The Center filed a FOIA Request with NIST on January 26, 2009, seeking production of “all of the photographs and videos collected, reviewed, cited or in any other way used by NIST during its investigation of the World Trade Center building collapses.” Following several unsuccessful attempts to get NIST to even acknowledge receipt of the Request, the Center was forced to file a lawsuit on May 28, 2009. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the Request was assigned a reference number, and NIST began periodically releasing batches of responsive records. To date, the Center has received over 300 DVDs and several external hard disk drives that contain responsive records – more than 3 terabytes of data so far – and NIST has indicated that additional records will be released in the future.

We are currently looking at the best ways to distribute these materials to interested researchers and journalists around the world. It has taken NIST more than 8 months so far to produce a partial archive of photographs and videos in their possession, but we hope to be more efficient in our efforts. Because of the huge volume of data, we are working on a wiki-style website to facilitate review and discussion of any interesting items that are discovered by researchers.

Justin Keogh, our Chief Technical Officer, is preparing the website and materials for release. The first batch of materials we are releasing is a group of video clips sent to us on an external hard disk drive labeled “NIST WTC Investigation Cumulus Video Clips.” We believe NIST entered these clips into a searchable database called the Cumulus database, and used them as the basis for the investigation and reports. Researchers may be interested to see which video clips NIST determined were important to its investigation, and compare these clips to the raw footage we release at a later date. Justin will be posting more details about the data release in the next week or two. Any questions about the FOIA Request, lawsuit, or data release should be submitted via the Contact Us page at the Center’s website: http://www.ic911studies.org/Contact_Us.html

Although the Center has extremely limited resources with which it can review this mountain of data, several interesting items have already been discovered. Below are five items the Center has uncovered so far. The items below have not been altered from the original provided by NIST, except in three cases where a short section of footage was extracted from a much longer video. Otherwise, no alterations have been made to the video or audio. For the best viewing experience, you should watch all of the videos below in the highest resolution available. We will supplement the list below in the coming days and weeks.

See videos at 911Blogger here.

It has been over a year since the most recent peer-reviewed scientific article was published on the finding of energetic materials in the WTC dust.  During this time, the article was personally delivered to members of Congress and others in positions of power. Some of those leaders, like 9/11 Commission co-chairman Lee Hamilton, have repeatedly declined invitations to discuss the evidence. But ultimately, there has been no official response by the U.S. government, and we have seen only apathy or feigned ignorance in response to these explosive findings. In the last few months, however, one of the people who did the most to cover-up the crimes of 9/11 has surfaced again, and is requesting samples.

See full story here.

At 5:21 PM on 9/11, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed, even though it had not been hit by a plane – a fact that is important because of the widespread acceptance of the idea, in spite of its scientific absurdity, that the Twin Towers collapsed because of the combined effect of the impact of the airliners plus the ensuing jet-fuel-fed fires. The collapse of World Trade Center 7 (WTC 7) thereby challenges the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center, according to which it was accomplished by al-Qaeda hijackers, even if one accepts the government’s scientifically impossible account of the Twin Towers. This fact was recently emphasized in the title of a review article based on my 2009 book, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7,¹ by National Medal of Science-winner Lynn Margulis: “Two Hit, Three Down – The Biggest Lie.”²

http://journalof911studies.com/volume/2009/SpanishRedGray.pdf

http://journalof911studies.com/volume/2009/RedGrayChipsGerman.pdf

May I take this occasion to wish all of you a Happy New Year.

In the past I have urged all to acquire at least a three-month (preferably 1-year) supply of food and water, wherever this is legal. Now to add to this – I urge you to have a rural place of safety to go quickly to, perhaps in groups of families or friends, far away from the large cities. In a case where trucking of food into the cities is curtailed, or the electric power is out, or an EMP blast, or any number of scenarios where services to cities are cut, it will clearly be prudent to have pre-arranged retreat(s). The goals of self-sufficiency and voluntary-simplicity that some have been discussing “theoretically” in the Truth Movement for years can be quickly achieved with pre-planning and work and cooperation.

I anticipate an adventuresome 2010, for I think the next several years will prove an adventure for all of us. We’re in it together.
Steven E. Jones

Niels Harrit made the front page of Gondola Magazine, a Swedish Alternative Health magazine.  The story, not in English, unfortunately, is located here.  You can put the title into google to see the translated version.  The title in English is: Niels Harriet and the 9/11- nanotermit exploded?

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Below, Richard Gage, AIA made the front page of the Silicon Valley Weekly, Metro, with a story titled, Explosive Theory.  You can read that here.

Source: zelikow.wordpress.com

Hanne Kari Fossum – presenter, Schrödinger’s Cat
Foto: Ned Alley

Schrödinger’s Cat is a television program about scientific research, technology and popular science that runs on channel NRK1 every Thursday at 7:30 PM. It is one of the NRK’s longest running programs. The program was launched in 1989, and was named after a thought experiment by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Since it’s inception a crew of fifteen employees (Auto-translate en) on Tyholt in Trondheim has produced forty broadcasts per year.

The program is usually in magazine format, led by a presenter. Coverage must reflect the news in research, science and technology, with emphasis on what happens in Norway. The program has won several awards, including the ‘Informing the Public’ Prize in 2003.

Niels Harrit, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University og Copenhagen

The average number of viewers is 487,000.¹

Their broadcast on September 10th 2009 (Norwegian) is described as follows on NRK’s web pages for streaming video:

Niels Harrit chemist at the University of Copenhagen have scientific discoveries, which he believes undermines the official story of the 11 September tragedy. … The presenter is Hanne Kari Fossum.

The issue is also followed by a news article aptly titled “The World Trade Center was blown up” (Auto-translate en) on Schrödinger’s Cat program-page at the NRK website. This is the first written presentation of 9/11 Truth done by NRK Television. You might call it more than fashionably late, but the content is no less groundbreaking considering Norway’s NATO membership and military participation in US led operations in Afghanistan.

Niels Harrit on Norwegian State Television NRK 10th September 2009 1/2

After 9/11, BYU prof. Steven Jones’ teaching career imploded just like the twin towers, but he still insists planes were not to blame.

By Eric S. Peterson

The equation for free fall is pretty basic. Drop anything—from a dime to a rock—from a tall building, for example, and once that object hits an acceleration of 9.8 meters per second squared, it’s free falling. This equation applies to everything, even to buildings.

In the fall of 2005, Brigham Young University professor Steven Jones presented this simple principle in a BYU campus auditorium packed with hundreds of people to illustrate how several of the World Trade Center towers fell too quickly on Sept. 11, 2001, to have only been hit by planes. To reach free-fall speed, Jones explained, the building’s floor supports would have needed to be blown apart. In other words, the carnage of 9/11 would have required another catalyst of destruction beyond hijacked planes—an explosive to cause the buildings to implode.

The discussion ran two hours and only ended because students began arriving for a class to be held in the room. Before concluding, Jones asked if anyone was not convinced more investigation was needed. Only one professor raised his hand. “And he tracked me down the next day on campus and told me I changed his mind,” Jones says.

Full story here

It has been suggested, that the red/grey chips discovered in the dust from the WTC collapse catastrophe¹ could originate from rust-inhibiting paint (primer paint) applied to the steel beams in the towers. This letter compares the elemental composition and the thermal stability of the two materials based on the description of the protective paint in the NIST report and observations on the red/grey chips.

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE PRIMER PAINT

The primer paint applied to the steel beams of WTC is described and characterized in NIST NCSTAR 1-3C appendix D².

The primer paint is red/orange and was originally applied in order to protect the steel against corrosion.

Examples of typical beams are shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2.

Figure 1 M2-C2M (WTC 1, Col.130, Fl 98) from NCSTAR 1-3C appendix D2.

Figure 2 Perimeter columns in WTC towers from NIST.

The color is due to the pigments in the paint. Iron oxide is red and zinc chromate (”zinc yellow”) is – well – bright lemon yellow (Figure 3).

Figure 3 Composition of primer paint from NCSTAR 1-3C appendix D2.

Since the ”vehicle” is obviously fluid, the values for the ingredients in it must refer to the paint before application in w/w percentage.

Even though the composition of the Tnemec pigment is proprietary, the content of this component can be obtained from the Material Safety Data Sheet, from which the pertinent information is reproduced in Figure 4:

Figure 4 Extract from Material Safety Data Sheet for Tnemec pigment3.

Talc is magnesium silicate hydroxide, Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂.

The content of calcium silicates and aluminates is inexact, and that the relative contribution of aluminates is not specified.

Since the Tnemec pigment contributed 33.7 % to the wet primer paint, the content of these two ingredients and the solvent in the wet primer paint was:

After application, the paint was baked at 120 °C. In this process all volatile ingredients evaporate. Thinners (Figure 3) and mineral spirits (from the Tnemec pigment) amount to (32.3 + 7.6) 40 %. If we subtract these from the w/w composition percentages given above, we get a rough estimate of the composition of the hardened paint.

That is, by dividing by 0.6 we get the following values for the decisive ingredients of the hardened paint (dismissing the trivial elements iron, silicon, carbon and oxygen):

COMPARISON WITH THE COMPOSITION OF THE RED/GRAY CHIPS

The elemental composition of the red/gray chips was obtained by means of X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (XEDS) in the SEM mode¹. Before measurement, the chips were broken (with one exception to be discussed below) in order to secure a fresh uncontaminated surface from which the SEM XEDS was obtained. NONE of these SEM XEDS spectra, taken from four independently collected samples, showed signals from either zinc, chromium or magnesium in intensities significantly above the baseline noise. See the right panel of Figure 5 below in which the intensity scale is expanded. Strong signals from these three elements could be expected from the primer paint according to Table 1.

Figur 7 in Harrit et al.1, showing the four different samples investigated. The same spectrum as in frame (a) with intensity (vertical) and horizontal scales expanded. Minute signals in level with the noise are observed from sulfur, calcium, chromium and strontium.

Figure 5 SEM XEDS (beam energy 20 keV) spectra from fresh surfaces of red phase of red/gray chips.

In one experiment the chips were to be soaked in methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and could not – for good reasons – be broken before. The resulting XEDS of this chip (Figure 6, below) displays tiny blips indicating the presence of chromium and zinc. They disappeared after the chips had been soaked/rinsed with the organic solvent. Therefore, they are believed to derive from surface contamination, which very well could have been from the primer paint(!).

Figure 6 SEM XEDS (beam energy 20 keV) from unbroken chip before soaking in MEK. The calcium and sulfur are likely to originate from contamination with wallboard material (gypsum, calcium sulfate). The signals from zinc and chromium could be from surface contamination with primer paint.

Magnesium was never observed, which is another element characteristic of the primer paint (Table 1).

It should also be noticed, that the only possible source of aluminum in the primer paint is the rather vague reference to ”calcium silicates or aluminates” in 3.3 – 5.5 % presence. Without attempting any quantitative estimates (not a trivial matter in XEDS), it is still very hard to accept this component as the source of the bright-and-clear signals for aluminum from the red phase of the red/gray chips.

THERMAL STABILITY OF PRIMER PAINT

NIST was interested in the thermal response of the primer paint since examination of the condition on the recovered steel beams could be indicative of the temperatures they had been exposed to.

NIST carried out temperature studies on selected beams and made the following observations². The paint is unaffected to temperatures up to 250 °C (Figure 7a). At higher temperatures the paint starts showing ”mud-cracks” as they can be seen in Figure 7b (left). This fracture is due to the different expansion coefficients of the steel and the paint. It gets worse at 650 °C (Figure 7, right) at which temperature black ”scales” (layers) begin to form
between the paint and the steel (Figure 8). NIST took the samples beyond 800 °C at which temperature the scale formation and peeling off of the paint from the steel was prevailing. One may hypothesize that formation of the black scales is due to charring of the organic binder.

Primer paint on exterior WTC column at temperatures below 250 °C (panel a) and beyond (panel b). Exposure of primer paint on steel to 650 °C for 1 hr.

Figure 7

Figure 8 From NCSTAR 1-3C appendix D2 showing formation of a black layer under the primer paint at temperatures beyond 650 °C.

Notice, that the primer paint – being basically a ceramic material – is chemically stable at temperatures up to 800 °C.

COMPARISON WITH THERMAL STABILITY OF RED/GRAY CHIPS

In contrast to the primer paint, the red/gray chips react violently, igniting in the neighbourhood of 430 °C. The reaction must produce temperatures no less than ca. 1500 °C, since the residues of molten iron are clearly seen in the optical microscope (Figure 9).

Figure 9 Optical microscope picture of red/gray chip after reaction in a DSC instrument1.

CONCLUSION

The properties of the primer paint and the red/gray chips are inconsistent.

The red/gray chips cannot be the primer paint as it is characterized by NIST.

REFERENCES

(1) Harrit, N.; Farrer, J.; Jones, S. E.; Ryan, K.; Legge, F.; Farnsworth, D.; Roberts, G.; Gourley, J.; Larsen, B.
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust From the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe. The Chemical Physics Open Journal 2009, 2, 7-31.
(2) NIST. NIST NCSTAR 1-3C. 2005. http://wtc.nist.gov/NCSTAR1/PDF/NCSTAR%201-3C%20Appxs.pdf
(3) http://www.tnemec.com/resources/product/msds/m10v.pdf

Questions to Niels Harrit concerning the study “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe”.

Some time ago, gulli.com featured the news about the work of a team of independent scientists from Denmark, USA and Australia. They claim to have found a substance called Nano Thermite in the dust of the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York City. Nano Thermite is an explosive, normally only used by the military, not available on the normal market. It is a relative to thermite, a substance used for welding.

On the Gulli board one of the biggest discussions ever broke loose between so called conspiracy theorists and people who trust the official version about 9/11. More than 28.000 views. More than 800 postings. We gave sceptical gulli users the chance to ask their questions directly to Dr. Niels Harrit, one of the scientists. The gulli users asked really tough questions and didn’t censor anything. We gave all those questions to Mr. Harrit and were really curious how he would respond. He answered. So now, here’s the promised interview. The whole interview is released under this Creative Commons license, so you can copy it and spread it everywhere at no charge and without asking. You can download the PDF here.

Copenhagen / Düsseldorf, May 2009

Interview:

gulli.com: Your full name and title?

Dr. Niels Harrit: Dr. Niels Holger Harrit.

gulli.com: Your age?

Dr. Niels Harrit: 64

Dr. Niels Harrit, Copenhagen, Denmark

gulli.com: Please explain exactly in what subject you earned your doctorate and what you studied / you are an expert in.

Dr. Niels Harrit: My master degree, which I earned in 1971, was based on the work I did for one year at Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. My doctor thesis from 1975 from University of Copenhagen was in mechanistic photochemistry. I spent a year at Columbia University, New York City as post doc. in 1977.

Continued — READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE at guilli.com.

SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH & JUSTICE NEWSLETTER
www.STJ911.org
April, 2009

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Dear Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice,

We are very proud to make the announcement this month of a ground breaking new paper just published in The Open Chemical Physics Journal and authored by Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley and Bradley R. Larsen.  The paper is the long-awaited formal publication of the findings of red/grey chips in the WTC dust, which Steven Jones first presented in 2007 in Boston, and details the extensive analyses conducted to conclude with the finding of active thermitic material in the dust.

Additionally, Jim Hoffman has written two essays to help non-scientists understand the findings in the paper, and one essay describing a hypothetical scenario.

Congratulations to all who helped make this happen!

We urge members to help spread the word about this paper.

A press release is now posted on the STJ site which can be distributed to your local news outlets, or write your own article or announcement and email it to your lists.  Sending the paper along to any scientists, architects, engineers or others at universities is also important.

This month’s newsletter also includes a few other updates on other work being done by our members.

Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice now has over 700 members and is continuing to grow every day with increasing numbers of prominent people signing onto the challenges to the official story of 9/11/01.

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Recent Member Events, Presentations and News

a) New paper on red/grey chips by Steven Jones and authors just published!

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe

Authors: Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen

The Open Chemical Physics Journal, 2009, 2, 7-31

Abstract: We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all four of the separately collected samples of dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. The chips in these samples show marked similarities. One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 ?C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.

http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM

Also see the statement by Steven Jones on the paper posted at the STJ Blog.

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b) 9-11 Research Essays On Aluminothermics Use at the WTC

Explosives Found in World Trade Center Dust

Scientists Discover Both Residues And Unignited Fragments
Of High-Tech Metal Incendiaries In Debris From the Twin Towers
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/explosive_residues.html

Wake Up and Smell the Aluminothermic Nanocomposite Explosives

As Documentation of Thermitic Materials in the WTC Twin Towers Grows,
Official Story Backers Ignore, Deny, Evade, and Dissemble
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/explosives_evidence_timeline.html

A Hypothetical Blasting Scenario:

A Plausible Theory Explaining the Controlled Demolition of the Twin Towers
Using Aluminothermic Incindiaries and Explosives with Wireless Detonation Means
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/blasting_scenario.html

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c) Visibility 9-11 Interviews with Dr. Steven E. Jones & Kevin Ryan

Special Report: Thermite Fingerprint

Our talks today with Dr. Jones & Kevin Ryan feature an in-depth discussion on a new paper which has been formally published and peer reviewed by The Open Chemical Physics Journal titled Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe.  In this revolutionary new research paper, discoveries made in the World Trade Center Dust, particularly the red/gray bi-layered chips, are examined in great detail and include evidence of the thermite fingerprint at every juncture.

Download these important episodes of Visibility 9-11 and here and here.

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d) Interview with Kevin Ryan in American Buddhist Net

Truth & Deception: An Interview with Kevin Ryan on 9/11

Kevin Ryan

American Buddhist Net News, 2/14/09

In this interview Kevin Ryan discusses the science and psychology of 9/11. He also mentions an upcoming paper that provides strong evidence of incendiary residues found in the World Trade Center dust. Ryan, who is one of the co-authors of the paper, says that it is “…much more conclusive than anything we’ve published before, and is supported by considerable physical testing.”

KR: In my experience, there has not been much of a discussion between those who support the official story and those who do not. My colleagues and I have tried to get the official investigators to meet with us for discussion or debate, but with little success. My local group did meet with Lee Hamilton last year, since he was the congressman from our area and still keeps an office here in Bloomington. He gave us many excuses for why his 9/11 Commission report was not adequate, and has stated in his book that he felt he was set up to fail (see the revealing interview here http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html). Mr. Hamilton also told us that he was not opposed to a new investigation, as long as it was not intended to simply find fault with his investigation. We have since invited him to several events but he has not agreed to join us in public.
http://americanbuddhist.net/truth-deception-interview-kevin-ryan-9-11

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d) David Chandler Analyzes NIST Final Report on Building 7

9/11: Speak Out

The recent videos by David Chandler — a high school math & physics teacher — have been highly popular for their detailed yet easily accessible examinations of the absurdities buried in the NIST Final Report on WTC Building 7, and in front of our eyes in the videos of the acceleration of the Twin Towers’ downward destruction.  We recommend everyone take a look at David’s websites and videos.

Videos:

WTC7 in Freefall

WTC7: NIST Finally Admits Freefall (Part I)

WTC7: NIST Finally Admits Freefall (Part II)

WTC7: NIST Finally Admits Freefall (Part III)

Downward Acceleration of the North Tower New

Visibility 9-11 also interviewed David Chandler in December of 2008.  The direct download of that interview is here: visibility911_chandler.mp3

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e) AE911Truth at the 2009 AIA Convention in San Francisco, April 30th – May 2nd

24,000 Architects To Confront the Evidence!

One of the most exciting and promising AE911Truth developments has been the acceptance of our application to have a booth on the floor of the AIA 2009 National Convention and Design Exposition! This prestigious architectural convention will be held in San Francisco April 30 through May 2, 2009.

Twenty-four thousand architects are expected to attend. This is an unprecedented opportunity for professional exposure for AE911Truth.

We will have a 10′ x 10′ booth at a cost of $4,000 on the floor of the convention.

Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice urges members to DONATE toward the cost of this critically important outreach. The overall costs will approach $10,000 for display equipment, DVD’s, brochures and handouts.  Please help make this happen for Richard and the AE911 Team!

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Recent Member Contributions

The Journal of 9/11 Studies

Volume 24 – January 2009
The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation of the NIST-Bazant Collapse Hypothesis
Prof. Graeme MacQueen and Tony Szamboti

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9/11 in the News

a) 9/11 Widow Dies on Buffalo Plane Crash

Beverly Eckert, a well respected co-founder of “Voices of September 11,” an advocacy group for survivors and 9/11 families, died tragically on February 13th, 2009, in a plane crash in Buffalo New York.

Beverly Eckert became a member of the Family Steering Committee, the group of relatives who in 2002 and 2003 spearheaded the public fight for a 9/11 commission, against resistance from the White House.

One of the questions asked by the 9/11 Family Steering Committee was of particular relevance to Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, which focuses on the use of the scientific method to expose the truth of the events of 9/11/01.  Here was a question they proposed to be asked of the 9/11 Commission, a question that was never asked –

13. On 9/11, no aircraft hit WTC 7. Why did the building fall at 5:20 PM that evening? Larry Silverstein is heard on a PBS tape saying “I remember getting a call from the, E.R., fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, “We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.” And they made that decision to pull and we watched the [WTC 7] building collapse,” said Larry Silverstein, WTC Leaseholder. – PBS (9/10/02) Does “pull” mean demolished? What do you know about this?

Beverly Eckert participated in a number of lawsuits around Sept 11th, with the express purpose of gaining discovery and accountability about the events of the day. As the deadline for filing claims with the Victims’ Compensation Fund passed in Dec. 2003, she published the following statement in USA Today:

Friday, December 19, 2003
My Silence Cannot Be Bought
by Beverly Eckert
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1220-04.htm

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b) Beijing Hotel Tower Fire (2009)

What can be learned about the behavior of tall buildings on fire from the CCTV Mandarin Oriental Hotel fire?

While several examples exist of buildings structurally similar to the WTC Towers having withstood similar or larger fires for longer, the CCTV Headquarters building was highly unique in both design and structure, and did involved some amount of concrete reinforcement of the structural steel.

Importantly, however, no part of the CCTV hotel building collapsed from the fire, which was reported to have lasted from between 3-6 hours.  And unlike the WTC Towers, in which the vast majority of each Tower was untouched by any fire damage at all, the CCTV Hotel Tower was entirely engulfed in flames from top to bottom.

Fire images are here –
http://online.wsj.com

After the fire images are here —
http://www.flickr.com

Building conceptual images –
http://www.oma.eu

Engineering firm, Arup East Asia
http://www.arup.com/eastasia

CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China: Building the structure – Engineering firm, Arup East Asia
http://www.arup.com [PDF]

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c) STJ member Earl Staelin interviewed on PBS about unanswered questions of 9/11

Colorado 9-11 Visibility on KBDI Channel 12 in Denver. . . Again!

On March 5th 2009 the local PBS station, KBDI, in Denver Colorado broadcast the groundbreaking expose, America: Freedom To Fascism to raise funds for the station. They invited volunteers from Colorado 911 Visibility to run the phone bank. In this clip trial lawyer Earl Staelin is interviewed about the points of that day in September that we still don’t have answers for.

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What Can You Do?

New members often write in and ask “What can I do?” Here are some suggestions.

Contribute an Essay or Write Content for the Website
If you’ve written a 9/11-related essay or article or letter to the editor which you would like to contribute to the website, please pass it on to us and we will consider it for publication.

Host an Event
Please consider hosting an event featuring members of STJ911 to present a scientific argument of truth of the attacks on 9/11/01. Hosting an event may seem like a daunting task but can be tremendously rewarding both for a local 9/11 group and its community, as well as the movement itself. Several events in 2006 and 2007 were extremely successful and focused on science, were held on university campuses and garnered important news coverage (see: http://stj911.org/events.html). Those who have hosted events involving Scholars members would be glad to give pointers and recommendations for your event. Campuses are one of the best locations for credible educational events.

Participate in the Information War Online
While the mainstream media typically refuses to cover the unanswered questions of 9/11/01, or simply present ad hominem-filled diatribes, dozens of discussion forums all over the Internet are raging in an information war to keep the facts away from the public or distort the ones already available. If you enjoy debate and discussion and are online often, we urge you to get involved on forums and post links and strong arguments to make the case for our work. Many debates are time-wasting, but some are worthwhile, so choose how to spend your time best. Always include links to your favorite websites when you post, using phrases that people are likely to search for in the visible text of your link. This helps the search engine ranking of the page you are linking to.

Participate in the Information War Offline
Letters to the editor, calls to radio shows, emails to representatives, and roadside actions are some of the most important work we can engage in because we take our message directly to the public and our public officials. A single banner on a multi-lane highway for just minutes can be read by thousands of individuals who never get online at all. Participate in an action, letter or call-in and report back on a discussion forum, ours or any of the others.

Edit a 9/11 Page on Wikipedia
Recently, more 9/11 activists have been contributing to Wikipedia and have managed to gain new ground for pages there. Please consider editing one of these pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Truth_Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_demolition_hypothesis

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Upcoming Events

David Ray Griffin Speaking Tour — April 2009

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009, 1:00 PM
David Ray Griffin – ‘Time for a Second Look’ Speaking Tour
Wayne, PA  USA
also . . .
Vassar College on April 8th
Portsmouth, New Hampshire on April 9th
Keene, New Hampshire on April 10th

Saturday April 11, 2009, 7:00 pm
David Ray Griffin at Boston University
Boston University’s Morse Auditorium
602 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA
http://911blogger.com/node/19584

Saturday, April 11th, 2009
The 11th Day of Every Month Street Action
On the Eleventh Day of Every Month, Truth Action calls on activists everywhere to take to the streets in the name of truth. In every town and every city – and by any nonviolent means necessary – we will reach out together to our fellow citizens and spread the word. The Time is Now On the Eleventh Day of Every Month We Unite in Action for Truth until Justice.
http://truthaction.org/

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Thank you,

The STJ911 Committee