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Obama administration's health care plan is expected to spring 2010, over 1,200 architects and engineers are cost over a decade. Originally expected to cost $50 calling for a new investigation into the events of 9/11. million, the estimated cost today just for one F-35 These building professionals and academics are aircraft is $113 million. The Marines, the Air Force and motivated by the fact that the 9/11 Commission Report has he Navy are planning to buy a combined 2,450 F-35s, | been proven erroneous on multiple counts, scientific which would cost more than $323 billion. explanations have been flawed and contradictory, and President Obama is continuing the process of e American people deserve a more fact-based reinflating the Pentagon that began in late 1998—fully explanation. hree years before the 9/11 attacks. The rise in national At the same time, new evidence of explosives that can defence spending since 1998 is as large as the _ be used in controlled demolition has been found in the ennedy-Johnson surge (43 per cent) and the Reagan _ dust traces of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers and increases (57 per cent) put together. The radical Building 7 of the WTC complex. After carefu increase in military spending now, compared to the examination of the official story about 9/11 (in which the Cold War and World War II, is justified commission never even mentioned by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Building 7), along with the forensic However, even if today's wars are data omitted from official reports, aken out of the picture, there has stil . hese professionals have concluded been a 54 per cent increase since At the same time, hat a new, independent and 998. new evidence of ransparent investiga ion into these The taxpayer, forced to pay abou . massive and mysterious structura one trillion dollars yearly to fund the explosives that ailures is needed. Me cu as SauTty | can be used in | , the onanesesion nce ignorant of the real costs. Reasons for controlled Obama's appointee to head the Office the lack of public knowledge about eae of Information and Regulatory Affairs, military spending include: lack of demolition has Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, corpora e media coverage altogether been found in the aims t at the vs governmen media employing retired militar should infiltrate and discredit activis' officers a vexperts” thus d dust traces of the groups, including those who presen ing only one side; World Trade challenge the official views of the inculcated civilian deference attacks—the so-calle toward military leaders (leave it Center (WTC) "truthers". He believes tha to the experts in uniform); and towers and groups that question the events Building 7 of the WTC complex. secrecy and “black budgets" of 9/11 are dangerous and could obscuring military spending. ead some people to violence, Among the questions journalist but presents no concrete William J. Astore poses about the evidence to prove this. US military, a key one is: why is Sunstein's call for infiltration o the military immune from the private citizen groups plays to the painful budgetary belt-tightening very concerns of many 9/ faced by the rest of America? activists—concerns that they may be targeted or infiltrated, or tried 14. Increased Tensions with Unresolved 9/11 Issues on some trumped-up terrorist or criminal charges and Several contentious issues still plague the US _ then may not get a fair public hearing. to and fta waeniann Af ELA Avantn Af 11 At the same time, new evidence of explosives that can be used in controlled World Trade Center (WTC) __ towers and Building 7 of the WTC complex. 14. Increased Tensions with Unresolved 9/ll Issues Several contentious issues still plague the US government and its version of the events of 11 September 2001. Nearly 10 years after the events, there are still many unanswered questions. How did Building 7 fall? What caused the destruction of the twin towers? Where is Osama bin Laden? Are people who question the official story of 9/11 dangerous conspiracy theorists? The academics and intellectuals who have tried to answer these questions have been ignored or derided by corporate mainstream (and even some progressive leftist) media, political pundits and government officials who clearly intend to silence the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement or anyone who questions the officially sanctioned government stance on the matter. As of 15. Bhopal Water Still Toxic 25 Years After Gas Leak Around midnight on 2 December 1984, the citizens o' Bhopal, a city of over 500,000 people in central India, were poisoned by approximately 40 tons of toxic gases pouring into the night air from a largely abandoned chemical insecticide plant owned by the US-owned Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). The long-predicted gas leak at UCC was, and remains today, the worst industria disaster in history. Released by faulty and neglected equipment, methy isocyanate, phosgene and other highly toxic gases killed an estimated 8,000 people immediately. The death tol NEXUS ° 17 demolition has been found in the dust traces of the DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 20II www.nexusmagazine.com