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9/11: The "Official Story" Is a Fairy Tale for Adults

Two planes. Three buildings. A trillion-dollar accounting error. A passport that survived a fireball. If you believe the government's version, you'll believe anything.

Three Towers, Two Planes, One Impossible Physics Problem

Let's start with the simplest fact that no one in the mainstream media wants to explain: on September 11, 2001, two planes hit two buildings, but three buildings fell down.

World Trade Center Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by any plane. It suffered only minor fires and superficial damage. Yet at 5:20 PM that afternoon, it collapsed into its own footprint at virtually free-fall speed — the signature of a controlled demolition.

Building 7 housed the offices of the Secret Service, the CIA, and — most crucially — the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All the files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000 SEC cases, including the Enron scandal, were destroyed in that collapse.

Enron. The biggest corporate fraud in American history. The investigation files. Gone.

And what did the 9/11 Commission Report say about Building 7? Nothing. Not a single word.

If that doesn't make you pause, nothing will.

The "Pull It" Moment

Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center complex, gave an interview for a PBS documentary in which he described the decision-making on September 11. His words: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

"Pull it."

In demolition industry terminology, "pull" means to bring a building down with explosives. Silverstein's spokesman later claimed he meant "pull the firefighters out" — but you don't "pull" firefighters. You pull buildings. And Building 7 came down in a textbook controlled demolition.

Six Weeks Before

Here's a detail that should have been on the front page of every newspaper: Larry Silverstein signed the lease for the World Trade Center just six weeks before 9/11.

Six weeks.

And what did he do almost immediately after signing that lease? He negotiated a massive insurance policy — $3.55 billion in coverage, with a clause specifically covering terrorism.

The previous insurance on the property was roughly half that amount. Silverstein reportedly insisted on the terrorism clause. And after the attacks, he went to court arguing that because two planes hit two towers, he should be paid twice — nearly $7 billion.

A man leases a property six weeks before its destruction, quadruples the insurance, adds terrorism coverage, and then argues for a double payout. In any other context, investigators would call that a motive.

The Mastermind in a Cave

The official story tells us that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "mastermind" of 9/11, coordinated the entire operation from a cave in Afghanistan using a phone and a laptop.

A man on dialysis. In a cave. In one of the most remote regions on Earth. Directing the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history, coordinating 19 hijackers across the United States, managing flight schools, finances, and logistics — all from a cave.

Meanwhile, the hijackers allegedly brought down the World Trade Center with box cutters. Utility knives. Against trained pilots and crew. And they supposedly overpowered the passengers on four separate flights.

If you believe that, you also believe that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers — Satam al-Suqami — survived the fireball explosion that supposedly cremated him, flew out of his pocket, and landed intact on the street blocks away, ready to be found by investigators.

The bodies of hundreds of victims were never recovered. But the hijacker's passport? Pristine.

The President Who Knew

On the morning of September 11, President George W. Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, reading "The Pet Goat" to a group of second-graders.

He was informed that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He stayed in the classroom for another five to seven minutes.

Later, in December 2001 and again in January 2002, Bush claimed he saw the first plane hit the tower on television before entering the classroom. "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower," he said.

But here's the problem: no cameras were trained on the World Trade Center at the time of the first impact. No live footage of the first plane hitting the North Tower existed until much later. The first crash was not broadcast live.

So how did Bush see it?

Either he was lying, or he had prior knowledge. His spokesman later called it a "mistaken recollection".

A mistaken recollection about the most significant event of his presidency. Right.

The Pentagon: The Day Before and the Day Of

On September 10, 2001 — one day before the attacks — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon. In that speech, he admitted something extraordinary:

"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

$2.3 trillion. Missing. Unaccounted for. The day before the Pentagon was hit.

The following day, a plane — or something — struck the Pentagon. And the very section of the building that was hit? The area where the accounting and financial records were kept.

The missing money? The records that might have explained it? Destroyed.

Less than 48 hours after Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account for trillions, the evidence went up in flames. If you're a conspiracy theorist, that's not a coincidence. That's a cover-up.

No Plane, No Bodies, No Parts

The Pentagon is one of the most secure buildings on Earth. Cameras cover every inch of it. Multiple security cameras recorded the approach.

Not a single frame showing the plane hitting the Pentagon was released to the public for years. When footage was finally released in 2006, it was grainy, low-resolution, and showed nothing clearly identifiable as a Boeing 757.

The hole in the Pentagon was approximately five meters across — far too small for a 757 with a wingspan of nearly 38 meters. Conspiracy theorists pointed out that the lawn was clean after the attack, with no wing debris, no tail section, no engines.

At most plane crashes around the world, you find bodies, seats, luggage, engine parts, landing gear — debris scattered across a wide area. At the Pentagon, the official story claims the plane completely disintegrated on impact, vaporized by the heat of the explosion.

But if the plane vaporized, why were there no bodies? Why no plane parts? Why did witnesses describe a missile or a military aircraft?

And why did the government fight so hard to keep the footage secret?

The Dancing Israelis

On the morning of September 11, five men were arrested in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. They had been videotaping the attacks — and witnesses reported they were celebrating, "dancing" as the towers burned.

They worked for a company called Urban Moving Systems, which the FBI later determined was a Mossad front.

They were detained, interrogated, and eventually deported. The official explanation? They were just "celebrating" — nothing to see here.

But if five men with cameras and a Mossad cover company were positioned to film the attacks before they happened, that suggests foreknowledge. And foreknowledge suggests involvement.

The Passport and the Phone Call

We already mentioned the hijacker passport that survived the fireball. But let's add another detail.

The alleged hijackers were supposedly led by a man on dialysis in a cave who used a satellite phone and a laptop to coordinate everything.

But satellite phones in Afghanistan in 2001? Laptops in caves? The logistics are absurd. The 9/11 Commission itself found that the attacks were planned and executed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — a man who was later captured and waterboarded 183 times. The "intelligence" used to justify the Iraq War came from torture. And the CIA destroyed the tapes of those interrogations.

The evidence is gone. The "mastermind" was tortured into confession. And the American public was told to accept it.

What the 9/11 Commission Didn't Investigate

The 9/11 Commission was delayed, underfunded, and based on testimony extracted from torture.

It didn't mention Building 7. It didn't investigate who funded the attacks. It didn't examine Operation Able Danger, the military intelligence program that allegedly identified some of the hijackers before 9/11. It didn't look at the war games being conducted on the morning of 9/11 — simulations of hijacked planes flying into buildings — that were running at the exact same time as the real attacks.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney testified in secret, off the record, not under oath, and behind closed doors.

What were they hiding?

The Pattern

Two planes. Three buildings. A leaseholder with terrorism insurance. A president who "saw" a crash that wasn't broadcast. A Pentagon with $2.3 trillion missing. No plane footage. No bodies. No parts. A passport that survived a fireball. Five Israelis filming and celebrating. A commission that investigated nothing.

You don't have to have all the answers to know that the official story doesn't add up. You just have to be willing to look at the facts and ask the question that the mainstream media refuses to ask:

Who benefited?

The military-industrial complex got a blank check for endless war. The surveillance state got the PATRIOT Act. The financial crimes of Enron and others got buried in the rubble of Building 7. And the American people got a story — a story that falls apart the moment you examine it.

Two planes did not bring down three towers.

Wake up.

9/11: The "Official Story" Is a Fairy Tale for Adults

Two planes. Three buildings. A trillion-dollar accounting error. A passport that survived a fireball. If you believe the government's version, you'll believe anything.

Three Towers, Two Planes, One Impossible Physics Problem

Let's start with the simplest fact that no one in the mainstream media wants to explain: on September 11, 2001, two planes hit two buildings, but three buildings fell down.

World Trade Center Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by any plane. It suffered only minor fires and superficial damage. Yet at 5:20 PM that afternoon, it collapsed into its own footprint at virtually free-fall speed — the signature of a controlled demolition.

Building 7 housed the offices of the Secret Service, the CIA, and — most crucially — the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All the files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000 SEC cases, including the Enron scandal, were destroyed in that collapse.

Enron. The biggest corporate fraud in American history. The investigation files. Gone.

And what did the 9/11 Commission Report say about Building 7? Nothing. Not a single word.

If that doesn't make you pause, nothing will.

The "Pull It" Moment

Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center complex, gave an interview for a PBS documentary in which he described the decision-making on September 11. His words: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

"Pull it."

In demolition industry terminology, "pull" means to bring a building down with explosives. Silverstein's spokesman later claimed he meant "pull the firefighters out" — but you don't "pull" firefighters. You pull buildings. And Building 7 came down in a textbook controlled demolition.

Six Weeks Before

Here's a detail that should have been on the front page of every newspaper: Larry Silverstein signed the lease for the World Trade Center just six weeks before 9/11.

Six weeks.

And what did he do almost immediately after signing that lease? He negotiated a massive insurance policy — $3.55 billion in coverage, with a clause specifically covering terrorism.

The previous insurance on the property was roughly half that amount. Silverstein reportedly insisted on the terrorism clause. And after the attacks, he went to court arguing that because two planes hit two towers, he should be paid twice — nearly $7 billion.

A man leases a property six weeks before its destruction, quadruples the insurance, adds terrorism coverage, and then argues for a double payout. In any other context, investigators would call that a motive.

The Mastermind in a Cave

The official story tells us that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "mastermind" of 9/11, coordinated the entire operation from a cave in Afghanistan using a phone and a laptop.

A man on dialysis. In a cave. In one of the most remote regions on Earth. Directing the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history, coordinating 19 hijackers across the United States, managing flight schools, finances, and logistics — all from a cave.

Meanwhile, the hijackers allegedly brought down the World Trade Center with box cutters. Utility knives. Against trained pilots and crew. And they supposedly overpowered the passengers on four separate flights.

If you believe that, you also believe that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers — Satam al-Suqami — survived the fireball explosion that supposedly cremated him, flew out of his pocket, and landed intact on the street blocks away, ready to be found by investigators.

The bodies of hundreds of victims were never recovered. But the hijacker's passport? Pristine.

The President Who Knew

On the morning of September 11, President George W. Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, reading "The Pet Goat" to a group of second-graders.

He was informed that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He stayed in the classroom for another five to seven minutes.

Later, in December 2001 and again in January 2002, Bush claimed he saw the first plane hit the tower on television before entering the classroom. "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower," he said.

But here's the problem: no cameras were trained on the World Trade Center at the time of the first impact. No live footage of the first plane hitting the North Tower existed until much later. The first crash was not broadcast live.

So how did Bush see it?

Either he was lying, or he had prior knowledge. His spokesman later called it a "mistaken recollection".

A mistaken recollection about the most significant event of his presidency. Right.

The Pentagon: The Day Before and the Day Of

On September 10, 2001 — one day before the attacks — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon. In that speech, he admitted something extraordinary:

"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

$2.3 trillion. Missing. Unaccounted for. The day before the Pentagon was hit.

The following day, a plane — or something — struck the Pentagon. And the very section of the building that was hit? The area where the accounting and financial records were kept.

The missing money? The records that might have explained it? Destroyed.

Less than 48 hours after Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account for trillions, the evidence went up in flames. If you're a conspiracy theorist, that's not a coincidence. That's a cover-up.

No Plane, No Bodies, No Parts

The Pentagon is one of the most secure buildings on Earth. Cameras cover every inch of it. Multiple security cameras recorded the approach.

Not a single frame showing the plane hitting the Pentagon was released to the public for years. When footage was finally released in 2006, it was grainy, low-resolution, and showed nothing clearly identifiable as a Boeing 757.

The hole in the Pentagon was approximately five meters across — far too small for a 757 with a wingspan of nearly 38 meters. Conspiracy theorists pointed out that the lawn was clean after the attack, with no wing debris, no tail section, no engines.

At most plane crashes around the world, you find bodies, seats, luggage, engine parts, landing gear — debris scattered across a wide area. At the Pentagon, the official story claims the plane completely disintegrated on impact, vaporized by the heat of the explosion.

But if the plane vaporized, why were there no bodies? Why no plane parts? Why did witnesses describe a missile or a military aircraft?

And why did the government fight so hard to keep the footage secret?

The Dancing Israelis

On the morning of September 11, five men were arrested in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. They had been videotaping the attacks — and witnesses reported they were celebrating, "dancing" as the towers burned.

They worked for a company called Urban Moving Systems, which the FBI later determined was a Mossad front.

They were detained, interrogated, and eventually deported. The official explanation? They were just "celebrating" — nothing to see here.

But if five men with cameras and a Mossad cover company were positioned to film the attacks before they happened, that suggests foreknowledge. And foreknowledge suggests involvement.

The Passport and the Phone Call

We already mentioned the hijacker passport that survived the fireball. But let's add another detail.

The alleged hijackers were supposedly led by a man on dialysis in a cave who used a satellite phone and a laptop to coordinate everything.

But satellite phones in Afghanistan in 2001? Laptops in caves? The logistics are absurd. The 9/11 Commission itself found that the attacks were planned and executed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — a man who was later captured and waterboarded 183 times. The "intelligence" used to justify the Iraq War came from torture. And the CIA destroyed the tapes of those interrogations.

The evidence is gone. The "mastermind" was tortured into confession. And the American public was told to accept it.

What the 9/11 Commission Didn't Investigate

The 9/11 Commission was delayed, underfunded, and based on testimony extracted from torture.

It didn't mention Building 7. It didn't investigate who funded the attacks. It didn't examine Operation Able Danger, the military intelligence program that allegedly identified some of the hijackers before 9/11. It didn't look at the war games being conducted on the morning of 9/11 — simulations of hijacked planes flying into buildings — that were running at the exact same time as the real attacks.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney testified in secret, off the record, not under oath, and behind closed doors.

What were they hiding?

The Pattern

Two planes. Three buildings. A leaseholder with terrorism insurance. A president who "saw" a crash that wasn't broadcast. A Pentagon with $2.3 trillion missing. No plane footage. No bodies. No parts. A passport that survived a fireball. Five Israelis filming and celebrating. A commission that investigated nothing.

You don't have to have all the answers to know that the official story doesn't add up. You just have to be willing to look at the facts and ask the question that the mainstream media refuses to ask:

Who benefited?

The military-industrial complex got a blank check for endless war. The surveillance state got the PATRIOT Act. The financial crimes of Enron and others got buried in the rubble of Building 7. And the American people got a story — a story that falls apart the moment you examine it.

Two planes did not bring down three towers.

Wake up.

9/11: The "Official Story" Is a Fairy Tale for Adults

Two planes. Three buildings. A trillion-dollar accounting error. A passport that survived a fireball. If you believe the government's version, you'll believe anything.

Three Towers, Two Planes, One Impossible Physics Problem

Let's start with the simplest fact that no one in the mainstream media wants to explain: on September 11, 2001, two planes hit two buildings, but three buildings fell down.

World Trade Center Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by any plane. It suffered only minor fires and superficial damage. Yet at 5:20 PM that afternoon, it collapsed into its own footprint at virtually free-fall speed — the signature of a controlled demolition.

Building 7 housed the offices of the Secret Service, the CIA, and — most crucially — the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All the files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000 SEC cases, including the Enron scandal, were destroyed in that collapse.

Enron. The biggest corporate fraud in American history. The investigation files. Gone.

And what did the 9/11 Commission Report say about Building 7? Nothing. Not a single word.

If that doesn't make you pause, nothing will.

The "Pull It" Moment

Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center complex, gave an interview for a PBS documentary in which he described the decision-making on September 11. His words: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

"Pull it."

In demolition industry terminology, "pull" means to bring a building down with explosives. Silverstein's spokesman later claimed he meant "pull the firefighters out" — but you don't "pull" firefighters. You pull buildings. And Building 7 came down in a textbook controlled demolition.

Six Weeks Before

Here's a detail that should have been on the front page of every newspaper: Larry Silverstein signed the lease for the World Trade Center just six weeks before 9/11.

Six weeks.

And what did he do almost immediately after signing that lease? He negotiated a massive insurance policy — $3.55 billion in coverage, with a clause specifically covering terrorism.

The previous insurance on the property was roughly half that amount. Silverstein reportedly insisted on the terrorism clause. And after the attacks, he went to court arguing that because two planes hit two towers, he should be paid twice — nearly $7 billion.

A man leases a property six weeks before its destruction, quadruples the insurance, adds terrorism coverage, and then argues for a double payout. In any other context, investigators would call that a motive.

The Mastermind in a Cave

The official story tells us that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "mastermind" of 9/11, coordinated the entire operation from a cave in Afghanistan using a phone and a laptop.

A man on dialysis. In a cave. In one of the most remote regions on Earth. Directing the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history, coordinating 19 hijackers across the United States, managing flight schools, finances, and logistics — all from a cave.

Meanwhile, the hijackers allegedly brought down the World Trade Center with box cutters. Utility knives. Against trained pilots and crew. And they supposedly overpowered the passengers on four separate flights.

If you believe that, you also believe that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers — Satam al-Suqami — survived the fireball explosion that supposedly cremated him, flew out of his pocket, and landed intact on the street blocks away, ready to be found by investigators.

The bodies of hundreds of victims were never recovered. But the hijacker's passport? Pristine.

The President Who Knew

On the morning of September 11, President George W. Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, reading "The Pet Goat" to a group of second-graders.

He was informed that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He stayed in the classroom for another five to seven minutes.

Later, in December 2001 and again in January 2002, Bush claimed he saw the first plane hit the tower on television before entering the classroom. "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower," he said.

But here's the problem: no cameras were trained on the World Trade Center at the time of the first impact. No live footage of the first plane hitting the North Tower existed until much later. The first crash was not broadcast live.

So how did Bush see it?

Either he was lying, or he had prior knowledge. His spokesman later called it a "mistaken recollection".

A mistaken recollection about the most significant event of his presidency. Right.

The Pentagon: The Day Before and the Day Of

On September 10, 2001 — one day before the attacks — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon. In that speech, he admitted something extraordinary:

"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

$2.3 trillion. Missing. Unaccounted for. The day before the Pentagon was hit.

The following day, a plane — or something — struck the Pentagon. And the very section of the building that was hit? The area where the accounting and financial records were kept.

The missing money? The records that might have explained it? Destroyed.

Less than 48 hours after Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account for trillions, the evidence went up in flames. If you're a conspiracy theorist, that's not a coincidence. That's a cover-up.

No Plane, No Bodies, No Parts

The Pentagon is one of the most secure buildings on Earth. Cameras cover every inch of it. Multiple security cameras recorded the approach.

Not a single frame showing the plane hitting the Pentagon was released to the public for years. When footage was finally released in 2006, it was grainy, low-resolution, and showed nothing clearly identifiable as a Boeing 757.

The hole in the Pentagon was approximately five meters across — far too small for a 757 with a wingspan of nearly 38 meters. Conspiracy theorists pointed out that the lawn was clean after the attack, with no wing debris, no tail section, no engines.

At most plane crashes around the world, you find bodies, seats, luggage, engine parts, landing gear — debris scattered across a wide area. At the Pentagon, the official story claims the plane completely disintegrated on impact, vaporized by the heat of the explosion.

But if the plane vaporized, why were there no bodies? Why no plane parts? Why did witnesses describe a missile or a military aircraft?

And why did the government fight so hard to keep the footage secret?

The Dancing Israelis

On the morning of September 11, five men were arrested in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. They had been videotaping the attacks — and witnesses reported they were celebrating, "dancing" as the towers burned.

They worked for a company called Urban Moving Systems, which the FBI later determined was a Mossad front.

They were detained, interrogated, and eventually deported. The official explanation? They were just "celebrating" — nothing to see here.

But if five men with cameras and a Mossad cover company were positioned to film the attacks before they happened, that suggests foreknowledge. And foreknowledge suggests involvement.

The Passport and the Phone Call

We already mentioned the hijacker passport that survived the fireball. But let's add another detail.

The alleged hijackers were supposedly led by a man on dialysis in a cave who used a satellite phone and a laptop to coordinate everything.

But satellite phones in Afghanistan in 2001? Laptops in caves? The logistics are absurd. The 9/11 Commission itself found that the attacks were planned and executed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — a man who was later captured and waterboarded 183 times. The "intelligence" used to justify the Iraq War came from torture. And the CIA destroyed the tapes of those interrogations.

The evidence is gone. The "mastermind" was tortured into confession. And the American public was told to accept it.

What the 9/11 Commission Didn't Investigate

The 9/11 Commission was delayed, underfunded, and based on testimony extracted from torture.

It didn't mention Building 7. It didn't investigate who funded the attacks. It didn't examine Operation Able Danger, the military intelligence program that allegedly identified some of the hijackers before 9/11. It didn't look at the war games being conducted on the morning of 9/11 — simulations of hijacked planes flying into buildings — that were running at the exact same time as the real attacks.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney testified in secret, off the record, not under oath, and behind closed doors.

What were they hiding?

The Pattern

Two planes. Three buildings. A leaseholder with terrorism insurance. A president who "saw" a crash that wasn't broadcast. A Pentagon with $2.3 trillion missing. No plane footage. No bodies. No parts. A passport that survived a fireball. Five Israelis filming and celebrating. A commission that investigated nothing.

You don't have to have all the answers to know that the official story doesn't add up. You just have to be willing to look at the facts and ask the question that the mainstream media refuses to ask:

Who benefited?

The military-industrial complex got a blank check for endless war. The surveillance state got the PATRIOT Act. The financial crimes of Enron and others got buried in the rubble of Building 7. And the American people got a story — a story that falls apart the moment you examine it.

Two planes did not bring down three towers.

Wake up.

9/11: The "Official Story" Is a Fairy Tale for Adults

Two planes. Three buildings. A trillion-dollar accounting error. A passport that survived a fireball. If you believe the government's version, you'll believe anything.

Three Towers, Two Planes, One Impossible Physics Problem

Let's start with the simplest fact that no one in the mainstream media wants to explain: on September 11, 2001, two planes hit two buildings, but three buildings fell down.

World Trade Center Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by any plane. It suffered only minor fires and superficial damage. Yet at 5:20 PM that afternoon, it collapsed into its own footprint at virtually free-fall speed — the signature of a controlled demolition.

Building 7 housed the offices of the Secret Service, the CIA, and — most crucially — the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All the files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000 SEC cases, including the Enron scandal, were destroyed in that collapse.

Enron. The biggest corporate fraud in American history. The investigation files. Gone.

And what did the 9/11 Commission Report say about Building 7? Nothing. Not a single word.

If that doesn't make you pause, nothing will.

The "Pull It" Moment

Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center complex, gave an interview for a PBS documentary in which he described the decision-making on September 11. His words: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

"Pull it."

In demolition industry terminology, "pull" means to bring a building down with explosives. Silverstein's spokesman later claimed he meant "pull the firefighters out" — but you don't "pull" firefighters. You pull buildings. And Building 7 came down in a textbook controlled demolition.

Six Weeks Before

Here's a detail that should have been on the front page of every newspaper: Larry Silverstein signed the lease for the World Trade Center just six weeks before 9/11.

Six weeks.

And what did he do almost immediately after signing that lease? He negotiated a massive insurance policy — $3.55 billion in coverage, with a clause specifically covering terrorism.

The previous insurance on the property was roughly half that amount. Silverstein reportedly insisted on the terrorism clause. And after the attacks, he went to court arguing that because two planes hit two towers, he should be paid twice — nearly $7 billion.

A man leases a property six weeks before its destruction, quadruples the insurance, adds terrorism coverage, and then argues for a double payout. In any other context, investigators would call that a motive.

The Mastermind in a Cave

The official story tells us that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "mastermind" of 9/11, coordinated the entire operation from a cave in Afghanistan using a phone and a laptop.

A man on dialysis. In a cave. In one of the most remote regions on Earth. Directing the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history, coordinating 19 hijackers across the United States, managing flight schools, finances, and logistics — all from a cave.

Meanwhile, the hijackers allegedly brought down the World Trade Center with box cutters. Utility knives. Against trained pilots and crew. And they supposedly overpowered the passengers on four separate flights.

If you believe that, you also believe that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers — Satam al-Suqami — survived the fireball explosion that supposedly cremated him, flew out of his pocket, and landed intact on the street blocks away, ready to be found by investigators.

The bodies of hundreds of victims were never recovered. But the hijacker's passport? Pristine.

The President Who Knew

On the morning of September 11, President George W. Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, reading "The Pet Goat" to a group of second-graders.

He was informed that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He stayed in the classroom for another five to seven minutes.

Later, in December 2001 and again in January 2002, Bush claimed he saw the first plane hit the tower on television before entering the classroom. "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower," he said.

But here's the problem: no cameras were trained on the World Trade Center at the time of the first impact. No live footage of the first plane hitting the North Tower existed until much later. The first crash was not broadcast live.

So how did Bush see it?

Either he was lying, or he had prior knowledge. His spokesman later called it a "mistaken recollection".

A mistaken recollection about the most significant event of his presidency. Right.

The Pentagon: The Day Before and the Day Of

On September 10, 2001 — one day before the attacks — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon. In that speech, he admitted something extraordinary:

"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

$2.3 trillion. Missing. Unaccounted for. The day before the Pentagon was hit.

The following day, a plane — or something — struck the Pentagon. And the very section of the building that was hit? The area where the accounting and financial records were kept.

The missing money? The records that might have explained it? Destroyed.

Less than 48 hours after Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account for trillions, the evidence went up in flames. If you're a conspiracy theorist, that's not a coincidence. That's a cover-up.

No Plane, No Bodies, No Parts

The Pentagon is one of the most secure buildings on Earth. Cameras cover every inch of it. Multiple security cameras recorded the approach.

Not a single frame showing the plane hitting the Pentagon was released to the public for years. When footage was finally released in 2006, it was grainy, low-resolution, and showed nothing clearly identifiable as a Boeing 757.

The hole in the Pentagon was approximately five meters across — far too small for a 757 with a wingspan of nearly 38 meters. Conspiracy theorists pointed out that the lawn was clean after the attack, with no wing debris, no tail section, no engines.

At most plane crashes around the world, you find bodies, seats, luggage, engine parts, landing gear — debris scattered across a wide area. At the Pentagon, the official story claims the plane completely disintegrated on impact, vaporized by the heat of the explosion.

But if the plane vaporized, why were there no bodies? Why no plane parts? Why did witnesses describe a missile or a military aircraft?

And why did the government fight so hard to keep the footage secret?

The Dancing Israelis

On the morning of September 11, five men were arrested in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. They had been videotaping the attacks — and witnesses reported they were celebrating, "dancing" as the towers burned.

They worked for a company called Urban Moving Systems, which the FBI later determined was a Mossad front.

They were detained, interrogated, and eventually deported. The official explanation? They were just "celebrating" — nothing to see here.

But if five men with cameras and a Mossad cover company were positioned to film the attacks before they happened, that suggests foreknowledge. And foreknowledge suggests involvement.

The Passport and the Phone Call

We already mentioned the hijacker passport that survived the fireball. But let's add another detail.

The alleged hijackers were supposedly led by a man on dialysis in a cave who used a satellite phone and a laptop to coordinate everything.

But satellite phones in Afghanistan in 2001? Laptops in caves? The logistics are absurd. The 9/11 Commission itself found that the attacks were planned and executed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — a man who was later captured and waterboarded 183 times. The "intelligence" used to justify the Iraq War came from torture. And the CIA destroyed the tapes of those interrogations.

The evidence is gone. The "mastermind" was tortured into confession. And the American public was told to accept it.

What the 9/11 Commission Didn't Investigate

The 9/11 Commission was delayed, underfunded, and based on testimony extracted from torture.

It didn't mention Building 7. It didn't investigate who funded the attacks. It didn't examine Operation Able Danger, the military intelligence program that allegedly identified some of the hijackers before 9/11. It didn't look at the war games being conducted on the morning of 9/11 — simulations of hijacked planes flying into buildings — that were running at the exact same time as the real attacks.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney testified in secret, off the record, not under oath, and behind closed doors.

What were they hiding?

The Pattern

Two planes. Three buildings. A leaseholder with terrorism insurance. A president who "saw" a crash that wasn't broadcast. A Pentagon with $2.3 trillion missing. No plane footage. No bodies. No parts. A passport that survived a fireball. Five Israelis filming and celebrating. A commission that investigated nothing.

You don't have to have all the answers to know that the official story doesn't add up. You just have to be willing to look at the facts and ask the question that the mainstream media refuses to ask:

Who benefited?

The military-industrial complex got a blank check for endless war. The surveillance state got the PATRIOT Act. The financial crimes of Enron and others got buried in the rubble of Building 7. And the American people got a story — a story that falls apart the moment you examine it.

Two planes did not bring down three towers.

Wake up.

9/11: The "Official Story" Is a Fairy Tale for Adults

Two planes. Three buildings. A trillion-dollar accounting error. A passport that survived a fireball. If you believe the government's version, you'll believe anything.

Three Towers, Two Planes, One Impossible Physics Problem

Let's start with the simplest fact that no one in the mainstream media wants to explain: on September 11, 2001, two planes hit two buildings, but three buildings fell down.

World Trade Center Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by any plane. It suffered only minor fires and superficial damage. Yet at 5:20 PM that afternoon, it collapsed into its own footprint at virtually free-fall speed — the signature of a controlled demolition.

Building 7 housed the offices of the Secret Service, the CIA, and — most crucially — the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All the files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000 SEC cases, including the Enron scandal, were destroyed in that collapse.

Enron. The biggest corporate fraud in American history. The investigation files. Gone.

And what did the 9/11 Commission Report say about Building 7? Nothing. Not a single word.

If that doesn't make you pause, nothing will.

The "Pull It" Moment

Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center complex, gave an interview for a PBS documentary in which he described the decision-making on September 11. His words: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

"Pull it."

In demolition industry terminology, "pull" means to bring a building down with explosives. Silverstein's spokesman later claimed he meant "pull the firefighters out" — but you don't "pull" firefighters. You pull buildings. And Building 7 came down in a textbook controlled demolition.

Six Weeks Before

Here's a detail that should have been on the front page of every newspaper: Larry Silverstein signed the lease for the World Trade Center just six weeks before 9/11.

Six weeks.

And what did he do almost immediately after signing that lease? He negotiated a massive insurance policy — $3.55 billion in coverage, with a clause specifically covering terrorism.

The previous insurance on the property was roughly half that amount. Silverstein reportedly insisted on the terrorism clause. And after the attacks, he went to court arguing that because two planes hit two towers, he should be paid twice — nearly $7 billion.

A man leases a property six weeks before its destruction, quadruples the insurance, adds terrorism coverage, and then argues for a double payout. In any other context, investigators would call that a motive.

The Mastermind in a Cave

The official story tells us that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "mastermind" of 9/11, coordinated the entire operation from a cave in Afghanistan using a phone and a laptop.

A man on dialysis. In a cave. In one of the most remote regions on Earth. Directing the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history, coordinating 19 hijackers across the United States, managing flight schools, finances, and logistics — all from a cave.

Meanwhile, the hijackers allegedly brought down the World Trade Center with box cutters. Utility knives. Against trained pilots and crew. And they supposedly overpowered the passengers on four separate flights.

If you believe that, you also believe that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers — Satam al-Suqami — survived the fireball explosion that supposedly cremated him, flew out of his pocket, and landed intact on the street blocks away, ready to be found by investigators.

The bodies of hundreds of victims were never recovered. But the hijacker's passport? Pristine.

The President Who Knew

On the morning of September 11, President George W. Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, reading "The Pet Goat" to a group of second-graders.

He was informed that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He stayed in the classroom for another five to seven minutes.

Later, in December 2001 and again in January 2002, Bush claimed he saw the first plane hit the tower on television before entering the classroom. "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower," he said.

But here's the problem: no cameras were trained on the World Trade Center at the time of the first impact. No live footage of the first plane hitting the North Tower existed until much later. The first crash was not broadcast live.

So how did Bush see it?

Either he was lying, or he had prior knowledge. His spokesman later called it a "mistaken recollection".

A mistaken recollection about the most significant event of his presidency. Right.

The Pentagon: The Day Before and the Day Of

On September 10, 2001 — one day before the attacks — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon. In that speech, he admitted something extraordinary:

"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

$2.3 trillion. Missing. Unaccounted for. The day before the Pentagon was hit.

The following day, a plane — or something — struck the Pentagon. And the very section of the building that was hit? The area where the accounting and financial records were kept.

The missing money? The records that might have explained it? Destroyed.

Less than 48 hours after Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account for trillions, the evidence went up in flames. If you're a conspiracy theorist, that's not a coincidence. That's a cover-up.

No Plane, No Bodies, No Parts

The Pentagon is one of the most secure buildings on Earth. Cameras cover every inch of it. Multiple security cameras recorded the approach.

Not a single frame showing the plane hitting the Pentagon was released to the public for years. When footage was finally released in 2006, it was grainy, low-resolution, and showed nothing clearly identifiable as a Boeing 757.

The hole in the Pentagon was approximately five meters across — far too small for a 757 with a wingspan of nearly 38 meters. Conspiracy theorists pointed out that the lawn was clean after the attack, with no wing debris, no tail section, no engines.

At most plane crashes around the world, you find bodies, seats, luggage, engine parts, landing gear — debris scattered across a wide area. At the Pentagon, the official story claims the plane completely disintegrated on impact, vaporized by the heat of the explosion.

But if the plane vaporized, why were there no bodies? Why no plane parts? Why did witnesses describe a missile or a military aircraft?

And why did the government fight so hard to keep the footage secret?

The Dancing Israelis

On the morning of September 11, five men were arrested in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. They had been videotaping the attacks — and witnesses reported they were celebrating, "dancing" as the towers burned.

They worked for a company called Urban Moving Systems, which the FBI later determined was a Mossad front.

They were detained, interrogated, and eventually deported. The official explanation? They were just "celebrating" — nothing to see here.

But if five men with cameras and a Mossad cover company were positioned to film the attacks before they happened, that suggests foreknowledge. And foreknowledge suggests involvement.

The Passport and the Phone Call

We already mentioned the hijacker passport that survived the fireball. But let's add another detail.

The alleged hijackers were supposedly led by a man on dialysis in a cave who used a satellite phone and a laptop to coordinate everything.

But satellite phones in Afghanistan in 2001? Laptops in caves? The logistics are absurd. The 9/11 Commission itself found that the attacks were planned and executed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — a man who was later captured and waterboarded 183 times. The "intelligence" used to justify the Iraq War came from torture. And the CIA destroyed the tapes of those interrogations.

The evidence is gone. The "mastermind" was tortured into confession. And the American public was told to accept it.

What the 9/11 Commission Didn't Investigate

The 9/11 Commission was delayed, underfunded, and based on testimony extracted from torture.

It didn't mention Building 7. It didn't investigate who funded the attacks. It didn't examine Operation Able Danger, the military intelligence program that allegedly identified some of the hijackers before 9/11. It didn't look at the war games being conducted on the morning of 9/11 — simulations of hijacked planes flying into buildings — that were running at the exact same time as the real attacks.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney testified in secret, off the record, not under oath, and behind closed doors.

What were they hiding?

The Pattern

Two planes. Three buildings. A leaseholder with terrorism insurance. A president who "saw" a crash that wasn't broadcast. A Pentagon with $2.3 trillion missing. No plane footage. No bodies. No parts. A passport that survived a fireball. Five Israelis filming and celebrating. A commission that investigated nothing.

You don't have to have all the answers to know that the official story doesn't add up. You just have to be willing to look at the facts and ask the question that the mainstream media refuses to ask:

Who benefited?

The military-industrial complex got a blank check for endless war. The surveillance state got the PATRIOT Act. The financial crimes of Enron and others got buried in the rubble of Building 7. And the American people got a story — a story that falls apart the moment you examine it.

Two planes did not bring down three towers.

Wake up.

https://www.europesays.com/videos/91670/ 9/11 reporter on how the attacks shaped history #9/11 #911 #911documentary #911footage #Afghanistan #IraqWar #itv #ItvNews #manhattan #NewYork #reportinghistory #September11 #terrorism #WorldPolitics #WorldTradeCenter

Did the Terrorists Win? – The Dispatch

Did the Terrorists Win?  The DispatchOpinion | The War on Terror Did Not Fail  The New York Times‘Institutional neglect’: 25…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Afghanistan #alqaeda #Iraq #IraqWar #Isolationism #September11 #Terrorism #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/726295/

I was listening to a podcast about this last night; that the Iraq War, started without the UN Security Council's approval, was the start of our current cycle of aggressive wars. The Iraq War broke the international legal regime; it started 20 years ago.

#IraqWar #RuleOfLaw #UN

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/21/russia.iraq

There were horror stories about poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln during the #IranWar. Soon after the public learned about this, the ordeals of this crew ended, and the ship was sent home to the United States.

The USS Abraham Lincoln was famous for one other thing: it is where Pres. George W. Bush gave his #MissionAccomplished speech near the start of the #IraqWar, but the war would continue for several years more. #history

Robert Fisk: A dictator created then destroyed by America | The Independent

#Iraq #US #MiddleEast #IraqWar

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-a-dictator-created-then-destroyed-by-america-430197.html

Two war criminals and a playboy discuss #peace in #Gaza.

This is not going to end well for anyone, is it?

#GazaGenocide
#IsraelWarCrimes
#IraqWar

Jared Kushner, Blair meet Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem to advance Trump’s Gaza plan | The Jerusalem Post
Jared Kushner, Blair meet Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem to advance Trump’s Gaza plan | The Jerusalem Post https://share.google/UvyjForZ2aMKQDnAd

“HOW MEDIA LENS FORGED A PATH FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM”

by Peter Oborne in Declassified UK

@Declassified_UK
@DeclassifiedUK
@uk_politics
@medialens
@turnleft
@cemedia
@novaramedia
@BylineTimes
@MiddleEastEye
@DoubleDownNews

“We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK.

We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media is broken, cannot be trusted, and is far more likely to disseminate falsehood than tell the truth.

So it is only fair to wish a happy 25th birthday to the earliest of these dissident outlets – Media Lens”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-media-lens-forged-a-path-for-independent-journalism/

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #LegacyMedia #MediaLens #LiberalBias #Gaza #Iran #PalestinianGenocide #BBCPropaganda #Lies #Disinformation #ClimateCrisis #IraqWar #NHS #Assange #Vindication

Palestine Action

Andy Burnham & his Blairite still on the path set by Kier Starmer and his Blairites?

Puzzled?

#UKPol #AndyBurnham #KierStarmer #TonyBlair #IraqWar #ISIS #Brexit #PalestineAction #AllTheWayWithLBJ

Iran is putting pressure on the US-UK ‘special relationship’ – but it has survived worse over the years. #DonaldTrump #Iran #IraqWar #KeirStarmer #TonyBlair #USforeignpolicy #USIranconflict #WinstonChurchill
https://iwpost.com/iran-is-putting-pressure-on-the-us-uk-special-relationship-but-it-has-survived-worse-over-the-years/?fsp_sid=12318

thank you, #IraqBodyCount, for your work to document #Israel's #genocide in #Gaza, as you have done with the #IraqWar!

It's crucial work

@crazyeddie Both the #IranWar and the #IraqWar were horrible. The #IranWar is so much of a failure that it is good to see so much opposition to it inside and outside of the United States.

@Edgecontrol

#MMRPlaylist #Punk #GermanPunk #ElectroPunk #IraqWar

https://video.liberta.vip/w/e7UE4tM2FbHUeJj1Begpyo

Rod Dreher: "Trump started the #IranWar, and he lost it. There was a massive loss of US authority, to say the least. I backed him in 2024, in part because I trusted him to avoid stupid wars. This war is going to cost the United States way more in the long run than the #IraqWar did. To hell with Trump's stupid, lying excuses."
#OperationEpicFailure #politics #military

Bad news, Kurdistan

https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/2102711/bad-news-kurdistan

Senator Susan Collins Faces Criticism for Comments on Iraq War and Military Service

📰 Original title: 'Disqualifying': Susan Collins scorched over her response to Iraq war question

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/senator-susan-collins-faces-criticism-for-comments-on-iraq-war-and-military-service.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#politics #susancollins #iraqwar

Putin when this debacle is finally over:

https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/2069753/putin-when-this-debacle-is-finally-over

Mama mia 😭

https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/2067883/mama-mia

Two imperial ventures at Kut al-Amara, one in the #GreatWar and another in the #IraqWar, reveal the similarities – and differences – in the exercise of power.

⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/kut-losses-two-disasters-mesopotamia

6.
a) #Trump is threatening #Italy with withdrawing #USSoldiers, because, if we stick to open source data, we realise that for the #IRANWar the #Meloni government has NOT provided #Trump with the full (and criminal) cooperation that #Berlusconi provided to #Bush for the #IRAQWar

I just watched an episode of Masters of Horror called Homecoming directed by Joe Dante.

Almost all of Dante's movies are political but you often need to interpret. In 2005 he had something to say about the Iraq War and George W. Bush. This time there was no subtlety involved.

Homecoming is not great. If it had been purely black humor it might have worked better but it also tries to be sentimental which falls flat. As a political statement I love it.

If you want the spoiler summary ....

#JoeDante #MastersOfHorror #GeorgeWBush #IraqWar

5. For the #IRANWar,#Meloni CANNOT grant #Trump all that #Berlusconi granted #Bush for the #IraqWar. Hence #Trump’s outbursts, which are also intended to keep constant pressure on #Meloni. But the #data speaks for itself: #Meloni’s #Italy is providing logistic assistance

2. back in 2003, for the #IRAQWar #Berlusconi granted #Bush:
-the deployment of 173rd Airborne Brigade from Vicenza to Northern Iraq (the largest air drop since WWII)
-the largest combat movement of C-17 in history from Italian soil
- around 1,300 missions from #SigonellaNAS

1. It doesn't take to be Einstein to figure out what game the #Meloni government is playing with the #IRANWar:

#Meloni’s Italy CANNOT give #Trump what #Berlusconi gave #Bush for the #IRAQWar, so it grants whatever “plausible deniability” allows it to obscure

@B123

I appreciate you making that point, because I do agree the cost in lives matters. I would not have this war for that reason.

I was intending to speak narrowly of people's obsession with price, because I think many people complaining about the price WOULD accept casualties in exchange for their own comfort.

The climate issue itself ALSO has a cost in lives, of course. Sadly, many of those casualties would be seen as acceptable by far too many of us ... even if (though we never phrase it that way) our own children may bear that cost.

Denial abounds.

So I'm not even saying the Iranian people should pay that cost ahead of others on Climate, just that climate's a cost everyone will pay if we don't address this. It's easy to try and talk about this in terms of money, not lives, but money is just a proxy for priority. And many lives still hang in the balance in a variety of ways.

Sometimes I hear that we can't afford to do the things we need to do for climate because they're too expensive, which I hear as we needn't or mustn't prioritize this because money tells us that it's not a priority. And that's just not true. Once we get to talking like that, we need to talk about the fact that money is not even serving the societal purpose that it actually needs to.

As proof that I do in fact think of lives as well, I offer this cross-reference to my 2010 essay, The Cost. It illustrates another monetary issue, sadly also tied to the Middle East. But I mention it more because it offers another way to think about the relationship between money and lives in a slightly different way (complementary not competing) than you and I are doing here, by opportunity cost.

All of these different angles matter. And we need not to be nationalistic about these costs. Wars are rarely instigated by the ordinary people of any country. They are mostly indulgences of the Rich and powerful, adequately detached, able to think of lost lives as a budgetable expense because they and theirs are not part of that budget. The Draft was a scary concept, but it gave everyone a stake. Many were able to relax when we move to an "all volunteer" army. But they did not look closely at the dark reasons some are driven to volunteer. And war should not be something one can relax from.

The Cost (my 2010 essay on Iraq War cost)
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2010/08/the-cost.html

#climate #ClimateCost #cost #money #lives #TheDraft #war #gasoline #GasPrices #IranWar #IraqWar #OpportunityCost #HealthCare

@B123

I appreciate you making that point, because I do agree the cost in lives matters. I would not have this war for that reason.

I was intending to speak narrowly of people's obsession with price, because I think many people complaining about the price WOULD accept casualties in exchange for their own comfort.

The climate issue itself ALSO has a cost in lives, of course. Sadly, many of those casualties would be seen as acceptable by far too many of us ... even if (though we never phrase it that way) our own children may bear that cost.

Denial abounds.

So I'm not even saying the Iranian people should pay that cost ahead of others on Climate, just that climate's a cost everyone will pay if we don't address this. It's easy to try and talk about this in terms of money, not lives, but money is just a proxy for priority. And many lives still hang in the balance in a variety of ways.

Sometimes I hear that we can't afford to do the things we need to do for climate because they're too expensive, which I hear as we needn't or mustn't prioritize this because money tells us that it's not a priority. And that's just not true. Once we get to talking like that, we need to talk about the fact that money is not even serving the societal purpose that it actually needs to.

As proof that I do in fact think of lives as well, I offer this cross-reference to my 2010 essay, The Cost. It illustrates another monetary issue, sadly also tied to the Middle East. But I mention it more because it offers another way to think about the relationship between money and lives in a slightly different way (complementary not competing) than you and I are doing here, by opportunity cost.

All of these different angles matter. And we need not to be nationalistic about these costs. Wars are rarely instigated by the ordinary people of any country. They are mostly indulgences of the Rich and powerful, adequately detached, able to think of lost lives as a budgetable expense because they and theirs are not part of that budget. The Draft was a scary concept, but it gave everyone a stake. Many were able to relax when we move to an "all volunteer" army. But they did not look closely at the dark reasons some are driven to volunteer. And war should not be something one can relax from.

The Cost (my 2010 essay on Iraq War cost)
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2010/08/the-cost.html

#climate #ClimateCost #cost #money #lives #TheDraft #war #gasoline #GasPrices #IranWar #IraqWar #OpportunityCost #HealthCare

@B123

I appreciate you making that point, because I do agree the cost in lives matters. I would not have this war for that reason.

I was intending to speak narrowly of people's obsession with price, because I think many people complaining about the price WOULD accept casualties in exchange for their own comfort.

The climate issue itself ALSO has a cost in lives, of course. Sadly, many of those casualties would be seen as acceptable by far too many of us ... even if (though we never phrase it that way) our own children may bear that cost.

Denial abounds.

So I'm not even saying the Iranian people should pay that cost ahead of others on Climate, just that climate's a cost everyone will pay if we don't address this. It's easy to try and talk about this in terms of money, not lives, but money is just a proxy for priority. And many lives still hang in the balance in a variety of ways.

Sometimes I hear that we can't afford to do the things we need to do for climate because they're too expensive, which I hear as we needn't or mustn't prioritize this because money tells us that it's not a priority. And that's just not true. Once we get to talking like that, we need to talk about the fact that money is not even serving the societal purpose that it actually needs to.

As proof that I do in fact think of lives as well, I offer this cross-reference to my 2010 essay, The Cost. It illustrates another monetary issue, sadly also tied to the Middle East. But I mention it more because it offers another way to think about the relationship between money and lives in a slightly different way (complementary not competing) than you and I are doing here, by opportunity cost.

All of these different angles matter. And we need not to be nationalistic about these costs. Wars are rarely instigated by the ordinary people of any country. They are mostly indulgences of the Rich and powerful, adequately detached, able to think of lost lives as a budgetable expense because they and theirs are not part of that budget. The Draft was a scary concept, but it gave everyone a stake. Many were able to relax when we move to an "all volunteer" army. But they did not look closely at the dark reasons some are driven to volunteer. And war should not be something one can relax from.

The Cost (my 2010 essay on Iraq War cost)
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2010/08/the-cost.html

#climate #ClimateCost #cost #money #lives #TheDraft #war #gasoline #GasPrices #IranWar #IraqWar #OpportunityCost #HealthCare

@B123

I appreciate you making that point, because I do agree the cost in lives matters. I would not have this war for that reason.

I was intending to speak narrowly of people's obsession with price, because I think many people complaining about the price WOULD accept casualties in exchange for their own comfort.

The climate issue itself ALSO has a cost in lives, of course. Sadly, many of those casualties would be seen as acceptable by far too many of us ... even if (though we never phrase it that way) our own children may bear that cost.

Denial abounds.

So I'm not even saying the Iranian people should pay that cost ahead of others on Climate, just that climate's a cost everyone will pay if we don't address this. It's easy to try and talk about this in terms of money, not lives, but money is just a proxy for priority. And many lives still hang in the balance in a variety of ways.

Sometimes I hear that we can't afford to do the things we need to do for climate because they're too expensive, which I hear as we needn't or mustn't prioritize this because money tells us that it's not a priority. And that's just not true. Once we get to talking like that, we need to talk about the fact that money is not even serving the societal purpose that it actually needs to.

As proof that I do in fact think of lives as well, I offer this cross-reference to my 2010 essay, The Cost. It illustrates another monetary issue, sadly also tied to the Middle East. But I mention it more because it offers another way to think about the relationship between money and lives in a slightly different way (complementary not competing) than you and I are doing here, by opportunity cost.

All of these different angles matter. And we need not to be nationalistic about these costs. Wars are rarely instigated by the ordinary people of any country. They are mostly indulgences of the Rich and powerful, adequately detached, able to think of lost lives as a budgetable expense because they and theirs are not part of that budget. The Draft was a scary concept, but it gave everyone a stake. Many were able to relax when we move to an "all volunteer" army. But they did not look closely at the dark reasons some are driven to volunteer. And war should not be something one can relax from.

The Cost (my 2010 essay on Iraq War cost)
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2010/08/the-cost.html

#climate #ClimateCost #cost #money #lives #TheDraft #war #gasoline #GasPrices #IranWar #IraqWar #OpportunityCost #HealthCare

@B123

I appreciate you making that point, because I do agree the cost in lives matters. I would not have this war for that reason.

I was intending to speak narrowly of people's obsession with price, because I think many people complaining about the price WOULD accept casualties in exchange for their own comfort.

The climate issue itself ALSO has a cost in lives, of course. Sadly, many of those casualties would be seen as acceptable by far too many of us ... even if (though we never phrase it that way) our own children may bear that cost.

Denial abounds.

So I'm not even saying the Iranian people should pay that cost ahead of others on Climate, just that climate's a cost everyone will pay if we don't address this. It's easy to try and talk about this in terms of money, not lives, but money is just a proxy for priority. And many lives still hang in the balance in a variety of ways.

Sometimes I hear that we can't afford to do the things we need to do for climate because they're too expensive, which I hear as we needn't or mustn't prioritize this because money tells us that it's not a priority. And that's just not true. Once we get to talking like that, we need to talk about the fact that money is not even serving the societal purpose that it actually needs to.

As proof that I do in fact think of lives as well, I offer this cross-reference to my 2010 essay, The Cost. It illustrates another monetary issue, sadly also tied to the Middle East. But I mention it more because it offers another way to think about the relationship between money and lives in a slightly different way (complementary not competing) than you and I are doing here, by opportunity cost.

All of these different angles matter. And we need not to be nationalistic about these costs. Wars are rarely instigated by the ordinary people of any country. They are mostly indulgences of the Rich and powerful, adequately detached, able to think of lost lives as a budgetable expense because they and theirs are not part of that budget. The Draft was a scary concept, but it gave everyone a stake. Many were able to relax when we move to an "all volunteer" army. But they did not look closely at the dark reasons some are driven to volunteer. And war should not be something one can relax from.

The Cost (my 2010 essay on Iraq War cost)
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2010/08/the-cost.html

#climate #ClimateCost #cost #money #lives #TheDraft #war #gasoline #GasPrices #IranWar #IraqWar #OpportunityCost #HealthCare

I try to make it a rule in my life to never celebrate death.

But nor do I mourn unrepented #evil. Former US #VPOTUS Dick Cheney was deeply evil, a depraved #warCriminal and #torturer who should remain #despised.

The #IraqWar based on Cheney’s #BigLie turned millions of Iraqis into refugees. #TheLancet estimated 654,965 “excess deaths” in #Iraq during just the first 3 years of war.

#DickCheney embodied abuse of power, illegal war, torture, looting, and occupation. And he evaded #justice. 😡

"Dick Cheney suffered from his sick heart since decades." – Not only himself. 🖤 💔

#heartless #IraqWar #Lies #Torture #PanamaInvasion #DesertStorm #GulfWar #Panama #Somalia #Corruption #Halliburton #Collusion #Bribery #GeorgeHwBush #Dick #Cheney