This is a video response to TheCharmingDeviant’s video “A follow-up to “the Collapse”” on YouTube. For me, context is everything, DiMartini and other architects that boasted (pre-9/11) of the WTC Towers   more...strength and survivability where talking about "hits from airliners" that were accidental or inadvertent. The only comparable event was the WW2 era Bomber plane that strayed into NYC in a dense fog and accidentally hit the Empire State Bldg. The Architects never planned on a plane hitting the towers at FULL SPEED! Speed is the crucial factor here, more speed, more kinetic energy.
They simply didn’t anticipate that fully fueled planes would ever be flown at maximum speed into the WTC Towers or any bldg. for that matter. The speed of the jets along with their massive fuel capacity was a one-two punch that the Towers could not withstand. All that kinetic energy blasted away the insulation on the beams, provided that there was adequate fire insulation to begin with. DiMartini was talking about slow speed, accidental hits, not high speed intentional hits.
I don’t think that fireman Joe Casaliggi was saying that these supposed “controlled demolitions” were the “cause” of the small size of the debris found in the aftermath of the collapse. Joe was simply explaining what he saw and experienced as he and his fellow firefighters worked “the pile”, I think you may be reading too much into he’s saying. If you have some other clip where Joe Casaliggi says, “I believe that controlled demolitions brought down the towers”, I’ll stand corrected.
As far as these supposed “secondary explosions” that directly preceded the collapse of each tower, I’ve seen the same thing happen in catastrophic building fires, on a smaller scale of course. Just before collapse, there were open rooms and spaces in the towers that were full of smoke and fire. As the weight of the upper floors bore down on the fire softened steel, the building started to collapse. That creates overpressure, as the towers come down, smoke and flame are pushed out.
The reporter in the chopper was reporting what he “thought” was an explosion, and I’ll admit that the massive over pressure of the collapse and the subsequent fire and smoke that were ejected, looked like an explosion. But, explosions are unique, they create seismic forces that can be seen and measured. I’m sure that things were popping all over in the fires and that the firefighters did hear explosion, I contend that they were not demolition charges.  less

...20 minutes after the "~Impact~" ....

An impression of the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster.

A paraglider trike has a collapse at really low altitude. Pilot ok.

WTC Building 7 Collapse

Girl blacks out while running and collapses in a heap.

close-up of south tower collapse

http://www.rowanshead.com/flash/socialmediacheatsheet.html What marketing lessons can small Business learn from GMs collapse? 1st June U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.   more...So lets this be a warning!The hard times are coming. If your company doesnt pay attention to its marketing, it can suffer the same fate as GM  less

Peter Shiff calling the Stock Market Collapse on Kudlow & Company back in Aug 28, 2006<br /><br />Find out more<br />http://www.techniquetradingsolutions.com/

"Maxed Out" It wasn't an accident

Guess who the biggest campaign contributor to George W. Bush is?

MBNA, a big credit card company.

MBNA wrote the legislation that radically changed the bankruptcy   more...laws in the US.

Predatory lending, which used to be the province of criminal loan sharks, is now the norm in the lending industry in the US.  less

Commentary before the bailouts
Jim Rogers: July - 2008
Controlled demolition?
Jim Rogers has made hundreds of millions of dollars from his investments over the years.

Last year, he made the decision to   more...leave the US and take his money out of the US dollar.

At the time, it seemed like an extreme position to take.

Now, months later, it's starting to make sense.

Max Keiser holds an even more extreme position, that what's taking place is a controlled demolition of the US dollar. It's hard to argue with his logic.

After all, these are the same people who brought us 9/11 and the Iraq War. What's a multi-trillion dollar scam compared to those twin disasters?  less

Commentary before the bailouts
Jim Rogers: July - 2008
Controlled demolition?
Jim Rogers has made hundreds of millions of dollars from his investments over the years.

Last year, he made the decision to   more...leave the US and take his money out of the US dollar.

At the time, it seemed like an extreme position to take.

Now, months later, it's starting to make sense.

Max Keiser holds an even more extreme position, that what's taking place is a controlled demolition of the US dollar. It's hard to argue with his logic.

After all, these are the same people who brought us 9/11 and the Iraq War. What's a multi-trillion dollar scam compared to those twin disasters?  less

Commentary before the bailouts
Jim Rogers: July - 2008 Controlled demolition?
Jim Rogers has made hundreds of millions of dollars from his investments over the years.

Last year, he made the decision to   more...leave the US and take his money out of the US dollar.

At the time, it seemed like an extreme position to take.

Now, months later, it's starting to make sense.

Max Keiser holds an even more extreme position, that what's taking place is a controlled demolition of the US dollar. It's hard to argue with his logic.

After all, these are the same people who brought us 9/11 and the Iraq War. What's a multi-trillion dollar scam compared to those twin disasters?  less

The Next Financial Mess!!

Have been wondering why this hasn't been touched on in the Financial Crisis and Greed that's bringing down the House of Cards known as Wall Street!

ABC 'Nightline' finally brings   more...it out in the light of day

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=5869126&amp;page=1

MBNA Insiders Question Former Employers' Practices

Americans owe $960 billion in credit card debit, according to the consumer advocacy group  less

Experts speak about WTC 7 collapse. More proof that Larry Silverstein wasn't talking about Firefighters when he said 'Pull it'.

Might want to check the bolts on your bike before you go riding off-road again, buddy.

Sometimes an old building just doesn't want to go.

http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com presents a clip as part of the "Why are Things Falling Apart?" series. In this one, Derrick Jensen discusses how crucial it is to the environmental struggle   more...to understand who and what we identify with.  less

whether by exotic energy weapons , tactical nukes , thermite , thermate but not by planes - music by spiney

Further analysis of Nextel's 9|11 fairy tale and how the Naudets reveal their own culpability by directing the Official Fairy Tale inadequately.

Part four of a four part series dealing the the collapse of WTC buildings 1, 2, 7.

Part three of a four part series dealing with the collapse of the world trade center buildings 1,2, and 7, from sciences perspective.

An informative look into the collapse of WTC 1,2 and 7 with scientific commentary

----------First Coast News-----------

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- One person is missing and thirteen others injured after the parking garage under construction at the Berkman II building collapsed early Thursday   more...morning.

Authorities say 13 people were taken to Shands Jacksonville with non-life threatening injuries.

As of right now 2 of those people are in "serious" condition, 2 are in "good" condition and 9 of them have minor injuries, according to authorities.

Nine people were treated and released at the scene.

Rescue crews are still searching for one person who is reportedly a 21-year-old man from Jacksonville.

"All our efforts are focused on finding that individual," said JSO spokesperson Ken Jefferson.

Mayor Peyton said dogs are being brought in to sniff for anyone who might be buried under the rubble.

Jefferson described the scene as a bunch of concrete, metal and rocks all piled on top of each other.

JFRD spokesperson Tom Francis said the scene looked like an earthquake hit.

First Coast News' Phil Amato is on the scene. He says the problem appears to be with a parking structure next to the condo tower.

A superintendent for one of the construction companies tells First Coast News there were 20 to 25 people working on the scene this morning.

They were working on the sixth floor of the structure.

Construction began about 2 a.m. today and the collapse happened just before 6 a.m. during a shift change.

People who work at City Hall, the court house or any business along Bay Street should go to Lot J at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium.

There is a shuttle that will be taking people to work from Lot J.

People who use the bus service, trolley or H2 buses on E. Bay Street also need to go to Lot J. There will be transfer buses and shuttles.

Dozens of emergency vehicles are in front of the building on E. Bay Street.

East Bay Street is closed between Liberty Street and A. Philip Randolph Blvd.

Liberty Street is also closed due to emergency crews. It is closed between E. Bay Street and Duval St.

For a westbound alternate use Duval St. or Adams St.

For an eastbound alternate use Monroe St. or Church St.  less