Most observers consider the informal Coast to Coast “debate” between architect Richard Gage, chemist and scholar Niels Harrit, and physicists Dave Thomas and Kim Johnson to have been a success although who “won” depends largely on who you ask. The August 21st event, which was more of a conversation than a formal debate, explored what caused the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001. Gage and Harrit argued that explosives destroyed the buildings while Thomas and Johnson reaffirmed the official explanation that office fires ultimately led to collapses.

A few days after the debate I asked Thomas to give me his impressions. “I think Kim and I did OK. We certainly could have handled some of the questions better, but being on Coast to Coast is a bit like being in a pressure cooker,” he said. “There were several questions I had ready answers for, but never got a chance to squeeze them in.” Thomas said he doesn’t think he and Johnson swayed many committed “truthers,” but he also doubts that Gage and Harrit made many new converts either. “We gave people new to the debate a lot to think about,” he said.

Physicist Dave Thomas

I asked Thomas what he considered to be among his strongest points delivered during the debate. He responded, “The collapses themselves, captured on so many films, and without the sounds of explosions going off. Plus, physics insights from the models and experiments I did helped me describe the collapses. Yes, they happened quickly (12 to 15 seconds), but were certainly not ‘free-fall.’ There was resistance as each floor was hit by the growing mass of the upper section. I think the descriptions of WTC7?s long burning times and complicated and long collapses were productive also. In the final moments of the show, a caller really thought he had me with his statement that the cores should have remained after the Twin Towers collapsed, and I was able to inform him that they did, and that these briefly-tottering columns are called “SPIRES,” and that they’re well-known, and discussed on the NMSR website.” Thomas added that these spires would not have existed if thermite had been used to cut columns.

Architect Richard Gage accuses Thomas and Johnson of “hand waving,” saying they simply dismiss inconvenient facts. “They just don’t deal with the evidence,” Gage said. “I thought that on several points Mr. Thomas avoided facing very clear sets of facts including the free-fall of Building 7. He tried to explain that because the inside of the building caved out first, there was just nothing left so the rest of the building came down, denying that over fifty very rigid columns of the perimeter gave absolutely no resistance to the collapse of this building up above that—in this case the perimeter of the building is falling at free-fall acceleration. This is one example of a direct denial of reality, Gage said adding. “At this point I’m doubting his sincerity.”

Early in the debate, Thomas used an analogy which many observers found unusual. He was discussing David Chandler, the physics teacher whose calculations regarding free-fall forced the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to modify its final report. “David Chandler took a movie of the tower collapse and measured it very carefully and found that the average acceleration was about two-thirds of the acceleration of gravity. And he contended because it’s accelerating at all, that means there’s not much of a dynamic force, and he estimates this force—which I calculate with my physics model as at least 30 times the weight, he only gets a third of the weight, and I think that’s really the fundamental flaw of 9-11 truth physics. They woefully underestimate the huge impact that—it’s like a ‘ton of bricks’ hitting you.

Then he launched into an analogy using a bowling ball.

“If you take a bowling ball and put it on your toe, that’s okay. If you drop it from 12 feet, you’re gonna break your toe,” Thomas said, “and that’s just what happened to those buildings.”

Architect Richard Gage, AIA

Gage said of the bowling ball analogy, “The problem here is that, yes, you can put a bowling ball on the foot, and it’s okay, but first of all you don’t have a 12-foot drop in the case of the North Tower, and even if you did, when the bowling ball hits the foot, it slows down, while it’s crushing bone, etc.” Gage said. “But when the North Tower hit the sections below there was no slowing down. In fact, it speeded up, violating the laws of physics.”

Dan Roggenkamp, an American university teacher in Taiwan who listened to the debate, said he was particularly amused by the bowling ball comment. “One of the things that really struck me was how Thomas’ ‘side’ tried to use simple analogies to explain complex events, an example being the bowling ball analogy,” Roggenkamp said. “He did it a number of times. Rather than arguing as a scientist, he’s trying to persuade listeners using false analogies. Your toe is the World Trade Center. The bowling ball is the combined force of … whatever. It’s ridiculous.”

Thomas said he was irritated when Gage “brought out his laundry list” of things on which the two supposedly concur. “While we agree on a few technical details (microspheres were found, WTC 7 had a two-second period of free-fall, and so on), Gage over-exaggerated these agreements and put false words into my mouth time and again,” Thomas told me, adding a few items “for the record.”

“Gage said we agreed that planes hit two towers, three came down. But, I also made the point that the third tower, WTC 7, was hit by one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, something Gage dismisses. We agree that there were two seconds of free-fall at WTC 7 but disagree strongly that these prove controlled demolition,” he said. “The collapse took much longer than Gage claims—at least 16 seconds, not Gage’s 6.5 seconds. The collapse proceeded not only vertically, but horizontally as well. For a brief moment, a part of WTC 7 wasn’t supported as it collapsed. This in no way proves controlled demolition.”

I asked Gage how he believed Thomas had arrived at a different conclusion regarding the duration of the collapse. He explained, “There’s evidence that there is damage about six seconds prior to the overall collapse of the building—the east penthouse fails. The official theory tells us that that’s the result of an internal collapse starting on the 12th floor and column 79—due to the new phenomenon of “thermal expansion.” So, it’s theorized that this whole process takes about 15 seconds before the overall collapse. The problem is, if there was some sort of internal collapse that took out the interior columns, that would have taken out the penthouse long before it went down. So, since the penthouse on top—and I’m referring to the central penthouse—it went down a second before the overall portion of the building—then it was held up until that point by its structure, so its structure must have been all removed, synchronistically timed; therefore, the central penthouse went down a second before the overall structure, so the official theory of internal collapse leaving this building a cave inside doesn’t hold water.”

A good deal of the debate revolved around the possible use of thermite or nanothermite to destroy the buildings. Gage and Harrit argued that thermitic materials were used to cut core columns and explains the presence of iron microspheres in trade center dust.

“We agree there were microspheres in the dust but disagree completely about their significance,” Thomas said. “As I said, these were expected from the hot fires, and perhaps older welding traces, etc. The iron microspheres are not evidence of thermite,” he said. Gage remarked, “Mr. Thomas is in denial. He’s not facing the reality that these spheres take 2800 degrees of temperature to create.”

Industrial Physicist Kim Johnson

Thomas also said he agrees with Gage that thermite would create pools of molten iron, but despite witness testimony and photographic evidence Gage offers, he disputes that molten pools were ever found at the scene. “I say they were not, and only anecdotal stories of their existence are offered,” Thomas said. Elsewhere Kim Johnson has referred to these photos as “faked.” Similarly, Thomas and Johnson dismiss numerous reports of explosions by witnesses who insist they could distinguish between explosive blasts and other loud sounds. David Chandler claims acoustic evidence has been destroyed. “In any videos that would be reasonably expected to record the explosion sounds, the videos were cut and don’t show the segment where we now know a fast series of explosions occurred. I am not allowed to say NIST cut them, but they are all cut: either the audio or the whole audio/video segment was cut out,” he said.

Kim Johnson felt one of his strongest points involved bomb-sniffing dogs. “I got Harrit on the dogs. Apparently Gage does not understand how these dogs are trained and cross-trained. Dogs sniff out the combination of the blend of aluminum and iron oxides which form the basis of the thermite incendiary,” Johnson said. “Gage was making things up as he went along, or repeating earlier things that were made up or extreme speculation and treating them as fact, and this was one of his major errors.”

Gage didn’t take that criticism seriously. “Thermite is aluminum and iron. There’s aluminum and iron in everything, so there’s no way dogs can be trained to sniff for it,” Gage said. “Well, I won’t say there’s no way; I’m not a dog expert either, but these are normal office building materials, and you can’t train dogs for that, and that’s probably one of the reasons thermite was used,” he said.

In an interview with the German web site gulli.com, a reporter asked Niels Harrit, “Why did no bomb sniffing dog bark?” Harrit responded, “All the bomb sniffing dogs were sent home by the security company two weeks before. Furthermore, they are trained on conventional explosives which smell rather characteristically.” Some have suggested that the dogs would be trained to look for ignition devices, not thermite itself.

Johnson told me in an email message, “Truthers are still conspirators who aren’t quite sure of who pulled this off, but like to believe this kind of stuff, and the scientists who studied it got it right.” He also claims he tried to “test” me with some convoluted scheme that remains unclear. I never found the message he refers to and don’t know what he is talking about, but this is what he said:

“If you look back over your email, you will see that I worked an equation into one of them that should have said F = m * (dV/dt). Only I messed it up a bit (I don’t remember quite how at the moment) to see whether you would catch it. Dave did but you didn’t. I do apologize for deliberately doing that, but it was a test— a test that I did not think you would pass. Neither will most of the rest of the world, especially those who listen to Coast to Coast, few of whom are scientists. It set the level of understanding. It’s why Dave and I came up with the bowling ball analogy,” Johnson said.

I wrote back to Johnson saying I would have told him I lack a science background had he simply asked—that there was no need for subterfuge. The occasion seemed to reveal an unnecessarily deceitful approach.

Elsewhere Johnson says of David Chandler, “He certainly does not understand Newtonian mechanics, and neither does most of the population—especially the Coast to Coast listeners who have their minds already made up (probably most). Most cannot understand the real details of why scientists at NIST use and trust FEM models. Few even have a clue as to what an FEM model is!”

Professor Niels Harrit

So, it’s clear that according to Johnson, most people, including other scientists, are unqualified to understand why he, Thomas, and NIST have been right all along.

Danish scientist Niels Harrit, a chemist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who participated in the debate via telephone, said afterwards that the so-called “debate” was in no way scientific. Harrit pointed out that when scientists debate an investigation, they agree on the observations; otherwise, there is nothing to talk about. If A and B are both looking at the same thing and A says, “This is black” while B says “This is white,” it won’t work. Harrit said this is essentially what happens in discussions with Thomas, Johnson, and others like them. “They poison—quite deliberately—the supposed communication with false information. Luckily, they are not very clever, so they are easily caught—if the host lets you! Many lines of arguments were cut off—also as a consequence of the trick Thomas has learned to say three things at a time, preventing you from answering. You may choose: Either Thomas and Johnson are very stupid or they are being paid to pretend to be. The last thing is intellectually dishonest, of course, and in my universe, dishonesty is a kind of stupidity,” Harrit said.

SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH & JUSTICE NEWSLETTER
www.STJ911.org
September, 2010

Dear Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice,

This 9th Anniversary newsletter includes event announcements, member papers and essays as well as recent research and news about 9/11/01.  Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice now has over 850 members and is continuing to grow every day with increasing numbers of people signing onto the challenges to the official story of 9/11/01.

Today, nine years after the attacks, people all over the world continue to not only discover, research, and discuss the challenges to the official story of the events that day, but importantly, to organize, strategize, create and spread media, speak out on street corners and in banners, to keep the questions alive.  We hope that keeping you informed about recent news and developments will inspire you, too, to take action.

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Recent Member Events, Presentations and News
Research Community News
9/11 In the News
Events
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Recent Member Events, Presentations and News

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a) Guest Columns in Local Press by Kevin Ryan

We need to continue to seek the truth about 9/11
August 8, 2010, Kevin Ryan, The Bloomington Herald-Times

Over the past three years, a group of concerned Bloomington citizens has worked to raise the public consciousness about the need for 9/11 truth. These folks are sometimes called “conspiracy theorists” because they do not believe the official version of events. Once people get by their initial reactions to 9/11 questioning, however, much can be learned in the process.  To begin with, we all understand the definition of a conspiracy to be a secret plan, among two or more people, to commit a crime. Yet when faced with emotionally charged events like 9/11, many of us pretend that the definition of the word has changed.

Read the full column here.

‘The fictional basis for the war on terror’
August 19, 2010, Kevin Ryan, The Bloomington Alternative

Most people recognize that the events of 9/11 were the driving force behind the “War on Terror.” Less well recognized is the fact that this borderless war against an ill-defined enemy has expedited economic collapse, driven totalitarian legislation and generated a great deal of animosity against the United States throughout the world. The pain and suffering caused by 9/11 comes with an opportunity, however. Through a better understanding of those tragic events, we can achieve crucial insights that can not only end the wars but might ultimately lead to lasting positive change in human society.

See full article here.

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b) Phillips and Mickey Huff Respond to Chip Berlet

Response to Chip Berlet’s “Toxic to Democracy: Conspiracy Theories, Demonization, and Scapegoating”
Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, Project Censored

In his recent essay “Toxic to Democracy,” Political Research Associates Senior Analyst Chip Berlet uses the very same methods of demonization by association that he so strongly opposes. Berlet convolutes historical context, ideological differences, and progressives vis-à-vis extreme conservative, neo-con, libertarians in a diatribe of meaninglessness.

See full essay here.

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c) Niels Harrit & Richard Gage, AIA, in Radio Debate

9/11 Debate

Richard Gage, from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and Dave Thomas  a physicist from New Mexicans for Science and Reason, joined Ian Punnett for the entire Coast-to-Coast program to debate how the World Trade Center buildings collapsed on September 11, 2001.  Physicist Kim Johnson and chemist Niels Harrit joined the discussion in hour three.

Program archived on YouTube here.

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d) New 9/11 Truth News Website

911 Truth News

9/11 Truth News is intended to be an accessible and factually oriented first reference for those curious about 9/11 truth. Our movement must serve its audience and this site was created for that purpose.  The key to effectively serving this purpose is our strategy. That starts with the site being solely related to 9/11 truth and edited by four longtime movement activists. With a good deal of thought about who we need to reach and the obstacles that stand in the way of reaching them, the editors of 911truthnews.com will be publishing only that which we believe to be the best this movement has to offer.

Find it on facebook, follow it on twitter

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e) New Videos From David Chandler

David Chandler Updates: Two New Research Videos

1. ‘Clocking WTC7‘ is a graphic representation of the 5.4 second interval NIST originally used to deny freefall, before they re-interpreted the 5.4 second interval to include an unexplained 2.25 second period of absolute freefall.

2. What a Gravity-Driven Demolition Looks Like I have completed a video showing the analysis of the Balzac-Vitry controlled demolition that used hydrolics rather than explosives to initiate a total demolition. This analysis shows deceleration upon collision, as predicted in the paper, “The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation of the NIST-Bazant Collapse Hypothesis,” by Graeme MacQueen and Tony Szamboti. It also illustrates the symmetry of destruction, contrary to the “crush down” followed by “crush up” scenario propounded by Zdenek Bazant.

To also purchase David’s newest video, please visit: 911speakout.org

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f) 9th Anniversary Nationwide Action with Richard Gage, AIA

1. Press Conference and Debate/Panel Discussion
Washington DC, National Press Club
9/9/10

2. Concurrent Press Conferences Hosted by You
All Around the World
9/9/10

On September 9, 2010, Richard Gage, AIA and AE911Truth will hold a major press conference and debate at the National Press Club in Washington DC. Please join them in the early afternoon in DC for these events or help to organize the event.  On the same day, Richard Gage wants you to consider organizing a concurrent press conference outside the local office of your Senator or Representative. The step-by-step process to hold your press conference is easy and is listed here.

Contact them at  CongressionalOutreach@ae911truth.org to get connected as a team member.

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g) 9th Anniversary Eleventh of Every Month Actions Around the World

The Time is Now
On the Eleventh Day of Every Month
We Unite in Action for Truth until Justice

In the absence of sane leadership, we intend to do what people have always done to effect positive change: we will mobilize in massive numbers.  On the Eleventh Day of Every Month, we call 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. All that is required is participation by a small number of people already awake and willing to stand up and speak out for truth and justice. The laws of gravity – so absent from the NIST report – will take care of the rest.  So began the Civil Rights Movement. It did not begin with Martin Luther King. A great man did not appear from on high and lead the masses to victory. It began with regular people getting off the couch, getting together and standing up for truth and justice.

Take action in your town, with people just like you, here.  See pictures from last month’s actions all over the world, here.

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Research Community News

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a) NORAD Radar Screens Displayed False Tracks on 9/11

‘Let’s Get Rid of This Goddamn Sim’:
How NORAD Radar Screens Displayed False Tracks All Through the 9/11 Attacks
August 12, 2010, Shoestring, Shoestring Blog

No one has investigated why false tracks continued being injected onto NORAD radar screens long after the U.S. military was alerted to the real-world crisis taking place that morning.  We need to know who was responsible for transmitting the simulated “exercise inputs” to radar scopes. It has been reported that there was a “simulations team” working at NEADS the morning of September 11.  Was this team putting out the false tracks? If so, who were its members?

Read full post here.

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b) Pre-9/11 NORAD Exercise Simulated NYC Plane Crash

NORAD Exercise a Year Before 9/11 Simulated a Pilot Trying to Crash a Plane into a New York Skyscraper–The United Nation Headquarters
July 27, 2010, Shoestring, Shoestring Blog

How could it have happened that the organization responsible for defending U.S. airspace repeatedly practiced scenarios that so closely resembled the 9/11 attacks in the years leading up to those attacks? And considering that the existence of these plane-into-building training scenarios has largely gone unreported, might there have been other, similar scenarios practiced for by NORAD–or other U.S. military organizations–that we do not yet know of? A new investigation into 9/11 is clearly urgently required. And the role of these training scenarios is one of many aspects of the attacks that must be thoroughly examined.

Read full post here.

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c) FOIA Lawsuit: Thousands of NIST 9/11 Photos, Videos Released

International Center for 9/11 Studies Secures Release of Thousands of Photos and Videos from NIST
September 1, 2010, James Gourley, 911Blogger

The International Center for 9/11 Studies has secured the release of hundreds of hours of video footage and tens of thousands of photographs used by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its investigation of the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7. This material is being released to the Center under the Freedom of Information Act, in response to a lawsuit the Center filed against NIST. We are currently looking at the best ways to distribute these materials to interested researchers and journalists around the world.

Read full post here.

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9/11 In The News
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a) Open Letter to President Obama from John Feal on 9/11 Health and Compensation Act

My letter to the President of the United States

Dear Mr. President:
Why have you failed us?  Two years ago, when you were asking for our votes for president, your campaign said you supported the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which would provide us with the health care we earned through our service to this country. Since that time, though, you’ve said absolutely nothing about the heroes of 9/11. We thought you would be our champion, because the last administration failed us. Thousands of brave men & woman need your voice & support.

Read full letter here, or on Facebook, friend John Feal and read it here, or watch more on the CNN video here.

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b) 9/11 Museum: “Every Artifact is Evidence of Destruction”

9/11 Museum Shows Progress
August 11, 2010, Joseph De Avila, The Wall Street Journal

The way that 9/11 is remembered will soon be transformed.  Located beneath a maze of construction at Ground Zero, the National September 11 Memorial Museum is taking shape and has made significant progress. Members of the media took a tour of the cavernous, 120,000-square-foot museum site on Tuesday.  The museum opening is slated for Sept. 11, 2012. Museum officials expect it to become one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations, drawing as many as seven million visitors a year.

See full story here.

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c) Message from the Building What?! Campaign

Watch The Ad One Million New Yorkers Will See!

Dear Friends,
We are pleased and tremendously excited to share this groundbreaking TV ad with you for the first time. We hope, with your help, to be able to show it to one million New Yorkers one month from now. Please go to BuildingWhat.org to watch the ad and please donate generously. Every $750 we raise is enough for another spot to reach another 10,000 people. Your donation will be fully tax-deductible. 5% of it will go to the WTC Rescuers Foundation. And 5% of it will be matched by another generous donor. Our strategy for buying spots is guided by two principles. Firstly, showing it to audiences who will respond productively and influence the public discussion, such as young people, academics, journalists and the political class. And secondly, repetition! We will be sending off the ad two weeks from now. Between now and then we welcome your comments. We’re all in this together!

See the website here.

And follow up with a quick Letter to the Editor about the ad, already written out, here.

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d) Southern Poverty Law Center Attacks 9/11 Truth Movement

Russian TV Channel Pushes ‘Patriot’ Conspiracy Theories
August 20, 2010, Sonia Scherr, Southern Poverty Law Center

At the time of the last anniversary of Sept. 11, the channel published a four-part series on its website titled  ”911 Reasons why 9/11 was (probably) an inside job.” The articles, by Russia Today commentator Robert Bridge, report uncritically on discredited notions about Sept. 11, including the possibility that a bomb inside the towers contributed to their collapse and that the CIA had advance knowledge of the attack. On March 10, one of Russia Today’s top stories was headlined “Americans continue to fight for 9/11 truth.” That story, about a Pennsylvania gathering of Sept. 11 truthers, reported incorrectly that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) listed Rudkowski’s We Are Change as a hate group along with the Ku Klux Klan. See full story here and discussion here.

Top 10 Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories
Alexander Zaitchik, Southern Poverty Law Center, Alternet

In the weeks and months after the attacks, a subculture of “9/11 Truthism” emerged in which the attacks were seen as anything but a simple case of well-trained Al Qaeda operatives flying planes into landmark buildings. Instead, “truthers” argued that the World Trade Center buildings were destroyed by controlled demolitions, that a missile brought down United Airlines 93, and that a missile — and not an airliner at all — struck the Pentagon. Who was responsible? The U.S. government, of course. See full story here and discussion here.

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e) Matt Taibbi Uses ‘Rediscover911′ To Smear Movement

The Most Obnoxious Thing on the Internet This Month
August 21, 2010, Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Blog

The instant this Mosque fiasco turned into a full-blown media circus it became clear that the Truthers had to come up with some sort of position on the matter. From their point of view, of course, there’s nothing terribly offensive about putting a Mosque at Ground Zero because, after all, the Muslims and al Qaeda had nothing to do with 9/11. Instead it was George Bush, Dick Cheney, the CIA, the Mossad, the Council of Foreign Relations and whoever else was hanging out behind the conspiratorial curtain.

See full story here.

[To have a look at the website Rediscover911 without giving it traffic you can look at a counter site Rediscover911.org.]

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f) Rep. Alan Grayson: Bush “Let It Happen”

Grayson slams mosque ‘distraction’: Talk about admin that ‘let’ 9/11 happen instead
August 21, 2010, Stephen C. Webster, The Raw Story

If we are going to talk about 9/11, why don’t we talk about how not so much the people who died on 9/11 were disgraced by the possibility of an Islamic athletic center several blocks away; how about the fact that they were disgraced by a president who let it happen?” he asked. “Who went on vacation for the entire month of August after he was warned in writing that Osama bin Laden was actually finding targets in NYC and learning how to take these planes and do terrible things with them? The thing itself said ‘hijacking’ and they did nothing about it.” …

Read the full story here.

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g) Another report calls for “infiltration” of 9/11 websites

Report Calls for “Infiltration” of 9/11 Sites
August 29, 2010, 911TruthNews

A new report released by a think tank called Demos warns of the hazardous effects of conspiracy theories on society and recommends strategies for governments to mitigate these effects, including the infiltration of websites. The report, called The Power of Unreason: Conspiracy Theories, Extremism and Counterterrorism, says “most notoriously and influentially, the ‘9/11 truth movement’ has questioned the official accounts of 9/11 and has become a large and growing political force.”

Read the full story here.

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h) Review of the new Brett Smith film, Hypothesis

Hypothesis – a documentary about Professor Steven E. Jones
August 25, 2010, Carol Brouillet, IndyBay.org

The film contains some priceless exchanges and interviews with random students and the administration officials at BYU, which are enlightening, frightening, and humorous. Most impressive are the interviews with Dr. Jones’s scientific collaborator Dr. Jeffrey Farrer, as well as views of the lab and their experiments. There is an excellent clip documenting the circumstances of the gathering of the first dust sample that Dr. Jones and Dr. Farrer examined together.  The most dramatic, surprising, and damning interview, however, was with the man, C. Martin Hinckley, who first threatened Jones and then tried to bribe him to stop his research on the evidence of explosives. His threats in fact materialize later in the media attacks and the administrative leave that ended Professor Jones’s teaching career at BYU.

Read the full story here.

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Events

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Peace Through Truth: 9/11 and State Crimes Against Democracy
Saturday September 4th, 2010, 7 pm
Bloomington, Indiana
Featuring Laurie Manwell and Graeme MacQueen
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 East Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, Indiana
See: 911WorkingGroupEvents

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Eleventh of Every Month Action
Saturday September 11th, 2010
All over the world
See the steps to Take Action, here.
Find out what’s going on in your area: See Action Networks

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“Our Lives Post 9/11″
Sunday September 12th, 2010, 3 – 8 pm
New York, NY
Featuring Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Niels Harrit,  Crockett Grabbe and Richard Gage, AIA, among others.
Venue: 56 Walker Street
Location: 56 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013
Info: http://wearechange.org/91110

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The 6th Annual Northern California 9/11 Film Festival
Thursday-Sunday, September 9th – 12th, 2010
Oakland, San Leandro, San Francisco, CA
Featuring Mickey Huff, David Chandler, Peter Phillips and Filmmaker Brett Smith
Includes the New Film: Hypothesis (On Steven Jones)
Venues: The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland
the Bal Theatre in San Leandro
and the VizCinema in San Francisco
Info: http://norcal9-11filmfestival-hc.blogspot.com

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The STJ911 Committee

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A highly anticipated debate between two members of Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth and two physicists is scheduled for Saturday, August 21st, 2010. The debate will air on the popular late night talk show Coast to Coast AM with host Ian Punnett between 10pm – 2am Pacific time.

Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth and an architect for over twenty years, will be joined by Danish scientist, Niels Harrit, Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen—a chemist and university teacher with expertise in organic chemistry, photochemistry, fluorescence, and nanotechnology.

Challenging Gage and Harrit’s contention that explosives were responsible for the buildings’ destruction will be mathematician and physicist Dave Thomas from a group called New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR).  Thomas, a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, will be joined by his associate, industrial physicist Kim Johnson, also on the Board of NMSR and past president of the New Mexico Academy of Science.

See full story here.

See also:

Taming the Beast: A Short History of the AE911Truth Debates
by Shawn Hamilton

Soon after Richard Gage, AIA, became interested in the subject of the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11, he began debating critics who felt qualified to challenge the explosive evidence. Gage twice debated Ron Craig (International Society of Explosives Engineers), as well as Mark Roberts (tour guide), Michael Shermer (founder of Skeptic Magazine), and Dave Thomas (mathematician and physicist).

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.

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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

by Clare Swinney on Sun, 11/22/2009

The Hard Evidence Tour Down Under hit a high note on Saturday afternoon at the Te Papa Museum in Wellington, when over 650 turned up to hear Richard Gage, the spokesperson for Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, (AE911Truth), talk about what really happened to World Trade Centre (WTC) 1, 2, and 7 on 9/11. It was the largest crowd the architect and founder of AE911Truth has ever spoken to since he began spreading the truth – what he calls the Architecture of Destruction, about the evidence of 9/11, and revealing the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition, not by jet fuel and fires.

Gage spoke during the entire two-and-a-half hour long event. Says Jeremy Morrison, who videoed the highlights, which will be posted on YouTube: “It was a great presentation, even for someone like me who knows a lot of this stuff already. I still got a lot out of it, mainly about the science behind the controlled demolition. It’s come a long way and he covered a lot of ground.” Morrison, who kept a watchful eye on the proceedings on the stage, as well as in the audience, said he was aware of only one person who loudly voiced his disapproval, and the heckler, which Morrison caught on camera, looked emotionally shaken by what he had learnt about 9/11. “Apart from him, the audience loved Richard. There was a really good atmosphere,” offers Morrison.

Says Helen Waddington, who was one the team who worked behind the scenes to contribute to the event’s success: “It was surreal. It was great when so many turned up. I had a smile on my face when the hundreds of people came!”

As fewer than 300 had been expected to attend, the Wellingtonian 9/11 truth activists involved, had booked the 300-seat Soundings Theatre at Te Papa. It wasn’t until the day of the presentation, did they realise a far larger venue was needed.

By 1pm, an hour before the presentation’s scheduled start, 328 had registered and a multitude more expected to attend, largely owing to the fact that Gage had received good media coverage. As well as a fair and balanced article in the Wellington paper, The Capital Times, he was interviewed by veteran radio interviewer Kim Hill, on the day of the presentation. Although Hill made repeated attempts during their 36 minutes-long exchange, to throw a wet blanket over the flames of truth he was throwing, her efforts were ultimately thwarted by his steely resolve to convey the facts. As one listener put it, it was very obvious as to who was invested in getting to the truth of the matter and who was invested in obfuscation.

Owing to the interest generated by the Gage-Hill interview, many phoned the Te Papa Museum to make enquiries, alerting the staff to the fact that the 300-seater theatre would not accommodate the numbers expected to swamp the venue. Offers Waddington: “Thankfully, Te Papa were excellent at managing the overflow of people. They were able to set up live audio and visual feeds in the large Oceania conference room, which held approximately 320.” Waddington, who did head counts, said there were about 648 people there for the entire presentation and that two of the event’s organisers estimated that around 100 people had to be turned away. “I estimated we may actually have had 700 who were definitely interested and close to 1000 people there at the end of the day, as visitors to Te Papa Museum were milling in and out of the Oceania room and listening to Richard speak all afternoon,” she said.

At the start of the talk, Gage asked for a show of hands of those in the Soundings Theatre who believed the building collapses on 9/11 were due to controlled demolition. About two-thirds raised their hands. Then, near the conclusion of his talk, he asked, who still believed the official story – and only two raised their hands. The audience, evidently grateful for having someone so adept at ripping the mask of Osama bin laden off 9/11, thanked Gage for his efforts, with a sustained round of applause.

Related:

Richard Gage will be speaking in Auckland on the 30th of November, at the Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn, from 6pm. To book for the event, please e-mail: Will Ryan at nz911truth@hotmail.com. A gold coin donation would be appreciated, to give to Richard.

Richard Gage Interview On The Kim Hill Show.
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/richard-gage-goes-mainstrea…

He asks that people to write to Kim Hill. She had to opportunity to go to his talk – he asked her, but she refused. Her e-mail address at Radio NZ is: saturday@radionz.co.nz.

Fair & Balanced Article in Wellington Paper About Richard Gage & What Happened On 9/11
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/fair-balanced-article-in-we….

John Pilger Tells Kim Hill The Interview Is “A Disgrace”.
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/face-to-face-with-kim-hill-john-pilger-2…

— AE911Truth News Desk

Following a grueling 14+ hour plane trip to Australia as the start of the 2009 Australasia/Japan Tour, Richard Gage, AIA has crossed the International Date Line. This means that, based on San Francisco Bay Area time (America/Los_Angeles Time Zone and all of the U.S.), it will often be tomorrow in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The current time difference is +19 hours.

Mr. Gage left for Australia on Sunday, November 8, so that he would arrive in time to be with local activists on their 11th of the Month rally. See photos in the gallery and the Tour Blog at the left column of the tour page. Mr. Gage’s first presentation will be on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. as part of The Hard Evidence Conference.

Stay tuned for more information as we receive it and are able to post it.

Speakers will include Richard Gage, AIA, Dr. Steven Jones, Janice Matthews, John Bursill, Dr. Frank Legge, James O’Neill, Dr David Leifer, Cosmos and Luke Rudkowski.

On Remembrance Day 2009 (11th of the 11th at 11am) this coming Wednesday, members of the conference will meet at the ABC Studios in Ultimo, Sydney to publicly ask “why the ABC Studios continue to fail in their fiduciary (of trust) duty to inform the Australian Public of the news about an alternate view of 9/11.” Organizer John Bursill states:

You may be surprised that after spending many hundreds of dollars in Press Releases to media in Australia through the AAP News Wire (the best way to access journalists) not one mainstream news journalist has contacted us about the “Hard Evidence Tour” www.thehardevidence.com ? You might also be surprised that “our” ABC the national government broadcaster has not yet reported on the discovery of Nanothermite in the dust at the WTC or on the growing numbers of Architects and Engineers questioning the official version of the 9/11 Attacks represented by Richard Gage (AIA) and www.AE911Truth.org . These are just some of the continuing failures of our tax payer funded news broadcaster the ABC, so it once again must be brought to account by protest!

For more info see:

The Hard Evidence Tour

The final stop was the White House where Gage, with Slesinger, laid an AE911Truth banner on the sidewalk and addressed the tourists gathered there. Gage got into a heated but cordial debate with a man who identified himself as Kevin, a “reformed truther” and the former “debunking director” on the JREF Forum.

Source: Baltimore GrassRoots Media
http://www.baltimoregrassrootsmedia.org