Ground zero Forum

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The idea of GROUND ZERO Forum was born on September 11th, 2001 at 8:53 AM EST, when Ewing2001, a netizen member of canadian TV Clubhouse, was contacted during a live feed transcript session on the TV show "Big Brother" (CBS) via discussion board, and had been informed that one of the Twin Towers had been attacked by a plane. At that time in Brooklyn, New York, Ewing2001 repeated with the words "oh my god, thx" and started to report live from New York on updates and first investigative background stories. The first report took almost 22 hours non-stop until the next morning, when ewing2001 already started another topic called "Investigation continues...".

The result of this September 11th report reached an entry in the historical reviews on September 11th at web.archive.org and another european media history archive at http://520066654038-0001.bei.t-online.de/ Later described as "Dan Rather from TV Clubhouse", ewing2001 decided to mirror his live report and investigative topic on his own delphi-board at ourDNA.org (lebensaspekte.de). The board was originally planned for news and updates on (Bio-)science, high tech and control systems and wasn't yet customized. In the same week, the name GROUND ZERO Forum had been invented and almost 12 further sections had been added to analyse the September 11th attack from a media-, science-, terror- or secret service perspective.

In October 2001 ewing2001 aka Testpod69 aka ? started an own chat room on the IRC with friends of Josh Harris' Big Brother art project http://weliveinpublic.com, where he updated on the Anthrax Attacks or first rumours and beginning of the War against the Taliban. In the same month, GROUND ZERO Forum contacted almost 80-100 other Sep11th-related website projects, who tried to challenge the official version of September 11th, including Zwicker,Barry of Vision TV, Canada. The "invisible 911-Skepticism ring" informed every web admin from each other's existence and started to respond to GROUND ZERO. In the meantime, GROUND ZERO Forum had already international members or was visited by netizens from Canada, United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and China!

In November 2001, Ewing2001 started to promote his investigative results in an own newsletter and mirrored the highlights on http://guerrillanews.com. In the same month, the "ultimate timeline" was released, a document, which was 20 pages long and started in the 60s, and gave detailled background on the years 1998 until September 11th including disturbing ties to the anthrax attack. This timeline became popular worldwide and was mostly promoted together with Mike Rupperts Timeline "lucy", until fortunately, a much better and scientifically professionalised timeline by master investigator Paul Thompson was released in Summer 2002 at http://cooperativeresearch.com (See Timeline).

GZ promoted Thompsons timeline idea to Jeff Rense, who immediately decided to mirror Thompsons complete tImeline. UQ and Scoop followed this decision. In December 2001, ewing2001 decided to reach a political level. He signed in at democraticunderground.com (DU) and promoted his investigative results in the "911-section", where he cooperated with talents like Ajw18, Horne,John and 2muchBS or in PM sessions with Jack Riddler (osamaskidneys.com). In the same month, ewing2001's alter ego started with his first public lectures on the September 11th -oddities and geopolitical background at Joe's Gallery in east village, New York.

GZ found the original video of President Bush's visit at Booker Elementary on their website and decided to mirror and promote it worldwide. The cooperation between GZ Forum, ewing2001 and DU became succesful. GZ started to promote DU worldwide and contacted or invited new investigative or scientific talents like Paul Thompson, Medienanalyse, Eric Hufschmidt, ENDIMION or Plaguepupy to DU. In January 2002 Ground Zero Forum released their "Top 500 FAQ", an immense list of unanswered questions for a 911-commission, which was later mirrored at http://rense.com and improved at DU with the help of some members. Major sections of these questions later appeared in the German book and bestseller "...Secrets of 911" by Matthias Broeckers (http://telepolis.de, another forum, which was supported by ewing2001 and had co-authors like Stanislaw Lem or Sherry Turkle).

Between February and March 2002, GROUND ZERO Forum sent the Top500 FAQ in a continuing spam mail action to every member of the US Congress, including Tom Daschle in personal emails. In March 2002 GROUND ZERO Forum tried to contact Cynthia McKinney to inform her about the massive support of challenging the official story of Sep11th. At least her emails didn't bounce back. In April 2002 GROUND ZERO Forum was 16 folders strong, but still continued to analyse more speculative angles in a teamwork and investigative thinktank at DU, before they finally appeared as an improved conclusion at GZ. GZ developed therefore the so called LIHOP-media strategy to seperate more speculative and "tinfoilish" perspectives on a Setup by CIA, oil- and weapon industry. Lihop stands for "let it happen on purpose" and means that the US Government and related right wing think tanks found out of the pending attacks and allowed them to start in reality to start a war on oil and other resources -instead of a war on terrorism. The LIHOP strategy, which tried originally to leak credible facts into mainstream media, became succesful. (At the end of 2002 a google-result showed, that all LIHOP-related topics appeared on 150-200 other websites worldwide)

William Rivers Pitt, a more pragmatic member of DU reported on LIHOP in a http://truthout.org -article; German magazine DER SPIEGEL interviewed GROUND ZERO Forum, but decided to discredit the admin of GZ. Medienanalyse-international.de responded on the SPIEGEL-article in a positive analysis. Part 2 of "LIHOP-the Top 20 Suspects" reached 40000 hits during a few days at Scoop and became the most succesful article of GZ Forum worldwide and was mirrored by http://disinfo.org, rense.com and various other websites. Parts of the 911Skeptic section at GZ Forum, including older articles on a miniature model of the Pentagon in October 2000 became new interest and had been picked up by http://mediawhores.com, democrats.com smirkingchimp.com and the photo of a military server became one of the most popular pending smoking guns.

In May 2002 Ground Zero Forum organised a 3-Day 911-Skepticism Forum at Chashama Theatre on Times Square, New York and invited many different panelists. Alex Jones, Mike Ruppert, Zwicker,Barry or Barbara Rosenberg all had no time, Uri Dowbenko from almartinraw.com had to cancel on the last minute, Guerrillanews promised to appear in time, but due to some technical problems they had to leave again, before the panel finally could start. DU-Members Sterling and Beetwasher agreed to support the event on that afternoon, which was in the meantime part of a huge art- and activist event, organised by MissyGalore from feedbuckgalore.com. In a live-video stream, the event was supported via telephone conference including Oswald Le Winter from Portugal.

The most succesful part of the event was however not the panel itself, but the hallway, which was plastered with various printouts and photos and supported with the booklets "i hit the trifecta" of Sterling Rainbolt. The partner- and friendship between sterling and Ewing2001 turned into Rainbolts idea to create Shadowgovernment TV, which was later hosted at shadowgovernment.info and merged in October 2002 in a progressive coup with http://globalfreepress.com, http://bushknew.info and http://lihop.net.

Only a few days after the 911Skepticism Event in May 2002, all supporters of this event, guerrillanews, democraticunderground and Ourdna.Org had been hacked or attacked. The website of Ourdna.Org was furthermore defaced and in an unconcentrated moment, while the anti-trojan was disabled, the "wininit" of the home station was erased and the network infected with a worm. After one day, the system was finally able to start in a 16-bit mode. GroundZero-Forum, independent from Ourdna.Org continued to operate during this incident, but was strongly handicapped. Then, only a few days later, on May 15th 2002, President Bush confirmed, that he had prior knowledge on the Sep11th attack. At almost the same time, GZ contacted Hence,Kyle to suggest a media activist cooperation. Hence was working on a press conference in Washington with 911-victims, which was supported by investigative journalist Tom Flocco and Catherine Austin-Fitts. Hence decided to launch unansweredquestions.org in June 2001.

The public cooperation between ShadowGovernment TV, GZ Forum and UQ continued for a while, when Hence decided to concentrate on an initiative for a citizens commission on 9-11. SG TV released their first show in August 2002, which included a remastered and synchronised version (with the attacks in NY City) of the Booker Elementary Video, which GZ originally hosted on their server, until the traffic became too immense and had to be removed again. During the anniversary event of the September 11th attack, GZ Forum met with their oversea- and european contacts in New York. This cooperation turned into the idea by osamaskidneys.com to create a new NYC-911-strategy group and mailing list. On October 16th, 2002, a conflict between many progressive members and more pragmatic, hopefully democrat party supporters of DU turned in the famous "september skinner coup" or "night of the long knives" (See Du), as many speculated, "orchestrated by the DNC". It was one "insulting" news topic on an anti-Hillary Clinton protest, which was used by DU-admin Skinner as a reason to ban various members of the board, including the leftist IndianaGreen, Sterling, 2muchBS and - Ewing2001. Only 3 weeks before the election, Sterling and ewing2001, already active in public on many different other events, decided to support DU-member BPilgrim's private portal globalfreepress.com (Globalfreepress.Org) and turn it into an independent and progressive media project.

Almost over night, many former and current DU-members protested Skinners decision and decided to support ewing2001 and Sterling at GFP. GFP got more members, when the democratic party lost the senate election in October 2002. SGTV and bushknew.info had their own "table" at the Washington Anti-war protest on October 26th, 2002 and distributed their booklets, videos, leaflets and flyers by William Gibson (->), which promoted waronfreedom.com (->) or adoptcynthiamckinney.com (->). Finally SGTV met Cynthia McKinney in person in the same month. Ewing2001, in the meantime, delivered personally his "911-Files", Sterlings booklets and the SG TV- videos into the United Nations, to Martin Luther King III (at a peace vigil in NYC), Spookie, Nina Hagen or Ralph Nader of the Green Party and was invited by Erskine into his radio show at businessradio.com Since October 2002, GZ Forum visited the weekly internationalanswer.org meetings to promote the 911-files and impeachment campaigns, and continued to contact other independent media- and peace activists. In November 2002, GZ Forum started to work on the book "911Skeptics Unite! -the encyclopedia", while SGTV was at the same time already working on SGTV 3 and interviewed by freerepublic.com. During December 2002, globalfreepress.com released teasers of the 911Skeptics- book and GFP, SGTV and GZ continued to cooperate with many different media actvist groups or progresive and investigative projects and contacted worldwide guests or supporters of different websites.