WTC Towers: The case for controlled demolition
By Herman Schoenfeld

In this article we show that "top-down" controlled demolition
accurately accounts for the collapse times of the World Trade Center
towers. A top-down controlled demolition can be simply characterized
as a "pancake collapse" of a building missing its support columns.
This demolition profile requires that the support columns holding a
floor be destroyed just before that floor is collided with by the
upper falling masses. The net effect is a pancake-style collapse at
near free fall speed.

This model predicts a WTC 1 collapse time of 11.38 seconds, and a WTC
2 collapse time of 9.48 seconds. Those times accurately match the
seismographic data of those events.1 Refer to equations (1.9) and
(1.10) for details.

It should be noted that this model differs massively from the "natural
pancake collapse" in that the geometrical composition of the structure
is not considered (as it is physically destroyed). A natural pancake
collapse features a diminishing velocity rapidly approaching rest due
the resistance offered by the columns and surrounding "steel mesh".

DEMOLITION MODEL

A top-down controlled demolition of a building is considered as
follows

1. An initial block of j floors commences to free fall.

2. The floor below the collapsing block has its support structures
disabled just prior the collision with the block.

3. The collapsing block merges with the momentarily levitating floor,
increases in mass, decreases in velocity (but preserves momentum), and
continues to free fall.

4. If not at ground floor, goto step 2.


Let j be the number of floors in the initial set of collapsing floors.
Let N be the number of remaining floors to collapse.
Let h be the average floor height.
Let g be the gravitational field strength at ground-level.
Let T be the total collapse time.

Using the elementary motion equation

distance = (initial velocity) * time + 1/2 * acceleration * time^2

We solve for the time taken by the k'th floor to free fall the height
of one floor

[1.1] t_k=(-u_k+(u_k^2+2gh))/g

where u_k is the initial velocity of the k'th collapsing floor.

The total collapse time is the sum of the N individual free fall times

[1.2] T = sum(k=0)^N (-u_k+(u_k^2+2gh))/g

Now the mass of the k'th floor at the point of collapse is the mass of
itself (m) plus the mass of all the floors collapsed before it (k-1)m
plus the mass on the initial collapsing block jm.

[1.3] m_k=m+(k-1)m+jm =(j+k)m

If we let u_k denote the initial velocity of the k'th collapsing
floor, the final velocity reached by that floor prior to collision
with its below floor is

[1.4] v_k=SQRT(u_k^2+2gh)


which follows from the elementary equation of motion

(final velocity)^2 = (initial velocity)^2 + 2 * (acceleration) *
(distance)

Conservation of momentum demands that the initial momentum of the k'th
floor equal the final momemtum of the (k-1)'th floor.

[1.5] m_k u_k = m_(k-1) v_(k-1)


Substituting (1.3) and (1.4) into (1.5)
[1.6] (j + k)m u_k= (j + k - 1)m SQRT(u_(k-1)^2+ 2gh)


Solving for the initial velocity u_k

[1.7] u_k=(j + k - 1)/(j + k) SQRT(u_(k-1)^2+2gh)


Which is a recurrence equation with base value

[1.8] u_0=0



The WTC towers were 417 meters tall and had 110 floors. Tower 1 began
collapsing on the 93rd floor. Making substitutions N=93, j=17 , g=9.8
into (1.2) and (1.7) gives


[1.9] WTC 1 Collapse Time = sum(k=0)^93 (-u_k+(u_k^2+74.28))/9.8 =
11.38 sec
where
u_k=(16+ k)/(17+ k ) SQRT(u_(k-1)^2+74.28) ;/ u_0=0



Tower 2 began collapsing on the 77th floor. Making substitutions N=77,
j=33 , g=9.8 into (1.2) and (1.7) gives


[1.10] WTC 2 Collapse Time =sum(k=0)^77 (-u_k+(u_k^2+74.28))/9.8 =
9.48 sec
Where
u_k=(32+k)/(33+k) SQRT(u_(k-1)^2+74.28) ;/ u_0=0


REFERENCES

"Seismic Waves Generated By Aircraft Impacts and Building Collapses at
World Trade Center ", http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq...C_LDEO_KIM.pdf

APPENDIX A: HASKELL SIMULATION PROGRAM

This function returns the gravitational field strength in SI units.

g :: Double
g = 9.8

This function calculates the total time for a top-down demolition.
Parameters:
_H - the total height of building
_N - the number of floors in building
_J - the floor number which initiated the top-down cascade (the 0'th
floor being the ground floor)


cascadeTime :: Double - Double - Double - Double
cascadeTime _H _N _J = sum [ (- (u k) + sqrt( (u k)^2 + 2*g*h))/g | k-[0..n]]
where
j = _N - _J
n = _N - j
h = _H/_N
u 0 = 0
u k = (j + k - 1)/(j + k) * sqrt( (u (k-1))^2 + 2*g*h )


Simulates a top-down demolition of WTC 1 in SI units.

wtc1 :: Double
wtc1 = cascadeTime 417 110 93

Simulates a top-down demolition of WTC 2 in SI units.

wtc2 :: Double
wtc2 = cascadeTime 417 110 77

These conspiracy douchebags are all alike. If the WTC was dropped by
controlled detonation as a result of explosives planted inside the
buildings, then who planted them, how did they plant them undetected
and who covered up the evidence? There were zero - count 'em zero -
blasting caps recovered at the WTC site. If the WTC was destroyed by
controlled detonation, then a large team of people - those who planted
explosives inside the buildings and those who destroyed evidence on
the ground - remains at large. The Federal government couldn't keep
its wire-tapping scheme a secret, what makes you think it could keep
this a secret? Shouldn't you be looking for JFK's *real* killers?

[plonk]

Is there some correlation between newsgroup crosspostings and crap??? Pat

As close as between nationality and stupidity.

On Feb 9, 6:53*pm, NMS wrote:
As close as between nationality and stupidity.

now what about wtc3

On Feb 9, 6:53*pm, NMS wrote:
As close as between nationality and stupidity.

http://www.jerrypippin.com/CON-Files_911_questions.htm

now what about wtc3

You have seen it on TV?
Then you can know what a well done demolition job is. Very thorougly
prepared for at least 6 month.

in 1395889 20080217 062414 joeturn wrote:

If you remember Hitler was kicking ass till the US was invited to the
war!! The British sunk two luxury liners and blamed it on the
Germans,conviniently Churchill had two empty ships in the area for the
survivers soo we owed him!!

Moron.

If you remember Hitler was kicking ass till the US was invited to the
war!! The British sunk two luxury liners and blamed it on the
Germans,conviniently Churchill had two empty ships in the area for the
survivers soo we owed him!!


You believe USA was innocent until this incident?
The story began even earlier:
Hitler was a rather poor austrian painter. How could he raise such a big
organisation as the NSDAP?
Prescot Bush met him in Munich and was fascinated by him. He became
shure, if Hitler would have enough influence in Germany, there could be
only one result: War in Europe! A war with no real winners in Europe,
only USA could make a profit out of it.
So he decided to give Hitler enough money, to raise a strong party, well
organised and armed to become successfull.
Prescot Bush , William Averell Harriman and George Herbert Walker owned
the Bank Brown Brothers Harriman in the Behrenstraße in Berlin and they
invested very successfully in the development of Hitlers plans.
On one side they had the profit from steel production needed for WW II
and on the other side Prescot Bush even was involved in profit making in
Auschwitz until at least 1942.

Do the French do demolition or just film firefighter documentaries??$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


I do not know anything about the French and their excelence in doing a
good demolition job. But am shure Marvin Bush was a very successful
security manager of WTC an Mr. Silberstein knows a lot about investment
and a good timing for insurance contracts.

hit my profile and read my thread The cost of war is staggering

heres you some more Bidniz as usual



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Posted January 18th, 2008 01:02 PM IP
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Well they keep pointing to the grassy knoll,to no avail!! There was a
conspericy to kill JFK,some assume Lee Harvy Oswald was just part of a
group of snipers at daily plaza that day ,while others think he acted
alone I on the other hand have my own opinion! I think that LBJ
authorized the assasination, because JFK was giving all the nonunion
contracts away$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

LHO was an activist in an anti government poly and had an agenda!
However ,he was only a pawn! I think he was offered money for his
participation or an extreme offer of regrete had he not participated!

The Zagruder film shows all three shots fired came from the Book
Depository Building!! One shot kicked dirt up after missing and the
other two left a vapor trail,all inline from that window!! Even the
driver felt the precusion from behind him!

The Aussies has shown there was the "MAGIC BULLET" and the Laser
exibition film shows the bullet exiting the lapel..

The conspiracy was covered up by Jack Ruby and he became the patriotic
fall guy!!

FAMOUS QUOTES

"If you cant make it fake it"

One small step for man;One giant leap for mankind:

"we have the best government that money can buy"

Hiddon in my reserch is a fine for political gain for contributions to
support one candidate see if you can find it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_and_Root
(Edited by joeturn)





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Posted February 19th, 2008 10:06 AM IP
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that link was pulled but Cheney takes Johnsons place

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articl...bushcheney.html

just in case this one miraculously dissapears heres how it reads

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FROM MEDELLIN TO MOSCOW WITH BROWN & ROOT
Halliburton Corporation's Brown & Root is one of the major components
of the Bush-Cheney Drug Empire. The success of Bush Vice-Presidential
running mate Richard Cheney at leading Halliburton, Inc. to a five-
year, US$3.8 billion "pig-out" on federal contracts and taxpayer-
insured loans is only a partial indicator of what may happen, now that
the Bush ticket has won the US presidential election.

A closer look at available research, including an August 2, 2000
report by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) (www.public-i.org),
suggests that drug money has played a role in the successes achieved
by Halliburton under Cheney's tenure as CEO from 1995 to 2000. This is
especially true for Halliburton's most famous subsidiary, heavy
construction and oil giant Brown & Root. A deeper look into history
reveals that Brown & Root's past - as well as the past of Dick Cheney
himself - connects to the international drug trade on more than one
occasion and in more than one way.

Last June, the lead Washington, DC, attorney for a major Russian oil
company connected in law enforcement reports to heroin smuggling, and
also a beneficiary of US-backed loans to pay for Brown & Root
contracts in Russia, held a $2.2 million fundraiser to fill the
already bulging coffers of presidential candidate George W. Bush. This
is not the first time that Brown & Root has been connected to illegal
drugs, and the fact is that this "poster child" of American industry
may also be a key player in Wall Street's efforts to maintain
domination of the half-trillion-dollar-a-year global drug trade and
its profits. And Dick Cheney, who has also come closer to illegal
drugs than most suspect and who is also Halliburton's largest
individual shareholder ($45.5 million), has a vested interest in
seeing to it that Brown & Root's successes continue.

Of all the American companies dealing directly with the US military
and providing cover for CIA operations, few firms can match the global
presence of this giant construction powerhouse which employs 20,000
people in more than 100 countries. Through its sister companies or
joint ventures, Brown & Root can build offshore oil rigs, drill wells
and construct and operate everything from harbours and pipelines to
highways and nuclear reactors. It can train and arm security forces
and it can now also feed, supply and house armies. One key beacon of
Brown & Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that,
as it proudly announces from its own corporate web page, it has
received the contract to dismantle ageing Russian nuclear-tipped ICBMs
in their silos. Furthermore, the relationships between key
institutions, players and the Bushes themselves suggest that under a
George "W" Administration the Bush family and its allies, using Brown
& Root as the operational interface, may well be able to control the
drug trade all the way from Medellín to Moscow.

Originally formed as a heavy construction company to build dams, Brown
& Root grew its operations via shrewd political contributions to
Senate candidate Lyndon Johnson in 1948. Expanding into the building
of oil platforms, military bases, ports, nuclear facilities, harbours
and tunnels, Brown & Root virtually underwrote LBJ's political career.
It prospered as a result, making billions on US Government contracts
during the Vietnam War. The Austin Chronicle, in an August 28, 2000 Op-
Ed piece entitled "The Candidate from Brown & Root", labels Republican
Cheney as the political dispenser of Brown & Root's largesse.
According to political campaign records, during Cheney's five-year
tenure at Halliburton the company's political contributions more than
doubled to $1.2 million. Not surprisingly, most of that money went to
Republican candidates.

Independent news service Newsmakingnews also describes how in 1998,
with Cheney as Chairman, Halliburton spent $8.1 billion to purchase
oil industry equipment and drilling supplier Dresser Industries. This
made Halliburton a corporation that will have a presence in almost any
future oil drilling operation anywhere in the world. And it also
brought back into the family fold the company which had once (also in
1948) sent a plane to fetch the new Yale graduate George H.W. Bush to
begin his career in the Texas oil business. Bush the elder's father,
Prescott, served as a managing director for the firm that once owned
Dresser: Brown Brothers Harriman.

BROWN & ROOT'S SPECIAL OPERATIONS
It is clear that everywhere there is oil there is Brown & Root. But
increasingly, everywhere there is war or insurrection there is Brown &
Root also. From Bosnia and Kosovo to Chechnya, Rwanda, Burma,
Pakistan, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Libya, Mexico and Colombia,
Brown & Root's traditional operations have expanded from heavy
construction to include the provision of logistical support for the US
military. Now, instead of US Army quartermasters, the world is likely
to see Brown & Root warehouses storing and managing everything from
uniforms and rations to vehicles.

Dramatic expansion of Brown & Root's operations in Colombia also
suggests Bush preparations for a war-inspired feeding frenzy as a part
of "Plan Colombia". This is consistent with moves by former Bush
Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady to open a joint Colombian-American
investment partnership called Corfinsura for the financing of major
construction projects with the Colombian Antioquia Syndicate,
headquartered in Medellín (see FTW, June 2000).

And expectations of a ground war in Colombia may explain why Brown &
Root, in a 2000 Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, reported
that in addition to owning more than 800,000 square feet of warehouse
space in Colombia, it also leases another 122,000 square feet.
According to the Brown & Root Energy Services Group filing, the only
other places where the company maintains warehouse space are in Mexico
(525,000 square feet) and the United States (38,000 square feet).

According to the website of Colombia's Foreign Investment Promotion
Agency, Brown & Root had no presence in the country until 1997. What
does Brown & Root - which according to Associated Press (AP) has made
more than $2 billion supporting and supplying US troops - know about
Colombia that the United States public does not? Why the need for
almost a million square feet of warehouse space which can be
transferred from one Brown & Root operation (energy services) to
another (military support) with the stroke of a pen?

As described by AP, during the "Iran-Contra" era Congressman Dick
Cheney of the House Intelligence Committee was a rabid supporter of
Marine Lt Col. Oliver North. This was in spite of the fact that North
had lied to Cheney in a private 1986 White House briefing. Oliver
North's own diaries and subsequent investigations by the CIA Inspector-
General have irrevocably tied him directly to cocaine smuggling during
the 1980s and the opening of bank accounts for one firm moving four
tons of cocaine a month. This, however, did not stop Cheney from
actively supporting North's (unsuccessful) 1994 run for the US Senate
from Virginia - just a year before he took over the reins at Brown &
Root's parent company, Dallas-based Halliburton, Inc., in 1995.

As the Bush Secretary of Defense during Desert Shield/Desert Storm
(1990-91), Cheney also directed special operations involving Kurdish
rebels in northern Iran. The Kurds' primary source of income for more
than 50 years has been heroin smuggling from Afghanistan and Pakistan
through Iran, Iraq and Turkey.

Having had some personal experience with Brown & Root, I noted
carefully when the Los Angeles Times observed that on March 22, 1991 a
group of gunmen burst into the Ankara, Turkey, offices of joint
venture Vinnell, Brown & Root and assassinated retired Air Force Chief
Master Sergeant John Gandy.

In March 1991, tens of thousands of Kurdish refugees, long-time assets
of the CIA, were being massacred by Saddam Hussein in the wake of the
Gulf War. Saddam, seeking to destroy any hopes of a successful Kurdish
revolt, found it easy to kill thousands of the unwanted Kurds who had
fled to the Turkish border seeking sanctuary. There, Turkish security
forces - trained in part by the Vinnell, Brown & Root partnership -
turned thousands of Kurds back into certain death.

Today, the Vinnell Corporation (a TRW company) is one of the three pre-
eminent private mercenary corporations in the world, along with the
firms MPRI and DynCorp (see FTW, June 2000). It is also the dominant
entity for the training of security forces throughout the Middle East.

Not surprisingly, the Turkish border regions in question were the
primary transshipment points for heroin produced in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, destined for the markets of Europe.

A confidential source with intelligence experience in the region
subsequently told me that the Kurds "got some payback against the
folks that used to help them move their drugs". He openly acknowledged
that Brown & Root and the Vinnell Corporation both routinely provided
NOC (non-official cover) for CIA officers. But I already knew that.

From 1994 to 1999, during US military intervention in the Balkans -
where, according to The Christian Science Monitor and Jane's
Intelligence Review, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) controls 70 per
cent of the heroin entering Western Europe - Cheney's Brown & Root
made billions of dollars supplying US troops from vast facilities in
the region. Brown & Root support operations continue in Bosnia, Kosovo
and Macedonia to this day.

Dick Cheney's footprints have come closer to drugs than one might
suspect. The Center for Public Integrity's August 2000 report brought
them even closer. It would be correct to say that there is a direct
linkage of Brown & Root facilities - often set up in remote, hazardous
regions - with every drug-producing region and every drug-consuming
region in the world. These coincidences, in and of themselves, do not
prove complicity in the trade. Other facts, however, lead inescapably
in that direction.

A DIRECT DRUG LINK TO DICK CHENEY
The CPI report entitled "Cheney Led Halliburton to Feast at Federal
Trough", written by veteran journalists Knut Royce and Nathaniel
Heller, describes how, under five years of Cheney's leadership,
Halliburton, largely through subsidiary Brown & Root, enjoyed $3.8
billion in federal contracts and taxpayer- insured loans. The loans
had been granted by the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) and the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). According to Ralph McGehee's
CIA Base, both institutions are heavily infiltrated by the CIA and
routinely provide NOC to its officers.

One of those loans, to Russian financial/banking conglomerate The Alfa
Group of Companies, contained $292 million to pay for Brown & Root's
contract to refurbish a Siberian oil field owned by the Russian Tyumen
Oil Company. The Alfa Group completed its 51 per cent acquisition of
Tyumen Oil in what was allegedly a rigged bidding process in 1998. An
official Russian Government report claims that The Alfa Group's top
executives, oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven, "allegedly
participated in the transit of drugs from Southeast Asia through
Russia and into Europe". These same executives, Fridman and Aven, who
reportedly smuggled the heroin in connection with Russia's Solntsevo
mob family, were the same ones who applied for the EXIM loans that
Halliburton's lobbying later safely secured. As a result, Brown &
Root's work in Alfa Tyumen oil fields could continue - and expand.

After describing how organised criminal interests in The Alfa Group
had allegedly stolen the oil field by fraud, the CPI story - using
official reports from the FSB (the Russian equivalent of the FBI), oil
companies such as BP-Amoco, former CIA and KGB officers and press
accounts - then established a solid link to Alfa Tyumen and the
transportation of heroin. In 1995, sacks of heroin disguised as sugar
had been stolen from a rail container leased by Alfa Eko and sold in
the Siberian town of Khabarovsk. A problem arose when many residents
of the town became "intoxicated" or "poisoned".

The CPI story also stated: "The FSB report said that within days of
the incident, Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) agents conducted
raids of Alfa Eko buildings and found 'drugs and other compromising
documentation'.

"Both reports claim that Alfa Bank has laundered drug funds from
Russian and Colombian drug cartels.

"The FSB document claims that at the end of 1993, a top Alfa official
met with Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the now imprisoned financial
mastermind of Colombia's notorious Cali cartel, 'to conclude an
agreement about the transfer of money into the Alfa Bank from offshore
zones such as the Bahamas, Gibraltar and others'. The plan was to
insert it back into the Russian economy through the purchase of stock
in Russian companies.

"...He [the former KGB agent] reported that there was evidence
'regarding [Alfa Bank's] involvement with the money laundering
of...Latin American drug cartels'."

It then becomes harder for Cheney and Halliburton to assert mere
coincidence in all of this, as CPI reported that Tyumen's lead
Washington attorney, James C. Langdon, Jr, at the firm of Aikin Gump,
"...helped coordinate a $2.2 million fundraiser for Bush this June. He
then agreed to help recruit 100 lawyers and lobbyists in the capital
to raise $25,000 each for W's campaign."

The heroin mentioned in the CPI story originated in Laos, where
longtime Bush allies and covert warriors Richard Armitage and retired
CIA ADDO (Associate Deputy Director of Operations) Ted Shackley have
been repeatedly linked to the drug trade. It then made its way across
Southeast Asia to Vietnam, probably the port of Haiphong. Then the
heroin was shipped to Russia's Pacific port of Vladivostok, from where
it was subsequently bounced across Siberia by rail and then by truck
or rail to Europe, passing through the hands of Russian Mafia leaders
in Chechnya and Azerbaijan. Chechnya and Azerbaijan are hotbeds of
both armed conflict and oil exploration, and Brown & Root has
operations all along this route.

As described in previous issues of FTW, this long, expensive and
tortuous path was hastily established after President George Bush's
personal envoy Richard Armitage, holding the rank of Ambassador, had
travelled to the former Soviet Union to assist it with its "economic
development" in 1989. The obstacles, then, to a more direct,
profitable and efficient route from Afghanistan and Pakistan through
Turkey into Europe were a cohesive Yugoslavian/Serbian Government
controlling the Balkans and continuing instability in the Golden
Crescent of Pakistan/ Afghanistan. Also, there was no other way, using
heroin from the Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos and Thailand), to deal
with China and India but to go around them.

It is perhaps not by coincidence again that Cheney and Armitage share
membership in the prestigious Aspen Institute, an exclusive bi-
partisan research think-tank, and also in the US- Azerbaijan Chamber
of Commerce. In November 1999, in what may be a portent of things to
come, Armitage played the role of Secretary of Defense in a practical
exercise at the Council on Foreign Relations, of which he and Cheney
are both members.

Many of the longest-serving and best Bush apparatchiks like Richard
Armitage and CIA veteran Ted Shackley have heavy political baggage.
Since governmental power is so evenly split after the long election as
to appear contrived, it is unlikely that controversial nominees for
cabinet positions like Armitage or Shackley will be placed before a
50-50 Senate which is unlikely to confirm them. Armitage is more
likely to appear as a quasi-official adviser in troubled European
regions. This is similar to the roles he performed for George Bush in
1989 in Russia and in 1992 in Albania. Armitage's travels presaged
both the Chechen and Kosovar conflicts and the rampant expansion of
the drug trade through those regions.

DRUG PIPELINE STREAMLINED
The Clinton Administration took care of all that wasted travel for
heroin with the 1999 destruction of Serbia and Kosovo and the
installation of the KLA as a regional power. That opened a direct line
from Afghanistan to Western Europe - and Brown & Root was right in the
middle of that, too.

The Clinton skill at streamlining drug operations was described in
detail in the April 2000 issue of FTW in a story entitled "The
Democratic Party's Presidential Drug Money Pipeline". That article has
since been reprinted in three countries. The essence of the drug
economic lesson was that by growing opium in Colombia and by smuggling
both cocaine and heroin from Colombia to New York City through the
Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (a virtual straight line),
traditional smuggling routes could be shortened or even eliminated.
This reduced both risk and cost, increased profits and eliminated
competition.

FTW suspects the hand of Medellín cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder in
this process, and it is interesting to note that Lehder, released from
prison under Clinton in 1995, is now active in both the Bahamas and
South America. Lehder was known during the 1980s as "the genius of
transportation". I can well imagine Dick Cheney, having witnessed the
complete restructuring of the global drug trade in the last eight
years, going to George W. and saying, "Look, I know how we can make it
even better".

One thing is for certain. As quoted in the CPI article, one
Halliburton vice-president noted that if the Bush-Cheney ticket were
elected, "the company's government contracts would obviously go
through the roof".

THE DARK PAST
In July 1977, this writer, then a Los Angeles Police officer,
struggled to make sense of a world gone haywire. In a last-ditch
effort to salvage a relationship with my fiancée, Nordica Theodora
D'Orsay (Teddy), a CIA contract agent, I had travelled to New Orleans
to find her. On a hastily arranged vacation, secured with the blessing
of my commanding officer, Captain Jesse Brewer of LAPD, I had gone on
my own, unofficially, to avoid the scrutiny of LAPD's Organized Crime
Intelligence Division (OCID).

Teddy had wanted me to join her operations from within the ranks of
LAPD, starting in the late spring of 1976. I had refused to get
involved with drugs in any way, and everything she mentioned seemed to
involve either heroin or cocaine, along with the guns which she was
always moving out of the country. The Director of the CIA then was
George Herbert Walker Bush.

Although officially on staff at the LAPD Academy at the time, I had
been unofficially lent to OCID since January when Teddy, announcing
the start of a new operation planned in the fall of 1976, suddenly
disappeared. She left many people, including me, baffled and twisting
in the breeze. The OCID detectives had been pressuring me hard for
information about her and what I knew of her activities. It was
information I could not give them. Hoping against hope that I would
find some way to understand her involvement with CIA, LAPD, the royal
family of Iran, the Mafia and drugs, I set out alone into eight days
of Dantean revelations which have determined the course of my life
from that day to this.

Arriving in New Orleans in early July 1977, I found Teddy living in an
apartment across the river in Gretna. Equipped with scrambler phones
and night vision devices, and working from sealed communiqués
delivered by navy and air force personnel from nearby Belle Chasse
Naval Air Station, she was involved in something truly ugly. Teddy was
arranging for large quantities of weapons to be loaded onto ships
leaving for Iran. At the same time, she was working with Mafia
associates of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello to coordinate the
movement of service boats which were bringing large quantities of
heroin into the city. The boats arrived at Marcello-controlled docks,
unmolested by even the New Orleans police she introduced me to, along
with divers, military men, former Green Berets and CIA personnel. The
service boats were retrieving the heroin from oil rigs in the Gulf of
Mexico, in international waters - oil rigs built and serviced by Brown
& Root.

The guns which Teddy monitored, apparently Vietnam-era surplus AK47s
and M16s, were being loaded onto ships also owned or leased by Brown &
Root. And more than once during the eight days I spent in New Orleans,
I met and ate at restaurants with Brown & Root employees who were
boarding those ships and leaving for Iran within days. Once, while
leaving a bar and apparently having asked the wrong question, I was
shot at in an attempt to scare me off.

Disgusted and heartbroken at witnessing my fiancée and my government
smuggling drugs, I ended the relationship. Returning home to LA, I
made a clean breast and reported all the activity I had seen,
including the connections to Brown & Root, to LAPD intelligence
officers. They promptly told me that I was crazy.

Forced out of LAPD under threat of death at the end of 1978, I made
complaints to LAPD's Internal Affairs Division and to the LA office of
the FBI under the command of FBI SAC Ted Gunderson. I and my attorney
wrote to the politicians, the Department of Justice and the CIA, and
contacted the Los Angeles Times. The FBI and the LAPD said that I was
crazy.

A 1981 two-part news story in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner revealed
that the FBI had taken Teddy into custody and then released her before
classifying their investigation without further action. Former New
Orleans Crime Commissioner Aaron Cohen told reporter Randall Sullivan
that he found my description of events perfectly plausible after his
30 years of studying Louisiana's organised crime operations.

To this day, a CIA report prepared as a result of my complaint remains
classified and exempt from release, pursuant to executive order of the
President, in the interests of national security and because it would
reveal the identities of CIA agents.

On October 26, 1981, in the basement of the West Wing of the White
House, I reported on what I had seen in New Orleans to my friend and
UCLA classmate, Craig Fuller. Fuller went on to become Chief of Staff
to Vice- President Bush from 1981 to 1985.

In 1982, then UCLA political science professor Paul Jabber filled in
many of the pieces in my quest to understand what I had seen in New
Orleans. He was qualified to do so because he had served as a CIA and
State Department consultant to the Carter Administration.

Paul explained that, after a 1975 treaty between the Shah of Iran and
Saddam Hussein of Iraq, the Shah had cut off all overt military
support for Kurdish rebels fighting Saddam from the north of Iraq. In
exchange, the Shah had gained access to the Shatt al'Arab waterway so
that he could multiply his oil exports and income. Not wanting to lose
a valuable long-term asset in the Kurds, the CIA had then used Brown &
Root - which operated in both countries and maintained port facilities
in the Persian Gulf and near Shatt al'Arab - to rearm the Kurds. The
whole operation had been financed with heroin. Paul was matter-of-fact
about it.

In 1983, Paul Jabber left UCLA to become a Vice-President of Banker's
Trust and Chairman of the Middle East Department of the Council on
Foreign Relations.

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FREE ENTERPRISE
If one is courageous enough to seek an "operating system" which
theoretically explains what FTW has just described for you, one need
look no further than a fabulous two-part article published in Le Monde
Diplomatique in April 2000. The stories, focusing heavily on drug
capital, are titled "Crime, The World's Biggest Free Enterprise". The
brilliant and penetrating words of authors Christian de Brie and Jean
de Maillard do a better job of explaining the actual world economic
and political situation than anything I have ever read.

De Brie writes: "By allowing capital to flow unchecked from one end of
the world to the other, globalisation and abandonment of sovereignty
have together fostered the explosive growth of an outlaw financial
market...

"It is a coherent system closely linked to the expansion of modern
capitalism and based on an association of three partners: governments,
transnational corporations and mafias. Business is business: financial
crime is first and foremost a market, thriving and structured, ruled
by supply and demand.

"Big business complicity and political laissez faire is the only way
that large-scale organised crime can launder and recycle the fabulous
proceeds of its activities. And the transnationals need the support of
governments and the neutrality of regulatory authorities in order to
consolidate their positions, increase their profits, withstand and
crush the competition, pull off the 'deal of the century' and finance
their illicit operations. Politicians are directly involved and their
ability to intervene depends on the backing and the funding that keep
them in power. This collusion of interests is an essential part of the
world economy, the oil that keeps the wheels of capitalism turning."

After confronting CIA Director John Deutch on world television on
November 15, 1996, I was interviewed by the staff of both the Senate
and House Intelligence Committees. I prepared written testimony for
Senate Intelligence which I submitted, although I was never called to
testify. In every one of those interviews and in my written testimony
and every lecture since that time, I have told the story of Brown &
Root.

IN GOD (GOLD, OIL, DRUGS) WE TRUST
Make no mistake about it. The United States is preparing for war.
Events immediately following the 2000 US election debacle are ominous
predictors for the Bush-Cheney Administration. While not all of the
cabinet posts are yet filled, the key posts of Treasury, Defense,
Justice and National Security Advisor point to the most militarised
oil-and-big-business-friendly administration in 35 years.

So thorough is the plan for control of the government that the son of
Secretary of State (Designate) Colin Powell, in an appointment which
has yet to receive much notice, has been appointed the new
Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. This is the
body which monitors and polices all commercial broadcasting in the
United States.

With Colin Powell as Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary
of Defense and Dick Cheney as Vice-President, the highest levels of
the US Government now house two former Secretaries of Defense and the
former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The new National
Security Advisor, Condoleeza Rice, while African-American, has a long
track record of service to Republican administrations and also sits on
the board of directors of Chevron Oil, which has recently named an oil
tanker after her. Her lacklustre operational credentials indicate that
she will probably serve as the designated messenger between Bush,
Powell, Rumsfeld and Cheney and as the African-American poster girl
for coming military adventurism.

Of special interest as this story goes to press is the strongest
rumour among my sources that current CIA Director George Tenet,
appointed to the post by President Clinton in 1997, will remain in the
new Bush Administration. Based upon this writer's study of CIA
operations and history, this strongly suggests two things. Firstly, it
implies that the CIA, as a non-partisan servant of Wall Street, feels
that its interests have been - and will continue to be - well served
by Tenet, who is well liked at Langley. Most importantly, however, it
suggests that there are operations, both covert and otherwise, in
motion under CIA control which are moving at a speed and with a force
that will not accept a break in rhythm for a change in directors. Most
critical among these would be the start of the planned conflict in
Colombia.

Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always
needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has needed a tactical
enemy that it can go out and fight in the field in a shooting war.
Since 1945, these enemies have been created and appeared as North
Korea, North Vietnam, Grenada, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq and now
Colombia. On another level, however, the US needs a strategic enemy
that will justify outrageous expenditures of capital for strategic
weapon systems like ICBMs, Trident submarines and "Star Wars" missile
defence systems.

With the new Bush Administration already contemplating a policy change
that would make Colombian rebels (as opposed to drug traffickers) the
targets of US military aid, as has been reported by AP, there is no
doubt where the next shooting war is going to be. And with the
militarised Bush cabinet making a missile defence shield a priority,
it looks as though either China or Russia will become the next big
enemy of choice. In the end, profitability will decide. For the
moment, the less-than-credible paper threat is from unspecified "rogue
nations". We can be certain, however, that the shifting economic
pressure plates around the world will reveal our next demon soon
enough. Halliburton is uniquely placed to profit from either
eventuality.

As it was in Vietnam, Central America and Kosovo, drugs continue to be
a huge part of the financial plan for prolonged ground wars. As one
cynic put it, "GOD" stands for "Gold, Oil and Drugs". We can be
assured that an empire (as opposed to a republic) is emerging in the
United States more quickly than many have expected. And the Bush
Administration is already acting in a "godlike" manner. It is an
empire that may have little need of even the pretence of democracy as
American corporate fascism removes its mask in the wake of our
election circus, the prostitution of our Supreme Court and the virtual
destruction of American government as a servant of anything other than
money, greed and power.


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Aspen Institute, www.aspeninst.org.
Associated Press, "Study: US Could Save Cost in Balkans", October 10,
2000.
Associated Press, "Cheney, North Relationship Probed", August 11,
2000.
Austin Chronicle, August 28, 2000.
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Connections Between CIA and the Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the
United States. Volume II: The Contra Story", Report 96-0143-IG.
Christian Science Monitor, October 20, 1994.
Council on Foreign Relations, www.cfr.org.
De Brie, Christian and Jean de Maillard, "Crime, The World's Biggest
Free Enterprise", Le Monde Diplomatique, April 2000.
Halliburton/Brown & Root, www.Halliburton.com/brs.
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Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 11 & 18, 1981.
Los Angeles Times, March 23, 1991.
Newsmakingnews, "The Dick Cheney Data Dump", August 27, 2000,
www.newsmakingnews.com.
New York Press, January 8, 2000.
New York Times Index, www.nytimes.com.
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Federal Trough", Center for Public Integrity, August 2, 2000,
www.public-i.org/story_01_080200.htm.
Ruppert, Michael C., written testimony for the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, dated October 1, 1997; see www.copvcia.com/ssci.htm,
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Unauthorized Biography, Executive Intelligence Review, Washington, DC,
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Editor's Note:
This article is reprinted with permission from author Mike Ruppert,
Editor/Publisher of From The Wilderness newsletter. It first appeared
in the October 2000 issue (vol. III, no. 8).
From The Wilderness describes itself as "a nonpartisan, non-sectarian
map from the here that is, into the tomorrow of our own making". Its
website postings (www.copvcia.com) are at least 30 days old.
Subscriptions (12 issues): US$35.00 for USA and Canada; $47.00 for
Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. From The Wilderness
Publications, PO Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, USA, telephone
+1 (818) 788 8791, fax +1 (818) 981 2847, e-mail .



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