North Tower Exploding: An Introduction To 911 Truth
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality...
and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. — George Orwell, 1984
Consider what happened to The North Tower on 9/11. How can we even imagine this massive (one acre of floor space, not counting the central core structures) 100% steel-framed, 110-storey, highly-redundant office building could have converted itself into dust and fragments of steel when there were only 10-13 floors above the impact zone and gravity was, supposedly, the only thing driving the destruction? The lightest part of any building is the top, which is why the towers had tapered vertical columns that got progressively thicker the lower down they were. At their base the larger core columns were 54" of nearly solid high-grade structural steel and weighed 56 tons. What remained & surrounding areas
No identifiable trace has ever been found of over 1100 people murdered in Manhattan that day. That is over 40% of all fatalities. No one has explained how or why the more than 9000 human remains still "frozen for future analysis" were so degraded DNA analysis has been unable to identify them.
NIST's 'investigation' into the destruction of the Twin Towers goes up to the point where they began to fail, what they term: "conditions for collapse initiation having been reached", and want us to believe everything that followed, namely, the systematic and highly-explosive destruction of both of the intact structures below, was somehow inevitable and requires no investigation or explanation whatsoever. This, despite the high levels of redundancy built into them. The fact is, that like Building 7's implosion, the destruction of these buildings through their vertical axes cannot be explained without explosives.
The 'pile driver' theory does not match observations. Even a cursory look at the "investigations" done on 911 (FEMA, The 911 Commission Report, and NIST's reports on the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7) shows they were investigations in name only. *see analysis by David Chandler, Jim Hoffman, Steven E Jones, Kevin Ryan, and others. *NIST is a NON REGULATORY agency of the Department of Commerce.
— WTC7's implosion — [version II] speaks for itself: asymmetric damage caused by office fires and localized failures cannot possibly account for the precipitous, high-speed and symmetrical collapse that occurred. Acknowledged by NIST in their final report on WTC 7 [see video: NIST Finally Admits Freefall, Chandler] that for the first 108', the perimeter came down at actual free fall. (and still few people blinked)
One does not need to be an engineer or architect to know what happened to these buildings. We have a good idea what happened inside of them because we know how they came down and what remained of them afterwards. The Mysterious Collapse of WTC 7 by David Ray Griffin
Video analyses by David Chandler: North Tower Exploding
WTC7: NIST Finally Admits Freefall (Part III) & WTC7 in Freefall: No Longer Controversial
— WTC 2 The South Tower destruction and WTC2 (NIST FOIA) Enhanced
There is no question many of the claims attributed to the '911 truth movement' are speculative, irresponsible and downright false. This does not change the fact that there is a large body of legitimate evidence.
The truth hurts but the lie is killing us. — Dr Niels Harrit
Real 911 Truth:
Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth
911research.wtc7.net & 911review.com Jim Hoffman
The Complete 9/11 Timeline - History Commons research database - No longer online - WBM still works.
Journal of 911Studies
9/11 and the Academic Community video
911SpeakOut.org
Why The NIST WTC 7 Report Is False 11min video
Dig Within
Kevin Ryan's blog
Demolition Access To The WTC Towers
Published papers:
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: evidence for energetic materials
Collapse Time Analysis of Multi-Story Structural Steel Buildings
118 Witnesses: The Firefighter’s Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers
Why Indeed Did the World Trade Center Buildings Collapse
Scholars for 911 Truth & Justice
Documentaries & presentations:
9-11 Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Anatomy of a Great Deception
Jim Hoffman 9-11 Guilt: The Proof is in Your Hands (2005)
9/11 Trillions: Follow The Money - corbettreport
Kevin Ryan Emerging Science of World Trade Center Demolitions 2009
9/11 War Games - corbettreport
Books:
ANOTHER NINETEEN: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects by Kevin Ryan
THE 2001 ANTHRAX DECEPTION The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy Graeme MacQueen
Recent:
The untold story of Sue Keane — a 9/11 hero, eyewitness, and truth-teller
by Ted Walter
Planet Lockdown
False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda — Part 1: Origin Story - corbettreport
The Unspeakable
Quotes:
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. — Albert Einstein
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what is not true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Søren Kierkegaard
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. — Winston Churchill
It's a scam. It's absolutely disgusting. That's what we have here, an obstruction of a full investigation on the most serious attack on the homeland in the last 150 years.
— 9/11 Commissioner Senator Max Cleland
[This series of photos depicting the destruction of the North Tower were taken by Noah K Murray, [with a number of images from other sources following and the image from the FEMA 403, Appendix C preceding and were released through a FOIA request.]
[This series of photos depicting the destruction of the North Tower were taken by Noah K Murray, [with a number of images from other sources following and the image from the FEMA 403, Appendix C preceding and were released through a FOIA request.]
'Vaporized' Steel From WTC 7
The photo above is from the FEMA 403 [May 2002] Building Performance Study (BPAT) Appendix C: A Limited Metallurgical Examination, the first 'investigation' conducted following the attacks. It shows what remained of a structural steel I-beam that came from the WTC 7 debris pile. According to Dr Steven E Jones Appendix C of the FEMA 403 was the only properly peer-reviewed section of the entire paper.
It states: 'Evidence of a severe high-temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intragranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure. A liquid eutectic mixture* containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed during this hot corrosion attack on the steel. This sulfur-rich liquid penetrated preferentially down grain boundaries of the steel, severely weakening the beam.' ... 'The thinning of the steel occurred by a high-temperature corrosion due to a combination of oxidation and sulfidation. Heating of the steel into a hot corrosive environment that liquefied the steel. The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.'
-It has now: Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
*A eutectic (in this case sulfur) is added to thermite to extend the period of time the metal remains in a molten state.
FEMA appropriately called for further investigation of this finding, which the New York Times called “perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation” (Killough-Miller, 2002). But the NIST report, in its section headed “Learning from the Recovered Steel” fails even to mention either evaporation or sulfidation.
A one-inch column has been reduced to half-inch thickness. Its edges--which are curled like a paper scroll--have been thinned to almost razor sharpness. Gaping holes-- some larger than a silver dollar--let light shine through a formerly solid steel flange. This Swiss cheese appearance shocked all of the fire-wise professors, who expected to see distortion and bending--but not holes.” -WPI
"One piece Dr. Astaneh-Asl saw was a charred horizontal I-beam from 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story skyscraper that collapsed from fire eight hours after the attacks. The beam, so named because its cross-section looks like a capital I, had clearly endured searing temperatures. Parts of the flat top of the I, once five-eighths of an inch thick, had vaporized. " [ Scarred Steel Holds Clues, And Remedies [Chang. New York Times, October 2 2001]“..fire and the structural damage . . . would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been partly evaporated in extraordinarily high temperatures.” -Dr. Jonathan Barnett, Professor of Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute [ Engineers Suspect Diesel Fuel in Collapse of 7 World Trade Center [Glanz. New York Times, November 29 2001]
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Getting to the bottom of what really happened:
NIST spokesperson Michael E Newman when challenged by Hartford Advocate reporter Jennifer Abel on a glaring omission in the WTC report.
ABEL: … what about that letter where NIST said it didn’t look for evidence of explosives?
NEWMAN: Right, because there was no evidence of that.
ABEL: But how can you know there’s no evidence if you don’t look for it first?
NEWMAN: If you’re looking for something that isn’t there, you’re wasting your time.
*Ignoring all precedence and standard operating procedure, NIST refused to test for explosive residues despite the extreme levels of high order damage to the structures. Barring a cover-up, there is no logical reason for them to have not done so.
To remain silent is to be guilty of complicity. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. - Martin Luther King
Over the years we have heard a variety of 'experts' postulating a series of different hypotheses in an effort to explain the rapid and complete destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 on 9/11/2001. All of them overlooked the large body of well-documented evidence listing extreme anomalies that uniformly point to energetic materials. Normally, the goal of hi-rise demolition is to put the building in its basement, much more in line with what happened with World Trade Center 7. What was done to the Twin Towers was unprecedented and almost unimaginable. Although the use of thermite is unconventional in building demolition such devices do exist: see 'Komatsu'
The South Tower stood for 56 minutes and the North Tower for 102 minutes after being hit by individual commercial aircraft. Despite the radically different angles of the plane impacts, both towers were destroyed in precisely the same manner. There is no question these were highly explosive events, each building was pulverized, with most of the 90,000 TONS of concrete (4 inches per x110 floors of reinforced concrete with corrugated metal decking on each side) in each converted to dust. Only the most robust metallic elements remained. The rest were turned into fragments of structural steel and fine powder . The sixty-five miles of tempered steel structural steel beams that made up the massive and elaborately cross-braced core structures were violently blasted apart, strewing them hundreds of feet in every direction, all in 12-15 seconds each.
Most of the core columns were reduced to roughly 30' sections, ready for immediate removal to overseas recycling centers. Each also produced massive toxic pyroclastic clouds (another telltale high energy feature), that tore through the nearby streets, blanketing lower Manhattan in fine powder from 'river to river.' (Gov Pataki) It also drifted across the Hudson River into densely populated areas of Brooklyn and New Jersey.
Numerous well-documented anomalies [more anomalies] were observed in lower Manhattan on 9/11 and in the months that followed. Many of these features are, ipso facto, proof of the presence of explosives. Including:
—The speed and symmetry with which all three towers came down through their vertical axes.
—The explosive energy seen in the destruction of the Twin Towers.
—The complete dismemberment of their superstructures.
—That multi-ton core and perimeter column assemblies were blasted horizontally in every direction with such force that some were embedded into the facades of buildings hundreds of feet away.
—That each left a 1200' radial debris field. FEMA 403 [May 2002] page 1-9
—Powerful ejections of concrete ["squibs"] seen shooting out of the building are a common feature in controlled demolition are visible in numerous videos, as well as the photos below.
—That virtually no freestanding vertical columns remained.
—Both molten steel (FEMA 403) and copious amounts of small formerly molten iron microspheres, a by-product of the thermitic reaction, were found in the dust. Documented by the USGS and RJ Lee *who, as a result, labeled them a 'signature component of WTC dust'. They calculated the iron spheroids accounted for an astonishing 5.85% of the dust by volume] and others, including Dr Steven E Jones.
— Pools of molten metal were found in the basements, and at the bottoms of elevator shafts of all three sites. 'Molten metal running down the walls of debris pile' — 'Molten steel running down the channel rails. Like in a foundry' are descriptions from FDNY responders, City officials and other eyewitnesses. [1]
—Extreme temperatures were recorded by NASA and the USGS in thermal images. Bechtel was contracted, among other things, with conducting daily helicopter flights over Ground Zero for the ASSE (American Society of Safety Engineers which were in charge of safety at Ground Zero) to measure the surface temperatures of the smouldering pits that remained. Even weeks later the surface the surface temperature was as high as 2800F.
How can I be sure? I'm not a scientist or an architect. The jury system is based, following a thorough review of the evidence, on lay persons deciding between competing experts: photos, videos, first-hand accounts (like The Oral Histories and Also archived at the NY Times & archive here. Well over one hundred firefighters described explosions. A basic understanding of skyscraper design and the properties of steel is all one needs, if that. (Building 7 alone proves how these buildings were destroyed, and how screwed we are). The mainstream media has the accounts of first-responders, the news accounts during those first days, (Use The 911 Timeline, linked above, for research) as well as the analyses conducted by independent researchers) is all that is required to make an informed decision.
Watching Building 7's implosion we must ask how it was possible for a skyscraper to exhibit every feature of a planned implosion yet not have been one, when the only time those features have ever been seen in the past were during controlled demolitions. As such, the burden of proof lies with anyone claiming anything other than controlled demolition brought the building, down. The 47-storey skyscraper (at the time being the largest building in 33 states) was reduced to a remarkably neat 3-story rubble pile after imploding symmetrically at 5:20PM on the afternoon of 9/11. Large sections of the perimeter wall could be seen laying on the pile. The 911 Commission Report made no mention of WTC 7 in its final report aside from a single footnote.
NIST, after being forced by David Chandler to concede the fact that free fall had occurred, stated in their final report on WTC7 that This free fall drop continued for approximately 8 stories or 32.0 m (108').. In other words, the rate of fall of the roof line was indistinguishable from acceleration of gravity. The singular implications are clear: barring demolition, free fall is impossible in any supported structure. More recently, citing unstated 'public safety concerns', NIST has categorically refused to release the data inputs they used to make their black box computer model that attempted to depict Building 7's implosion. The reasons are obvious: their results look nothing like the actual event and they have no desire to publicly share the inputs they used to produce even that complete misrepresentation. This is not how science is done. It directly undermines the crucial peer-review process which is central to the scientific method.
-Molten metal [1] found in small iron spherules so prevalent, (5.87% by vol) that investigators for RJ Lee labeled them a “signature component” of WTC Dust. Molten metal poured out of the southeast corner of the South Tower just below the point where moments later it came apart. Severely corroded remnants of structural steel beams documented in the BPAT Appendix C and repeatedly in witness accounts which describe, 'pools of molten metal in the basements and elevator shafts beneath all three towers.'
The South Tower’s upper 30-floor block changed its momentum in midair. At the tail end of his 2005 presentation, Jim Hoffman gives a more technical explanation for why the upper block of the South Tower could not have leaned so far outside the profile the building and then simply disappeared into a massive dust cloud, as opposed to falling into the street as one would expect.
-100 day underground fires and extreme temperatures documented by numerous sources cannot be accounted for by any kind of uncontrolled hydrocarbon fire. Daily surface temperature readings taken by Bechtel for the ASSE [NASA and FDNY took their own readings] and nearly two weeks later recorded a surface temperature of 2800F 9 days after 09/11. This despite the millions of gallons of water and chemical fire suppressants poured on them by the FDNY, rain in the days and weeks that followed, the fires could not be put out for 100 days. It turns out that thermite burns even underwater because it provides its own oxidizer. Smoldering pits with pools of molten metal in them are what remained of all three skyscrapers.
-The red/grey chips. If explosives were used, Dr Steven Jones reasoned, there should be traces of them in the copious amounts of dust the destruction of the Towers generated. Having already documented the iron micro-spheres, he was the first to document the presence of minute 'red/gray' chips in the dust. He also subsequently took part in the nearly 2 year, peer-reviewed study conducted at a number of different universities, and headed by Dr Niels Harrit, head of the Chemistry Dept. Copenhagen University, Denmark. Each of the four samples they tested, contained traces of a hi-tech (nano-engineered) thermitic material, they termed, nano-thermite.. Deniers have tried to explain these away as "paint primer chips" but those compounds are not nano-engineered materials and leave elemental iron as their by-product when ignited.
-Carbon nanotubes have also been found in the lungs of first responders.
-Media blackout. Search for Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe in the NY Times and you will not find a word about it. Despite being ignored by most academic and corporate media sources, the paper's findings remain unchallenged within the scientific peer-reviewed literature.
Who attacked us? By noon on the very day Paul Bremer on NBC naming Osama Bin Ladin & Saddam Hussein as likely culprits. Within 3 days the FBI presented photos of the 19 alleged hijackers. A good number of whom turned out to be innocent people living abroad. Soon afterward the FBI conceded, ‘we may never learn the actual identity of the perpetrators.’
-Cover-Up: Investigations were postponed and underfunded. Numerous examples of deceit and the ignoring of evidence in order to make the conclusions fit the preconceived narrative. Any criminal investigator will tell you the hours immediately following any crime are the most critical. Yet the first investigation into these unprecedented, world-changing attacks, consisted of12 "volunteers" who were not even allowed access to the site for 30 days, at which point they received what one described as, 'a guided tour.' The 156 samples of steel they did manage to obtain were mostly coupons cut at Freshkills Landfill where the smaller debris was taken and where, even pieces they had marked, "Save for Study" were "accidentally" discarded. See also: Non investigation.
As the worst structural failures in engineering history, these events merited the most rigorous and well-funded investigations possible . What they received was the exact opposite. Delayed and underfunded, they were given what amount to investigations in name only. The first was conducted by volunteers who were not even permitted access to the site for 30 days. [3]. Later they were given what one described as "a guided tour". They were not permitted to take any steel samples from ground Zero so they had to make do with small cut-outs from Freshkills Landfill. FEMA issued its report of May 2002. With regard to Building 7 they said : "Our best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation and analysis is necessary to resolve the issue." On the Twin Towers: "With the information and time available, the sequence of events leading to the collapse of the Twin Towers could not be definitively determined." [FEMA May, 2002]. The issuing of the FEMA BPAT coincided with completion of the clean-up and disposal of evidence at Ground Zero. Only one section of the FEMA BPAT that was peer-reviewed, -Appendix C A Limited Metallurgical Examination.
Missing Bodies. The smaller debris from Ground Zero was trucked to Freshkills Landfill in Staten Island, where it sorted into 3 content-based piles. It was then systematically laid out onto conveyor belts, lined with gloved-attendants, whose job it was to cull out any human remains they could locate. Despite two years of intensive searching and use of advanced DNA recovery techniques, over 1100 victims still remain unaccounted for. Many victims were identified from small fragments of bone or flesh, some found blocks away. 200 DNA tests matched a single individual. No one has addressed why current DNA techniques have been unable to confirm the identity of the thousands of fragments of human remains that are 'frozen for future analysis.'
The reluctance on the part of the Bush administration to investigate the attacks was shocking and revealing. It was 400 days before 9/11 Commission was formed, and then, it was only because of the outcry of victim's family members who, when it was all said and done, were left with 70% of their questions unanswered. It, like the rest of this, speaks for itself and the more one looks at the evidence, the worse it gets. To this day, no regulatory agency has investigated these attacks. There have been numerous examples of misdirection, ignoring and denying of evidence, and bad science from FEMA, the 911 Commission, and NIST, but no justice for those murdered that day.
Shock & Awe Like the nanothermite documented in the Harrit 2009 paper the anthrax spores used in the attacks that closely followed 9-11, have been forensically linked to US military insiders. Bruce Ivins did not have access to silicon-coated (weaponized) anthrax, nor the equipment to manufacture it. This Wall St Journal Online Op Ed piece is surprising accurate The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved by EJ Epstein, even while the author's personal website has a section on 9/11 chock-full of disinformation while completely ignoring the most compelling evidence. That these attacks were carried out by the same individuals is important to remember. The anthrax letters mention 9/11 and pretended to be from Muslims. They were an unprecedented bioweapons attack on Congress used to ensure compliance with the Bush administrations radical policy changes, and further terrorize Americans. The media played their role with nonstop fear-mongering about terrorism in order to launch a foreign policy based on blank check preemptive warfare. Here are some recent interviews with Graeme MacQueen on Media Roots and another with James Corbett.
Not every fact mentioned here is sourced below but all are easily verified. Do your own research. There seems to be more nonsense and disinformation online regarding 911 than just about any other subject. The purpose of disinformation is to mischaracterize and misdirect. Yet the central claims are of 911 Truth are based on a preponderance of well-documented evidence from a wide range of sources. Physics and the scientific method demand that we follow where they lead. The red/gray chips (documented in Harrit 2009) and the anthrax sent through the mail, have both been forensically linked to US military labs.
See: The Pentagon & Disinformation **Also worth reading: Disinformation: Infiltration, Misinformation, Disruption.
Despite what we may never know regarding the 9/11-anthrax attacks of 2001, there is nothing theoretical about the relatively short list of well-documented and mutually supportive forensic evidence that make the progressive collapse hypothesis untenable and prove, beyond all reasonable doubt, that World Trade Center towers 1, 2, and 7 could only have been destroyed as a result of preplanted explosives.
Notes:
1. Evidence of Molten Metal:- WTC Chief Structural Engineer Leslie Robertson
- NIST's John Gross' denials contradicted by FDNY & others
- Fema BPAT Appendix C: A Limited Metallurgical Examination
- RJ Lee WTC Dust Signature Report, December 2003Explosions:
Paul Lemos
36 Reporters Describe the Twin Towers’ Explosive Demolition
Firefighters describe explosions at the World Trade Center
Multiple explosions were reported by Teresa Veliz, who worked for a software development company in the North Tower. She was on the 47th floor, she reported, when suddenly “the whole building shook. . . . [Shortly thereafter] the building shook again, this time even more violently.” Then, while Veliz was making her way downstairs and outside: “There were explosions going off everywhere. I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place and someone was sitting at a control panel pushing detonator buttons. . . . There was another explosion. And another. I didn’t know where to run.”
On Insider Trading:
Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 2001 by Allen M. Poteshman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On 911 Insider Trading: Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the Options Markets
Evidence for Informed Trading on the Attacks of September 11 by Kevin Ryan November 18, 2010
On Wireless Demolition Technology & Aluminothermics and Nano-Composites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones
Selling Out The Investigation by Bill Manning, Fire Engineering Magazine, January 2002
*WTC "INVESTIGATION"?: A CALL TO ACTION, Fire Engineering Magazine, December 2001
Anomalies of the air defense on 9/11 by Schreyer*Newton's 3rd Law states: If a force acts upon a body, then an equal and opposite force must act upon the body that exerts the force. The law of momentum conservation derives from this fact. Based on this law, the collapse of these structures should have been slowed by these opposing forces. However, scientific papers and video analysis of a number of videos show no observable deceleration of the antenna or the roof line as the upper sections impacted the standing structures below. In fact, analysis shows that both towers actually accelerated as they came down.
You can step through the footage frame-by-frame using video editing software.. There is also this 'sequence matrix' which, although not as clear, you can still tell the top sections were destroyed first, from the point of the plane impacts, upwards, timed to begin precisely as they began to fall. This is why they seem to disappear into ever-widening clouds of dust in what was a likely attempt to create a curtain of debris behind which to hide the destruction of the remaining intact lower portions. I say this because according to the findings of forensic video analyses done by David Chandler, the lower sections were destroyed at approximately 64% the acceleration of gravity.
Each created a thunderous roar and volcano-like fountains of pulverized concrete, building contents, molten metal, squibs, flashes, and explosions, all documented (and then ignored in the official 'investigations) in numerous media and witness accounts.
Destruction of the World Trade Center North Tower and Fundamental Physics By David Chandler
Squibs : powerful isolated ejections (containing pulverized concrete and building materials) were seen shooting out of the building 30-40 stories below the wave of destruction above.
The central core structure was comprised of 47 large (elaborately cross-braced and interconnected) box columns, in a number of different sizes. They could support numerous times the live-load of the entire building. The perimeter column assemblies were made of a dense grid prefabricated vertical steel columns and horizontal spandrels that had redundancy (over-design) ratios that went off the charts. They were designed to handle primarily the lateral forces on the buildings, i.e. up to 150mph winds. The towers responded to the plane impacts exactly as designed to, they swayed on impact and then re-righted themselves, redistributing the load onto the remaining columns.
More images of columns during construction.
The North Tower stood alone for almost 30 minutes, before being destroyed. This photo is important because it gives a good idea of just how much of it remained intact below the point of impact. These buildings were designed specifically with airliner impacts in mind.
In their day, the Twin Towers were the tallest buildings ever constructed. The revolutionary, award-winning, 'tube-in-tube' design they first made use of remains the standard used in steel hi-rise construction to this day. Because of their unique, tightly full cross-braced outer column assembly arrangement, they were among most strongest (in terms of redundancy ratio) buildings ever constructed.
WTC2 South Tower. An approximately 30-story block of floors leans well outside the profile of the building yet never falls into the street intact, as one would expect. Instead, it seemed to disappear, as it dropped into larger and larger clouds of dust and debris. This could only have been the result of explosives, timed to explode, from the impact holes, upwards, at about the same rate as it was dropping.
Red hot molten metal (from the thermitic shaped charges used to cut the steep beams) can be seen falling just below the demolition wave (the symmetry and and repeating cauliflower shapes in the smoke are telltale features of energetic materials). In the same instant the upper block were completely destroyed, the second part it look like a single event, but if you step through the footage frame-by-frame, you can clearly see what I am describing here. David Chadler's forensic video analysis shows that the bottom portions of the Towers were destroyed at 40% slower than freefall. This suggests the goal of the terrorists seems to have been to use the destruction of the upper block to create a curtain of smoke and debris, behind which to hide the destruction of the intact lower portions. They failed miserably.See also:
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http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/collapses/shattering.html
Enhanced WTC2 (NIST FOIA)
Videos of the South Tower Destruction
Gravity-driven building collapses or explosives?
One of the by-products of the thermitic reaction is aluminum oxide given off as white smoke. White smoke poured from these pits for months. The fires could not be put out for 100 days.
Building 7's 3-storey high, neat debris pile, can be seen on the left. WTC 5 & 6 stood between the North Tower & Building 7, yet remained standing. Aluminum oxide (a by-product of the thermitic reaction, seen as white smoke) poured from all three sites for months afterwards.
WTC 7 debris pile
Those who say 9/11 is a thing of the past are disconnected from reality. There is no statute of limitations on mass murder and treason. For me, the fact that it is effectively hidden despite the mountain of evidence proving demolition is much more disturbing than the attacks themselves.
As the watershed event of our time, there is no more relevant issue. It makes a mockery of what we claim to be our most sacred social and civil institutions. All are tarred through the complicity of silence and denial. Most dangerous of all, I fear, is our own silence. The countless millions of us who know the truth and yet continue to remain silent, so strong is our need for social inclusion and acceptance. Never mind that the evidence is irrefutable and easy to understand.
All of the draconian legislation the attacks served as pretext for, is still on the books, police departments across the US are still depots for 'surplus' military hardware, privacy is a thing of the past, and, provided the correct designation is given, (by the government itself) any citizen may be legally disappeared, i.e. arrested and held indefinitely with no due process. All of this should frighten the hell out of people, but because their favorite TV talking heads are not upset about it, and conspiracy theories are loony ideas for weak-minded people, they are just incapable of taking it on, evidence and ethics be damned.
Edna Cintron standing and waving for help, from the gaping hole of the North Tower - * see detail below.
Detail of above photo:
Edna Cintron (wearing tan pants and a black top), no doubt thrilled and shocked to still be alive (despite the inferno she is supposedly standing in front of) was waiving for help she then knew would eventually arrive.
Missing and 'pulverized' bodies.
