TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Bush Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released today a report on what it claims happened to World Trade Center building number 7. NIST claims that heat from office-furniture fires caused floor joists to expand, becoming unstable, and causing a collapse of the entire building.

The report was released at a press conference in Gaithersburg, Maryland broadcast over the Internet. Mainstream reporters were present, but so were devotees of 9/11 COINTELPRO cult leader Steven Earl Jones. At least two members of the audience plaintively wailed Jones' name while asking cover-up artist Dr. Shyam Sunder incomprehensible questions about thermite. Dr. Sunder patiently explained that thousands of tons of thermite would have to be omnipresent on the structure in order to compromise the steel frame. (A position only slightly more ridiculous than Sunder's own furniture fire thesis.) One confused Jones devotee blurted out something about "thermate," apparently unaware that Steven Jones had debunked his own "thermate" theory at a conference in Austin, Texas more than a year ago; having to admit that a lack of a barium signature proved no "thermate" was no present.

No one present questioned the validity of the alleged heat-signature readings; nor if the large blue clouds enveloping the building might have been not "smoke" from fires, but rather chemical clouds containing blue-tinted antimony, which was present in abnormally high concentrations in Southern Manhattan. Similarly, no one asked about the apparent molecular dissociation of the structural steel in WTC7.

Labels: alchemy, NIST, stj911, thermate, wtc, wtc7

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

The thermate theory of so-called "controlled demolition" of the World Trade Center towers has apparently been debunked by its own leading proponent, Los Alamos weapons developer Steven E. Jones.

Dr. James Fetzer, founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, highlighted this in a recent exchange with Jones:

"You do not seem to have found BARIUM NITRATE, Ba(NO3)2, an ingredient in military versions of thermite, yet you have used videos of the use of military versions of thermite to illustrate its cutting power relative to engine blocks. I presume those exercises included Barium Nitrate among the ingredients. Don't these videos have to be redone relative to these analogs? How do experiments with thermite relate to work on thermite analogs? How do these "analogs" work?
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Fetzer likely meant to ask about barium oxide, which would be left after the incendiary reaction. And indeed, wikipedia's definition of thermate confirms that military-grade thermate contains 29 percent barium nitrate:

"Thermate is an incendiary compound used for military applications. Thermate, whose primary component is thermite, also contains sulfur and possibly barium nitrate, both of which increase its thermal effect, create flame in burning, and significantly reduce the ignition temperature. Various mixtures of these compounds can be called thermate, but, to avoid confusion with Thermate-TH3, one can refer to them as thermite variants or analogs. The composition by weight of Thermate-TH3 (in military use) is 68.7% thermite, 29.0% barium nitrate, 2.0% sulphur and 0.3% binder.
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Jones has acknowledged as much in an article posted on his website, in which he announces he is now on the hunt for 10 tons worth of other, ill-defined "thermite analogs" -- any of which would still be woefully inadequate to explain the scale of the damage at the World Trade Center.

Labels: 9/11, stj911, thermate