QUOTE (flyingswan @ Jan 9 2008, 01:53 AM)

In my view Danny Jowenko was set up in the original WTC7 interview - ie shown just the last few seconds of the collapse without any mention of the earlier fire or penthouse collapse which considerably reduce the resemblance to a CD - [/url]
I disagree. The fires were small, and only on two floors. The penthouse collapse fits perfectly with a controlled implosive demolition; It did not happen ages before as you imply but was part and parcel of the obviousness of the controlled demolition. Watch any controlled demolition in which the building is intended to implode, and the centre of the roof always drops first as the central supports are taken out.
The phone interview shows that Danny Jowenko has had plenty of time to consider and study further about WTC 7's collapse, and he has stuck with his conclusion that it was a controlled demolition.

Which it obviously is.
Since that would require for WTC 7 to have been set-up for the controlled demolition well before, then that shouts INSIDE JOB
QUOTE (flyingswan @ Jan 9 2008, 01:53 AM)

and was subsequently too proud to admit it.
That's a totally unsupported claim. Why don't you pretend to be a mind reader next

QUOTE (flyingswan @ Jan 9 2008, 01:53 AM)

His opinion of WTC7 is certainly not shared by other CD professionals:
http://www.implosionworld.com/Article-WTC%...209-8-06%20.pdfI'm not going to bother doing another download of Blanchard's rubbish. I've seen it too often, and it still doesn't work.
1) Blanchard's claims were debunked long ago
2) Blanchard's claims are out of date, and ignore the wtnesses and information which has come out since then (that I have posted already about, yet you have ignored).
previous posted link and also
here3) It's spectacularly easy to debunk Blanchard's nonsense as he ignores so many things, and tells some outright lies.
Blanchard tries to claim that those aren't demolition squibs shooting from the towers 10, 20, 30 floors below the demolition wave, those are pockets of air -- yeah, right, pockets of air that are
symmetrical, emerging from the center of the floor, and sometimes 30 floors away from the collapse... come on.
Here's a photo that proves him to be a sad little LIAR
Red = debris, fragments flying upward against the force of gravity at high velocity
Green = line of explosive demolition charges visibly blowing out before the collapsing debris from above has had time to reach those floors.
The same shows up on slow motion videos of the Twin Towers, with the explosions clearly taking out the floors BEFORE the falling debris from the already destroyed floors above could reach those floors
http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/ne...hp?storyid=1795Blanchard tries to claim that those weren't explosions witnesses heard; those were just loud noises - 911 Eyewitness captures the pre-collapse explosions, and the way they get closer together just prior to the collapse - and some eyewitnesses were tossed around by these explosions - Blanchard was being totally ridiculous again - I can cite literally HUNDREDS OF WITNESSES, including firemen and police who certainly have the experience to the know the difference...and the first big explosions started BELOW the plane impact point according to the witnesses who were there.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=32...q=911&hl=enFEMA, stated in 2002 that some of the specimens of steel were “rapidly corroded by sulfidation” (FEMA 2002, Appendix C).
This report is significant, because sulfidation is an effect of explosives. FEMA appropriately called for further investigation of this finding, which the New York Times called “perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation” (Killough-Miller, 2002). A closely related problem, expressed shortly after 9/11 by Dr. Jonathan Barnett, Professor of Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is that
“fire and the structural damage . . . would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been partly evaporated” (Glanz, 2001). But the NIST report, in its section headed “Learning from the Recovered Steel,” fails even to mention either evaporation or sulfidation.
Blanchard claims that there is no evidence of thermite being used - you mean, when Dr. Jones found the chemical signature of thermite, that doesn't count as evidence?
I already dealt with this lie of Blanchard's ; Professor Steven Jones and his X-ray spectrometry evidence from samples taken at the WTC site. Which show a PERFECT MATCH for the highly specialized compound "thermate" (used for cutting through steel) found in the WTC debris. (And no, thermate was NOT used during the clean up operation...this stuff was in the building, and ignited, prior to collapse.) If you're new to this information, you might want to check out "Molten Metal" and "Fire Initiated Collapse - Primary Arguments Against"
http://stopthelie.com/the_evidence_is_in.htmlSteven Jones Lecture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDiL_q1m67khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45p19_-CS5Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0XSPPuxglIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGudMVKswVMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggc0jT19Pj4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ9jjZ8Fep4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsp3DPTmiN0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGOqSVLgJwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfh5S_FhR4shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkoTE3S5xKIBlanchard's claim that "pull it" isn't used to refer to controlled demolitions is proven to be a lie rather easily, and I already dealt with this and shown that claim to be utterly B U L L S H I T.
previous posted linkThe most suspect criticism by Blanchard is the claim that nobody who removed steel saw any molten metal...of course he ignores all the witnesses and the photos proving him wrong.
There's also this comment on the Implosion World site which makes
Blanchard's lies look even sillier;
"When the excitement of the blast is over, a large, billowing cloud of dust is one of the most identifiable characteristics of a successful project."http://www.implosionworld.com/dyk5.htmlThis is what dutch demolition expert Jowenko said when he was asked to study the WTC 7 collapse;
"This is controlled demolition"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqrn5x2_f6QBlanchard tried claiming that seismographs didn't detect any ground vibrations BEFORE the collapses began, but his lie is blown here too because the tremors from explosives BEFORE the collapses began are visible on video.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/shake.htmlAnother of Blanchard's LIES when he claims “2b) Ample opportunity for hundreds of people to view the steel at the Fresh Kills site, yet nothing that suspicious noticed.”
NOT TRUE! - Blanchard gets caught out again!!!From
Men of Steel by Karl Koch III (whose family constructed the WTC towers) we read (pp374 - pp375)
QUOTE
Tom drove on to an area that he said had been a mountain of steel a couple of months earlier. "It was about thrity feet high," he said. Now most of it was gone, shipped out to Hugo New Schnitzer in Jersey City, the biggest scrap metal dealer in the country. By now a lot of it was on its way to China to be melted down and recycled. "There had to be three hundred thousand tons," Tom said. "How many tons in the two buildings?"
"Two hundred thousand," I said.
"In both buildings? Impossible."
"That's what it was," I assured him. "That's what I got paid for."
"Some of the columns that came in here were bent like U-turns," Tom said.
I asked him if he'd seen any floor sections. "No, that's what I don't understand," Tom said. "I didn't see one goddamn floor deck come here with a bar joist in it. They must have disintegrated. Because they did not get here. And I handled this from day ____in' one."
"Did they send you any decking that was loose, no joists?" I asked.
"None," Tom said.
None? Well that's impossiible. There were 6,000 of them."
"There's stuff crumpled up, but go identify it as a floor deck if you can. Impossible. A lot of guys come and ask me, they know I was involved in bringing 'em over, but Karl, not one came where I could say, 'Oh, here's one.' I could not show anybody a floor deck and say, 'This is what I hauled over.'"
I couldn't believe it. Not one goddamn floor panel.
So people who work with steel and concrete all their lives had trouble believing that the decking would be missing (i.e., completely disintegrated), but the Blanchard Report claims that nothing "that suspicious" was noticed.
So, Blanchard LIED.Blanchard goes through 9 dubiously concocted strawman assertions in favour of demolition, and attempts to refute them. He doesn't address any of the hard issues, such as the complete pulverization of the concrete, or the near freefall collapse times.
The most stupid claims written by Blanchard;
Quote "We do not know why exactly how or why WT7 fell when it did, and we decline to hypothesize here."
That didn't stop Mr Blanchard from "hypothesizing" about the miles of wires and explosives required to rig WT1 and WT2 while ignoring that there were weeks to prepare and the suspicious powerdowns (that many have mentioned already), and that would be no need for wires in this modern age of remote controlled bombs and detonators.
They had at least TWO MONTHS, including WEEKENDS and AFTER OFFICE HOURS.
There were POWER-DOWNS, times when ALL THE SECURITY SYSTEMS were SHUT DOWN. This happened in both of the Twin Towers.
The bomb sniffer dogs were taken away as well.
Witnesses to this also reported the unusual number of mysterious workmen, use of heavy machinery on empty floors, under the excuse of putting in more cabling.
There was PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY.
There have been witnesses. This has been reported by me before, there's an interview with one witness (Scott Forbes) in the documentary "9-11 Mysteries" who reports exactly those sorts of things. Some building employees note that there were powerdowns and construction crews “upgrading cable” during the previous weekend.
Despite heightened security in the weeks before 9/11 (because of all of the warnings they were receiving), shifts were stepped down and bomb-sniffer dogs were removed from the WTC on September 6th. Engineers were brought in and drilled and wired for hours and hours the weeks before 9-11.
On September 8 and 9, the towers experienced power shutdowns and evacuations, when “maintenance workers” were working throughout the buildings while all the cameras were off. The Thursday before 9/11, all the bomb-sniffing dogs were pulled out of the WTC buildings, two days before the power outages and evacuations. The buildings were rewired for internet access with security cams off. All security records and such were kept in WTC7.
Here's a
witness to these suspicious workmen and the powerdowns
The facts support Danny Jowenko's opinion about WTC 7 being a controlled demolition far more than Blanchard's lies, misrepresentations, and avoidance of any evidence which contradicts him.