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Areas of Expertise
- Economic Policy
- Labor and Employment
- Public Finance
- Tax Policy
- Social Security
- Family Policy
Alexander Gelber is an assistant professor at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research concerns the economic effects of public sector programs, particularly income taxation and social insurance, and has been published in leading academic journals including the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, and New England Journal of Medicine. During 2012 to 2013, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, and from April to June 2013 he served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Acting Chief Economist at Treasury. He was an assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2012. He earned an A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and a Ph.D. in economics, both from Harvard.
Curriculum Vitae
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Working Papers
The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries
GSPP Working Paper (June 2015)
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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries (conditionally accepted, Quarterly Journal of Economics)
GSPP Working Paper (December 2014)
The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries (698KB)
Earnings Adjustment Frictions: Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test (revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies)
GSPP Working Paper (December 2014)
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Equalizing Outcomes and Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources (revise and resubmit, National Tax Journal)
GSPP Working Paper (September 2013)
Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal tax policy therefore treats future ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match estimates of the intergenerational transmission of earnings ability in the United States, and use the model to simulate such an optimal policy numerically. The optimal policy in this context is more redistributive toward low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. It also increases the probability that low-income children move up the economic ladder, generating a present-value welfare gain of one and three-quarters percent of consumption in our baseline case.
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Selected Publications
Children's Schooling and Parents' Behavior: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study
Gelber, Alexander. Children's Schooling and Parents' Behavior: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study, with Adam Isen, Journal of Public Economics 2013, 101, 25-38.
Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children's schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study, which granted randomly-chosen preschool-aged children the opportunity to attend Head Start. We find that Head Start causes a substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children—such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days spent with children by fathers who do not live with their children—both during and after the period when their children are potentially enrolled in Head Start. These results are not predicted by the model of Becker and Tomes (1976), who argue that child schooling should crowd out parent investment in children.
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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden
Gelber, Alexander. Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden, October 2012 (forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics; earlier version circulated as "Taxation and Family Labor Supply").
This paper examines the response of husbands'' and wives'' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' 'and wives'' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses'incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplifi…ed econometric models that are used in the typical setting in which such independent variation is not available. Using administrative panel data on approximately 11% of the married Swedish population, I analyze the impact of the large Swedish tax reform of 1990-1. I …nd that in response to a compensated fall in one spouse's tax rate, that spouse's earned income rises, and the other spouse's earned income also rises. A standard econometric speci…cation, in which one spouse reacts to the other spouse's income as if it were unearned income, yields biased coefficient estimates. Uncompensated elasticities of earned income with respect to the fraction of income kept after taxes are over-estimated by a factor of more than three, and income e¤ects are of the wrong sign. A second common speci…fication, in which overall family income is related to the family's tax rate and income, also yields substantially over-estimated own compensated and uncompensated elasticities. Standard econometric approaches may substantially mis-estimate earnings responses to taxation.
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Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men
Gelber, Alexander. Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men, with Joshua W. Mitchell, Review of Economic Studies 2012, 79(3), 863-897.
The classic model of Becker (1965) suggests that labor supply decisions should be analyzed within the broader context of time allocation and market good consumption choices, but most empirical work on policy has focused exclusively on measuring impacts on market work. This paper examines how income taxes affect time allocation during the entire day, and how these time allocation decisions interact with expenditure patterns. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single women's housework, labor supply, and other time to variation in tax and transfer schedules across income levels, number of children, states, and time. We find that when the economic reward to participating in the labor force increases, market work increases and housework decreases, with the decrease in housework accounting for approximately two-thirds of the increase in market work. Analysis of repeated cross-sections of time diary data from 1975 to 2004 shows that "home production" decreases substantially when market hours of work increase in response to policy changes. Data on expenditures show some evidence that expenditures on market goods likely to substitute for housework increase in response to a greater incentive to join the labor force. The baseline estimates imply that the elasticity of substitution between consumption of home and market goods is 2.61. The results are consistent with the Becker model. Meanwhile, single men show little response to changes in tax policy, and we are able to rule out an elasticity of substitution between home and market goods for this group of more than 1.66.
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How do 401(k)s Affect Saving? Evidence from Changes in 401(k) Eligibility
Gelber, Alexander. How do 401(k)s Affect Saving? Evidence from Changes in 401(k) Eligibility, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2011, 3:4, 103-122.
This paper investigates the effect of 401(k) eligibility on saving. To address the possibility that eligibility correlates across individuals with their unobserved tastes for saving, I examine a change in eligibility: some individuals are initially ineligible for their 401(k) but become eligible when they have worked at their firm long enough. I find that eligibility raises 401(k) balances. Other financial assets and net worth respond insignificantly to eligibility, but the confidence intervals do not rule out substantial responses. In response to eligibility, IRA assets increase, consistent with a "crowd-in" hypothesis, and accumulation of cars decreases.
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Prize Structure and Information in Tournaments: Experimental Evidence
Gelber, Alexander. Prize Structure and Information in Tournaments: Experimental Evidence, with Richard B. Freeman, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2010, 2:1, 149-164.
This paper examines behavior in a tournament in which we vary the tournament prize structure and the information available about participants' skill at the task of solving mazes. The number of solved mazes is lowest when payments are independent of performance; higher when a single, large prize is given; and highest when multiple, differentiated prizes are given. This result is strongest when we inform participants about the number of mazes they and others solved in a pre-tournament round. Some participants reported that they solved more mazes than they actually solved, and this misreporting also peaked with multiple differentiated prizes.
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Changes in the Incidence and Duration of Periods Without Insurance
Cutler, David M. and Alexander Gelber. Changes in the Incidence and Duration of Periods Without Insurance (April 28, 2009). New England of Journal of Medicine, Vol. 360, pp. 1740-48, 2009.
Background: Policymakers have recently proposed ways of providing health care coverage for an increased number of uninsured persons. However, there are few data that show how the incidence and duration of periods in which persons do not have insurance have changed over time.
Methods: We used two data sets from the Survey of Income and Program Participation of the U.S. Census Bureau: one that covered the period from 1983 through 1986 (25,946 persons), and another that covered the period from 2001 through 2004 (40,282 persons). For each set of years, we estimated the probability that a person would be uninsured for some period of time and the probability that a person would subsequently obtain private or public insurance. We also estimated the probabilities that persons in various demographic groups would become uninsured over the course of a year and would remain uninsured for various amounts of time.
Results: The percentage of the population that lost insurance in a 12-month period increased from 19.8% in 1983-1986 to 21.8% in 2001-2004 (P=0.04). The percentage that was uninsured for a period of time increased markedly among persons with the lowest educational level and predominantly represented loss of private coverage. The percentage of new uninsured periods that ended within 24 months increased from 73.8% to 79.7% between the two study periods (P<0.001); increases were seen in all age groups and among persons of all educational levels. Transition from no insurance to private insurance decreased from 65.2% to 59.2% (P<0.001). Transition from no insurance to public insurance increased from 8.7% to 20.4% (P<0.001).
Conclusions: As compared with the years from 1983 through 1986, from 2001 through 2004, more people, particularly those with the lowest educational level, had periods in which they were not insured. The periods without insurance were shorter in 2001-2004 than they were in 1983-1986, since an increase in transitions to public coverage offset a reduction in transitions to private coverage. Our results portend difficulties if private coverage continues to decline and is not offset by further expansions of public insurance.
Media Citations
Another Chance for Teens
The New York Times, May 2, 2015
Effects of a Summer Youth Employment Program in NYC
NBER Digest, April 1, 2015
Pre-K, the Great Debate
The New York Times, January 29, 2014
Frank Talk: Gay Rights, Wall Street and the Federal Reserve with Barney Frank and Alex Gelber
Barney Frank, Alex Gelber, Henry E. Brady
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Kurt Cobain's Death Reopened Then Closed By Seattle Police
There are no indications if this new evidence is pointing towards any foul play involved in the singer's untimely death, which has long been the source of conjecture and controversy among fans and true-crime enthusiasts alike.
Case Surrounding Kurt Cobain's Death Reopened By Seattle Police
In a shocking turn of events, Seattle police have re-opened the case surrounding the 1994 death of Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain. According to KRIO 7, the reason behind the new look at the case revolves […]
Would You Buy Kurt Cobain's Old Skis Off Craigslist?
For a low, low price, you could be the proud owner of a telephone, video game and pair of skis that Cobain once owned. The skis don't have poles, but like the guys says, these are a lot cooler than your average pair of skis.
Watch Kurt Cobain Pay Tribute to River Phoenix at Nirvana's Last L.A. Show
Filmmaker David Markey released a 15-minute clip of Nirvana performing at the Los Angeles Forum during what would be the band's final show in L.A. before the tragic death of frontman Kurt Cobain in April of 1994.
'Nirvana Day ' is Coming to Hoquiam, Washington in 2014
Nirvana's late frontman, Kurt Cobain, was born and raised in the nearby city of Aberdeen, and lived in Hoquiam for a brief period of time.
JACK's Inside Track: Hologram HOF
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Want To Buy Kurt Cobain's Childhood Home?
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Watch Never-Before-Seen Footage of Nirvana's 'Live & Loud' Concert
The 20th Anniversary reissue of Nirvana's In Utero comes out tomorrow (Sept. 24), and today MTV has released never-before-seen footage from their Live & Loud concert from December 1993 at Seattle's Pier 48.
Sub Pop Reveals Nirvana's Original Contract From 1989
In honor of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's final studio album, In Utero, Sub Pop has been having fun revealing little tidbits about the band.

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shredded Cheddar cheese
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butter, softened
2 cups
all-purpose flour
2 cups
crisp rice cereal
1/2 teaspoon
2 dashes
Worcestershire sauce
1 pinch
garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon
cayenne pepper
freshly ground black pepper
My mother-in-law made these for years and I have taken over since her death. Our family loves these so much. One difference in our recipe is that we use about 1/2 of the cheese that this recipe calls for....I don't know, but this might cut down on the "greasiness" that some reviewers wrote about. And they really are "addictive".
I tried out a "test" recipe before making them for company, good thing I did, they were terrible. Too greasy and too floury tasting.
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I first ate this at my wedding shower in 1966. My mother-in-law used it all of the time. As an appetizer she left them in balls. To serve with salads, she pressed them with a fork like peanut butter cookies. This is the exact recipe I have and it is wonderful!
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Savoring the taste of life, without the salt
Most people who make changes in their daily diets — if they're able to make changes at all — do so primarily to look better and feel better.
The stakes are much higher for others. For them, the ability to implement a new lifestyle is the crucial difference between the dream of growing old and the distinct possibility of dying young.
When Erik Williams learned in November of 2006 that he needed a heart transplant, he decided he'd like to stick around a while. That meant making some changes.
Erik, a Courier & Press district manager who handles circulation matters for Gibson County, was born with a congenital heart defect known as transposition of the great arteries. In strict medical terms, his pulmonary and aortic arteries were switched. The result was that his heart pumped blood in the wrong direction.
Two surgeries — one when he was just a day old, another at age 2 — fixed the problem, but with a catch: The "mustard procedure" that restored the proper blood flow ultimately wore out the right side of Erik's heart.
This was no surprise to Erik's doctors. In fact, this kind of congestive heart failure is typical of young "mustard procedure" patients once they reach their thirties or forties. Most of them, like Erik, ultimately need a heart transplant to keep living.
Erik understood he needed a transplant. What he didn't know, however, was when that transplant would take place. And in the meantime, his doctors told him to restrict his sodium intake to 2,000 milligrams per day. (Sodium is the component of salt that makes the body retain water; extra water can raise your blood pressure, forcing the heart to work harder.)
"The low-sodium diet is a key, critical part for anybody who is waiting
on a transplant," explains 34-year-old Erik, who finally received a new heart on May 26, 2010. "You've got to watch that salt. At the beginning, I was like, 'OK, I'll watch it, I'll watch it,' and then I'd eat the wrong thing and — boom! — it'd put me back in the hospital.
"After the first time, I was like, 'No more.' And I discovered that the less salt I ate, the better I felt and the more I could do physically. If I kept it under 2,000, I was out cutting the grass or playing volleyball. But if I didn't, I'd breathe harder. Even walking up steps would make me short of breath."
It might have been a mandatory transformation for Erik, but still it wasn't easy. Suddenly, birthday parties, company functions and weddings — events often accompanied by enticing buffets of delicious (and salty) things to eat — no longer were so festive. While everyone was busy savoring cake, Erik would retreat to his car for a meal he'd prepared at home.
"Things like a Christmas party — they have all that ham there," he says. "I just don't eat that stuff. I can't have it. It's not always fun, but considering the alternative, it's not so bad. You get it in your head that what you eat is how you're going to feel later."
So how much, exactly, is 2,000 mg of sodium? Well, if you hit McDonald's on the way home tonight and inhale one of its Angus Bacon & Cheese hamburgers, you've consumed exactly 2,070 mg, according to the burger chain's online nutrition facts. If you're Erik, that's more than your entire day's sodium allotment in a single sandwich.
If fried chicken is your thing, then consider that a single breast at KFC contains 1,080 mg. A Big Montana sandwich at Arby's will set you back 2,270 mg.
Even those "heart healthy" offerings at Subway — say, 1,000 mg for a 6-inch sweet onion chicken teriyaki sandwich — still are too sodium-heavy for Erik.
And Chinese food? As they say in Brooklyn, fuhgeddaboudit.
On a quest to create low-sodium meals that still would satisfy him and restore some of the fun of eating, Erik began tinkering in the kitchen.
He started with simple building blocks such as fresh fruits and vegetables, making a specific effort to avoid items that were processed or canned. He then worked to find ingredients that were affordable and widely available. He didn't want to have to find a specialty store or make an online purchase just to prepare a meal.
The recipes began to emerge, and the tasting began.
"My wife (Mindy) was my toughest critic," Erik recalls. "I tried to come up with stuff that she liked. If she didn't like it, then it was back to the drawing board. But if people who didn't have to eat like me tried something and liked it, then I knew it had passed the test."
Scores of recipes later, Erik is the author of a new book, "Breaking the Salt Habit." (Visit www.breakingthesalthabit.com or www.amazon.com to learn more.) It collects scores of recipes that Erik developed through painstaking experimentation.
But this book is more than just a way to create low-sodium honey barbecue sauce, chicken with pasta or open-faced tuna melts: It's a road map for personal transformation.
"People just need to develop new habits," Erik explains. "That's all it really is. You just have to get into a pattern of what you buy at the store. You can't change things all at once. Just start by doing the small things.
"If you make a recipe, leave the salt out — there's already salt in the other stuff. Just gradually get your habits to a place where you can actually start using herbs instead of traditional salts."
Erik is undeniably making the most of his new lease on life. He works out regularly, recently completed the Evansville Half-Marathon and next year will add a new title to his resume: dad.
And he'll continue to espouse the virtues of low-sodium dining.
"People really don't realize what salt does to their heart, the strain it can put on it," he says. "It seems like everybody, at one point or another in their life, will have a time when their doctor tells them to watch the salt. It's definitely something we all need to do."
Recipes from 'Breaking the Salt Habit'
Hawaiian Chicken
4 servings
4 6-ounce boneless, skinless, chicken breasts
2 tablespoons of low sodium teriyaki
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1½ teaspoon white wine vinegar
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
3 tablespoons pineapple juice
1 8-ounce can of pineapple rings
1 Combine all ingredients except the pineapple rings in a bag and marinate for 3 to 4 hours in the refrigerator.
2 Grill chicken until it reaches an internal temperature of 160 degrees.
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¼ teaspoon dried basil
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Capsule looks at area high school girls volleyball teams. Schools which responded to The Courant's request for preview information are listed:
Last year: 11-7
Coach: Judy Landry
Top players: Areta Bojko, sr., outside hitter; Carolina Brasa, sr., middle hitter; Eileen Gunn, sr., libero; Michaela Mooney, sr., setter.
A note: Top four players are all starting their third year on the varsity team.
Last year: 11-7
Coach: Tracey Hollenbaugh
Top players: Brenna Alexandre, jr., outside hitter; Samantha Branning, jr., middle hitter; Catherine Pinone, jr., middle hitter; Rory Fischer, sr., setter.
A note: Tall, athletic team will replace four starters with a strong junior class.
Last year: 14-4
Coach: Ezequiel Alejandro
Top players: Heather Tabachnick, sr., setter; Ciara Perez, sr., outside hitter; Rachel Santacroce, sr., outside hitter; Carly Burges, jr., middle hitter.
A note: Lost eight seniors, and all six starters, from last year's team.
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Down goes Rocky Long at New Mexico.
Down goes Joe Glenn at Wyoming.
Down goes Chuck Long at San Diego State.
Down goes Brent Guy at Utah State.
It's that time of year, when coaches become vagabonds and the name-dropping game begins. University presidents and athletic directors are sifting through a flood of phone calls, text messages and negotiations by surrogates as legitimate and not-so-legitimate candidates seek to turn around fortunes of the unfortunate.
At San Diego State, even a closing win over UNLV at home couldn't save Long from the ax. Names cropping up include BYU defensive coordinator Jaime Hill, a native son of San Diego, who could provide the local touch Long couldn't being from the Midwest.
Hill ultimately wants to return home to San Diego, and he's approaching the same attractive job reviews as current UCLA D-coordinator Dwayne Walker.
Other candidates for the Aztec job include current SDSU faculty member Dennis Green, the former head coach of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and Arizona Cardinals. Green, who teaches a sports management class on campus, might be the front-runner.
Another name is Terry Bowden, who led Auburn to an 11-0 mark in 1993 before retiring to become a broadcaster and football analyst. Bowden has confirmed with San Diego media his interest in returning to the whistle. Another guy who has been out of coaching but has ties to SDSU's administration is former Minnesota coach Glen Mason.
SDSU sources are mentioning other candidates including former USC offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin, current USC coordinator Steve Sarkisian, Oklahoma associate head coach Brent Venables and former Cal and NFL coach Steve Mariucci.
Rocky Long, who left the Lobos for myriad reasons, including hitting a perceived glass ceiling in recruiting against TCU, BYU and Utah, is rumored to have been offered the SDSU job before Chuck Long. But for Rocky Long, making a move inside the league for another head job doesn't make sense. He's received feelers from Fresno State, Oregon State (where he has coached previously) and San Jose State for a job coordinating their defenses.
Bronco Mendenhall has called Rocky twice, but the word on the street is it's more of a friend-to-friend chat than job talk in Provo. If Hill leaves BYU for a head coaching job, or even if Green asked him to coordinate his defense if he got the call, BYU would be looking for a replacement on its staff, and that would be interesting indeed.
Rocky Long would be a long, very long shot at BYU.
At New Mexico and Wyoming, it appears the search committees are after some offensive firepower, the hurdle both programs have battled to get over the past few years.
At both schools, the name of Missouri offensive coordinator Dave Christensen has cropped up. The Tigers have staged one of the more impressive offensive attacks in the country the past few seasons, but would Christensen want to settle in the Mountain West?
Other names that have surfaced in Albuquerque include former Utah coach and current Florida Gator offensive coordinator Dan Mullen. And word is, it's his job if he wants it. The Lobos are hopeful, if Mullen passes, that the likes of Oregon coordinator Chip Kelly will want it or perhaps Sonny Dykes, the O-coordinator at Arizona. New Mexico has also received permission to talk to Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Curtis Modkins.
In Laramie, what to do?
Like I mentioned, the Cowboys want somebody who can teach, execute and produce an offensive strike-force offense to keep up with the league's firepower. Missouri's Christensen fits the bill, but would he leave Columbia and ignore other offers for Laramie?
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When Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain makes the jump from the small screen to the big screen with a feature film adaptation, it will do so with the help of a writer making a similar transition.
According to Hollywood trade site Variety, TV writer and producer David Milch--creator of HBO's Deadwood and cocreator of NYPD Blue--will pen the film adaptation for Heavy Rain, simply titled Rain. As was noted in May, Unique Features will produce the film led by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne. Milch will begin writing for the Heavy Rain flick once he finishes work on the first season of HBO's Luck.
"David Milch's incredible ability to transform intense and complex storylines into gripping popular drama makes him the perfect partner for us to have on Heavy Rain," Shaye said.
Heavy Rain was developed by Quantic Dream, the Paris-based shop behind 2005's Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit) for the PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. Like that critically acclaimed title, Heavy Rain eschews normal game genres for a more cinematic approach, focusing on complex storytelling and emotion via realistic graphics. Heavy Rain involves the pursuit of a mysterious serial murderer, with players controlling several characters who must collect clues in a film-noir-style setting to crack the case.
Since being released nearly a year ago, Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain has won critical praise, reportedly sold more than 1.5 million units, and welcomed the Taxidermist downloadable content.


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November 17, 2008
by Mark Dermul
9/11 Belgium
Personally, I would have loved to have a larger audience, but the attendance of 165, including quite a few architects and engineers, I'm not complaining. Not surprisingly, the mainstream media excelled in not showing up.
Richard Gage's lecture was supported with a very illustrative PowerPoint presentation, filled with revealing video material and a series of very convincing scientific explanations.
At the onset of his presentation, Gage took a poll, wondering how many people still believed in the official version of the events as portrayed by the US governement. About 20 hands went up. To the question how many people had doubts, a lot more hands went skyward.
When asked how many were convinced the destruction of the three buildings was due to 'explosive controlled demolition', the majority of the hands went up, proving we were dealing with an already pretty well informed audience.
After the poll, Gage started his explanation. He did so in a soft spoken, unbiased and unpartisan way. He is obviously a professional and never felt the need to dramatize: the facts speak for themselves. Gage did an excellent job uncovering the problems with the official explanation in a scientific way. No two ways about it!
Gage proved that fire (being an organic process) was unable to produce all of the characteristics that we saw, such as the straight-down, symmetrical collapse outside the footprint, the lateral ejection of structural steel up to 600 feet and the chemical evidence of… Continue reading
From Arno Mansouri in Paris, where Richard Gage, AIA spoke on Thursday night,
November 13, 2008
were 242 people attending the presentation (which was slightly above the number
of seats of the venue) on Thursday the 13th of November: a full house indeed
We actually had to refuse some people even though we did put a notice on our
site stating that it was fully booked, and asking people NOT to come if they
had not made reservations already — do note that we probably could have had
about twice as many people if we have had the adequate hall (we had to settle
for this movie house, a larger venue was way too much money for our finances,
unfortunately) and therefore, we had to cease advertising the presentation a
few days before it was held…
We then decided to put the emphasis on getting the info to local (French)
professional architects & engineers, and there were 42 architects and 41
engineers present that night.
Hopefully, a fair amount of the above mentioned professionals will meet up
and create a group of their own, in connection with both A&E and ReOpen911.info
We are going to see to that; it is also just as important that these professionals
pass the information they received to their friends and colleagues, in every
country M. Gage visits.
Everything went fine, as these figures show:
Believers of the Official Conspiracy Theory:
Before the presentation: 13
After the presentation: 1
People unsure:
Before: 62… Continue reading
Discussion of the very real doubts over the World Trade Center attacks was
conspicuously absent from the US presidential race. But America's international
image will always be tainted as long as the uncertainty remains
by Richard Falk
Sunday 09 November 2008
Journal Issue 13
Every so often attention is called anew to the doubts surrounding the true
character of the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Recently, the report of
the collapse of Building 7 represented such an occasion. Any close student of
9/11 is aware of the many serious discrepancies between the official version
of what took place and the actual happenings on that fateful day in 2001. David
Ray Griffin and others have analyzed and assessed these discrepancies in such
an objective and compelling fashion that only wilful ignorance can maintain
that the 9/11 narrative should be treated as a closed book, and that the public
should move on to address the problems of the day.
To accept such a view is to acquiesce in what can be described at best as governmental
evasiveness and irresponsibility, a resolve to leave the discrepancies unexplained.
It is not paranoid under such circumstances to assume that the established elites
of the American governmental structure have something to hide, and much to explain.
What has not been established by the "9/11 Truth Movement" is a
convincing counter-narrative — that is, an alternate version of the events
that clears up to what degree, if at all, the attacks resulted from incompetence,
deliberate inaction,… Continue reading
Professor PAUL ZAREMBKA (USA), Professor of Economics, State University of
New York at Buffalo, NY. Editor of "THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001″,
General Editor for RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, and FRONTIERS IN ECONOMETRICS.
CANADA's "WAR ON TERROR"
Professor MICHAEL KEEFER (CANADA), Professor of English, University of Guelph,
Graduate Royal Military College of Canada, Former President, Association of
Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Widely published on "War
on Terror", "Toronto 18″, 9/11, and philosophy.
Friday November 14, 2008, 7:00 – 9:30 pm
Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto
100 St. George St.,Toronto, at Huron, one block west of St. George Street, 2
blocks east of Spadina
(Use St. George or Spadina subway, or park behind the church.)
Doors open 6:45pm.
Admission: Free
For information, Contact:
Adam Parrott, Grassroots Organizer for Mississauga 911truth.org
Telephone: 905-487-7531
October 29, 2008
Richard Gage, de
Arquitecto e Ingenieros por la verdad sobre el 11-S
Richard Gage, de Arquitects and Engineers for 911 truth viene al Colegio oficial de Arquitectos en Madrid :
FECHA: Viernes 7 de noviembre a las 19:00 h.
FUNDACIÓN ARQUITECTURA COAM, C/ PIAMONTE Nº 23, MADRID.
En ingles con traduccion simultanea.
Entrada gratuita
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Richard Gage, de Arquitectos e Ingenieros por la verdad sobre el 11-S.
Análisis técnica sobre el desplome de los tres edificios en Nueva York el 11 de Septiembre de 2001, Conferencia-Debate 500 Arquitectos e Ingenieros Colegiados demandan una nueva investigación del 11 de Septiembre de 2001.
"Plan por la Verdad"
Richard Gage, Tour Europeo, 2008
Hace más de siete años desde el 11 de Septiembre de 2001 y los detalles de ese horrible día están empezando a decaer en la mente del público, pero son pocos los que niegan que los cambios en política interior y exterior de todo el mundo después del 11-S sigan afectando a nuestras vidas.
Tanto por los millones de víctimas en Irak y Afganistán, o la legislación antiterrorista que ha comenzado a desmantelar las libertades civiles de los europeos, o el aumento de la vigilancia estatal en Europa, el 11-S ha tenido un efecto sobre todos nosotros.
A pesar de que han pasado más de siete años, aumentan tanto las dudas sobre la versión oficial del 11-S como las preocupaciones por sus consecuencias nefastas. No hay mejor indicador de esto que las numerosas teorías alternativas,… Continue reading
Contact: Victoria Ashley, STJ911 committee member
Phone: 510-769-5109
Site: www.STJ911.org
Email: email@example.com
Scholars for 9-11 Truth & Justice Misrepresented in Draft Bill Sent to 8 House
Berkeley, CA, October 22, 2008 — On October 18, 2008, an OpEdNews article titled,
"8 House Members View Draft Bill on Independent Science/Tech Probe of WTC
1, 2, 7 Collapses," was published by four members of the group Scholars for
9/11 Truth & Justice (STJ911.org). The authors of the article and draft bill
are not spokespersons for Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, and therefore
are individually responsible for it.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice does not endorse the draft bill due to the
inclusion of numerous unscientific claims and misrepresentations, and condemns
in the strongest of terms any associations between the organization and the claims
presented by the authors of this bill. As stated at the front page of their website,
Scholars for 9-11 Truth and Justice "take[s] care to present the strongest,
most credible research available…"
While in agreement with the authors of this bill that a new investigation into
the tragic events of September 11, 2001 is warranted, representatives of the Scholars
group note that the draft bill and article lack basic scientific rigor and credibility,
with statements such as, "the entire WTC [complex] was destroyed by directed
energy weaponry (DEW)," and the ideas that "nuclear materials, missiles
or DEW weapons were used." The sister publication of the Scholars group,
The Journal of 9/11 Studies… Continue reading
DRG arrived Japan!
with my good old friend Yumi Kikuchi who's holding the
Event Poster (in Japanese):
They're going to have lectures in Akita(up north), Kobe(near Osaka), Osaka and Nagoya(also close from Osaka) starting on 27th, and the main conference will be held in Tokyo on Monday, November 3 which is our national holiday.
To commemorate this occasion, I wrote Japanese lyrics to my 9/11 song,
or rather,
Original (in English) "September 11th was an Inside Job!" is here,
Wish them the best luck and fill all the venues!!
Professor PAUL ZAREMBKA (USA), Professor of Economics, State University of
New York at Buffalo, NY. Editor of "THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001″,
General Editor for RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, and FRONTIERS IN ECONOMETRICS.
CANADA's "WAR ON TERROR"
Professor MICHAEL KEEFER (CANADA), Professor of English, University of Guelph,
Graduate Royal Military College of Canada, Former President, Association of
Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Widely published on "War
on Terror", "Toronto 18″, 9/11, and philosophy.
Friday November 14, 2008, 7:00 – 9:30 pm
Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto
100 St. George St.,Toronto, at Huron, one block west of St. George Street, 2
blocks east of Spadina
(Use St. George or Spadina subway, or park behind the church.)
Doors open 6:45pm.
Admission: Free
For information, Contact:
Adam Parrott, Grassroots Organizer for Mississauga 911truth.org
Telephone: 905-487-7531
Thursday 6th November – Central London
Blueprint For Truth – Richard Gage
We Are Change UK in association with TruthAction London are pleased to present Richard Gage in London as a part of his Europe wide tour this autumn. More details:
Tickets will be on sale on the door and online (details to follow) for for £4 (£3 concessions).
We are certain there will be a high demand from UK based truth activists, and all are welcome and encouraged to come along, but we would like to ask you to do your utmost to bring at least one uninitiated person with you and make this a night of awakening and not just reaffirmation.
Keep an eye on this space for further details.
September 10, 2008
New Documentary Takes a Look at the 9/11 Truth Movement
On the anniversary of the attacks of September 11th, British filmmaker Dean
Puckett releases "The Elephant in the Room," a new award-winning film
documenting his journey into the 9/11 Truth Movement.
Los Angeles September 10, 2008 — On the anniversary of the attacks of September
11th, British filmmaker Dean Puckett releases "The Elephant in the Room,"
a new award-winning film documenting his journey into the 9/11 Truth Movement.
The Movement can best be described as a group of citizen activists from around
the world who don't believe the U.S. government's explanation of what happened
on September 11th. While there are a growing number of law enforcement personnel,
pilots, architects, engineers, and scientists joining the ranks, they have been
called everything from 'patriots' to 'conspiracy theorists' – with some right
wing talk show hosts going so far as to call them 'jihadists.'
But In the documentary, "The Elephant in the Room", the viewer is
introduced to folks who aren't as dangerous as some would believe. They just
happen to be average citizens asking some very simple questions.
The film features interviews with numerous 9/11 Truth activists including Former
Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (who is currently running for President)
and William Rodriguez, a janitor of 20 years at the World Trade Center, who
testified that he heard and felt explosions in his building before it was hit
by a plane. Also in the film is Richard… Continue reading
September 10, 2008
Canada's 9/11 Truth Movement reporting
The March on Ottawa 2008
is underway, and we have just received footage of the first leg, posted below.
Organizers will be updating footage as possible, adding it to Montreal
9/11 Truth site and March On Ottawa 2008
Schedule of events on the hill, 9/11-15, is
posted here; Route and Itinerary are here.
Last Sunday's 9/11 truth protest in Brussels was a success!
Last Sunday over 400 European truth activists ignored the rain and had a non-violent
march in Brussels. They gathered at 2 P.M. in front of the Berlaymont building
at Schuman, Brussels. At 3 P.M. they took a walk of 4 kilometers with a stop
at the US Embassy. Before the rally left, the organizers delivered a letter
to the assistant to Giulietto Chiesa, Euro-MP for Italy. Under police guidance
they tried to deliver a letter containing their request to start an independent
and international investigation to what happened in the U.S.A. just 7 years
ago. They were told that the embassy was closed and didn't accept their letter
unless is was delivered by mail. There were no incidents during the protests,
and the organizers were once again very positive about the collaboration with
the Brussels Police.
Furthermore, the platform is endorsed by various Non Governmental Organizations
like The Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CATMD), CODIP, ReOpen911
and ATTAC Brussels. The first Belgian political party CAP (Comité Autre
Politique) joined the rally at the end.
The platform these people and organizations support is: "In solidarity
with the American citizens, we demand an independent investigation of the 9/11
attacks, which were the pretext for too many wars, lies, and a serious decrease
of (y)our civil rights ("anti-terrorist"-acts, secret prisons, "Patriot
act", etc). We want European troops back home! We want European laws that
guarantee… Continue reading
by Cynthia McKinney
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Seven years ago, criminal terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon
were carried out on September 11th by hijacked planes leading to the deaths of thousands
of people. A month later, key figures in the print and broadcast media and members
of Congress were sent envelopes containing very lethal and highly weaponized
anthrax, which led to the deaths of journalists and postal employees. After
the initial shock diminished, there were calls for explanations, investigations,
accountability and a reasoned response that did not include war. The administration
ignored or openly opposed them. Instead we went into a call for permanent wars
that would last beyond our lifetime, changes in civil liberties both overt and
covert, a takeover of state power by the executive branch, and the creation
of a national security emergency state that would somehow protect us.
Cynthia McKinney was one of the few voices of reason during that time in the
Congress. Long an opponent of militarism and wars abroad, she also called for
explanations and accountability when information began to come to light about
multiple advance warnings and apparent foreknowledge of the imminence and methods
of the attack inside government intelligence agencies that still failed to prevent
it. She supported calls by the families of the 9/11 victims for an official
investigation in what was being termed a "failure of intelligence"
even though it more closely resembled a failure of response, of standard operating
procedures, and of government officials and… Continue reading
Yumi Kikuchi's blog
September 9, 2008
I am happy to announce two 911 Truth events in Japan.
The first event happening here in Japan is being organized by Benjamin Fulford
and will be held on Sep 11, 2008 in Ebisu. The admission fee is 3000 yen and
you need to make a reservation. Links to the details (in Japanese) can be found
The speakers will be Yukihisa Fujita (A member of the Japanese House of Councilors.
His website is only in Japanese), Benjamin Fulford and myself.
If you have any Japanese friends who are interested in knowing what really
happened on Sept. 11th, 2001, please contact them and let them know about this
Date and Time: Sep 11, 2008, 6-9pm
Place: Ebisu Kumin Kaikan
Map: http://www.city.shibuya.tokyo.jp/est/kmkaikan/km_ebisu.html
Fee: 3000 yen
Application by e-mail: email@example.com
or by phone: 080-3282-3790
The Global Peace Campaign is also organizing its 2nd 911 Truth International
Conference in Tokyo!
The hall we hired for the first 911 Truth Conference was filled to capacity
so we are increasing the size of the hall for this event so we can seat 700!
Please join us and bring your friends. Lets get the truth out to as many people
as we can. Most of the content will be in Japanese but David Ray Griffin's lecture
will be in English with Japanese translation.
Date and time: Nov 3, 2008. 10am-8pm (It is an all day event)
Place: Miyake-Zaka Hall (Syakai Bunka Kaikan)
Address: Nagatacho 1-8-1 Tel:03-5920-7531
Map:… Continue reading
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
by Carol Brouillet
Details from the point of view of organizer, Carol Brouillet, with photos from
Terry Koch, Christine, and others
Richard Gage, AIA spoke
at the rally and marched with us. (In August NIST
came out with its official explanation of the destruction of Building 7 and
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth are at the forefront of challenging it.
Support them also by signing their petition for a truly independent investigation.)
Wolman, Green Party Candidate in California District 1, founder of the New
Broom Coalition and Impeach Cheney-Bush, also a member of the National Impeachment
Network also spoke and marched with us.
Sadot, who came up with the musical classics "Cheney's
in the Bunker," and "The Ballad of William Rodriguez" was
supposed to be with us, but his truck broke down en route- 800 miles away in
Wyoming. This year we did have our best prop–the replica of the Commission
Report with the giant holes in it, which was made for the San Francisco Tea
Party for 9/11 Truth.
We also passed out thousands of cards to promote our upcoming event.
Almost everyone was late to the rally, although I was up at 5:30 am, I had
to set up the booth for Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance at Speedway
Meadow before heading to the Panhandle. Richard Gage had just had 2000 new DVDs
made which inconveniently needed to be transported to San Francisco… Continue reading
Mark Dermul
9/11 Truth Seeker
On Sunday 7th September, about 400 protestors marched in Brussels during the second edition of the United for Truth March.
Despite the bad weather and the fact that the March took place during the same day as another popular event, the Belt (Belgian cycling event for the family), the number of protestors had doubled since the first edition of 2007. But measured against the enormous amount of work that went before it — months of campaigning in which literally thousands of posters had been put up — and the fact that the UFT-website announced that there would be at least 475 marchers, one cannot really say it was a tremendous success.
After a long wait to assemble at the Brussels Shuman Square (we were supposed to start marching at 2pm, but we got it underway only around 3pm), the trek through Brussels started. It was a 4 kilometer walk. What should have been the highlight of the march, was the handing over of our letter (demanding an independent inquiry into the events of 9/11), to an employee of the American Embassy in Brussels, became the low point of the day. One of the protestors, who went along with the delegates to hand over the letter, almost got arrested for merely running around with a camera. The delegates were turned away and told to send the letter by mail… For some, yours truly included, it was something not totally unexpected, but a letdown nonetheless.… Continue reading
by Sam Vaknin
An Interview with David Ray Griffin
On September 11, I entertained a couple of house guests, senior journalists from Scandinavia. I remember watching in horror and disbelief the unfolding drama, as the United States was being subjected to multiple deadly attacks on-screen. I turned to the international affairs editor of a major Danish paper and told her "This could not have been done by al-Qaida." I am an Israeli and, as such, I have a fair "sixth sense" as to the capabilities of terrorists and their potential reach.
Enter David Ray Griffin. I was introduced to him by a mutual acquaintance. He is emeritus professor of philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University. He has published over 30 books, including eight about 9/11, the best known of which is "The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé."
On the face of it, his credentials with regards to intelligence analysis are hardly relevant, let alone impressive. But, to underestimate him would be a grave error. Being a philosopher, he is highly trained and utterly qualified to assess the credibility of data; the validity and consistency of theories (including conspiracy theories); and the rationality and logic of hypotheses. These qualifications made him arguably the most visible and senior member of what came to be known as the 9/11 Truth Movement.
In our exchange, he proved to be tolerant of dissenting views, open to debate, and invariably possessed of… Continue reading


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Pecos National Historical Park is 25 miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico off of Interstate 25. Visitors travelling north on I-25: take exit 299 on to HWY 50 to Pecos village and south two miles on State Road 63. Those travelling south on I-25: take exit 307 and proceed four miles north to the Park on State Road 63.
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- Updated: July 16, 2011
AL West rivals square off on Saturday afternoon in Fox Saturday Baseball betting action, as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim take on the Oakland Athletics.
The Halos are really playing well right now, but they still have a game and a half to make up to catch the Texas Rangers atop the division. The good news on Saturday though, is that they get to the turn the ball over to a legitimate Cy Young Award contender, Jered Weaver. The righty has been absolutely remarkable for the mass majority of the season, and as a result, he is 11-4 with a 1.86 ERA. He hasn't lost a game since May 18th, and he already has four complete games, two of which have been shutouts. Quality starts are nothing new for Weaver; after all, he has nine straight of them. In that stretch, he has allowed just 10 earned runs, and his ERA came from a season high 2.45 down to where it is now, tops in baseball. Back on May 23rd, Weaver allowed one run in seven innings against the A's, but he got a no decision in a 4-1 win. For his career, he is 4-6 but has a 3.02 ERA versus Oakland.
This has been a disastrous season for the Athletics. They still haven't reached the 40 win mark this season, and they are 12.5 games out of the playoffs right now with no hope in sight. The only thing that really could be looked forward to is the future, just like Saturday's pitcher, Trevor Cahill. Cahill is only 23 years old, and he already has 36 wins under his belts. This year, he is only 8-7 thanks to the fact that his offense has been absolutely atrocious at times for him. The righty is only averaging 3.4 runs of support this year. Case in point: Cahill allowed two runs in 7.2 innings of work in his most recent start against the Texas Rangers, but he got the loss in the 2-0 defeat. Still, there's no shame in anything that the righty has done in this campaign, especially since his strikeout total is up to 91 this year after fanning just 118 in 30 starts last year. Still, without any more help than what he has been getting, Cahill and the A's are going to be in a heck of a lot of trouble.
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim @ Oakland Athletics Pick: This is a clear MLB pick on Saturday. This is a fantastic price on Weaver, and even though Cahill is definitely good enough to outpitch anyone in the game, he just doesn't have the same type of help around him like the Angels have. We have no choice but to take the Angels -120 even though they're on the road in this one.
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