http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

a movie regarding mythology, spectacle, reality and political power in three parts: an exposition of Christianity as a Judeo-Roman encoding of the astrotheological solar cult inherited from Egypt and Sumer, historicized for political power; an investigation and thorough debunking of the official 9/11 myth; and a description of recent history in the context of the immense power of central banks to influence policy, promote warfare, accumulate capital and keep entire populations in debt slavery through interest, taxation, inflation, ownership of media and influence over political institutions. heavily mashed-up with lots of interviews, passages, luminary quotes, etc. highly recommended.

the first cool thing about the John Vanderslice show was that it was on 9/11. as many of his songs allude to that particular event, it seemed particularly fitting. it was odd because the Parish had published the time (10pm) of the show but not price. then just a few hours before the show, they changed the site moving the show to 8pm. anyway, the crew got down there for the opening band, Bowerbirds. they were pretty decent; the lead singer's (male) voice was solid, he was joined in octave unison by a female compatriot on most songs; there was accoustic guitar, a big bass drum, a violin and an accordion in the mix at different times. some of their songs drug a bit, but the livlier ones were pretty engaging.

and then the Vanderslice band came on. it was the same group i had seen last time, with the exception of a new bass player who was also pretty damn righteous on the violin. JV seemed to be in a pretty awesome mood and they sounded pretty on the whole time. they started off with a bunch of new stuff from Emerald City (specifically, a group of songs referencing 9/11) and Pixel Revolt (Exodus Damage, Angela, etc). it was pretty cool because their drummer is just nuts with the syncopation and novel beats. JV joked at the begining that we would all be in love with trance dub or some such and there was something to that, i think, a lot of the songs had a really dub- or almost trip-hopish kind of ambiance. except for the really rockin parts. there was an accoustic song, then they added in band members back in one at a time. more new stuff, then a few from Cellar Door (Pale Horse, They Wont Let Me Run, Up Above the Sea). the last song was Time Travel Is Lonely, which made me pretty happy.

at the very end, he told us to stick around for the dance party afterwards. i was kind of expecting an encore but people were kind of acting as though that was it. just as i was thinking about giving up, Vanderslice walks into the middle of the crowd (pretty much striaght into my little cluster of comrades) and says they're gonna do another song. so the rest of the band comes out with their assorted accoustic instruments. Bowerbirds come out and so this circle forms around the accumulated musicans and they launch into Keep The Dream Alive uplugged. i dug it cause i could sing along with the band, and the energy level was way good. it was a pretty freakin awesome encore.

http://www.valis666.net/

massive linklist of Google videos on 9/11, the Necon Cabal, the Iraq occupation, fascism, terrorism, police state, conspiracy theory, eastern philosophy, RAW, Grant Morrison, Platonism, alchemy, Terrence McKenna, shaman stuff, LSD, Tim Leary, etc. strangely enough, no PKD that i can see.

Most people know that Vice President Dick Cheney is former CEO of Halliburton, which makes billions of dollars a year from oil and primarily defense-related construction contracts (and that war and chaos increase Halliburton's profits, which in turn increase the value of Cheney's stock options). Most people also know that Cheney was secretary of Defense under George H. W. Bush.

Many people know that Cheney was a congressman from Wyoming. Some even know that he was one of the founders of the Project for a New American Century.

Well-read people know that the Project for a New American Century, in turn, called for a new American empire well before 9/11, and lamented that, without a "catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor", transformation of America into an empire would be very slow.

But even well-informed people probably don't know that -- in the 70's -- Cheney was instrumental in generating fake intelligence exaggerating the Soviet threat in order to undermine coexistence between the U.S. and Soviet Union, which conveniently justified huge amounts of cold war spending. See also this article. This scheme foreshadowed Mr. Cheney's role in generating fake intelligence about Iraq by 30 years.

And did you know that Cheney has been perhaps the leading advocate for strengthening the powers of the White House to the point of monarchy for at least 20 years?

Or that newly-released documents show that Cheney was involved in debates concerning illegal wiretaps 30 years ago?

Did you catch that the former director of the CIA accused Cheney of overseeing American torture policies? Or that Colin Powell's former chief of staff stated that Dick Cheney is guilty of war crimes for his role in facilitating torture?

And, according to to the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who uncovered the Iraq prison torture scandal and the massacre against Vietnamese civilians, Cheney is the main guy helping to fund groups which the U.S. claims are terrorists.

And guess who is the prime architect of efforts to bomb Iran? Yup, Mr. Cheney (see also this article).

To recap, Cheney's past includes:
• Oil
• Defense
• Faking intelligence and using scare tactics about enemies to justify a pre-planned military agenda
• Lobbying to give the president the powers of the king
• Calling for an American empire and lamenting the lack of a "new Pearl Harbor"
• Police state type wiretapping
• Selling war
• Promoting torture
• Funding Al-Qaeda

Did all of these aspects of Mr. Cheney's background converge in the Iraq debacle? Well, a top official at the State Department stated there was a secret "cabal" involving Cheney, and that Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the country's foreign policy.

Did they converge on 9/11?

This last question is not merely academic: vice President Cheney was apparently in charge of ALL 5 of the war games which occurred on 9/11 and coordinated the government's "response" to the attacks. See this CNN article; and this essay.

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2,974 people died on 9/11. 24 others are presumed dead. That is just under 3,000 who perished from that horrible act.

Since that terrible day, other bad things have occurred as well. Around 42,500 Americans die in traffic accidents annually. Most of these could be prevented. It has been 5 1/2 years since 9/11. Approximately 275,000 Americans therefore have been killed.

In response to 9/11 we passed the Patriot Act, the NSA began spying on our emails, our phone calls. We are going to end up spending over $1,000,000,000,000 in Iraq by the time we are done. Our country has tortured suspects to get information on terrorist attacks, we have suspended habeas corpus for our citizens. We have sent prisoners who haven't been charged with crimes to places like Syria and Iran to get tortured as well. We take off our shoes before flights. We live with terror color codes. We do this in fear of terror. Terror has won.

We could have saved most of those 275,000 traffic victims by re-organizing our society and taking away our freedoms. We could legislate a computer chip in all cars that doesn't allow one to speed. We could install a breathalyser in all cars so drunks can't drive. We could do random drug and urine tests all the time to prevent impaired people from driving. There could be road tests for all drivers every year to make sure people are skilled enough to stay on the road.

We don't do these things though, because we don't want our freedom to drive stripped from us, and 116 deaths a day spread throughout 50 states is easy to ignore. That is 2 deaths per state per day roughly. But it adds up. Almost 100 times as many people have been killed in accidents since 9/11 than that very event.

I would rather be killed by terrorists than live in terror. Live free and die, or we can live in fear and die spiritual deaths afraid of our own shadow. What we have done in response to 9/11 is a much greater tragedy than the actual events that transpired that day.

Those who demand that we live in terror to defeat terror don't seem to grasp the irony of their beliefs. Blow me up if you must radical terrorist, but damned if my government will blow up my constitutional rights in the name of saving them. [+]

http://911truthemergence.com/index.php?title=Benjamin_Pritchard

having found the official explanation of 9/11 a ludicrous lie, the author of this site proposes an alternate explanation which i admit i find more compelling than the official line.

My own belief is that the attacks were a desperate attempt by the ruling classes to maintain the existing socio-economic power and wealth distribution at all costs. Currently, most of the world’s resources are controlled by a tiny fraction of the world’s population. (For example, things are so lopsided that it is estimated that world poverty could be largely eliminated by taking the money of just seven of the world’s billionaires.) The allocation of the world’s resources has became so skewed, and the economies (“military-industrial-complexes”) of the industrialized nations so dependent on fighting never-ending wars, that 9/11-style incidents have became necessary to provide fake enemies when none are otherwise forthcoming.

The ease with which any able-minded person with an internet connection can determine this to be the case means that we stand at a turning-point in history.

By the end of the dark ages, thousands of torture chambers and inquisitors were required to maintain the Catholic Church’s stranglehold on the mind of humanity. With Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press, the Catholic Church lost its monopoly on the flow of information—and at that point, the church just couldn’t burn or otherwise torture people to death fast enough to prevent ideas from spreading.

Because of the internet (and the unfathomable amount of work done by the open source / free software movements) the spread of ideas and information has once again escaped the clutches of the ruling classes. Any astute observer can realize that the internet is breaking various established monopolies one-by-one.

The final ones to fall are going to be our existing goverments.

Since World War II, media consolidation in this country and elsewhere has stifled any meaningful criticism of the establishment or its policies. Our television stations are now (literally) owned by the defense contractors, our “journalists” paid talking heads—the worst of them cheerleaders, the “best” of them apologists. We can’t wait for the media to help us here; they, like our “elected” officials, have long since been bought and paid for. It is therefore up to us. As Albert Einstien once said: Those who have the ability to see have the responsibility to act.

In my estimation, 9/11 has been drawn like a line in the sand; it is the demarcation between two worldviews—the big lie, and the unknown. Up until this point, most people have chosen to live under the big lie. After all, who really believes that 19 hijackers totally overtook the 100-billion-dollar Anglo-American security apparatus with some box cutters? Who is really so blind with self-delusion as to actually believe that the War In Iraq is about spreading “freedom and democracy?”

I think we all know that there’s more to 9/11 and the so-called “war on terror” than evil Arabs (complete with scary-sounding foreign names) who “hate our freedoms.” Can people really not see that our leaders are themselves the terrorists?