Open Invitation to the 9/11 Truth Community: Join us at The Vancouver Hearings
Posted on February 27, 2012
The Denman Theatre
15-17 June 2012
OUR MISSION: TO EXPAND THE BOUNDARIES OF 9/11 TRUTH
"La raison avant la passion" (Reason over Passion) Pierre Elliot Trudeau
You know all there is to know about Building 7, but do you seriously believe that a Boeing 757 hit anywhere near the Pentagon?
You know a lot about the Twin Towers, but did you know that there were explosions in their subbasements before the planes hit?
If you think that would have been difficult for those 19 Islamic terrorists to arrange, could they have suspended Newton's laws on 9/11?
THE VANCOUVER HEARINGS ARE DESIGNED TO DEMONSTRATE THAT
* The official account provided by the United States government is false
* The search for truth requires that all possibilities be considered without prejudice
* Theories must be compared on the basis of the relative probability of the evidence if they were true, where those with higher likelihoods thus defined are preferable to those with lower, where, when the evidence has "settled down", the theory with the highest likelihood is "acceptable" in the tentative and fallible fashion of science
Theories in science consist of sets of laws combined with dictionary definitions, where the laws of the sciences can be used to explain and to predict the phenomena of experience. Establishing laws entails a process of sorting out the relevant properties from irrelevant via controlled experiments. Applying them entails deriving what happens when their initial conditions are realized, given the initial conditions that were present at the time. In this context, think of these theories as causes in relation to the evidence as their effects. The question thus becomes, "Which of these causes would have the greatest potential to explain the evidence as their effects?", as an inference to the best explanation.
In case that sounds imposing, it is the same pattern of reasoning that police employ in the course of their investigation of crimes. Suppose that we have a male corpse with bruises around its neck, but no bullet holes or knife wounds. What is the probability that he was stabbed (shot or strangled) relative to that evidence? Because the probability of having no knife wounds if he was stabbed is zero, the likelihood that he was stabbed is also zero. Similarly the probability of having no bullet wounds if he had been shot is zero, so that he was shot likewise has a likelihood of zero.
Given the presence of bruises on the neck, however, there clearly would be a non-zero likelihood that he was strangled. With the accumulation of more evidence during an autopsy, it might turn out that the bruising was not the cause of death but that he was actually poisoned. The same pattern of reasoning applies to the events of 9/11. Ask, for example, if the Twin Towers collapsed, what is the probability that they would blow apart in every direction from the top down? Insofar as gravity works in only one direction, down, while explosives blow out in every direction, the likelihood that the towers collapsed is low, while the use of explosives is high.
Knowing that the Twin Towers did not collapse does not explain exactly how it was done, much less by whom and why. Consideration of the rate of destruction and of various residual effects, including upon other buildings and vehicles in the vicinity, offers clues as to how it was done which, in turn, can provide clues about the who and the why, where this conference will compare conventional explosives with exotic accelerants, including nano-thermite, with mini-nukes and with directed energy devices to determine which can best explain the totality of the evidence.
Similar questions will be asked about the hijackers, the planes, and the passengers. What is the probability, if the hijackers were real, that five or six would show up alive and well? If the flights were real, what is the probability two of them were not scheduled to fly that day and the other two not deregistered until four years later? If the passengers were real, what is the probability that all of their phone calls were faked? If these planes actually crashed, what is the probability of no evidence of plane crashes at Shanksville and elsewhere? We will address these questions and more.
Perhaps the most encompassing description of The Vancouver Hearings, therefore, is to expand the boundaries of 9/11 Truth by exploring the most complex and controversial of the issues confronting us, from what did or did not happen at the Pentagon, the possible use of exotic and unfamiliar technologies to destroy the Twin Towers, the exploitation of the mass media to convey false impressions about what happened that day, and up to a consideration of the motives and ideologies that brought 9/11 about to instill fear into the American public and manipulate them for political purposes.
"Face to Phone with Jim Fetzer Founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth"
"It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you think you know that ain't so." Mark Twain
For those who cannot join us in Vancouver,
the conference will also be live-streamed.
The Vancouver Hearings
Posted on February 16, 2012
THE VANCOUVER HEARINGS:
Expanding the boundaries of 9/11 Truth
The Denman Theatre, 15-17 June 2012
1737 Comox Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Organizers: James H. Fetzer, Ph.D., and Joshua Blakeney
McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Jim is the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, edited its first book, THE 9/11 CONSPIRACY (2007), organized its first conference, "The Science and Politics of 9/11″ (Madison) and produced its first DVD.
Graduate student at the University of Lethbridge, 9/11 activist, Staff Writer at Veterans Today, and now the Canadian correspondent for PressTV, Josh was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship to study "The Origins of the Global War on Terror".
PROGRAM: 5 PMDoors Open. 6-10 PMSpeakers, Discussion, and Debate
"When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth" Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and to move beyond the "official account" of 9/11:
* That 19 Islamic fundamentalists hijacked four commercial carriersFlights AA #11, AA #77, United #93, and United #175outfoxed the most sophisticated air defense system in the world, and perpetrated these atrocities under the control of a guy in a cave in Afghanistan.
* That two of those planes, both Boeing 767s, were flown into the Twin Towers, where the combination of damage from their impacts, the jet-fuel based fires and those that endured, weakened the steel and caused both of them to collapse in about 10 seconds apiece.
* That at 5:20 PM that afternoon, another enormous building in the World Trade Center complex, known as WTC-7, also collapsed due to fires inside the building, even though it had not been hit by any plane and had no jet-fuel based fires.
* That the Pentagon was hit by a Boeing 757 that approached on a northeastern trajectory at around 500 mph and, just skimming the ground and taking out multiple lampposts, created a spectacular fireball and extensive damage, with 125 casualties at the building itself.
* That another Boeing 757 crashed in Shanksville, after the passengers heroically attempted to regain control, which we know from phone calls they madeas others had made from other planeswhere this plane virtually disappeared into the very soft earth.
* That the government identified the 19 hijackers almost immediately, where 15 were from Saudi Arabia and the number from Iraq was none, where these events were used to justify wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan, the passage of the PATRIOT ACT, and the on-going "War on Terror".
The probity of these sworn presentations will be evaluated by a panel of judges, who will swear in our speakers, offer informal opinions at the conclusion of the conference and prepare their evaluation of the hearings in formal opinions for later publication, including:
* Constance (Connie) Fogal, B.A, B.Ed, M.A., LL.B. Judge at the 9/11 Vancouver Hearings
Former leader of the Canadian Action Party, former Vancouver Parks Board Commissioner, former Director, Kitsilano and Vancouver Community Resource boards; lawyer with the Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee to oppose what Fogal sees as threats to Canadian constitutional sovereignty.
* Alfred Lambremont Webre, J.D., M.Ed. Judge at the 9/11 Vancouver Hearings
Judge on the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, Webre submitted a Memorandum to the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate 9/11 and was a co-architect of the Space Preservation Treaty endorsed by more than 270 NGOs worldwide.
Friday, 15 June 2012:
Masters of Ceremonies: * Greg Felton (odd sessions) and * Jack Etkin (even)
An award-winning investigative journalist, Greg was a long-time political columnist for the Vancouver Courier and for the Canadian Arab News. He is the author of THE HOST AND THE PARASITE (2nd edition, 2010) and of EXPLODING MIDDLE EAST MYTHS (2011).
Television talk show host and media activist, Jack has been keenly involved with the 9/11 Truth movement and has interviewed many of its leaders from Wayne Prante to Dr. Neils Harrit on "Face to Face" and authored "Dick Cheney, Burning Korans, and the Media".
6:00-7:00 PM: Orientation and Keynote Address: * Splitting the Sky
Activist and author who attempted a citizen's arrest of George W. Bush in Calgary in 2009 and was near the Twin Towers the day before 9/11, STS participated in the Attica Prison rebellion and has become a staunch advocate for the marginalized and the dispossessed.
7:00-9:00 PM: Session 1: The Pentagon, the Witnesses, and the Passengers
* Enver Masud, "What didn't happen at the Pentagon" (40 minutes)
Founder and CEO of The Wisdom Fund, recipient of the 2002 Gold Award from for THE WAR ON ISLAM. An engineer by profession, he was residing near the Pentagon and observed its condition immediately after the hit, which he wrote about in 9/11 UNVEILED.
* Barbara Honegger, "Behind the Smoking Curtain: The Pentagon attacked Itself" (40 minutes)
Former White House Policy Analyst, and for more than a decade Senior Military Affairs Journalist at DoD's science, technology and national security affairs graduate university, she authored OCTOBER SURPRISE (1989) and "The Scarlet A: Anthrax Links to 9/11″.
* Dean Hartwell, "Planes and passengers: What became of them?" (40 minutes)
With a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, Masters in Public Administration, and law degree, J.D., Dean is also the author of PLANES WITHOUT PASSENGERS: THE FAKED HIJACKINGS OF 9/11 (2011) and DEAD MEN TALKING (2009) on JFK, RFK and 9/11.
9:00 PM-9:30 PM: Questions for the speakers from the panel of judges
9:30-10:00 PM: Discussion and Debate
Saturday, 16 June 2012:
9:00-11:00 AM: Session 2: How were the Twin Towers destroyed? Part 1
* Nicholas Kollerstrom, "The Nine Keys to 9/11" (40 minutes)
Ph.D., historian of science, including articles on Sir Isaac Newton, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, founding member of the UK's 9/11 Truth movement, member of the New York Academy of Sciences, author of 7/7: TERROR ON THE TUBE (3rd edition, 2012)
* Charles Boldwyn, "Why the Twin Towers could not have collapsed" (40 minutes)
M.S. in chemistry, 2-years in a Ph.D. program in polymer science at University of Akron; 82nd Airborne, 101st Airborne, Special Forces; more than 20 years as high-school math, physics, and chemistry teacher; and Chuck has fifteen (15) interviews on "The Real Deal".
* Jeff Prager, "Proof of Ternary Fission in New York City on 9/11″ (40 minutes)
Founder of an award winning magazine for Senior Citizens, in 2002 he tried to prove 19 Muslims hijacked four planes and attacked us. By 2005, he realized this was false, sold his business, left the US and began to investigate 9/11 full-time. See 9/11 America Nuked.
11:00-11:30 AM: Questions for the speakers from the panel of judges
11:30-Noon: Discussion and Debate
Noon-1:30 PM: Lunch on the town
1:30-4:30 PM: Session 3: How were the Twin Towers destroyed? Part 2
* Donald Fox, "Mini-nukes used at the WTC and the real untold story'" (40 minutes)
Don has done extensive research on the role of mini-nukes by Dr. Ed Ward and on work by The Anonymous Physicist on the towers and has formulated an account of how it was done and why there is more to this story relative to very low-yield thermonuclear devices.
* Clare Kuehn, "Were DEWs used to decimate the Twin Towers?" (40 minutes)
A University of Toronto graduate in history and student of philosophy, mathematics and the arts, she will discuss Judy Wood, WHERE DID THE TOWERS GO?, and will present evidence for the use of "DEWs" as "Directional Free or Low-Input' Energy Weapons".
* Dwain Deets, "Assessing Alternative Theories about the Twin Towers" (40 minutes)
The former Chief of Research Engineering and Director for Aeronautical Projects at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Dwain has evaluated alternative explanations of the WTC-7 in "Approaching the Puzzling Destruction of WTC 7" and of the Twin Towers.
4:30-5:00 PM: Questions for the speakers from the panel of judges
5:00-5:30 PM: Discussion and Debate
5:30-7:00: Dinner on the town
7:00-10:00 PM: Session 4: Who was Responsible for 9/11 and Why?
* Susan Lindauer, "Confessions of a CIA Asset" (40 minutes)
A graduate of Smith, she sent a letter protesting plans to illegally invade Iraq to President George W. Bush, for which she was harassed, prosecuted, and incarcerated, even though she had been a CIA and DIA asset, which she writen about in Extreme Prejudice (2010).
* Kevin Barrett, "9/11 and the Neo-Con Agenda" (40 minutes)
Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist and one of America's best-known critics of 9/11, is co-editor of 9/11 AND AMERICAN EMPIRE: CHRISTIANS, JEWS AND MUSLIMS SPEAK OUT (2006), and author of TRUTH JIHAD (2007) and of QUESTIONING THE WAR ON TERROR (2009).
* Alan Sabrosky, "Genesis of Deception: Israel and Its Friends on 9/11″ (40 minutes)
Ph.D., Michigan; held MacArthur Chair of Research and was Director of Studies, US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 10-years USMC, has had adjunct appointments at Georgetown and The School of Advanced International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University.
* Joshua Blakeney, "The Likudnik Origins of 9/11" (40 minutes)
Graduate student at the University of Lethbridge, member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, 9/11 activist, Staff Writer at Veterans Today, and now the Canadian correspondent for PressTV, Josh has made numerous appearances on radio and television discussing current events.
9:00-9:30 PM: Questions for the speakers from the panel of judges
9:30-10:00 PM: Discussion and Debate
Sunday 17 June 2012
9:00-11:00 AM: Session 5: The Fabrication of the Atrocities of 9/11
* Christopher Holmes, "Fabled Airplanes and Scripted Witnesses" (40 minutes)
Ph.D., a clinical and forensic psychologist, the director of the Zero Point Institute and author of THE MADNESS OF HUMANITY (2011), Christopher has a psychological and forensic examination of Simon Shack's "September Clues" studies in "Fabled Airplanes".
* Dennis Cimino, "The official account' of flights on 9/11 is a fantasy" (40 minutes)
A.A., EE; 35-years EMI/EMC testing, field engineering; FDR testing and certifications specialist; Navy Combat Systems Specialist; 2,000 hours, Pilot in Command, Commercial Instrument Single and Multi-Engine Land Pilot, Eastern Airlines 727-200, Second Officer
* Jim Fetzer, "Fakery and Fraud in the Official Account' of 9/11" (40 minutes)
A former Marine Corps officer, Jim has given hundreds of interviews and lectures on 9/11, including a 3.5 hour interview on television in Athens (2006), which was broadcast worldwide by satellite, in Buenos Aires (2008 and 2009), and in London (2010).
11:00-11:30 AM: Questions for the speakers from the panel of judges
11:30 AM-Noon: Discussion and Debate
Noon-1:30 PM: Lunch on the town
1:30-5:00 PM: Session 6: The Media, the 9/11 Myth, and the Message
* John McCarthy, "US government involvement in 9/11 is no surprise" (40 minutes)
Combat veteran in Vietnam and Nuclear Weapons qualified, John coordinated war plans for Special Forces ops behind the Iron Curtain the CIA and will address the role of the DoD and the CIA in false flag terrorism and the double-edged sword of "plausible deniability".
* Webster Tarpley, "From 9/11 to WIKILEAKS and The Arab Spring': Covert ops in our time" (40 minutes)
A philosopher of history and activist historian, he is well known especially for his books, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992) and 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in the U.S.A. (2005). Popular as a speaker and guest, he maintains a web site at TARPLEY.net.
* Anthony Hall, "How the Media have Failed us All" (40 minutes)
Ph.D., Founding Coordinator of Globalization Studies at University of Lethbridge, Tony is the author of THE AMERICAN EMPIRE AND THE FOURTH WORLD (2003) and of EARTH INTO PROPERTY (2010) and has been studying the impact of 9/11 upon globalization.
3:30-4:30 PM: The Judges, "Evaluations of The Vancouver Hearings" (one hour)
4:30-5:00 PM: Discussion and Debate: Where do we go from here?
* Speakers are confirmed.
RECOMMENDED READING (for background regarding issues under examination here):
Jim Fetzer, "20 reasons the official account' of 9/11 is wrong" [a summary of scientific findings that contradict the what the government has told us about the events of 9/11]
Morgan Reynolds, "Five Facts Falsify Five Theories" [a series of arguments advanced to help separate more and less viable theories about the destruction of the Twin Towers]
Judy Wood, WHERE DID THE TOWERS GO? [an encompassing compendium of evidence that an adequate theory of their destruction must explain with a defense of use of DEWs]
Dr. Ed Ward, "9/11 Nukes prove US Government involvement" [powerful arguments that the destruction of the World Trade Center is only explainable on the basis of mini-nukes]
Dennis Cimino, "9/11: The "official account" of the Pentagon attack is a fantasy" [a detailed and thorough analysis of the impossible and the improbable elements of what were told]
Jim Fetzer, "9/11: Planes/No Planes and Video Fakery'" [a presentation of the evidence from multiple sources demonstrating that all four of the alleged plane crashes were faked]
Dean Hartwell, PLANES WITHOUT PASSENGERS [a study of the inconsistencies in what we have been told about those planes and their passengers by the American government]
Joshua Blakeney, "An Open Letter to Dr. Paul Viminitz: 9/11 Evidence vs. Straw Man Arguments" [a rebuttal of a Canadian philosopher who defends the official 9/11 account]
David Ray Griffin, THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED [the updated classic by one of the leading experts, if not the leading expert, on the inadequacies in the official account]
Anthony Hall, "Jonathan Kay Defends the Sacred Myth of 9/11″ [a revealing consideration of the abject failure of the Canadian press to publish responsible information about 9/11]
Barrie Zwicker, TOWERS OF DECEPTION [an expose of the failure of the media to cover 9/11 and of left-wing gate-keepers, including Noam Chomsky, to spread disinformation]
Jim Fetzer and James Preston, "Peeling the 9/11 Onion: Layers of Plots within Plots" [an explanation of multiple attempts to cast responsibility everywhere but where it belongs]
Joshua Blakeney, "Israel, 9/11, and Jonathan Kay" [an expose of the attempts by one of Canada's most prominent right-wing journalists to conceal Mossad's complicity in 9/11]
Edward Hendrie, 9/11 ENEMIES: FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC [a comprehensive analysis of the available evidence shedding light on virtually very aspect of the official account of 9/11]
NOTE: None of these studies should be taken as conclusory but are instead being offered as exemplifying the kinds of issues that will be addressed during The Vancouver Hearings.
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