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Over the last century, the most astounding historical discoveries of man-made artifacts have often been accomplished by well-funded, highly experienced researchers. From the excavation of King Tut's tomb to the sighting of the sunken Titanic, stunning finds have required immense financial and human resources, as well as the leadership by distinguished. So, how did a mountain of never-before-seen footage used in NIST's World Trade Center investigations get exposed to the light of day last month? Was it the work of a billionaire adventurer? Not quite. You can thank an upstart non-profit, the
International Center for 9/11 Studies, whose efforts have at last borne fruit.
The International Center for 9/11 Studies was founded in 2008 by Director
James Gourley, a Texas lawyer who began questioning the events of 9/11 after watching a presentation given by David Ray Griffin on C-SPAN."
I was just floored by what I was hearing," Gourley explained, "and I've been looking into 9/11 ever since then."
In order to encourage a better understanding of the 9/11 attacks and promote scientific study of these tragic events, Gourley assembled a small team of trusted colleagues, which includes physics instructor
David Chandler, activist
Dr. Graeme MacQueen, and Justin Keogh, the Center's Chief Technical Officer. The Center has partnered with other key researchers in the past, including physicist
Steven Jones and chemist
Niels Harrit.
Since its inception, the Center has contributed to groundbreaking work on the technical analysis of the WTC building destructions. Gourley, who has a chemical engineering background, co-authored several papers that exposed evidence that the Twin Towers and WTC Building 7 were destroyed by means of controlled demolition. His critique of official-story defender Zdenek Bazant's crush down/crush up collapse theory was published as part of a formal discussion in the mainstream
Journal of Engineering Mechanics. Gourley's contributions also extended to the peer-reviewed paper detailing the active thermitic material discovered in the WTC dust, which was published in the
Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal. In addition, the Center collaborated with
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth,
Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, and other scientists and engineers to submit 26 pages of comments on the NIST WTC 7 Draft Report within the three-week deadline.

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Uncovering the data NIST used in its WTC investigations proved to be a little more difficult. The Center filed a FOIA Request with NIST on January 26, 2009, seeking disclosure of "all of the photographs and videos collected, reviewed, cited or in any other way used by NIST during its investigation of the World Trade Center building collapses." NIST initially ignored this request, and for months dismissed attempts by the Center to gain acknowledgment of its receipt. Undeterred, Gourley filed a lawsuit on May 28, 2009 to get the data released. Since then, NIST has been periodically turning over images and video from its archives. So far, the Center has received over 300 DVDs and several external hard disk drives related to the NIST Reports - more than three terabytes of data - and NIST has indicated that additional records will be released in the future.
Comment: Wow! CBS is really going into disinformation over-drive! The utter ridiculousness, and indeed horror, of these news reporters blithely dismissing this event as a 'contrail' beggars belief. This was clearly no more a contrail than the 'missile' that was seen off the coast of California a few days previously. Note also that the female presenter momentarily uses her common sense and hits the nail on the head: "looks like a COMET racing across the sky...pretty cool!"
The topic of meteorites and the fact that our planet has experienced cyclic and devastating cataclysms caused by meteorite impacts is virtually unknown, despite the large amount of scientific evidence supporting this vitally important area of research.
Over the past few years Sott.net has been documenting the startling increase in meteorites that have been entering our atmosphere, exploding in the air and hitting the ground. Does it not occur to anyone that the frequency of such visitors today has not been witnessed in living memory?
The human race, and the planet on which it lives, is long overdue for another round of this cyclical destruction from above, yet those individuals and institutions supposedly employed to keep us informed are nonchalantly dismissing the clear evidence that we are running out of time. The next extinction event is imminent!