On September 11, 2001 I woke up in a Ritz Carlton Hotel room in Laguna Niguel California in the early hours. I had fallen asleep with the TV on due to cocktails supplied to me by the good people hosting the CSFB Software Tech conference. On CNBC they were showing one of the towers burning and talking about how a plane had flown into it. As I was wiping sleep from my eyes, I saw the second plane hit. Like many in our country I was horrified at the loss of life and extremely pissed off. I wanted revenge. When I got back to Boston I went to candle light vigils. I began to wear an American flag on the lapel of my suite and I was known to utter statements like “Let’s turn their deserts into Glass!” I wanted blood. There was a pacifist in my office. She and I argued about America’s response. I made her cry. I was a zealot.
Here we are on 9-11 2014 honoring the fallen victims. And we should. However, lets look at the facts. We have spent several trillion dollars to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Many lives on both sides have been lost and our liberties stripped to protect us from so called terrorists. After all the money spent and new departments (DHS, TSA) we are apparently no safer today than we were on 9-11 2001. Over the last month we have been subjected to MSM and congressional fear porn about ISIS over and over again. Apparently they are going to attack us on 9-11 and potentially bomb or nuke a US city. Thirteen years ago I was unmarried and full of piss and vinegar and ruled by my emotions. Today I have become extremely cynical and analytical. I don’t know about you but I feel like a Mark in a giant Con Game. It’s like I am waiting for Robert Redford and Paul Newman to come around the corner and rub the side of their nose and wink at me. We live in an age of deception. There is an all out assault on reality. As I sit here writing this I have just received an email from a friend who has received intel from a cop in Houston. The cop is saying that a large force of about 7,000 ISIS warriors is building in Mexico and is preparing to come across the boarder and attack. I don’t know if this is true or bullshit. Assuming it is true: is this what trillions of dollars gets us? I don’t know what to believe anymore. It is just really sad that this is the state of our country today.
I believe it is time for some of you to take the red pill and join me outside of the matrix. If you want to take the blue pill and believe that our overlords are as American as Mom, baseball and apple pie then you should leave this page now.
I am going to present some facts without my opinion or commentary. Many do not know that a third building fell on 9-11. It was WTC building 7. Here is the wikipedia version of what happened that day:
“On September 11, 2001,7 WTC was damaged by debris when the nearby North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. The debris also ignited fires, which continued to burn throughout the afternoon on lower floors of the building. The building’s internal fire suppression system lacked water pressure to fight the fires, and the building collapsed completely at 5:21:10 pm, according to FEMA,[6] while the 2008 NIST study placed the final collapse time at 5:20:52 pm.[7] The collapse began when a critical internal column buckled and triggered structural failure throughout, which was first visible from the exterior with the crumbling of a rooftop penthouse structure at 5:20:33 pm. The collapse made the old 7 World Trade Center the first tall building known to have collapsed primarily due to uncontrolled fires,[8] and the first and only steel skyscraper in the world to have collapsed due to fire.[9]“
Now view this video showing the collapse of WTC 7:
Come on down the rabbit hole….it seems to be getting deeper by the day.
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Looks like a controlled demolition to me, sir.
I don’t know whats worse. The loss of liberties by way of this systematic shredding of the Constitution thereby denying anyone under the age of 15 the experience of ever living in a free country and experiencing the freedom and liberties that I did or the fact that so many people insist on choosing the blue pill and remain completely oblivious as to whats really going on here.
The lengths THEY will go to to conceal their involvement is unreal. Just look at this website with all sort of ‘facts’ and ‘evidence’ and ‘analysis by experts’. But WE know the truth!
http://www.debunking911.com/pull.htm
this is too somber & serious a blog post to talk about yoga pants .. nuff said maui bleu
To talk about 911 conspiracy theories today is disgusting to me. There are 364 other days you can spew that shit. Disrespectful.
Tommy Says,
Two things:
1) Blow Me.
2) Conspiracy theory? You clearly are a very stupid person.
Bluestar, I believe 9/11 is the perfect day to discuss this. If a person is in doubt, or on the fence, Google “Operation Northwoods”. It’s a great place to start…
@Tommy Says
Cry baby. Get a pair.
Yea I am a cry baby because I knew people who died that day running into those buildings, A girl who never got to meet her dad. Let them have a day…call me old fashioned.
@BlueStar You are the kind of guy who wants to believe these things.
There is shit that goes down but to sit with such assurance is ridiculous like evidence is conclusive is absurd.. Stop reading InfoWars man.
Tommy,
Building 7 is not as “fringe” of a theory as you seem to think it is. There is a rather large group of architects and engineers that have publicly said that there is no way building 7 fell due to fire or flying debris. I think their organization is called AE9/11 or something like that (look it up). These people are experts in the design and construction of buildings and this group represents some of the most highly respected architects and building engineers in the field. According to the Architects and Engineers, they officially requested to conduct tests on the support beams etc. from the rubble of building 7 to learn how the first building in history failed due to fire. AE says they were turned down and told that the materials have since been destroyed. To me it seems a reasonable request to allow industry experts to test and learn from the failures of a building. To deny these tests seems shady, but I suppose there is an answer for everything.
Many of us have losses from 9/11 and we all grieve, but IMO it is a disservice to those people to be close minded out of some misdirected feeling to pay homage to the official party line.
I personally don’t know what happened, but when the top experts in a field say that the official story is BS, I at least listen. The fact that Building 7 is the first steel skyscraper IN HISTORY to have “fallen” due to fire should raise your eyebrows a bit.
9/11 Inside Jobs will always be conjecture to me. Certain people will lean towards the yes argument and certain people are always going to lean to the no way not all side. Is their stuff that scratches your head absolutely but I am not sold we don’t for sure that’s the fact.
My point is today is not the day to talk about it. I will use the word distasteful. Today’s a day to remember the heroes. The men that ran into those buildings. Takes a certain kind of person to do that. The best kind of person. That’s what today should be spoken about. Leave the stuff for the other 364 days of the year.
Today is their day, respect them. If you disagree with me, I don’t know what to say besides that is bad form, poor taste.
Tommy Says: “@BlueStar You are the kind of guy who wants to believe these things.
There is shit that goes down but to sit with such assurance is ridiculous like evidence is conclusive is absurd.. Stop reading InfoWars man.”
I can do and say whatever I like because this is my Blog. But know this Tommy I have come to the belief (since you say I like to believe things) that anyone who accepts the governments story is an intellectual midget, a pussy who does not want to rock the boat and cares what other people think about them or both. If you read my piece carefully I did not tell you what to think. I offered the official story and a silent video without comment. If you want to argue about what I presented fine. But don’t come here and tell me I am a conspiracy theorist or that this is the victims day. Those are not arguments. This nonsense about this is their day what the hell is that?
posting that video and asking us to interpret it and join your “side” is a bit ignorant. likely none of us are qualified to make heads or tails of the video other than reading the title and comments.
I like to read up on both sides though so I’ll add this link – https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-ae911truths-wtc7-explosive-demolition-hypothesis.1727/
RIP to all the victims of 9/11
jc7,
Thanks for posting the other side.
jc7,
Thanks for posting, this is interesting. Do you happen to know the background of the poster “Mick West”? Is he also an engineer or Architect?
Bluestar, now that we’re a day removed from discussing the truth regarding 9/11 😉 , it also wouldn’t be in bad taste to discuss yoga pants, what say thee?
I love it,
Regards
Chuck
I don’t know anything about Mick West other than he likely contributed to the content in the link. My point in posting is just that there is more than one side to every argument.
Juice,
I rang the bell. 4 bagger. Thank you OA
jc7,
I agree with you. ad hominems and emotional appeals are not arguments. I respect different sides. As you can tell from my article, when I was younger I would have called anyone who dare question the government a traitor. There is something to be said about getting older.
There is something to be said about getting older, a bit of perspective and maybe better judgment. I’d advise the younger readers here to take care of themselves health wise, diet, unhealthy habits, etc. It does come around, and sadly I see it in some around me, who will be leaving sooner than anyone would want to..
Tommy,
You’re living in a dreamworld. Are you an engineer? Over 2,000 engineers disagree with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNR6Kbg5jJ8
I wish you would write more often but I am sure your time is limited already settling family into a new home in Hawaii. As a former journalist for 15 years, from my perspective, it is nice as a reader to hear your voice more often. I am sure in time you will figure it all out, when you decide what is meaningful to write and how often should you write it. Can you summarize what your strategy is with the Dec. puts you bought? Thanks
Look, a building collapsed! That means it was an inside job controlled demolition!
Good article Blue, as always I love the read. I think the your comments section is a pretty good indication of what happened to your country after the attacks. Anyone who didn’t parody the official version of events became an unpatriotic conspiracy theorist, and now entertaining another notion of what happened gets the unwashed masses all hot and bothered.
Osama said he was going to take your freedoms and bankrupt the country with his war, how is he doing?
TJWP,
Osama +1
Flyway,
Still holding. Set up is closer to completion. If it completes then I press. If not I sell puts at a loss.
Blue, Interesting that you closed your Puts and went Long per Fly Blog. I did notice a bit of giddiness in the Junk Bond Market vs the Govt Fixed and thought it was going to be a rough week for us Bears. Yet, there was a bit of strange weakness on Monday that gives me hope. I know my hope will be wrong and we will rally off the Fed Meeting/Scottland/IPO story…but it is sort of feeling all rather weak.
Nymph,
I was joking. Read my later posts.
ohhhh. lol.
What is the set up you are looking for?
Anybody chasing momos earlier this week are surely not too happy if still holding today.
Well Blue it did end up being a tad hard on us bears like I figured. But, in the end we had a sweet weakness that looks like the Bulls are getting weaker. We now have China going on VaCa in about two weeks, which normally gives us Bears a fighting chance…so next week should be sweet for us.
Flyaway,
Set up is close. We have not confirmed. I bought IWM puts with december expiration on 9/4 and 8/28. I am in the money slightly. These new highs are completely bogus. Divergences are everywhere. If we take out 8/7 low on Dow then it is game on to the downside.
flyaway,
Froth should be avoided.