3. TIL That on 12th September 2001, the day after 9/11, The Queen ordered her Royal...

TIL That on 12th September 2001, the day after 9/11, The Queen ordered her Royal Guards to break protocol and play the USA's National Anthem for stranded Americans in London

Hurricane Erin outside of New York on 9/11

A scientific study published in a very popular magazine on the collapse of building 7 and the three unprecedented collapses due to fire...

Operation North Woods... Only thing stopping a fake terror attack was JFK.

Gary Webb breaks the CIA selling drugs to Ricky Ross in Dark Alliance

And....

The list: some books and videos, youtube channels.

Books include

Racketeering in Medicine

Three Felonies A Day

The Wahls Protocol

The Good Gut

Thinking Fast and Slow

The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR

War is a Racket

Classified Woman - Sibel Edmonds

Youtube channel foundmyfitness

Documentaries on Netflix Streaming

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Revenge of the Electric Car

Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery & End the Drugs War

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

Divorce Corp.

WikiLeaks: War, Lies and Videotape

Rose Water

Big Boys Gone Bananas

The Invisible War

Fat Sick & Nearly Dead - 1 & 2

The Act of Killing

Food Matters

Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room

Vanishing of the Bees

Wal-Mart - The High Cost of Low Prices

Food Chains

Resistance

Gas Land & Part 2

GMO OMG

Farmageddon

A Place at the Table

Fed Up

Forks Over Knives

Hot Coffee

Exit Through The Gift Shop

Food Inc

Neurons to Nirvana

I Am

Blackfish

The Culture High

The Queen of Versailles

Freakanomics

Vitality

The Waiting Room

Tricked

The Human Experiment

On Youtube, Internet,Was on Netflix Streaming

Burzynski & Part 2

Who Killed the Electric Car

The Yes Men, " " Fix the World, " " Are Revolting

The Greater Good

Vaccine Nation

Weapons of Mass Deception

The Light Bulb Conspiracy

The Fluoride Deception

Outfoxed

The War You Don't See

Hacking Democracy

Aspartame - Sweet Misery, A Poisoned World

We Steal Secretes: The Story of WikiLeaks

The World According to Monsanto

The Coca Cola Case

Starsuckers

Psywar

InGREEDients

Genetic Roulette

Fast Food Nation

American Drug War - The Last Great White Hope

Programming the Nation

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Cancer - The Forbidden Cures

Green Gold - John D. Liu

America's Largest Street Gang

Music Industry Crisis - Before the Music Dies

Silenced - The War on Whistleblowers

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High

Just How Toxic is Mercury - A Study by the University of Calgary

Koyaanisqatsi

Baraka

Orwell Rolls in his Grave

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