(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned "preposterous" comments by a U.N.-appointed expert on Palestinian rights that there was a cover-up over the September 11 attacks, Ban's chief of staff said on Monday.

The official, Vijay Nambiar, said however that it was not up to Ban to fire the expert, U.S. academic Richard Falk, as demanded by UN Watch, a Geneva-based advocacy group.

Falk wrote in a blog this month that there had been an "apparent cover-up" by U.S. authorities over the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which hijackers flew airliners into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington.

Modern Steel High-Rises Don’t Collapse Like a House of Cards
Despite Catastrophic Damage

Those of us attempting to present the evidence of the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center skyscrapers to the “uninitiated” can meet with significant psychological resistance. Some respond to the scientific forensic evidence quite readily. But some do not.

WTC 3 severely damaged from the South Tower debris. No complete collapse. The North Tower is yet to come down on top of it.

Another way to open the minds of skeptics – without getting technical at all – is to compare the other WTC buildings that did not actually collapse to the three that collapsed completely. Show the following photos to your stubborn interlocutor. Ask him or her to notice how severely damaged these other buildings were by the debris from the Twin Towers, yet substantial portions remained upright. And ask “Why?”.

In December’s Blueprint, we reported that AE911Truth is producing a new documentary DVD, “9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out,” which will present analysis and testimony on the destruction of the three WTC skyscrapers on 9/11 from more than 45 experts, including architects, engineers, scientists, firefighters, and many others. Our last issue described the work of high-rise architect Robert McCoy and chemical engineer Mark Basile.

Dr. Jeff Farrer provides an incisive analysis of the melted steel at the WTC

Since December, we received a number of responses from readers and supporters around the world who remarked on the importance of this DVD, and urging us to make it available to activists as soon as possible. As a result of this encouraging feedback, we will continue to bring you written excerpts from the series of interviews included in this critically important documentary before it is finished.

In this issue we feature the work of Dr. Jeff Farrer, a physicist with a PhD in materials science and engineering. Dr. Farrer has worked with solid-state reactions, characterizing semiconductor and thin film materials, as well as working with nanoparticles.

“The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day
we begin to die.”
–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dear Friends,

We would like to extend our deepest thanks to Mark Stepnoski for generously offering $10,000 to match all donations made to the BuildingWhat? campaign during the last three days of 2010. Supporters across the country and around the world rose to the occasion, giving nearly $30,000 on top of Mark’s $10,000 to bring the campaign to $67,000. Thank you all for your generous support and your belief in our strategy.

In the next few weeks we will be releasing a series of brand new TV ads. Without giving anything away, we are confident in saying these new ads will generate much publicity and create a groundswell of public demand for a new Building 7 investigation leading up to the 10th Anniversary.

Sovereign Immunity Still Protects the Government from Liability

Richard Gage, AIA, and constituent confer after meeting with staffers in the office of Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO), September 2010

AE911Truth members have written to and met with Congressional staffers, urging them and their bosses to push for a new, independent investigation of the events of 9/11, thus far to no avail. Once the contact has been made, the initiative rests with the members of Congress and/or their staffers, and we lose the initiative. Some 9/11 activists have urged that we keep the initiative by filing lawsuits alleging that some members or agents of the government have engaged in a conspiracy to perpetrate and then cover up the greatest “false flag” event in U.S. history. As a retired attorney I will explore this question, analyzing previous lawsuits with an eye toward evaluating the probability of success of a future lawsuit.

Postcard Mailing Effort To Your Local A/E's

Each month our AE911Truth Action Groups around the US confer by telephone and decide which nationally coordinated action to take on or about the 11th of each month. In January we initially decided to orchestrate visits with elected representatives – local, state, and federal – in their local offices across the country. We would invite you to make an appointment and showing your rep or staffer the ten-minute version of 9/11: Blueprint for Truth.

These effective postcards provide the core of the controlled demolition evidence for Building 7

However, we are going to save this effort for February due to a more favorable climate for most elected reps. So in January we will do a different important action – mailing our new AE911Truth post cards out to the architects and engineers in your community. Simply copy addresses from your phone book onto the cards, add your return address, stick a 28-cent stamp on it, and drop it in the mail! Let the A/E’s do the rest! Let us know if you hear back from them. But either way… know that you have played an essential role in making 10 or 100 A/E’s aware of AE911Truth and our crucial work of getting a real investigation.