The 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists:
That was then. This is now. Back in 1947 it was really easy to control the flow of information through society. Now we have the internet.
I’ll tell you about chaos and systems theory in the next chapter, but for now here’s a basic idea of how it applies to conspiracies.
To pull off a conspiracy, you have to figure out which variables in a situation you can control and how to work around the variables you can’t control so that no matter what happens with them they won’t foil your plans.
There are very few variables in a conspiracy that can’t be controlled. The weather is one.
Each person involved in the events of a conspiracy is a variable. So are the results of those people interacting with each other in groups. So are events in foreign countries. But all of those can be controlled—at least, to some extent. Then you just have to plan around the rest.
If you can get 8 or 9 people in a small ranching town out in the remote desert to say they saw something right after a certain event happened, back in the ‘40s, it doesn’t really matter if they change their minds afterwards. They’re not going to be able to tell many people. Even if they can find a way to tell a lot of people, it will take so long that by then a lot of people will have made strong emotional attachments to what they said at first. And since they didn’t have any physical proof before and they still don’t have any physical proof now, why should anyone want to abandon their first impressions?
Knowing what you know now about how to plot a conspiracy, how would you pull off something like the Roswell incident in the middle of a major U.S. city in broad daylight?
Start at the beginning. Who’s going to be involved? How is information going to flow among people? How will that information shape people’s perceptions? How will people then act upon their perceptions?
Now suppose you’re in your 40s or 50s. You were at least in your 30s when the internet went public. The internet was never a part of your childhood development. But it’s been a part of a lot of people’s childhood development since then.
Are you sure you know how many people are going to be involved? And are you sure you know how information is going to flow among people?
After September 11th, a lot of people got on the internet to try to find out what had happened. And then they started spreading their discoveries around the internet…
Three film students in their early to mid 20s, who had grown up in the age of the internet, compiled a lot of news footage and produced their own movie, which they called Loose Change. Then they distributed it around the internet for free. So many other people have produced movies and other projects I can’t even tell you about them all, but if you Google search for “9/11 Truth Movement” you won’t have to look very far.
Here’s the basic story of Loose Change. As usual, this is just a condensed version. If you want to learn more, go watch the movie yourself.
What did we learn from the Roswell conspiracy? First you have to make people think they saw what you wanted them to see. Then you have to get them to tell other people. Then you get rid of the evidence so nobody can prove anything. Now you leave everyone on their own to believe whatever they feel to be true. You’re letting them assemble the pieces they have to try to make sense of the situation. The pieces they have are their memories of some strange things they saw, a lot of emotional communication from other people, and no physical evidence. You can turn a top-secret research facility completely invisible that way.
This time around there are going to be a lot more people involved. So you have to give them very powerful, shocking imagery. You have to get them to use a lot of very powerful emotional communication. You have to make a strong first impression on them, and then get them to make strong first impressions on lots of other people. That way, by the time everyone comes to their senses and starts thinking rationally again, the damage will already have been done. The emotional impacts on people will already have been made.
This is basically what I do for a living. If you walk into a room and see a picturesque waterfall in the middle of it, you’re going to react emotionally to what you see—or rather, what you think you see. If you discover later that the waterfall is made out of styrofoam, that won’t erase the emotional effect your first impression made on you. Whatever you remember about the waterfall afterwards, your first impression is going to be a big part of it.
You can’t predict what individual people will do, but you can plan around what they’ll do as a group. The strongest emotional impact you could have on a group of people is panic. That would also create the strongest emotional impact they could have on other people through their emotional communication. And the best way to get a whole lot of people to panic is to completely unexpectedly make them all witness a gigantic amount of death and destruction.
If you can make everyone witness something really horrific, you can put everyone into a state of shock. Lots of people will be saying lots of different things. If you get so many people to say so many different things that the people who are hearing about the event second hand get completely overwhelmed by it, those overwhelmed people will have too much information to fit all the individual pieces together. They’ll fit together the pieces that stick out most in their minds. So as long as you can get most of the people to see what you want them to see, and consequently get them all to say the same basic things, and everyone is in a state of shock, the people who are listening to their versions of the story will remember best the things they hear from the most people, and will disregard the few people who said something different, thinking they were just confused because of being in shock.
You’re creating information packages in other people’s minds by making sure the information you want them to use in forming their perception of the situation is the information that gets repeated the most. You’re also creating anti-information packages by making sure only a few people say anything different. The audience will then connect the fact that these people are saying something different from everyone else with the fact that they’re in shock. Their being in shock will seem to correspond with the fact that they’re saying something different from everyone else, and the audience will ignore what they said. It won’t matter that the majority of people who agree with each other were also in shock, because their being in shock won’t seem to fit with the fact that they all agreed with each other. So the audience will connect the fact that they all agreed with each other with the words they were saying, and will ignore the fact that they were all in shock.
The weakest link in the public’s perception of the events is their emotional reaction to it. As long as you can pull a strong enough emotional reaction out of enough people, nothing else matters. If you make a strong emotional impression on all the witnesses, and get them to use strong emotional communication when telling other people, and make sure they tell everyone, and then dispose of the evidence, the game’s over. You could pull off the Roswell incident in broad daylight in the middle of Times Square.
Almost…
Enter the Loose Change crew. They’re internet kids. They compiled thousands of hours of footage that was loose in the internet, shifted through it, pulled out all the accounts of the witnesses who saw something different from what most people saw, but who all saw the same things as each other.
Now the tables were turned. Now those few people who saw something different from what most people saw, and—more importantly—that was different from the consensus the public had reached on what had happened that day, didn’t seem to be in such a state of shock any more.
Then the Loose Change crew started studying the actual size of the universe—or in this case, what we know about the world that exists outside the immediate story and is related to the events less directly. And guess what. The indirectly related physical evidence corresponds to what the few witnesses most people had ignored had to say. And since all the directly related physical evidence had been disposed of, the actual size of the universe and other indirectly related physical evidence is now the best anyone has to work with.
So they made their movie and counterattacked.
They present about two hours of evidence for their case. Even so, they had to choose what fraction of the evidence they found that they were going to present. Now I’m having to choose which fraction of their fraction to present, to try to keep this as simple as I can. There is a lot of debate surrounding the 9/11 attacks, and I’m trying to keep from getting sucked into it. Maybe the Loose Change kids really did unravel a conspiracy, and maybe the fact that they were able to find two hours worth of evidence out of the thousands of hours of evidence they sorted through only proves they wanted to unravel a conspiracy. What I’m doing here is combining their movie with evolutionary psychology as an example of how to unravel a conspiracy in as few steps as possible, by knowing how to study the evidence objectively—as opposed to forming your understanding of the situation based on circumstantial evidence you saw while in a state of shock and surrounded by people who were panicking.
If you want to learn more, watching their movie is a good next step. And if you do, watch how information flowed among people in the aftermath of the attack, how it formed people’s perceptions of the situation, and how people acted upon their perceptions. Knowing what I know about physics and human behavior, their movie took on a whole new dimension that they weren’t expecting. Or rather, a whole new dimension that they were trying to create but couldn’t quite figure out how.
First, let’s start with the story of the attacks that we were told on the news. The official story that everyone keeps repeating now.
Nineteen terrorists boarded four airliners on September 11th and hijacked them with box cutters and by saying they were carrying bombs. They killed the pilots and flew the planes themselves.
Then, in New York, two of the airliners came swooping out of the sky and crashed into the World Trade Center. The heat from all that jet fuel was so intense that it melted the steel girders in both the towers. The weight of the top 20 floors being dropped on the floors below them was more than the weight of the steel girders below could hold up, and both of the towers came crashing down.
In Washington D.C. one of the airliners came swooping out of the sky and slammed into the Pentagon. The jet fuel there burned with such intense heat that the entire airliner was vaporized.
Then, somewhere over Pennsylvania, the passengers tried to counter-hijack the fourth airliner. They kept it from being crashed into a building, but the plane went down anyway, and crashed into a mine. This one also burned with such intense heat that the entire plane was vaporized. Now we remember the passengers of Flight 93 as heroes.
I’ve just got one little question here. How exactly do you make jet fuel burn with such intense heat that it completely vaporizes an entire airplane, including the engines? I mean, aren’t jet engines specifically designed for burning jet fuel in? Right at this very moment, and at every minute of the day or night, there are hundreds of airliners flying over America. Those jet engines aren’t getting vaporized. They aren’t even getting slightly melted. They’re all working just fine.
Let’s tug on that loose thread a little more. Have any jet liners ever crashed before and burned with such intense heat that they completely vaporized? According to the Loose Change crew and all their research, the answer is no.
The plane that crashed into the Pentagon burned with such intense heat that the bodies of everyone inside were completely vaporized. But out of the 189 people working in the Pentagon who were killed, 184 of their bodies were identifiable. The other 5 bodies were recovered. None of them were vaporized, or anything close. You might be tempted to think that the fire must’ve burned hotter inside the airplane, because all those people were surrounded by metal and the airplane was carrying all that fuel. The first problem with that is that airplanes don’t carry their fuel in the passenger cabin, they carry their fuel in their wings. The second problem is that the fuel burned with such intense heat that it vaporized not only all the people inside the airplane, but also the plane itself. So this fire burned with such intense heat that it vaporized metal—including the jet engines themselves—but not hot enough to vaporize the flesh of the people in the building?
You can look up photos of numerous airline crashes on the internet. In every one of them you’ll see the same two basic things: Lots of debris strewn everywhere, and a huge swath of scorched earth. You can look up photos of the Pentagon crash on the internet. Somehow the lawn outside the Pentagon survived perfectly intact, apart from being a little singed right outside the hole. And that’s in spite of the fact that, according to the report anyway, the airliner hit the lawn and bounced off it before it crashed into the building. So at best, the report is mistaken and the pilot scored a direct hit on the wall of the Pentagon.
Something else you’ll notice if you look at internet photos of the Pentagon from before the roof collapsed is that the airliner made a roundish hole in the wall of the building. A cross-section of an airplane isn’t round; it’s round with two huge wings sticking out of the sides and a vertical stabilizer sticking out of the top. And not only that, the plane that supposedly hit the Pentagon was carrying a 6-ton jet engine made of steel and titanium alloy on each wing, which hit the Pentagon at over 500 miles per hour. If you look closer at the photos, you’ll see five large cable spools sitting near the hole, as though they’d been rolled out there by some electrical power workers who were going to be setting up some new lights outside the building or something. The spool right in front of the hole is knocked over, but the other four, sitting just to the right of it, are still sitting neatly beside each other, up on edge. So this is another clue that no airplane wing skidded across the front lawn of the Pentagon at 500 miles per hour.
And if you look at the photo even closer, you’ll notice that the glass in several of the windows around the hole is still perfectly intact. So not only did two 6-ton steel and titanium jet engines hitting the building not make big holes of their own, they didn’t even break many of the windows.
The wings of the airliner ripped five light poles out of the ground outside the Pentagon. It could be said that the light poles damaged the wings before the plane hit the building, so that the wings folded backwards and the whole plane fit into a round hole. There are just a few problems with that argument.
First of all, it still doesn’t explain why the vertical stabilizer would’ve fit neatly into the round hole.
Second, if the light poles could’ve damaged the wings that badly, the wings should’ve spewed jet fuel all over the lawn, and the fire from the building should’ve set the lawn on fire.
Third, an airplane without wings is no longer an aircraft. It’s a projectile. I am a pilot, remember. If the wings had been damaged that badly, how did the pilot still manage to score a direct hit on the wall of the building? It could be said that the momentum of a 100-ton airplane moving at 500 miles per hour would’ve had more than enough momentum to carry it into the building after losing its wings. I’m not disputing that. But there’s no way the pilot could’ve anticipated how five light poles ripping his wings off would affect the flight path of the airplane. Obviously there’s no way he could’ve practiced that maneuver ahead of time. So there was no way he could’ve planned how to fly at the Pentagon, get his wings ripped off somewhere along the way, and still make a direct hit on the wall, and there’s no way he could’ve adjusted his course after losing his wings, in order to make a direct hit.
There was a little bit of airplane wreckage discovered at the crash site. There were three large pieces and a lot of smaller pieces. Two of the large pieces were parts of engines. Various airplane engineers have looked at the photos and said they’re not parts of Boeing 757 engines. But I’m no airplane engineer, so I just have to take their word for it.
The third large piece of airplane wreckage was a piece of the body. It’s a twisted scrap of metal, with part of the airline’s logo on it. It was found sitting on the lawn of the Pentagon. Lots of photographers took pictures of it. I’m sure you can find those photos all over the internet.
The paint on the metal is still perfectly white. There are no scratches on it anywhere, nor burn marks or even a single smudge of soot from the airplane-engine-vaporizing superinferno that engulfed the rest of the plane.
I remember hearing about this on the day of the attack. I’m sure someone could say that there was a miscommunication and the news reporters were mistakenly informed that the airplane had vaporized, when in fact the wreckage was removed very quickly because the Pentagon was such an important building. But the Loose Change kids show photos in the movie of the hole in the wall of the Pentagon before the roof above it collapsed, and there isn’t any airplane wreckage visible. So anyone who claims that the press was misinformed and the wreckage was cleared away very quickly, is claiming that the entire airplane, minus a few bits and pieces, was removed from the building while the building was still on fire.
The Pentagon isn’t just any old building; it’s command central for our entire military. So it’s built to withstand attacks.
The Pentagon is also a gigantic building. Gigantic buildings are always an architectural challenge, because they have to be ventilated. And I have been trained as an architect. Unless you want the inside of your building to feel like a dungeon, you have to figure out how to get a lot of sunlight into it. So basically, the challenge is how to squeeze a lot of floor space into a gigantic building, but put most of the rooms on outside walls so you can put windows in them.
At the college I went to, the main building was a huge building. If they’d built it as a square or rectangle, unless the rooms were really huge—which things like dorm rooms and offices aren’t—most of the rooms of the building would’ve been on the inside, with no exterior walls, and therefore, no windows. So instead, the building was a big E shape, with courtyards between the wings. They spread the building out a little more while still keeping it fairly compact, and all the rooms got windows that way.
In the Pentagon they use numerous concentric rings, with courtyards between them. Then the rings are connected at various places by perpendicular sections that radiate out from the center like the spokes of a wheel.
The plane that hit the Pentagon crashed into the first ring, out the other side, and into the wall of the next ring. In all, the nose of the plane penetrated 9 feet of steel reinforced concrete. Granted, the plane was going over 500 miles per hour, but the nose of a plane is pretty lightweight, because it’s designed to penetrate air—not steel reinforced concrete! Usually when a commercial airliner crashes the nose cone is completely demolished. And if all that jet fuel burned in the outermost ring of the Pentagon and vaporized the entire plane, how did the nose cone of the plane cross the courtyard and break through the wall of the next ring of the building? What vaporized that part of the plane?
Speaking as a commercial pilot, I have a couple more things to add. First of all, this pilot had never flown a jetliner before. For him to get that direct a hit on that small of a target with that big of a plane, after getting his wings ripped off, would be, at best, miraculous.
Second, the flight standards for a commercial helicopter pilot require me to stay within 50 feet of my stated altitude, and to land my helicopter within 50 feet of my stated landing spot. Airplane pilots have a lot more leeway on their landing distance, because they’re flying their approach to a long runway, while I have to be able to land on a small helipad. These were the requirements for me to pass my commercial pilot’s license test. They have to give pilots that margin of error, because basically, that’s how unpredictable the air is. My point is, just about anything could’ve put him 50 feet off his target, even without his wings getting ripped off. For someone who was trained as an airline pilot and didn’t get his wings cut off, making that perfect of a hit still would’ve been hard.
And third, for someone who hated Americans and wanted to fly an airliner into the Pentagon, the pilot picked about the worst possible way to do it. He hit the first floor of the outermost ring perpendicularly. I’ve never been to the Pentagon, but I would have to guess that the first floor of the outermost ring is where the people with the least important jobs work. And hitting that required him to fly through five light poles and get his wings cut off. If he’d really wanted to f*ck sh*t up, he could’ve flown in lengthwise to one of the five sides of the Pentagon and belly-flopped the airliner onto the roof of the innermost ring at 500 miles per hour. Presumably, the top floor of the innermost ring is where the people with the most important jobs work. I don’t know how well the roof of the Pentagon is fortified, but against a 100-ton plane going 500 miles per hour, it couldn’t be that well fortified. And he wouldn’t’ve had to worry about losing control of the plane when he flew through all those light poles and got his wings torn off. Or the pilot could’ve used the same approach he used, but waited another half second before starting his descent, flown over the part of the Pentagon he hit, brought the plane down on the inside, and made his broadside hit on one of the innermost rings. Either way, the pilot could’ve ripped into the part of the Pentagon where a bunch of top-ranking generals worked and spewed shredded metal and burning jet fuel everywhere, but instead he chose to kill a few accountants and filing clerks. So given the possibilities these evil mastermind terrorists had, after all the years of training and preparation they put into this attack, when it came to the part of the attack where they kill Americans, for some reason they decided to kill the smallest number possible of the least important people possible.
As I said, the Pentagon is the command central of our entire military. That means a lot of people who have served in the military for a very long time work there. The Loose Change gang show a lot of quotes that career officers working in the building made to reporters that they felt the explosion of a bomb and smelled cordite, which is a common military explosive. Airliners crashing and bombs exploding don’t feel the same or sound the same, and burning jet fuel doesn’t smell like cordite.
The Pentagon is an office building. They don’t store huge amounts of explosives there.
Also, a number of people in buildings near the Pentagon said the explosion shook their buildings. Explosions shake other buildings. But airplanes crashing don’t cause explosions. They shake the buildings they crash into. And those big fireballs you see when they crash are mostly all their fuel burning at the same time. Not the kind of thing career military officers think of when they think of explosives going off. And not the kind of explosions that shake other buildings. We’re basically talking about the difference between an M-80 firecracker and a Molotov cocktail, only much, much bigger.
Finally, there were a number of video cameras in the area that had the impact site in their field of vision. There was a Department of Transportation camera watching traffic on a freeway, another at a hotel, and another at a gas station. Within minutes of the impact, FBI agents were at each of those places. They confiscated the tapes and warned everyone working there not to discuss what they had seen. Those tapes have never been released to the public.
You remember back when people used to complain about security cameras being an invasion of their privacy? All the law enforcement officials and FBI agents and everyone else who were installing the cameras always said the same thing: “If you’re not breaking the law, what difference does it make if you’re being recorded on camera? And if you do have a problem with being recorded on camera, what does that mean?”
Well, when you separate yourself from all the shock and panic everyone felt that day, forget about the official story we’ve been told, and look at what all the evidence indicates, the attack on the Pentagon is a whole new story. The damage to the building is not consistent with an airline hitting it, and it is consistent with a cruise missile hitting it.
And now, if it was an airliner that hit the Pentagon, the FBI agents have it on video. And if it wasn’t an airliner that hit the Pentagon, they have that on video. So why don’t they want anyone to see the tapes?
The airline debris could’ve been hidden in the Pentagon at the crash site, so that when a missile hit that location, the airline debris would’ve been blown out of the building.
How do you make a cruise missile rip five light poles out of the ground? Well, the force of the explosion springs to mind.
Flight 93 was basically a simpler version of the attack on the Pentagon. For the second time in aviation history, and for the second time in one day, an airplane crashed without strewing wings and engines and fuselages and tail cones and bodies hither and yon, but landed in a neat little pile where the entire aircraft, including the engines, was almost completely vaporized by the jet fuel that had been powering the engines only moments before. Without even scorching the grass.
You can find photos of the Pennsylvania crash site on the internet. It looks like someone dug a ditch and dumped some scrap metal in it. No bodies were recovered.
Now on to the main event: The World Trade Center.
You can find videos all over the internet of the second airliner hitting the World Trade Center, and then of the buildings collapsing.
If you time the towers collapsing each of them takes about 10 seconds to drop. As Galileo discovered, an object near the Earth falls at 32 feet per second per second.
Each of the towers was just over 1,360 feet tall. If you were to stand on the roof of one of them and drop a cannon ball off the edge, like Galileo did at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, it would take it about 9.2 seconds to hit the ground. That means that if you dropped your cannon ball off the edge of the roof at the instant the tower began to collapse, you would hit the ground about one second after your cannon ball. That 1,360 feet of steel between you and the ground meant basically nothing.
But then, maybe that’s how buildings collapse. Maybe that’s what happens when you melt the steel underneath the top 20 floors and drop all their weight on the rest of the building. I’m no demolitions engineer.
Neither were the Loose Change kids. So they started reading through interviews with architects.
The World Trade Center’s construction manager, who is now a professor of civil engineering, was quoted by a reporter as saying the jet fuel burning at 2000º melted the steel, just like the official story said.
Another engineer was quoted as saying that all the steel in the World Trade Center was forged to established architectural standards for steel used in that application. The building wouldn’t’ve been certified by architectural inspectors if it couldn’t withstand a temperature of 2000º for several hours. Melting the steel that quickly would’ve required a temperature of 3000º.
The south tower was the second to be hit, and it burned for 56 minutes before it dropped. The north tower took 103 minutes to drop.
If you watch the videos of the south tower being hit, you can see the north tower already burning where the airliner hit it. That first airliner hit the side of the north tower dead center. The second airliner hit the corner of the south tower. You can see a huge orange fireball exploding out of the corner of the tower. You know what that fireball is made of? Jet fuel. Jet fuel that’s burning up in the air outside the tower, instead of all over the steel on the inside of the tower. And still, the north tower took almost twice as long to collapse.
Fire Chief Orio Palmer reached the fire on the 78th floor of the south tower. He radioed the situation down to the fire crew on the ground. The Loose Change kids got hold of the tape.
Chief Palmer’s words were: “We’ve got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines.” The Fire Chief was standing right there looking at the fire that destroyed the south tower, and he ordered hoses to put it out with. Not ten hoses. Not twenty hoses. He didn’t say, “Holy f*ck, look at all this molten steel dripping from the ceiling, we’d better get out of here while we still have the chance!” Nope. When a Chief of the New York City Fire Department stood looking at the fire in the south tower, the most effective means he could perceive of preserving the survival of his DNA was to spray the fire with just two fire hoses.
The two main towers of the World Trade Center were the first steel framed towers ever in history to collapse as a result of a fire. But it wasn’t the first steel framed building ever to be hit by a large airplane. It wasn’t even the first steel framed building in New York City to catch fire after being hit by a large airplane.
On July 28th, 1945, a B-25 bomber, lost in the fog, crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. 14 people were killed, $1,000,000 in damages, but the fire was put out and the Empire State Building still stands to this day.
Later on September 11th, another building, World Trade Center 7, became the third steel framed building ever in history to collapse due to fire. The official story says that falling debris from the World Trade Center started fires in that building that ignited several large fuel tanks. Meaning that building wasn’t subjected to super-hot-burning jet fuel, but plain old boring diesel fuel. Diesel fuel burns cooler than gasoline. I have been an auto mechanic, you know.
A number of steel framed buildings have caught fire throughout history without being hit by jetliners, and even though they’d been built earlier and burned for longer, none of them ever collapsed.
Oh, and by the way, you know how everyone keeps saying the World Trade Center towers were steel-framed buildings? Technically that’s true. What they aren’t saying is that the steel frame of each building was built around six gigantic concrete pillars. Concrete doesn’t melt. Why would a detail like that just slip everybody’s mind?
So far, with information that’s publicly available on the internet, we can see that jet fuel burning at 2000º weakened the steel frames of buildings that could withstand temperatures of 2000º for several hours, even though one of the buildings burned for less than one hour and the other building burned for less than two hours. The building that collapsed in less than one hour was exposed to less jet fuel than the building that burned for nearly twice that long before collapsing. And somehow, all that weakened steel made the buildings collapse as though the central concrete pillars of the building weren’t even there.
What could do such a thing?
There were numerous statements made by witnesses and fire fighters in the World Trade Center towers that they heard a lot of explosions all over the building, in the basement and on various floors beneath the floors the airliners hit. As though they were in the middle of a controlled demolition.
The week before, someone ordered all the bomb-sniffing dogs to be removed from the building.
There’s a lot more I could say about the movie, but I think I would just be beating a dead horse by this point.
If you step back from the event itself and look at how people’s emotions and perceptions of the effective preservation of their DNA affected the flow of the information, who had the means, motive, and opportunity to alter the flow of information, and whether or not the events comply with the laws of physics that govern the rest of the universe, you can see through the sensory illusion that a conspirator would need to weave to hide his conspiracy.
First, a whole lot of carnage and mayhem erupted on the streets of New York. Then a lot of Capitalist news reporters started focusing on reporting the most exciting looking stuff—namely video footage of planes crashing into buildings, buildings collapsing, and terrified people running down the street. Then television audiences all over the world paid the most attention the most exciting things they saw on the news.
Meanwhile there was a hole in the Pentagon and another hole in some field in Pennsylvania. Those crash sites had some strange inconsistencies with every other airplane crash in history, but there wasn’t much else to see…
And now, back to terrified people running down the streets of New York!
From a strictly artistic standpoint—meaning the standpoint of people who make their livings by telling stories that have the greatest emotional impact on their audiences—the terrorist attacks were a play in three acts. Act One: Something bad happens that the audience finds personally meaningful. (The first airliner hits the World Trade Center.) Act Two: It gets worse. (The second airliner hits the World Trade Center and the third airliner hits the Pentagon.) Act Three: The goodguys win. (The passengers on the fourth airliner fight the terrorists and prevent them from crashing the airliner into anyone else.) But in order to carry the full weight of the tragedy from the beginning of the story to the ending and have the greatest possible tragic effect on the audience, the play has to end tragically even though the goodguys win. (The heroes of the fourth airliner crash and are killed protecting innocent people.)
Then roll credits. The September 11th attacks were over. The story had been told. All over America, government buildings and big terrorist targets were being evacuated. As the day wore on, more and more people were glued to their TVs.
Then after credits, cut back to New York City. World Trade Center 7 collapses. No one was killed because the building had been evacuated. What emotional impact is that going to have on audiences all over America? The terrorists are still out there and are still a threat to America, but Americans are fighting back effectively now. So get ready for a war, everyone. We can win, but it won’t be easy. The terrorists can strike at any time without warning.
Looking back on the terrorist attacks now, it was the perfect Hollywood formulaic plot.
And you remember what I said in the last book, about Hollywood movies being made for middle class Americans who have minimal understandings of physics?
Now that this Hollywood tragedy has played out in real life, right here in our midsts, buildings have been destroyed, thousands of people have been killed, and carnage and mayhem have been broadcast all over the world, what happens next?
Well, as George Orwell said, war is the ultimate form of political stabilizer. We all felt that America was under attack, so we all banded together to protect ourselves. We all set aside our differences, rallied around President Bush, and got ready for a fight. To help us win the fight, we had to trust each other and streamline our society so we could work together as efficiently as possible. So we set up the Department of Homeland Security and passed the Patriot act and started putting American flag bumper stickers on our cars.
When a person’s friend or family member gets killed, they go through a lot of emotional suffering. To work their way out of it, they have to find a way to put together everything they know that they feel was relevant to the situation. Once they’ve done that, it’s considered extremely impolite for anyone else to question if that’s really how the people died, or if these bereaved people are mistaken. And now a whole lot of people’s friends and family members had not only died but been murdered. So now everyone in America has been prevented from asking if there was anything more to their deaths than what met the eye, just out of simple common courtesy.
Now a whole lot of people feel like their country has been attacked. People start saying things like, “If you don’t agree with the president, you must be a terrorist.” They start throwing words around like God and patriotism. Now who’s going to dare to disagree with that? If you do disagree you’re in the minority, and you seem to be in an even greater minority because a lot of people who agree with you don’t dare to make it known.
Ultimately, the public is going to believe whatever is easiest for them to believe. And “the public” is made up of the proverbial masses, that majority of people who create the sociological forces that move our country in one direction or another. Disagree with them at your own risk.
The Theory of Evolutionary Relativity comes in handy here. Everyone in America had some sort of personal history and cultural background before 9/11. Everyone had various combinations of skills, abilities, and resources. Everyone had survival and reproductive instincts, the abilities to imagine, remember, and communicate, and their eight basic motivations. All anyone needed to do was to make light waves, sound waves, and other forms of matter and energy move around in ways that made a lot of people feel extremely threatened. Everyone didn’t agree with everyone else, but everyone felt like America was under attack and they might be the next to be killed, so everyone acting on what they individually believed to be true pushed America very hard in a general direction at least. To put it another way, everyone’s spiritual vectors were strongly affected by 9/11, and we all ended up with a lot of vectors pointing in the same direction, so that’s the direction we made America move, even if none of us got exactly what we wanted.
After 9/11, everyone wondered what the hell happened. So each person put together the pieces as best they could to create an understanding of the situation. Based on their two instincts, three components of intellect, eight motivations, and abilities, skills, resources, personal history, and cultural background, each person went into the situation believing certain things to be true. That is, each person started with an information package. No one’s information package was identical to anyone else’s, but all of them—or at least most of them—had a few basic things in common. Things like “Americans are good” and “terrorists are bad”.
That basic “Americans are good and terrorists are bad” belief made it really easy for people to believe that terrorists had attacked America, and really hard for them to believe that Americans had attacked America. So they went looking for evidence that supported their belief that terrorists attacked America. And they didn’t have to look far, because they saw a whole lot of really obvious signs that terrorists had attacked. There were videos of an airliner crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center, videos of the towers collapsing, news footage of the Pentagon on fire, news footage of New York streets full of wreckage and debris, interviews with terrified witnesses all covered in soot and dust.
So just like people who’d lost friends and family, everyone put together the pieces to try to understand the situation. They felt like their country had been attacked, and now they felt like they understood how and why. So for anyone to suggest that everyone might be mistaken would be considered terribly impolite.
So everyone accepted that jet fuel had melted the steel framing of the World Trade Center and caused it to collapse. Everyone accepted that the fires in the Pentagon and the abandoned mine had been so hot that there was hardly any wreckage found of the airliners. This was all perfectly obvious, because it fit so well with everyone’s belief that Americans are good and terrorists are bad.
At this point we’re talking about psychological warfare. And if we’re talking about psychological warfare, then my next guest on the panel has to be Captain Eric H. May of Ghost Troop.
Captain May is a retired army Captain. He worked with weapons of mass destruction and later in intelligence. He’s also a genius at language.
So he’s been seeing psychological warfare tactics being used by the government against the American people everywhere he looks—because that’s what he’s trained in. It started with the Battle of Baghdad, when reporters got so caught up in the Jessica Lynch story. Private Lynch got captured, was taken hostage, and then was rescued by the Special Forces. It was another perfect Hollywood story, and Captain May recognized that in his own way. Think about it. Act I: Something bad happens—her convoy gets ambushed. Act II: It gets worse—she gets taken hostage. Act III: The goodguys win—she gets rescued.
Captain May could see the writing on the wall. There was a gigantic battle going on, and now that reporters were so caught up in this heart-warming human-interest story, they weren’t covering the battle. And that meant the American media was getting flooded with the heart-warming human-interest story, and the huge battle that was going on meanwhile seemed to be something that was just happening in the background.
How did the huge battle turn out? We won, obviously, because the Americans took Baghdad. But how big of a battle was it, exactly? How bloody? We all assume that it ended happily, because the goodguys won, but that’s because all we ever heard about the Battle of Baghdad was the Jessica Lynch story.
According to Captain May and all his connections, the entire 7th Cavalry got wiped out. Again. The 7th Cavalry was General Custer’s old unit, which got slaughtered by the Lakota (“Sioux”) and Cheyenne at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
This alone should tell you something about how the Battle of Baghdad must’ve gone. We’ve got a cowboy for president, and the Battle of Baghdad should’ve been the climax of the Iraq war to that point—you know, capturing their capitol city and all of that. Sending in the 7th Cavalry to do the job was the beginning to what should’ve been another perfect Hollywood script. There were only two possibilities: Either they win, or they lose. If they win, General Custer finally has his day. If they lose, they heroically fight a desperate battle, in the tradition of General Custer.
So there we were, with the 7th Cavalry riding into the badguys’ capitol city. So why did it get almost completely covered over with the story of some chick getting captured and rescued? How badly could the battle have possibly gone?
So Captain May formed Ghost Troop, with a bunch of other retired military and law enforcement personnel. It was obvious that an information war was being waged against Americans, so they started fighting back. They have their ways of collecting information and recognizing events on the horizon. Then they warn law enforcement officials in the area, to make sure they find out, so they can prevent attacks from taking place. In so doing, they prevent the media from seizing upon the events, broadcasting them all over the world, shaping people’s perceptions, and consequently getting people to do exactly what the conspirators wanted them to do.
The idea is that if they can intercept the next 9/11, they can keep the War on Terror from escalating. Even if the 9/11 attacks were carried out entirely by our own government, our entire government can’t possibly be in on the conspiracy. So if Ghost Troop finds out about a looming conspiracy and warns the local law enforcement before events start unfolding according to the conspirators’ plans, or before the conspirators can give orders to the unsuspecting law enforcement officials, they can put events into motion that will stop the conspiracy—like, getting the police to arrest an undercover CIA agent who wasn’t expecting them to be waiting for him in the building he’d just broken into and who can’t afford to blow his cover by telling them he works for the government. Or whatever.
Explaining exactly what Captain May and Ghost troop do would take a hell of a long time. My point is, having shown you what three kids fresh out of college were able to find out on the internet, you can just imagine what 300 people who each had 20 years of experience at doing this could find out.
You might be tempted to ask if Ghost Troop can do what the Loose Change kids did, but 1000 times better, why haven’t they had 1000 times more impact on America? Well, for one, they’re intelligence agents, not movie directors, so what they do is a whole lot less visible to the public. The other is that being 1,000 times better at intelligence gathering than the Loose Change kids still doesn’t change the fact that Ghost Troop is outnumbered by the American public by 1,000,000 to 1. 300 people with valuable information can only do so much when they’re surrounded by 300,000,000 people who are kept so blissfully ignorant by mainstream media that’s easy to understand.
Here’s one example of what Captain May and Ghost Troop do that’s pretty simple to understand. These are Captain May’s own words, from his interview with W. Leon Smith, of the Lone Star Iconoclast. You can read the full interview online.
There are natural cycles with the code. For instance, the Illuminati are freaks for master numbers, 11, 22, and 33. There’s a cycle that leads up to certain pivotal dates, like the most recent for us was 8-8, which was a really 8-8-8 since the year numbers of 2006 add up to a hidden 8. People say “it couldn’t be true,” but they’re not remembering that coding has already been proven true. Last year it was the 7-7 London bombings, which were really 7-7-7, since the year numbers [2005] add up to 7. It’s obvious that someone – whether you think it’s the government as we do or al Qaeda as the government wants you to – is using number/date codes. The coded event that opened my eyes was the Madrid bombing of 3/11/2004. Lots of military intelligence folks picked up on the “coincidences” of Madrid. The first was that 9/11 and 3/11 are “harmonics” of the same numbers, with the 11’s matching and the 9 and 3 being the square and square root of each other. The second was that there were exactly 911 days between the two events! The odds against that kind of “coincidence” are astronomical, and most of the other “terror” events carry the same coding. In addition to the 9/11 and 3/11 attacks, we had a 7/7 London attack in 2005 and a 7/11 Mumbai attack a year later. The two events could be numerically represented as “77″ and 7 x 11 (which equals 77). We’ve even had a 9/11 backwards with the 11/9 bombing of Amman, Jordan in 2005. The embedded code runs through all these events, and the media occasionally mentions that there seems to be some kind of “al Qaeda code,” although they never investigate that code, as it would lead back to the Bush administration.
Captain May has a lot of stuff like this posted on the net. If you read it, at first he seems like some kind of wacko. But remember, dear reader, that you are reading the third volume of my book. It’s easy to assume Captain May must be a wacko, because he knows about a lot of stuff you’ve never heard of. So when he talks about what he knows as though it’s true, because he knows it’s true, it sounds to you like he’s just imagining it all. I get that all the time.
I don’t usually get involved in conspiracy theories. A lot of conspiracy theorists get wrapped up in trying to prove who said what to who when and why. A lot of them are based on circumstantial evidence and assumptions about people’s motives. It’s a good thing some people try tracking down conspiracies though, because if no one did, people would be pulling off conspiracies everywhere you looked— except you wouldn’t realize it. Conspiracy theorists at least are doing something to prevent conspiracies, because if it weren’t for conspiracy theorists, people would have no reason not to plot conspiracies.
On the other hand, a lot of conspiracy theory-ism seems to be a competition for social status among geeks more than a counterbalance to conspirators. It seems like every time anything big and important happens, someone comes running along claiming to have proof that it’s a conspiracy. But do they really? Or are they just cashing in on an opportunity to attract attention to themselves?
Loose Change is a good introduction to the idea that a conspiracy could be afoot. After all, the first step in unraveling a conspiracy is for people to start looking for a conspiracy. The Loose Change kids and Captain May and Ghost Troop in their own ways, present a dissenting body of evidence to the story the pubic has been told, and thereby give people the choice in what to believe. Do you want to believe the version of the story where jet fuel can vaporize its own engines, or the version where jet fuel can’t vaporize its own engines?
Once you give people the choice in what to believe, you’ve already started to counteract the conspiracy, because now instead of the public believing exactly what the conspirators wanted them to believe and doing exactly what the conspirators wanted them to do, they’ll start believing and doing things other than what the conspirators wanted them to. Inevitably, whatever decisions the public makes after that will be worse for the conspirators, and therefore, better for the public.
And now, for my final guest on the panel, Detective Michael Ruppert, formerly of the narcotics division of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Detective Ruppert is now an investigative reporter. His book on the 9/11 conspiracy is called Crossing the Rubicon—The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, and it’s basically the 100 hour version of Loose Change. He doesn’t f*ck around with mysterious code numbers or even with physics the public can misunderstand. As a detective, he’s trained to find clues, assemble bodies of evidence, form and test hypotheses, and prove who had the means, motive, and opportunity to commit crimes.
I talk about politicians as though they’re morons to show how everything that’s going wrong could be happening by accident. From there, the only choice politicians have is to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. If they aren’t morons who are f*cking everything up out of complete incompetence, then they must be f*cking everything up on purpose.
I won’t bother trying to present a condensed version of Detective Ruppert’s case here, because without walking you through the evidence step by step, the conclusions sound too far-fetched. If you are interested in that, go read his book. All I need to tell you about is the science he presents as a background for his case in the first chapter of his book. You already know all the science. Now watch how the pieces fit together…
Consider these two possibilities:
Possibility #1:
Politicians are morons.
They have completely ignored the environmental crisis.
They have expended no effort to try to educate the public about it, out of incompetence.
In spite of the U.S. government’s 200-fold increase of the budget for fighting the War on Drugs over the course of 30 years, drugs on the streets of America are now cheaper, more plentiful, and more pure than they were when President Nixon began the War on Drugs in 1972, which means that by all measures our best and brightest politicians and law enforcement officials are being utterly defeated.
Globalization is turning into an economic and environmental disaster for a lot of people due to incompetence and mismanagement.
Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion to the present day, has turned into a political disaster for everyone involved, due to incompetence and mismanagement.
The United States’ assistance of Russia’s transition from Communism to Capitalism led to the economic pillaging of the country by foreign investors, due to incompetence and mismanagement.
Al Qaeda was able to attack the United States and the United States responded with the War on Terror and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, due to incompetence and mismanagement by American politicians.
The energy crisis has been caused by incompetence and mismanagement.
Possibility #2:
Politicians are very good at getting people to do what they want, and some politicians are very good at keeping people from even realizing politicians are getting them to do what they want.
Politicians have paid close attention to the human predicament.
They’ve expended no effort to educate the public about it precisely so that its counterintuitive causes will prevent the public from figuring out what’s going wrong with the world.
The War on Drugs is proceeding precisely according to plan, because it is militarizing American society, making a lot of people distrustful of each other, and acclimating the American public to the idea of a war that must be fought for the sake of fighting it, even though we aren’t winning. It also turns a net profit for the government in the world’s biggest underground economy, to offset the effects of exponential growth and thermodynamics running down the global economy by spreading ever-diminishing resources among an ever-increasing population.
Globalization is proceeding precisely according to plan, and it’s turning into an economic and environmental disaster for a lot of people.
Events in Afghanistan have been unfolding precisely according to plan ever since the Soviet invasion, because the war was a major contributor to the economic collapse of the Soviet Union, and it gave the U.S. government the opportunity to train and radicalize a fighting force that could threaten a military superpower.
The United States’ assistance of Russia’s transition from Communism to Capitalism led to the economic pillaging of Russia, precisely according to plan, which eliminated the Russians’ economic ability to continue as a military superpower, or to support the European Union as a military superpower.
Al Qaeda’s attacks on the United States and the United State’s response with the War on Terror and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, proceeded precisely according to plan, and began with the United States alienating and then intentionally antagonizing the only remaining fighting force in the world that could threaten the only remaining military superpower in the world.
The energy crisis is proceeding according to plan, which is why 60% of the world’s remaining oil supply is now surrounded by the United States military.
Possibility #1 is an inherent contradiction, because it requires politicians to be smart enough to get elected President of the United States or to get appointed to work in a president’s administration or whatever, and then requires them all to be overcome by collective stupidity simultaneously where certain things are concerned. Possibility #2 doesn’t depend on any coincidences at all. Scientists refer to this as the law of parsimony. It’s also known as Occam’s razor. Scientists and detectives have each discovered that when trying to figure out how something happened, the explanation that depends on the smallest number of coincidences is usually the right one.
The other major point that bears mentioning here is that keeping conspiracies that involve thousands of people secret is not difficult. It depends on compartmentalization. As Detective Ruppert demonstrates over the course of his book, complete knowledge of a plot like that could easily be limited to two dozen people, in which thousands more people each carried out individual actions, separated from each other. That’s precisely how the Manhattan Project was kept secret.
As Detective Ruppert points out in the first chapter of his book (although in slightly different terms) between exponential growth and the Laws of Thermodynamics, humanity has backed itself into a corner where the energy that’s keeping roughly 3/4 of our species alive is being supplied from non-renewable sources, but most people in the world still don’t comprehend that. That creates a political situation that a small number of politically savvy and politically powerful people would want to try to solve. If they grew up in a cultural background where world domination was considered to be the solution to everything, woe upon the rest of us.
Now we have a terrorist organization on the loose that can threaten a military superpower, and someone who we assume was a terrorist used a biological weapon in connection to the attack. If a new biological weapon was unleashed upon the world that killed 4 billion people, would that be an act of terrorism? Or would that be the act of a few politically savvy and politically powerful people attempting to preserve the survival of their DNA by the most effective means perceivable to them?
The video of the airliner crashing into the World Trade Center doesn’t prove anything. The public assumed it proved the United States was under attack by terrorists, but it doesn’t prove sh*t. You know why? Because in the video you can’t see the serial numbers that were stamped onto the engine and airframe of the plane. All the video shows is a plane that looked like one of the airliners that had been hijacked an hour before crashing into the building.
…But there were five air force training exercises taking place over North America that morning, some of which were using remote controlled airplanes.
The technology exists to pilot a plane by remote control. Were the airlines hijacked only once? Or were they hijacked twice? First by the terrorists, and then by the CIA by remote control, to make sure the terrorists hit their targets. Or to make the planes fly somewhere else and make sure other remote control planes hit the targets.
You know how the CIA trained al Qaeda? And you know how the CIA competed against the KGB and infiltrated the Kremlin back during the Cold War? And you know how al Qaeda’s big headquarters were in some caves out in the mountains? And you know how al Qaeda’s operatives were divided up into lots of splinter cells? Why do you think it wasn’t possible for CIA agents to infiltrate the command structure of al Qaeda and start giving their own orders to some of its cells?
Next question: How do you suppose it happened that in New York City and Washington D.C. on the morning of September 11th, disaster exercises were being conducted? That put a whole bunch of disaster relief equipment and personnel into both of the target cities, but made the disaster relief personnel assume that anything they heard about a real-life emergency was just part of their training exercise.
Next question: You know how the CIA’s headquarters was in World Trade Center 7? If remote controlled planes crashed into the World Trade Center, whoever was controlling them would need remote control equipment nearby. But no remote control equipment was ever found. But then, World Trade Center 7 was destroyed, remember? It collapsed mysteriously that afternoon after everyone had been evacuated, and destroyed a lot of top-secret government computers.
One last question: You know how President Bush was visiting an elementary school on the morning of September 11th? If you’ve seen Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, you’ve seen President Bush looking like a moron, sitting there reading the story to the kids, being interrupted by his head of security, and refusing to interrupt the children’s story to go deal with a national emergency. Here’s the big question Michael Moore forgot to ask: President Bush was making a scheduled appearance at a public location, about 25 miles from the White House. Now terrorists were crashing airliners into buildings and killing thousands of people. It would’ve been really, really, really f*cking easy for someone to find out where he was going to be that morning, and it would’ve been really, really, really f*cking easy for someone to crash an airliner into the school where he was. And still President Bush chose to stick to his publicized schedule. Is he really that much of a f*cking moron? Or did he know, somehow, that he wasn’t in any danger from hundred-ton airplanes full of jet fuel screeching out of the sky at 500 miles per hour?
What did you see on September 11th?