"Then, later," Rostchek wrote, "the second building suddenly
crumbles into dust, in a smooth wave running from the top of
the building (above the burned part) down through all the
stories at an equal speed. The debris falls primarily inward.
The tower does not break off intact and collapse into other
buildings.Š The crumbling comes from the top (above the
damage). It moves at a uniform rate. All of the structural
members are destroyed in a smooth pattern, so there is no
remaining skeleton. The damage is uniform, symmetric, and
total.
"In summary, it looks exactly like a demolition - because
that's what it is."
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http://www.sfcall.com/issues%202002/11.01.02/paul_11_01_02.htm
This installment concludes the Call's serialization of Don
Paul's "'9/11'": Facing Our Fascist State. The whole book -
including the remainder of this chapter and three more (Oil,
Opium, Coca, Banks, Stocks & Power; Lords of a Feudal "New
World Order"; and The Next Revolution), along with six columns
that Don wrote for the San Francisco Bay View in the fall of
2001, will be published by Irresistible/Revolutionary on
November 25, 2002.
Civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama has written about
"'9/11'":
After reading a few pages of Don Paul's manuscript, I knew
that I would be up all night with it. I'd never read anything
so astounding! What it dared to present thrilled and amazed
me, but I also feared for the author's life.
This book is an incredibly courageous, revealing
blockbuster, a magnificent work of investigative journalism.
It goes deeply into the record of our so-called leaders'
uses or misuses of power and yet it also offers hope for us
from collective action. This book is a treasure and it would
make a wonderful gift!
For more information, email Don Paul at •••@••.•••
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"'9/11'"
Facing Our Fascist State
By Don Paul
The Buildings and Their Victims, Part 2
A Good Investment Š A Powerful Proof Statement
We want to show in September 2002 just how far we've comeŠ.
We want to have a powerful proof statement in September 2002.
Anne Tatlock, Chief Executive Officer, Fiduciary Trust, San
Francisco Business Times, 2/1/02
Larry Silverstein made a sweet deal for himself prior to the
fall of the Twin Towers and WTC 7.
Of the promised $3.2 billion for the 99-year lease that was
estimated to be worth $8 billion, Larry Silverstein committed
only $15 million of his Properties' money - that is, less than
half of .01 % of the total financing.
He and his partners (mall-builder Westfield America and a
group headed by Lloyd Goldman) immediately took out insurance
polices worth more than $3.2 billion for their dream-come-true
new holding.
On November 5, 2001 the Real Estate Journal reported on the
progress that Larry Silverstein, Lloyd Goldman, and their
partners had made toward rebuilding on the Twin Towers' site.
The REJ article stated that Silverstein had the support of New
York senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton (Larry
Silverstein had hosted parties for both politicians on his
yacht the Silver Shalis) as well as Senate Majority Leader Tom
Daschle, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott ,and House Speaker
Dennis Hastert. REJ reported that the mogul had hired Brad
Card, brother of White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, to
"work" politicians in New York. He was lobbying for caps on
liability from the WTC carnage and pursuing lawsuits against
insurers. He talked of building four 50-story buildings and a
memorial on the site.
The 11/5/01 REJ article concluded: "It also may end up being a
good investment. In the end, Mr. Silverstein may wind up
controlling 11 million square feet of attractive, lower-rise
modem space instead of 11 million square feet of 30-year-old
space in New York's tallest and most conspicuous buildings.
"'It should prove to justify the time, energy and the psychic
impact of what we've been through,' Mr. Silverstein says."
In February 2002 Silverstein Properties won $861 million from
Industrial Risk Insurers to rebuild on the site of WTC
Building 7.
Regarding the Twin Towers, Larry Silverstein and his partners
are locked in lawsuits with Swiss Reinsurance, the Towers'
main insurer, over whether the 9/11 attacks were one
"occurrence" or two. The lease-holders would receive $3.55
billion as a settlement if the attacks are considered one
occurrence. They would receive $7.1 billion - that is, more
than twice their investment, an investment that was itself
only 20% paid for (and in the case of Silverstein Properties
less than half of .01 % paid for) if the attacks are
determined to be two occurrences.
Whatever the result of the dispute with Swiss Reinsurance,
Silverstein Properties will receive billions in insurance
moneys and possibly more in state and federal funds to rebuild
on the WTC site.
At the time of their collapse the Twin Towers and WTC 7 needed
extensive work to stay competitive as office-space in
Manhattan. As early as 1993 - the year of the basement-garage
bombing by '"Muslim terrorists"' that the FBI had anticipated
from at least 1985 onward - the WTC "was already passing its
prime as office space, overtaken by a generation of more
recent, cybernetic ally 'smart' buildings with higher ceilings
and greater built-in electrical capacity," according to Eric
Darton's Divided We Stand.
Darton continues: "To maintain the trade center as class-A
office space commanding top rents, the PA" (the Port
Authority, then the WTC's owner) "would have had to spend $800
million rebuilding the electrical, electronic communications,
and cooling systems."
The new Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, created by
Governor George Pataki in November 2001, is to decide on uses
of the Twin Towers' site. The Lower Manhattan Development
Corporation is chaired by John Whitehead, he the former Chief
Executive Officer of the Goldman Sachs investment-banking firm
and former Deputy Secretary of State in the George Herbert
Walker Bush Administration and he another close associate of
the Rockefeller family's.
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Now I feel obliged to look at who died and who did not in the
World Trade Center attacks last September 11.
2,952 people is the current total of dead from there on that
day (we'll never know how many undocumented workers remain
uncounted beyond the official dead). 129 were passengers or
crew aboard the airliners. 479 were public-service personnel
such as firefighters and New York City Police. The remaining
2,344 were office-workers.
We can be thankful that the current total is times less than
the numbers that were broadcast on the day of "'9/11'" and in
the several weeks afterward.
Only one Chief Executive Office is among the total. David
Alger of Fred Alger Management headed a firm with offices on
the North Tower's 93rd floor, a firm that lost 34 others on
9/11.
The largest employer of workers in the Twin Towers was Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter.
The Wall Street Journal of 9/12/01 quoted Phil Purcell,
Chairman and CEO of MSDW, a brokerage and investment-banking
firm: '"Some 3,500 people working for Morgan Stanley's
individual-investor businesses were based in the World Trade
Center complex, and we are working diligently with local
authorities to determine the facts regarding their safety."'
We can be thankful that only ten Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
employees were killed last September 11.
We can also be thankful that only one Israeli died in the
World Trade Center on that day.
Early reports led to fears that dozens or even hundreds of
Israelis might have died on "'9/11.'"
On September 12, 2001 the Jerusalem Post wrote that according
to Israel's Foreign Ministry and its Consular offices about
4,000 Israelis had been employed in the World Trade Center
Towers. Four days later, September 16, addressing Congress,
President George W. Bush linked Israel's tragedy to the United
States' by saying that 130 Israelis had died in the attacks on
the WTC.
On September 22, 2001, however, the New York Times ran a piece
that corrected President GWB. "There were, in fact," the Times
wrote about fatalities from 9/11, "only three Israelis who had
been confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had
been visiting the towers on business and who was identified
and buried."
That is, there was only one death out of one nationality's
initial, supposed pool of 4,000 in the Towers.
That's a statistical anomaly of huge proportions. Two other
facts help to explain this anomaly.
In August of 2001 Israel's intelligence service, the Mossad,
repeatedly warned the United States that attacks such as those
of "'9/11'" were imminent. The Mossad sent agents to the CIA
in Washington with this alarm.
Further, on the morning of 9/11 an Israel-based
instant-messaging company, Odigo, e-mailed employees in its
South Tower offices that they should not go to work because
their building was likely to be attacked.
The investment-banking firm of Goldman Sachs may also have
warned its WTC workers. The 9/14/01 edition of CounterPunch
reported: "CounterPunch has also learned that an internal memo
was sent around Goldman Sachs in Tokyo on September 10
advising all employees of a possible terrorist attack. It
recommended all employees to avoid any American government
buildings."
Odigo's message and the reported Goldman Sachs' warning
somehow weren't conveyed to the tens of thousands who did come
to work at the World Trade Center last September 11. Nor were
those thousands warned by U. S. Government Agencies and
officials.
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Fiduciary Trust is yet another investment-banking firm. Like
J.P. Morgan and Lazard Freres before it, Fiduciary Trust wants
to serve big money or an exclusive elite. It's "for
institutions and wealthy clients." Five months prior to
9/11/01, Fiduciary Trust was bought by Franklin Resources of
San Mateo, California for $825 million.
Fiduciary Trust employed 645 people on five floors on or above
the 90th in the WTC's South Tower. 87 of those employees were
killed due to the "'9/11'" destruction.
Fiduciary Trust's Chairman and CEO, Anne Tatlock, 62, was gone
from her headquarters on "'9/11.'"
The February 1, 2002 San Francisco Business Times reported:
"On the morning of Sept. 11, Tatlock herself had just arrived
with a small group of business leaders at Offutt Air Force
Base in Omaha for a charity event hosted by Warren Buffett.
She then heard the news of the first plane hitting the World
Trade Center's north tower."
H'mm! Or: H'mm?
We should pause here to note other, curious, and coincidental
facts.
Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska is home to the United
States' Strategic Air Command Center.
The SACC is a two-level, 14,000 square-foot underground
structure that links directly with the National Military
Command Center in the Pentagon.
The SAAC may be imagined as a vaster, 21st-century model of
the bunker in which Peter Seller's Dr. Strangelove wanted to
wage nuclear war in Stanley Kubrick's 1963 movie.
The press release for the SAAC states: "Within seconds, vital
operational data can be displayed on the large wall display
screens or individual computer monitorsŠ. The Senior
Controller also has a direct line to the National Military
Command Center in Washington, D.C., and to the other major
command headquarters. This system, called the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Alerting Network, allows CINCSTRAT (the Commander in
Chief of the Strategic Air Command) prompt contact with the
President, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and other unified commandersŠ. Through
satellites and radio networks (VLF, LF, UHF, and HF), the
Command Center can communicate with aircraft in flight over
any part of the world. A principal purpose of these networks
is to pass National Command Authority orders to the alert
forcesŠ. Although CINCSTRAT can launch aircraft for survival,
only the President can order nuclear strikes."
From the above paragraph, you may gather that the SAAC should
have helped to track and intercept the four off-course
airliners last September 11.
You may know, too, that Warren Buffet is one of the world's
leading financiers. His fortune of more than $50 billion makes
him widely listed as one of the five richest men in the U. S.
H'mm! Or: H'mm?
You also may now be exclaiming at certain coincidences. How
was it that "a small group of business leaders" were flown to
Nebraska and this particular Air Force Base - the AFB that's
the "nerve-center" of U.S. air defenses - and flown there for
a "charity event" hosted by Warren Buffet - very early on the
morning of 9/11/01?
Who other than Anne Tatlock were among the "small group of
business leaders" is yet another question.
And these questions are but a few among the deeper details of
"'9/11'" that have yet to be answered.
President George W. Bush went to Offutt AFB later in the
9/11/01 day. President GWB left Barksdale AFB in Shreveport,
Louisiana at 1:48 Central Daylight Time, arriving at Offutt
AFB in the next hour.
From there he consulted by phone with his National Security
Council.
In March of 2002 financial speculator Warren Buffett predicted
that the use of nuclear weapons by terrorists was
'"inevitable."'
In August of 2002 we in the U.S. have become familiar with the
charges by Strangelove-like Cabinet officers such as Dick
Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld that Saddam Hussein of Iraq wants
to wield nuclear weapons against us.
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Fiduciary Trust appears to have also profited from the
destruction on"'9/11.'"
The 2/1/02 San Francisco Business Times reported: "Through the
first two weeks after the attacks, Franklin had paid out
$16.46 million in benefits payments to victims' families," but
the firm could "write off $19.8 million in lease, property,
and equipment leases," and that it could also "recover an
estimated $27.2 million from insurance."
The difference between $47 million and $16.46 million is about
$30 million. Fiduciary Trust's payments to victims' families'
average about $200,000 per family.
Further, Fiduciary Trust's "integration" with Franklin
Resources has been enhanced after September 11, the 2/1/02 San
Francisco Business Times reported.
"With most of Fiduciary's physical assets destroyed, the
firm's back-office integration with Franklin - an ever-risky
blending of culture and technology - also was bumped up.
"We are now a year or more ahead on integration plans,"
Tatlock said.
Plus, Franklin and Fiduciary launched FTI Institutional, its
global sales effort aimed at institutional investors.
Given the overarching tragedy, however, Franklin and Fiduciary
officials, as well as Wall Street analysts, resist calling the
changes a silver lining.
"We want to show in September 2002 just how far we've come,"
Tatlock said. "We want to have a powerful proof statement in
September 2002."
First Looks ... Last Looks
Let's look back at the WTC Buildings' collapse.
On September 14 a relatively obscure newspaper, the
Albuquerque Journal, ran a story that was headed "'Explosives
Planted In Towers,' New Mexico Tech Expert Says."
Van Romero, Vice President for Research at the New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology, told the Albuquerque
Journal on 9/14/02: "'My opinion is, based on the videotapes,
that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were
some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the
towers to collapse.'"
Van Romero is "a former director of the Energetic Materials
Research and Testing Center at Tech, which studies explosive
materials and the effects of explosions on buildings, aircraft
and other structures," the newspaper in New Mexico wrote.
"Romero said the collapse of the structures resembled those of
controlled implosions used to demolish old structures... .
"'It could have been a relatively small amount of explosives
placed in strategic points,' Romero said. The explosives
likely would have been put in more than two points in each of
the towers, he said.
"The detonation of bombs within the towers is consistent with
a common terrorist strategy, Romero said.
"'One of the things terrorist events are noted for is a
diversionary attack and secondary device,' Romero said.
"Romero said that if his scenario is correct, the diversionary
attack would have been the collision of the planes into the
towers."
On the afternoon of September 11 another engineer, David
Rostchek, reviewed TV coverage of that morning's catastrophe
in lower Manhattan. He posted his observations on the
Internet.
David Rostchek remarked on how smoke from the fires in the
North and then the South Tower turned from white to black, a
change that showed the fires were cooling due to lack of
oxygen, a change we've also noted.
"Then, later," Rostchek wrote, "the second building suddenly
crumbles into dust, in a smooth wave running from the top of
the building (above the burned part) down through all the
stories at an equal speed. The debris falls primarily inward.
The tower does not break off intact and collapse into other
buildings.Š The crumbling comes from the top (above the
damage). It moves at a uniform rate. All of the structural
members are destroyed in a smooth pattern, so there is no
remaining skeleton. The damage is uniform, symmetric, and
total.
"In summary, it looks exactly like a demolition - because
that's what it is."
Last September, too, on the ABC News Website for 9/11 a
bystander on the ground below the Towers described what she
saw and heard: "'Lots of smoke and then the next thing I heard
was an explosion in the building from the top, the south
building just crumbled, just completely went down, I saw it,'
said witness Joan Fleischer."
In July of 2002 the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS) -
sponsored by many of the financial institutions and oil
companies that had or have offices in the World Trade Center -
presented a documentary titled "Why the Towers Fell."
Over the course of this documentary's hour several professors
and engineers elaborated on the depiction/explanation that the
767s' impact and the subsequent fire had caused the Towers'
beams to deform, snap loose, and collapse.
Not once, however, was any substance in either Tower
identified as able to burn hot enough to deform steel. One of
the North Tower's two above-the-impact-zone survivors, Brian
Clark, in fact, said that he'd seen nothing like "an inferno"
as he passed downstairs through the impact zone.
In August of 2002 the New York Times corroborated this
eyewitness with the piece that I've already quoted - that
about the two New York City firemen, Battalion Chief Orio J.
Palmer and Fire Marshal Ronald P. Bucca, who reached the 78th
floor, the Sky Lobby, of the South Tower, about 45 minutes
after United Airlines 175's impact.
Here's more of what the New York Times wrote: "Once they got
there, they had a coherent plan for putting out the fires they
could see and helping victims who survivedŠ. At that point,
the building would be standing for just a few more minutes, as
the fire was weakening the structure on the floors above him.
Even so, Chief Palmer could see only two pockets of fire, and
called for a pair of engine companies to fight them."
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In 1971 Don Paul (No. 36 in the picture to the left) was the
youngest winner of a Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at
Stanford University, after Ken Kesey, Tillie Olsen and Robert
Stone and before Ray Carver, Alice Hoffman and Bill
Kitteredge.
Between 1973 and 1980 he was a logger or roughneck in
northwest Washington, southeast Alaska, Louisiana and Texas.
He held the World Road Best for running 50 kilometers between
1982-94 and qualified for the U.S. Men's Olympic Marathon
Trial in 1980 and 1988.
In 1988 he began to put poems to music by his brother Kenton.
He's subsequently led or produced more than 20 recordings,
including the Rebel Poets compilations and albums led by Glenn
Spearman, Lisle Ellis, India Cooke, Paul Plimley, Ustad
Salamat Ali Khan and Ben Goldberg.
Most recently he's released two CDs, 5 Songs For The Bush
Reich (available at wireonfire.com ) and Love Is The Main
Flame, and the books of poems
Pulsing and Flares.
He works with the organizations Housing Is a Human Right and From the Ground Up
in San Francisco.
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