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9/11 - The Ultimate Litmus Test
9/11 - The Ultimate Litmus Test
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Cognitive Dissonance
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Thirteen years ago the world changed; though it is only with the benefit of perspective may we clearly see the extent and duration of that change. But change it did and remarkably so after perspective is found and the world is seen for what it really is rather than what we are told it is - or what we want it to be based upon our own cultural conditioning and personally biased worldview.
This is not to say I see clearly, that I possess an unbiased mind, special insight or clarity of vision. Far from it in fact. On a daily basis I fight the tendency to develop a rigid mindset and view the world through that comforting lens. To help me resist this temptation I must constantly remind myself a static world view often results from my need to feel I can understand and control what is at times incomprehensible and most certainly uncontrollable. I have learned from personal experience the more I feel out of control the more I will try to exert control. It is a battle I will lose every time if I engage.
There is so much intentionally created confusion and misinformation out there that anyone claiming to know exactly what is going on is either tragically self deluded and living in a fantasy world, ideologically deaf, dumb and blind or a misinformation agent attempting to muddy the waters some more. I am not sure if anyone knows our true history anymore, including those entities busy rewriting it at this very moment.
That said, a huge and tragic mistake made by nearly all of us (not just the mainstream media contrarians reading this) is to assume we must have in place a complete and detailed historical narrative, including names, confessions and the smoking gun, before we discard the previous one, particularly if the one being discarded is ‘official’. This is of course a ridiculous requirement since from a logic and common sense point of view one is not required to know what is right in order to declare something wrong.
This incredibly effective controlling mind meme has become so thoroughly embedded within the collective consciousness that even so-called critical thinkers repeat this demand of anyone approaching them to request they re-examine their beliefs and consider alternatives. I am speaking directly to you and me, the alternative media reader here. This is a demand I might add we would unilaterally reject as preposterous if applied to our own ‘profession’, but which we gratefully embrace when protecting our cherished belief systems regardless of whether it is the official narrative or a contrary point of view. At times we are all trapped by our rigid thinking.
Even those who have rejected the official historical account of > fill in the blank < as balderdash are often quick to offer up an alternative thesis lest they be perceived as less than credible, competent or even (perish the thought) a conspiracy theorist. This is greatest mind killing, thought stopping epitaph ever created by the thought control police since accusations of witches, warlocks and devil worshipers were used to control dissenting thought. Regardless of your mind set one must admit this is brilliantly applied mind control technique via co-opted language and the hive mind. Score one to the CIA for that little gem.
The fact is liars lie and those who profit from lying, and by profit I don’t mean exclusively financial, will lie until the cows come home and “We the People” are pacified (or at least mentally, physically and emotionally disarmed) once again. Thus it fascinates me to no end how in one breath someone will declare all politicians and government officials are liars and corrupt, and in the next vigorously defend what ‘their’ lying politician and authority has claimed is the God’s Honest Truth and the ‘official’ story. And with a pinky swear no less.
“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it…..until I claim to have misspoken and we start all over again.”
Of course this almost always applies to the really big lies, the ones everyone can comfortably believe since no one would ever tell a whopper like that. After all, we can bitch and complain all we want about the effects of the corrupt system, but we must never fully question the very basis of the corrupt system itself for this will force us to question ourselves and our part in the charade. Careful we don’t bite the hand that feeds us……even if what we feed upon are ‘just’ yummy emotional security tidbits and a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ affirmation of what is ‘normal’……so long as we don’t look beyond the paper thin veneer.
This neurosis of ours is skillfully played to the hilt, both by those who lie to us and by those who wish to be lied to. Truth be told we all enjoy a comforting lie now and then, just as long as it fits reasonably well within our overall worldview and inner narrative. In this way we are able to have our cake and eat it too, to both believe the (big) lie while not really believing (all of) it. Just don’t look too closely at the glaring conflicts and omissions in the official and alternative narratives, while at the same time looking just close enough to substitute in something that better fits into our own personal and infinitely customizable view of the world.

Which brings me to the subject of this article, “9/11 – The Ultimate Litmus Test”. Let me declare upfront that I ‘know’ two things with an extremely high degree of certainty about 9/11.
Number one, I have no idea exactly what happened on that brilliantly blue second Tuesday in September, let alone who and what was behind the event. And anyone who says they do is either blinded by their ideology, full of self deluded bullshit, or the mastermind of the entire operation. Please note I said EXACTLY. I know a lot about 9/11 and that is the problem. What I think I know is far greater than what I actually ‘know’. With that in mind I try to remind myself I have just enough information to make me dangerous to myself and no one else.
I am very comfortable stating for the record I ‘know’ almost nothing with absolute certainty about 9/11 and much of what I suspect happened on that beautiful fall day is little more than opinion and supposition. The only (slight) advantage I may have over many others when considering this subject is I wasn’t as deeply imprinted psychologically that morning/day because I was recovering from emergency surgery the night before and was enjoying the sweet bliss of a doctor prescribed morphine drip.
It was truly remarkable and quite surreal watching huge buildings disintegrate into dust with no emotional involvement or investment on my part. I know I upset several traumatized nurses and doctors that morning with my unsympathetic appraisal of the unfolding Psyops. Even in my drugged state I could recognize a con when it was being foisted upon us. But knowing something is a con and knowing how the con is run and who and what are behind it are two very different balls of tangled yarn.
It is the ultimate of egoic arrogance and hubris, which itself often carefully conceals our fear and emotional insecurity, for anyone to declare they ‘know’ who, what, when, where and why when in fact most of what they ‘know’ is at best supposition, hypothesis and logic based guessing. Naturally most of us get around this by asserting we ‘know’ most of what happened and would know all if only those dirty rotten bastards would come clean and spill the beans.
It is one thing to point out logical inconsistencies, outright contradictions and false statements in the official narrative, not to mention deliberate omissions and the obscuring of information. It is another entirely to state unequivocally ‘we’ know this or that, then point to the problems within the official narrative as ‘proof’ we are correct.
This speaks directly to the neurotic need of so many contrarians (that means you and me dear reader) to present an alternative explanation to replace the one we reject in order to appear credible. Why in the world are ‘we’ so worried about appearing credible to those who have no intention of believing anything other than what they wish to believe? And yet ‘we’ do.
Number two, the official 9/11 cover story stinks worse than two week old fish in August and is so full of holes it contains no substantial factual ‘truth’ to speak of other than bits and pieces here and there held together with baling wire and chewing gum. This is not to say there is no ‘truth’ (maybe I should say ‘fact’ since truth is often subjective) in the story.
Any competent liar will insistent a critical ingredient when concocting a successful (read plausible) lie is to mix just enough truth, especially self damaging truth, into the fetid cesspool of deception, deceit and duplicity. The best ‘genuine imitation’ stew is the one that contains a little real beef mixed in with the chunks of mystery meat and salmonella.
The ‘official’ 9/11 cover story is so full of crap the smell test alone is the early warning sign to fumigate and then repeatedly flush while hoping the septic tank or municipal sewer system can handle the mess without backing up. However the brilliance behind this treachery IS the cover story, as is the case with all reasonably well executed cover stories regardless of how transparent it might be. Enough ‘truth’, omission, scapegoats, blind alleys, false leads, backtracking and ideological red herrings has been seeded into the official cover-up to keep EVERYONE on both sides of the aisle endlessly chasing their tails. A true one-size-fits-all disinformation narrative if ever there was one.

For those who don’t wish to acknowledge the extremely uncomfortable truth they are sleeping with the enemy (meaning the mainstream media mesmerized) there are just enough self damaging ‘facts’ mixed into the official stew to ‘allow’ them to believe any variety of alternative narratives that point towards governmental/military incompetence, bald faced greed and self dealing, cover-your-ass bureaucratic backpedaling, terrorist ‘bad’ guys who hate-us-for-our-freedom let-me-sleep-like-a-baby ‘beliefs’.
Just as long as ‘we’ are given whatever it takes to avoid looking too closely into the black abyss and seeing ‘us’ for what ‘we’, as well as those formerly and presently in power, really are. After all I can call my wife a whore or my government a killer of its own citizens, but if you say that…well, them thar is fighting words.
Then there is the so called alternative point of view championed by a witch’s brew of dissenting, disaffected and downright angry individuals and small groups who, sadly and unfortunately, have been thoroughly infiltrated and mostly disarmed by the grand keepers of The Big Lie.
That neurotic impulse previously mentioned, of the need to present a complete and plausible alternative explanation when rejecting the official narrative, is expertly used to leverage every possible alternative account regardless of how plausible, or not, it may be. So long as everyone is going nowhere we can spin our wheels to our hearts content while the Grand Parade marches on. Lots of smoke, but no fire, is the objective of the disruptors and disinformation peddlers.
Not only does this keep the minions busy fighting among themselves, but anyone on the outside brave enough to fight back their inner fear of leaving the Matrix and taking a peek inside the alternative reality world is quickly spooked back to dry land by the absolute insanity and brutality of the alternative blogosphere. This is as much by design as by happenstance. Some people are truly just trolls and some are agents of the system hired to send the rabbits out of their holes and into the waiting arms of the existing insane asylum. And sadly some just follow the leader troll and act out their inner aggressions.
Somewhere in the middle of the true crazies screaming bloody murder, the misinformation agents acting out their roles as either crazies or ‘experts’ (and sometimes both), the mostly well intentioned individuals just seeking to find some answers amongst the deafening roar, and the vast silent majority of the minority, those who are truly frightened and confused and who just want the insanity to go away so they can go back to some sort of peaceful sleep, lay the ‘truth’ - slowly being starved to death for lack of nutrition and nurturing by all parties involved.
Contrary to the alternative universe crowd’s present day self image, the desire to go back to sleep seems to be the case for a large and growing population of frightened angry people who are skillfully manipulated, or at least herded, into self destructive actions, self defeating chest beating and righteously indignant late night screaming by way of blogging and posting passionate diatribes via the Interwebby – on occasion this author included.
Mission accomplished as far as the controllers are concerned. Better to have the disaffected corralled in the cattle shoot snipping at one another rather than out in the streets directly confronting authority or taking incremental steps towards slowly withdrawing from the enslaving system. Impossible you say? These human psychological bomb defusing and disposal techniques are older than Jesus Christ himself, stretching back to well before the Roman Empire. All the way back in fact to the Egyptian pharaohs.
[On a side note a totally fascinating and somewhat well documented theory posits that Christianity was created and/or hijacked by the Romans to counter and defuse what was at the time a militantly violent and revolutionary Jewish religion bent on the overthrow and destruction of the Roman Empire in what we today call the Middle East.
Have you ever seriously considered why the Old Testament is so militant and violent while the New Testament is essentially passive? Or pondered why the Jewish faith does not accept the New Testament? Talk about hijacked; if even slightly true, consider the similarities between this theory and what is happening within and to the Muslim religion today by forces outside and within that faith.]
Remarkably, while ‘our’ recorded history has been repeatedly distorted, re-written and omitted time after time, the distortion techniques used are all very well documented and displayed in plain sight for all who are not ideologically blind to see. In my opinion this is a not-so-subtle middle finger to those who claim to be right minded and on the side of truth and justice for all. Essentially we are being told, “This is what we do and how we do it. Whatcha gonna do about it fool?”
How do you defeat someone or something much larger than you? Ask any martial arts or military strategy expert and they will tell you the secret to their universe in a few choice words………deception and leverage. Instead of acting to protect ourselves from the predators who use these techniques against ‘us’, we enable them by destroying ourselves and those around us. Just spend a little time studying some recent history from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s for some examples of self destruction, though I suggest you stay away from the official cover stories endlessly repeated via history textbooks and encyclopedias.
Have you ever wondered what happened to the various ‘popular’ movements and uprisings of those three decades? Again and again and again agents acting in the interest of the power elite and status quo infiltrated anything perceived to be a threat in order to sidetrack, dissolve or outright control any and all ‘subversive’ groups using polarizing techniques that are timeless in their effectiveness and efficiency.
There is only one rule to follow for all centers of power and that is to protect and preserve that power. This applies whether the power resides in governments, (central) banks, corporations, kings, pharaohs or Caesars all the way down to petty school yard bullies and megalomaniac Wal-Mart assistant managers.
If it is newly consolidated power acquired with the ‘consent’ of the people then initially those catered to will be “We the People”. But over time, as the absolute power corrupts absolutely, the fastest and easiest way to remain on top is through increasingly more widespread corruption via confiscating the wealth of the people and then spreading it among those few elite most able and available to assist in the maintenance of that power. Thus corruption spreads and infects everyone including “We the People” who in many cases must resort to these same methods in order to survive within the insanity. Either we become the mob or we die by the mob.
While anything goes in the pursuit of this goal, towards the end of Empire (regardless of the size of that empire) increasingly more ruthless and ‘efficient’ methods are employed to control the herd as the facade that originally kept “We the People” sedated and sated, or at least at bay, dissolves into an orgy of excess and opulence for those who ‘have’ and oppressive drugged drudgery for those who have not, all while “We the People’s” remaining money and wealth are debased and destroyed.
Actually I misspoke at the top of this article (to use that wonderful Newspeak term politicians love to use when backtracking in a hurry) when I said the world changed back on September 11, 2001. What changed was our perception, our worldview, in what was the largest real time experiment in mass hypnosis and perception management ever attempted in order to justify what was already in the works. Problem…Reaction…Solution in all its ugly glory writ large, live and in living color on nearly every TeeVee in the world.
Just because we were witness to such monstrous depravity as to curdle mother’s milk in situ doesn’t mean we cannot sit back and admire the craftsmanship and chutzpah, the grand illusion both as it unfolded and afterward, as it roiled and regurgitated in the world’s gut like a half digested Thanksgiving feast with no bicarbonate in sight.
One must vigorously applaud the spectacle of being told in real time to ignore our lying eyes and ‘believe’ what we are being told, then over the following months and years to backtrack, misspeak, re-speak, doublespeak and un-speak as the initial lie is reformed, refined and rammed up our butts ever deeper, all while we beg for more while cowering from the ghosts of terrorists past, present and future.
It was and remains a masterful job, simply masterful, despite its glaring and painfully obvious miscues, screw-ups and blatant public perception manipulation. If nothing else we have learned it doesn’t matter how obvious the lie is if people don’t want to know the truth. “Tell me another lie Dad so I can believe it’s the truth. Everything is gonna be OK, right?”

So exactly what is this litmus test I’m talking about and how does it apply to you and me. Well, it depends upon who ‘you’ are. I have repeatedly stated that what is not said is often far more important then what is said. For those who hold the ‘public trust’, a title that extends far beyond public servants such as politicians and other ‘officials’, if they continue to uphold the overall ‘official’ 9/11 story even while questioning it in a roundabout manner, it is in my opinion the litmus test.
Worse I have grown weary of the disingenuous argument put forth by some that to speak frankly in public about 9/11 will destroy their credibility and thus their effectiveness as they battle the Empire from within. If one does not speak out against the Empire, yet one derives power from the Empire, ‘one’ is little more than a lackey and controlled opposition to/of/for the Empire. One ‘fact’ is becoming crystal clear as we progress deeper and deeper into this insanity. The Empire serves The Empire and only those who serve The Empire. Period!
At some point down the road to total corruption all energy expended by The Empire, and those who suckle from The Empire, is directed towards sustaining and defending The Empire. From that point on one is either serving that purpose (and lackeys, useful idiots and controlled opposition most certainly do) or one is expelled by The Empire from the (inner) circle of The Empire. Thus any chance one might have had to ‘change’ The Empire is lost………because there was never a ‘chance’ to change it from within to begin with.
I am not calling out anyone in particular because doing so would serve no purpose other than to start a shouting match and further the ‘divide and conquer’ technique those in power use to control and subvert those who are not in power and might otherwise have a voice. I have no doubt many who profess to be battling The Empire from within truly believe they are doing so. That said ultimately it does not change the fact that at best, in the eyes of The Empire, they are useful idiots regardless of whether they know or care they are.
But the second part of the 9/11 Litmus Test applies to everyone else who believes whatever they want to ‘believe’ regarding 9/11. I don’t care which side of the fence we are on, either pro or anti official story or anywhere in between, because it really doesn’t matter. If our view is fixed and unmoving, or worse, confined to a small narrow space where we can maintain the illusion of intellectual flexibility, we too are useful idiots and pawns of The Empire. Notice I say ‘we’ because I am not immune to this infection.
The Empire cares not what we think so long as we are safely corralled within thought boxes and mind memes. Just as long as we hope/expect/pray change is coming, even if that change is believed to spring from collapse brought about by corruption, fiat debasement, loss of dollar reserve status, foreign overextension of empire, foreign or domestic war, whatever the case may be, we for the most part will remain in place feeding the beast……even while we make plans and prepare for “The End of Empire”.
This holds true even for those who choose to believe little to no change is coming, essentially another of the ‘official’ stories we can all believe in. If I can convince myself things will work out, that all we need to right the ship of state is a different President, Congressional critter or some new laws forcing ‘them’ to stop messing things up (read that as change without…well, you know…’change’) then once again I render myself impotent and from The Empire’s perspective safely on the sidelines biding my time while still participating in the Ponzi and feeding the machine.
What 9/11 did, quite effectively I might add, is violently and dramatically change and focus the world’s perspective in general and the average American citizen’s in particular. A ‘new’ boogeyman was created in order for attention to be directed towards a specific area, which just so happens to draw attention away from another. Thirteen years later the intended consequences are still being implemented. As long as we remain mesmerized by the symptoms of the disease we remain effectively disabled from dealing with the root cause of our illness. Mission Accomplished!
It is time to wake up and head deeper down the rabbit hole. Contrary to popular belief ‘our’ collective problems will not be solved unless and until our inner dysfunction and insanity are confronted and recognized. We are our own worst enemy; a quaint saying everyone thinks applies to others and not to ourselves. As long as ‘We the People” continue to believe this fallacy the ancient divide and conquer techniques will reign supreme.
The 9/11 Litmus Test is not about what we know or don’t know, but how we deal with our knowledge and ignorance as well as ourselves while doing so. Once we begin to lift the veil of ignorance and ideology we are like sharks; either we keep moving forward or we die. There is no more treading water for that is reserved for those left behind.
09-10-2014
Cognitive Dissonance
The answers are not black and white, but gray all over.

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False.
"We heard a loud rumble, then all of a sudden we heard another rumble like someone moving a whole lot of furniture," Rodriguez said. "And then the elevator opened and a man came into our office and all of his skin was off."
Rodriquez heard the jetliner strike the building, followed by noise related to the elevators, which resulted in the man being burned.
"We went on the basement, number one. And there when we opened the door, the fire department was there waiting in front of the 50 car elevator, which was already gone, because the airplane, when he came through the building, broke all the cables and practically destroyed the elevator because the elevator went down seven flights of floors"
Rodriquez heard the jetliner strike the building, followed by noise related to the elevators, which resulted in the man being burned.
"We went on the basement, number one. And there when we opened the door, the fire department was there waiting in front of the 50 car elevator, which was already gone, because the airplane, when he came through the building, broke all the cables and practically destroyed the elevator because the elevator went down seven flights of floors"
The first rumble was the jetliner striking One world Trade. Elevators then crashed. The second rumble Rodriguez heard. There was no explosion in the basement before the jetliner struck the building.
You're a liar. Rodriquez and others heard the explosion in the basement. The worker came up the elevator with his skin hanging off. Then they heard the plane hit the building above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIZtqKiidlo
"You're a liar. Rodriquez and others heard the explosion in the basement. The worker came up the elevator with his skin hanging off. Then they heard the plane hit the building above."
Rodriguez own words: "We heard a loud rumble, then all of a sudden we heard another rumble like someone moving a whole lot of furniture," Rodriguez said. "And then the elevator opened and a man came into our office and all of his skin was off."
The plane hit first, then burning jet fuel went down the elevator shaft, burniing the man who exited the elevator.
" We know that steel frame buildings do not collapse into their footprint unless it's a controlled demolition."
That is also false.
" We know that steel frame buildings do not collapse into their footprint unless it's a controlled demolition."
That is also false.
They do not.
"They do not."
Yes they do.
Do you have any examples?
If the building hasn't been weakened SYMMETRICALLY, why would it fall symmetrically?
"Do you have any examples?
If the building hasn't been weakened SYMMETRICALLY, why would it fall symmetrically?"
How does one weaken a building symmetrically? Ever watched a controlled demolition video? The explosions don't go off in unison. The pattern is not symmetrical.
The collapse of the Towers was top down, floor by floor, below the failure point. All the floor space was contained inside the exterior columns. Debris dropped from one floor down to the next, stripping it from the connnections to the collumns.
It looks like there was a shift change. Moneybots will be right back with a new operator shortly. Please stay tuned.
I agree with all you say.....including that I am an idiot. There are many facts that are quite certain and the official cover story is a piece of shit and the Big Lie. Please read the article and you will see I have clearly stated this.
The other thing we know Snod is that trolls and disinfo agents are going to be out in full force today.
Thank you CD. Good effort, Sir
"..those who are truly frightened and confused and who just want the insanity to go away so they can go back to some sort of peaceful sleep"
- that is the "problem" with the Alternative-Scene there is so much back-and-forth creating an almost impenetrable cacophony that most "regular" folks will simply give up and go back to the "safety" of an (relatively) unchanging official story simply because it's constant no matter how incredulous.
"Either we become the mob or we die by the mob."
- there must be a 3rd way, I hope there is .. but am still looking :)
"What changed was our perception, our worldview, in what was the largest real time experiment in mass hypnosis"
- there was a movie where the headquarters of the villain where in a big tower in the middle of the city, but everybody got convinced (by media) that this building burned down and got torn down, no such thing happened, so everybody was "blind" to this building and just could not see it. Although this might not have worked in real life its a good metaphor for how perception creates reality.
"If nothing else we have learned it doesn’t matter how obvious the lie is if people don’t want to know the truth. "
- some things never change, people will remain ignorant, till its beaten out of them, nobody likes to willingly have their "peace and quiet" disturbed by Inconvenient Facts.
"- that is the "problem" with the Alternative-Scene there is so much back-and-forth creating an almost impenetrable cacophony that most "regular" folks will simply give up and go back to the "safety" of an (relatively) unchanging official story simply because it's constant no matter how incredulous."
I agree with the gist of what you're saying here, but the idea that the official story is "constant" is not true. Silverstein's admission of "pulling" WTC7 is only the most glaring example of their inability to maintain such a constant storyline as you suggest. As CD said earlier in the comments, it's not the quality of the story that people believe. They believe because not to believe will destroy their faith in the established order. And most people believe there is either the established order, or there is chaos. This has been true throughout the history of mankind, and has always been the "activation energy" barrier to social change. People associate peace with the current order. Hard to break that one down, regardless of how insane the story the current order is telling.
" Silverstein's admission of "pulling" WTC7 is only the most glaring example of their inability to maintain such a constant storyline as you suggest."
There was no addmission. Pull it is not a controlled demolition term.
I count it an honor to have attracted the interest of someone who feels the need to categorically deny this statement. It shows me that this one strikes a nerve with you guys. The response I see here from you is a perfect example of Orwell's doublespeak. You claim that reality is what you say it is. Whatever people see for themselves means nothing, only what you tell them it means. Whether you can create the full 1984 scenario is still in debate, but you're sure as hell trying your best.
I watched the video, I know what he said, and equally important, I know the way he said it, his body language, his tone. You can tell me black is white, and I honestly don't care. I trust my instincts and personal life experience over your interpretations every time. Silverstein went off-script. It's hard to maintain a lie perfectly. Occasionally the mask slips. He slipped, and has spent the past several years working to convince people that they are misinterpreting him. But humans are pretty good at seeing lies. It is coded into our innate social skill set.
You are focused on the word "pull". I don't actually care so much about that word. More important in his statement is the context surrounding the word: "they made that decision to pull, and we watched the building collapse." This was a decision. i.e. intentional.
I know you are not interested in convincing me. Your job is to "balance" what I say so that other readers who are uncertain will be left in doubt.
To those readers, I say only trust your own judgment. Don't listen to me, and don't listen to moneybots. Look at the evidence in the least manipulated forms you can (i.e. try to avoid the highly produced videos from either side of the debate and find the raw footage. There's some out there), and come to your own conclusion. The official story is just that: a story. Does it make sense to you? Experts in the area do have some special knowledge and ability to interpret events like this, but that doesn't mean you have to trust "expert" opinion if it flies in the face of reality and commonsense you have lived with your whole life from your direct experience. "Experts" lie, too. Don't forget that.
"I watched the video, I know what he said, and equally important, I know the way he said it, his body language, his tone. You can tell me black is white, and I honestly don't care. I trust my instincts and personal life experience over your interpretations every time."
I know what he said, too and pull it is not a controlled demolition term. There is no twisting it into one. Pull it is to actually physically pull down, as in World Trade Five and Six.
You are spot on. Most of us here don't need any convincing after the Patriot Act, NDAA, DHS, TSA, NSA, and endless war that has followed this horrendous crime against the American public, and the world.
" Silverstein's admission of "pulling" WTC7 is only the most glaring example of their inability to maintain such a constant storyline as you suggest."
There was no admission. Pull it is not a controlled demolition term.
And Mickey Mouse is not a Disney character.
"And Mickey Mouse is not a Disney character."
Pull it is not a controlled demolition term. Mickey Mouse is a Disney character.
Seven World Trade was not pulled down.
It wasn't pulled down. It was pushed down by the giant who came down from the bean stalk when Silverstein poked him in the nuts. In the end Silverstein got the golden goose. The End.
Actually it fell over in two directions in perfect conformity with the damage sustained from the collapse of the North Tower, which is the actual cause of collapse, fire merely hastening it's demise.
And yet the alternative media is obsessed with 'facts' that will continue to be ignored by those who support The Empire.
The Empire is NOT supported by facts. It is supported by an illusion, by fiction, by belief and ignorance and apathy and FEAR. Why in the world do we think we can bring down The Empire with facts?
read this mass of tripe more than once. sorry to say.
Diarrhea of words and constipation of thought.
an aurora ex machina classic:
You will never know the Absolute Truth here. The real question you should be asking is: the wider the impact, the larger the amount of money, planning and skill it takes to pull off. Measure the impact, not the event itself or Actors involved. Measure the reaction of various belief systems and measure the depth penetration it has.
This is the real lesson of 9/11 unless you missed it; it happened, trying to discern causation isn't the Game.
@Trader1 9/11/14, 0109
OMG, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html/?_r=0
With THAT as source, who but GOD Almightly Herself reject your contribution?!
Susan Lindauer a MUCH better source, I assure you. Look her up!
http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/lindauer/
Cognitive Dissonance, such an appropriate screen name for the essay you posted here on ZH, memorializing, in a fashion, the events on 9-11, you live up to your chosen appellation! I have read your essay through quickly, then re-read more slowly, looking to apply my own personal "ultimate litmus test" for 9-11 analysts, scientists and engineeres, commentators, pundits, and associated commentary. Briefly, based on results of a preliminary screening, I think you flunk.
Nonetheless, confirmatory and quantitative tests remain for the doing before I can render a final, conclusive opinion. After all, you have crafted layer upon layer of seeming logic and argument, which that takes much more time for definitive deconstruction and identification. FOR EXAMPLE, like the timely essays posted by Stephen Lendman (on veteranstoday.com) and Paul Craig Roberts (his personal site), you fail to mention "Israel", "Mossad", and other terms applicable to what many who at least think they know what they know about 9-11. You do engage in a bit of bashing of "Christianity" -- heck, it won't take much more such bashing to drive that "straw man" into a rocky ruin comparable to that of the Roman Empire you mention -- and you do describe a "militarily violent and revolutionary Jewish religion bent on [that Empire's] overthrow and destruciton". That occasioned your sole reference to a cadre of people (by whatever name) that some point to as "the elephant in Room 911". Perhaps History does rhyme after all.
For your "first thing" you declare you "know" with a highly extreme -- oops, I meant to type "extremely high" -- degree of certainty about 9/11, that you have no idea exactly what happened ...let alone who or what was behind the events. As a scientist, I can only say that if we had to know EXACTLY anything, there would be no "science" today. There would be no "speed of light", no molecular weight of water, no science of estimating the degree of uncertainty, even! Your "first thing" reads like an impoverished rendition of Donald Rumsfeld's mealy mouthed statements (we don't know what we don't know). More on that in Part II.
Your "second thing" is calling into question the "official 9/11 cover story". GREAT! Like many others, including Richard Gage, you have achieved the equivalent of a "limited hangout". So what? To what purpose?
Your subsequent use of the word "Empire" seems to refer to an entity (?), a human construct (?), an actual monolithic powerful collection of single-minded people?! Do you agree that you might have defined, up front upon your first mention, what you mean by this "contemporary Empire" -- not the Roman Empire that somehow coopted "Christianity" to passify that violent Jewish group threatening to overthrow that empire. Later you write the following: "After spending enough time connecting the dots of date together, it becomes more and more obvious that we are living inside of an Anglo-American (Zionist) Empire, which was able and willing to stage the 9/11 mass murders in order to advance their agenda."
I have to leave this comment here as is as Part I. Your concluding paragraphs seem to counterpoint, in not contradict the "first thing" you mentioned -- knowing nothing exactly and taking others to task for conclusions based on "connecting dots" and "evaluating data" and, taking into account History (which does best predict the future of humanity, I suspect). I shall take this up in Part II of my comment on your provocative posting here on ZH.
Thank you, CG!
"Briefly, based on results of a preliminary screening, I think you flunk."
Do you grade on the curve?
I wasn't trying to analyze the facts of 9/11 so I'm not surprised I flunked, since you are grading for something I didn't do. I was looking at questions no one seems to want to talk about....including you. After 13 years of destroying the 'official' 9/11 cover story why are 'we' still so obsessed with 'facts' that are still unknown? Does anyone really think one more irrefutable fact will cause the lie to crumble?
The Lie is not supported by the cover story. The Lie is supported by the people. Maybe we need to spend some time understanding why the people support the lie and attack the problem that way.
I have no intention of telling anyone which facts to believe and which not to since I have already stated I "know' very little about 9/11. What purpose is served by me joining the chorus of 'fact' declarers?
You are an 'expert' who gives 'expert' testimony in court so I'm not surprised you are focused on facts and information. What court of law will defy The Empire and listen to the evidence, then rule on the facts and render justice against the perpetrators? Yet this is the path we all seem to follow, to expect some 'authority' to dissolve the lie and bring the liars to justice. The court of "We the People" has already ruled and the majority have said they aren't interested.
The vast majority of people are not interested in hearing or knowing the truth. Do you really think that after forcing them to hear, see and acknowledge your 'facts' you will actually open their minds?
"The Lie is not supported by the cover story. The Lie is supported by the people."
You have hit the nail on the head with those two sentences, Cog. This is the heart of our world, and thank you for having the eyes to see it and the talent to express it so simply.
"The Lie is not supported by the cover story. The Lie is supported by the people."
And thank YOU for recognizing this, the whole point of Cog's piece. The article was about how we individually interpret and deal with lies, not another debate of the facts.
A healthy whole requires healthy parts. The only part we can fix is ourselves, and hopefully along the way inspire a few others.
Check out the official from from the Secret Service (OST Dept.) with Construction Helmet in WTC-7 Lobby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptMLxF06LJs
OST deal with the transportation of nuclear materials, now that is not bullshit surely cog?
Great link!
"Of course the lobby's blown up...there's a fire 80 floors above us! You better get out. I wear a special hat so I know what I'm talking about. I'll wait here for witnesses... I mean, stranglers...ups...I mean stragglers... Man this job stresses me out....and the fucking FBI's playing fucking golf at Pebble Fucking Beach!"
I doubt we will ever know exactly what happened to WTC7 or the rest of what went down (literally and figuratively) that day.
Good news! We don't need to know in order to remove those who will rape, rob and steal from us.
Maybe YOU don't need to know but I, and a lot of others do. Perhaps the cacophony of cognitive dissonance is getting to you (or your wife). There's evidence on a plate everywhere. A journey of a thousand miles begins with not being overwhelmed. Start with the money, end with the schmucks as illustrated in 3rd Pig's comment link above.
What part of 'exactly' is not understood here? Did you read the article? Because I made it very clear I think the official story is pure bullshit.
You said immediately above, "we don't need to know"... What don't you understand about your own comments?
Follow The Dirty Money Trail!
The Pentagon?
Shanksville?
9/11 Conspiracy Solved: Names, Connections, & Details Exposed!https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n_fp5kaVYhk
Best post yet, Cog. Thanks for the effort. Gerard
CD, you've written some good stuff in the past, but this is among your best.
"...a conspiracy theorist. This is greatest mind killing, thought stopping epitaph ever created by the thought control police since accusations of witches, warlocks and devil worshipers were used to control dissenting thought. Regardless of your mind set one must admit this is brilliantly applied mind control technique via co-opted language and the hive mind. Score one to the CIA for that little gem." -- CD
Canadian philosopher John McMurtry said similar and with great economy:
"Conspiracy Theory, the term of art for the silencing operation. Fear of ridicule does the rest." -- John McMurtry, PhD. Philosophy
Well done and thanks, CD.
Once again fear is used expertly to control the common mind. Time to make our mind extraordinary and rid ourselves of these meme impediments. This can only be done by looking within and facing our fears.
The "9/11 Litmus Test" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6O4LE0eTYc is a very simple pass/fail approach to determining whether someone is full of shit or not. It's a process not of prosecution but of selection, as in "the wheat from the chaff".
If they suggest it was anything other than an "INSIDE JOB" and Larry Silverstein, the Bush Family and an overpaid cast of thousands from any number of suppocating foreign and domestic servants and Lords was involved, you know you won't have to waste another second with that person for the rest of your life because you know immediately they have no integrity, decency, honesty, dignity or humanity left in their rotting mortal coils, the soul having long since absconded. If they feign complete ignorance on the subject, they're your Selected Representative.
Call it a cheat sheet for the world's cheaters.
Here for example is a "fail" (like too much pee in your Marilyn Monroe shaped swimming pool when you check the pH): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEDf7OkRCxk
Great post, CD.
I'm going to leave a little list right here:
Never Forget … Countries from Around the World Admit They Use False Flag Terror
With respect, GW -- perhaps your screen name ALSO portends your role today, for, after all, over WHICH country in the making and, more importantly, FOR WHICH interests did the (first) George Washington really preside?! -- I believe, based on reading your site's posting for a couple years, you -- like Stephen Lendman, Paul Craig Roberts, Michel Chossudovsky, and (now with sorrow I have to add) "Cognitive Dissonance" -- serve in part as a "gatekeeper", directing attention away from those who actually carried out 9/11/2001, lifted the load, so to speak, the same cadre who carried out the attack on the USS Liberty, the bombing of the London Underground, and so may more "false flags" and mass killings. "Limited hangouts" this 13th Anniversary of the murders and destruction on 9-11 (WTC 1 & 2 & 7, Pentagon) and later (murders of witnesses, investigators, journalists) seem all the rage. I recommend ZH'ers look up Lasha Darkmoon's collage of quotes from that period, currently posted on veteranstoday.com and on the website devoted to her work. GOOGLE still returns legitimate links for Lasha Darkmoon at last try. She told the truth about 9-11 without shrinking from, and skirking, the task of describing the "elephant in Room 911".
If Israel was involved, it was a SUBCONTRACTOR to bigger players.
Also, alot of what Veteran's Today writes is disinfo.
GW, I regret I do not know you. I suspect I have much greater transparency for you than you for me. Notwithstanding such a potential disadvantage, I have to disagree and then question on what authority you assert that "If Israel was involved, it was a subcontractor to bigger players." What dots did YOU connect for that conclusion? Is that something you know you know with high certainty? Let's refer to the essay of Cognitive Dissonance, then, shall we?
As for your assertion and link that "what VeteransToday.com writes is disinfo" -- VT has "columnists and contributors and editors", some of which (Stephen Lendman comes to mind), you yourself post on YOUR blog. I have had a run in with Mr. Gordon Duff (senior editor and contributor, VT) about his ill-advised statement that 40% of what "he" writes is disinfo. He "outed me" -- posted my own real name, called me a paid troll or shill (I can't recall which as I type), and left it like that. Irrascible for sure, Mr. Duff. I would recommend your reading the postings of Jonas Alexis and Jim Fetzer and others, though. Tell me when you do that what they write is "disinfo"!
One man's disinfo, I suppose, in your and Cognitive Dissonance's epistemology, is another's truth, and vice versa. All relative, right? There is no Truth, correct? Sounds like the formula that dumbed down America and corrupted what values remained among the common folk, those not chosen, the goyim, so to speak.
I submit to you that lies of omission -- especially omitting facts and verified information about (1) the role of the "State of Israel" (a poor and misleading construct, I think, perhaps "agencies and corporations serving interests associated with that 'state'" is more precise), (2) the role of many people who hold dual Israeli-US citizenship, most if not all are "Jews" -- whatever that appellation means today -- and (3) the evidence of their involvement in events leading up to and including the murders and destruction on 9-11-2001 along with murders and cover-ups since -- identify "gatekeepers" just as certainly as those who espouse the "offical government conspiracy theory", one or two of whom I knew professionally if not personally.
I would welcome your debating on your site the information and views brought forth by Lasha Darkmoon, one like yourself with a screen name, though perhaps for a very different reason. In my judgment, Ms. Darkmoon's posting on VeteransToday was not disinfo, more likely the unvarnished truth you are unwilling to say yourself. She merely arrayed verifiable quotes from key actors, after all! Or take on Jonas Alexis, an apparently young albeit precocious scholar with the ability to produce basketfulls of verbiage that I can't imagine one person writing!
Thanks for responding, GW. I hope to make your acquaintance one day and speak with you face-to-face.
I feel your eloquence calming and rational. Good on you brother.