New York City's chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, has for the first time directly linked a death to exposure to dust from the destruction of the World Trade Center.
In a letter made...
I hope you all get a chance to watch the 9/11 responders on "The View" on ABC @11.00AM this Wednesday the 25th. One of those responders will be Vito Valenti, a 9/11 volunteer, sick with fibrosis of the lungs and needs a double lung transplant. Vito also sits on the board of directors at the FealGood Foundation. I can only hope Rosie and the others do the right thing for these three heroes that day. Please support these brave souls, Bonnie Giebfried, Alex Sanchez and Vito, and the FealGood foundation.
Thank you and God bless you all.
John Feal
"Lets make America great again, together"
April 5, 2007
by Zen Garcia
Rudy Giuliani's rise to prominent national and world attention was elevated by his role as Mayor of New York City during a time of heightened challenge that culminated in the...
After years of avoiding the undeniable
link between illness and exposure to the toxic air and dust at Ground Zero,
why has Mayor Bloomberg suddenly acknowledged what he has previously questioned?
In
July, 2006, "... Bloomberg has refused, thus far, to acknowledge that
the deaths of at least four first responders - and the illnesses of thousands
more - were directly related to their toiling in The Pit." In
August, 2006, "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking at a news conference
at City Hall yesterday, questioned the conclusiveness of the study, saying that
statistics could suggest a connection between events, but not prove a direct
link." "I don't believe that you can say specifically a particular
problem came from this particular event," he said. But on Wednesday,
March 21, 2007, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee,
Mayor Bloomberg asked Congress to reopen the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund to
cover the cost of monitoring and treatment of 9/11 health problems. The long
delay in adequately
funding monitoring programs and health care costs still seems far from being
resolved. When it comes time to serve their constituent's interests, city, state
and federal politicians are quick with words of support but slow to take action.
When Matthew Rothschild, editor of the online magazine The Progressive, wrote an article called “Enough of the 9/11 Conspiracies, Already”, we all knew he was not talking about the conspiracy theory that the US...
Interesting find. More interesting is the fact that this author felt compelled to "explain" why the ends of the steel 'appeared to be burned at one end.' It will be extremely important to have this steel made immediately available for forensic testing--unfortunately, the article states these beams "will be put into storage at
a hangar at Kennedy International Airport... The hangar stores all sorts of artifacts from the trade center, including what was believed to be the last column removed from the site in May 2002." To date, we know of no testing by independent authorities of any of the artifacts stored in that hangar.
Furthermore, the fact that "nearly 300 bones have been yielded in the past three months" is simply appalling. For five long years the victims' families groups, such as WTC Families for Proper Burial, have had to fight to have their family members' remains searched for and removed from Fresh Kills landfill for proper burial, and now more are being found in the vicinity of the towers, as well. As Diane Horning, whose son Matthew, 24, died in the North Tower, where he worked for the insurance company Marsh and McLennan, said in 2004, "We were promised the remains - any and all remains of the victims - and now we discover that my lost son is to spend eternity in a rubbish dump. This is morally reprehensible and emotionally unacceptable, and we are going to fight it all the way." (Telegraph.co.uk).
This is ridiculously unacceptable, especially from a government that reminds us of 9/11 every time it demands more money for war or attempts to justify its vast array of civil liberties infringements, torture, and other illegal activities.
It seems obvious to this writer that the interests of 9/11 victims' family members is last in the list of priorities for this government and the press. We must continue to demand truth and accountability for the events of 9/11/01, so that these families, and the nation as a whole, can find closure for our losses and know that justice has finally been served.
