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Your uncle has been around long enough to have seen . . . an awful lot. (No one’s old enough to have seen it all.) I vividly remember the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the attack on the USS Cole, the African embassy bombings, even: the Beirut barracks bombing, the downing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, and more tragedies than I care to remember. The one thing that stands out about all of these “terrorist” acts is that it took weeks, months, and even years before we determined who was responsible for these heinous acts. So, how is it that, on the very morning of 9/11/2001, there were a slew of “experts”, on just about every television network, all talking about the (then) little known Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorist group? Now, that was not my first question of the day, but it does stand out as one of the most relevant. This video brings up some burning questions. It’s grainy, and it repeats itself, but it makes valid points. Points that I don’t feel were adequately addressed in any of the official so-called 9/11 investigations.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2792830342831749576&hl=en&fs=
MY first big question that day was: With the FTA and Air Traffic Control regulations, and NORAD protocols, how was it possible for 4 commercial airliners to, virtually simultaneously, deviate from their designated flight paths, without the scrambling of US military fighter planes? I’ve heard some very weak arguments about the hijackers turning off the transponders, and much of the air-military was on some sort of maneuvers that morning. So the world’s most pre-eminent military didn’t have the ability to hold maneuvers and protect our airspace, at the same time? Hmmm.
As the video points out, there was an anonymous man-on-the-street expert(?) explaining how the impact of the crash, combined with the heat of the jet fuel, caused the towers to collapse, “mostly due to structural failure”. He even beat out the television “experts”.
I watched the towers collapse, from the vantage point of being on the Jersey City side of the Hudson River, at the Harborside complex, directly across from the World Trade Center complex. Everyone at work was absolutely stunned that the towers collapsed – for whatever reason – as quickly as they did. And, that they fell straight down on themselves. For all us laymen architects . . . it just seemed bizarre that the buildings would fall in this fashion, especially considering the relatively short amount of time and how high up the damage/fires were.
The fact that it happened on a Tuesday morning, following a Monday Night Football game, involving our New York Giants was a bit . . . fortuitous. (for lack of a better word) A lot of tired New York football fans dragged their butts in a little late that morning. Myself included. This had the positive effect of there not being more people in the towers when they were hit, and consequently came down. This, partially, accounts for the initial estimates of fatalities being much higher than what they eventually/actually would end up being. If someone other than foreign terrorists were involved in this . . . it was a way of taking down the towers, with minimizing the number (and types) of people that would be casualties. There was a high percentage of immigrant and non-American WTC worker fatalities that morning. Wouldn’t al Qaeda – who “Hates us for our freedoms” – want to take out as many “real Americans” as possible?
The selection of targets that morning seemed more symbolic, than strategic, for a group that so hates us. Why the Pentagon? A relatively low lying building made of granite??? How many military personnel did they think they’d take out flying into that? And, the World Trade Center may have represented the U.S. economy, success, greed – what have you, but why not crash into the Indian Point nuclear plant? At least two of the hijacked airliners had four opportunities to do just that. I know there is some debate of whether nuclear plants can hold up to airliner crashes, but the potential devastation would have made that a much more logical target for any group that harbors as much hatred of the U.S. as al Qaeda reputedly does. It was a suicide mission. What did they have to lose?
There are so many compelling questions that have never been addressed. We were fed an “official” story on the morning of day 1, and the federal government and the (corporate) media have done a very good job of getting most of us to accept it. It was SUCH a tidy little package that they presented to us! We deserve better. We deserve comprehensive explanations of how, and why, 9/11 actually came to be. We deserve the truth. We need to hold our elected officials’ feet to the fire on this. We need a thorough and independent investigation, not a rubber stamp of what the television pundits told us that fateful morning. Considering that virtually every national decision since 9/11 has been predicated on the events of 9/11 we desperately need to get to the truth.
For further information visit: http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Then contact your Congress persons. Petition them to press for a full investigation.
Your Uncle Rave
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Jumble Spoiler – 09/12/20 (Of Course)
Published September 12, 2020 Commentary , Current Events , Government , History , Observations 10 CommentsTags: 9/11, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, Military-Industrial Complex, World Trade Center
It was THE most implausible chain of events that has ever happened in the history of the world. But, instead of wondering, and then INVESTIGATING, the who and hows of such monumentally catastrophic events happening, to THE most powerful, technologically advanced nation in the world, we were immediately fed a ridiculous string of fairy-tale like lies. And, because the country – and most of the world – was in a complete state of shock, sadness and anger . . . we (the vast majority of us at least) were all too eager/gullible to believe what those in – what should be – trusted positions of authority were all too eager – and READY – to tell us.
Why bother investigating any of it, when they got so many of us to believe this amazing story? Of course it was 19 Arabic men with box cutters who hijacked the planes. Of course they had knowledge of all the military exercises – that only the military would know of – that were happening that day. And, of course 4 of these loathsome 19, who could barely fly a four-seat, single-engine, high wing, fixed-wing, propeller aircraft were able to masterfully fly large, sophisticated, commercial jet airliners into both of the World Trade Towers, and also into the 5 story Pentagon, which was very likely THE most secure/protected building, in THE most secure/protected city, in the entire world. And, of course both Trade Towers collapsed, in under two hours, one in 1 hour 42 minutes and the other in just 56 minutes, “due to the heat of the jet fuel” – which burns at a max of 1500°F – melting the the steel support beams, which would have required temperatures of 2750°F to do so. And, of course neither of the towers toppled over, but they both came straight down, in their own footprints. And then, at 5:20PM of that fateful day, of course the World Trade Center 7 building, which had NOT been hit by a jet, but had sustained some damage, due to the North Tower’s collapse, at 10:28AM, came down in its own footprint, allegedly because of internal fires. So, despite the fact that NO skyscraper – in the history of skyscrapers – had EVER collapsed before – or since – due to fires, including fires that have burned for days . . . of course three of them did that terrible day.
Oh, but our government wouldn’t have been complicit in the deaths of nearly 3000 people, most of them American citizens! Really? With the kind of money and power involved with our military industrial complex, and the destabilization of these oil producing countries??? It’s been said that the U.S. could have saved 36,000 lives if social distancing had been implemented one week earlier, in this battle to contain COVID-19. How many more lives, had President Trump not publicly downplayed the disease’s severity back in January and February? I really don’t like apples and oranges types of comparisons, but I think that this demonstrates that the lives of everyday people is NOT the #1 priority of our government.
If you made it this far, friends, you can all go back to your idyllic dreamlike existences, where the U.S. is that bright and shiny city on a hill, and the bastion of both racial equality, and equal justice for all. “They hate us for our freedoms.” Really? — YUR
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