Welcome back to New World next week.

I'm James Corbett of Corporate Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Polito of Mediamonarchy.com. 9-11 still killing first responders.

We've also got explosive Cold War plots and the latest unbelievable developments in the Taos compound story.

But first, never forget. The government said the air was safe. Now thousands of 9-11 first responders have cancer.

As Americans prepare for the 17th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, nearly 10,000 first responders and New York City residents have reported 9-11-related cancers.

In early August, the New York Post reported on newly released numbers of reported 9-11-related illnesses,

including 9,795 total cases of 9-11-related cancer.

The numbers were released by the federally funded World Trade Center Health Program. According to that program, there have been more than 400

documented cases of death from 9-11-related cancers. However, unfortunately, the plight of the men

and women who rushed into Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, in the following months are often forgotten in the public conversation.

17 years after the attacks, the first responders are all still fighting for their lives.

One week after 9-11, the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, Christine Todd Whitman,

released a statement declaring the air and water surrounding Ground Zero to be safe to breathe and drink.

The classic quote, given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York in Washington, D.C.,

that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink, end quote.

Since that time, firefighters, EMTs, cops, volunteers, all the people who remain at ground

zero looking for survivors and bodies found themselves falling victim to breathing

illnesses, cancer, and other sicknesses likely related to inhaling aerosolized dust consisting

of building materials, computers, and quite literally human bodies.

James, the sort of political landscape here in the States, as you and I kind of briefly talked about before we started to tape here is just pretty in, just it's intolerable ruckus and disaster mess.

I get it.

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