Comprehensive 9/11 Resource and Research List
Charles Shaw
The following list gives more than 80 links to credible sources on 9/11 conspiracy and cover-up drawn from academics, pilots, engineers, media professionals, intelligence sources, mainstream politicians, career military officers, firefighters, you name it, we got it!
I. SCHOLARS AND EXPERTS WHO BELIEVE THE US GOVT. WAS COMPLICIT IN THE ATTACKS
(many of them have published studies and peer-reviewed white papers on the various aspects of the attacks. They are readily available at their websites)
The Journal of 9/11 Studies - An open-access, electronic-only journal of evidence-based, peer-reviewed research covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001. All content is freely available online. http://www.journalof911studies.com/
Scholars for 9/11 truth - http://www.911scholars.org
List of Scholars
Stephen E. Jones, Former Professor of Physics, Brigham Young
University – Steven Jones has done some of the most amazing in-depth
research into the physics of collapse, and has obtained hard evidence
of controlled demolition. His lecture is a must see.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=964034652002408586
Morgan Reynolds - Professor of Economics Emeritus, Texas A&M University; former Chief Economist for the US Department of Labor in the Bush Administration; Director of the Criminal Justice Center and Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, TX
Robert M. Bowman, Ph.D. - Former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force, Director of the U.S. "Star Wars" Space Defense Program in both Republican and Democratic administrations, and a former Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Philip J. Berg, Esq. - Attorney at Law, Former Deputy Attorney General; former candidate for Governor, Lt. Governor and U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.
Joseph M. Phelps, MS, PE. - Structural Dynamicist (ret.), Charter Member of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (SEI/ASCE).
Andreas von Buelow - Former assistant German defense minister, director of the German Secret Service, minister for research and technology, and member of German Parliament for 25 years.
Daniel Orr, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Illinois; Princeton University Ph.D; he is a published author in the field of economics, especially in academic circles; worked for the United States Treasury Department (2002); Trustee of Oberlin College.
James H. Fetzer - Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, a former Marine Corps officer, author or editor of more than 20 books, and founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth; also founded the international journal Minds and Machines, which he edited for eleven years, and the professional library, Studies in Cognitive Systems, which includes thirty volumes.
Robert S. Boyer - Philosophy; Mathematics; Computer Science; University of Texas, Austin; He and J Strother Moore invented the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm, a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, in 1977. He and Moore also collaborated on the Boyer-Moore automated theorem prover, Nqthm, in 1992.
Joseph Diaferia - Political Science and History, State University and City University of New York.
David Griscom - Physics of optical materials, Materials science and engineering, Author/co-author of nearly 200 publications
Mark Bamberger, Ph.D. - Professor of Geology and Environmental Sciences, Miami University and Capital University
Tracy Blevins - Bioengineering, Rice University
Architects and Engineers
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
“a non-partisan association of Architects, Engineers, and affiliates,
who are dedicated to exposing the falsehoods and to revealing truths
about the “collapses” of the WTC high-rises on 9/11/01.”
http://www.ae911truth.org/
“Building a Better Mirage: NIST's 3-Year $20,000,000 Cover-Up of the Crime of the Century”
by Jim Hoffman
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/nist/index_0.98.html
(also see all of http://911research.wtc7.net)
Pilot Testimony
http://pilotsfor911truth.org
Current combined experience is over 200,000 Hours flight time with ATP,
Commercial, Primary and Advanced Flight Instructors etc. Airlines
represented include Continental, American, TWA, Independence Air, ATA,
jetBlue, United, several corporate, charter and fractional carriers.
Their membership covers every branch of the military. They have experts
from Boeing and licensed Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMT's).
II. FULL LENGTH MOVIES
Mysteries of 9/11 - (must see) It deals
strictly with the physics of the tower collapses, all three. It’s the
best film out there.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/50.html
Loose Change – Final Cut
Definitive version fact-checked by David Ray Griffin.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2035108967536002048&q=Looase+Ch...
9/11 Revisited –
September 11th Revisited v.2 is a follow up to perhaps the most
riveting film ever made about the destruction of the World Trade
Center. This is a powerful documentary which features eyewitness
accounts and archive news footage that was shot on September 11, 2001
but never replayed on television. Featuring interviews with
eyewitnesses & firefighters, along with expert analysis by BYU
Physics Professor Steven E. Jones, Professor David Ray Griffin, MIT
Engineer Jeffrey King, and AIA Architect Richard Gage.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4488542891415681105&hl=en
Improbable Collapse : The Demolition of our Republic
A look at the collapse of the WTC Towers and WTC 7 by scholars for 9/11 truth. To learn more about the 9/11 attacks, visit www.truth911.net
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4026073566596731782&q=%22Improba...
9/11 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy
By Adrian Connock and Former British MI5 Agent David Shayler. A brilliant film about the BBC's selective and distorted 911 coverage.
With particular reference to the Conspiracy Files programme aired on
BBC Two on February 18th 2007. Had great background on state sponsored
terrorism.
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.tv/bbc5.php
The Ultimate Con
No leading narrative, it uses only existing media coverage from video
tapes scores of people made during the day of the attacks. Most of this
footage has subsequently disappeared from the major networks, but it is
preserved here.
http://www.theultimateconspiracy.com/movie.htm
ZEITGEIST - The Movie - Discussing religion, 9/11 & Federal Reserve
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com
Free Online Movie/Documentary Databases
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com
http://www.brasschecktv.com
III. SHORT FILMS AND NEWS FOOTAGE COMPILATIONS
WTC 7 collapse reported 30 minutes before it happened
Live BBC
footage broadcast on 9/11
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/88.html
Inside Job & The 9/11 Solution
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/91.html
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/92.html
Building 7
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/128.html
Aviation Reality on 9/11 - A detailed explanation of how air traffic
control normally works and how the government story about what happened
on September 11 is impossible and points to high level, internal
interefence with the system.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/129.html
The 9/11 Report – Omissions and Distortions – David Ray Griffin
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/53.html
Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus (25 minutes)
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/48.html
The Science of 9/11
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/52.html
David Lynch on Dutch TV
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/219.html
IV. ESSENTIAL READING
The New Pearl Harbor, The 9/11 Commission: Omissions and Distortions – David Ray Griffin
The Terror Timeline - Paul Thompson
9/11 Synthetic Terror – Webster Tarpley
War and Globalization: The Truth Behind 9/11 – Michel Chussodovsky
The Big Wedding – Sander Hicks
Crossing the Rubicon – Mike Ruppert
The Oral History of 9/11
A rich vein of city records from Sept. 11, including more than 12,000
pages of oral histories rendered in the voices of 503 firefighters,
paramedics, and emergency medical technicians, were made public on Aug.
12. The New York Times has published all of them. The oral histories of
dispatch transmissions are transcribed verbatim. They have have not
been edited to omit coarse language.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC...
The Coincidence Theorist’s Guide to 9/11
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/coincidence-theorists-guid...
The 9/11 Commission Report
The NIST Report
The FEMA Report
V. 9/11 TRUTH ORGANIZATIONS AND WEBSITES
911truth.org - There is an extensive list of links and resources at http://www.911truth.org/links.php
Nearly all the rest of the credible 9/11 groups and sites are listed on 911truth.org
VI. NEWS CLIPS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm
(BBC: "Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline" -1997)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
(BBC: "Hijack 'suspects' alive and well")
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/09/attack/main521223.shtml
(CBS: "Hijackers Lived With FBI Informant")
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.13A.newk.infrmt.htm
(NEWSWEEK has learned that one of the bureau's informants had a close relationship with two of the hijackers.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3670627.stm
(BBC: "Spain suspects 'were informants'")
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4535661.stm
(BBC: "Cuba 'plane bomber' was CIA agent")
http://www.wanttoknow.info/050407hijackersmilitarytraining911
(NEWSWEEK: "U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that
suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the planes that were used in
[the 9/11] terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military
installations in the 1990s.")
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1130775/posts
(NEW YORK TIMES: "At least six air traffic controllers who dealt with
two of the hijacked airliners on Sept. 11, 2001, made a tape recording
that day describing the events, but the tape was destroyed by a
supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it,
the Transportation Department said today.")
http://prisonplanet.com/pentagon_officials_safe.htm
(NEWSWEEK: "On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning [9/11],
apparently because of security concerns.")
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml
(CBS NEWS: JULY 6, 2001 - "In response to inquiries from CBS News over
why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead
of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a
"threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to
travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.")
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm
(USAToday: "NORAD had drills of jets as weapons")
WASHINGTON POST: "Federal authorities have been aware for years that suspected terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden were receiving flight training at schools in the United States and abroad, according to interviews and court testimony." (LINK)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=...
(TIMES OF INDIA: "9/11 funds came from Pakistan, says FBI")
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A17F6385A0C7B8CDDAE08...
(NEW YORK TIMES: "U.S. ABORTED RAID ON QAEDA CHIEFS IN PAKISTAN IN '05")
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/bush_twarted.htm
(BBC: "FBI agents in the United States probing relatives of Saudi-born
terror suspect Osama Bin Laden before September 11 were told to back
off soon after George W. Bush became president, the BBC has reported.")
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3516233.stm
(BBC: "CIA 'had 9/11 hijacker details'")
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/050607bidenadmits.htm
(CNN: Senator Joe Biden Admits Post-9/11 Meeting With Hijacker's Financier)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1212608584312652180&q=Here%27s+...
(Complete hotel surveillance video shows no plane hitting the Pentagon)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/inv.terror.probe/index.ht...
(CNN: "Bush asks Daschle to limit Sept. 11 probes")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oNhbsJ81Q4&mode=related&search=
(Here's the BBC saying WTC 7 has fallen, and it hadn't yet!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFuUGEZ39g8
(Here's Rumsfeld saying that flight 93 was "shot down over Pennsylvania.")
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/02/MNGHEG1PA01.DTL&...
(SFGate: "Gulf of Tonkin intelligence called 'deliberately skewed'")
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/28/london.tube/index.html
(CNN: "UK 'blocked bomb plotter' arrest")
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/090705bombingexercises.htm
(BBC News: London Underground Bombing 'Exercises' Took Place at Same Time as Real Attack)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/agency_planned_exercise_on_sept_11_built_aro...
(ASSOCIATED PRESS: "In what the government describes as a bizarre
coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last
Sept. 11 [2001] in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its
buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism — it was to be a simulated
accident.")
http://www.prisonplanet.com/fbi_let_suspected_terrorist_get_away.html
(LA Times: "FBI Let Suspected Terrorist Get Away")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn4Yx1MTgfQ
(Here's John Kerry saying the destruction of WTC 7 was a "controlled" demolition)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center
(Here's the official 9/11 commission findings):
"In May 2002, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a report on the collapse [of WTC 7].... FEMA made these findings:
"Loss of structural integrity was likely a result of weakening caused by fires on the 5th to 7th floors. The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyzes are needed to resolve this issue. [Ch. 5, p. 31.]
...National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made a three-year, US$24-million investigation into the structural failure and collapse of several WTC structures, including 7 World Trade Center. The study drew not only on in-house technical expertise but also the knowledge of several outside private institutions, including the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (SEI/ASCE), the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY).[21]")
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,50164,00.html
(FOX NEWS: "Rep. McKinney Accuses Bush of Profiting From 9/11")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaCYEEO-58I
(International Association of Firefighters discuss Guilianni)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/110903usafbases.html
(USAF: 35 USAF Bases Within Range On 911")
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_011303_911.html
(WASHINGTON TIMES: "FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has been asked
by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to justify an
award he gave to an FBI official who refused requests by Minneapolis
agents for a warrant to search the computer of terror suspect Zacarias
Moussaoui.")
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/terror-commande.html
(ABC NEWS: "'It's not that we lack the ability to go into that space,'
said Tom Fingar of the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
'But we have chosen not to do so without the permission of the
Pakistani government....'")
http://www.infowars.com/articles/terror/al_qaeda_leadership_allowed_oper...
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2001-11-22/news_story3.html
(NOW Toronto: "'(FBI investigators) were pursuing these matters, but
were told to back off,' said David Armstrong, an intelligence expert at
the Washington, D.C.-based Public Education Center, a nonprofit
investigative organization that helped the BBC research its report.")
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/0...
(SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: "For [SF] Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs
that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what
he described as his airport security - - a full eight hours before
yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans
should be cautious about their air travel.")
http://www.btinternet.com/%7Enlpwessex/Documents/rushdieairban.htm
(LONDON TIMES: "...US authorities knew of an imminent terrorist strike
when they banned him from taking internal flights in Canada and the US
only a week before the attacks.")
http://www.prisonplanet.com/us_planned_attack_on_taliban.htm
(BBC: "Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by
senior American officials in mid-July that military action against
Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.")
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/sitting_on_theFBI....
(BBC: "I received a phone call from a high-placed member of a US
intelligence agency. He tells me that while there's always been
constraints on investigating Saudis, under George Bush it's gotten much
worse. After the elections, the agencies were told to 'back off'
investigating the Bin Ladens and Saudi royals....")
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentI...
(WASHINGTON POST: "Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is calling for an
investigation into whether President Bush and other government
officials had advance notice of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 but did
nothing to prevent them. She added that 'persons close to this
administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war.'")
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/bush_cipro.htm
(ASSOCIATED PRESS: "At least some White House personnel were given
Cipro six weeks ago. White House officials won't discuss that, or who
might be receiving the anthrax-treating antibiotic now.")
http://www.judicialwatch.org/2953.shtml
(JUDICIAL WATCH: "WHITE HOUSE DODGES ANTHRAX QUESTIONS")
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/06/03/020603fa_FACT
(NEW YORKER: "It is now clear that the White House, for its own
reasons, chose to keep secret the extent of the intelligence that was
available before and immediately after September 11th....")
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentI...
(WASHINGTON POST: "NS Action Ruled a Violation of Whistle-Blower Protections")
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0141,gray,29113,6.html
(VILLAGE VOICE: "Bush Sr. Could Profit From War")
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
(GUARDIAN UK: "George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott
Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from
their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.")
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR200707...
(WASHINGTON POST: "Al-Qaeda's Gains Keep U.S. at Risk, Report Says")
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/23/wbin223....
(TELEGRAPH UK: "Blunders that let bin Laden slip away")
http://www.msnbc.com/news/190144.asp?cp1=1#BODY
(MSNBC: "Bin Laden comes home to roost. His CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story")
http://www.prisonplanet.com/guilty_for_911_bush_rumsfeld_myers.htm
(9/11 Overview)
http://groups.google.com/group/flora.mai-not/browse_thread/thread/14905a...
(ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP), April 25, 2001 - Memo: U.S. Mulled Fake Cuba Pretext")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
("As part of the U.S. government's Operation Mongoose anti-Castro
initiative, the plan, which was not implemented, called for various
false flag actions, including simulated or real state-sponsored acts of
terrorism (such as hijacked planes) on U.S. and Cuban soil. The plan
was proposed by senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders, including
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Louis Lemnitzer." Do
check the references on this page.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
(" * "...the board of inquiry (concluded) that the Israelis knew
exactly what they were doing in attacking the Liberty."- Former CIA
Director Richard Helms[10]
* "I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. . . . Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous "- Former US Secretary of State Dean Rusk[11]")
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,688071,00.html
(Guardian UK: "Venezuela coup linked to Bush team")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d'%C3%A9tat_attempt#_n...
(GUARDIAN UK: "Top coup plotters, including Pedro Carmona himself,
began visits to the White House months before the coup and continued
until weeks before the putsch. The plotters were received at the White
House by the man President George Bush tasked to be his key
policy-maker for Latin America, Special Envoy Otto Reich. [15] It has
been reported that Reich was the U.S. mastermind of the coup [16]")
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0201,ridgeway,31200,6.html
(VILLAGE VOICE: "...two French authors have released a report outlining
U.S. attempts to finesse the issue of Osama bin Laden long before Al
Qaeda struck on September 11. Based on extensive firsthand reporting,
Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié write in their book, Bin
Laden: The Forbidden Truth, that the Bush administration went so far as
to consider waging war against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban last
summer. Brisard and Dasquié argue the U.S. cared more about getting
access to the region's oil than about getting the head of Osama bin
Laden.")
http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=565
(University of Northwest Minnesota: "Americans in the twentieth century
have become accustomed to discovering years after the fact that their
government was negotiating with or propping up repressive regimes.")
Other fun stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hFg55ec1p0
(Inattentional Blindness)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGq7mqkDJ7E
(MSNBC: Olbermann on Libby Pardon)
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Great post
9/11 was an I/O job!
I've done tons of research on this subject! It's extremely important *not* to automatically jump to the "9/11 was an inside job" slogan. It would be naive to do so, as the "truth" seems a bit more nuanced than that. As Daniel said on AAR's Clout show, "The evidence is confusing." This is the proper tack to take: There's definite evidence that elements of the military-industrial-financial complex, as well as well-placed/high-level rogue elements within the U.S. *and other* governments were involved to a degree (Israel, Pakistan, etc.). There's evidence that elements within the private sector, both domestic & multi-national, were also involved. And, there's even evidence that terrorism is involved. This is why I say that 9/11 was an "I/O job" rather than an "inside job." I don't want to see the truther mantras spreading to this site. If I want them I'll go to 9/11 Blogger or something. The "truth" movement has been perpetually plagued with failure to offer an alternative working narrative. Furthermore, there's a lot of disinfo out there about "space rays," holograms, pods, etc. In the confusion, people resort to "let it happen" or "made it happen," because it simplifies things. If simplification is a necessity, then I offer this to the uninitiated: "helped it happen." Most of the seasoned researchers have settled around this idea, since 9/11 is more aptly described a perfect mess than a perfect conspiracy. WTC 7 is a good place to start one's research. PS - DP did a nice job on Clout, adding the soft touch that the whole debate really needs! It was surprising to hear from him on this topic.
With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another. - Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins
Where Do We Go From Here?
These are helpful and insightful comments. The evidence surrounding 911 is confusing and the history of the status quo is certainly suspect. Does anyone know if there are any aggressive campaigns to uncover further evidence and illuminate these mysteries?
Clout on Air America 6/2
Thanks for mentioning the Clout appearance. You can download the show: http://airamerica.com/ondemand . It was 6/2 . I don't know if this costs money.
Richard Greene turned up at my speech at Lightning in a Bottle. I said that 9/11 could have been a conspiracy, but I didn't think it needed to be investigated. He was surprised by my perspective, and invited me on the show. I felt a bit odd about being included in this arena, but took the offer.
Afterward, I wrote Greene the following note, explaining my perspective:
If 9-11 was an "inside job," that means that a vast secret infrastructure exists that can basically undertake any destructive operation it wants with perfect impunity. There is no way that any governmental investigation is going to be able to gain traction against this force, which blew up a chunk of the Pentagon and sent Anthrax to the media and congress to incite panic and the immediate rubberstamping of the Patriot Act. If any investigation were to begin to bring out the truth, it would likely lead to a violent reprisal that would throw the situation into chaos - another terrorist act would allow for the declaration of martial law, internment camps, etc.
When I look at macro-trends, it seems to me that despite the destructive power of this hypothetical secret government (with a fascist lineage - 1,200 Nazi scientists were absorbed into the US military with Operation Paperclip, Bush's great uncle was a main financier of the Nazi regime, etc.), its capability to control the global situation is quickly slipping away. South America, for instance, is no longer under the thumb of US interests, the "shock doctrine" described by Naomi Klein is now recognized by most developing countries around the world as a cunning control mechanism, and the Middle East is going off the dollar and substituting the Euro as the reserve currency for fossil fuel transactions. The Iraq War has shown that traditional military dominance, even with the latest in high-tech weaponry, is less and less meaningful or effective. The US military bases around the world may be an enormous and expensive liability. We are learning the painful lesson that it is impossible to control reality, though it can be mastered in the Taoist sense, when we learn to flow with it.
In fact, the US may be on the verge of slipping into a massive depression and hyperinflation, similar to what happened to Russia in the 1990s. I recommend the book, "Reinventing Collapse" (New Society) by Dimitry Orlov for one good analysis of what this will be like. He recommends stockpiling razors, condoms, and vodka bottles for barter. The mortgage meltdown may be only the first phase of a multi-stage destruction of the US financial system (and by extension, the global system), with a crisis in personal credit to follow. (I have written about this on my Reality Sandwich blog).
At the same time, climate change is accelerating. The book "With Fear and Violence : Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Systems" notes that past climate shifts happened incredibly rapidly - 9 degrees in ten years is normal, which would lead to the melting of the ice caps entirely and a rise in sea level of 10 meters, flooding all coastal areas and causing 600 million environmental refugees.
Apparently, Amma, the Indian "hugging saint" who is thought to have predicted the 2004 tsunami, recently stated in a trance state that the year 2010 would see "immense suffering" in the world, worse than anything ever experienced, that "people would wish they had never been born." She said her ashram on the California coast would be underwater within two years. "Humanity is a cancer on the Earth, and the Earth wants to shake them off," she said. The trance prediction was being videotaped, but she had her followers erase this part of the tape, as she didn't want to cause panic. Of course this would fit the "2012" timetable, so I am sensitive to it, though also recognize that any particular prediction may be wrong.
In any event, I don't think environmental calamity and economic collapse due to resource scarcity can be avoided, so the question is how to prepare for these transformative events, compassionately and sanely. This requires having a plan of action, and then a method for disseminating this plan of action to others. I do think the revival of Gandhi's satyagraha ("truth force") movement of direct nonviolent action is one possible part of the answer.
When we take all of these factors into account (and more I could go into), my personal perspective is that we are best served using almost all of the very limited time and energy we have at our disposal to construct a viable alternative to the current "suicide system," using social networks and the media to reach as many people as possible with solution-based approaches and support systems for growing their own organic food, reinventing local communities, developing different mechanisms of exchanging value, even learning from the sustainable practices of indigenous and tribal people such as the Hopi, who mastered subsistence agriculture in an arid climate. This would be the most adult and responsible approach to the problems we face as a species.
We can see from NOLA and Iraq that the outsourcing and privatization of government services, the hollowing out of government that Klein documents in The Shock Doctrine, does not lead to effective control but sloppy chaos and disastrous corruption and failure. At the same time, as books such as Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody" reveal, the Internet has the potential to allow the multitude to self-organize into collaborative groups that could allow people to take over most of the work currently not being performed by top-down governmental agencies. I also recommend "Multitude" by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, on how the new forms of labor no longer require authoritarian controls or hierarchy - the "open source" movement being the greatest example. As I argue in 2012, it is not just a system but an entire form of consciousness that is disintegrating - one based on control of others, control of nature, and on belief in an outside or transcendent authority.
While I do think it is important that people have come forth to challenge the official 9/11 story, which has more holes in it than Swiss Cheese, the danger for people is that their level of consciousness then gets bound up in the fear, negativity, and anxiety that our system is designed to magnify. When too much of your psychic energy is bound up in what happened with Building 7 or whatever, you are not capable of being adaptive to the current rapid changes that require a massive transformation in society and consciousness. We need to figure out how to create new social habits, entraining the multitude to sustainable practices in all areas of life.
I also think - as hypothesis supported by my personal experience - that there is some truth to the idea that we co-create reality through our intention and our use of psychic energy. In that case, without being PollyAnna-ish, it is really important to focus on the most positive outcome we can work toward, and not get caught in negative loops that may reinforce negative possible outcomes.
"Will the transformation."-Rilke
A few words on "nonviolent direct action"
Hi Daniel,
Although I appreciate most of your comments, I am beginning to gather certain concerns and objections to your recent trend of invoking Gandhi and "nonviolent direct action." Although you are well-versed in many intellectual subjects, you have no real experience or understanding of direct action, and you cannot glean this from simply reading a book.
As I offered in your midnight "discussion" at Lightning in a Bottle, it's important to remember that "nonviolence" is actually incredibly violent, it's just that the violence is one-sided. One side has to be willing and ready to suffer, and perhaps give up their lives, to brutality in order to advance their cause. Tens of thousands of Indians were gunned down or otherwise killed, maimed and brutalized so that Ghandi could walk behind them proclaiming "nonviolence." Thousands of African Americans died or were brutalized during the Civil Righs era so that King could walk behind them safely, preaching "nonviolence." And recently, thousands of monks in Burma were either killed, brutalized, or disappeared in the name of "nonviolence." Talk to Frida Berrigan about what her father and uncle went through leading the anti-nuke movement. Talk to Rachel Corrie's parents about what happened when their daughter decided to non-violently resist home demolition in Palestine.
My point is not to discourage a nonviolenct direct action movement, for that really is all we can use against the dominant system save for a total drop-out, parallel society movement (which is problematic and unrealistic in its own right). No, my point is that I don't think you or anyone else should preach about things you know nothing about, and would not risk your own self, life, or security for. Until you are willing to put your body, your reputation and career, and your life on the line, you have no right telling others to do it, or even casually suggesting it as a course of action.
Unlike you and most Americans, myself and a small cadre of comrades in various (mostly radical) political movements have spent years in the streets planning and committing direct actions. We have been beaten and jailed and maced and tear-gassed by riot cops. We have been monitored, photographed, videotaped, had our email and phone and websites tapped or hacked. We have fought in the courts, in the streets, in the electoral arena, and in the court of public opinion. We have taken the blows both literally and metaphorically for what we see as justice, We take issue with interlopers who preach "non-violent direct action" without having the slightest clue what that entails, what risks and sacrifices are involved, and how precarious a plan of action it really is. My personal opinion is that Americans simply don't have the guts or conviction to put themselves and their lives on the line for anything anymore. Please, by all means, prove me wrong.
Warranted or not, you have tremendous influence over a lot of people, and the wrong advice could prove deadly to those not prepared or fully understanding all that is potentially involved. What you are doing is manifestly irresponsible. Please stop, or learn more about it first before commenting further.
I know you don't handle criticism particularly well, but this is more important than some tactless person taking issue with your book. This is about life and death and human security. It's very serious business, not to be exploited by political dilletantes and those hoping to make a name for themselves as "leaders of the movement."
You should know better, Daniel.
Charles Shaw
Evolver/Reality Sandwich
so what is your plan, stan?
Hi Charles,
Typically, there is a bit of adolescent machismo in your comments. I believe I have manifested plenty of courage in other ways, and when it seems valuable and important to do so, would be willing to risk my self in a nonviolent action campaign. I haven't done so in the past essentially because I haven't seen the depth of collective support or intelligence of organization in these types of actions that would give them the remotest possibility of succeeding. In many cases, the protestors have seemed to be more into grandstanding than in actually working strategically to build the type of coalition that could bring about effective change. Your snide and superior tone about King and Gandhi is bizarre, considering what both of them endured, and how they died. Do you have a better idea about how they should have acted?
Charles, I have asked you this before, and I will ask you again. You seem to love to dwell in negativity, to present the worst possible interpretations with no positive vision of any sort. What is your plan for the near future? If you don't think direct action is possible, and you don't think breaking off into a parallel society is possible, how do you see a way forward for us? Can you even see anything beyond your dystopian psychological projections? If you can, I haven't heard it from you yet.
"Will the transformation."-Rilke
Interesting
Hi Daniel,
Very interesting. So, I basically call you out for speaking out of turn about something you know nothing about, and your response is to call me "adolescent" and to call all prior efforts by movements as "ineffectual grandstanding." Again, this coming from a person who's never attempted any of it, addressing a person with extensive experience. What does not seem right here? Taking lots of drugs and writing about it does not make you an expert on social movements. Neither do New York cocktail parties.
I'm quite used to you reducing all your critics into people with "negative projections." But that's getting really old, and not entirely applicable, now is it?
And as far as solutions go, I'm not so arrogant as to think that I know the way to solve the world's problems. And I don't think having a solution is a prerequisite for identifying a major problem.
But I am comfortable acknowledging when someone is full of shit (or themselves). You've never done anything for humanity, Daniel. Not unless it advanced your career. Let's not go getting delusions of grandeur now. It's so unbecoming.
Charles Shaw
Evolver/Reality Sandwich
never done anything for humanity
I have a very close friend who is HIV positive. After reading Breaking Open the Head, my friend decided to try ayahuasca. He's been on the path for a few years already and his quality of life has improved tremendously. He is a different person, a better one, I might add, more compassionate, more understanding, less fearful, than he was before coming into contact with Daniel's book.
At the end of the day, we do not change the world through masses, Charles... we change it one person at a time. And I can tell you this: Daniel Pinchbeck opened a door of hope for someone who was very ill. Does that qualify as "doing something for humanity"? Although my opinion might not be super valuable and an ultimate proof of judgement, it is enough for me. I can at least say, my friend is still with me thanks to the works of this one writer. And that, Charles, is also a way of "doing something for humanity".
Great, but...
I'm happy Daniel's book helped your friend, obviously his books have helped lots of people in different ways. But that was a passive result of his writing them. Daniel did not set out to help your friend or anyone else with Breaking Open The Head , he set out to write a book for himself.
Now, as he talks about direct action, my points entered the conversation. Hence, committing Direct Action, civil disobedience and the like are solem and selfless contributions to a cause and belief...i.e. "something for Humanity." It is in this that my friend Daniel has no experience, and hence, no foot to stand on in pontificating to others.
Charles Shaw
Evolver/Reality Sandwich
So Charles...
....from your experience and perspective, what do you think is the most effective way to take action?
On The Subject of Pontification
According to Schopenhauer we are incapable of direct action because the subject (consciousness) must interact with the object (space-time) via our perception of the phenomenal universe. Our body, the bodies of others, the sun, moon, earth, everything we perceive is filtered through the senses. Therefore, every act of will is performed through indirect action whether it be writing a book or an attempt at civil disobedience.
Your assertion that civil disobedience is "a solemn and selfless contribution to a cause and belief" is mere opinion and greatly suspect in general. Your claim that it is "something for humanity" is full of pomp and presumption. There is little difference between the deaths of those who were killed as a result of nonviolent protest in India or those who died as a result of China's reaction to civil disobedience in Tibet. Violence is senseless and stupid no matter what the circumstances are.
I think the measure of success (as superficial as it is) should be to what extent we exert our will and effect the phenomenal universe. By that measure Daniel has done rather well. Any assertion that an author's contribution to humanity and society is less valuable because he does not fancy himself a martyr or a revolutionary is not reasonable. Real martyrs and revolutionaries do not choose their place in history. Fate or history chooses it for them and by many accounts it is a miserable and painful existence.
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flow around
Thank you, Daniel, for expressing something also within myself I was hesitant to accept.
Last night I had a conversation with an intelligent friend about 9/11. She's heard some chatter about the possibility of a government conspiracy--mainly from me, as far as I know--but says she'd rather not look too deep because she doesn't want to live in a such a horribly dark world. Our conversation was generally focused on spiritual matters and dipped as an aside into 9/11.
This is a dilemma I've faced since I first looked into the 9/11 information a little over two years ago: a part of me wonders if my attention on the crime prevents a positive outcome from the entire process; sometimes I think my contribution to reality is so strong that I might wake up and find the events of 9/11 perfectly explained in a way that not only heals us all but also serves as an unprecedented catalyst for personal growth. Can my belief make such a thing happen? Is this too PollyAnna? The rational, former philosophy major in me says I'm losing my grip, but my experience also confirms that my positive expectations can affect previously unthinkable change. Should I not focus on negative possible explanations and instead turn my attention to healing, transformational outcomes?
When I first encountered the possibility of an alternative 9/11 conspiracy, I became militant and thought the purpose of my generation would be to challenge tyranny or watch every following generation slide deeper and deeper into an inescapable, eternal slavery. I went to the marches, waved the banners, talked with strangers, called into radio, and wrote to newspapers and politicians. I found that I agitated myself and achieved little more.
I decided to take a page from the Tao Te Ching, and flow like water around the block.
My direct, political efforts didn't make a dent against the structure that could've enabled 9/11, so I decided I would have to change myself. Like Jung said, What you resist, persists. I decided that instead of fighting the 9/11 coverup, my revolutionary action would be to give every person I encounter--especially the most miserable and lost--to give them my full, compassionate attention and every kindness I can imagine. We can't change our society with a trial, but I can brighten a heart with my smile.
Daniel, thank you for confirming a seed of thought within myself that direct political confrontation may not be the best response to 9/11, and that we don't have to pretend nothing happened either. There is another way around this, and it might provoke something much better than a new, independent investigation.
When it comes to 9/11, I think of Blake:
Damn braces,
Bless relaxes.
Vision
Daniel,
I agree that our vision of the phenomenal universe determines our place within it. Cultivating constructive, problem-solving ideas and a positve sense of well-being is the most pragmatic approach in confronting the obstacles facing us. I also think we need to adopt a critical and clear-eyed view of those obstacles. Charles seems to have an aptitude for this type of critical analysis, although I disagree with his conclusion. He has provided a wealth of material here that lends valuable insight into many of the unanswered questions surrounding the events on September 11th, 2001.
I share your vision that we can disseminate information on healthy, sustainable practices to create social communities with built-in redundancy that provides us with a viable alternative for the future. Yet, this does not mean we cannot or should not demand an honest investigation of the truth from our political representatives as well. You indicate that "if 911 was an inside job, that means that a vast secret infrastructure exists that can basically undertake any destructive operation it wants with perfect impunity." I hesitate to agree with that. It is speculative and potentially biased. The fact is that we don't know exactly what happened on 911 or who was involved.
I don't adhere to the belief that all political officials are corrupt and that our current system of representative government is entirely without the checks and balances that would allow for an investigation into the circumstances of 911. I will be labeled naive for saying so, yet there is as much proof rebuffing the concept of government corruption as there is evidence affirming it. I imagine the details of corruption are highly nuanced and complex. When I reflect upon the collage of world events and recent history, I too can conceive of "a hypothetical secret government with a fascist lineage," namely Nazi lineage, that has usurped our democracy and our culture. Yet, there is not enough evidence reinforcing that argument. We don't know to what extent this is true.
Essentially, I agree with you, but I still think we can attempt to investigate the circumstances surrounding 911 without polluting our psychic ecosystems with obsession and violence. The success of such a campaign would depend on the organizational capacity and initiative of its adherents. Unfortunately, there may not be such an organization with any sign of success. Still, the conclusion you have propogated is the best I have found, Daniel. You've shown the ability to act on your ideas and manifest them in the mundane world and we are all the beneficiaries.
As an aside: Certainly, the argument can be made that it is hypocritical of you to espouse concepts of dramatic, socioeconomic reformation while you participate in a capitalist system. Yet, I disagree with this accusation. It is obvious that you directly benefit from the success of Reality Sandwich and your status as a figurehead in the counter-culture community, but it is remiss of anyone to suggest that such exposure is undeserved or unnatural. I don't believe you have ever described yourself as a revolutionary and we can hardly fault you for making a living.
I have never paid any fee for the services Reality Sandwich has provided and the online magazine is open to publishing articles from a large variety of contributers. You make yourself available to your readers and seem genuinely interested in the ideas presented on the website, whether they be articles or commentary. I appreciate this and I think many others do as well.
Entheos Genesthai
Prophecy....
....is notoriously unreliable.
Chinese whispers coming from an Indian saint who supposedly said 'Humanity is a cancer on the earth' is not worth a place here, I feel. What an odd thing to say from a woman who hugs everyone.
Anyway,she got it wrong.Concentration of vast wealth in the hands of a few is the cancer.
I really think you have something here...
Synchromystic Investigation
Another interesting conclusion comes from "the father of synchromysticism", Jake Kotze, and it has less to do with "who done it and why" and more to do with the synchronicity between the three buildings and the pyramids of Giza and the Three Pillars in Freemasonry.
The end conclusion is that the event was a significant catalyst that focused consciousness on one point in space-time and, to use the popular culture moniker, opened a "stargate". Makes a lot of sense if you saw the TMNT movie, and if you look to the original design for the Freedom Tower that would replace it.
Anyway, here's his blog: http://rundonotwalk.blogspot.com/
http://thebravenewworldorder.blogspot.com And the
youtube video: The 9-11 Stargate
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qUvSqY3po24
I think we get too concerned with pointing the finger, and demanding "justice", when it seems that there is an unseen force beyond the scope of conspiracy theories and political ties.
-wanderlust
building the movement
thanks to reality sandwich and charles for posting these resources. 911 truth finally seems to be entering the main stream, and this will definitely help spread the word. it's hard to deny at this point...
to johnnymonicker,
yes, there is a very aggressive reinvestigation campaign headed by 911truth. have you all heard about the hunger strike of blair gabsby for 911 truth? check it out www.911truth.org
SynchroMysticism
The SynchroMystical path is perhaps as best a path as is possible to follow. 9/11 truth acts like a black hole for those unprepared. It sucks one in & possibly fixates them with negative energies. It's therefore important to have a solid framework of the nature of half-truths before taking the SynchroMystical "high view" of the event. As for aggressive investigation campaigns, just look at this list. It answers most of the nitty-gritty "factual" questions. For instance, I could tell you generally that false-flag ops are par-for-the-course procedure for all empires going back to Roman times. I could tell you that these ops are done in "compartmentalized" fashion, so that the person doing it is just following orders in working on a tiny part of a much bigger picture. The guy planting incendiaries in WTC 7 could have just been painting a beam for all he knew. Unaware of any wrongdoing as such, this allows a "huge conspiracy" to be pulled off by a relatively small, tight ring at the top. But who cares? The greater truth is one of "resonance," to use DP's word from the clout interview. The high-view perspective sees these things like Pearl Harbor & 9/11 as cyclical events, a recurring way to "split the splitters," to establish diverse orders within mankind. The cabal at the top couldn't care less about what us "manimals" at the bottom perceive. They feel we're several orders down from them. And so long as we continue along arguing about & embroiled in such details we're proving them right!
Incidentally, here's a little bit about Japan Attacking us, PRINTED NOVEMBER 30, 1941, 7 DAYS BEFORE PEARL HARBOR:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/pearlharborwarning.jpg
With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another. - Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins
9/11 Truth is a "gateway drug"
9/11 truth was an eye-opener for me, I think for the most part because the evidence (of controlled demolition especially) is so convincing, it forces you to acknowledge a reality very different from the one you know.
We all are partially deluded (some more than others), and those of us who maintain they are not are the most deluded of all. I think the American Public needs a smack in the face, to bring us out of our glib, decadent, binging. 9/11 Truth is already doing this for a lot of people.
If Pinchbeck is correct that a new investigation would be futile because it would require a vast secret government (which isn't necessarily true), then we are better off doing it anyway, forcing the government to play it's hand. The sooner that we confront this situation, and stop lying to ourselves, the better off we will be. The jews who rebelled in the Warsaw Ghetto had a higher rate of survival.
However if Pinchbeck is incorrect (partially), and there are factions warring secretly in our own government over this, and it it more the likely case that any inside job was perpetrated by a small group of the most criminal elements in this government, then the good people (or maybe just self-interested, or whatever) working in public positions and the military desperately need the help of the public- who are not restricted by orders and need-to-know. We are dealing with a power that cannot thrive in the open, and there are many potentially good things that can happen if the public was fully aware of the facts, or even aware that the government refuses to confront the facts. I think it's our best chance of seeing the Bush/Cheneys and other minions put to trial. And I would urge any New Yorkers to support the 9/11 truth ballot initiative going on right now.
9/11 Truth, and the efforts of Alex Jones and the Patriot movement who are largely responsible for it coming into the mainstream, is intimately connected to what this website is trying to accomplish. When I woke up to 9/11 I also woke up to the real world of banking and monetary reform, which I now believe is an even more essential issue than 9/11 Truth. It was completely outside my consciousness that the simple act of using fiat currency can silently enslave me in ways I can't even imagine. Now I'm sickened at the open fraud thats been eating away at us for the past century. It also makes me extremely hopeful because I know how much we've been held back. And for anyone who believes that the present economic crisis and specter of the destruction of the dollar is a dying gasp of our secret Nazi government, you need to consider the alternate possibility that it is also a "controlled demolition" in the banking world, as it has been decided by the world banking cartel that our currency has served it's usefulness and now needs to be replaced (preferably by the "Amero").
This links up with the memes circulating on this website, whether we know it or not. Everyone has a feeling deep down that our problems are related to money. It's like we are all parts of one big brain, where the accurate perception of reality doesn't exist in any one element (or individual) but rather in the connection between those elements and the play involved in their different assessments of reality. Even our delusions might serve a function in that larger brain. And the more we learn to be merely connections in that brain, rather than sole egos, the more we might be correct even while simultaneously being wrong.
In any case, we are already in this sh*triver too deep, and we are not going to cross to the other side without swimming through a lot of sh*t.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the people who have power to print money, start wars with synthetic terror events, and cause depressions won't give it up without exercising that power first, and who knows what else. But perhaps if we spread the meme of monetary reform far and wide, we can be ready and waiting with novel barter and currency systems, which any depression or crisis in fiat currency is fertile ground for. A lot of people are going to get hurt one way or another, and the sooner we remove this tick, the faster we start to recover.
eye opening event=stargate
eye opening event=stargate realizing event.
in good fun,
wanderlust
7/11
ok , so we know that wars are started by some mechanism that removes history in one fell swoop, and as this all speeds up, as the ground is not the being, and the being is not the ground, but it is the ground of being.the two step that alone is the grounds for war, and the being that resists being ground into bits.Now becomes the third reason, the one that goes down with the two, yet remains hidden, or hidden in the open.This is a shell game, and the pea is the oil. The hand is quicker then the eye in the triangle, but the eye has the advantage in its position of all seeing. when the hand makes its move, the slight of eye intervenes, and the hand merely places the object under the last shell.Perhaps it is so that the left hand don't know what the right hand is up to, perhaps the cognitive dissonance has become so much part of our external mental landscape that the view from within has finally reached a critical transition point.At that point we either guess what shell the little ball with the points coming off its surface in all directions is sitting under, or we at the moment of credulity become transfixed by the motions of all the parts.
the slow motion scene, the moving objects, the unmoved objects, the slow pan of the eye as the pointy objects seem to be caught in a news reel of war footage in and endless loop de loop of imagistic violence, the war of war, the war on war, the war to end all wars, the hypnotic exalted madness of the Nuremburg night, as Jim Morrison said, the terrible face that appears with the mask of flames and signs of dollars and ancient sun symbol turning to the right, and this infinite moment pauses as you are feeling sleepy, and almost resigned to be mere speck of low grade dust in the swirling spectacle of beer hall talk,body politic fueled sloshed speeches, poets on boxes read the writing of the subway wall, the saw dust the smokey illusion, the neon schiltz sign behind the counter, the big red hand of the bartender wiping the deep grained bar, the sound of jack hammers outside, the vomit on the floor, the girl on the stool with eyes bluer then morning glories, ...and BLAM! your head jerks up and the TV screen bolted to the ceiling, showing now the instant replay, the plane the plane, the plane endlessly entering the towering inferno.
for a split second you see the unmoved mover, the truth of that day in infamy.then the hand reaches up and changes the channel, and some commercial for genetic engineered seeds with smiling indians, then another change of the channel, and some impossible rerun of The Naked City seems to come out of the twilight zone, that voice "there are ten thousand stories in the naked city, this has been one of them"... the midget on fantasy island..and then Teli Savalis says "who loves ya baby?"
clue...if you look closely at episide 13 of Outter Limits you will see some just landed time machine caveman watching a TV in the future, on that huge plasma screen, there is a 9/11 endless loop de loop.History repeats itself, like some used car salseman and his dog called god on the big lot of time wasted midnights and endless hot deals on lemons.
(three lemons in a row). hey, make lemon aid! but forget the fake sweetner.
Elevating consciousness through questioning
I was driving through the north part of Dallas where I live and there on a street corner, next to garage sale signs and missing dog notices, was a sign entitled "9/11 Truth." Now, this may not be unusual in NYC, but it is a pretty big thing here in "Bush country."
The more people that question consensual reality the better. Looking at the available evidence, it is pretty clear that 9/11 was assisted in some way. But, I don't like to call it a "conspiracy." Instead, it is just another military psy-ops operation designed to maintain "U.S. interests." I'm not saying our "government" was responsible, but some group of highly trained people were given access to those three buildings and somebody did some unexplainable things over Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon. I guess I don't understand how it would hurt for more people to question 9/11, considering what is at stake. Questioning is always a good thing as it leads to learning and positive change.
This all said, I don't see an official investigation ever occurring. It is just too hot for anyone in Congress to touch. Given time, it will just become part of the general consensus that it was somehow needed to get us into the mideast and no different than earlier covert false flag events. And like Pearl Harbor today, nobody will care a decade or two from now even if the truth does come out. American citizens will shrug their shoulders and look optimistically to the future.
As long as Americans are buried in their jobs, making enough money to buy a Happy Meal and raise a brood of kids, they don't really have time to care about what the government does. If you need proof, trying to talk 9/11 truth with most people you know. You'll be seen as a nut case just like Bill Maher and Bill Clinton say you are. Nobody wants to feel like the country they were born into and pledged allegiance to would harm its own people - even if it were to ensure a steady stream of oil and prop up the dollar for the greater good.
Just like Jack, Bobby and Martin in the 1960s, American society continues to be assassinated by people who think they are protecting our "freedom" - the freedom to make more money and buy more things. It is too bad they are willing to trade human lives for this.
Those 3,000 people who died (if this number is correct) and the 33,000 American casualties in Iraq (over 4,000 dead) and 500 more dead in Afganistan were all at the front line of this Western economic philosophy. Economic forces go to greater and greater lengths to protect themselves, yet we know it is unsustainable in the end. The only thing that will stop this runaway train is a grassroots change in philosophy which begins by more people becoming informed and questioning.
I think questioning 9/11 is an excellent entry point to this process for anyone because it has the deepest emotional impact. It shakes your soul and leads to the next question and the next. Yeah, it may disintegrate your happy little world and open a dark side to things for a while, but ultimately you get beyond that and rise to a greater understanding and consciousness. As Leonardo Da Vinci said "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
Thanks Richard
Really quick here Richard, thank you for this very dead-on analysis and assessment. I agree with you on all points 100%
Charles Shaw
Evolver/Reality Sandwich