As part of the vital mission of AE911Truth, Richard Gage, AIA, is traveling to our great northern neighbor, Canada, on an eleven-stop speaking tour immediately following his tour of Arizona. Gage will be presenting the explosive 9/11 evidence to concerned citizens across Canada in March and April in conjunction with a campaign to submit a petition demanding an official review of the World Trade Center catastrophe to the Canadian Parliament.

This will be our third trip to Canada, and we have always been met with a good response. During our most recent trip, we joined David Ray Griffin and other esteemed 9/11 researchers at the Toronto Hearings.

AE911Truth Congressional Outreach Team leader Wayne Coste is one of the main organizers of the Canada tour. “There is a lot of enthusiasm surrounding this tour,” Coste said. “There is a groundswell of support for the 9/11 Truth movement that is sweeping across Canada.”

Editor’s note: The preliminary results of a new study of the red-gray chips, commissioned by Chris Mohr, a supporter of the official NIST reports about the destruction of the WTC skyscraper, and authored by Dr. James Millette, have recently been released. They seem to confirm that the composition of the red-gray chips does not match the formula for the primer paint used on the WTC steel structure. Look for a critique of Millette’s study in next month’s Blueprint newsletter.

Some defenders of the official 9/11 story have claimed that the red-gray chips of thermitic material identified in the WTC dust by chemist Dr. Niels Harrit, Ph.D., Dr Steven Jones, Ph.D., and other scientists are simply remnants of the rust-proofing primer paint that was applied to the steel structure of the WTC skyscrapers during their construction. However, scientific evidence gathered by both the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Harrit’s team of scientists clearly shows that this claim is false, since the properties of the primer paint are strikingly different from those of the red-gray chips.

AE911Truth is going on the road again, this time to the Grand Canyon State. AE911Truth founder Richard Gage, AIA, will be in the Phoenix area for three days in March, speaking publicly to groups of curious and concerned citizens and informing them about the explosive demolition of the Twin Towers and WTC Building 7 on September 11, 2001.

Pamela Senzee is responsible for coordinating the Arizona trip for AE911Truth

The intended purpose of this trip is an outreach to a variety of like-minded organizations with whom AE911Truth could ally and network.

Pamela Senzee, the leader of the AE911Truth Action Group in Phoenix, is the prime coordinator of this trip.

“I would really like to see AE911Truth link with the peace and social justice movements,” Senzee said. “There are a lot of concerned patriots who just need to be introduced to the scientific evidence presented by Gage and AE911Truth,” she added.

The Writing Team at AE911Truth is growing as we gear up to make major announcements and complete milestone projects in 2012. There is a variety of new volunteer roles that need to be filled, so whether you are a blogger, a freelance journalist, or simply a concerned citizen who wants to get involved, you can make a meaningful contribution to our efforts. Here are some of the roles that you can fill:

News Writers: We receive breaking news here at AE911Truth about 9/11 evidence and events on a regular basis, and we have been so overwhelmed with these news items over the last few months that we need more writers to help us document and disseminate this critical information. As a news writer for our monthly Blueprint Newsletter, you will be able to compose articles about crucial issues related to AE911Truth, which are then sent via email to our 25,000+ subscribers and seen by many more on our website and other 9/11 truth sites.

The explosive 9/11 evidence may be coming to a college near you. AE911Truth will be targeting the college speaking circuit in 2012, and there are plenty of ways you can help. Here is how one professor has made a difference for the last five years.

Yes… for five years in a row, Professor John Dragstedt of St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California, has invited us to speak in his special January session. This two-week time of focus between semesters is designed to educate students on a specific area of study for 2 ½ hours each day, and Professor Dragstedt has chosen to focus on the 9/11 attacks. The experts at AE911Truth, along with several other local SF Bay Area 9/11 authors and researchers, such as Paul Rea, Mickey Huff, and Jim Hoffman, come in and teach the class for him.

Only a few of these St Mary’s college students had heard of the questions surrounding the official 9/11 story prior to attending Prof. Dragstedt’s class – taught on this day by AE911Truth

Plane Impacts, Fire Damage & Melted Steel

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 (see Part 1) of an extensive report by researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by Popular Mechanics (PM) in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other places where it is sold.

(Quotes from Popular Mechanics’ book are shown in red and with page numbers.)

Plane Impacts and Fire Damage

PM next turns to the issue of the plane impacts and fire damage and their roles in the WTC event. Though PM acknowledges that the fires in the buildings could not have become hot enough to melt steel, they nonetheless rehash the constantly heard argument from other defenders of the official story that the steel did not need to melt to cause collapse. According to PM, it only had to be weakened by the fires enough to cause collapse.

PM argues that “When the planes hit the buildings and plowed into their centers, a large section of the exterior load-bearing columns as well as some crucial core columns were severed.” (pg. 37-38) Though this may be true, the collapse of the Towers appears to have actually started at floors that had minimal structural damage.¹ PM also discusses the theory from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that “the impact stripped fireproofing insulation from the trusses that supported 80,000 square feet of floor space.” (pg. 38) This assertion, however, is greatly flawed, as noted by UL whistleblower Kevin Ryan: