in my first book about nine eleven the new pearl harbor i summarize dozens of facts and reports that cast doubt on the official story about nine eleven then in my second book the nine eleven commission report omissions and distortions i explained how the nine eleven commission had treated those facts and reports that is by distorting them or simply omitting most of them the advantage of this big picture approach is that it shows that every aspect of the official story is problematic this is important to realize no matter where you begin the official story is riddled with inconsistency is and contradicted by many many facts but one problem with this big picture approach is that because it covers so many areas each discussion must be quite brief and therefore superficial and that opens the way to people suspecting that if we were to look at more in more detail at any of the issues maybe the official story would make sense after all in the present lecture i am going to focus on one question why did the twin towers and building seven of the world trade center collapse one advantage of this focus besides the fact that it will allow us to go into some detail on this most important question is that the destruction of the world trade center provides one of the best windows into the truth about nine eleven another advantage is that it will allow us to look at revelations contained in the nine eleven oral histories which were recorded by the new york fire department shortly after nine eleven but released to the public only this august i will begin with the question of why the twin towers collapsed then raised the same question about building seven shortly after nine eleven president bush advised people not to tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories about the attacks of eleven september philip zelikow who directed the work of the nine eleven commission has likewise warned against outrageous conspiracy theories what do these men mean by this expression they cannot mean that we should reject all conspiracy theories about nine eleven because the government's own account is a conspiracy theory according to which nineteen arab muslim hijackers outwitted the most sophisticated defense system in history and also defeated several laws of physics as i will explain later they mean only that we should reject all out religious conspiracy theories but what distinguishes an outrageous theory from a non outrageous one this is one of the central questions in the philosophy of science when confronted by rival theories such as new darwinian evolution and intelligent design design scientists and philosophers of science ask which theory is better and why the mark of a good theory is that it can explain in a coherent way all or at least most of the relevant facts and is not contradicted by any of them a bad theory is one that is contradicted by some of the relevant facts now true just harry would be one that is contradicted by virtually all of the facts with this definition in mind let us look at the official theory about the twin towers which says that they collapsed because of the compound effect of the impact of the airplanes and the resulting fires for example the report that was put out by thema said the structural damage sustained by each tower from the impact combined with the ensuing fires resulted in the total collapse of each building this theory clearly belongs to the category of outrageous theories because it is contradicted by all the relevant facts now that may same like an extreme statement but i'll try to show why it is not official theory is rendered implausible by two major problems the first is the simple fact that fire has never prior to or after nine eleven because steel frame high rise buildings to collapse defenders of the official theory so if ever mention this simple fact indeed the supposedly definitive report put out by nist the national institute for standards and technology even implies that fire induced collapses of large steel framed buildings are common affairs but far from being common such collapses never occurred prior to nine eleven defenders of the official theory of course say that the collapses of the towers were cause not simply by the fire but by the fire combined with the damage caused by the impact of the airplanes however the towers were designed to withstand the impact of airliners about the same size as boeing seven sixty seven s hyman brown the construction manager of the twin towers said they were or were designed to withstand almost anything including hurricanes but awnings and an airplane hitting them and even thomas eagar and mit professor of materials engineering who supports the official theory says that the impact of the airplanes would have been in significant because the number of columns lost on the initial impact was not large and the loads were shifted to the remaining columns in this highly redundant structure likewise the nist report and discussing how the impact of the planes contributed to the collapses focused primarily on the claim that the planes dislodged a lot of the fire proofing from the steel the official theory of the collapses therefore essential a fire theory so it cannot be over in for sized that fire has never caused large steel framed buildings to collapse never whether prior to nine eleven or after nine eleven or anywhere else in the world on nine eleven one might say of course that there is a first time for everything and that a truly extraordinary fire might induce a collapse well let's look at this idea what would count as an extraordinary fire given the properties of steel a fire would need to be very hot very big and very long lasting but the fires in the towers did not have even one of these three characteristics let alone all three there have been claims to be sure that the fires were very hot some television specials claimed that the towers collapsed because because the fire was hot enough to melt steel for example an early b b c special quoted a man presented as a structural engineer as saying it was the fire that killed the buildings there's nothing on earth that could survive those temperatures with that amount of fuel burning the columns would have melted but these claims are absurd it still does not melt until it reaches almost twenty eight hundred degrees fahrenheit and yet open fire is fueled by hydrocarbons such as kerosene which is essentially what jet fuel is can at most rise to seventeen hundred degrees fahrenheit which is about eleven hundred degrees short we can accordingly dismiss the claim that the towers collapse because their steel columns melted most defenders of the official theory to be sure do not make this absolutely they say merely that the fire heated the steel up so much that it lost so much of its strength that it buckled for example thomas eagar saying that steel loses eighty percent of its strength when it is heated to thirteen hundred and thirteen hundred degrees fahrenheit argues that that's what happened but for even this claim to be part plausible the fires would have still had to be very hot but they were not people who have made claims about the thousands of gallons of jet fuel forget the fact that much of this jet fuel burned up in the first few sockets in those enormous fireballs particularly outside the south tower and that the rest of the jet fuel would have burned up within about ten minutes and after that the flame started dying down photographs of the towers fifteen minutes after they were struck show few flames and lots of black smoke a sign that the fires were oxygen star thomas eagar recognizing this fact says that the fires were probably only about twelve or thirteen hundred degrees fahrenheit there are reasons to believe moreover that the fires were not even that hot as photographs show the fires did not break windows or even spread much beyond their points of origin suggesting that they were not hot enough to ignite paper plastic or would this photographic evidence is supported by scientific studies carried out by nist itself which indicated that they found no evidence that the steel had been exposed to temperatures more than five hundred degrees fahrenheit moreover even if the fire had reached thirteen hundred degrees fahrenheit as eager supposes that does not mean any of the steel would have gotten close to that temperature steel is an excellent conductor of heat put a fire to one part of the long steel bar and it will quickly diffused to the rest of the bar and to any other steel to which the bar is in contact for fires to have heated any of the steel columns to anywhere close to their own temperature they would have needed to be also very big relative to the size of the buildings and the no amount of steel in them and of course the towers were enormous and had a huge amount of steel a small localized fire of thirteen hundred degrees fahrenheit would have never heated any of the steel columns even close to that temperature because the heat the the heat would have quickly dispersed throughout the building defenders of the official story have said that the fires were indeed very big turning the buildings into towering inferno but all the evidence counts against this claim especially with regard to the south tower which collapsed first this tower was struck between floors seventy eight and eighty four so that is where the fire would have been the biggest and yet brian clark a survivor said that when he got down to the eightieth floor you could see the wall and the cracks and see flames just looking up not a roaring inferno just quiet flames licking up and smoke sort of eking through the wall likewise one of the fire chiefs who reached the seventy eighth floor found only two isolated pockets of fire the north tower to be sure did have fires that were big enough to cause people to jump to their death but as anyone with a fireplace great or a potbelly stove knows fire that will learn human flesh will not harm steel or even iron in any case the fires to weaken the steel columns would have needed to be not only very big and hot but also very long lasting the public was told that the fires had this characteristic with c n n saying that very intense fires burned for a long time but they did not the north tower collapsed an hour and forty two minutes after it was struck the south tower collapsed after only fifty six minutes for comparison let us look at some other fires in one thousand nine hundred eight a fire in the first interstate bank building in los angeles raged for three and a half hours and gutted five of this building sixty two floors but there was no significant structural damage in one nine hundred ninety one a huge fire in philadelphia is one meridian plaza lasted for eighteen hours and gutted eight of the buildings thirty eight floors but said the fema report although beams and girders sagged and twisted under severe fire exposures the columns continued to support their loads without obvious damage in caracas in two thousand and four a fire in a fifty story building raged for seventeen hours completely gutting the building's top twenty three hours and yet it did not collapse unlike the fires in the towers moreover all of these fires were hot enough to break windows perhaps the most decisive comparison is provided by a series of experiments run in great britain in the mid one nine hundred ninety s to see what kind of damage could be done to steel framed buildings by subjecting them to extremely hot all consuming long lasting fires fema having reviewed these experiments said despite the temperature of the steel beams reaching fifteen to seventeen degrees fahrenheit in three of the tests no collapse was observed in any of the six experiments there is a reverse truth to the fact that aside from the alleged cases of nine eleven fire has never caused large steel framed buildings to collapse this reverse truth is that every previous collapse has been caused by the procedure known as controlled demolition in which explosives capable of cutting steel have been placed in crucial places throughout the building and set off in a particular order just from knowing that the towers collapsed therefore the normal suspicion would be that they were brought down by explosives this opera or assumption is moreover supported by the particular nature of the collapses here we come to the second major problem with the official theory namely that the collapses had at least ten features in common with controlled demolitions i will briefly indicate these ten features first in control demolition the onset of the collapse is sudden one moment the building is perfectly still the next moment it suddenly begins to collapse but steel when heated does not suddenly buckle or break so in fire induced collapses if we had had any cases of such the unset would be gradual horizontal beams and trusses would begin to sag vertical columns if subjected to strong forces would begin to b but as videos of the tower show there were no signs of bending or sagging even on the floors just above the damage caused by the em plaque packed of the planes the buildings were perfectly motionless up to the moment they began collapsing and then they collapsed very suddenly second the most important thing in a controlled demolition of a tall building that is near other buildings is that it comes straight down into or at least close to its own footprint so that it does not harm the surrounding buildings the whole art or science of controlled demolition is oriented primarily around this goal as the president of controlled demolition inc has explained to bring a building down as we want so no other structure is harmed the demolition must be completely planned using the ri sees and the right pattern of laying the charges if one hundred ten story twin towers had fallen over they would have caused an enormous amount of damage to buildings covering many city blocks but the towers came straight down the official theory therefore requires a miracle with fire producing collapses that perfectly mimic the kind of collapse that has otherwise been produced only by well planned explosives three buildings brought down by controlled demolition collapse at almost freefall speed this can occur because the supports for the lower floors are destroyed so that when the upper floors come down they encounter no resistance the fact that the collapses of the towers mimic this feature of controlled demolition was indirectly mentioned by the nine eleven commission report which said that the south tower collapsed in ten seconds the authors of the report evidently thought that the repetitive of this collapse did not conflict with the official theory which is called the pancake theory according to which the floors above the floors that were weakened by the impact of the airplane fell on the floor below which started a chain reaction and then the floors pancaked all the way down but if that is what happened the lower floors with all other steel and concrete would have provided resistance the upper floors could not have fallen through them at the same speed as they would fall through the air and yet the videos of the collapses show that the rubble falling inside the buildings profile falls at the same speed as the rubble outside the buildings profile for the official theory is even more decisively ruled out by the fact that the collapses were total these one hundred ten story buildings collapsed into piles of rubble only a few stories high according to the pancake theory the horizontal steel supports broke free from the vertical column if that is what had happened however the forty seven core columns would have still been standing the nine eleven commission came up with a bold solution to this problem it simply denied the existence of the forty seven core columns i quote the interior core of the buildings was a hollow steel shaft in which elevators and stairwells were grouped while up with no forty seven core columns the main problem to believing in a total collapse was solved the report by nist handled this most difficult problem by claiming that when the floors collapsed they put on the columns causing the perimeter columns to become unstable this instability then increased the gravity load on the core columns which had been we tremendously hot fires in the core which nist claims reached eighteen hundred and thirty two degrees fahrenheit of course you remember i reported earlier they found evidence of fires only five hundred degrees so they simply added thirteen hundred and thirty two degrees as a good guess as to how hot it was and there besides that problem  there is no explanation of why even if that sequence of events had occurred it would have produced a total collapse the nist report asserts that column failure occurred in the core as well as the perimeter columns but this remains a bare assertion there is no plausible explanation offered as to how the columns especially the massive core columns could have buckled or broken five and controlled demolitions of steel framed buildings explosives are used to slice the steel columns and beams into pieces a representative from controlled demolition inc has said of r d x one of the commonly used explosives that it slices steel like a razor blade through tomato the steel moreover is not merely sliced it is sliced into manageable lengths as control demolition inc says in its publicized a our system segment steel components into pieces matching the lifting capacity of the available equipment the collapses of the twin towers that same somehow managed to mimic this feature of controlled demolitions as well jim hofmann after studying the various photos of the collapse i'd said that much of the steel seemed to be chopped up into sections that could be easily loaded on to the equipment that was cleaning up ground zero six another feature of controlled demolition is the production of a lot of dust because explosives powerful enough to slice steel well polarized concrete and almost all other nonmetallic substances and hofmann reports nearly all of the nonmetallic constituents of the towers were pulled over ised into a fine powder that observation was also made by colonel john o'dowd of the us army corps of engineers at the world trade center site he told the history channel it seemed like everything was pulverized this fact creates a problem for the official theory according to which the only energy available was the gravitational energy because this is wholly unsuited to this kind of polarization especially in the first few sockets and hoffman's words you can see thick clouds of pull over eyes concrete being exacted within the first two seconds that's when the relative motion of the top of the tower to the intact portion was only a few feet per s seven another common feature of controlled demolitions are dust clouds which result when the explosions eject the dust from the buildings with great energy and as one can see by comparing videos on the web the collapses of the towers produced clouds that are very similar to those produced by controlled demolitions of other structures such as seattle's kendo the only difference is that the clouds produced by the collapses of the towers were proportionately much bigger suggesting that much more powerful explosives were used the question of the source of the needed energy again arises focusing on the expansion of the north tower as dust cloud calculates that the energy required simply for this expansion leaving aside the question of the energy to slice the steel and polarized the concrete was at least ten times the gravitational energy available the official account therefore involves a huge violation of the laws of physics a violation that becomes even more enormous once the energy required to slice the steel and coal varieties the concrete is taken into account eight another common feature of controlled demolition is the horizontal direction of other materials besides from those areas of the building in which explosives are set off in the case of the twin towers photos and videos reveal that heavy pieces of steel were ejected in all directions for distances up to five hundred feet while aluminum cladding was blown up to six seven hundred feet away from the towers but the gravitational energy is vertical not i cannot begin to explain these horizontal rejections nine still another common feature of collapses induced by explosions are demolition rings in which series of small explosions run rapidly around a building this feature was also manifested ten feature of collapses induced by explosives is logically enough the occurrence of sights and sounds produced by the explosions some testimony suggestive of explosions in the towers provided by reporters firefighters medical workers police workers and people who worked in the towers has long been available and discussed quite a bit in the nine eleven truth community a few of these testimonies such as those of janitor william rodriguez situation has now changed dramatically shortly after nine eleven the new york fire department recorded over five hundred oral histories in which firefighters and emergency medical workers recounted their experiences of that day mayor bloomberg said ministration refused to release them but then the new york times joined by several families of nine eleven victims filed suit they were time after time but finally the new york state court of appeals ordered the city to release these oral histories which it did this past august the times then made them publicly available you can read them for yourself these oral histories contain many dozens of testimonies that speak of the explosions and related phenomena characteristic of controlled demolition i will give some examples several  reported multiple explosions paramedic kevin darn ask he said i heard three explosions and then tower two started to come down firefighter thomas to really sad it almost sounded like bombs going off like boom boom boom boom like seven or eight craig carlsen said that he and other firefighters heard explosions coming from the south tower there were about ten explosions we  realized the building started to come down firefighter joseph mayla said it looked like the building was blowing out on all four sides we actually heard the pops paramedic daniel rivera also mentioned pops ask how he knew that the south tower was coming down he said it was a frigging noise at first i thought it was do you ever see professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear pop pop pop pop pop i thought it was that according to the official account the pancaking began when the floors above the hole caused by the airplane fell on the floors below but some witnesses reported that the collapses of the towers began somewhat lower timothy burke speaking of the south tower said that the building popped lower than the fire firefighter edward cio also speaking of the south tower said it actually gave at a lower floor not the floor where the plane was hit we originally had thought there was like internal detonation explosives because it went in succession boom boom boom boom boom and then the tower came down some of the witnesses spoke of flashes and a phenomena suggestive of demolition rains assistant commissioner stephen gregory said i thought before number two came down that i saw low level flashes i saw a flash flash flash at the lower level of the building you know like when they demolish a building captain karen de shore said somewhere around the middle there was this orange and red flash coming out initially it was just one flash then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and the building started to explode firefighter richard bennett says kate speaking of the south tower said there was just an explosion it seemed like on television when they blow up these buildings it seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt all these explosions deputy commissioner thomas that patrick said it looked like sparkling around one specific layer of the building my new show reaction was that this was exactly the way it looks when they show you those implosions on t v a few witnesses spoke of horizontally jackson's chief frank cruthers sad there was what appeared to be an explosion it appeared at the very top simultaneously from all four sides materials shot out horizontally and then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse this testimony is important because the official theory says that the objections were caused when the floors pancaked and pushed the material out so listen to firefighter james curran who said i looked back and i heard like every floor went to do i look back and fro pressure everything was good and blown out of the floors before it actually collapsed if all these firefighters and medical workers witnessed all these phenomena suggestive of controlled demolition it might be wondered why they have not spoken out part of the answer is probably be provided by auxilary lieutenant fireman paul isaac having said that there were definitely bombs in those buildings isaac added that many other firemen know there were bombs in the buildings but they're afraid for their jobs to admit it because the higher ups forbid discussion of this fact another part of the answer is that when a few people have spoken out the mainstream press has failed to report their statements isaac for example has more recently said i know nine eleven was an inside job the police know it's an inside job and the firemen know it too but you have not heard this on the nightly news or read it in mainstream newspapers because of all of these considerations we can say that the official theory about the towers is disproved about as strongly as any such theory could be disproved whereas all the evidence can be explained by the alternative theory according to which the towers were brought down by explosives the official theory is accordingly an outrageous theory whereas the alternative theory is from a scientific point of view the only reasonable theory available moreover although we have already considered sufficient evidence for the theory that the towers were brought down by explosives there is still more for one thing the steel from the building was quickly removed before it could be properly examined with virtually all of it being sold as scrap iron and much of it sent to asia to be melted down generally removing any evidence from the scene of a crime is a federal offense you cannot pick up a matchbook but in this case federal officials facilitated the removal this remove will evoke protest on christmas day two thousand and one the new york times said the decision to rapidly recycle the steel columns beams and trusses from the world trade center in the days immediately after nine eleven means definitive answers may never be known the next week fire engineering magazine said we are literally treating the steel removed from the site like garbage not like crucial fire scene evidence the destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately but it went on and mayor bloomberg defending the decision to dispose of the steel said if you wanted a colloq at the construction methods and the design that's in this day and age what computers do just looking at a piece of steel generally done tell you anything but that is not true an examination would show whether the steel had been sliced by explosives the suggestion that explosives might have been placed in the towers raises the question of how anyone who wanted to place explosives in the buildings would have gotten past the security this question brings us to a possibly relevant fact about a company called securacom that was in charge of security for the world trade center from one nine hundred ninety three to two thousand during which securacom installed a new security system marvin bush the president's brother was one of the directors of that these fact should have made the evening news or at least the nine eleven commission report but they did not these facts in any case may be relevant to some reports given by people who had worked in the world trade center some reportedly said that although in the weeks before nine eleven there had been a security alert that mandated the use of bomb sniffing dogs that alert was lifted five days before nine eleven also a man named scott forbes who worked for fiduciary trust the company for which kristen bright wiser's husband had worked has written on the weekend of september eighth and ninth two thousand and one there was a power down condition in the south tower this power down condition meant that there was no electrical supply for approximately thirty six hours from floor fifty the reason given by the world trade center for the power down in the tower was being upgraded of course without power there were new all security cameras no security locks on doors while many engineers were coming in and out of the towers also a man named been found who was a financial analyst with fireman's fund in the south tower was quoted in people magazine as saying that during the weeks before nine eleven the towers were evacuated a number of times and that this was highly unusual one more possibly relevant fact is that then mayor rudy giuliani talking on a b c news to peter jennings about his temporary emergency command center at seventy five barclay street said we were operating out of there when we were told that the world trade center was going to collapse and it did collapse before we could get out of the building this is an amazing statement prior to nine eleven fire had never brought down a steel frame i rise building the firemen who reached the seventy eighth floor of the south tower certainly did not believe it was going to collapse even the nine eleven commission has said that to its knowledge none of the fire chief present believe that a total collapse of either tower was possible so why in the world would have anyone told giuliani that the world trade center towers were about to collapse the most reasonable answer especially in light of the new evidence we have considered is that someone knew that explosives had been placed in the building and were about to be discharged is even possible that the explosives were going to be discharged earlier than originally planned in the south tower because the fires in that tower were dying down more quickly than expected since so much of the planes jet fuel had burned up in the fireball outside the building because the plane that hit the south tower hit it on the corner and that's why such an enormous fireball was produced outside so there was relatively little fuel to fuel the fire inside this could explain why although the south tower was struck second suffered less structural damage and had smaller fires it collapsed first after only fifty six minutes that is if the official story was going to be the fires brought the buildings down the fires had still better be going when the building came down we now learn from the oral histories that giuliani is not the only one who was told that a collapse was coming at least four of the recently released oral histories indicate that shortly before the collapse of the south tower the office of emergency management had predicted the collapse of at least one tower the director of this office reported directly to giuliani so although giuliani said that he and others were told that the towers were going to collapse it was his own people who were doing the telling the nine eleven commission which had access to the oral histories should have discussed these facts but did not another matter not discussed by the commission was the collapse of building seven and yet the official story about it is if anything even more problematic than the official story about the towers it was even more difficult to explain because building seven was not struck by an airliner so none of the theories about how the impacts of the airliners helped cause the collapse of the towers could be used to explain the collapse of building also all the photographic evidence suggests that the fires in this building were small not very hot and limited to a few floors photographs of the north side of the building show fires only on the seventh and twelve floors of this forty seven story building so if the south side which faced the towers had lots of fires on many floors the fires were not big enough to be seen from the it would not be surprising of course if the fires in this building were even smaller than those in the towers because there was no explosion or jet fuel to get a fire started some defenders of the official story have to be to claim that the diesel fuel which was in this building was set on fire and created a towering inferno but if building seven had been come in govt in flames why did not the many photographers and videographers who were around the world trade center that day why did not a single one of them capture this fact on film the extreme difficulty of explaining the collapse of building seven assuming that it is not permissible to mention controlled demolition has been recognized by the official bodies the report prepared under fema supervision came up with a scenario employing the diesel fuel but then it admitting that this scenario the best one it could come up with had only a low probability of occurrence even that statement is generous because the probability that some version of the official story about building seven is true is the same as it is for the towers essentially zero because it would violate several laws of physics in any case the nine eleven commission perhaps because of this admission by famous handled the problem by simply omitting any mention of the collapse of building seven this was incidentally one of the commission's most amazing omissions according to the official theory building seven had demonstrated contrary to all previous thought that fire alone could bring down a high rise steel framed buildings so all the building codes all insurance rates in the world should have been modified this was a struggling discovery and yet the nine eleven commission report and its five hundred seventy one pages could not find a single sentence to devote to this collapse yet another reason why the collapse of building seven is especially problematic is that it was even more like the best known type of controlled demolition which is an implosion that begins at the bottom of the building a website about the demolition industry called implosion world which you can find by going on google says that an implosion is by far the trickiest type of explosives project and the only a handful of blasting companies in the world that possess enough experience to perform these true building implosions can anyone really believe that fire would have just happened to perfectly mimic that type of controlled demolition that only a few companies in the world can reliably produce the building had twenty four core columns and fifty seven perimeter columns to hold that fire cause this building to collapse straight down would mean believing that the fire caused all eighty one columns to fall at exactly the same time even though fire obviously was not spread evenly throughout the building to accept the official story about building seven therefore is to accept a miracle another reason why the collapse of building seven creates special problems involves for knowledge of its collapse we know of only a few people with advance knowledge that the twin towers were going to collapse and the information we have would be consistent with the supposition that they learned this only at the last minute people going to madge and therefore that someone saw the first signs of a collapse but the four knowledge of building seven is collapse was more widespread and as longer duration this has been known for a long time at least by people who read firefighters magazines but now the oral histories have provided a fuller picture at least twenty five of the firefighters and medical workers reported that at some time that day they learned that building seven was going to collapse firefighters who had been fighting in the building said that they were ordered to leave the building after which a collapses zone was established as medical worker decosta right put it they measured out how far the building was going to come so we knew exactly where we could stand which was five blocks away as to exactly when the expectation of the collapse began circulating the testimonies differ somewhat but most of the evidence suggests that the expectation of collapse was communicated four to five hours prior to the collapse which occurred at about five twenty but why would this expectation have a risen the fires in building seven were as we have seen according to all the photographic evidence if you and small so why would the decision makers in the department have decided to pull firefighters out of the building and just waited for it to collapse the chief gave a twofold explanation damage plus fire one chief said when the north tower fell it rip steel out from between the third and six floors across the facade of vesey street we were concerned that the fires on several for the floors and the missing steel would result in the building collapsing another chief spoke of damage and very heavy fire on many floors but if there was very heavy fire on many floors and a four story hole in the facade why were these facts not captured on any film the chief explanation is to be sure supported in some testimonies but some of them are obviously fabrications invented to support the official line and some of the testimonies did not support the official line medical technician decosta wright said i think the fourth floor was on fire we were like are you guys going to put that fire out thomas mccarthy said they were waiting for seven world trade to come down they had fire on three separate floors it looked like just burning merrily it's pretty amazing you know it's the afternoon in lower manhattan a major high rise is burning and they said we know even if the department's official story about the collapse of building seven were not contradicted by physical evidence and some of the oral histories it would not explain why the building collapsed because no amount of fire and structural damage had ever caused such a collapse of a large steel framed building it certainly could not explain the particular nature of the collapse that it imploded collapse straight down at virtually freefall speed six point three sockets four forty seven story building there is only one theory that explains both the nature and the expectation of the collapse explosives had been sat and someone who knew this praed the word to  fire chiefs amazingly enough a version of this theory has been publicly stated by an insider larry silverstein who owned a building seven said in a p b s documentary aired in september of two thousand and two about building seven i remember getting a call from her fire department commander telling me that they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire and i said we've had such a terrible loss of life maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it and they made the decision to pull and we watched the building collapse is very puzzling of course that sooner stain who is ready to receive billions of dollars in insurance payments for building seven and the rest of the world trade center on the assumption that they had been destroyed by foreign terrorists would have made such a statement especially with the cameras running but his assertion that building seven was brought down by explosives whatever the motive behind it explains why and how it collapsed but we still have the question of why the fire department came to expect the building to collapse it would be interesting of course if that information came from the same agency the office of emergency management that had earlier informed the department that one of the towers was the last essentially a member of the bush administration he had been a member of the national security council under the first bush administration working with conda lisa rice then when the democrats were congolese arise wrote a book together then when she was appointed national security advisor in the second bush administration she brought him on to help with the transition and then more recently she has pulled him into the state department the work of the commission was not done by the ladies and man that you saw on t v the commissioners the work was done by a staff of about eighty under the zelikow read the final chapter of my book to get a full account of this and how completely zelic out controlled what went on and of course he was in charge of writing the final report so this commission that now they're saying we need a katrina commission that's an independent commission like the nine eleven commission the nine eleven commission was as independent as if dick cheney had been in charge of it so we need a real investigation and that's really the point of my work so there are a lot of questions we do not know the answer to but it is possible now to know beyond a reasonable doubt one very important thing that destruction of the world trade center was an inside job orchestrated by terrorists within our own government foreign terrorists could not have gotten access to the buildings to plant the explosives they probably would not have had the courtesy to make sure that the buildings came straight down and they could not have orchestrated a cover up from the quick disposal of the steel to the fema report to the nine eleven commission report and now to the nist report all of these things had to be orchestrated by forces within our own government the evidence for this conclusion has this far been largely ignored by the mainstream press perhaps under the guise of obeying president bush's advice not to tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories but we've seen that it is the bush administration's conspiracy theory that is the outrageous one because it is violently contradicted by numerous facts including several basic laws of physics there is of course another reason why the mainstream press has not pointed out these contradictions as a recent letter to the los angeles times sad the number of contradictions in the official version of nine eleven is so overwhelming it simply cannot be believed yet the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing that we are subject to a government conspiracy of x files proportions and insidiousness the implications are indeed disturbing many people who know or at least suspect the truth about nine eleven probably probably believe that revealing it would be so discover disturbing to the american psyche the american form of government and global stability that it is better to pretend to believe the official version i would suggest however that any merit that that argument may have had at one time has been overcome by more recent events and realizations far more devastating to the american psyche the american form of government and the world as a whole will be the continued rule of those who brought us nine eleven because the values reflected in that horrendous event have been reflected in the bush administration's lies to justify the attack on iraq its disregard for environmental science and the bill of rights its criminal negligence both before and after katrina and now its apparent plan not only to weapon space but also to authorize the use of nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike perhaps from space in light of this situation and the facts discussed in this lecture as well as dozens of more problems in the official account of nine eleven discussed elsewhere i call on the press finally to expose to the american people and the world the truth about nine eleven the welfare of our public and perhaps even the survival of our civilization depend on getting the truth about nine eleven exposed i'm calling on the press to rise to the occasion but the press is not likely to act unless there is a minor widespread movement demanding the truth about nine eleven so i call on citizens who are hearing these words to form such a movement as a christian theologian i call specially on fellow christians because our movement began as an anti imperial movement and as i have argued elsewhere nine eleven was clearly orchestrated to further the american goal of this administration to create the first global empire in history thank you very much for your patience and