Replies

John Stewart standing up for first responders who are still suffering from working when the twin towers were blown up by ex CIA employees...errr... oh yeah a plane hit the towers.Forgot the line for a moment.

Below is a clip from the ongoing controversy
...................
It is impossible, says Jones, for the towers to have collapsed from the collision of two aeroplanes, as jet fuel doesn’t burn at temperatures hot enough to melt steel beams. The horizontal puffs of smoke - squibs - emitted during the collapse of the towers are indicative of controlled implosions on lower floors. The scholars have collected eyewitness accounts of flashes and loud explosions immediately before the fall.

The twin towers must, they say, have been brought down by explosives - hence the container of dust on Jones’s desk, sent to him unsolicited by a woman living in lower Manhattan. He is using X-ray fluorescents to test it for explosive materials.

What’s more, the nearby World Trade Centre 7 also collapsed later that afternoon. The building had not been hit by a plane, only damaged by fire. WTC 7 housed a clandestine CIA station, which the scholars believe was the command centre for the planning of 9/11.

“The planes were just a distraction,” says Professor James Fetzer, 65, a recently retired philosopher of science at the University of Minnesota. “The evidence is so overwhelming, but most Americans don’t have time to take a look at this.”

But Jonathan Barnett, professor of fire protection engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, calls such claims “bad science”. Barnett was a member of the World Trade Centre Building Performance Study, one of the government groups that investigated the towers’ collapse.

Reluctantly, he has familiarised himself with the scholars’ claims - many of them have emailed him. Yes, it is unusual for a steel structure to collapse from fire, Barnett agrees. However, his group and others argue that the planes’ impact weakened the structures and stripped off the fireproofing materials. That caused the top floors of both towers to collapse on to the floors below. “A big chunk of building falling down made the next floor fall down, and then they all came down like a deck of cards,” Barnett says.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/sep/05/internationaleducationnews.highereducation