Mutanabi Book Market is Gone

From today's Winter Solder comes a photo worth a billion words. The words are terrific, too:
Crushed By What We Have Done
Friday, March 21, 2008


Baghdad; February 2008: A man stands in the Mutanabi books market, once a thriving intellectual hangout. Photograph by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad courtesy of the Guardian.
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2008/03/crushed-by-what-we-have-done.html

The Terror in London's Tubes

Were the London bombings of 7/7 a false flag and black op? If you think it's possible, "7/7 Ripple Effect" will be perhaps the "Loose Change" for those seeking reasonable answers to the "terrorist attacks" in London.
CRUCIAL VIDEO: "7/7 Ripple Effect"
Friday, February 08, 2008
Here's an excellent account of the London bombings of July 7, 2005 -- a vitally important and often overlooked specimen of state-sponsored false-flag terror at its worst.

7/7 Ripple Effect

I remember it all so well ... I was in a high-pressure blogging situation at the time, pulling double duty and desperate for something to write about. As a story, for somebody like me, it was a gift from Heaven. Right from the very beginning it had all the signs of a black op, and I said so at the time.
Rudy Giuliani was there. Benyamin Netanyahu was there -- and Netanyahu was warned not to leave his hotel, just a few minutes before a bomb exploded in the nearest tube station.
Peter Power explained that his consulting firm was involved in a terrorism-preparedness drill working with the exact scenario that transpired -- four explosions: three on trains and one on a bus ... and in exactly the same locations, too!
Think about that for a moment -- how far beyond coincidental can you get? This was treason of the highest order, and at the very top of the government.
[...] vitally important and often overlooked specimen of state-sponsored false-flag terror at its worst. Ever since I started blogging I've been trying to place terror in the context of government, in a deeper and more meaningful way than the approach followed by some more mainstream reporters such as Rolling Stone and Keith Olbermann, who draw connections between bogus terror alerts and political crises, but don't talk about how actual governments in search of ever-increasing power have participated in actual terror attacks which have killed hundreds or thousands or even more actual innocent people.[...] http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2008/02/crucial-video-77-ripple-effect.html

Faux Scoops BBC?

The excuses we were given by airport "authorities" for humiliating searches, long waits, removal of shoes (the harder to run away, my dear) and dumping of cosmetics, perfume, water, even expressed breast milk were all bogus. But all the charges (for this "plot") have been dropped! Where/what is the news? The BBC story has even less detail than Fox News, which at least used the Associated Press for it's coverage!
Court Orders British Suspect Freed
Thursday, November 15, 2007
By SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan ordered the release Thursday of a Briton suspected in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, his lawyer said.
The court in Rawalpindi ordered the release of Rashid Rauf, a British Muslim of Pakistani origin, after the prosecution withdrew the case against him, attorney Hashmat Habib said. The lawyer said Rauf is likely to be deported to Britain.
…Pakistani police arrested Rauf in August 2006 on a tip from British authorities and have described him as a key suspect in an alleged plot to blow up jetliners flying from Britain to the United States. The purported plot prompted a major security alert at airports and increased restrictions on carry-on items.
…Britain had asked Pakistan to extradite Rauf in connection with a 2002 murder inquiry in Britain that is separate from the alleged terrorism plot.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Nov15/0,4670,PakistanBritishSuspect,00.html
Read it yourself, but it seems to me we've been stripping for nothing:
Charges against Briton 'dropped'
The Pakistani authorities have dropped all charges against a British national arrested there in August 2006, his lawyer says.
Rashid Rauf faced charges of being in possession of false identity papers and bomb-making materials. Relatives of Mr Rauf told the BBC that he had been taken from jail on Thursday in a police convoy.
However, police say he is still being held in jail because they have not been told to release him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7096916.stm
Fortunately, Winter Patriot provides more details:
Case Dismissed! Charges Against Rashid Rauf Have Been Dropped
Friday, November 16, 2007
…That's not an excerpt; that's it! Three cheers for the BBC for their in-depth coverage of the key suspect in the alleged plot that shut down her main airport and kick-started onerous travel restrictions which remain in effect to this day!
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/search/label/Rashid%20Rauf

Seffen's "Ordinary Explanation"

Oh, I do so love how Winter Patriot is vigilantly dogging and debuking Dr. [sic?] Seffen’s attempt to paint the 9/11 WTC collapse as “a very ordinary thing to happen”!!!
Rebuffed! Conspiracy Theory Destroyed By Unsung Internet Heroes
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Defenders of Cambridge's Dr. Keith Seffen [photo] and his paper, "Progressive Collapse of the World Trade Centre: a Simple Analysis", are popping up everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but they're popping up in a few places. And with one reasoned rational argument after another, they have taken me apart.
On Sunday, I posted a review of Dr. Seffen's paper , and based on the reactions that piece received, I thought I had done a fairly good job of treating it calmly and rationally. But it turns out that I have been deceived by yes-men and weak-kneed courtiers. The review was shoddy, full of holes, politically motivated and shameful in the extreme.
…R. Steve Walz explained what was wrong with my analysis:

Dr. Seffen assumes that a constant force, supplied by the suddenly unsupported top of the tower, was pressing down, crushing each story, one after another, all the way down to the ground. An elementary understanding of physics would tell you that this is not possible, unless the top section of the building -- the part doing the crushing -- were made of much denser material than the bottom section -- the material being crushed.

So Dr. Seffen and I were both wrong. The total force increases! And it's not even limited by air resistance! I've always thought some truthers were off in fantasy land with claims that the towers collapsed "faster than free-fall speed". How could that happen, I wondered, unless a force were pushing down on the falling concrete?
…It was an internal explosion. It wasn't limited by air resistance. And it reached speeds well in excess of terminal velocity.
…In the case of the WTC, the material being crushed was nearly identical to the material doing the crushing. In fact, the structural steel was thicker at the bottom than the top, in which light Seffen's model appears even less appropriate to the event (not that this makes very much difference in the long run).
…And therefore all the debris that went whooshing down the streets ... it was actually still pushing down on the towers at the very same time!
This is a very detailed post and it’s essential to read it yourself. I will provide just one more tidbit to wet your appetite:
…The collapse generated the heat that melted the metal that flowed out of the building just before it collapsed. It makes perfect sense if you repeat it often enough.
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/search?q=9%2F11+%2B+WTC+collapse

Translator Needed: Science Gobbly-Gook to English

Winter Patriot follows up on Keith Seffer's study of the collapse of the twin towers collapse (what about WT7?). Maybe Mr. Seffer wants us to blame the "collapse" on balloons!
In a recent series of articles I mentioned this discrepancy and documented some of the efforts made by myself and others to obtain further information on this story -- all of which had been ignored.
A few people who read those stories had academic credentials and were able to provoke a response where humble bloggers had failed: the questions they sent to Ross Corotis, the editor of the JEM, were answered, and yesterday I was able to report that Keith Seffen's paper is scheduled to be published in the February, 2008 issue of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
If that was good news, this is even better: one of the other people who read those stories had even more impressive credentials, and he went digging in a different place. And you'll never guess what he managed to unearth ... or will you?
If you can read the abstract, maybe you can comprehend the report. Any translations are appreciated.
Abstract
The collapse behaviour of the World Trade Centre (WTC) towers is considered formally as a propagating instability phenomenon. The application of associated concepts enables the residual capacities of both towers after the onset of collapse to be formally estimated. This information is combined into a simplified variable-mass collapse model of the overall dynamical behaviour. The resulting, non-linear governing equation of motion can be solved in closed form, to yield compact information about the overall collapse conditions.
…A frivolous but useful analogue is the inflation of a rubber party balloon: personal experience suggests that a higher lung pressure is required to motivate inflation than that needed to sustain it; and that the latter pressure is approximately constant and steady for a long, uniform balloon, irrespective of the inflated volume before becoming fully inflated.
Ok, who put the balloons in the WTC? Previous post, November 6, 2007, Scientists Promote 9/11 Propaganda
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/11/keith-seffens-progressive-collapse-of.html

Scientists Promote 9/11 Propaganda

This great investigative report from Winter Patriot exposes an attempt to make the 9/11 Twin Towers collapse seem inevitable. Following are email addresses of the perpetrator of these 9/11 conspiracy myths, who may enjoy your comments. ; - )
Where's The Paper? Did The BBC And A Cambridge Don Commit Fraud To Cover Up Mass Murder?
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Dr. Seffen, the BBC said, had constructed a mathematical model of the twin towers of the World Trade Center which showed that once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and total. [and ] …a "very ordinary thing to happen".
The BBC also reported that Dr. Seffen's findings are published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
…I also began to suspect the worst: not only that the paper hadn't been published, and was not going to be published, but that perhaps the paper hadn't even been written. After all, unless you can "prove" that zero "equals" infinity, it would be very difficult to construct the "proof" described by the Cambridge press release.
…I'm sure Keith Seffen would appreciate a few emails and phone calls inquiring as to when and whether his paper will be available for peer review. His email address, as noted on his personal web page, is kas14@cam.ac.uk. For those who prefer to phone him, the numbers are +44 (0) 1223 7 64137. To send him a fax, try +44 (0) 1223 3 32662.
It's a classic propaganda technique: tell the lie once and then never mention it again. Sometimes in politics this approach works well. But in science, if someone ignores relevant questions, the obvious implication is that he has no good answers.
In other words, in this case, we seem to be looking at accessories-after-the-fact.
Ross Corotis, email: corotis@colorado.edu
Keith Seffen, email: kas14@cam.ac.uk phone: +44 (0) 1223 7 64137 fax: +44 (0) 1223 3 32662
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/11/wheres-paper-did-bbc-and-cambridge-don.html