This weekend’s Weekender begins with a link to a longer interview with mechanical engineer Tony Szamboti than was in the documentary film “The Unspeakable.” Next are several looks at the Ukraine-Russia crisis. The first of these is an Associated Press news report. The second is by Joe Lauria of Consortium News. The third is by retired Central Intelligence Agency analyst Ray McGovern. The fourth is an irreverent take by investigative journalist Greg Palast. — MCM
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Engineer Critiques Official Account of Twin Towers’ Destruction This weekend Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth released what it calls “a powerful extended interview with mechanical engineer Tony Szamboti. (Click on link and scroll down to watch the eight-minute interview.)
From an AE911Truth news release: “Samboti summarizes the glaring errors in the analysis by engineering professor Zdeněk Bažant, who, in a series of papers published between 2002 and 2011, purported to explain how the Twin Towers could undergo total collapse once the tops of the towers began to fall.
“Bažant’s theory was relied upon by NIST [the National Institute for Standard and Technology] — the federal agency tasked with investigating the World Trade Center failures — which remarkably neglected to conduct any analysis of the towers’ behavior after the point of ‘collapse initiation.’
“Szamboti also shares how his critique of Bažant’s latest paper in 2011 was astoundingly rejected as ‘out of scope’ by the journal that had published the paper — a decision he is fighting to this day.”
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For the Associated Press story on a presidential news briefing Friday at the White House, headlined “Biden Is ‘Convinced’ Putin Has Decided to Invade Ukraine,” click HERE.
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For an account by Joe Lauria of Consortium News, written after the same briefing, click HERE.
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For the view of retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, click HERE. It is headed, sarcastically, “Ukraine Invasion Scheduled for Wednesday Canceled,” In a less readable format, HERE it is from the Global Research Newsletter.
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For Greg Palast’s piece, headed “7 Facts About Ukraine,” click HERE.