"Strange shift to be working," it seems to Maxine ...

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Terrible Tuesday revisited --

"Als ein Kollege vor wenigen Jahren den gefeierten amerikanischen Enthüllungsjournalisten Seymour Hersh unter vier Augen fragte, was der über 9/11 denke, bekam er zur Antwort, dass natürlich sehr viele Fragen offen seien und die offizielle Erklärung kaum stimmen könne. Auf die Nachfrage, warum er denn nichts dazu schreiben würde, antwortete Hersh nur: 'Die Sache ist zu groß.'"

(Paul Schreyer: Faktencheck 9/11, pp. 83-84)


+ ... Regardless of who had foreknowledge or what the imminent danger was, over the next few weeks and months there were heroic efforts made to rescue survivors. But those efforts were hampered by Giuliani’s drive to clean up the site rapidly. The commonly held story is that the government wanted to re-open Wall Street, and for that reason didn’t care about the health of New Yorkers and first responders or about facilitating the most careful rescue operations. However, the facts also align with the hypothesis that authorities were in a hurry to remove evidence that pointed to the use of explosives ... During the five-month cleanup effort, there were unprecedented measures taken to control access to the site. The site was restricted, and photographs were banned, by order of Rudy Giuliani. Anthony Mann of E.J. Electric, one of the primary security companies for the WTC towers, said that, “Security is unbelievable. It’s really on a need-to-be-down-there basis.” ... The City hired five construction companies to handle the cleanup and the site was divided up among them. The five companies were AMEC Construction Management, Bovis Lend Lease, Turner Construction, Tully Construction and Tishman Construction./ Other sub-contractors were hired to complete the actual debris removal. Most of these companies were suspected of being associated with organized crime. Some were reportedly linked to the Colombo crime family, including Civetta Cousins, and Yonkers Contracting. Others were associated with the Luchese crime family./ The cleanup operations were ultimately consolidated under the control of two of the primary contractors: AMEC Construction Management and Bovis Lend Lease. At the time of the 9/11 attacks, the CEO of AMEC Construction was Peter Janson, a long-time business associate of Donald Rumsfeld. Under Janson’s leadership, AMEC had just completed a $258 million refurbishment of Wedge 1 of the Pentagon, exactly where AA Flight 77 impacted the building./ The debris removed from Ground Zero was either hauled away on trucks or shipped away on barges. Despite the effort to rapidly dispose of the steel and sell it a bargain price, the WTC debris was considered highly sensitive. At first the trucks were tracked using a paper-based system, and later GPS devices were fixed to each truck with “antennas to monitor location, cellular wireless antennas to communicate, and multiple I/Os to track vehicle signals from engine systems.” Apparently it was important for officials to know not only where the trucks were at any given time, but also the status of the engine. As for the barges, the process was setup “in record time,” in order to “transport debris to the city’s Fresh Kills landfill and to recycling sites, all scrutinized by the Corps of Engineers.”/ As the debris was received at Fresh Kills landfill, it was sorted carefully. This sorting process was supervised by federal agents, and described in this way: “Teams of officers and agents watch as the rubble is sifted down to a fine ashy silt that they then rake through by hand.” More than a year later, FBI agents reported the theft of some of this debris at the Fresh Kills site. It was discovered that Evidence Recovery Teams (ERTs) involved in the sorting process stole pieces of debris, and kept or disposed of them. This removal of debris was condoned and encouraged by the FBI agents in charge./ Pat D’Amuro, later an employee of Giuliani Partners, was involved in the theft of WTC debris from the Fresh Kills site. D’Amuro had specifically requested that certain kinds of items be kept for his retrieval, ostensibly so that he could give them away as mementos to various dignitaries./ D’Amuro had been the counterterrorism chief in the FBI’s New York City office since 1997 and was put in charge of the PENTTBOM investigation just after the 9/11 attacks. PENTTBOM stood for Pentagon/Twin Towers Bombing and was notable for the rapidity in which the case was solved. U.S. authorities claimed to have had no knowledge of or ability to stop the 9/11 attacks yet the FBI was able to identify all nineteen alleged hijackers within 72 hours ... +

http://911truth.org/rudy-giuliani-closer-look-911-legend/
https://www.silive.com/september-11/index.ssf/2011/09/at_the_landfill_a_heartbreakin.html

+ ... It [the landfill] was first re-opened on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after the terrorist attack — and six months after Staten Islanders thought it was shuttered for good ...  +

In the quoted passage (pp. 168-169) Pynchon suggests that the preparations for the re-opening of the landfill had taken place BEFORE the towers collapsed ...


Am 01.09.2018 um 15:28 schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:

"Island of Meadows" is what's written on the page but Isle of Meadows seems to be meant.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!




Am 01.09.2018 um 14:51 schrieb ish mailian:

Did P write  **Island of Meadows** ? The Isle of Meadows in NYC is
conflated here with the **Island of Meadows** a bombing island?

Or a typo?

Isle of Meadows is a 100-acre (0.40 km2) uninhabited island in the New
York City borough of Staten Island in the United States. It is located
along the western side of Staten Island, where Fresh Kills empties
into the Arthur Kill. The island is owned by the city of New York. In
the 1990s, the island nearly became part of the Fresh Kills
Landfill.[citation needed] It is now a nature preserve providing
important meadow and salt marsh nesting habitat for herons, ibises,
and egrets, and is not accessible to the public.[1]
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 8:46 AM ish mailian wrote:


(...)

Am 02.09.2018 um 14:19 schrieb jody2.718:


+ ... "...at the intersection of Fresh and Arthur Kills, toxicity central, the dark focus of Big Apple waste disposal, everything the city has rejected so it can keep pretending to be itself... " [BE, p. 166] ... +

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 6:36 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote

... The industrial racket from back in the marshland behind the giant cliffs of ruin has grown continuous. Now and then workers, in long-standing Sanitation Department tradition, have lengthy exhilarated screaming exchanges. "Strange shift to be working," it seems to Maxine.
   "Yeah. Nice overtime for somebody. Almost like they're up to something they don't want anybody to know about."
   "When did anybody ever want to know?" March lapsing for a moment into the bag-lady character in her commencement speech at Kugelblitz, the one person dedicated to salvaging everything the city wants to deny. "Either they're playing catch-up or they're getting it ready to open for dump business again."
   A presidential visit? Somebody's making a movie? Who knows.
   Early seagulls show up from somewhere, begin inspecting the menu. The sky takes on a brushed-aluminum underglow. A night heron with breakfast in its beak ascends from its long watch at the edge of the Island of Meadows ...

Bleeding Edge, pp. 168-169

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