Daily News 09/10

Daily News 09/10

The “dustification” and the implosion of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers sent clouds of carcinogenic dust across New York City.

These towers were built in the late 1970s and asbestos was one of many carcinogenic materials that were used in their construction. Everyone familiar with construction and the carcinogens that are contained in high rise structures, immediately knew that there was a grave risk for all who were downwind from the dust cloud which was formed from the burning and crumbling of the building.

Despite the obvious, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christie Whitman said a week after the attacks: “I am glad to reassure the people of New York … that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink.”

In the Friday, January 11, 2002 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, there was a reprint of a Washington Post article titled “The Residents Near Ground Zero Worry About Toxic Debris,” which explains the initial effects of the dust cloud upon those who live downwind from the WTC towers.

The article, in explaining some of the after effects of the dust cloud, stated: “… those who live or work downtown report strikingly similar symptoms: nosebleeds, sore throats, bronchial infections and an endless hacking cough .… About one-fourth of the city’s firefighters have complained of severe coughing after working at ground zero, and more than a thousand have filed notices of claims against the city.”

Last week, four Port Authority police officers were reassigned from the site after they tested positive for elevated mercury levels in their blood. “… Dozens of students at nearby Stuyvesant High School have complained of rashes, nosebleeds, headaches and respiratory infections. Three teachers have left because of respiratory problems.”

The article goes on: “There was something about the air. For a while after Sept. 11, George Tabb and his wife tried to stick it out in their apartment north of the World Trade Center, tried to ignore his twice-nightly asthma attacks and her headaches. Eventually, they moved in with Tabb’s stepfather. But Tabb still goes home to pick up his mail, and within 20 minutes the metallic taste returns to his mouth, and the wheezing. ‘All of a sudden, boom, I’ve got a nosebleed, the asthma, a headache’, he said. Recently, Tabb received evidence that the air in his apartment may be as dangerous as he suspects. Independent tests—results of which are disputed by the city—found that dust taken from an air vent in his apartment building’s hallway contained 555 times [!!!] the suggested acceptable level for asbestos. Samples from a bathroom vent show dangerous levels of fiberglass. No one knows what was burning down there at ground zero,’ he said. ‘I am concerned that in five years or 10 years, I’m going to be part of a cancer cluster.” . . .

(2026 Update: Today, as the ‘first responders’ are being reported for deaths and cancers, but the people who lived and worked and those still working and living and downtown in what should have been labled a Hazardous Waste Superfund Site has never been reported!):

“Cate Jenkins, PhD, a 22-year specialist with the EPA’s Hazardous Waste Identification Division and the author of a 432-page memo to the EPA’s Inspector General as background documentation for the recently released IG report. On January 11, 2002, a memorandum was sent by Cate Jenkins, Ph.D., the head EPA hazardous waste investigator in lower Manhattan after 9/11. This memorandum compared the asbestos levels in the Montana, Libby Hazardous Waste Superfund Site to the levels she found in Lower Manhattan. (In Libby, Montana almost 30% of the Libby residents were hurt by asbestos.) — 9-11 World Trade Center Dust Cloud: How Many Will Die?!“

Watchdog Thanks Mamdani for Release of 9/11 Air Quality Files Hidden From Public for Years“People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air,” Mamdani said, announcing the release of 170,000 files.

Narrative Warfare: How the Lies of History Shape What You Believe This is the replay of one of my most attended masterclasses, and I wanted to put it here for you. I recorded it because propaganda is the oldest weapon in American life, and it just got faster than the people it gets used on.Paul Revere sold prints of the Boston Massacre, the redcoats in a firing line, the officer’s arm raised, the muskets level and aimed on command, a scene the night never produced. Speaking on the Senate floor in February 1837, John C. Calhoun called slavery a positive good, and the schoolbooks carried contented workers in the fields for a century behind him. Manifest destiny was coined in an 1845 magazine essay and became the reason a continent had to be emptied. Wartime posters sold bonds by drawing Japanese people as vermin while 120,000 Japanese Americans sat in camps. Now the White House runs an arcade game where you stack border wall segments. The engraving took weeks. The meme takes a sentence typed into a box.