should be examined by government scientists and
their findings should be subject to legal proceedings in an
American court of law.
The scientific evidence proves that material was
discovered in residues that could not have been created by the
ordinary failure of a buildings infrastructure by fire.
Such man-made material could indicate illegal activities by
persons unknown in the destruction of 1WTC, 2WTC and 7WTC and that
NIST failed to complete a thorough investigation of building
failure in that tests for explosive substances were not adequately
and diligently performed or such tests were omitted in their
analysis and final report.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at April 1, 2010 10:37 PM
There are some quite extreme views here (link below) although of course (disclaimer) they're not wrong just because they're extreme. If nothing else, it's a bit of fun to hear criticism of Chomsky from another expert in linguistics. WTF is it with linguistics? Should I have done that instead of maths?
In the main, it's good to find someone else slapping their forehead and demanding to know why Chomsky - everyone's hero - somehow can't state the bleedin' obvious.
https://sites.google.com/site/michaeldavidmorrissey/
Posted by: Vronsky at April 2, 2010 7:54 PM
My question remains unanswered.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at April 4, 2010 10:41 AM
Barbara Honegger, MS – Senior Military Affairs Journalist at the Naval Postgraduate School,
the Department of Defense's advanced science, technology and national security affairs university (1995 - present).
Graduate of the Naval War College master's program in National Security Decision Making (2001).
Former White House Policy Analyst and Special Assistant to the Assistant to President Ronald Reagan (1981 - 1983).
Former Director of the Attorney General's Anti-Discrimination Law Review, U.S. Department of Justice (1982 - 1983).
Author of the pioneering Irangate expose October Surprise (1989).
Author of the chapter "The Pentagon Attack Papers" included in The Terror Conspiracy: Deception,
9/11 and the Loss of Liberty by Jim Marrs (2006).
Contributing author to The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty 9/6/06:
"The US military, not al Qaeda, had the sustained access weeks before 9/11
to also plant controlled demolition charges throughout the superstructures
of WTC 1 and WTC 2, and in WTC 7, which brought down all three buildings on 9/11...
A US military plane, not one piloted by al Qaeda, performed the highly skilled,
high−speed 280−degree dive towards the Pentagon that Air Traffic Controllers
on 9/11 were sure was a military plane as they watched it on their screens.
Only a military aircraft,
not a civilian plane flown by al Qaeda, would have given off the
"Friendly" signal needed to disable the Pentagon’s anti−aircraft missile batteries as it approached the building.
Only the US military, not al Qaeda, had the ability to break all of its
Standard Operating Procedures to paralyze its own emergency response system."
http://physics911.net/pdf/honegger.pdf
Thank-you Barbara - I knew a military women with an honest heart would be first to break silence -
thank-you from a British veteran.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at April 10, 2010 8:32 PM
The brains behind the attacks on the World Trade Centre September 11th 2001
Isser Harel
Born a Russian, Isser Harel became Israel’s pre-eminent spy and founder of the infamous Mossad.
The fact that 9/11 was planned by the Mossad through the admittance of Isser Harel is well documented and appears in a book written by Michael Evans.
Larry Silverstein
Silverstein is a Jewish American businessman from New York. He obtained a 99 year lease on the entire World Trade Center complex on 24 July, 2001.
Larry Silverstein was awarded over $4.5 Billion in insurance money as a result of the destruction of his complex. Silverstein was personal friends with Zionist media maven Rupert Murdoch, and former Israeli president and indicted war criminal Ariel Sharon. Silverstein was such good friends with Benjamin Netanyahu that he would receive a phone call from him every single Sunday.
haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=97338&contrassID=3&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0
Frank Lowy
A Czechoslovakia born Jew, Lowy was the owner of Westfield America, one of the biggest shopping mall conglomerates in the world. Lowy leased the shopping concourse area called the Mall at the World Trade Center, made up of approximately 427,000 square feet of retail floor space.
Frank Lowy was a member of the Golani Brigade, and fought in the Israeli war of independence. Before this he was a member of Hagganah, a Jewish terrorist organization. Frank Lowy spends three months of the year at his home in Israel.
He funded and launched the Israeli Institute for National Strategy and Policy, which will “operate within the framework of Tel Aviv University” in Israel. He is also close friends with many top Israeli officials such as Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, Bibi Netanyahu, and Ehud Barak. He was also implicated in an Israeli Bank Scandal with Olmert.
crimesofzion.blogspot.com/2007/05/frank-lowy-zionism-and-911.html
abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1773614.htm
Lewis Eisenberg
This Jewish criminal personality was the head of the Port Authority of New York and authorized the lease transfer to his Zionist brethren Larry and Lowy, despite their bid being lower than that of Vornado Realty Trust, which pulled out after its failed attempt at negotiations with Eisenberg.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article3628.shtml
sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Jewish_Coalition
crimesofzion.blogspot.com/2007/05/israel-lobby-in-america.html
Ronald Lauder
The billionaire Estee Laud
er Cosmetics magnate was the chairman of New York Governor George Pataki’s commission on privatization. He is the key individual who lobbied for the privatization of the World Trade Center complex.
panynj.gov/abouttheportauthority/presscenter/PressReleases/PressRelease/index.php?id=80
worldjewishcongress.org/meet/ny_070610/president.html
portal.idc.ac.il/en/schools/Government/HomePage/Pages/Homepage2.aspx
Jerome Hauer
Jerome Hauer was the managing director of Kroll Associates on 9/11. The company, known as “the CIA of Wall street”, provided security for the World Trade Complex.
911review.org/Wget/winterpatriot/jerome-hauer.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Hauer#Family
Adam Gadahn
Jew named Adam Pearlman, and his grandfather, Carl Pearlman, was on the Board of Directors of the Anti-Defamation League!
fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/gadahn_a.htm
Alvin K. Hellerstein
Hellerstein is a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and has been involved in several high-profile 9/11 related cases including consolidated master cases against three airlines, ICTS International NV and Pinkerton’s airport security firms, the World Trade Center owners, and Boeing Co., the aircraft manufacturer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hellerstein#World_Trade_Center_cases
Michael Mukasey
This Orthodox Jewish judge presided over the first World Trade Center bombing case in 1993. After 9/11 the Mukasey litigation between Larry Silverstein and his insurance companies ensued. Instead of being charged with insurance fraud for the obvious demolition of all three World Trade Center Towers, Silverstein was awarded $4.6 billion.
nysun.com/new-york/as-judge-leaves-for-law-firm-his-legacy-is/36714
Sheila Birnbaum
Another key Jew involved in the cover-up of 9/11 is Sheila Birnbaum of Skaddan, Arps law firm. She was appointed ‘special mediator‘of the legal suits filed by the 3% of families who refused to be bought off by the Zionists. As of this writing, not one of these pending cases has made it to trial, thanks to her.
skadden.com/index.cfm?contentID=45&bioID=10
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/03/13/the-911-victim-settlements-a-chat-with-skaddens-sheila-birnbaum/
Michael Chertoff
This man was the Assistant Attorney General on 9/11, and in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Chertoff allowed over one hundred Israeli spies who were arrested prior to and on 9/11 to return to Israel on immigration violations.
Kenneth Feinberg
He personally administered the $7 billion victim’s compensation fund that persuaded 97% of the victims’ families to take the money in exchange for renouncing their right to sue the 9/11 criminals. Today he is the “pay czar”, in charge of TARP Executive Compensation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Feinberg#September_11_Victim_Compensation_Fund
Doug Zakheim
Zakheim was the CEO of System Planning Corporation from 1987-2001. SPC Corporation provided flight termination systems and command, technology that allows up to eight planes to be remotely controlled at the same time, from one operations center.
Zakheim was the Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller of the Pentagon from 2001 to 2004. He is the man responsible for the disappearance of $2.6 TRILLION that went missing from Pentagon accounts. This scandal was first mentioned by Donald Rumsfeld on September 10th, 2001, only to be buried the very next day beneath 9/11’s rubble.
sysplan.com/
sysplan.com/Our%20Capabilities/Radar%20and%20Measurement%20Technology/Flight%20Termination%20System
cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml
onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1047.shtml
Richard Perle
Nicknamed “The Prince of Darkness”, Perle was Chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, and a member of PNAC, the Project for a New American Century. This group of “neo-conservatives” was actually a Zionist organization.
Paul Wolfowitz
Wolfowitz was the Deputy Defense Secretary on 9/11, and a leading member of PNAC. He is widely regarded as the chief architect of the Iraq war.
Douglas Feith
As Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Feith spearheaded two secretive groups at the Pentagon — the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans. The mission of both groups was to create propaganda claiming Saddam Hussein was developing WMDs, and that he was connected to Al Qaeda.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary_%28magazine%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnac#Open_letter_to_President_Clinton_on_Iraq
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Jerusalem
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Jewish_Studies&action=edit&redlink=1
Philip Zelikow
This Zionist Jew was appointed the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission. He is responsible for concocting the contrived fiction that was presented to us as the 9/11 Commission Report (i.e. official story).
Ari Fleischer
He served as White House Press Secretary for President Bush from January 2001, to July, 2003. In that capacity he helped sell the official story of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq to the American People.
In July 2003, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, another Zionist Jew, illegally publicized Valery Plame as a known CIA
Benjamin Netanyahu: the Architect of 9/11
It is impossible to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu is not a central player in the September 11th attacks. He had intimate connections to Israeli intelligence, a close friendship with Larry Silverstein, and a shared ideology with the Jews in the Bush administration.
Technology & Logistics
Ptech Software Systems
Most national security computerized systems that would have responded to the 9/11 hijackings by scrambling jets were running on Ptech software. A list of Ptech clients includes the FAA, N.A.T.O, United States Armed Forces, and Congress. Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Justice, FBI, Customs, the IRS, the Secret Service, and the White House.
Zionist Jew Michael S. Goff was marketing manager at Ptech and also worked for Israeli database company Guardium (Director Amit Yoran); Guardium has been funded by Cedar Fund, Veritas Venture Partners, and StageOne, all Mossad funding outfits.
International Consultants on Targeted security
ICTS International, and their US subsidiary Huntleigh USA, are owned by Ezra Harel and Menachem Atzmon, both Israeli Jews. Most of the company’s employees are Israeli, and have close ties to the Mossad.
rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=89761
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services
ZIM is another front company owned and controlled by the Israeli government. The company vacated its 10,000 square feet office in the North WTC tower just one week before 9/11. Zim’s offices in the Trade center had been leased until the end of 2001 and the company lost $50,000 when it suddenly pulled out at the beginning of September.
FBI agent Michael Dick was investigating Israeli spying before and after 9/11. After he began looking at Zim’s suspicious move he was removed from his duties by the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, Michael Chertoff. According to a non-official cover, (or N.O.C.), CIA source who worked closely with Dick, the Israeli movers moved in explosives when ZIM moved out.
rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=89761
careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2008/07/israeli-owned-shipping-company-moves.html
Odigo
Odigo was an Israeli owned company that operated an instant text messaging service. Odigo had a unique feature that allowed messages to pass through a search filter based on nationality, such as Israeli. Odigo admitted that two of its employees received instant messages warning of the impeding attack two hours prior to the first plane hitting the North Tower. Had this warning been passed on to authorities, thousands of lives could have been saved.
haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobi_Alexander#Criminal_charges
Sims metals Management
Alan D. Ratner’s Metals Management and the SIMS group were responsible for quickly scooping up the rubble from the towers and shipping it off to Asian smelters. Ratner made a handsome profit selling over 50,000 tons of crime scene evidence steel to a Chinese company at $120 per ton; Ratner had obtained them for $70 per ton. More research on this illegal destruction of crime scene evidence can be found here.
rediff.com/money/2002/jan/21wtc.htm
sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Destruction_of_Evidence_from_Ground_Zero_at_the_World_Trade_Center&printable=yes&printable=yes
In late 2000 and throughout 2001, over 200 Israelis were arrested for suspected espionage. This was the largest spy-ring ever uncovered in the United States. These suspected spies targeted or penetrated Military bases, DEA, FBI, Secret Service, ATF, U.S. Customs, IRS, INS, EPA, Interior Dept., U.S. Marshal’s Service, various U.S. Attorneys Offices, Secret government offices, and unlisted private homes of law enforcement/intelligence officers.
Of the 90 or so detained Israelis there were five, now widely known as the “dancing Israelis“, who were spotted in multiple locations filming, and celebrating the attacks.
whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html?q=fiveisraelis.html
abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1
…
The Mural Van
One of the more bizarre events of the day came in the form of a mysterious white van parked a few blocks away from the twin towers on 6th and King Street, with a mural painted on the side that literally depicted a jetliner crashing into the twin towers and exploding.
infowars.net/articles/april2007/230407vans.htm
youtube.com/watch?v=WRWQxlnZQj4
culhavoc.blogsome.com/2006/05/03/confirming-the-exploding-mural-van-coverup
transweb.sjsu.edu/mtiportal/research/publications/summary/0206.html
transweb.sjsu.edu/mtiportal/research/publications/summary/0206.html
whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/hundreds.html
Al Qaeda is Zionist Fiction
Ziad Jarrah and Mohammed Atta, the alleged 9/11 lead hijacker, making their martyrdom video just before 9/11, all the while laughing hysterically about it!
Ali Al Jarrah, Ziad Jarrah’s uncle, was recently discovered by Lebanese authorities to have been a Mossad Spy for 25 years!
public-action.com/911/sams.html
prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/020807tapesdoctored.htm
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at April 11, 2010 12:01 AM
of course history of Oklahama bombing shows ample evidence of miscarriage of justice.
Anyone who agrees with the official story is an affront to people like Terrance Yeakey (officer) murdered because he knew otherwise....
Then there JFK, 7/7, Estonia Ferry incident, Tonikin Affair, USS Liberty
Posted by: at April 11, 2010 11:21 AM
gLtdqS
Posted by: vAlyFK at April 13, 2010 1:13 AM
More extremist right American nonsense.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at April 13, 2010 4:58 PM
Larry, man, are you on the bus?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at April 16, 2010 6:54 PM
Overview of New 9/11 Research
The impact of planes cannot have caused enough damage to bring the buildings down,
since the buildings were designed to withstand them (as Frank DeMartini,
the project manager, has observed),
the planes alleged to have hit were similar to those they were designed
to withstand, and the buildings continued to stand after
those impacts with negligible effects.
The melting point of steel at 2,800 degrees F is about 1,000 degrees
higher than the maximum burning temperature of jet-fuel-based fires, which
do not exceed 1,800 degrees under optimal conditions;
but the NIST examined 236 samples of steel and found that 233 had
not been exposed to temperatures above 500 degrees F and the
others not above 1200.
Underwriters Laboratory certified the steel in the buildings
up to 2,000 degrees F for three or four hours without any significant
effects, where these fires burned neither long enough or hot enough—at
an average temperature of about 500 degrees for about one hour in
the South Tower and one and a
half in the North—to weaken, much less melt.
If the steel had melted or weakened, then the affected floors
would have displayed completely different behavior, with some degree
of asymmetrical sagging and tilting, which would have been gradual and
slow, not the complete, abrupt and total demolition that was observed.
Which means the NIST cannot even explain the initiation of any
“collapse” sequence.
William Rodriguez, who was the senior custodian in the North Tower
and the last man to leave the building, has reported massive explosions
in the sub-basements that effected extensive destruction,
including the demolition of a fifty-ton hydraulic press and the ripping
of the skin off a fellow worker,
where they filled with water
that drained the sprinkler system.
Rodriguez observed that the explosion occurred prior to
reverberations from upper floors, a claim that has now been substantiated in a new study by
Craig Furlong and Gordon Ross, “Seismic Proof:
9/11 Was an Inside Job,” demonstrating that these explosions actually
took place as much as 14 and 17 seconds before the presumptive airplane impacts.
Heavy-steel-construction buildings like the Twin Towers
are not generally capable of “pancake collapse,” which normally occurs
only with concrete structures of “lift slab” construction and could not
occur in redundant welded-steel buildings, such as the towers,
unless every supporting column were removed at the same time,
floor by floor, as Charles Pegelow,
a structural engineer, has observed.
The demolition of the two towers in about 10 seconds apiece is
very close to the speed of free fall with only air resistance, which
Judy Wood, Ph.D., formerly a professor of mechanical engineering, has
observed is an astounding result that would be impossible without
extremely powerful sources of energy. If they were collapsing,
they would have had to fall
through their points of greatest resistance.
Indeed, the towers are exploding from the top, not collapsing to
the ground, where their floors do not move, a phenomenon Wood has
likened to two gigantic trees turning to sawdust from the top down, which,
like the pulverization of the buildings, the government’s account cannot
possibly explain. There were no pancakes.
WTC-7 came down in a classic controlled demolition at 5:20 PM after
Larry Silverstein suggested the best thing to do might be to
“pull it,” displaying all the characteristics of classic
controlled demolitions: a complete, abrupt and total collapse into
its own footprint, where the floors are all falling at the same time,
yielding a stack of pancakes
about 5 floors high.
The hit point at the Pentagon was too small to accommodate a
100-ton airliner with a 125-foot wingspan and a tail that stands
44-feet above the ground; the debris was wrong for a Boeing 757: no wings,
no fuselage, no seats, no bodies,
no luggage, no tail! Not even the engines were recovered,
which means that the official account is not true.
The Pentagon’s own videotapes do not show a Boeing 757 hitting
the building, as even Bill O’Reilly admitted when one was shown on
“The O’Reilly Factor”; at 155 feet, the plane was more than twice as long
as the 77-foot Pentagon is high and should have been present and easily visible; it was not, which
means that the video evidence also contradicts the official
account.
The aerodynamics of flight would have made the official
trajectory—flying at high speed barely above ground level—physically impossible, because a Boeing 757
flying over 500 mph could not have
come closer than about 60 feet
of the ground, which means that the official account is not
even aerodynamically possible.
Data from a flight recorder provided to Pilots for 9/11 Truth by the
National Transportation Safety Board corresponds to a plane with a
different approach and altitude, which would have precluded its
hitting lampposts or even the building itself, which means that, if this data corresponds to a Boeing 757,
it would have flown over the
Pentagon rather than hit it.
If Flight 93 crashed into an abandoned mine shaft, as the
government maintains, then they should have brought out the heavy
equipment and the bright lights and dug and dug, 24/7,
in the hope that, by some miracle, someone might possibly
have survived. But nothing like that was done. Even the singed trees
and shrubs were trimmed, apparently to make it impossible to
subject them to chemical analysis.
There is more, especially about the alleged hijackers, including
that they were not competent to fly these planes and their names
are not on any original, authenticated passenger manifest. Several
have turned up alive and well and living in the Middle East.
The government has not even produced their tickets as evidence
that they were even aboard the aircraft they are alleged to have
hijacked. Did Osama call from a cave in Afghanistan and charge
them to his MasterCard?
President Bush recently acknowledged that Saddam Hussein
had nothing to do with 9/11. The Senate Intelligence Committee has
reported that Saddam was not in cahoots with Al Qaeda. And the FBI
has acknowledged that it has
“no hard evidence” to tie Osama to 9/11. If Saddam did not do it and Osama
did not do it, then who is responsible for the death of 3,000 citizens
that day?
We believe that it is the highest form of respect to those
who died on 9/11 and their survivors to establish how and why they died,
which our own government manifestly has not done. With the American media under the thumb of a corrupt
administration, we cannot count on the press to perform its
investigative function. But we can do our best to expose falsehoods
and reveal truths about 9/11.
James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.
Founder
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
email: jfetzer@d.umn.edu
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer/
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at April 22, 2010 9:33 PM
Mark
I'd be very careful of Fetzer and Wood - they seem to be batting for the other side as disinformation merchants.
Here are some (more respectable) articles from Cornell University Library which may be of interest.
'Descent curve and the phases of collapse of WTC 7'
http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4792
'Mathematical Models of Progressive Collapse and the Question of How Did the World Trade Centers Perish'
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0609105
Posted by: Vronsky at April 25, 2010 4:10 PM
Thanks Vronsky interesting links.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at April 25, 2010 11:07 PM
"He's gone, he's gone, whatever will we do-oo!
I said, I said, the singing nun is through-oo!"
Cuppa...?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at April 30, 2010 8:48 PM
He's back, he's back
From across the big water
Save all your gold
Lock-up your daughters!
Was 9/11 an inside job?
Ask the builder...
Bob
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 1, 2010 9:08 AM
"I'd be very careful of Fetzer and Wood - they seem to be batting for the other side as disinformation merchants."
The best thing about Truthers is they start debunking each other. The Star Wars people have begun debunking the thermite people. So instead of the thermite people being able to defend their argument they call them “disinfo”! Ha ha!
The same goes for the other way around.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 5, 2010 5:00 AM
And the planers call the no-planers disinfo. And vice-versa. The LIHOPpers call the MIHOPpers disinfo. And vice-versa. The CDers call the non-CDers disinfo. And vice-versa. The Israel did-iters call the US did-iters disinfo. And vice-versa. And anyone who thinks it is quite possible that some Arab guys hijacked four planes and crashed them into buildings is a complete shill!
Heaven forbid anyone in Trutherland simply be wrong.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 5, 2010 7:24 AM
Craig Furlong who appears in yet another of Mark Golding’s cut and paste’s has actually recanted his belief in 9.11 Truth. So I don’t see how his and Gordon Ross’s research paper is of much use.
“Charles Pegelow, a structural engineer”, who also appears in Mark’s piece believes the Twin Towers was brought down by nuclear weapons. You’re free to believe this crap if you really want - despite your fantasies of living in totalitarian Matrix-world and despite your fantasies of being rebel Jedi knights against the evil Dick Cheney-run Galactic Empire – but don’t you think it seems a bit childish now that Dick Cheney (and his handpuppet) is no longer president.
Doesn’t it have less of a thrill and seem far less daring to suggest that 9/11 was an inside job these days?
Posted by: angrysoba at May 5, 2010 7:37 AM
I note that my little ad has disappeared, so here it is again. The special offer is still available.
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Posted by: Vronsky at May 5, 2010 9:57 AM
As hilarious as your satirical ad is, you’ll find that a Boeing 767 costs somewhere between 130-173 million dollars according to this:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_is_the_cost_of_boeing_767
Could you also explain how the conspirators knew burning debris from the north tower would strike WTC7 and cause it to catch fire. And, more importantly, what the point in demolishing the buildings was in the first place?
Posted by: angrysoba at May 5, 2010 12:03 PM
Jeez, can't they find anyone better than you? Isn't there an organ grinder somewhere? One gets so fed up with the monkey.
Scroll up a bit, and read the (shill-recommended!) 'analysis' by Barbara Lane. According to this lady, no planes were needed. Just fires (I'm sure it's quite irrelevant that she sells fire protection consultancy).
So ACME Demolitions Inc. stands by its promise: show us the towers you want down, and our zippo is at the ready.
Posted by: Vronsky at May 5, 2010 12:37 PM
Vronsky, the planes had an effect on the destruction of both the towers as they likely removed fire-proofing and weakened the structure.
Even a monkey would know that much.
Barbara Lane’s analysis seemed to be particularly for WTC7 and they may have concluded that fire alone could have brought down the tower given that it had unfought fires burning for over seven hours. Besides, it was realized by the New York fire department that the building would come down due to the destruction and fire so the fact that it did collapse later on can only be considered amazing to Truthers like yourself.
Besides, the ACME demolitions Inc. have apparently already been used before on this building that according to you, Alfred and David Ray Grifter could never have collapsed:
“The 1960 exposition hall was destroyed in a spectacular 1967 fire, despite being thought fireproof by virtue of its steel and concrete construction. At the time of the fire, the building contained highly flammable exhibits, several hydrants were shut off, and the sprinklers proved inadequate suppression. Thus the fire spread quickly and destructively, taking the life of a security guard.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCormick_Place#History
By the way, which brand of insanity do you subscribe to?
Are you a thermite man? A space beams man? A no-planer? A planer? A conventional explosive demolition man?
I can’t remember if you’ve actually given any particular hypothesis or whether, like most Truthers, don’t even go in for the whole coherence thing.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 5, 2010 1:40 PM
Do you know what gives you away? You have no curiosity.
Posted by: Vronsky at May 5, 2010 2:17 PM
I like that too, Vronsky. The child-like faith that the government has told us the total truth, from start to finish. Maybe AngryLarry was one of those kids who started getting really, really fighting mad with other kids, when the notion that Santa wasn't actually real.
But your ACME demolition firm has a lot going for it - cause some random damage, start a few fires, and down it'll come neatly into its own footprint within an hour or so.
Posted by: glenn at May 5, 2010 9:39 PM
And Angry... how many times do I have to tell you? I'm not obliged to get a watertight alternative case which you'll agree is to your satisfaction, before I'm entitled to logically conclude The Official Story (your preferred story) of events is utterly implausible, so wide of the mark that only a wide-eyed true believer could put such complete faith in it.
We both know why you want to try out this tired old tactic, so that I or someone else will run around trying to offer you alternative theories while you sit back snickering and shaking your head. No thanks - you won't find me playing that game!
On the other hand, you are putting all your faith in one particular theory, that advanced by the Bush administration. Perhaps you could help defend just one small aspect of this highly implausible Official Theory by explaining how these useless, novice pilots all turned into flying aces on Magic Arab day?
Posted by: glenn at May 6, 2010 1:04 AM
“You have no curiosity.”
I don’t want to end up like that cat.
But tell me, why do you say I have no curiosity?
How do you know this?
Do you mean I am curious about nothing at all or do you mean I am not curious about 9/11?
Or do you mean that because I don’t subscribe to your views on 9/11 then I obviously must have had my views fed to me and haven’t been the result of research of my own?
Posted by: angrysoba at May 6, 2010 2:05 PM
“But your ACME demolition firm has a lot going for it - cause some random damage, start a few fires, and down it'll come neatly into its own footprint within an hour or so.”
Glenn, none of the towers came down “neatly into its own footprint within an hour or so.” The massive spread of damage that both of the Twin Towers did confirms that and both of them WERE HIT BY PLANES (remember?)
WTC7 came down after seven hours of burning uncontrolled.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 6, 2010 2:07 PM
“The Official Story (your preferred story) of events is utterly implausible,”
This is the argument from incredulity which, on another thread, you chastised me for. In fact, I don’t know where I have argued simply on the basis of incredulity. I’ve usually explained why each and every aspect of Trutherdom is either incoherent or just plain wrong and I don’t have to resort, “Well, I simply don’t believe it!” You have said this many times, “I simply can’t believe them Ay-rabs can fly planes!” You’ve said. “They would have to be Magic Muslims!”
I say, no. They don’t have to be magic at all. To say that Arabs or Muslims simply can’t fly planes is stepping over into Alfred-territory.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 6, 2010 2:12 PM
“Perhaps you could help defend just one small aspect of this highly implausible Official Theory by explaining how these useless, novice pilots all turned into flying aces on Magic Arab day?”
Simple. They were neither flying aces nor complete novices. (And they weren’t magic).
Eyewitnesses said they couldn’t believe someone was flying a 757 in the way they were. This doesn’t mean it wasn’t a 757. It means it was being badly handled.
I’ve told you already that three of the four had commercial licenses. That each of them had done training on simulators and that the fourth, Ziad Jarrah (who crashed his plane, by the way) had clocked up enough hours to qualify.
But if you want some more information about it – if you are curious – that is, then maybe you should read Terry McDermott’s Perfect Soldiers.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 6, 2010 2:18 PM
Here’s something from an article on Hani Hanjour. This article is often cited as evidence that Hani Hanjour couldn’t fly at all because Truthers have quoted selectively from it. But the whole thing shows, as I said, he wasn’t an ace or a novice:
"At Freeway Airport in Bowie, Md., 20 miles west of Washington, flight instructor Sheri Baxter instantly recognized the name of alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour when the FBI released a list of 19 suspects in the four hijackings. Hanjour, the only suspect on Flight 77 the FBI listed as a pilot, had come to the airport one month earlier seeking to rent a small plane.
However, when Baxter and fellow instructor Ben Conner took the slender, soft-spoken Hanjour on three test runs during the second week of August, they found he had trouble controlling and landing the single-engine Cessna 172. Even though Hanjour showed a federal pilot's license and a log book cataloging 600 hours of flying experience, chief flight instructor Marcel Bernard declined to rent him a plane without more lessons.
In the spring of 2000, Hanjour had asked to enroll in the CRM Airline Training Center in Scottsdale, Ariz., for advanced training, said the center's attorney, Gerald Chilton Jr. Hanjour had attended the school for three months in late 1996 and again in December 1997 but never finished coursework for a license to fly a single-engine aircraft, Chilton said.
When Hanjour reapplied to the center last year, "We declined to provide training to him because we didn't think he was a good enough student when he was there in 1996 and 1997," Chilton said.
Hanjour apparently went to the center after living in Hollywood, Fla., in early 1996 with a couple who knew his older brother. Susan Khalil said she recognized Hanjour in photos the FBI recently showed her and recalled him as "painfully shy" with "really poor hygiene" when he lived with her family for two months in 1996.
Despite Hanjour's poor reviews, he did have some ability as a pilot, said Bernard of Freeway Airport. "There's no doubt in my mind that once that [hijacked jet] got going, he could have pointed that plane at a building and hit it," he said."
http://newsmine.org/content.php?ol=9-11/suspects/flying-skills/hani-hanjour-cant-fly.txt
Posted by: angrysoba at May 6, 2010 2:34 PM
Vronsky, haven’t you thought that there are more objections to your ACME Demolitions Inc. than you appear to be aware of.
The idea that controlled demolitions companies would demolish any building by simply dousing it in petrol and setting fire to it is blatantly harebrained because of all the toxic byproducts you’d end up with from burning down a building.
Also, as I’ve pointed out to Alfred, fireproofing is not just a racket (as you implied with your attack on Barbara Lane). It is there to stop fire from burning and collapsing buildings that it is put there to protect.
What do you suppose fireproofing is for, Vronsky?
Posted by: angrysoba at May 6, 2010 2:39 PM
Six in a row! Sure you didn't forget to change the name between posts, say to "Larry" or "Chris" or something?
You sure do like one-way conversations. I'd almost suggest you start your own blog, and post in such a way nobody else bothers to comment... but you pretty much already do that.
Posted by: glenn at May 7, 2010 5:53 PM
Glenn,
Angrysoba does have a blog. Google it.
My understanding is that Angrysoba is an Englishman living in Japan. I'm an American living in America.
We're on two completely different sides of the planet. Yet you think we're one person.
In any event, you're a 911 truther who believes that the serious oil problem in the Gulf of Mexico will kill us all. So you're a nut.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 7, 2010 10:53 PM
Dare I say (lest I be criticised for being unecessarily provocative) would anyone like a cup of tea?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 7, 2010 11:03 PM
Yes, Glenn, when proved wrong resort to petulance.
"Who cares if I’m wacky and you’re not! No nobody ever reads yoooooooou!”
Posted by: angrysoba at May 8, 2010 12:32 AM
heh heh, you guys knock me out. Larry - a monthly reply, I did promise one. WTF would I want to google Angry's blog, when the link is right there on every one of his posts, given how he's always trying to drum up publicity on vastly more successful blogs? And how would I have known that he gets "Comments: (0)" so often if I hadn't looked there? You are one _stupid_ SOAB, Larry!
Angry, when proved wrong, resorts to lying. When did I ever refer to "2012 Apocalypse fantasies" (note your plural), as you stated earlier?
Posted by: glenn at May 8, 2010 1:00 AM
"Angry, when proved wrong, resorts to lying. When did I ever refer to "2012 Apocalypse fantasies" (note your plural), as you stated earlier?"
Well, Glenn. We’ll all be happy to read your blog. We can start with your assertion that:
“This under-reported little item has the potential to kill us all within a year or two.”
It’s 2010 now, right Glenn. “You do the math!” As they say in St. Louis.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 8, 2010 1:57 AM
So you don't deny you were lying, Angry. Very big of you. And I'll leave the bitchy stuff to Larry from now on, if you'll do the same.
I've not subscribed to any Mayan calendar nonsense, since that's what you're clearly angling at.
I've put some links into the "Tories - corrupt as ever" thread if you're interested in what genuinely concerns me about this Gulf disaster.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/05/tories_corrupt.html#comments
But you probably won't be interested, other than to scan it with the hope of quickly finding some weak point with which to discredit me personally, for even mentioning it as a something to consider.
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That's what makes it so tiresome to talk with someone like you, and makes Alfred a breath of fresh air in comparison. You have to pile in, and throw all the crap you can at your perceived opponent, in the hope of some taint by association.
You're somewhat more subtle than Larry, but you still feel that a sly advantage in associating your correspondents with discreditable positions which have never come up, and that you surely know are untrue, is worth more than your personal integrity. And that really is a shame.
Posted by: glenn at May 8, 2010 2:37 AM
“And I'll leave the bitchy stuff to Larry from now on, if you'll do the same.”
I’ve tried some kind of détente before and thought we were making progress when we were talking about books and other stuff (Carl Sagan and moon landings etc…) but you can’t say it’s all been one-way traffic. When we first started talking about 9/11, I was genuinely interested in talking about the actual evidence and I wanted to explain why I thought the evidence was weak (as it happens, the reason I became interested in this in the first place was because I thought the Truthers may have had a point about some things and wanted to see if they were correct. When I traced their claims back to the original sources I found that in almost all cases the claims made weren’t supported by their sources at all – sometimes the cited sources actually claimed the exact opposite of what the Truthers said it did). But when I said this I was attacked as a “moron” and a “shill” and referred to as generally dull-witted and incurious in the obnoxious and supercilious way a lot of Truthers also think of most people (who they believe are brainwashed by MSM and are far more stupid than them).
If I did try to tie people in with anything else it was with the METHODOLOGY of Holocaust denial. I realize that this sounds like I am putting Truthers and Holocaust deniers on the same moral level but that’s not what I meant. The trouble is that then some people here actually DID start defending Holocaust denial and actually did reference those who are Truthers and white supremacists. It annoyed me that they received no criticism at all from the more regular commenters but instead were applauded. Larry is right, by the way, that most of this Truther stuff has been churned out by right-wing groups in the US, some of them very far-right, and this 9/11 thing is just one of the more successful products of a disingenuous (trans: lying) conspiracy theory industry. You were correct about identifying Alex Jones as part of that, but his politics is actually more moderate than many of the others he gives a platform to.
When I looked at Alfred’s site, I didn’t find a breath of fresh air at all but the musty, stale atmosphere of feverish right-wing conspiracism.
But, sure I’ll be willing to lay off the personal attacks on anyone who reciprocates. If you want to continue this discussion honestly then I’d be happy to.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 8, 2010 4:46 AM
Well, I shall just have to drink it all myself, then!
Stomp...
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 8, 2010 4:42 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3rxNCzzJpY
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 8, 2010 5:12 PM
Suhayl Saadi: A very good brew indeed - thank you. And what better place to have one than here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvDoDaCYrEY
Posted by: glenn at May 8, 2010 10:37 PM
Oh yeah, that's one of my favourite ten songs of all time, Glenn: 'Waterloo Sunset' - a perfect song. Heaven. Thanks!
I'm so pleased that someone around here appreciates the value of a good cuppa!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 8, 2010 10:55 PM
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
- Edward R. Murrow
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
- George Orwell
"The obvious must be observed and re-observed and argued for. This is a thankless job. It carries with it an aura of petulance and insensitivity."
- Sam Harris (Atheist Manifesto)
Posted by: Vronsky at May 10, 2010 1:00 PM
Sure, but Sam Harris is not remotely on your side. He understands the nature of illusion and conspiracy theory.
Do you understand how hilarious it is that you would quote him?
Also, it's highly unlikely that Murrow and Orwell would last more than 30 seconds in conversation with you before realizing that you're a pseudo-religious brainwashed nut.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 10, 2010 8:07 PM
Who are you, Larry?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 10, 2010 8:56 PM
Suhayl,
Why this badgering?
Are you one of the sad commenters at this blog who thinks I'm a secret agent man and/or an Israeli operative?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 10, 2010 10:23 PM
Vronsky, what do you think those quotes actually do? Are they appeals to authority?
Truthers do this all the time using quotes from Martin Luther King, Einstein, Gandhi and Eisenhower to give "authoritativeness" to their ideas yet all of them are long dead and had no opinion on 9/11.
Now you've added Orwell and Ed Murrow for conscription to Deceased Thinkers for 9/11 Truth.
It's also question-begging as you haven't explained what the obvious is. For most people the obvious is that 19 Arabs hijacked aircraft and flew them into buildings. How is it that the convoluted and counter-intuitive plots that the Truthers conjure up are more obvious especially given the fact that most Truthers don't even agree on the same plot.
If we are going to play the game of quote the authority then let me choose that ardent defender of "official stories" Noam Chomsky who says, relating to the claims of controlled demolition:
"There are submissions to the Journal of 9/11 Studies, but that's about as convincing as submissions to the Journal of Intelligent Design Studies."
Posted by: angrysoba at May 11, 2010 2:00 AM
Vronsky, what do you think those quotes actually do? Are they appeals to authority?
Truthers do this all the time using quotes from Martin Luther King, Einstein, Gandhi and Eisenhower to give "authoritativeness" to their ideas yet all of them are long dead and had no opinion on 9/11.
Now you've added Orwell and Ed Murrow for conscription to Deceased Thinkers for 9/11 Truth.
It's also question-begging as you haven't explained what the obvious is. For most people the obvious is that 19 Arabs hijacked aircraft and flew them into buildings. How is it that the convoluted and counter-intuitive plots that the Truthers conjure up are more obvious especially given the fact that most Truthers don't even agree on the same plot.
If we are going to play the game of quote the authority then let me choose that ardent defender of "official stories" Noam Chomsky who says, relating to the claims of controlled demolition:
"There are submissions to the Journal of 9/11 Studies, but that's about as convincing as submissions to the Journal of Intelligent Design Studies."
Posted by: angrysoba at May 11, 2010 2:01 AM
Suhayl Saadi: Strangely enough, that is also in my top 10 favourites of all time. I'd also include this one, and now we're down to only 8 for consideration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h1oRP7FfBw
Do you think that some soya milk works better than having it black for vegans? I find the Tesco brand works pretty well for me, when making a really good cup of tea. Unless I tell them, nobody can tell the difference between that and milk while providing them with a mug of tea.
Posted by: glenn at May 11, 2010 3:34 AM
Larry, only you know who you are. I have no idea who you are.
You do not engage in discourse, conversation or any of the other manifestations of communication which would allow anyone to understand who/ what you are and who/ what you are not. That is your prerogative, but it ought not to surprise you that people come to ask such questions of you.
I have attempted very politely and amicably to engage you in discussion and have explained in considerable detail the reasons why. You have not responded. You seem obsessed with a single topic and seem to attempt to relate almost everything to that topic. I have no idea of the reasons for this dynamic because you never explain the reasons.
If you are seen to be merely disruptive then it ought not to surprise you when others reciprocate with subversive humour - or with badgers, cups of tea, buses and anything else that comes to hand. Including the ocean.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 11, 2010 11:01 AM
Suhayl,
You're going to have to get used to the fact that people whom you accuse of being Men in Black might not want to be your good buddy.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 11, 2010 1:51 PM
I wouldn't want a neo-con teabagger to be my good buddy. Nor does Suhayl, I'd hazzard. But Suhayl didn't ask you to be his good buddy, if you read his post immediately above your non sequitur, he asked to engage you in conversation. AngrySoba can manage it, even while holding disagreements. Only you seem totally unwilling or unable to do so.
Posted by: glenn at May 11, 2010 2:44 PM
Glenn:
To restate:
1. My belief that secret Jew American agents did not in fact do 911 does not make me a teabagger.
2. You have far more in common with the teabaggers than me. 911 nuts like you started the latest round of tea party nonsense.
Also, shouldn't you be digging a hole somewhere, as the end of the world is near?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 11, 2010 3:09 PM
This merely exemplifies the points I made on another thread about the repeated use of particular phrases and the motivation for such usage.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 11, 2010 3:59 PM
That's right, Suhayl, I'm a secret agent man, and I'm doing everything I can to get this website on a super-duper-secret "blacklist" - in other words, you used your tremendous skills of logic and reason to ferret me out.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 11, 2010 4:51 PM
Well, Larry, if you're inentions are not of this nature, then it would have been far easier for you to have explained that a long time ago.
As I've been attempting to explain to you for many weeks/ several months now, it's emphatically not that you may hold differing opinions that is the issue - this blog is all about debate and discourse and as you no doubt will have read, I have disagreed with many people herein on a variety of matters.
It is, rather, your seeming unwillingness to engage in any kind of real communication that marks you out as qualitatively different. That may be something which you relish, I have no way of knowing.
I am entirely willing to accept that my suggestion with regards to your posible provenance has been way off the mark, but to-date you have done little to allow me or others to re-evaluate this analysis.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 11, 2010 5:08 PM
Suhayl, I give you the attention that I would give to any religious nut. Christian, Muslim, 911 Truther or otherwise.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 11, 2010 9:16 PM
This is exactly the sort of thing which merely reinforces my point, Larry. You're not interested in engaging in discussion. Sad, I think, but there it is.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 11, 2010 9:25 PM
AngrySoba: Continuing the discussion started on the "voting tree" thread (since that wasn't the place for it)...
---start quote
My crazy, whacked-out "loon" conspiracy theory is that I don't know what happened. I've heard plenty of theories, all of which sound rather implausible and lack the required proof, sounding rather too convenient and serving the agenda of those promoting the explanation. A proper inquiry, impartially and openly conducted would be the best way forward, rather than in secret by establishment stooges.
Why you get so ticked off at someone holding that position is not that clear.
---end quote
Would you be kind enough to comment? (Tea-bagging freaks need not reply. Larry - you'll just have to wait until your turn comes around again in June.)
Posted by: glenn at May 12, 2010 1:18 AM
AngrySoba: Btw, perhaps you have me confused with someone else, because you say:
---start quote
Again, you feel that you know where you can draw the line and tell people who believe in those things that they are loons but tell me that I cannot call people loons for their beliefs.
---end quote
I don't recalling labeling anyone a "loon" here, or anything similar. Would you be kind enough to refresh my memory? I don't like to think of myself as one who holds double standards, as you say I do, so please let me know - I would like to put myself straight on such points.
My suggesting that one might be a True Believer for insisting that every last word they are officially told on a subject is true, as you do for instance, is not the same thing. I'm sure you wouldn't suggest otherwise.
Posted by: glenn at May 12, 2010 1:35 AM
1) Do you hold neoconservative beliefs, Larry?
2)Would you describe yourself politically as a neoconservative?
3)What is your definition of 'neoconservatism'?
4)What do you think of paleoconservatism?
5) a) What do you think of the current coup overcoming the Republican Party and where will it end?
b) Is the Tea Party related to the Religious Right, a unification personified in defeated Vice-Presidential candidate and former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin?
c) Who, or what, is behind the phenomenon of the Tea Party?
d)Do you think it likely that Sarah Palin will be the next President of the USA?
6) Do you think President Obama is doing a good job?
7)What are your views on the US Administration's current domestic policies?
8)What do you think about New York City? Does it appeal to you, or do you prefer small towns?
9)Were you once a left-winger, Larry?
Did you believe in world revolution?
10) What do you think will happen to the world, and to the USA, in the next 100 years?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 12, 2010 7:28 AM
“A proper inquiry, impartially and openly conducted would be the best way forward, rather than in secret by establishment stooges.”
I don’t really care whether or not they waste their time reconvening a new investigation into 9/11. The result will be the same – at least the basics. They’ll conclude that 19 Muslims hijacked planes and flew them into buildings. They’ll conclude as they did before that this was down to grievances real and imagined against the US and that the planners were Khalid Sheikh Mohammad with backing from Osama bin Laden.
The 9/11 Commission was a bipartisan group which does seem to have fudged things in order to prevent certain people in the Clinton and Bush administrations from being pilloried for their incompetence and other things. That’s why they made political deals. And it also looks like, I think from what John Farmer says, that Bush and Cheney were nowhere near the men of action that they are portrayed as in the 9/11 Commission Report.
Any investigation you conduct will conclude the same thing because those aspects of it are beyond dispute to anyone who has looked at the broader evidence (and this goes for John Farmer, Max Cleland, Thomas Kean and anyone else you might like to quote to undermine the Commission report if your purpose is to crowbar a gap for the conspiracy theories) rather than manipulated conspiracy narratives which tend to ignore all the evidence that conflicts with their “theories”.
I’ve looked at countless conspiracy sites and watched the conspiracy videos and even been to listen to conspiracy theorists at their conventions so I know what their arguments are. I know that they are almost always simply pulling a cheap trick. Or they are regurgitating stuff that they have heard before.
“Why you get so ticked off at someone holding that position is not that clear.”
I get ticked off with those who find a quote such as “There was this big explosion” and use it to support the idea that there were bombs in the buildings. But when you track down the quote find that someone says, immediately after, “A big plane had slammed into the World Trade Center!” There are countless numbers of these and when I see people, especially those with a supercilious air explaining that I have my head in the sand, telling me that I am ignoring their evidence and yet churning out five, ten then twenty of these dishonest quotes I get annoyed. I especially get annoyed when I track down the original sources of these quotes and show them that the original source directly contradicts their claims and that person waves it away and says, “What about this then?” and sends me to a link that is a mishmash of many of the same pieces of “evidence” reassembled.
For Truthers, nothing stays dead. No factoid is incapable of getting back up and staggering around zombie-like and jabbering, “No Arabs on the flight manifests!” “No steel building destroyed by fire!” “Fifteen stories of concrete and steel can’t smash through the floors of 90-stories!”
So do I believe “every word of the 9/11 Commission Report”? No, I don’t.
Do I think it was right about the culprits? Yes, I do.
Do I think that George Bush/Dick Cheney/the Illuminati/The NWO or the Israelis destroyed the Twin Towers/WTC7/The Pentagon? No, I don’t.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 12, 2010 12:52 PM
“I don't recalling labeling anyone a "loon" here, or anything similar. Would you be kind enough to refresh my memory? I don't like to think of myself as one who holds double standards, as you say I do, so please let me know - I would like to put myself straight on such points.”
What you said was that you know certain things are so obviously silly as the Protocols and Lizards etc… and you more than imply there is something a bit cracked about the tea-baggers (I agree with you on that. And many of the Truthers claim they began the teabagger movement, too) and that you didn’t want to be lumped in with them. It seems every one has a different threshold for where certain ideas become simply mental. I’m just saying if you can recognize that such ideas do exist then why should you be able to say that those ideas are silly but not allow me to say the same.
But fair enough, if you think there is something that you consider particularly egregious about the term “loon” and it is not in your vocabulary then I’ll accept you don’t use it.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 12, 2010 1:09 PM
9.11 Teabaggers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHhQ71I_fwI
Posted by: angrysoba at May 12, 2010 1:24 PM
Absolute silence.
Or rather, the sound of someone who has been well and truly rumbled.
People - those who haven't already done so - will draw their own conclusions.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 12, 2010 4:53 PM
Suhayl, do you think it's possible that the WTC was wired with explosives, and there was some form of controlled demolition on September 11?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 12, 2010 9:41 PM
Hello AngrySoba,
Thanks for replying. Remarkable that you can conclude in advance the results of a genuinely independent enquiry. It must take a wonderfully open mind to be able to do that.
You assume, as always, that the default position must be the official one. You've said so in many more words, and your faith in the establishment is rather touching.
I'm not doing the leg-work you clearly are trying to set me up for, because there are examples aplenty even on this thread about bombs going off which have absolutely nothing to do with the planes crashing into the building. Your assertion that _every_ witness statement about bombs was actually followed by "a big plane crashed" etc. is risible.
You can go on about theories you don't believe in as long as you like, and illustrate nutty positions all day long, but it bolsters your Official Theory not one scintilla. Just as I could illustrate how entirely improbable it is for the passport of an alleged hijacker to have floated down, not singed in the least, thus supposedly proving the guy in question must have done it. Did you believe that? I'm surprised they didn't turn up a note that fell from his pocket, signed by Bin Laden himself, wishing the hijackers good luck.
Logically, you should be aware of this.
You should also be aware of the ludicrous position you support, whereby a rag-tag team of non-practicing Muslims plotting from a cave in Afghanistan (or a flat in Hamburg, as you prefer) quite obviously pulled this off, whereas a crack team carrying out an inside job could never, never, ever have possibly managed it.
As ever, your default position is to have child-like trust in officials. Mine is to say I'm waiting for a really convincing theory.
Why does that make me the idiot in your view, Soba, logically speaking?
Posted by: glenn at May 12, 2010 10:06 PM
Hello Soba (again)... for some reason you seem delighted about Larry's teabagging mates purportedly going on about 9.11 in the youtube video.
And this video's relevance to what actually happened that day is ...? Why are you so pleased with it?
Posted by: glenn at May 12, 2010 10:10 PM
Suhay: Your post of May 12, 2010 7:28 AM was met with another thundering non sequitur. I think you have rumbled him/them indeed, and consistency across replies would be too difficult should _any_ personal discussion take place at all. Nicely done.
Posted by: glenn at May 12, 2010 10:15 PM
“Your assertion that _every_ witness statement about bombs was actually followed by "a big plane crashed" etc. is risible.”
That wasn’t my assertion, Glenn. I asserted that almost all witness statements were quote-mined. The context is often deliberately taken out to leave the unassuming reader believing there is evidence for a controlled demolition.
“Just as I could illustrate how entirely improbable it is for the passport of an alleged hijacker to have floated down, not singed in the least, thus supposedly proving the guy in question must have done it.”
I’ve not seen the condition his passport was in. Do you have a picture? Anyway, I don’t find it hard to believe. The hijacker in question wasn’t identified purely by his passport, as I am sure you must know.
“I'm surprised they didn't turn up a note that fell from his pocket, signed by Bin Laden himself, wishing the hijackers good luck.”
This type of thing has happened before.
“You should also be aware of the ludicrous position you support, whereby a rag-tag team of non-practicing Muslims plotting from a cave in Afghanistan (or a flat in Hamburg, as you prefer) quite obviously pulled this off, whereas a crack team carrying out an inside job could never, never, ever have possibly managed it.”
How you portray my beliefs sounds ludicrous. But they aren’t my beliefs. You start again with your “rag-tags” but the hijackers were very well-educated. In fact Mohammed Atta was far better qualified than any member of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. I suggest you read Perfect Soldiers.
“Why does that make me the idiot in your view, Soba, logically speaking?”
I wish you would stop misusing the word “logically”. There is nothing illogical in finding one view far more convincing through better evidence than another.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 12, 2010 10:35 PM
angrysoba: "I’ve not seen the condition his passport was in. Do you have a picture?"
Sounds like glenn hasn't got past Loose Change! That's one of my favorite moments in Loose Change - they show a passport that's clearly in bad shape, and they claim that it's in "pristine" condition.
You have to have been sucked into 911 religion to regard the passports as pristine.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 12, 2010 10:51 PM
“You have to have been sucked into 911 religion to regard the passports as pristine.”
That doesn’t surprise me at all.
I no longer trust the interpretation of any aspect of 9/11 from a Truther without being shown the original source of their claim. They have utterly exhausted any right to be trusted on anything at all unless they can back it up with evidence.
THIS is the type of thing that makes me question the mental state of Truthers when they make a claim and use a source that directly contradicts it in support.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 13, 2010 12:59 AM
Oh, and Mark Golding is definitely a fruitcake:
“Rather than being architects of destruction, perhaps like you we can strive for a higher consciousness that creates a magnificent civilisation synonymous with life, celebration, purity and knowledge.”
Posted by: angrysoba at May 13, 2010 1:11 AM
Hello Soba,
What exactly were you saying, then, about the bombs people were reporting? I won't do the dissection bit of your earlier post, but it seemed pretty clear you were making out there was no witness statement concerning bombs which was not _actually_, and disingenuously, in the context of plane crashes.
I was incorrect in saying the passport wasn't singed in the least, sorry - must have got distracted while writing that. Please allow me to modify the question: how could it have arrived at ground level to be discovered at all? Surely it's arrival in any semblance of an actual passport, out of a plane that crashed in a mighty fireball, stretches credulity past any reasonable extent - in all honesty, it looks like you're reaching by fascinating on the 'completely intact' hair-split of that question.
I mean - did many passports happily land to identify passengers like this, or did this almost miraculous phenomenon limit itself to the passports of hijackers? Are you seriously buying that story? ( I guess magic Arabs carry magic passports! :)
"That sort of thing has happened before", you say, in reference to the postulated letter of "good luck!" from Bin Laden. Heh, sure it has, Soba, sure it has. Most often with diabolical fiends in cartoons, where the criminals have a big '$' sign on their stolen swag, etc. .
Logic is exactly what we're talking about here. You have an assumption that the government, through their hand-picked panels, must have provided the truth, because an alternative case has not made to your satisfaction. That is not logical.
You are assuming that a zero sum game between the government's case and sundry "conspiracy theorist" cases exist, and must exclusively contain the whole truth, albeit with a bit of leeway for the Official Story fudging some responsibility to protect various incompetent officials. That is not logical.
You also assert that Mohammed Atta is more qualified than _any_ (i.e. all) members of AE911. Would you care to expand on this? Was Atta a qualified architect, for example, or are you favouring a more narrow definition of "qualified"?
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If you feel up to it, have a better go at taking on the points I made in my post of January 28, 2010 11:05 PM.
Last time, you came up with some silliness about bowling balls suspended by pieces of paper, as if that wild analogy had the slightest bearing on the twin towers, no disrespect. Please try having a serious go at it.
Posted by: glenn at May 13, 2010 2:08 AM
"What exactly were you saying, then, about the bombs people were reporting? I won't do the dissection bit of your earlier post, but it seemed pretty clear you were making out there was no witness statement concerning bombs which was not _actually_, and disingenuously, in the context of plane crashes."
I was giving examples:
"I get ticked off with those who find a quote ******SUCH AS****** “There was this big explosion” and use it to support the idea that there were bombs in the buildings. But when you track down the quote find that someone says, immediately after, “A big plane had slammed into the World Trade Center!” There are countless numbers of these and when I see people, especially those with a supercilious air explaining that I have my head in the sand, telling me that I am ignoring their evidence and yet churning out five, ten then twenty of these dishonest quotes I get annoyed. I especially get annoyed when I track down the original sources of these quotes and show them that the original source directly contradicts their claims and that person waves it away and says, “What about this then?” and sends me to a link that is a mishmash of many of the same pieces of “evidence” reassembled."
"I mean - did many passports happily land to identify passengers like this, or did this almost miraculous phenomenon limit itself to the passports of hijackers?"
They had the manifests to identify who was on board so the passports are irrelevant anyway. But I do NOT have a problem believing that something such as a passport could survive. You'd be utterly mad to bet on one surviving in advance but what Truthers - in their willfully fuckheaded way - fail to get is that some things DO survive crashes while other apparently more durable things DON'T. There is no way of knowing for sure what will survive a crash.
Here's an example. Please actually read throught this including the bit about the suicide note and the bit about how many bodies couldn't be identified because they were completely consumed, like the rest of the plane, in the fireball from the crash:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771
""That sort of thing has happened before", you say, in reference to the postulated letter of "good luck!" from Bin Laden."
No, I wasn't talking about that letter from Bin Laden. Could you show me what you're talking about as I've not heard of any letter from bin Laden. I do know that the hijackers were issued instructions on preparing for martyrdom which included the shaving of their body hair etc... but these were written by Abdulaziz al-Omari, one of the hijackers, as far as I know. Al-Omari also made a martyrdom video too. Look him up!
"Logic is exactly what we're talking about here. You have an assumption that the government, through their hand-picked panels, must have provided the truth, because an alternative case has not made to your satisfaction. That is not logical."
Glenn, you keep on parrotting this Trutherbabble about it all being the "Gubmint story" when there have been plenty of non-government connected investigations into these attacks and they essentially all agree that 19 guys hijacked planes and flew them into buildings.
What do you have trouble understanding?
That Muslims can hijack planes? There have been plenty of occasions when this has happened before. Don't be silly.
That Muslims can fly? Plenty can. Don't be silly.
If you would stop making up what you think the Gubmint story is and stop flitting from one aspect of the incident to the next we might make progress but I think you are doing what you accuse me of doing and that is sitting back and saying, "Yeah riiiiiiight! Like, I sooooo believe that!"
Do you believe that there were any Arabs, magic or otherwise on those flights, Glenn?
Do you believe anyone actually hijacked those planes or do you think they were remote-controlled into the buildings?
Do you think there were any planes?
Now, I have patiently tried to answer your questions. It's about time you actually answered some of my questions.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 13, 2010 3:52 AM
RE: Atta
"In 1985, Atta entered Cairo University, where he studied engineering. As one of the highest-scoring students, Atta was admitted into the very selective architecture program during his senior year. In addition to his regular courses, Atta studied English at the American University in Cairo.[11] In 1990, Atta graduated with a degree in architecture.[12] For several months after graduating, Atta worked at the Urban Development Center in Cairo, where he worked on architectural, planning, and building design.[13]"
He then went on to do a graduate thesis in architecture at Hamburg University on Alleppo in Syria.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 13, 2010 4:00 AM
"I was incorrect in saying the passport wasn't singed in the least, sorry - must have got distracted while writing that."
OK, fuck off, you weren't distracted - you made a claim that is made quite often by truthers, and then you got called out on it. Full stop. And now you want to weasel out of it by claiming "distraction" while you move on in your Gish gallop.
And about the passports - some of the hijackers were in the cockpits of the airplanes. It's plausible that they had their documents with them. Significant portions of the cockpits were ejected from the other side of the Towers.
So:
If passports had not been found, it's evidence of a conspiracy.
If passports had been found, it's evidence of a conspiracy.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 13, 2010 6:06 AM
1) Do you hold neoconservative beliefs, Larry?
2)Would you describe yourself politically as a neoconservative?
3)What is your definition of 'neoconservatism'?
4)What do you think of paleoconservatism?
5) a) What do you think of the current coup overcoming the Republican Party and where will it end?
b) Is the Tea Party related to the Religious Right, a unification personified in defeated Vice-Presidential candidate and former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin?
c) Who, or what, is behind the phenomenon of the Tea Party?
d)Do you think it likely that Sarah Palin will be the next President of the USA?
6) Do you think President Obama is doing a good job?
7)What are your views on the US Administration's current domestic policies?
8)What do you think about New York City? Does it appeal to you, or do you prefer small towns?
9)Were you once a left-winger, Larry?
Did you believe in world revolution?
10) What do you think will happen to the world, and to the USA, in the next 100 years?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 13, 2010 7:33 AM
Suhayl, you've already accused me multiple times of being a Secret Agent Man, so I'm going to have to take you as seriously as I would take a crazy person that I'm forced to sit next to on a bus.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 13, 2010 1:35 PM
I am impressed Suhayl at your stamina - Larry is only seems interested in a tiny subset of issues.
Maybe it's a bit like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; the longer it goes on
the more he's like a stuck record.
with acknowledgement to 'Clark.'
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at May 13, 2010 2:51 PM
"I am impressed Suhayl at your stamina"
You're impressed with someone's ability to cut and paste? It really takes like 4 seconds.
And I'm the one with OCD?
You truthtards can so easily turn things around in your minds.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 13, 2010 2:59 PM
Hi Larry
you anywhere near Forest Park Pkwy - Sheraton?
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at May 13, 2010 3:27 PM
Angrysoba - this you!
http://www.coia.org.uk/angry.jpg
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at May 13, 2010 4:09 PM
Mark, sure. Why do you ask?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 13, 2010 4:16 PM
"Angrysoba - this you!"
Certainly is.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 13, 2010 10:11 PM
Who feeds you, Larry?
Who needs you?
Are you a neoconservative, Larry?
Define 'neoconservative', in your terms.
Do you believe that the USA should rule the world, Larry?
Tell the readers the going rate...
For a soul
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 14, 2010 7:44 AM
You're not on the bus, Larry, you never were.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 14, 2010 8:57 AM
Jesus, Suhayl, were you waiting on my response for an hour? I was certainly asleep! You've heard of time zones, haven't you?
And do you believe that 911 was an inside job?
Do you deny that your pathetic Muslim friends committed such an atrocity?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 14, 2010 3:01 PM
Larry, which of these Vice-Presidents of the USA was the best, in your view? Please rate them in descending order of preference [There is no negative marking]:
1. Spiro Agnew
2. Dan Quayle
3. Richard Nixon
4. Dick Cheney
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 14, 2010 3:54 PM
Suhayl, do you believe in veiling women by force? Do you believe that if you commit an act of homicidal martyrdom, 72 virgins will be waiting for you in the afterlife? Do you believe that the Holocaust was a fabrication? Do you believe that Bush and Cheney did 911, and that the Muslims had nothing to do with it, because Islam is a religion of peace?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 14, 2010 4:48 PM
Are you reimbursed in dollars, Larry, or pounds sterling? Do you have to keep time-sheets? Are you allowed to claim for lunch, or just breakfast and dinner, when you're 'on the job'? How does the sub-contract work?
Is it GCHQ or the SIS? If the former, give my regards to Cheltenham, it's a very elegant Georgian town - I love the fountains at the town centre. If the latter, say hi to Vauxhall, it's an imposing piece of architecture and I love the mini-supermarket nearby outside of which the 'Big Issue' seller stands. Very handy.
That goes for anyone else, anywhere on this blog who might be operating on behalf of our delightful hard state.
'ave a banana on me.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 14, 2010 7:05 PM
Suhayl, are you in favor of establishing the Sharia in Scotland? And what are you prepared to do to advance that cause? Blow yourself up?
Do you believe in beating women when they talk back?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 14, 2010 7:14 PM
Larry, are you being paid by the UK state to infiltrate oppositional websites and sow disruption? Are you attempting also to associate these critical websites with words and phrases that would be likely to draw down opprobrium upon them? Would you like a dictionary, Larry? Is English your mother-tongue? Are you a neoconservative, Larry?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 14, 2010 7:23 PM
Suhayl, you really should use the brain that took millions and millions of years of evolution to develop (Allah or Mohammed didn't give you that brain, btw).
What words and phrases? I don't use any words and phrases other than what are already used here.
In the run-up to the election, I refrained from goading Craig's silly commenters, such as yourself. Use your brain.
Yes, I am a native speaker.
Now tell me about the 72 virgins your fellow Muslims get when they blow themselves up. Doesn't that just mean 72 mothers-in-law? And isn't that true that a correct translation is 72 raisins?
And why do you spend so much time on the Internet? In Scotland, isn't there now a Danish embassy for you to set fire to?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 14, 2010 7:48 PM
You like raisins, Larry? Are you anti-Scottish, Larry?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 14, 2010 8:20 PM
I like raisins and Scots, but I'm not a big fan of virgins in the afterlife.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 14, 2010 9:49 PM
What happened to my reply to AS yesterday? It was there earlier, where has it gone? How are posts before and after it intact?
Posted by: glenn at May 15, 2010 4:03 AM
glenn, because the government is after you.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 15, 2010 4:33 AM
Glenn, thanks for that music link a some post back, btw, I forgot to say - it's totally fab!
I suspect that for anyone who is a virgin (or indeed, anyone who is not a virgin), Drambuie may be the beverage of the beforelife.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drambuie
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at May 15, 2010 7:22 AM
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Hello Soba,
I do actually appreciate your willingness to talk about this, and perhaps we can change the tone and still do so usefully, in view of our rather more open exchange last weekend.
Let me offer, I do respect your intelligence and consistency. These are not back-handed complements, I disagree with you a lot of the time, but recognise your integrity.
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In the first point - (I wondered while writing it, actually) I wasn't saying _you_ were being disingenuous. You might re-read to see I actually was highlighting your suggestion, that Truthers were disingenuously proposing "bombs in the basement" etc., while omitting the witnesses' concluding statements about said detonations actually being from the plane. My ambiguity sorry, asking you about your assertion about _their_ disingenuousness, rather than yours. Jeez, that looks tangled, but I hope you get the point.
But all this is by-the-by. I get as ticked as yourself when led on worthless pursuits.
The passport was really an aside, I referred to it as both "pristine" and then later as "singed", my point was not about its condition. It really doesn't matter, it wasn't my case - if you look back, that whole business is just a distracting sideline. It simply illustrates how easily such ludicrous lies for the Official Position are accepted by the True Believer, and there is enough silliness on both sides for that.
I'm surprised you believe that could happen, reading on. Nothing hinges on that, and I'd personally dismissed it as some stupidly eager FBI agent or whatnot trying to support what was already the official story, it really didn't matter.
The "Good luck!" note from Bin Laden was actually a joke. But if you are taking that sort of thing so seriously, with body hair being shaven for such an event, perhaps you could explain how the alleged hijackers would maintain such a high profile, in a most un-Muslim like way, entertaining strip dancers at boozy establishments, just before their most important mission off their lives that would actually end it? All in the name of Allah (pbuh!)?
This is the sort of thing that puzzles me. How is it logically consistent that one would conclude it _totally_ obvious that Muslims would have a pattern of quite serious non observance, just before performing a crucial act they thought would bring them rather rapidly to God. Hmm. But I guess only a stupid person would wonder about stuff like that. And you're trying to scare me off the usage of the term "logic", after all.
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Anyway, let's press on.
By "Gubmint" do you mean your Official Story ? Perhaps I'm not as well up on colloqualisms as I had hoped, despite a number of years spent in the US. Maybe the wrong places?
Let's help out your incredulity that anyone could be as stupid as myself yet still operate a keyboard, by deflating that bubble of preposterousness somewhat, with direct answers to your quesions but with side-comments (with your permission):
AS Q: (paraphrase)... do you believe "That Muslims can hijack planes? "
- Yes, Muslims can hijack planes
A: But it isn't Standard Procedure to hand over the controls
- [Does glenn believe that there were Muslims on the planes] ?
- Can Muslims fly?
A: Yes, but only competent ones. Particularly when it comes to aerobatics.
- Do I believe in Magic Arabs?
A: No. But it appears you do.
- Do I believe there were any planes?
A: If you're talking about were planes flown into the buildings, of course!
Are you asking whether planes can be remotely controlled - well, of course. They have
been even flown from one continent to another without anyone on board. Were such
planes flown that day? I don't know!
I've answered all your questions readily. You have no reason to imply otherwise.
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That's it again, unfortunately, Soba - you want to tease from me a story so you can rubbish it. I don't have the luxury of faith that you most clearly bask in. I'd like to know what happened. You're obviously content in the satisfaction of enlightenment.
So why are you on this thread?
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I note - very clearly - that you and nobody else. I repeat that, _nobody else_ , has gone anywhere near challenging my most important point about this.
I'll concede this whole debate to you, just deal with my post of Jan 28 2010, 11:05, concerning momentum. Do you have much of an understanding about physics, Soba?
Posted by: glenn at May 18, 2010 3:06 AM
"entertaining strip dancers at boozy establishments,"
Evidence?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 18, 2010 3:48 AM
"entertaining strip dancers at boozy establishments,"
No. Really. Do you have evidence for this?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 18, 2010 2:00 PM
So, Glenn, is this claim similar in quality to that of the pristine passport?
http://www.911myths.com/html/strip_clubs.html
Can you possibly get anything right?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 18, 2010 6:07 PM
A three-star "Larry alert" ! That means you're in _deep_ trouble with this subject.
Just to rub it in, I'll make it personal:
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I note - very clearly - that you and nobody else. I repeat that, _nobody else_ , has gone anywhere near challenging my most important point about this.
I'll concede this whole debate to you, just deal with my post of Jan 28 2010, 11:05, concerning momentum. Do you have much of an understanding about physics, Larry?
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Posted by: glenn at May 19, 2010 2:32 AM
Thanks for the reply Glenn. I appreciate the compliments. I have never thought it unreasonable to question and I don't think it good to have unquestioning faith. But that's not my position.
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Anyway,
The Wikipedia page I sent you shows that a plane (Flight 1771) plunged into the ground with 44 passengers after a man shot the pilots. Almost nothing was left of the plane and the first investigators arriving almost found it impossible to believe a plane had crashed there as there was almost no sign of it, only paper debris scattered over a wide area. This is similar to the crash at Shanksville of United 93 in so many respects.
Not only that but 27 of the passengers could never be formally identified just as many of the victims on 9/11 could never be identified. These things happen.
Moreover, investigators were able to piece together what happened on Flight 1771 after finding a sick-bag with a note scrawled on it from the man who was responsible for taking down the plane. It sounds almost incredible that a paper bag could survive with a legible message on it while 27 people were completely incinerated along with most of the fuselage of the plane but it happened. So, I have no problem believing that a passport could have survived one of the impacts into the WTC especially given the fact that various parts of the planes did come out the other side of the buildings. You've seen film footage of the engine and the wheel parts and photographic evidence of the bits of fuselage that were blown out from the explosions. As Larry said, some of the hijackers were in the cockpit. Anything in there was fair game to be ejected out of the towers, including body parts and passports. The example of Flight 1771 shows there really is no telling what will and won't survive a crash.
If you're willing to make it a dead issue though, let's move on...
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"Gubmint" is what the Alex Joneses of the world think are the root of all evil.
I don't think they're the root of all good, but we can both agree Alex Jones' worldview is a bit cracked. Morally simplistic too.
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As for the answers to the questions I asked, you say it isn’t SOP to hand over the cockpit controls to hijackers. This may or may not be true but is irrelevant as the pilots were overpowered. The ATC audio has been released for flight United 93 under an FOIA request in which two bursts of sounds (screams and shouts) are clearly audible over the public channel. This agrees with the reports in the 9/11 Commission in which you can find on page. 11 “During the first broadcast, the captain or first officer could be heard declaring “Mayday” amid sounds of a physical struggle in the cockpit. The second radio transmission, 35 seconds later, indicated that the fight was continuing. The captain or first officer could be heard shouting: “Hey get out of here – get out of here.”
I’ve listened to the broadcast and although I couldn’t make out what was being said in the struggle and although you can claim that I am believing in the “official story” out of blind faith and that the radio transmissions and the testimonies of the ATC personnel are all fabricated WHAT YOU CANNOT SAY, is the “official story” posits the casual handing over of the controls to the hijackers. This is an utter straw man in which you attempt to ridicule what you call the official story.
Right, also don’t “paraphrase” my questions in such a way as to render them ridiculous. I did not ask you, “Do I believe in Magic Arabs?” in order to set you up with an hilarious comeback, “No. But it appears you do.” I asked you if you believed there were any Arabs on the flights at all (magic or otherwise – let’s stick to non-magic shall we?)
Also you ask, of the hijackers, “But if you are taking that sort of thing so seriously, with body hair being shaven for such an event, perhaps you could explain how the alleged hijackers would maintain such a high profile, in a most un-Muslim like way, entertaining strip dancers at boozy establishments, just before their most important mission off their lives that would actually end it? All in the name of Allah (pbuh!)?”
I think this is a mishmash of truth and rumour. The fact is that the 19 hijackers were followers of political Islam. Not all of them were extremely pious though some of them undoubtedly were. To say that they couldn’t possibly have gone to strip clubs or got drunk etc… is just silly. Plenty of Muslims do exactly those kinds of things even the ones who like to consider themselves extremely devout. Can you really find it difficult to believe they would be hypocritical?
Honestly, I think all of these are dead issues and if you don’t think of these things as deal-breakers then let’s move on to what you consider the main issue, which is your post from before that I will repost, now:
Posted by: angrysoba at May 19, 2010 3:26 PM
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Glenn writes:
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Perhaps the key point to the entire implausibility of the 'pancake collapse' theory is considering a very old law - conservation of momentum.
Conservation of momentum comes from Newton's first law. A body will remain at rest or travel in uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by another force.
Consider the initial collapse of the top sections, which in each case would have the lightest top portion of the building, being the thinnest part of the core. We are expected to believe that as it suddenly (with a flash) lost all its structure and fell onto the floor below, the combined weight of the section above the disintegrated floor lands on the floor below. That causes the floor below to collapse under the strain, and the entire new mass falls onto the next floor. This progression continues neatly all the way down.
That's fine, apart from one very important detail - how does each new floor suddenly assume the accumulated velocity of the falling floors above? We're talking about a progressively heavy core structure (it having been built to bear the weight of the entire structure above, at each stage). So why did it not _substantially_ arrest the downward motion?
As Frank Verismo points out, a great deal of the mass was pulverised in any case, so the full weight of the above sections were dispersed each time a new floor was reached by the downward progression.
How did the really heavy mid to lower sections suddenly start moving at the same pace as the falling upper sections, unless they were offering _virtually no resistance at all_ - unless they were already falling themselves immediately before the progression hit them.
The towers did not come down quite at free-fall speed, but it was not far off it. It was way too close to free-fall acceleration to believe even for a moment than a substantial structure of increasing strength was being crushed by the powdered remains of the floors above.
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If the motion was entirely downwards, with no other force than downward gravity operating after collapse was initiated, why do we see massive steel girders ejected out laterally for hundreds of feet? Why did tiny body parts (sections of finger, etc.) appear on rooftops hundreds of yards away?
In standard building collapses, one would find at least a few things intact. A chair, a monitor, something. How come the biggest items found were fragments of telephone keypads?
Look at the column on the last picture on this page: How did it acquire that precise cut, consistent with a controlled demolition?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/thermite.htm
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But back to conservation of momentum. Inertia dictates that a mass will not suddenly assume the velocity of the moving object falling onto it, even if it is so tenuously structured that a feather falling onto it would initiate its collapse. In this case, we are talking about an increasing substantial structure the further down the building we go. Yet it offered little more resistance than fresh air on the day of 9/11.
Posted by: glenn at January 28, 2010 11:05 PM
Posted by: angrysoba at May 19, 2010 3:39 PM
I’m not going to pretend to know anything about structural engineering, I’ll leave that to the likes of David Ray Griffin, but whenever I have asked about these things I’ve been told that Griffin and Jones may well be correct about their physics but they’ve misapplied it because the model in their heads or wherever else they may be about the collapse of the towers are simply wrong.
We’re not talking about a solid block crushing itself as if it were a massive stone grinding itself into oblivion we’re talking about the support columns on the outside of the building being unable to hold up the fifteen or so stories above the impact points with that part of the building crashing down on to the next story. How much weight can one story hold? Not fifteen stories of weight and certainly not when that weight is accelerating into it. So, the floor gives way. It really seems to be as simple as that, and yet the Truthers try to insist that the collapse happened differently.
“If the motion was entirely downwards, with no other force than downward gravity operating after collapse was initiated, why do we see massive steel girders ejected out laterally for hundreds of feet?”
We didn’t. But put it this way.
If you don’t believe it was a gravity-driven collapse you have to come up with some other mechanism for it falling.
Okay, how about explosive demolition? This is impossible as there were no sounds of explosives and with all the glass in the windows we would have seen it being hurled for miles IF it is believed that STEEL GIRDERS were being hurled for hundreds of feet by explosives. Also, there were no cases of people having their eardrums burst or suffering blast wounds.
“Look at the column on the last picture on this page: How did it acquire that precise cut, consistent with a controlled demolition?”
The column you have photographed is one that has been cut by clean-up crews. If you look behind the column you’ll see a man with something that can be used to cut through steel. You’ll also find plenty of other pictures of clean-up crews cutting through beams. Some of the remains of the Towers stood up many, many stories into the sky, yet they didn’t get blasted by the explosives or cut with thermite (the latter of which is not used in controlled demolitions anyway as I tire of telling people).
That whole page from What Really Happened (sic) is a sick joke. It looks like the owner of the site has absolutely no concern for anything that has already been comprehensively debunked including the photograph of the firefighters apparently looking into the hot core of the demolition remains. Actually, it is a flashlight causing the glow and someone either with or without Jones’ supervision doctored the picture to make it look orangey. In short, Griffin and Jones have no credibility and are telling out and out lies and will continue to do so safe in the knowledge that many people will believe them and believe that believing their utter crap is a badge of radicalism.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 19, 2010 3:51 PM
OK, I just looked at glenn's link at whatreallyhappened.com and it's immensely hilarious.
That photograph, Glenn. Really.
That's what you based your conspiracy on.
Really.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 20, 2010 5:01 AM
Glenn, have you ever heard of acetylene torches?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at May 20, 2010 5:05 AM
soba:
"Okay, how about explosive demolition? This is impossible as there were no sounds of explosives and with all the glass in the windows we would have seen it being hurled for miles IF it is believed that STEEL GIRDERS were being hurled for hundreds of feet by explosives. Also, there were no cases of people having their eardrums burst or suffering blast wounds."
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No sounds of explosives ? No bust ear drums ?? 'Blast wounds'
absolutely ridiculous stuff!
Hundreds of posts ago you described how heavy debris from the tower damaged building 7 from 350 feet away!
You dont deal with evidence soba, you pick and choose what you like to recall.
Woaw, though you can just go on and on and on... jabbering
Posted by: at May 21, 2010 2:21 AM
Here’s a picture to look at:
http://www.debunking911.com/columnd.jpg
Did you know the Twin Towers were VERY TALL?
On the next post I will show you a picture.
Please look at the picture.
Posted by: angrysoba at May 21, 2010 3:00 AM
http://www.debunking911.com/wtc1heli.jpg
Now, do you think debris could reach WTC7 from the towers if large sections of the perimeter peeled outwards?
What do you dispute?
That any debris hit WTC7?
Or that debris could only have hit WTC7 with the aid of explosives?
Posted by: angrysoba at May 21, 2010 3:03 AM
'peeled outwards' -now that's a new one! Never mentioned in any engineering hypothesis oddly enough. Huge chunks of structure large enough to pulverise wtc 2 and wreck wtc7 350 feet away (having to travel at minimum 10 meters per second sideways and practicaly much faster than that) - just "peeled outwards"
keep on jabbering angry
Posted by: at May 24, 2010 5:31 PM
Hello Soba,
Thanks for waiting - been rather busy here lately, so may I just get straight down to the best part of your rebuttal to my post on momentum.
---start AS quote
We’re not talking about a solid block crushing itself as if it were a massive stone grinding itself into oblivion we’re talking about the support columns on the outside of the building being unable to hold up the fifteen or so stories above the impact points with that part of the building crashing down on to the next story. How much weight can one story hold? Not fifteen stories of weight and certainly not when that weight is accelerating into it. So, the floor gives way. It really seems to be as simple as that, and yet the Truthers try to insist that the collapse happened differently.
---end AS quote
I'm afraid I'm going to have to refer you to my post on momentum again, because you just haven't understood it at all. This "Well, a floor collapses onto another, and it can't stand the strain. Sounds simple to me!" dismissal is simplistic in the extreme. Never mind about structural engineering, never mind about architecture. Just look at the basic laws concerning conservation of momentum, and you'd realise that this could not happen at the rate and in the manner we are supposed to believe - no how, no way.
I'm going to end up repeating my original post, which would be pointless - I couldn't have put much more succinctly. Waving all that away with your paragraph above is like waving away serious subjects with a meaningless slogan.
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Please don't tell me we didn't see huge girders weighing many tons ejected out laterally - anyone who watched video of the collapse saw it happen. I suppose you're going to ask me whether I'm stupid enough to believe my lying eyes instead of your word? And when did tiny body parts ever get scattered over a wide area in a building collapse?
---start AS quote
If you don’t believe it was a gravity-driven collapse you have to come up with some other mechanism for it falling.
---end AS quote
No, actually I don't - really. I could hypothesise alternative explanations, but I don't _have_ to in order to observe your officially approved theory is not credible. I'm surprised you have such difficulty understanding this. But you go on to say:
---start AS quote
Okay, how about explosive demolition? This is impossible as there were no sounds of explosives and with all the glass in the windows we would have seen it being hurled for miles IF it is believed that STEEL GIRDERS were being hurled for hundreds of feet by explosives. Also, there were no cases of people having their eardrums burst or suffering blast wounds.
---end AS quote
This is ridiculous. Not only did we get to hear explosions on recordings, plenty of eye witnesses testified to it (such as the firemen). Do steel girders really get blown _miles_ during an explosion? Really? Hmm. Maybe you're talking about the glass. Does glass thrown outwards at a given rate travel further than steel at the same given rate? What hits the ground sooner faster, Soba, a bullet fired from a powerful gun, or a bullet dropped from a hand at the same height at the same time?
There were reports of people suffering blast wounds, but is that a serious rebuttal, when you complain about a lack of burst eardrums? I daresay anyone in there at the time would have suffered worse than that, but what are you talking about - people outside the buildings?
Are you suggesting that in every controlled demolition, steel girders are ejected "miles" and eardrums are broken over a wide area? If not, what on earth are you talking about?
And uh huh... there was no hot core at the demolition site, just a flashlight catching a reflection on the camera, eh? Everyone lying about that, including satellites long after the event? Amazing.
*
Please try to understand what I was writing about momentum, and what that means in regard to an event like this. Do you actually understand anything about physics? No offence, your skills might well be in another direction altogether, but do I need to give a lesson on basic principles of physics and maths before rather obvious points stop being just waved away?
All the best, and I appreciate the new atmosphere of our discussions.
Posted by: glenn at May 24, 2010 11:26 PM
Quick clarification... the question about the lateral ejections should have asked:
"What hits the ground sooner faster, Soba, a bullet fired horizontally from a powerful gun, or a bullet simultaneously dropped from a hand at the same height?"
And I get (on second reading) that you were talking about glass traveling "miles" if it was a controlled explosion, rather than the steel. So I should have clarified:
"Are you suggesting that in every controlled demolition, steel girders or glass are ejected "miles" and eardrums are broken over a wide area? "
Posted by: glenn at May 24, 2010 11:33 PM
"What hits the ground sooner faster, Soba, a bullet fired horizontally from a powerful gun, or a bullet simultaneously dropped from a hand at the same height?"
What's the point of this question? They will hit the ground at the same time, as both are falling under the influence of gravity. The fact that the bullet also has a horizontal component to its motion is irrelevant (unless your gun can fire a bullet at the earth's orbital velocity).
Earlier I posted links to Cornell University papers on the tower collapses. For WTC7 the writers conclude "that the building was destroyed in a highly controlled fashion." On the twin towers they conclude "the buildings did not perish because of combined mechanical and heat damage to their primary zones, but because of yet another catastrophic event: a wave of massive destruction (WMD) that destroyed the CCs [core columns], following which the buildings collapsed to the ground."
It is these authoritative analyses by experts in relevant fields that the debunkers must address, and in appropriate detail with appropriate skills. The very simple piece of calculus produced by David Chandler and also linked above, although not a structural analysis, gives prima facie mathematical support to the intuititive impression that the observed collapses were impossible.
There are many other loose ends in the official account, most notably the alleged cell phone calls from the hijacked aircraft, but the temptation to pull on these should be resisted. The case for controlled demolition of the three buildings is unanswerable, and calls for a fresh enquiry should focus on that alone.
Posted by: Vronsky at May 26, 2010 8:20 AM
Vronsky: Precisely, about the bullet. The point was about gravity, acceleration, and seeing whether Soba had any insight on the subject (no disrespect to him personally - as mentioned, he clearly has other skills).
The trouble with these "Well, a floor falls onto another, and that collapses - simple!" views are that they can only be held by people without the faintest understanding of even basic physics. I hoped that getting their minds around the bullet question would get them thinking. Free-fall acceleration under gravity only happens when nothing impedes the, well, free fall. Other forces at 90 degrees are irrelevant.
But if you fired the same bullet underwater, you'd expect it to take a lot longer to hit the ground. That's because there is more resistance to its downward movement, even though gravity, mass, distance and initial velocity etc. is exactly the same.
But we hardly saw _any_ resistance to the buildings' collapse - and that raises two huge, atom-bomb sized questions:
1) Why didn't the ripping apart of massive interconnected steel frame structures in the progressive collapse offer any arrest of the downward acceleration, and
2) Why didn't the inertia of the mass of floors that were apparently stable (until the arrival of the downward progression) decrease the momentum at each point, and - as an integral function - lower the acceleration and greatly increase the time for collapse way, way beyond near free-fall?
Posted by: glenn_uk at May 28, 2010 3:40 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GNhEpHfgfI
Thermite!
Gravity!
Downward progression!
Barack Obama and the Jooooss have taken over the demolition industry in France!
Posted by: Argonaut at May 28, 2010 4:33 AM
With that pathetic nonsense from Larry immediately above, as the best that can be offered to refute my argument about momentum, I conclude that this is probably settled.
I was not offering any wild or esoteric position. All that was asked, was some counter to a very basic observation completely in line with understood physics. I'd proposed a very easily grasped principle, with which no high school student of physics should have any problem.
The offer is made again - if anyone can find any problem with my post of January 28, 2010 11:05 PM, let me know, if you'd be so kind? This is central to the Offical Postion, after all. Upon which policy for the GWOT is based, nothing terribly important.
The deafening silence from any serious supporters of the Offical Story, and the desperate distractions already provided, tell us all we need to know.
Posted by: glenn_uk at May 29, 2010 4:16 AM
Marvellous closing sentence from David Chandler in debate with Frank Greening (an advocate of the official conspiracy theory):
"Your argument is not with me; it is with Isaac Newton."
Posted by: Vronsky at June 7, 2010 10:07 PM
Hi Craig,
There are two facts that rather knock at the Inside Job door - no matter how difficult it is to believe.
First is the Laws of Physics. WTC 1, 2 and especially 7 - could not have collapsed naturally without breaking Newton's Law of the Conservation of Momentum. You cannot get a building to collapse in freefall (ie no resistance whatsoever) without the aid of explosives.
Second is mathematics. The probability of the Put Options on the airlines and businesses in WTC being "chance" is millions to one against. The 9/11 Conclusion stated that because the trades were done by people or firms with no ties to AQ then the trades must be ok. This clearly defies logic and the maths.
Do we find evidence of exlosives: yes. Do we find other evidence of pre-knowledge: yes. Ipso facto, it must have been a false flag attack and some form of Inside Job.
Do you believe in science or politicians?
Posted by: Derikic at June 7, 2010 10:31 PM
Wadham College, Oxford: The 'Wadstock' Festival. Anyone heard of Jack's Maggot ceilidh band?
Sorry - light relief.
Are there any structural engineers posting on this thread? If so, what d'you think?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 10, 2010 2:17 PM
Mark (Golding), if you know something about something to do with this matter, please reveal it now or forever hold your peace (!)
In other words, give us the rundown, man.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 13, 2010 8:55 AM
Suhayl,
I will not play into the hands of the Neo-Conservatives and provide an
easy target for 'dollar in the knickers' OCD candidates such as
Larry (not from St Louis) who obfuscate (for good reason) the underlying
issue of what actually happened before and after 9/11.
Yes I have some evidence of foreknowledge that at
least provides a case for criminal negligence on the part of the previous President and Vice President,
who were repeatedly warned OF AN ATTACK, followed by a cover-up conspiracy
after the 9/11 attacks detailed to me in brief by Robin Cook (PBUH).
It will take some time and some scary fact finding to indict Cheney, Bush and possibly Clinton.
But this is a stated aim, one I have publicly announced and the
reason Lawrence followed me here to disrupt the drip feed of evidence
before the final case can be presented in full.
In the summer 2000 the work done by the Able Danger data mining team
in the Department of Defense that created a profile of Mohamed Atta
and three other 9/11 terrorists was conveyed to the Committee staff
in several forms and ways but unsurprisingly did not show
up in the report.
The FBI report on Zacarias Moussaoui
was known by British intelligence according to an insider.
The mid-1990s Bojinka plot that planned to crash hijacked aircraft into
key buildings, including CIA headquarters was known to
Robin Cook and some details told to me have become the foundation of my work to build a case for prosecution
of those mentioned before an International law court judge.
To move from negligence to fore-knowledge will involve a colossal
amount of work.
A great deal of so called evidence in the public domain is there to
obfucate the truth of cover-up including criminal acts such as the
NORAD positioning of USAF jets and timely exercises.
It is my duty to the children of Iraq who are maimed, disfigured,
traumatized, orphaned and suffering, to bring these tragic moments in our
time-line to a successful public condemnation and prosecution.
I will do this no matter how
long it takes and hope you and
others will give me the support I need.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at June 14, 2010 2:35 PM
Thank you, Mark. That was an incredibly powerful and important piece of information. I appreciate you replying to my question so comprehensively and honestly. And all good fortune in your endeavour.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 14, 2010 4:10 PM
"That was an incredibly powerful and important piece of information."
No, that wasn't Suhayl. Damn you're stupid. You have an incredible lack of ability to sift through meaningful evidence.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at June 15, 2010 7:35 AM
Do you practise law in St Louis, Larry?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 15, 2010 5:06 PM
Is it a pleasant city? What fields do you specialise in?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 15, 2010 6:11 PM
Are there good bars? What do you like most about the city, and what, least? Are there any good bands or writers who hail from St Louis? What's your favourite restaurant? Tell me something, please, about your home city, Larry.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 15, 2010 6:20 PM
What's the grooviest bookstore? And what kinds of people live in St Louis? I mean, are there specific groups, and if so, where do they live? Are there particular areas with high concentrations of, say, Irish Americans, for example? Or Russian Americans? Give us some feel of the place, man.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 15, 2010 6:27 PM
Well...? I know you don't want to talk to me, that you probably deeply despise everything that I represent, am and have done and that these facts long pre-dated my open challenge to you wrt state assethood, etc., and I understand that you may harbour 'anger and resentment' (as the cod-psychos say), but perhaps - without making assumptions - others would like to know.
Craig, maybe he'd like to know. Or Angrysoba. Or Eddie. Or Abe Rene. Or Michael Petek. Or Mark Golding. Who knows? It creates perspective for your statements. Hinterland. This is something which I explained to you several months ago.
Well...? Do you possess the courage to reveal something of yourself, Larry?
Come on, it's not that difficult.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 15, 2010 6:36 PM
Silenzio. Nada. Nihilum.
"Arise! In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost! I commandest thee to arise and reveal thyself!"
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 15, 2010 7:58 PM
Beelzebub...? Psssssst! Are you there?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 15, 2010 9:30 PM
T. E. Lawrence, the venerable Sheikh of Amrika, come out, come out, wherever you are!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 15, 2010 10:18 PM
I was sleeping. And otherwise not on this site.
Should be using your time to help people with your medical training?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at June 16, 2010 6:03 PM
Larry, do you practise law in St Louis?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETO3YfDKEI4
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 16, 2010 7:12 PM
Yoo-hoo... Boo! Wake up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWd3skb-Rw
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 16, 2010 9:14 PM
Larry, you got narcolepsy or something?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 16, 2010 9:16 PM
Rip Van Winkle.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 17, 2010 9:54 AM
Sole, Luna e Talia. But where's the hag?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 17, 2010 10:35 AM
Larry, what's happened to you? have you been abducated by David Icke?
Do you, or do you not, practise law in St Louis?
Yes, or no.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 17, 2010 11:12 AM
No, or yes. A simple dualism.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 17, 2010 4:57 PM
"No, or yes. A simple dualism."
Actually, it's more complicated than that.
Why do you want to know?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at June 17, 2010 5:11 PM
Well, in what areas of law do you specialise - civil, criminal, corporate, a mixture. I don't know how it works in the USA, there might be different categories. You'd mentioned once that you'd dealt with some immigration cases, for example.
You've also said a few things which belie - or at least nuance - your cartoon-flourish 'image' on here as a sort of centurion of empire. I'd really be interested in you expanding on those. You'd mentioned once that you didn't agree with everything the USA did abroad, or words to that effect. So...
I'd like to know something about St Louis as a city and how you see yourself as part of the metropolis.
In other words, to some extent, I'm trying to initiate a civilised conversation.
But I'm also intrigued by 'where you're 'coming from', what factors in your life and work might contribute towards generating your ideas and points-of-view on things.
Yeah?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 17, 2010 6:08 PM
Doo-dee-doo-dee-dum, dum-dee-dum-dee-dum...
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 18, 2010 5:34 PM
Yo-ho-ho, an' a bottle of rum! Aye, ee's a rum lad is ower Larry. A rum lad, an' no mistake. The old 'uns say the incoomin' River Oomber can outrun a gallopin 'orse. There's more to that lad than meets the eye, mark you. Deep as the River 'Oomber at Spring Tide, he is, mek no mistake. It's the quiet woons you 'av' ta' watch. Aye. Y'av' ta watch the quiet woons.
Mrs Euphemia Revell Claxby, Lindsey, England, 1924
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 18, 2010 8:10 PM
Tell me something about the complicated nature of your work, Larry. I like complex narratives. They're more interesting, more replete with poetntial drama. Mrs Claxby wants to know as well.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 18, 2010 11:04 PM
Do you practise law in St Louis, Larry? Why are you afraid to answer the question, Larry? Don't be afraid. We are watching over you. There is nothing to fear except fear itself.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 19, 2010 8:56 AM
The boogeyman is down the line. He hears, he sees, he knows. But he is asking the same question, Larry.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 19, 2010 8:41 PM
Secretion, hermeneusis. Fear. But why? I'd have thought a lawyer of such esteemed calibre would have had no hesitation in engaging in vigorous and spirited argumentation and would positively want to discourse on the subject(s) of his passion.
Yet... silence.
Do you just use such occasional 'flourishes of moderation' as rhetorical padding, for the purposes of leverage, to make it look as though your views are nuanced, when, in fact, they are not? Is that the reason you are unable to expand on them? Are you really an extremist, Larry?
An 'extremist' who practises law in St Louis? Is that you? Was that what you always were? Do you practise law in St Louis, Larry? Do you practise law at all? Are you really called, 'Larry'?
These questions seem more mysterious than the aetiologies of King Kong in cinematic consciousness.
Perhaps you are really King Kong.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 21, 2010 12:06 AM
Or Hong Kong Fooey. Here's a rap, to a slow, slow beat 'n' bass:
[Chorus, repeated twice]
Larry of St Louis
Hong Kong Fooey!
Ah say,
Larry of St Louise
Hong Kong Phooey!
Do you practise law
Or are you just a bore?
Are you one
Or are you many?
Are you light
Or are you heavy?
Are you heroin
Or are you cocaine?
Do you have a heart
Do you have a brain?
Are you mad
Or are you insane?
[Chorus, repeated four times]
Larry of St Louis
Hong Kong Phooey!
Ah say
Larry of St Louis
Hong Kong Phooey!
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 21, 2010 9:25 PM
... except Hong Kong Phooey had a sense of humour. As did King Kong.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 22, 2010 7:35 PM
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again...
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at June 23, 2010 1:27 AM
Ah, thank goodness, Mark! But where is our friend, the lawyer from St Louis? Why is he so reticent to answer my simple question, when he's very willing to inform us all that he's just been on vacation to Seattle (sounds lovely)? Does he practise law in St Louis? Simple question. The answer doesn't need to be complicated. Just, 'yes' or 'no', like in a courtroom drama.
Prosecuting Counsel: "Did you murder Miss Marple?"
Accused: "Well, it's complicated..."
Judge: "Just answer yes or no."
Mark, d'ye ken Larry?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 23, 2010 7:34 AM
Nay Suhayl but I proved he's not from St Louis!
Explosive Evidence at WTC Cited by Former CDI Employee
Thursday, 24 June 2010 18:55
Having had the privilege of speaking with Tom Sullivan, an actual explosive-charge placement technician,
we have some new insights to pass along as to how controlled demolition works, where it started, and the effect
that 9/11 had on the demolition industry. Sullivan gained his experience as an employee of the leading
firm in this field, Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI).
Sullivan stresses though “I do not in anyway represent CDI and what I have to say is based on my own experience and training,”
Sullivan attended high school with Doug Loizeaux of the Loizeaux family.
The Loizeaux family, through the father Jack, independently started the whole controlled-demolition industry
and turned it into a highly profitable business. Sullivan, before he became connected to CDI,
was an independent photographer during his early years in Maryland.
He would be sent to CD sites and take still pictures of the jobs.
He became infatuated with the CD industry.
The time came when he would do both, being the placer of the “cutter charges” on the primary joints,
and photographing the jobs for promoting the business.
Soon he would switch to full-time employee status of CDI.
"It was very interesting, but also very hard work, long hours, especially in the cold weather,"
Sullivan reflects. He stated that the days began early, around 6 a.m., and they would work until the sun was
down.
Sullivan had the experience of preparing a building by placing the cutter charges throughout the primary joints,
and then, of course, watching it all come down.
Sullivan notes that many weeks are required to “prep,” or weaken the buildings before demolitions.
Steel frame buildings don’t just fall into their footprints at free-fall without major work throughout
the building – even some before the placement of explosives.
Sullivan emphasized as an aside, “Fire cannot bring down steel-framed high rises -- period.”
One of Sullivan’s most exciting jobs was the colossal Kingdome in
whose reinforced concrete structure he personally placed hundreds of
deadly explosive charges.
Working for CDI was, Sullivan stated, “a very unique experience.”
He also said, "they were a close-knit family -- referring to the familial values of the Loizeauxs."
“I learned from watching," said Sullivan.
"There is no school that will teach you this, just hands on hard work."
Sullivan took hundreds of project photos, through which he developed
a deep passion for the trade.
When asked, what made CDI the best in the business, he commented,
“their family had all the experience because they ’invented’ the art of
CD.
They spent years traveling around the world, showing and educating people how this art form
works.”
Unfortunately, the business came to a screeching halt after 9/11.
"People were scared -- if they were to hear a loud bang it was probably some kind of terrorist attack,"
says Sullivan in frustration. "Fear took over and there was no more business."
Even Mark Loizeaux (CDI’s President) has been quoted as saying 9/11 ruined him.
Sullivan had no choice but to leave CDI.
Curiously, CDI had a role in the WTC cleanup through a subcontract under Tully Construction.
On September 22, 2001, CDI submitted a 25-page "preliminary" document to
New York City's Department of Design and Construction, a plan related to the removal and recycling of the
steel.[¹]
Sullivan stated that he knew from the first day that the destruction of
World Trade Center Building 7 on 9/11 was a classic controlled
implosion.
Asked how he thought it might have been done he posited,
“looking at the building it wouldn’t be a problem -- once you gain access to the elevator shafts…then a
team of expert loaders would have hidden access to the core columns and
beams.
The rest can be accomplished with just the right kind of explosives for the job.
Thermite can be used as well.”
Brent Blanchard, the photographer from the controlled demolition company Protec, has said,
in criticism of the CD theory, that there would have had to been detonation cords strung all over the place
and casings left in the rubble pile from the cutter charges.
So we asked for a response from Sullivan.
He noted that:
Remote wireless detonators have been available for years.
Look at any action movie -- and of course the military has them.
The reason most contractors don’t use them is that they are too
expensive -- but in a project with a huge budget it would be no problem.
As for the casings -- everyone in the industry, including Blanchard,
would know that RDX explosive cutter charges are completely consumed when they go off -- nothing is left.
And in the case of Thermite cutter charges, that may also be the case. Thermite self-consuming cutter
charge casings have been around since first patented back in 1984.
We asked Sullivan if all the floors in WTC 7 would have to be
loaded with explosives in order for a successful controlled demolition.
He responded,
No, with steel framed buildings you really need only to load the
bottom third to bring the building down. While at CDI we had a job in
Hartford Conn, the CNG building, where we did just that.
And it worked out beautifully.
Recalling that Ron Craig, a Hollywood movie explosions expert
claimed in a debate with us, that there would have been many blocks of broken windows if it were a
controlled demolition.
Sullivan reflected,
The key word here is controlled demolition – in other words careful placement of charges --
always focused and precise.
We are not talking about setting off a bomb here.
The amount and type of explosives is an art and collateral damage can
often be completely avoided.
We asked about Shyam Sunder, the lead investigator of NIST
(National Institute of Standards and Technology) who claimed publically in his infamous press conference
at the “unveiling” of the Final Report on the Collapse of
World Trade Center Building 7 that there would have been a loud boom coming from a massive explosion
if this had been a controlled demolition, and asked him about that. Sullivan said,
“With any implosion there is never just one big explosion but rather waves
of smaller explosions -- not unlike the percussion section in a
symphony -- as each loaded floor is progressively set off.”
And as Sullivan watched the towers collapse that day,
like so many did, he pondered at how fast it all took place, and
how suddenly and symmetrically they were brought down.
"I knew it was an explosive event as soon as I saw it,
there was no question in my mind," said Sullivan. Most of us agree --
it's not by chance that the first tower just happened to collapse -- then the second in the same manner.
What convinced him completely is when he watched Tower 7 fall that day,
"I mean, come on, it was complete destruction.
I've seen buildings fall like that for years -- that was the end game for me." Keep in mind that
Sullivan did this for a living for several years -- it is like second nature for him to see this type of demolition.
If anybody would know, it should be him. But we went ahead and asked him,
“Is there any chance that normal office fires (the official cause of
the ’collapse’) could have been responsible for the smooth,
symmetrical, free-fall acceleration of building 7? “Not a chance,”
he retorted.
We just wanted to be sure.
When we asked him if he followed any of the 9/11 Commission hearings
or that of the NIST reporting, he had the same answer for both
"I have no tolerance for people who lie to me about what I know to be true.
I threw my hands up in disgust and never watched another hearing after the first. As for NIST,
I didn't even watch because I knew what to expect."
He did however follow the final report on the collapse of Tower 7 and said it angered him that they could
actually convince so many of their fraudulent claims.
Sullivan was sent a DVD by a friend that called
9/11: Blueprint for Truth DVD.
He watched it and was very excited that there was actually an organization
out there trying to inform people of what he was trying
to say since that fateful day. “It is the most focused and organized group
there is today in the 9/11 truth movement.
There is no speculation," he said. "Blueprint for Truth is factual and impressive information
based on science and physics,
and was clear and concise."
When asked if he agreed with the evidence the DVD brings forth,
Sullivan responded, "It contains extremely compelling evidence."
The final question we asked in this interview was,
"How many scientists, architects and engineers does it take speaking in unison until people
hear that there is a problem?"
His response, "As the number grows it will be harder and harder to deny them.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at June 25, 2010 11:03 PM
The previous post was from an original interview by Darcy Wearing
and reproduced with courtesy
from Architect & Engineers for 911 Truth.
A total of 50 interviews are now ready to be transcribed.
If you can help with this work we will send you a DVD and you
reply with a .doc file.
Please advise us of your availability, Name & Postal address
(to send the DVD(s)) by email to:
volunteer@ae911truth.org
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at June 25, 2010 11:34 PM
I'm still interested in the identity of this supposed friend of Loony from St. Larry, who's head apparently showed up at 'ground zero'. As with other vague offerings at an identity, St. Loony went all coy when asked to substantiate this even the least little bit.
Suhayl: I don't believe anything St. Loony says is true, nothing he has ever claimed has any proof behind it. Although of course, I'm quite sure you know this full well, and I admire your tactics in revealing this. Our resident team of antagonists have abandoned anything except goading, probably with the intention of being thrown off this board, so they can crow about censorship and so on. CM was brave and clever not to do so, and to watch the team implode under their own hollow falseness.
Hence the new desperation - profanity and high-volume postings, anything to get the ban which is all that could be salvaged as even a claim to some feeble victory at this stage.
Posted by: glenn at June 26, 2010 10:38 PM
Yes, it seems so, Glenn.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 27, 2010 5:21 PM
`First report of a four part series on the arrest of Israeli spies in the United States and their possible link to the 9/11 events. These reports have already been removed from several web sites and blogs.`
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/content/israeli-spy-ring-part-1
Posted by: at July 2, 2010 12:55 PM
" The Sept. 11 Records
A rich vein of city records from Sept. 11, including more than 12,000 pages of oral histories rendered in the voices of 503 firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians, were made public on Aug. 12. The New York Times has published all of them."
"The oral histories of dispatch transmissions are transcribed verbatim. They have have not been edited to omit coarse language."
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html
Posted by: at July 5, 2010 12:41 PM
Craig Murray, what a disappointment you are. Goodbye.
Posted by: Garry Dawson at July 9, 2010 11:01 PM
"" at July 2, 2010 12:55 PM,
that link doesn't work. Try this one:
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/content/israeli-spy-ring-part-2
Posted by: Clark at July 10, 2010 11:56 AM
Angrysoba,
if you do continue your discussion with MJ here, please try to include fewer cynical remarks, as I find they hinder me from following your argument. And I'm curious as to what "DRG" is, too!
Posted by: Clark at July 10, 2010 6:24 PM
DRG = David Ray Griffin
Terry McDermott was shown the flight manifests by the FBI, I believe. (In fact, I think I wrote that in my post so I don't know why you said "Am I the only one curious to know where he got them from?")
Posted by: angrysoba at July 11, 2010 1:21 AM
"DRG = David Ray Griffin"
Oh I see. Silly me, should have worked that out. It may come as a surprise to learn that I've never read him.
"Terry McDermott was shown the flight manifests by the FBI"
Yes I know you said that, but it's just the kind of sloppy chain of provenance that sets the alarm bells ringing. The underlying point of the question is: where did the FBI get them from in the first place? If from the airlines then it should clearly say so. If it did, would that make them susceptible to a FOIA request? Just a thought.
Posted by: MJ at July 11, 2010 12:12 PM
Off topic.
MJ
Thought you would like to know about this, along with a few others.
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=16180
Posted by: at July 11, 2010 5:35 PM
Just checking in again... does anyone have a serious response to my post on momentum? I mean, it's not such a rarefied field that one can claim it's too complex to grasp without special training. Anyone capable of following a reasoned argument is capable of understanding it.
Until one has answered that, should they claim to be genuinely open minded, they have no business believing the government line - and are intellectually dishonest in pretending otherwise.
The best counter so far is Soba's analogy of bowling balls suspended on pieces of paper, which assumes the structure of the building was that flimsy, and entirely ignores inertia and observed accumulated velocity. But at least he had a go.
*
In case any newcomer wants to have a go, please respond to my post of 'January 28, 2010 11:05 PM' - this negates the Official Story by way of a most basic explanation of physics, and unless refuted in any meaningful way, means that an entirely different explanation for the destruction of the Twin Towers is required. That fact might be too horrifying to contemplate, but it does not alter the fact.
Posted by: glenn at July 12, 2010 3:37 AM
Glenn, as you’re promoting your thesis as the ultimate in debunking the “official story” I thought I’d ask a few people how it stood up to scrutiny. Here’s the response by one person:
“...We are expected to believe that as it suddenly (with a flash) lost all its structure and fell onto the floor below, ...”
----It doesn't matter at all if the top section above the burning floors lost all their support in a flash or somewhat gradually. All that matters is that a cross-section of the tower crashed (columns/joints buckling and breaking) and the top section picking up some speed as it is accelerated by gravity.----
“...how does each new floor suddenly assume the accumulated velocity of the falling floors above?”
----Strawman. It doesn not assume the speed, it assumes the momentum, thereby losing some speed (as some of the mass starts out at rest)----
“We're talking about a progressively heavy core structure (it having been built to bear the weight of the entire structure above, at each stage). So why did it not _substantially_ arrest the downward motion?”
----As lower stories became progressively heavy (and strong), so did the weight and the speed of the already falling top part accumulate. So while the static strength of the lower stories increased basically in a linear function, the momentum of the fall increased basically with a function that contains a power of 2 - momentum increased faster than resisting static force.----
“As Frank Verismo points out, a great deal of the mass was pulverised in any case, so the full weight of the above sections were dispersed each time a new floor was reached by the downward progression.”
----When we are looking at conservation of momentum, it doesn't matter if the mass you want to arrest is already pulverized or still structurally intact. If you want to arrest the collapse, you need to arrest the downward momentum of all the masses involved, as it wouldn't do much good to stop the intact parts and let the pulverized parts keep falling (all the way).----
“How did the really heavy mid to lower sections suddenly start moving at the same pace as the falling upper sections, unless they were offering _virtually no resistance at all_ - unless they were already falling themselves immediately before the progression hit them.”
----Because the dynamic load of n upper stories at velovity v with mass m is magnitudes greater than the static load these mid to lower sections were designed to carry. They were designed to excert the upward force of several (3-5?) times the weight of all the floors above, but to arrest these floors within the short distance that the columns still remain elastic would require a force much more than 10 times the weight.----
“The towers did not come down quite at free-fall speed, but it was not far off it. It was way too close to free-fall acceleration to believe even for a moment than a substantial structure of increasing strength was being crushed by the powdered remains of the floors above.”
----Towers came down around 2/3rds of free fall speed which actually is a considerable distance off.
Plus Argument from incredulity.----
“If the motion was entirely downwards, with no other force than downward gravity operating after collapse was initiated, why do we see massive steel girders ejected out laterally for hundreds of feet? Why did tiny body parts (sections of finger, etc.) appear on rooftops hundreds of yards away?”
----Drop a paper bag full with assorted things (screws, tomatoes, marbles, toys) from your upper floor down onto your terrace. Watch what happens. See how some of the things are flung sideways?----
“In standard building collapses, one would find at least a few things intact. A chair, a monitor, something. How come the biggest items found were fragments of telephone keypads?”
----Twin Towers were non-standard building collapses. They were just so very much bigger than anything we've seen so far. Potential energy of one tower, just standing erect, equals that of a formidable nuke. That is as much "standard building collapse" as Hiroshima was "standard bombing".----
“Look at the column on the last picture on this page: How did it acquire that precise cut, consistent with a controlled demolition?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/thermite.htm “
----As has been pointed out before: Welcome to the dark ages of trutherism.----
(Poster EDx writes: “lol he promotes the thermal lance cut column picture as evidence of thermite lol.”
“But back to conservation of momentum. Inertia dictates that a mass will not suddenly assume the velocity of the moving object falling onto it, even if it is so tenuously structured that a feather falling onto it would initiate its collapse. In this case, we are talking about an increasing substantial structure the further down the building we go. Yet it offered little more resistance than fresh air on the day of 9/11.”
----Increasing substantial structure met even faster increasing momentum the further down the building we go.----
Posted by: angrysoba at July 13, 2010 4:57 AM
MJ, you will also be pleased to know I have emailed Terry McDermott who has kindly replied about your questions. In fact, he says he tracked down the flight manifests himself and that they came straight from the airlines (although he suggests a more circuitous route). He says he did apply for an FOIA request from the FBI and that long after the book was published copies of the very same manifests arrived. I have asked him if I can reproduce his emails but he hasn’t replied to that yet and I’m not going to publish private correspondence without his permission.
Posted by: angrysoba at July 13, 2010 5:04 AM
angrysoba: sterling work contacting McDermott. I'm happy to proceed on the presumption that the manifests as published in 2005 are accurate and confirm that the alleged hijackers did indeed board planes that morning.
Regarding the buildings:
"it doesn't matter if the mass you want to arrest is already pulverized or still structurally intact".
It certainly matter does if much of the pulverised mass is no longer bearing down on the lower floors and instead is being diffused outwards and upwards into the air, as the videos clearly show was the case in this instance.
Posted by: MJ at July 13, 2010 1:27 PM
This has been very helpful understanding a lot of things. I'm sure a lot of other people will agree with me.
Posted by: abercrombie uk at July 14, 2010 6:04 AM
Hello Angry,
Jolly decent of you to take the time, may I respond to your responses.
glenn: “…We are expected to believe that as it suddenly (with a flash)
lost all its structure and fell onto the floor below, ...”
Angry: ----It doesn't matter at all if the top section above the burning
floors lost all their support in a flash or somewhat gradually. All
that matters is that a cross-section of the tower crashed (columns/
joints buckling and breaking) and the top section picking up some
speed as it is accelerated by gravity.----
Actually, it's rather surprising to see such a large flash! But
apart of that waving aside of an awkward observation, your
mate added nothing to the discussion there.
glenn: “…how does each new floor suddenly assume the accumulated
velocity of the falling floors above?”
Angry: ----Strawman. It doesn not assume the speed, it assumes the
momentum, thereby losing some speed (as some of the mass starts out
at rest)----
Strawman my arse. If it did _not_ assume the speed, how does your
mate account for the fact that we saw acceleration at virtually
free-fall speed, which was the actual point? Slippery customer,
this mate of yours.
glenn: “We're talking about a progressively heavy core structure (it
having been built to bear the weight of the entire structure above,
at each stage). So why did it not _substantially_ arrest the downward
motion?”
Angry: ----As lower stories became progressively heavy (and strong), so
did the weight and the speed of the already falling top part accumulate. So
while the static strength of the lower stories increased basically in a
linear function, the momentum of the fall increased basically with a
function that contains a power of 2 - momentum increased faster than
resisting static force.----
Ahem, your mate really needs to stop blowing smoke, and explain why
the progression was not _substantially_ arrested. Your learned friend
also forgets that a major component of that structure mysteriously turned
into fine powder on the way down, so the momentum (weight x speed) of
the falling structure was not accumulating to anything approaching the
extent he pretends.
glenn:“As Frank Verismo points out, a great deal of the mass was pulverised
in any case, so the full weight of the above sections were dispersed each
time a new floor was reached by the downward progression.”
Angry: ----When we are looking at conservation of momentum, it doesn't
matter if the mass you want to arrest is already pulverized or still
structurally intact. If you want to arrest the collapse, you need to arrest
the downward momentum of all the masses involved, as it wouldn't do much
good to stop the intact parts and let the pulverized parts keep falling
(all the way).----
Huh! For crying out loud, that pulverised structure was billowing out
over half of Manhattan, not neatly falling in a vacuum tube! Has your
mate observed that under real-world conditions, dust doesn't fall quite
the same way as bricks? Jesus!
glenn: “How did the really heavy mid to lower sections suddenly start
moving at the same pace as the falling upper sections, unless they were
offering _virtually no resistance at all_ - unless they were already
falling themselves immediately before the progression hit them.”
Angry: ----Because the dynamic load of n upper stories at velovity v with
mass m is magnitudes greater than the static load these mid to lower
sections were designed to carry. They were designed to excert the upward
force of several (3-5?) times the weight of all the floors above, but to
arrest these floors within the short distance that the columns still remain
elastic would require a force much more than 10 times the weight.----
Your mate has explained why the floors might have collapsed, not why
they magically assumed the speed of the falling upper section without
slowing it down. Is your mate fond of answering his preferred question
to that asked?
glenn: “The towers did not come down quite at free-fall speed, but it was
not far off it. It was way too close to free-fall acceleration to believe
even for a moment than a substantial structure of increasing strength was
being crushed by the powdered remains of the floors above.”
Angry: ----Towers came down around 2/3rds of free fall speed which actually
is a considerable distance off.
Plus Argument from incredulity.----
Being incredulous at an explanation is not proof that the explanation
in question is correct, you know. The precise time is difficult to
say, because the base was surrounded by a plume of dust that your mate
thinks is entirely pressing downwards on the structure (and in a neat
column). It goes no way to altering the fact that a mild slowing (which
I freely allowed for) is far removed from what we observed.
Think about your famous bowling balls, AS - would you expect it to fall
to the bottom of a deep lake almost as fast (2/3rds, say) as it would
through the air? No? Do you think the structure of the towers should
have offered even the resistance of water?
glenn: “If the motion was entirely downwards, with no other force than
downward gravity operating after collapse was initiated, why do we see
massive steel girders ejected out laterally for hundreds of feet? Why did
tiny body parts (sections of finger, etc.) appear on rooftops hundreds of
yards away?”
Angry:----Drop a paper bag full with assorted things (screws, tomatoes,
marbles, toys) from your upper floor down onto your terrace. Watch what
happens. See how some of the things are flung sideways?----
Your mate is an idiot. If I dropped a sack full of _heavy_ bolts which
are not going to be blown around by the wind, they'll land pretty much
below where they are dropped. What made the 40-ton steel girders of the
Twin Towers go laterally with such substantial energy - brownian motion,
perhaps?
glenn: “In standard building collapses, one would find at least a few
things intact. A chair, a monitor, something. How come the biggest items
found were fragments of telephone keypads?”
Angry:----Twin Towers were non-standard building collapses. They were just
so very much bigger than anything we've seen so far. Potential energy of
one tower, just standing erect, equals that of a formidable nuke. That is
as much "standard building collapse" as Hiroshima was "standard
bombing".----
Oh, crap. I'll agree on one thing - this was non-standard. But the idea
that _nothing_ substantial survived due to this hand-waving explanation
is weak to say the least. Is this guy supposed to be a scientist? He
should be ashamed of himself, pretending potential energy was neatly
converted into lossless explosive energy to pulverise everything.
glenn:“Look at the column on the last picture on this page: How did it
acquire that precise cut, consistent with a controlled demolition?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/thermite.htm “
Angry:----As has been pointed out before: Welcome to the dark ages of
trutherism.----
Angry: (Poster EDx writes: “lol he promotes the thermal lance cut column
picture as evidence of thermite lol.”
Uh huh. Do you usually have firemen hanging around like that
when a demolition clearance is well underway? So these lance-cutter
boys had rushed in (not bothering to clear a path), cut a bunch
of core columns (why?), and rushed off again why firemen were still
scratching their chins at the sight? Uh huh.
glenn: “But back to conservation of momentum. Inertia dictates that a mass
will not suddenly assume the velocity of the moving object falling onto
it, even if it is so tenuously structured that a feather falling onto it
would initiate its collapse. In this case, we are talking about an
increasing substantial structure the further down the building we go. Yet
it offered little more resistance than fresh air on the day of 9/11.”
Angry: ----Increasing substantial structure met even faster increasing
momentum the further down the building we go.----
Which might have achieved some equilibrium what with losing all that
structure mass to powder, flying girders an' all, but your mate ignores
the point entirely, and is blowing smoke yet again. There is absolutely
no way the falling structure would make the floors below assume the
VELOCITY (and not just the momentum) and continue the progression.
*
Nice try, maybe worth 2.5/10 and it might even pass as plausible to
someone completely ignorant about physics, but please get better help
than this if you seriously want to refute my argument on momentum.
But thank you again for taking the time. I admire your doggedness in
sticking up for the Official Story through thick and very, very thin.
Posted by: at July 14, 2010 8:23 PM
The above was me, btw.
Posted by: Glenn at July 14, 2010 8:23 PM
Btw, Angry, how long do you think it'll take for you to relay my reply back to your mates at forums.randi.org, for them to make their various replies, and then for you to compile them all again?
Why are you so utterly uncritical of _their_ replies, while the knee-jerk thing happens for you at every word from an Official Story doubter?
One last thing puzzles me... and you can ask them this (fully attributed, if you don't mind!)... doesn't your nauseating obsequiousness bother them there at all, or do they actually get off on it?
Posted by: glenn at July 15, 2010 1:32 AM
“Btw, Angry, how long do you think it'll take for you to relay my reply back to your mates at forums.randi.org, for them to make their various replies, and then for you to compile them all again?
Why are you so utterly uncritical of _their_ replies, while the knee-jerk thing happens for you at every word from an Official Story doubter?
One last thing puzzles me... and you can ask them this (fully attributed, if you don't mind!)... doesn't your nauseating obsequiousness bother them there at all, or do they actually get off on it?”
Fuck you, Glenn! I told you before I am not participating in the arguments over the actual collapse mechanism of the towers because I am not qualified to talk about it (unlike your good self, of course). But if you are interested in defending your theory you can do so here:
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=180207
I know, of course, that you will not. So both sides can declare victory and everyone will be happy.
Posted by: angrysoba at July 15, 2010 3:43 AM
Hmmm… I think I see what’s happened here. You must have cut and pasted that response in to Google and been annoyed by the discussion you read. I can’t otherwise work out why the sudden shift in tone. Given that it was you who wanted the conversation to be respectful it doesn’t help you to say words to the effect of “lets discuss this rationally without resort to ad hominem attacks, you ignorant arselicking government lackey!”
If this is the case I’ll retract the “Fuck you, Glenn!” and you can retract the “nauseatingly obsequious” label.
Still, it is obvious that there is a massive miscommunication going on between those imagining completely different scenarios who seem to be unable to see what the other person is talking about.
One example is this: “We are expected to believe that as it suddenly (with a flash)
lost all its structure and fell onto the floor below”
I’m confused about whether you are talking about the “flash” as being a literal “flash” of light or, as the debunker interprets it, to mean the same as “suddenly”. (If it is the former then it distracts from the discussion of “conservation of momentum” so it should be left aside for now).
The second thing is this: “Look at the column on the last picture on this page: How did it
acquire that precise cut, consistent with a controlled demolition?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/thermite.htm “
This isn’t useful to your argument because the “precise cut” is also quite consistent with the cuts made by the clean-up crews AFTER the collapse of the towers. I thought about editing it out because it has no relevance to conservation of momentum and it tends to draw too much attention away from the main topic.
Posted by: angrysoba at July 15, 2010 6:09 AM
Paging Glenn...paging Glenn. Please pick up the white courtesy phone..
Glenn...this is an anonymous tip. Your correspondant Angrysoba can be found at the following address....
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=180207&page=4
Posted by: poor old woman at July 15, 2010 8:28 AM
Hey Angry,
Yes, I admit to getting a bit ticked at having our discussion posted
on some site like that behind my back, and your cherry-picking the bits
which agreed with your government line.
The "There's this totally, sad, idiotic conspiracy nut who thinks... "
introduction to my post to set up as withering a bunch of responses you
could get (paraphrased slightly, perhaps) was a bit irking. The manner
in which you gratefully accepted without question answers from this
bunch, is somewhat at odds with the barely contained fury you show us
Official Story sceptics. Doubtless you found insufficient time to read
anything except favourable answers.
I thought I was discussing with people here, and maybe someone they'd
asked, not an entire forum's worth of cherry-picked responses (which had
ran up scores of replies) to my original post.
You invite me to go there and discuss it with them. That's very kind of
you, but I don't generally enjoy the self-congratulatory company of a
bunch of what I believe Americans call "circle-jerks". Why don't I
invite some hard-core sceptics along here, to surreptitiously answer
your points? Why not sit back and just watch them debate each other?
A do also appreciate your invitation to remove all distracting side
points, and boil the whole thing down to one sentence maybe. Then we
could have _that_ turned into a vague debate. So every objection to
the Offical Story is whittled down to a single "On the one hand, but
on the other…" category of a possibly debatable, but utterly unimportant,
point. I could then have a consolatory hand placed on my shoulder,
be gently let down from my anxious state, and told in an adult to
child fashion that it's All Just As The Government Says.
I'm familiar with that game. Trouble is, just about every aspect of
the Official Story is so ludicrous, you yourself would have to employ
just 10% of that famous scepticism of yours in order to be outraged at
these lies we're expected to swallow, at every smallest point of it.
Only that's not your bag at all, for reasons known best to yourself.
*
ok - let's discuss the tone and reset things again, if we may.
What you did was a tad underhand, and I find your entirely partisan
approach to this subject very much at odds with your claim to be open
minded. You have no open mind on this subject - one side is 100% full
of idiots, the other is 100% full of clear minded observers of the obvious
truth. If that's the way you gather evidence to decide a point, I don't
know why you don't save yourself a lot of trouble by just skipping a step,
and decide it based on your initial prejudice. Even more puzzling is why
you want to spend so much time arguing a point based on such uneven
gathering of evidence, yet with a large need to see yourself and be seen
as an impartial.
So yes - I was ticked upon finding that my post was being dissected on
the quiet, so that I could be suddenly presented with "I asked a few
people", and sandbagged with your cherry-picking.
I have to say, they didn't do so well, and I'd have taken my time in
replying (especially with regard to the format - it's really not very
readable, should I redo it?) if I'd known you'd gone to so much effort,
and that I was replying to so many people. You should have said.
And I'm sorry to have been rather unflattering in my description of your
relationship with that group. It was terminology which I'd rather not
have used for a respected correspondent which - no kidding - you are to
me. So my apologies, you deserve more respect than that.
*
(Btw - a typo in my all too hurried reply. My last sentence to your
sixth point read:
It goes no way to altering the fact that a mild slowing (which
I freely allowed for) is far removed from what we observed.
It _should_ have read:
It goes no way to altering the fact that a mild slowing (which
I freely allowed for) is far removed from what we should have observed.
*
Maybe I should write the whole thing out again for clarity.
So in conclusion… I'm keen to hear from Team AngrySoba. "team" glenn
here over-and-out.
Posted by: glenn at July 16, 2010 3:23 AM
I published an article on my own blog about Craig Murray and 9-11, before I was made aware of this page.
http://sydwalker.info/blog/2010/07/19/dear-craig-murray-please-explain-wtc-7/
Responses welcome, especially from Craig.
Posted by: Syd Walker at July 19, 2010 5:45 AM
Hello Glenn,
I'm Tom. Nice to meet you.
I'm one of "those JREF guys". Sorry that you don't seem to think the world of us. I'll try to struggle thru. Somehow...
If you wish, I'll offer replies to your direct questions.
(My first reply has gone into limbo. So I'll break it up into smaller chunks. My apologies if this ends up a repeat.)
Right off the bat, I'm not particularly angry. So I won't be getting into any name-calling.
Nor will I get dragged into interminable debate. I'll state my case. I'll address your comments. Briefly. If you choose to not accept what I say, that's fine with me.
I am an old fart mechanical engineer, however. Under the BEST of circumstances, non-engineers consider us pompous & arrogant.
When we are sure about something, we frequently say things like "you're wrong." And "that's pretty stupid." We don't consider these insults. Simply statements of facts.
I assume that you're mature enough to not turn "that (i.e., "what you just said") is stupid" into "you just called ME stupid". If not, this will be a short encounter.
BTW, if I'm sure about something, I'll say "You're wrong." If not, I'll say "I think you're wrong".
I make mistakes, too. If you point out one of mine, I'll happily say "I was wrong". No skin off my nose.
End of the intro.
If you're interested, I'll try to politely answer some of your questions.
Tom
Posted by: tomk at July 22, 2010 6:26 PM
"I'll try to politely answer some of your questions."
Gee, thanks - the patronising approach now. People consider you pompous and arrogant, do they? Wonder where they get that from.
But why this unmerited act of charity? Why not leave us alone with our foolish delusions? Aren't we harmless?
Anyway, I'm afraid you're not an engineer if you're anonymous - you could be Randi's chauffeur for all we know. Real name and checkable credentials please - your expertise, so selflessy proferred, will be ignored if it can't be checked.
A JREFer, eh? Has your hero recovered financially yet from his lost lawsuits with Uri Geller? And why did Randi resign from CSICOP? And why did Dennis Rawlins resign from CSICOP, and what was Randi's role in the affair?
So there are some questions for you. If you're a JREFer, you're no rationalist.
http://cura.free.fr/xv/14starbb.html
Posted by: Vronsky at July 24, 2010 8:25 AM
glenn,
Ahh, I see the depth of your sincerity, objectivity, and allegiance to "the truth".
Put your fingers back in your ears. Retreat behind your wall of ignorance. Waste another decade.
C'ya.
___
The "Truth Movement" is basically dead. The vast majority of people have seen its incompetence, insanity, angry young man, political & trinket-selling profit motive.
But if there are still a couple of honest folks out there who are looking for a few answers, this is what I'd suggest.
For a thinking person, this is not an exercise in structural engineering, metallurgy, fire dynamics, aeronautics, or any other tech field.
It is an exercise in epistemology.
How does an intelligent honest person find out the truth about a complex situation outside their field?
For example, whether or not to have a brain tumor removed. You're getting conflicting advised. What do you do?
You have two options.
1. The hard way: Try to figure it out yourself by enrolling in med school & specializing in oncology.
2. The easy way: Leverage the experience & knowledge of the experts. And, when they answer your questions, listen to them.
One way takes 20 years. The other can be done in a couple of days.
All the standard epistemological caveats apply. Multiple opinions, lots of questions, etc.
You'll find out that, in the engineering world, there are two great hegemonies: fields in which the vast majority of experts firmly agree. And fields in which the experts disagree.
Please note two things carefully:
1. There is no place (not even "the world if flat") in which ALL experts in any field agree. There are occasionally strange folk who managed to get thru school. Perverse contrarianism, charlatanism and simple mental illness do not spare any field, including engineering.
2. There is no place here for the opinions of amateurs. They don't count.
And this is precisely what you will find as the foundation of the Truth Movement: Amateurs feeding nonsense to other (credulous) amateurs.
The real engineering profession has long, long since rendered its verdict. The report done by NIST was excellent. It is not perfect. But its evidence, methods & conclusions are compelling.
And serious engineers have public healthy arguments on some details. But there is no serious debate that "maybe it was a controlled demolition".
Anyone watching the circus will please note that, if Gage, Jones, Harrit, et al. really wanted to gain credibility for their theories, then the place that they'd take them is in front of a panel of the most experienced, most expert engineers that they could find.
It is highly revealing that that is the absolute last place that they will ever appear. They know that they'd get laughed out of the room in minutes.
Instead, they peddle their wares to credulous kids and conspiracy theorists. They blog the internet.
And, like glenn, shut up & stick their fingers in their ears if anyone with a background shows up.
If anyone other than glenn is interested, if anyone else is even reading this, and wants an explanation to any of the big picture engineering items, post a comment. I'll check back periodically. If I can answer, I will. If not, I'll try to direct you to a competent source.
Tom
Posted by: tomk at July 24, 2010 11:17 PM
"If anyone other than glenn is interested, if anyone else is even reading this"
'tomk' hasn't read Vronsky at July 24, 2010 8:25 AM?
Or is he avoiding him?
"glenn Ahh, I see the depth of your sincerity, objectivity, and allegiance to "the truth"."
If you knew glenn, you'd know that he probably has no idea that you posted here. I should warn you that your sarcasm won't take you far in this forum. It didn't do much for Larry, another American who attempted to patronise.
"There are occasionally strange folk who managed to get thru school. Perverse contrarianism, charlatanism and simple mental illness do not spare any field, including engineering."
Maybe that's why Vronsky wants to know your credentials.
"Leverage the experience & knowledge of the experts. And, when they answer your questions, listen to them."
Ah, but even in oncology, doctors differ and patients die. :)
Posted by: dreoilin at July 25, 2010 6:28 PM
dreoilin,
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dreoilin: 'tomk' hasn't read Vronsky at July 24, 2010 8:25 AM?
tomk:
Ahhh, my bad.
Since I directed my first post directly to glenn, I made the bad assumption that it was glenn that had replied.
Glenn, my apologies.
_____
dreoilin: Or is he avoiding him?
tomk: I didn't (intentionally) ignore Mr/Ms Vronsky in the slightest. Just misaddressed the mail. The first paragraph of my reply (above) was directed to Vronsky. Not to glenn.
With his attitude, I won't be "avoiding" Mr. V. I'll be ignoring him.
_____
dreoilin: I should warn you that your sarcasm won't take you far in this forum. It didn't do much for Larry, another American who attempted to patronise.
tomk: Thank you very much for your solicitous advice.
I don't know Larry, either. Hopefully, with lots of counseling, Larry will be able to survive the dark depression that inevitably follows chastisement from anonymous internet posters.
You were saying something about "sarcasm"...?
_____
dreoilin: ... another American who attempted to patronise.
tomk:
Re: "American". Wrong attribution. It's not "an American" thing. It's "an old school engineer" thing.
Re: "patronize". (by the spelling of your choice, of course.)
If someone insists that 2+4=123, is it patronizing to say, "you're wrong. 2+4=6"?
If they insist that they can quote "experts" that say 2+4=123, is it patronizing to say, "your 'experts' are quacks"?
What is the proper level of respect & deference paid to someone who, in spite of efforts to enlighten him, has been repeating "2+4=123" for nine years?
I specifically offered to answer some questions for Glenn, because he post a list of them here: Glenn at July 14, 2010 8:23 PM
Strewn within his questions were comments such as:
"... [the building] suddenly ... lost all its structure ..."
"... acceleration at virtually free-fall speed ..."
"... [the lower sections] were offering _virtually no resistance at all_ ..."
To anyone with even a remedial understanding of structures, these comments are the equivalent of "2+4=123".
You are welcome to consider me patronizing for "not allowing the possibility that '2+4=123'."
Like Larry, my ego & I will both survive.
Somehow ...
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dreoilin: Maybe that's why Vronsky wants to know your credentials.
tomk: He didn't ask for my credentials. He asked for my identity. Which he is not getting. Stupid people reveal their identity on the internet.
Mama drowned the dumb ones.
My credentials are: BS Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, early 70s. 36 years as a successful working project engineer & product design engineer. That's all you need. That's what you're going to get.
If this conversation continues, my explanations will serve as my credentials. If that's not good enough for you, or anyone else, that's just fine with me.
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dreoilin: Ah, but even in oncology, doctors differ and patients die. :)
tomk: That is exactly right. Due, in large measure, to the fact that medicine is, to the 90th percentile, art. Not science.
Engineering is different.
And, in this case, COMPETENT engineers do not differ.
Regards,
tom
Posted by: at July 25, 2010 11:02 PM
Shame you can't read, tomk. I suggest you look carefully at who's posting in future.
>"If someone insists that 2+4=123, is it patronizing to say, "you're wrong. 2+4=6"?"
And where has that happened since you arrived here? I was referring to your tone when you addressed "glenn" (as you thought.)
>"Wrong attribution. It's not "an American" thing."
I didn't say it was. I said Larry was another American who attempted to patronise. Is that clear? ANOTHER American, see?
>"(by the spelling of your choice, of course)"
Are you making some point with that? Or just farting around?
>"He didn't ask for my credentials. He asked for my identity."
'Real name and checkable credentials please' --Vronsky
If this is going to be the level of your debate with Glenn, I don't think anyone is going to be very interested, tomk. We have more exacting standards here.
>"That is exactly right. Due, in large measure, to the fact that medicine is, to the 90th percentile, art. Not science.
>Engineering is different."
(See what I mean about standards?) Shame you gave the example of oncology then, honey, since you've had to change horses already. Oncology is not "art", by the way, but that has nothing to do with 9/11. Be more careful in your lectures in future, and pick suitable examples for your homilies on 'epistemology'.
Posted by: dreoilin at July 26, 2010 1:01 AM
Hello tomk, just checked back into this thread. Thank you for responding. If you have something to say, I'd be delighted to address it! I don't believe you have said anything to counter my arguments as yet, but the thread is yet young.
And likewise, I'm not someone who takes these things personally. No insult intended... although, if you were the fellow who suggested dropping a paper bag of tomatoes, nails etc. from up high encounter the same phenomenon as blasted apart the Twin Towers (thus explaining away how tiny human parts were found hundreds of yards away, and massive girders flung some distance), I'd appreciate your detailing on how that happened.
I'm impartial, and only interested in the truth (I'm not religious!).
Let's discuss then, but please let's not go through a repetition of the usual stuff that Official Story apologists trot out, eh? Please see the earlier posts for all the usual crap, which led my clearly desperate correspondent Angry-Sober to get you on the case.
Posted by: glenn at July 26, 2010 4:32 AM
Howdy Glenn,
Nice to meet 'cha.
You posted several questions above. I'll just address the engineering (or aviation) ones.
I'll take just a couple at a time.
The first point is one that you did not specifically ask, but is one of the most commonly asked questions.
"Why did 3 skyscrapers fall from fire alone, when several other skyscrapers have burned (some seemingly more intense than WTC 1, 2 or 7) and did not collapse?"
Answer: Different answers for WTC 1&2 versus WTC7.
WTC 1 & 2: Buildings that have not suffered the massive physical damage of WTC 1 & 2 are at similar stress levels to the "as built" condition, & need to have their supports raised to (depending on the unique design) about 600 - 800°C to collapse. At these temps, the steel's strength will be reduced to between 40% & 15% of their room temp strength. [Fire gas temps are around 1200 - 1400°C. With the usual insulation & sprinkling, the massive column temps are hugely lower.]
In buildings that have been damaged as extensively as WTC 1&2, the temps only have to reach only ~200 - 400°C. (Without insulation & sprinklers, the column temps come up much closer to the fire gas temps. ) This is because the damage has massively increased the stress condition on some columns. At high stress, runaway creep will happen at those low temps. See Bazant et al, "What Did and Did not Cause Collapse of WTC Twin Towers in New York". Journal of Engineering Mechanics ASCE , Vol. 134 (2008)
I assume that you've read the NIST report and that you're familiar with the following:
In WTC7, failure happened at very low temps (~250°C), due to large unfought, unsprinkled fires, combined with a unique design features of that building.
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glenn: “…We are expected to believe that as it suddenly (with a flash) lost all its structure and fell onto the floor below, ...”
Actually, it's rather surprising to see such a large flash!
Tom: Not surprising at all. The flash was the fires inside the building being blown outwards by the forced out air.
The "suddenness of the collapse", wasn't sudden at all. A long (1 & 2 hours long) series of events led up to the final collapse. One cannot understand the final collapse unless they understand the dramatic changes in loading conditions that happened during that time. This is why NIST went to such pains to explain it in such detail.
One must acknowledge the significance of that interval, stop focusing on the consequence (the ultimate buckling event) and pay some attention to the cause (damage, heat, CREEP, load redistribution & buckling).
That whole process in the towers was absolutely typical of most prompt progressive failures.
For example:
Why did the Challenger & Columbia "suddenly" fail? They didn't.
They both had a sequence of small failures, stretched out over time, that were not progressive. Other components "took up the slack" of the ones that failed during this period. But during those non-progressive failures, they were both losing "safety margin", until the margin was zero. Once the margin had been reduced to zero, that last failure was progressive, and led to total destruction very, very quickly.
By calling the collapse "sudden", you are viewing the many failures that happened simultaneously at the moment of collapse as though they were "independent events". They were not. It is the very nature of "progressive collapse" that a failure in one part CAUSES a failure in many others.
The part that actually failed & kicked off the whole collapse will never be known. But it is entirely likely, probable in fact, that it was something as small as a single bolt or tiny weld snapping. (To get really precise, actually a tiny, tiny little crack in that piece.)
The many, many failures that make up the total destruction (of the buildings & the shuttles) were not independent events. They were all structurally, causally & temporally tied to each other. And all kicked off by, and a direct consequence of, that one last component failure after the safety margin had reached zero.
That's enough for now.
Looking forward to your reply.
Tom
Posted by: tomk at July 26, 2010 7:21 AM
`Paying Attention to 9/11 Related News`
http://911blogger.com/news/2009-12-12/carlyle-kissinger-saic-and-halliburton-911-convergence
Posted by: at July 26, 2010 2:25 PM
"My credentials are: BS Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, early 70s. 36 years as a successful working project engineer & product design engineer."
I totally believe the 'BS' bit. Summa cum laude, no doubt.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 26, 2010 3:23 PM
V,
tomk: "My credentials are: BS Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, early 70s. 36 years as a successful working project engineer & product design engineer."
Vronsky: "I totally believe the 'BS' bit. Summa cum laude, no doubt."
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In two posts, I've made numerous points.
And the very best that you can do ...
... is to immediately call me a "liar".
Thank you, V.
Your reply is extremely revealing regarding your abject lack of substantial argument.
I won't take your childishness as a sad representation of the current state of British etiquette.
Tom
PS. Exactly which of my statements did you find offended your mechanical engineering expertise?
PPS. May I enquire as to your credentials that enabled your conclusion? I take it, something related to math...
PPS. Regarding your comment @ February 27, 2010 9:47 AM
"For anyone who can take a little light mathematics, here is a very succinct proof that the towers could not have fallen as a result of fire and gravity. [Reference to Chandler paper]."
I think that you'd better look up the word "proof". Show me where it starts out, "find an abject amateur to do a bogus analysis completely outside his realm of experience..."
Mr. Chandler, a high school physics teacher, ("Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that really can't, teach teenagers." And old saying, embodying the antagonism between academia & industry. One with which I do not completely agree.), with PRECISELY zero background in structural engineering or in the analysis of collapsing buildings, issues a 3rd rate paper, which would have gotten him an "F" grade in my freshman engineering class ...
... and you advertise it as "proof"...?!
Let me ask you a couple of questions:
1. Any engineer (or engineering student) can tell you immediately why it would not have been accepted as a freshman level lab report. Are you able to do so? I politely informed Mr. Chandler of this lack when he put out his first paper on this subject. It surprises me not in the least to see that, over 2 years later, he's done nothing to correct this massive flaw.
2. What law of physics do you believe says that the north wall of WTC7 could not have fallen at (or even above) an acceleration equal to "g"? Please explain why.
Posted by: tomk at July 26, 2010 6:39 PM
"What law of physics do you believe says that the north wall of WTC7 could not have fallen at (or even above) an acceleration equal to "g"? "
You think that it would not be unnatural for something to fall at an acceleration above g? And you want us to believe you're an engineer? God, you're barely literate.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 26, 2010 7:08 PM
Hi glenn, Hi Vronsky,
Sorry for butting in. Put it down to Irish impetuosity.
Posted by: dreoilin at July 26, 2010 9:21 PM
V,
Care to hang your ego out to dry with a wager on that?
Both theoretical explanation and visible proof that you're wrong can be provided, of course.
C'mon, V. Let's see who is, what was that word again ...
... oh yeah, "barely literate".
Tom
Posted by: tomk at July 26, 2010 9:47 PM
Aren't you supposed to be ignoring me? I'm fine with that. It's your inclination to ignore Isaac Newton (Google him) that's amusing. Imagine an engineer who doesn't understand high school physics! American education ain't what it used to be.
A falling body on earth will accelerate at g m/s/s in a vacuum. 'Falling' means that the only force acting upon it is the gravitational attraction of the earth. If it's accelerating downwards *faster* than that, then by definition it isn't falling - some force additional to gravity must be acting upon it. A body cannot 'fall' with acceleration greater than g - you're suggestion that it can is - uh - highly original.
You really haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about, but when did that ever cost a JREFer sleep?
Posted by: Vronsky at July 26, 2010 11:49 PM
V,
Vronsky: "Aren't you supposed to be ignoring me?"
tom: I was sitting here, minding my own business, waiting for glenn to reply.
Meanwhile, a pompous little peckerwood walked up, kicked sand in my face, called me "a liar", and then started blabbering amateurish misunderstandings about my field.
Congratulation, V. You got my attention.
So, while I wait for glenn, I decided that it would do you a world of good to get your ears publicly boxed a little bit. Might teach you a little humility.
Ergo, a simple wager:
You say that an object that is dropped can not fall with an acceleration greater than "g".
I'm telling you that you're wrong about that. No tricks. No wind. No magnets. No nothing. An object is simply put on a support, the support is removed and the object allowed to fall.
And it falls at an acceleration that is provably greater than g.
I'm telling you that I can explain exactly why this can happen. And I say that I can provide you - or anyone reading this - unequivocal proof that I'm right.
Further, I'm saying that this demonstrates just one of about a half dozen ways in which the north wall of WTC7 could have fallen at, or even greater, than "g". Under just the influence of gravity.
So, I'll steal back a quote that you pilfered from another American:
"You feeling lucky, punk?"
I am willing to put my credibility on the line with this wager.
Are you willing to do the same? Will you come down & climb into the ring? Or are you gonna just sit up in the cheap seats & run your mouth?
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 27, 2010 2:34 AM
Quick shout out to dreoilin before replying to Tom: Great to see
you again! How is life treating you? Hope you're well! I
just got told off for questioning religion, albeit a bit bluntly,
so I'll give it a rest there for a bit too.
Take care, my fellow Celt.
Posted by: glenn at July 27, 2010 2:44 AM
Hello Tomk, good of you to write.
I thought we were discussing the subjects raised here, not a preferred question
which might commonly be asked, but since you brought it up, let's talk about
the fact that we have had numerous steel framed buildings that have burned
fiercely for many, many hours without sprinklers and without showing the
slightest inclination to collapse more or less into their own footprint
(which itself is highly unusual for an uncontrolled demolition).
For WTC 1 & 2 we have a dirty flame for a comparatively short period. The heat
was not so intense that people were incinerated in there - indeed, they were
observed looking out of the damaged sections right up until the collapse. So
the idea that a large number (if not the majority) of supports uniformly heated
to at least 400 degrees C is ludicrous. Steel is a rather good conductor of heat,
and that enormous structure would have carried heat away unless it was very
quickly and intensively applied (which as you no doubt know, is exactly the
principle of which demolition thermal cutting charges are based).
So which would you have us believe - that the heat around all the columns was
very intense, but contained itself very well so as not to char the people in the
same sections, or that the metal accumulated all the thermal energy in a most
localised fashion and refused to conduct it away?
Another question is what would have caused molten metal to pour from the
WTC damaged section - a 400 degree fire?
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[Tom on my observation of a flash at the initial collapse]:
Tom: Not surprising at all. The flash was the fires inside the building being
blown outwards by the forced out air.
I observed there was a flash, and it was extremely intense. The fires had pretty
much burned themselves out by that point anyway - most of the fuel (particularly
for the second plane crash) was burned out in the first few seconds after impact.
To say an intense flash like that was just fires being puffed out through broken
windows all round is rather dismissive, but in line with "knowing" what happened
(which is just as the Official Story said from day, if not hour #1).
Look at the start of the collapse in this video, for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIZp6aOibiM
Just in the first few seconds. Notice the extremely large chunks of building which
is supposed to be heavily interlocked steel structure, flying well free of the tower.
Was such a quantity of building just puffed out by air, as the initial damaged floors
gave way? Seriously?
NIST didn't go to great pains to explain in detail why it collapsed, it began
most of its supposed analysis (with a pre-determined conclusion, of course)
that happened after collapse had began. And would you ever, in 1000 years, expect
NIST to do anything but toe the official line, whatever that might be? Your efforts
might be sincere, but they strike me more as 'explaining away' instead of explaining,
if the phrase carries well.
*
You claim this is "absolutely typical of most prompt progressive failures".
Assuming for the moment the terms 'prompt' and 'progressive' don't trip themselves up
too much, how many other examples of such total collapses have we seen? Why was such
an event not entirely obvious to every fireman and 'first responder', that surely an
order would have been given to halt their mass entry to what should have been clearly
doomed buildings?
Why did we not have - as standing orders - that if a steel framed building is
damaged by explosions and/or fire, collapse must be imminent, and immediate evacuation
is therefore required, and nobody should go in. These buildings were the subject of
attempted demolition by explosion in the past, after all, so explosions were not
unexpected. Are these now the understood codes for all steel framed buildings?
How have architects incorporated these events into their design practices, or is
it assumed that some random damage and a fire will cause them all to behave like
that?
And surely all this malarkey of cutting charges, expertise of high order and so
on for demolitions must now be laid bare as a con game - all you need is some
random damage and a few fires started, and down comes the building _just_ like
the supposed 'demolition experts' charge a lot of money to undertake! This sort
of collapse is "absolutely typical", after all, unless I misread you.
*
By sudden, is it not clear that one or more entire floors completely gave way all
at once? The flash you acknowledge occurred all the way around simultaneously,
and we see the North Tower peeled apart. We don't see that when buildings
collapse very often, but we certainly do see it in controlled demolitions. We do
not see a uniform and total collapse when buildings spontaneously fall down,
and earthquakes, terrorist bombs, gas explosions etc. have made for plenty
of examples of partially and irregularly collapsed buildings. Nothing irregular
about the WTC collapses - they could have been following the direction of a
master Russian ballet choreographer.
*
I'm familiar with your point about the Challenger etc., thank you for that all
the same. But the idea that one tiny little crack spontaneously initiated this
collapse is stretching it - would you hazzard a guess at which corner or side
it occurred? You'll notice that the damage was very much confined to one
corner in the South Tower. Listen to the commentary at about 3:00 on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6f9Jpfz1Vo
A: "The entire building has just collapsed, as if a demolition team had set off...
like when you see the old demolitions of these old buildings. If folded down
on itself and... it's not there anymore."
B: "The whole side has collapsed?"
A: "The whole _building_ has collapsed!"
B: "The whole building has collapsed?" (incredulous)
--
Of course, you want to say anyone saying that just doesn't know what they're
talking about, and anyone questioning you is not qualified to do so. And if
someone does have the necessary qualifications, they can say goodbye to
their career if they do speak up. Because - by definition - anyone who dares
question the Official Story is a lunatic.
These things are obvious, totally expected, one would have to be silly to
think otherwise. And after all - it's now an Official Truth - and who'd be
daft enough to question a highly convenient one of those? Who is going to
be qualified, employed and want to retain their credibility, and yet raise
questions that have got people fired, for simply calling for a proper
investigation?
Thanks for writing, Tom. It's good to talk with someone who's willing to
talk, instead of just assert, and then get angry because their authority is
not meekly accepted. I don't get around here every day, but I would
appreciate continued correspondence. You might convince me, but I fear
that you probably have too much invested to even contemplate allowing any
questioning in public of your own. You might care to think about the
chilling effect on proper debate that this has. But strictly in private,
of course.
Posted by: glenn at July 27, 2010 3:38 AM
@dreolin
Yes, it is good to see you back. Don't go away again! Since you've resurrected I'll celebrate with a recap of the most substantive evidence of 9/11 as a false-flag.
* The most accessible account of why the Twin towers should not have collapsed is David Chandler's (tinyurl.com/ykundj3). I apologise if I'm teaching my granny to suck eggs, but if you want a translation into plain English I'll attempt it, although the first paragraph of Chandler's paper just about gets it.
* There are two papers from Cornell University. For WTC7 they conclude ‘the building was destroyed in a highly controlled fashion’ and for the twin towers that 'the buildings did not perish because of combined mechanical and heat damage to their primary zones, but because of yet another catastrophic event: a wave of massive destruction (WMD) that destroyed the CCs, following which the buildings collapsed to the ground’ (tinyurl.com/2w9ho7n and tinyurl.com/2v6oxjw).
* There is a comment on NIST's own site by engineers from Melbourne University, casting considerable doubt on NIST's report on the WTC7 collapse (tinyurl.com/yg69ec7).
If you have trouble with the enormity of the allegation made by the Truthers (and that would be entirely natural) then read the open letter by David Ray Griffin (tinyurl.com/3ahy9uc). Among other things, you might contrast the calm lucidity of his writing with the guttural grunts of the debunkers.
@tomk
Try this: tinyurl.com/3yhcoru
Posted by: Vronsky at July 27, 2010 8:48 AM
Thanks, Vronsky.
I'll go and do some more reading. My biggest stumbling block about a false flag operation is something Craig mentioned -- how to keep so many people from talking afterwards. But if (as has been suggested in some quarters) it was an Israeli job, then maybe the numbers required to keep schtum would be smaller? ... I'm not qualified in maths/physics/engineering so I can't argue the toss on those. But I recognise oddities when I see them and there are plenty of those - from small holes in the Pentagon to magic passports found in rubble.
Hi Glenn,
I'm fine thanks. Was reading you and the Bible-quoter on the top thread a day or so ago, and was having great fun. I must go up there and say hello. :)
Posted by: dreoilin at July 27, 2010 1:36 PM
"how to keep so many people from talking afterwards"
Remember that the official theory claims that only 19 people were actively involved, with infrastructure and finance supplied remotely. The official theory also claims that these 19 had such a small intelligence footprint that they proceeded to successful completion of their goal undetected. If this is true then it must be *generally* true: any 19 people with an adequate financial and administrative infrastructure could have done it.
Whatever critique you apply to my conspiracy theory you must in all fairness apply to the official version, and whatever slack you cut them, you must also cut me. If it's possible to do it with 19 Moslems and keep it secret from the biggest intelligence agencies on the planet, then it must be possible to do it with 19 Americans and keep it secret - unless you want to posit some desperate racial inferiority in Americans, which I'm sure you don't. Attend to the symmetry, dreoilin.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 27, 2010 2:18 PM
Hi dreoilin: It's a fair question, how would you keep such a false-flag
operation secret. For an answer, maybe we should consider that most
people aren't willing to cough to mass murder and treason, and that's
assuming they don't believe they're doing The Right Thing for whatever
reason. You also don't work with people you don't trust... not sure if
you've been rock-climbing, but you certainly would not like to undertake
such a venture with someone you don't know or even suspect of being
the least bit unreliable.
Take a look at Operation Northwoods - I'm not sure any would-be
operators of that false-flag job have come forward to say, "Yes - I was
planning on bombing downtown NYC!" - even though that's just what
they would have done.
Of course, Vronsky's point is perhaps the best of all - how can we claim
the very notion of a group of insider operatives impossible to believe,
while it's quite understandable that a rag-tag bunch of non-practicing
Muslims just nailed the entire operation first time perfectly.
Posted by: glenn at July 27, 2010 3:26 PM
When will Wikileaks publish anything that backs up your nutjob conspiracy theories?
Is Wikileaks part of the conspiracy?
Also, why won't Obama and his chief of staff pursue this, in order to destroy the Republican Party?
Posted by: Larry from Seattle at July 27, 2010 8:05 PM
"Take a look at Operation Northwoods"
Why? A proposed operation in the 1960s that wasn't taken seriously.
Posted by: Larry from Seattle at July 27, 2010 8:06 PM
"If this is true then it must be *generally* true: any 19 people with an adequate financial and administrative infrastructure could have done it."
Hold on, hold on, Vronsky, I'm more on your side than the other! And if we're agreed that WTC 1 and 2 couldn't have fallen at near freefall speed into their own footprints, without assistance, that implies a lot more people surely. If nano-thermite was involved, who set it? When? What were they posing as? What did they think they were doing?
"then it must be possible to do it with 19 Americans and keep it secret - unless you want to posit some desperate racial inferiority in Americans, which I'm sure you don't"
No, but are you suggesting that they were American suicide pilots?
I shouldn't say any more - I'll go and read your links first.
Posted by: dreoilin at July 27, 2010 10:05 PM
Glenn,
The fact that ONE rag-tag non-practicing Muslim who was a trainee pilot is supposed to have flown a plane that size, at that low height, into the side of the Pantagon -- something an 'ace' pilot would have found near-impossible -- is enough to cast doubt on the whole of 9/11, as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: dreoilin at July 27, 2010 10:09 PM
dreoilin - That's something that bothered me even when I basically
accepted the Official Story, that this ace novice had performed such
a stunt with a jumbo that promptly disappeared! And all the cameras
with which one would expect the Pentagon to be festooned didn't record
anything in the least bit convincing. Nor did cameras from nearby,
because government agents quickly went around and confiscated them.
The Towers collapsed because the planes did so much damage to them,
we are told, but the Pentagon was damaged very little because the
jumbo was so flimsy it basically vapourised on contact. Of course.
Not to speak for Vronsky, but he does not have to offer any
alternative story - it's sufficient for now to realise that the
Official Story is utter nonsense. Apologists for the Official Story,
whether stooges or True Believers, will just about beg you for an
alternative, because they'd far rather stand around snickering, head
shaking and eye-rolling at your hypothesis, than do the much harder
(nay, impossible!) job of defending their own.
Posted by: glenn at July 27, 2010 10:30 PM
@dreolin
Sorry, yes, I understand you have an open mind on this. Your questions are quite valid. Hoewever glenn is right: it isn't necessary to have a detailed alternative hypothesis, and for the reasons he gave it's tactically inadvisable to attempt one. The primary aim of the truth movement is to press for another enquiry in order to answer questions like yours, among many others. With this aim in mind it is obviously only necessary to show that the official account is impossible, and Newton's Laws do this rather nicely.
As to who did it, and how, I have no idea, but US government complicity to some degree beyond mere criminal negligence seems inescapable. If they had nothing to do with the controlled demolitions, why conceal them?
Posted by: Vronsky at July 28, 2010 12:07 AM
dreoilin: "No, but are you suggesting that they were American suicide pilots?"
It's HILARIOUS when crazy people argue about the details of their fantasies.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at July 28, 2010 1:31 AM
Urghh... what's wafted in here? Oh, it must be that ugly troll that
got banned, was made officially unwelcome by the blog host, but has
the shockingly bad grace to show up again all the same. Some people
clearly just cannot understand or operate in polite society. Like an
unwelcome guest at a party, I suppose we should just ignore the
dreadful person until someone throws them out.
Posted by: glenn at July 28, 2010 1:37 AM
Glenn, why doesn't Obama blow the lid on 911? Why doesn't Wikileaks blow the lid on 911?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at July 28, 2010 4:30 AM
7 WTC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvQDFV1HINw
Given time ordinary folk will 'blow the lid' on this apocryphal.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at July 28, 2010 9:13 AM
"Sorry, yes, I understand you have an open mind on this."--Vronsky
Well, I had, at one stage! I've been involved in this thread from day one and having read (and been involved with) much of it, I'm now more of a "truther" than I was at the start.
"Hoewever glenn is right: it isn't necessary to have a detailed alternative hypothesis, and for the reasons he gave it's tactically inadvisable to attempt one."
Absolutely. My remark about American suicide pilots was simply a direct follow-on from what you had said at July 27, 2010 2:18 PM (... attend to the symmetry). I think it's quite enough to tear big holes in the official version, something that has been done very well, IMO.
Forgive me, certain issues have become urgent (work + personal) and I can't apply my mind to this for a day or two, although I find it a fascinating subject.
tomk didn't come back?
Posted by: dreoilin at July 28, 2010 5:00 PM
"tomk didn't come back?"
It's hard to pass yourself off as a graduate engineer when you don't understand high school physics.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 28, 2010 10:07 PM
Why doesn't Obama blow the lid on 911? Why doesn't Wikileaks blow the lid on 911?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at July 28, 2010 10:28 PM
“Everybody is somebody’s Jew. And today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.” Primo Levi.
Found on the Jref forum.
Posted by: at July 28, 2010 11:37 PM
Tomk,
please tell me how falling objects can accelerate faster than g. I've looked around the 'net a bit, and can only find whiplash effects on bungee jumpers.
Posted by: Clark at July 29, 2010 10:47 AM
Oh, don't encourage him. If the acceleration is greater than g, then by definition it isn't 'falling' - some force greater than gravity must be operating. The exact value of g varies (very slightly) locally, but whatever it is locally it cannot be exceeded by a body in free fall.
Besides, have a look at the Chandler analysis, and note that *any* sustained positive value of downward acceleration, not even necessarily as high as g, implies prior removal of the structure beneath the collapse front.
Conservation of momentum requires a *negative* downward acceleration, i.e. a slowing of the collapse as resistance is enountered. Run into a wall and you will tend to slow down. Try it for yourself if you don't believe me.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 29, 2010 12:17 PM
Tom asked me to pass this on for him.
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Vronsky: "... guttural grunts of the debunkers."
@tomk
Try this: tinyurl.com/3yhcoru [Physics For Dummies]
tomk: So, V. Snark is all you have to offer, eh. Figures.
Now, here is your mistake:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
It ain't physics. It's engineering.
The WTC towers were not balls falling in a vacuum.
WTC7's north wall is not a spherical cow.
It's more complicated than that.
And your understanding of the principles is too rudimentary.
Posted by: angrysoba at July 29, 2010 12:24 PM
As for objects falling faster than G...
First, the proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfZk6o88nSU
The glass on the end of the yardstick is "an object". It had to fall faster than the ball in order for the ball to end up in the glass.
Here's a better view of the same effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFJPQLhWPvA
The free end of this yardstick is "a thing". That is falling faster than the washers which are falling at "g".
Next, the theory.
Your first error: The Center of Gravity falls at "g". Not every part of a falling object.
Your second error: "Falling at g" applies to objects that are isolated from being acted upon by all other forces.
The north wall of WTC7 was NOT an object "isolated from being acted upon by all other forces". It was attached at 1000 different points (on the side that neither your eyes nor your imagination allow you to see) to the collapsing structure behind it.
And therefore "limited to falling at less than g" does not apply to the north wall.
It ain't a ball falling in a vacuum.
It ain't a spherical cow.
It ain't physics.
Or math.
It's engineering.
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And you guys would do well to stop circlejerkin' each other into thinking that you're all that. You ain't dumb. You ain't particularly bright. You ARE pontificating outside of your field.
And, predictably, coming up with utter garbage.
But since the moderators have decided to not permit any more of tom's posting, in which, Glenn, he explained several of your questions, you're welcome to live on in blissful ignorance.
If this post gets thru, tom will pass on just the ones that he's already written. And then you guys are on your own.
(Hey, mods, it was "a metaphor". Its a shame that you've decided to reduce your posters only the milque-toast bland variety. And the ignorant. But that's your option.)
Sayonara.
Posted by: angrysoba at July 29, 2010 12:26 PM
Hi Angry,
Fascinating demonstrations, thank you (and I mean that). A comment on the second YouTube explains the apparent paradox (note that it calls falling faster than g a 'paradox'). It isn't free fall - there is another component of force due to friction. It can't be otherwise.
P=ma
If you observe a>g then P>weight of object. Inescapable mathematics, I'm afraid. Or are you going to tell me that m>m? A relativistic effect? That would be fun.
But you seem to be arguing against yourself (I've always suspected your heart wasn't really in this). The Truther's case is that the buildings fell at g, meaning no resisting structure beneath the falling mass. You and tomk seem to be saying 'Hey, us shills are *way* more stupid than that - we think those buildings fell even faster than g!'
And I don't think you should be pointing out that the normally quoted value of g is for falling objects in a vacuum - that is, objects with utterly nothing beneath them. 90 stories of steel and concrete is readily distinguishable from nothing. Speak to your supervisor and see if they can't find some technical support for you, someone who has maybe a Scottish Standard Grade in physics.
And, if you don't mind me saying so, don't let your intemperate side do so much of the talking. Plays badly with the jury, y'know.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 29, 2010 1:11 PM
I doubt that the July 29, 2010 12:24 PM and 12:26 PM posts were from Angrysoba. Amongst other things, Angrysoba knows the moderation policy of this blog. Angrysoba, they weren't from you, were they?
Tomk,
what is the matter? I asked a polite question. What's all this about asking someone to post on your behalf, apparently under a false name? If you're having trouble posting, you're probably trying to include more than two URLs. Just leave off the http etc.
Still, I'm disappointed. I will check youtube when I have more time, but I knew it was the center of mass that fell at g, I was hoping for something more juicy.
Posted by: Clark at July 29, 2010 2:12 PM
Duh. Yes, of course you're right that the post attributed to angrysoba was actually tomk. Note to self: think more before reacting.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 29, 2010 2:20 PM
I'll try again.
I was unaware of any limitation on number of url's.
The posts that I write frequently reference engineering sites in order to substantiate my points.
A half dozen posts that I submitted were not posted, and I assumed that I'd been banned for being "intemperate" with V.
If this goes thru, I'll repost with modified url's.
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 29, 2010 2:57 PM
From tom:
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Vronsky:
"Fascinating demonstrations, thank you (and I mean that). A comment on the second YouTube explains the apparent paradox (note that it calls falling faster than g a 'paradox'). It isn't free fall - there is another component of force due to friction. It can't be otherwise."
tomk:
Wrong. Completely wrong.
I lay the proof in front of you, and you continue to make EXACTLY THE SAME mistakes:
Arrogance, ignorance & ego.
1."... [some YouTuber] calls it a paradox..."
Ignorance: You hold up the LEAST competent comment as "expert". There is ZERO paradox here. Everything is behaving exactly as Newton's laws demand. YOU don't understand the details.
2."... It isn't free fall - there is another component of force due to friction. It can't be otherwise."
Ignorance & ego: Wrong. Completely wrong. (But your ego won't let you see it.)
It is exactly free fall. The effect has NOTHING to do with friction of any sort.
There is no friction other than (insignificant) air drag, which BTW is affecting the ruler more than the washers.
Do a force diagram, if you can, and you might understand it. Gravity is the ONLY force acting on the system.
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Vronsky: "P=ma"
tomk: Correct. A mysterious bit of technobabble that you wave around like a talisman, hoping to impress yourself & others with your knowledge. All the while, having only a rudimentary, THEORETICAL understanding of the implications. Or its REAL WORLD application.
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Vronsky: "If you observe a>g then P>weight of object."
tomk: Wrong. You still don't understand.
Put your ego aside, and learn.
THE CG of the object falls at "G". Not ALL PARTS OF the object. There are other forces acting on the glass & the end of the ruler. They are only the internal forces within the ruler, because the ruler is a semi-rigid object. Those internal forces arise only from gravity acting on the whole ruler/glass system, with a resisting force acting UPWARDS on the pivot point of the ruler.
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Vronsky: "Inescapable mathematics, I'm afraid.
tomk: Once again with the math, eh?
It ain't the math at which you are incompetent. It's the mechanics. Translating the real world into math. That's called "engineering".
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Vronsky: Or are you going to tell me that m>m?"
tomk: Shall I assume that this is just a typo? That you are not seriously suggesting that things with greater mass fall at higher accelerations than things with lower mass?
You are familiar with the name "Galileo Galilei", I presume...
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And, like all the above, a litany of wrong. Wrong. & more wrong.
Just like you were wrong that "nothing can fall at accel > g", each one of the following statements is also wrong. In key, significant (not trivial) meaning.
Vronsky: "The Truther's case is that the buildings fell at g,.-
tomk: Wrong. Chandler doesn't say this.
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Vronsky: "... meaning no resisting structure beneath the falling mass ..."
tomk: Wrong.
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Vronsky: "... You and tomk seem to be saying 'Hey, us shills are *way* more stupid than that ..."
tomk: Very wrong. But you set the bar very, very low. Being "smarter than a truther" falls smack dab in the middle of "damned by faint praise".
But I must admit that it is difficult to get more stupid than "truther stupid".
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Vronsky: "... we think those buildings fell even faster than g!' ..."
tomk: Wrong.
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Vronsky: "... 90 stories of steel and concrete is readily distinguishable from nothing. ..."
tomk: Wow. You got one right. But it is another of your "spherical cows". And it doesn't mean NEARLY what you think it means.
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Vronsky: "... Speak to your supervisor and see if they can't find some technical support for you, someone who has maybe a Scottish Standard Grade in physics ..."
tomk: It appears that the Scottish Standard Grade (in what? Math?) has let you down, V.
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Vronsky: "... And, if you don't mind me saying so, don't let your intemperate side do so much of the talking."
tomk: "... intemperate ..." Would that be "intemperate", as in "calling someone a liar about his background in your FIRST interaction"?
Or perhaps that would be "intemperate", as in "issuing incompetent, erroneous proclamations outside of your field of expertise"?
Or would that be "intemperate", as in "... calling someone incompetent and a poser, when they challenged your wrong, and now disproven silliness"?
Or, perhaps that might be "intemperate", as in "unable to comprehend or admit that you were completely wrong, even though you are lead by the hand to the proof"?
Which particular "intemperate" did you have in mind, V?
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Vronsky: "... Plays badly with the jury, y'know. ..."
tomk: I'm an engineer. (Regardless of whether or not you believe me. It is beneath my dignity to bother to lie to anyone about my background. Especially, a bunch of truthers on the internet.)
Engineers, by nature & training, don't give a rat's ass whether or not you like us. There is only ONE "coin of the realm": being right.
And it is charmingly amusing that you think that any of the reality associated with this is dependent upon the vote of some imagined "jury".
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 29, 2010 3:10 PM
tomk
When you pose under the name of another poster you desert your right to be included in the conversation. Bye.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 29, 2010 4:24 PM
Clark,
Yes, you did ask a polite question, very politely. It was refreshing.
I am old school. I have a strong, some might say "anachronistic", sense of dignity. I don't call others "liars". Without extraordinary evidence. I don't react well when a stranger calls me a liar. Especially one who posts a bunch of crappola in my field. And then, when I correct him, starts with the childish insults.
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Clark: "what is the matter? I asked a polite question. What's all this about asking someone to post on your behalf, apparently under a false name? If you're having trouble posting, you're probably trying to include more than two URLs. Just leave off the http etc."
tomk: Thanks. The url's was the problem. Funny that the response from the system is not "you can't use multiple url's." But rather "the mods will review your post. Don't bother reposting."
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Clark: "I knew it was the center of mass that fell at g, I was hoping for something more juicy."
tomk: Your focusing on the the trivial, and ignoring the significant.
The incidence is "how could the north wall have fallen near, or even faster than, g for any period of time?"
The principle is "the postulate that it is impossible for it to have fallen equal to (or even slightly faster than) g for any period of time" is an amateur oversimplification of a far more complex problem.
In other words, it is EXACTLY the sort of oversimplification that gets presented to high school & college kids in elementary physics classes.
And it is exactly the sort of oversimplification that frequently falls on its face in "the real world".
THAT is the big picture. Along with the fact that there are a bunch of people who have "high school" understanding of the principles involved, along with typical teenage overestimation of the depth of their understanding.
Please try to get it.
There are NO competent structural engineers in the truth movement. Zero.
There are a small number (~30) in AE911T.
Who have done ... nothing. How many analyses have they contributed to? Zero.
They claim to be highly concerned with this issue. And yet, while (allegedly) possessing the knowledge & understanding to unravel the biggest, most evil conspiracy in history, they sit on their collective butts.
Are they lazy? Are they that amoral?
They leave it to architects (who don't know dick about building collapse), physicists (ditto), professors of philosophy of religion, etc.
Here, mathematicians (Maybe. V won't tell me what his credentials are.)
It is the cornerstone of the whole truther nonsense.
Amateurs producing simplistic, amateurish nonsense lapped up by amateurs.
That professionals immediately recognize as incompetent.
But it sure do impress folks like V. Whose self-image as "a smart guy" and background in math forces him to THINK that he now has expertise in engineering. So he joins the ranks of proselytizing amateurs.
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To the details of WTC7 north wall fall ...
There are a several ways in which a single point of the north wall could APPEAR to be falling at, or faster than, "g" for a brief period, while it not being true.
There are several ways in which a single point of the north wall could REALLY be falling at, or faster than g, for a brief period.
But the most important thing is: the interpretation that this is impossible, improbable or even unlikely is utterly wrong. And the interpretation that it proves some sort of demolition is dirt dumb.
And is the direct result of amateur, incompetent interpretations of the data.
If you want, I'll explain in more detail later. No more time right now.
Tom
Posted by: at July 29, 2010 4:25 PM
Vronsky: "When you pose under the name of another poster you desert your right to be included in the conversation. Bye."
LMAO.
Apparently you missed the "tomk asked me to pass this on for him" @ angrysoba at July 29, 2010 12:24 PM.
Sure, V. THAT is the reason that you're running away from discussion.
It's got NOTHING at all to do with the fact that you've been shown to be a pompous blowhard, spewing crap...
Sure thing, V, I'm certain that you've convinced everyone...
LoL.
tom
Posted by: at July 29, 2010 4:32 PM
Tomk,
I'm glad you've got the URL thing sorted. Yes, the 'moderation' message is just an unchanged default, I believe.
Tomk,
Vronsky,
please stop fighting. It produces much heat and little light. The "You're a shill" / "Truthers are dumb" argument illuminates nothing interesting.
Tomk,
I'd appreciate further details about WTC7 "North wall", quotes as there are views from different sides and it does look like a remarkably symmetrical collapse, very sudden, complete and neat. Of course, we're all familiar with seeing buildings do that, but not without plenty of planning.
Question; was the observed collapse of WTC7 consistent (non-exclusively) with demolition, ie is demolition a *possible* explanation for what we see on video in your opinion?
I object a bit to your earlier assertion that (only?) stupid people identify themselves on the Internet. I post a link specifically to identify myself and enable private contact, and I don't regard this as stupid behaviour. Of course there are plenty of people far more intelligent than me who are identifiable and contactable on the 'net. I think that better 'net identification would encourage more honest and intelligent discussion. But then, I'm an 'Open Source' sort of person - so of course I think NIST should have published their models. Or did they, eventually?
Posted by: Clark at July 29, 2010 5:28 PM
Tomk,
'Spherical cow' is funny - I'll be using that. The first video is lousy; shaky camera, glass almost invisible, and slow motion would have helped. I assume that the glass is glued to the falling board.
The second video is just beautiful; monochrome, piano music, slow motion. Gravity's Rainbow (have you read it?). It isn't a surprise, but thanks anyway.
Posted by: Clark at July 29, 2010 7:18 PM
Force diagram.
.............V
...=========
........................A
"V" = gravity,
"A" = support from fulcrum.
The dots are needed as spaces are stripped from the start of lines. ASCII art is not ideal for diagrams; layout will vary with different font settings.
Posted by: Clark at July 29, 2010 7:48 PM
Yep, looked OK in preview, ruler too short once posted.
Posted by: Clark at July 29, 2010 7:49 PM
Why doesn't Obama blow the lid on 911? Why doesn't Wikileaks blow the lid on 911?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at July 29, 2010 9:05 PM
Clark: "Tomk, Vronsky, please stop fighting."
Clark,
V said a bunch of things that were wrong.
He was wrong at the start. He was wrong in the middle, and he is wrong at the end.
I proved that he was (& is) wrong, with both theory & video evidence. V continues to deny what he saw with his own eyes, invoking some sort of demonic "friction".
With his incompetence embellished with a bunch of snarky insults. It's all VERY amusing.
But the word "fighting" implies an ongoing contest of some sort.
LoL, there's no fighting going on.
BTW, if V apologizes, he'll find me very forgiving & conciliatory. If not, well, that's OK too.
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Look, what he said was not stupid. It is a very common over-simplification. Before I saw that demo in a physics class, I thought the same thing. But, unlike V, the instant I saw the video, I understood what was going on, and why. Because I do understand the underlying principles.
So THAT was not V's stupidity. It was his a priori decision that anyone who disagrees with him is wrong, stupid or a poser. Even tho he is the person that is shoveling crap outside of his field.
Just out of curiosity, since V refuses to answer me, do any of you know what exactly IS V's field? What does he do? I promise to not call anyone a liar...
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Clark: "... it does look like a remarkably symmetrical collapse,
Tom: It HAS to be symmetrical. That just means that it falls more or less straight down. In exactly the direction that gravity pulls it.
"into it's own footprint..." Because that is exactly where you put the "footprint" of a tall building. If you put it anywhere else, the building falls over.
In order for it not to be symmetrical, it would have to tip to the side.
There is no way to get a building, with that large a footprint, supported by a lattice structure whose load bearing columns extends to the periphery (the external columns, far from the "neutral axis of bending") to tip more than a couple of degrees without the external columns buckling & the building collapsing.
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Clark: "... very sudden, complete and neat. "
Tom: Typical of all "constant load buckling failures". When they go, they go "right now!"
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Clark: "... Of course, we're all familiar with seeing buildings do that, but not without plenty of planning. ..."
Tom: It does not matter that you've seen CD'd buildings fall like this. Standing people who get shot, fall down. That does not mean that everyone who falls down has been shot!
What WOULD be a pertinent observation is if you could point to a similar building, approximately same area / height ratio (although this has to be analyzed carefully, with knowledge, see "Buckingham Pi-Theorem"), lattice structural support, that was hit with some massive damage of some sort & fell to the side.
Again, do you know the two mechanical conditions that have to be met in order for something to tip over? Neither one could POSSIBLY have been met by the towers or WTC7. This is trivial stuff...
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Clark: "... Question; was the observed collapse of WTC7 consistent (non-exclusively) with demolition, ie is demolition a *possible* explanation for what we see on video in your opinion? ..."
Tom: Absolutely impossible.
I KNOW that sounds arrogant for me to say. At least give me an opportunity to explain before you write my statement off. This is too long. I'll get to it in my next post.
Tom
PS. Regarding revealing your identity on the internet...
I do not think that "only stupid people" do that. I think that people who don't carry responsibility for others have that luxury.
You made your choice. You should be proud of the one you made.
When I was younger, I'd have done the same. When I'm older, I'll do the same. I don't have that luxury right now, for reasons that I don't need to explain to anyone. My words & arguments establish my credibility. If that's not good enough, TS Eliot.
BTW, I've already had my crazy truther stalker. I don't need any more.
Posted by: tomk at July 29, 2010 9:38 PM
"please stop fighting"
Apologies if you were annoyed. Although my posts were nominally addressed to tomk, they're actually intended for other readers - I don't delude myself that tomk is amenable to any sort of argument. In general, my posts here are concerned to expose the best (in my opinion) evidence of an inside job. If I occasionally seem to be responding to a tomk or someone similar, that is merely a rhetorical device: I want you to read the links and form your own conclusions.
It seemed important to me to quickly identify tomk as a charlatan before people started scratching their heads and wondering about things falling with acceleration greater than g. I hope my explanation is clear. If your physics is rusty, the Wiki entry on standard gravity is useful.
For tomk, I'll repeat the quote from David Chandler: your argument is not with me, it is with Isaac Newton.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 29, 2010 10:26 PM
Tomk,
I looked up "Buckinghan pi theorem" but it looks pretty general; perhaps you can explain the relevance. You mentioned buildings that fall to the side; well, there are the ones near the end of this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/physicsandreason#p/u/3/ww8hBFNY8jk
I'm sorry to learn of your "crazy truther stalker". One of the reasons I've stayed away from this sort of argument is the way it seems so quickly to degenerate into abuse with people taking sides. I'd rather people treated each other like people, so I like to include some simple human chat, such as my question to you about Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
Awaiting your "absolutely impossible" post with interest. Meanwhile, it's a good time of year to see shooting stars. It's the peak of the Delta Aquarids, the Perseids peak on August 12th, and three minor showers peak in between, so if the sky is clear it's worth keeping a look out.
Posted by: Clark at July 30, 2010 1:46 AM
Hello Tom,
Your wager was, if I recall, along the following lines:
---start quote
You say that an object that is dropped can not fall with an acceleration greater than "g".
I'm telling you that you're wrong about that. No tricks. No wind. No magnets. No nothing.
An object is simply put on a support, the support is removed and the object allowed to fall.
And it falls at an acceleration that is provably greater than g.
---end quote
But the objects in question did not fall freely - in the first case the whole object
was not falling, one end of it was being allowed to drop, so you achieve a whip effect.
One can imagine it more easily if they thought of a very long rod - the centre of
gravity would fall at about g (with turning friction at the grounded end, air
resistance etc. slowing it a little). So the free end would have to move more rapidly
than the CoG, to the same extent that the grounded end moves that much less than the CoG.
In the second, we saw an object (the ruler) rotating in flight. Noting that one end
was momentarily dropping faster than the other is a rather trivial observation.
*
Not sure what all that was about, and why you brought it up in the first place, unless
it was another famous smoke-blowing exercise. And Lord knows, there has been plenty
of smoke blown, instead of seeing the completely obvious - the Official Story in
virtually every respect is a hollow joke.
Good of your pet stooge AngrySober to pass on your various insults, please pat him
on the head for me. Don't you guys get irritated at his licking your hand, and
nuzzling against your shins all the time?
Posted by: glenn at July 30, 2010 1:57 AM
Glenn,
that wasn't Angrysoba; see above. Yes, I was disappointed by the punchline of Tomk's wager. I have to say though, the second one is a lovely video.
Posted by: Clark at July 30, 2010 2:21 AM
Hi Clark: I was thinking more of AS's tone while dealing with his supporting of
Official Accounts (generally, not just with "inside job" day), in contrast to that
of his knee-jerk approach to sceptics. I posted about this on "July 16, 2010 3:23 AM".
I know it wasn't all AS posting immediately above, but he's been _most_
facilitating to these guys, which is fair enough, but not if one is presenting
themself as entirely impartial in the meantime.
Maybe that was Tom pretending to post as AS above, with all these trolls around
it's hard to tell these days, and he was just trying to get his post through.
All the same, my surmising of AS and his lickspittle approach to those pumping
the Official Line stands.
*
Hi Tom: If you're still about, may I please suggest you stop jumping to unkind
conclusions. You've already denounced me twice, first for posts that were made
by someone else, and second for being a person who is currently living "on in
blissful ignorance" for not seeing your posts because "the moderators" (there
are none) apparently don't like… oh well, fill in the rest yourself. Sheesh,
and you lot have the nerve to call "truthers" paranoid :)
The unprompted personal insults you made at me and the entire blog were for
entirely unforced errors on your part, because of silly mistakes and
assumptions you've made. I do not believe I have been impolite to you once.
Is this the way you generally collect your evidence and reach conclusions?
Posted by: glenn at July 30, 2010 3:11 AM
Hi there! Just to clear a few things up, the last two messages that were from me were all Tom’s words. He asked if I would post them as he thought he was banned. I explained that I didn’t think that was the case as no one has ever been successfully banned from Craig Murray’s blog but the number of links may have sent his posts to moderation which is why I chopped the comment into two parts.
Glenn, I can see you’re repeatedly attempting to gain sympathy by crying foul play but there are three things worth bearing in mind:
1. If you post anything on a public forum I presume they are free to be seen by anyone at all. If you wanted your comments to remain private you wouldn’t have posted them on the bloody Internet. You constantly asked for people to address your post about conservation of momentum so I merely allowed more people to see it. You should be happy.
2. I told you repeatedly that I am not an engineer and don’t have the competence to explain to you how the towers fell down. I do think that you are highly mistaken about the way it fell down. I have never seen anything in the videos of the collapses that look remotely like explosions yet they should be visible to the naked eye if, as you say, steel girders were being blown out of the towers with the aid of explosives. Further there is no audio evidence of explosions on the videos consistent with a controlled demolition. Even further, no building in the world has EVER been demolished by explosive controlled demolition in the manner that the twin towers fell down. You won’t find anything that looks remotely similar.
3. Your mood swings are becoming quite tedious. At least Vronsky is consistently smug, abusive, supercilious, and sanctimonious. You, on the other hand, veer from appeals to chat in a respectful manner to accusations that I’m some kind of sycophant for my New World Order overlords while pretending to be impartial.
I have never claimed to be “impartial” if what you mean by that is “undecided”. I made up my mind a long time ago and think that almost all Truther questions have been definitively answered. The point is that I don’t think that just because there are some things I can’t personally explain that I have to forever suspend judgment and have to consider it just as or more likely that there is a vast government conspiracy to demolish the Twin Towers under the pretence that hijacked planes flew into them.
I find it weird that the most stubbornly believed aspects of the conspiracy theory are the daftest ones of all.
Almost nobody seems to believe the comparatively mild conspiracy theory that maybe the Bush administration knew the attacks would happen but did nothing to stop them (the ole FDR knew Pearl Harbor was going to happen eye-roller) but instead you believe that crashing planes into the Twin Towers wasn’t enough for the Bush administration and that they decided to embellish it with the most absurd schemes to have the towers brought down by explosives that would be impervious to the plane impacts and the resulting fireballs and would then detonate soundlessly but with incredible force hurling girders “across half of Manhattan”. This would apparently completely dupe the fire department, hundreds of whom were killed in the attacks, who wouldn’t notice the explosives going off (All those witnesses of explosions/explosives are “quote-mined” deliberately, by the way) and would assume that the “impossible” scenario of a steel-framed high-rise was perfectly plausible (i.e according to Glenn, Vronsky and DRG they wouldn’t know their job).
Unless you believe, as Richard Gage does, that the explosives were indeed audible and that all video recordings of the “controlled demolitions” were then scrubbed by the compliant media of the whole world (and presumably compliant citizens all over Manhattan and in fact everybody who witnessed the attacks).
Further, it would assume, that there is a vast conspiracy within world academia who have chosen to accept the impossible scenario that the collapses defied the conservation of momentum and essentially (for the sake of the Bush administrations plans to build pipelines in Afghanistan or something) to have allowed the fields of structural engineering, physics and architecture to have been perverted by producing fraudulent reports that future engineers and architects might use despite the baloney within its pages. In other words, they’re either all paid off despite the numerous peer-reviewed articles that assume or accept the towers fell from the impacts and fires or else they’re all ignorant of the science in their field and have been shown up to be shilling for the Bush administration (who aren’t even in office anymore, by the way) by David Chandler, High School Teacher, Vronsky, educated in a Scottish High School, and Glenn, Man on the Internet.
Glenn, your theory is this: “The Towers couldn’t have collapsed without the aid of explosives. The ‘official story’ of a fire and impact induced collapse breaks the law of conservation of momentum and is therefore not possible”.
Perhaps you mistakenly believe that in simply repeating this mantra and refusing to provide any more substance to your theory you are being parsimonious, a quality usually considered to be a good one in science and philosophy, but I have just listed a number of corollaries of your theory that I think do need to be addressed otherwise I am left with this dilemma, either Glenn and a few other amateurs have, with simple high school physics, exposed the world’s most elaborate conspiracy that all of the world’s engineering, firefighting, controlled demolition and scientific experts have been complicit in or given tacit acceptance to and which has been covered up by the world’s media not just in the US and the UK but also from Teheran to Timbuktu and every country’s government (including those of Russia, North Korea and Syria) or else Glenn and a few other amateurs have misapplied their high school physics.
Posted by: angrysoba at July 30, 2010 8:20 AM
@angrysoba
Mmm - over 1,000 words. What's your motivation? If Truthers are all mere witless fools, why not just ignore us? If the official account of 9/11 is true, then it can never be proved false. So why are you so exercised? Why not just walk away?
So tomk is known to you, and you collaborate on your postings here? Interesting.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 30, 2010 9:59 AM
A second way in which an object can fall with an acceleration "faster than g":
I attach a "link" (say a length of rope) to one object (say your ankle) and the other end to another object (say a large boat anchor).
Starting with both objects on the roof of a building, I toss the boat anchor over the side. The anchor falls for many feet until the rope goes taut.
Now, this whole SYSTEM is operating under Newton's laws. The SYSTEM falls with an acceleration equal to, or slightly less than, g.
However, if I were to just watch your body alone when the rope went taut, your body WILL accelerate faster than g.
ANY situation in which one body is attached to another body, one body is dropped first and you track the height versus time profile of ONLY the second body, can produce accelerations greater than "g" OF THE SECOND BODY ONLY. The more massive the first body is compared to the second body, the larger this effect will be.
The system (both bodies) does not accelerate faster than "g".
Now, use a little imagination.
Replace the rope with links that can rotate. While they are rotating, you may be able to resist the pull of the anchor. Until they rotated into an almost vertical position.
Replace your body with a facade wall.
Replace the anchor with a really massive building that you (aka, Mr. Chandler) cannot see, which you cannot track, because it is falling behind the facade wall.
Now, was the first body (the structure of the whole building) attached to the second body (the facade wall)? Yup.
Was the first body more massive than the second body? Yup.
DId the first body start to fall earlier than the second body? (Do you remember the east & west penthouses?) Yup.
I'll give you, in successive posts, a couple of additional ways that "a body" can really accelerate "faster than g". In all of these cases, the whole system cannot fall faster than "g". And so THE SYSTEM obey the limitations of Newton's laws.
But, without violating Newton's laws, PARTS of the system CAN accelerate faster than "g".
But Mr. Chandler did not measure the position vs. time profile of the whole system. He measured it 1) for only one point on the roof and 2) for only one point on that PORTION OF THE ENTIRE SYSTEM the he could see: the facade.
So, in conclusion, V, I do NOT have any disagreement with ole Isaac. I have a better, more complete understanding of what he REALLY said about real world objects. It is you, Mr. Chandler and other truthers who are reducing the real world to "spherical cows".
Posted by: tomk at July 30, 2010 10:47 AM
Tomk,
you can't post diagrams here, but you can post links to them. Or you can e-mail them to me, and I'll put them on my web-space and post a link. You can set up a single-use e-mail address in case you're worried I might be a "crazy truther stalker"; gmx.com don't ask any questions.
Hey, I didn't enjoy imagining being yanked from a building by a falling anchor tied to my ankle! Have you read Gravity's Rainbow?
Posted by: Clark at July 30, 2010 11:16 AM
@tomk
If you rephrase your claim to read "it is possible to move downward with an acceleration greater than g" then that is quite clearly true, and I have no objection - but you can't call it 'falling'. Remember the definition of 'falling': moving under the influence of gravity only. The connection between the anchor and the person on the roof is the rope, which is elastic. Once the rope tightens, it will begin to stretch because of the inertia (another Newtonian idea) of the person standing on the roof - he will not move immediately - instantaneous achievement of the velocity of the falling anchor is not possible. So when he begins to move it is partly because of gravity, partly because of the contraction of the rope back to its original dimensions. If there were some way to connect the person to the anchor inelastically, then they are effectively part of the same body (that could almost be a definition of 'part of the same body') and will both fall at g - but of course both would have commenced to fall at the same time.
It's interesting to consider the counter-intuitive consequences of an inelastic but flexible chain (no idea what that would look like) between anchor and man: when the inelastic chain became taut, the anchor would momentarily stop falling, even though it were many times heavier than the man (and not a spherical cow in sight).
You can verify all of this very easily at home. Take a piece of elastic about a foot long and attach one end to something fairly heavy - say your copy of 'Atlas Shrugged'. Take the other end and draw it very slowly away from the book. Initially the book will not move, but once the tension in the elastic reaches a certain level the book will suddenly move very sharply towards your hand - much faster than you ever moved your hand. It should be clear that two forces are acting on the book - the pull from your hand, and the contraction of the elastic. The elastic is storing the force from your hand, then cashing it in all at once.
As I have earlier mentioned, your argument is in any case self-defeating. If you suggest a rate of descent faster than g, you merely place the official account in even greater difficulty: for what was the force additional to gravity that was acting upon those parts of the structure exhibiting an acceleration greater than g? If you have empirical evidence of any parts of the structure behaving in this way, I'm sure Richard Gage would love to hear from you.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 30, 2010 11:45 AM
@ Glenn
You're still not understanding what you are seeing. Look again after reading this.
___
Your wager was, if I recall, along the following lines:
---start quote
You say that an object that is dropped can not fall with an acceleration greater than "g".
I'm telling you that you're wrong about that. No tricks. No wind. No magnets. No nothing.
An object is simply put on a support, the support is removed and the object allowed to fall.
And it falls at an acceleration that is provably greater than g.
---end quote
tom: Yes, that was the wager. Good, you quoted me. Much more reliable.
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[Note: I'm going to answer this one first. It's more important.]
Glenn: In the second [video], we saw an object (the ruler) rotating in flight. Noting that one end was momentarily dropping faster than the other is a rather trivial observation.
Tom: You're missing the CRITICAL point, Glenn.
It is not important that the free end of the ruler is dropping faster than the fixed end.
It is important that the free end of the ruler is dropping faster than THE WASHERS, which ARE in free fall, and are, therefore, dropping with an acceleration equal to "g". And yet the free end of the ruler is dropping FASTER than they are.
This whole SYSTEM (just a ruler) is dropping only under the influence of gravity. There are no tricks, no magnets, no wind, etd. The free end of the ruler is "a thing". That thing is dropping with an acceleration greater than "g", as proven by the fact that the washers, which are dropping at "g" are being left behind.
And, at the same time, the system is not violating Newton's laws.
Just as I promised.
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Glenn: But the objects in question did not fall freely - in the first case the whole object was not falling, one end of it was being allowed to drop, so you achieve a whip effect.
tom: Wrong. There is no "whip" effect. The effect does NOT depend on any flexing within the ruler. In fact, the stiffer the ruler, the more pronounced the effect will be initially.
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Glenn: One can imagine it more easily if they thought of a very long rod - the centre of gravity would fall at about g (with turning friction at the grounded end, air resistance etc. slowing it a little). So the free end would have to move more rapidly than the CoG, to the same extent that the grounded end moves that much less than the CoG.
tom: Close. Not quite.
1. It doesn't have to be "a very long rod". The rod shown is plenty long enough. Strobe photography would have helped the visualization.
2. There is no "turning friction". There is virtually zero friction in this entire system. A point pivot, the rotation point, has very, very little friction associated with it. And the effect does not depend in any way on that friction. In fact, if you reduced that friction to zero, you would (ever so slightly) INCREASE the effect. That is, have the free end fall slightly faster.
The CoG of this system (the glass & ruler) is not a the midpoint of the ruler, but closer to the glass. The ruler rotates about the CG. If ø is the rotational velocity of the ruler at any instant, then the speed of the glass end will be ø(r2/r1), where r2 = the distance from the CG & the glass end, and r1 = distance from CG to pivot end. And r2 < r1. So you can see that the glass end rotates slower than the pivot end.
This "free end dropping faster than g" effect gets more pronounced when the CG moves closer to the pivot end.
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Glenn: Not sure what all that was about, and why you brought it up in the first place, unless it was another famous smoke-blowing exercise. And Lord knows, there has been plenty of smoke blown, instead of seeing the completely obvious - the Official Story in virtually every respect is a hollow joke.
tomk: Please. Everything that I bring up will have a direct bearing on the issues.
It is a cornerstone of Chandler's nonsense that "if the wall falls at, or greater than, "g", then "something is fishy", and "it must be a demolition".
I am showing you that the limitation "cannot fall at or faster than g" applies only to the CG of a system. Not to the individual parts of a linked system. I showed you a second way in which this could happen in the posting I just made. I'll show you two more ways in which that can happen.
ALL of these ways can play a role in the collapse of the north wall of the WTC7.
ALL of them emerge as soon as you realize that "the collapse of the north wall" was NOT the same thing as "the collapse of the building". The north wall was merely the external, visible PORTION of the building. And we know that the building itself had begun to collapse several seconds before the collapse of the external wall.
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Glenn: Good of your pet stooge AngrySober to pass on your various insults, please pat him
on the head for me. Don't you guys get irritated at his licking your hand, and
nuzzling against your shins all the time?
Tom: And the insults begin again...? I thought we were going to stay above that?
Posted by: tomk at July 30, 2010 11:51 AM
“@angrysoba
Mmm - over 1,000 words. What's your motivation? If Truthers are all mere witless fools, why not just ignore us? If the official account of 9/11 is true, then it can never be proved false. So why are you so exercised? Why not just walk away?
So tomk is known to you, and you collaborate on your postings here? Interesting. “
Of course, Vronsky, it’s a big conspiracy (haven’t you heard) and I’m part of it. So instead of us sending out a hit team to get rid of the Jedi Knights fighting against the Galactic Empire I’m debating with you on a dead thread on Craig Murray's blog.
Of course, that proves the Conspiracy.
And if I didn’t reply to you, that would prove the conspiracy too.
Posted by: angrysoba at July 30, 2010 11:58 AM
@ glenn,
Glenn: If you're still about, may I please suggest you stop jumping to unkind conclusions.
Tom: Agreed. In all areas of human interaction (EXCEPT science & engineering), "kind" trumps "right". (In fact, it is not lost on me that people who think that they are always right are seriously annoying. And the only ones more annoying than them are the very rare people that ARE always right.)
But, when it comes to using motorcycles, planes, bridges, heart valves, etc., "nice" and "unkind" have no place in the conversation.
I'll take the ones designed by competent jerks over those designed by incompetent nice guys every day of the week.
___
Glenn: You've already denounced me twice, first for posts that were made by someone else,
Tomk: If you wish to be fair about the situation, I invite you to reread my first post to you. It was utterly polite. (at July 22, 2010 6:26 PM)
I invite you to re-read V's first reply to me, which I did mistakenly think was from you. It was nothing but snark. Including (without provocation) his assertion that I "am not an engineer", and a bunch of his prejudices about "JREFers".
When drolinin mentioned (at July 25, 2010 6:28 PM) that the first reply was from V, I realized my mistake. And you'll note that I made it my very first order of business to apologized to you. (at July 25, 2010 11:02 PM)
___
Glenn: and second for being a person who is currently living "on in blissful ignorance" for not seeing your posts because "the moderators" (there are none) apparently don't like… oh well, fill in the rest yourself. Sheesh, and you lot have the nerve to call "truthers" paranoid :)
tomk: Sorry that you didn't like the phraseology, Glenn. Unfortunately, it's absolutely true.
There are two meanings of the word "ignorance": one ("unaware of") is not a pejorative.
The other ("stubbornly stupid") is.
When you & Vronsky were unaware of the ability of a free end of a ruler to fall faster than the washers on top, this was a non-pejorative "ignorance". There is nothing to be embarrassed about in the slightest. We all have massive parts of the world about which we are totally ignorant.
But when the evidence is laid at your feet, brought to you, shown to you, and explained to you, and you STILL refuse to acknowledge what you've seen with your own eyes, well, then you're starting to move into the second kind of ignorance.
When you dismiss the knowledge, experience and judgment of real, recognized, proven experts, and instead embrace & advocate the contrary views of a bunch of abject amateurs, even when you have been shown that these amateurs make one blatant, inexcusable, fatal (to their crackpot theories) mistake after another, then you have leaped into the deep end of the ignorant pool.
If you are an intellectually honest person, I am encouraging you to get out of that pool and to join the ranks of the TRULY "think for yourself" crowd. If you are intellectually dishonest, I don't give a rat's butt if you drown there. It's entirely up to you.
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Glenn: I do not believe I have been impolite to you once.
Tomk: True. Right up to the "lap dog" comments.
And I have been intellectually hard, challenging on you. You might come to realize that being intellectually DEMANDING is the "kindest" thing that I could possibly do for you.
Tom
Posted by: tomk at July 30, 2010 1:18 PM
Glenn,
Vronsky,
would you two please apologise to Tomk and be more careful not to upset him in future? I'm still waiting for the answers to my questions, and it seems that I'm not going to get any unless you're both mega polite!
Posted by: Clark at July 30, 2010 4:16 PM
Hello Tom,
There seems to be some major misunderstanding here. Nowhere did I dispute that
this demonstration with a ruler shows that a part of an object can indeed fall
with an acceleration greater than g, I'm saying (in far fewer words) that it's
very obvious that it can.
For some reason, you keep going over a point I've agreed with, as if I was
somehow disputing it. Same with Vronsky, actually.
And no, I wasn't missing the point about the coins at all. If they are freely
sitting on a ruler which is rotating as well as falling (as in the second
video), then of course they will tend to lift off it, because they are not
descending with the same acceleration.
I'm lost as to why you want to keep discussing it, and claiming that I (and
Vronsky) am "still not understanding what you are seeing". I understand it
perfectly!
Posted by: glenn at July 30, 2010 4:26 PM
Hello Clark - why would Tom need an apology for me? I have not insulted
him in the slightest. Why should it offend Tom, just because I noticed
AS is toadying up to his bunch all the time?
Posted by: glenn at July 30, 2010 4:31 PM
"Why should it offend Tom, just because I noticed
AS is toadying up to his bunch all the time?"
It'S A CONsPIRaCY!!!11!@*1
http://tinyurl.com/nj92fa
Posted by: angrysoba at July 30, 2010 4:53 PM
@tomk
I'm awfully sorry if I upset you, and I do apologise.
Now please answer Clark's question before he gets really angry with me.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 30, 2010 5:29 PM
Glenn,
it doesn't matter why, just butter him up a bit so he'll answers me!
Vronsky,
thanks. I've stopped gnashing my teeth now.
Posted by: Clark at July 30, 2010 6:18 PM
ok, Clark, if you insist.
Tom : Sorry teach', I shouldn't have been insulting towards your pet stooge.
Although, I do wish we could get past this topic of falling rods, if you
read carefully, you'll find I had not actually disputed the point at all.
I often found in school that teachers would use the red pen at the start
of a sentence, because they hadn't bothered reading the whole thing. Then
because they'd bust up the structure of the sentence, the end would now be
incorrect, and even more red pen was applied. If they'd just left it alone
there would be no red pen needed, it was fine in the first place, just not
quite meeting their preconception of what was being said.
For instance, I didn't say a longer rod would be needed (for the first
experiment), I said it could _more easily_ be visualised with one. You turn
around and say, No, NO! A longer rod is NOT necessary because…. etc..
I mentioned the friction & air resistance just for the sake of completeness,
just in case you jumped on that, and you think that was an objection I
was raising! And so on throughout your entire reply.
The point stands, though, that free-falling objects do not fall faster
than, err, free-fall. Which is what Vronsky was saying all along. These
demonstrations are not about free-falling objects.
Posted by: glenn at July 30, 2010 6:44 PM
Why doesn't Obama blow the lid on 911? Why doesn't Wikileaks blow the lid on 911?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at July 30, 2010 7:09 PM
Nano-thermite took down the WTC?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RNyaoYR3y0
Posted by: at July 30, 2010 7:38 PM
The demo with the glass and ball demonstrates nothing about g - you have been hoodwinked by the caption on the video.
The glass is fixed to the bar, while the ball is not. The rotation of the bar carries the glass out beneath the ball, which simply falls vertically from its initial position. It is perched just high enough (on what looks like a golf tee) to give the glass time to rotate underneath it. The glass describes an arc down to the bench, the ball falls vertically down into it. No mystery, nothing 'falling faster than g'.
Here is a diagram to show what happens - it's quite unexciting. You're right about one thing, though - a strobe photo would reveal the simple mechanics of the trick.
tinyurl.com/2vy6bj4
Posted by: Vronsky at July 30, 2010 8:28 PM
Vronsky,
I'll leap in here, hopefully faster than Tom, and point out that the diagram doesn't quite match the video, in that the diagramatic ball is a bit higher with respect to the glass than the video shows, and that the glass does accelerate faster than g, but the center of mass of the glass/board system does not. If you agree fast enough, we may skip another lecture and get onto :
1) the relevance of buckingham-pi
2) why demolition is impossible from the WTC7 videos, and
3) has Tom read Gravity's Rainbow?
Posted by: Clark at July 30, 2010 8:45 PM
I think 'Larry' has developed a fault.
Posted by: Clark at July 30, 2010 8:47 PM
Agreed. I exaggerated the placing of the ball to show that it was adjusted so that the trick would work - it is calibrated to take the same time to fall as the glass takes to be rotated to the horizontal by the falling bar. The glass is being moved by the lever mechanism of the falling bar: it is not falling freely.
1) I can't see the relevance of Buckingham Pi either;
2) I don't know how something can be impossible when we've all seen it several times; and
3) No, I haven't read Gravity's Rainbow. Should I?
But it's bedtime.
Posted by: Vronsky at July 30, 2010 10:09 PM
Vronsky,
I've read Gravity's Rainbow twice. Weird book, highly recommended. It's about causality reversal, the development of the V2 rocket, and the pavlovian conditioning of an octopus. Sort of.
LOX = liquid oxygen...
"There was a technician named Slater
Who slept with the LOX generator
His balls and his prick
Froze solid real quick
And his asshole a little bit later"
http://zork.net/fortunes/rocket-limericks
Goodnight.
Posted by: Clark at July 30, 2010 10:20 PM
You guys are quite the team of comedians, ain'tcha?
Clark: "Glenn, Vronsky, would you two please apologise to Tomk and be more careful not to upset him in future? ... it seems that I'm not going to get any [answers] unless you're both mega polite!"
tomk: You won't get any answers with thinly veiled suggestions of petulance. Sorry, I've got a business to operate. I'll get to your stuff as I can.
I've already got several posts to Glenn that I couldn't get to post (when I didn't understand about the url limit.) Each of them has several urls to engineering sites in them, so that you can check what I assert for yourself.
Clark, your question (on WTC7) is next.
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@ Glenn: at July 30, 2010 4:26 PM
Glenn: Nowhere did I dispute that this demonstration with a ruler shows that a part of an object can indeed fall with an acceleration greater than g, I'm saying (in far fewer words) that it's very obvious that it can.
tom: Great. You understand.
But wait...
at July 30, 2010 6:44 PM
Glenn: The point stands, though, that free-falling objects do not fall faster than, err, free-fall. Which is what Vronsky was saying all along. These demonstrations are not about free-falling objects.
tomk: Back to the beginning. PARTS of a free falling object can fall faster than "g". The CG of a free falling object falls at, or below, "g".
And, no, it's not what V was saying. V STILL doesn't get it. His last post, that I'll reply to momentarily, proves it.
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@ V
V: "The demo with the glass and ball demonstrates nothing about g - you have been hoodwinked by the caption on the video.
The glass is fixed to the bar, while the ball is not. The rotation of the bar carries the glass out beneath the ball, which simply falls vertically from its initial position. It is perched just high enough (on what looks like a golf tee) to give the glass time to rotate underneath it. The glass describes an arc down to the bench, the ball falls vertically down into it. No mystery, nothing 'falling faster than g'.
tomk: Wrong. Wrong, completely utterly laughably, incompetently Wrong.
[See, Glenn. Told you so. V doesn't get it at all.]
[Clark, I just saw your comment too. Good. At least you have the ability to open your eyes & learn. That appears to be a talent beyond V's capabilities.]
The entire purpose of that demo is to show EXACTLY the point that I made.
The ball does NOT start higher than the glass. It starts slightly below the lip of the glass.
The ruler with the glass attached does EXACTLY what the ruler with the coins
Now, tell me what you really do for a living. C'mon. This ain't quite as embarrassing as the glaring error you made in your last post. But it does make me think that you "Supersize" things for a living.
Now I've got to answer Clark...
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 30, 2010 11:33 PM
Clark,
I lied to you. I'm not going to answer your question...
... in this post. There's something that I need to say in preface to your answer.
But I promise that my next reply will be to your question.
Before I get to that question, I want to say that, from a mechanical engineering point of view, there is nothing (AT THIS POINT) the bit slightest mysterious, inexplicable or even surprising about the collapse of the towers or WTC7. Or the Pentagon.
IMO, an honest engineer could not have said whether or not he expected them to collapse prior to the collapse of WTC2 on 9/11. I certainly could not. I thought that it was in danger. I had no expectation as to whether or not it might collapse. But when it did, I was not at all shocked by it. (From an engineering, not personal, POV, obviously.)
Once WTC2 collapsed, I then expected that WTC1 would collapse also.
And I was not at all surprised when WTC7 collapsed.
The comment about WTC1 showed my experience. The comment about WTC7 showed my ignorance, because it ultimately surprised everyone.
I did not know, at the time, what were the specific causes for any of the collapses. I had precisely zero doubt that it was directly related to the planes flying into the building for the towers & to the physical damage & fire for WTC7.
But this is a crucial point. ANYBODY who says "I knew as soon as I saw them collapse that the cause was [fill in anything here]" is an incompetent. And most likely a politically motivated fool.
Especially if they are engineers who said it.
The ONLY thing that a competent professional says at that point is "let's wait to see what the investigation shows".
Now, there are a bunch of structural engineers, who have worked on skyscrapers, who have thought about this, have looked at several of the various issues, who have a solid "feel" for the magnitudes of causes & effects, who could without question offer very useful insight right off the bat.
Zdenek Bazant, Charles Thornton, Matthys Levy, Gene Corley, and (perhaps most of all) Leslie Robertson.
But even those guys would - and did - say early on that they were speculating. It's called "educated guesswork". Well, after a short while, their early guesswork was pretty well confirmed ... with some adjustments. No surprise there.
Very few people realized, early on, the damage done to the insulation by the plane, for example. It just didn't occur to many.
And anyone who tells you that they knew, early on, why WTC7 fell is a liar or a crackpot. NOBODY knew. They had to put that one on hold until they had the manpower to look at it in fine detail.
In the event of a plane crash, a bridge collapse, a building collapse, any complex event, ONLY amateurs guess. All the pros say, let's wait until the experts have examined the evidence."
I did not know the sequence of events that led to those collapses. I had precisely zero doubt that the engineers examining the evidence would be able to piece together what went wrong. I've seen how they work up, close & personal. I've had to perform two of them in my career, one for Boeing/NASA & one for the FDA.
It is VERY instructive to me that the vast majority of the bios of the engineers over at AE911T have the author saying "I knew as soon as I saw those buildings collapse that it was a controlled demolition."
That demonstrates nothing but their amateurishness (& political axes to grind), IMHO.
But circling around to my original point, now that the studies are done & published, there is not a single SIGNIFICANT point regarding any aspect of the collapse of the buildings, the flying of the planes, etc. that is unreasonable.
Tom
Sorry, Clark, I lied to you. First I had to do this one. Now I'll wri te you.
Right after I have some dinner.
The only viable way to bring down a building with that synchronicity
No sound.
Posted by: tomk at July 30, 2010 11:39 PM
Clark,
No, I haven't read Gravity's Rainbow.
Thomas Pynchon, wasn't it?
I remember that it was extremely popular when I was in college, but I was way too busy at the time.
What connection does any of this have to that story??
Posted by: at July 30, 2010 11:55 PM
Hello Tom,
please pardon the "petulance" - more like impatience, really, as I did sit through n posts about falling rulers, and thought I wasn't going to get a reply.
Judging from the time you have dinner, you're in the US. I'm in the UK, and off to bed now, so I'll look forward to your post tomorrow.
Goodnight.
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 12:01 AM
Anon,
Gravity's Rainbow is the parabola, the path taken by an object falling freely in a gravitational field. Like a rocket, after fuel cutoff (gone ballistic). Yes, Pynchon. Oh, and Tom cited a mathematical joke, and there's a good one in that book.
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 12:06 AM
And shooting stars. They make Gravity's Rainbows, too. Good time of year for shooting stars, so keep your eyes on the skies.
Goodnight.
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 12:08 AM
Hello Tom,
You said:
----start quote
@ Glenn: at July 30, 2010 4:26 PM
Glenn: Nowhere did I dispute that this demonstration with a ruler shows that a part
of an object can indeed fall with an acceleration greater than g, I'm saying (in far
fewer words) that it's very obvious that it can.
tom: Great. You understand.
But wait...
at July 30, 2010 6:44 PM
Glenn: The point stands, though, that free-falling objects do not fall faster than,
err, free-fall. Which is what Vronsky was saying all along. These demonstrations are
not about free-falling objects.
tomk: Back to the beginning. PARTS of a free falling object can fall faster than "g".
The CG of a free falling object falls at, or below, "g".
And, no, it's not what V was saying. V STILL doesn't get it. His last post, that I'll
reply to momentarily, proves it.
___end quote
Hmmm. Hmmm. I've got a nasty feeling that you deliberately misinterpret, quite
egregiously, in order to affect a disappointed air in your correspondent. Whether
this is to impress the audience or yourself I couldn't say. That's why you always
revert to this schoolmaster type role, and pretend your "student" has yet again
failed to understand.
It's actually your good self who STILL doesn't get it. We're all very much clued
into the difference between a genuinely free-falling object, and what you thought
was a very clever display that might well impress a class of 13 year olds. No
"But wait…" about it. We weren't very impressed, but now you want to believe
that's because we don't understand. I've asked a number of times if we might
please move on, but you appear to be stuck here. Probably because this is more
comfortable.
*
You go on at length with straw men such as "And anyone who tells you that they
knew, early on, why WTC7 fell is a liar or a crackpot." That's fine. Anyone here
say that? But you go on to say, "I had precisely zero doubt that the engineers
examining the evidence would be able to piece together what went wrong."
Now there, we are in more agreement. But whereas a trusting, wide-eyed child
would believe every single word the government or daddy had to say, many grown-ups
- myself included - are a lot less gullible. If you don't understand the process
by which governments, and powers that be, get the conclusions or results they want,
then you understand very little about how the big system works.
Maybe you don't understand how credible sources are silenced, undermined, ignored,
told to sit down and shut up or be ruined at best if they do not. How do you
think so many 'experts' got such airtime and government ear-time, when they
pontificated on these mighty WMDs that Iraq had, no question about it? These
were experienced people, after all, experts in their field. Knew the subject
inside out. Only fools and amateurs would doubt them. And any other plaudits
you heap upon your fellow true-believers, and contempt upon those who do not
immediately agree.
You said:
---start
When you dismiss the knowledge, experience and judgment of real, recognized,
proven experts, and instead embrace & advocate the contrary views of a bunch
of abject amateurs, even when you have been shown that these amateurs make one
blatant, inexcusable, fatal (to their crackpot theories) mistake after another,
then you have leaped into the deep end of the ignorant pool.
---end
And how do they become such lauded individuals? Ah yes, by agreeing with the
Powers That Be. Just as the experts assured that of course Iraq WMD, and only
fools and knaves would say otherwise. By definition.
Oh my! How do we trust you "experts", when you all pull the same stunt of
telling us to always, always, trust the Official Story and self-declared
experts, but move on Real Quick when it's shown to be a total bunch of lies,
that just happen to be very convenient at the time?
Posted by: glenn at July 31, 2010 2:18 AM
Terminal velocities
-------------------
We all know that there is a terminal velocity for falling objects.
That is the point at which maximum speed is reached, when resistance
to the object (wind resistance, etc.) becomes equal to the force
propelling it. In free-fall in the Earth's atmosphere, we achieve
terminal velocity when the force of gravity equals the upward force
of wind resistance.
Likewise, when one drops an object through a fluid there will be a
terminal velocity. It is likely to be much lower, because a far
smaller speed will generate enough resistance to achieve this
equilibrium through a medium vastly more viscous than air.
This leads me to wonder what the terminal velocity would be for a
building falling through its own structure. In this rather interesting
case, we have not just a viscous medium, but an extensive tethered
structure of interconnected steel framework and concrete which will
act as a formidable resistance which progressively increases, in the
case of the twin towers. This is akin to a medium becoming
progressively more dense the further one descends.
One might think - should they be entirely untrained and ignorant -
that such a structure would impose a significant restriction when
compared with air. But no, experts will assure us that such structures
will not arrest a falling body, not reach a steady speed at best, and
in fact the integrated effect of a fall through the structure will not
noticeably impede the progress. Not at all. It will not reach terminal
velocity, and the acceleration will largely be that of an object dropped
from the sky.
What would be the terminal velocity of such an event, given a
building of sufficient height to achieve such a thing? Tom - I
look forward to your reply. Please bring on plenty of science this
time, I don't want to hear any more appeals to authority.
Posted by: glenn at July 31, 2010 2:55 AM
@ Clark,
Finally... here ya go.
The reason WTC7 (or the towers) could not possibly have been a demolition.
First, THE BIG PICTURE.
Learning to look at The Big Picture is crucial. You guys get all knotted up in details.
Details are also crucial. But details, by themselves, are pretty much useless. They must fit into a bigger picture.
And in any complex event, there will always be a couple of pieces that seem to not fit. The reason for that is not that "they don't fit". The reason is "there is some piece of info that you don't know. And may never know."
By good analogy, you've put together a giant jig-saw puzzle. You've got it 99% complete, and it a picture of a beautiful tall ship, sailing into some exquisite blue lagoon around Bora-Bora.
But you've got 3 pieces of the puzzle that are flaming pink. And there is no flaming pink anywhere in your big picture.
Now which is more likely:
A. You disassemble the whole puzzle, start over, and end up with an image of OBL in TORA-Bora?
B. Someone at the factory mixed up a couple of pieces.
You may THINK that I'm blowing smoke here. I am not. I am serious as a heart attack.
You MUST look at the big picture. Starting over on the puzzle is not going to get you any other picture than the ship in the lagoon. Finding any anomaly in WTC7 is not going to unravel the encyclopedia that is the rest of the 9/11 investigations.
My Big Picture of why WTC7 could not be a demolition:
1. I SAW what happened. I saw planes fly into buildings. Giant explosions. Huge fires. Buildings collapse. Giant buildings fall on much smaller (but still very fragile) other impossibly tall, narrow building, fires break out, burn for 7 hours without fire fighting efforts, building progressively lean over the course of several hours, then building collapse.
My fundamental problem is that I have a working, functional brain. I can NOT bring myself to suggest that all of the above was unrelated to the collapse, and that it was really demolition charges that dunnit.
Well, I can do it, but I immediately start pointing fingers at myself & making fun of me. And I don't like that.
2. How WTC7 fits in with the rest of the events of 9/11. On BOTH the official side & the truther side.
If it were only WTC7 that we were discussing, then the evidence (in the detail picture below) is still compelling, but much lighter. But I look at the totality of the 9/11 story and I find:
The "official side" was put together by 10s of thousands of competent professionals who did their respective jobs.
And this point is ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL: all those professionals who contributed were experts who were working within their respective fields of expertise.
Contrast this with the truther side. Particle physicists, water quality inspectors, naval insurance claims adjusters, professors of philosophy of religion, a couple kids from Orange County ... all trying to do structural engineering or controlled demolitions analysis. And failing miserably.
The official story holds together, not perfect but rock solid, from every aspect in my field of expertise. And there's nothing in the other fields that strikes me as the slightest bit tenuous.
Perhaps you guys would list for me the 3 or 4 MOST compelling arguments that prove to you that (??) whatever. (3 or 4 only please. The scattershot approach proves a lack of substance.)
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Detailed Picture
Simplest observation: No cut columns. End of story.
3. No cut columns = no demolition.
The columns broke exactly where they were manufactured: at their ends. The connections snapped. Bolts & small welds. The columns didn't fold in half or snap. (A tiny percent did, of course, by being caught in the crush down.
There is absolutely zero way that they could have hidden the cuts, the charges, all the associated equipment from the bomb sniffing dogs (cross trained rescue dogs), the engineers on the site, and the engineers at Fresh Kills.
4. No sounds = no explosions.
Explosives are the ONLY POSSIBLE WAY to execute a CD on a building like that. You can NOT do it slowly (aka, thermite, which would take about 3 minutes to cut thru one column, even if someone could figure out how to cut a vertical one. Which they have not figured out how to do.)
You have to heat, melt, remove a BUNCH of metal, & you have to do it in milliseconds. That means explosives. Not lasers, not chemicals, not thermite, not termites. Explosives.
And explosives go "Boom".
5. The "anomalies" are baseless.
Please try to hear, listen & understand what I am saying.
All those videos that you guys love to pour over, that you think show the collapse of WTC7... they do NOT show "the collapse of WTC7".
They show "the collapse of WTC7 north & west facades".
They show the collapse of what are essentially a 600' tall x 300' wide x (3' - 15' thick, depending on local damage) wall, with a whole bunch of really heavy, falling debris hanging off of the side that you can't see.
For a brief period of time, the EXTERNAL WALL of the building DID come down at NEAR free fall acceleration. Did you catch all of that?
1. Brief period of time. About 2 seconds. Things in free fall experience "g" ALL the time.
2. Exterior wall. NOT "the building".
3. Near free fall.
If THE BUILDING had really fallen "at free fall", meaning collapsed in about 6.5 seconds, then that would have been suspicious & called for a detailed explanation.
The building did not take 6.5 seconds to collapse. Or 7 seconds, or 8, or 10, 12, 14, 16 or 18 seconds to collapse.
THE BUILDING took about 20 seconds to collapse.
There is no mystery here.
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No mystery, except how you guys can piss away the better part of a decade giving each other amateurish, incompetent reach-arounds. And convincing yourselves that you are the only moral, ethical, honorable fart-smellers on the planet.
This pretty much summarizes my "Big Picture", Clark.
tom
Posted by: at July 31, 2010 2:56 PM
@ Glenn,
Thanks for this post, Glenn. It is enlightening.
It shows the TRUE basis of all of your objections: politics and a scorching case of Angry Young Man Syndrome.
Sorry, kid. None of those things amount to chickenshit in a cow pasture, when it comes to engineering.
Engineers & scientists are NOT politicians, lawyers, political appointees, or sycophants. You got your head firmly placed up your keister on that score.
ALL established engineers would take any political hack or lawyer, who asked them to falsify their results on something as significant the events of 9/11, and 1. beat them about the head & shoulder, 2. call the press & report exactly what happened.
The NIST group were NOT political hacks, or lawyers, or appointees. They were first rate engineers from NIST, academia & industry.
You do NOT attain their stature by kissing up to anybody. You get there by being right, by being competent.
No established engineer is going to put their name on an engineering report that they KNOW is going to be examined by other professional engineers and engineering students for decades with a fine-tooth comb. Your fraud wouldn't last 30 days.
And the NIST report HAS been examined, in detail, by thousands of competent professional engineers and engineering students. And it has held up just fine.
I'll ignore the temper-tantrum stuff.
With one comment. I do not deliberately misinterpret. You are sloppy with your choice of words. You write one thing, then say you meant something different.
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Glenn: "You go on at length with straw men such as "And anyone who tells you that they knew, early on, why WTC7 fell is a liar or a crackpot." That's fine. Anyone here say that?"
tom: It was not a straw-man. You are not the only one who gets to bring up topics. MY topic was the issue of "non-experts who jump to conclusions."
Apparently you missed my point. Almost all of the "engineers" at AE911T DID say exactly that. I invite you to go check for yourself.
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Glenn: "But whereas a trusting, wide-eyed child would believe every single word the government or daddy had to say, many grown-ups - myself included - are a lot less gullible. If you don't understand the process by which governments, and powers that be, get the conclusions or results they want, then you understand very little about how the big system works."
tom: And sophomoric arguments will reduce the world to simplistic Manachaen dualities, including "daddy" metaphors.
Meanwhile revealing far more about your own personality than you should.
NOBODY strong-arms a scientist or engineer into fraud. A tiny percent choose to take that path. Anyone attempting to force anyone, ESPECIALLY on a topic as huge, as signirficant,
We are ALL independent cusses. The wimps fall by the way-side.
Some political flunky tried to tell the earth scientists at NASA what they could say about Global Warming a few years ago. Did you follow that story?
The flunky was gone, the scientist stayed, and the White House issued an apology.
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Glenn: "Maybe you don't understand how credible sources are silenced, undermined, ignored, told to sit down and shut up or be ruined at best if they do not. How do you think so many 'experts' got such airtime and government ear-time, when they pontificated on these mighty WMDs that Iraq had, no question about it? These were experienced people, after all, experts in their field. Knew the subject inside out. Only fools and amateurs would doubt them. And any other plaudits you heap upon your fellow true-believers, and contempt upon those who do not immediately agree."
tom: ... ahhh, politics again. Silly me. I thought that we were discussing engineering.
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Glenn: "And how do they become such lauded individuals? Ah yes, by agreeing with the
Powers That Be. Just as the experts assured that of course Iraq WMD, and only
fools and knaves would say otherwise. By definition."
tom: Yeah, sure, kid. Conservative structural engineering calculations versus Liberal structural engineering calculations. That's how to get a building to stand up, an airplane to fly or a bridge built.
Sure, kid. That's how you gain respect & stature in the engineering field. Be a political suck-up...?!! That's what we all admire....
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Glenn: "Oh my! How do we trust you "experts", when you all pull the same stunt of telling us to always, always, trust the Official Story and self-declared experts, but move on Real Quick when it's shown to be a total bunch of lies, that just happen to be very convenient at the time?"
tom: You seem to be confusing politics with engineering, kid. Best take a step back and try to see the difference.
Can you answer one question for me. How old are you?
Tom
Posted by: tomk at July 31, 2010 4:22 PM
"You seem to be confusing politics with engineering, kid. Best take a step back and try to see the difference. Can you answer one question for me. How old are you?"
You seem to be confusing ageism with engineering, tomk.
Gone again. Busy.
Posted by: dreoilin at July 31, 2010 5:08 PM
Hello Tom.
I'm rather disappointed that you're apparently lumping me in with 'truthers', and that you have chosen to write to me as if I'm a bit stupid. If you don't like this sort of discussion, don't do it - simple! No one is twisting your arm, are they?
A while back you wrote: "And I was not at all surprised when WTC7 collapsed... [which] showed my ignorance, because it ultimately surprised everyone". I'd be interested to know how WTC7 surprised you.
You also started some tantalizing technical arguments that you haven't returned to. I'd be interested to read the rest of those, though I'm not a structural engineer, so please explain technical terms - I do math... eventually.
But if you don't wish to proceed, that's OK by me too.
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 5:34 PM
dreoilin,
dreoilin: "You seem to be confusing ageism with engineering, tomk."
It ain't "ageism".
I don't care if he's 98 years old with great-grandkids. Or 15 years old.
His attitude (everyone in any position of power is evil, a coward or sell-out) is emblematic of a petulant 15 year-old with a stereotypical case of Angry Young Man Syndrome.
And that EARNS one, anyone, any age, the title "kid".
tom
Posted by: at July 31, 2010 5:41 PM
Tom,
You wrote, "Conservative structural engineering calculations versus Liberal structural engineering calculations..."
Now don't I seem to remember that Challenger was lost because management applied pressure to accept the lesser of two safety margin estimates for SRB O-rings? I do think you're being a bit overly black-and-white. Or should I call that 'spherical cow'?
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 5:42 PM
"One might think - should they be entirely untrained and ignorant -
that such a structure would impose a significant restriction when
compared with air."
The calculation is here:
http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/W7Kuttler.pdf
WTC 7: A short computation
Kenneth L. Kuttler
Professor of Mathematics
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
Introduction
I provide a short computation, focused on World Trade Center building 7. Based on very favorable
assumptions for achieving a fast fall, including ignoring resistance due to intact steel columns, I could only get
the building to fall in about 8.3 seconds, whereas the observed roof-fall time is approximately 6.5 seconds.
The problem is the large number of floors and conservation of momentum in a collision. Some of the “official”
explanations about progressive collapse are evocative but they do not explain the difficulty in the rapid fall of
the building along with what is evidently taking place when the video of the falling building is observed.
Posted by: at July 31, 2010 6:13 PM
Clark,
I haven't lumped you in with anyone. I apologize if I gave you that impression.
Everyone is an individual.
WTC7 surprised everyone. Because everyone expected that the collapse was due to the physical damage from WTC1 falling on it.
That was not the cause.
People also expected that the oil stored in the diesel tanks contributed to the fires. They did not. Virtually all the oil was accounted for & removed during the clean up.
WTC7 surprised everyone to such a degree that they had to set the analysis aside. Because it became clear that their original theories just did not hold up to scrutiny.
And you guys (collectively, not you, Clark) are CRAZY if you think that you guys have put in 1/100th the (competent) scrutiny that the NIST engineers put in, before they released their reports, attacking their own conclusions. This is a standard part of any failure analysis. It happens at every single step along the way. And then it happens formally before any report is released to the public.
These guys are professionals. Highly visible, well known professionals. Any engineering error, no matter how trivial, can NOT be hidden. An engineering student finds it, holds it up to the text book references, and the kids a hero, and the professionals all look like idiots. On the biggest, most embarrassing stage in the world.
The way you prevent that is to have hard, vicious, rip each other's hearts out critiques of each others' work. It's a blood bath. I've been in those meetings. I've run those meetings. It's a challenge to keep some junk-yard dog personalities away from each others' throats.
Back to WTC7...
The fact is that few modern buildings have collapsed just due to fire.
This is because engineers understand well what fire does to steel. If you really want to understand, read the "Analysis" portion carefully here:
http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/CaseStudy/HistoricFires/BuildingFires/default.htm
If you read it carefully, you will find out that EVERY uninsulated column buckled (and most collapsed). EVERY insulated column did not buckle & survived.
In the very same fire. Do you understand what that means to the (laughable) argument "fire doesn't harm steel".
It is a source of constant amusement to me when people bring up the Windsor Towers as "proof" that no building has collapsed from fire alone.
So engineers protect building supports with:
1. Insulation, which just buys you time. Usually about 1-2 hours, to clear the building & bring in some firefighters. See url below. Insulation is NOT a barrier (on its own) to collapse. Necessary. Not sufficient.
2. Sprinklers: The most useful technique: stop the fire before it grows. Useless on 9/11. Little water (just what was in the tanks on the roof. That ran out quickly, and no refilling, because the street mains were severed by the collapse of WTC 1&2. If the water mains had not been broken, the building would likely still be standing.
Look here Fig 2 at what fire temps are (http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/CaseStudy/steelComposite/default.htm)
With sprinklers, fire temps barely get above room temp. It's an astonishing difference.
3. Active fire fighting. Which was unavailable for WTC7 on 9/11.
But the failure mode was NOT obvious. And ultimately they found a serious design flaw in the building. One that would NOT have brought it down if the usual fire fighting efforts were available. But, in their absence, did bring it down.
And, like many of this type of disaster, it wasn't one thing. It was a combination of things. The extra long horizontal supports. The poorly chosen end plate anchoring. The asymmetric loading on the one lateral beam. And differential thermal expansion between steel & concrete that fractured the concrete around the studs. Leading to loss of stability of the column, which then propagated thru the building.
It is a sad fact of the engineering business that we learn 100x more about the weaknesses in our designs every time a plane crashes than every 100x that it lands safely. You find the weak points in your design. We found a weak point, one that only appears when the water is unavailable to fight the fire, with WTC7. Buildings built from 2005 on (when the weakness was discovered) will not have this weakness.
In fact, it's far, far faster to build things with safety factors LESS THAN 1, take them out & break them, fix the part that broke and repeat the process, than it is to build it with design factors GREATER THAN 1, and try to start paring back the material that you don't need.
During WWII, we needed fighter planes fast. We couldn't afford to run a "safe" program, or the war would have been over before the first one was delivered. The bottom of Long Island Sound & the Channel Islands (off of LA) are littered with the remains of planes & test pilots who contributed to that painful learning curve.
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 31, 2010 6:33 PM
Clark,
tomk wrote: "Conservative structural engineering calculations versus Liberal structural engineering calculations..."
Sorry, sarcasm doesn't travel well in this medium. There are no "politically based engineering calculations". There is no toggle bit in your FEA materials database for "Republican administration" or "Democrat administration" that changes the material properties.
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Clark: Now don't I seem to remember that Challenger was lost because management applied pressure to accept the lesser of two safety margin estimates for SRB O-rings? I do think you're being a bit overly black-and-white. Or should I call that 'spherical cow'?
tomk: The Challenger was lost for 1000 reasons. Only a few of them (but some really, really important ones) appeared on that cold January day.
The principle failure before then were the failure of NASA to listen to the warnings of their own engineers who dismantled the SRBs and found repeated incidents of "blow by", around the O-rings.
Because several accountants & project managers (NOT engineers) looked at what it would do to budgets & schedules to have to re-engineer the SRBs.
Plus, you had launched many missions before and "gotten away with it". That makes it hard to convince management.
Like many accidents, it was the confluence of several factors that produced the disaster. If only a few had been different, then it likely would not have happened.
But if it had not happened with Challenger, then it is likely that it would have happened with a later flight. Until the issue got fixed.
There were probably about 100 similar issues with the early shuttles. Issues that all the engineers kept their fingers crossed each flight. When the Challenger happened, a boat load of them got fixed, and a bunch of engineers slept well for the first time in their careers.
The principle cause of the procedural failure that happened that day is that one of the NASA managers massively violated the spirit & letter of NASA operations.
The rule that he turned on its head was one that NASA has had forever (before then, and especially after) that applies to all manned flight hardware: "Prove that it is safe!"
When MT engineers & management would not sign the launch release, the NASA engineer demanded "Prove to me that it is unsafe".
Think of all possible designs as something the size of a football field. About 3 square feet has been "proven" (as best you can, which is never 100%) to be safe. About 100 square feet you know for certain is unsafe. The other 10,000 square feet fall into the category of "not sure".
It's not possible to do at a conference table, 1 hour before launch. When the engineers would still not budge, the MT management asked them to step outside of the meeting. With the engineers out of the picture, the management signed the release & the rest is history.
As a direct result, a bunch of procedures got revised. I pretty sure that it is now a serious violation of NASA procedures to have the engineers excluded from engineering based decisions.
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 31, 2010 7:09 PM
Whose is this? Clark? Glenn?
"One might think - should they be entirely untrained and ignorant -
that such a structure would impose a significant restriction when
compared with air."
The calculation is here:
http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/W7Kuttler.pdf
WTC 7: A short computation
Kenneth L. Kuttler
Professor of Mathematics
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 31, 2010 7:11 PM
Tom,
thank you for at last getting to the crux of this matter. Appreciated. No time now; I'll read your links later.
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 7:23 PM
Tom,
sorry, not me. Some people insist on posting anonymously. There is no moderation here, no registration required; it's remarkable that it stays as civilised as it does. That said, some decent posters do get abused; see the latest post, where some idiots are 'impersonating' Suhayl Saadi.
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 7:26 PM
Oops,
I didn't quite finish the "football field shuttle design" analogy.
Under NASA's rules, if it hasn't been proven safe, it doesn't fly. That means that the things in the 10,000 square feet do not get to fly.
The project manager, who said "prove that it is unsafe" decided on his own that anything in the 10,000 square feet (every thing that is not in the 100 square feet of "proven unsafe") gets to fly.
A very bad decision.
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 31, 2010 7:26 PM
Tom,
it probably isn't Glenn or Vronsky either, as they sign their names. Just pull it to bits or whatever.
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 7:29 PM
Tom,
I assume a typo in your 13th para of your 7:09 post; 'engineer' should read 'manager', right?
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 7:31 PM
To whomever posted Ken Kuttler paper reference:
I answered EXACTLY what Dr. Kuttler got wrong in his paper near the end of this post above:
@ July 31, 2010 2:56 PM
The other mistake that he made (the same as David Chandler, & plasma physicist Crockett Grabbe) is that they work in isolation. Not a structural engineer to be seen...
That is a huge mistake.
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 31, 2010 7:32 PM
Glenn,
"13th paragraph..."
Yeah, I do tend to go on a bit, don't I...?
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He was a project manager. Possibly (probably) got an engineering degree. But you are what you do NOW. By this time, he was a manager, not an engineer.
I know his name, but am loathe to repeat it.
I'd wager that that decision destroyed him psychologically, that he left NASA, etc.
I am sure that he thought that he was making a correct decision. I'm sure that nobody has heaped more recrimination on him that he has himself.
It's a shame all around. And he's at the top of the list of people that were crushed by this event.
There is only one type of person who never makes a mistake: one who never makes a decision.
And those guys are the first to jump up & down, demanding someone's head, when someone else makes one.
I'm not excusing him. I am especially not excusing the management at MT. Those guys get paid the big bucks to stand up to pressure.
The engineers did. The management didn't. They caved.
Oh, BTW, I am not saying that engineers don't make mistakes, are all perfect, wonderful, honorable, handsome, blah, blah, blah.
We've got the same spectrum of competent & incompetent, honest & crooked, etc. etc.
But the business has a SEVERE Darwinian filtering process. Those that make too many mistakes are shuttled out of the field. Many end up in management.
That's why the older ones are so friggin' valuable. They've survived the war.
If you get caught just one time being dishonest, you're likely to lose everything.
And the whole concept that any politician could threaten any engineer into signing off on a fraudulent report on any topic, much less one with the visibility of the NIST report, is laughable.
First off, 400 other engineers are going to know about it IMMEDIATELY. They've all contributed to the analysis. They all talk to each other about their results, their raw data, the postulates that have been dismissed, those that are still viable, which are the leading contenders, etc.
And every single one of them has read every word of the sections to which they contributed. Imagine what would happen if something that they said was "impossible" ended up as the "probable sequence of events".
One call to the NYTimes, and the whole jig is up. If they are dumb or timid, they do it anonymously. If the are smart, they give their name, become famous, appear on Oprah & every other talk show, write a book, get it turned into a movie, appear at the opening, join the talk circuit, bloviate about "honesty in engineering" (as tho they invented the concept), quadruple their salary and never have to work a 100 hour work week again.
That's the reality of "engineers succumbing to political pressure". PLEASE, some politician, come try to strong arm me into falsifying a significant public document.
I'd like to be able to stop working for a living, too...
tom
Posted by: tomk at July 31, 2010 7:59 PM
Tom,
I really appreciate your posts on WTC7, and also on Challenger. You seem very well informed on both. I have two questions:
1) How come you're so well informed? You don't claim to have been involved in these investigations, but you have been involved in others. Is that right?
2) Could you post a link to a decent description of the WTC7 collapse, please? Not too technical, if possible.
I have a further, more frivolous question; where were you going with buckingham-pi?
Tom, please have a bit more patience with the 'truthers'. As you've said yourself, WTC7 flummoxed everyone. I saw the videos of it coming down, and thought "What?". That doesn't mean I 'knew' it had been demolished, but it just didn't look 'normal', it felt wrong. And I suspect that there are still questions not answered.
There's still masses of suspicion about, paranoia in some cases. But what can we expect? We KNOW we're lied to regularly; Iraqi WMDs, extraordinary rendition, Afghani drug barons, etc. Once deception is established, we know that we can't tell where the boundaries are.
So WTC7 collapsed, and it wasn't until 2005 that the engineers knew why. In the meantime, the battle lines had been drawn, and suspicion had risen to record levels. Different people, most of whom respect the truth, find themselves on opposite 'sides' of the wrong argument.
Posted by: Clark at July 31, 2010 10:29 PM
Tom: What van I say? Wow. Wow! I am truly honoured, that is the
most hateful post I have received in quite some time, and you're up
against some pretty stiff competition.
I have to say, it says a lot more about you than anything about me.
But you are going to be disappointed, I regret to have to tell you,
because I'm not going to take on a role in the "Authoritative Parent
Vs Rebellious Child" game that you were clearly hoping for. Know those
games, sorry, and I ain't playing them.
Let me know when you've got something of substance to say, and you are
willing to take the adult-adult approach, calm down, and we'll carry
on. Hey, you can have your tantrum/bitter moment, I won't hold it
against you, nobody's perfect. I kindly offer that you stop playing
games and attempting to establish roles, and also quit this foolish over-
generalising, it really would up your game.
(Another free tip - look at who is posting before you address your reply.
You keep replying to the wrong person.)
Posted by: glenn at August 1, 2010 2:54 AM
Re: "I answered EXACTLY what Dr. Kuttler got wrong in his paper near the end of this post above: @ July 31, 2010 2:56 PM"
Kuttler got nothing wrong in calculating the effect of Newton's law of the conservation of momentum on the rate of collapse of Building 7. Furthermore, his calculation answers the question that prompted reference to it, i.e., the question raised by this comment:
"One might think - should they be entirely untrained and ignorant -
that such a structure would impose a significant restriction when
compared with air."
As for the claim that "For a brief period of time, the EXTERNAL WALL of the building DID come down at NEAR free fall acceleration"
This is incorrect. It was not merely the external wall of the building, but the roof line as shown in the analysis by David Chandler. This has been acknowledged by NIST. Free fall occurred for 2.25 seconds.
Posted by: at August 1, 2010 4:12 AM
Clark,
Clark: "How come you're so well informed? "
Tom: Two reasons. 1. I'm a geek. Thru & thru. (One of the adrenaline-junkie geeks.) 2. Much of this stuff is right down the middle of my profession. It's relatively effortless to absorb it.
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Clark: "You don't claim to have been involved in these investigations,"
Tom: Nope. Nothing at all to do with 9/11 or Challenger.
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Clark: "but you have been involved in others. Is that right?"
Tom: Yup, several. One of the things that I'm proud of is the range of products that I've invented and/or been in charge of. I've sent product to the bottom of the Marinanas Trench (70mm camera & strobe system), and to Jupiter (main power transfer switches for the shuttle & the Galileo IUS). And medical devices that I've invented (heart catheters & filters) have saved somewhere around 150,000 people lives.
And I've had to perform failure analyses, figure out what went wrong, do the analysis, document everything write the report & deliver the analysis to both Boeing/NASA & to the FDA in the US. That's where I grew up as an engineer.
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Clark: "Could you post a link to a decent description of the WTC7 collapse, please? Not too technical, if possible."
Tom: Absolutely. I'll give you the same advice that I give to everyone. On every subject. "If you really want to learn about something, there is only ONE place to go: the experts".
Ergo, the best reference by far: http://wtc.nist.gov/NCSTAR1/PDF/NCSTAR%201A.pdf
If you want details on the collapse mechanisms, go to NIST NCSTAR1-9 vol 2.
Both of these are very readable. Sit down with a cup of coffee, a couple of hours and follow along as to how first rate engineers do it.
Learn to use the Executive Summaries. That's what they are for: a quick, complete summary for people who don't have time for the details. When you read one of these, you have to decide whether you're going to accept their conclusions or you're going to fight them & try to catch them in a mistake.
Kids & amateurs fight them tooth & nail. They approach the whole exercise as a game. I can tell you something for certain: the guys that wrote it do NOT consider it trivial, or a game in any fashion whatsoever.
Every engineer involved knew for absolute certain that this was going to be the single most important report of their career. And that it would be poured over by other experts. And that, if they slipped up in the slightest, they'd look like idiots. It would embarrass the whole project, and humiliate them personally.
With this as a background, I strongly suggest you stop fighting. None of you guys are good enough to catch these guys in a mistake.
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Clark: "I have a further, more frivolous question; where were you going with buckingham-pi?"
Tom: The Buckingham π theorem is the foundation for one of the most powerful analysis techniques in all of engineering: Dimensional Analysis. With a little bit of knowledge & experience, you can sit down with a pencil & paper & come up with the defining equation for an enormous number of systems, simply by GUESSING at the factors that are involved & keeping track of the units of measure of each. The breadth & power of this technique are truly stunning. (This is most often used in fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, and it demonstrates the incredible usefulness of dimensionless parameters, such as Reynolds numbers, Nussult numbers, Prandl numbers, etc.)
Dimensional Analysis is also at the very core of the engineering science of "scaling", which is absolutely crucial for doing modeling.
Knowing about scaling & dimensional analysis will tell you immediately why this sort of stuff is utter nonsense:
By the way, if you want to learn something else that is fascinating, I'd highly recommend the following lecture series by Ryan Mackey:
This is the 3rd of 3 videos, but it starts right where Ryan begins talking about modeling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsDn6es7mtk
Mackey is first rate. I'd recommend listening to him carefully. He knows what he is talking about.
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Clark: "We KNOW we're lied to regularly; Iraqi WMDs"
Tom: You might find out that some of the folks lying to you are not who you think. In this particular case, I'd recommend that you check out two things:
The al Tuwaitha nuclear facility. No, not the above ground part. The multi-billion dollar facility that was built between 1990 & 2000 that was underground. The one that was never reported to the inspectors. The one that was never inspected. The one that was scorchingly "hot" (radioactively) when US soldiers found it.
The city of Sargat, and what was found there in 2003.
Clearly there was nowhere near what some people thought. It seems pretty clear to me that there was not "nothing" either.
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Clark: "As you've said yourself, WTC7 flummoxed everyone. I saw the videos of it coming down, and thought "What?". That doesn't mean I 'knew' it had been demolished, but it just didn't look 'normal', it felt wrong. And I suspect that there are still questions not answered."
Tom: Well, to anyone who knew about the fire fighters' transit info on the building, the collapse came as no surprise. Once they got into the details, there were some surprises. Once the data & info were picked apart, there is no significant objection or controversy within the structural engineering community.
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Clark: "Tom, please have a bit more patience with the 'truthers'."
Tom: I'll try.
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Clark: "So WTC7 collapsed, and it wasn't until 2005 that the engineers knew why. In the meantime, the battle lines had been drawn, and suspicion had risen to record levels. Different people, most of whom respect the truth, find themselves on opposite 'sides' of the wrong argument."
Tom: The reason I'm in this game is because I care about the young kids who are being exposed to what are clear to me, pernicious, vile & politically motivated lies. Lies about my country, my countrymen, my government, my military, my country's intelligence establishment, etc. etc. etc.
The kids are not the enemy. They are us. And they are our future. And I think they are worth the effort to try to get them the real facts of the situation.
Tom
Posted by: tomk at August 1, 2010 5:56 AM
"And the whole concept that any politician could threaten any engineer into signing off on a fraudulent report on any topic, much less one with the visibility of the NIST report, is laughable."
Logically, a single counter-example will do:
"Scientific American condemns restrictions on GM research"
tinyurl.com/2vjpdyf
(snip)
Research on genetically modified seeds is still published, of course. But only studies that the seed companies have approved ever see the light of a peer-reviewed journal. In a number of cases, experiments that had the implicit go-ahead from the seed company were later blocked from publication because the results were not flattering. "It is important to understand that it is not always simply a matter of blanket denial of all research requests, which is bad enough," wrote Elson J. Shields, an entomologist at Cornell University, in a letter to an official at the Environmental Protection Agency (the body tasked with regulating the environmental consequences of genetically modified crops), "but selective denials and permissions based on industry perceptions of how 'friendly' or 'hostile' a particular scientist may be toward [seed-enhancement] technology."
(snip)
Posted by: Vronsky at August 1, 2010 9:31 AM
@V,
V says:
"And the whole concept that any politician could threaten any engineer into signing off on a fraudulent report on any topic, much less one with the visibility of the NIST report, is laughable."
Logically, a single counter-example will do:
Followed by: [Story, PUBLISHED in SciAm, about 24 scientists who dropped a dime & have REVEALED what they believe are unethical practices on the part of several agri-corporations...]
Thank you for making my point, V.
Tom
PS. I have little use for lawyers in general. This is what they do: attempt to carve out an absurd, ridiculous, unreasonable concessions for their clients. If you think that these rules stop all research, done without the company's permission, you're nuts. It's one thing to write a EULA. It's another thing to have it ruled legal & enforceable in court. The software companies (amongst lots of others) have found that out the hard way.
PPS. "... a single counter example will do..." For people who live in childishly simple "black & white" worlds, I guess that's true.
PPPS. And for people with a adolescent black & white world view, I suppose that "they're trying to block open research on seeds" is somehow equivalent to "they murdered 3000 innocent people, lied to the nation & started a war". For EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 2,000 researchers who have contributed to the NIST report. And EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 100,000+ competent engineers & scientists who have read, and understand, the NIST report.
Not one of them has called the NY Times, the Washington Post, the London Times, Le Monde or Der Spiegel and revealed this generations version of "Watergate". And gone on to collect their Pulitzer Prize, world accolades as champion of truth ...
Sure thing. Whatever you say...
Must be nice... having the world so neatly & self-servingly divided into good guys & bad guys...
Posted by: tomk at August 1, 2010 1:19 PM
Tom,
you wrote: "Well, to anyone who knew about the fire fighters' transit info on the building, the collapse came as no surprise".
Well, I'm not technically experienced in building collapses. But such a sudden (onset), symmetrical and complete collapse does not seem to be the norm. Some claim it to be unique (unless we include demolition); maybe you know otherwise. In the common (rather than the technical) sense, this *sort* of collapse seems to be surprising.
There is only one more Shuttle mission left, isn't there? November. I've seen the ISS and a Shuttle in the sky at the same time, about two minutes apart. November will be my last chance to see them in close proximity. I watch Shuttle launches on the NASA website. The screens at Mission Control show the Shuttle passing over my location about 20 minutes after launch, I think, but its always been the wrong illumination or too cloudy for me to see it.
Tom, there are lies from ALL sides. It's not the Great and Good USA vs. a load of lies. Western companies sell distant lands dangerous technology, and Western governments consider this good for Western economies. Up to a point. Then Western companies sell Western governments weapons to go and destroy the same, along with a lot of collateral murder. I'm saying that there is wrong on ALL sides, but we live in (sometimes unresponsive) democracies, so it is our responsibility to restrict the excesses of our OWN nations.
Posted by: Clark at August 1, 2010 1:48 PM
Tom wrote:
"PS. I have little use for lawyers in general"
Strong agreement here. Did someone warn our Larry that Tom would be visiting? I'd much rather chat to Tom than Larry!
Posted by: Clark at August 1, 2010 1:54 PM
Tom,
I don't suppose you're planning on becoming a regular here. It's going to take me some time to read and think about the links you've posted, and you may be gone by then. How do I find you later?
Posted by: Clark at August 1, 2010 2:07 PM
anonymous at August 1, 2010 4:12 AM
anon says:
"Kuttler got nothing wrong in calculating the effect of Newton's law of the conservation of momentum on the rate of collapse of Building 7."
tomk: The easier question would be "did Dr. (?) Kuttler get anything right?" And the answer is, "Yeah, he solved his equations right." Unfortunately, this is one giant case of GIGO.
Let's look at his paper. I'll quote:
"Could this possibly happen as a result of pancaking floors collapsing from the top down? "
And he proceeds to calculate for a pancaking, top down collapse...
Pssst, doc. It was NOT a "pancaking, top down collapse."
A moment's glance at the video shows what appears to be (but is not) a bottom-up collapse. But going, for the moment, with the bottom up collapse, Kuttler starts calculating conservation of momentum, and its impact on velocity for a top down collapse.
For 12' fall heights at each story, free fall collapses occur at:
0.86, 1.22, 1.50, 1.73 ... seconds. Note that the time interval is getting shorter & shorter as the velocity increases.
The table below shows the drop, the duration, the speed, THE MOVING MASS (in units of "stories", i.e., the average mass/story), and the momentum of the MOVING MASS according to a top-down collapse.
Drop _____ time __ velocity ___ mass _____ momentum
(stories)__ (sec) __ (ft/sec) __ (stories) __ (stories x velocity)
1 _______ 0.86 _____ 28 _______ 1 ______ 28 x 1
And in his first collision, Dr. Kuttler has 1 floor strike one floor. Which means, in an inelastic collision (which he - reasonably - assumes) means that, in the first collision, the descending mass loses 1/2 of its velocity.
Or as he writes v_k+1 = (k/(k+1)) v_k with k=1 gives v2 = 0.5*v1
In other words, Dr. Kuttler figures the speed of the downward moving mass after the first impact at:
v2 = .5 * 28 ft/sec = 14 ft/sec.
Now, what we know APPEARED to happen (in Dr. Kuttler's world view) is that the building buckled, somewhere around the 7th floor. And collapsed from the 7th floor up. So, let's look at the momentum, if Dr. Kuttler had done his analysis at least consistent with it (mistaken) world view...
Note that, assuming the 7th floor buckled, then the first 6 collisions are crush downs of floors 6, 5, 4, ... etc. The next 40 collisions are crush ups of the 8th, 9th, 10th, etc. stories.
Drop _____ time __ velocity ___ mass _____ momentum
(stories)__ (sec) __ (ft/sec) __ (stories) __ (stories x velocity)
1 _______ 0.86 _____ 28 _______ 40 ______ 28 x 40
Notice any TEEENSY differences in the momentum calculations at each point?
And as a result of the first collision, the moving block now looses:
v2 = (40 stories)/(41 stories) v1 => v2 = 0.98 v1
A bottom up momentum analysis yields a speed of the downward moving mass after the first collision at:
v2 = 0.98 (28 ft/sec) = 27.3 ft/sec
Notice any teeensy differences in momentum loss from the collisions?
Notice any teeensy difference in the speed after the first collision?
Think that these speed differences might "disturb" Dr. Kuttler's calculations of the fall time?
Still think he "got nothing wrong"?
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All of the above is simple nonsense. The fact that he did his calculation for a top-down collapse is just plain sloppy.
The fact of the matter, as I pointed out above, is that these calculations are valid IF AND ONLY IF the floor mass is still there during the collapse. And, in the case of WTC7, the mass of the floors had LONG SINCE collapsed before the external walls ever began to descend. And was therefore irrelevant to the collapse of the outer facade wall.
The reality is that it took WTC7 about 20 seconds to collapse. Which negates his whole "there is something mysterious here" premise.
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The collapse was not "bottom up". It was (laughably) not "top down".
The collapse was a progressive one that started near column 79 (towards the north east corner) and progressed horizontally from that point in all directions, towards the outer walls.
If you bother to read the NIST reports, you'd find that a second collapse wave started (as a result of the collapse damage from WTC1) near the western edge of the building, spreading north, south & east, and the two collapse waves met just west of the center of the building.
Given the reality of the collapse, all of Dr. Kuttler's momentum calculations are meaningless garbage.
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anon wrote: "Furthermore, his calculation answers the question that prompted reference to it, i.e., the question raised by this comment:
"One might think - should they be entirely untrained and ignorant -
that such a structure would impose a significant restriction when
compared with air."
tomk: It did provide "significant (resistance?) compared to air". If there were no resistance, the building would have collapsed in 6.5 seconds. It took 20 seconds. That's a "significant resistance".
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anon wrote: "As for the claim that "For a brief period of time, the EXTERNAL WALL of the building DID come down at NEAR free fall acceleration"
This is incorrect. It was not merely the external wall of the building, but the roof line as shown in the analysis by David Chandler. This has been acknowledged by NIST. Free fall occurred for 2.25 seconds."
tomk: You'd do well to read Chandler & NISTs paper before making this sort of silly claim.
Candler did not say one word about the roof of the building. It is not possible to even SEE the roof from the video that Chandler analyzed. He tracked a point on the top external parapet. Not the roof.
But it is possible to see the roof from a different angle. Paradoxically, a lower angle. The "Camera 3" video that NIST analyzed looks up at the building from a low point to the northwest. And it is possible to see, after the east penthouse collapses, through the windows on the upper floors at the east end of the north wall ... that the roof is GONE. You can see the sky thru those windows.
Similarly, if you knew the first thing about structures, you'd realize that, in order for the east penthouse, screen wall & west penthouse to disappear like they did (without "accordion" buckling of their short walls), that the roof HAS to be gone behind the parapet.
Nice try with the thoughtless, truther parroting...
Time to do more than pay ironic lip-service to the concept of "think for yourself".
Tom
Posted by: tomk at August 1, 2010 4:29 PM
Tomk is a fount of incontinent tarradiddle.
But who wants to play silly buggers? Not me.
But it suits Craig Murray's blog: the tallest buildings in the world at the time and they didn't bother with bolts or welds. LOL
Posted by: at August 1, 2010 4:49 PM
Tom,
I looked at Kuttler, and couldn't be bothered with the math after I saw the reference to pancaking. Thanks for the analysis.
One thing bothers me, probably because I haven't read the NIST report yet:
"If you bother to read the NIST reports, you'd find that a second collapse wave started (as a result of the collapse damage from WTC1) near the western edge of the building, spreading north, south & east, and the two collapse waves met just west of the center of the building".
That sounds like a huge coincidence, unless, say, one collapse was very slow. Please expound.
Posted by: Clark at August 1, 2010 5:29 PM
Whatever about incontinent, tomk sure takes up a lot of space to make one or two points. His smugness is very irritating and puts me off concentrating on what he says. As if there were no first rate engineers in the UK or Ireland.
"Sit down with a cup of coffee, a couple of hours and follow along as to how first rate engineers do it."
No thanks, tom. I have one in the family. First rate and well travelled, having worked all over the world. He's retired now, and not well, but when I get a chance I'll discuss all this with him. I've never asked his opinion before.
I saw the WTC buildings collapse, live. I understood that WTC 1 and 2 were supposed to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet.
If they collapsed as they did, in that short a time, into the footprints they did, and they had no "help", perhaps it says little for the engineers involved in building them?
Tishman Realty & Construction was it? Do I have the right name?
I had wondered (occasionally) how anyone could set explosives or any "foreign matter" in those towers without being noticed or called to account. But I've just read this:
"Of the 110 stories, eight were set aside for technical services in mechanical floors Level B5/B6 (floors 7/8, 41/42, 75/76, and 108/109), which are four two-floor areas evenly spaced up the building."
Interesting. That was in both 1 and 2 was it?
Do you have any theories, tomk, on why the BBC reporter said live on TV that WTC 7 *had gone down* about 26 minutes before it actually did?
Posted by: dreoilin at August 1, 2010 7:36 PM
Clark,
Clark: "Well, I'm not technically experienced in building collapses. But such a sudden (onset), symmetrical and complete collapse does not seem to be the norm. Some claim it to be unique (unless we include demolition); maybe you know otherwise. In the common (rather than the technical) sense, this *sort* of collapse seems to be surprising."
tomk: Not surprising in the least.
I'll give you theory, and then the experiment that you can (easily) do yourself to produce a sudden, symmetrical & complete collapse. With fall thru a supporting structure that holds up the load, with a factor of safety of about 3. And the collapse will be thru the path of the previously supporting structure, virtually at free fall acceleration, into its own footprint.
And you can do it to impress your friends.
I'll assume that you're talking about WTC7 here.
"... sudden ..." It wasn't "sudden". It was going on for 13 seconds before the outer wall began to fall. The fact that something is out of sight doesn't mean that nothing is going on there.
What you are claiming as sudden is exactly analogous to some magician, holding up a black cape, and giving his patter to distract the audience, while behind the cape, his assistants remove the tiger from the cage & replace it with the scantily dressed lady...
... and the magician "suddenly" drops his cape, the scantily clad young lady steps out of the cage, and everyone in the audience thinks...
"... Wow, it was so sudden!"
It wasn't all that sudden. It was just the LAST thing that happened. The facade walls happened to be a black cape between us & all the stuff going on behind them.
But I will concede that ...
... after having several hundred tons of girders carve out a 20 story tall x 20' deep scar down the south face, 7 hours of burning, heating, dislodging of key beams from their end supports, collapse of multiple floors, destabilization of key columns from ground to roof, collapse of the east end of the roof, total progressive collapse of the core of the building that started near the east end (column 79), moved progressively west, destabilization of the western core near the 20 story scar that started a 2nd wave of collapse at the western core, which progressed towards the east just in time to meet the first collapse wave just west of the center of the building, meaning that the entire center of the building had already collapsed (or was in the late stages of collapsing) ...
... THEN the last stage, the fall of the north & west facade walls, WAS "sudden".
Now, how can that be? The wall "buckled". It buckled somewhere down low (where all the stress is, where all the debris was flying around and (in my opinion, very important) where you had all the "transfer girders" on the 5th - 7th floor. Look at the NIST report, NCSTAR1-9, vol 1. pg 30 (pdf pg 74), Fig 2-24.
See all those cross beams reaching out to the North wall? IMO, a real weak point.
Now, the most important concept of any that I've explained:
What characteristic of a building's support structure is most important to the integrity of the structure?
The strength of the columns? Nope.
The size of the columns? Nope.
What is most important, by far, is the GEOMETRY of the support structure.
Tall, thin columns will carry lots of load ONLY as long as the load is "axial", directed more or less straight down thru its central axis. Long, thin columns do not like bending moments.
Lose the geometry, lose the building.
So, relatively small, apparently delicate components can play an absolutely crucial role (WAY out of proportion to their apparent size) in maintaining the strength of a structure, if their job is to keep the "strength" members in their proper geometry.
You've seen this effect if you've ever put together an "do it yourself" bookshelf. You get thick strong side, top & bottom pieces & shelves. But the whole structure will not stand up on its own until you tack on that absurdly thin, pressed cardboard backing plate, with the tiny brads, that keeps the sides & top perpendicular. Without that backing panel, the whole thing forms a parallelogram and fall to the side.
Geometry.
And what you saw in the facade walls of WTC7 was a classic "loss of geometry" failure: a buckling failure.
When a tall think compression column is overloaded, it starts to bow. It'll resist greater loads while deflecting. However if loaded too much, it reaches a point of instability and suddenly buckles. And when it buckles, its strength goes almost (not quite, but almost) to zero. Now! Right now!
And when the bottom of a tall structure buckles, and its strength goes to "nearly zero", then the acceleration of the upper portion of the structure will go to "almost g".
The proof that it was not an explosion, rather that it was a typical, pedestrian buckling of a real piece of the building, lies in the 1.75 seconds "Stage 1", before the "Stage 2" ("near g" phase), as NIST defines them in NCSTAR1-9.
When a support holding up an object is "blown" with explosives, that is about the most instantaneous way for the support to be removed possible. For such an object, its velocity increases slowly, but it's acceleration jumps instantly to "g".
The wall of WTC7 did not act this way. It's acceleration increased gradually. This is the typical behavior of a mechanical support that is being overloaded, starts to flex to one side, and suddenly buckles.
And here's a perfect demonstration of this effect. You may have seen it before.
Someone puts their heel on the top of an empty coke or beer can, presses down with about 30 pounds of force. Then, bends over & with both middle fingers, ever so gently taps opposite sides of the can. Be sure to tap it & get your fingers out of the way.
The can INSTANTLY crushes. For all intents, your foot will go into free fall. The sides of the can can support the 30 pounds, with a good safety margin. Try stacking books on top of one. You can build up an impressive stack.
But it can support that weight ONLY as long as the sides stay vertical. Just as soon as the sides get the slightest bit out of vertical, the whole can folds up, & your foot descends, thru the path of most resistance, just as if the supports (which had supported your foot just fine, and would have supported the same weight for 30 years) were suddenly & completely gone.
A "sudden, symmetrical & complete collapse."
Thru the path of most resistance.
In near free fall.
Into its own footprint.
Just as requested.
Amazing? Well, impressive.
Controlled demolition? Nope.
Inside job? Well, you did do the whole demonstration. So, yeah.
Mysterious? Nope. Ordinary, plain vanilla mechanics.
Tom
Posted by: tomk at August 1, 2010 7:58 PM
Clark,
Clark: One thing bothers me, probably because I haven't read the NIST report yet:
tom: You're in for a treat. It's VERY readable.
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Clark: "If you bother to read the NIST reports, you'd find that a second collapse wave started (as a result of the collapse damage from WTC1) near the western edge of the building, spreading north, south & east, and the two collapse waves met just west of the center of the building".
That sounds like a huge coincidence, unless, say, one collapse was very slow. Please expound.
tom: No, not a coincidence at all. Just like the discussion of "progressive collapse" and the Challenger explosion, the two events were not independent of each other.
The first collapse wave CAUSED the second one.
No coincidence at all.
Tom
Posted by: tomk at August 1, 2010 8:03 PM
@ dreoilin,
dreolin: "... His smugness ..."
tomk: It ain't "smugness". It's being right. And being sure. That's what I'm paid to do, and this is my field. What do you expect?
"Well, 1 + 1 MIGHT BE 2... If nobody objects, of course."
Put on your big-girl panties, and grow a pair. (of ovaries, of course.)
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dreolin: "As if there were no first rate engineers in the UK or Ireland."
tomk: Your own drama queen interpretation. Nothing like that came out of anything but your own imagination. (Or hope...)
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dreolin: "I have one in the family. First rate and well travelled, having worked all over the world. He's retired now, and not well, but when I get a chance I'll discuss all this with him. I've never asked his opinion before."
tomk: Wow. Obviously seriously interested in the topic. Apparently a truther. An elder, accomplished engineer in the family. And NINE FRIGGIN' YEARS without a single discussion...
You truthers sure know how to isolate yourself from expertise...
Why don't you invite him to come here & post a comment or two. He will find me highly respectful & gracious.
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dreolin: "I understood that WTC 1 and 2 were supposed to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet."
tomk: Wrong. Pure urban myth. One that everyone on the project believed, tho. But I've got the experience & knowledge to understand that it was mythology. It could not possibly be true.
Ooops, was that "smug".
Probably. Who gives a rat's ass. It was also correct.
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dreolin: "If they collapsed as they did, in that short a time, into the footprints they did, and they had no "help", perhaps it says little for the engineers involved in building them?"
tomk: Perhaps you should make that comment to your (dad? granddad? uncle?) and get his response.
They designed the tallest building in the world, using slide rules & vellum, built it, on time, on budget, in the middle of downtown Manhattan, using brand new building techniques. And it did its job for 30 years, and that no building in the world (before 2005) is likely to withstand an impact like the ones on 9/11.
[And, yes, I know about the B25 & the ESB. About 1/30th the energy of 9/11, IIRC).
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dreolin: Tishman Realty & Construction was it? Do I have the right name?
tomk: Minoru Yamasaki designed it. John Skilling was principle engineer. Leslie Robertson was a young engineer who didn't even have his structural degree when he joined Skilling. Tishman was prime contractor.
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dreolin: "Of the 110 stories, eight were set aside for technical services in mechanical floors Level B5/B6 (floors 7/8, 41/42, 75/76, and 108/109), which are four two-floor areas evenly spaced up the building."
tomk: Those were the "mechancal floors". They are the ones that make up the 3 dark bands around the building when seen from the outside. Buildings need mechanical equipment. Elevators, generators, Air conditioning, etc. These floors were off limits to the public, and used regularly by the buildings' maintenance staff.
And, no, neither of the buildings collapses initiated at the mechanical floors.
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dreolin: "Do you have any theories, tomk, on why the BBC reporter said live on TV that WTC 7 *had gone down* about 26 minutes before it actually did?"
tomk: Jane Standley tell all about it herself. If you're interested, just google her name & learn all about it.
Something around 1/3 of everything you are told on TV is simply wrong. The people on air are reading what other people are telling them. The people getting the info in a crisis get bad info.
Part of the answer is that they knew for HOURS ahead of time that WTC7 was going to come down. If you know much about all of this, you ought to be familiar with how they knew that.
Now I'm going to go enjoy the rest of my weekend.
Posted by: tomk at August 1, 2010 8:33 PM
>"It ain't "smugness" ...Put on your big-girl panties, and grow a pair. (of ovaries, of course.)"
Grow the hell up, tom.
>"Your own drama queen interpretation. Nothing like that came out of anything but your own imagination. (Or hope...)"
Grow the hell up, again, tom. You've been pontificating as if you and your mates are the only engineers on the planet. You're not.
>"Wow. Obviously seriously interested in the topic. Apparently a truther. An elder, accomplished engineer in the family. And NINE FRIGGIN' YEARS without a single discussion...You truthers sure know how to isolate yourself from expertise..."
I take it you didn't read what I said to Vronsky July 28, 2010 5:00 PM. I said I was "more of a truther than I was at the start" - the start being the top of this thread. You're arrogantly jumping to conclusions - again.
>"Why don't you invite him to come here & post a comment or two. He will find me highly respectful & gracious."
Like you are to me? I think not. I said he's not well.
>"Pure urban myth. One that everyone on the project believed, tho."
Everyone building WTC 1 and 2 thought they were building something due to withstand the impact of a jumbo? So where did they get that idea then?
>"But I've got the experience & knowledge to understand that it was mythology. It could not possibly be true."
So you're just taking it upon yourself to deny it?
>"Perhaps you should make that comment to your (dad? granddad? uncle?) and get his response."
My father, grandfather and uncles are dead. Try not to be a smart-arse.
>"They designed the tallest building in the world, using slide rules & vellum, built it, on time, on budget, in the middle of downtown Manhattan, using brand new building techniques."
Untested building techniques, then?
>"And it did its job for 30 years"
Was it not supposed to last longer than 30 years?
>"and that no building in the world (before 2005) is likely to withstand an impact like the ones on 9/11."
'Likely'. You're beginning to sound less than certain about what you're saying. Which makes a change ...
>"John Skilling was principle engineer. Leslie Robertson was a young engineer who didn't even have his structural degree when he joined Skilling."
What has that got to do with it? Or is it more extraneous detail?
>"Those were the "mechancal floors". They are the ones that make up the 3 dark bands around the building when seen from the outside. Buildings need mechanical equipment. Elevators, generators, Air conditioning, etc. These floors were off limits to the public, and used regularly by the buildings' maintenance staff."
That's precisely why I raised the subject, tom. You're blathering I'm afraid. Telling me things I just pointed to.
>"And, no, neither of the buildings collapses initiated at the mechanical floors."
Did I say initiated? How about removing a lot of resistance as the buildings came down? If there had been interference on the mechanical floors?
>"Jane Standley tell all about it herself. If you're interested, just google her name & learn all about it."
You're trying to teach your grandmother how to suck eggs - AGAIN - tom, and it's annoying. All Jane Standley had to say was that she doesn't remember exactly what she said or did.
>"Something around 1/3 of everything you are told on TV is simply wrong".
There you go again ... Jesus H Christ ... it's actually quite funny, considering the site you're on ...
>"The people on air are reading what other people are telling them."
No, tom, she wasn't reading anyone else's script. And that's all you have to say about the fact that everyone could see the building standing there while she was telling us it had just fallen down??
Here's a quote from the BBC:
"Nobody told us what to say or do on September 11th. We didn't get told in advance that buildings were going to fall down. We didn't receive press releases or scripts in advance of events happening."
(and then, of course, they lost their tapes of the incident. Sad.)
>"Part of the answer is that they knew for HOURS ahead of time that WTC7 was going to come down. If you know much about all of this, you ought to be familiar with how they knew that."
Except the BBC said that they didn't. See above. You're starting to give very sloppy answers, tomk ...
Posted by: dreoilin at August 1, 2010 11:53 PM
Tomk, do you have any connections with Tishman Realty & Construction? Or did you at any time?
Posted by: dreoilin at August 2, 2010 12:04 AM
dr,
Welcome to ignore.
Pointless.
Posted by: tomk at August 2, 2010 12:07 AM
Tomk: A lot has been written this weekend! I'm trying to wade through
it to find something I'm supposed to be addressing, but if you're trying
to teach "us lot" anything, maybe you could do a better job. If you want
to put the backs up of anyone who's not already 100% behind your views,
dismiss you and not take you seriously, then you are doing a fine job
already so just keep it up.
I'm hoping you can overcome the urge to edge conversations with anyone not
immediately agreeing with you into 'parent Vs rebellious child' game-role
nonsense, but maybe you can't help it, and this is just your way whenever
there's disagreement.
Anyway, let's wade back up to your 30/7 01:18 post, if we may.
Let me make something clear - unlike yourself, I'm genuinely looking for the
truth instead of presuming myself to be in full possession of it. Bombastic
assertions and belittling anyone questioning them is not a winning strategy
if you really want to persuade a moderately intelligent fence-sitter who is
very rightly suspicious, not to say cynical, of Official Truths.
*
I daresay there have been sweeping assertions incorrectly made on various
"truther" sites. I've not read them, and am certainly not answerable for
them. You keep bringing them up, and saying "you guys" this and that, as
if we were one and the same. You've argued against positions nobody has
taken here, then claimed this is because it's a popular claim of "truthers".
Well that's fine, but largely irrelevant in present company.
Maybe it's battle fatigue, and one starts to grossly overgeneralise. That's
why I advised you against it - half the people here (the blog host included)
do not support the 'controlled demolition' supposition. But one of the
problems with people like you is you assume your claimed superiority in one
specialised field extends to a general superiority, carrying over to a 'how
the world works' knowledge far exceeding that of your correspondents. That
is arrogance, and does you no credit.
*
Why do you keep saying Veronsky and myself were "unaware of the ability of a
free end of a ruler to fall faster than the washers on top" - why persist in
saying this? Either you are grossly mistaken, failed to read properly the
numerous occasions when I illustrated that I was not, or you are dissembling.
If you persist with what I know full well to be an untruth when it comes
to such obvious matters that recently happened, with the evidence right here
in this thread, how do you expect me to accept your word and authority when
it comes to less clear matters?
*
Is it worth spending the time having a discussion with you, Tom? Or are you
going to do the lofty/irritated dismissal, play role games and make yourself
ineffective as someone who potentially has a very worthwhile argument here.
I'd like to talk about your 31/7, 02:25 post to Clark, but don't want to waste
my time if all I'm calling to get is name-calling in return.
Over to you Tom, let me know how you'd like to play this. You'll find I'm
not one to hold grudges long, not even to someone who thinks personally
insulting me is a good way to resolve disputes in your specialised field.
You should notice that I have not personally insulted you even once, while
you've done it to me dozens of times now.
Posted by: glenn at August 2, 2010 1:00 AM
dreolin: "I understood that WTC 1 and 2 were supposed to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet."
tomk: Wrong. Pure urban myth. One that everyone on the project believed, tho. But I've got the experience & knowledge to understand that it was mythology. It could not possibly be true.
Just a little calm correction here >
Seattle Times interview 1993.
"We looked at every possible thing we could think of that could happen to the buildings, even to the extent of an airplane hitting the side," said John Skilling, head structural engineer. "However, back in those days people didn't think about terrorists very much."
cached@
http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc
/analysis/seattletimes_withstandjet.html
And,
Medserv Article "Towers collapse shocks engineers", posted just after the event -
Lee Robertson, the project's structural engineer, addressed the problem of terrorism on high-rises at a conference in Frankfurt, Germany, last week, Chicago engineer Joseph Burns told the Chicago Tribune.
Burns said Robertson told the conference, "I designed it for a (Boeing) 707 to hit it."
cached@
http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/
analysis/medserv_collapseshocks.html
--
"I am nobody. He who talks too much says nothing."
Posted by: crab at August 2, 2010 1:28 AM
dr,
Welcome to ignore.
Pointless.
Posted by: tomk at August 2, 2010 12:07 AM
tomk, who was that addressed to?
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Thanks for the input, crab.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 2, 2010 1:51 AM
Tom,
I accept your points about buckling and geometry. Unfortunately, I have another problem: if one collapse wave starts another, they are really the same collapse wave. And you've described one wave progressing west and the other progressing east, and meeting in the middle. And you've also stated "a second collapse wave started (as a result of the collapse damage from WTC1)". Sorry, I'm utterly confused here, I can't imagine what you mean.
On August 1, 2010 1:48 PM, I wrote: "But such a sudden (onset), symmetrical and complete collapse does not seem to be the norm. Some claim it to be unique (unless we include demolition); maybe you know otherwise. In the common (rather than the technical) sense, this *sort* of collapse seems to be surprising".
I wasn't really thinking of a similarity to crushing drinks cans. Have any other *buildings* done what WTC7 did? If they haven't, then I think observers were right to be surprised. Don't you?
Posted by: Clark at August 2, 2010 5:14 AM
1. If the World Trade Center (WTC) towers were designed to withstand multiple impacts by Boeing 707 aircraft, why did the impact of individual 767s cause so much damage?
As stated in Section 5.3.2 of NIST NCSTAR 1, a document from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) indicated that the impact of a [single, not multiple] Boeing 707 aircraft was analyzed during the design stage of the WTC towers. However, NIST investigators were unable to locate any documentation of the criteria and method used in the impact analysis and, therefore, were unable to verify the assertion that “… such collision would result in only local damage which could not cause collapse or substantial damage to the building.…”
The capability to conduct rigorous simulations of the aircraft impact, the growth and spread of the ensuing fires, and the effects of fires on the structure is a recent development. Since the approach to structural modeling was developed for the NIST WTC investigation, the technical capability available to the PANYNJ and its consultants and contactors to perform such analyses in the 1960s would have been quite limited in comparison to the capabilities brought to bear in the NIST investigation.
The damage from the impact of a Boeing 767 aircraft (which is about 20 percent bigger than a Boeing 707) into each tower is well documented in NCSTAR 1-2. The massive damage was caused by the large mass of the aircraft, their high speed and momentum, which severed the relatively light steel of the exterior columns on the impact floors. The results of the NIST impact analyses matched well with observations (from photos and videos and analysis of recovered WTC steel) of exterior damage and of the amount and location of debris exiting from the buildings. This agreement supports the premise that the structural damage to the towers was due to the aircraft impact and not to any alternative forces.
Posted by: NIST at August 2, 2010 5:46 AM
I’m sure we’ve been over this about the building being designed for aircraft impacts before.
There were a number of claims made about it and I think Skilling and Robertson had both said the Towers could withstand an airplane crash in interviews. They both referred to 707s, if I recall, which were the largest commercial airliners around. They never said “jumbos” if you mean 747s because 747s didn’t exist at the time. One of them had talked about a fully-laden 707 while the other had referred to a scenario in which a 707, low on fuel and at low speed crashed into the Towers while it was lost in fog.
There is video of the “onsite construction manager”, Frank Demartini saying the buildings should be able to withstand “multiple” airline impacts. But I don’t know where he got that idea from. The actual designers never said any such thing.
When I first saw him quoted on a Truther video I imagined that Demartini, being the “onsite construction manager” was somehow involved in the actual construction of the Towers leading me to think that he was there when cranes were lifting girders on to the buildings etc... ... But, actually he didn’t work at the Towers until after the 1993 terrorist attack. He was killed in the actual 9/11 attacks and has a page which gives more information about him:
http://inmemoriamonline.net/Profiles/Folders/D_Folder/DeMartini_Frank.html
Anyway, two things that should be obvious:
1.) The planes were bigger than 707s and they were deliberately crashed at speed into the Towers. These weren’t accidents!
2.) To some extent they did withstand the aircraft crashes. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people were able to escape the Towers following the impacts but what ultimately brought the towers down was a combination of the fires, the fact that the impacts had damaged the fireproofing and, obviously, the fires.
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 5:48 AM
" down was a combination of the fires, the fact that the impacts had damaged the fireproofing and, obviously, the fires."
A combination of the IMPACTS, the fires and the loss of fireproofing. I meant to say.
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 6:01 AM
Clark, Dreoilin et al. Anyone who wants to know how it was possible for the BBC to announce the collapse of WTC7 before the collapse actually happened ought to watch this video of Ashleigh Banfield reporting from right outside the WTC7 saying that firefighters had warned that its collapse was inevitable:
“That building right there, the brown building, the tall one is number seven World Trade Center. I’ve heard several different reports from several different officers now that is the building that is going to go down next. In fact one officer told me that they are just waiting for that to come down at this point, that there is no way it can be recovered, that there’s no way they can stabilize it. The building directly south of it is building number five…excuse me number six world trade center…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-WZpXiEKAo&feature=player_embedded#!
And sure enough, the building collapses later in the day…
So, we can see that the media were in constant contact with people on the ground explaining what was going on and the inevitability of the collapse of World Trade Center 7 was known. (In fact, I think Reuters also reported the buildings collapse early).
The BBC’s early report of the collapse of the building seems to be a “Fog Of War” type confusion. But if you have an alternative explanation for why the BBC stood in front of WTC7 and decided to report on its collapse early it would be great to hear.
These are really outdated Truther canards, by the way, that seem to assume BBC connivance in the demolition of a building or just to add mystery where none exists for no apparent purpose.
I mean if the BBC was part of the plot how did it further the plot that they announced the collapse of WTC7 and why in blazes would they stand in front of it to do so?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 6:52 AM
dr,
Welcome to ignore.
Pointless.
Posted by: tomk at August 2, 2010 12:07 AM
To whom was that addressed tomk?
Do you have any connections with Tishman Realty & Construction? Or did you at any time?
--------------------------
"I mean if the BBC was part of the plot"
Not interested in strawmen, Angry.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 2, 2010 11:54 AM
"These are really outdated Truther canards"
Nothing on this subject is 'outdated'.
"canard ( ) n. An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story"
??
Posted by: dreoilin at August 2, 2010 11:58 AM
"WTC designed to withstand jet impact."
I know about the claims. I know what Skilling said in 1965. I know what he said in the Seattle paper in 1990s. I know the urban myth that was part of WTC culture, that every tour guide repeated to every visitor.
I also know that you folks who do NOT know what is involved to solve this problem will simply parrot the quotes. Just like any teenage tour guide would.
And I knew as soon as I first heard the story that it could not possibly be true.
Because we can not possibly accomplish that design TODAY. And today, we ALMOST have the tools to do it.
The tools absolutely required to accomplish this task: Massive supercomputers clusters & incredibly sophisticated FEA software, with nonlinear materials, computational fluid dynamics, fire simulations, etc., etc., etc. And a $50 million budget & X years to tweak the design.
And an extra billion dollars to put up the building with all the "over the top" safety features.
All the things that NIST had to model the towers. And their models took years to develop, and they took months of execution time, on supercomputer clusters, in order to model 3 seconds of aircraft impact & consequences.
And they could only execute these models because of the billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man-years of effort that have been invested (between the 1970s and 2001, in those FEA programs.
I am telling you that it was NOT possible, in 1965, to execute any design that meaningfully will give you that information - "designed to withstand a jet impact" - with a pencil, an adding machine, a pencil & a notebook. And I am telling you that it is not possible to execute that design today, using all the tools that were available in 1965.
I know this because my career has spanned the years from slide rules to FEA & supercomputers. Simple calculator were banned from exams during my first two years of undergraduate engineering, because they gave an unfair advantage over those who only had slide rules.
Now all you parrots can turn off you brains to all of this, & mindlessly cut & paste the same old quotes.
But before you do, allow me to quote Leslie Robertson, after 9/11:
"We should not and cannot design buildings and structures to resist the impact of these aircraft."
http://www.nae.edu/Publications/TheBridge/Archives/V32-1EngineeringandHomelandSecurity/ReflectionsontheWorldTradeCenter.aspx
Did you catch that? "Should not and CAN not..."
So, knowing that this statement was absurd, I went and dug up the source of it. I'll let you guys ramble on for awhile, cutting & pasting quotes.
Then, when I'm feeling particularly "smug", I'll tell you the real story.
Tom
Posted by: tomk at August 2, 2010 12:44 PM
Clark,
Clark: "I accept your points about buckling and geometry. Unfortunately, I have another problem: if one collapse wave starts another, they are really the same collapse wave. And you've described one wave progressing west and the other progressing east, and meeting in the middle. And you've also stated "a second collapse wave started (as a result of the collapse damage from WTC1)". Sorry, I'm utterly confused here, I can't imagine what you mean.
tomk: It undermines you're learning about this if I continuously give you the answers. Read the report. It'll explain it. Even better than I could.
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Clark: "I wasn't really thinking of a similarity to crushing drinks cans. Have any other *buildings* done what WTC7 did? If they haven't, then I think observers were right to be surprised. Don't you?"
tomk: The "it never happened before" is a vacuous argument. No shuttle blew up on launch before the Challenger. None destroyed on re-entry before the Columbia. Means nothing.
If that was a barrier to an event, we'd still be living in the Dark Ages.
Please tell me why you are dismissing so cavalierly, without comment, a superb example of a fundamental engineering principle that I've told you is directly applicable to the situation? With no discussion about it?
tom
Posted by: tomk at August 2, 2010 12:54 PM
“Not interested in strawmen, Angry.”
Dreoilin, could you please explain what you think is the significance of the BBC reporting the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building before it happened? Otherwise the rest of us simply have to guess the point you are making.
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 1:04 PM
Oh, and Dreolin, did you watch the You Tube video I posted of Ashleigh Banfield saying that she had been informed that WTC7 was coming down?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 1:08 PM
Dreiloin says:
==================================================
"These are really outdated Truther canards"
Nothing on this subject is 'outdated'.
"canard ( ) n. An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story"
??
===================================================
Very many things on this subject are outdated but because the Internet still contains so much rubbish that has been comprehensively disproven, uninitiated people such as yourself discover things that you think are live issues because of your limited research.
Yes, Dreolin, it is “outdated” because it has been answered many times. And it has been answered DEFINITIVELY. And it is a canard precisely because it is a “deliberately misleading” story that charlatans at the head of the Truth movement have disseminated and continue to do so even though it has been DEFINITIVELY ANSWERED already.
If you believe that “nothing is outdated” then you are probably following standard Truther MO of putting your fingers in your ears and claiming to be Just Asking Questions. Which is perfectly true only in the sense that you are not interested in listening to the answers. Now why don’t you try, just for fun, try to look a little less like a proud and petulantly ignorant idiot and accept that maybe you have a little bit to learn?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 1:23 PM
So tomk runs away from my questions while angry indulges in abuse.
Nothing new under the sun.
Ho hum.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 2, 2010 2:05 PM
Tom,
I disagree that calculators gave students an advantage. My school maths teacher used to say that "calculators were the fastest method of making mistakes, until computers automated the process". I used a slide rule throughout my school exams; I was the only pupil that did. Slide rules are fast, they stop you quoting silly lengths of 'significant' figures, and they teach you about logarithms.
I'm NOT dismissing the buckling can example. It's illustrative power is excellent. Come on, don't draw equivalence with the Shuttle; there have been, what, less than 200 flights? We're surrounded by skyscrapers. They catch fire, get bombed, suffer earthquakes, and get demolished.
Look, I'm NOT a 'truther'. I'm NOT saying that what WTC7 did can't happen without explosives. What I AM saying is that this was the first, and so far only, example we've seen like this (true?). When you see a totally different example of something generally familiar, that's a surprise, pretty much by definition.
And my point in that is to highlight that some of the motivation for 'trutherism' may be less political than you suggested earlier. Some people look at those WTC7 videos, and think, "What? Collapsing buildings don't DO that. Demolished ones do... Hmmm".
Then they express their surprise, and people such as yourself say, "Oh, you've never seen that before, but that's no reason to be surprised", and it sounds like a policeman saying "Nothing to see here, move along please". Now, when most people hear that, they strongly suspect that something important and significant has occurred, and that the policeman is playing it down as that's part of his job.
My point is about human psychology, not engineering. You're actually fueling 'trutherism' by making out that something surprising shouldn't surprise anyone. Despite the fact that it surprised the engineering community.
Posted by: Clark at August 2, 2010 3:18 PM
LMAO...
dr,
You've been posting here since the Jan 28, 2010. The first day that this article appeared.
I've been posting for 11 days.
I am perfectly content for anyone following along to make their own judgment about the SUBSTANCE contained within my aggregate postings versus your aggregate postings.
And, while examining the substance, to also make their own judgment as to whether there is any conceivable reason for me to "run away from your arguments" or if i am more likely merely "declining to engage in a pointless & unpleasant snark-fest".
C'ya.
tom
PS. I invite you to offer something, anything, original (not cut & paste) that has any substance whatsoever.
Here's a possible topic. I notice that your first post discusses the lack of released security tapes of flight 77's crash into the Pentagon.
You give your best argument. Then I'll give what I believe to be a compelling argument that those mysterious tapes don't exist.
Or you can decline, and we'll go back to you calling me a "poopy-head", and me ignoring you.
Posted by: tomk at August 2, 2010 3:20 PM
Yup, same old same old. Tom's not answering me either, having
poured his condescending scorn over the conversation and found
me/us unwilling to play his appointed roles. Do you suppose it
makes for a stronger point, if you refer to your correspondent
as a "proud and petulantly ignorant idiot" and use all-caps?
Maybe 'obstinately objectionable and permanently peeved' would
describe Angry's act in terms he can understand. Whatever, they
both make terrible teachers if they genuinely believe themselves
to be totally correct and wish to impart their wisdom.
Posted by: glenn at August 2, 2010 3:25 PM
Clark,
Damn, I've got to get to work...
Re: Shuttle metaphor.
It's not the shuttle. It's the FACT that "it hasn't been seen before" is a vacuous, empty argument for ANYTHING actually happening.
There have been many thousands of bridges, all of them with wind blowing over them, and then there was the Tacoma Narrow "Galloping Gertie"...
There were 1000s of walkways built, in thousands of hotels, and then there was they Hyatt Regency...
There were hundreds of passenger airplanes in service, and then came the de Haviland Comet...
There were hundreds of hurricanes in the gulf, and New Orleans sat perfectly safe. And then there was Katrina ...
This list goes on FOREVER...
It's not the shuttle. It's not the towers. It's the argument.
Get a better one. One that is worthy of someone as smart as you appear to be.
It's an ESPECIALLY vacuous argument when applied AFTER the event under discussion has actually happened.
You cannot apply "probabilities" AFTER an event.
Example: you walk out of a theater, and note the license plate of the first car you see. It is NGC-834.
What are the probabilities that you would see that license plate?
1 in (26x26x26x10x10x10) = 1 in 18 million.
Did something miraculous just happen? Of course not.
If you predicted what the license plate would be BEFORE you walked out, and were right, THEN something really unusual would have happened.
But you are guaranteed to see SOME license plate.
[BTW, the same argument applies to fundamentalists who attempt to apply - after the fact - the low probability (and therefore, need for the guiding finger of divine intervention) in leading natural history to (the imagined) pinnacle of evolution: humans. The probability argument would have been valid if made 4 billion years ago, 1 billion years ago, or 500 million years ago. Not after the fact.]
The towers came down. Your request that I provide probabilistic justification after the fact is equally baseless.
___
I've told you that a small army of the best structural engineers in the world have looked at the collapse with a fine tooth comb, analyzed the crap out of it, published their analysis, had that analysis examined in fine detail by a larger army of engineers, and found to be a solid, compelling analysis, which explained the collapse to all of their satisfaction.
And you're coming back at me with "it doesn't look right - in some unstatable way - to us amateurs."
With that said...
You've identified "the suddenness". I've addressed the suddenness.
You've identified "the symmetry". I've addressed the symmetry.
You've identified "the speed". I've addressed the speed.
You've identified "into its own footprint". I've addressed "into its own footprint".
I have no clue what else you want. So read the report. You'll find out that, like me, "it's never happened before" is completely ignored by the engineers who wrote the report.
It's not ignored because "they have no answer".
It's ignored because it's a "non-argument".
Tom
PS. If you insist, look up Sight & Sound Theater fire, Kadar Toy factory fire, MacCormick Place fire. All large steel framed buildings that collapsed from fires.
PPS. What part of the lessons of the Windsor Hotel fire were lost on you? Did you not read the link to the UManchester analysis that I dug up for you?
PPPS. Why are you still pushing this when I've explained, in detail, how important the physical damage was to the collapse. And an "ordinary fire" does not have this critical damage.
Gotta get to work. No more till tonight.
Posted by: tomk at August 2, 2010 3:55 PM
"angry indulges in abuse."
I don’t think that’s very fair. I pointed out that the media had been informed that WTC7 was undoubtedly going to collapse.
What, do you think, is the significance of the BBC reporting it early?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 4:49 PM
tomk
At the very least, try to get your quotes right. I didn't say you were running away from my arguments, I said you were running away from my questions. (Like, "Do you have any connections with Tishman Realty & Construction? Or did you at any time?")
I'm now bored with your ramblings and your selective answers to selected people and your attempts to dictate the conversation. "Here's a possible topic"? No thanks. I have my own - I'm interested in the original construction of WTC 1 and 2 among other things. However, you've run your course. I've lost all interest in you and your "expertise". C'ya
Good luck, Clark.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 2, 2010 5:12 PM
Dreiloin, YOU, that is, YOU brought up the topic of whether the Towers could withstand airliner crashes and YOU brought up the topic of the BBC announcing the WTC7 collapse before it happened.
As far as I can see you have been answered on both and yet not acknowledged that nor have you even explained what you think is the significance of it.
Would you like to do so?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 5:19 PM
"Now why don’t you try, just for fun, try to look a little less like a proud and petulantly ignorant idiot and accept that maybe you have a little bit to learn?"
"angry indulges in abuse"
"I don’t think that’s very fair"
Priceless.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 2, 2010 5:22 PM
What, do you think, is the significance of the BBC reporting it early?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 5:25 PM
Sure, I only asked you to LOOK less petulantly ignorant. It shouldn't be difficult.
Posted by: angrysoba at August 2, 2010 5:27 PM
Hey Angry - I'll tell you what's significant about the BBC reporting
it a bit too early. And that is, it reported a building unexpectedly
coming down before it happened.
Doubtless you considered it absolutely inevitable on the day itself,
and were only out by a few minutes in your personal estimation of
when it would occur.
Posted by: glenn at August 2, 2010 6:02 PM
Glenn,
Don't you know that that's
"a deliberately misleading story that charlatans at the head of the Truth movement have disseminated" (-angry)
There WAS no BBC reporter. It was the 'fog of war'.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 2, 2010 6:43 PM
There is not a great lot can sensibly be done about the densely proclaimed expert 'tomk', than point out his manner and arguments have not been credible.
From way back when he began the lecture on how skyscrapers can fall toward the ground +faster+ than gravity - with teasers and announcements of his great professional status and a "do you feel lucky punk?"...Some desperate abuse of the meaning of the word "fall" actually had to be imposed in order to complete his 'punk trick'.
His later descriptions of how wtc7s floors and internal supports could discreetly flop in advance of all 4 four facades crumpling in close unison with negligible resistance, are similar to the "falling faster than gravity" trick, in how many scenarios may be shown to be possible, neverless irrelevant (mechanisms required to 'fall faster than g') and very improbable / certainly not fully indicated (wtc7's perfectly neat and quick and pre-announced yet unexpected demise).
Scanning through tomk's contributions is an exercise in tolerating an inflamed and overindulged ego. Despite the proclamations of technical prowess, his descriptions are fragmentary, filled out with bluster, snide quips and unemployed buzz-dropped terms like "Reynolds numbers", "Dimensional analysis" even simply "Geometry!"
To hear tomk dismiss a point as "pure urban myth", which was then supported by references to designers testimony and Nist documentation, and then read not a mild retraction, but yet more bluster about the weight of his own word on the matter!
This kind of treament is very common in engineering professions. Which is how on the whole, they support each of the ridiculous official reports on the incredible events, and any confident sounding windbag that happens to agree can do no wrong with that.
Remember TomK - in all the time since the events, we have not seen a single realistic physical simulation of what happened to either of the 3 buildings. Weve had instructive animations, graphics, but not a single realistic physical simulation.
Within a few years time now, these ridiculous conversations will be revealed by simulations impossible to patronise. If you really want to set the record straight, there is your chance.
Posted by: crab at August 2, 2010 8:12 PM
If any of you have any real proof that 911 was an inside job (so far, I've seen no evidence of such a conspiracy), please direct such to my website.
Posted by: Julian Assange at August 2, 2010 8:37 PM
Hey crab,
What's your background?
tom
Posted by: tomk at August 2, 2010 8:58 PM
Hey tomk,
Dont you know? Im a know-it-all dick head who is anonymously and disrespectfuly taking my frustrations out on people and conversations in the comments section of a human rights activists blog.
(just like you boss)
Im glad you arrived actually because the rest of them are all quite well natured and we have be right right. Ive been waiting for another blow hard like you to turn up for ages. I would have barged in earlier but i waited to make sure you were swinging the full sack.
The original larry from st louis sired me you see. He was a master. I think we might all be related.
crab
Posted by: crab at August 2, 2010 9:57 PM
Ms Impersonator, again
Posted by: dreoilin at August 2, 2010 10:11 PM
Hey crab,
ahhhh, I see.
Not much more than snark to offer then, eh?
And your argument from personal incredulity.
BTW, those were not my conclusions about the collapse of WTC7. They were the conclusions of about 200 guys with PhDs in Structural Engineering. And a career of accomplishment behind them.
What would they know ... compared to an anonymous snarkmeister on the interweb...?
tom
Posted by: tomk at August 2, 2010 11:00 PM
200 PhDs in structural engineering and they couldn't rustle up a single working physical simulation of the collapse phenomenon which they were commissioned to describe.
-meh :p
Posted by: crab at August 3, 2010 12:03 AM
Tom,
I'm really not sure why you've again missed my point, and apparently misinterpreted my observations on people and surprise as an argument for controlled demolition. I quite clearly concluded my post with "My point is about human psychology, not engineering...". I was writing about what induces surprise in people, like seeing an event that looks remarkably like one thing, when the circumstances imply that it is something else. Your argument would seem to suggest that it is unreasonable of people to be surprised by anything, ever. Maybe you should re-read what I wrote more slowly,
or maybe you are suffering from preconceived ideas that are causing you to misinterpret.
I'm really disappointed by the way things have gone here. I was delighted that a real engineer had arrived, someone who had sent a project to Jupiter, no less. But I feel that you have let your emotions get in the way of your comprehension, and your enthusiasm to debunk conspiracy theories has led you to argue against a point that I was not making.
So it is with reluctance that I have to agree with most of Crab's points, disagreeing with his 2nd paragraph, and on the matters of 'geometry' (on which I thought you made a highly relevant point) and 'dimensional analysis' (where I started to see the significance).
But on bluster, ego, sarcasm, lack of retraction when contradicted by sources, and misuse of words, it saddens me to say that I have to agree with him. His final point, about lack of physical models, reminds me of my question to you on that matter many posts back. Direct question - These models have not been published, have they?
I'm truly sorry that I've ended up so critical of your posts here. I feel no better for it - quite the opposite - I feel disappointed.
Anyway, I still have some links of yours to follow, most importantly NCSTAR, and I thank you for them.
Posted by: Clark at August 3, 2010 12:23 AM
@crab,
Yeah, you're right.
What would a bunch of PhD's in structural engineering know about the analyses & testing required to answer the questions that they were tasked to answer.
They shouldn't have used their 40 centuries or so of experience to lay out in exquisite detail what tasks were required to answer those questions & which were a waste of time & resources.
They should have asked you, & dreolin & Glenn & Vronsky. And 6 or 700 other abject amateurs on the internet, who have a grand total of, what was that number again... oh yeah ... zero knowledge or experience in the field, for YOUR advice as to how to spend their time & the US's dollars.
What were they thinking?
And they never got around to asking Paris Hilton to review their final copy either.
Gee, what a bunch of losers.
That must be why their report has been so roundly rejected by the engineering community as a whole.
Oh, wait... You say "their report has been uniformly accepted as competent and compelling?"
Well, whaddaya know, crab. I guess they managed to squeak by without your advice after all.
Lucky bastards...
Tom
Posted by: tomk at August 3, 2010 12:38 AM
"And 6 or 700 other abject amateurs on the internet, who have a grand total of, what was that number again... oh yeah ... zero knowledge or experience in the field"
You're talking expert bollocks again there 'faster than g man,
"Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice"
http://stj911.org/
Posted by: crab at August 3, 2010 1:36 AM
sorry Clark
Posted by: crab at August 3, 2010 1:39 AM
Clark,
Clark: "I'm truly sorry that I've ended up so critical of your posts here."
tomk: Don't worry about criticizing me or my posts. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. Sorry I disappointed you.
Re: Your point about human psychology.
What do you expect me, or any engineer, to do about "people who perceive something to be evidence of a controlled demo", beyond explaining to them that "no, I understand what you are saying, but the characteristics that you attribute to CD are exactly what one would see with the collapse as we've described it. Plus, there is overwhelming, incontrovertible, insurmountable evidence that no explosives, no thermite, no rays from space, no holograms, no stealth missiles, no psychic influences and no Godzilla were involved either."
What else should the engineers do?
Get down on their knees and beg a bunch of know-nothings and trust-nobodies to "please, please, pretty please, accept our judgment"?
The engineers did their job. It's over. It's done.
They explained all of the questions that REASONABLE people have asked. They even assigned a bunch of guys to address the ridiculous & unreasonable questions (about explosives & thermite) as well. Their answers to these bizarre questions are contained on the FAQ page at the NIST 9/11 website.
I am serious. Please tell me (as a parting gift) what else you expect them to do.
If you guys are serious about all this, go to school, get an engineering degree, learn how to analyze this stuff on your own, and then produce your model. Try to get your results published in a peer reviewed engineering journal.
If you do that, you have a prayer of convincing someone that matters.
Or you could do none of the above, drop pizza boxes on each other (a la Richard Gage), really impress a bunch of people who are clueless, and have every competent engineer in the world giggling.
Your choice...
Re: "... lack of retraction when contradicted by sources ..."
Please elaborate. Contradicted on what comment by what sources.
Tom
Posted by: tomk at August 3, 2010 2:27 AM
Tomk: I'm afraid you've descended from just being objectionable and a poor
teacher into putting forward outright falsehoods. I've never suggested
a hypothesis, in fact, I've avoided doing so. Yet again, you see what's
not there and work from a false premise. That's bad science, don't you know.
Apart from appeals to authority and ad hominem attacks, your "expertise"
seems to boil down to "Read the NIST Report - it's right on everything!"
I don't know why you didn't save yourself thousands of words and just
say that in the first place. And I'm _still_ waiting for that first reply
back to me that you just couldn't muddle your way through posting for some
vague reason, the technology was beyond you or whatnot. You kept promising,
but it never was delivered.
*
You got something fundamentally wrong, by the way, and I very much doubt it
will give you the slightest pause for reconsideration. That would an honest
person.
You asserted that it took some time for all the studies, analysis and so
forth to determine what happened. Are you scornful of Shanka Nair, who is
apparently expert in your claimed field? After all, here's a very brief bio:
---start
http://www.aisc.org/newsdetail.aspx?id=11210
R. Shankar Nair, a principal and senior vice president with Teng & Associates,
Inc. in Chicago, is the recipient of the prestigious 2007 T.R. Higgins Lectureship
Award. Nair is being honored for his paper on “Stability and Analysis Provisions
of the 2005 AISC Specification for Steel Buildings.”
---end
Here's a quote from 19/September/2001 by the same fellow:
"Already there is near consensus as to the sequence of events that led to
the collapse of the World Trade Center."
(Source: Chicago Tribune, 19/10/2001)
That's a remarkably quick arrival at such a painstakingly detailed analysis!
And you know what? Nothing changed. It was all _exactly_ as the original
Official Story had it. Almost as if the conclusion was given, and the "facts"
were worked around that. Just like the entire GWOT project that followed this
very event, by a quite astounding coincidence. "The facts were being fixed
around the policy" should be written in stone, against unquestioningly
accepting assertions.
*
You haven't addressed the massive heat source at Ground Zero, seen from space
by thermal imaging _weeks_ after the event, and reported on as being like a
foundry at the time by emergency workers. You asserted there were "no explosions",
whereas plenty of testimony and recordings show this is absolutely untrue.
You've ignored the very obvious squibs, testimony from first responders and
others present about bombs and explosions. You've ignored why the evidence was
rushed out of there to China for disposal before any proper analysis took place.
And we're only talking about one aspect of that remarkable day, your field, not
the larger picture about what else was severely wrong.
Instead, you've attacked us as fools, lumped us into "Truthers", and one by one
insulted and dismissed us while pretending to be a reasonable advocate for the
Official Position - even the sometimes infuriatingly reasonable Clark! And if
you've delved beneath even Clark's abilities to facilitate a reasonable
conversation, then you really have lost the plot.
*
I'm not going to thank you for confirming the worst I'd suspected about the
JREF'ers, if that is indeed what you are. It's a sad thing to have to find
for myself that everything said about you lot is actually pretty much spot on.
Posted by: glenn at August 3, 2010 2:34 AM
"no explosives, no thermite, no rays from space, no holograms, no stealth missiles,
no psychic influences and no Godzilla were involved either."
When did anyone here say anything about that? Do you really have to lie so much,
Tomk? It appears the truth really is not good enough for you.
Angry - send us the next one, this weak effort is just bailing with the usual
mouthy lies and insults. Please try to get a more reasonable one next time,
not just one that _claims_ to be reasonable, but quickly shows otherwise.
Posted by: glenn at August 3, 2010 2:39 AM
“Hey Angry - I'll tell you what's significant about the BBC reporting it a bit too early. And that is, it reported a building unexpectedly coming down before it happened.”
It seems to me you didn’t even bother watching the You Tube clip or reading the section that I transcribed from it in which Ashleigh Banfield had said the collapse WAS EXPECTED and that it was ONLY A MATTER OF TIME before it collapsed.
“Doubtless you considered it absolutely inevitable on the day itself, and were only out by a few minutes in your personal estimation of when it would occur.”
I didn’t know about the attacks until the next day. This sarcasm is just more petulance on your part.
Now, given that it was known that the building would collapse and that other media were reporting its inevitable collapse what do either you or Dreiloin consider to be the significance of them reporting it early?
Dreiloin brought this topic up. Does she or do you have a point in doing so? If so what is your point?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 5:40 AM
Glenn,
Look, this interaction is basically over. You don't like my style. Fine with me. I don't like dealing with truthers who prevaricate about being truthers.
I really don't understand why you deny that you're a truther.
You espouse every argument.
You JAQ off in public.
You take no stance about nuthin'.
While you don't know nuthin' bout what did happen, paradoxically you know with absolute certainty what didn't happen.
You think the 200+ engineers from NIST, academia & industry that were associated with the NIST report are all stooges of some political agenda.
You're about as subtle about the issues as a guy in a white robe at a cross burning, asking "Klan. What klan?"
You're waddling, quackin' and dropping feathers everywhere.
You're a truther, Glenn. What's the problem with being honest about it? Be proud of who you are & what you think.
Embrace your inner truthiness.
___
Glenn: "I've never suggested a hypothesis, in fact, I've avoided doing so. "
tomk: And, for some mysterious reason, you appear to be proud of intellectual cowardice. Or is it just a calculated tactic?
Why are you afraid to state your mind? Because you realize that your (non)contentions are baseless and unsupportable?
___
Glenn:
"You got something fundamentally wrong, by the way, and I very much doubt it
will give you the slightest pause for reconsideration. That would an honest
person.
You asserted that it took some time for all the studies, analysis and so
forth to determine what happened. Are you scornful of Shanka Nair, who is
apparently expert in your claimed field? After all, here's a very brief bio:
---start
http://www.aisc.org/newsdetail.aspx?id=11210
R. Shankar Nair, ... [on] 19/September/2001 [said]
"Already there is near consensus as to the sequence of events that led to
the collapse of the World Trade Center."
(Source: Chicago Tribune, 19/10/2001)
That's a remarkably quick arrival at such a painstakingly detailed analysis! ...
tomk: Is this vacuous nonsense the best that you can do, Glenn?
OF COURSE a "consensus was emerging" quickly. A consensus was emerging by about 10:30AM EST on 9/11. The whole world saw a plane fly into the building, massive fires break out and the buildings collapse.
Everyone with the IQ of a fence post came to the conclusion that "the plane crash & the building collapse were unquestionably related". It takes a special kind of short bus alumnus to come to the conclusion that "no, that wasn't it. Someone probably planted explosives. Hush-a-Booms."
But what structural engineers knew were generalities. Because they aren't as dumb, or as corrupt, as you guys love to tell yourselves. What was not known was the details. Mr. Nair didn't know them on 19 september. Nobody did.
You truthers, oops, excuse me, Glenn. THOSE truthers gotta make up their minds, Glenn. First it was, "they said "pancaking", and now they have to retract it. Then they said, floor trusses falling off of their seats, and then they had to retract it..." And now, you're bitchin' because they knew too much, too soon. "Damn, son. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Just no satisfyin' you kids, is there?"
On 19 Sept, 2001, neither FEMA nor NIST had done any models, any simulations, any analyses. There were virtually no columns yet analyzed. They were still stabilizing the rubble pile, and had just given up finding any survivors.
FEMA's report would come out in May, 2002. In mid 2005, NIST was still weighing (and discarding) some of its "nominal & less severe" cases of airline impact, because they didn't match the evidence available.
"NIST will release its final reports on the collapses of the Twin Towers in October 2005 (see October 26, 2005). As of mid-2007, it has yet to release a final report on the collapse of WTC 7. In early 2006, Dr. S. Shyam Sunder, who is the lead investigator for NIST’s WTC investigation, will admit, “truthfully, I don’t really know” what caused WTC 7 to collapse. He will add, “We’ve had trouble getting a handle on building no. 7” (see March 20, 2006)."
- History Commons, June 18, 2004: NIST Presents ‘Working Hypothesis’ of WTC 7 Collapse
2006, and they still had no solid understanding of WTC7.
Try again, Glenn. That was truly lame.
___
Glenn: "You haven't addressed the massive heat source at Ground Zero, seen from space by thermal imaging _weeks_ after the event, and reported on as being like a foundry at the time by emergency workers."
tomk: "The massive heat source"??? THIS is a mystery to you? Christ, Glenn. What planet are you from?
There were about 240 acres of flammable office contents buried in debris. Plus several hundred cars, gas tanks, tires, blah, blah, blah. And a provably choked oxygen supply. What friggin' part of this is a mystery to you?
Have you ever seen a barbecue pit?
You do know that there are coal fires that have burned for 50+ years, right?
Please inform me how "long burning underground fires" = "inside job".
Oh yeah, I forgot. You don't say nuthin' bout nuthin'.
Coward.
___
Glenn: "You asserted there were "no explosions", whereas plenty of testimony and recordings show this is absolutely untrue."
tomk: Please provide one audio recording of the 200+, rapid fire, 150db explosions IMMEDIATELY before any one of the building collapses.
Oh yeah. There aren't any. Next.
Protec demolitions corp. Seismic monitors in downtown Manhattan all that day. Zero explosions. Absolutely zero way any explosion that blew so much as one single column would have been missed by their equipment.
"Explosions..." LMAO. But you aren't a truther, are you, Glenn?
But you don't say nuthin' bout nuthin', do you...
Yeah, Glenn. There are 100 issues that I haven't addressed. And won't be addressing. I've had about enough trying to explain rudimentary engineering principles to you guys. Only to read lame, 4th grade responses, that run the gamut from "you're a poser", to "get a physics for dummies", to "how stupid can you be?", to "Why do you keep going on? We knew that all along" from you clowns.
___
Glenn: "... lumped us into "Truthers" ... "
tomk: OF COURSE you're Troofers. Who do you think you're fooling?
Yoohoo, Glenn, c'mon out of the closet. You'll feel much better.
Tom
Posted by: at August 3, 2010 6:02 AM
Tom K: "no explosives, no thermite, no rays from space, no holograms, no stealth missiles, no psychic influences and no Godzilla were involved either."
Glenn: When did anyone here say anything about that? Do you really have to lie so much, Tomk? It appears the truth really is not good enough for you.
Glenn, you and Vronsky have been pushing the idea that explosives were used in the collapse. You’ve talked about visible flashes and girders being hurled great distances. You’ve also suggested that the angle-cut beams suggest either explosives or thermite being used. Mark Golding has posted links about everything from thermite to nanothermite, to Judy Wood’s space lasers and I think I saw him dabbling in no-planerism as well. Some anonymous person posted a You Tube clip from Niels Harrit saying that nanothermite was used.
I’m guessing the Godzilla and psychic influences were put in as hyperbole, but the fact is the rest of them have been argued by some Truthers who are presumably never going to be satisfied unless their hypothesis is tested at 30 million dollars a pop. On the other hand you have said you are putting forward no hypothesis at all on the grounds that you don’t want your ideas critiqued. So all you are offering is a non-theory?
Anyway, Tom K and Glenn, could we simply go back to conservation of momentum as all the other stuff just distracts from that.
I think a good place to start would be Ryan Mackey’s video on Hardfire that Tom posted before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsDn6es7mtk
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 6:14 AM
“You haven't addressed the massive heat source at Ground Zero, seen from space
by thermal imaging _weeks_ after the event, and reported on as being like a
foundry at the time by emergency workers. You asserted there were "no explosions",
whereas plenty of testimony and recordings show this is absolutely untrue.
You've ignored the very obvious squibs, testimony from first responders and
others present about bombs and explosions. You've ignored why the evidence was
rushed out of there to China for disposal before any proper analysis took place.
And we're only talking about one aspect of that remarkable day, your field, not
the larger picture about what else was severely wrong.
Instead, you've attacked us as fools, lumped us into "Truthers", and one by one
insulted and dismissed us while pretending to be a reasonable advocate for the
Official Position - even the sometimes infuriatingly reasonable Clark! And if
you've delved beneath even Clark's abilities to facilitate a reasonable
conversation, then you really have lost the plot.”
Glenn, this really is one big slab of Twoof.
LOL!
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 6:33 AM
And Glenn, that citing of an engineer who said, and I’m paraphrasing, “We’ve got a pretty good idea of how the buildings came down,” as EVIDENCE of… of… what? (we don’t know because you adamantly refuse to stake out an position at all) is the perfect example of Truther heads-I-win-tails-you-lose logic that conspiracy theorists love to use.
It’s like the joke about the conspiracy theorists who go up to Heaven and find themselves confronted with God. One of the conspiracy theorists goes up to God and whispers to him, “So who really killed Kennedy?”
God turns to him and says, “My child, Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy. He shot him from the Book Depository and he acted alone.” The conspiracy theorist goes back to the next one puts his finger to his lips and says, “Don’t get alarmed… but it’s even bigger than we thought!”
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 6:43 AM
And Crab, just because some group calls itself “Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice” doesn’t mean they actually know what they are talking about. To begin with, it’s an argument from authority (i.e the very thing you accuse “Official Story” True Believers etc etc… of) to have a group of professedly smart people saying they don’t believe the “Official Story”. The problem is that you can’t have it both ways. If their scholarship is respected then surely that of the engineers at NIST, FEMA and other engineering faculties and independent experts on controlled demolitions etc… should also be respected. If you think it is an appeal to authority to respect the expertise of those at NIST then it is an appeal to authority to do so for those at 9/11S&T4J*!
But looking through the list of “Scholars” I do notice a comparable dearth of people with any engineering backgrounds. I mean, there are a few, but many of them are electrical or chemical engineers or they work on semi-conductors. I don’t see how their expertise extends to high-rise building collapses.
Then there’s the usual smattering of philosophers, theologians, language teachers etc…
This one must be a joke:
Ryan fox 4 GCSE
GCSEs are junior high school qualifications! And it takes a very special kind of thickness to get as few as 4!
http://stj911.org/members/index.html
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 7:20 AM
"Crudentials - claims of authority that consist of shouting ugly things at those who question them".
Posted by: Richard Robinson at February 14, 2010 6:20 PM
and in recent posts talking about "troofers" as if they had a communicable disease. All very interesting.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 3, 2010 9:09 AM
If it wasn't for tomk and angrysoba, this thread would have ended months ago. Similarly, I note that JREF has over 70 threads on Bigfoot - which they think doesn't exist. Curious.
Posted by: Vronsky at August 3, 2010 9:10 AM
Apart from appeals to authority and ad hominem attacks, your "expertise" seems to boil down to "Read the NIST Report - it's right on everything!" -- Glenn
Exactly. A one-minute post. But he had to waffle and spoof and spend his time (as he saw it) "putting people down".
Did he also suggest that WMD were found in Iraq?? I haven't had breakfast and I'm too groggy to scroll and find.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 3, 2010 9:19 AM
“I note that JREF has over 70 threads on Bigfoot - which they think doesn't exist. Curious.”
What’s your username on JREF, Vronsky? Don’t be shy!
What’s your objection to threads on Bigfoot? What makes you think everyone on JREF agrees with each other?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 10:24 AM
Dreoilin, what, do you think, is the significance of the BBC reporting the collapse of WTC7 early?
You brought the subject up, will you explain the significance?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 10:27 AM
@angry
I've never bothered much with JREF, although I used to be (long time ago) a fan of James Randi. He had a debunking show on TV here for a while, and it was fun to see the frauds exposed, sometimes very cleverly. On the whole though, I didn't care for his supercilious manner and felt that the points he scored he more than lost through his churlish manner. You might for contrast look at the programmes produced by Louis Theroux. He lets his subjects do the talking, he never says anything unkind or snippy - he just steps back and lets you form your own conclusions.
For a while I subscribed to CSICOP's journal, but eventually that ratted me in pretty much the same way - skeptics can be fundamentalists too. You may have noticed links above or on another thread to Zetetic Scholar, the late Marcello Truzzi's short-lived alternative to Skeptical Enquirer. I think he was responding to the same concerns that I feel - you have to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even when it starts to lead somewhere you don't really want to go, and CSICOP (to which Randi initially belonged) was just no good at that.
I mentioned the JREF threads on Bigfoot because I think there is a pathological element in a section of the skeptical community - some people are on a desperate quest for - oh, I don't know - a completely reductionist world with no shadows and no uncertainties. I know that people believe lots of silly things, and it's important to have someone around to point out that not all of those beliefs are harmless - but many of them are, so why spend so much time fulminating about something that really doesn't matter a hoot?
What's it got to do with 9/11? Skepticism can be as irrational as belief. Tomk can't bring himself to consider the possibility that the US government was complicit in 9/11 - his conclusion comes first, then the arguments are arranged around it. He might be right, but like you he is helluva scared of being wrong. The steady tone of desperation and exasperation, and the frequent resort to abuse suggests that you are not in pursuit of something that you believe to be true, but something that you need to be true.
Posted by: Vronsky at August 3, 2010 11:35 AM
Tom,
Re: your post August 3, 2010 2:27 AM. What do I think engineers should do? Publish the models. What do I think you should do? Well,
(0) answer my question about whether the models have been published.
(1) read the questions more carefully,
(2) take a look at your own emotional state, recognise the scorn you feel towards non-engineers that still ask questions,
(3) take a while to compose yourself, let the scorn drain away. Remember that people saw videos of less than a minute that looked just like a demolition; they're NOT familiar with the transit data or the fire department reports etc. Now, nearly a decade on, they've seen the experts at first prevaricate and later retract their former positions. Suspicion in such circumstances is an attribute of SANE people; if you call them idiots or accuse them of believing in Godzilla (!) you'll lose their respect, and you'll further polarise a disagreement that is already under critical tension.
(4) Start composing your answer, while monitoring your emotional state. If you feel the scorn increasing, return to step (1) above.
Something really bad is going on here. From the anti-'truther' camp, there keeps coming this message; "if you ask certain questions, at first we'll ignore you or misinterpret your question. If you persist, we will ridicule you and attempt to discredit you". Try to imagine how this looks from outside. It's not a huge jump to suspect that this mechanism prevails *within* the anti-'truther' camp, and that much of their message may have been contaminated.
Posted by: Clark at August 3, 2010 12:24 PM
Vronsky at 11:35 AM:
very well put.
Posted by: Clark at August 3, 2010 12:28 PM
Heh Vronsky - what's your best piece of evidence that Bigfoot could exist?
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at August 3, 2010 1:14 PM
Tom,
sorry, I forgot to answer your direct question, re: lack of retraction when contradicted by sources.
You called claims that the WTC buildings were designed to withstand aircraft impacts "pure urban myth". Sources were subsequently referenced that substantiated that such claims were made. You should have retracted. By your own argument, engineers at the time should have chimed in with "Your claims are out of order; you know we can't model that!". Maybe structural engineers are as susceptible to group loyalty as any other group.
Dreoilin,
re: Iragi WMDs; yes, Tom cited the al Tuwaitha nuclear facility and the city of Sargat on his August 1, 2010 5:56 AM post, to contradict my July 31, 2010 10:29 PM point that we are frequently lied to. He didn't engage with my points about extraordinary rendition or US/NATO support of Afghani drug barons, but instead chose to support "[his] countrymen" etc. - more group loyalty.
From: Department of Philosophy and Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University, Engineering Ethics:
http://ethics.tamu.edu/ethics/shuttle/shuttle1.htm
"Marcia Baron, in an excellent monograph on loyalty, states: "It is a sad fact about loyalty that it invites...single-mindedness. Single-minded pursuit of a goal is sometimes delightfully romantic, even a real inspiration. But it is hardly something to advocate to engineers, whose impact on the safety of the public is so very significant. Irresponsibility, whether caused by selfishness or by magnificently unselfish loyalty, can have most unfortunate consequences."
Please note that I am DEFINITELY NOT accusing Tom of 'irresponsibility'; the use of that word is inappropriate to my purpose (regarding loyalty and single-mindedness) in quoting this.
Posted by: Clark at August 3, 2010 1:49 PM
Vronsky, let me sincerely thank you for that last post. As it happens I know very little about James Randi himself (except a few things that I have read about him in books such as Sagan’s Demon-Haunted World) but I am a long-time fan of Louis Theroux. I agree with you that his approach is very effective in exposing people who have – let’s face it – lunatic beliefs. I remember watching a really great episode in which he was exposing White Power groups in the US. It was truly shocking and depressing to see children marking a swastika on their kitchen floors and dancing around it and also shocking and depressing to see some guy take offence and become obnoxious and aggressive when Louis Theroux politely asked him not to use the word “nigger” around him. (“It’s MY house and I will say “nigger” if I want to…” and all that…) Later on in that episode, if I recall rightly, he was badgered about whether or not he was a Jew by a bunch of neo-Nazis. He looked genuinely scared but I thought his response was quite wonderful. He refused to confirm or deny it on the basis that should not be anyone’s business if he was and that it would be cowardice to deny it if he was, yet give them a moral victory in denying it if he was not. So in response to their leering threats he simply told them he wasn’t going to answer the question. (Maybe you know which episode I am talking about).
However, with Louis Theroux most of us watching are already on his side. It would be interesting to see if he ever does a show about 9/11. I hate to say it but I don’t think he’s a Truther. Many of the people that he and others similar to him (like Jon Ronson) have showcased in the past have been the forerunners of 9/11 Truth.
(Do you know much about, for example, the Liberty Lobby, the American Free Press, the Spotlight? Many of these groups were responsible for getting 9/11 Truth up and running in the first place. Then there were also people like Alex Jones who you know has always had a paranoid belief that the evil US government have been behind every terrorist atrocity such as Oklahoma and the first WTC attack.)
“I mentioned the JREF threads on Bigfoot because I think there is a pathological element in a section of the skeptical community - some people are on a desperate quest for - oh, I don't know - a completely reductionist world with no shadows and no uncertainties. I know that people believe lots of silly things, and it's important to have someone around to point out that not all of those beliefs are harmless - but many of them are, so why spend so much time fulminating about something that really doesn't matter a hoot?”
I don’t know if “reductionist” is the right word there. I expect that there are people who are looking for very simple epistemological principles to judge whether or not they will believe in something or not, though. I am not sure why that is strange or offensive. But a principle of economy when it comes to epistemology (i.e Ockham’s razor) is simply useful. We can’t always reinvent our whole theory of knowledge every time an unprecedented event occurs. The first thing is to try and see if it can be assimilated into a current theory of knowledge.
“He might be right, but like you he is helluva scared of being wrong. The steady tone of desperation and exasperation, and the frequent resort to abuse suggests that you are not in pursuit of something that you believe to be true, but something that you need to be true.”
I doubt it will interest you to know that the reason why I became interested in this in the first place was because I thought that the Truthers had some very interesting points. But when I started researching I began to get extremely annoyed by how much Truthers had deliberately distorted the evidence. They found so many “oddities” by quote-mining people who said they heard explosions, for example, when a simple check showed that the same person was clearly talking about a plane had hit the towers.
Now, Vronsky, you say:
“Skepticism can be as irrational as belief.”
I don’t know quite what you mean by that. Skepticism refers to methodology, not ideology. Belief refers to, I suppose, ontology. I think it is quite possible to be IRRATIONALLY skeptical and, in fact, I think that most Truthers are exactly that. This is because their skepticism often seems to be extreme and only employed towards those who disagree with them (“How do we know that there were any funerals at all for anyone who was supposed to be a passenger on Flight77?” for example.
Anyway, I find it interesting that Glenn got angry with me for NOT asking more questions of those over at JREF and for “pretending” to be impartial when I have never said that I don’t favour one side. I have been quite open about the fact that I think the so-called “official story” is essentially correct. Yet, Glenn has now said that HE is impartial. This is a complete lie given the fact that he was giving you, Vronsky, “tactical advice” about not committing yourself to any view and by the obvious fact that he has never done what he has demanded I do and that is question both sides. As you can see, by not being equally skeptical to both sides it is Glenn who is an irrational True Believer of the cult of 9/11 Trutherism. I’ve done my share of questioning both sides and have plumped for the rational option of deciding which is the most likely and there is no way that 9/11 Truth is the more rational side because if you even try to believe in it you have to engage in what Tom rightly points out as the kind of abject intellectual cowardice that Glenn takes pride in.
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 2:33 PM
“that it would be cowardice to deny it if he was”
Rather, I should have said, “It would be cowardice to have confirmed or denied it”
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 2:37 PM
V,
V: "Tomk can't bring himself to consider the possibility that the US government was complicit in 9/11"
tomk: LMAO.
Sorry, V. This is merely the childish, self-serving, & insulting self-delusion of adolescents throughout time.
The security blanket of "well, if everyone just knew all the things that I know, they'd all agree with me." I can understand a 15 year old dwelling in this delusion. But someone who talked about "grandkids"??
It's enormously amusing, I must admit.
You're arguing that the earth is flat. I'm telling you that the hard evidence shows that it's round. As it happens, the earth scientists at the US Geological survey - not being morons - have also chosen to acknowledge the hard evidence, and have concluded that the earth is round.
And you come back with "Tom can't bring himself to consider the possibility that the US Government could be wrong."
Pssst, V. Engineers, not politicians, produced the 9/11 report. No politician had any role in the placement of one noun, adjective, adverb, comma or question mark.
The really amusing part of this whole issue is the projection: You can abide the possibility that the US Gov't might be RIGHT about something.
Meanwhile, being totally oblivious to the glorious irony that the NIST report is not The Gubbamint's contentions. It's the engineers'.
And, while The Gubbamint might be a gang of liars & thieves, at least they have the brains that God gave to squirrels, and they know enough to listen to what the experts say.
Can't say as much for truthers...
BTW, I will consider any & all evidence. I will follow where ever the evidence leads. If it leads to Bush or Cheney or anyone else, I'll be first in line with the torch & the pitchfork. I'll happily throw the switch on whoever did it.
And that, right there, is the problem, V. You have no evidence. None, nada, zippo.
None, that is, that will stand up to 3 minutes of scrutiny by anyone with brain function north of "lemur".
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V: "The steady tone of desperation and exasperation ..."
tomk: Bad guess. It's thinly disguised mockery.
I try really hard to conceal it. In an effort to be polite, of course. But when some brain-dead, pompous pudknocker calls me "a liar" on our first meeting, I tend to let the veil slip a bit...
Cheers,
tom
Posted by: tomk at August 3, 2010 3:13 PM
Clark,
Clark: "You called claims that the WTC buildings were designed to withstand aircraft impacts "pure urban myth". Sources were subsequently referenced that substantiated that such claims were made. You should have retracted."
tomk: You seem to think that I'm guessing about this. You seem to think that I'm pulling it out of my nether regions. You seem to think that, because someone puts something into the paper, then it has to be true.
That's pretty interesting, Clark...
I described for you the tools that would be necessary to execute that design.
NIST performed thousands of hours of simulation of supercomputer clusters, using CFD & FEA incredibly enhanced descendants of the first programs (NASTRAN) that was first developed after the Twin Towers were completed. And the non;linear, CFD & Fire Dynamics packages that are necessary for this design didn't come along until decades later.
In short, neither the hardware nor the software, both of which are required to execute this design, existed anywhere on the planet in 1965. [To a very high probability, the hardware doesn't exist on the planet today.]
The above stands as true. It is incontrovertible to anyone who understands the scope of the problem & the state of the technical arts ca: 1965.
Now, without going one step further, let's hear you make a thoughtful statement about the contention that "the towers were designed to withstand one (or more) impacts".
A thoughtful statement of your own that does not involve parroting someone else.
If you're going to learn to really think for yourself, you've got to start to trust yourself.
I am not guessing about my statements referring the source of this urban myth. The statement is precisely comparable to someone claiming that "the Italians sent a man to the moon in 1940".
And you're challenging me with some article that appeared in La Figeroa saying that they did so.
And claiming that I should issue a retraction, because someone cited that article.
Sorry, Clark. I don't pretend to think for myself. I really do it.
Let's see you do some of the same. It's actually exhilarating and addictive.
tom
PS. After you're done, I'll lead you to "The Rest of The Story", as one of our commentators over would say.
Posted by: tomk at August 3, 2010 3:58 PM
Oops, mistake...
In the fashion of "don't think about a pink elephant", I said the opposite of what is true in my post from August 3, 2010 3:13 PM.
I said "Engineers, not politicians, produced the 9/11 report".
Of course, I meant to say "Engineers, not politicians, produced the NIST report".
Lawyers & politicians did produce the "9-11 Commission Report".
Against all odds & my expectations, they seem to have gotten that mostly right as well.
Emblematic of the fact that, when this country is attacked, everyone - even snakes in the grass, politicians & lawyers - seem to come together for the common good.
tomk
Posted by: tomk at August 3, 2010 4:05 PM
"Emblematic of the fact that, when this country is attacked,
everyone - even snakes in the grass, politicians & lawyers -
seem to come together for the common good."
And invading and occupying a country which had nothing to do
with that attack, ginning up the war on the basis of false
evidence, using fear and ignorance, xenophobia and bigotry
as the primary motivators is "for the common good"? Good grief.
Posted by: glenn at August 3, 2010 4:42 PM
“And invading and occupying a country which had nothing to do with that attack, ginning up the war on the basis of false evidence, using fear and ignorance, xenophobia and bigotry as the primary motivators is "for the common good"? Good grief.”
Wrong subject, Glenn.
We’re talking about 9/11. Do try to keep up.
And while we’re at it why don’t you explain the significance of the BBC reporting the collapse of WTC7 early.
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 6:17 PM
"re: Iragi WMDs; yes, Tom cited the al Tuwaitha nuclear facility and the city of Sargat on his August 1, 2010 5:56 AM post, to contradict my July 31, 2010 10:29 PM point that we are frequently lied to. He didn't engage with my points about extraordinary rendition or US/NATO support of Afghani drug barons, but instead chose to support "[his] countrymen" etc. - more group loyalty."
Thanks, Clark.
(I'm in a hotel and was kept awake last night by high jinks in the bar, hence my late breakfast and my grogginess.)
His countrymen are of course deeply divided - among other things by the fiction that they have two political parties. But we're getting closer to seeing where he's coming from ...
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I'm intrigued by the fact that he can't give a simple Yes or No to my question about whether he's ever been involved with Tishman Realty & Construction. It's a very straightforward question, which for some reason he seems afraid to answer. And meanwhile he thinks his 'mockery' is 'thinly disguised' ... So funny.
And Angry slip-sliding around on his coattails. Too much. He had pretty much left here until be began to suck energy from tomk. Oh dear oh dear. I should revert to the top thread.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 3, 2010 6:54 PM
“And Angry slip-sliding around on his coattails. Too much. He had pretty much left here until be began to suck energy from tomk. Oh dear oh dear. I should revert to the top thread.”
I thought you’d left. But given that you’ve decided to return, what is the significance of the BBC announcing the collapse of WTC7 early?
Posted by: angrysoba at August 3, 2010 6:59 PM
The significance is in the fact that it happened. It is one of many 'oddities' around 9/11 and it remains unexplained. The fact that you have decided that it's not odd says something about you.
In general you're wasting your time talking to me. I treat you as I would Larry.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 3, 2010 7:21 PM
Ahhhh, the other shoe drops.
And here, all this time, I thought that we were talking about energy, momentum, strength, shear, torsion, column stability criteria, etc. etc. etc.
When, all that time, your answer has nothing to do with any of that.
It appears clear that the only answer that you'll accept is "whatever answer makes that US administration guilty of war crimes."
LMAO.
Cripes, Glenn. Why didn't you say so YEARS ago.
You could have saved all those engineers a whole passel of figgurin'.
C'mon, truther-boy. Tell again how it is MY thinking and conclusions that are driven by a political agenda.
It's called "projection", Glenn. Look it up.
LMAO.
Pssst, Glenn. I'll follow the evidence where ever it leads. When the OKC bombing happened, pretty much everyone in the US thought at first that it was likely to have been Muslim extremists. When the evidence pointed closer to home, all reasonable Americans (basically all of them) immediately accepted the conclusions that were supported by the evidence. And felt a tad guilty for having blamed the wrong people in the first place.
If the US Gov't is such an evil force in the world, why didn't they just concoct that evidence to blame whomever they had a johnson for back then?
Pssst, because that ain't how we do things over here.
Tom
PS. "... invading & occupying a country which had nothing to do with that attack ..."
Which country is that, Glenn?
PPS. "... ginning up the war on the basis of false evidence ..."
Which war is that, Glenn?
PPPS. "... using fear and ignorance, xenophobia and bigotry as the primary motivators ..."
Who is doing that, Glenn?
You really ought to take an opportunity to meet some US soldiers on of these days, Glenn. I've met many of them. VERY impressive. Fear? Nope. That's for the other guy.
"Ignorance, xenophobia & bigotry"? Nope, no place for that in the US's military any more. They run a disciplined, professional, respectful outfit these days. They have for years. Yup, a couple of bad apples get into the bunch. The principle people picking them out: their fellow soldiers.
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I'll tell ya, Glenn. Your whole screed is symptomatic of that RAGING case of projection that's coursing thru your brain. Best get yourself to a doctor. Maybe a healthy dose of antibiotics will clear it up.
Perhaps you'd recommend that we should have sat down with ole OBL, had a chat, shook hands, and asked him to forgive us for any past transgressions.
Tell ya what. The next time somebody blows up a dozen building in downtown London & kills 3,000 Brits in the process, you stand up really proud in your country and advocate for that position.
I happen to feel that it IS "for the common good" - the common good of everyone on the planet, including our British friends - that we indulge the guys that did it (and with every effort possible, ONLY the guys that did it) their desire to meet Allah & collect their 70 raisins.
JMO, of course ...
Posted by: tomk at August 3, 2010 7:30 PM
dr,
dreoilin: "I'm intrigued by the fact that he can't give a simple Yes or No to my question about whether he's ever been involved with Tishman Realty & Construction. It's a very straightforward question, which for some reason he seems afraid to answer."
tomk: LoL.
Perhaps you might be "intrigued" to reacquaint yourself with the definition of the verb "ignore".
It's a very straightforward concept.
Posted by: tomk at August 3, 2010 7:35 PM
"(and with every effort possible, ONLY the guys that did it)"
Jesus Christ on a bike ...
1.3 million Iraqis were ONLY the guys who did it. Yeah right.
"the common good of everyone on the planet"
which is none of his frickin business.
Knew it. He's probably patrolling the Arizona border when he's not listening to Glenn Beck.
So much for tomk. Bye bye tommy! Have a nice life.
Posted by: dreoilin at August 3, 2010 7:41 PM
Glenn, and some others, it seems to me that you are engaged here in a total waste of time.
You are arguing with shills whose job it is to rubbish any argument that questions the official 9/11 conspiracy theory according to which the attacks of 9/11 were undertaken by 19 Muslims with box cutters.
Are they paid by the word? Do they do it for love of Israel? I don’t know. But there objective is clearly to overwhelm arguments counter to the official 9/11 conspiracy theory with lies, nonsense and by sheer mass of verbiage, demoralizing the opposition in the process, by any means including jeers and insults.
Angrysoba, for example, heads his blog page thus:
“angrysoba
An NWO shill and footsoldier for the 9/11 Lies Movement”
An honest shill, apparently, although by describing himself as a “footsoldier for the 9/11 Lies Movement” he is likely engaging in a Jesuitical exercise in moral exculpation: I didn’t really lie to you since I told you I am a liar.
Larry from Saint Louis is mainly concerned with protecting the Zionist interest it seems, so his close attention to the 9/11 question is consistent with evidence that the Israelis (Joos, as Larry might say) did 9/11, although with involvement of Pakistan’s ISI and probably some Saudis, quite likely members of the Bin Laden family, to obscure the trail – all subject to oversight by some agency of the US Government.
Tomk, is just a classic blatherskite, intent on overwhelming the opposition with a multitude lies (Building 7 took 20 seconds to collapse, he says) and outright nonsense (disproving Newton’s theory of the conservation of momentum and arguing that only the curtain wall of Building 7 fell at free-fall speed).
Then there’s Craig Murray. What does he know of 9/11? From his comment at the head of this thread, it seems he knows essentially nothing and what he knows is wrong, a fact that raises interesting questions. Why does Murray not keep his mouth shut on a vitally important topic about which he knows nothing? Conceit, which leads him to make stupid statements that expose him to ridicule? Or is Murray just another high profile shill, like Noam Chomsky?
Without an honest and competent forensic and judicial investigation, there will never be an account of 9/11 that fully satisfies all reasonable and well-informed people. Those who think the question is important will have to decide on for themselves after making their own diligent investigation, during which they will find themselves constantly misdirected by liars and nutters.
Among issues that an inquirer would do well to consider are:
(1) The Project for a New American Century’s September 2000 report “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” (signed by Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and other Neocons), which indicates the need for: “some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor" to persuade the American public of the need for an arms build up that would prevent any nation challenging US dominance.
(2) George Bush’s 9/11 diary entry: “"The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today."
(3) The failure of the US Government to instigate forensic and judicial investigations to determine responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.
(4) The total failure of US air defenses on 9/11 and the failure of the Administration to hold anyone responsible for that failure.
(5) Larry Silverstein’s statement concerning WTC7 that “they decided to pull it … and we watched the building come down.”
(6) NIST’s acknowledgment that Building 7 was in free-fall for 2.25 seconds.
(7) The report by competent scientists in a peer-reviewed journal of thermite and thermite residues in WTC dust samples.
(8) Molten steel in the basement of the collapsed WTC towers days and weeks after 9/11.
(9) The large number of scientists, engineers, architects, politicians and scholars who reject the US Government’s 9/11 conspiracy theory that attributes responsibility for the execution of 9/11 to 19 alleged Muslims with box cutters.
(10) And much more could be added. But one thing is certain. Debating the question with shills and liars is unlikely to bring one no closer to the truth.
Posted by: at August 3, 2010 8:19 PM
Well, Anonymous, let's start with your first point about PNAC, and the business about an arms build-up. Prove it, you idiot. And try not to link to conspiracy sites.
You people will believe anything, as long as fellow truthers say it.
Craig Murray previously identified you people as "conspiraloons". I wonder what he'd call you now - perhaps "desperate, pathetic, uneducated conspiraloons".
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at August 3, 2010 9:36 PM
dreoilin, once again, stop being such a cunt.
Posted by: Larry from St. Louis at August 3, 2010 9:40 PM
Anon above on 3/8, 8:19PM: Very good post. But I would say something
in Craig Murray's defence. True, he probably doesn't know anything
about it. But he knows that it's a major distraction, and wind-ups
(by trolls and shills that infest this blog) were bringing it up all
the time to derail many other discussions on human rights that Craig
is primarily concerned about. Finally, CM said "No more discussing
9/11 - that topic is now off-limits here." After some reflection,
CM said that it's only f


