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Jesse Ventura's new book American Conspiracies questions the
government's position on 9/11. He wrote about the same topic on The
Huffington Post, but his article was banned. Read it here on RT.
By Jesse Ventura
You didn't see anything about it in the mainstream media, but two weeks
ago at a conference in San Francisco, more than one thousand architects
and engineers signed a petition demanding that Congress begin a new
investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers
on 9/11.
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That's right, these people put their reputations in potential
jeopardy because they don't buy the government's version of events. They
want to know how 200,000 tons of steel disintegrated and fell to the
ground in 11 seconds. They question whether the hijacked planes were
responsible – or whether it could have been a controlled demolition from
inside that brought down the twin towers and Building 7.
Richard Gage, a member of the American Institute of Architects and the
founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, put it like this:
"The official Federal Emergency Management [Agency] and National
Institute of Standards and Technology reports provide insufficient,
contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the
towers' destruction." He's especially disturbed by Building 7, whose 47
stories came down in "pure free-fall acceleration" that afternoon – even
though it was never hit by an aircraft.
This is a subject I take up in my new book, American Conspiracies, published this week by Skyhorse. An excerpt follows:
Some people have argued that the twin towers went down, within a half
hour of one another, because of the way they were constructed. Well,
those 425,000 cubic yards of concrete and 200,000 tons of steel were
designed to hold up against a Boeing 707, the largest plane built at the
time the towers were completed in 1973. Analysis had shown that a 707
traveling at 600 miles an hour (and those had four engines) would not
cause major damage. The twin-engine Boeing 757s that hit on 9/11 were
going 440 and 550 miles an hour.
Still, we are told that a molten, highly intense fuel mixture from the
planes brought down these two steel-framed skyscrapers. Keep in mind
that no other such skyscraper in history had ever been known to collapse
completely due to fire damage. So could it actually have been the
result of a controlled demolition from inside the buildings? I don't
claim expertise about this, but I did work four years as part of the
Navy's underwater demolition teams, where we were trained to blow things
to hell and high water. And my staff talked at some length with a
prominent physicist, Steven E. Jones, who says that a "gravity driven
collapse" without demolition charges defies the laws of physics. These
buildings fell, at nearly the rate of free-fall, straight down into
their own footprint, in approximately ten seconds. An object dropped
from the roof of the 110-story-tall towers would reach the ground in
about 9.2 seconds. Then there's the fact that steel beams that weighed
as much as 200,000 pounds got tossed laterally as far as 500 feet.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) started its
investigation on August 21, 2002. When their 10,000-page-long report
came out three years later, the spokesman said there was no evidence to
suggest a controlled demolition. But Steven E. Jones also says that
molten metal found underground weeks later is proof that jet fuel
couldn't have been all that was responsible. I visited the site about
three weeks after 9/11, with Governor Pataki and my wife Terry. It
didn't mean anything to me at the time, but they had to suspend digging
that day because they were running into heat pockets of huge
temperatures. These fires kept burning for more than three months, the
longest-burning structure blaze ever. And this was all due to jet fuel?
We're talking molten metal more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Probably the most conclusive evidence about a controlled demolition is a
research paper (two years, nine authors) published in the peer-reviewed
Open Chemical Physics Journal, in April 2009. In studying dust samples
from the site, these scientists found chips of nano-thermite, which is a
high-tech incendiary/explosive. Here's what the paper's lead author,
Dr. Niels Harrit of the University of Copenhagen's chemistry department,
had to say about the explosive that he's convinced brought down the
Twin Towers and the nearby Building 7:
"Thermite itself dates back to 1893. It is a mixture of aluminum and
rust-powder, which react to create intense heat. The reaction produces
iron, heated to 2500 degrees Centigrade. This can be used to do welding.
It can also be used to melt other iron. So in nano-thermite, this
powder from 1893 is reduced to tiny particles, perfectly mixed. When
these react, the intense heat develops much more quickly. Nano-thermite
can be mixed with additives to give off intense heat, or serve as a very
effective explosive. It contains more energy than dynamite, and can be
used as rocket fuel."
Richard Gage is one of hundreds of credentialed architects and
structural engineers who have put their careers on the line to point out
the detailed anomalies and many implications of controlled demolition
in the building collapses. As he puts it bluntly: "Once you get to the
science, it's indisputable."
Source: http://rt.com/Politics/2010-03-10/jesse-ventura-911-truth.html?utm_source=2leep&utm_medium=2leep&utm_campaign=2leep
