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European People Do Not Want Foreign Rule – Governments Do

2008-06-13T09:14:00.000-07:00

Ireland Says "NO!"

The only things that vote yes are governments. All popular votes on the EU have failed. When will the rulers learn and step down?
It was only a few weeks ago that both the French President Sarkozy and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi were getting ready to start up a new EU army to back up their new federal government in Brussels. Now all this is dashed to the rocks as the Irish, the only people allowed to vote on the Lisbon Treaty resoundingly trashed it.

The Irish understand the EU will be making laws that Irish must follow and that the Irish will have no vote, no say, nothing to do with the laws being made. Further they understand the to allow laws to come from Brussels would mean they no longer could have their own Independence.

At risk for the Irish were their cultural heritage, local laws that conflict with the EU, and even foods allowed to market – all the laws now controlled by appointed lawmakers who have immunity for any crimes they commit while ruling. A fixed game if ever there was.

For an example the government of Spain will not allow the recently striking truckers to set a minimum wage for their work. The Spanish government tells the Spanish people it would be against the EU laws. Spanish law is only for administering fines and making their subjects comply with European law and not for actual law making. The Spanish people may finally wake up to what the royals were doing when they secretly sold their subjects to the new European order through parliament ratification rather than allowing their subjects to read, understand and vote on the rule by foreign nationals. Strikes in Spain used to have effect and gave people the right to redress the way they were governed, now they can protest but in vain. Spain cannot change laws and no one in Europe elects the people in the EU who do. They are appointed!

Now we will watch as the rulers scramble to cash in some other way on the federal law concept. Perhaps now the European people will take a new track and go to freedom from oppression. Governments create Borders and problems. Get rid of them and have a moderating commission that will not create a EU Army like Sarkozy and Berlusconi are hoping for but a world without governments vying for subsidized armies paid with money made off the sweat of their subjects.

According to Kathy Sinnott, independent MEP and fervent opponent of the Lisbon treaty, the French government is keeping a promised blueprint on European defense and security secret until after the crucial vote.

"The French white paper on EU defense has been ready for release since May, but the French government are withholding it until after the Irish referendum," the MEP said, demanding that the text be released immediately.

Less is more EU! Stop interfering with people moving around and working and stop playing with the currency. Stop trying to tell everyone how to live, what is education, what is good and what is bad. You could not even define a woman and call them the “lesser sex.” What is right with you? Nothing, absolutely nothing. There is no reason to create a new more powerful law making body while you still have 26 enslaving you already. Why would anyone want to allow their elected officials to hand off their responsibilities to appointed immune private interests? Stop the EU!

James Brewster, Office Boy, Cuts off 911 Eyewitness Truth

2008-02-04T15:35:00.000-08:00

Jim Brewster, the guy who holds the website and sells DVD's and truth at $10,000 a pop just closed down the 911 Eyewitness truth site. Jim Brewster has deleted all the access to the sites and all pages. Leaving only the site selling the 911 eyewitness DVDs in English and Japanese and the truth at $10,000 a pop and this one alive.

Jim Brewster has worked hard with Sofia Shafquat to dilute the evidence and content in the video done by Richard A. Siegel. Brewster has worked with Sofia to further her effort to sell the product into a conspiracy market even after her fraudulent presentation was brought to light.

Jim Brewster was blamed as giving Sofia rights but when asked Jim Brewster would not tell her he did not have them nor talk to the owner of the rights. Instead he just kept selling the DVD. This time stopping to send any payments to the owners. It looks like Jim Brewster had a hand in manufacturing the disks for Sofia of 911 Mysteries and profited handsomely from it.

This is the last site that we put our words out was http://www.911citizenscourt.com and he ruined that tonight. This all brought to a shambles by the immoral subterfuge of James Brewster and Sofia Shafquat.

Jim Brewster, you are a sham and a jelly spine whiney fish of a human. You are despicable and your ill-gotten gains will be like a stain on your life. Reap what you have sown my friend.

UK Police to Take Fingerprints At Roadside Stops

2006-11-22T16:19:00.000-08:00

Motorists who get stopped by the police could have their fingerprints taken at the roadside, under a new plan to help officers check people's identities. And so it begins..

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Eliot Spitzer Offers WiFi Scam to NY Voters as Governor

2006-11-01T00:37:00.000-08:00

With a giant pyramid scam at the center you will be surprised to find the keeper of laws flaunting a European pyramid wealth building WiFi company on their political ticket to the Governor race in New York. Even more surprising are the people who have "equity positions" in this pyramid scam.

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NYC TV Brings New York Stories to World

2006-09-24T07:19:00.000-07:00

NYCTV the Mother of All Conspiracy Sites

It was only a couple weeks ago we found this great new site called NYCTV.com on the Internet. It started with a bang for the September 11 anniversary and soared outward to bring some breaking stories.

NYC TV broke the recent story at Fresh Kills of the radioactive findings and was actually censored off of Shoutwire probably because it had no backup at that time. Several days later the mass media was forced to report and the story was allowed to continue again.

We think this site has some real promise and hope they keep up the cutting edge stories and increase their video offerings. So far there are some film offerings but we want to see some news features and stories! Come on guys!

Give NYC TV a visit! NYC TV

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Agents Infiltrate Wikipedia To Delete 911 Eyewitness

2006-03-23T15:23:00.000-08:00

Agents try to remove 911 Eyewitness from Wikipedia!

In an effort to silence the most provocative and authoritative documentary yet released the agents have wasted no time to try and remove the listing from the public Encyclopedia. Too much evidence for them! We need your help to keep it on there.

It is obvious that 911 Eyewitness is a powerful DVD and the evidence is damning. Agents bent on getting any information on an award winning documentary from the publics notice are infiltrating Wikipedia. As the film shows through the USA and the world to wild acclaim the few fanatics implanted in the public encyclopedia are slamming the people doing the edit as a means to delete the content totally.

We still have to see if the agents control Wikipedia or are it really independent and fair. When a film of the stature of

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911 Blues Tour - Restore the Republic

2006-02-22T09:10:00.000-08:00

Want To Be Part of the Next Big Tour?
We want to know about you!

There is a new project happening called the 911 Blues Tour.

The blues comes from the heart and soul of our beings. When confronting the truth and evidence of the criminal activities surrounding the 911 demolitions in NYC along side a direct attack on our nations military headquarters in the nations capital, there is no other place for ones soul

This tour is being created to bring awareness of the problems Americans are now confronted with. Private and corporate cabals have taken over our government and country, they are committing international terror, murdering and enslaving populations. They are committing criminal acts around the world in the name of the United States and ?We the People? are and will be paying the price.

So, this is about standing up for our rights, bringing the people together to hear cool music, show them the films, hand them the literature, talk to them, get them to be active and bring them all to NYC for 9/11/2006 for a rally to restore our Republic.

I want to try and bring the tour from New York City at the end of May to California and back to NYC by 9/11. Covering the north across the top, and the south on the way back and up the east coast. We want to stop in every town and drop down a 40' rig stage on wheels and rock, rap, and roll the information into the American hearts.

Yep, this is not about taking some big name band bounding around the country to reap in huge profits. This is about word up. 911Eyewitness says it up front, bombs in the building and no investigation. I think you know the crimes I think we know it is the time.

So, we are looking for bands, and MusicTV (in its tenth year anniversary) is sponsoring the tour. If you have a band, a production facility, and mobile crew, gear and are willing to help and get involved, 911 Blues Tour wants to hear from you.

Go to their website now and sign in! Time for a change, Time for you to take part in that change.

911 Blues Tour.

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Oscar Awards to 911 Eyewitness Documentary of the Year

2006-01-05T12:47:00.000-08:00

Portland Independent Media Awards
911 Eyewitness DVD Documentary of the Year.
9/11"truthseeker" Oscars 2005

Best 9/11 'documentary' of the year:
Rick Siegel- 911EyeWitness(.com)

“May I just say thank you to the truth seekers for this tribute to my work and the teams research efforts. If this can bring about the investigation to the deaths of 2000+ people in NYC that day and end the misery of the victims and the questions within the nation, I will have more riches than any man could count.” Rick Siegel at letsroll911.org forums

With the release of my works alongside that of researchers from around the globe this last 911 anniversary in New York City a wave has been building. My pleasure in providing my raw footage from that day to the truth seekers is only overshadowed by the same feelings I had posting them that morning of September 11, 2001 on the OnlineTV.com web site.

The raw digital video shows all too clearly problems that have never been answered in the government’s restricted investigation into their own inability to communicate effectively enough to protect the country. That is the only real job they are supposed to be doing and they are too busy playing games. That is a crime against all Americans. It is an affront to the memory of the 2000+ human beings that perished that their deaths were not investigated with the same fervor that any mass murder might get. In fact, what we got were the bizzaro worlds version of how to conduct a murder investigation.

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911 Unsung Heroes A Salute

2005-12-03T08:40:00.000-08:00

There are two real heroes in the release of the 911eyewitness DVD saga, that is, the unsung heroes in this release. I should like to pay homage to each now for their parts in bringing the works to you all.

If it were not for these two men, I would be still just living my own freedom and liberty without any care to bring awareness to those that will not see the frauds before or choose to ignore them.

One of the men was the recently departed Mr. Roger Bunn and the other was Henrik Melvang who rang the bell for me that I had something the world wanted. This is part of the story and a small token of the esteem I hold them both in for awakening me to the worlds problems.

This will probably end up in many parts, because it is a lengthy story to tell, but it will be well worth it for you to read.

Roger Bunn was one of the earth’s better musicians, a legend that never rose to fame through his own drive for a better world. Roger would not sell himself out for anything. As the first bassist for the band Roxy Music he would not “clean up” his face, that is shave the moustache and cut the hair, to go on their first tour. So out went Roger.

When I met Roger in the mid 90’s through Richard Black I was profoundly impressed that he would spend his days on a beat up crappy computer to fight apartheid in South Africa. He wasted so much time on the piece of crap computer I got him a new one so his time was better spent. As the years progressed I found occasion to need somewhere to live, and Roger offered a cluttered closet to me, which I accepted. While already a pretty good guitar fakir myself Roger took me under his foot and started to teach me music. I say under foot because if you did not get it right away that foot was up your bum.

Most important to understand is that living with Roger one was faced that his life was politics and freedom. Freedom and liberty are my life. But his was extended beyond himself. He was more concerned that the world wakeup. Even more so, he understood the Powers and the hold on the world they had. His teaching did not just go into my head at once. No, that would be too easy. It took years before my study in history and his words finally focused into one. The real awakening.

After about 6 years I left for the mountains of Europe to hide from everything, the Powers were going to war with the Arabs and I want no part of such idiocy. My daily conversations never stopped with Roger and right up to his last hours we were constantly exchanging emails. His honor lives on in my fight for Freedom and Liberty for all people from the fraud that is government and the farce that is Credit Banking.

As I lived an American exile, yet a free sovereign in another land Henrik Melvang came into the picture in 2004 I think. The first exchanged were quite amusing. I only came down the 14km to a local Internet place once a week to check email. When I say I live in the mountains, it is a village so small the closest police station is 14km away, so it is way in the mountains. Well, the exchange just to find out who we were took on a couple weeks. “Are you the real Rick Siegel that did the tape of the 911 Trade Towers?” “Who wants to know and why” “Well, are you the real one or not?” “Well who are you that wants to know” it was very funny. Finally Henrik started to explain.

So, for the first time I started to look again at what I had done. Henrik gave me a few websites to look at and I perused them. Wow, this is great! People were seeing there was a reason to be disturbed about 911! I saw that my video I shot and put on the Internet was used on almost all the sites examining the conspiracy that surrounded those events. Hell, I didn’t know I had anything important.

So, I told Henrik, no problem, I would be happy to let anyone have it. My interest in freedom and liberty for everyone was well served in that. One problem, the tapes were stored with 6000 others in my archives in New York City and I had no intention of returning to a police state where my views of freedom were quite different than those with the guns.

OH oh, Feb 2004 and the hosting company, Stealth Communications, turns off my computers and steals them. The DOD (Department of Defense)had just heavily invested Stealth by the way right after 911. The files that the world had used to show the problems with 911 were wiped off the net by Stealth. They went through no due process to confiscate and dispose of my property; they were a law unto themselves. I sent people to get them who were turned back. I told them to go again with police, and that did not help. I sent a lawyer and they told them they were gone. Someone should help sue these guys for that! Bastards! This JUST as email for Henrik and I to get the tapes to the researchers.

Well, I am very poor now as my income was from the web servers that were confiscated. I can’t leave anywhere now even to get them. Henrik gets a mysterious eastern connection who wants to make a DVD with the researchers using the original footage. As we all noted the old files on the Internet were not showing all the details in their compressed format. The original was from a Sony 900 with 3ccd and 16bit stereo mounted on a tripod with a shotgun microphone on the pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. The detail would be important.

Tired of writing, I must take a break and will continue later.

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The Pledge of Allegiance Defiled Through History

2005-11-27T03:36:00.000-08:00

The Pledge of Allegiance Defiled Through History

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the united states of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Information Please Almanac 1949

Do you notice something missing you were trained to say? Perhaps you did not know that the states of American once united were, as the fraudsters in Germany and France are trying to do to the nations of Europe with the EU, actually Republics and nations in themselves.

The big missing words we were all trained to insert in that pledge of allegiance was “under God.” How did “God” which is clearly the realm of the cult churches find it’s way into the minds of simple Americans? When did church and state combine?

The insidiousness and relentless pursuit of the church to take part in all activities of government, providing the government with docile sheep in exchange for tax subsidies on their profits, the church has long been sticking its nasty tendrils deeper into the government and the peoples of America. As throughout history it has long been an enemy of the people from their crusades, the onslaught of the Dark Ages, the Inquisition, the slavery inflicted by the Papal States, morphing into the Holy Roman Empire. As the onslaught of the information ages made it necessary for the efforts to take a more clandestine footprint the Powers and the Church became rivals for the same property and wealth, like a catfight that continues today.

But the American Republic was founded to prevent the cults from abusing the government and blackmailing the people and their servants. Separation of church and state is a founding principle in the American Republic. So why and when did “under God” get in there?

It was 1954; George McCarthy had the people up in arms over Communism. Communism at that time was what we call “liberal democracy” in the corporate United States these days. A birth to death government that handled all your affairs in exchange for more than half your gross production value and full control of your actions and life, the new American age. Under his guidance the church was fully integrated within the educational system through adding “under God” into the pledge. America was not founded “under God” if anything it was founded outside of cults and Americans left the church and their infamous tortures behind to emigrate to the new world for the freedom from the churches it provided.

The original pledge did not even contain the “one Nation” until the civil war and in fact was just an indivisible Republic.

Today you will not hear a politician utter the words Republic. Why I was once told off quite harshly in a forum for suggesting that America was a Republic and told quite affirmatively that the only republic was China. They then questioned if I was a communist! Silly United States subjects do not understand their own history. Most are learned professors of the 10 minutes Fox News segments that propagate the propaganda from the Powers, hypnotically enjoining them to drink another beer, have another look at your favorite sports figure, or check out some girlie bar, while telling you today George Bush and Putin have agreed on “rule of law” and Democracy. America was supposed to be guaranteed a Republic and severely warned about the evils in Democracy. Democracy where a simple mob can rule the masses and disrespect of personal freedom and property can be manipulated into the minds of the masses through media. The corporate president will exclaim everyday how we will force Democracy and “rule of law” on the world when we are supposed to be a Republic with “inalienable rights.”

Wake up American! Time is come to take back the Republic.

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Why Indeed did the WTC Buildings Collapse?

2005-11-17T08:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11017.htm

[see URL for several important photos]

Steven E. Jones, (2006). "Why Indeed did the WTC Buildings Collapse?," The
Hidden History of 9-11-2001, Research in Political Economy, Volume 23, P.
Zarembka, editor, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006.

DRAFT

Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?
By Steven E. Jones
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84604

ABSTRACT

In writing this paper, I call for a serious investigation of the hypothesis
that WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by damage and
fires, but through the use of pre-positioned explosives. I consider the
official FEMA, NIST, and 9-11 Commission reports that fires plus damage
alone caused complete collapses of all three buildings. And I present
evidence for the explosive-demolition hypothesis, which is suggested by the
available data, testable and falsifiable, and yet has not been analyzed in
any of the reports funded by the US government.

Let's start with the collapse of the 47-story WTC 7, which was never hit by
a jet. I ask you to take a minute to look at the collapse of this building
as a basis for discussion.

[photos]
WTC 7: 47 - Story, steel-frame building..

WTC 7 on afternoon of 9-11-01. WTC 7 is the tall

sky-scraper in the back-ground, right. Seen from WTC 1 area.

WTC 7 collapsed completely, onto its own footprint

Now that you have seen the still photographs, it is important to the
discussion which follows for you to observe video clips of the collapse of
this building, so go to:

http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/videos.html Click on the three
photos at the top of this web-site page in order to see the videos of the
collapse of WTC 7. It helps to have sound.

Then consider a video close-up of the same building (SW corner) as its
demise begins:

squibs

What did you observe?

Symmetry: did the building collapse straight down (nearly symmetrically)
or did it topple over?

Speed: How fast did the building fall? (Students and I measure less than
6.6 seconds; time it!)

Smoke/debris-jets: Did you observe puffs of smoke/debris coming out of the
building? Please note for yourself the sequence and fast timing of
observed puffs or "squibs." Note that reference to web pages is used in
this paper due largely to the importance of viewing motion picture clips,
thus enhancing consideration of the laws of motion and physics
generally. High-quality photographs showing details of the collapses of
WTC 7 and the WTC Towers can be found in books (Hufschmid, 2002; Paul and
Hoffman, 2004), magazines (Hoffman, 2005; Baker, 2005) and at
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/collapses.html.

My reasons for advancing the explosive-demolition hypothesis while
challenging the "official" fire-caused collapse hypothesis are these:

1. As you observed, WTC 7 collapsed rapidly and symmetrically -- even
though fires were randomly scattered in the building. WTC 7 fell about
seven hours after the Towers collapsed, even though no major persistent
fires were visible. There were twenty-four huge steel support columns
inside WTC 7 as well as huge trusses, arranged asymmetrically, along with
approximately 57 perimeter columns. (FEMA, 2002, chapter 5.) A symmetrical
collapse, as observed, evidently requires the simultaneous "pulling" of
most or all of the support columns. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
implies that the likelihood of complete and symmetrical collapse due to
random fires as in the "official" theory is small, since asymmetrical
failure is so much more likely. On the other hand, a major goal of
controlled demolition using explosives is the complete and symmetrical
collapse of buildings.

Concluding remarks in the FEMA report on the WTC 7 collapse lend support to
my arguments:

The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to
collapse ["official theory"] remain unknown at this time. Although the
total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the
best hypothesis [fire/damage-caused collapse] has only a low probability of
occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to
resolve this issue. (FEMA, 2002, chapter 5; emphasis added.)

That is precisely my point: further investigation and analyses are needed,
including consideration of the controlled-demolition hypothesis which is
neglected in all of the government reports (FEMA, NIST and 9-11 Commission
reports). Note that the 9-11 Commission report does not even mention the
collapse of WTC 7 on 9-11-01. (Commission, 2004) This is a striking
omission of data highly relevant to the question of what really happened on
9-11.

2. A New York Times article entitled "Engineers are baffled over the
collapse of 7 WTC; Steel members have been partly evaporated," provides
relevant data.

Experts said no building like it [WTC7], a modern, steel-reinforced
high-rise, had ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire. (Glanz,
2001; emphasis added.)

That's correct no such steel-beam building had ever before (or since)
completely collapsed due to fires! However, such complete, symmetrical
collapses have indeed occurred many times before -- all of them due to
pre-positioned explosives in a procedure called "implosion" or controlled
demolition. What a surprise, then, for such an occurrence in downtown
Manhattan- three skyscrapers completely collapsed on the same day,
September 11, 2001.

Engineers have been trying to figure out exactly what happened and whether
they should be worried about other buildings like it around the country.
Most of the other buildings in the [area] stood despite suffering damage of
all kinds, including fire... 'Fire and the structural damage .would not
explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been partly
evaporated', Dr. [Jonathan] Barnett said. (Glanz, 2001; emphasis added.)

The observed "partly evaporated" steel members is particularly upsetting to
the official theory, since fires involving paper, office materials, even
diesel fuel, cannot generate temperatures anywhere near the 5,000+ oF
needed to "evaporate" steel. However, thermite, RDX and other
commonly-used explosives can readily slice through steel (thus cutting the
support columns simultaneously in an explosive demolition) and reach the
required temperatures. (It is possible that some other chemical reactions
were involved which might proceed at lesser temperatures.) This mystery
needs to be explored but is not mentioned in the "official" 9-11
Commission or NIST reports.

3. There are several published observations of molten metal in the
basements of all three buildings, WTC 1, 2 ("Twin Towers") and 7. For
example, Dr. Keith Eaton toured Ground Zero and stated in The Structural
Engineer,

'They showed us many fascinating slides' [Eaton] continued, 'ranging from
molten metal which was still red hot weeks after the event, to 4-inch thick
steel plates sheared and bent in the disaster'. (Structural Engineer,
September 3, 2002, p. 6; emphasis added.)

The observation of molten metal at Ground Zero was emphasized publicly by
Leslie Robertson, the structural engineer responsible for the design of the
World Trade Center Towers, who reported that "As of 21 days after the
attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still
running." (Williams, 2001, p. 3; emphasis added.)

Sarah Atlas was part of New Jersey's Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue
and was one of the first on the scene at Ground Zero with her canine
partner Anna. She reported in Penn Arts and Sciences, summer 2002,

'Nobody's going to be alive.' Fires burned and molten steel flowed in the
pile of ruins still settling beneath her feet. (Penn, 2002; emphasis added.)

Dr. Allison Geyh was one of a team of public health investigators from
Johns Hopkins who visited the WTC site after 9-11. She reported in the Late
Fall 2001 issue of Magazine of Johns Hopkins Public Health, "In some
pockets now being uncovered they are finding molten steel." Further
information on the subject is available at
HERE.

Thus, molten metal was repeatedly observed and formally reported in the
rubble piles of the WTC Towers and WTC 7, metal that looked like molten
steel. However, scientific analysis, using for example X-ray fluorescence,
would be needed to ascertain the actual composition of the molten metal.

I maintain that these published observations are consistent with the use of
the high-temperature thermite reaction, used to cut or demolish
steel. Thermite is a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder. The end
products of the thermite reaction are aluminum oxide and molten iron. So
the thermite reaction generates molten iron directly, and is hot enough to
melt and even evaporate steel which it contacts while reacting. On the
other hand, falling buildings (absent explosives) have insufficient
directed energy to result in melting of large quantities of metal. The
government reports admit that the building fires were insufficient to melt
steel beams -- then where did the molten metal come from? Metals expert
Dr. Frank Gayle (working with NIST) stated:

Your gut reaction would be the jet fuel is what made the fire so very
intense, a lot of people figured that's what melted the steel. Indeed it
did not, the steel did not melt. (Field, 2005; emphasis added.)

None of the official reports tackles this mystery. Yet this is evidently a
significant clue to what caused the Towers and WTC 7 to collapse. So I
would very much like to see an analysis of the elemental composition of the
metal, and could do this myself if a small sample were made available
according to scientific courtesy. Any reader who knows of chemical
analyses or even photographs of this molten metal found below the rubble
piles of WTC 1, 2 and 7 is invited to speak out and contact the
author. This could lead to an experiment crucis.

4. Horizontal puffs of smoke and debris are observed emerging from WTC-7 on
upper floors, in regular sequence, just as the building starts to
collapse. (The reader may wish to view the close-up video clip
again.) The upper floors have not moved relative to one another yet, as
one can verify from the videos. In addition, the timing between the puffs
is less than 0.2 seconds so air-expulsion due to collapsing floors is
excluded. Free-fall time for a floor to fall down to the next floor is
significantly longer than 0.2 seconds: the equation for free fall, y = ½
gt2, yields a little over 0.6 seconds, as this is near the initiation of
the collapse.

However, the presence of such "squibs" proceeding up the side of the
building is common when pre-positioned explosives are used, as can be
observed at http://www.implosionworld.com/cinema.html. The same site shows
that rapid timing between explosive squibs is also common. (It is
instructive to view several of the implosion videos at this web
site.) Thus, squibs as observed during the collapse of WTC 7 going up the
side of the building in rapid sequence provide additional significant
evidence for the use of pre-placed explosives. Regarding this
highly-secure building, a NY Times article entitled "Secretive C.I.A. Site
in New York was Destroyed on Sept. 11," provides an intriguing puzzle
piece:

The C.I.A.'s undercover New York station was in the 47-story building at 7
World Trade Center. All of the agency's employees at the site were safely
evacuated. The intelligence agency's employees were able to watch from
their office windows while the twin towers burned just before they
evacuated their own building. (Risen, 2001)

5. The official FEMA 9-11 report admits a striking anomaly regarding the
North Tower collapse:

Review of videotape recordings of the collapse taken from various angles
indicates that the transmission tower on top of the structure began to move
downward and laterally slightly before movement was evident at the exterior
wall. This suggests that collapse began with one or more failures in the
central core area of the building. (FEMA, 2002, chapter 2; emphasis added.)

[photo] North Tower showing antenna (top) at beginning of
collapse.

Yes, we can see for ourselves that the antenna drops first from videos of
the North Tower collapse. (See
HERE;
also http://home.comcast.net/~skydrifter/collapse.htm.) A NY Times article
also notes this behavior:

The building stood for more than an hour and a half. Videos of the north
tower's collapse appear to show that its television antenna began to drop a
fraction of a second before the rest of the building. The observations
suggest that the building's steel core somehow gave way first. (Glanz and
Lipton, 2002; emphasis added)

But how? What caused the 47 enormous steel core columns of this building
(which supported the antenna) to give way nearly simultaneously? That
mystery was raised by the FEMA report (FEMA, 2002, chapter 2) and the New
York Times (Glanz and Lipton, 2002) yet not solved in any official report
(FEMA, 2002; Commission, 2004; NIST, 2005). The odd behavior was not even
mentioned in the final NIST report (NIST, 2005), but some of us have not
forgotten.

Could random fires burning office materials in the building account for a
near-simultaneous "pulling" of these core supports? Certainly such an event
would have exceedingly low probability. Again, use of pre-positioned
explosives to cut the core columns first (standard demolition practice)
provides a simple yet elegant explanation for the observation, satisfying
the "Occam's razor" test (Jones, 2005).

6. Multiple loud explosions in rapid sequence were heard and reported by
numerous observers in and near the WTC Towers, consistent with explosive
demolition. Firemen and others described flashes and explosions in upper
floors near where the plane entered, and in lower floors of WTC 2 just
prior to its collapse, far below the region where the plane had struck the
tower (Dwyer, 2005). For instance, at the start of the collapse of the
South Tower a Fox News anchor reported:

There is an explosion at the base of the building. white smoke from the
bottom. something happened at the base of the building! Then another
explosion." (De Grand Pre, 2002, emphasis added.)

Firefighter Edward Cachia independently reported:

[We] thought there was like an internal detonation, explosives, because it
went in succession, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down.It
actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit. (Dwyer,
2005; emphasis added.)

And assistant fire commissioner Stephen Gregory provides additional insights:

When I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down,
before No. 2 came down, ..I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with
Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and
asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed
with him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was. I
mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things
exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the
building came down.

Q. Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?

A. No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish
a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's
what I thought I saw. And I didn't broach the topic to him, but he asked
me. He said I don't know if I'm crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because
you were standing right next to me. He said did you see any flashes? I
said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them,
too. (Dwyer, 2005, Assistant Commissioner Stephen Gregory FDNY WCT2 File
No. 91 10008; emphasis added.)

It is highly unlikely that jet fuel was present to generate such
explosions especially on lower floors, and long after the planes hit the
buildings. Dr. Shyam Sunder, Lead Investigator for NIST stated: "The jet
fuel probably burned out in less than 10 minutes." (Field, 2005) On the
other hand, pre-positioned explosives provide a plausible and simple
explanation for the observations, satisfying Occam's razor (Jones,
2005). Thus, it cannot be said that "no evidence" can be found for the use
of explosives. This serious matter needs to be treated as a plausible
scientific hypothesis and thoroughly investigated.

7. The horizontal ejection of steel beams for hundreds of feet and the
pulverization of concrete to flour-like powder, observed clearly in the
collapses of the WTC towers, provides further evidence for the use of
explosives as well-explained in
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/towers/index.html. (See also, Griffin,
2004, chapter 2.)

[photo] North Tower during top-down collapse.

Notice mysterious squibs far below pulverization region.

Unlike WTC7, the twin towers appear to have been exploded "top-down" rather
than proceeding from the bottom which is unusual for controlled
demolition but clearly possible, depending on the order in which explosives
are detonated. That is, explosives may have been placed on higher floors of
the towers and exploded via radio signals so as to have early explosions
near the region where the plane entered the tower. Certainly this
hypothesis ought to be seriously considered in an independent investigation
using all available data.

8. I totally agree with the urgent yet reasoned assessment of expert
fire-protection engineers, as boldly editorialized in the journal Fire
Engineering:

Respected members of the fire protection engineering community are
beginning to raise red flags, and a resonating [result] has emerged: The
structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in
themselves were not enough to bring down the towers.

Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the "official
investigation" blessed by FEMA. is a half-baked farce that may already have
been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it
mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal
benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites
conducted by ASCE investigation committee members- described by one close
source as a "tourist trip"-no one's checking the evidence for anything.

Some citizens are taking to the streets to protest the investigation
sellout. Sally Regenhard, for one, wants to know why and how the building
fell as it did upon her unfortunate son Christian, an FDNY probationary
firefighter. And so do we.

Clearly, there are burning questions that need answers. Based on the
incident's magnitude alone, a full-throttle, fully resourced, forensic
investigation is imperative. More important, from a moral standpoint, [are
considerations] for the. present and future generations. (Manning, 2002;
emphasis added).

9. The occurrence of nearly symmetrical, straight-down and complete
collapses of the WTC 7 and the Towers is particularly upsetting to the
"official" theory that random fires plus damage caused all these
collapses. Even with explosives, achieving such results requires a great
deal of pre-planning and expertise.

The main challenge in bringing a building down is controlling which way it
falls. Ideally, a blasting crew will be able to tumble the building over on
one side, into a parking lot or other open area. This sort of blast is the
easiest to execute [favored by the Law of Increasing Entropy]. Tipping a
building over is something like felling a tree. To topple the building to
the north, the blasters detonate explosives on the north side of the
building first.

Sometimes, though, a building is surrounded by structures that must be
preserved. In this case, the blasters proceed with a true implosion,
demolishing the building so that it collapses straight down into its own
footprint (the total area at the base of the building). This feat requires
such skill that only a handful of demolition companies in the world will
attempt it. [Again, consistent with the Second Law of Thermodynamics.]

Blasters approach each project a little differently... [A good] option is
to detonate the columns at the center of the building before the other
columns so that the building's sides fall inward. (Harris, 2000; emphasis
added.)

Careful observation of the collapse of WTC 7 (video clips above)
demonstrates a downward "kink" near the center of the building first,
suggesting "pulling" of the support columns, then the building's sides pull
inward such that the building "collapses straight down into its own
footprint" (Harris, 2000). FEMA admitted that WTC 7 collapsed onto a
well-confined footprint:

The collapse of WTC 7 had a small debris field as the facade was pulled
downward, suggesting an internal failure and implosion. The average debris
field radius was approximately 70 feet. (FEMA, 2002, chapter 5.)

Evidently we agree that this was a beautifully done implosion in the
collapse of WTC 7, and yet:

This feat requires such skill that only a handful of demolition companies
in the world will attempt it. (Harris, 2000; emphasis added.)

Consider: Why would terrorists undertake straight-down collapses of WTC7
and the Towers, when "toppling-over" falls would require much less work and
would do much more damage in downtown Manhattan? And where would they
obtain the necessary skills and access to the buildings for a symmetrical
implosion anyway? The "symmetry data" emphasized here, along with other
data, provide strong evidence for an "inside job." Proof would require
additional investigation and questioning of suspects outside of Al Qaeda.

One of the people a thorough investigation should question under oath would
be demolition expert Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition,
Inc. Speaking of the way the WTC buildings came down, he said in an
interview: "If I were to bring the towers down, I would put explosives in
the basement to get the weight of the building to help collapse the
structure." (Bollyn, 2002; emphasis added.)

Just right "explosives in the basement" agrees with eyewitness reports of
explosions down low in the buildings (point 6 above). Also, this would be
the way to effectively sever the support columns, consistent with both the
initial drop of the communication tower (WTC Tower 1) and the "kink" in the
middle of WTC 7 as its collapse began. Yes, and as president of Controlled
Demolition, Inc., Mr. Loizeaux would know the "handful of demolition
companies in the world [that] will attempt" a symmetrical controlled
demolition. (Harris, 2000) His company is certainly one of these and was
hired to do the rapid clean-up work following the building collapses. A
thorough investigation might also query the owner of WTC7, who received
billions in insurance monies due to the demise of the WTC buildings on
9-11. (Paul and Hoffman, 2004, p. 17)

If you still haven't looked at the rapid symmetrical collapse of WTC7 for
yourself, why not do so now? Watch for the initial "kink" or drop in the
middle, and for the "squibs" blowing in sequence up the side of the
building, and notice the symmetrical, straight-down collapse -- all so
common in controlled demolitions. See for yourself
at: http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/videos.html. A great deal of
further information is presented from a serious scientific point-of-view at
this site (http://911research.wtc7.net/).

10. I presented my objections to the "official" theory at a seminar at BYU
on September 22, 2005, to about sixty people. I also showed evidence and
scientific arguments for the explosive demolition theory. In attendance
were faculty from Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, Psychology, Geology, and Mathematics and perhaps
other departments as I did not recognize all of the people present. Two
local universities were represented (BYU and Utah Valley State College).

The discussion was vigorous and lasted nearly two hours. It ended only
when a university class needed the room. After presenting the material
summarized here, including actually looking at and discussing the collapses
of WTC 7 and the Towers, all except one attendee agreed (by hand-vote) that
further investigation of the WTC collapses was called for. The next day,
the dissenting professor said he had further thought about it and now
agreed that more investigation was needed. He joined the others in hoping
that the 6,899 photographs and 6,977 segments of video footage held by NIST
plus others held by the FBI would be released for independent scrutiny;
photos largely from private photographers (NIST, 2005, p. 81). We call
for the release of these data to a cross-disciplinary, preferably
international team of scientists and engineers.

11. One attendee to the BYU Seminar on 9-11 anomalies suggested I review
the paper by Bazant and Zhou, which I did. Quoting:

The 110-story towers of the World Trade Center were designed to withstand
as a whole the forces caused by a horizontal impact of a large commercial
aircraft. So why did a total collapse occur? (Bazant and Zhou, 2002, p. 2.)

Correct jet collisions did not cause collapses we can agree on
that. MIT's Thomas Eager also concurs "because the number of columns lost
on the initial impact was not large and the loads were shifted to remaining
columns in this highly redundant structure" (Eager and Musso, 2001).

We continue with Bazant & Zhou:

The conflagration, caused by the aircraft fuel spilled into the structure,
causes the steel of the columns to be exposed to sustained temperatures
apparently exceeding 800oC. (Bazant and Zhou, 2002, p. 2.)
But here we note from the recent NIST report that: "The initial jet fuel
fires themselves lasted at most a few minutes" and office material fires
would burn out within about 20 minutes in a given location. (NIST, 2005; p.
179, emphasis added.) Certainly jet fuel burning was not enough to raise
steel to sustained temperatures above 800oC. But we continue:

Once more than half of the columns in the critical floor.. suffer buckling
(stage 3), the weight of the upper part of the structure above this floor
can no longer be supported, and so the upper part starts falling down onto
the lower part below."(Bazant and Zhou, 2002, p. 2.)

Hold on Bazant & Zhou do not explain how "more than half of the columns
in the critical floor [can] suffer buckling" at the same time to
precipitate the complete and nearly symmetrical collapse observed. There
were 47 huge steel core columns in each Tower, and 24 such support columns
in WTC 7 (NIST 2005; NISTb, 2005).

[photo] The WTC towers were solidly constructed with 47 steel core

columns and 240 perimeter steel beams. 287 steel-columns total.

Many doubt that random fires/damage could cause them to

collapse straight down (official theory), and suspect explosives.

Steel-frame: Huge core (left), enormous Heat Sink. Notice workers
standing on floor pan which is firmly attached to the interconnected core
columns.

They do NOT explain how steel-column temperatures above 800oC were achieved
near-simultaneously due to burning office materials. NIST notes that
office materials in an area burn for about 15-20 minutes, then are consumed
away (NIST, 2005, pp. 117, 179). This is evidently not long enough to
raise steel column temperatures above 800oC as required in the Bazant &
Zhou model, given the enormous heat sinks of the structures. And to have
three buildings completely collapse due to this unlikely mechanism on the
same day strains credulity. Moreover, the Final NIST report on the Towers
admits:

Of the more than 170 areas examined on 16 perimeter column panels, only
three columns had evidence that the steel reached temperatures above 250ºC.
Only two core column specimens had sufficient paint remaining to make such
an analysis, and their temperatures did not reach 250 ºC. ... Using
metallographic analysis, NIST determined that there was no evidence that
any of the samples had reached temperatures above 600 ºC. (NIST, 2005, pp.
176-177; emphasis added.)

As for WTC 7, Bazant & Zhou say little but mention in a separate "addendum"
that burning natural gas might have been a source of the needed heat
(Bazant and Zhou, March 2002, p. 370). The FEMA report (FEMA, 2002)
addresses this issue:

Early news reports had indicated that a high pressure, 24-inch gas main was
located in the vicinity of the building [WTC 7]; however, this proved not
to be true." (FEMA, 2002, chapter 5; emphasis added)

12. I have read through the hundreds of pages of the Final NIST report on
the collapses of the WTC Towers. (NIST, 2005) It is interesting to note
that NIST "decoupled" and delayed their final report on WTC 7, which is
overdue as of this writing (NIST, 2005; NISTb, 2005) I agree with some of
the NIST report; for example:

Both WTC 1 and WTC 2 were stable after the aircraft impact, standing for
102 min and 56 min, respectively. The global analyses with structural
impact damage showed that both towers had considerable reserve
capacity. This was confirmed by analysis of the post-impact vibration of
WTC 2. where the damaged tower oscillated at a period nearly equal to the
first mode period calculated for the undamaged structure. (NIST, 2005, p.
144; emphasis added.)

At any given location, the duration of [air, not steel] temperatures near
1,000oC was about 15 min to 20 min. The rest of the time, the calculated
temperatures were near 500oC or below." (NIST, 2005, p. 127, emphasis added.)

NIST contracted with Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. to conduct tests to
obtain information on the fire endurance of trusses like those in the WTC
towers. All four test specimens sustained the maximum design load for
approximately 2 hours without collapsing." (NIST, 2005, p. 140, emphasis
added.)

However, I along with others challenge NIST's collapse theory. NIST
maintains that all three building collapses were fire-initiated despite the
observations above, particularly the fact that fire endurance tests with
actual models did not result in collapse. In a paper by fire-engineering
experts in the UK, we find:

The basis of NIST's collapse theory is. column behaviour in
fire... However, we believe that a considerable difference in downward
displace between the [47] core and [240] perimeter columns, much greater
than the 300 mm proposed, is required for the collapse theory to hold true.
[Our] lower reliance on passive fire protection is in contrast to the NIST
work where the amount of fire protection on the truss elements is believed
to be a significant factor in defining the time to collapse. The [proposed
effect] is swamped by thermal expansion . Thermal expansion and the
response of the whole frame to this effect has NOT been described as yet
[by NIST]. (Lane and Lamont, 2005.)

I agree with these pointed objections, particularly that the "response of
the whole frame" of each building should be considered, especially heat
transport to the whole frame from localized fires, and that the "core
columns cannot pull the exterior columns in via the floor." (Lane and
Lamont, 2005)

The computerized models of the Towers in the NIST study, which incorporate
many features of the buildings and the fires on 9-11-01, are less than
convincing. The Final report states:

The Investigation Team then defined three cases for each building by
combining the middle, less severe, and more severe values of the
influential variables. Upon a preliminary examination of the middle cases,
it became clear that the towers would likely remain standing. The less
severe cases were discarded after the aircraft impact results were compared
to observed events. The middle cases (which became Case A for WTC 1 and
Case C for WTC 2) were discarded after the structural response analysis of
major subsystems were compared to observed events. (NIST, 2005, p. 142;
emphasis added.)

The NIST report makes for interesting reading. The less severe cases based
on empirical data were discarded because they did not result in building
collapse. But 'we must save the hypothesis,' so more severe cases were
tried and the simulations tweaked, as we read in the NIST report:

The more severe case (which became Case B for WTC 1 and Case D for WTC 2)
was used for the global analysis of each tower. Complete sets of
simulations were then performed for Cases B and D. To the extent that the
simulations deviated from the photographic evidence or eyewitness reports
[e.g., complete collapse occurred], the investigators adjusted the input,
but only within the range of physical reality. Thus, for instance,.the
pulling forces on the perimeter columns by the sagging floors were
adjusted... (NIST, 2005, p. 142; emphasis added.)

The primary role of the floors in the collapse of the towers was to provide
inward pull forces that induced inward bowing of perimeter columns. (NIST,
2005, p. 180; emphasis added.)

How fun to tweak the model like that, until the building collapses -- until
one gets the desired result. But the end result of such tweaked computer
hypotheticals is not compelling, sorry gentlemen. Notice that the "the
pulling forces on the perimeter columns by the sagging floors were
adjusted" (NIST, 2005, p. 142; emphasis added) to get the perimeter columns
to yield sufficiently one suspects these were "adjusted" by hand quite a
bit -- even though the UK experts complained that "the core columns cannot
pull the exterior [i.e., perimeter] columns in via the floor." (Lane and
Lamont, 2005; emphasis added.)

I also agree with Kevin Ryan's objections regarding the NIST study. Kevin
Ryan, at the time a manager at Underwriters Laboratories (UL), makes a
point of the non-collapse of actual WTC-based models in his letter to Frank
Gayle of NIST:

As I'm sure you know, the company I work for certified the steel
components used in the construction of the WTC buildings. In requesting
information from both our CEO and Fire Protection business manager last
year. they suggested we all be patient and understand that UL was working
with your team. I'm aware of UL's attempts to help, including performing
tests on models of the floor assemblies. But the results of these tests.
indicate that the buildings should have easily withstood the thermal stress
caused by. burning [jet fuel, paper, etc.]. (Ryan, 2004)

That models of WTC trusses at Underwriter Laboratories (UL) subjected to
fires did NOT fail is also admitted in the final NIST report:

NIST contracted with Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. to conduct tests to
obtain information on the fire endurance of trusses like those in the WTC
towers.. All four test specimens sustained the maximum design load for
approximately 2 hours without collapsing. The Investigation Team was
cautious about using these results directly in the formulation of collapse
hypotheses. In addition to the scaling issues raised by the test results,
the fires in the towers on September 11, and the resulting exposure of the
floor systems, were substantially different from the conditions in the test
furnaces. Nonetheless, the [empirical test] results established that this
type of assembly was capable of sustaining a large gravity load, without
collapsing, for a substantial period of time relative to the duration of
the fires in any given location on September 11. (NIST, 2005, p. 141;
emphasis added.)

So how does the NIST team justify the WTC collapses, when actual models
fail to collapse and there are zero examples of fire-caused high-rise
collapses? Easy, NIST concocted computer-generated hypotheticals for very
"severe" cases, called cases B and D (NIST, 2005, pp. 124-138). Of
course, the details are rather hidden to us. And they omit consideration
of the complete, rapid and symmetrical nature of the collapses.

Indeed, NIST makes the startling admission in a footnote on page 80 of
their Final Report:

The focus of the Investigation was on the sequence of events from the
instant of aircraft impact to the initiation of collapse for each tower.
For brevity in this report, this sequence is referred to as the "probable
collapse sequence," although it does not actually include the structural
behavior of the tower after the conditions for collapse initiation were
reached...(NIST, 2005, p. 80, fn. 12; emphasis added.)

Again, on page 142, NIST admits that their computer simulation only
proceeds until the building is "poised for collapse", thus ignoring any
data from that time on.

The results were a simulation of the structural deterioration of each tower
from the time of aircraft impact to the time at which the building became
unstable, i.e., was poised for collapse. ...(NIST, 2005, p. 142; emphasis
added.)

What about the subsequent complete, rapid and symmetrical collapse of the
buildings? What about the observed squibs? What about the antenna
dropping first in the North Tower? What about the molten metal observed in
the basement areas in large pools in both Towers and WTC 7 as well? Never
mind all that: NIST did not discuss at all any data after the buildings
were "poised for collapse." Well, some of us want to look at ALL the data,
without computer simulations that are "adjusted" to make them fit the
desired outcome.

13. Kevin Ryan, the whistleblower from Underwriters Laboratories, did his
own statistical analysis in a recent letter regarding the NIST report,
arguing that probabilities of collapse-initiation needed to be calculated
(Ryan, 2005). NIST nowhere provides such a likelihood analysis for their
non-explosive collapse model. Ryan's analysis is that the probability that
fires and damage (the "official theory") could cause the Towers complete
collapse is less than one in a trillion, and the probability is much less
still when the complete collapse of WTC7 is included (Ryan, 2005). Nor
does NIST (or FEMA or the 9-11 Commission) even mention the molten metals
found in the basements of all three buildings (WTC 1, 2 and 7).

So where does that leave us? I strongly agree with Kevin Ryan,

This ["official"] story just does not add up.. That fact should be of
great concern to all Americans.. There is no question that the events of
9/11 are the emotional driving force behind the War on Terror. And the
issue of the WTC collapse is at the crux of the story of 9/11. (Ryan, 2004;
emphasis added.)

14. The NIST team fairly admits that their report "does not actually
include the structural behavior of the tower after the conditions for
collapse initiation were reached." (NIST, 2005, p. 80, fn. 1; emphasis
added.) Quite a confession, since much of the external evidence for
explosive demolition typically comes after collapse initiation, as seen in
cases of acknowledged controlled demolition. (Harris, 2000.)

The rapid fall of the Towers and WTC7 has been analyzed by several
engineers/scientists
(http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/proofs/speed.html; Griffin, 2004,
chapter 2). The roof of WTC 7 (students and I are observing the southwest
corner) falls to earth in less than 6.6 seconds, while an object dropped
from the roof would hit the ground in 6.0 seconds. This follows from t =
(2H/g)1/2. Likewise, the Towers fall very rapidly to the ground, with the
upper part falling nearly as rapidly as ejected debris which provide
free-fall references
(HERE; Griffin, 2004,
chapter 2). Where is the delay that must be expected due to conservation
of momentum one of the foundational Laws of Physics? That is, as
upper-falling floors strike lower floors and intact steel support columns
the fall must be significantly impeded by the impacted mass. If the
central support columns remained standing, then the effective resistive
mass would be less, but this is not the case somehow the enormous support
columns failed/disintegrated along with the falling floor pans.

How do the upper floors fall so quickly, then, and still conserve momentum
in the collapsing buildings? The contradiction is ignored by FEMA, NIST
and 9-11 Commission reports where conservation of momentum and the fall
times were not analyzed. The paradox is easily resolved by the explosive
demolition hypothesis, whereby explosives quickly remove lower-floor
material including steel support columns and allow near free-fall-speed
collapses (Harris, 2000).

And these explosives also readily account for the turning of the falling
Towers to fine dust as the collapse ensues. Rather than a piling up with
shattering of concrete as we might expect from non-explosive-caused
progressive collapse ("official theory"), we find that most of the Towers
material (concrete, carpet, steel, etc.) is converted to flour-like powder
WHILE the buildings are falling. The Towers' collapses are not a typical
implosions, but quite possibly series of "shock-and-awe" explosions at
least the evidence points strongly in this direction. The hypothesis ought
to be explored further.

Those who wish to preserve as inviolate fundamental physical laws may wish
to take a closer look. Consider the collapse of the South WTC Tower on
9-11:
HERE FOR VIDEO

[photo] Top ~ 34 floors of South Tower topple over.

What happens to the block and its angular momentum?

We observe that approximately 34 upper floors begin to rotate as a block,
to the south and east. They begin to topple over, as favored by the Second
Law of Thermodynamics. The torque due to gravity on this block is
enormous, as is its angular momentum. But then and this I'm still
puzzling over this block turned mostly to powder in mid-air! How can we
understand this strange behavior, without explosives? Remarkable, amazing
and demanding scrutiny since the US government-funded reports failed to
analyze this phenomenon. But, of course, the Final NIST 9-11 report "does
not actually include the structural behavior of the tower after the
conditions for collapse initiation were reached." (NIST, 2005, p. 80, fn.
1; emphasis added.)

Indeed, if we seek the truth of the matter, we must NOT ignore the data to
be observed during the actual collapses of the towers, as the NIST team
admits they did. But why did they do such a non-scientific procedure as to
ignore highly-relevant data? The business smacks of political constraints
on what was supposed to be an "open and thorough" investigation. (See
Mooney, 2005.)

So I with others call for an open and thorough investigation. I hope the
international community will rise to the challenge. The field is wide open
for considering the alternative hypothesis outlined here, due to its
neglect by studies funded by the US government.

15. Finally, and by way of review, we consider the variations and
inconsistencies in the fire/damaged-caused collapse models with time. The
earliest model, promoted by various media sources, was that the fires in
the towers were sufficiently hot to actually melt the steel in the
buildings, thus causing their collapse. For example, Chris Wise in a BBC
piece spouted out false notions with great gusto

"It was the fire that killed the buildings. There's nothing on earth that
could survive those temperatures with that amount of fuel burning. The
columns would have melted, the floors would have melted and eventually they
would have collapsed one on top of the other." (quoted in Paul and
Hoffman, 2004, p. 25)

But as we have seen from later serious studies, the jet fuel burned out
within minutes following impact. Recall the statement of expert Dr. Gayle
refuting the notion that fires in the WTC buildings were sufficiently hot
to melt the steel supports:

Your gut reaction would be the jet fuel is what made the fire so very
intense, a lot of people figured that's what melted the steel. Indeed it
did not, the steel did not melt. (Field, 2005; emphasis added)

Then we have the model of Bazant and Zhou, which requires the majority of
the 47 huge steel columns on a floor of each Tower to reach sustained
temperatures of 800oC in order to buckle (not melt) at the same
time. But as we've seen, such temperatures are very difficult to reach
while burning office materials, in these connected steel structures where
the heat is wicked away by heat transport. (Paul and Hoffman, 2004, p.
26) And then to reach the 800oC at the same time, well, no, this scenario
is far too improbable.

So that approach was abandoned by FEMA in the next effort (FEMA,
2002). The FEMA team largely adopted the theory of Dr. Thomas Eager (Eager
and Musso, 2001), which was also presented in the NOVA presentation "Why
the Towers Fell" (NOVA, 2002). Instead of having the columns fail
simultaneously, FEMA has floor pans in the Towers warp due to fires, and
the floor connections to the vertical beams break, and these floor pans
then fall down onto the floor pans below, initiating "progressive collapse"
or pancaking of one floor pan on another. Very simple. But not so fast
what happens to the enormous core columns to which the floors were firmly
attached? Why don't these remain standing like a spindle with the floor
pans falling down around them, since the connections are presumed to have
broken away? This interconnected steel core is founded on bedrock. FEMA
does not totally ignore the core:

As the floors collapsed, this left tall freestanding portions of the
exterior wall and possibly central core columns. As the unsupported height
of these freestanding exterior wall elements increased [no mention of the
huge central core anymore!], they buckled at the bolted column splice
connections and also collapsed." (FEMA. 2002; emphasis added)

This approach finally fails to account for the observed collapse of the 47
interconnected core columns which are massive and designed to bear the
weight of the buildings, and it has the striking weakness of requiring the
connections of the floor pans to the vertical columns to break, both at the
core and at the perimeter columns, more or less simultaneously.

That didn't work out, so NIST goes back to the drawing
board. They require that the connections of the floor pans to vertical
columns do NOT fail (contrary to FEMA's model), but rather that the floor
pans "pull" with enormous force, sufficient to cause the perimeter columns
to significantly pull in, leading to final failure (contrary to objections
of ARUP Fire experts, discussed above). Also, NIST constructs a computer
model -- but realistic cases do not actually lead to building collapse. So
they "adjust" inputs until the model finally shows collapse initiation for
the most severe cases. The details of these "adjustments" are hidden from
us, in their computerized hypotheticals, but "the hypothesis is
saved." NIST also has Underwriters Laboratories construct models of the
WTC trusses, but the models withstand all fires in tests and do NOT
collapse. (See above for details.)

We are left without a compelling fire/damage model, unless one
blindly accepts the NIST computer simulation while ignoring the model
fire-tests, which I'm not willing to do. And none of the "official" models
outlined above accounts for what happens to the buildings AFTER the
building is "poised for collapse" (NIST, 2005, p. 142) namely the rapid
and symmetrical and complete (no tall-standing central core)
collapses. Reports of explosions, heard and seen, are not
discussed. And they ignore the squibs seen ejected from floors far from
where the jets hit particularly seen in WTC 7 (where no jet hit at
all). Finally, what about that molten metal under the rubble piles of all
three WTC skyscrapers?

Remarkably, the explosive demolition hypothesis accounts for
all the available data rather easily. The core columns on lower floors are
cut using explosives, near-simultaneously, along with explosives detonated
up higher so that gravity acting on now-unsupported floors helps bring down
the buildings quickly. The collapses are thus symmetrical, rapid and
complete, with accompanying squibs -- really very standard stuff for
demolition experts. Thermite (whose end product is molten iron) used on
some of the steel beams readily accounts for the molten metal which then
pooled beneath the rubble piles.

I believe this is a straightforward hypothesis, much more probable than the
official hypothesis. It deserves scientific scrutiny, beyond what I have
been able to outline in this treatise. It is quite plausible that
explosives were pre-planted in all three buildings, and set off after the
two plane crashes which were actually a diversion tactic. The science is
sound. The implications are paradigm-shifting: Muslims are (probably) not
to blame for bringing down the WTC buildings after all.

CONCLUSIONS

I have called attention to glaring weaknesses in the "final" reports funded
by the US government and shown evidences for a likely alternative
hypothesis. In particular, the official theory lacks repeatability in that
no actual models or buildings (before or since 9-11-01) have been observed
to completely collapse due to the proposed fire-based mechanisms. On the
other hand, dozens of buildings have been completely and symmetrically
demolished through the use of pre-positioned explosives. The "explosive
demolition" hypothesis better satisfies tests of repeatability and
parsimony and therefore is not "junk science." It ought to be seriously,
scientifically investigated and debated.

A truly independent, international panel would consider all viable
hypotheses, including the pre-positioned-explosives theory, guided not by
politicized notions and constraints, but rather by observations and
calculations, to reach a scientific conclusion. Questioning (preferably
under oath) of officials who approved the rapid removal and destruction of
the WTC steel beams and columns before they could be properly analyzed
and others as outlined above should proceed in the United States.

None of the government-funded studies have provided serious analyses of the
explosive demolition hypothesis at all. Until the above steps are taken,
the case for accusing ill-trained Muslims of causing all the destruction on
9-11-01 is far from compelling. It just does not add up.

And that fact should be of great concern to Americans and to all those
threatened by American military and security units in the wake of the 9-11
events (Ryan, 2004). Use of powerful, pre-positioned explosives in the WTC
buildings would imply an "inside job" (Griffin, 2004, chapter 2). Clearly,
we must find out what really caused the WTC skyscrapers to collapse as they
did.

To this end, NIST must release the 6,899 photographs and over 300 hours of
video recordings acquired mostly by private parties which it admits to
holding (NIST, 2005, p. 81). In particular, photos and analyses of the
molten metal (probably not molten steel) observed in the basements of both
Towers and WTC7 need to be brought forth to the international community of
scientists and engineers immediately. Therefore, along with others, I call
for the release of these and all relevant data for scrutiny by a
cross-disciplinary, international team of researchers. The
explosive-demolition hypothesis will be considered: all options will be on
the table.

AFTERWARD

In writing this paper, I call for a serious investigation of the hypothesis
that WTC7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by damage and
fires, but through the carefully planned use of explosives. I have
presented ample evidence for the explosive-demolition hypothesis, which is
testable and falsifiable and yet has not been seriously considered in any
of the studies funded by the US government.

At the same time, I acknowledge that other notions have sprung up in the
near vacuum of official consideration of this very plausible
hypothesis. These notions must be subjected to careful scrutiny. I by no
means endorse all such ideas. For example, the video "In Plane Site"
promotes the theory that a "pod" holds a missile under the wing of the 757
which hit WTC 2 (see Hoffman, 2005; Chertoff, 2005). Careful inspection of
the undercarriage of a standard 757 leads to the explanation that the
so-called "pod" was merely a reflection from the bulged undercarriage
(Hoffman, 2005; Chertoff, 2005). I find that the "pod theory" is very weak
and distracts from central issues.

Again, there is a notion that something other than Boeing jetliners hit the
WTC Towers (see Hoffman, 2005; Chertoff, 2005). Scrutiny of photographs
and videos provides compelling evidence that jets did in fact hit these
buildings (Hoffman, 2005; Chertoff, 2005). A March 2005 article in Popular
Mechanics focuses on poorly-supported claims and proceeds to ridicule the
whole "9-11 truth movement" (Chertoff, 2005). Serious replies to this
article have already been written (Hoffman, 2005; Baker, 2005;
HERE).

Those espousing weak or untestable claims should realize that they may be
damaging the effort to achieve a rational debate of important issues by
poisoning the process with "junk science". Likewise, the notion that the
"explosive demolition" hypothesis should not be debated since it would
imply a "conspiracy theory" departs from good science as well as from
numerous historical precedents of empirical conspiracies (Jones,
2005). Scientific inquiry is not or should not be dictated by politics
(Mooney, 2005).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I gratefully acknowledge comments and contributions by Jim Hoffman and
Jeff Strahl, and Professors Jack Weyland, David Ray Griffin, Steven
Benzley, Bryan Peterson and Harold Stokes.

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Newsletter of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah, October 2001,
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Hustler Interview David Ray Griffin on 911 Truth

2005-10-30T20:57:00.000-08:00

I am so happy to see Hustler take a step out for Freedom. It would take a media entity who had to fight for its freedom to see what the fight is all about.

David Ray Griffin lays out a compelling story and the PDF files are all at the linked site:
http://www.911blogger.com/2005/06/hustler-interviews-david-ray-griffin.html

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A Freedom Quiz Do you know what freedom is?

2005-10-30T10:43:00.000-08:00

THE FREEDOM QUIZ
by
Russell Madden

Have you ever met or talked with someone who actually was willing to say he hated freedom or that he simply didn't believe that people should be free?
Even the most statist and collectivist politician (in this country, at least) will give lip service to "freedom." They all praise liberty and proudly tell us they are four-square behind it. Indeed, they usually claim that their latest legal proposal or regulation or policy that dictates what we must or must not do will actually increase the freedom of American citizens. I think it will be a long time coming before we get political truth-in-campaigning promises and see folks placing "I Hate Freedom" or "Freedom Sucks" or "Freedom is Overrated" bumper stickers on their cars.
Indeed, there are many libertarian-leaners who assure us they are "for" freedom. A significant number will go even farther and claim we are free. I have no reason to doubt their sincerity in making such a statement, though I do doubt their...well, um, never mind.
Given that quizzes are popular fodder in mainstream publishing, I thought I would offer one of my own for Atlas readers. It's easy! It's fun! It's nonfattening! Simple "yes" or "no" answers. Uncomplicated scoring. Rewarding insights and possibilities for personal growth. What more could one desire?
So here goes. The Atlas Freedom Quiz (v. 1). Circle "yes" if you agree with the statement. Circle "no" if you disagree.

1. Our taxes may be too high, but I enjoy roads, mail service, public schools, and other benefits the government provides. Taxes are simply the price we pay for civilization. Yes No

2. In order to ensure the safety of our food and medicines and the products we buy, we need government regulations and agents to protect us. Yes No

3. It doesn't matter if the president asks Congress to declare wars. Since he's the commander-in-chief, he needs to be able to send our troops whenever and to wherever he decides is necessary. Yes No

4. Medical marijuana should perhaps be legalized, but some recreational drugs are simply too dangerous and cause too many problems to allow people to use them. Yes No

5. Federal antitrust laws are important safeguards to limit harm to citizens from the inherent greed of corporations. Yes No

6. It's simply wrong to say that government should not legislate morality. That's one of its primary functions. Yes No

7. We should legally punish people who are cruel to their pets or the animals they own. Yes No

8. Government-mandated affirmative action programs and hate-crime legislation are necessary to hold the racism of citizens in check. Yes No

9. We need government-provided welfare to help those unfortunates who are unable to provide for their own basic needs. Yes No

10. Anti-discrimination laws are required to aid the disabled and other unfavored groups. Yes No

11. Since no private citizen needs a machine gun, it is okay to ban such weapons. Yes No

12. Jury members should only decide the facts of a case, not the law itself. Yes No

13. In order to create a sense of responsibility and social connection in our young people, we should institute a draft either for the military or for civilian service. Yes No

14. As the most powerful nation in the world, the United States has an obligation to promote democracy -- by force, if necessary -- wherever people need our assistance. Yes No

15. People should not be allowed to sell body parts. Yes No

16. Since there are parents who would not ensure that their children get a good education, we must enforce truancy laws. Yes No

17. Secondhand smoke is dangerous enough to justify antismoking laws. Yes No

18. People should not exploit others during emergencies. Therefore, we must have anti-gouging laws. Yes No

19. Given the problems in the world, we should trade a bit of freedom for greater security. Yes No

20. If you've done nothing wrong, you should not worry about the possibility of government databases or a national ID card. Yes No

21. Government should preserve the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman and outlaw gay marriage, polygamy, and other nontraditional arrangements. Yes No

22. Even though I could manage my retirement funds better than the government, too many people would not. Therefore, we need a mandatory Social Security system. Yes No

23. Since medical care is a right, the government has to ensure it is available to everyone. Yes No

24. Our society is too complex now to reduce the size of government to what it was at the beginning of this country. Yes No

25. To protect consumers from unscrupulous or incompetent people, we need occupational licensing. Yes No

26. We cannot do away with public schools without depriving children of the education that is their right. Yes No

27. To maintain a healthy diversity in ideas, national art subsidies are a positive idea. Yes No

28. Space travel requires an organization such as NASA. Yes No

29. Scientific research, in general, is vital to a healthy economy and should be funded by the government. Yes No

30. Secession of a state or city or county is never permissible. Yes No

31. Current campaign finance laws are important in ensuring the integrity of our electoral process. Yes No

32. Verbal sexual harassment in a place of business should be legally prohibited. Yes No

33. The gold standard is an antiquated and unworkable notion. Our money should be controlled by the government. Yes No

34. Zoning laws, building codes, and urban planning are required to keep our cities from collapsing into chaos. Yes No

35. In order to save the planet, we need to mandate recycling. Yes No

36. Airline security is too important to be left to the airlines or to private security organizations. Yes No

37. Insider trading is wrong and should remain illegal. Yes No

38. In order to preserve our jobs, outsourcing of jobs by American companies should be banned. Yes No

39. The growing disparity between the haves and have-nots is a sign that the government has failed in its responsibility to ensure equality. Yes No

40. Everyone has a right to a job. Yes No

41. Since we all have the right to vote for our governmental representatives, everyone must accept the results of the democratic laws they pass. Yes No

42. The amount of public service given by a citizen is a good measure of his value as a person. Yes No

43. We need government or we'll end up with another Great Depression. Yes No

44. Of course, we're free. Just look at places like North Korea. Yes No

45. Our political leaders need to make certain that companies don't make too large a profit. Yes No

46. Since success in life is mostly a matter of luck, we should have legal provisions that even things out. Yes No

47. People need government-provided recreational opportunities in order to enjoy a good lifestyle. Yes No

48. We need to protect family farmers through subsidies and other means. Yes No

49. In order to keep our economy healthy, trade deficits must be limited by the government. Yes No

50. It's un-American to purchase foreign-made goods; the practice should be limited as much as possible by tariffs and quotas. Yes No
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Scoring:

Zero "yes": The Gold Standard. You truly understand and believe in freedom. The preservation of our liberty needs more people like you.

1-10 "yes": The Silver Standard. You've accepted the loop around your neck, though you prefer it to be really, really loose with the rope held in the hands of your master to be really, really long. There's still time for you to recognize that no one has the right to put a noose around your throat. Before it's too late, yank off that rope and throw it away.

11 -30 "yes": The Bronze Standard. You fit right in with the vast majority of your fellow citizens. While you may want the freedom to do what you want, you think you have the right to force others to do what's right...according to your standards.

31-40 "yes": The Tin Standard. You support our nascent fascistic police state in nearly every avenue. Distrust of politicians makes no sense to you. After all, the government is us.

41-50 "yes": The Lead Standard. No one is more enslaved than those who believe they are free when they are not. You pretend that the noose choking the breath from you is nothing more threatening than a necktie. You should be extremely happy in the future confronting us.

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There you have it. I'll put the name of any Gold Standard folks in the next issue of Atlas. Just send me an email. (For the current list of members, see here

Russell Madden

Hurricane Wilma in the Gulf Promises Heavy Hit

2005-10-19T15:47:00.000-07:00

As Hurricane Wilma comes storming into the Gulf of Mexico area we are reminded of these last times our country was hit by storms and the lack of care taken by our leaders.

Perhaps with 5 days to landfall this monster storm might be better prepared for than the last? Let's hope that we do not have to depend on the radon detectors (FEMA). I can only hope that George Bush will not be bothered on a vacation while the people suffer.

We never did have time to comment on the lack of leadership from Bush in the last storms, but I think these stories and pictures sum them up quite well.

Pictures of Hurricane Katrina can be found in this story

Pictures and stories on Hurricane Rita can be found in this story.

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Iraq Forced Capitulation to a Federal Rule of Law

2005-10-18T06:40:00.000-07:00

A recent leak of from the UK confirms much we have learned these last weeks. A plan to take over the Middle East
oil is going to flare into flames in the coming years. The reason, once again is oil. As it was told to me, "We want the oil, and we want to pay for it. We just don't want to pay the current regime. So we will replace them with someone who we like to give our money to." The same story holds out in Iraq
New leak from Downing Street: Iraq merely first step
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The latest leak of a top secret Downing Street memo reveals George Bush's
plan to effect regime changes as a means of controlling WMDs across a broad
swathe of the Middle East and North Korea. Bush told Blair that he wanted
to project American Military Forces, "beyond Iraq," in a series of
operations that can only be accurately described as regime changes
scheduled for: Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and North Korea. The memo
was prepared by Michael Rycroft, then Tony Blair's confidential secretary
and foreign policy advisor. The memo records the contents of a secret
conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush that took place in January,
2003. The existence of the memo is revealed in the book, Lawless World, by
Phillip Sands, QC, an academic authority on international law who shares
legal chambers with Cherie Blair. Downing street have declined to comment
suggesting that they do not dispute the existence of the memo or the
contents as reported by Sands.

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Supreme Court Nominee Harriet Miers Information

2005-10-14T03:27:00.000-07:00

There appears to be no background on George Bush’s latest installation of “rule of law” onto the subjects of the United States corporation. Harriet Miers comes with no judicial background and with nothing known about her; perhaps a look into her public notes to her boss will give us pause.

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission released these notes in response to formal requests from The Times and other news organizations.

"You are the best Governor ever - deserving of great respect!" gushed
Harriet Miers, then the Texas Lottery chief, to George W. Bush in 1997. The
belated birthday card she sent her boss with a sheepishly eager puppy
poking his head up and a poem that read: "This is the wish/That should have
been sent/Before your birthday/Came and went."

August 2001 "Thank you so much for letting me bundle up and drag away
the brush that you cut down today. And if I might add, Sir, I've never seen
a man wield the nippers so judiciously. It was awesome! You are the best
brush cutter ever!!"

September 2001 "I found out today that you handed down a decision for
the White House mess to offer three different kinds of jelly with its
P.B.&J. sandwiches. Sweet!! As you know, I'm the only member of the staff
who eats three meals a day in the mess. Now I get to have a different type
of jelly at every meal! The mess is blessed to have a president who cares
so much. I know I'm probably just flattering myself, but I like to think
that you are thinking of me, also. (Smile.)

"P.S. Can you believe Condi cares more about W.M.D.'s than P.B.&J.'s?"

April 2002 "I was worried that it could go unstated in the rush of
business around here, but I just wanted to pause and say how amazing it is
that, after doing so much for the American people already, you keep showing
up for work most days. We have to come, but you choose to. You're the
hardest-working president ever!!"

October 2002 "I'm not sure Condi has made the time to thank you
herself, so I just wanted to say how much we appreciated the tickets to
'Madame Butterfly' on Saturday night. I wore my long black robe - I mean,
opera cape. I just wish it had had that song from 'The Sound of Music' - I
know you love it, too - 'Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels.
...' You're one of my favorite things, sir!"

January 2003 "Just a quick note to say how cool it is that you picked
Brownie to head FEMA. There's nothing like having someone you know and

So, this is what our highest Judicial system needs as qualifications. What has America become? Do we allow further dismantling of the Republic?

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Google Wipes Out OnlineTV

2005-10-04T07:02:00.000-07:00

I woke up today to find some kind of strange retribution from Google. I received and email from a fan that told me that OnlineTV did not exist on the Google search engine anymore. I was not amused. Going to google and searching for “Onlinetv” produced no relevant results! This was incredible.

An MSN search was much more what it had been.

For almost all our 9 years here on the Internet, webcasting events from around the world. Goggle had us as the first non-paid entry followed by 100’s of other page results from our site all the years Google has been around. Today I did not find anything relevant at all. The only result was OnlineTV 2, which recently worked a deal with us to market their OnlineTV Player. I searched for “Online TV” which usually resulted in being at least listed on the first page. Nada. I finally searched for “onlinetv.com” and came up as non-existent. This search always produced my sites and all the searches produced 100’s of relevant links to my sites. Now, nothing. As if OnlineTV never existed.

Well, we know we own the US Registered Trademark for the name, and have always owned the domain OnlineTV.com since it existed. It has been highly listed on Google since day one of Google, as it is the relevant return of a search for this keyword "onlinetv". So what has changed?

OnlineTV has recently added articles by its founder Rick Siegel about 911. It has been only a couple weeks and this strange event happens. We don’t know why Google took us from existence. Our site is fine, it contains no abuse, no illegal content, we are the Trademark owners; header tags are fine, yet without notice we are wiped from the largest search engine in the world. This after being here for 9+ years!

We encourage you to go to Google and search for “onlinetv” then go to the bottom of the page where it says “Dissatisfied? Help us improve” and tell them you can’t get a relevant return on their search. Explain that it is easy to find multiple relevant returns on your search from MSN and the site is not listed anywhere on Google. It does not even exist as “OnlineTV.com”. For the space to fill in the proper URL to be returned; put our main site "http://www.onlinetv.com/nuke" and let’s hope that somehow our listing shall return to the world.

This is a travesty and should be remedied quickly.

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Andrew Rasiej - Elite Society Bar Keep

2005-10-03T14:52:00.000-07:00

I found this bit of information on another blog and borrowed it. It was an anonymous post but I found it was something I could share. In my years knowing Mr Rasiej I concur with the assessment of this individual. While I never worked directly for AndrewRasiej, preferring to keep my distance from disaster, this gentleman had. I knew many like him, students and others that also came to work for my company in the Internet Broadcast industry. I may be the only person Rasiej admitted to joining the elite secret society to advance himself a “secure seat on the train” as he put it. The election is over and he lost pathetically, but he will keep trying so here it is:

“NOT A MENSCH: I know Rasiej personally and I did quite a bit of serious work for MOUSE. I came into MOUSE very enthused about its mission and left it quite disappointed. I eventually began to see MOUSE as a profound ego-trip and little more than a set-up for Rasiej's future political career. I used to call Andrew, "Mayor." There is nothing all that wrong with being ambitious and setting up a political career. Almost anyone who runs for office is. But Andrew, the more I got to know him, didn't strike me as a good guy. The ambition wasn't in the right place. The organization wasn't anywhere nearly as useful as it should have been or could have been....

MOUSE HURT KIDS AND TEACHERS: MOUSE's aim was to wire up NYC public schools. As much as Andrew talked the visionary talk, MOUSE never delivered any real substance or content or educational applications beyond just doing wiring. We were glorified amateur plumbers doing sloppy wiring jobs in schools that needed a new gym or dance class or art class or smaller class sizes or good security a whole lot more than they needed cat. 5 cables dangling sloppily out of ceiling panels. Many teachers agreed but couldn't say so. The stuff we brought into the schools wasn't really helping forward kids education or teachers' jobs in any significant ways. It was like, OK, now we can check sports scores and download music during free period. In two years, I never saw the Internet-enabled computers used for anything more significant than just checking email. Fine. Great. These kids deserve and need to have email. But there was never any significant educational app. In fact, it felt like the entire project was geared towards building Rasiej's profile in then-hot "Silicon Alley." Not to get all Buddhist, but it was clear that there was something wrong with the "intention" behind MOUSE. And that really manifested itself in the schools.

ELITISM / TECHNO-UTOPIANISM: Andrews campaign is profoundly disconnected from the issues that the vast majority of New Yorkers need dealt with. Wi-fi is definitely an elite concern and I dont' think your argument convinces otherwise. Should NYC have free, citywide, wifi? Definitely! It would be a great thing. But is wiring the city going to amazingly solve a bunch of big, intractable, social problems? No. Simply wiring the schools didn't solve the big problems in the schools either. “

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20 Amazing facts about voting in the USA

2005-09-20T10:37:00.000-07:00

20 Amazing Facts About
Voting in the USA
by Angry Girl
Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies:
Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight
of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are
brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer
and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio
deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He
became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush
family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the
Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's
vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and
counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of
any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data
coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in
by voters.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines,
all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers
to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of
the votes in 30 states.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems
when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23
counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a
consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the
optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors
in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade
detection over a period of 2 years.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the
polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the
security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs
could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie
here: http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen
voting machines with no paper trail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and
reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/
ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's
brother.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html
20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush
-- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending
further investigation.
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/

NOTE: Please copy the above list and distribute freely!

LET THE FACTS BE KNOWN! Thank you!

Angry Girl

911 9/11 The Secret Story part I

2005-09-16T15:01:00.000-07:00

After leaving New York City in the later part of 2001 I never wanted to recount the day of 9/11/2001 again. So it was with great trepidation when I accompanied a group of researchers to visit the great city once more this year.
Four years after the day I was again at the Trade Center site. So many emotions welling up inside me; the impossible happened before my eyes. A gigantic building crumbles to dust. Steel and concrete reduced to a substance so small it floated upward in the air.
OnlineTV was the only historic Internet broadcasting company to have broadcast the events that day. Even more important, the original master digital tapes were stored for years instead of sold on the market. Saved from the censor or being withheld from the public. No one knew the depth the material held as far as evidence in something more than an airplane flying into a building. The invaluable continuous incidental audio recording of the news channel with time codes and eye witness reports that have been buried astound the mind as much as the spectacular steel and concrete building plummeting at the speed of gravity into a pile of dust.
The original recording was encoded using Microsoft Windows Media. Encoded at 300 and 56kb speeds. These files were online within minutes of happening at http://www.onlinetv.com, and this event was reported in the Business Week issue the week after. The files were also co-hosted in Holland by Commrades.com for years. They were available on Richard Siegel’s servers up until 2004 when one Shri Pandit at Stealth Communications stole the equipment and would not return the computers or the data on them. Stealth received immense investment in the high-speed data business from the largest carriers in the world at that same time, as well as huge investment in his company, all prior to making the decision to take Mr. Siegel’s property. Since that time the files are no longer available and Mr. Siegel’s equipment is still held without due process by Shri Pandit at Stealth Communications. But they will not hold back the showing of this material. Not even by stealing that equipment!
All this footage is now available on a DVD for everyone. Each DVD has 2 hours of information. There is the original footage, unedited. Then there is more than an hour of analysis by scientific investigators from around the world. Evidence from the owner the buildings that he gave the order to bring down building 7 himself as broadcast on PBS! The one thing this DVD shows is there is a vast problem and we have to wake up. The alternative is to dig your head so deep in the sand and just let them have their way with what is up in the air.
Watch the political channel here for more releases on 911EyeWitness.com
http://www.911eyewitness.com/ for the DVD
http://www.911truth.org/ to get to the truth please
http://www.ricksiegel.com/plog/ Freedom and Liberty

Vacation is over open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush

2005-09-02T16:39:00.000-07:00

Friday, September 2nd, 2005Dear Mr. Bush:Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.Yours,Michael MooreMMFlint@aol.com www.MichaelMoore.comP.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

2005-09-01T04:58:00.000-07:00

Secrets and lies. Certainly not a way for anyone to be represented in a Democracy, or a Republic as America should be. Freedom and Liberty depend on people understanding what is going on in their governments. Those who would represent behind the closed doors of “gentlemen” only hide their true intentions from the people they represent.
http://cryptome.org/ is a website dedicated to bringing information to the public. The kind of information that governments want held secret. Now the governments argue that leaving their secret agents and business out in the open damage their abilities to fight the 1984 war they have created.
The website http://cryptome.org/ is filled with great information. It is a must read. Not so much for who is a spy, but the amazing exposure of the games our shifty corporate owners play with us slaves, or to the newspeak - citizen/subjects. There is a lot of pictures showing horrific flooding in New Orleans. Lists of the names of the brave that fell in the effort to bring the oil fields back to the Rockefeller companies. Lists of the companies that have inside contracts in Iraq. Things that might make one think and wonder about the things the governments say in public.
We read the Mirror Article condemning Johns site and we do not agree with this at all. Freedom is freedom, it has no restrictions. The Mirror is not a free press; it is a restricted release mechanism for the government. Certain things are off limits to it others are not. Funny the prince bumming his mates is off limits too. Anything "embarrassing" is illegal to print in the free press of England. What a fraud, don’t you people ever get it? Free does not cost. Liberty cannot exist with restrictions; it is then no longer liberty.
When governments find themselves in need of secrecy it is because of the embarrassment of being honest and perhaps the very unrest of the people. How many times has the “national security interest” been the protection of the government’s reputation? A reputation shrouded in secrecy is not something to revile. The very secrets they want are the very shackles we wear. To any reader of history there have been no governments established with secrecy that lasted or worked for the good of the people. I can’t find any government that worked for the good of the people; they work for the people with land and money to keep them from being brought to the earth again.
Spread the word, John Young rules. http://cryptome.org/ should be the norm, not the anomaly.