OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF 9/11 FLIGHT CONTRADICTED BY GOVERNMENT’S OWN DATA
by rob balsamo
PILOTS FOR 9/11 TRUTH
http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/
Contact: Robert Balsamo
e-mail: pilots@pilotsfor911truth.org
Pilots for 9/11 Truth, an international organization of pilots and aviation professionals, petitioned the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) via the Freedom of Information Act to obtain their 2002 report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77″, consisting of a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file and Flight Path Animation, allegedly derived from Flight 77’s Flight Data Recorder (FDR). The data provided by the NTSB contradict the 9/11 Commission Report in several significant ways:
The NTSB Flight Path Animation approach path and altitude does not support official events.
All Altitude data shows the aircraft at least 300 feet too high to have struck the light poles.
The rate of descent data is in direct conflict with the aircraft being able to impact the light poles and be captured in the Dept of Defense “5 Frames” video of an object traveling nearly parallel with the Pentagon lawn.
The record of data stops at least one second prior to official impact time.
If data trends are continued, the aircraft altitude would have been at least 100 feet too high to have hit the Pentagon.
In August, 2006, members of Pilots for 9/11 Truth received these documents from the NTSB and began a close analysis of the data they contain. After expert review and cross check, Pilots for 9/11 Truth has concluded that the information in these NTSB documents does not support, and in some instances factually contradicts, the official government position that American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001 .According to the 9/11 Commission Report, which relied heavily upon the NTSB Flight Path Study, American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon at 9:37:46 AM on the morning of September 11, 2001 . However, the reported impact time according to the NTSB Flight Path Study is 09:37:45 . Also according to reports, American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon and by doing so, struck down 5 light poles on Highway 27 in its path to the west wall.
The information provided by the NTSB does not support the 9/11 Commission Report of American Airlines Flight 77 impact with the Pentagon.
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Complete article at:
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For detailed analysis, please view Pandora’s Black Box – Chapter Two – Flight Of American 77
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9/11 Contradictions: Bush in the Classroom
By Dr. David Ray Griffin
Global Research, April 4, 2008
The Canadian
The official story of 9/11 is riddled with internal contradictions. One of these contradictions involves the question of how long President Bush remained in classroom in Sarasota, Florida, on the morning of 9/11.
Bush was there to publicize his education policy by being photographed listening to students read. He arrived at the school at 8:55 AM, at which time he reportedly first learned that a plane had struck one of the Twin Towers. Dismissing the crash as an accident, Bush said that they would go ahead and “do the reading thing anyway.”
Bush entered the second-grade classroom of teacher Sandra Kay Daniels at about 9:03. At about 9:06, the president’s chief of staff, Andrew Card, came in and whispered in Bush’s ear, telling him, Card later reported, “A second plane hit the second Tower. America is under attack.”
What Happened Next
Thanks to Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit 9/11, which came out in 2004, the world knows what happened next: Bush remained sitting there minute after minute after minute.
Journalists, however, had reported Bush’s strange behavior much earlier. On September 1, 2002, for example, Jennifer Barrs had reported in the Tampa Tribune that, after Card whispered in Bush’s ear, the president picked up his book and read with the children “for eight or nine minutes.” In his 2002 book Fighting Back, Bill Sammon, the White House correspondent for the Washington Times, said that even after the reading lesson was over, Bush continued to linger, leading Sammon to dub him “the dawdler in chief.”
The White House’s First Anniversary Account
On the first anniversary of 9/11, however, the White House, with Andrew Card taking the lead, started giving a radically different account. On September 9, 2002, Card told Brian Williams on NBC News: “I pulled away from the president, and not that many seconds later, the president excused himself from the classroom, and we gathered in the holding room and talked about the situation.” In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on September 11, Card said that, after he had informed Bush about the second attack, the president “looked up—it was only a matter of seconds, but it seemed like minutes. . . . And he just excused himself very politely to the teacher and to the students and he left.”
That same day, Karl Rove told Campbell Brown of NBC News:
Andy Card walked in to tell the President, and you can remember the famous photograph of him whispering in the President’s ear. And the President was a little—you know, he didn’t want to alarm the children. He knew the drill was coming to a close. So he waited for a few moments just to—literally—not very long at all before he came to the close, and he came into the staff room.
Also that same day, Card and Rove got ABC News, during another program that aired on the first anniversary of 9/11, to endorse their revisionist account. This program contained the following segment:
Andrew Card: I think there was a, a moment of shock and he did stare off maybe for just a second.
Charles Gibson: The President stays calm and lets the students finish.
Karl Rove: The President thought for a second or two about getting up and walking out of the room. But the drill was coming to a close and he didn’t want to alarm the children.
Gibson: Instead Bush pauses, thanks the children. . . and heads for the empty classroom next door.
Help from Mrs. Daniels
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Complete article at:
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8555
This essay is an abbreviated version of Chapter 1 of David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press (Northampton: Olive Branch, March, 2008.
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Sunlight invites you to participate in our latest project
This week, the Sunlight Foundation unveiled our draft of what we think can become model transparency legislation — the Transparency In Government Act of 2008. Here’s the twist: Instead of immediately approaching lawmakers to sponsor the bill, we decided to first post the bill online at
http://publicmarkup.org/ in order to solicit public input to further shape, refine and edit the bill.
We invite you to participate in this collaboration. You don’t have to be an expert. Just tell us what you like, and what you think about what we have drafted.
Developing this model bill via PublicMarkup.org offers an exciting opportunity to experiment with collaborative bill-drafting online. In addition, we hope the public evaluation of the draft bill will increase attention to the critically important issue of transparent government. Our hope is that the final product can be used as a model for transparent government.
Our draft legislation updates current congressional disclosure requirements for the Internet age. It specifies technological and reporting requirements to make more information about lawmakers and their influencers, the work of Congress and of the executive branch meaningfully accessible to the public.
PublicMarkup.org’s blog-like layout allows you to comment on the entire bill, or on specific sections. You can take credit for your comments by including your name, but if you wish to comment anonymously, the format allows you to do so.
We really appreciate your help. See you online at http://publicmarkup.org/.
Keep spreading the Sunlight,
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Communications Director
Sunlight Foundation
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Why Are Global Food Prices Soaring?Energy costs, investment in … and more
Slate – USA
In 2006, 14 percent of the total corn crop in the United States was converted into ethanol; by 2010, that figure will rise to 30 percent.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2187882/
Time for Second Thoughts on the Ethanol Mandate
Heritage.org – Washington,DC,USA
by Ben Lieberman
America’s energy policy has been on an ethanol binge, and now the hangover has begun. The federal renewable fuels mandate is an unfolding …
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1879.cfm
U of M: Worldwide leader in ethanol debunking
Minneapolis City Pages – Minneapolis,MN,USA
Several studies at the University of Minnesota are cited to show the impact of widespread Ethanol demand. A study by University of Minnesota ecologist David …
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2008/04/u_of_m_worldwid.php
End the Ethanol Scam
Liberty Maven – Reston,VA,USA
The latest from DownsizeDC.org urges us to tell congress to stop wasting our tax dollars on the devastating scam of ethanol production. …
http://www.libertymaven.com/2008/04/07/end-the-ethanol-scam/1016/
Ethanol, Oil and Corn
By Richard K. Perrin
When will ethanol plants stop being built? Ethanol plants under construction in Nebraska will have the capacity to grind over 40 percent of the Nebraska corn crop by the end of 2007, and nearly 60 percent by the end of 2008. …
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/agecon_cornhusker/304
Ethanol’s lie
Tribune Review – Pittsburgh,PA,USA
From Time magazine to the Internet blogosphere, critical analysis is revealing ethanol not only as a useless fuel alternative but also as an environmental …
http://tinyurl.com/4re9nj (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/)
Guest letter: It turns out ethanol is more of a problem than a …
Minneapolis Star Tribune – Minneapolis,MN,USA
Since 1986, Minnesota lawmakers have actively encouraged the development of a sizable state ethanol industry. We now have 17 operating ethanol plants in the …
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/17593319.html
Ethanol subsidies a double-whammy
DAVID A. RIDENOUR:
Belleville News Democrat – IL, USA
Move over “Bridge to Nowhere,” there’s a new poster child of congressional waste and avarice – ethanol, the “Fuel to Nowhere.” Ethanol leads only to higher …
http://www.bnd.com/285/story/313547.html
End the ethanol folly for food’s sake
By SHNS
To paraphrase the late, great William F. Buckley, Jr., someone must stand athwart the federal ethanol program yelling, “Stop!” The emergency brake should be pulled – NOW – before ethanol wreaks further havoc. read more.
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/32438
Ethanol Harms Fiberglass Fuel Tanks in Boats
18 Apr 2008
The Los Angeles Times reports that Lawrence Turner sued gasoline producers and distributors for selling ethanol-blended gas at boating marinas without notifying customers that ethanol breaks down fiberglass fuel tanks. In order to repair a boat with this damage, a mechanic must cut through the hull of the tank and remove it piece by piece. New aluminum tanks are installed in place of the fiberglass.
http://tinyurl.com/4gfbpp (http://www.biodieselinvesting.com/)
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Herbicides and Genetically Modified Seeds Boost Monsanto – How One Company Benefits from Farm Subsidies, Ethanol and “Agflation”
1.4.2008
By Dan Shapley
Monsanto, the agri-chemical giant, is growing at a pace not seen in years, as it reaps a fortune on herbicides, seeds genetically modified to withstand those herbicides and grow-your-own pesticides.
With 46 cents a share, its stock is up 188% from a year ago, and 11 cents above Wall Street forecasts, according to Investor’s Business Daily. Sales grew 36% to $2.1 billion, the fastest growth in four years, and Monsanto expects that growth to continue into 2008.
Monsanto profited handsomely from federal subsidies for ethanol, which led to a near-record planting of corn across the Midwest. Between 2000 and 2007, the use of genetically modified corn seed grew from 25% of acres planted to 73% in the U.S., and the Department of Agriculture recently started giving farmers a break on insurance premiums if they use these seeds, creating yet another incentive. The seeds are genetically modified to either resist death by herbicide, allowing farmers to spray liberally to kill nearby weeds that lack resistance, or else to grow into plants that produce substances toxic to insect pests (allowing farmers to spray less, but worrying some about potential health risks).
But while sales of its Roundup herbicide (perfect for use on “Roundup-ready” corn, genetically fortified to resist death by herbicide) was part of the growth, the other driver was sale of corn seeds south of the border — primarily in Brazil and Argentina. Part of the growth in the market there has the same origins in U.S. farm policy; since ethanol demand has absorbed so much of the corn grown, more people in more places have incentive to grow it to fill needs both old (food, feed) and new (fuel).
One analyst quoted by Investor’s Business Daily calls that “agflation.”
From: http://tinyurl.com/2qm827 (www.thedailygreen.com/)
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Gibson’s capital-gains tax assertion during debate disputed by economists
During the April 16 Democratic presidential debate, Charles Gibson asserted of capital-gains tax cuts that “in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased. The government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down.” In fact, economists dispute Gibson’s assertion. Moreover, looking forward, the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the 2006 extension of the 2003 cuts on capital-gains taxes would result in decreased revenues over 10 years.
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200804180012?lid=247370&rid=7069124
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Precision in the Global War on Terror: Inciting Muslims through the War of Ideas
Authored by Dr. Sherifa D. Zuhur.
Never before have Americans paid so much attention to Islam and Muslim ideology. Although efforts have been made to separate mainsteam views from extremist principles, Muslims feel that many of their basic beliefs are under attack in the ongoing war of ideas. The author explores why, surveying a broad swath of accusations and efforts to change Muslim and Islamist ideas and institutions.
http://tinyurl.com/3hclvc (http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/)
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Is Inflation Moderating?
That is how most media accounts treated the March data for the consumer price index. It is not clear that this view is accurate.
The overall inflation rate for the month was 0.3 percent, while the core showed just a 0.2 percent rise. While this is in fact a very moderate pace, there were a number of anomalies in the data which held the rate down.
The most obvious were a 1.3 percent decline in apparel prices and a 0.6 percent drop in hotel prices. Both components are very erratic and are likely to be reversed in future months. In addition, medical costs reportedly rose at just a 0.1 percent rate, well below its recent trend. Even tobacco prices reportedly fell (albeit by just 0.1 percent), a decline that is unlikely to be repeated given policy efforts to raise tobacco prices.
There were no obvious anomalies on the other side. Furthermore, prices at earlier stages of production are rising rapidly. The overall finished goods index rose 1.1 percent in March. It has risen at a 10.2 percent rate over the last year. The core index rose just 0.2 percent in March, but this followed two months of more rapid increases. Over the quarter, the core finished goods index has risen at a 5.0 percent annual rate while the core finished consumer goods index rose at a 5.5 percent rate. The overall intermediate goods index rose 2.3 percent in March, while the core index rose 1.1 percent.
The price increases stem largely from rising import prices and rising commodity prices world-wide. It seems unlikely that these price increases will not eventually show up in the consumer price index, given the slowdown in productivity growth in recent years. Over the last three and a half years productivity growth has averaged less than 1.7 percent annually, almost the same rate as during the slow growth years from 1973-1995.
As always, you can get the real inflation story in CEPR’s price byte.
http://tinyurl.com/4c8syb (http://www.cepr.net/)
–Dean Baker
From: http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press
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How Can We Miss Him if He Won’t Go Away?
Apr 14, 2008
By Andy Borowitz
President George W. Bush used a Rose Garden appearance today to reassure investors that he was at the helm of the U.S. economy, causing stock markets to plummet around the world.
“You don’t have to worry about this economy because I am in charge of it,” said Mr. Bush, touching off what some observers were calling a global financial panic.
Mr. Bush began his remarks about the economy at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, and by 10:30 markets around the world had already gone into a perilous free fall.
According to Wall Street insiders, the markets were responding to the news that Mr. Bush was still president. “Over the last few weeks, the markets have absorbed the news of the subprime crisis, the housing meltdown and the Bear Stearns failure,” said Logan Teasdale of Citigroup. “But the news that President Bush is still president was too much for the markets to shrug off.”
Over the past few months, Mr. Teasdale said, traders have tried hard to forget that Mr. Bush was still president, but his White House remarks today were “a painful reminder.” At the Federal Reserve, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke huddled with central bankers to try to find a way to calm the markets rattled by Mr. Bush’s alarming appearance.
One solution reportedly being pondered by the Fed would involve sending Mr. Bush to Disney World for the remainder of his time in office.
Elsewhere, in a triumphal return to Yankee Stadium, former pitching great Roger Clemens threw out the first syringe.
Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of “The Republican Playbook.”
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=57164
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