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Song Lyrics: ‘Bringing the Mind Back Home’

Bringing the Mind Back Home

Trying to find kingdoms,

We watch an empire fall –

Silent, wailing ghosts that pass

Along graffitied walls.

We can’t define the feeling

That something’s gone too far—

Suspicion turns to knowledge, Ma

As space dust turns to stars.

Om Ma Nee Beng Mei Hung

Om Ma Nee Beng Mei Hung

(repeat)

Throughout this vast creation

The Word on deaf ears falls.

Monkeys chatter to themselves

And fail to hear the Silent Call.

In our re-creation we can manifest as Men,

Cast aside our foolish pride

And step inside the Sacred Hall again.

Om Ma Nee Beng Mei Hung

Om Ma Nee Beng Mei Hung

(repeat)

Shawn Hamilton, 1994

Over 1000 architects and engineers have signed petition to reinvestigate 9-11 destruction

“At some level of government, at some point in time, there was an agreement not to tell the people the truth about what happened.” John Farmer, Senior Counsel to the 9-11 Commission in his book The Ground Truth (Page 4)
 
By Shawn Hamilton
 
Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth founder, Richard Gage, AIA,   began the conference quoting Mark Twain who said, “If you don’t read the newspapers you’re uninformed. If you do read them you’re misinformed.” Gage said he hoped the assembled press would help to rectify that statement. “Today I’m quite pleased to announce that now we have more than one thousand architects and engineers signed on to the A&E911Truth petition demanding of Congress a new and truly independent, unimpeachable investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9-11,” Gage said to a cheering audience.

(L to R) Shawn Hamilton, Richard Gage AIA, and Fritz Eriksen after the Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth conference in San Francisco, February 19, 2010 (Photo: Theodore Wood)

Numerous architects and engineers spontaneously spoke during the event about what had led to their decision to get involved in a movement that could potentially jeopardize their careers. Most agreed that it was the suspicious collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 that first caught their attention. No airplane hit the building and the fires were small. Gage said the fires were unlikely to have disabled the supporting columns all at once in order to quickly and neatly drop the skyscraper. For a hundred feet the building fell at freefall speed.
There was also evidence of foreknowledge regarding World Trade Center 7’s destruction. The BBC reported live that it had fallen twenty minutes before it actually fell; viewers could see the building standing in the background.
Physics professor Dr. Steven Jones along with an international team of scientists, analyzed World Trade Center dust from several sources and claims they found unmistakable traces of nanothermitic composite material–explosives that could be used to demolish the three skyscrapers. He and other architects and engineers say this explains the pools of molten metal found at ground zero weeks after the incident. Jones co-authored a peer-reviewed paper on the subject which led to his being fired from a tenured faculty position at Brigham Young University.
“Dr. Niels Harrit is first author, and he’s doing a wonderful job spreading information about this science. his is a peer-reviewed paper in an established scientific journal,” Jones said. “I want to emphasize that this paper has not yet been challenged in the peer-reviewed literature. In the established protocol of science, we published our findings.”

Professor Steven Jones

As Professor David Ray Griffin and others have pointed out, this paper is receiving a great deal of attention in Europe. the group hopes that it will receive more media attention in the United States as well. Griffin spoke at the conference. Although not an architect or engineer, he is considered one of the most respected members of the 9-11 Truth Movement.
I asked Griffin why media outlets–even alternative ones–are typically so reluctant to even look at the 9-11 evidence.
“They say, ‘We lose our credibility over here, then we can’t do all this other good work,’ overlooking the fact…I would say, as a rabid (laughs) member of the 9-11 Truth Movement, ‘Look this outstrips anything else you could be exposing from the last ten years–or the next ten–unless there’s another one, and if there is another one it will be partly your fault because you didn’t expose this one.”
More information about Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth is available at the group’s web site: www.ae911truth.org

Richard Gage introduces Prof. David Ray Griffin at the Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth event (Ted Wood)

The KPFA Radio version of this story may be found here. Nine minutes, eleven seconds into broadcast; anchor’s intro begins shortly thereafter).
Hear Richard Gage commenting on the success of the day’s events.
The full video of the event may be found here. Press Conference Question and Answer Session. Press conference luncheon. Press conference epilogue.

ABC Nightline reveals its agenda, equates 9/11 truth with gun-wielding crazies

Reprinted from AE911Truth.org
Friday, 26 March 2010 11:11Shawn Hamilton

ABC Nightline’s piece on the 9-11 Truth Movement qualifies as nothing short of journalistic fraud. Instead of presenting an objective look at the surprisingly large numbers of people who are questioning the government’s official conspiracy theory involving 19 Arabs, Bury’s piece was clearly intended to equate in viewers’ minds those in the 9-11 Truth Movement” with gun-wielding crazies like the recent “Pentagon shooter” John Patrick Bedell. 

 

While this movement includes a wide variety people including thousands of architects, engineers, firefighters, academicians and scientists, Nightline seemed intent on creating an oversimplified caricature of what it disparagingly called a “viral community of true believers,” that is, people who are crazy enough to suspect the government might be hiding something when there’s no evidence to support that idea. There’s actually a lot of evidence, but TV shows like Nightline are not interested in looking at it, much less refuting it. The Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth were featured as keynote speakers at the same conference that you attended and now host over 1,000 A/E petition signers—all demanding a new investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9-11. Why did you not ask us what evidence we might have to support our call for a re-investigation? We understand that you were even re-directed by no less than three of your interviewees to speak with us.

Korey Rowe and Dylan Avery, whose documentary, “Loose Change” provided many with their first look at problems with the official account, knew what Nightline was up to. Rowe told Bury, “They’re trying already to equate us with this man (Bedell) and trying to say that the 9-11 Truth Movement is a militia, gun-toting, anti-government conspiracy [group].”

Avery told Bury, “We already know what you guys are going to do—just by the questions you asked us. It’s very clear what your agenda is.” Bury got a similar response from former FBI agent and whisteblower Coleen Rowley when he asked her the loaded question, “Do you think the American government helped kill innocent Americans?” Rowley told Bury the technique he was using reminded her of interrogation strategies she’d used while in the FBI. Rowley stated that the full truth is simply not known and that the 9-11 Commission has said so itself. Nightline then interviewed Lee Hamilton, vice-chairman of the 9-11 Commission, who stated, “We got the story basically right” in order to give the impression he was contradicting Rowley’s claim, but that was intentionally misleading. Consider what he wrote in his book Without Precedent—that the 9-11 Commission was “set up to fail” by the Bush Administration. And what John Farmer, Senior Counsel to the 9-11 Commission wrote on page four of his book, The Ground Truth: “At some level of government, at some point in time, there was an agreement not to tell the people the truth about what happened.”

Lee Hamilton told Nightline, “When they bring these theories of what happened forward, the appropriate question is, ‘What evidence do you have of that?’ And if they have evidence, then let’s examine it in the court of public opinion.” We may be on the same page with Lee Hamilton after all. This is exactly what groups like ours want to see happen. For instance, why did World Trade Center Building 7, which was never hit by an airplane, collapse suddenly, smoothly, straight down into its own footprints at free-fall acceleration?

This is a question for an enterprising, seasoned journalist like Chris Bury of Nightline to pursue—especially since there is an abundant evidence of the incendiary “thermite” in the molten iron found in the rubble of all three WTC skyscrapers. And since the explosive composite “nano-thermite” was found in all of the pulverized concrete that was laid like a blanket throughout lower Manhattan.

The massive amount of concrete powder contained evidence of the explosive “thermite”

Richard Gage, AIA, founder of AE911Truth stated, “These technical professionals are staking their licenses, degrees, and reputation not on conspiracy theories but on the scientific, forensic evidence that speaks for itself. We have no other agenda than for the public to be aware of this evidence that was eliminated from the official reports.”

Here is a partial list of the evidence demanding further investigation:
• Rapid onset of collapse of all three WTC skyscrapers.
• Sounds of explosions at the onset of collapse
• Symmetrical collapse — through the path of what should have been the greatest resistance–at nearly free-fall acceleration (i.e. the columns offered no resistance; therefore, they must have been instantly “removed”)
• WTC 7 collapsed nearly into its own footprint with the steel skeleton almost completely broken up. The Twin Towers on the other hand were extremely explosive—hurling 9-ton steel sections laterally several hundred feet. 

 
Steel beams blown laterally several hundred feet

• Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic-like dust clouds
• Several tons of molten metal found at the base of the buildings by credible witnesses.
• Evidence of thermite (an incendiary used to cut through steel) found in beams, slag and iron spheres in all the dust samples
• Inter-granular melting and evaporation of steel structure found and documented by FEMA in App. “C”)
• Expert corroboration from controlled demolition professionals
•Foreknowledge of WTC collapse by media

The details can be found at www.AE911Truth.org and are available to anyone who wants to look at them, yet Nightline representatives chose to devote their attention to mischaracterizing members of the 9-11 Truth Movement instead of actually confronting the evidence. What is their agenda?