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Fourteen Incredible Facts About 9/11
By wmw_admin on October 13, 2016
Dig
Within — August 8, 2015
On the 14th anniversary of 9/11, it’s important to
remind people that we still don’t know what happened that day. What is known
about 9/11 is that there are many incredible facts that continue to be ignored
by the government and the mainstream media. Here are fourteen.
- An
outline of what was to become the 9/11 Commission Report was
produced before the investigation began. The outline was kept secret from
the Commission’s staff and appears to have determined the outcome of the
investigation.
- The
9/11 Commission claimed sixty-three (63) times in its Report that
it could find “no evidence” related
to important aspects of the crimes.
- One
person, Shayna Steinger, issued 12 visas to
the alleged hijackers in Saudi Arabia. Steinger issued some of the visas
without interviewing the applicants and fought with another employee at
the embassy who tried to prevent her lax approach.
- Before
9/11, the nation’s leading counter-terrorism expert repeatedly notified
his friends in the United Arab Emirates of top-secret U.S. plans to
capture Osama bin Laden. These treasonous leaks prevented Bin Laden’s capture on
at least two separate occasions.
- Former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger was documents from the National Archives that had been requested by the 9/11 Commission. The Commission had previously been denied access to the documents but the White House reluctantly agreed to turn them over just as Berger was trying to steal them.
Why I Embraced Islam?
Extract from The Islamic Bulletin
P.O. Box 410186, San Francisco, CA 94141-0186
Dr.
Maurice Bucaille is a surgeon by profession. He is
also a renowned scholar. In order to be able to read Quran in its original text
and to study its meaning and purport through direct access to its early and
modern commentaries, he devoted himself to the learning of Arabic language at
the ripe age of fifty.
Thereafter,
he made a beginning by trying to reconcile proven scientific truths with
religious axioms. As a result of these studies, he wrote his famous book
"QURAN, BIBLE AND SCIENCE" in 1976, which caused a furor in high
academic circles - particularly in the Christian world.
After
a deeper study of Islam and the Quran, he has authored another book titled,
"THE ORIGIN OF MAN". It comprised Quranic explanations of some of the
queries raised much earlier than the period when those queries were logically
and satisfactorily resolved by scientific experimentation, to be fully in
conformity with the explanations provided by Quran about 1500 years before. The
Church acknowledged and accepted these researches of Dr. Bucaille to be a
valuable contribution to human knowledge and the author became famous all over
the world, like Cambridge, and Oxford Universities in U.K. & Yale and
Harvard in USA. He was invited to give Extension Lectures in their academic
institutions. By dint of his Quranic thought, and by virtue of his unprejudiced
and realistic approach to Quranic thought, and by virtue of his unprejudiced
and realistic discussion and research work, Dr. Bucaille has converted a number
of high ranking scholars to agree with him and to subscribe to his view that
the Quran is a Divine Book, not authored by any human being and actually a Book
of Revelations from Almighty God to His Last Prophet, Mohammed, Peace Be Upon
Him.
M.
Bucaille is of the view that his findings in this behalf are a cause of
consternation and chagrin to Western scholars because of their earlier exposure
to false and fictitious propaganda against Islam and its Prophet (S.A.W.), by
the Christian clergy and by biased Western writers and authors. This misguided
class of people could not believe that Quran was the only Scripture which had
remained sacrosanct and free from all additions, alterations and interpolations
and consequently it still retained the purity to guide mankind in all ages,
places and in every conceivable crisis.
For
over 1400 years it has been the only treasure house of ecclesiastical and
cosmic knowledge about the universe and life itself. Mankind has not yet to
progress and proceed to a stage where it can fully be au fait with all the
pearls and gems of wisdom and truth, garnered in its bosom by this miracle of
literacy, excellence and academic purity which could not be matched even in one
small sentence by the literary giants of yore, in spite of an open challenge to
this effect.
Philip’s Fountain: The Oldest Still-In-Use Hydraulic Work in the World
by: KERRY SULLIVAN
The
Filippeios Krini (Philip’s Fountain) is a 2,300-year-old fountain that was
commissioned by King Philip II of Macedonia. It has miraculously survived in
working order to the present day, making it the oldest still-in-use hydraulic
work in the world.
In 338 BC
King Philip II of Macedonia established a military camp at Nestani in order to
attack Amfissa, located across the Gulf of Corinth from Nestani. Although by
this time the King’s influence was waning due to unsuccessful sieges on
Perinthus in 340 BC and Byzantium in 339 BC, the King could not allow the
residents of Amfissa to continue farming on the Crisaian plain – land that
rightfully belonged to Delphi, the oracle of Apollo. The Macedonians camped in
Nestani for many weeks. In order to provide his troops with enough water, the
King ordered a fountain be built, Filippeios Krini (Philip’s Fountain). In what
has come to be known as the Fourth Sacred War, King Phillip II soundly defeated
Amfissa and expelled its citizens from the region. The King’s reputation was
restored but he was assassinated two years later by one of his own bodyguards.
It was an ignoble end to a King with a mixed legacy. However, his memory will
continue to live on in the Filippeios Krini.
Illustration of hydraulic
and hydrostatic.
The
technology of waterpower systems is known as hydraulics, which comes from the
Greek words for “water pipes”. Beginning around 2000 BC, the Minoans and then
the Mycenaeans developed incredibly advanced techniques for water supply, water
transportation, drainage, storm water and sewage removal, flood protection, and
irrigation. By the Hellenistic era, the Greeks had invented easy-to-use devices
like the water wheel and the force pump – an instrument that enabled the user
to raise water from the ground and was used by Rome’s fire brigades.
These
pumps were brilliantly simple instruments that worked by “rotating an inclined
cylinder bearing helical blades around its axis whose bottom is immersed in the
water to be pumped. As the screw turns, water is trapped between the helical
blades and the walls, and thus rises up to the length of the screw and drains
out at the top” (Koutsoyiannis and Angelakis, 2003). The device is sometimes referred
to as Archimedes’ screw pump. Force pumps are still used today for a wide range
of functions including pumping well water, removing bilge water from boats,
pumping out flooded basements, extinguishing fires, and for water jets.
The water wheel. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 )
It was a
Greek named Anaxagoras (c. 510 – c. 428 BC) who clearly articulated the
hydrologic cycle: “the sun raises water from the sea into the atmosphere, from
where it falls as rain; then it is collected underground and feeds the flow of
rivers” (Koutsoyiannis and Angelakis, 2003). The philosopher’s later work on
the origins of thunder (i.e. explaining that the phenomenon did not come from
Zeus) contributed to his imprisonment for impiety and his subsequent forced
retirement.
Detail of the right-hand facade fresco,
showing Anaxagoras.
By the
time of King Philip II, installing a fountain to provide fresh groundwater for
soldiers and horses was routine. The Filippeios Krini was not intended to last
2,350+ years, however, it’s simple mechanics and solid masonry have enabled it
to continue (with periodic repairs) to provide water to the residents of
Nestani.
The
hilltop Greek village is also the site of another famous Greek fountain: the
pipelines that draw water from the naturally occurring sinkhole Dini (sometimes
called Pausanias). This sinkhole is believed to mark the birthplace of
Poseidon. According to the Greek myth, Poseidon was the child of Cronus and
Rhea. Cronus was the youngest Titan and had usurped his father Uranus (the Sky)
for the rule of the universe. He was thus understandably worried about a son of
his seeking to overthrow him and so decided to eat all of his children at
birth, beginning with the first, Hades. His consort, Rhea was displeased with
this practice and so sought to save her second son, Poseidon. Shortly after he
was born, Rhea left him near the sinkhole amidst a flock of lambs. When Cronus
came looking for the baby, Rhea said that she had given birth to a horse and
presented the King God with a colt. Interestingly, this did not strike Cronus
as suspicious and he promptly ate the horse. Poseidon survived and became the
god of horses, a title he maintained even after he took up the role of God of
the Sea when he and his brothers divvied up ruling the world. In ancient days,
residents of Nestani would sacrifice horses to Poseidon.
Top
image: The fountain of Phillip. Source: ( drt915.gr)
By Kerry
Sullivan
Sources:
Angelakis,
A. N., and Demetris Koutsoyiannis. "Ancient Greece."Encyclopedia of
Water Science (2003): 415-17. Web.http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=45852ABC9051C2FF0E2CD2717CB94427?doi=10.1.1.579.854&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Hondos.
"Filippeios Krini." Hondos Classic Hotel & Spa. Hondos Hotel
& Spa, 22 June 2013. Web. 11 Oct. 2016. http://www.hondoshotel.gr/en/filippeios-krini
Lekakis,
George. "An Ancient Hydraulic Work That Keeps Functioning for 2350
Years." ΔΕΛΤΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ ΦΡΥΚΤΩΡΙΕΣ (2016): n. pag. Web.