During a press conference in 1973, Minoru Yamasaki was asked, "Why two 110-story buildings? Why not one 220-story building?" His response was: "I didn't want to lose the human scale".[63]
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Monday, March 2, 2009
9/11: The Impeccable Timing and Amazing Clairvoyance of Donald Rumsfeld
http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.c...nd-amazing.html
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I’ve seen a lot of attention paid to the validity and chemical analysis and publishing credibility of the paper on thermite, but I have seen little such discussion about “Plausibility Of 9/11 Aircraft Attacks Generated By GPS-Guided Aircraft Autopilot Systems”.
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The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is the Fear Of Being Uncool
by Jenna Orkin
An excerpt:
“After 9/11, three scientific panels were held to investigate the extent of the contamination resulting from the disaster and to come up with solutions. The first two panels each took a couple of days. The last one, which was literally the panel to end all panels, met once a month for nearly two years.
The EPA were present at all three panels, to answer the questions of the visiting scientists. None of those scientists, I believe by the way, was paid for his or her services.
Also present were members of The Community whose function was to point out to those same scientists where the EPA were...uh, leaving out crucial pertinent facts.
"You underestimate the capacity of people to be stupid," I was told by friends concerning the government's actions leading up to and following 9/11.
Not one of these friends was at the panels; nor had they read From the Wilderness or other reputable 9/11 websites.
But having attended (and testified at) every meeting of every scientific panel, I can assure you that whistles were blown, loudly. And that not only the government agency being assailed but also some professors at august universities and some scientists whose hallmark is supposedly objectivity, persistently responded to the whistles by putting metaphorical cotton in their ears or by blowing an even louder, if equally metaphorical, tuba.
As with certain jokes, you had to be there. Every weapon in the arsenal of skullduggery was on view: Lies, damn lies and most of all, statistics.
They lied by testing for the wrong substance or, if the right one, doing the wrong test, using the wrong equipment, putting it in the wrong place, not turning it on or facing it in the wrong direction.
The message was: How can I screw you? Let me count the ways.
The vast majority of people roll over for this because, outraged though they be, they do not feel up to the task of educating themselves.
This, in the age of the internet when knowledge is more equitably available than ever before.
Rather, they opt for what E.M. Forster called the most satisfying of human emotions, moral indignation. And for that, you need 'friends.'
Here, too, the internet, that most adaptable and obliging of creatures, provides. You can confide every banal detail of your life to the universe and have a more concrete expectation than religion offers that a real person might hear you.
Life copies high school. The football hero and the prom queen are the Jungian archetypes of our time. (All right, my time. Amend accordingly.) People still haven't figured out that the football hero and the prom queen may not remain on top of the heap and that what seems geeky and goofy today is the ultracool of tomorrow.
To question Madoff two years ago was weird. Now it's cliche.
To be truly cool, you can't be a member of the crowd; you have to lead it.”
http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/
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Here's the audio for the David Ray Griffin event held at Boston University last weekend:
http://boston911truth.org/audio/DRG11apr09.mp3
(length is 74:30)
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Ex-Italy Pres - 9-11 Was CIA/Mossad Operation
By the Staff of American Free Press
4-15-09
Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies. In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera:
"All the (intelligence services) of America and Europe know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Cossiga was elected president of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide election to become president of the country in 1985, and he remained until 1992.
Cossiga's tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment, and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio. This was a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and '80s. Gladio's specialty was to carry out what they termed "false flag" operations-terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition.
In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony, "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9-11 in 2001, and is quoted by 9-11 researcher Webster Tarpley saying "The mastermind of the attack must have been a sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly specialized personnel. I add one thing: it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel."
Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga's assertion that the 9-11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge among global intelligence agencies is illuminating. It is one more eye-opening confirmation that has not been mentioned by America's propaganda machine in print or on TV. Nevertheless, because of his experience and status in the world, Cossiga cannot be discounted as a crackpot.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/9-11_solved118.html
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April 20, 2009
Former 9/11 Commission Vice Chairman
Makes Bizarre Comments about Intelligence Failures before Attacks
http://hcgroups.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/f...before-attacks/
“All the people who had failed stayed, some were even promoted. The entire US intelligence system was reconfigured to fit in a director of national intelligence, but the same people were still inside the system. And the lessons that should be drawn from this are what?”
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Find Me Someone to Love
The Bush administration paid a $5 million reward to a former Minnesota flight instructor who provided authorities with information that led to the arrest and conviction of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
http://sameritech.wordpress.com/2008/01/24...million-reward/
… the C.I.A. used waterboarding 183 times in March 2003 against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed…
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But some people still insist that, if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it hasn’t been proven that it is a duck because somewhere somehow there might be an explanation for how that feathered fowl-looking thing is really a polar bear and, anyhow, there isn’t enough data to conclude anything without going down there to the swamp and shooting the duck and doing an autopsy on it, and we can’t do that because the authorities won’t issue a hunting permit or permission to trespass on the swamp land, and anyhow we look awfully silly, like Elmer Fudds, dressed up in our orange ear-flapped hunting cap and carrying a tiny, one-round popgun loaded with cork.
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In humor and comedy, the left brain sets up the joke, and the right brain gets it.
In matters of 9/11, the left brain often gets stuck parsing and analyzing the minutiae and the detail and can’t or won’t step back out into the right brain (as Jill Bolte Taylor advises) to look at the entirety of it all. The left brain is attuned to the past and the future; it's very busy making predictions and searching through your memory banks for a similar past experience. The left brain is the seat of indecision; it's loaded with anxiety.
Gestalt consciousness; that's where the action takes place.