Prominent Structural Engineers Say Official Version of 9/11 "Impossible" "Defies Common Logic" "Violates the Law of Physics"
George Washington's Blog Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Numerous structural engineers now publicly challenge the government's account of the destruction of the Trade Centers on 9/11, including:
A prominent engineer with 55 years experience, in charge of the design of hundreds of major building projects including high rise offices, former member of the California Seismic Safety Commission and former member of the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council (Marx Ayres) believes that the World Trade Centers were brought down by controlled demolition (see also this)
Two professors of structural engineering at a prestigious Swiss university (Dr. Joerg Schneider and Dr. Hugo Bachmann) said that, on 9/11, World Trade Center 7 was brought down by controlled demolition (translation here) Kamal S. Obeid, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering from UC Berkeley, of Fremont, California, says:
"Photos of the steel, evidence about how the buildings collapsed, the unexplainable collapse of WTC 7, evidence of thermite in the debris as well as several other red flags, are quite troubling indications of well planned and controlled demolition"
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
so weird glasses guy decides to lead off the comments with an irrelevant conspiracy post. some things never change.
red_dwarf
· 1 year ago
It was Bush's plan all along (well, his cronies) to de-value the dollar and rape the treasury. Off-shore corporations avoid paying hundreds of millions in taxes and not a peep on the corporate controlled media (no surprise there). You are right Chris, it will take honesty to restore this country; though it will probably take decades. Without honesty (free Press) a Democracy by definition cannot exist. This is why Clinton cannot become the VP - she has proven that she can lie with impunity - and another liar in the WH is the last thing we need.
jr
· 1 year ago
the finish line is in sight in our race to the bottom
buckguy
· 1 year ago
Pearlstein has done a nice job of connecting the dots. Sadly, we've gone through a succession of bubbles since the 80s (stocks, real estate, stocks again, real estate again in a bigger way, etc.), but no one has really talked about. The decline in middle class incomes began with the assault on factory worker wages in the 70s. Sadly, white collar workers looked the other way until they had their own jobs taken away or devalued. Our productive capacity has either been offshored or sold. It will take, ironically, old fashioned liberal policies to revive the economy that has been dessemmated by policies based on libertarian nostrums and childish understandings of how a market should function (e.g., transparency, equal access to information, open access to resources).
jimfromthefoothills
· 1 year ago
Chris. Perlstein is cursory. Look at the portion of GDP growth over the last 7 years attributable to sub-prime (shit credit). Then factor out our growth related to consumption of chinese and INdian goods and services, the shit that we no longer have the capacity to produce on our own (all of the shit in walmart).
The credit crisis is not even close to bottoming out. Wait until you see people walking away from their McMansions in Northern Virginia because the property taxes and energy costs are $30k or even $50k a year.
THere is no such thing as a monetarist anymore. Milton Friedman... rot in hell.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
This is a capitalist country. Do you want to change it into Venezuela where you have to stand in line to buy meat and veggies?
Get educated. Your best defense against against poverty.
jimfromthefoothills
· 1 year ago
Do you call what Bush & Co. practice capitalism? Enron, KBR, Halliburton? Busboy needs to take his own advice.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
No capitalist country has ever gone broke or resorted to exterminating their poorer citizens in order to provide for the "common good". If there's a worldwide recession? Then the USA is where you want to be... just sayin....
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George Washington's Blog
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Numerous structural engineers now publicly challenge the government's account of the destruction of the Trade Centers on 9/11, including:
A prominent engineer with 55 years experience, in charge of the design of hundreds of major building projects including high rise offices, former member of the California Seismic Safety Commission and former member of the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council (Marx Ayres) believes that the World Trade Centers were brought down by controlled demolition (see also this)
Two professors of structural engineering at a prestigious Swiss university (Dr. Joerg Schneider and Dr. Hugo Bachmann) said that, on 9/11, World Trade Center 7 was brought down by controlled demolition (translation here)
Kamal S. Obeid, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering from UC Berkeley, of Fremont, California, says:
"Photos of the steel, evidence about how the buildings collapsed, the unexplainable collapse of WTC 7, evidence of thermite in the debris as well as several other red flags, are quite troubling indications of well planned and controlled demolition"
The credit crisis is not even close to bottoming out. Wait until you see people walking away from their McMansions in Northern Virginia because the property taxes and energy costs are $30k or even $50k a year.
THere is no such thing as a monetarist anymore. Milton Friedman... rot in hell.
Get educated. Your best defense against against poverty.