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006 Larry Silverstein’s Deadly Dust

December 20, 2015 By Lee Anderson 7 Comments

 

The good news is that on December 9th, the House and Senate both finally voted to extend the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act giving health coverage to first responders and others afflicted with respiratory illnesses from the toxic air on September 11, 2001. The asbestos–laden air George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani and EPA head Christine Todd Whitman insisted was safe to breath has turned out not to be so. The health compensation bill was held up by Senate Majority leader, (R) Mitch McConnell, but was backed by most democrats as well as republicans Marco Rubio and new Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan––good on all of them.

Championing the renewal of the bill, named after New York City Police Detective James Zardoga, who was one of the first responders to have died from the toxic dust billowing from the collapsing Twin Towers in lower Manhattan, was New York democratic senator Chuck Schumer, but more visible and perhaps more influential was the long time host of the Daily Show, New York/New Jersey’s Jon Stewart––good on them too.

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Jon Stewart advocates for First Responders

Numerous reports suggest the number of people contracting cancer and pulmonary disease is now approaching the total number of deaths from the tragic day itself. From USA Today’s, Kevin McCoy, September 9, 2015:

The 9/11 death and injury toll is still rising as this week’s 14th anniversary of the terrorist attacks approaches. Nearly 21,000 people have filed eligibility claims with the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund as of Sept. 6, up more than 4,000 from this time last year, according to updated data that fund officials released Wednesday. More than 9,000 claimants have been determined eligible for compensation of medical bills and other expenses, and more than 6,000 have received compensation decisions. First responders at the site of the decimated World Trade Center towers in New York City — more than 5,300 in all — represent the bulk of the approved claims and payments to date.

The total dollar value of the claims now tops $1.44 billion, an increase from $493.8 million in September 2014, the data show.

In all, 2,620 approved eligibility cases involve cancer-related illnesses. The cancer total nearly equals the 2,753 people who died at the World Trade Center during the attacks, and the 2,977 overall 9/11 deaths that include the strike at the Pentagon and the airliner crash in Shanksville, Pa.

“I think that number’s going to rise considerably,” said Sheila Birnbaum, the special master who oversees the compensation fund. Explaining that more than 62 types of cancer are eligible for coverage, she added: “These are very common cancers, so we are likely to see a lot of them.”

Stewart, who vacated his Daily Show host chair last summer, was a guest of new host Trevor Noah. Stewart made a plea to congress, specifically trying to shame Mitch McConnell into passing the Zadroga Bill. His many blocked attempts to obtain interviews with various Senators, mostly republican, who would not support the bill was telling of the Ivory Tower aloofness of many of today’s elected representatives. I’m a bit surprised Rand Paul’s office did not make a better effort to hear Stewart and the responders have their say.

Stewart brought Kenny Specht to the Daily Show with him; of the four first responders who appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart from several years ago, the image of Specht and three empty chairs where the others sat in 2010 was very sad and chilling, as seen in the video.

Other videos helped bring the plight of the first responders to the public, this one called Dust and Deceit, by Little Penney.

The toxic dust of Manhattan was private property, wholly owned by recent WTC purchaser, Larry Silverstein. He knew when he used a lot of other people’s money to buy the WTC complex, including Building No. 7, there was an asbestos abatement requirement slated to cost close to a billion dollars. I’m not sure why Jon Stewart, nor any media outlet will dare talk about the obvious controlled demolitions of 9/11–this oversight, sheepishness will haunt them as more and more people are killed and maimed in the wars and aftermath of the wars waged in response to 9/11.

Whatever you believe about 9/11 at this point, we need to all agree to honor the troops and first responders who fight and die for our  lives and safety, for freedoms of press, for open public dialog, open internet, unfortunately, far too many praise the sacrifices of the troops and of first responders, but refuse to honor their sacrifices by insisting that people who claim to have evidence, no matter how controversial and heretical can discuss it on public airwaves and in mainstream publications–the controlled press is anathema to democracy.

The efforts of Stewart, Ms. Little, and all others are appreciated as we all are grateful for the bravery and life saving skills of the first responders. I, for one, am happy the bill passed and knowing a pittance of my tax money will be allocated to helping ease the financial anxieties and suffering of those people inflicted with Larry Silverstein’s toxic dust. However, I think Lucky Larry Silverstein should be more than willing to offer some of his billions of dollars of insurance claim fortune to help the first responders who have died and are dying from ingesting his private property.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7tSfwkKaUo

This video, or at least the subject matter, is familiar to anyone who questions the official 9/11 explanation which called for an immediate retaliation with war while overlooking the myriad “coincidences” and the overwhelming physical evidence that has been brought forth since 9/11 proving beyond any doubt the buildings were brought down by controlled demolitions. For those who haven’t seen videos such as these I suggest it’s time to dare to do so and I hope you discover things which prompt disturbing questions your good conscience simply cannot allow to remain unanswered.

And for this post, one more look at why he’s called “Lucky” Larry Silverstein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9ph-Jz7L4

Your courage and engagement in the pursuit of truth and justice is greatly appreciated.

Democracy is not an entitlement!

 

 

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Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson

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  1. Jessica Muddiman says

    December 21, 2015 at 9:46 pm

    That’s devastating! Those poor service men & women. Thank goodness some people are speaking loud enough & long enough for their voice to be heard. Too bad it takes so long for these things to take affect.

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  2. Anjrew says

    December 23, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    Shockingly stupid,long debunked Jew hating idiocy.

    “Pull” is only used in demolition circles when you’re pulling down with steel cords a badly damaged building maybe a few stories high,like Building 6 in the misleading yellow journalistic film “9/11 Mysteries” made by the totally nutty Sofia Softsquish.

    Since you take this off handed nothing quote so seriously you must believe that Larry was saying that the goddamned FDNY “made that decision” to blow up the building.You’d have to be both a serious Jew hater AND truly dim to buy into that absurd notion.

    What idiot wouldn’t insure the Trade Center against terror attack? Could he even get a bank loan without it?

    Luke Rudkowski and his puppeteer Alex Jones are truly as dumb a s boxes of rocks.Larry Silverstein handled the schnook perfectly,he didn’t even dignify the truly ridiculous charge that he ordered the building demolished…..by the FDNY…..while it was ablaze……and about to collapse.

    Larry Silverstein should sue you for your slanderous article with its vile title.

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    • Lee AndersonLee Anderson says

      December 26, 2015 at 3:30 pm

      I’m not anti-Jew, I’m anti-mass murder. Also, the very last thing Silverstein wants is more publicity concerning Building No. 7. For some curious reason this building wasn’t even mentioned in the official 9/11 Commission Report, it’s collapse was also announced by BBC 20 minutes or so BEFORE it collapsed at free fall rate into its own footprint, just like a controlled demolition. “Pull It” is a controlled demolitions term and has been for several decades. Thanks for responding, though.

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      • Anjrew says

        January 8, 2016 at 8:54 pm

        You,Sir,are seriously hampered by a predilection for falling for abject lies and bald faced disinfo.
        As I explained to you up above,”pull” is only used in demolition circles when a shorter building is pulled down with steel cables.
        In a thousand centuries you couldn’t find anyone besides nutty Holocaust Deniers like Eric Hufschmid and dim bulbs like Luke Rudkowski and arse-wipe Alex Jones to assert such an ignorant lie.
        The BBC reporter made a simple error,as often happens in chaotic situations like that day.
        To believe that the BBC with all of its employees was in on the conspiracy and not one soul has ever piped up about it is mind numbingly stupid and paranoid.
        The FDNY all knew the building was coming down and created a perimeter three hours before it fell as expected.The BBC news service simply jumped the gun with an erroneous report.
        Free fall into its own foot print is a grotesque lie.The tower smashed all sorts of buildings aside and near it and did NOT come down in free fall speed.Its unusual design,due to being built over a power station,lent itself to an unusual fall with a short period of free fall acceleration.
        It is simply irrelevant that the 9/11 Commission barely mentioned the collapse of the building.It wasn’t a scientific report,but a political one.
        Larry Silverstein could give a flying fuck about any reporting on the building because he is guilty of nothing more than being a Jew with money.
        Any sap who supposes that Silverstein played any part in the murder of many hundreds of his friends,business acquaintances and customers must have watched “Loose Change” 7,000 times under the influence of some serious BC bud.It’s vile slander and preposterous nonsense.
        “Seems Like” a demolition is actually a far cry from an actual demolition.

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        • Lee Anderson says

          January 15, 2016 at 11:23 am

          Anjrew,

          I’m afraid you contradict yourself right away. You say “pull” is used to literally pull with cables a shorter building, so is that what happened right after Larry said, “we made the decision to pull it, and then we watched it fall?” No, they didn’t suddenly hook up cables to D-9 Caterpillars and pull the building down, they watched a controlled demolition.

          And since you are so passionate about being wrong and have to resort to ad hominem attacks, I will respond by insisting only someone with no understanding of physics could believe that a random fire, small fire at that regarding WTC 7, could exactly duplicate the extremely sophisticated physics and meticulous preparations necessary to get a building to fall into its own footprint at free fall rate, or anything close to free fall rate.

          All three buildings were brought down by controlled demolitions the very same day the accounting wing of the Pentagon was destroyed, the day after Rumsfeld announced 2.3 Trillion dollars was missing or unaccounted for from the DOD budget, the very same day the US Air force was running four simultaneous war games, etc., etc.

          I suspect Lucky Larry is wasting a miniscule amount of his insurance windfall billions by paying for trolls.

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          • Anjrew says

            February 14, 2016 at 7:59 pm

            Hilarious.You present yourself as a serious intellectual while falling apart like a cheap tent with your bizarre inability to even get the quote correctly or understand my point about demolitions and the word ‘pull’
            You’re totally confused and should stay away from this subject as you’re infected with the nonsense virus.

  3. Lukasz Ridkovski says

    December 25, 2015 at 7:26 pm

    Folks,we are so proud of your courageous call to account for (*^%$) bastard Larry Silverstine. His obvious responsibility (along with the evil FDNY) in “pulling” Building 7 is a no-brainer.
    I call for all patriotic Americans to march on the New building 7 this coming Tuesday to honor all of the victims of Silver’s misdeeds and criminal murders.

    Go to wearechange.org for details and opportunities to become part of the infowar.

    Thanks Lee,with much love from Lukasz

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