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On September 11, 2001, astronaut Frank Culbertson saw the destruction of New York City’s Twin Towers from the International Space Station. He wrote: “It’s horrible to see smoke pouring from wounds in your own country from such a fantastic vantage point. The dichotomy of being on a spacecraft dedicated to improving life on the earth and watching life being destroyed by such wilful, terrible acts is jolting to the psyche, no matter who you are.”
Posted: 11th, September 2017 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Truthers v 9/11: ‘Architects & engineers for 9/11 Truth’ erected this massive billboard by New York Times offices:
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HUNTER S Thompson wrote for ESPN on Sept. 12, 2001:
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.
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Posted: 12th, September 2014 | In: Celebrities | Comment
AMBER Langford and Annie Collinge dressed as the burning Twin Towers for a Halloween costume contest in Chester.
They won the £150 star prize at Rosies nightclub.
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NOAM Chomsky had been speaking at the University of Florida when he invited questions. A 9/11 truth had a question. He talks of a consensus and:
“You’ve mentioned quite a few contradictions from the media and their presentations on things, and I think the most notorious case of this is with September 11, 2001. You wanted to see a consensus of engineers and specialists that understand the actual structures of these buildings and their possible collapse, and there is such a group. It’s called Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth…
“This consensus shows that Building 7, the third building that fell on 9/11, fell in freefall speed as the [National Institute of Standard and Technology] report acknowledges. Are you ready to come forward and jump on board with 9/11?”
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IN Massachusetts, a Concord-Carlisle official backs 9/11 Muslim poem reading. “A Concord-Carlisle School Committee member is defending a high school principal who read a Muslim poem on Wednesday’s 9/11 anniversary — but failed to line up anyone to pledge of allegiance that morning.”
The poem is called My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears by Syrian poet Mohja Kahf:
My grandmother puts her feet in the sink
of the bathroom at Sears
to wash them in the ritual washing for prayer,
wudu,
because she has to pray in the store or miss
the mandatory prayer time for Muslims
She does it with great poise, balancing
herself with one plump matronly arm
against the automated hot-air hand dryer,
after having removed her support knee-highs
and laid them aside, folded in thirds,
and given me her purse and her packages to hold
so she can accomplish this august ritual
and get back to the ritual of shopping for housewares
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TWELVE years ago the media was full of dark images of the attack on New York that became known as 9/11. Thousands were murdered. So. How do we mark the event? Well, with bad taste:
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
ON this 12th anniversary of 9/11, Esquire magazine reproduced the essay The Falling Man. It’s a picture of man falling to his death from the World Trade Center.
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
Dwelling on one photograph of a man hurtling towards his demise is unpleasant. If you find him, then what – get his loved ones to sign the photo and explain how they feel seeing it?
But then it gets worse. Esquire uses the picture to advertise a feature entitled: “Making Your Morning Commute Mote Stylish”.
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”Basically, she could only grunt. Ambulance received a call, but due to the muffled speech … they were unsure whether it was a medical event or whether someone had been gagged.”
What had happened to her?
“She got up in the middle of the night, in the dark, and grabbed what she thought was the tube of medication. It was an extremely frightening event for her because her breathing was impeded. I’ve heard of a few other things super-glued, but never lips. You wouldn’t have wanted to have had a blocked nose.”
Posted: 29th, June 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
STONERS are idiots aren’t they? Hur-hurring away at anything, holed-up with multipacks of crisps and saying stupid things like ‘I really understand bass’.
Well, one such berk from Florida has been arrested for misusing the 911 emergency service line, after attempting to order junk food and drugs.
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TWEET pairing shines a harsh light on the masterminds who can see through all the media, the deaths, the burials, the facts and notice the real reasons for 9/11 and The Sandy Hook massacre:
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ASK not what you can do for 9/11 but what 9/11 can do for you:
New Zealand: ASH – Action on Smoking and Health
OSTEOARTHRITIS
2010: Courrier International – “Learn to anticipate!”
WWF: More on how it happened here.
Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
IDIOT of the day is Justin Kryzanowski of Scranton, Pennsylvania. While meeting his drugs dealer in a car, Kryzanowski managed to dial 911. His mobile phone was in his trousers. Somehow he managed to call the police, who recorded the deal. The phone number was traced to Kryzanowski’s home. Police popped over. They found loads of drugs and devices for taking them. They also found an intoxicated Kryzanowski.
Kryzanowski was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and prohibited offensive weapons.
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Posted: 9th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
1 WORLD TRADE CENTER – aka 1 WTC, aka “Freedom Tower” – is set to surpass the height of the Empire State Building today, making it the tallest building in New York City.
The 1 WTC skyscraper is being built in lower Manhattan to replace the Twin Towers that were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. It will offer stunning views of the city, including the Empire State in midtown which, excluding its antenna, has a total height of 1,250 feet.
Tonight, the tower will be lit in blue-and-white colours in celebration of its new height and perhaps in an attempt by its owners to taunt their midtown rivals. The New York Post reports that the 1 World Trade Center owners are “waging an all-out business war against its Midtown cousin”. They’re promoting the building’s observation decks and are trying to attract the broadcasters that currently beam their signals off of the Empire State. When finished, 1 WTC will likely be declared the tallest building the United States. It is expected to rise to 1,776 feet.
Construction on the Empire State was completed on 11 April 1931. It took just one year and 45 days to build. It remained the world’s tallest skyscraper for more than 40 years, until the Twin Towers were constructed in 1972. By contrast, construction on 1 World Trade Center was delayed from 2004 to 2006 and is only expected to open for business in 2013.
But at least the ambitious height of the Big Apple’s newest skyscraper and the rivalry between 1WTC and the Empire State Building shows some of that old New York spirit.
“MAD MEN” mania is setting in in the States as the fifth season of the hit series kicks off this Sunday. As befits a television drama depicting the dawning of the ad industry, the advertising campaign for the show has caused a great stir.
In New York City, where the show is set, there have been complaints that one of the posters is insensitive to victims of the 9/11 attacks. The poster shows a drawing of a besuited man tumbling from the sky. Critics say it is uncomfortably reminiscent of the harrowing photograph known as “Falling Man”. Captured by Richard Drew, that photo showed a man falling head first out of the Twin Towers on 9/11.
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Posted: 22nd, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
HEY! Marky Mark, aka, Mark Wahlberg, aka Really You Should Never Ever Speak Unless Scripted! How are you? Thing is, Wahlberg is currently trying to take all the feet in the world out of his mouth at the moment because he’s gone and said something off-centre about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and, as well you can imagine, no-one should ever do that because Americans are still really, really jumpy about all that.
He said in a rag:
“If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.'”
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Posted: 19th, January 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
A DOUBLE-whammy of stupidity from Rabbi Daniel Lapin, in conversation with Pat Robertson:
The Torah, in ancient Jewish wisdom the Bible, actually explains something which we have lived through which is one of the great mysteries: the plot of 9/11… Not only do we find references in Zachariah to four mysterious crafts that come through between two mountains made of metal, in biblical terminology mountains can be natural mountains or also anything tall that grows up like two buildings, also the idea that the plot was hatched not in Mecca or Medina or Riyadh or anywhere else in Saudi Arabia, that plot was hatched in Hamburg, Germany…
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A TRUTHER confesses. Language is slightly NSFW:
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Posted: 4th, October 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (4)
WHAT were the 9/11 remembrance services about? Answer: people. In one corner of Grosvenor Square, London, the priapic Muslims Against Crusades burned the US flag, wailed and gnashed teeth during a minute’s silence triggered as a mark of respect to the dead. These goons served to show us what the enemy is: stupidity, ignorance, aggression, racism, bigotry, arrogance and vanity. Others – millions and millions and millions of others – realised that we could not forget that day. You might shed a tear. All human life is out there. And some of it shames us all…
Madhu Narula, of Kings Park, N.Y., reacts after hearing the name of her daughter, Manika Narula, pictured on shirt below, as the names of the victims of 9/11 are read during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks at the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
Posted: 11th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
THE twin buildings of the World Trade Centre in New York collapsed after hijacked passenger jet liners had ripped into each and smoke rose from crash sites of two other jets. One in a field and another at the heart of America’s military might.
Much which was decent and honourable died in those few minutes
The conspiracy theorists still have the daily rant:
Where was the proof there was actually ever a plane which hit the Pentagon, the world’s principal madhouse where military persons daily played out War Game scenarios of mass destruction ?
In a decade of watching the available footage has anyone yet to see evidence of an aircraft hitting the building? It must have done any alternative is not acceptable…but look at the USA’s track record!
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SEPTEMBER 11 2001:
SIX IN A SERIES OF TWELVE PICTURES---Evacuees take an escalator down in Tower One Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 during the attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York. These pictures were shot by John Labriola who had an office on the 71st floor of the building. He escaped with no injuries. (AP Photo/John Labriola)
Posted: 11th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
TEN years ago, thousands of people died when militant Islamists who hate the West attacked the USA in four hijacked passenger jets. That attack became known as 9/11. And how do the tabloids mark the occasion?
“TULISA [Contostavlos]AIR RAGE – X Factor judge accused of foul rant and BA staff” – Sunday Mirror
“HORROR ON BUDGET JET – Sheer terror on RyanAir as fumes in cabin force two emergency landings” – Sunday Express
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Posted: 11th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (7)
DID Willie Gardner inspire the or even mastermind the attack on New York’s World Trade Centre on September 11 2001? Did he draw the blueprints?
Sadly, we will never know. Mr Gardner died last year. He was 78. All we can do is look at the chalk drawing he made of a a boyish Osama bin Laden in front of the twin Towers.
The Daily Mail describes it thus:
His artwork shows the falling locks of the child’s hair spiralling downwards, which looks like fire and smoke billowing into the sky from one of the towers.
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Posted: 10th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment