Confronting the Deception: 911, NIST and the Road to Global Collapse

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Confronting the Deception 9/11, NIST and the
Road to Global Collapse

• Kevin Ryan

Scholars for 9/11 Truth Come to Colorado Boulder
and Denver, October 28th and 29th, 2006
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9/11 A Long String of Unprecedented Events and
Absurdities

• Our nations air defenses effectively stood down
• Many coincidental military exercises
• Vast evidence of foreknowledge without anyone
  knowing
• Insider trading without insiders
• Plans to invade Afghanistan and Iraq before 9/11
• Resistance to, and obstruction of, the
  investigations
• (Former?) CIA allies hate us for our freedoms
• Three tall buildings collapsed from fire on same
  day

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Questioning an Ever-changing Story

• As a manager for Underwriters Laboratories (UL),
  I was fired for publicly questioning the
  governments October 2004 report on the collapse
  of the WTC towers
• That report, generated by NIST, is only one of
  several conflicting reports produced in the last
  five years, and even it continues to change
• All the official WTC explanations have come from
  those profiting from the War on Terror
• The FEMA and NIST reports are direct products of
  the Bush Administration (i.e. Bush Science)

National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Bush Science

• The Bush Administration has been deliberately
  and systematically distorting scientific fact in
  the service of policy goals
• Open letter from 9000 scientists, currently
  including 49 Nobel laureates and 63 National
  Medal of Science recipients
• We found a serious pattern of undermining
  science by the Bush Administration
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• We found numerous instances where the
  Administration has manipulated the scientific
  process and distorted or suppressed scientific
  findings
• House Committee on Government Reform

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Unprecedented Building Failures

• No tall buildings have ever collapsed from fire,
  but on 9/11, were told there were three
• No building exhibiting all the characteristics of
  demolition has ever NOT been a demolition
• 99.7 of steel evidence destroyed despite
  outraged cries from public and fire experts

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Demolition hypothesis?

• The collapse of the WTC towers looked like a
  classic controlled demolition, said Mike Taylor
  of the National Association of Demolition
  Contractors, It cascaded down like an implosion
• It appeared to me that charges had been placed
  in the building -- Ronald Hamburger, structural
  engineer and later a contributor to FEMA and NIST
  reports
• British architect Bob Halvorson noted that the
  collapses were "well beyond realistic
  experience."
• But official investigations never considered
  demolition

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Early support for the official WTC story

• Experts said jet fuel fires melted the steel
• BBC (Chris Wise, etc.)
• Scientific American (Eduardo Kausel)
• NOVA video (Matthys Levy)
• Henry Koffman from USC
• Tom Mackin from Univ. of Illinois
• Osama Bin Laden -- I was thinking that the fire
  from the gas in the plane would melt the iron
  structure of the building
• Temperatures exaggerated by media
• National Geographic Channel - 2,900 F
• AE /History Channel - 2500 F

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Official investigations into the collapse of the
WTC buildings

• ASCE
• FEMA BPAT
• Turned ASCE investigation into an assessment
• Report released May 2002
• Silverstein/Weidlinger
• report released October 2002
• NIST
• Final draft 10/04Final, final draft 6/05
• First report 9/05Responses to FAQs 8/06

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ASCE Team Murrah Team

• Initial ASCE team leaders (9/14/01)
• Gene Corley
• Charles Thornton
• Paul Mlakar
• Mete Sozen
• 4 others

• OKC Murrah building report authors
• Gene Corley
• Charles Thornton
• Paul Mlakar
• Mete Sozen

ASCE says there are 1.5 million US engineers.
Why so few when it comes to terrorism?
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Alfred P. Murrah Building

• April 19, 1995 - Reinforced concrete building
  destoyed in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people
• Survivors reported multiple explosions
• Many media reports and witness accounts of
  un-detonated bombs
• FBI confiscated videos and would not release them
• May 5, 1995 - Memorial service with 300 people
  held 20 feet away from building foundation
• May 9, 1995 - Corleys team arrives
• Investigation completed from 250 feet (1/2
  block) away.
• Access only to drawings, samples from other
  buildings and photos
• They are not permitted to inspect any material
  from the OKC bombing crime scene.  They were not
  even allowed to tour the site.

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One Guy / One Truck bomb?

• May 18, 1995 USAF Gen. Benton Partin to
  Congress "I can say with a high level of
  confidence that the damage pattern on the
  reinforced concrete superstructure could not
  possibly have been attained from the single truck
  bomb without supplementing demolition charges at
  some of the reinforced column bases." A series
  of tests done by USAFs Wright Labs confirmed
  this conclusion.
• May 23, 1995 -- Murrah Building demolished, and
  rubble buried in a landfill guarded by security
  personnel.
• March 1996 -- Strategic Investment newsletter "A
  classified report prepared by two independent
  Pentagon experts has concluded that the
  destruction of the Federal building in Oklahoma
  City last April was caused by five separate
  bombs
• October 1997 Corley, Mlakar, Sozen Thornton
  release paper in support of the One Guy/One Bomb
  political story. Their entire argument is based
  on one piece of data the size of the bomb
  crater - and that data was given to them.

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Department Of Defenses Blast Mitigation for
Structures Program

• Formed in 1998 to provide DOD with expertise in
  explosive effects on buildings
• Funded at 10 million annually
• Committee chaired by Sozen with Corley and
  Thornton as members (and Mark Loizeaux)
• Blast consulting firms include ARUP, ARA, SGH,
  Thornton-Tomasetti, Weidlinger

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WTC - pre-determined conclusions

• Gene Corley knew once the jets hit the building
  that the WTC would collapse as it did, I just
  didnt know when it was going to happen, said
  Corley
• (reported by St. Petersburg Times)
• Charles Thornton -- "Karl, we all know what
  caused the collapse."
• (From Karl Kochs book Men of Steel)
• Shankar Nair -- "Already there is near-consensus
  as to the sequence of events that led to the
  collapse of the World Trade Center.
• (Chicago Tribune September 19, 2001)

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The first official leaders

• Gene Corley in charge of ASCE WTC investigation
• NYC put Thornton-Tomasetti in charge of site
• Richard Tomasetti (Thorntons partner) cleared
  the decision to recycle the steel, later saying
  had he known the direction that investigations
  into the disaster would take, he would have
  adopted a different stance.
• Sozen and Mlakar led the Pentagon investigation
  team

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Restrictions on ASCE investigation

• No access to blueprints
• Not allowed to ask for help from public
• Team members threatened with dismissal for
  speaking to press
• No access to steel until first week of October
• FEMA obstruction

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FEMA BPAT

• ASCE expanded and was named FEMA BPAT
• John Gross, NIST engineer with oil and gas
  history
• Therese McAllister, Greenhorne and OMara (GO)
• Other DOD contractors (Arup, Hughes, SGH,
  Weidlinger)
• When FEMA took over, 1 million was allocated,
  but only 100,000 was spent by December
• At the same time, Bush was telling us It costs a
  lot to fight this war. We have spent more than a
  billion dollars a month

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By January, it was a half-baked farce

• Bill Manning, editor of Fire Engineering
  magazine, said the official investigationis a
  half-baked farce that may already have been
  commandeered by political forces whose primary
  interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of
  full disclosure.
• Dick Cheney called Senate leader Tom Daschle and
  asked him to limit the scope and overall review
  of what happened on 9/11, claiming resources
  would be pulled from the War on Terrorism.
  President Bush met with Daschle privately and
  asked him to limit the investigation.

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Who would design a building for plane crashes but
forget the jet fuel fires?

• Eduardo Kausel The WTC buildings were designed
  to withstand Boeing 707 impacts but were never
  designed for the massive explosions nor the
  intense jet fuel fires that came next a key
  design omission.
• Loring Knoblauch (CEO of UL) the jet fuel fires
  were not reasonably foreseeable.
• What? How would the planes get to the buildings?
  Who would really do this?

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Not the WTCs design Engineer

• Towers designed by John Skilling (Leslie
  Robertson worked for Skilling)
• Skilling had this to say in 1993 when asked if he
  considered plane crashes in his design.
• Our analysis indicated the biggest problem
  would be the fact that all the fuel would dump
  into the building. But the building structure
  would still be there.
• City in the Sky, Glanz and Lipton

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(No Transcript)
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Wheres the fire?
Windsor building, Madrid, February 2005
Twin towers shortly after WTC2 hit
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FEMA findings

• April 2002 NOVA video with commentators Corley
  and Thornton
• Fireproofing easily blown off
• Floors collapsed
• Columns buckled outward
• May 2002 final FEMA report
• a pancake-type of collapse of successive floors

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June 2002 NIST drafts plan

• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Directors are Presidential appointees
• First meeting included Public comments by
• Gene Corley
• Richard Tomasetti
• Shankar Nair
• Other contributors to official reports
• Charles Thornton later named to NISTs Advisory
  Committee

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October 2002Silverstein / Weidlinger report

• Corley and Thornton-Tomasetti involved in study
  to establish Silverstein insurance claim
• Report results
• No floor failure of any kind
• Column failure only
• Directly contradicts FEMA report

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They knew what happened from the start?

• Experts Towering Inferno
• Steel melted
• FEMA
• Floor failure A pancake-type of collapse of
  successive floors
• Silverstein/Weidlinger
• Column failure only
• NIST
• Final theory is mixed bag of sagging floors,
  softening core columns and external column bowing
  apparently leading to pile driver collapse
• (but the story remains flexible)

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Characteristics of demolition - ignored

• Sudden onset
• Straight down
• Nearly free-fall speed
• Total collapse
• Sliced steel
• Pulverization of concrete

• Dust clouds
• Horizontal ejections (squibs)
• Demolition rings
• Sounds of explosions
• Pools of molten steel

All supported by photographic evidence and
eyewitness testimonies
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The WTC towers exploded.
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Eyewitness interviews not used

• Paramedic Daniel Rivera Did you ever see
  professional demolition where they set the
  charges on certain floors and then you hear Pop,
  pop, pop, pop, pop?I thought it was that.
• Witness Timothy Burke the building popped,
  lower than the fireI was going oh, my God, there
  is a secondary device because the way the
  building popped. I thought it was an explosion.
• Firefighter Edward Cachia It actually gave at
  a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit.
  We originally thought there was like an internal
  detonation, explosives
• Assistant Commissioner Stephen Gregory -- I
  thoughtthat I saw low-level flashesat the
  lower level of the building. You know like when
  they demolish a building?

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Eyewitness interviews not used

• Firefighter Richard Banaciski It seemed like
  on television when they blow up these
  buildings. It seemed like it was going all
  around like a belt, all these explosions.
• Deputy Commissioner Thomas Fitzpatrick My
  initial reaction was that this was exactly the
  way it looks when they show you those implosions
  on TV.
• Battalion Chief Brian Dixon the lowest floor
  of the fire in the south tower actually looked
  like someone had planted explosives all around it
  becauseeverything blew out on the one floor.
• Firefighter Kenneth Rogers there was an
  explosion in the south towerI kept watching.
  Floor after floor after floor. It looked like
  a synchronized deliberate kind of thing.

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Sept 2005 - The NIST WTC Report

• 42 sub-reports and
• 10,000 pages
• Only for Twin Towers
• Like others, focused only
• on political story
• With same people as before
• (i.e. FEMA, DOD contractors)

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FEMA authors become NIST authors

• FEMA Chapter 1 authors
• Therese McAllister co-wrote NIST report 1-6 and
  1-7
• John Gross co-wrote NIST report 1-6 and 1-7
• Ronald Hamburger NIST contributor
• FEMA Chapter 2 authors
• Ronald Hamburger see above
• William Baker NIST contributor, Freedom tower
• Harold Nelson co-wrote NIST report 1-5 and 1-7
• FEMA chapter 5 authors (WTC 7)
• Ramon Gilsanz co-wrote NIST report 1-6F
• Harold Nelson see above

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NFPA 921 used?Standard for fire investigation

• Sec 6-5 Important to remember that conflict of
  interest should be avoided (The War on Terrorism
  is big business!)
• NIST used specialists/contractors who were
  dependent on government contracts or on the
  official story itself
• Sec 12-4 Unusual residues could arise from
  thermite, magnesium or other pyrotechnic
  materials
• NIST report does not mention evidence of
  intragranular melting of WTC samples or FEMAs
  puzzling Sulfur residue No clear explanation
  for the source of the Sulfur has been
  identified.
• The New York Times called this perhaps the
  deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation.

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NISTs review of documents

• Reports of original design claims?
• No, many relevant claims not mentioned
• Fire resistance test data (e.g. UL test
  documents)?
• No, documents came up missing
• Skillings fire resistance analysis?
• No, documents missing

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Original design claims

• The World Trade Center towers would have an
  inherent capacity to resist unforeseen
  calamities.
• For the perimeter columns (83 of total columns),
  live loads on these columns can be increased
  more than 2,000 before failure occurs.
• One could cut away all the first story columns
  on one side of the building, and partway from the
  corners of the perpendicular sides, and the
  building could still withstand design live loads
  and a 100 mph wind from any direction.

All quotes from Engineering News-Record, 1964
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Were the WTC steel components tested for fire
resistance?

• The NYC building code requires fire resistance
  testing of both columns (steel assemblies) and
  floors (floor assemblies)
• NIST said they found no documents, yet states the
  buildings were rated as Class 1B (3 hours for
  columns and 2 hours for floors)
• Port Authority -- there are no test records in
  our files
• ASTM E119 is used for testing both steel
  components and floor assemblies

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ASTM E119 Time-temperature curve
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UL comments on testing the WTC steel

• September 2001
• Loring Knoblauch, ULs CEO, told staff that UL
  had certified the steel used in the WTC
• November 2003
• I asked Knoblauch in writing about ULs
  involvement, and he responded in December
  confirming details.
• We tested the steel with all the required
  fireproofing on, and it did beautifully.
• As we do not do follow-up service on this kind
  of product, we can give an opinion only on the
  test sample which was indeed properly coated.
• We test to the code requirements, and the steel
  clearly met the NYC code requirements and
  exceeded them.

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Underwriters Laboratories Lying To Us?

• August 2004
• UL performed tests of WTC floor models
• Floors barely affected and didnt collapse
• Loring Knoblauch resigned suddenly
• November 2004
• My letter to NIST became public
• UL quickly backtracked, saying
• No evidence any firm tested the steel
• They played only a limited role in
  investigation
• No evidence? Does that mean their CEO was wrong
  or they were in no way involved?

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NISTs analysis of steel samples

• Most of the steel evidence destroyed
• Tomasetti decision (Thorntons partner)
• 236 samples saved for testing (0.3)
• NIST tests
• Paint test indicated low steel temps (480 F )
  despite pre-collapse exposure to fire
• Microstructure test showed no steel reached
  critical, half-strength value (1100 F)

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NIST Comments Before and After

• Before steel temperature analysis
• (12/02/03)
• Regions of impact and fire damage emphasized in
  selection of steel pieces.
• After steel temperature analysis
• (final report)
• None of the samples were from zones where high
  heating was predicted.

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Other NIST tests

• UL floor model tests evaluated Pancake Theory
• Workstation burn tests
• Gas temperatures, not steel temperatures
• Used double the average amount of jet fuel
• Used Over-ventilation
• Tests to prove loss of fireproofing?
• Fifteen rounds from a shotgun

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Pancake Theory

• I could see it in my minds eye The fire burned
  until the steel was weakened and the floors above
  collapsed, starting a chain reaction of gravity,
  floor falling upon floor upon floor, clunk
  clunk clunk, the load gaining weight and
  momentum by the nanosecond, unstoppable. Once
  enough floors collapsed, the exterior walls and
  the core columns were no longer laterally
  supported and folded in. -- Karl Koch
• (from Karl Kochs book Men of Steel)
• Those clouds of dust may create the impression of
  a controlled demolition, Sunder adds, "but it is
  the floor pancaking that leads to that
  perception." - NISTs Shyam Sunder in Popular
  Mechanics

Floor panels 20 feet wide
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WTC floor model tests by UL (Aug 2004)

• Began with less fireproofing than was known to
  exist in WTC1, and then reduced fireproofing
  further
• Performed four standard fire resistance tests
  (ASTM E119) of the floor truss assemblies with
  twice the floor load that was on the WTC floors.
  (NCSTAR 1-6)
• Minimal floor sagging
• No floor collapse
• The results established that this type of
  assembly was capable of sustaining a large
  gravity load, without collapsing, for a
  substantial period of time relative to the
  duration of the fires in any given location on
  September 11th.

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NIST comments before and after

• Before UL floor tests
• Tests will determine the fire rating of
  typical WTC floor systems under both as-built and
  specified conditions
• After UL floor tests
• The Investigation Team was cautious about using
  these results directly in the formulation of
  collapse hypotheses
• August 2006
• NISTs findings do not support the pancake
  theory of collapse

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NISTs computer simulations

• Input parameters could be tweaked
• Realistic parameters tossed in favor of More
  severe parameters
• Animations generated to compare with observed
  events (but we cant see them)

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NISTs investigative practices were deceptive and
unscientific

• Documents needed just happened to be missing
• Eyewitnesses to demolition characteristics were
  ignored
• Physical tests that disproved pre-determined
  conclusions were downplayed or ignored
• Entire theory is built on fudged, inaccessible
  computer simulations

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NISTs Final, Computer-Based Story

• 1. The aircraft severed a number of columns
• 2. Loads were redistributed (from -20 to 25)
• 3. Insulation (fireproofing) was widely dislodged
• 4. High temperatures softened columns and floors
• 5. Some floors began to sag
• 6. Sagging floors pulled exterior columns inward
  causing them to buckle
• 7. Instability spread around entire building
• Global collapse ensued

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1. How many columns were severed?

• NIST now admits only a small percentage of
  columns were severed
• 14 in WTC1
• 15 in WTC2
• But since one could cut away all the first story
  columns on one side of the building, and partway
  from the corners of the perpendicular sides, and
  the building could still withstand design live
  loads and a 100 mph wind from any direction, we
  know the buildings could withstand gt 25 column
  loss without a problem.

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2. How much load was re-distributed?

• NIST says loads on some columns were decreased
  (as much as 20) and other loads were increased
  (up to 25). What about failure zone?
• Since the original design claims were that, live
  loads on these perimeter columns can be
  increased more than 2,000 before failure
  occurs, these columns should have supported the
  extra load and much, much more
• So far, no reason to even suspect collapse

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3. Fireproofing widely dislodged?

• The towers would not have collapsed under the
  combined effects of aircraft impact and the
  subsequent multi-floor fires if the insulation
  had not been widely dislodged or had been only
  minimally dislodged by aircraft impact. -- NIST

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3. NIST must have done extensive testing to
prove fireproofing was widely dislodged!

• No, they shot 15 rounds from a shotgun at
  non-representative samples in a plywood box
• No evidence that Boeing 767 would transform into
  so many shotgun blasts
  
• (many thousands would be needed)
• Shotgun test actually proved fireproofing could
  not have been widely dislodged because the energy
  was simply not available

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No energy left to dislodge fireproofing

• NIST says 2500 MJ of kinetic energy from plane
  that hit WTC1
• Calculations show that all this energy was
  consumed in crushing aircraft and breaking
  columns floors
• Shotgun tests found that 1 MJ per sq meter was
  needed to dislodge fireproofing
• For the areas in question, intact floors and
  columns had gt 6000 sq meters of surface area

Calculations by Tomasz Wierzbicki of MIT
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4. How hot could the steel have become?

• NIST now says about 4,500 gallons of jet fuel
  were available to feed fires. This would have
  provided 590,000 MJ of energy.
• Office furnishings in the impact zone would have
  provided 490,000 MJ of energy.
• Using masses and specific heats for materials
  heated, a maximum temperature in the impact zone
  can be calculated.
• The result is less than 600 degrees F
• Assuming fuel burnt with perfect efficiency, that
  no hot gases left the impact zone, that no heat
  escaped by conduction, and that the steel and
  concrete had an unlimited amount of time to
  absorb all the heat.

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Steel Temperatures Discussed (F)
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Review NIST Story and Problems

• Column breakage (14) weakened building, then
  external columns saw up to 25 increases in total
  load
• Fireproofing widely dislodged
• High steel temps required for long time

• Can lose an additional 30 or more before
  challenging design claims external columns
  designed to withstand 2000 increases in live
  load
• No evidence that Boeing 767 would transform into
  thousands of shotgun blasts no energy available
  to dislodge fireproofing
• Tests and calculations show steel temps were way
  too low

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How long did fires last in failure zones?

• In NCSTAR 1-6, section 9.4.3 and section 10.9.4,
  NIST says
• The fires in WTC 2 reached the east side of the
  building more quickly, within 10 to 20 minutes,
  than the 50 to 60 minutes it took the fires in
  WTC 1 to reach the south side.

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5. Some floors began to sag?

• Only very slight sagging is visible in NIST
  photos from UL tests (and no collapse)
• After two hours in high temp furnace, the deck of
  35 ft floor model sagged about 3 inches in the
  middle, and the major joist parts did not sag at
  all
• NISTs computer turned this into dramatic 42 inch
  sagging, with joists bending downward severely

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6. How did the sagging floors pull exterior
columns inward causing them to buckle?

• Over 30 columns would have to be pulled in to
  challenge design claim.
• What new force did a few inches of deck sagging
  apply to those 30 columns?
• NIST did not perform tests to prove inward
  buckling via sagging floors. This pivotal
  argument is supported only by a highly
  manipulated, and ultimately absurd, computer
  model.

Note NISTs enhanced photos showing bowing
just before failure do not prove that this was
caused by sagging floors it could more easily
be explained by demolition.
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Manipulated and disconnected

• An exterior wall section (9 columns wide and 9
  floors high) was found to bow inward when floor
  connections applied an inward force.
• (computer result for one case out of nine)
• NIST had to double the height of the inward pull
  zone, strip of ALL the fireproofing, exaggerate
  temperatures (1300 F), and then apply these temps
  for 90 minutes to produce even a hint of inward
  bowing from fire.
• But first - the floors had to be disconnected.
  Where does the inward pull come from !?!

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7. Instability spread around entire building
perimeter?

• Buildings fell at nearly free-fall speed. How
  fast would instability have to spread first? How
  much of the 10 sec fall time could be spared?
• Perimeter of building was 832 feet. If complete
  in 0.5 seconds, speed of instability spread
  would have been gt1100 mph (Mach 1.5)
• A steel structure, generally speaking, does not
  collapse suddenly when attacked by fire. There
  are unmistakable warning signs, namely, large
  deformations.
• Hart, Multi-Storey Buildings in Steel, Halsted
  Press

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NISTs collapse initiation sequence What would
objective scientists have found?

• 1. Relatively few columns were lost on impact
• 2. Remaining columns had considerable extra
  capacity
• 3. Fireproofing could not have been widely
  dislodged
• 4. Steel could not have softened at the temps
  found
• 5. Even at higher temps and longer periods tests
  showed minimal sagging of floors
• 6. Forces were not produced to pull columns
  inward
• 7. Instability spread would have taken much
  more time and would not result in uniform
  free-fall

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NISTs computer story is Bush Science

• The parameters NIST originally considered
  realistic were discarded because computer
  results did not compare to observed events.
• More severe parameters were substituted until
  animations gave the desired result
• Public has no access to NISTs computer model or
  to their 6,899 photographs and 6,977 segments of
  video footage

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Global collapse ensued?

• What about resistance of floors below? If these
  floors each caused hesitation of only half a
  second, an extra 40 seconds would be needed.
• What about the observed squibs?  (No more
  pancaking!)
•  
• What about the molten metal observed pouring from
  the building and the pools of molten metal in the
  basement areas of both Towers and WTC 7? 
• What about the intragranular melting and sulfur
  residue found on the steel?

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The NIST WTC report is false because

• They did not explain why and how the buildings
  collapsed, and their investigation was deceptive
  and unscientific at every step
• They reported findings that were in direct
  contradiction to their physical testing
• They omitted or distorted many important facts
• Original design claims and John Skillings
  analysis
• Resistance from building structure below
• WTC 1 antenna moving first
• Pools of molten metal lingering for weeks
• Numerous eyewitness testimonies about explosions
• Sulfur residue on the steel

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NISTs FAQ responses Aug 2006

• Why didnt NIST consider demolition?
• No answer, but in retrospect they say demolition
  is not reasonable
• NISTs findings do not support the pancake
  theory of collapse (unless being interviewed by
  Popular Mechanics)
• Where did the squibs come from?
• Compressed air, but not pancaking
• Did UL test the steel for fire resistance?
• Not for six hours
• Where does the molten metal come from?
• This is irrelevant, but it may have been Aluminum
  from the plane
• Or it may have been caused by the duration of the
  fires in the pile

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Who else have we heard from?

• Popular Mechanics
• Hearst magazine (propaganda tool again?) promotes
  the pancake theory and magic fuel
• Implosionworld
• The photographer Brent Blanchard, with
  uninformative bluster, speaks for the demolition
  industry and gets State Dept approval
• The Progressive
• Corley and Sozen strike again
• Rolling Stone
• We must cling to the false story until the
  conspiracy theorists prove another, more
  outrageous one.

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Who have we NOT heard from?

• Advances in Applied Mechanics
• International Journal of Plasticity
• Proceedings of the IEEE
• Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research
• Journal of Chemical Engineering Data
• Fluid Phase Equilibria
• Materials science
• Acta Materialia
• Advanced Materials
• Advanced Functional Materials
• Annual Review of Materials Research
• Chemistry of Materials
• International Materials Review
• Journal of Materials Research
• Journal of Materials Science
• Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
• Nature Materials

• Progress in Materials Science
• Advances in Physics
• Journal of Physics
• Physical Review
• Reports on Progress in Physics
• Reviews in Modern Physics
• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Angewandte Chemie International Edition
• Chemical Communications
• Chemical Reviews
• Accounts of Chemical Research
• Chemistry - A European Journal
• Chemistry Letters
• Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
• Helvetica Chimica Acta
• Canadian Journal of Chemistry

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What about WTC 7?

• Would have been tallest building in 33 states
• Collapsed in 6.6 seconds
• Larry Silverstein, leaseholder for all three
  buildings -- I saidmaybe the smartest thing to
  do is pull it. And the fire department
  commander and I made that decision to pull and
  we watched the building collapse. PBS, 2002
• FEMA -- the collapse was due primarily to fire,
  rather than any impact damage from the collapsing
  towers

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How did we get here?

• The collapse of the WTC buildings is only a part
  of a long list of unprecedented events on 9/11/01
• The explanations weve been given have come from
  those working for the Bush Administration, or
  from those profiting from the War on Terror
• We know these people lie to us about everything,
  and that they distort and manipulate scientific
  findings
• We know NISTs story about the WTC is false, and
  is only the latest in a string of false stories

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How can we turn away from the road to global
collapse?

• By admitting that this is not just about demons
  wanting to steal our freedoms
• By consciously examining ALL of the evidence
  behind the false story of 9/11/01
• By considering ALL the hypotheses no matter where
  they lead
• By taking responsibility for the deception in our
  lives