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Gail Henderson: Jim Corr's crazy idea that explosives caused Twin Towers to collapse
Monday, 14 September 2009
enlargeA public appeal to Andrea, Caroline and Sharon Corr: please, please grab your brother, get him into the studio and start making music as a band again.
Because in the three years since you last recorded together, Andrea’s bagged herself a billionaire hubby, Sharon’s played Glastonbury as a solo artist, and Caroline’s been keeping busy as a full-time mum.
But Jim (right) has obviously been spending too much time delving into 9/11 conspiracy theories.
He appeared on UTV Live Tonight last Thursday to tell a bemused Paul Clark that the majority of people in the world believe there was more to the Twin Towers terror attack than meets the eye and that explosives, not the impact of planes, caused the towers to collapse.
Come on girls, it’s up to you to save him from himself!
Jim Corr on....
A possible career in politics
"I love playing music but I wouldn't rule anything out down the line. I imagine it would be an incredibly difficult job but if I felt we were going in such a bad direction, then maybe I would stand. I would be an independent because I am not affiliated with any political party."
The Lisbon Treaty
"Certainly the views of one party did resonate a bit more with me this time. Because of what we've experienced as a nation. Six hundred years of tyranny under the British establishment. We cannot forget that and here we are giving away our national sovereignty to a new European federal state."
Freemasons
"There are a large number of secret societies in our government, we certainly know that. The push towards global government totally correlates with the Freemasonic agenda.
"The way it works is that once they see a rising star, let's say a politician, they're approached, as a couple of my friends have been approached, because they would see you as an asset to the brotherhood.
"Tony Blair is a 33rd degree Freemason. That's fairly common knowledge. The Queen is grand patroness of the World Freemasonry. Silvio Berlusconi is a high level Freemason. President George Bush is a member of the Skull and Bones, the Yale secret society, which is an off-shoot of the Freemasons."
GM foods
"Imagine the nightmare of genetically modified foods being pushed onto our farmers. This might sound extreme but there is a component in GM foods called Agro bacterium which has been shown to alter human DNA. You don't want to be eating that.
"There's another agenda to microchip the planet. With these chips inside our bodies they have the potential to manipulate us, emotionally, physically and mentally. It might sound like science fiction but that's what I and other people think the ultimate agenda is. It's got to be stopped."
Big brother and a surveillance state
"There's another agenda to microchip the planet. With these chips inside our bodies they have the potential to manipulate us, emotionally, physically and mentally. It might sound like science fiction but that's what I and other people think the ultimate agenda is. It's got to be stopped."
September 11
"When you study 9/11 it becomes very apparent... it was a staged terrorist attack, what they call a false flag operation."
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jim is a great dundalk man lovely sisters lovely music I come from Dundalk myself my sister worked along with you . before you came famous. lots of good luck patricia
Posted by patricia devlin | 23.09.09, 11:58 GMT
Paul,
I'm sure you realise that pouring kerosene over a steel beam and lighting it is very different from having kerosene start a fire in an enclosed space - like the WTC towers. JET A-1 Kerosine has an open air burning temperature of about 288 degrees C. However, house fires can reach 900-1500 degrees C due to the combustables in the house and the oven effect - which traps the heat.
That said, seeing that steel rails expand and contract in the heat of day your observation is patently false. Also important is the fact that steel is weakened by temperature. Basic physics there.
By the way - you'll find that fire does provide heat Paul, that's why we warm ourselves by fires on winter days.
As for the energy source to convert concrete into dust - try gravity: one floor whacking into another floor converts has a lot of kinetic energy.
Posted by Eamon | 22.09.09, 17:00 GMT
Justthefacts,
For the Twin Towers to fall in 'freefall time' would require only 9.1 seconds. 15 seconds is a bit too long for your demolition theory.
Dr F. R. Greening has a good paper on it: Search for "Energy Transfer In The WTC Collapse" and you'll find it.
As for the cell phone calls - are you serious in saying that cell phone towers are being installed in planes? Towers?
As for cell phone range - this is determinded by the cell phone towers: ranges vary, depending on obstacles, from 8 to 70 km. Note that 32,000 feet is 9.75 km. Given that there are few obstacles above tower then cell phone use on the planes is not out of the ordinary.
Posted by Eamon | 22.09.09, 16:39 GMT
Eamon, fire from kerosene (which quite clearly mostly was burnt off in the impact explosion) does not do anything at all to steel. If you were to get a steel beam, measure it, pour petrol over it and light it and wait til it burnt out then measure it again I guarantee you it would not be any bigger. To expand steel you need heat, not fire. I am an engineer and I take buildings down and believe me if it was as easy as setting fire to them my job would be very easy. The 'collapse due to fire' theory is absurd fantasy advanced by people who really should simply look at basic physics. The only possible way those buildings came down was by use of explosives. Aside pancake is not something that can ever happen as steel frame buildings are a 3D matrix of steel members, heavily redundant.
Also the buildings were converted from building to small pieces of bent and deformed steel and DUST. To convert the concrete floors to dust requires an energy source. Explosives. Period.
Posted by Paul | 20.09.09, 01:42 GMT
How did the people on the plane make phonecalls from their mobile phones at that altitude? The answer is they didn't. Not possible at 32,000 feet in 2001. Only now are plane companies installing mobile towers in planes to allow in-flight calls. It would have been impossible for the passengers to phone using their mobiles as claimed. Please explain that Gail. Another lesser point - The US government actually tried to tell us that one person called his mother and said "Hello Mom, this is Mark Smith." Haha. Who on earth phones their mum and gives their full name like that?
Posted by Justthefacts | 15.09.09, 16:04 GMT
Eamon then please explain how the buildings fell in near free fall time. There was no friction of a collapse. Both demolitions took place in about 15 seconds, which is about the time it would take for a free-fall from that height. The buildings exploded into dust, not collapsed pieces. "Where does the energy come from to turn all this reinforced concrete into dust?". No fire in history has lead to the collapse of a steel office building, even after hours of raging fires. The temperatures measured of the core of the rubble, five days later, exceed the maximum temperature for a kerosene fire.
Also, Will is correct. A plane definitely did not hit the Pentagon building. Look the evidence - or do you fools not want the truth?
Posted by Justthefacts | 15.09.09, 15:59 GMT
In regards to 9/11, I am not an engineer or a fireman so I cannot really comment, with any credibility, on what made the twin towers collapse. I saw the planes hit and I can see how a floor upon floor collapse could bring the buildings down. I will leave that one to the engineers and fire specialists.
The bit about 9/11 that I would like explained more would be the attack on the Pentagon. The official story asserts that a hijacked commercial aircraft hit the Pentagon Building causing death and injury on a large scale. After the 'plane' hit there was a large explosion and damage to not only the outer ring of the building but also well within the reinforced perimeter of the structure. There is TV footage of the 'impact area' and the building was still standing albeit on fire. There was a small hole in the wall but all the windows are unbroken either side of the hole in the wall. There was also only one engine found after the attack. An aeroplane did not hit the Pentagon.
Posted by Will Hawkes | 15.09.09, 13:33 GMT
Paul,
Fire causes steel to expand. Steel beams that are riveted together shear their retaining rivets, and the floor collapses. Aforesaid floor impacts next floor - shearing that floor's already weakened rivets off - and that floor collapses. Repeat until WTC has collapsed.
Posted by Eamon | 15.09.09, 04:54 GMT
The conspiracy theory is that the events of 9/11 were the work of 19 men with box cutters sent by a bearded man in a cave. Watch 'Loose Change'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3oIbO0AWE The US admits it planned false flag ops. The planned 1962 Operation Northwoods plot by the DoD involved hijacking a plane, sinking a US ship, and blaming it on Cuba. Authored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, nixed by JFK, it came to light through a Freedom of Information Act. That is conspiracy fact.
Posted by Apple Corr | 15.09.09, 04:38 GMT
I really wish people would stop sreading lies about the freemasons my late father was a 32 degree mason I am a sr demolay .Freemasonry
is the best.
Posted by manuel George fardis | 14.09.09, 23:28 GMT
Tinfoil hat time....
Posted by McD | 14.09.09, 16:53 GMT
Its called free speech Gail.
If his comments are so crazy, why did you feel the need to write about them and give them more publicity.
Posted by Ronan | 14.09.09, 16:48 GMT
Gail,
What is your allegation or point here? Jim Corr is crazy? Or that we should not challenge authority and beliefs?
I think that his views on the Lisbon Treaty are hard to argue with. The Treaty will indeed give away a lot of 'power' currently held by national governments to the EU. This means that decisions that could/would have been taken democratically in the Dail will now be taken undemocratically by unelected Commissioners in Brussels. How does that benefit the Irish people exactly?
He will find the Masonic stuff hard to prove. Can he prove that Blair is a 33rd Degree Mason?
GM crops may/could be dangerous in certain circumstances. However, there are also massive benefits to their development especially for developing countries.
Surveillance State? Once again I would like to see some evidence regarding the microchipping. He may be talking about RFID technology but it cannot be used to "manipulate" people, yet.
9/11 - judgement reserved.
Posted by Will Hawkes | 14.09.09, 15:02 GMT
Gail
if Jim is crazy why did William Rodriquez (WTC survivor) and dozens like him tell the 9/11 Commssion he heard explosions in the sub-basement of the north tower before the plane hit?
why have so many 9/11 survivors, prominent architects, engineers, politicians, police / fire men, academics in the US called for an independent inquiry?
Are you calling these people crazy too?
Posted by Paul | 14.09.09, 15:01 GMT
Gail
By claiming Jim 'should save himself from himself' you are questioning the hundreds of architects, engineers , US politicians and the victims families' of 9/11 call for an independent inquiry.
Who are you to do this?
Jim should be congratulated for having an alternative view to that being fed to the masses. On that note G.W.B has the last say, when questioned by a kid about how he reacted to the first plane he answered
'I had seen this plane fly into the first tower, the tv set was on'
Posted by Paul | 14.09.09, 11:27 GMT
I don't think he's so crazy. He has the right to say what he's thinking about all those issues. Okay, maybe on 09/11 his theories are extreme, and I absolutely do not agree with his point of view. But the other things he claimed about GM food, politics, etc...are probabely true. This is not the first time somebody is warning us about all that. If this was said by anybody else but him, it would have been fine, nobody would have said this is crazy, especially if it came out from the mouth of some politician. Still, I really think he should go back to a studio and work on music again. No, jim, you wouldn't be a good politican ! Teachers teach, students study, cookers cook, singers sing, politicians make politics ! And YOU make MUSIC, again, please ! So much people miss your band ! And that, despite the fact your lovely sister sharon is realeasing a wonderfull record ! What you could do as a new job Jim ? If not music as a musician, I really think you could be a fantastic and fab producer!
Posted by Yrisea | 14.09.09, 10:26 GMT
'Gail Henderson: Jim Corr's crazy idea....'
There are a lot of high profile figures and ordinary people who think that Jim Corr is not that far off the mark on many issues. It is easy to swallow the official line but there are fast becoming too many unanswered questions to ignore.
Posted by TJ McClean | 14.09.09, 08:21 GMT