Former George Bush Chief Economist Says 911 Was An Inside Job

a reply to: Informer1958

In addition to the "OS" folks, hardcore truthers, and "Veterans Today" attacking Richard Gage and "AE911 Truth" for distorting the facts and lying, now there are the anti-government folks accusing Richard Gage for lying.

a reply to: Thejaybird

They may have referred to him as the "mastermind" of 9/11 after the fact, but he was NEVER wanted for the crimes of 9/11. Not once. Even though there were years between the event and the alleged killing of him by the SEAL team.

Let's take a trip over to the website of the FBI and read what they have posted.

FBI Website

Most Wanted Terrorist Dead Bin Laden Killed in ‘Targeted Operation’

05/02/11

The mastermind of the attacks on September 11, 2001 that killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children has been killed.

Intelligence agencies quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by bin Laden’s terrorist organization, and in October 2001, his name was added to the U.S. Department of State’s Most Wanted Terrorists List.

www.fbi.gov...

a reply to: skyeagle409

Again, please read what he was actually wanted for (it does not include 9/11). It matters not how they refer to him after the fact; this does not change the reality that they never had enough evidence to make him "wanted" for the events of 9/11.

Was he their "most wanted" fugitive? Absolutely. Hence, the number one designation. Was he wanted for anything related to 9/11? Nope. Why? The F.B.I. did not have the evidence. Therefore, 9/11 was never listed in the crimes that he was wanted for.

You can keep trotting out the F.B.I. headline that was released after his alleged capture and execution, but it does not change the fact that they never made him a wanted man because of the events of 9/11, and no amount of headlines that you post will change that fact.

www.projectcensored.org...

a reply to: texasyeti

Buildings just dont collapse. Buildings are made to withstand jet impacts. If anything the top of the building would have fallen. Steel gurders plus the steel cables crisscrossing the walls for support would stop the buildings from collapse.

I disagree. Let's take a look at this video of watch as WTC 6 collapses. Jump to time line: 1:45 and watch the action.



Now, we can take a look here where a 21-story steel frame building collapsed.

Totally Collapse 21-Story Steel Frame Office Building

The steel frame building collapsed during an earthquake.

To continue:

Kader Toy Factory Fire

At about 4pm on May 10th, 1993, a small fire was discovered on the first floor of part of the E-shaped building. Workers were instructed to keep working as the fire was thought to be minor. The fire alarm in this building did not sound.

The building was reinforced with un-insulated steel girders which quickly weakened and collapsed. This part of the building was dedicated to the storage of finished products and the fire spread quickly. Other parts of the factory were full of raw materials which also burnt very fast... Fire-fighters arrived at the factory at about 4:40pm, to find Building One about to collapse.

The Kader buildings,...collapsed relatively early in the fire because their structural steel supports lacked the fireproofing that would have allowed them to maintain their strength when exposed to high temperatures.

A post-fire review of the debris at the Kader site showed no indication that any of the steel members had been fireproofed.

en.wikipedia.org...

We can take a look here as well.

Fire Weakened Steel Beams

And here:

Private jet crashes into (steel Frame) hangar at California airport, sparks inferno

A multimillion dollar private jet crashed into a hangar at a California airport creating an “unsurvivable” inferno on the ground, a fire official said.

Santa Monica Fire Department Captain John Nevandro told NBC Los Angeles that the crash was "unsurvivable.” He added: "The building actually collapsed and wrapped itself around the plane."

One hangar collapsed, its steel trusses crossing over the plane and the sheet metal shell wrapping around it, McKenny said. Two other hangars received minor damage.

smdp.com...

www.nbcnews.com...

Fire can easily weaken steel beams to the point of failure.

Overpass Near San Francisco Collapses After Fire

OAKLAND, Calif., April 29 — A fiery pre-dawn tanker truck accident caused the collapse of a heavily trafficked freeway overpass near downtown today, sending hundreds of feet of concrete crashing onto a highway below and hobbling a vital Bay Area interchange.

Mr. Kempton said the heat from the fireball had likely melted the steel girders and bolts that support the concrete roadway. “If you have that kind of heat, you’re going to have this kind of reaction,” he said. “We’re not surprised this happened.”

www.nytimes.com...

I've worked with aerospace metals and have soften steel in ovens at a temperature of only 1000 degrees F.

Wtc 7 should not have been destroyed even from falling debris it may have been damaged but the ENTIRE BUILDING SHOULD NOT HAVE BROKEN UP AND FELL. SAME WITH THE TRADE CENTERS.

What many people are unaware of is that WTC 7 suffered massive impact damage on its south facade.

Photo: South Facade of WTC 7

WTC 7 Damage Account

Boyle: We were told to go to Greenwich and Vesey and see what’s going on. So we go there and on the north and east side of 7 it didn’t look like there was any damage at all, but then you looked on the south side of 7 there had to be a hole 20 stories tall in the building, with fire on several floors. Debris was falling down on the building and it didn’t look good.

Early on, we saw a bulge in the southwest corner between floors 10 and 13, and we had put a transit on that and we were pretty sure she was going to collapse. You actually could see there was a visible bulge, it ran up about three floors. It came down about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, but by about 2 o’clock in the afternoon we realized this thing was going to collapse.

www.debunking911.com...

The effects of fire on steel beams are well-known and why fire protection is added to steel structures of buildings.

I think a lot of Americans don't want to question the official story because they don't see the point in it.

What good would it do? Would anything ever really be uncovered? If its that big of a conspiracy, could any investigation ever hope to find anything?

Would any good come of finding out the truth? Would it help make their individual lives better?

Most people are just trying to get by and survive, trying to enjoy what small pleasures in life they can grab before they die. People turn their brains off at night to reality TV and get drunk and watch sports on the weekend. No one wants to care, because caring would raise uncomfortable issues -- and ultimlatley place some of the blame on themselves for their laziness in allowing criminals to be in high political office.

No one wants to take that kind of responsibility as long as the cable TV keeps working, the internet stays on and the grocery store has food.

originally posted by: MystikMushroom
I think a lot of Americans don't want to question the official story because they don't see the point in it.

What good would it do? Would anything ever really be uncovered? If its that big of a conspiracy, could any investigation ever hope to find anything?

Would any good come of finding out the truth? Would it help make their individual lives better?

Most people are just trying to get by and survive, trying to enjoy what small pleasures in life they can grab before they die. People turn their brains off at night to reality TV and get drunk and watch sports on the weekend. No one wants to care, because caring would raise uncomfortable issues -- and ultimlatley place some of the blame on themselves for their laziness in allowing criminals to be in high political office.

No one wants to take that kind of responsibility as long as the cable TV keeps working, the internet stays on and the grocery store has food.

Well written. I honestly hope that this is not the case, but the evidence stands contra wise. Your post truly reflects where we are as a culture.

I think most Americans find it hard to believe. Because they all feel on mass as guilty as hell about all the other horrible things the US people have funded.

Especially the a-typical middle American Christians who love to think of themselves as goop people. But are actually all too willing to fund terrorists or illegal wars when it suits them.

a reply to: MystikMushroom

I think a lot of Americans don't want to question the official story because they don't see the point in it.

Considering that countries around the world had issued intelligence warnings to the United States warning that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda would carry out a massive attack by using hijacked airliners, it is clear that 9/11 was not an inside job.

There was no way the government could have carried out the 9/11 attack and not get caught. The B-767 and B-757 are not fly-by-wire aircraft and trying to modify those aircraft to fly under remote control would have left a paper trail from Washington State to Washington D.C. and across the Atlantic. I have modified large and small aircraft including helicopters of the U.S. Army, and dealt with the folks at AMARC, at the huge aircraft boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ., when I was supervisor/inspector for a major defense contractor at Travis AFB, CA.

In 1970, I was assigned to MASDC at Davis-Monthan AFB, at the boneyard for two months, so I know what would have been involved in trying to acquire aircraft from aircraft boneyards.

As a pilot of 46 years, allows me to determine when conspiracy theorist are posting false and misleading information, and in the case of "Pilots for 911 Truth," outright lies. As an aircraft structural technician since 1967, I can relate to the structures of the WTC buildings.

I might add that only a certain number of B-767-200 and B-757-200 series aircraft were built and no government official in their right mind would even thought of using such aircraft in the kind of attack we saw on 9/11, unless they wanted to go to prison and face the death penalty. The airliners cannot be switched and if an attempt was made to switch the 9/11 airliners, it would take me less than 30 minutes to reveal a switched aircraft because it is that easy and that is another reason why it would not have been practical for the government to use airliners in such an attack.

a reply to: skyeagle409

Wouldn't ignoring warnings and a few "sloppy" decisions/turned heads here and there to "allow" it to happen not be considered an "inside job"?

I don't buy into 99% of the theories myself, but some intentional negligence certainly could have happened.

This is what US citizens will do to each other.

No questions. No problem. Seems like you guys have an unlimited amount of traitors "serving" you.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

The problem with WTC is not just the failure.

It is the perfectly symmetrical failure. All 4 corners collapsing at the exact same time. Which does not happen in fires.

An asymmetrical collapse even happens sometimes under controlled demolition.


And no. I do not believe in miracles.

a reply to: MystikMushroom

Wouldn't ignoring warnings and a few "sloppy" decisions/turned heads here and there to "allow" it to happen not be considered an "inside job"?

Not in this case. I blame Bush and Rice, our intelligence agencies, and the FAA because they did not take the warnings seriously, but government officials ignoring warnings and making bad decisions are nothing knew. After all, Hitler's blunders and his ignoring the advice of his commanding officers helped shorten the war in Europe.

J. Edgar Hoover ignored warnings from a double agent about the Japanese preparations for war with the United States. because he didn't take the double agent seriously enough. But even if the U.S was fully prepared for war at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese would have bombed Pearl Harbor anyway. Within hours of the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese bombed U.S. forces in the Philippines and British forces in Singapore and Malaya. Who was dancing with joy at the news that Pearl Harbor was bombed? British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, of the Republic of China and the Germans, who would declare war on the United States after the Pearl Harbor attack.

The Japanese committed major blunders that assisted in their defeat in World War II. Nixon committed a major blunder in Vietnam when he stopped the "Linebacker II" bombing on North Vietnam, which stung the communist military leader who would later state that the communist were prepared to surrender to the United States had the "Linebacker II" bombing continued for another two days. Not many people were aware just how close the communist came to surrendering to America.

The FBI, CIA, and even the FAA blundered prior to 9/11, and the rest is history. 9/11 was not an inside job because there was no reason for the U.S. government to concoct such an operation. Some people said it would have been an excuse to go into Iraq, but I disagree by the fact that the U.S. didn't go to war when terrorist bombed WTC 1 in 1993, whereas, one of the terrorist fled to Iraq, and then, to Pakistan. The UN and the U.S. had 16 excuses to go back into Iraq, because Iraq violated 16 UN resolutions, either one of which would have allowed authorization to enter Iraq.

9/11 is a case where the U.S. government blew it and didn't think such an attack could have happened the way it did, but that is not the first time and such blunders are not unique to the United States only.

originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: Salander

After collecting and analyzing their data, Cahill said the air around there was like that coming out of an industrial exhaust stack, as though an incinerator were at work. There were microparticles of iron, and that can happen only when iron is boiling.

You can produce your own micro-particles as well. All you need is a lighter and steel wool, or, you can place two 3-foot steel beams in a barrel of wood and light the wood with a match. After the fire burns itself out, you can collect the same micro-particles from the barrel.

I might add that stored iron can generate temperatures high enough to start fires. Do you know the process that I am talking about?

So now you're telling me there were a bunch of people around WTC holding lighters and steel wool? OMG, that is as ridiculous a suggestion as I've ever heard.

No sir, the air was toxic because a bunch of steel had just been vaporized by nuclear devices and some friends. That's why all those first responders got sick, many with cancers associated with radiation poisoning.

originally posted by: MystikMushroom
I think a lot of Americans don't want to question the official story because they don't see the point in it.

What good would it do? Would anything ever really be uncovered? If its that big of a conspiracy, could any investigation ever hope to find anything?

Would any good come of finding out the truth? Would it help make their individual lives better?

Most people are just trying to get by and survive, trying to enjoy what small pleasures in life they can grab before they die. People turn their brains off at night to reality TV and get drunk and watch sports on the weekend. No one wants to care, because caring would raise uncomfortable issues -- and ultimlatley place some of the blame on themselves for their laziness in allowing criminals to be in high political office.

No one wants to take that kind of responsibility as long as the cable TV keeps working, the internet stays on and the grocery store has food.

I do understand what you are saying for sure. Thing is that really, the truth will indeed set you free. To me, just knowing the truth makes me feel good. And I know I'm not alone.

For some people, the truth is threatening--they would rather not know, and they have no curiosity. Maybe I have too much curiosity?

a reply to: Salander

I really kinda like what you're conveying in your post. I might be mis-interpreting your message, however, I can't help but feel you're message is saying the following...

The truth is stranger than fiction. I truly believe this. Overall, I feel the reverse is true, in that, you are a conspiracy theorist if you don't believe in most conspiracy theories, for example, JFK assassination. The truth goes beyond heuristic ideas and inductive reasoning. There's truth in everything, we just need to find it.The truth is more difficult to accept than false realities. It's easier to accept what our politicians feed us rather than the truth. The laws of probability are better predictors of truth than what the 'experts' tell us about most conspiracy theories.

a reply to: Salander

So now you're telling me there were a bunch of people around WTC holding lighters and steel wool? OMG, that is as ridiculous a suggestion as I've ever heard.

No, just showing how easy it is to produce such mircrosperes because such micro-spheres were expected to be found at ground zero, especially during the burning process. Check out.

RJ Lee Group Report

No sir, the air was toxic because a bunch of steel had just been vaporized by nuclear devices and some friends.

How would anyone have known if anything was vaporized without evidence left behind?

That is false because the 9/11 nuclear detonation story was a hoax and has been used to discredit the Truth Movement. The CT folks have said that a nuclear device was detonated beneath the WTC buildings, but let's take a look at a crater that was created by a nuclear device.

Crater Created by Nuclear Device

Was such a huge crater found in the rubble at ground zero? No! The 9/11 nuclear device story was a hoax and has been used to discredit the Truth Movement.

That's why all those first responders got sick, many with cancers associated with radiation poisoning.

That is false. Please post the source of your information for all to see. Now, let's take a look at the rest of the story as to the cause of their illnesses.

Hazardous Materials at Ground Zero

Ground Zero Workers File Billion-Dollar Health Lawsuit

MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Nearly three years to the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyers for more than 800 "Ground Zero" rescue and clean-up workers announced Monday a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against owners of the World Trade Center for exposing the workers to allegedly toxic conditions.

Contained in this "toxic waste pile," according to Sawyer and Worby, were:

* 200,000 pounds of lead from the estimated 50,000 personal computers in thousands of World Trade Center offices

* Mercury contained in the towers' more than half a million fluorescent lights

* Dioxin from oil and fuel

* 2,000 tons of asbestos

* Benzene from more than 91,000 liters of burned jet fuel

* Cadmium, PCBs, and up to 2 million pounds of toxins known as polycystic aromatic hydrocarbons.

All of these contaminants have strong links to pulmonary, skin or immune system ailments, as well as cancer, Sawyer said. He predicted that long-term cancer rates among clean-up workers could rise to five to seven times the norm during the coming decades.

news.healingwell.com...

Benzene and Leukemia

A substantial number of epidemiologic studies have provided estimates of the relation between exposure to benzene at work and the risk of leukemia, but the results have been heterogeneous. To bridge this gap in knowledge, we synthesized the existing epidemiologic evidence on the relation between occupational exposure to benzene and the risk of leukemia, including all types combined and the four main subgroups acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).

Conclusion: Our study provides consistent evidence that exposure to benzene at work increases the risk of leukemia with a dose-response pattern. There was some evidence of an increased risk of AML and CLL. The meta-analysis indicated a lack of association between benzene exposure and the risk of CML.

www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed...

Leukemia Risk Associated With Low-Level Benzene Exposure

Conclusions: We found an excess risk of leukemia associated with cumulative benzene exposures and benzene exposure intensities that were considerably lower than reported in previous studies. No evidence was found of a threshold cumulative exposure below which there was no risk.

journals.lww....Benzene.11.aspx...

Benzene Exposure: Warning Signs of Leukemia

Benzene is a recognized carcinogen that poses severe health warnings to workers and others who are exposed to it. There is a scientifically-proven link between benzene and leukemia; in fact benzene is a recognized cause of leukemia and other blood cancers, including multiple myeloma, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and aplastic anemia.

Benzene has also been associated with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML), which can be potentially deadly and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), which truncates one’s stem cells and kills healthy white blood cells.

Nothing in the lawsuit about radiation sickness.

Now, let's take a look here.

The Dimitri Khalezov "WTC was nuked" hoax

At about 2:00, Dimitri Khalezov talks about the "nuclear warhead that was similar to the nuclear warhead of the missile that hit the Pentagon."

At 11:40, Duff talks about the "nuclear devices" under the WTC and says they're not "mini-nukes"; they're "thermonuclear devices, demolition devices underneath the World Trade Center..." At 17:20, Duff claims that "nuclear munitions are used under major buildings in the US, in a highly secretive program."

Since there is no evidence of such a program and nobody with an IQ above room temperature believes such a program to exist, Duff has no option but to claim the "program" is "highly secretive".

www.takeourworldback.com...

Now, let's take a look at one of the promoters of the 9/11 nuclear detonation story, Gordon Duff. Gordon Duff, cite as 'evidence' a claim that 9/11 first responders have been dying from "radiation sickness".

Gordon Duff promoted the nuclear story and many truthers took his story and ran away with it on the Internet. Now, let's take a closer look at Gordon Duff.

Gordon Duff of Veterans Today Admits To Writing 40% False Information

Gordon Duff of Veterans Today in his own words. He admits To Writing 40% False Information and that at least 30% of the information on Veterans Today is false as well.

______beforeitsnews/power-elite/2012/11/gordon-duff-of-veterans-today-admits-to-writing-40-false-information-2440410.html

The 9/11 nuclear detonation story was so ridicules that even Steven Jones debunked that hoax.

I'm posting this for those who may not know of this paper, very long read but very interesting. Make of it what you wish..

Oh Sky guy, this is not meant for you, like others said , please don't reply to this post.. Thank you in advance..

PS, you can down load this PDF file if you look for it, its much bigger and easier to read.

www.scribd.com...

originally posted by: Pistoche
I believe part of the reason many Americans balk at alternatives to the official story is due to the sheer number of lives lost on that fateful day. They feel as if it's disrespectful to the fallen to question the events of that day and engage in "conspiracy theories". However, I think the complete opposite should hold true; it is disrespectful to the departed to not thoroughly question and investigate the events of that day which eventually led to the murder of thousands of people, and millions more over the ensuing years.

Not to sound cold but the reason is a different one. Say you accept that it indeed was an inside job and those who might have been involved get interrogated until arrests are made, then what? Who will run the country. What will happen to everything around you in this transitory phase?

a reply to: wildb

I'm posting this for those who may not know of this paper, very long read but very interesting. Make of it what you wish..

Oh Sky guy, this is not meant for you, like others said , please don't reply to this post.. Thank you in advance..

PS, you can down load this PDF file if you look for it, its much bigger and easier to read.

Just to let you know that Jeff Prager was debunked on another forum and that you've committed a serious blunder by using Jeff Prager as a refrence source without doing a background check to ascertain the rest of the story..

Case in point.

Why No Nuke Detonations at Ground Zero in New York City

* No temperature of millions of degrees generated from a nuclear detonation.

* No blinding flashes generated from a nuclear detonation, much less from 3 nuclear explosions

* No sound of a nuclear detonation, much less from 3 nuclear explosions

* No shockwaves generated from a nuclear explosion

* No EMP generated from a nuclear explosion

* No radioactive fallout generated from a nuclear explosion

* No seismic data generated for a nuclear explosion, much less from 3 nukes.

* No mushroom clouds generated from a nuclear explosion in New York City

* No evidence of a nuclear detonation in New York City

Now, the clincher, the fact that vehicles, computers, and video cameras continued to operate normally during and after the collapse of the WTC buildings was undeniable proof that no nuclear detonation occurred at ground zero because EMP from a nuclear detonation would have fried computer chips up to many miles from ground zero.

Jeff Prager claims this crater was created by a nuclear device.

Jeff Prager claims this photo depicts molten rock from a nuclear detonation at ground zero 1

Jeff Prager claims that this photo depicts molten rock from a nuclear detonation at ground zero 2

Jeff Prager claims that this photo depicts molten rock 3

In other words, Jeff Prager managed to dupe a number of people that a slurry hole, formed 20,000 years ago, was molten rock formed by a nuclear detonation on 9/11.

Now, let's look at the rest of the story that Jeff Prager doesn't want anyone to know about in regard to that hole found at ground zero.

At Ground Zero, Scenes From the Ice Age

A fantastic landscape in Lower Manhattan — plummeting holes, steep cliffsides and soft billows of steel-gray bedrock, punctuated by thousands of beach-smooth cobblestones in a muted rainbow of reds and purples and greens — has basked in sunlight this summer for the first time in millennia.

This monumental carving was the work of glaciers, which made their last retreat from these parts about 20,000 years ago, leaving profound gouges in the earth and rocks from the Palisades, the Ramapo Mountains and an area of northern New Jersey known as the Newark Basin.

www.nytimes.com...

Now, let's take a look at his claim about Tritium. Jeff Prager claimed that Tritium discovered at ground zero was evidence of a nuclear detonation, but let's now take a look here.

Backgrounder on Tritium EXIT Signs

EXIT signs that glow in the dark often contain a radioactive gas called tritium. These signs do not require electricity or batteries and can be used where it is hard to install electric signs, such as above doors. They serve an important safety function by marking exits to be used during power outages and emergencies. The signs pose little or no threat to public health and safety or security.

www.nrc.gov...

www.state.nj.us...

I am very sure there were a few exit signs at ground zero. Let's continue.

VETERANS TODAY IS DISINFO & JEFF PRAGER

Veterans Today used to be a great source for information but over the last several years, they have really changed their position on 9/11 and now many suspect them of infiltration and deliberately spreading disinformation into the movement. Founder Gordon Duff and others like James Fetzer, Dmitri Khalezov, Donald Fox, and Jeff Prager are just a few editors at Veterans Today that strongly support that “Mini Nukes” brought down the towers after the “Holograms” hit them.

Veterans Today are strongly against the 2300+ Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and do not agree with the theory of controlled demolition theory via Nano Thermite and Explosives. Which has been scientifically proven and is the general consensus within the Truth Movement.

JEFF PRAGER

In 2011, Jeff Prager started promoting the underground nuke (Khalezov) theory. When that theory was refuted Prager jumped on board with the Duff, Fetzer and Fox and changed his theory to the mini-nukes. In his own words, Jeff Prager promotes the WTC No Plane theory and spreads hates towards Steven Jones and AE911, calling them “frauds”.

Gordon Duff (Senior Editor at VT) has publicly admitted that 40% of everything he publishes on Veterans Today is “patently false”. My question is how can people still consider VT to be a credible source when the founder himself admits to spreading false information? Ever since James Fetzer joined VT, it has gone to the #s and my new slogan for Veterans Today is “Mini Nukes and Jews”.

kendoc911.wordpress.com...

This is how workers dress to work at a radiation-contaminated area.

Proper wear in radiation-contaminated sites

This is not how workers dress at a radiation-contaminated site.

9/11 Clean-up Crews

To sum it up, the Truth Movement took another hit from those whose intent was to deceive them.

originally posted by: Cosmic911

originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: SPECULUM

Its really Bizarre that the trucking was loading and shipping all the Steel debris to China at the instant a path was cleared.

No, because only the steel pertinent to the investigation was examined. There was no reason to examine every steel column of the WTC buildings. Some of the WTC steel found its way into the construction of the USS New York and I even posed with WTC steel that was shipped to Rio Vista, CA.

I wonder, who was responsible in the investigation to determine what steel was and was not Pertinent?

Not a clue, but the point was, it was loaded and shipped instantaneously, once a path was cleared...As the story goes China needed the steel for their Olympic Park Stadium.