Great article, make sure you follow the link and read the whole thing:

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/329318.shtml

Late October NIST quietly released a final report about the two WTC towers. A report on the WTC 7 collapse has been postponed indefinitely. Not even a draft report has been released yet but NIST promises a "separate report" later. It is now 2005, going on 2006. Casual mention of the report release did not make it in most Mainstream Media. Do you find this strange for one of the largest public safety events in history where close to 3000 people perished? Do you feel safe being in a hi-rise building?
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Let us look at this. NIST never quantifies how much each of these 3 variables contributed to its "global collapse" theory. It is left up the reader to guess. Say what? What good is a $16 Million 300 page report if it does not provide basic information about the collapse? The report states as its first objective "Determine why and how WTC 1 and WTC 2 collapsed following the inital impacts of the aircraft and why and how WTC 7 collapsed." After 3 years of study, NIST is unable to succinctly quantify its findings? The best it can do is say "a little of this and a little of that and POOF!", the buildings came down like magic? I find that hard to believe.

But we can figure this out for ourselves, thanks to the hard work of independant researchers. Recently, independant researchers have analyzed NIST data and found that a 767 impact only damaged on average about 7% of each floor, 94-98, in the North Tower. This means that the tower could have handled multiple plane crashes before failing. The redundancy in the building design was excellent. We only know this today, but for the past 3 years the Mainstream Media and government pushed disinformation and we believed something else.

Independant researchers have also analyzed NIST data and found that it was impossible for fire to cause significant weakening of the structure in the North Tower. At the time of collapse, only 24% of the floors 94-98 were on fire. The first floor to collapse, floor 97, only had 13% of its area on fire. No widespread fires existed. Fires only lasted about 30-45 minutes and then burned out. The steel frame was acting as a giant heatsink. Fire was unable to heat columns to high temperatures. We only know this today, but for the past 3 years the Mainstream Media and government pushed disinformation and we believed something else.

Add 7% damage from the 767 and 13% weakening by fire. It has been calculated that 75% of the columns had to fail to make floor 97 collapse. How does less than 20% castatrophic damage to a floor cause near instantaneous and symmetrical collapse? It does not. You do not need a wall of degrees to be an expert in common sense.
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