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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.

Chrystia Freeland Warns America: Democracy Is on Life Support as Canada Moves On

Chrystia Freeland says U.S. democracy is on life support as Canada diversifies trade and Trump’s policies drive longtime democratic allies away.

NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

NOW PLAYING == Thom Hartmann Commentary 9/7/26: Are the #MainstreamMedia Missing the Biggest #Election Story of 2026? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81b27NbJrg #news #uspol #politics #commentary #progressive #left #ThomHartmann #Democrats #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist

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NOW PLAYING == Thom Hartmann Commentary 9/7/26: Are the #MainstreamMedia Missing the Biggest #Election Story of 2026?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81b27NbJrg

#news #uspol #politics #commentary #progressive #left #ThomHartmann #Democrats #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist

Far too many #journalists in the mainstream media in the USA take a certain tinpot wannabe dictator's logorrheic incontinence seriously, and then sanewash it before putting it into sensible black and white serif text.

He's a rambling, dissembling, demented fool with the mentality and emotional development of a 5-year-old, but with less prefrontal cortex executive function.

He sits there drooling and wandering off on tangents - sometimes literally - and you report on him like he's an actual subject of real news.

For Pete's sake, this is a person who would spray-paint his own turds gold and tell you they're art.

Any news organization owned by a company worth a hundred million bucks or more ought to either rebooted top to bottom, or burned to the ground.

#USPol #media #journalism #sanewash #sanewashing #spraypaint #gilded #turd #MSM #MainstreamMedia #CorporateMedia

The Hungry Hounds: US #BorderPatrol Lurks at #TohonoOodhamNation Border

@bsnorrell.blogspot.com ,
August 19, 2026

"The U.S. Border Patrol lurks awaiting its prey at the border of the #TohonoOodham Nation, near the Nation's new 'NO TRESPASSING" signs directed at border wall contractors.

"The US Border Patrol is part of Homeland Security and its plan to #seize the Nation's land for the border wall. The US #BorderPatrol already has open access to the Tohono O'odham Nation, and a #SpySystem in place to track #Oodham and watch them.

The #Israeli built #Elbit Systems spy towers track O'odham on the Nation, with live video feed. US Border Patrol agents have been arrested for murder, serial rape, assault, kidnapping, drug running and spotting for the cartels all along the border. The facts are ignored by #MainstreamMedia.

"US Border Patrol agents in this area murdered Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, at his home. His body showed 11 bullets, and the wounds of rifle butts and broken bones. Raymond told #CensoredNews before he was murdered that he had video-taped US Border Patrol agents running drugs with the cartels past his home at the border. This evidence disappeared after it was submitted.

" #OpheliaRivas , Tohono O'odham, points out that the three US Border Patrol agents who murdered her lifelong friend have never been charged. A tribal police officer, a non-Indian, had a vendetta exposed in the voice evidence. He was never charged for his role leading the agents to Raymond's home where they murdered him."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-hungry-hounds-us-border-patrol.html

#JusticeForRayMattia #USPol
#DefundDHS #DefundCBP
#NativeAmericanNews #NoWall #NoBorders #SurveillanceState #JusticeForRaymondMattia
#MurderPatrol #ProtectTheSacred #NativeAmericans #IsraeliWarCrimes #Elbit

Book bans, unintended consequences and mainstream media
Reality is often upsetting

Censorship and challenging of library books in Western nations have risen sharply, driven by organized political campaigns targeting LGBTQIA+ themes, race, and geopolitical conflicts.

* "Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint."
“..It makes some people upset is unfortunate, but reality is often upsetting. This particular reality is especially upsetting … to the parents of the over 20,000 children killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023. Do Sydney officials plan on removing pro-Israel books from their libraries because it potentially upsets these community members?” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/18/sydney-waverley-library-removes-book-how-to-sell-a-genocide-from-shelves-ntwnfb

* Book censorship?
That is when the 'the Streisand effect' kicks in: "It is the phenomenon in which an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness of the information." (wikipedia)

* Here is the banned book:
How to Sell a Genocide
The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza, By Adam H. Johnson >>
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide/
#censorship #books #BookBans #BannedBooks #Sydney #UpsettingReality #libraries #PublicLibraries #HumanRights #liberalism #MassViolence #MSM #MainstreamMedia #TheFourthEstate #journalism #PressComplicity #ManufacturedConsent #DemonisingDissent #genocide #RealityDenial

Nieman Reports: Student Uprisings in India Short-Circuit an Outdated Media Machine. “One of the most striking aspects of this growing discontent is the student protesters’ remarkable control over the narrative of their movement, and the way it’s being covered. If the government has been the primary target of the students’ wrath, the media — specifically pro-government television news […]

if you ever try to interact with Trump supporters, you will know they often say something like

"That source you use is left wing so you can piss off using garbage'

or words to that effect

but here on mastodon and on bluesky, progessives, who really should know better, often say the same about the NYT and WSJ and other "mainstream media" and of course this is bullshit, utter BS cause the NYT and WSJ etc are huge enormous things made by humans & like all human things they are flawed

eg, a great story from the WSJ, whose op ed pages spew vile right wing lies every day:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/security-flaw-placed-30-years-of-dna-evidence-at-risk-of-hacking-1932775a?mod=hp_lead_pos3

#USpol #MainstreamMedia #NYTimes

TV May Lead to Brain Rot, New Study Suggests

A new study amusingly counters the narrative that social media is bad for your health. TV is apparently bad as well.

https://www.freezenet.ca/tv-may-lead-to-brain-rot-new-study-suggests/

#News #Technology #journalism #MainstreamMedia #Media #science #SocialMedia #study #TV

A news company that uses the term “the worlds most powerful AI,” is a company that has fallen for the hype badly enough that I can no longer trust them. This news item is basically just propaganda, and has no other real information or value for anyone. I’m not following this account anymore.

And it pains me to say this, but the US is really not a world leader in innovation of anything anymore. The country is falling apart before the worlds eyes. Their plans to build-out more datacenters for more AI while ignoring their myriad other infrastructural issues is only going to accelerate their collapse, although I think their illegal war against Iran is probably going to be much worse for them. Also, the US education system is struggling badly, the effects of this won’t be known for another 6 years or so, when todays secondary school students are ready to enter the workforce having learned to depend more on AI for answers than on their own thinking skills.

#tech #AI #Hype #LLM #LLMs #Propaganda #Politics #MainstreamMedia #Hype #IranWar

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/116968714809763148

Jake Tapper Tried to Derail Abdul El Sayed—The Progressive Candidate Was Ready

Jake Tapper tries to shift Michigan’s Senate race toward foreign-policy controversy, but Abdul El-Sayed keeps the focus on healthcare, schools, and working people.

This op-ed by a self-described #GenZ “conservative Catholic” #YoungRepublican leader in #Tennessee is bad news for the #MAGA movement. https://www.sunnpost.com/i-campaigned-for-trump-now-mamdani-is-winning-me-over/

It is also bad news for both our #education system *and* the #MainstreamMedia because he seems to not know that this is the *second* term of #DonaldTrump and #AmericanCarnage2.0 only differs from #AmericanCarnage 1.0 in the lack of guardrails on #DonaldTheDeplorable. #Trump hasn’t changed. 🤦‍♂️

Mainstream Media… is Accurately Reporting Tech News?

Mainstream media has made an unusual move and started accurately reporting on technology news Freezenet covers.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-is-accurately-reporting-tech-news/

#News #Technology #AI #CBC #CTV #gaming #journalism #MainstreamMedia #Sony

#corporatemedia #mainstreammedia #msm #israel #zionism #war #crime #warcrime #warcriminal #gaza #iran #lebanon #thehague #news #globalnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #criminal #crime #corrupt #corruption #war #history #ushistory #worldshitory

@susankayequinn

"Translation: the women’s lived experience kept contradicting the lesson the church wanted to teach, and the editors won every time because they held the printing press."

So, things haven't changed, just expanded beyond the church to include the new religions of white supremacy and tech bros.

#MainstreamMedia #SocialMedia #LegacyMedia

terrifying #news #weather report of my home country & the sweltering heat frying my son out of his outrageously exploitative expensive student room (€1100 incl.p.m.) without AC or customer service.

#GifsArtidote: i fear for my kids. hence why i turn my back on #capitalism & hierarchy as much as i can. instead i turn to what's uncomfortable, & unknown to me..

#humanCausedClimateChange
#MainstreamMedia #NL #UK #EU🏴

https://youtu.be/euF0UvYQO78?

terrifying #news #weather report of my home country & the sweltering heat frying my son out of his outrageously exploitative expensive student room (€1100 incl.p.m.) without AC or customer service.

#GifsArtidote: i fear for my kids. hence why i turn my back on #capitalism & hierarchy as much as i can. instead i turn to what's uncomfortable, & unknown to me. i seek out those of you who build communities & tighten relationships.
i support my local café, local farmers, local community, bc end of the day when this shit comes down, i have my chosen estate family who got my back & i have theirs.

no critical word from #Channel4News tho

#humanCausedClimateChange
#MainstreamMedia #NL #UK #EU🏴

https://youtu.be/euF0UvYQO78?

We Analyzed Thousands of News Articles: Here’s the Proof of Pro-Israel Bias in Mainstream Media https://theintercept.com/2026/05/12/gaza-media-coverage-israel-bias/ #media #news #MainstreamMedia #journalism #Gaza #genocide #ProIsraelBias #BiasInMedia #IsraeliWarCrimes #propaganda

If you watched the brainwashing scene in A Clockwork Orange and don't realise your views, behaviour and beleifs are from mainstream and social media, you are not thinking critically. (And are probably brainwashed)

#BrainWashing #MSM #media #MainstreamMedia #SocialMedia

I have to get this off my chest.

The #mainstreammedia is the biggest #traitors to humanity in history.

They manipulate with subtlety and stealth, unlike the corporate #socialmedia. I hope that their #treachery will be exposed one day and stripped down to the core to repair some of the damages they've done.