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9-11
Unforgotten, Part Eight: Inferno
 This
is the eighth installment in a planned set of ten
Raging Pencils comics, each addressing facets of
9-11
I
deem sorely underevaluated.
I hope you're all enjoying the series but please take
a moment to visit Mike's Video Vault (below) and listen
as engineer and bright spark Jon Cole explains how
you'd use thermite to destroy a building.
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Links:
An
abstract on active thermitic materials.
Quotes about molten metal.
More quotes about molten metal.
The
government gets rid of the evidence.
Watch the molten steel flow.
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We're on the glide path to the tenth
anniversary of 9/11, and the tenth and final installment
of this series is in view, barreling straight towards
us like a hijacked 757. But first, tomorrow's all-too-brief
investigation of the mysterious death of WTC 7. After
that, at least two weeks of golf, cat, and dick jokes.
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One of the best "where-we've-been,
where-are-we-now, and where-are-we-going" stories
is an absolute dope-slap of an editorial by writer
Tom
Englehardt called "Tear
Down the Freedom Tower". You may not agree
with him but I think he makes a valid point about
the American public's
juvenile, overblown
opinion of itself.
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One Last Thing: I cannot express how
difficult it is to encapsulate the immense SNAFU that
was 9-11 into ten mere pages of comics. To say the
very least, I have had to leave out a TON of corroborating
information just so eyes wouldn't glaze over at daunting
sight of 50 column inches of charts, diagrams, lurid
photos, and occasional bawdy limericks. If this series
has piqued your curiosity then by all means follow
the provided links and investigate the details on your
own.
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Addendum 9/21/2011: Researchers in Norway today postulated
that the Towers fell due to the resultant explosions
of liquid aluminum, from the melted airliners, meeting
water, ala the building sprinklers. I read this news
on Raw
Story and was heartened by the many comments that
followed. Each and every person not only ridiculed
this ludicrous idea but all shared the same opinion
of events that day as I. There's hope yet.
=Lefty=
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Republican Job Creation Update
 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating
jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #79 in a list of Republican
job creation activities
since they gained control of the House in 2011.
None, sad to
say,
have
yet to result in one, single new job.
(79) 9-9-2011: Rick Perry wants to kill Social Security.
He also wants to eliminate the FDA, the FCC, the U.S.
Post Office and just about every other federal employee
except soldiers, the Supreme Court and himself. It's kind of a jobs plan
if you long for the 12th century.
NOTE: As a result of an unexpected wave of enthusiasm
for the Republican
Job Creation update now has its
own web site. It will remain on the RP but a web site
of its own will raise its visibility on the 'net as
we progress towards the critical 2012 elections. And
I thank you for your support.
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Mike's Video Vault
Jon Cole explains how the
thermite was used.
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There's little doubt that thermite, capable of burning at temperatures
in excess of 2500 degrees, was certainly used on 9-11.
If you watch the 9-11 videos you can clearly see streams of molten
metal exiting the building at very high levels. This is thermite at
work.As the responders frantically excavated the debris they found
molten metal all the way down to the basement.
As of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten
steel was still running. - Leslie Robertson, structural engineer of
the WTC.
The building debris was so hot, over 1500 degrees, it had to be sprayed
with water for weeks.
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You couldn't even begin to imagine how much water was pumped in there.
It was like you were creating a giant lake. - Tom Manley, Uniformed
Firefighters Association
When independent researchers studied the dust from the disaster they
found clear signs of weapons grade nano-thermite.
Headline, April 4, 2009: Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
There was no forensic study done of the disaster site, as required
by law. Instead, the evidence, almost all of the structural steel,
was quickly shipped to China as scrap.
" Official" science
programs ridiculed the notion that thermite could melt steel beams.
But independent researchers found it to be quite easy.
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