The debate over what caused the destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers on September 11, 2001, has been held in many forums, but for the first time, the explosive conversation made its way onto one of America’s most popular radio shows. On the August 21 broadcast of Coast to Coast AM, host Ian Punnett moderated what can be best described as a “tag team” debate, which pitted architect Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and chemist Dr. Niels Harrit, against physicist Dave Thomas, president of New Mexicans for Science and Reason, and industrial physicist Kim Johnson. By the end of this grueling 4-hour duel, each of the three million listeners received enough information and resources to decide for themselves.  The feedback we received here at HQ is that they really understood the argument for explosive controlled demolition.  We also heard that our online follow-along videos at AE911Truth.org were quite helpful. This debate clearly demonstrated that you have to “see” the evidence for yourself.

Finally! We’ve compiled the 6 best opportunities AE911Truth has had to tell our story, and place our evidence in front of millions of TV viewers. The segments include recent broadcasts in Britain, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S. including the world premier of  9/11: Blueprint for Truth in Denver on PBS TV.

During the month of September, with any purchase of $20 or more in our online store, you will receive the Free DVD as a bonus, which includes more than 90 minutes of excellent TV coverage that Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth has rightfully earned. Six segments, ranging in lengths of 6 to 34 minutes, show it all.  Send this DVD to every media outlet in your area and ask them why they are not doing their job.  Challenge them to also break the story – the crime of the century.

Ed: This article by Stanley Fish was published in New York Times on August 23, 2010, in “Exclusive Online Commentary, ‘Opinionator.’”  Fish attended the 9/11 Truth event in the Catskills, although anonymously. His article characterized the “Truthers” he observed there by saying, “…in most other respects just like you and your friends.” He singled out Richard Gage as the star of the conference, “who laid out the basic thesis from which everything else grew.” Readers are encouraged to visit the NY Times webpage where more than 300 comments have been posted to the article.

A small gathering of 50 or 60 people; roughly 95 percent white, 90 percent male, a few blond-haired kids, average age 45, all nodding in assent as a series of speakers explains that our government is conspiring against us and fabricating massive lies in order to hide its own crimes and frighten us into giving up our constitutional rights and liberties.

The Tea Party? Minutemen? Birthers? No, “Truthers,” left-wing conspiracy theorists who believe (among other things) that 9/11 was an inside job, that no plane hit the Pentagon, that Ted Olson did not receive a call from his wife, Barbara, shortly before she perished in the crash of Flight 77, that the anthrax scare was also a government hoax (although the anthrax was real and deadly), and that hurricane Katrina was the result of weather manipulation by racists or profiteers or both.

Noted author David McCulloch once wrote, “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times.” Indeed, if history is a guide, one can look at high-rise building fires that have occurred in the past to address the issue of building safety. This review includes the fires that the 9/11 Commission concluded caused the collapse of the WTC Twin Towers, and WTC 7, for which officials declared the collapse was due to fires. Two high-rise fires listed below occurred after 9/11 and are especially noteworthy.

The history of high-rise, steel-framed buildings spans only about 100 years. Still, there are a number of very hot, large, and long lasting fires to review. One in particular, the Empire State Building, suffered a severe fire when it was struck by a B-25 bomber. The fire was fueled by high-octane gasoline, when the plane hit the 78^th and 79^th floors. Here’s a look at some high-rise fires through history, listed chronologically.

A review of the U.S. government reports on the September 11, 2001, destruction of the WTC twin towers in New York City will reveal that even though NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) was tasked by the U.S. Congress to provide a complete explanation for the unprecedented collapses of these buildings, the authors admittedly stopped their analysis at the “initiation of collapse” where they say “the building was poised to collapse”. Only half of one page of this 10,000-page report is spent on the actual collapse, and it merely speculates that “the structure below the level of collapse initiation offered minimal resistance to the falling building mass” and that it “came down essentially in free fall as seen in the videos”. NIST’s response to formal Request for Correction filed by this author and five other concerned citizens stated “we are unable to provide a full explanation of the total collapse.”

It’s clear from primary sources of evidence that quite a few people believed Building 7 was going to collapse. Such perceptive anticipation might be easy to understand if it was common for modern steel-frame skyscrapers to collapse from fires.  But since this had never happened prior to September 11, 2001, we have to ask ourselves why the collapse was so easy to predict. The Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth suspect foul play.  Ubiquitous evidence of foreknowledge adds support to the hypothesis that explosives were used to demolish Building 7.

Witnesses on the scene included construction workers, firefighters, and police. One witness, a first-year New York University medical student  named Daryl, was interviewed for WINS NYC News Radio live on the evening of September 11, 2001:

“We were watching the building [WTC 7] actually ‘cause it was on fire…. The bottom floors of the building were on fire and…we heard this sound that sounded like a clap of thunder…turned around— we were shocked to see that the building was – ah – well it looked like there was a shockwave ripping through the building, and all the windows started busted out. It was horrifying,” he said. “About a second later the bottom floor caved out and the building followed after that… We saw the building crash all the way to the ground. We were in shock.”