The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 Kindle Edition

Just Say No to NISTBy Jerry MazzaA review of The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7:Why the Official Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and FalseA book by David Ray GriffinThe headline, "Just Say No to NIST" (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) is purposely patterned after Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No to Drugs." In the case of David Griffin's new book, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7, the NIST lies, half truths, omissions, and the outright corruption of honest science are the administration's dope, administered by NIST, to lull inquiring minds into believing the fantasy of their lies.NIST's violations of scientific method, as Griffin clearly explains, represent what he terms the "politicization of science," used to delude Americans to accept the Bush administrations' conspiracy theory. That is, the World Trade Center Tower 7, the Tower not hit by an airliner, fell into its own footprint in six seconds at 5:20 PM on 9/11 as a result of minor fires, not explosives planted in the 47-story steel-framed building to create a classic internal demolition--uncannily resembling so many we've seen in movies or on TV.Griffin points out that the only two other buildings in history to have fallen from fires were the steel-framed WTC Towers 1 and 2 earlier that morning. Any and all previous fires in steel-framed buildings, those that burned for hours, even days, did not fell the buildings, let alone explode them, like Towers 1 and 2, into a pyroplastic cloud that hung for months in the skies over Ground Zero and Manhattan, and rolled through the streets of the financial district, graying it like a huge graveyard.In Griffin's steady hands, the story of WTC 7 becomes the fulcrum to understand how Towers 1 and 2 were felled with similar internal demolitions, as opposed to the fires caused by the jetliners impact, how Towers 1 and 2 then exploded into their own footprints as they fell within 10 second free-falls, which Griffin explains in great engineering and science based detail.Of course, Griffin reminds you that NIST itself is a government agency, working for the US Department of Commerce, subject to control by the White House, not unlike the 9/11 Commission, which was controlled by its White House author Philip Zelikow who wrote the outline of the Commission's inquiry and findings before the group ever met.Working with physicist Steven Jones and a battery of top scientists and engineers, Griffin has shepherded a vast amount of information into The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7, to present the explosive results of their findings. Jones, formerly a physics professor at Brigham Young University was released from his job because of his studies. They were of samples of dust gathered from Ground Zero, at Tower 7, as well as Tower 1 and 2's sites. They all indicated the presence of super nanotech versions of thermite and/or thermate (thermite plus sulphur for added heat).The nanotechnology allowed the thermate to be broken down into minute, even more potent particles which could be aerosolized and used to spray on or within the walls of the towers, to be ignited for later havoc. The fact that NIST refused even to consider nano-thermate presence and destructive potential, but rather summarily dismissed the use of it, is a sin against science, as Griffin points out. It is a sin, too, against 2800 souls who were lost on 9/11, as well as all those Americans who innocently believe the administration conspiracy theory.This is not to mention the second wave of slaughter, the many illnesses and deaths from cancer, pulmonary disease and body poisoning, which are occurring with first responders who worked non-stop on the pile for up to eight months. These are not the illnesses of mere smoke inhalation, but of the massive number of toxic substances exploded into the air by the literal pulverizing of the three towers that each sunk in free fall to the ground into their own footprints.Fire doesn't pulverize a million tons of concrete. High-powered explosives do. Griffin brings a plethora of examples of NIST's violations of scientific method which ignore or skirt, omit or bluntly lie about the questions raised by the presence of these explosive substances, just as FEMA and the EPA denied their by-products devastation throughout the WTC and New York City, making it the greatest environmental disaster in US history.Griffin documents the facts of the nanotech-thermate and its heat-generating energy. He describes how firefighters found streams of melted steel, molten for months under the debris, and pouring out, along with the presence of Swiss-cheese-like chunks of steel filled with melt-holes. This as the debris was lifted and shipped away.Through all of NIST's obfuscation, which would bring most of us to our feet raging against the government-front NIST, Griffin, author of some 35 books, keeps a level hand and cool rationality of the philosopher of religion, politics and science that he is, deconstructing the falsehoods, page after page, chapter after chapter, with an impenetrable sense of logic.In short, the black-on-black covered, 328-page The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7, seals the doom of NIST chicanery and lies, a disgrace to those who partook in creating them. As well as being an expose of the "politicization of science," this book is a history of perhaps the darkest time in America's life. It is a document driven by Griffin and his colleagues' passion for truth, a book that wishes to and succeeds in toppling the NIST lies like the ill-fated towers.What's more, there is new information here for the most seasoned 9/11 scholar as well as those who have just begun to question the anomalies of the WTC 7 Tower not hit by an airliner falling exactly as Towers 1 and 2 standing next to it fell, supposedly due to airliners hitting them.Lastly, Griffin's analysis of the recently uncovered story of Barry Jennings, liaison for the Housing Authority to Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management, and Michael Hess, Giuliani's Chief Counsel for New York City, and a head partner in Giuliani & Partners, a private financing firm, is amazing. Both Jennings and Hess were caught in an explosion on the sixth floor of Tower 7 that occurred about 9:30 A.M. on 9/11/2001.After the explosive collapses of Towers 1 and 2, the two men were rescued from Tower 7, finally led by firefighters through a hole in the wall of what was its bombed-out lobby. Jennings said that he could tell that he was walking over dead bodies. This cast an entirely new light on the Tower 7 history. Subsequently, Mr. Hess redacted or changed most of his testimony to fit the timeline of a book Giuliani wrote in 2002 about the events. Griffin impeccably documents the time of events and the redacting of information.He points out that Jennings stuck to his story. Amazingly, he became ill and entered a hospital in August, 2008, and died several days later on August 19, 2008. This was strangely several days before NIST's first WTC 7 Report's release. Dylan Avery, lead producer of Loose Change, hired a private investigator to gather information about what happened. Not too long after, the P. I. called Avery and told him she would be crediting his card for her fee (returning his money), and would like it "if he never called her again regarding Mr. Jennings."Griffin's investigatory detailing of this story is both interesting and illuminating. Parenthetically, since the book's release, Dylan Avery made a visit to the Jennings family, and found them disappeared from their home, gone, just gone.Perhaps this will make a follow-up story for David Ray Griffin. Fortunately, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 is here/now to stay. For all those who have hungered for the information to "Just Say No to NIST" and the administration's conspiracy, this book is a must-read.Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer living in New York City. His book "State Of Shock - Poems from 9/11 on" is available at [...] and Amazon.

It seems that, for most people, finding out that the Twin Towers were not the only high-rise buildings to fall on 9/11 is a massive and instantly unwelcome surprise--indeed I have personally been called a liar for suggesting that another building, big enough to be the tallest building in many cities and yet hit by nothing except perhaps some falling debris from the Twin Towers, collapsed to the ground 7 hours after the fall of the Towers. That WTC7 appeared to have been deliberately demolished was apparent to even such establishment stalwarts as Dan Rather who commented upon this very fact at the time. Yet the 9/11 Commission, convened to "prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks", did not even mention the collapse of this building in its 2004 "definitive" report. This alone is enough to demonstrate that the 9/11 Commission had no intention of providing the American people with a full account of those events. It took the American government another 4 years to get around to investigating the collapse of WTC7 and when NIST finally released its report on WTC7, its conclusion demonstrated beyond doubt that NIST, like the 9/11 Commission, is a political organisation inseparable from the government itself and therefore incapable of producing a report in any way scientific, objective or truthful. That NIST claimed a miracle for its conclusion--that WTC7 had done what no other steel-framed building has EVER done and collapsed solely due to fire--should not be surprising, for NIST's job, as their cherry-picking of evidence and blatantly ignoring anything that contradicts the official line show all too clearly, was to provide an explanation for the mysterious collapse of this building within the framework of the goverment's own equally unproven--and unprovable--conspiracy theory. This it managed to do admirably; the tissue of distortions, outright lies, straw-man arguments and circular reasoning that is the NIST report on WTC7 will eventually go down in history as possibly the least-scientific and most badly-flawed investigation ever conducted by a supposedly scientific body, with the possible except of the 9/11 Commission's "investigation".In this offering, David Ray Griffin picks apart the tangled web of deception and misinformation that the whole WTC7 issue has become over the years and demonstrates--if demonstration really were needed--in no uncertain terms that the NIST report on WTC7 is as much a "half-baked farce" as the 9/11 Commission Report, and equally deceptive, unscientific and false. As usual, Dr. Griffin's writing is logical and precise, completely lacking in hyperbole, sarcasm or smugness; he simply lists the facts as known then--using the process that NIST SHOULD have followed but clearly did not--tries to reach the most obvious conclusion from those known facts. Leaving aside possible motivations, the easily-proven claim that NIST, despite its protestations, is guilty of the most serious types of scientific fraud--fabrication, falsification and ignoring of contrary evidence--is the central point. For a government agency to engage in scientific fraud in order to protect that government's lies is nothing new; that a government agency would engage in scientific fraud in order to conceal the truth of the mass murder of thousands of its own citizens is likewise nothing new--it has happened many times in the past and will happen again in the future. That a government agency would stoop to the compilation of such a laughable collection of easily-disproven assertions whilst parroting scientific principles as some kind of shield simply demonstrates the desperation of those trying to conceal the real ugly truth about 9/11, and the utter bankruptcy of the modern political process and its adherents.For me, the pick of the bunch--and it's a very big, very juicy bunch--is the bit where NIST claims that the steel shear studs joining the floor beams to the supporting columns started to fail after thermal expansion of steel girders at (wait for it...) 103 degrees Celsius. To quote directly from NIST NCSTAR 1-9, page 352, 3rd para:"The first failures observed were of the shear studs, which were produced by axial expansion of the floor beams, and which began to occur at fairly low beam temperature of 103oC. Axial expansion of the girder then led to shear failure of the bolts at the connection to Column 79; and, at a girder temperature of 164oC, all four erection bolts had failed, leaving that end of the girder essentially unrestrained against rotation."If there was any correspondence at all between reality and NIST's report, we'd all have to be careful every time we cooked with steel pans on a gas stove. And woe betide anyone who thinks about using aluminium ones...Thankfully, we don't have to worry about such things. 'Nuff said. Without a doubt, NIST's report on WTC7, as the title of this book makes very clear, and as the author proves conclusively in a thousand different ways, "is Unscientific and False". But it's much more than that. It contradicts itself, and physical reality, in so many ways that it is impossible any thinking people could ever take it seriously. That so many DO, even after having read it (and therefore having clearly missed all these contradictions and blatant absurdities--steel girders expanding enough to snap shear studs 0.75" thick by 5" long at just above the boiling point of water, for instance--is a very, very sad testament to the mentality of the American people and demonstrates nothing more than that a large proportion of them are essentially mesmerised by everything churned out by authority figures, "experts", and the media. For only in such a make-believe world could such an obvious inside job--blatantly obvious to many of us from the instant it happened--with such a huge amount of historical precedent ever be accepted as the work of anyone but elements of those agencies that "failed" so badly on that day: the US military, its intelligence agencies and its government. [That other outside agencies were also involved is irrelevant here.]In conclusion, the NIST report on WTC7 is so pathetic that, even if David Ray Griffin's analysis is far from perfect, still it is more than sufficient to support the suggestion that no-one could read this book with a mind only 10% open and not be convinced that they have been massively lied to by their government about the events of 9/11.Suggested related reading:The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And DistortionsThe New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy TheoryThe New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed, all by David Ray Griffin9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA by Webster Griffin TarpleyPainful Questions: An Analysis of the September 11th Attack by Eric HufschmidActive Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe by Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley and Bradley R. Larsen (available to read online)NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele GanserVoices - Rowland Morgan (available to download online)

Meticulously detailed and researched. I feel as if i've completed a Ph.D in Engineering after reading this.The fact that WTC7 wasn't hit by a plane (or rocket or hologram...) but only by debris and burned for a short while before just giving up and falling down is literally the smoking gun for 9/11 conspiracy theorists. It wasn't even mentioned by the 9/11 Commission and the whitewash by NIST four years later demonstrated that they had no intention of rocking the boat by producing an objective and accurate report.Why Americans are not rioting in the streets about this but will happily watch an entire news cycle about a wardrobe malfunction will always be a mystery to me.

The evidence is presented clearly and objectively. No hysteria. Just the facts. And the facts contradict the official story. A must read for anyone who has an opinion about 9/11.

An excellent book from Griffin, a must read for anyone who is interested about the events of 9/11. This book highlights just why we need a new investigation.The most disturbing thing to learn is NIST tweaking of temperatures to its simulations, missing shear studs and not heating concrete floor slabs with the steel, even though NIST admits not heating the concrete, their report still gives the impression that they have.

Occasional repetition of facts, but on the whole, fascinating. Recommend.

It's a top book , loads of facts and figures. It will open your mind . I will pass the book on so people can read about the truth