Problem Solving made easy in the Big Apple

In 2001, there was a huge problem in America’s greatest city. After having emerged from bankruptcy, New York City was faced with a multi-billion dollar crisis. This crisis revolved around real estate in the center of Manhattan Island, the World Trade Center complex.
Owned by the Port Authority, the Trade Center was losing tons of money. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the buildings at the site were filled with deadly asbestos. The towers were structurally unsuited to modern fiber-optic and internet technologies, and burdened with a horrendous and slow elevator system that involved two changes to get to the top, which was impossible to modify. Even removing the asbestos wouldn’t make the site profitable – there were too many other problems.
The Port Authority looked into asbestos removal, and discovered that – due to the exterior frame structure – removing the asbestos was practically impossible. And even if the asbestos could somehow be safely removed, rental income wasn’t going to go up. In fact, the site would have to sit vacant for 2-3 years. They also discovered that it would be impossible to demolish the buildings, because any demolition would release tons of deadly asbestos dust into the most populated part of New York City. No politician on Earth would approve a permit – Manhattan would have to be completely evacuated for weeks at a cost of billions. So it was that Mayor Rudy Guiliani and the City of New York had run out of options. The only thing that could be done was to continue to operate the buildings at a loss. There were no alternatives left on the table.
The World Trade Center also posed a serious problem for the company that manufactured the asbestos. That company was called Harbison-Walker, and it was a subsidiary of Dresser Industries.
Dresser had recently been acquired by Houston-based Hallibuton, through the efforts of Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney. Although Vice President Cheney has been good for Halliburton, his buying of Dresser became a fiscal “turd” in 2002 when Halliburton had to pay $4 billion to settle thousands of asbestos lawsuits. Halliburton was facing a tremendous crisis with the World Trade Center, because there was no legal way to remove the asbestos, which was sitting on top of the most valuable parcel of commercial real estate in the United States.
So it was that the Vice President, Halliburton, and New York City all had a problem. The buildings couldn’t be demolished, the asbestos couldn’t be removed, the WTC was losing money hand-over-fist, and the asbestos lawsuits were coming out of the woodwork.
The Port Authority had tried to sell the site, but no one wanted it. After all, according to all of the experts the site was beyond repair. Only an idiot would buy the site. (Enter “idiot” stage left).
Larry Silverstein is a New York real estate investor and personal friend of three Israeli Prime Ministers.
In 2001, only six weeks before 9-11, Silverstein agreed to buy the World Trade Center property through a 99 year lease that added up to $3.2 billion. This was a ridiculous move on his part, because there was absolutely no way he was going to turn a profit. In fact, the losses from the new acquisition would likely bankrupt Silverstein Properties within a couple of years! People who were close to the deal were thinking Larry had gone off his rocker. Did Larry expect the obsolete structures to last 99 years? No, he did not. In fact, it seems he expected the structures to be destroyed in a terrorist attack. Silverstein’s contract with the Port Authority reportedly included a clause stating that if the buildings were destroyed by an act of terrorism, Silverstein would not have to make any more payments, would own the site “free and clear”, and would be free to collect insurance proceeds from the loss of the buildings! This is not, as you might imagine, a standard clause in any commercial lease. It is in fact unique. Larry then cancelled the existing insurance policies on the site, and reinsured with a different company. The old coverage had excluded acts of terrorism. In the new policies, Silverstein insisted acts of terrorism be covered.
Then, on 9-11, three buildings fell down – looking for all the world just like the controlled demolition of a Las Vegas hotel. And this unprecedented event solved all of the problems!
I know you’re now saying “Yeah, but if the WTC was a controlled demolition, how could anyone have gained access to plant demolitions and bypassed the security guards and systems?”
Less than a week before 9-11, New York newspapers reported a “heightened security alert” at the WTC. Security personnel from Securacom were reportedly “working 12 hour shifts” because of “numerous phone threats” made against the buildings. On September 6th, Securacom removed the bomb-sniffing dogs from the WTC, an action that has never been explained. Securacom, oddly enough, was run at the time by Marvin Bush – the President’s brother. Then, on the weekend before 9-11, September 8-9, the Trade Center underwent a “power-down” ostensibly for a cabling upgrade to improve the WTC’s computer bandwidth. With power off, security cameras and electronic security locks on doors were inoperative, giving teams of “engineers” free access. Abundant vacant office space in both towers may have afforded an opportunity for demolition personnel – posing, perhaps, as contractors – to do preparatory tasks before 9/11.
At least the sons of bitches minimized fatalities. 54,000 people worked in the Twin Towers or were visiting during office hours, and fewer than 2,600 were killed. Because the attacks happened early in the morning, the people who died were generally of three types: First, poor people – most of them black, Hispanic, or recent immigrants – who worked as janitors, handymen, food deliverers, and so on; Second, low-ranking white collar workers: the secretaries and junior managers who had to be in the office before the bosses arrived, and; Third, firefighters, police, and other rescue workers. There were no titans of industry who died there. At the Pentagon there were over 20,000 staff, of whom only 125 were killed. Again, no one of major rank died.
If the hijackers really did all the planning they are said to have done, wouldn’t they have maximized their effort to kill as many Americans as possible? Instead, we see that the attacks actually minimized the loss of lives. The number of Americans killed was pretty close to the number who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Speaking of which…
Oddly enough, a group called the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) had issued a report in September of 2000, stating that the only way to get support to “rebuild America’s defenses” would be through “some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor.”
Who is PNAC? Oh, it’s a group whose members include: Marvin Bush, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Don Rumsfeld, John Bolton, Scooter Libby, William Kristol and other top neoconservatives.
They’re the guys who invented the concepts of “Preemptive War” and “Total Information Awareness”. They also invented the idea of a “new Pearl Harbor”.
After 9-11, defense spending skyrocketed, personal freedoms and rights were infringed upon, torture was approved and institutionalized, and the USA PATRIOT ACT was passed, a document which contains 114 points of synchronicity with the “Enabling Acts” passed by NAZI Germany when Hitler took power. The 9-11 attacks seem to have been the best thing that could have possibly happened for those who espoused the PNAC ideology. It solved their problem too.
PNAC was formed specifically to promote the notion that America, as the world’s only remaining superpower, should “take over the world” using our economic and military strength to usher in a “New American Century” in which the US (and our allies, Israel and Britain) could dominate and subjugate the rest of the world, and control the world’s resources.
But, like cartoon villains who plot world domination, their plans seem to have gone down a shithole. Public support for their agenda is gone, with political support drying up quickly. Their last hope was Hilary, who was on-board. The only thing that can save them now is “a new, new Pearl Harbor” or a “new Dealey Plaza” – something that can either defeat, remove, or co-opt Barack Obama. Otherwise, their agenda will fail. This is of course unacceptable. Failure is not an option in the New World Order spawned by Daddy Bush and his crazy friends. Don’t be surprised if another false-flag operation occurs soon.