TIL that in 2002, a high school student 'inspired by 9/11' flew a stolen Cessna plane into the Bank of America building. He was the only casualty.

Nothing flew into Building 7, a 52-floor skyscraper that collapsed totally, into it's own footprint, without significant fires or anything crashing into it. Want to know what else was stored in WTC Building 7? The only off-site backup of the financial records for the Pentagon/DoD's black budget programs that had sucked in (stolen) $2.6 trillion, which was announced by Donald Rumsfeld on the day before all the evidence disappeared, on 9/10/01.

You know what else was stored there? The records and investigations of the Eldorado Task Force, which was responsible for coordinating and managing all major money laundering investigations in the United States. At the time of 9/11, they were tracking about $240 billion in fraudulent securities used to finance illegal operations associated with covert/private intelligence operations and people like Bush Sr. (as CIA director) - securities that coincidentally, were scheduled to come due on 9/12/01 - because of 9/11, the fraud/money laundering investigations tracking these securities literally went up in smoke the day before they were due to be cashed out. Then the SEC invoked it's Emergency Powers act - which allowed the owners to forgo/bypass the routine process of authenticity and ownership checks.

There was another building that stored investigation information into all of this money - incidentally, it was at the exact portion of the Pentagon that the plane went into on the morning of 9/11.

People aren't just being stupid by thinking that there's more to the story than "some malnourished arab terrorists who hate rainbows and puppies and freedom hated us and wanted to make us unhappy".

You already believe "bad men did complete a big bad conspiracy that day" - why is it that you can't imagine changing the identity of "the bad men"? Instead of blaming some people that the rich wanted to attack, maybe we should look at the people who made billions/hundreds of millions that day, and accomplished long-range goals and stated plans for social change in the world that could not have been accomplished without a "catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" (which is what the neo-con think-tank the "Project for a New American Century" said plainly would be needed, in their own words, to accomplish their plans outlined in the policy paper 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' - a year before they came to power - a year before this event took place).

Right now, all the stupid people in the world have been convinced that it's a social faux-pas or anathema to your social-acceptability to question the lies our society tells itself. Just like in North Korea, it's a social faux-pas and anathema to question the Kim family or any of their absurd, obvious lies, wide-reaching conspiracies, and abuses - but bud, they still exist, whether the people there are brainwashed into ignoring and hating anyone who questions the official story or not.

Even though ignoring the truth means that they are complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands or millions of people who are sent to concentration camps by the elite of that country - they don't want to rock their own little mental boat.

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