"The 40 story Deutsche Bank building, next to the ground zero site in New York where the World Trade Center once stood, caught fire yesterday [Aug 18] and burned intensely for seven hours without collapsing."

-- Prison Planet

How is it that the nearby Salomon Brothers building also known as "WTC 7", a massive 47-story structure built by Silverstein Properties in the 1980s, simply collapsed into a small pile of rubble on 2001-09-11 reputedly because of a couple of limited fires, while the more heavily damaged and now severely burned Deutsche Bank building (formerly Banker's Trust) still stands?

A recent Zogby poll shows that 2/3 of Americans surveyed wonder why the 9/11 Commission chaired by Philip Zelikow failed to investigate the collapse of WTC 7.

The WTC towers that collapsed so dramatically on 9/11 had been leased only weeks before from the Port Authority of New York by Larry Silverstein of Silverstein Properties, which promptly collected a cool $5 billion dollars in insurance money from companies associated with AIG and its chairman Hank Greenberg, vice-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Immediately following the disaster, Lewis Eisenberg, chairman of the Port Authority who approved the 99-year lease with Silverstein, was appointed to head the Redevelopment Authority which is now tearing down the Deutsche Bank building and working with Silverstein on construction of the Orwellian "Freedom Tower". Eisenberg, former partner at Goldman Sachs and a director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, was chairman of the 2004 Republican national convention in NYC and a major Bush fundraiser.

(Jachin and Boaz return to the dust and the temple of Salomon and his Brothers is brought down. The Trust of the Bankers is shaken but still standing, and soon the Patriarchs set forth to wreak vengeance upon Babylon. Osiris rises from the ashes while Isis stands watch over the harbor. Suddenly the Trust goes up in flames and many on the Street and in the City are burned... )