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We as spiritual beings or souls come to earth in order to experience the human condition. This includes the good and the bad scenarios of this world. Our world is a duality planet and no amount of love or grace will eliminate evil or nastiness. We will return again and again until we have pierced the illusions of this density. The purpose of human life is to awaken to universal truth. This also means that we must awaken to the lies and deceit mankind is subjected to. To pierce the third density illusion is a must in order to remove ourselves from the wheel of human existences. Love is the Answer by means of Knowledge and Awareness!





New York Times
January 17, 2002 
New Agency to Investigate the Collapse of Towers By JAMES GLANZ and ERIC LIPTON

A federal agency with vast experience in investigating building collapses 
and other major catastrophes is moving to take over, and significantly 
expand, the inquiry into the fall of the World Trade Center's twin towers on 
Sept. 11. 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which has investigated 
building failures worldwide as a result of earthquakes, structural flaws and 
other factors, has recently begun discussions with other federal and city 
agencies to formally take control of the inquiry. 

The investigation of the collapse has for months been conducted by a group 
of engineering experts and been overseen by the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency. But the investigation has been called inadequate by a growing number 
of experts, politicians and family members of those who died. 

Yesterday, officials with FEMA, who have conceded that they do not have much 
experience in conducting intensive investigations, said that they would 
welcome turning over major portions of the inquiry to the National Institute 
of Standards and Technology. "They've indicated to me that they have 
authority in this area," said Robert Shea, acting administrator of FEMA's 
federal insurance and mitigation administration. "We obviously would support 
them." 

While it was obvious on Sept. 11 that any high-rise struck by a fuel- laden 
jetliner would be at risk of catastrophic failure, engineers and fire safety 
experts say it is still crucial to determine which structures snapped, 
buckled or otherwise failed and in what order - all information that could 
help improve safety in skyscrapers nationwide.
Lingering questions about whether the twin towers had any hidden 
vulnerabilities could also be answered. 

The precise scale of the new effort has not yet been determined, but 
officials involved in the discussions said the intent would be to create a 
federal entity like the National Transportation Safety Board, which 
investigates plane crashes. With the bombing in Oklahoma City and the attack 
on the World Trade Center, the federal government may indefinitely need to 
be spending more time examining issues like blast damage, the need to 
evacuate entire office buildings instead of a few floors, and the combined 
impact of structural damage and large fires, safety experts and government 
officials said. 

Andy Davis, communications director for Senator Ernest F.
Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat whose oversight responsibilities include 
financing for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, said 
officials at the institute had indicated in discussions on Capitol Hill that 
the work could cost $10 million to $12 million a year.


A spokesman for the institute, Michael E. Newman, confirmed that his group 
was "taking all steps to prepare to conduct an investigation into the 
technical, causal factors that led to the World Trade Center collapse." 

The move by the institute to enter the investigation comes as the group of 
engineers involved in the initial, FEMA-backed inquiry, says that it almost 
certainly will not be able to explain the structural failures inside the 
building that led to the fiery collapse. Their more modest goal is to 
describe data that has been collected and then to list theories of why the 
buildings collapsed and make recommendations for future research. 

"Considering the enormity of the information that needs to be digested now 
and analyzed, they're not likely to be able to have consensus on the 
sequence of collapse events," said John E. Durrant, a team spokesman at the 
American Society of Civil Engineers, which is working with FEMA in the study. 

As to the twin towers, the team is currently considering at least three 
scenarios, or theories, of what may have taken place in the moments before 
and during their collapse: that the initial impact was so great the towers 
were already on the verge of collapse and the fires tipped them over the 
edge; that lightweight floors sagged in the heat and tore away from vertical 
columns on outside walls; and finally that heavy columns in the buildings' 
cores gave way, leading the building to implode. 

Engineering experts nationwide, as well as city officials, said the entry of 
the National Institute of Standards and Technology into the investigation 
was encouraging. 

Kenneth R. Holden, commissioner of the city's Department of Design and 
Construction, said the city is prepared to work with the institute to help 
any inquiry. 

"Obviously it makes sense," Mr. Holden said. "We certainly will cooperate to 
the extent possible."

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