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New Year's Thoughts

Embracing and holding the thought of energetically calling for the release of the acceleration of the energies that nourish and spark personal transformation.

I believe that this is a key to healing and improving things, all over.


This is the primary thought I held as I welcomed in the New Year. My wife, who is an expert at positive prayer said ; “Every powerful emotion is a prayer “. The thoughts we hold that we hold with powerful conviction are the ones that usually get implemented.
What higher prayer can there be than to know the truth? Truth is the powerful medicine our country needs right now more than any policies, or politician.
We are all doing our parts to bring this about in the 9/11 Truth Movement. Our movement is vital to this nation and the globe because it is about acknowledging the basis for all healthy action. We can see the result of actions that are based on untruths: invaded countries, slaughtered citizenry, a trampled Constitution, torture and general despair. We have an important answer to these problems.

In Valmiki’s Ramayana, the hero, Ram, is beset with seemingly insurmountable obstacles. He must defeat a powerful demon enemy, Ravana, who can be destroyed by neither gods nor man. Ravana’s armies have spread over the kingdom bringing misery and death to thousands. In advancing over this and numerous other obstacles, Ram finds help in the form of many but especially in his adversary’s brother, a demon called Vibhishana. Vibhishana is able to make the leap out of his devotion to family and empire to see the worthiness of Ram’s cause. He makes the difficult transformation needed to help secure Ram’s victory.

By placing our already powerful desire for truth first in our lives, we are setting up the conditions that enable its manifestation. By passionately desiring those things that bring about personal transformation we are welcoming truth tellers from the side that planned and executed the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Ram was able to defeat Ravana because finally, Ram was neither god nor man but both.
Our clear intentions, our openness to strongly desiring personal transformation in all, will be the thing that carries this truth movement over the top. I don’t doubt it for a second.

TruthBurn Up Again in Marin County!

The Truth sign that made its debut at this year's Burning Man is now on a ranch in Marin County. We have plans to continue using it as an art object to bring awareness to the Truth about what really happened on September 11, 2001

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Dr. Steven Jones Compares WTC to Burning Man Thermite Residue

Electron microscopy reveals similarities to WTC thermite residue.
Dr. Steven Jones just turned in these electron microscope images of thermite residue from the September 2, 2007 TruthBurn demonstration at Burning Man. Iron rich spheres that look very similar to WTC iron spheres were revealed by the powerful microscope at Jones' lab. An analysis is forthcoming.





This photo is from WTC dust samples submitted to Dr. Jones.



More photos and story at http://911blogger.com/node/11880

~70 lbs of Thermite, Ignited as Part of 911 Truth Demonstration at Burning Man-Slow Motion Video

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Bear in mind, that the sign is 22 feet wide.

Updates Sept. 6, 2007

Sept. 6, 2007 San Rafael- We’re back home exhausted and nearly unpacked. I’ve included some posts here that I was never able to send because of a tenuous internet connection at Black Rock, partly due I believe to the daily onslaught of dust storms interfering with satellite communications. As mentioned below, we made what I believe was a safe and smart decision not to place our thermite cutter charges on the sign itself, rather ignite them beneath the sign on a hunk of steel we obtained from another artist. We talked to many people about 911 Truth, the use of controlled demolition on the World Trade buildings and of course, thermite and what it does to steel. Richard Gage, on hand for the event, gave a stirring talk about the melting temperature of steel, the numerous fire fighter observations of molten metal in the basements of World Trades 1.2 and 7 and the use of controlled demolition techniques to bring the buildings down. We remotely ignited about 75 lbs of thermite for the event. A huge arc bright fireball resulted that was seen all over the desert. The slag samples that were produced by this reaction are saved and some will be shipped to Steven Jones for a comparative analysis with samples from the actual twin towers. Though this art event didn’t fit our original plan, we feel that it was a great success nonetheless. I contacted most of the major controlled demolition companies in the US and even one in Japan, to solicit bids for using thermite cutter charges to bring the sign down. I heard back from none of them. This left me, a novice in the field, to devise the devices myself. The federally licensed pyro crew at Burning Man congratulated me on the safety and success of this rather large thermite burn. Cost was a factor as well. I did get one bid from a shadowy tech person with ex-defense contacts in Virginia to build 2 sol-gel thermate cutter charges. The price was $10,000.00 per charge.

As I wanted to pull this event off, I had to scale the cost, size and scope of it down a bit. Working with a skeleton crew of volunteers including KPFA radio’s Guns and Butter’s Yarrow Mahko, we were able to pull off a very difficult task, on time, close to our revised budget estimates, and with extreme safety measures given the often wild and unpredictable nature of events and people at the Burning Man festival.

So the sign lives on and will be displayed at various locations. I have two commitments from art exhibitors at this point and must work out additional transport and heavy equipment set up. This is a lot of work and it’s left me a little beat up but deeply satisfied all the same. We have some very decent video of the erection of the sign and the ignition of the thermite and Richard Gage’s talk. Editing is in process and I hope to have at least a teaser film with the ignition ready by this weekend.

My plans are to continue exploring the use of thermite or thermate cutter charges to bring down a substantial piece of steel in a monitored environment, as a protest demonstration to illustrate how the twin towers and building 7 were most likely brought down.. After having successfully experimented with the stuff, I can tell you that I have a strong understanding of thermite’s violent effect on steel. The burn stayed hot for at least an hour after we ignited it early Sunday morning, the 3^rd of Sept. around 2 am. In all cases I have worked under the supervision of licensed professionals and plan to obtain the proper permits and work within the boundaries of local and state laws regarding future tests. I don’t plan on sharing how I rigged my devises. The technology is too dangerous.

I invite any Truth supporters to contact me with future ideas or suggestions for the sign. It will be made available for any 911 Truth event where possible. And yes, I still need to recover some of the costs of producing this event. Please see my blog for more info on that.

Thanks to all my supporters and volunteers, Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth, Richard Gage and the crews and staff at Burning Man for helping making this art-demonstration vision a reality.

John

August 31,2007 Black Rock- Last night at 11 pm we successfully ignited a pot of thermite on a piece of ¼” U-channel similar to the one holding up the Truthburn letters. The 20 lbs of thermite created an enormous, bright as the sun fireball that burned through the ¼ “ steel like, well, butter. The flowing streams of molten metal stayed very hot for about ½ an hour afterwards. Our crew cleaned up the steel residue after everything cooled down. Steel melts at about 3000°. TruthBurn is aimed at duplicating a possible technique used in the controlled demolitions of World Trade Centers 1, 2 and 3. Rivers of molten steel were observed by fire fighting crews in the lower levels of the collapsed buildings many weeks after September 11, 2001. Only an incendiary like thermite can raise steel to these temperatures. Last night we saw this first hand. The test caused me to re-evaluate our plan to bring the huge steel letters down using this method. In our test, the thermite flowed down the channel, and though it mostly cut the channel in half, there was an element of uncontrollability about the way the molten metal flows. Specifically I am concerned with safety. If the thermite charges don’t completely sever the channel holding the letters the structure can become dangerously unstable and pose a significant problem to already overtaxed Burning Man Department of Public Works (DPW) crews. Also the bolts that hold the upper structure together, may become fused thereby making disassembly very difficult. We have to take this giant 30000 lb structure down at the end of Burning Man and truck it back to the Bay Area. As a consequence, I’m working on a back up plan, that would still entail burning our themite, but this would happen underneath the structure, in three separate pots to symbolize the controlled demolition of all three World Trade Buildings. This after all an art project. We are not professional demolition people, though I was amazed at how relatively easy it was to setr up and remotely ignite the stuff. Licensed pryo tech personnel from Burning Man supervised the test and helped provide crowd control. Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth will be arriving tonight and we’ll consult about how to proceed.

John

Saturday, September 1, 2007: Black Rock City

There were two powerful dust storms that swept through the playa yesterday, making even the simplest effort a supreme challenge. The storm blew in Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth’s Richard Gage and Bill Donnelly. Yarrow Mahko of Guns and Butter also showed up. Great to see these guys here and plans are afoot to do some media show at the Truth sign, tonight and tomorrow night.

We have decided to burn the thermite beneath the TruthBurn sign because of safety and mechanical reasons. We will burn three pots of thermite in honor of the three World Trade buildings.

Yesterday also brought to the playa the most beautiful rainbow I think I’ve ever seen. Yarrow and I were taking a bucket load of photos of the sign framed by this incredible rainbow. Truly magical and thoroughly amazing. This morning, at the media tent where I “try” to establish an internet connection, I was greeted by a very beautiful black hen. Yes, some one of the guys here actually brought his pet chicken to the playa. It was neat seeing this in the desert.

John

New Thermite Schedule

Aug 29, 2007 Black Rock-Last night our crew got TruthBurn installed at Burning Man. Burning Man DPW iron worker Steve Valdez was magnificent in his careful manipulation of the giant fork lift to raise the 1000 lb pieces in place. A large moon could be seen above the powerful and artful piece. Many people drove by to thank us and tell us how beautiful the thing looked.

Sometime after 2 am a tagger hit one small corner of the piece. We’ll remove it this morning. I never before saw tagging of art, here at Burning Man. It’s a giant relief to get TruthBurn installed. It looks terrific. I almost hate to destroty it with thermite. The schedule for its destruction was moved to Saturday night at 12 midnight by Black Rock pyro officials. The small test burn will happen on Thursday at around 11pm. It is beautiful here at the mostly quiet now sound drenched desert. A big thank you to all the incredible people who helped to put this together.

John

August 30, 2007 Black Rock- We set up our sound system last night and it works great. Pyro Tech re-scheduled our thermite displays to

Tonight, Thursday, 11pm, for a small demonstration on 3’ section of the same type of steel used in making the TruthBurn art piece. This is mostly a test of our system and run through with safety procedures.

Then the main burn, the controlled demolition of the TruthBurn sign itself is scheduled for early early Sunday, September 2, Sunday at 12:30 am or 1am. This is after the Man burns. Pyro must insure that enough fire and ranger staff can be available to assist with crowd control and safety, that’s why we’ve been juggled around. I’ve been talking to many people about the sculpture, how it came into being, about Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth, and the probable use of controlled demolition techniques on the World Trade buildings. I’ve also talked to a reporter from the London Guardian. The reception for our sculpture seems generally supportive and favorable. Yesterday, at the BRC press conference with Burning Man Staff and founder Larry Harvey, I personally thanked Larry for taking the courageous step in hosting our controversial art project.

John