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Laila Selk graduated from the College of San Mateo in 1984 with a Associate's degree in Fire Science and received her Emergency Medical Technician degree that year as well. She was hired by the Palo Alto FD in September 1984 and retired in September 1996, having served 10 of those years on the line as a firefighter. She was a volunteer with the King's Mountain Fire Brigade from 1982 -- 1991 and now volunteers with AE911Truth's verifications team. In this episode of 9/11 Free Fall she talks with Andy Steele about the 9/11 controlled demolition evidence from her perspective and the work that goes into verifying AE911Truth's petition signers.

“What about building 7?” A social psychological study of online discussion of 9/11 conspiracy theories
Michael J. Wood* and Karen M. Douglas*

School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Recent research into the psychology of conspiracy belief has highlighted the importance of belief systems in the acceptance or rejection of conspiracy theories. We examined a large sample of conspiracist (pro-conspiracy-theory) and conventionalist (anti-conspiracy-theory) comments on news websites in order to investigate the relative importance of promoting alternative explanations vs. rejecting conventional explanations for events. In accordance with our hypotheses, we found that conspiracist commenters were more likely to argue against the opposing interpretation and less likely to argue in favor of their own interpretation, while the opposite was true of conventionalist commenters. However, conspiracist comments were more likely to explicitly put forward an account than conventionalist comments were. In addition, conspiracists were more likely to express mistrust and made more positive and fewer negative references to other conspiracy theories. The data also indicate that conspiracists were largely unwilling to apply the “conspiracy theory” label to their own beliefs and objected when others did so, lending support to the long-held suggestion that conspiracy belief carries a social stigma. Finally, conventionalist arguments tended to have a more hostile tone. These tendencies in persuasive communication can be understood as a reflection of an underlying conspiracist worldview in which the details of individual conspiracy theories are less important than a generalized rejection of official explanations.

http://www.frontiersin.org/personality_science_and_individual_differences/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00409/abstract

Full Text: http://www.frontiersin.org/Personality_Science_and_Individual_Differences/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00409/full

On Terrorism and the State

by Gianfranco Sanguinetti

http://www.dailybattle.pair.com/2013/sanguinetti_state_terror.shtml

"The first duty of all conscious subversives is to pitilessly chase all illusions about terrorism from the heads of those called to action."

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In this special Fourth of July episode of 9/11 Free Fall Richard Gage AIA and Pam Senzee join Andy Steele to talk about patriotism, hope, and what activists can do to help expose the truth about what really happened to the buildings in New York on 9/11.