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Millions have perished in Afghanistan and Iraq and hundreds of thousands have either lost their lives, been maimed, detained, tortured and humiliated as a result of the war on terror. That war has become the biggest excuse in human history to break the law and carry out summary justice. It has been turned into the largest lynching party ever carried out by a posse of outlaws pretending to uphold the law.
--Osama Al Sharif
EARLY 9-11 REPORTAGE REVEALS SURPRISESColumnist Robert Novak among the first to use the phrase "inside job" in connection with the events of September 11, 2001Mohamed Atta's mug gets full play on the New York Post's back page. The U.S. government storyline featuring 19 "terrorists" from the Middle East was taking shape within a day of Sept. 11, 2001.By Peter DuveenPETER'S NEW YORK, December 27, 2008--Married as we seem to be to the digital age, it is a great comfort to be able to occasionally resort to "hard copy," tangible pieces of inked paper upon which much of the literary wealth of the world is recorded. Recently, while searching my "hard copy" archives, I came across some issues of the New York Times and New York Post published within days of the events of September 11, 2001. It is interesting to observe that what are often referred to by defenders of the government's 9-11 storyline as "conspiracy theories" were first articulated by mainstream commentators and experts.What follows are a few snippets of 9-11 related material gleaned from these early accounts.Interestingly, columnist Robert Novak was among the first to use the phrase "inside job" in connection with the events of 9-11. New York Post, Sept. 13, page 59"Beyond Pearl Harbor"by Robert D. NovakNovak's first sentence:Security experts and airline officials agree privately that the simultaneous hijacking of four jetliners was an "inside job," probably indicating complicity beyond malfeasance.He continues further down:In the rage and mourning following Tuesday's disaster, few officials wanted to dwell on how a 10-year hiatus of airline hijackings in this country could be followed by four in one hour. At a minimum, the blame can be put on ill-trained, incompetent personnel performing the screening of passengers. At the worst, security experts fear collusion with terrorists, possibly even extending to the cockpit. This is a subject that the airlines are loathe to discuss.In the last paragraph, Novak reports:Stratfor.com, the private intelligence company, reported Tuesday, "The big winner today, intentionally or not, is the state of Israel."The following article indicates there was time to spare to intercept a plane headed toward the Pentagon.The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2001, p. A5"Controllers Say Flow of Information on Hijacked Planes' Course Was Slow and Uneven"by Matthew L. WaldWASHINGTON, Sept. 12 - The controllers assigned to United Airlines Flight 175 on Tuesday suspected that it had been hijacked as it flew off its assigned route, But they did not learn that another plane had been hijacked and had hit the World Trade Center until a minute or two before Flight 175 struck the center, people involved in the air traffic systems said.In contrast, controllers at the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center had much more warning that something was wrong. Those controllers, who handled American Airlines Flight 77, which dived into the Pentagon, knew about the hijacking of the first plane to crash, even before it hit the World Trade Center, those involved said. That was more than an hour before they watched another hijacked plane, United Flight 93, cross their radar screen on its way to the Pentagon.Advance knowledge made no apparent difference in the response; nobody intercepted the plane."We issue control instructions," one controller said. "Any procedures beyond that point don't lie with us."Those procedures would, in fact, lie with the Air Force....[etc].So-called "debunkers" who make their living or idle away their time hounding critics of the government's 9-11 storyline, often disparage comparisons between the collapses of the World Trade Center towers and controlled demolitions. Here's an interesting citation that addresses the issue only days after 9-11:The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2001, pgs. B1, B8Engineers Say Buildings Near Trade Center Held Up Wellby Eric Lipton and James Glanz...the twin towers had collapsed almost straight downward, a circumstance that the engineers said might have reduced the death toll from the terrorist attack."It's like controlled demolition," said Matthys Levy, a founding partner at Weidlinger Associates, a structural engineering firm in New York. Mr. Levy, the co-author of "Why Buildings Fall Down" (Norton, 1992), said the collapse of the towers was "an uncontrolled demolition project but it acted like a controlled demolition project."The following interesting passage is related to ability of the World Trade Center towers to withstand the impact of an airliner:New York Post, Sept. 13, 2001, p. 18"Shocked experts ask: Who dropped the ball?"by Bob DroginOne unanswered question is whether the attackers read trial transcripts and studies of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. "One of the things we learned was the engineers who built it designed it to withstand the crash from a Boeing 707," said John Parachini, executive director of the Washington office of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. "The crash today was a [757], which is a bigger plane."Here's another passage that some might find of interest regarding the same topic:The New York Times, Sept. 18, 2001, F1, 7"Defending Skyscrapers Against Terror"by Kenneth ChangNo one designs a skyscraper to withstand the direct hit of a fully fueled 767, and construction engineers agree that such an attack would have doomed almost any high-rise. An article describing how easy it is to fly a commercial jet into the World Trade Center towers from distant points:New York Post, Sept. 13, 2001, pgs. 34-35"AIMING' A JET IS 'VERY VERY EASY" (this was a banner headline over two pages)"757s and 767's perfect picks for 'weapons"[taken from Reuters]Taking control of a big airliner and flying it into as precise a target as the World Trade Center is easier than most people would imagine, aviation experts said today. "It's very, very easy to aim the plane," said a senior captain with a U.S. carrier. "It's not very difficult to get the experience you need. In three months, you can get a pilot's license."Here's a few passages regarding the health effects of 9-11 and warnings about the same:The New York Times, Sept. 18, page F2"Dust is a Problem, but the Risk Seems Small"by Andrew C. Revkin"We haven't found anything that is alarming to us," said Mary Mears, a spokeswoman for the Environmental Protection Agency....Overall, though, officials said the only significant health risk remained near the destruction. Workers there should wear masks and protective gear and clean their shoes before heading home, they said.Some officials expressed frustration because many of the workers--most of them hard-bitten construction workers--were ignoring their recommendations.And from the same article:Many officials and experts added that decomposing bodies of victims of the attacks posed no danger.And:Agency officials and independent experts tried to quell rumors about other hazards, including the possibility that the fires might have turned freon from air-conditioners into a poisonous gas called phosgene.The chemical reaction that generates phosgene is possible in extremely hot flames, but not in fires like those still burning, agency officials said. Any gas generated by the initial inferno has dissipated, they said.Back to the The New York Times. "Truthers," as critics of the U.S. government's 9-11 storyline are sometimes referred to, often speak of the total collapse of a third major office tower at the World Trade Center complex, Building 7. But there was another, later, collapse, that of the remainder of the the south tower, in the late afternoon of Sept. 12The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2008, p. A12"As Remnants Collapse, Workers Run For Cover,"by Jennifer Steinhauer:The stalagmite remnants of the fallen World Trade Center towers collapsed even further yesterday, sending rumbling debris and clouds of smoke billowing again through lower Manhattan and prompting rescue workers to flee from the site of the destruction.Further down:The seeming aftershocks began about about (sic) 5 p.m. yesterday, while workers ploddingly cut through twisted steel and heavy forklifts moved rubble across the plaza in front of the fallen towers....First came a rumble, then one firefighter yelled: ":That part will go! We are waiting for it to collapse." Moments later, the remaining floors of the south tower of the World Trade Center fell to the ground in a heap of rubble.Rescue workers and medical personnel bolted up Broadway and Church street, away from flying debris, concrete and smoke as ambulances began to scream from all directions, responding to the new collapse."Everyone started running," said a red Cross worker from Rockland County, who stopped at last at Canal and Broadway. "We were told there was more danger of another building falling. Everyone ran and ran--kept going and didn't look back.""I started running, and I didn't look back," Mr. Schwartz said. "And I'm not going back. I'm going home because it's too dangerous here."And:Frantic calls to the police and Fire Department workers came from all directions, with reports of swaying buildings at John Street and the intersection of Greenwich and liberty Streets.Over at the West Side Highway, hundreds of people, frightened of falling debris, raced south away from what the believed to be a collapsing building. They pushed past police barricades and dodged rescue equipment that were hastily being thrown into reverse. Many searched for a car to dive behind.Firefighters and police officers led the stampede, struggling to race along streets thick with dust, empty water bottles, bits of metal and wire. Firefighters in heavy bunker gear yelled at colleagues, who stood looking toward a rolling pillar of smoke to move. "Get out of here!" screamed one investigator. "Run! Run!"The fashioning of an archetypal 9-11 villain and the storyline of the passenger revolt on Flight 93 were already taking shape the day after the "attacks." The New York Post, reporting on Sept. 13 (about the events of Sept. 12, of course), devotes its entire back page to a portrait of Mohamed Atta. The caption describes Atta's expression as "The face of utter hatred," and tells us that his name "was listed on a passenger manifest for one of the four death planes.""In Phone Calls From Airplane, Passengers Said They Were Trying to Thwart Hijackers" (The New York Times, Sept. 13, A21) by Jodi Wilgoren and Edward Wong identifies at least one source for the saga of Flight 93 that would later form the basis for a movie."I would conclude there was a struggle, and a heroic individual decided they were going to die anyway and, 'Let's bring the plane down here,'" Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., was quoted as saying in the above-cited article, only a day after 9-11.The same article identifies Lyzbeth Glick and Deena Burnett and Alice Hogland as three individuals who said they received phone calls from passengers on Flight 93. Another passenger, Lauren Grandcolas, left a message on an answering machine, while still another placed a call to an emergency switchboard, the article quotes sources as saying.Turning to graphics, we have some of the earliest photos of the damaged Pentagon building in Arlington, Va. appearing in the next day's press. Government sources alleged that a "terrorist" caused the damage by flying a commercial airliner into the building. However, the photos are not what one might expect for a crash site. The absence of aircraft debris is striking. The most plausible explanation is that the Pentagon was not hit by an airliner.The absence of aircraft debris in this photo of the damaged section of the Pentagon taken on Sept. 11, 2008 and used to illustrate a New York Times article the following day, is striking, in light of the government contention that an airliner struck the building. On the bright side, we have Rep, Peter DeFazio, D.-Ore., questioning so-called "anti-terrorist" legislation already in the works by the time the anthrax scare hit the country in October of 2001. "This could be the Gulf of Tonkin resolution for civil liberties, instead of a measure meant to fight terrorism," DeFazio was quoted as saying in an article in the New York Post for October 13, 2001, page 7. One sane voice in a sea of predatory spin and political opportunism.

An exchange on immigration
Peter's New York exchanges views on Alex Jones's www.infowars.com website

GOOGLE BOOKS AND THE END OF HISTORYIs Google Books scanning in the entire written opus of the world in preparation for some cataclysmic event?

SILVERSTEIN SUFFERS SETBACK IN 9-11 SUIT AGAINST AIRLINES

FORMER PAKISTANI INTEL CHIEF: MUMBAI EVENTS ORCHESTRATED TO DRAW INDIA INTO MIDEAST CONFLICTSTrio turn 9-11 issues into a blockbuster for local theater
Peter Duveen Photo
An audience questions Loose Change Final Cut producer Korey Rowe after a screening of the film Nov. 25, 2008 at the Charles R. Wood Theater
in Glens Falls, New York. The film was the largest draw of any ever shown at the theater.

Author calls for formation of truth and reconciliation commission to heal wounds of 9-11

Shays: election fraud implicated in loss of congressional seatFormer SEC chief: Paulson to stay in new administrationRon Paul: "Bailout" bill could trigger a major depression

Return to the gold standard, not a bailout, will cure the nation’s economic ills
LETTER TO CHRISTOPHER SHAYS ON HIS RECENT TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST A matter of Rape-Speak: The New York Times on SerbiaFORMER U.S. SENATOR HART URGES PARTY TO SOFTEN STANCE ON RUSSIARon Paul: physical opposition to government may become necessaryThe Olson and Ivins cases: suicide or murder?Fort Detrick biowar center connected with employee fatalities, 2001 anthrax mailingsWelcome?...hmmmm..well.....can I take a rain check on that?Russian masterstroke protects Iran, American public
SLAM DUNK!
Government and the Associated Press try to pre-empt anthrax inquiry

LETTER TO REPRESENTATIVE KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-N.Y.) REGARDING REP. DENNIS KUCINICH'S ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
AUTHOR CLAIMS HIGH SPEED AND HARD MASONRY SHREDDED COMMERCIAL FLIGHT THAT HIT THE PENTAGONChallenger at book signing questions how human remains could be identified
A member of the audience nonchalantly challenges authors Patrick Creed and Rick Newman with questions about the alleged aircraft impact
at the Pentagon on 9-11 at the Borders Books and Music store in Fairfax, Virginia, in June.
House votes to approve FISA revisionDem leadership leaves its party behind in supporting compromise
HELICOPTERS AMONG US
Helicopters and military aircraft are an increasing presence in rural areas.
LETTER TO THE POST-STAR OF GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK REGARDING RICHARD GAGE'S PRESENTATION ON THE COLLAPSE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER OFFICE TOWERS ON 9-11, AND A RESPONSE FROM A READERLETTER TO REP. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND REGARDING REP. DENNIS KUCINICH'S ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT, AND GILLIBRAND'S RESPONSE Gravel: Cheney and Bush should be tried for war crimesSupports NYC initiative for new 9-11 probeCHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST "F BUSH" PROTESTERNEW YORK CITY BALLOT INITITATIVE COULD BRING 9-11 UNDER RENEWED SCRUTINY
Campaign for 30,000 signatures outlined during rally at St. Mark's Church, the Bowery
NEW INVESTIGATION NEEDED TO PREVENT ANOTHER "9-11", SAYS ARCHITECT
Peter Duveen Photo
Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard Gage urges the public
to push for a new investigation into the collapses of the World Trade Center towers.
CONTRACTOR FORCE IN IRAQ COULD REPLACE REDEPLOYED GI'S: REP. KAPTUR

Don't know if Bin Laden is alive or dead: foreign policy expert

Relief chief in denial over falling dollar's effect on food shortages
U.S. uses world food woes to push trade agenda
Former CIA honcho calls the 9-11 Commission "disastrous"
Pradeep Kaphle in Nepal:
Journalist threatened to be killed
International Media Mission-Nepal Election Monitoring Mission

Ralph Nader supports new 9-11 investigationPradeep Kaphle in NepalMaoists threaten seizure of FM radio stationREP. GILLIBRAND: LOOMING BUSH VETO BLOCKS TROOPS' RETURN FROM IRAQ Peter Duveen photoRep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): "Troops are being pushed to the breaking point."Glens Falls, New YorkLone protester arrested for anti-Bush placardPolice action constitutes challenge to freedom of speechCLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL POST-STAR ARTICLES (2)THE 19TH CENTURY ROOTS OF 9-11Could the 100-year-old ideas of a French political philosopher be the impetus for the Bush Administration's record of cruelty and deceit?Congressman challenges secret House sessionOn illegal searches and seizures 80 years agoIn a blast from the past, G. Herbert Henshaw fills us in (posthumously) on flagrant government violations of the fourth amendment circa 1927 that led to the deaths of hundreds of American citizensDispatch from Pradeep Kaphle in NepalATTACKERS BREAK ARM OF NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTORAlbany NotebookU.S. could take action against Iran as early as April, former weapons inspector warns.Scott Ritter: U.S. "continues to articulate a policy of regime change" for Iran.From Pradeep Kaphle in NepalJOURNALISTS ATTACKED BY GOVERNMENT POLICE FORCEWORLD TRADE CENTER STEEL DEFORMATIONHere are some pictures of a steel beam that was deformed from either stress, high temperature, or both, due to the collapse of one of the World Trade Center towers. Click on the image for a larger image.These exhibits are from a display at the New York State Museum at Albany, New York.Dispatch from Pradeep Kaphle in NepalJOURNALISTS' VEHICLES VANDALIZED, NEWSPAPERS BURNEDLetter to Nancy Pelosi congratulating House Democrats on their defeat of legislation to reauthorize F.I.S.A.PETER'S NEW YORK, February 17, 2008. The House of Representatives defeated the Senate version of a bill that would have reauthorized spying on Americans without proper judicial oversight. The legislation would also have given amnesty to telecommunications companies for cooperating with the Bush administration to illegally spy on Americans. Dispatch from Pradeep Kaphle
NEPALESE JOURNALIST BADLY INJURED IN BLADE ATTACKRon Paul floats "March on Washington"PETER'S NEW YORK, February 12, 2008--In a message to his supporters, presidential contender Ron Paul said today that he would organize a march on Washington, to occur some time before the Republican primary. Paul said it would be a way of getting his message out, and would demonstrate the widespread support he has enjoyed but that has not always been reflected in polls or election results.Paul indicated that he would stay in the presidential race, in spite of the time he insists on devoting to his local congressional race. Paul is being challenged in the Republican primary for his congressional seat. REFLECTIONS ON CURRENT U.S. POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND ITS JUSTIFICATION OR LACK THEREOFNepalese Media Harassed in two incidents (2/4/2008)From Nepal: Bomb hurled targeting FM station (1/31/2008)THE POPULAR MOVEMENT OF RON PAULPhoto ©2008 by Junalyn DuveenRon Paul's grass-roots support in upstate New YorkUseful tips and hints for the householdHOW TO CATCH A MOUSE WITH CHOCOLATE MILKDispatch from Pradeep Kaphle in NepalNepalese Journalists attacked, mistreatedDispatch from Pradeep Kaphle in NepalJOURNALIST ATTACKEDDispatch from Pradeep Kaphle in NepalStatement by the International Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression mission to Nepal Kathmandu, Thursday, 17 January 2008Dispatch from Pradeep Kaphle in NepalALERT: TIBETAN JOURNALIST MURDERED (1/14/2008)More thoughts about 9-11WAYS OF VIEWING THE COLLAPSE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERSELECTION FRAUD: THE BIG ISSUE IN THE 2008 ELECTION CYCLE- VOTE COUNT FRAUD DETECTED IN NEW HAMPSHIREREFLECTIONS ON 9-11AMERICAN PLANNERS CONSIDERED USING RADIOLOGICAL "DIRTY BOMB" DURING WORLD WAR IIJOURNALISM UNDER SIEGE AROUND THE WORLD! CLICK HERE TO READ THE LATEST OF PRADEEP KAPHLE'S DISPATCHES ON THE ABUSE OF JOURNALISTS IN NEPALPANEL INVESTIGATES ABDUCTION OF NEPALESE JOURNALISTby Pradeep Kaphle (courtesy of Peter's New York)NEWS FROM NEPAL: JOURNALIST MURDERED, ALLEGEDLY BY MAOISTS - DISPATCH BY PRADEEP KAPHLE (11/5/2007)RON PAUL AND DENNIS KUCINICH SINGLED OUT FOR THE MEDIA'S COLD SHOULDER. DOES THE MEDIA MANIPULATE ELECTIONS?On 9-11 Truth protest:"I think these demonstrators are all into restroom gay sex."
--Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera attempting to broadcast his show from outside Fox News while demonstrators chant and rant.Geraldo Rivera broadcast disrupted by protestors outside Fox News headquarters. Radio commentator and documentarian Alex Jones arrested and released. Sept. 9, 2007 NEWS-BITS FROM PETER'S NEW YORK - AUGUST 29, 2007· American Elections are controlled by the Media· Maliki's friendly relations with Iran do not bode him well· US antsy over possible acquittal of Philippine pres on corruption chargesBUSH/CHENEY/PELOSI: COMRADES IN ARMSMARCHING ORDERS FROM THE TRIUMVIRATE: FULL STEAM AHEAD08/19/2007“This administration, and its Democratic fellowtravelers such as Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden, andmany more, are part of a ruthless gang that has takenover our government.”SOUNDS RADICAL? VETERAN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER HELEN THOMAS DOESN'T THINK SO.08/19/2007DIRTY BOMB IS A CIA HOAX, AND NEW YORKERS, YOU ARE THE TARGET!ADMINISTRATION'S WAR PLANS IN MIDDLE EAST, CRACKDOWN ON DOMESTIC CRITICS, ARE FULL STEAM AHEAD!08/10/2007NEWS FLASH!AIRLINES SUE CIA AND FBI TO SHOW GOVERNMENT FAILURES WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR 9-11 08/08/07 Official's remarks indicate danger of ASEAN becoming "elitist."08/08/07FORCED LABOR USED TO CONSTRUCTAMERICAN EMBASSY IN IRAQ08/08/07Associated Press uses Fed propaganda to bias future jury in so-called JFK bomb plot caseHelps spread Bush Administration's foreign-policy rehtoric against Iran 08/07/07AS IN THE PHILIPPINES, SO IN AMERICA: ASEAN AND ITS COUNTER-PART, THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION 08/05/2007New letter to Nancy Pelosi, speaker, US House of Representatives (Aug. 2, 2007)EXTRA!SHAYS REVEALS MAJOR U.S. INTEREST IN IRAQ IS OILAPOLOGIZES FOR WAR, BUT WANTS TO KEEP TROOP PRESENCE (Aug. 1. 2007)A SPECIAL REPORT FROM PETER'S NEW YORK:MORE ZOMBIES TO STAFF OUR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS?YES!IF THENATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE ACADEMY LEGISLATION IS PASSED July 26, 2007THE NEWSFOR JULY 28, 2007Pelosi promoted bill to support recommendations of the bogus 9-11 CommissionThere are penalties for bugging out. Are you listening, Korea?Doctor in Australia freed, with apologies, after his detention for a bogus connection with the latest FAKE London terrorist attackNow those 500 children you were talking aboutFOR JULY 27, 2007Obama refuses to sign on to "one upmanship" diplomacy of war-mongering ClintonMore "Chatter"FOR JULY 25, 2007New ID''s issued to legal "illegal" immigrantsThe US-Iran "Talk Down"Is Pakistan next in Bush's fantasmagora of horrors?"We're WINNING!".......... NOT!The Democratic candidate show on CNN"Chatter": What it means on this websiteIMPEACHMENT LIGHT? SOME FAVOR A SLAP ON THE WRIST 07/22/20079-11 a controlled demolition? Read this! 07/18/2007
BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES RESTART THE COLD WAR WITH RUSSIA 07/18/2007
What it means when Bush says "We can win this war" (It's the bases, stupid!") 7/14/2007THE NEW STORYBOARD OF FAKE TERRORISM (again?)7/11/2007
THE NEW STORYBOARD OF FAKE TERRORISM (CONTINUED) 7/8/2007The Storyboard Revisited; A Cornered Administration;, and Al Queda still trumped up as the poster child of international terrorism 7/7/200745 PERCENT OF AMERICANS WANT BUSH IMPEACHED, 54 PERCENT WANT CHENEY IMPEACHED: POLLRESOLUTION TO IMPEACH MR. RICHARD B. CHENEY, VP OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HAS BEEN INTRODUCED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Posted 07/07/2007
Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich Ticket, or election boycott? 07/06/2007
NEW SCENARIO IN THE STORY BOARD OF FAKE GOVERNMENT-CREATED TERRORISM: THE MIDDLE-CLASS TERRORIST. (Jul. 5, 2007)
THE U.S. DEMONIZATION OF LIBYA UNRAVELS: PANEL CALLS FOR NEW TRIAL OF LOCKERBIE DEFENDANT (Posted Jul. 2, 2007)
On the pluses and minuses of GOOGLE BOOKS, Google's project to digitalize the world's libraries (Jul. 1. 2007).
YET ANOTHER PAGE IN THE FANTASY BOOK OF U.S. PRODUCED TERRORISM! Make-believe Indonesian 'Terrorist' supposedly hiding out in the Philippines.

GOVERNMENT MAY HAVE DESIGNED TERRORIST PLOT AGAINST KENNEDY AIRPORT! (June 3, 2007)
Recent letter from Connecticut US Representative Christopher Shays to the publisher of this website, and the editor's response.Recent letters to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Iran, Sudan, and the poisoning of a Russian in Great Britain.More excitement from the Philippines (About coconuts, and, "What the travel agencies do not want you to see!")PETER'S NEW YORK goes to the Philippines for rice harvesting! (April 18, 2007)OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED STATES SENATORS FROM NEW YORK
"There is no justice in hanging Saddam Hussein, Barzan Hussein and Awad Hamad al-Bandar in their prison unless you also hang George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld from the nearest telephone pole, with or without their royal jewels intact."
- Conrado de Quiros, Philippine journalist
My reply to Mr. de Quiros's column, as published in the Philippine Daily InquirerPHILIPPINE HISTORY AND POLITICS: A RECENT DIALOGUE IN THE PRESS AND EMAILS INVOLVING THE FOUNDER OF THIS WEB SITE.Second letter to Nancy PelosiOpen letter to Nancy Pelosi on the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney
GOVT TO SEARCH FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS FOR "NEGATIVE OPINION"
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!LAST FIG LEAF FALLS! BUSH'S ANTI-TERRORISM CAMPAIGNUNMASKED AS HIS LATEST FRAUD! New York Times finds the solution to the Iraq war......NOT!
FEATURE:
A SUMMER AT WORLD TRADE CENTER TWO,
AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE WORLD
© 1999 by Peter DuveenIt is five years since the disaster that took down the two office towers of the World Trade Center and a number of surrounding structures. Such was the fate of buildings that were controversial from the planning stages on, and that were often in financial trouble. For years it was hard to keep them rented out, technological marvels that they were. And the Trade Center towers supplanted numerous other structures that represented an important part of New York City life and history. While under construction, they left a virtual hole in lower Manhattan for many years, thus taking that real estate out of productive activity. All in all, the pluses were easily balanced by the minuses, and the final outcome–that they were taken out in an allegedly terrorist attack–cannot be a surprise. It is part of the their destiny, conceived as they were by the prince of taxpayer ripoffs and international affairs meddlers, David Rockefeller.Despite the fact that my childhood was impacted by these brutish structures having displaced the haunts in the city that I so loved to visit, I ended up working in them from time to time. In the summer of 1999, I did a stint for Fuji Bank, located on the 79th floor of the South Tower where, it so happens, the second aircraft found a place to snuggle its nose before emerging, albeit pulverized, at its exit point on the other side of the building. At that point, only a few remained on the floor, probably those who in the past did not take seriously the fire drills held periodically by Fuji, in which an entire floor of the company would evacuate the building. These stalwarts paid with their lives. The real heroes of 9/11 were those who had the presence of mind to leave the building as quickly as possible, for each of them were able to save one person–themselves.A view from the 79th Floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center © 1999 by Peter DuveenPart of the volumes of paper that were scattered about the New York City area in the aftermath of the disaster were papers that I handled or filed. While working there, I had an amiable boss named Michael. Michael’s department reported on the financial condition of hundreds of companies that Fuji Bank had lent money to, in order to assess the ability to these companies to pay back the loans or take on more debt. A lot of lovely people, both men and women, worked on the floor, and I had fallen into the task that summer of distributing material, preparing correspondence, and other such seemingly menial chores, and by doing so, earning some quick bucks to apply toward completing graduate school..During my stay there, I remember participating in a fire drill. The drills were taken seriously. The World Trade Center had been bombed once, and all of its occupants saw the building, and themselves, as future terrorist targets. As a result, when the day came that we were to practice an evacuation, everyone, as best as I could determine, participated.We gathered in the hallway, and then proceeded to walk down 79 flights and out the building into the fresh air. Later, when I heard that so many people had left the building unscathed on the day of 9/11, it didn’t surprise me, as the training had been so thorough, at least for those in Fuji Bank and on my floor in particular In fact, the 9-11 commission report mentions these drills in a positive light:Some civilians have told us that their evacuation on September 11 was greatly aided by changes and training implemented by the Port Authority in response to the 1993 bombing. But during these drills, civilians were not directed into the stairwells....Ah, but we were directed to the stairwells, because we walked down 79 flights of stairs!!!The 9-11 Commission, in another staff document, targets this question more specifically.In no case to our knowledge, did any tenant in the WTC practice a drill where the employees walked down the stairs and exited the building.Well, they cover themselves by adding “to our knowledge,” but it is interesting that this possibility was important enough to include in the document without actually finding out what had happened.Another view from the South Tower of the World Trade Center © 1999 by Peter DuveenIn a sense, the fact that the building had been virtually evacuated in a short time, saving the overwhelming majority of people below the points where the planes hit each building, was a story that was glossed over in the press. The press, oddly, did not want to emphasize how the “terrorists” had been cheated of inflicting the terrible casualty numbers that was undoubtedly their intention. Yes, it seemed that every effort was made to underscore the death toll, and neglect those who had survived.At the time of the disaster, I was a reporter at an upstate New York newspaper, and I was fixated by the possibility of estimating the casualties by considering the number of people that commonly occupied the buildings during the summer months, and the number of floors that were damaged. Having participated in an evacuation exercise in one of the towers, I was also focused on the story of how successful the evacuation effort was. But the media ignored this, and the small paper that I worked on had no direct coverage of the World Trade Center disaster.Then there was the well-known story of how people were told to go back to work after the first plane struck the North Tower, and how some Fuji employees borded the elevators to return to their desks, and to a certain death only moments later as the second plane struck. This ghastly episode was reported in the New York Times. Whose voice it was over the loud speaker that directed people to return to work is one of the great unanswered questions.Then we know that after the collapse of the towers, then Environmental Protection Agency director Christy Todd Whitman told those working at the disaster site that the air was perfectly safe to breathe. Of course this goes against everything even children know. Anyone who takes such a comment seriously almost deserves whatever happens to them. But then again, sometimes such comments are just enough to disarm a legitimate concern and prevent even concerned people from taking proper precautions.Then again, the fire and police departments rushed personnel to the site, without recognizing the danger to their own men and women.In the end, it occurred to me that there was this unstated desire to have the World Trade Center disaster appear as horrible as possible, even if it meant packing people into it, even if it meant damaging the workers that were trying to help in the search for bodies and the cleanup. Even if it meant covering up the fact that many thousands of people were successfully evacuated from the buildings before they collapsed.To this may be added many other interesting facts relating to the 9/11 disaster, such as:That the list of terrorist suspects suddenly appeared almost immediately after the disaster happened. If the government knew who the suspects were so quickly, doesn’t that beg the question of whether they could have stopped it?That the towers themselves fell, collapsed, virtually disappeared into a pile of rubble, a truly unbelievable and startling event.That Dick Cheney announced that the world would never be the same after 9/11, a script he has repeated up to the present day. Who is he to tell us that the world will never be the same? How does he know the future, unless he intended to use this event as a pretext to mold it to conform to some unstated policy goals?One could go on, but there are sites already devoted to this type of analysis, and I would direct the reader to these sites and encourage the reader to investigate them. POSTED 9/11/2006
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