Just in time for the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Toronto is set to host a conference for people analyzing the “myth of 9/11.” Dubbed the Toronto Hearings and sponsored by the Texas-based International Center for 9/11 Studies, the symposium of conspiracy theories at Ryerson University aims to reveal that the U.S. government’s official narrative of the attacks on the World Trade Centre twin towers is flawed or false. We expect it will also be a hotbed for debate over urgent and important questions like: were the Afghanistan and Iraq wars planned before 2001? And did an airplane actually hit the Pentagon? Naturally, the timing of the event has ruffled a few feathers (stay classy, International Centre for 9/11 Studies); but we say, just let the crazies be and salute Rob Ford and other city councillors for staying mum on the subject. Read the entire story [National Post] »
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This is gross.
August 17, 2011 at 12:06 pm | by Run TMCThe Toronto Hearings are quite important. The Honorary President of the Supreme Court of Italy will be attending as a Panelist:
August 18, 2011 at 12:44 am | by Adamhttp://torontohearings.org/panelists/
All people who would like to know why hundreds of Canadian soldiers have died to avenge 25 un-investigate Canadian deaths on 911 should attend this conference. Is war which ccost 4 trillions of tax dollars the solution? Millions of scientists, engineers, chemists, architects, historians know that the official government conspiracy theory is seriously flawed. Why would three building come down symmetrically into their footprints at freefall spead? This can only be accomplished with masterfully placed explosives. Why are there no videos of a plane hitting the pentagon?
August 18, 2011 at 7:50 am | by wildflowerWhat lunacy.
August 18, 2011 at 8:48 am | by Alburyreveal the TRUTH 9/11 was an inside job !!!
August 18, 2011 at 12:06 pm | by jorgeAnyone that says this is gross / lunacy has not looked at the evidence. It’s time to open your mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEvA8BCoBw&feature=player_embedded#!
August 18, 2011 at 12:59 pm | by Look at the evidenceIn the media here in the U.S. there is a complete blackout on anything but the Bush administrations official account of 9/11 and the same applies to Israel’s 44 year military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. It is for this reason that many U.S. citizens welcome Canada’s willingness to permit an open discussion on what really happened on September 11, 2001
August 18, 2011 at 6:47 pm | by John LandgrafJohn Michael McGrath; I’m sure you meant ‘crazies’ endearingly, but it actually makes you sound arrogant and uninformed. Do some research. Start w/ the youtube link two posts above. This discussion about 9/11 is among serious, reputable scholars and professionals, not ‘crazies’ by any stretch of the imagination. Get educated, or remain neutral on the subject. And for god’s sake, be responsible with what little public influence you have.
August 18, 2011 at 10:23 pm | by LeslieI have been studying the crimes of 9/11 for about 2 1/2 years now and know without any doubt at all that we were lied to about what really happened that day. First of all there was a third building that also fell straight down that day called Building 7. Watch it’s collapse here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvx904dAw0o
This 47 story skyscraper fell in 6 1/2 seconds that afternoon for no apparent reason. No plane hit it. There were a few office fires in this building but it’s impossible for ordinary carbon based fires to weaken all of the massive steel columns simultaneously down at the base of the structure to cause a perfectly symmetrical collapse. The National Institute of Science and Technology has admitted that this building fell at free fall acceleration for one third of it’s collapse so for those of you who think I wear a tin foil hat or who call me a conspiracy nut I have just one question. Please tell me how this building fell through it’s own foundation as fast as a bowling ball through air.
In case you missed the video please listen to the brave Ed Asner narrate this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEvA8BCoBw&feature=player_embedded
August 19, 2011 at 6:59 am | by Dan$8billion in insurance paid out, no asbestos removal costs is one of many motives.
elevator refit, power downs weeks leading up and security company ties give opportunity.
who had the means to divert norad, place explosives, place put options on airlines in record amounts, remove evidence, etc.. etc..
reminds me of a story of a big lie a german once told..
August 20, 2011 at 12:53 am | by LarryWTC 7 was built in 1986-7, well after asbestos was written out of all US building codes, so there were no “asbestos removal costs.” There was an insignificant amount still in the lower floors of the North Tower, but most of that had been removed prior to 2001.
August 20, 2011 at 5:06 am | by AlburyThe total insurance payout was $4.68 billion, and the estimated replacement cost of the towers is $9 billion.If you think the owner/lessee made money on the al Qaeda suicide attacks of 9/11, don’t go into the real estate business.
Watching Youtube videos is not “studying”.
August 20, 2011 at 3:00 pm | by TheDman113Dan: “Please tell me how this building fell through it’s [sic] own foundation as fast as a bowling ball through air.”
It didn’t. Free fall from 610′ takes ~6.15 seconds, and the facade collapse of WTC 7 took 8-9 seconds. Please tell me how the time it took to collapse indicates what caused it. Do you even have a perp and motive for this imaginary controlled demolition?
August 21, 2011 at 9:33 am | by AlburyAugust 21, 2011 YouTube Report from Edmonton Alberta Canada – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-81063xvyk
110 more signatures were added this week in Edmonton
August 21, 2011 at 11:31 pm | by Doug BrinkmanFrom the 13 – 20 of August 2011 by the Alberta Legislature
& Just outside the gates of the Edmonton Fringe Festival- ” 827 Edmontonians want to see a Public Investigation of 9/11 In Canada!”
I see you will publish the disinformation presented by the well-known troll known as Albury, but you will not publish the comment made by Physics professor David Chandler, who is one of the speakers at the event. Here is the comment he tried to post:
This kind of mindless reporting is becoming standard fare, unfortunately. The characterization of the conference and its participants is without even an attempted justification. It’s pure, uninformed knee-jerk defamation. I challenge readers (I challenge this reporter!) to look through the website for the conference and judge the caliber of the participants for yourselves. It’s at http://torontohearings.org/ . By the way, I’m a participant. I’m not a conspiracy theorist. My work speaks for itself: http://911speakout.org .
August 22, 2011 at 4:30 am | by Laurel Burik~ David Chandler