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False facts used as truth

 Gary Kohls has already begun a parade of unsupported “facts, “which “unequivocally prove,” that the official story about how the towers fell, is not true. But he ignores many proven facts that debunk his claims.

First, Gary claims the Towers’ collapse could only be explained as the result of pre-planned demolition charges placed in strategic areas inside the Towers, completely ignoring the fact that the Towers could also fall if the structural steel in them weakened after jet planes crashed into the buildings at hundreds of MPH, and started devastating fires which raised temperatures as high as 1,800 degrees F, enough to  weaken  steel! Steel requiring temperatures of 2,800 degrees F before melting, which has been affirmed by metallurgical sites all over the web, way before 911! And they still inform us that structural steel loses 50% of its strength at about 650 degrees F and up to 90% at 1,800 degrees F.

 The total weight of the 10 floors above one tower’s impact area and the approximately 20 floors above the other’s, was determined by Scientific American to be 3,200,000 pounds per floor. So, multiply that weight by 10 and 20 floors (respectively) above the impact areas, and then tell me that steel, weakened to 50% of its normal load bearing capacity, could have supported such weights?

Yes, the Jet fuel that ignited upon impact lasted only a few minutes but spread across entire floors, each containing many tons of office furniture, computers, cubicles, chemicals and curtains etc. So it was these longer fires (ignited by jet fuel) which burned for 102 minutes in the north tower and for 47 minutes in the south tower – long enough to weaken the strength of structural steel!

Each floor was designed to support three times its weight, but according to JOM, Journal of Metallurgy: “The floors had a 1,300 t design capacity, which could not support the roughly 45,000 t total weight of the floors above the impact areas,! So their weight started a pancaking collapse, driven by kinetic energy, that caused the buildings to collapse within ten seconds, hitting bottom at 200 km per hour! A collapse  with no impediments would take eight seconds and would have impacted at 300 km/h!

“After the FEMA report had been published, industry leaders and families of victims, asked that  the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology do more, so it conducted a three-year, $16 million investigation into the structural failure and progressive collapse of the WTC towers.

“The study included…the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, National Fire Protection Association, American Institute of Steel Construction, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and the Structural Engineers Association of New York.” All of which are reputable sources unlikely to alter their findings--even if our government threatened to kill their investigators! – which is a typical claim made by 911 conspiracy groups.

But, even in Nazi Germany, Germans faced being killed or sent to concentration camps for hiding Jews. Some of these good Samaritans were killed and tortured, yet all of that did not kill their courageous resolve to help save the victims of Hitler! So why would thousands of competent and award winning scientists be afraid to accurately report their findings – even if the government threatened to kill them unless they kept quiet?

We might also ask why a scheming cabal would bother to enlist demolition experts to place tremendous amounts of explosives on each floor of the 100 plus story Towers, that required being hidden (before the jet plane’s impacts)? Wouldn’t one think that the intense fires would’ve ignited those explosives almost immediately?

We might also mention that controlled demolitions are done by planting explosives in strategic areas which are set off simultaneously, starting on the lower floors, thus removing resistance to a direct free fall, and keeping debris from falling in ways that could damage surrounding areas.
And we might also verify why lease holder Larry Silverstein used the term “Pull it,” shortly before the WTC 7 collapse. Silverstein’s spokesperson said he used the term “pull it,” regarding the contingent of firefighters who were called to help evacuate tenants and keep them safe. So, If “pull it,” was  code for detonating explosives, why then didn’t explosives detonate during the fires? Were fire fighters foolishly risking their lives by planting explosions in WTC 7 (during raging fires)?

When Silverstein recounted the events for a TV documentary, he used the same words as his spokesperson – “(pull it)” – to order firefighters, to withdraw and protect their own lives. And if what he said was true, why would Silverstein risk admitting his own role while being filmed for a documentary? Many other anomalies have been explained by science!

Don’t worry though, Gary and other true seekers will find ways to refute them, without facts getting in the way!

Peter W. Johnson
Superior, Wisconsin

When?

Suspects are resisting
police are persisting
a flammable combination
Thus we need to abate
or eliminate
such deadly confrontation
People will die
when emotions run high
as shown time and again
We need use common sense
and be not so dense
it’s just a question of when.

Bud Brand
Superior, Wisconsin

Kristle Majchrzak & Robert Glau – sore losers play alone

When I heard about Kristle Majchrzak’s & Robert Glau’s (aka Kristle KLR) idea to sell artesian water from a well in lovely Herbster, Wisconsin, I knew the plan wouldn’t stand. The township would never consent, I thought. And it didn’t. I suspected the residents who live in this area of over 4,000 square miles would be against it. And they are.

When I was age 10, I remember Jean and George. Spoil sports, both. A group of us were playing dodgeball on the playground and Jean’s ball was best so we used hers. On this day, George was the first to go and after some arguing he sat down. Soon after, Jean was out. She didn’t argue. She said: “Give me my ball, I’m leaving. This game is dumb, and so are you.”

Off Jean and George went.

What did we do? We got another ball and played on. The game had rules, after all, and the one with the nicest ball couldn’t change them just so they could win.

The next day, there we were again … playing dodgeball. Jean and George too. Everybody lost at least once, no one argued, and we all had fun.

My advice to Kristle and Robert is this: for poor sports and sore losers the playground can be a lonely place. Games have rules. It’s OK to question a call, but everyone decides what’s right and then it’s over.

Most of us learned this by age 10, on the playground.

Paul Barnes
Ashland, Wisconsin

Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)

Some of you may remember when PCs became a household item and the first computer monitors were known as cathode ray tubes (CRT). Wow, have times changed! Now, CRT stands for “critical race theory.” This CRT is a radical leftist agenda to teach “systemic racism” in our schools and to label white students as bad citizens! The lessons plans are supported by the teachers union and require teachers in public schools to teach this racist ideology.

I applaud parents who are going to school board meetings to demand eliminating  teaching of CRT in our public schools! I also applaud Florida governor Ron DeSantis signing a bill stating that CRT will NOT be taught in Florida’s public schools!

BTW,  back in early June I attended our granddaughter’s graduation ceremonies from pre-school. They had caps & gowns, diplomas and sang happy, fun songs. The group of 14-15 students were from a very diverse heritage and I kept thinking how NONE of them know about racism! They are all equal!  Guess who teaches them racism? It is adults and the radical left who need racism to support their agenda!

Chuck Bracken
Cannon Falls, Minnesota

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