- Alas, the man who is
billed as 9/11's hero, America's sheriff, the man who would be
President, is being faced today with thousands of people who
worked selflessly at Ground Zero and have become ill, and are
now suing the city for health damages. I wrote about their
plight in a Dec, 20, 2006, Online Journal article: No money to
treat 9/11 workers, $3 billion to fight Iraq?
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- I quoted the New York
Times which said that previously "roughly $40 million that was
set aside by the federal government to treat rescue workers,
volunteers and firefighters who became ill after helping with
the 9/11 cleanup and recovery will run out in months, physicians
and federal officials said yesterday."
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- The amount necessary to
keep care ongoing beyond that was "$256.6 million, including
$163.6 million in direct medical expenses for 19,200: $91.2
million for 9,6000 patients with respiratory or digestive
disorders, $58 million for 8,000 patients with 9/11 related
mental illnesses and $14.4 million for 1,600 patients with
musculoskeletal conditions. Medications account for more than
half of the treatment cost."
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- And now we find out
that the major reason for the extent of harmed responders was no
less than Hizzoner Rudy Giuliani himself. According to the
Times' Ground Zero Illnesses Clouding Giuliani's Legacy, "The
city ran a generally slipshod, haphazard, uncoordinated,
unfocused response to environmental concerns." This is their
quote from David Newman, an industrial hygienist with the New
York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, a labor group.
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- The Times adds "City
officials and a range of medical experts are now convinced that
the dust and toxic materials in the air around the site were a
menace." No kidding. Two 500,000-ton Towers were pulverized,
vaporized into that mist.
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- "More than 2,000 New
York City firefighters have been treated for serious respiratory
problems. Seventy percent of nearly 10,000 recovery workers
screened at Mount Sinai Medical Center have trouble breathing.
City officials estimate that health care costs related to the
air at ground zero have already run into the hundreds of
millions of dollars, and no one knows whether other illnesses,
like cancers, will emerge."
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- Additionally, as of May
24, 2004, the New York Times reports that For the First Time,
New York Links a Death to 9/11 Dust. "In a letter made public
yesterday [May 24, 2007], [New York City's Chief Medical
Examiner] Dr. [Charles S.] Hirsch said that he was certain
'beyond a reasonable doubt' that dust from the twin towers
contributed to the death of Felicia Dunn-Junes, 42, a civil
rights lawyer who was engulfed on Sept 11 as she ran from her
office a block away from the trade center. She later developed a
serious cough and had trouble breathing, and she died five
months after the terrorist attack. Her name will be added to the
official list of World Trade Center victims, and the official
number of people who died as a result of the attack on the twin
towers will be increased to 2,750. . . ."
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- A mayor out of
control
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- The first Times' piece
tells us that while "the city had a safety plan for workers, it
never meaningfully enforced federal requirements that those at
the site wear respirators." It seems Hizzoner was obsessed with
getting the job done post haste at any cost. One official from
the Army Corps said, "Mr. Giuliani acted like a 'benevolent
dictator."" I would strike the benevolent from the dictator. He
never let FEMA or the Army Corps take over the clean-up
operation.
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- "The clean-up was
expected to last 30 months," according to the Times, but "the
pit was cleared by June 2002, nine months after the attack."
This is not just speed. It's the elimination of the biggest most
important crime scene in American history, a crime itself,
committed with a criminal intent by someone who knew better, a
former US attorney, Rudy Giuliani. And what possible reason
could he have had for that miscarriage of justice? Aside from
getting Wall Street's lights back on, could Giuliani have been
aiding and abetting the cover-up of how and who and why the
Towers went down?
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- Of course most of us
who are reading more than the Times know it wasn't two airliners
piloted by wild-eyed Muslim terrorists that brought those
buildings down. First of all none of the terrorists' names were
on the manifests. And FBI director Robert Mueller, who at first
magically produced the terrorists' names and pix, later said
they could not be definitively proven to have been there, at
least not like the passport of Mohamed Atta that was found in
pristine condition in the massive smoldering ruin of Ground
Zero. It is highly probable those planes were piloted by remote
control systems that kicked in as the transponders went down.
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- Secondly, the ten
thousand gallons of jet fuel in each plane burned up brightly
and swiftly in the open air of the cool September morning. It
could not and did not produce the temperatures necessary to melt
the redundant steel foundations of the towers. In fact it was
the rocking explosions from the very tops, down through, and
from the basements of the Towers that brought the towers down.
There was no pancaking of floors to slow the towers' freefall at
the speed of gravity. Thus, each massive tower went down some
1,300 feet in about 10 seconds.
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- Ironically, the South
Tower that was hit second went down first, after burning less
than half an hour. The North Tower, which was hit first, burned
close to an hour and a half, and went down last. And so, could
it be that the mayor's rush to clean up was a cover-up? Did he
have some foreknowledge of these strange and bizarre events?
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- Did Hizzoner want all
evidence gone of aerosolized metals, and explosive materials
like thermite, that created this carcinogenic mixture of "dust,"
more like a gray sky-soup of atomized concrete, iron, plastics,
wood, rubber, wire, flesh, blended into particulates, that would
settle and calcify in the lungs and other body tissue? The
concrete's 200,000 gallons of water was literally vaporized.
Thus, in order to understand the enormity of these explosions,
read what Dr. Ed Ward, MD, reports at The Price of Liberty.org
concerning The US Government's Usage of Atomic Bombs- Domestic-
WTC- . . .
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- "The spectrum and
percentages of cancer are massive. There are at least 4
classifications of blood-cell cancers: leukemia, lymphoma,
Hodgkin's and myeloma. There are many more classifications of
soft tissue cancers. There is brain cancer. There is breast
cancer. For most of these there are subclassifications of many
different types of specific cancer in each, so far not publicly
disclosed. There are huge percentages of respiratory distress
and loss of function. Multiple reports of 'irregular cycles'
(miscarriages?). Most likely there will be several more types of
cancer to follow. In particular, responders should be checked
for thyroid cancer and function. There has been no noting of
birth defects which also needs to be done. There is one thing
and only one thing that can cause all these cancers and problems
- RADIATION."
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- Dr. Ward contends that
"the factual evidence indicates that our government is using and
has used 3rd or possibly 4th generation hydrogen bombs
domestically and internationally. The evidence for international
usage is not quite as strong as the domestic usage, but when
domestic usage is considered, the international usage seems
inescapable. The process of exclusion based on the known facts
leaves only one viable option for the destruction of the World
Trade Center (WTC) buildings-a relatively pure hydrogen bomb."
Take a look also at Dr. Ward's Update on thermal imaging post
the WTC event. It's an eye-opener.
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- Did Hizzoner
have foreknowledge of 9/11?
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- Perhaps his Hizzoner
had no idea of the punch that was to be packed. Yet, somehow he
knew to evacuate his headquarters on the 23rd floor of Tower
Seven at 9:15 AM. He said that he was told the building was
going down. Seven did not go down with the first two towers. But
its owner. Lucky Larry Silverstein, had it "pulled" eight hours
later by internal demolition, and it went down neatly into its
footprint, and Mr. Silverstein made an instant $500 million
profit on the original cost of the old Tower 7 versus the new
one. As you may know, an internal demolition for a building that
size takes weeks to create, not eight hours.
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- Also, both Giuliani and
Silverstein had foreknowledge of the fact that the Twin Trade
Towers were asbestos "bombs," that is they were loaded with the
lethal insulating material when they were built in the early
70s. The towers were not permitted to be leveled by internal
demolition because they were part of a public trust, The Port of
Authority of New York and New Jersey, established by the
Rockefeller family. Nevertheless, the towers had to come down by
law by about 2007. Unfortunately, they would have had to be
disassembled piece by piece at a cost of some $10 billion
dollars plus.
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- Mr. Giuliani knew all
this. Mr. Silverstein knew this when he leased the buildings
less than two months before 9/11. Perhaps that's why Silverstein
upped the insurance to $3.5 billion, with provision for coverage
from "terror attacks." He later tried to collect for each hit
separately, which would have given him more than $7 billion. As
of, March 24, 2003, the Times reports on the final settlement in
Insurers Agree to Pay Billions at Ground Zero. A second
contract, which provided for the double payment had not been
fully completed when the acts occurred, and thus triggered the
six years of litigation. Yet consider how prescient it was of
Mr. Silverstein to ask for it in the first place.
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- This last Times article
also tells us that New York's Governor Eliot Spitzer brokered
the deal for the remaining seven (out of two dozen insurers) who
had not already settled. Allianz Global Risks, Travelers
Companies, Zurich, Swiss Re, Employers, Insurance, Industrial
Risk Insurers and Royal Indemnity, agreed to pay a total of $2
billion dollars. The other insurers had already kicked in $2.55
billion, bringing the total to $4.55 billion, which will be
awarded to Silverstein and the Port Authority after millions in
litigation were spent.
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- Of this award,
Silverstein will get $1.13 billion for three large office towers
(Towers 2, 3, and 4), to be built on Church Street, between
Vesey and Liberty Streets, on the east side of the WTC complex.
The remaining $870 million will go the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey, which actually owns the land at ground zero
and is the original builder of the WTC. The new money will go
towards the building of both the $3 billion Freedom Tower,
tallest and of the buildings planned to be built, and Tower 5.
The insurance money will cover half of the $9 billion cost of
erecting five towers, retail space and conceivably a hotel.
Remember, the original down payment made by Silverstein and
partners to secure the original 99 year lease of the WTC @ $120
million a year was $125 million. Of this, Silverstein's silent
partner, Lloyd Goldman put up $80 million and Lucky Larry a mere
$14 million in the deal. Not a bad deal for Larry.
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- It is also interesting
that Governor Spitzer jumped in to settle the financial morass
of 9/11 insurance coverage, while he has completely ignored all
the information presented to him several years ago by 9/11
scholars and scientists that prove 9/11 was an inside job. One
wonders why he did not apply his formidable talents to cutting
through the morass of government disinformation to get to the
truth that 9/11 was an inside job, a false flag op, to go at the
Muslim world. Could it be that Eliot Spitzer, the
ex-lawyer/partner of the Skadden Arps corporate law firm, which
was also Larry Silverstein's firm pre-9/11 firm, as well as Hank
Greenberg's (Chairman of AIG) corporate law firm; could it be
that crusader Spitzer might be unwilling to tackle some bad
people?
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- Given these facts, plus
the fact that Giuliani knew that FEMA was in town on the night
of 9/10/2001, supposedly for a series of terror-hijack drills,
as stated in Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson's
Prisonplanet.com article Wargames Were Cover For the Operational
Execution of 9/11, Rudy might have had a more nefarious reason
to work those deadly 24-hour shifts. That reason, as stated
earlier, was clearing away evidence for any further
investigation of the real perpetrators, high-ranking members of
our own government, who have subsequently taken Rudy to their
bosom.
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- Commenting on the
Giuliani/Times story about the four large construction companies
working round the clock, Charles Blaich, in charge of safety for
the Fire Department at the time of 9/11 said, "They should have
backed off on the night shift, when a very limited amount of
work could be done." But they (Hizzoner) didn't. It was full
steam ahead regardless of the human consequences.
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- "A conspiracy of
purpose"
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- Also, in that same
Times article, Suzanne Mattei, director of the New York office
of the Sierra Club and a critic of how the clean up was handled,
said, "I would describe it as a conspiracy of purpose. It wasn't
people running around saying, 'Don't do this safely.' But there
was a unified attempt to do everything as fast as possible, to
get everything up and running as fast as possible. Anything in
the way of that just tended to be ignored."
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- I, too, would describe
Giuliani's cleanup handling as "a conspiracy of purpose,"
perhaps of a much larger conspiracy with a much larger purpose:
to be the Pearl Harbor of the New World Order's hegemonic march
to conquer the world, beginning with its attacks on Afghanistan
and subsequently Iraq.
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- Times writer Anthony
DePalma also mentions, "Records show that the city was aware of
the danger in the ground zero dust from the start. In [a]
federal court deposition, Kelly R. McKinney, associate
commissioner at the city's health department in 2001, said the
agency issued an advisory on the night of Sept. 11 stating that
asbestos in the air made the site hazardous and that everyone
should wear masks . . ." Many workers refused, given the
super-hyped need for speed. They also complained that the
respirators were unwieldy and made it hard for them to speak.
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- DePalma adds
"Violations of federal safety rules abounded, and no one
strictly enforced them. OSHA did not play an active role during
the rescue phase, which is usually the case in emergency
operations." In another place, he tells us that a Port of
Authority of New York and New Jersey official, not authorized to
speak for the agency, said "the focus was always on preventing
accidents, not protecting workers from the toxic dust." In other
words, speed above safety.
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- Additional
errors in Giuliani judgment
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- Wayne Barrett, a
longtime critic of Giuliani along with fellow writer Dan
Collins, condemned Giuliani's oversight in their revealing 2006
book, Grand Illusion. In an interview, Barrett commented that
Giuliani "said all the right things, but did all the wrong
things." Barrett also points to "a five-page memo from Jerry
Hauer, who was the head of Emergency Management [under
Giuliani]. He [Hauer] wanted it [the command center] to be
located in Brooklyn in the Metrotech complex. That happens to be
roughly where Mike Bloomberg has since put it . . ." The command
center could not be put underground at the WTC. The Hudson River
just a few blocks away would have flooded it. Thus, it was
shoved 23 stories into the air in Building 7, right next to the
Twin Towers, which already had been attacked in 1993. Not smart.
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- But ignoring facts is a
key to Rudy's modus operandi. It's no wonder that the Times
comments that "The city's handling of safety issues has been
criticized by doctors, unions and occupational safety experts."
Let's add to the critics Kristen Breitweiser, 9/11 widow, Jersey
Girl and former Republican, whose husband perished in the North
Tower. She has this to say on her website . . .
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- "Forgive me, but
Giuliani is the person responsible for deciding to locate NYC's
emergency center in the World Trade Center [23rd floor, Building
7]. . . . During the attacks, because the command center was
rendered inoperable, NYC had no clear chain of command and no
physical command structure in place to coordinate the emergency
response. Frankly, the whole reason Giuliani was on television
all day and available for interviews was because he was
scrambling around the streets trying to set up a command post
since the one he had designed and located [against the advice of
old friend Police Chief Howard Safer and many others] was
paralyzed during the attacks . . ."
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- Breitweiser adds,
"Furthermore, Giuliani is also responsible for giving the FDNY
inoperable Motorola radios. This, too, cost hundreds of lives
when firemen did not hear the order to evacuate the towers prior
to their collapse." By the way, those radios were still not
fixed for years after 9/11. In fact, they hadn't been fixed
since the 1993 first WTC attack, when Giuliani was running for
and became mayor.
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- Obviously, the most
damning issue to Rudy at this point is his criminal rushing of
the cleanup. Yet, it is part of a consistent pattern of Giuliani
behavior, the self-appointed "dictator" more than willing to
play an illegal and/or slipshod role in accomplishing unholy
business. And this is the man who stands before us today as a
candidate for president. In fact, he is the current front-runner
among Republican candidates. Woe to those who don't learn more
about him. Examine his personal life, especially philandering
through three marriages. Examine his family's mobster past.
Examine his shady post-mayoral business dealings in this recent
Washington Post article: In Private Sector, Giuliani Parlayed
Fame Into Wealth.
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- Hopefully, you'll find
out "What Makes Rudy Run." A relentless if not ruthless will to
rule, not patriotism or a concern for the common good. And too
reminiscent of the present dictator's "I am the decider"
obsession.
- Jerry Mazza is a
freelance writer living in New York. Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net.
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