@Loudmouth, actually, the chief engineer in charge of the clean-up of the WTC has also disputed the validity of the US government’s story, but his evidence has been bombarded with cries of “conspiracy theory” by the ignorant and those who have interests in the event. He too detected the presence of Thermite in the building wreckage, which should not have been present at all!

Just because we are bombarded with BS, doesn’t mean that people with authority, education and understanding of these things are not shouted down.

Let me put it this way…prior to the WTC, it was a regular event to see an industrial chimney or sky-scraper demolished, and those pictures shown on the nightly news, with narration explaining the precise science of demolishing an industrial chimney or sky-scraper upon itself. Strangely, since 9/11, when two aircraft hit the WTC at random points on the buildings, such news has been deemed as not interesting to the public anymore. Nor suddenly, is the collapsing of a building upon itself considered to be a precise science…by whom? The ignorant that believe any BS out of the “idiot box” that is bombarded and repeated enough to them, and the naïve that refuse to believe that their own government could do such a thing, that’s who. If we watched the same event in Russia, we would all cry conspiracy of the Russian government. But because it’s America and our governments involved, it can’t be a conspiracy. Idiots!!

Thanks, Mindless Cruelty,

Presumably the thermite would have been blowing all over New York in the dust, and even now is sitting on many window ledges ?

How much does a 110-storey building weigh ? Long ago, perhaps in the eighties or nineties, I read how the twin towers were able to be built using such a light and fragile framework, to allow them to be the tallest buildings in the world, but even so, each floor would have some weight. Not surprisingly on that basis, the second tower hit was the first to fall, since it was hit much lower down (or is that all just video tricks, MC ?) Supposing each floor weighs, say a thousand tonnes, then the weakening of the structure by intense heat (no, not melting, just weakening) at that floor level would have (110 -X) times 1000 tonnes of mass above it, then falling 4 metres onto the floor below, etc. It's not rocket science.

On the other hand, being possessed of a death-wish, the Republican-dominated CIA could have demolished two New York landmarks - that would have got up a lot of Democrat noses - but why ? Were they trying to incite New Yorkers to secede ? Or rise up in a 15-million-strong angry mob, and carry most of the USA with them ? Who could possibly believe that ? Idiots !!

Most Muslim suicide bombers mostly seem to keep their activities "in house". That is to say most of their victims are fellow Muslims.

One wonders what sort of "altruism" prompted this:

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Religious-Minorities-Attacked-in-Pakistan-23-Killed-102149684.html

Pelican

We rightly excoriate the Catholic Church for their child-abuse. What goes on in Madrassahs also seems to be a form of child-abuse.

In 1978, Jim Jones, of the Peoples Temple, convinced around 900
of his followers to commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.

Why did they do it? Religions, cults etc, are hardly based
on the rational. People in a state of high emotion, will do
things which they later regret, if that is possible. That
is exactly why around 100'000 people a year in the US are
shot by guns, of which 20'000 die. The gun is handy, somebody
flies into a rage, the rest is history!

The stronger an emotion, the less we reason.

I have yet to meet a religious fanatic who approaches life from
a rational perspective. So why do we think that they will
act rationally?

Further examples of "altruism"?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/25/taliban-poison-attack-girls-school

My initial post was deleted for a very hostile tone. I will therefore restrict myself by saying that all terrorists probably believe they are behaving altruistically. Terrorist enablers provide the writing that cons them into thinking this, and this author should be charged with inciting and enabling. There is no ground for sympathy or respect for the kind of people that blow up women and children in the streets and markets.

For instance, when women suicide bombers started showing up in Palestine, it turned out that the terrorists were raping them, then offering a suicide bombing mission to restore their family's honour.

When intellectually handicapped children were used as suicide bombers, was this altruism? This is the 'altruism' of the terrorist organisers.