COME BACK PAUL HARVEY
As a lifelong student of history, I enjoyed the late radio legend Paul Harvey's clever show "The rest of the story". It was always insightful and amusing how Harvey presented factual historical events on a variety of subjects with a surprise or "twist" saved until the end; something never before known or apparent. In his inimical voice Harvey ended each show with the tag line "And now you know… the REST of the story."
Sadly, we may never know the rest of the story how two airplanes managed to knock down three gigantic buildings on September 11, 2001. True, two buildings were hit, and large fires with temperatures far lower than could possibly have melted their support columns, ravaged their upper floors. But that doesn't explain the ten seconds of utter freefall as the concrete exploded into untold tons of dust and metal fragments were hurled hundreds of feet to embed themselves into nearby structures. Nor is there an explanation for how WTC Building 7, not hit by anything larger that some debris from the twin towers, magically fell in on itself about nine hours after the attack. And how did the BBC reporter have the psychic powers to announce the collapse of Building 7 about twenty minutes before it actually went "poof"?
We can't get the rest of the story from the NIST (US Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology) report which spent 3 years and 16 million dollars because it focused only on identifying "the sequence of events" that triggered the collapse, but omitted detailed analysis of the collapse mechanism itself (during which the collapse occurred). While there are plausible arguments that the three collapses could only have been caused by controlled demolitions, NIST simply concluded that there were no explosives or controlled demolition involved even though no tests were conducted to rule them out. When asked why NIST did not test for explosive residues, NIST spokesman Michael Newman simply stated that NIST saw "no evidence saying to go that way."
Ah, for Paul Harvey to leave his great radio studio in the sky and come back down for one more big scoop to startle and inform his avid fans of yesteryear who simply want to know, "the rest of the story."
Sadly, we may never know the rest of the story how two airplanes managed to knock down three gigantic buildings on September 11, 2001. True, two buildings were hit, and large fires with temperatures far lower than could possibly have melted their support columns, ravaged their upper floors. But that doesn't explain the ten seconds of utter freefall as the concrete exploded into untold tons of dust and metal fragments were hurled hundreds of feet to embed themselves into nearby structures. Nor is there an explanation for how WTC Building 7, not hit by anything larger that some debris from the twin towers, magically fell in on itself about nine hours after the attack. And how did the BBC reporter have the psychic powers to announce the collapse of Building 7 about twenty minutes before it actually went "poof"?
We can't get the rest of the story from the NIST (US Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology) report which spent 3 years and 16 million dollars because it focused only on identifying "the sequence of events" that triggered the collapse, but omitted detailed analysis of the collapse mechanism itself (during which the collapse occurred). While there are plausible arguments that the three collapses could only have been caused by controlled demolitions, NIST simply concluded that there were no explosives or controlled demolition involved even though no tests were conducted to rule them out. When asked why NIST did not test for explosive residues, NIST spokesman Michael Newman simply stated that NIST saw "no evidence saying to go that way."
Ah, for Paul Harvey to leave his great radio studio in the sky and come back down for one more big scoop to startle and inform his avid fans of yesteryear who simply want to know, "the rest of the story."
posted by Walt Zlotow at 9:26 PM
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