Tuesday, December 29, 2009

David Chandler, Visalia Friends, December 17, 2009



David Chandler is the author of numerous online videos that analyze
the collapses of the World Trade Buildings from the point of view of
a physics instructor. Davids contributions to the NIST final Report
on WTC 7 led to their admitting to 2.2 seconds of free fall in the
buildings collapse.
David is also the author of the popular internet site:

http://www.lcurve.org/ about US income distribution.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Friday, July 10, 2009

Bloody Thursday Commemoration March, July 5, 2009

75th Bloody Thursday Procession - July 5, 2009 Part 1




The San Francisco general strike and West Coast maritime strike in 1934 was one of the most important and successful strikes in the history of the United States. This strike along with the Minneapolis Teamsters strike and Toledo strike were high points for the American labor movement. In the San Francisco general strike, Bloody Thursday was on July 5, 1934 when strikers Nick Bordoise and Howard Sperry were killed and 109 people were wounded as a result of the police attack on strikers and their supporters. Despite the calling of the National Guard and the violent attack on unions and workers in San Francisco this strike was won.

These powerful militant worker strikes also set the stage for millions of US workers to join unions and eventually break the back of the employers union busting efforts to destroy the labor movement.  

The backbone of the San Francisco longshore strike was a militant new democratic union that elected all of its leaders including the strike chair Harry Bridges.  It was formed in struggle against corrupt unionism and it showed that workers had the ability to organize, educate and train their members to defend their unions and all working people. The slogan an injury to one is an injury to all was and is still the motto of the ILWU. Today with millions of workers losing their jobs, their homes and their healthcare the issues that brought that strike are again extremely relevant. Tens of thousands of workers have been fired in the United States simply for trying to organize a union.


Thursday, June 11, 2009

Save Bill's Trail



Bill’s Trail, in a steep, remote section of Samuel Taylor State Park is under assault by IMBA, the International Mountain Bike Association, and other local mountain bike proponents. This well funded and determined lobby has managed to convince State Park staff, that opening the fragile, narrow, fern lined trail to aggressive downhill mountain biking is within the definitions of state park shared use trails. IMBA maps of the trail depict only a few hairpin turns when in fact there are up to 40 such switchbacks. The trail is accessible by an arduous climb to about the 850’ elevation of Barnaby Mountain and would provide a mostly moderately steep downhill ride (7-8% grade) for bike users.

Mountain bikers have proved on numerous occasions to be poor stewards of the trail systems in Marin and Sonoma counties. Bikers in Marin, have been arrested for building illegal trails in sensitive wildlife habitats on numerous occasions, threatened local residents who report or encounter them on illegal trails, destroy private property, cut down redwood and other trees and continue to build downhill ramps and jump courses in off limits county open spaces. Their tire tracks leave deep erosive ruts in healthy trails especially during the rain season. Recently, an injured mountain biker had to be air lifted out of nearby Annadel State Park. The remoteness of Bill’s Trail poses significant problems for state park resources in both maintenance and monitoring in an economic climate that is in serious decline. Endangered Coho salmon spawn in a creek at the base of the trail. The impacts of substantial bike traffic near this creek have not been studied. When over a hundred miles of legal trails remain open to them in Sonoma and Marin, one wonders what the feverish urgency is in opening up more trails. The answer is that the mountain bike industry is a billion dollar commercial enterprise that must sell products. IMBA takes its marching orders from corporate giants. This is not care for the wilderness but yet another exploitative grab of traditional wilderness and open space for basic thrill seeking.

Voice your opposition to the plan by June 26, 2009. Demand a full CEQA review from state authorities. Call or email staff head, Roy McNamee rmcna@parks.ca.gov
707- 769-5665 ex 226

Monday, June 01, 2009

Steven Jones on “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe”

At a May 1, 2009 presentation at UC Davis, California, physics professor, Steven Jones discusses the new paper, Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe by Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley and Bradley R. Larsen.

 Steven explores some of the startling facts revealed in the paper and discusses some of the threats he's received over publishing his historic work.

The paper ends with this sentence: Based on these observations, we conclude that the red layer of the red/gray chips we have discovered in the WTC dust is active, unreacted thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology, and is a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material.

In short, the paper explodes the official story that no evidence exists for explosive/pyrotechnic materials in the WTC buildings.

What is high-tech explosive/pyrotechnic material in large quantities doing in the WTC dust? Who made tons of this stuff and why? Why have government investigators refused to look for explosive residues in the WTC aftermath?

These are central questions raised by this scientific study.

The peer-review on this paper was grueling, with pages of comments by referees. The tough questions the reviewers raised led to months of further experiments. These studies added much to the paper, including observation and photographs of iron-aluminum rich spheres produced as the material is ignited in a Differential Scanning Calorimeter (see Figures 20, 25 and 26).

The nine authors undertook an in-depth study of unusual red-gray chips found in the dust generated during the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. The article states: The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic. The images and data plots deserve careful attention.


Monday, May 04, 2009

AIA Convention, San Francisco. Richard Gage Interviews Architects

Richard Gage, AIA founder of AE911Truth.org interviews more architects from the convention floor at the recent AIA Convention on May 2, 2009 These interviews show the astonished looks on faces of architects beginning to understand the depths of the deception that was fostered on the public regarding the three World Trade high rise collapses on September 11, 2001 The video also reveals that many, to this day, have still never seen building 7 collapse, or the close up video of the violent lateral explosions of material being ejected from the South Tower at speeds of up to 70 mph. Please visit http://ae911truth.org for more information and an opportunity to sign our petition for a new independent 9/11 investigation.

Friday, May 01, 2009

Richard Gage, AIA

Architect Richard Gage, AIA at the AIA Convention, San Francisco on April 30, 2009. Richard interviews other architects at the AE911Truth booth. The aim is to increase sign ups for the petition for a new independent 9/11 investigation into all three World Trade Center high rise "collapses". Also introduced are some of the staff at http://AE911Truth.org . Video production by John Parulis, AE911Truth video staff and http://brightpathvideo.com