9/11 – A Cheap Magic Trick

Larry Silverstein, the lease holder of the World Trade Center Towers, claimed to be so devastated by the events of 9/11 and the deaths of four of his employees that he could not focus on insurance or financial matters until “perhaps two weeks later.”

However according to journalist Steven Brill, on the evening of 9/11 Silverstein was already calling his lawyers to see if he could make a double claim on his WTC insurance policy.

See the 9/11 Timeline entry on Silverstein’s call regarding insurance on the evening of 9/11.

In Steven Brill’s book, After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era, he states that:

“Real estate developer Larry Silverstein was on his way to a dermatologist on the morning of the 11th, instead of the Trade Center—the multibillion-dollar complex where he had leveraged a $14 million personal investment in a partnership that owned the leasing rights to the buildings into bragging rights as the complex’s putative owner. Silverstein would tell the author five months later that he was so shocked and sickened by the destruction and by the loss of four of his employees that morning that he did not think he focused on issues like insurance or finances until “perhaps two weeks later.” In fact, according to his own lawyers, by that evening he was on the phone with them worrying whether his effort to shave costs when he’d bought insurance would now come back to hurt him, or whether his insurance policies could be read in a way that would construe the attacks as two separate, insurable incidents rather than one. The difference was roughly $3.55 billion versus $7.1 billion—the kind of gap corporate litigators dream of.”

Groupthink occurs when people avoid individually testing, analyzing, and evaluating facts in order to avoid upsetting the consensus of a group.

In effect a bracketing occurs whereby some topics are okay to discuss while others are closed off – often without the group being consciously aware of it.

Those who violate the unspoken rules often find themselves being ostracized, alienated and ultimately expelled from the group.

9/11 is a good example of groupthink on the part of the media and the public.

For example, eyewitness accounts and media reports from New York reported multiple instances of bombs going off. (See videos below.)

Yet according to the NIST report, it was fire from jet fuel that brought down the World Trade Center Towers on September 11th, 2001.

When NIST officials were specifically asked if they considered the possibility of bombs being planted in the building, they categorically stated there weren’t any bombs so why should they look for signs of them!

Once the ‘official version’ of what happened was issued, the mainstream media merely repeated it even though many journalists knew that the government’s version did not match up to their own first hand experiences. But they, like the public, found it less risky to make their experiences conform to the government’s version of events than to challenge them.

A perfect example of groupthink in action.

Below is David Chandler’s analysis. Watch for the huge sections of the building being ejected – some at over 70 miles an hour. Notice the squibs going off in waves below the visible explosions. Yet NIST and a large portion of the American public refuses to see what’s right in front of their eyes.

Richard Gage is an architect and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

He is one of the foremost leaders in the 9/11 truth movement who has given presentations throughout the United States and the world on what really brought down the World Trade Center towers.

Below is a video presentation on his program:
Blueprint for Truth. The Architecture of Destruction.

Click on the link to see the rest of the presentation.

Click here to watch the rest of the videos.

A security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, provided electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport, and United Airlines on 9/11.

George W. Bush’s brother, Marvin Bush, sat on the board of directors of the company.

The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.

Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a “completion contract” to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center “up to the day the buildings fell down.” Click here to read more of the article about the Bush connections to security at the World Trade Center.

Prior to the destruction of the WTC on 9/11, there were many ‘modernization projects’ going on in the buildings. This included fireproofing and working on the steel columns inside the elevator shafts of the two buildings struck by planes.

One survivor of the the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers was Scott Forbes, an IT Specialist.

In the video clip below he describes the odd noises, dust, and renovations that occurred in the months prior to the destruction of the WTC towers. He also discusses the unprecedented power down the weekend before the 9/11 attacks.

When he later tried to report all this to the government, they were uninterested in his testimony.

“[T]here was just an explosion [in the south tower]. It seemed like on television [when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions.”–
Firefighter Richard Banaciski

“I saw a flash flash flash [at] the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building?”
–Assistant Fire Commissioner Stephen Gregory

“[I]t was [like a] professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear ‘Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop’.”
–Paramedic Daniel Rivera

The above quotations come from a collection of 9/11 oral histories that, although recorded by the Fire Department of New York at the end of 2001, were not publicly released until August 12, 2005. Prior to that date, very few Americans knew the content of these accounts or even that they existed. One big reason was because City of New York refused to release them until the Court of Appeals forced them to. Included were oral histories provided by 503 firefighters and medical workers. Click here to read a collection of 9/11 oral histories.

Anthony Saltalamacia was a Maintenance supervisor in WTC 1. In this video excerpt he recounts what he heard and saw on 9/11. Like other witnesses, he reports bombs went off in the building before the plane hit.

William Rodriguez was a janitor in WTC 1. On the morning of 9/11 he came in later than usual and heard and saw the effects of the bombs that had been planted in the basement of WTC 1. He helped other people escape and narrowly escaped with his own life that day.

Barry Jennings was a City Housing Authority worker. He rushed to WTC 7 because that’s where the city’s emergency management center was located. He was several floors up when the bombs in the basement went off. Bombs that exploded before the WTC 1 and 2 came down. According to the official theory, WTC 7 came down due to damage from the other two buildings. But Jennings witnessed the lobby blown out before WTC 1 and 2 came down.

It’s easy to forget the victims of 9/11. The firefighters and police who rushed in to rescue people and were trapped in the buildings as they crashed down on them. The people who worked in the buildings and were told by the authorities that everything was fine and they should return to work. Those who planned 9/11 wanted casulties so they lied in order to get people to go back into the WTC buildings.

As a reminder of all those who died so horribly that day, below is a recording of one man calling 911 from one of the World Trade Center Towers shortly before the building imploded.

Some people chose to jump to their deaths rather than remain in the buildings as explosions and smoke filled the rooms. Below is a video of some those people who lept to their deaths.

Then there are all those rescue workers and residents of New York who were told it was safe to work in the rubble of the WTC and who have subsequently developed cancer and died.

Since 9/11 more people may die because of the after effects of the asbestos and other chemicals dispersed that day than died in the buildings.

Click here to read about the health problems of the 9/11 rescuers.

Larry A. Silverstein, a Jewish real estate tycoon, signed a lease on the World Trade Center complex on July 24, 2001, only six weeks before the towers were destroyed in the September 11 attacks.

JP Morgan Chase and the New York Port Authority, both of which are controlled by the Rockefeller family, negotiated the deal. Silverstein heavily insured the WTC complex against any terrorist attacks and received a $4.55 billion settlement after they were destroyed.

Silverstein also owned Building Seven in the WTC complex. Occupants of the secure building included the IRS, US Secret Service, the CIA, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Mayor’s office of Emergency Management.

Silverstein’s role as a co-conspirator in the events of 9/11 was confirmed when in a September 2002 PBS documentary he admitted giving the order to have Building Seven demolished. In an interview he said:

“I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, ‘We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.’ And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse.”

click on the link to see the video excerpt

Why would Silverstein destroy his own buildings? One reason is the money. His lease on the WTC complex only cost him a down-payment of $124 million. The asbestos filled buildings would have cost billions to clean up but were conveniently destroyed by ‘evil terrorists’ which then allowed him to collect the $4.55 billion settlement. Silverstein is also a staunch Zionist with strong connections to three of Israel’s prime ministers including Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak. Silverstein is especially close to Benjamin Netanyahu who was in New York on the morning of 9/11 and who fathered the “war on terror” doctrine. Netanyahu later went on to publicly say that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel. ”

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events “swung American public opinion in our favor.”

Not widely reported in the Amercan media was the fact that on 9/11, Mossad agents were running around Manhattan in vans loaded with box cutters and explosives. Other Israeli agents were arrested after being seen filming the destruction of the WTC and celebrating. (Click on the link to read the article) These Israelis were interrogated and then sent home with no charges filed. They later went on Israeli television and bragged how they had been sent to ‘document’ the event. That of course raises the question of how they knew what was going to happen unless they were part of making it happen. (Click to watch video clip)

On 9/11 the American public went into shock as the day’s events unfolded. Extremely vulnerable to suggestion and lacking any independent sources of information, we passively accepted the government’s version of :

what happened
who was responsible
and what our response should be

Those few people who did raise questions were instantly labeled as crazy, unpatriotic, or, as George Bush put it, “with the terrorists.” Doing so ensured that no real debate would occur and people would self-censor themselves in order not to appear to be accomplices to murder.

But ask some basic questions. The picture on the left is of a high rise steel frame building in Madrid that caught fire in 2005 and burned for over 12 hours. That’s what a building on fire looks like. When the fire was finally put out, what remained of the building is pictured on the right. Guess what? The steel frame remained intact, there were no billowing clouds of concrete, and the building didn’t collapse.

In contrast, on 9/11 the World Trade Center towers were smoking but not on fire.

The fires were so minimal in fact that in one of the buildings, a woman is seen standing in the opening left by the plane.

Firefighters in the buildings also reported to their superiors that they thought they could knock the fire down with a few water lines.

Yet within two hours of being stuck, both buildings collapsed. No steel frame was left. No stacks of concrete floors remained. The buildings were reduced to dust and a few cut beams.

Conspiracy theory or hidden truth? The 9/11 enigmas…This article was recently published in the magazine World Architecture News.

In it, architect Richard Gage describes all the evidence needed to prove that the World Trade Center Towers were brought down by explosives. Gage is the founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. The group includes over 800 Architects, Engineers, and other professionals who question the official version of the events of 9/11. His article summarizes the physical, mechanical, and chemical evidence that establishes without a doubt that the World Trade Center towers were deliberately demolished to take us to war.

Click here to read the complete article Conspiracy theory or hidden truth? The 9/11 enigmas.