New York City Still A Disaster Area After 9-11
The 9-11 attack on New York City was more effective than anyone
could have imagined.
Informed sources tell me that the city has been left a virtual
disaster area because of the volume of asbestos particles
exploded into minute and deadly airborne particles. The stuff is
everywhere. It is blown by the wind to all parts of the city and
beyond. Dangerous levels of asbestos particles have been detected
as far away as Boston.
I have tried to confirm this by checking U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency reports about the quality of the air in New
York City. All of the current reports show that asbestos
particles are low in most of the city at this time.
HP Environmental, a Virginia based research team, found in a
study made a few weeks after the attack, however, that the force
of the explosions shattered the asbestos from the buildings to
such small particles they evaded EPA testing equipment.
The study concluded: "there is such an overwhelming concentration
of those ultra small particles that many are being missed by
standard microscopy techniques."
Hugh Granger, author of the report, said that the asbestos was
"pulverized. . . When we now measure and look for these very
small fibers in the air and buildings, we find them, and we find
them in uniquely elevated concentrations."
Anyone getting this deadly dust in the lungs is in danger of
dying in the next few years of lung cancer or asbestosis. Both
are diseases of the lungs brought on by irritation from the ultra
hard sharp particles, which get imbedded in the lungs and cannot
be removed.
The World Trade towers were completed in 1972 and 1973 when
asbestos was still an accepted material for floor tile,
insulation and wrappings for heat and air conditioning ducts in
commercial buildings. Ironically, I am told that the steel
support beams in the center of the towers, were being treated
with asbestos to prevent them from collapsing in the event of a
catastrophic fire. Because the law prohibiting the use of
asbestos in building materials went into effect before the towers
were completed, the steel supports on the upper floors were not
treated!
When in a solid form, asbestos is safe to be around. But it is a
very hard material that breaks down into tiny needle-shaped
particles when smashed. These particles are so tiny they float
with dust in the air and can be easily inhaled into the lungs.
Anyone walking the streets of New York these days should be
wearing a protective mask.
This problem is not going away soon. The tiny asbestos particles
do not disappear for a long time. They are picked up by every
gust of wind, by the breeze from every moving vehicle, or every
electric fan, and keep fluttering in microscopic, unseen
particles in the air. It is said that this threat could remain
for at another 10 years or longer.
If we wanted to be honest about the 9-11 tragedy, New York and a
large surrounding area should be declared a disaster area. It
should be evacuated indefinitely.
In a sense, this is happening. Because of 9-11, over a million
jobs in a city of 8 million people have been lost, my source
said. The "official" job loss count is only 100,000. That figure
does not make sense. That many people made their living in jobs
directly linked to the World Trade Center. Thousands more were
made jobless by the destruction to surrounding buildings, and an
untold number more must be out of work because of the asbestos
contaminants getting into buildings for blocks around the strike
area. The hundreds of failed businesses since that date must have
sent many more workers into the unemployment lines. I am told
that people are moving out of New York by the droves, in search
of employment that does not exist.
The only thing keeping our teetering stock exchange propped up is
the media hype that assures the masses that everything is just
fine. That, of course, is a lie. The people who attacked us went
right for the heart of American business interests. They knew
exactly what they were doing and the attack was orchestrated
brilliantly.
If this story is true, why haven't we been told? Our pompous
network news anchormen and women, many of them working in New
York, somehow forget to report this stuff. Perhaps they think it
is best for the security of the nation that the enemy never knows
just how much damage was done in that attack.
Here is another horror story that few people know about.
During the days immediately following the 9-11 attack, there were
hundreds of people left trapped, alive, in the rubble. We knew
they were there. Their cries for help were picked up by
electronic sensors. Few were saved. Yet we had pictures every
night on our television news shows depicting fire fighters making
heroic rescue attempts in the still smoldering rubble.
That was not the whole story.
I am told that nearly all of America's resources were turned in
one direction during those critical first days after the attack.
Instead of lives, workers were using much of the technology at
our disposal to save Wall Street. They were busy digging new
tunnels to open critical communication terminals in and out of
the stock market so that brokers could reopen trading as soon as
possible. We actually have a law on the books that the stock
exchange can only remained closed for one day at a time. It took
a week to get the New York stock exchange open again.
By then, there were no survivors left alive in the rubble.
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