"Photos capture towers’ collapse; Aerial shots taken from police copter" by Ula Ilnytzky and Colleen Long, Associated Press | February 11, 2010
This photo taken Sept. 11, 2001, by the New York City Police Department shows smoke engulfing the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Nypd via Abc News, Detective Greg Semendinger)
NEW YORK - Newly released aerial photos of the World Trade Center terror attack capture the towers’ dramatic collapse, from just after the first fiery plane strike to the apocalyptic dust clouds that spread over lower Manhattan and its harbor.
The images were taken from a police helicopter - the only photographers allowed in the air space near the towers on Sept. 11, 2001. They were obtained by ABC News after it filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which investigated the collapse....
The photos are “absolutely core to understanding the visual phenomena of what was happening,’’ said Jan Ramirez, chief curator at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum....
Watch: VIDEO I
That clear it up a little for you?
ABC said the institute gave the network 2,779 pictures on nine CDs, saying some of the photographs had never been released before. The network posted 12 photos this week on its website, all taken by ex-NYPD Aviation Unit Detective Greg Semendinger, who was first in the air in a search for survivors on the rooftop. He said he and his pilot watched the second plane hit the south tower....
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We can argue about details and credit, but that was an inside job.
And remember the cover up, 'er, clean up?
The government -- THIS GOVERNMENT -- that is "protecting you(?)" from the "terrorists(?) LIED to the FIRST-RESPONDER HEROES and the residents of New York by telling them that toxic stew of spew was safe!
"NYC questioning 9/11 claims of responders" by Associated Press | February 18, 2010
NEW YORK - Lawyers defending New York City against thousands of lawsuits filed by Sept. 11 emergency responders say many of the claims are baseless and have asked a judge to dismiss some of the first cases headed toward trial.
Because they do not want to pay the money.
Is that how government respects our heroes?
In a series of court filings late Tuesday, the city’s legal team detailed several instances in which it said people who claimed to have been sickened by World Trade Center ash were already ill before the attacks.
And jumping on that rubble pile didn't help them.
One former Fire Department battalion chief who attributed respiratory problems to the dust had been granted a disability pension for the same type of breathing ailments in 1999, the city said.
A 400-pound utility worker who said he developed shortness of breath and other health problems after being deployed to ground zero had breathing problems diagnosed before 2001, the city said.
The city has asked the judge who is presiding over the case to dismiss 17 suits on a variety of grounds.
Paul Napoli, the lead lawyer for more than 9,000 police officers, firefighters, construction laborers, and other ground zero workers, dismissed the city’s motions as posturing.Later he tells them to take the deal.
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"Deal struck for ailing ground zero workers" by Associated Press | March 12, 2010
NEW YORK — After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies, and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.
The settlement was announced last night by WTC Captive Insurance Co., a special entity established to indemnify the city and its contractors against potential legal action as they moved to clean up the site after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks....
Workers who wish to participate in the settlement would need to prove they had been at the World Trade Center site or other facilities that handled debris. They also would have to turn over medical records and provide other information aimed at weeding out fraudulent or dubious claims....
You know, the same kinds of lies the government told to get you to go to war!
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Related: VIDEO III
Don't you wish we could go back to that time again, America?
Also see: FALSE FLAG NUKE ATTACK ON U.S. JUSTIFIED….”KING’S TORAH”
Maybe you will very, very soon -- with a somber Obomber this time.
But let's get back to "Ground Zero" for a moment.
"Judge rejects settlement for ground zero workers; Says deal isn’t good enough for responders" by David B. Caruso, Associated Press | March 20, 2010
NEW YORK — A federal judge rejected a legal settlement yesterday that would have given at least $575 million to rescue and recovery workers sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal shortchanged 10,000 ground zero workers whom he called heroes.
“This settlement is not enough,’’ said US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who delivered his pronouncement to a stunned gallery at a federal courthouse in Manhattan.
Rising from his chair, the 76-year-old jurist said he feared police officers, firefighters, and other laborers who cleared rubble after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were being pushed into signing a deal few of them understood.
Under the terms of the settlement, workers had been given 90 days to say yes or no to a deal that would have assigned them payments based on a point system that Hellerstein said was complicated enough to make a Talmudic scholar’s head spin.
More on the judge below.
“I will not preside over a settlement that is based on fear or ignorance,’’ he said....
But he will preside over a cover-up based on that.
Sorry, but buildings do not collapse straight down at free-fall speed because of a few fires.
Hellerstein, who presides over all federal court litigation related to the attacks, ripped into the agreement after hearing several ground zero responders speak tearfully of their illnesses and after receiving letters and phone calls from others expressing confusion about the deal.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the judge’s actions would kill the settlement....
Hellerstein said more money should be set aside for people who later develop cancer that may be linked to ground zero toxins. He said he wanted to retain ultimate control over which workers were entitled to have claims paid.
Hellerstein acknowledged that he felt a personal connection to the case, calling it “the greatest burden in my life,’’ but insisted that his unusual intervention was legally and morally necessary....
Hellerstein spoke after several ground zero recovery workers had risen in court to describe a litany of health problems they believe are linked to inhaling the ash and dust left by the collapse of the World Trade Center....
Government said it was okay at the time.
Wanted to get Wall Street back up and running.
Money for the settlement would be funded with nearly $1 billion in federal taxpayer money that has already been appropriated.
No one knew the incredible monetary costs that were going to come from that atrocity at the time.
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"Breathing problems persist for 9/11 rescuers" by David B. Caruso, Associated Press | April 8, 2010
NEW YORK — Most of the New York City firefighters and medics whose lungs were damaged by pulverized masonry and glass from the World Trade Center attacks are not improving, according to a new study.
The results are based on breathing tests from nearly 11,000 firefighters who were at ground zero in the first two weeks, when the dust cloud was thickest....
City says they are frauds.
Among emergency medical technicians, the numbers were worse....
The study dims hopes that the breathing of workers who developed respiratory problems would gradually return to normal.
Nothing has returned to "normal" since that day.
Dr. David Prezant, the Fire Department’s chief medical officer and a lead author of the study, other researchers noted that the particle cloud released by the trade center collapse was unique....
So is the collapsing of three buildings due to fire -- an anomaly that has never occurred before or since.
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"The zionist 9/11 cover up agent Kenneth Feinberg predicted the demise of the legislation. Being a 9/11 judicial insider, along with Alvin K. Hellerstein, he was tasked with keeping the truth of 9/11 hidden and the costs down.
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Also see: Judge Alvin Hellerstein
Oh, he is overseeing that case, too?!!
"NYC, contractors appeal 9/11 claims ruling" by Associated Press | April 15, 2010
NEW YORK — The city and contractors who handled the cleanup of the World Trade Center site after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, yesterday notified a court they are appealing a judge’s decision to block a $575 million settlement of claims by thousands of people who became ill.
Lawyers for the city and the contractors filed papers with the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to challenge several orders by US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein that had the effect of blocking implementation of the deal....
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NEW YORK — US District Judge Hellerstein implored ground zero workers who got sick after breathing toxic ash to take the money, saying it was time to end an ugly and complicated case that has pitted New York City officials against thousands of men and women hailed as heroes for their service at the trade center....
And SHADDUP!
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The thing is, the firefighters and police know it was a controlled demolition.
The reason they can not talk is because they have been threatened with the loss of job and pension.
"Judge OK’s deal for 9/11 responders" by Tom Hays, Associated Press | June 24, 2010
NEW YORK — Some recounted their days at a smoldering ground zero. Some fought back tears. Some complained that no amount of money would make them whole.
Only the ABSOLUTE TRUTH and WHO WAS BEHIND IT will set you free.
Despite the mixed emotions, most of the 9/11 responders who appeared yesterday at a daylong hearing in federal court in Manhattan said they favored a deal that would end their seven-year legal fight over the toxic fallout produced by the collapse of the World Trade Center....
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WASHINGTON — A bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust fell short in the House this week, raising the possibility that the bulk of compensation for the ill would come from a legal settlement hammered out in the federal courts.
The bill would have provided free health care and compensation payments to Sept. 11 rescue and recovery workers who fell ill after working in the trade center ruins....
Congress failed again, huh?
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And forget about those guys and the truth of what happened!
AmeriKa always looks ahead!
"Workers urge faster rebuilding at 9/11 site" by Associated Press | March 10, 2010
NEW YORK - Hundreds of construction workers raised a rallying cry of “Build it now!’’ yesterday, gathering with elected officials at the World Trade Center site to urge a quick rebuilding of the complex....
US Representative Carolyn B. Maloney told the crowd: “.... Putting 10,000 people to work in the middle of a severe recession is an economic imperative.’’
The protest was held days before a Friday deadline for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and developer Larry Silverstein to work out a new schedule for rebuilding parts of the site....
Maybe it's time to "pull it," 'eh, Larry?
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Of course, when someone does build there....
"NYC commission clears the way for construction of mosque near site of Sept. 11 attacks" by New York Times | August 4, 2010
AmeriKa builds embassies and military bases.
NEW YORK — After a protracted battle that set off a national debate over freedom of religion, a Muslim center and mosque to be built two blocks from ground zero surmounted a final hurdle yesterday.
The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9-0 against granting historic protection to the building at 45-47 Park Place in Lower Manhattan, where the $100 million center would be built.
That decision clears the way for a tower of as many as 15 stories that will house a mosque, a 500-seat auditorium, and a pool. Its leaders say it will be modeled on the YMCA and Jewish Community Center in Manhattan.
Yeah, if it were a synagogue it would be no problem.
The vote yesterday was free of much of the vitriol that had been part of previous hearings. One by one, members of the commission debated the aesthetic significance of the building, designed in the Italian Renaissance Palazzo style by an unknown architect.
Christopher Moore, a member of the commission, said the vote was not a matter of religion, though he argued that the building could not be divorced from the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks.
“It is not directly on ground zero, but it is a part of ground zero,’’ Moore said.
After the commission voted, several members of the audience shouted “Shame on you!’’ and “Disgrace!’’ One woman carried a sign reading, “Don’t Glorify Murders of 3,000; No 9/11 Victory Mosque.’’
Shame on you idiots!
Related: JEWS IN GLASS HOUSES
Shouldn't be throwing missiles.
The issue had divided family members of those killed on Sept. 11. Some argued it was insensitive to the memory of those who died in the attacks. Others saw it as a symbol of tolerance to counter the religious extremism that prevailed on that day.
And we know who is happy with that, don't we?
Yesterday, Rick A. Lazio, a Republican candidate for governor, appeared at the vote to oppose the project. Lazio called on his Democratic rival, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, to investigate the finances of the group spearheading the project, the Cordoba Initiative.
“Let’s have transparency,’’ Lazio said. “If they’re foreign governments, we ought to know about it. If they’re radical organizations, we ought to know about it.’’
Do they ask that about the synagogue?
Sharif El-Gamal, chief executive of SoHo Properties, the developer of the project, praised the commission’s decision. He said the center represented “an American dream which so many others share.’’
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FLASHBACK:
"Huge N.J. corruption case trial set to open" by Associated Press | January 25, 2010
NEWARK - The first trial in New Jersey’s largest-ever corruption investigation is set to begin in a federal courthouse in Newark this week.
Oh, now it is SIMPLY a CORRUPTION TRIAL, huh?
I'm surprised it even got a brief.
Boston Globe Can't See the New Jersey Shore
Boston Globe Censorship: Cutting Out a Kidney
The public finally will get to see Solomon Dwek in action: a government cooperator who secretly recorded hours of meetings at restaurants, diners, and parking lots over two years, showing religious leaders, politicians, and municipal employees in various states of alleged wrongdoing.
It has been six months since the mammoth corruption inquiry resulted in 44 arrests. The dramatic July 23 takedown included early-morning raids from synagogues to city halls and allegations of bribes distributed in cash-stuffed cereal boxes. Prosecutors say the money-laundering operations were so large they were referred to as laundromats.
It also produced one of the more memorable perp walks in New Jersey’s history: Elderly rabbis in long black coats, sweat-suited municipal employees, and assorted bleary-eyed elected officials paraded in handcuffs off a fleet of buses for processing at FBI headquarters.
And it just as quickly faded from the MSM memory, notice that?
Among the defendants: Three mayors, two state assemblymen, and other public officials charged with corruption, prominent rabbis from Brooklyn and Deal, N.J. charged with money laundering, and in one case, a man charged with brokering the sale of a human kidney.
Like an alcoholic always says, "I just had one."
Ten have pleaded guilty, and the rest are awaiting trial. But the man everyone wants to hear is Dwek, the cooperating witness and son of a prominent rabbi that the US government is hanging almost its entire case on.
So reports the concealing Zionist MSM, anyhow.
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Also see: Boston Globe Can't See the New Jersey Shore
Yeah, whatever happened with that trial anyway?
And look what tools are trying to block the mosque:"Lawsuit challenges commission’s decision; Says politics tainted process" by Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press | August 5, 2010
NEW YORK — The debate over a planned Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero became a court fight yesterday, as a conservative advocacy group sued to try to stop a project that has become a fulcrum for balancing religious freedom and the legacy of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Where everything ends up in AmeriKa.
And notice that the MSM discussion is not about investigating what happened that day; it's reinforcing the conventional myth with this "debate."
The American Center for Law and Justice, founded by the Rev. Pat Robertson, filed suit to challenge a city panel’s decision to let developers tear down a building to make way for the mosque two blocks from ground zero.
The city Landmarks Preservation Commission moved too fast in making a decision, underappreciated the building’s historic value and “allowed the intended use of the building and political considerations to taint the deliberative process,’’ lawyer Brett Joshpe wrote in papers filed in a Manhattan state court. The Washington, D.C.-based group represents a firefighter who responded to and survived the attack at the World Trade Center....
The existing Italianate building was constructed for shipping magnates and later occupied by the pharmaceuticals giant
The law center argues that it deserves landmark status for its architectural features and for its newer historical significance as a structure that withstood being hit by debris from one of the hijacked jetliners used in the terrorist attacks.
“The building is the only building of its kind that links the growth of American free enterprise to the present-day events and the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, events,’’ Joshpe wrote....
Really reaching now, aren't you?
The mosque has become a national political controversy, pitting several influential Republicans and the nation’s most prominent Jewish civil rights group against Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others....
Big-name Republicans including former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and former House speaker Newt Gingrich have criticized the plan, as has the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights group known for advocating religious freedom.
Apparently, the national politics of AmeriKa are dominated by Zionists and their servants.
Wow.
Related: ADL - America's Most Powerful Hate Group
ADL - World's Largest Hate Group
When it is Zionist hate it is okay.
The group behind the $100 million project, the Cordoba Initiative, describes it as a Muslim-themed community center. Early plans call not only for prayer space but for a swimming pool, culinary school, art studios, and other features....
See, if it were Jewish....
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And look who has to weigh in (on the front page, no less):
"Patrick backs NYC mosque plan; Kin of 9/11 victims split on proposal" by Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff | August 5, 2010
Governor Deval Patrick, who this spring became the state’s first sitting governor to visit a mosque, lent his support yesterday to an Islamic Center proposed near ground zero, stepping into the middle of a growing national furor over locating a Muslim house of worship so near the site of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
When asked about the controversy during a radio appearance, Patrick turned to the words of President George W. Bush, a Republican, to express the need to make a clear distinction between terrorists and practitioners of the Muslim faith.
Pffft!
“The sooner we separate the peaceful teaching of Islam from the behavior of terrorists, the better for all of us,’’ Patrick said on WTKK-FM 96.9.
And the SOONER we get PAST the FALSE FLAG COVER STORY the better!
The issue has caused bitter divisions in New York and has provoked strong emotions in Massachusetts, where the two planes involved in the attacks took off....
Yeah, see what we are consumed with regarding 9/11 over here?
Cindy McGinty — whose husband, Michael McGinty of Foxborough, was killed while attending a meeting in the World Trade Center — expressed weary resignation to the plan. She said she just hopes it is done tastefully and that officials keep an eye on the proponents of the mosque and their sources of money.
I think you need to be keeping an eye on synagogues.
“It just makes me suspicious,’’ said McGinty, who recently moved to Connecticut. “Why did they pick this spot? Why aren’t they being more sensitive? I don’t trust it. I can’t, because my husband’s one of the people who died.’’
As if we are being sensitive when we bomb Muslims into oblivion in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc, etc.
But a family group called “September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows’’ has come out in support of the Islamic Cultural Center and said it would serve as “an emblem for the rest of the world that Americans stand against violence, intolerance, and overt acts of racism and that we recognize that the evil acts of a few must never damn the innocent.’’
The words sound good, but I'm sorry: I fail to see Americans standing against those things, whether it be the mosque or the wars.
And once 9/11 is exposed in the MSM as the CIA-Mossad job it was then I'll take notice.
“I’m really glad that the governor took exactly that kind of position of leadership,’’ Terry Rockefeller of Arlington, one member of the group whose sister, Laura, was killed in the attacks, said. “I think one of the saddest things about 9/11 has been the ways in which our fears have led us to really unthinkingly give up our Constitution and the values that have made us great. And religious freedom is right up there.’’
The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that works to fight prejudice, declared its opposition to the center last week. “The controversy which has emerged regarding the building of an Islamic Center at this location is counterproductive to the healing process,’’ the ADL said. “Therefore, under these unique circumstances, we believe the city of New York would be better served if an alternative location could be found.’’
The world would be better served without the ADL.
But supporters say that to deny such a use of the building would be to bow to kneejerk fear and prejudice and to curb a fundamental right to religious tolerance.
Did someone pick up a newspaper?
“I really sympathize with the sensitivities of people who are concerned,’’ said Bilal Kaleem, executive director of the Muslim American Society of Boston. “What I’m afraid of is that if we let our sensitivities mean that we effectively ban Muslims from building institutions in lower Manhattan, that would be totally anti-American. We end up becoming what the terrorists are.’’
That is what happens when Zionist control your society and culture.
Also see: Hearing the Call of the Minaret
Yeah, turns out the forces opposed are NOT HAPPY when a mosque is built ANYWHERE!
Talk about INTOLERANCE and HATE!!!
The governor did not invite yesterday’s discussion on the mosque. He began his answer to the host’s question by saying, “Don’t we have stuff to talk about here in Massachusetts?’’
Thanks, MSM!
Patrick went on to say that he understands the concerns of many who still have “fresh wounds’’ from the terrorist attacks. But he recalled Bush’s remarks that Islam is a peaceful religion, inconsistent with the behavior of the terrorists who attacked America.
Yeah, MAYBE it would HELP AmeriKans to REMEMBER THAT for a change!
The WAR-LIKE RELIGION seems to be emanating from ISRAEL!!!!
In May, Patrick reached out to the Muslim community, becoming the first sitting governor of Massachusetts to visit a mosque. He spoke to a crowd of some 1,100 Muslims and pledged to help them with a variety of measures, from denouncing discrimination and racial profiling to advocating time off on Fridays for afternoon prayers....
Probably will cost him reelection.
Voters don't care, but AmeriKa's string-pullers do.
Is there anything I have forgotten before prayer services?
"Abramoff released to halfway house" by Associated Press | June 10, 2010
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Spokesman Edmond Ross said he did not know the location of the halfway house. Calls to the agency’s Community Correctional Management section, which oversees halfway houses, were not returned.
Abramoff’s scheduled release date is Dec. 4, Ross said.
He said Abramoff could spend the last two to three weeks of his sentence in home confinement.
The Bureau of Prisons has no home address for Abramoff....
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And then he just disappeared.
Also see: Jack Abramoff released from prison early... for his part in the 9/11 cover up?
Btw, Jack, what was Mohammed Atta doing on your casino ship a month BEFORE 9-11?
Also see: Who Are the Terrorists?
They aren't Muslims, America.
