Building 7

CTBUH stifles discussion on NIST's WTC 7 report

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) recently published their comments on the NIST draft for final report on WTC 7, as reported on 911Blogger.

CTBUH's comments and NIST's investigation are discussed on this CTBUH forum.

When one reads the exchanges, it becomes pretty obvious that DScott, the CTBUH Chairman, displays no interest at all in discussing any of the difficult questions raised by several posters about NIST's report and WTC 7 investigation.

This becomes even more obvious when one sees what kind of a "putsch" took place after I challenged DScott on the issue of evidence destruction, and after Chris Sarns of AE911Truth had concluded that NIST had changed their previous statements about the use of shear studs in girders in order to facilitate their latest theory.

All four of my posts and Chris' latest post were deleted and the discussion forum closed. On CTBUH's homepage it now reads "The forum on this topic has now closed, however, click here to read over the comments that were posted....."

NIST Final Draft - evidence of fraud

NIST left out key words in a statement about shear studs so they could falsely claim that there were no studs on the key girder between columns 79 and 44.
This is critical to their collapse theory.

NIST L pg 6 [10 on pg counter]
Most of the beams and girders were made composite with the slabs through the use of shear studs. Typically, the shear studs were 0.75 in. in diameter by 5 in. long, spaced 1 ft to 2 ft on center. Studs were not indicated on the design drawings for many of the core girders.

NCSTAR 1-9 vol.1 pg 15 [59]
Most of the beams were made composite with the slabs through the use of shear studs. Typically, the shear studs were 0.75 in. in diameter by 5 in. long, spaced 2 ft on center. Studs were not indicated on the design drawings for the girders.

NCSTAR 1A pg 49 [87]

WeAreChange Debunks the BBC part 2 - A Call to Action

Brian Kenny
WeAreChange.org
October 22, 2008

An open letter to Mike Rudin

Mike Rudin, producer of the BBC 9/11 Hit-piece 'The Third Tower', recently posted an article called 'Caught up in a conspiracy theory', in response to a video I put out - WeAreChange Debunks the BBC at Ground Zero 9/11/08. In the article, he does not deny (or even attempt to explain, in some instances), the glaring misrepresentations, distortions, and omission that we called him out on at Ground Zero. He does not apologize (as many have called for) for repeatedly exhibiting poor journalistic ethics while covering the most controversial and important issue of our time. Instead he continues to dishonor the victims of 9/11 and insult the intelligence of the BBC audience by digging a deeper hole. Very well Mike Rudin, so be it.

WeAreChangeLongBeach - PART 2 of 3 Santa Monica, CA Truth March 2008 with WeAreChangeLA, Orange County 911 Truth, San Diego 911

PART TWO
WeAreChangeLongBeach - PART TWO - Santa Monica Truth March 2008 - with WeAreChangeLA, Orange County 9-11 Truth, San Diego 9-11 Truth, Inland Empire 9-11 Truth, & many others...Watch Southern California Spread the Truth!

http://9-11.meetup.com/418

Structural engineering council (CTBUH) casts doubt on NIST's WTC 7 Report.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has published comments on the NIST WTC 7 Report. The CTBUH questions critical points of the NIST WTC 7 collapse theory and also highlights problems with the writing NIST report itself.

The CTBUH criticisms focus on two technical issues The conjectured failure of shear studs and bolts on the supposedly critical Column 79:

Several conclusions drawn in the NIST report on the contribution of structural
components in failure initiation are unexpected and have raised concerns
within the Council. These conclusions involve the role of both shear studs and
local global buckling of the floor beams in failure initiation. The Council
believes that the local connection performance was a significant part of the
global failure and would like to have seen a more explicit analysis of the
connection failure. (See also comment on Chapters 11-13.)

Let's sing this song loud and wake up more citizens around the world!

SEPTEMBER 11th WAS AN INSIDE JOB!

BTW, has anyone taped and uploaded the performance at the Now or Never event in NYC on 12th last month?

Silverstein: Pull it!

Warm greetings to all truthers!

The Larry Silverstein quote "pull it", has for long been pending as a confession of a controlled demolition, among us, and in several videos.
Even though it could be interpreted as demolition-slang, I believe it is not plausible enough to be presented as a confession.

When firefighters abandon a building (pull people out), they do use the term 'pull it'. But this is not all. I find it extremely implausible, that the firefighters should have been able to do it, concerning time, experience, expertise and option.

I see it as the only logical conclusion, that the firefighters did not have a role in the demolition of WTC7, but that it must have been caused by pre-placed explosives. As thus the words "pull it", in the conversation between Silverstein and the fire-chief, must have meant pulling firefighters out.

My plea to you, fellow truthers, is to drop arguements like that. It makes more damage to our credibility, than it helps.

Vive la revolution!

Kenneth Poulsen

Catherine Austin Fitts talks about why building 7 was brought down

Catherine Austin Fitts discusses 2.3 trillion dollars missing on 9/10/01, building 7 and pentagon record destruction to cover this up.
Pertinent content starts at about 3 minutes and 45 seconds in to this video

What the NWO is up Against and How 911 Truth is the Most Important Fight

I don't know if everybody reading this believes in evolution, but let's say for a minute that it is true. Or at the very least God has put us here to evolve. The human species has dominated and survived as it has evolved over millions of years. During this great span of time many species have ceased to exist including the one's we have destroyed. Through all of this evolutionary activity, humanity has survived everything the Earth has thrown at it. We even have survived the cruel ideas acted upon us from our own imaginations. We kill, but we grow back. We kill again, but we grow back. The Earth has tried with every trick it has including the human mind to stifle us and possibly destroy us, but this is the very essence of evolution. We still exist. Why would anybody alive today think that they could devise a better plan of extinction for humanity than what has been wrought upon us thus far. It is futile.

Statement Of September 11th Advocates Regarding The Release Of The NIST Final Draft Of Collapse Of WTC7

For Immediate Release
September 26, 2008


NIST has finally released its long awaited investigative report regarding the collapse of World Trade Center 7. WTC 7 was the third building in the World Trade Center Complex to collapse at 5:20 PM on September 11, 2001. However, this building was not hit by an airplane.

As family members of 9/11 victims, we were extremely interested in the findings of this report. We had hoped that NIST’s report would serve to explain the cause of a total collapse of a conventional steel building and be able to refute the rampant conspiracy theories. We also hoped that this report, in conjunction with NIST’s final reports on WTC 1 and 2, would offer recommendations for improved building and fire codes to ensure public safety in ALL buildings going forward.

While we feel that technical experts should review, critique and replicate the findings within this report, we also feel that we must express our concerns based on public comments by NIST regarding their findings.

Over the past seven years, the Families of the 9/11 Victims have been repeatedly told by fire experts, engineers and architects that we should NOT FOCUS our efforts on advocating for building and fire code changes based on the collapse of the WTC 1 and 2 towers. We were continuously reminded that the crashing of airplanes into buildings was a unique event. Additionally, we were told that the design and construction of WTC Towers 1 and 2 was unique and that there were no other buildings of that particular height or design in the world. We were repeatedly told that the key was WTC 7 since this building was of conventional design and height, yet it too collapsed without the unique event of an airplane striking it.

Michael Hess

WWOR UPN9 News interview with Michael Hess, estimated at about 11:57 a.m. according to some excellent analysis by David Ray Griffin, here: http://www.wanttoknow.info/008/hessjenningswtc7explosiontvbroadcast
See also the available WWOR News coverage:
http://www.transformationteam.net/video/9-11_what_really_happened
Download this clip here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K0SZX5PV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXH6Qx-sr8

Thanks to Xenomorph911 for staying on top of this....you're great!

2008 Now or Never - 9/11 Part 1 - Ground Zero - NYC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSi6uXfzSC0

September 11, 2001 is a day that has changed everything. In 2008, WeAreChange organized a respectful and powerful demonstration that started at Ground Zero and made its way through the streets of Manhattan.

This video begins within the gathering of family members of victims of 9/11, and wends its way to Building 7 where upwards of a thousand patriots gather to begin their intense and empowering march of solidarity, visibility, and outreach.

Luke Rudkowski reminds everyone that the 9/11 truth movement is not going away.

http://www.wearechange.org
http://www.wacla.org
http://www.infowars.com
http://www.ae911truth.0rg

For german language speaking users: A review of the ZDF's version of "The Third Tower"

I've done a rebuttal to the german version of the BBC's "The Third Tower", called "Das Rätsel des dritten Turmes" broadcasted by german second television channel ZDF and their "ZDF history" format on 08/09/07.

I put all the infos we gathered together into it, and it's quite a devastating result for the ZDF- almost every claim they made was false, they used some of the same tricks like the BBC like the cut and fit for their needs of the Jennings testimony, but refused to use others, like the victims-mockery if you ask questions and refuse to believe the official narrative.

It's a 111 page .pdf with 3,7 MB, the making of the script (which the ZDF denied it has and so couldn't gave me) alone took me 4 days in a row.
My wife actually said I'm crazy. ;)

Anyway: here it is, only in german so far (maybe a translation follows)

http://www.habiru.de/Dirk_Gerhardt/ZDFDritterTurm.pdf

Coincidences of Building 7 and 9/11

It's a good thing Salomon Brothers took such a huge lease on WTC seven because Silverstein was in a bit of a bind before the building was even completed. Originally a billion dollar deal was about to be completed where the entire building would be leased to Drexel Burnham Lambert. But it didn't work out when things went bad as the junk bond market tanked.

"The investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert (best known for its star dealer, the notorious "junk bond king" Michael Milken) was to become a tenant in 1986 but backed out."
http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nyc4.html#82b

"Drexel Burnham Lambert, the investment house, agreed only two months ago to take an equity interest in the project and also lease the entire building for 30 years."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEFDC1430F934A15754C0A960948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

And then Salomon Brothers comes to the rescue. Not leasing the entire building but well over half.

"Salomon said it would sign a 20-year lease on slightly over one million square feet, or just over half the space in the tower. A Billion in Rental Fees...

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