http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/worldtradecenter/ en-us Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:09:11 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082194/posts "Due to overwhelming viewer demand, an encore presentation of '102 Minutes that changed America' will have an encore presentation Sunday evening Sept. 14, at 8 pm/7 Central" This was a message displayed Saturday night while watching another program. A prize-winning classinc, not to be missed by any American who lived through those historic 48 hours. The first presentation on 9/11 snuck up on me, and I recorded it. Many others missed it entirely. I am calling family and friends. Highly recommended. History Channel Link The History Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082194/posts#comment Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081282/posts Due to Overwhelming Viewer Response, History will air a commercial free encore presentation of this unprecedented special. When I saw this, I had to give a heads up, so people could set their Tivos. It will be airing on Sept 14 at 8pm. I saw this special last night, on 9/11. I've NEVER seen a presentation of the WTC attacks that affected me like this one. It was footage of the WTC attacks shot by real people in the streets of NYC, done in real time. History Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081282/posts#comment Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:56:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079708/posts Tonight, September 11, the History Channel presents 102 Minutes That Changed America un-edited by commercials. It is scheduled to be broadcast at 9PM Eastern, but check local listings to view it. For those who miss it or don't have cable, there is a web version with many of the videos that will be shown. The History Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079708/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:49:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041230/posts The owner of the World Trade Center has abandoned the timetable for rebuilding work at the site of the 9/11 attacks, saying it was "not realistic". Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive director, Christopher Ward, listed over a dozen issues that had slowed work and raised costs. New dates for the completion of a memorial, skyscrapers and a transit hub are expected to be issued in September. It is unclear if the centrepiece Freedom Tower will now be scaled back. The tower, intended as a replacement for the destroyed Twin Towers, had been scheduled for completion in... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041230/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:29:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037511/posts - USSNY.org Web Site to Offer Official and Exclusive Commemorative Items and Collectables - - USS NEW YORK is a New U.S. Navy Ship Containing More Than Seven Tons of Steel from the Fallen World Trade Center - AP News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037511/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:46:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2036262/posts Are we to believe that in the early 1900s, we could move “238,845,587 cubic yards of material” in Panama, creating the canal where the French failed, but we cannot get oil out of the ground in Alaska in the same time? Are we to believe that we can build a railroad in the 1800s from Omaha to Sacramento in less than ten years, but it will take us longer to drill a hole in the ground and start pumping oil? ANWR is only 50 miles from Prudhoe Bay. Last I checked, Omaha was a little further than that from Sacramento.... All American Blogger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2036262/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:30:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034391/posts This is a "heads-up" for presentations on what sound like promising books (well, in my humble opinion). I'll post fuller info below, but the books are: If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy - from the Revolution to the War of 1812 The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour "Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad" BookTV; C-Span2, weekends http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034391/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:51:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959000/posts As the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack approaches, a test of the Tribute in Light Memorial illuminates a passing cloud above lower Manhattan. The twin towers of light, made-up of 44 searchlights near Ground Zero, are meant to represent the fallen twin towers of the World Trade Center. Depending on weather conditions, the columns of light can be seen for at least 20 miles around the trade center complex. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Public Affairs 2nd Class Mike Hvozda AccuWeather http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959000/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:24:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917109/posts New York City’s medical examiner has concluded that it was the misuse of prescription drugs, and not toxic ground zero dust, that killed James Zadroga, a retired detective, but other experts strongly disagree. Detective Zadroga’s parents revealed the medical examiner’s opinion yesterday, several days after he had sent a letter to them stating “with certainty beyond doubt” that their son had not died as a result of inhaling dust during the more than 400 hours he worked at ground zero. After reviewing medical evidence, Charles S. Hirsch, the city’s chief medical examiner, concluded that Detective Zadroga had crushed pills and... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917109/posts#comment Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:21:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902824/posts Tania Head’s story, as shared over the years with reporters, students, friends and hundreds of visitors to ground zero, was a remarkable account of both life and death. She had, she said, survived the terror attack on the World Trade Center despite having been badly burned when the plane crashed into the upper floors of the south tower. Crawling through the chaos and carnage on the 78th floor that morning, she said, she encountered a dying man who handed her his inscribed wedding ring, which she later returned to his widow. Her own life was saved, she said, by a... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902824/posts#comment Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:41:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895369/posts A new mathematical analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Centre has been published by a Cambridge University academic, with results that challenge conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11th attacks. The new paper, by Dr Keith Seffen, uses established engineering models to demonstrate that once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and total. Although the causes that initiated the collapse of the twin towers are now well understood, engineers continue to speculate about the speed and totality with which the buildings were demolished during the fateful attacks. Some have even dared to... PhysOrg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895369/posts#comment Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:57:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894733/posts Several years ago, the Fox News Channel ran a special that purported to expose the Apollo moon landings as a publicity stunt cooked up to scare the Soviet Union. The special included testimony from several "experts" who came up with numerous reasons why the famous footage we've all seen was filmed in New Mexico. With its gloss of respectability and suitably grim, dramatic music, the special was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen - because it was so convincing. I came away thinking that it seemed possible to "prove" anything by making a reasonably impressive video. Thank God... University of Arizona Daily Wildcat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894733/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:57:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894575/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP5uIPyYDlQ What follows is a succession of "BREAKING NEWS" bulletins, as they happened live, beginning with WNYW-TV in New York. WNYW (Channel 5) was the first TV station in the world to interrupt their regular programming with the breaking news at 8:48 that morning, just two minutes after the impact. CNN's "breaking news" bulletin follows at 8:49, and so on. Included in this "BREAKING NEWS" segment are the original bulletins from WCBS-TV (Channel 2, New York), WNBC-TV (Channel 4, New York), WABC-TV (Channel 7, New York), Fox News Channel, WPIX-TV (Channel 11, New York), NY1 (New York One, All News),... You tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894575/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:43:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894447/posts 9-11 - Remember, And Never Forget... TownHall/YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894447/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:08:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893982/posts September 11, 2001 - Amateur video shot of the towers following airplane crashes. Includes close-ups of people in the wtc windows above impact zones, firefighters organizing on the street, police rescuing an injured officer, different angles of the burning towers, and onlooker reactions to the buildings both during collapse and after. Live Leak http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893982/posts#comment Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:03:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893521/posts ExclusiveDaily News probe finds WTC contractors with mob ties, fraud BY GREG B. SMITHDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSunday, September 9th 2007, 4:00 AM   Seven contractors cited for everything from mob ties to tax fraud to fatal accidents are getting a slice of the $16 billion reconstruction at Ground Zero, a Daily News investigation has found. The problem firms are found every day working the bulldozers, cranes, jackhammers and pile drivers rebuilding the site of the World Trade Center.All of the companies work for the Port Authority, the Dormitory Authority or the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. on taxpayer-funded contracts worth millions... The New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893521/posts#comment Sun, 9 Sep 2007 15:42:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892961/posts MSNBC, in what its advertisement is billing as a “living history event”, will be rebroadcasting NBC’s coverage of 9/11 starting at 9 am ET on 9/11. Inside Cable News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892961/posts#comment Sat, 8 Sep 2007 04:43:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892424/posts Much of what is known about the health problems of ground zero workers comes from a small clinic in Manhattan that at the time of the trade center collapse had only six full-time doctors and a tiny budget. Yet in the weeks after 9/11, its doctors stepped into the fray in the absence of any meaningful effort by the city, state or federal government to survey, interview or offer treatment to potentially sickened recovery and cleanup workers. Since then, the clinic, the Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, based at Mount Sinai Medical Center, has examined more... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892424/posts#comment Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:22:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892237/posts Why we should remember 9/11 By JAY AMBROSE Scripps Howard News Service Thursday, September 06, 2007 Let's quit making a big deal out of 9/11, some are saying as the sixth anniversary rolls around, and maybe you disagree as I do, but hold your arguments. A recent event speaks louder than our words could. It occurred in Germany, where police arrested three Islamic-fascists who had cruelty up their sleeves. They had their own recognition of 9/11 planned, but no reading of the names of the 3,000 who died in that day's attacks, no families joining to pray for the victims,... Scripps Howard News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892237/posts#comment Thu, 6 Sep 2007 22:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888089/posts Rescue and recovery workers at ground zero have developed asthma at a rate that is 12 times what would be expected for adults, according to findings released yesterday by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Of nearly 26,000 workers surveyed in 2003 and 2004, 926 reported that they developed asthma for the first time after working at ground zero (a rate of 3.6 percent). In a group that size, under normal conditions, no more than 77 new cases of asthma (0.3 percent) would have been expected, according to the report, which is published in the current... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888089/posts#comment Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:57:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884139/posts This is the best footage I have ever seen of the World Trade Center attacks. Google Video http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884139/posts#comment Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:43:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1883408/posts Does anyone know about the disposition of the new WTC? Has the building's construction started yet? My Brain http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1883408/posts#comment Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:37:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853294/posts NDIANAPOLIS — A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency's findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight. The two-year Purdue University study, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, was the first to use 3-D animation to provide visual context to the attacks, said Christoph Hoffmann, a professor of computer science and one of the lead researchers on the project. Fox news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853294/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835509/posts Rush Limbaugh, the most-listened-to radio host in the U.S. and America's No. 1 voice for conservatism, says he alone has the power to select the 2008 Republican nominee for president at this point, but he's avoiding promoting one candidate over another so as not to sound like a "cheerleader." Limbaugh's remarks came today during his analysis of last night's GOP presidential debate in South Carolina, as a caller urged Rush to throw his support behind Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, as the caller claimed Paul was the most conservative of the field of candidates. "I don't think Congressman Paul has... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835509/posts#comment Fri, 18 May 2007 02:26:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833069/posts Anyone who watched Rudolph W. Giuliani preside over ground zero in the days after 9/11 glimpsed elements of his strength: decisiveness, determination, self-confidence. Those qualities were also on display over the months he directed the cleanup of the collapsed World Trade Center. But today, with evidence that thousands of people who worked at ground zero have become sick, many regard Mr. Giuliani’s triumph of leadership as having come with a human cost. An examination of Mr. Giuliani’s handling of the extraordinary recovery operation during his last months in office shows that he seized control and largely limited the influence of... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833069/posts#comment Mon, 14 May 2007 02:09:52 GMT