Some events echo through the pages of history
causing ripples decades or even centuries later.
These secondary consequences are sometimes a direct result of the events themselves,
but more often than not they are driven by our perception,
the mythology that we build around those events.
The narrative of 911 defined the past decade.
It was used to justify the Patriot Act,
the indefinite detention provisions in the NDAA of 2012 and 2013
and it was used to take America into war against Afghanistan then Iraq.
Four thousand Americans may have died on that day,
but well over a million civilians died based on the STORY of what happened.
Of course the fact that so much death and destruction was justified using that narrative
makes it emotionally difficult for many Americans to reexamine it.
After all, admitting that you were wrong when nothing is at stake is hard enough,
but if the official story of 911 is wrong
then this would mean that U.S. government killed all those civilians and shredded your constitution based on a lie,
and some of you were cheering them on.
When people NEED to believe something, the facts matter very little.
Reality can be twisted and bent into any shape needed, information discarded, and contradictions ignored.
Never underestimate people's willingness to delude themselves.
In America, where the need to believe is most entrenched,
you'll rarely see September 11th addressed without some people resorting to third grader level name calling.
Tin foil hat conspiracy theorists,
conspiritards, 911 nutters, I'm sure you've heard these.
It's the lowest and least sophisticated flavor of logical fallacy, the ad hominem,
but it works when you're dealing with people who operate on third grade level.
What's most hilarious about this attempt to stigmatize those who dare question the official story
is the fact that the fact that many of the actual members of the 911 commission
have spoken out to to say that the investigation was a sham.
BUZENBERG: I want to start by asking you as co-chairman of the 9/11 commission what your basic reaction is to this study by the Center for Public Integrity
that shows over 935 statements, false statements by these top 8 administration officials.
LEE HAMILTON: Well I commend what the centre has done
It's taken exhaustive research to go through all of the statements made by these top public officials.
and to pick out the instances where they just flat out told us what was not the truth
in order to move us towards war in Irak.
And I think you've performed very valuable public service
and I hope that the lesson that arises that comes from all of your work
is that all of us have to be more skeptical of statements made by our public leaders
and scrutinize those statements with very great care.
LA CHANGE: Why didn't they talk about building 7 in your report?
BOB KERREY: I don't really have an easy answer for ...
LA CHANGE: Do you support a criminal investigation into 9/11?
Because, I know, yours was an exposition, it was not a criminal investigation.
KERREY: I don't think so, but I don't know, I do support a permanent comission to examine not just that but lots of
other things into this area so...
LA CHANGE: But if it's a permanent cover up then it's an act of war
and it's hiding things, which everyone on your commission knew that the Pentagon was changing their stories, lying to you,
then its a cover up of a act of war and under Article 3 Section 3 of the Constitution,
Its treason, so unless we get to the very bottom of it, then were still talking a Treasonous exposition.
KERREY: This is no longer a conversation, I'm not sure we will ever to the bottom of it.
LA CHANGE: We have to, or we can't save our countries.
KERREY: I don't think, well if that's the condition upon which we're going to save our country, because the problem is that
it's a 30 year old conspiracy.
LA CHANGE: No, I'm talking about 9/11. KERREY: That's what I'm talking about. LA CHANGE: Oh you are? You mean that...
It doesn't matter if the people who actually ran the investigation say it was a scam,
you're supposed to believe the official story.
If you don't you're crazy, unhinged and maybe even a little bit dangerous.
Listen, I know you don't want anyone to think you're crazy,
but let's just take a look at a little bit of the evidence, just between me and you.
I won't tell anyone, I promise.
Now this isn't a two hour documentary so we don't have time to cover everything.
Instead we'll just confront a few obvious, smoking guns.
Smoking gun #1: The collapse of the World Trade Center building 7.
Three buildings collapsed in New York on that day,
two were hit by planes, Building 7 was not hit by a plane.
No one claims that it was, yet at 5:20 pm on September 11th it collapsed into it's own footprint.
It went straight down at free fall speed.
At first NIST tried to deny this and placed it's computer models over the actual video evidence,
but in their final report they do in fact admit that the building fell at free fall. Why is this significant?
DAVID CHANDLER: It's just like taking your car keys and just dropping them,
that's how fast the building came down for over a hundred feet.
ANGLE: This is high-school physics.
SMOLENS: A building cannot do free fall with 40,000 tons of structural steel
in its structural system, without it being blown up.
RICE: The only way a building can accelerate as it collapses is by having pre-engineered,
precisely timed and precisely placed explosives, in other words, controlled demolition.
Funny thing is, in spite of the fact that never in history had a steel framed building collapsed due to an office fire
a lot of people knew the building was going to collapse before it came down.
We have CNN reporting the collapse an hour before it came down.
CNN: We are getting information now that one of the other buildings, Building 7
in the World Trade Center complex, is on fire and has either collapsed or is collapsing.
We also have the BBC who reported the collapse even though the building was still visible in the background.
BBC: Now more on the latest building collapse in New York,
you might have heard a few moments ago I was talking about the Salomon Brothers building collapsing,
and indeed it has apparently that is only a few hundred yards away from where the World Trade Center towers were,
and it seems that this was not a result of a new attack, it was because the building had been weakened during this morning's attacks.
We'll probably find out more now about that from our correspondent Jane Standley,
Jane what more can you tell us about the Salomon Brothers building and it's collapse?
STANDLEY: Well, only really what you already know. Details are very, very sketchy.
There’s almost a sense downtown in New York behind me, down by the World Trade Centers
of just an area completely closed off as the rescue workers try to do their job.
But this isn’t the first building that has suffered as a result.
We know that part of the Marriott Hotel next to the World Trade Center also collapsed as a result of this
huge amount of falling debris from 110 floors of the two twin towers of the World Trade Center.
as you can see behind me...
We have footage of people on the street warning that the building was about to collapse.
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How did they know that this was going to happen when it isn't even physically possible for an ordinary office fire to bend or melt steel?
It makes about as much sense as a farmer suddenly warning you that his pig is about to levitate.
And this brings us to smoking gun #2:
Explosions in the basements in the twin towers and on the lower floors of building 7.
RODRIGUEZ: I worked in the building for twenty years I was the person in charge of all the stairwells
of the North Tower and on 9/11 I had the only master key that opened the doors that are to rescue people.
This is the master key they call the key of hope.
And basically I was a janitor, like I said on that day there was an explosion on the basement
and this is prior to the building being hit by a plane, and then the plane hit and there was a series of explosions
afterwards and a person comes running into the office.
He's saying "explosion explosion explosion!"
His skin was pulled out from his armpits all the way to the top the of the fingertips and pieces missing of his face
and then it was total chaos.
REPORTER: You're Kenny? JOHANNEMANN: Johannemann REPORTER: Spell your name.
JOHANNEMANN: J-o-h-a-n-n-e-m-a-n-n
REPORTER: And you've been working here? JOHANNEMANN: Yes I was right there -
I was down in the basement, came down, all of a sudden the elevator blew up, smoke,
I dragged a guy out his skin was hanging off and I dragged him out and I helped him into the ambulance.
JENNINGS: Mr. Hess came running back in,
he said we're the only ones op here, we gotta get out of here, he found a stairwell.
So we went to the stairwell, we're going down the stairs
when we reached the eighth or the sixth floor the landing that we were standing on gave way.
There was an explosion then the landing gave way.
I was left there hanging, I had to climb back up, and now I had to walk back up to the eighth floor.
I was trapped in there for several hours, I was trapped in there when both buildings came down.
All this time I'm hearing all type of explosions.
All this time I'm hearing explosions.
When they finally got to us, and they took us down
to what they called the lobby, cause I asked him. When we got down there. I said where are we?
He said this was the lobby, and I said you got to be kidding me.
It was total ruins, total ruins. Now keep in mind I came in there the lobby had nice escalators
It was a huge lobby, and for me to see what I saw was unbelieveable.
I'm just confused about one thing and one thing only, why world trade center 7 went down in the first place.
I'm very confused about that.
I know what I heard, I heard explosions. The explanation I got it was it was the fuel-oil tank.
I'm an old boiler guy, if it was the fuel-oil tank it would have been one side of the building.
This of course brings us to smoking gun #3: Molten steel found in the basements of the buildings after the collapse.
RUVOLO: You’d get down below and you’d see molten steel,
molten steel running down the channel rails, like you’re in a foundry.
MCGRADE: In an office fire, you cannot generate enough heat to melt steel
PODOLSKI: If you have a flame at 750 degrees, you could hold that flame under a steel beam forever
and you’ll never reach a high enough temperature to bend steel, let alone melt it.
It wasn't just WTC 7 that went down like a controlled demolition,
all three of buildings that collapsed in New York that day came down at free fall speed.
The thousands of tons of steel and concrete beams that should have resisted such a collapse
were blown apart as the building was falling.
Over 1700 licensed architects and engineers have gone on record to say that the official 911 story is physically impossible.
It would have required carefully placed explosives to take out the support beams,
and guess what? The dust from the ruins of the towers has been independently tested
and shown to contain large quantities of military grade nano-thermite.
The results of these tests were peer reviewed and published in the The Open Chemical Physics Journal in 2009.
However the agency behind the official investigation, NIST,
has refused from the very beginning to test for any accelerants or explosives in the dust.
This in spite of the fact that such testing is explicitly called for in fire investigation standards for events involving this kind of damage.
MARK BASILE: My name is Mark Basile. I am a chemical engineer.
I have a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
I have worked for about 25 years in industry and
the majority of what I do is analytical work
and figuring out what materials are composed of, why they are what they are, why they do what they do.
It is basically a lot of material science is what I do.
In December of 2007, I attended a conference in Boston on 9/11 where Steven Jones was going to be speaking about his work on the iron-based micro-spheres.
I attended the conference and listened to him talk where he also
for the first time discussed his discovery of the red/gray chips that we'll get into a little bit later here.
After he spoke, I approached him and I was interested in being put into contact with a source for WTC dust independently.
Look at the material and either confirm or de-confirm what he had found.
About a month later I received my first sample of WTC dust from Jeanette McKinley
which was one of the individuals that was spoken of in his report on the thermitic materials that he put out in
March of 2009 I think it was. So anyway, I received a sample of dust in January of 2008 and basically started working with the material.
I found iron-based micro-spheres in it, just as he had done and I also found the red/gray chips that he had spoken of.
I created an apparatus where I could basically control energy input to the chips heating them resistively on a stainless steel heater strip
to an ignition temperature, not over heating them but just bringing them up to the ignition temperature and then analyzing the resultant products
and what I can confirm also is that these chips, the red layer is thermitic, it does produce molten iron
and I've seen in a number of chips that Jeanette McKinley supplied to me and I've also seen it in an independent sample
that was also supplied to me from a museum in New York which has asked to remain anonymous at this point.
One of the things that I would like to stress about these chips is that they really shouldn't be there.
They are not a natural formed agglomeration of aluminum from the aircraft or materials that were in the building and iron oxide that got knocked off.
It isn't just a haphazard bringing together of iron oxide and aluminum which is the basic components of thermite.
This is a material that is made up of nano sized particles that are all very uniform, very symmetrical.
It is in a silica-based matrix that holds the whole thing together, and when they are ignited, these iron droplets that are formed,
basically eat through the silica matrix and form both droplets and actually creates these large relative voids within the residue of the chip that are all coated with iron films inside.
We're not even scratching the surface here.
No matter what part of the of the official story you look at there are glaring holes that require magical thinking to explain away.
You were lied to, pure and simple, and a lot of people were killed based on that lie.
I know that's uncomfortable to look at, but it's the truth.
So why are we looking at this now, 12 years after the fact?
First of all because the war on terror is still underway.
There are people being killed right now because of this lie
and the federal government is grabbing more and more dictatorial power to supposedly protect you.
Furthermore, those who control the U.S. government are trying to find a way to take America to war with Syria,
a war which will draw in Iran, Russia and China; World War 3.
But the American people aren't going for it. They aren't buying the propaganda.
So to convince the people to back this war they are going to have to do something big,
something that makes 911 pale in comparison.
This is just how they operate.
Problem, Reaction, Solution is pretty much the only tool they have at their disposal.
Originality is not their forte.
The stigma surrounding 911 research and the juvenile way
that the uninformed attempt to cower those who speak out into silence, is more than just an obstacle to truth.
As long as the powers that be think they can get away with this kind of thing and as long as you keep accepting their ridiculous stories at face value, they'll keep doing it.
Waking up isn't a matter of personal preference, it's a question of life and death.
CLAWSON: I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough.
And it’s very hard for me to see how the United States President can get us to war with Iran.
Which leads me to conclude that if in fact compromise is not coming,
that the traditional way that America gets into war is what would be best for U.S. interests.
Some people might think that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us into World War II, as David mentioned, you may recall we had to wait for Pearl Harbor.
Some people might think Mr. Wilson wanted to get us into World War I, you may recall he had to wait for the Lusitania episode.
Some people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to send troops to Vietnam, you may recall he had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode.
We didn’t go to war with Spain until the USS Maine exploded.
And may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call out the Federal Army until Fort Sumter was attacked
which is why he ordered the commander of Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing which the South Carolineans had said would cause an attack.
So if in fact the Iranians aren’t going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war.
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