EHP 109-11, WTC: Environmental Aftermath [& THE untouched Marvin Bush 'bloody glove'!]

EHP 109-11, 2001: Environmental Aftermath

The work of recovery. The rumble of machinery continues 24 hours a day as vast amounts of debris are removed from "The Pile" at Ground Zero and trucked and ferried to "The Hill" at the Fresh Kills Landfill. Investigators there comb through it carefully for evidence of the crime and personal effects of the victims.

Photo credits: Top to bottom: FEMA; Bruce Lippy

The city is making efforts to identify recyclable materials that can be sorted on site for recovery. For example, the Port Authority has estimated that each of the towers contained 78,000 tons of recyclable steel, which can be sold for up to $100 per ton. Other materials such as aluminum and copper can fetch much more in the scrap metal business. It has not yet been decided how any monies collected in this way will be distributed.

Most of the rest of the debris is being taken by truck or barge to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island. The landfill collected New York City garbage for five decades and had been closed to additional disposal six months before September 11. It was immediately reopened to accept the debris from the World Trade Center.

At the top of the 180-foot-high mountain of garbage rising from the landfill, the New York Police Department has set up an evidence recovery operation known simply as "The Hill." There, as many as 30 investigators at a time, wearing full hazardous materials suits, perform the grim task of sifting through the debris looking for the flight recorders of the two hijacked airplanes, human remains, and any belongings that can help identify the victims. Such finds are catalogued for identification, and the rest is landfilled.

One of the consequences of the cleanup effort is the constant flow of dump trucks, which adds to the already heavy traffic of downtown Manhattan and to the levels of diesel exhaust fumes in the neighborhood. "We already had a traffic problem here, and now you can see these trucks with their uncovered loads going down our streets," said neighborhood resident Alicia Aguilar during a recent community forum. To alleviate the truck traffic associated with the cleanup effort and to allow easier access to remove debris to the Staten Island landfill, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has ordered the dredging of an area of the Hudson River that is near the World Trade Center site.

Some of the debris is being removed by barge, but high truck traffic and use of diesel-powered machinery at the site continues. Thurston, who has been monitoring concentrations of air pollutants, has seen that carbon levels have been elevated in some instances, "and these may come from increased diesel combustion," he says. Diesel combustion and the soot that it produces can be a trigger for asthma attacks in those who have the disease.

Continuing Questions

<yes: like WHAT are these LIES about DEBRIS going to
'Fresh Kills, Staten Island' when ALL the damn
steel & girders got shipped to China and
nobody was PERMITTED to do FORENSICS...
period. As 'bad' as the atrocious scene destruction
coup achieved after the
enriched-plutonium
bomb incinerated Harriri's car>...

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n all cases, the actions of these proxy agents and operative planners are sufficiently distanced and compartmentalized from the true masterminds to create a condition of "plausible deniability". In short, the proxies have also been set up as possible patsies with evidence that has been carefully laid to incriminate them should cracks in the "official story" become too discernible. Moreover, the groundwork has already been carefully laid to cast aspersions on another convenient patsy - the Jews, by way of the State of Israel and its supporters. Already, for those prone to perceive Jewish conspiracies, the reliable vein of anti-Semitism - combined with anti-Zionism - has been mined to distract the masses and to create a modern version of the ritual blood libel, thereby further "muddying the waters" should the true masterminds be threatened with exposure. In other words, the present difficulties in the Middle East work perfectly to set up the State of Israel as a plausible alternative suspect with motive, means, and opportunity. Toward that end, a low-level "buzz" has been circulating over the Internet (and especially in Europe) of an Israeli spy ring that was rounded up in the days after September 11. Whether or not these reports are credible is not the point. Most likely, there was a spy ring operating, and various Israelis were unwittingly set up as patsies, to be exposed should the need arise. Thus, while evidence may be marshaled to taint the Saudis, Pakistanis, or Israelis, the real guilt must inevitably lie with those in the best position to manage the flow of information as well as reliably benefit from the new order created, primarily, the political and corporate elites of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union - also, as it happens, the very parties orchestrating the global war on terrorism. In this respect, the Saudis, Pakistanis, or Israelis have far less to gain (other than the benefits of going along with the designs of the rich and mighty).

I could go on and further highlight the obvious geostrategic gains of those who are clearly managing the flow of information - the proverbial pipelines, oil, wealth, and so forth. But I think those purported benefits are a bit of a "red herring" - more of a side benefit than the main motivating factor. Americans and their allies would have easily supported a thrust into Afghanistan for a provocation far less costly and bloody than this (such as Kuwait in the early '90's). It is no small act to intentionally take down such an overarching symbol of financial stability as the Twin Towers, and chance killing thousands in the process. Such a conspiracy, if in fact perpetrated from within, would by its nature necessitate a huge structural, cultural, and demographic change. The very brazenness of the act, the naked aggression, would necessitate a tenacious determination to achieve the ends for which these actions were perpetrated. There is no going back now. An infrastructure is being laid out - one that will, finally, provide a dissident-proof totalitarian oligarchy composed of like-minded elites served by an under-class kept under constant surveillance. The edifice of this regime is being constructed, brick by brick, with the mortar of the Office of Homeland Security (to centralize and coordinate an effective police state), the Freedom Corps (to indoctrinate the most idealist - and therefore activist - elements of the populace toward service to the state), and the Patriot Act (to provide the legal basis for subverting long-held rights under the screen of national security). If all of this sounds strangely familiar, if it is redolent of Huxley and Orwell, that is perhaps because Huxley and Orwell were both intimately involved with the elites of their time - in fact, were fully subsumed among them - in ways that made their future projections abundantly prescient, and, in their minds, inevitable. With further refinements in mind control technologies - yes, they do exist - as well as the monopolization of the food supply by way of sterile seed "terminator technology" - the approval for which was granted in the months following 9/11 - the masses may be perpetually culled and exploited by those who hold the keys to this fully managed society.

If this notion of reality strikes you as somewhat dissonant, at odds with your own personal experience, it may be perhaps that we have not quite arrived there yet, and that you have personally not felt the corrosive lash of political corruption and governmental malfeasance. In all likelihood, you have not read the mountain of evidence detailing political and elite deviant behaviour in this country. You may even be dismissive of "conspiracy theories", yet wholly unaware of the well-documented attempts by the CIA and FBI to subvert, surveil, and propagandize the populace through programs such as Project Mockingbird (media infiltration) and MK-Ultra (mind control through chemical, hypnotic, or electro-magnetic means). These programs are effected primarily through "think tanks" that are set up across the United States for the purpose of disseminating information and propaganda under the rubric of "expertise". Moreover, various foundations, such as the Rockefeller or Ford Foundations, are often used as funnels to finance and feed the arteries of these propaganda networks. In the 1970's, a good deal of this structural corruption was officially exposed - in a "limited hang-out" - by way of the Church Commission, as well as the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Thereafter, much of the most damaging revelations were played down or ignored by the mainstream media, and the waters were then muddied by a stream of outlandish conspiracy theories - aliens, Elvis, etc. - that merely served to discredit the information that was most credible. "Muddying the waters", incidentally, is a tried and true staple of the intelligence craft.

It is really just a matter of familiarizing yourself with all the documented anomalies that do not accord with the received, mainstream reality put forth to you by the mainstream media. As a practical guide to begin, you might want to confine your search to strictly "mainstream" sources, as I have sought to do in attempting to construct my case on 9/11. My evidence is by no means exhaustive. In fact, it is merely the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Yet proceeding in this direction, under my hypothesis, has been most fruitful in analyzing the various anomalies that pop up now and then.

Any simple keyword search of the following terms may be helpful in pointing toward a more substantive understanding of the elites who ultimately guide your fortunes: "Iran-Contra" , "Mena", "BCCI", "Project Paperclip", "Michael Aquino", "Paul Bonacci", "Operation Northwoods", "MK-Ultra". Much of the information on these topics is credible and well-documented. More disturbingly, it highlights behavior committed by the very same elites who are now interpreting the events of 9/11 for you. Read for yourself, and decide, at the end of the day, how much credibility you will continue to accord to those who claim to be the proper trustees of your fate and well-being.

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That said, just imagine if it had been President Clinton in the White House on Sept. 11, 2001, and if it was his brother who had been on the board of a company that had handled the electronic security for those towers! My god, the press and the right-wing attack machine would have been all over it in a moment and non-stop thereafter. There would have been demands for congressional investigations, a special prosecutor, impeachment proceedings and who knows what else.

But in this case? There apparently hasn't even been anyone looking into this on a cursory basis at the 9-11 commission or the Justice Department. And as for the U.S. media?

Not one article or news story.

Seems to me, we ought to be calling news editors and members of congress to demand that someone start at least asking a few questions about this guy Marvin, and about Securicom/Stratexec, and its Kuwaiti investor.

At a minimum, could the company have leaked, even inadvertently, information to those seeking to attack the buildings which might have helped them plan their attack, or maximize the damage and the carnage?

Could terrorist operatives have infiltrated WTC security by infiltrating the company via the Kuwait connection?

Again, I have no clue about any of this, but if government agencies think it's productive and important to go around randomly arresting thousands of greencard holders and other immigrants and deporting them or holding them incommunicado without charge merely on the basis that they are Arab or Muslim, if they think that it's appropriate to shut down local Islamic charity organizations simply because they may have innocently donated some money to relief activities in certain Muslim countries, surely they should be interested in finding out just what Marvin Bush's company did and who was involved in it at the World Trade Center and at Dulles airport and United Airlines.

Marvin and his activities ought, surely, to be subjected to at least a tenth of the investivative attention that Clinton's family and friends were subjected to on matters of far less consequence.

If not, you have to start getting that creepy feeling that something's not right.

Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of CounterPunch columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common Courage Press. Information about both books and other work by Lindorff can be found at www.thiscantbehappening.net.

He can be reached at: dlindorff@yahoo.com