Backers hail 9/11 theorist's speech, yet . . .

Professor Steven E. Jones, a physicist whose background includes work on nuclear fusion, Jones was put on leave by Brigham Young University in September after publishing a paper saying that the twin towers couldn't have collapsed solely as a result of the planes that rammed the upper floors on Sept. 11. The paper theorizes that explosives planted inside the building must have been involved and that the buildings' collapse was essentially a controlled demolition.

Speaking in Denver recently reported in DenverPost.com - Backers hail 9/11 theorist's speech: "A national poll by the Scripps Survey Center at Ohio University conducted in the summer found that more than a third of people questioned believed the government either planned the attacks or could have stopped them but didn't.

That has worried government officials enough that the State Department recently published a report titled 'The Top Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theories,' an effort to debunk many of them. Separately, the National Institute of Standards and Technology - the government arm that investigated why the towers collapsed - published a seven-page document in September that attempted to answer some of the skeptics.

'We've watched it gain momentum,' said Brent Blanchard, director of field operations for New Jersey-based Protec Documentation Services, which studies and monitors building demolitions.

'It's really been fascinating in a way,' he said. 'We've been able to watch the birth of the completely out-of-control allegations that could not be true for so many reasons.'

Among the most basic of those, Blanchard said, is that there's a consensus that the collapse of the towers began at or near the point where the planes entered the buildings, rather than at the base, where traditional demolition occurs. That means that the explosives would have had to survive the initial crash and superheated fires until they were detonated - for nearly an hour in the case of one tower, 102 minutes in the case of the other.

'That's absolutely impossible,' Blanchard said.

Beyond that, he said, planting the explosives in secret would have been an incredible logistical undertaking.

But to the growing Sept. 11 conspiracy movement, Jones provides what even advocates concede they had been lacking: a scientific approach backed up with meticulous data analysis and carefully devised experimental testing."

Methodologies compared

Scientific Method versus Political Method: The US administration and its interpretation of the events of 9/11. Quotes a senior official"'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Israeli consul wants story to be heard

The Southern Illinoisan's Caleb Hale reports: Israeli consul wants story to be heard:

"The American people, through terrorism, have come to recognize a deep hatred for their own way of life, not unlike the hatred the Jews in Israel and across the world have experienced for more than a century, said Midwest Israeli Consul General Barukh Binah Wednesday during a discussion with The Southern Illinoisan.

'America has become a target not for what it does, but for what it is,' Binah said, speaking about the United States' current war on terror."

Is the statement in red true? I don't think so.

Hale reports

Binah said he can understand why some have trouble accepting that fanatical groups bring havoc to a nation simply because of who they are, but as the last century for the Jews indicates, it does happen.

"Simply the very idea of the United States in the eyes of zealots is an abomination," [Binah] said. "So just to say some of our opponents will disappear if we don't support Israel, that is not the case."
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Binah said Israel, despite its troubles, is still a very strong country and one that is committed to peace. Hence, it is still a strong ally for America and the rest of the world, especially since many areas of the globe seem to now be experiencing the kind of intense hatred that has long been perpetrated against Jews.

Got that? Well, get this.

For What It's Worth

This is the first time posting a video from Google Video to this blog. Puts images of the demolition of the World Trade Center buildings, "911 Truth" demonstrators and uniformed men with guns set to the music of the Buffalo Springfield song "For What it is Worth".

Analyzing South Park's 9/11 Show

Someone named Bill Douglas Analyzes South Park's 9/11 Show:

"Last night I watched South Park in AMAZEMENT, as their character for the 9/11 truth movement wore a black shirt with '911TRUTH.ORG' in huge white letters that ALWAYS seemed to be facing the viewers. It got better, Cartman and his buddy actually got to the White House where Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al, confessed to the crimes of 9/11.

Then things descended, and it was all a hoax, and Bush et al said that actually they were the ones who created the 9/11 truth movement, to fool Americans into believing they controlled everything, and that all those tens of millions believing 9/11 was an inside job were fools manipulated by the smart Bush people.

So many possibilities emerge from this. "

Outside job

Tomorrow a lot of people are demonstrating in the spirit of impeaching President Bush, but I don't know if there are sufficient grounds. He didn't lie about having a blow job.

Not sure why this day was selected.

Some cities aren't issuing permits, citing "national security."

Here in Carbondale, Illinois, protest means standing on a street corner or w marching to the Interfaith Center or Federal Building. . . . But those days are gone, since the new security issues have passed. Everybody's suspicious and fearful.