Years later, Ground Zero workers battle bureaucracy, health problems
[FoxNews.com]
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published June 01, 2012
The attacks on the World Trade center on Sept. 11 2001 released toxic particles in the air around the site causing many first responders to develop a variety of serious illness including respiratory ailments and cancer. (AP2001)
Workers who suffered health problems long after the rescue and cleanup at the Ground Zero “pile” following the 9/11 attacks say they are frustrated by a “complex” claims process that is hindering their access a $4.3 billion fund set up for them – prompting officials to promise they’ll streamline the application process.
The fund, created under the 2011 James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, is earmarked for workers and volunteers whose symptoms remained dormant for years. So far, none of the money has been disbursed, as claimants struggle to prove their presence at the toxic site in the days and weeks following the attacks, which released a toxic stew of deadly chemicals. Successful applicants can get compensation for health care expenses and lost wages.
The Takeover and Rout of the 911 Memorial and Museum
AtlasShrugs.com
Sunday, January 23, 2011
First let me say that I think it is outrageous, a stab in the eye, that Daisy the Khan sits on the advisory panel of the 911 Memorial and Museum. What is wrong with these people? Khan has done enormous damage to the 911 families. Khan is nothing short of an intellectual terrorist, and she has caused enormous harm and pain to the 911 families and all Americans in her pursuit of Cordoba Mosque, the second wave of the 911 attacks. So why is she on the panel?
Mayor Gloomberg is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the 911 Memorial and Museum. And Julie Menin, Bloombat tool and Chairwoman of the Community Board #1, who rammed the Ground Zero mosque approval through the committee despite overwhelming opposition from the majority of New Yorkers (and 70% of Americans), is on the Board of Directors as well. Who do these people represent? Certainly not the victims of 911 or freedom-loving Americans. Could you throw up or what?
It gets worse. The 911 Memorial and Museum is seven floors underground, like a coffin. The proposed Islamic supremacist mega-mosque is 15 stories tall, soaring above and looking down on the cemetery of Ground Zero, but the official memorial and museum is seven floors underground in a dungeon.
The National 9 – 11 Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero is being written by Islamic apologists and disinformaitonalists. John the Culturalist has this — the Ms. Greenwald referred to here is Alice Greenwald, 911 Memorial Museum Director:
‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Outrage
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November 23, 2010 – 11:35 AM | by: Eric Shawn
He wants your money. The developer of the so called “Ground Zero Mosque” is applying for federal taxpayer money to help him build the controversial and contentious project. The funds are designated to help lower Manhattan recover from the 9-11 terrorist attacks, which took place just around the corner from the proposed mosque and cultural center location.
Sharif El-Gamal, the head of SOHO Properties, says the money will be used for a variety of services for Park51, as the project is called.
In a statement, El-Gamal said he is, “…committed to exploring all sources of revenue and funding to build the community center,” noting that the request for a reported $5 million would help provide “social service programs….such as domestic violence prevention, Arabic and other foreign language classes, programs and services for homeless veterans, two multi-cultural arts exhibits and immigration services.”
El-Gamal did not specify exactly how much of the taxpayers’ funds would be allocated to “build the community center.”
“It’s absolutely disgraceful,” said an angry Congressman Peter King (R-NY) who is likely to be the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
“It goes entirely against the spirit of the fund,” King told Fox News. “It’s an affront to the memory of all those who were murdered on 9-11. There are so many worthwhile projects in lower Manhattan. This shows a gross insensitivity to the most fundamental feelings of New Yorkers and to those murdered on 9-11 it is a slap in the face that is a terrible insult.”
King also notes that the reported $5 million request represents nearly one-third of all the $17 million that is now available. 265 groups have applied for the funding.
“It’s the height of arrogance, that is really desecrating the memory of the lives that were lost that day,” says construction worker Andy Sullivan, who is behind the group 911hardhatpledge.com which opposes the project. He says 45,000 people have logged onto the website to support his effort.
“He’s going to take the money that I work for? That gets taken out of my paycheck, to fund something that I am completely and absolutely against? Not on my watch.”
Welcome Wagon!
Atlas Shrugs
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Spencer and I are speaking at Temple University next week (where the craven quislings tried to silence Geert Wilders after trying to ban him.) Thought you might like a look at the open minded “Democratic Socialists” at Temple.
Here is the note from the brave organizers:
At a State of the Campus Address in which at least 280 leaders from all student organizations were present, the Democratic Socialists announced that they were organizing a protest against TU Purpose’s Islamophobic event next week. They concluded by calling TU Purpose and me Bigots.
Atlas readers heads up.
The event is open to the public so come and stand for FREEDOM.
Host: Temple University Purpose
Date: Thursday, October 7th Time: 7-9:30PM
Location: Howard Gittis Student Center 200C
1755 N. 13th Street
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Philadelphia, PA, 19122
Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 05:43 PM
Freedom Tower: Never Bet against America
Atlas Shrugs
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Tracinski has a great column on great American Larry Silverstein’s Freedom Tower going up as we speak at Ground Zero. Robert Tracinski is the editor of the must read TIA Daily.
I want to emphasize again what a non-story the Ground Zero Mosque will probably turn out to be. I’ve thought this ever since I realized how little money is actually behind the project. David Frum is not my favorite conservative commentator—he’s a squishy welfare-state “moderate”—but he does us a good service by laying out clearly who owns the property, who is behind the project, and the fact that they don’t appear to have anything near the $100 million required to build it.
Pamela Geller Featured Piece, Big Journalism: The Ground Zero Mosque War in the Information Battlespace
Atlas Shrugs
Monday, September 13, 2010
Countering the Lies of the MSM: The Ground Zero Mosque War in the Information Battlespace Pamela Geller, Big Journalism.
Tens of thousands attended the Rally of Remembrance for the 9/11 victims and against the Ground Zero mega-mosque on Saturday. The crowd was so large, it stretched as far as the eye could see; you could not see the horizon from our stage.
Yet AP reported that the pro-mosque counter-demonstration drew around a thousand “activists,” while “a smaller group of opponents rallied nearby, chanting, ‘USA, USA.’” The New York Post was only marginally more honest, numbering our rally attendees at 2,500: “The estimated 3,000 pro-mosque demonstrators outnumbered the mosque opponents by about 500.”
New York 1 did a story on the rallies, but only showed footage of the pro-mosque rally. The Post likewise only published pictures of the pro-mosque rally. AP ran an aerial photo of the rally, but one that was so poorly framed that one-third of it was dominated by a large gray building, and the crowd was cut off on the other side.
Obama Backs 911 Ground Zero Mega Mosque at Ramadan Celebration
Atlas Shrugs
Friday, August 13, 2010
“We should also examine the foreign policies of the the U.S. to make sure that we occupy the moral high ground in these conflicts. In particular, we have to examine some of the root causes of this terrorist activity.” then State Senator Obama post 911 attack remarks
Obama came out for the Islamic supremacist mosque at the hallowed ground of 911 attack. He has, in effect, sided with the Islamic jihadists and told the ummah (at an Iftar dinner on the third night of Ramadan, of course) that he believes in and supports a triumphal mosque on the cherished site of Islamic conquest.
Obama Comes Out in Favor of Allowing Mosque Near Ground Zero
FoxNews.com | AP
Published August 13, 2010
AP – President Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country’s founding principles demanded no less.
WASHINGTON — After skirting the controversy for weeks, President Barack Obama is weighing in forcefully on the mosque near ground zero, saying a nation built on religious freedom must allow it.
“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country,” Obama told an intently listening crowd gathered at the White House Friday evening to observe the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
“That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,” he said. “This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable.”
Pamela Geller, American Thinker: The Man Who Would Stop the Ground Zero Mosque
AtlasShurgs.com
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Read in full my oped in today’s American Thinker on NY Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino. And remember to mark your calenders for our next solemn protest against the Ground Zero mega mosque on September 11th. We will rally on September 11th, one year to the day before Islamic supremacists intend to open the mosque: September 11, 2011.
The Man Who Would Stop the Ground Zero Mosque Pamela Geller, American Thinker
“As Governor,” Paladino said Wednesday in a radio ad, “I will use the power of eminent domain to stop this mosque and make the site a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.”I like this guy. I really like this guy. If the Supreme Court could rule, in the notorious 2005 decision Kelo v. City of New London, that the government could seize private property for a private developer and then never develop the property, surely Americans should be able to use eminent domain to designate the Burlington Coat Factory building a war memorial.
EXPLOSIVE: Masking Mega Mosque Terror Ties, New Jihadist Same As the Old Jihadist, Only Worse
AtlasShrugs.com
Sunday, July 25, 2010
A screenshot of the Perdana page on the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Perdana is the single largest funder of the IHH jihad warship convoy (aka flotilla): Imam Rauf is a prominent figure in this hate group and terror sponsor. He is ranked second, right behind Mahathir Mohammed, the notorious Jew hater from Malaysia who famously said: “Jews control the world by proxy”.”
Too much has been exposed about Imam Rauf’s deceit, terror ties and real agenda, with much still to be revealed. And so the morphing mosque narrative is taking on a new direction. I debate these shadowy figures, and the narrative changes everyday.
Preserving the 18th Century Ship Under WTC
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July 16, 2010 – 3:36 PM | by: Peter Doocy
Workers at the World Trade Center were stunned this week when they discovered the fully-intact bottom of a wooden ship, more than twenty feet below ground. Archeologists raced to the site of the find, roughly fifty yards from the spot where the South Tower of the World Trade Center once stood in Lower Manhattan.
Dozens speak out against planned mosque near ground zero at NYC hearing on landmark status
FoxNews.com | Associated Press
Published July 13, 2010
NEW YORK
Dozens of opponents and some supporters of a mosque planned near ground zero attended a raucous hearing Tuesday about whether the building where the Muslim place of worship would be created warrants designation as a city landmark and should be protected from development.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio, who has sought an investigation into the funding of the mosque, was among the witnesses who testified in support of giving the building landmark status, which could complicate plans by Muslim groups to develop a community center and mosque there.
After noting the lower Manhattan building’s history and architectural significance, Lazio said it also warranted landmark designation because on Sept. 11, 2001, it was struck by airplane debris from the terror attacks against the nearby World Trade Center. That connection to the attacks, he said, made it “a place of deep historical significance and a reminder of just what happened on New York’s darkest day.”
Lazio has called on state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, his Democratic opponent in the governor’s race, to investigate the funding of the project. On Tuesday, he repeated that request and said the pace of the landmark designation process should be slowed to allow time to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Nearly 100 people attended the hearing at a college campus on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Fifty-six people testified at the hearing, which turned contentious at times, with some speakers drowned out by shouts from the audience and with one man escorted out by campus security.
“To deprive this building of landmark status is to allow for a citadel of Islamic supremacy to be erected in its place,” said Andrea Quinn, a freelance audio technician from Queens who said she had worked with people at the World Trade Center.
The Fix Was In: Community Board Unanimously Denies Landmark Status to Ground Zero Mega Mosque Site
Atlas Shrugs
Thursday, July 08, 2010
New York politicians are bending over backwards, violating protocol, to build a mega mosque at Ground Zero. In warped speed they are ramming it through, removing every obstacle to expedite the process and erect a triumphal mosque at Ground Zero in time for it to meet its stated opening date, the tenth anniversary of September 11th. Why? Would they do this for a church? A synagogue? This is an outrage ………….
Last night, on less than a week and a half’s notice (at a time when most people who care are not even around), the Lower Manhattan Community Board 1 (“LMCB”) Landmark Commission (“LMCBLC”) held its meeting to consider the landmark status of 45-47 Park Place (the site of the proposed 911 mega mosque). Refusing to wait until the entire board could meet, seven board members voted unanimously to deny landmark status to the Burlington Coat Factory building, removing another obstacle to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s supremacist, triumphal mosque.
One journalist noted that the “CB1 Landmarks committee, which is a stickler for details when someone wants to install new windows or awnings, voted to recommend to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission that landmark status not be given to the two antique buildings on Park Place that the owner wants to tear down to build the mega-mosque at Ground Zero.”
PROTEST THE MEGA MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO ON D-DAY AT NOON
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Most Americans Polled say 911 Mosque “disrespectful to the victims”
A national study conducted by Mediacurves.com asked about American opinions regarding plans to build a mosque and Islamic community center near “Ground Zero” of the World Trade Center attacks. Results found that Republicans were the least favorable of plans to build the mosque, with the majority of Republicans (63%) reporting that it was “not at all appropriate.” Also, 37% of Democrats and 39% of Independents indicated that the plans were “not at all inappropriate.” The majority of all political parties reported that it was disrespectful to the victims of the World Trade Center attacks to build a mosque near ground zero. (hat tip Ben)
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