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14 Structural Engineers Now Publicly Challenge Government’s Explanation for Destruction of the World Trade Center

A prominent engineer with 55 years experience, in charge of the design of hundreds of major building projects including high rise offices, former member of the California Seismic Safety Commission and former member of the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council (Marx Ayres) believes that the World Trade Centers were brought down by controlled demolition (see also this)
Two professors of structural engineering at a prestigious Swiss university (Dr. Joerg Schneider and Dr. Hugo Bachmann) said that, on 9/11, World Trade Center 7 was brought down by controlled demolition (translation here)

Kamal S. Obeid, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering from UC Berkeley, of Fremont, California, says:

“Photos of the steel, evidence about how the buildings collapsed, the unexplainable collapse of WTC 7, evidence of thermite in the debris as well as several other red flags, are quite troubling indications of well planned and controlled demolition”
Ronald H. Brookman, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering from UC Davis, of Novato California, writes:

“Why would all 110 stories drop straight down to the ground in about 10 seconds, pulverizing the contents into dust and ash - twice. Why would all 47 stories of WTC 7 fall straight down to the ground in about seven seconds the same day? It was not struck by any aircraft or engulfed in any fire. An independent investigation is justified for all three collapses including the surviving steel samples and the composition of the dust.”
Graham John Inman, structural engineer, of London, England, points out:

“WTC 7 Building could not have collapsed as a result of internal fire and external debris. NO plane hit this building. This is the only case of a steel frame building collapsing through fire in the world. The fire on this building was small & localized therefore what is the cause?”
Paul W. Mason, structural engineer, of Melbourne, Australia, argues:

“In my view, the chances of the three buildings collapsing symmetrically into their own footprint, at freefall speed, by any other means than by controlled demolition, are so remote that there is no other plausible explanation!”
Mills M. Kay Mackey, structural engineer, of Denver, Colorado, points out:

“The force from the jets and the burning fuel could not have been sufficient to make the building collapse. Why doesn’t the media mention that the 11th floor was completely immolated on February 13th, 1975? It had the weight of nearly 100 stories on top of it but it did not collapse?”
Haluk Akol, Structural Engineer and architect (ret.)

Charles Pegelow, structural engineer, of Houston, Texas (and see this)


Dennis Kollar, structural engineer, of West Bend, Wisconsin

Doyle Winterton, structural engineer (retired)

Michael T. Donly, P.E., structural engineer

William Rice, P.E., structural engineer, former professor of Vermont Technical College

Postscript: Since writing this list, I have found other structural engineers who challenge the government’s version of 9/11. I’m not going to constantly update the title from “14″ to a higher number.
For example:
David Scott, Structural Engineer, of Scotland, argues

“Near-freefall collapse violates laws of physics. Fire induced collapse is not consistent with observed collapse mode . . . .”
Nathan Lomba, Structural Engineer, of Eureka, California, states

“I began having doubts about, so called, official explanations for the collapse of the WTC towers soon after the explanations surfaced. The gnawing question that lingers in my mind is: How did the structures collapse in near symmetrical fashion when the apparent precipitating causes were asymmetrical loading? The collapses defies common logic from an elementary structural engineering perspective. “If” you accept the argument that fire protection covering was damaged to such an extent that structural members in the vicinity of the aircraft impacts were exposed to abnormally high temperatures, and “if” you accept the argument that the temperatures were high enough to weaken the structural framing, that still does not explain the relatively concentric nature of the failures.

Neither of the official precipitating sources for the collapses, namely the burning aircraft, were centered within the floor plan of either tower; both aircraft were off-center when they finally came to rest within the respective buildings. This means that, given the foregoing assumptions, heating and weakening of the structural framing would have been constrained to the immediate vicinity of the burning aircraft. Heat transmission (diffusion) through the steel members would have been irregular owing to differing sizes of the individual members; and, the temperature in the members would have dropped off precipitously the further away the steel was from the flames—just as the handle on a frying pan doesn’t get hot at the same rate as the pan on the burner of the stove. These factors would have resulted in the structural framing furthest from the flames remaining intact and possessing its full structural integrity, i.e., strength and stiffness.

Structural steel is highly ductile, when subjected to compression and bending it buckles and bends long before reaching its tensile or shear capacity. Under the given assumptions, “if” the structure in the vicinity of either burning aircraft started to weaken, the superstructure above would begin to lean in the direction of the burning side. The opposite, intact, side of the building would resist toppling until the ultimate capacity of the structure was reached, at which point, a weak-link failure would undoubtedly occur. Nevertheless, the ultimate failure mode would have been a toppling of the upper floors to one side—much like the topping of a tall redwood tree—not a concentric, vertical collapse.

For this reason alone, I rejected the official explanation for the collapse of the WTC towers out of hand. Subsequent evidence supporting controlled, explosive demolition of the two buildings are more in keeping with the observed collapse modalities and only serve to validate my initial misgivings as to the causes for the structural failures.”
Edward E. Knesl, civil and structural engineer, of Phoenix, Arizona, writes:

” We design and analyze buildings for the overturning stability to resist the lateral loads with the combination of the gravity loads. Any tall structure failure mode would be a fall over to its side. It is impossible that heavy steel columns could collapse at the fraction of the second within each story and subsequently at each floor bellow.

We do not know the phenomenon of the high rise building to disintegrate internally faster than the free fall of the debris coming down from the top.

The engineering science and the law of physics simply doesn’t know such possibility. Only very sophisticated controlled demolition can achieve such result, eliminating the natural dampening effect of the structural framing huge mass that should normally stop the partial collapse. The pancake theory is a fallacy, telling us that more and more energy would be generated to accelerate the collapse. Where would such energy would be coming from ?”
David Topete, civil and structural engineer, San Francisco, California

See this website and this website for further additions.

There are many other structural engineers who have questioned the government’s account in private. We support them and wish them courage to discuss these vital issues publicly.

The policeman in your head

An interesting and thought provoking article from the Tehran Times.


By Hamid Golpira


Many people believe the global police state taking shape will have policemen, soldiers, and other security personnel on every corner, constantly monitoring our movements and checking our ID cards, but that won’t happen because the policeman will be in your head.


There will be no need for excessive numbers of police because people will be programmed to police themselves.

This is already beginning to happen.

The new thought police is in people’s heads.

The so-called war on terror, with its restrictions on civil liberties and implicit restrictions on thought, is a part of this process.

In the United States, especially in the media, it has become taboo to suggest that terrorists have legitimate grievances.

The official line, repeated ad nauseam by U.S. officials, is that terrorists are mindless barbarians and fanatics who hate freedom.

By why would militants who claim they are fighting for the liberation of their homelands hate freedom?

Apparently this has become a forbidden thought, too.

A U.S. broadcaster who had said that the 9/11 bombers were evil but not cowardly was forced to retract his statement and apologize in order to save his career.

The media, social norms, the education system, and advanced methods of mind control are being used to brainwash people.

People are being insidiously persuaded to allow the thought police to enter their heads and control their way of thinking.

This is a global program but it is being tested out in the United States first.

One of the main programs being downloaded into people’s heads tells them to ignore and reject intellectual inquiry, deeper ideas, speculation, and officially restricted lines of thought.

It is very easy to determine if people have been programmed.

In a conversation, bring up a serious matter.

If they listen to you, they are not programmed.

If their minds shut down and they obey the commands of the policemen in their heads and refuse to listen to you, they are programmed.

If people respond in this way, change the topic and begin talking about more mundane matters like the weather or fashion or sports events.

If they listen and actively engage in conversation with you, that proves that they are not averse to dialogue, they simply have certain restrictions on what they will discuss.

The policeman in your head enforces conformity of thought and deed.

The average person is weak and will obey the policeman in their head.

However, a freethinking person never allows a policeman to enter their head.

This creates a problem for the mind control system, so a special program has been downloaded into the heads of the sheeple to deal with freethinkers.

In this program, all of the people with policemen in their heads are commanded to constantly monitor everyone.

If they encounter a freethinking person who does not have a policeman in their head, they are commanded to use every means of persuasion and coercion at their disposal to convince the freethinker to conform and allow the policeman to enter their head.

If this fails, the people with policemen in their heads are commanded to police the thoughts and actions of the freethinker.

The sheeple are even taught that they are doing a favor for these freethinking thought criminals and showing them a way to a happy, thought crime-free life.

"I have become comfortably numb".

Hello, Hello, Hello,is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can here me
Is there anybody home.

This I think is should be the new American anthem. Everyone in the United States seems to be comfortably numb.

In the last 7 years the citizens of the US have seen their President (who himself went AWOL from the Texas National Guard) go to two wars based on lies and no authorization from Congress. He calls himself, "The War President". He apparently finds it amusing to threaten other countries such as Iran, Syria, China and Russia, while ignoring the carnage in the Gaza territories. The country's "leaders" threaten other countries because they do not walk in lock-step with the current jack booted Administration.

The war machine is supplied by companies controlled by the Vice-President and former Secretary of War and other connected friends. Those companies are making billions off the sacrifice by our young people and the American people. In order to continue the war machine the government contracts with mercenaries apparently without oversight by anyone of authority to do the really dirty work, while the song Comfortably Numb repeats in citizens heads.

US citizens are violated, humiliated, threatened and sometimes arrested for refusing to be "patted down", when they go to airports and searched by TSA goons. Gray haired middle-aged women seem to be especially good terrorist targets for these sub-humans to harass. I once saw a very elderly woman in a wheel chair having to go through additional searching in front of everyone in line to get through “security” before being allowed to pass through.

American citizens are wiretapped, listen to, spied on, bank records being looked in to, their grocery purchases spied on, their emails are read by govt. agencies; neighbors have been encouraged to spy and report on other neighbors. Still they hum the song Comfortably Numb.

Police no longer need to have a court order in order to bust down your front door and throw you to the floor handcuffed, and tasered for asking a question. Elementary school children are being handcuffed and arrested for temper tantrums, that when I was that age I was sent to the principal’s office and was paddled. Now, children are criminalized.

Police have the right to stop any person and demand to see their identification papers.

Police who kill are no longer prosecuted. They are simply placed on paid leave until the people go back to being numb. An unarmed man in NY coming out of a club the night before his wedding was gunned down and shot 50 times by NY Police. The police were acquitted this week.

The vote you cast is no longer counted due to the use of electronic voting machine with computer codes controlled by the corporations who manufacture the machines with the result being votes can be changed to whomever the media and the “deciders” chose and without a trail.

Gasoline has tripled in price since the bankrupted, drunken, drug addled oil-man became President. No one in politics seems to care. I saw one female interviewed on a television news show asked if the price of gasoline shocked her as she was fuelling her vehicle, she said "No. Why?" When she was told by the interviewer what the price per gallon she'd just bought, the female laughed and said, "I didn't know the price was that high! I never looked". Comfortably numb.

A US citizen can be arrested and held indefinitely in a prison, without charges, for as long as the President wants. There is no longer habeas corpus in the US. I guess it's okay for the govt. to do this since those arrested seem to be muslims and the govt. must protect us against "turrurists". Innocent people whose lives have been crushed, mentally broken and then released after years of torture with no legal recourse to remedy their situation.

The US now ignores the Geneva Convention and arrest innocent people and send them to countries that will torture them (rendition) into saying whatever the US wants them to say. Our own little juniors who are in the military tortures people and take photos of the torture to show their friends what fun they had in Iraq!

The US drops cluster bombs in the middle of neighborhoods killing everyone within a certain area (children, women and old men), and then calls them "insurgents"! Insurgents? Innocent people who are simply trying to survive? The “insurgents” are people defending their country from the invasion by the US. Insurgents? Just stay comfortably numb.

Our troops break in to Iraqi houses in the middle of the night, throw the father to the ground and beat him and humiliates him in front of his family, terrorize the wife and children, sometimes raping the young daughter and then defecates and urinates in the food before leaving after finding no weapons, no bombs, no IED's. Nice, huh? Makes me proud.

48 million US citizens are without health insurance because "the country can't afford it". Yet the government spends up to 3 trillion dollars in Iraq fighting and losing an illegal war against a country that had NO WMD's, was NOT involved in the 9/11 attacks, did not and had never "threatened the US" in any way. Yet, something like 35% of the people interviewed thought the statement above was true, even after it has been admitted by the government they lied about the reasons for going to war..

Our bridges are collapsing, road go unrepaired, water pipes in cities leak a tremendous amount of water, schools no longer teach, senior citizens must decide do I eat today, or go buy my medicine, soldiers returning from Iraq return to their base at Fort Bragg and their barracks are in a shambles! Corporations make record profits and the US spends it's money to repair the bridges, road, water treatment plants, rebuild the Iraqi army and schools in Iraq that we destroyed in the first place! Yet there is no money to repair the US.

Countrywide Mortgage destroyed many lives with sub-prime loans to borrowers that never should have been approved in the first place, now those people are losing their homes, people are losing their jobs and Mr. Mozilla, CEO of Countrywide, was paid $131 million last year! But that's okay, you are comfortably numb. We understand.

While gasoline tripled in price in recent years, Exxon makes $48 billion a year in profits ($11 billion in the first quarter of this year) and pays out huge bonuses to their executives who helped make this little racket work. I hear of no one screaming about that as they pay $3.75 for a gallon of gasoline. When the CEO’s of the three big oil companies testified before Congress a few months ago, one of the Congressmen asked the executives if, in light of record profits had the CEO’s ever consider lowering the price of gasoline to help citizens out and all three of them looked dumbfounded and were speechless. The thought had never occurred to them to lower prices…simply keep raising profits!

Over 100,000 people a year die by pharmaceuticals, either being mis-prescribed by the physician, taken improperly (wrong dose or time), given the wrong medication (by the physician or Pharmacist) or just being a dangerous drug. Yet the Pharmaceuticals make exceedingly high profits each year and can no longer be sued (thanks to Bush and the mighty moneyed lobbyists) yet the government is concerned about people taking vitamins and supplements and wants to limit their purchase..

Our air is being used to manipulate the weather by using a combination of barium, aluminum sulfate, and magnesium in a soup called "chemtrails". The govt. says they are contrails. Contrails are water vapor that dissipates in a few minutes. Chemtrails are aerosolized chemicals that span out to form gray skies and funny looking clouds. Most people fail to see them or even ask questions. Flu-like symptoms, asthma, sinus congestion, fatigue all result after the chemicals are sprayed in the air. Barium is a desiccate (dries moisture out). Where chemtrails are sprayed rain disappears. Droughts are becoming endemic. Why? I used to teach Medical School and I would take my students outside to show them what a chemtrail looked like. They still didn’t seem to get it. Look up, people! Turn the tune off you I-pod and look up.

Food prices are rising and now stores are RATIONING food in the US. In the US for God's sakes! Food basket of the world they used to say; now basic food is being rationed. George Bush came into the Presidency with a budget surplus and he leaves the office with the country in shambles and food being rationed! Prices are going up quickly and no one in the govt. or the people are doing a thing about it. Keep your eyes on the road and do not look up. Stay between the lines. You are comfortably numb.

Housing prices have fallen through the roof. People can't afford their houses or afford to sell them at a loss. This situation was created by speculators who bid up prices far to high, "flipped them", then took the money and ran and banks who created ingenious financing so they could bundle all the sub-prime loans and sell them to investors.. The govt. does not care about the people who got hurt and lost their homes...THEY ARE BAILING OUT THE BANKS!

The news media, especially FOX and CNN are nothing but mouthpieces for the government. You know those "military analyst" that are on all the news shows touting how great things are going on in Iraq and Afghanistan and who help Bushie threaten Iran? We found out this week they are on the payroll of the Pentagon and go to classes held in the Pentagon to learn how to present the lies on the news shows. That’s okay, the good citizens show their support by placing the little yellow (made in China) magnets that they proudly “Support our troops”. All is well as the song continues to hum in their heads.

Credit cards companies are charging interest and fees that are over 30%. In the 60's this was called "loan sharking". Now it is just business as usual. If a person has difficulty paying their credit card balance the banks will raise interest rates and “fees” to make it more unaffordable. Why? Why don’t they decrease their charges so maybe the people behind on their payments may be able to pay something and stay current?

And yet the people stand mute!

No protests, no shouting, and no demands that those in the govt. who caused all these disasters be held accountable. The US is rapidly becoming a "Third World Country"...with fancy weapons. No culpability of the crooks that have wreaked this havoc over the last 7 years. I am afraid because US citizens may not vote for a woman or a black that they will instead vote for John "Insane" McCain. He is no “war hero”, he got shot down for God’s sake…he lost his plane! Becoming a POW and sitting out the war makes him a “hero”? Give me a break! Remember all the truth he's supposed to bring (The Truth Express?) just remember he was one of the Keating 5 of the late 1980's. Who along with Charles Keating ripped off people and the government and caused the Savings and Loan collapse. One of the Keating Five! You don't remember that...okay close your eyes and gently hum the song.

Where is the activism of the 1960’s as people poured into the streets to demand civil rights for all, the students who demanded the end of the Viet Nam war, the protestors who risked prison by burning their draft cards and refusing to serve in an unjust war? Today no one dare raise their voice against the government either out of fear of being labeled a terrorist, arrested, tasered, fired from their job, become audited by the IRS or otherwise targeted, or perhaps, perhaps they do not care.

Anyway, this rant is to try and wake up the great unwashed or as Henry Kissinger called us, "The useless eaters". It seems to me most Americans are asleep at the wheel, either drugged up on antidepressants and other prescribed anti-psychotics, or street drugs or just too damned tired to see the current mess they are in.

I think, the people should sing the American anthem, "I've become comfortably numb!"

Ohio attorney general admits to affair with employee

These hypocritical power thugs Ho around while they accuse others of them same mess they are in and are never sorry for what they do until they get caught. We should never accept their "sincere apologies". It is not sincere. Dann should be prosecuted and punished to the fullest ex tense of the law.

Tom

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's attorney general admitted an extramarital affair with an employee Friday, soon after three of his aides were fired or forced out after an investigation found evidence of sexual harassment and other misconduct.

Leader of both parties were critical of Attorney General Marc Dann, one of several Democrats swept into office in 2006 after a scandal over state investments sullied Republicans. He apologized to his wife and supporters but promised not to step down.

"I'm embarrassed. I have taken responsibility for what I've done," he told reporters.

Dann had lived with two of the aides at an apartment during much of his first year in office and some of the alleged harassment by one of the aides occurred there.

"I did not create an atmosphere in my public and personal life that is consistent with the important mission of the Office of Attorney General ...," Dann said. "I am heartbroken by my failure to recognize the problems being created and by my failure to stop them."

Watch what you touch: A bad germ gets worse

Something is wrong. Bush is wanting billions more to kill a bunch of Iraqi citizens and we are aproaching a germ that has the potential to kill millions of US citizens.
WTF

Tom


‘C. diff’ rivals MRSA as the next deadly bacteria threat, experts say

C. diff has long been a common, usually benign bug associated with simple, easily treated diarrhea in older patients in hospitals and nursing homes. About 3 percent of healthy adults harbor the bacteria with no problem. But overuse of antibiotics has allowed the germ to develop resistance in recent years, doctors said, creating the toxic new type that stumps traditional treatment.

"This is the one we're scared of," said Dr. Brian Koll, chief of infection control at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

C. diff produces anaerobic spores transmitted through feces that are able to survive for months on most surfaces. People are infected when they ingest the bacteria, typically by touching contaminated surfaces and then touching their mouths, or by eating contaminated food.

Overall infections caused by C. diff more than doubled between 2000 and 2005, according to the latest government figures. In 2005, the year of Warren’s illness, 301,200 cases of C. difficile-associated disease (CDAD) were logged in discharge records kept by the nation’s hospitals. Some 28,600 people who had the infection died.

That's only hospitals, however. Counting nursing homes and other care centers, the number of cases nationally is likely closer to 500,000, experts estimate.

Contaminated health care settings remain the main source of C. diff infections, primarily because they treat so many people with serious diarrheal illness. The NAP1 strain has been found in other sites and populations in recent years, infecting young adults and pregnant women with no history of antibiotic use, according to federal sources.

Despite the concern, scientists don't know how many people contract NAP1 infections, or how many die from them. C. diff infection is not a reportable condition in most states, although a rare pilot project that mandated reporting in Ohio in 2006 found more than 14,000 cases in hospitals and nursing homes that year, according to the state health department.

Dark Lord of The Sith

Very interesting comments from Hashkafah.com

Jan 31 2006
From: A long time ago,in a galaxy far far away.
Member No.: 59

South Dakota News

This text was written by a county emergency manager out in the western part of South Dakota shortly after the recent snow storm.
WEATHER BULLETIN

Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from a Historic event may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands. FYI:

* George Bush did not come....
* FEMA did nothing....
* No one howled for the government...
* No one blamed the government...
* No one even uttered an expletive on TV...
* Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit...
* Our Mayor's did not blame Bush or anyone else...
* Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else either...
* CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snow storm...
* Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.....
* No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House....
* No one looted....
* Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something...
* Nobody expected the government to do anything, either...
* No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and
*No Geraldo Rivera
* No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found and
* Nope, we just melted the snow for water...
* Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars...
* The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny...
* Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snow bound families...
* Families took in the stranded people - total strangers...
* We Fired up wood stoves...
* Broke out coal oil lanterns or coleman lanterns...
* We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die"...
* We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks...
* Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves...
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% most of the world's social problems evaporate."