Cover Story for I35W Bridge Emerges
Gusset plates, says NTSB.
Sounds bogus to me, sounds bogus to Minnesota authorities:
Sounds bogus to me, sounds bogus to Minnesota authorities:
In Minneapolis, state transportation department officials seemed surprised by the sudden focus on the bridge’s gusset plates, which are the steel connectors used to hold together the girders on the truss of a bridge. On this bridge, completed in 1967, there would have been hundreds of them, officials here said.
Gary Peterson, the state’s assistant bridge engineer, said he knew of no questions that had ever been raised about the gusset plates, no unique qualities to distinguish them from those on other bridges, no inkling of any problem during decades of inspections of the bridge.
“I don’t know what this could be,” Mr. Peterson said. “I’m frankly surprised at this point. I can’t even begin to speculate.”
posted by spooked at 8:18 AM
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This report of drilled holes before collapse needs to be examined.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=107539
And why are they now arresting people at the bridge site, just for observing what they are doing there now? What don't they want people to know?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/08/bridge.collapse/
On July 14, 2007, Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota compared Bush to Hitler and even suggested Bush was responsible for 9/11. Two weeks later, Congressman Ellison's home district (District 5 of Minnesota) suffered a bridge collapse on August 1, 2007, that in many ways resembled the manner in which the WTC towers fell on 9/11/01 -- that is, in a highly symmetrical and controlled fashion that seems physically impossible without outside intervention.
Here is the article about Ellison's comments:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/14/wbush114.xml
Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 2:58am BST 17/07/2007
Keith Ellison, a convert to Islam, has cultivated a moderate image since being elected last November
America's first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.
Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler's later seizure of emergency powers.
"It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that," Mr Ellison said. "After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."
To applause from his audience of 300 members of Atheists for Human Rights, Mr Ellison said he would not accuse the Bush administration of planning 9/11 because "you know, that's how they put you in the nut-ball box - dismiss you".
Vice-President Dick Cheney's stance of refusing to answer some questions from Congress was "the very definition of totalitarianism, authoritarianism and dictatorship", he added.
Mr Ellison also raised eyebrows by telling his audience: "You'll always find this Muslim standing up for your right to be atheists all you want."
A convert to Islam who was previously linked to the extremist Nation of Islam, Mr Ellison, 42, has cultivated a moderate image since being elected last November, concentrating on issues such as health and education.
He is an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq. But he angered his own anti-war supporters by voting for a budget bill that aims to end the war over the next 18 months. His followers want an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
After his speech was reported, Mr Ellison said he accepted that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11. But his demagogic comments threaten to plunge him in controversy.
Mark Drake, of the Republican party in Minnesota, said: "To compare the democratically elected leader of the United States of America to Hitler is an absolute moral outrage which trivialises the horrors of Nazi Germany."
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