I don’t normally like to get off topic on the site, but as we close in on the tenth anniversary of the WTC attacks I’d like to stop and remember those who lost their lives that dreadful day! Please join me in a moment of silence before we move on to the hard facts! 09/11/2001 never forgotten!

9/11 is a topic that is normally frowned upon by others who have never done research on the event. When discussing 9/11 to deniers and uninformed people, we must keep things “simple” and “precise” with solid facts that cannot be discredited. The “official story” is the conspiracy theory that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. A list of 24 HARD FACTS about 9/11 has been comprised that we should mainly focus on to generate awareness and acceptance.  

1) Nano-thermite found at Ground Zero. Peer reviewed at The Open Chemical Physics Journal (Bentham). “Molten Metal,” “Red-Gray Chips”.

2) 1500+ Engineers and Architects support a new investigation. Richard Gage, Founder. “Blueprint for Truth”.

3) The total collapse of WTC 7 in 6.5 seconds. Larry Silverstein “Pull it”. (Look below for WTC 7 Facts)

4) Dick Cheney was in command of NORAD on 9/11 while running war games. “Stand down order”. “Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?” “Norman Mineta testimony.”

5) 6 out of the 10 Commissioners believe the 9/11 Commission report was “Setup to fail,” “It was a 30 year conspiracy,” “The Whitehouse has played cover up,” “Max Cleland resigned.”

 6) FBI confiscated 84/85 Videos from the Pentagon. “Missouri trial,” “Sheraton Hotel.” Released Pentagon Security Camera in 2006 (FOIA). This camera does not show a 767. “Missing a frame.”

7) Osama Bin Laden is not wanted by the FBI for the 9/11 attacks. “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” At least 7 of the 19 listed high-jackers are still alive. CIA trained and funded “Al Qaeda/Taliban” during the Mujahedeen.

8) Firefighters and witness testimony to bombs, explosions, and molten metal in the Towers and Building 7. “Explosions in the lobby and sub levels,” “Like you're in a foundry.” NIST's John Gross denies the existence of Molten Metal.

9) No steel framed high rise building has ever collapsed from fire or structural damage...EVER. 3 fell on September 11th, 2001. “Madrid Building” burned for over 20 hours, and did not collapse.

10) “5 Dancing Israeli's” and “Mossad Truck Bombs.” “We were there to document the event.”

11) On September 10th, 2001. Rumsfeld reported $2.3 TRILLION missing from the Pentagon. “Dov Zakheim” Pentagon Comptroller.

12) 220+ Senior Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials question the official story. “9/11 Whistleblowers.”

13) Frank De Martini, deceased Manager of the WTC Construction & Project Management, says in documentary before 9/11 that he believes the WTC towers could sustain multiple hits from large jetliners.

14) History of American False Flag attacks. “Operation Northwood’s,””'USS Liberty,” “Gulf of Tonkin.”

15) BBC correspondent Jane Standley reported the collapse of WTC 7 (Soloman Brothers building) 20 minutes before it happened. CNN/FOX as well.

16) “Flight 93” debris was spread out over many miles. “Chris Konicki” “Coroner Wallace Miller.”

17) Bush waited 441 days before starting the 911 Commission. “Jersey Girls.” Bush's first choice to lead the commission was Henry Kissinger.

18) The 911 commission was given extremely limited funds. Only 15 million to investigate the worst attack on American soil, (over 60 Million was spent investigating Clinton's Blowjob).

19) Bush said he watched the first plane crash into the North tower on TV before entering the classroom, and was informed about the second impact while reading “My Pet Goat” to the children.

20) The USA PATRIOT ACT was written before 9/11, and signed into law October 26th, 2001. PNAC needed “a New Pearl Harbor.”

21) Marvin Bush was director of Stratasec (Securacom) which was in charge of security at the WTC, United Airlines and Dulles International Airport. All three were breached on 9/11.

22) "Who killed John O'Neil?" (Former FBI Agent) Was taken off the Osama Bin Laden file and transferred to head the security of the WTC just before 9/11, and replaced Marvin Bush. John O'Neil died in the Towers.

23) Insider trading based upon foreknowledge. “Put Options,” “UA/AA/Raytheon.”

24) Pilots of the 4 planes never squawked the “Highjack codes.” No video footage of 19 high-jackers boarding the 4 planes. Flight Data Recorders were never recovered from Ground Zero.  

WTC 7 (The Smoking Gun) http://rememberbuilding7.org/   Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper and was part of the World Trade Center complex. Built in 1984, it would have been the tallest high-rise in 33 states in the United States. It collapsed at 5:20 pm on September 11, 2001 in 6.5 Seconds at free fall acceleration. It was not hit by an airplane and suffered minimal damage compared to other buildings much closer to the Twin Towers.  

7 FACTS about Building 7

1) If fire caused Building 7 to collapse, it would be the first ever fire-induced collapse of a steel-frame high-rise.

2) Building 7’s collapse was not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report.

3) According to a Zogby poll in 2006, 43% of Americans did not know about Building 7.

4) It took the federal government seven years to conduct an investigation and issue a report for Building 7.

5) 1,500+ architects and engineers have signed a petition calling for a new investigation that would include a full inquiry into the possible use of explosives for the collapse of Building 7.

6) Numerous witnesses say the possibility of demolishing Building 7 was widely discussed by emergency personnel at the scene and advocated by the building’s owner.

7) Building 7 housed several intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the NYC Office of Emergency Management’s Emergency Operations Center, more commonly known as “Giuliani’s Bunker.”

Simple Facts of Temperatures: 1535ºC (2795ºF) - melting point of iron ~1510ºC (2750ºF) - melting point of typical structural steel ~825ºC (1517ºF) - maximum temperature of hydrocarbon fires burning in the atmosphere without pressurization or pre-heating (premixed fuel and air - blue flame) Diffuse flames burn far cooler. Oxygen-starved diffuse flames are cooler yet.

If we all follow these HARD FACTS, we can't go wrong. It's when people start speculating and creating new theories is when we run into problems and discredit the truth movement. Many of these facts can all be found by reliable sources and mainstream outlets by online searches of the “key words” followed by 9/11. STICK WITH THE FACTS AND KEEP THINGS SIMPLE! People don't believe because people don't know! Print this page and send it out to everyone you know. 9/11 Truth Now!  

     Something remarkable happened in Mexico last week; tens of thousands of Mexicans gathered in the main squares of cities across the country to demand an end to the "war on drugs".
     In the Zocalo, in the heart of Mexico City, they chanted "no more blood" and many called for the resignation of President Felipe Calderon, who began the war by using the army against the drug cartels in late 2006.
     Some 35,000 people in Mexico have been killed in drug-related violence since then. Even as the crowds chanted, news came in of another 59 bodies discovered in mass graves in Tamaulipas state.
     In the words of poet-journalist Javier Sicilia, who inspired the demonstrations after his own son was killed last week, the war is "tearing apart the fabric of the nation".
     But what does he know? In fact, the United States and Mexico claim to be on the brink of winning the war on drugs.
     At an international conference in Cancun Michele Leonhart, head of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, said "It may seem contradictory, but the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in the fight against drugs."
     She presumably means that all the Mexican drug-traffickers will be dead soon and that nobody else will be tempted by the easy money to take the place of those who are killed. Americans will then stop using drugs because they simply aren't available, or at worst they will be so scarce and expensive that only the very rich can afford them. And we'll all live happily ever after (except the very rich, of course).
     There’s a small problem with this theory. Drugs in the United States have become cheaper, stronger, and more easily available over the past 40 years; despite annual claims by the DEA that victory is at hand. To go on doing the same thing every year for 40 years, while expecting that next time will have a different outcome, is sometimes seen as evidence of insanity. We shouldn't be judgmental though.
     We could try to be rational for a minute. Former Mexican president Vicente Fox has been doing well on the rationality front recently.
     Last August he wrote in his blog: "We should consider legalizing the production, sale, and distribution of drugs. Legalization does not mean that drugs are good. But we have to see it as a strategy to weaken and break the economic system that allows cartels to make huge profits, which in turn increases their power and capacity to corrupt."
     This would mean that Mexican drug-users could get any drugs they want, of course. Just like now. The only differences would be that the drugs, being state-regulated and taxed, might cost slightly more and there would be fewer deaths from impurities and overdoses. It wouldn't actually break the power of the cartels as long as drugs remain illegal in the huge American market.
     Former Colombian president Cesar Gaviria addressed this issue head-on in a recent interview with Time magazine: "US drug policy has failed. So please, change it. Don't force us to sacrifice thousands of lives for a strategy that doesn't work simply because American politicians lack the courage to change course."
     Well said, but why did these men not act when they had the power? One answer is because they were afraid of the American reaction.
     The United States has repeatedly made it clear that it will inflict grievous economic pain on any Latin American country that defects from its war against drugs. That is becoming an empty threat, however, for US economic power is nothing like it used to be, even in Latin America.
     That's partly because of the recent near-collapse of the US economy, but it's also the result of the rapid growth of the Latin American countries. Mexico, for example, is a rising industrial power with tens of millions of educated middle-class people and an economy that's growing at 7 per cent a year.
     It can now say no to Washington without being crushed. It is the American refusal to allow its consumers legal access to the drugs they want that creates the demand and American weapons that arm the Mexican gangs that compete for that market.
     Since no American politician will commit political suicide by advocating gun control or the legalization of drugs, Mexico can only escape its agony by refusing any further co-operation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
     Ending the war on drugs in Mexico would not instantly stop the killing, most of which is between cartels competing for control of the routes by which drugs transit Mexico on their way to the United States.
     Just ending the army's involvement would greatly lower the level of violence and legalizing drugs in Mexico would diminish the epidemic of corruption too. You don't need to bribe officials if the drug trade is legal.
     The current wave of demonstrations against the drug war is only a start. The policy won't change as long as Calderon is president as too many people have been killed for him to repudiate it now.
     But by the end of next year he will be gone and his successor, from whichever party, will be free to change the policy. One of these days, Mexico will just say "no".

     (The Missoulian) In a Missoula County courtroom, an eight-woman, four-man jury found Matthew Otto, 27, guilty of a single charge of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs; in this case, 3 grams (well under an ounce) of marijuana. Otto faces a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $50,000 fine.
     Well under an ounce? How about more like a tenth of an ounce! Regardless, Montana Law defines sales or distribution (giving) any amount of cannabis as a felony and allows for a one year to life prison sentence and a $50,000 fine. Otto is lucky he wasn’t within 1,000 feet of a school or an additional three years minimum would be added.
     Otto stood accused of sharing a bowl of his medical cannabis with two friends in a car traveling down Reserve Street, where the trio passed a Missoula County Sheriff’s detective on his way home from work last November.
     This gives reason as to why you shouldn’t smoke in your car, even though we all like to space cruise…
     Both Deputy Missoula County Attorney Andrew Paul and Public Defender Chris Daly questioned potential jurors closely as to their experiences with and attitudes toward marijuana, medical and otherwise. Roughly half the 24 people from whom the eventual jury was chosen raised their hands in response to a question as to whether they’d smoked cannabis. While none had medical cannabis cards, five had family members with “green” cards.
     If that’s going to be a disqualification for jury duty, you’re going to find it increasingly hard to seat juries (as happened in Montana last year).
     Jordan Lambert who was driving the car and Samantha originally told Missoula County Sheriff’s Detective Jon Gunter that they’d gotten the grass from Otto, according to court papers. Wednesday, they testified they didn’t remember who lit the bowl or where the cannabis in it came from.
     Daly repeatedly pointed out that neither of the Lamberts was charged with possessing or distributing marijuana, even though the bowl was shared among the trio.
     “The detective told me if I was honest with him about taking a hit off the pipe, I would not be in trouble,” Jordan Lambert testified.
     Missoula County Sheriff's Detective Jon Gunter testified that as a narcotics investigator, he felt it was more important to hone in on the source of the herb.
     So this terribly dangerous 3g of medical cannabis that Otto distributed to Jordan Lambert wasn’t so dangerous that we needed to charge the pot-smoking non-medical-marijuana-patient driving the car; it was “more important to hone in on the” legit medical cannabis patient who was “the source of the herb?” Otto didn’t hold a gun to Lambert’s head and force him to take hits while driving by an off-duty sheriff. Lambert made a choice to endanger other drivers on the road but the police feel the real danger is the patient medicating in the back seat?
     Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Burt, who questioned Otto while Gunter was talking with the Lamberts, videotaped that encounter.
     On the tape, Otto told Burt that he had a medical cannabis card and that he used the herb for back and knee pain.
     “I’ve got all kinds of pain from carrying all this equipment,” Burt replied. “… My point is, you’re doing it for the recreation.”
     How do you know that, Deputy? Living with chronic pain is just that, chronic. It exists at all times. Just because Otto shared a bowl with two healthy people doesn’t mean he wasn’t using medically himself.
     The point, Paul said after the trial, was that Otto’s legal cannabis became illegal the minute he gave it to someone else.
     District Court Judge Dusty Deschamps had reminded jurors as they began 3 1/2 hours of deliberations that marijuana is classified as a dangerous drug and that the amount of cannabis is immaterial.
     Let this be a lesson to all patients out there. That pipe on your lips is medicine. But that pipe on your healthy friend’s lips is transformed into a “dangerous drug” and you are no longer a patient. Here in Oregon, the mere sight of your medicine in public transforms it into a dangerous drug and you into a criminal. You can carry around a pound and a half of usable cannabis, but if anyone can see even a single stem or flake of it, a mere 29 grams of usable cannabis is enough to get you a felony.
     Otto was unwise in sharing his bowl with the driver of a moving car, but that driver deserves more punishment than Otto does, and neither of them deserve anything remotely close to life in prison and a $50,000 fine.
     Another lesson for patients, hire a real lawyer don’t depend on the public defender.

     Meanwhile, the Montana House has passed a bill to increase the penalties for sexual assaults:
     (KAJ18 TV) Currently a person convicted of sexual assault is fined up to $500 and can be imprisoned for up to six months. But under Sen. Taylor Brown’s bill, the penalties double for a second time offender then increase to $10,000 and five years in prison for a third offense.
     “When we look at this bill, we find kind of an inconsistency with a lot of other statutes that we have, drunk driving, partner family member assault, the third offense is a felony and typical sentence is five years, violation orders for protection, stalking has progressively increased penalties, even cruelty to animals has increased penalties,” said Rep. Cary Smith, (R-Billings).
     Got it? If we catch you for the third time sexually assaulting someone, we could put you in prison for five whole years. But if you pass someone a bowl of your medical marijuana, we could put you in prison for life. Because in Montana, people like Missoula County Sheriff’s Detective Jon Gunter and Deputy Missoula County Attorney Andrew Paul have their priorities in order.

     When following the news feeds on cannabis I pass by so many stories of busts and plant eradications because, frankly, they aren’t news. They’re daily occurrences, bothersome, but usually not noteworthy.
     When I came across this headline from The Gothamist, I had to take a look:

“To avoid getting high, pot-busting cops wore protective gear”

     So how much was this huge pot bust worth on the street? According to the DEA the haul of 3 tons of grass from 6,000-7,000 plants (earlier reports of 8,000 were apparently a little, umm, high) is worth about $10 million. This makes it the largest bust of an indoor cannabis-growing operation in New York State history.
     The Sullivan County Sheriff’s office discovered the grow houses after approaching an SUV that reeked of reefer on Tuesday. “These guys stank; it was coming out of their pores,” one investigator said before hammering the point home. “They stunk out loud. They were very pungent.”
     Once the plants were discovered “DEA agents, NYPD cops, and members of the Sullivan County Sheriff’s office wore protective gear to avoid getting contact highs from the veritable forest” according to the Post.
     The notion of the “contact high” is a myth. In order to get “high,” the amount of active THC in your bloodstream has to spike. That THC passes the blood-brain barrier and you experience euphoria.
     Normally, “contact high” is expressed in the context of someone “hot-boxing” a room and a non-smoker inhales enough second-hand cannabis smoke to experience a “high”. This is not possible as the people who ware exhaling that smoke have already absorbed the THC from it within three seconds of inhaling. There is no way to get such a “contact high” unless copious amounts of cannabis are left to burn openly within a small room and people smoking it are so inexperienced they inhale and exhale almost immediately.
     Another context would be the open burning of cannabis, like police burning a pile of pot they seized, again, they’d have to have a lot of it and be standing close to the smoke for any THC to reach their lungs. But this isn’t what these cops were wearing protective gear for; they were just removing live plants from the grow houses. We’re supposed to believe the buds are exhaling THC right in those cops’ faces and getting them high.
     The “pungent stank” you’re experiencing comes from the flavinoids and turpenoids of the cannabis plant. Those don’t get you high. THC is contained in the resinous trichomes of the buds. Wear a pair of gloves. The only reason you put on the full hazmat meth lab protective gear was to propagandize the danger of grow houses to the media.

     According to the story from the New York Post:    

     DEA agents, NYPD cops, and members of the Sullivan County Sheriff’s office wore protective gear to avoid getting contact highs from the veritable forest of 6,300 pot plants with a street value of $20 million taken from the homes.
     The plants would account for the equivalent of 3 million joints, according to DEA spokeswoman Erin McKenzie-Mulvey.

     By my calculations this tells me that a pot plant is worth $3,175 in New York. I wonder how many of the 6,300 plants were seedlings? And now we know that a pot plant will produce over 475 joints each, which means these must be going for about $6.75 apiece.

     It cracks me up whenever the DEA tells us the value of a pot plant as if it would be brought to harvest and sold on the street as joints. We always get these incredibly inflated numbers to scare the public; but when a patient is suing the local sheriff to get his lawful medical plants returned, suddenly those plants aren’t worth $3,175 apiece anymore.