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wmd_2008 : Now we also have people trying to compare building fires in structures that the MAIN STRUCTURAL ELEMENT is CONCRETE not Steel , they are of a TOTALLY different design method because of this, yet because of either a lack of construction knowledge and believing what's posted about the buildings WITHOUT CHECKING they think it's a direct comparison! Say's it all !
Aimed at the world's financial heart, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were designed to throw capitalism into chaos. In one respect they succeeded: Millions of crucial documents were vaporized in the tragedy, and the process of sorting the losses out has been difficult and has included charges of opportunism.
A Citigroup lawyer, for instance, recently told a congressional committee looking into the bank's role in the WorldCom mess that she couldn't provide them with all the information they sought because some of it was destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center.
"Some further email records the committee has requested cannot be retrieved," wrote Citigroup Deputy General Counsel Jane Sherburne in an Aug. 7 letter to House Committee on Financial Services. "The backup tapes for external emails from September 1998 through December 2000, and for a short time period in September 2001, were lost when the building in which they were stored ( WTC 7 ) was destroyed in the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001."
--snip--
Not only are some financial services firms still grieving over the deaths of hundreds of their employees, many are still struggling to reconstruct the mountains of information they lost and to institute contingency plans for avoiding a repeat.
As Citigroup's recent disclosure shows, some financial services firms and institutions may have lost more documents and records than they originally believed -- despite all the talk about firms routinely backing up their information off-site.
And it appears ordinary investors are sometimes paying the price for all those lost records and documents.
--snip--
A Morgan Stanley spokesman pointed to a letter the brokerage firm sent to the National Association of Securities Dealers, shortly after the 9/11 terror attack, noting that "our capacity to retrieve documents, files and other records has been very substantially impaired."
"Regardless of what the regulators (SEC) say, they lost a ton of files," says Bill Singer, a New York securities lawyer, who says one case he had pending before the SEC quickly settled because so many of the original documents were destroyed. "In my opinion it was a wholesale loss of documents."
originally posted by: LaBTop
A reply to: wmd_2008
Why don't you link to that post of yours? Afraid that I wreck your deceptive posts there?
I have addressed many times already in many years, that video glitch, that happens when a video camera takes a shot at max zoom, from very far away (southwest from the tip of Manhattan, a chopper hovering over the Hudson).
originally posted by: LaBTop
A reply to: wmd_2008
Btw, I have a few hours ago studied that WTC 7 "gash" picture I found in some guys online photo depository, and have reached the opinion that it is photo-shopped.
View it in Paint's max zoom,
That image is a STILL FROM A VIDEO once again you show YOU don't have a clue
5. How did the fires cause WTC 7 to collapse?
originally posted by: LaBTop
Why do you STILL not give the link to that post of yours of 15 days ago where you also posted that same "gash" photo, as you wrote a few posts back? Second try asking for it.
originally posted by: LaBTop
A reply to: wmd_2008
Why do you STILL not give the link to that post of yours of 15 days ago where you also posted that same "gash" photo, as you wrote a few posts back? Second try asking for it.
I can see the problems with that "gash" picture easily with the simple Paint program all Windows users here, standard have, and thus all of them can see those problems too. Can't you? Why don't you address those ?
I use Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Google Picasa 3.9.138, Corel Draw Essentials, so, take your pick.
Anomalies in red from a 400 % zoom in Picasa 3 out of that "gash" photo from my earlier mentioned and linked to, online photo repository from a stranger :
That image is a STILL FROM A VIDEO once again you show YOU don't have a clue
Why don´t you give a link to that video you say it is a still from? Instead of throwing insults around.
And explain me how such red anomalies end up from an un-altered video screenshot. And explain the others too.
You keep avoiding standard practice in discussion forums. You're obliged to offer links, or names of books, or your own argumentation when you are discussing subjects here.
Up till now, the only thing you do is boasting about your assumed capabilities. Which you did not show at all.
Btw I have 60 years of mature age photographic experience behind me, and a few University-refresh-courses too, the good old fluids stuff and the digital stuff.
And read up a lot about USA NTSC and European PAL-SECAM video camera glitches. The NTSC TV and cameras systems in 2001 had a much lower line count than PAL. Is it still that sloppy system in the US?
Reason for many glitches, which you did not encounter in 2001 PAL cameras.
The 2001 US TV pictures quality could not compare to the European TV systems pictures quality, we had much better digital quality at 100 Hz and far more lines already then.
For recent quality, just look at a German TV channel, when it's airing a BBC HD-Pro nature film.
This is probably also one of the reasons for the bad quality of most 9/11 YouTube videos, beside the restrictions from YT itself. Lately some better quality ones turned up from the NIST collection, after some stubborn FOIA requests.
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LT : At 31:00 another WTC 7 zoom in, and then at 31:27 to 31:45,
I see smoke clouds passing CLEARLY in front of that black gash.
originally posted by: LaBTop
Further, we have that picture taken from the eastern side of the debris heaps, near the Deutsche Bank, around 11:30 deducted from the sun shadows, aimed at the southern facade of WTC 7, and there's as far as I remember, no gash at that same spot visible. I am gonna try to find it, and review it again. It was once featured in the very first draft of Dr Jones his thermite endeavors.
He was here then at ATS in 2005/6, and I told him his time stamping of that picture was not right, not shot in the afternoon, but before noon, showing him the shadows.
And the South facade of WTC 7 was quite good visible.
originally posted by: LaBTop
a reply to: wmd_2008
Your link isn't working :
files.abovetopsecret.com...
PS : Your second link is also not functional :
files.abovetopsecret.com...
For such a specialist, you make an awful lot of mistakes. (makes me smile)
originally posted by: wmd_2008
originally posted by: LaBTop
a reply to: wmd_2008
Your link isn't working :
files.abovetopsecret.com...
PS : Your second link is also not functional :
files.abovetopsecret.com...
For such a specialist, you make an awful lot of mistakes. (makes me smile)
Your MISTAKE screen grabs NEVER said they were links that's why they appear as PICTURES DOH!!!
Also as I said the second one is from the TV LINK you posted and I have gave you the time and it can be seen in the picture I thought even YOU could put 2+2 together .
Just shows you !
originally posted by: LaBTop
originally posted by: wmd_2008
originally posted by: LaBTop
a reply to: wmd_2008
Your link isn't working :
files.abovetopsecret.com...
PS : Your second link is also not functional :
files.abovetopsecret.com...
For such a specialist, you make an awful lot of mistakes. (makes me smile)
Your MISTAKE screen grabs NEVER said they were links that's why they appear as PICTURES DOH!!!
Also as I said the second one is from the TV LINK you posted and I have gave you the time and it can be seen in the picture I thought even YOU could put 2+2 together .
Just shows you !
My dear genius, those are .jpg links you posted ! Which do not function for some reason in my Firefox window.
PS: I have to go now, will return in 10 hrs.
Waypastvne, I enjoy discussions with highly intelligent opponents, thank you for your posts, I will study them in 10 hrs. I just had the chance to glance over those 2 posts, that's real discussion !
originally posted by: waypastvne
originally posted by: LaBTop
Further, we have that picture taken from the eastern side of the debris heaps, near the Deutsche Bank, around 11:30 deducted from the sun shadows, aimed at the southern facade of WTC 7, and there's as far as I remember, no gash at that same spot visible. I am gonna try to find it, and review it again. It was once featured in the very first draft of Dr Jones his thermite endeavors.
He was here then at ATS in 2005/6, and I told him his time stamping of that picture was not right, not shot in the afternoon, but before noon, showing him the shadows.
And the South facade of WTC 7 was quite good visible.
You have both the time and location of that photo wrong.
Here is the photo:
Location is North West corner of 1 Liberty Plaza ( LT: I always assumed that was Deutsche Bank, i'll check it again, smile )
Time according to shadows shortly after 9:59 ( daylight savings time ). Before WTC1 collapsed and caused the gash.
LT : At 31:00 another WTC 7 zoom in, and then at 31:27 to 31:45, I see smoke clouds passing CLEARLY in front of that black gash.