'The Best Evidence' for 'the 9/11 Conspiracy':
Larry Silverstein, Peter G. Peterson, Maurice Greenberg, and Contrlled Demoltion Inc. ride again
March 8,, 2024
In 2005 the Editor of the online magazine Garlic & Grass, Tony Brasunas, asked me to write about "the best evidence" I knew for "the 9/11 conspiracy". I wrote about ‘developer’ Larry Silverstein and World Trade Center Building 7 and about Silverstein Properties and its partners and ‘lenders” and thees Manhattan insiders’ immense. profits from Instance-Policies with ‘an all-important escape clause’ as regards losses of the Twin Towers due to ‘an act of terrorism’, an ‘escape clause’ introduced less than fve months before “ ‘9/11’ “.
You can check out. Tony’s ongoing and vibrant website HERE—his review of crimes and lies regarding. “‘9/11’ “ HERE—and his nice, I think, posting of my piece HERE.
What I write today expands on the 2005 Post and its enlarged version in my 2008 book The World Is Turning … Today my intended scope is the Serial Overlap of the Suprantional Conspiraices. from “ ‘9/11’. “ through “ ‘COVID-19.” ‘ You may know that we’re still suffering grievously from the Big Lies and Conspiracies of “ ‘9/11’ “ and “ ‘COVID-19’ “. You may recognize, too, that both these undeniable conspiracies used ‘acts of terrorism’ as their pretexts for making Hundred of Billions of Dollars and Euros from Sales of Weapons, from Sales of Oil and Gas, from Sales of Illegal Narcotics or Ostensible Medications, and from Loans and Money-Laundering by Supranational Banks…. From Criminals’ G.O.D.D. Complex of Guns, Oil, Drugs and Debt, in short…. Money-Laundering, at follows here is augmented by more information about profits for supranational insurance Corporations and partners of theirs in the oil-and-gas, weapons-making, and banking/money-laundering businesses.
The Israeli newspaepr Haaretz revealed in. November 2001 that the then former and now current Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyaho, called Larry Silverstein ‘every Sunday, no matter where he was.’
As the invaluable researcher and writer SAGE HANA often observes, ‘The Op is ongoing’.
Please see pages 250-268 of The World Is Turning HERE.
'The Best Evidence Available on the 9-11 Conspiracy' (article for Tony Brasuna’s online publication Garlic & Grass, June 2005)
Demolition of World Trade Center Building 7 was admitted by its developer on national Network TV
The most revealing statement about the conspiracy that orchestrated mass murder on September 11, 2001 was broadcast across the United States more than two years ago.
On September 14, 2002, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) aired a documentary on reconstrucion of the former World Trader Center site in lower Manhattan. The show's title was --America Rebuilds--.
During this PBS documentary, the developer of World Trade Center (WTC) Building 7, Larry Silverstein of Silverstein Properties, said that he and "the commander" of the New York City Fire Department had decided to "pull" WTC Building 7 late in the afternoon of September 11, 2001.
The developer, then 70 years old, whose Silverstein Properties had become the principal lease-holder of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers just seven weeks before 9/11/01, told PBS: "I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling us that they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire, and I said, "We've had such a terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing is to pull it". And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
To "pull" a building, in the lexicon of realtors and Fire Departments, is to demolish it. Thus, in its context, Larry Silverstein's repeated use of the phrase "to pull" means "to demolish."
Earlier in -- America Rebuilds-- a sequence of quotes about WTC Building 6, a building also brought to ground on 9/11/01, makes clear that "to pull" means to demolish. First, the PBS documentary plays an official's voice on that horrendous morning: "Hello? We're getting ready to pull Building 6." Then the documentary presents commentary by Luis Mendes of New York City's Department of Design and Construction: "We had to be very careful how we demolished Building 6. We were worried about Building 6 coming down and then damaging the story walls, so we wanted that particular building to fall within a certain area."
Thus the immediately evident meaning of Larry Silverstein's repeated use of "pull" in the PBS documentary, aired nationally in 2002, is that WTC 7 fell due to controlled demolition.
How much time would be required for typical controlled demolition of a building the size of WTC 7, a 47-story skyscraper containing about two million square feet of office-space? Based on precedents we'll see below, several weeks of preparation would be required--that is, several weeks before the tumultuous, epoch-making day of Sept. 11, 2001.
For a Controlled Demolition, Call Controlled Demolition, Inc.
Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI), of Baltimore, Maryland is one of the world's leaders in demolishing large buildings. Owned for three generations by the Loizeaux family, CDI details on its website the 'World Records' that the company holds in demolishing huge structures such as the former Kingdome in Seattle.
The CDI website also relates the time-spans that have been required for the company's accomplishments.
We can read on the CDI site about a 17-story building of reinforced concrete in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (the Sheikh A. Alaki Apartment Building) that collapsed while under construction by the Bechtel Corporation in 1998.
The CDI site recounts: 'At the request of Bechtel, Controlled Demolition, Inc.'s team mobilized to the site in less than 24 hours, prepared the central-core, flat slab, reinforced concrete structure in another 27 hours, and put the balance of the building on the ground with absolute safety just 96 hours after the start of demolition preparations.'
So: 96 hours--or four days--was the time needed for emergency demolition of a 17-story building of reinforced concrete by a CDI team in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
We can read on the CDI site about its work to bring down the J. L Hudson store, a building that stood 35 stories tall and that contained 2.2 million square-feet of space in downtown Detroit, Michigan, in 1998.
The CDI site reports that after four months of study by associate contractors:
'CDI's 12-person loading crew took 24 days to place 4,118 separate charges in 1,100 locations on columns on nine levels of the complex. Over 36,000 ft of detonating cord and 4,512 non-electric delay elements were installed in CDI's implosion initiation system, some to create the 36 primary implosion sequences and another 216 micro- delays to keep down the detonation overpressure from the 2,728 lbs of explosives which would be detonated during the demolition.'
So: four months and 24 days were needed to plan and place the charges necessary to demolish, within its 420-foot-by-220-foot footprint, a building 12 stories smaller than WTC Building 7.
The J.L. Hudson Building shows squibs of internal explosives as Controlled Demolition, Inc collapses it into its own footprint in Detroit, October 1998.
How, then, could the preparation and emplacement of charges to "pull" WTC Building 7 be accomplished in a single afternoon--in particular the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001?
Where the Most Obvious Evidence Leads
Let's review features of WTC 7's collapse. The 570-foot tall building and its 25 central columns and 58 perimeter columns of structural steel fell to ground-level in Lower Manhattan in 6.5 seconds--a span of seconds equal to unimpeded free-fall from 570 feet. WTC 7 fell with its roof caving inward. It fell with with explosive "squibs" jetting from its facades. It fell in a precisely symmetric implosion. It fell into its own footprint and it scarcely damaged adjacent buildings. Its destruction--which can be seen on many Internet sites--remains a textbook example of controlled demolition.
Upon reflection, the obvious evidence of WTC 7's demolition and Larry Silverstein's statement on PBS of the decision to "pull" the building means that al Queda could not be at all involved in this part of the 9-11 crimes.
Al Queda COULD NOT have had the access to WTC 7--a building containing Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Emergency Command Center and offices of the CIA, the IRS, the U. S. Secret Service, and more than a one million square-feet of office-space leased by Larry Silverstein to Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney investment-banking firm--necessary to place the thousands of pounds of charges in more than one thousand locations, over a span of days unto weeks, that would be required for the conventional controlled demolition of a skyscraper the 47-story size of WTC 7.
Upon further reflection, this obvious evidence means that ONLY THOSE WITH SECRET ACCESS to WTC Building 7's 25 central columns and 58 perimeter columns could have been responsible for placing the charges necessary WTC 7’obvious and admitted demolition.
Such evidence, along with Larry Silverstein’s statement on national TV, convey to me that he and Silverstein Properties are integral to a conspiracy that also demolished the Twin Towers and murdered more than 2400 in Lower Manhattan on 9/11/01.
The evidence also conveys to me that WTC 7's mortgage-holders as of 9/11/01--the Blackstone Group, Banc of America Securities, and the General Motors Acceptance Corporation--must have known that controlled demolition collapsed Building 7 into its own footprint..
That is, these three pillars of the United States' financial establishment must be involved in a conspiracy that has committed the horrific crimes of 9/11 and then reaped enormous profits from the ensuing " War on Terrorism".
On to the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. Each Towers, too, was obviously. demolished on 9/11/01. When. we consider the time needed to plant charges capable of collapsing 110-story skyscrapers, as each Tower’s fell into its own footprints in less than 15 seconds, we see that the entity which controlled the Twin Towers for decades and which awarded the lease of the Twin Towers to the consortium of realtors headed by Silverstein Properties in April 2001--the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey--must also examined.
Connecting Boards and Players
The Blackstone Group…. Banc of America Securities…. The General Motors Acceptance Corporation…. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
We're led deeper into the heart of the United States' financial establishment, as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has for decades served interests of the Rockefeller family, the U.S. family most manipulative as regards Manhattan real estate AND most manipulative as regards World Oil and Gas, Stock and Currency Markets.
Let’s now look at principal playeres and their relationships. They form a picture of from pieces of a puzzle.
David Rockefeller, an international banker who headed both the Chase Manhattan Bank and the Council on Foreign Relations from the late 1960s into the 1980s, was the main mover behind construction of New York City's World Trade Center from the late 1950s onward. His main instrument for establishing the WTC project was the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association.
The Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association was nominally headed by S. Sloan Colt, a financier who succeeded W. Winthrop Aldrich, the uncle of David and Nelson Rockefeller, as nominal head of Banker's Trust in 1931. In 1961 S. Sloan Colt was also Chairman of the Port of New York Authority. which soon thereafter became the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey..
Nelson Rockefeller was Governor of New York for 14 years, from 1959 to 1973. Nelson Rockefeller, David’s older brother. used his Governorship to have "the billon-dollar baby" that was the WTC built with bonds funded by the public. He then used his Governorship to have 20,000 State of New York employees occupy office-space in the Twin Towers soon after the WTC’s completion in 1973. These 20,000 State employees were by far largest body of tenants in the the long-unprofitable Twin Towers .
Billions-Dollar Liabilties become Billions-Dollar Profits through ‘an all-important escape clause’
By 2001 the Twin Towers in particular of the World Trade Center Buildings’ complex contained costly liabilities.
Eric Darton's excellent study of New York City’s WTC, the book Divided We Stand, published in 2000, writes about one of the property's problems as real estate: 'To maintain the trade center as class-A office space commanding top rents, the [Port Authority] would have had to spend $800 million rebuilding the electrical, electronic communication, and cooling systems.'
The Twin Towers also needed removal of asbestos that would have cost hundreds of millions of Dollars at the least. One estimate said $2 billion.
More urgency regarding the WTC’s liabilies arose in February 2001. U. S. District Judge John W. Bissell ruled then against the Port Authority's contention that insurers must pay for asbestos-removal. According to Douglas McLeod in the May 14, 2001 issue of the trade magazine Business Insurance, Judge Bissell 'threw out the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey's final claims in a longstanding suit against dozens of insurers over coverage of more than $600 million in asbestos abatement costs at the World Trade Center, New York's three major airports and other Port Authority properties.'
Judge Bissell found. in fact, that ' “The express purpose of (a Port Authority abatement project) was to stem lost revenue resulting from a loss of new tenants who wished to ‘rebuild office space to their desired specifications but who would not do so unless (asbestos-containing materials) were abated." ’
Enter Larry Silverstein. Despite the Twin Towers’ more than $1 Billion in liabilities—despite the Towers’ ‘lost revenue from a loss of new tenants’—Larry Silverstein and partners such as Australian Frank Lowy of Westfield Malls pursued their bid for the Towers and more of WTC Buildings. On April 26, 2001 the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey awarded a 99-year lease for the Twin Towers and much other WTC property to the winning group that Silverstein Properties headed.
JP Morgan Chase, the flagship of Rockefeller-controlled Banks, advised the Port Authority in this transaction. The Port Authority's Chairman at this time was Lewis M. Eisenberg. The New York Times wrote about Lewis M. Eisenberg in January of 2001, nine months before “ ‘9/11’ “, that this investment-banker had founded Granite Rock Capital 'a decade ago after leaving Goldman, Sachs & Company, where he made his first dozen millions and forged his initial rapport with the Republican elite in the Rockefeller era.'
Enter with Larry Silverstein extraordinary, immediate and unprecedented Insurance-Polices. Silverstein Properties and its partners and their ‘lenders’ at once protected their nominal $3.2-billion-dollar investment. (We may here note that Silverstein Properties itself invested only $15 million of the nominal sum). Coverage for the Towers and other newly purchased WTC holdings MORE THAN DOUBLED.
Yep! Boy-You-Bunkum! Let’s digest this summary bv Alison Frankel in The American Lawyer of September 2, 2002. one year after “ ‘9/11’ “:
'The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which finished building the complex in 1972, carried only $1.5 billion (per occurrence) in coverage on all of its buildings, which, in addition to the Trade Center, included the three New York City area airports. Silverstein's lenders insisted on more coverage, first demanding $2.3 billion, then $3.2 billion, and then, right before the lease deal closed, $3.55 billion.'
Repeat: ‘Silverstein's lenders insisted on more coverage, first demanding $2.3 billion, then $3.2 billion, and then, right before the lease deal closed, $3.55 billion.'
With extraordinary Dollars for the new lease-holders' Insurance-Policies came a Clause even more extraordinary. To wit, ‘an all-important escape clause.’ Brace yourselves, dear Investigators.
Quoting the British Financial Times of September 14, 2001, the American Reporter wrote that ‘the lease has an all-important escape clause: If the buildings are struck by “an act of terrorism”, the new owners' obligations under the lease are void. As a result, the new owners are not required to make any payments under their lease, but they will be able to collect on the loss of the buildings that collapsed or were otherwise destroyed and damaged in the attacks.’
That is, because “ ‘9/11’ “ was “an act of terrorism”, Silverstain and partners and their ‘lenders’ DO NOT HAVE TO PAY a Penny of their $3.2-billion bid for the out-moded, liabilities-laden Twin Towers and other, newly purchASED WTC holdings. They can, however, ‘collect on the loss of the buildings that collapsed or were otherwise destroyed and damaged in the attacks.’
Pretty good deal for Larry Silverstein, Frank Lowy, and their ‘lenders’!
And: they wanted MORE. They wanted TWICE AS MUCH.
A lawsuit by them against insurers claimed that the attacks of 9/11/01 constituted two 'occurrences'. So: they should be awarded the total value of TWO, not one, of their $3.55-billion insurance-policiesy.
Silversteain and company sued for more than $7.1 billion in losses as regards the Twin Towers and other WTC holdings that came into their hands on April 26, 2001.
The nonsense of the claimants' premise may be obvious. If a property is destroyed by Fire that starts in TWO places, is the property THEN WORTH TWICE AS MUCH?
(On May 24, 2007 Amy Westfelt of the Associated Press reported on a final pay-out. It’s less than DOUBLE, but is about 130% MORE THAN 3.55 BILLION.
‘Ending years of legal wrangling over the multibillion-dollar insurance policy on the World Trade Center, the state and seven insurers reached a settlement Wednesday that secures more than $4.5 billion in funding to rebuild ground zero.
About $2.55 billion has already been paid out by two dozen insurers since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the twin towers. The remaining insurers agreed to pay $2 billion and drop several court battles over how much they owe in insurance to replace the trade center.')
Big Fish Find that Their ‘Business Looks Quite Good’ after 9/11/01: Peter G. Peterson, Warren Buffett, and Maurice Greenberg
Parties to the Lease on World Trade Center Building 7, a Development by Larry Silverstein, also made large profits due to the 47-story Building’s destruction.
Most recent of these Lease-holding parties was the Blackstone Group. The Blackstone Group is akin to the Carlyle Group of CIA alumni Frank Carluci and George H.W Bush in the multiplicity of its investments. The Blackstone Group remains headed by Peter G. Peterson. On 9/11/01 Peter G. Peterson wa Chairman of both the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations. Since the 1960s—and construction of the Twin Towers—Peterson was worked with David Rockefeller.
In October 2000 the Blackstone Group bought the portion of Silversein Properties’ Mortgage on WTC 7 that was held by Traveler's Group.
In February of 2002, the Blackstone Group, Banc of America Securities, the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and Silverstein Properties shared in an award from Industrial Risk Insurers of $861 million for loss of WTC Building 7,
The total investment of the Lease-holder and three Mortgage-holders for WTC 7 was $386 million. Thus, the four investing Corporations shared in a profit of $475 million.
Other Insurance-related profits followed from the mass destruction and death in lower Manhattan on “ ‘9/11’ “. There were huge increases in the Premiums subsequently paid to the largest, surviving insurer Corporations.
We come back to Controlled Demolition, Inc. An interview that CDI executive Mark Loizeaux gave to New Scientist in July 2004 is instructive.
Loizeaux is asked: 'But 9/11 has also sent your insurance up, hasn't it?'
The CDI executive replies: 'It's gone up about 2000 percent since 9-11. Not only because of 9-11 but because insurance companies lost a great deal of money in the stock market collapse just preceding 9-11 with the collapse of dot.coms.'
The amounts of revenue and profit for two of the largest US insurer Corporations, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and Maurice Greenberg's American International Grou (AIG) between 2002 and 2004 are colossal.
The 30-page Morgan Stanley Special Report on 9/11 of September 17, 2001 anticipates that the 'largest reinsurers'--including Swiss Re, Munich Re, and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway--would be most able to raise premiums and withstand losses
Morgan Stanley estimated Berkshire Hathaway's losses from 9/11 to be 'around $1.5 billion or roughly 11 percent of premiums.'
So: 'Looked at very simply therefore, a price increase of 11 percent on unchanged volume would recoup Berkshire’s entire loss from the World Trade Center.... We expect Berkshire’s volume to increase significantly -- probably more than 25 percent. We expect rates to rise considerably more than 11 percent. Without trying to be overly precise, therefore, it’s clear that the largest reinsurers should fare better as the flight to quality steers customers back to reinsurers who can, without question, pay claims.'
So: ‘the largest reinsurers should fare better’ because they ‘can, without question, pay claims.’ Six days after “ ‘9/11’ “, analysts on Wall Street foresaw that the fattest of Insuers and Re-insurers were poised to grow fatter.
On October 10, 2001 the New York Times quoted Maurice Greenberg, CEO of the American International Group. 'Mr. Greenberg, whose company is one of the world’s largest insurers, said that prices for some kinds of commercial insurance were doubling, up from expected increases of 20 percent to 60 percent as the industry emerged from a long period of cutthroat pricing. . . . “It’s a global opportunity. It’s not just in the United States, but rates are rising throughout the world. So our business looks quite good going forward.” '
Yes, the fattest cats saw their “business” looking “quite good”, one month after “ ‘9/11’ “. How else do they connect?
Maurice Greenberg is a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a former Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In 1998 AIG invested $150 million for a 7% interest in Peter G. Peterson's Blackstone Group. And i n February of 2000, AIG, the Blackstone Group and Kissinger Associstes announced a partnership that would--in the words of Peter G. Peterson--offer their expertise as international consultants to the 'new global economy' in the wake of 'the recent global financial crisis' to 'capitalize on these opportunities.'
Across the Boards
Comparable to the multi-billion-dollar post-9/11 gains for major Insurers are those for Oil-and-Gas Corporations such as Chevron, Exxon, British Peteroleum and Royal Dutch Shell; Weapons-Making Corporations such as Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grunman, and General Dynamics; and for Lending and Money-Laundering Banks through their profits from Afghan-grown opium.
All of these Corporations are connected in multiple ways through their interlocking Boards of Directors and major stock-holders.
'In 1972, long before the enormous corporate mergers of the past decade,' Waking Up from Our Nightmare relates, 'the then Chase Manhattan Bank held 5.2% of the voting stock of Mobil Oil and 4.5% of Atlantic Richfield (now Arco). As of 1993, the Rockefeller family was among the top five vote-holders in 93 of the United States' 122 largest corporations. As of 1997, the Chase Bank and Citigroup controlled more than half the stock of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank of New York.’
All of these Corporations have vital connections to the heart of the US financial establishment, an establishment represented among the financiers who constructed and/or controlled the World Trade Center.
Such a nexus of financiers also controls master plans for rebuilding at Ground Zero.
Founding Chairman of the 21st-century's Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is long-time Rockefeller associate John C. Whitehead, a former Chairman of the Goldman, Sachs investment- banking firm and a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
According to its website, the current LMDC 'was created in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 by then-Governor Pataki and then-Mayor Giuliani to help plan and coordinate the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan, defined as everything south of Houston Street. The LMDC is a joint State-City corporation governed by a 16-member Board of Directors, half appointed by the Governor of New York and half by the Mayor of New York.'
Another Member of the LMDC Board is Robert Douglass, who was Counsel and then Secretary to Governor Nelson Rockefeller between 1965-72. Robert Douglass, the LMDC website writes with typically headlong corporate-diction, 'also served as Chairman of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association founded in 1958 under the leadership of David Rockefeller representing the interests of over 90 members of most of the major businesses Downtown.'
But back to Larry Silverstein, spokesperson for the group that assumed such advantageous, Billions-Dollars’ control of the Twin Towers less than five months before 9/11/01.
Silverstein’s “Pull it”statement on national TV in September 2002 allows us access to the nexus of financiers I've began to trace here.
Interlocking Boards of Scoundrels must have known about the explosive planted in the Twin Towers, as well as in WTC 7, months before these Buildings’ demolition.
Learn a great deal more about them, as they were Charged with Conspiracy to Commit Mass Murder by the 23-member San Diego Citizens’ Grand Jury in April 2007
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