From gold vaults and insurance policies to recovered hard drives and advance trades, the 9/11 money trail is one of the most fascinating and under-explored aspects of the false flag events of September 11, 2001. Join James for this important 25th anniversary 9/11 podcast on the mysteries of the 9/11 financial anomalies.
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In late 2004, enticed by a review in The Japan Times that praised the lucid prose and the dramatic recounting of events contained in The 9/11 Commission Report, I found myself purchasing that now-infamous document from the local bookstore and reading it cover to cover.
Of course, 9/11 researchers will know by now that The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States is a tissue of lies and that any information garnered from that report has to be taken with Herculean helpings of sodium chloride.
We know, for example, that the Commission’s deeply conflicted Executive Director, Philip Zelikow, had, along with his senior advisor Ernest May, written an outline of that final report, complete with “chapter headings, subheadings and sub-subheadings” before the Commission had convened even a single staff meeting, a move so outrageous that, when it was eventually discovered by commission staffers, caused those staffers to mock the point by creating their own parody document, “The Warren Commision Report—Preemptive Outline,” which included the chapter heading “Single Bullet: We Haven’t Seen the Evidence Yet. But Really. We’re Sure.”
We know that the 9/11 Commission Report was constructed from legally inadmissible lies, with a full 25% of the report’s footnotes sourcing back to illegally extracted torture confessions, the records of which were then illegally destroyed by the CIA against court order.
And we know that even the 9/11 Commissioners themselves knew that it was a cover up from top-to-bottom and that the entire Commission was “set up to fail.”
In their book, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission, and in press conferences and interviews at the time the report was released, Kean and Hamilton famously remarked that the commission had been “set up to fail.”
EVAN SOLOMON: Even Lee Hamilton, the co-chair of the 9/11 Commission itself, admits to us that the process he headed up was seriously flawed.
LEE HAMILTON: So there are all kinds of reasons we thought we were set up to fail. We got started late. We had a very short time frame; indeed we had to get it extended. We did not have enough money. They were afraid we were going to hang somebody.
THOMAS KEAN: But it was very difficult. And Lee and I write in our book that we think the commission in many ways was set up to fail.
As it turns out, the majority of the commissioners felt that the commission had been lied to, deliberately obstructed, undermined by the White House, or set up with staff that had conflicts of interest in the investigation.
One of these concerned commissioners, Max Cleland, resigned because the commission had been “deliberately compromised by the President of the United States.”
Commissioner John Lehman, meanwhile, admitted on NBC Nightly News that the Commission had to go through Karl Rove and other senior White House members to access key documents in their investigation and that “[w]e purposely put together a staff that had—in a way—conflicts of interest,” stressing, lest there be any doubt, that “[a]ll of the staff had, to a certain extent, some conflict of interest.”
Commission members even considered bringing criminal charges against Pentagon officials who had deliberately lied to them about the military’s complete lack of response on that day.
But perhaps the most cryptic of all the dissenting commissioners was Bob Kerrey. In 2009 he remarked that 9/11 was a “30-year old conspiracy,” but no mainstream reporter has ever followed up with him to clarify this statement.
JEREMY ROTHE-KUSHEL: Do you support a criminal investigation into 9/11? Because I know yours was an exposition. It was not a criminal investigation.
BOB KERREY: I don’t think so, but I don’t know. I mean, I do support a permanent commission to examine not just that but lots of other things in this area.
ROTHE-KUSHEL: But if it’s a permanent cover-up then it’s—I mean, if it is an act of war and it’s hiding things—which everyone on your Commission knew, that the Pentagon was changing their stories, lying to you—then it’s a cover-up of an act of war, and under Article 3 Section 3 of the Constitution, it’s treason. So unless we get to the very bottom of it then we’re still talking a treasonous exposition.
KERREY: This is a longer conversation, I’m not sure we’ll ever get to the bottom of it.
ROTHE-KUSHEL: We have to or we can’t save our country, sir.
KERREY: I don’t think—well, if that’s the condition upon which we’re going to be saving our country—because the problem is, it’s a 30-year-old conspiracy.
ROTHE-KUSHEL: No, I’m talking about 9/11.
KERREY: That’s what I’m talking about.
ROTHE-KUSHEL: Oh, you are. You mean . . .
KERREY: Anyway, I gotta run.
SOURCE: 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey finally confesses 9-11 Commission could not do it’s job – Part 3 of 3
SOURCE: 9/11 Whistleblowers
But sitting in my Japanese apartment in January 2005, I knew none of these things. At that time, wrapped in the bubble of ignorance that decades of statist indoctrination and establishment media had blown around me and having done no independent research into the topic myself, I was prepared to take the Commission and its pronouncements more or less at face value.
But even so, there was one passage in particular that jumped out at me: “To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance.”
Even to me, a then-credulous reader of a report that came with the imprimatur of a national commission and the full backing of the US government and establishment media, the passage struck me as odd. When have we ever heard a pronouncement that the question of the funding of a crime is of “little practical significance”?
On the contrary. Haven’t we all heard the phrase, popularized in All the President’s Men and repeated ad nauseum ever since, that the golden rule of any criminal investigation is that we must “follow the money”?
DEEP THROAT: Forget the myths the media’s created about the White House. The truth is these are not very bright guys and things got out of hand.
WOODWARD: Hunt’s come in from the cold. Supposedly he’s got a lawyer with $25,000 in a brown paper bag.
DEEP THROAT: Follow the money.
WOODWARD: What do you mean? Where?
DEEP THROAT: Oh, I can’t tell you that.
WOODWARD: But you could tell me that.
DEEP THROAT: No, I have to do this my way. You tell me what you know and I’ll confirm. I’ll keep you in the right direction if I can, but that’s all. Just follow the money
SOURCE: All the President’s Men | Follow The Money Scene | Warner Bros. Entertainment
Why, then, did the 9/11 Commission exhort us not to adhere to this investigative dictum?
And, even more puzzlingly, why has the 9/11 Truth movement—a movement whose very existence is predicated on the debunking of every lie propounded by the 9/11 Commission and all the other official government sources of information about the events of September 11, 2001—seemingly agreed with the 9/11 Commission Report on this point? Why has there been so little attention paid to this, the most glaring and obvious loose string in the tapestry of lies that is the Official Story of 9/11?
It’s not like there is a lack of fascinating stories to be investigated.
Of course, the first and most obvious lie would be the 9/11 Commission Report’s profession of ignorance about the “origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks.” We now know, for example, that US government investigators did know about the funds and other material aid provided to Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar by Omar al-Bayoumi, and that this was specifically being done “at the behest of the CIA through the Saudi intelligence service.”
But, to be fair, this is the false 9/11 money trail that is meant to be discovered in order to draw would-be money trail researchers into the limited hangout of 9/11. This tantalizing money trail, dutifully documented in court filings from the Office of Military Commission, serves a triple purpose.
Firstly, it is meant to buttress the lie that the alleged hijackers actually were in control of the planes on 9/11 and actually were responsible for those spectacular attacks, instead of—as they were—patsies whose legends were carefully constructed by the intelligence agencies in order to create a plausible cookie crumb trail leading well-meaning government investigators to blame the false flag events of September 11th on “Al Qaeda.”
Secondly, it is meant to be part of the ongoing blackmail that the US government holds over the Saudis, another one of the tantalizing pieces of information buried in redacted pages and obscure court documents that on a moment’s notice, could be suddenly “discovered” by a government official and dutifully reported by an establishment press in order to whip the public into hysteria over the Saudi menace, conveniently omitting the fact that these patsies were being run “at the behest of the CIA.”
Thirdly, it is meant as the final escape hatch for the 9/11 perpetrators should 9/11 Truth make any serious headway in the quest to bring those perpetrators to justice. “Yes, of course the CIA was running these dastardly Al Qaeda terrorists,” this limited hangout story, first propounded by Richard Clarke, goes. “You see, the CIA were trying to recruit sources inside Al Qaeda and—wouldn’t you know it!—the would-be double agents triple-crossed us and went ahead with the attacks!”
CLARKE: For me, to this day it is inexplicable why, when I had every other detail about everything related to terrorism, that the director didn’t tell me, that the director of the Counterterrorism Center didn’t tell me, that the other 48 people in CIA who knew about it never mentioned it to me or anyone in my staff in a period of over 12 months.
JOHN DUFFY: They were stopped from getting to you and stopped from getting to the White House.
CLARKE: And stopped from getting to the FBI and the Defense Department. We therefore conclude that there was a high-level decision in the CIA ordering people not to share that information.
RAY NOWOSIELSKI: How high level?
CLARKE: I would think it would have to be made by the director.
SOURCE: Interview #07 (Washington, DC)
But there are many other incredibly important avenues of investigation for would-be 9/11 money trail researchers to explore.
There is of course the fascinating saga of “Lucky” Larry Silverstein, who managed to use just $14 million of his own money to secure a 99-year lease on the Twin Towers (along with World Trade Center Buildings 4 and 5, two 9-story office buildings, and 400,000 square feet of retail space) just five weeks before the 9/11 attacks. By insisting on insuring the buildings for $3.55 billion (more than double the $1.5 billion insurance policy previously held by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and nearly three times the $1.2 billion valuation assigned to the buildings earlier that year), by insisting on a clause giving his consortium the right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed and even to expand the existing retail space by thirty percent, and by claiming each plane strike as a separate, insurable act, Silverstein and his partners were able to walk away with $4.55 billion in insurance payouts as well as the ownership of three office buildings on the World Trade Center complex.
Luckily for Larry, he was not in the “Windows on the World” at the top of the North Tower for his regular morning meeting on the morning of 9/11 because his wife had insisted he go to a doctor’s appointment instead that particular day.
CHARLIE ROSE: Where were you on September 11?
LARRY SILVERSTEIN: You know, I was home. And the only reason I wasn’t where I was every morning, subsequent to the 26th day of July, I was—my mornings were spent usually at a breakfast meeting at Windows. An 8:00 breakfast meeting. Windows, at the top.
[…]
And so my mornings were spend at the Trade Center, and then by noon I was back uptown. And so that particular morning, because I have light colored hair and fair skin and the dermatologist—my wife, God bless her, made an appointment for me at the doctor. And I remember dressing to go to the doctor and finally saying, “Sweetheart, I’ve got so much to do downtown, I’ve gotta cancel this, I’ve got to go downtown.” And she said, “You’re not going to cancel this appointment, you’re going to the dermatologist.”
I’ve been married to the same woman for 46 years, you get the sense of determination on occasion. I said, “OK, yes, dear, I’II go. I’II go.”
And then just minutes later, she got the telephone call to turn on the television set and witnessed this horrendous circumstance, the first plane hitting and then the second plane hitting, of course when the second hit it became obvious that this was terrorism.
Then there’s the issue of the precious metal vault underneath 4 World Trade Center. By some reports, these vaults held as much as $1 billion worth of gold and silver belonging to the Comex metals trading division, to various Comex customers and to the Bank of Nova Scotia.
The New York Daily News reported that gold had been found in a delivery tunnel under 5 World Trade Center during the Ground Zero cleanup, although other reports indicate that the delivery tunnel merely had to be cleared so that they could reach the gold under 4 World Trade Center.
Regardless, on the same day that the gold was recovered from the vault, then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani called off the search and rescue teams, barring firefighters for searching for their fallen comrades in the pile. To this day, many firefighters claim the “scoop and dump” operation at Ground Zero was always more about finding gold than it was about recovering bodies.
In the end, only $230 million of gold was announced recovered.
There’s the curious case of the operation undertaken by Convar GmbH, a German data recovery firm that was tasked by the FBI with recovering the data from hard drives that had been retrieved from Ground Zero. The firm actually did begin to recover data that led to a startling conclusion: certain traders had advance knowledge of the time of the attacks on the World Trade Center and used the cover of that chaos to illegally transfer more than $100 million in funds. “They thought that the records of their transactions could not be traced after the main frames were destroyed,” one data recovery worker was quoted as saying.
But after an initial press release by Convar and a handful of articles on the subject, the company never spoke of the operation or its conclusions again. The FBI later officially denied the existence of any data recovery operation to the 9/11 Commission, who then failed to include any follow up on the Convar findings in its final report.
When pressed for more information in 2006, a Convar spokesman only said that the company could no longer provide information about the subject.
DUTCH REPORTER: Is it true that large amounts of money were transferred illegally out of the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11, just before the attacks?
CONVAR SPOKESMAN: If you would look on the website, I would say “Yes.”
DUTCH REPORTER: Uh huh.
CONVAR SPOKESMAN: Because that was the information from a previous release.
DUTCH REPORTER: Uh huh.
CONVAR SPOKESMAN: If you were to ask me today I would need to tell you I could not give you any additional information about that. I’m really sorry about…
DUTCH REPORTER: What if I were to ask you one year ago? What would you have…
CONVAR SPOKESMAN: I would have said that what we have there is what we said before. Yes, exactly.
Then there’s the anomalous trading prior to 9/11, trading that did not just involve put options on the airlines, but puts and calls on various businesses in the World Trade Center and on defense contractor stocks that, as not one, not two, but three peer-reviewed economics papers confirmed, were consistent with advance knowledge of the attacks.
There are the FBI documents that implicate Wirt D. Walker III, a distant relative of the Bush family and a business partner of Marvin Bush, the president’s brother, in those trades.
And there’s the even more curious coda to that story: the SEC’s decision to destroy the records of their investigation into those trades.
There’s the issue of the Pentagon’s missing trillions, a known issue for years before 9/11 that was strangely reconfirmed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on September 10, 2001, where he acknowledged the ongoing budgetary issue, declared a new war…on bureacuracy, and asked how the Secretary of Defense could attack the Pentagon in front of the American people.
And there’s one of the strangest, least likely, but bizarrely neglected tale in the 9/11 money trail saga: CIA agent Robert Baer’s strange boast that he “knows the guy” who “cashed out” the day before 9/11.
JEREMY ROTHE-KUSHEL: …the last thing I want to leave you with is the National Reconnaissance Office was running a drill of a plane crashing into their building and you know they’re staffed by DoD and CIA…
ROBERT BAER: I know the guy that went into his broker in San Diego and said “Cash me out, it’s going down tomorrow.”
JEREMY ROTHE KUSHEL: Really?
ROBERT BAER: Yeah.
STEWART HOWE: That tells us something.
ROBERT BAER: What?
STEWART HOWE: That tells us something.
ROBERT BAER: Well, his brother worked at the White House.
Amazingly, all of this is still only scratching the surface of the 9/11 money trail. There are many, many other severely under-explored and long-neglected rabbit holes for researchers to tumble down.
A few intrepid researchers have done work on this subject, but sadly these researchers number in the single digits.
There’s Mark Gaffney, whose Black 9/11: Money, Motive and Technology is one of the few book-length explorations of the subject.
There’s Jeremy Rys, whose ambitiously named “9/11 Conspiracy Solved” may not quite have “solved” 9/11 as advertised, but does provide an impressive amount of detail about the 9/11 financing.
There’s Richard Grove’s classic Project Constellation podcast, which discusses financial anomalies at Marsh & McLennan and their relation to 9/11 from an eyewitness point of view.
There’s Lars Schall, who has done important work on the insider trading issue and other financial anomalies of 9/11.
There are my own humble contributions to this research, perhaps most notably my documentary on 9/11 Trillions: Follow the Money.
And, perhaps most hopefully, there is 9/11 Was an Epstein Job? which doesn’t prove Epstein’s culpability for 9/11 but does explore many of the money trail links between Epstein associates and 9/11 and was created earlier this year by a relatively young 9/11 researcher.
That up-and-coming 9/11 researchers are looking into the financial aspects of the September 11 false flag is indeed a hopeful sign, but given the enormity of this subject and the shocking lack of attention to it, these contributions, valuable as they might be, seem utterly inadequate to the task of accounting for the 9/11 money trail.
There is much more work to be done on this subject, and, if you’ll permit me to observe, although I would certainly never dissuade anyone from pursuing whatever line of inquiry they are interested in, it just might possibly be the case that, as fascinating and enlightening as the 5,671st documentary on the destruction of the towers would no doubt be, perhaps the sixth or seventh serious investigation of the 9/11 money trail might be even more enlightening.
After all, 9/11 was, at base, a crime, and we all know how to go about solving a crime: Follow the money.
Thank you.
9/11 TRILLIONS AND 9/11 WAR GAMES
Since the day of 9/11, we’ve been told what happened.
“Freedom itself is under attack!”
We’ve been told who to blame.
“The Taliban and al-Qaeda.” “Osama bin Laden.” “Terrorists in the terrorist network.” “Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.”
We’ve been told what to think.
“Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th.”
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“Some might ask, how in the world could the Secretary of Defense attack the Pentagon in front of its people?”
“We had four war games going on on September 11th.”
“$8.5 trillion.”
“The most extraordinary coincidences in the history of mankind.”
“We’ve never seen so much real-world stuff happen during an exercise.”
“It is…I was going to say, ‘terrifying.'”
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The Leaders and Members of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, the International Center for 9/11 Justice, and the broader 9/11 Truth Movement.
I’m writing as a fellow participant who cares deeply about uncovering the full truth about September 11, 2001, holding those responsible accountable, and moving forward with real solutions.
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Excellent report James. Very thorough.
It is true that for most crimes it is a wise strategy to ‘follow the money’ in order to track down the criminals.
However 9/11 is different from almost all other crimes.
For other crimes people needed money to commit them.
For 9/11 money was no object.
You know those ‘missing trillions”? The perps would have had virtually unlimited funds to pull the whole thing off. Money was no object.
The money trail needed to fund the ‘official story’ attacks is a paltry amount of funds. How much money would have been required to train, import and house 19 hijackers in the months/years leading up to 9/11? A few hundred thousand dollars?
Let’s get real. And we know the CIA has the receipts for that.
That is why I laugh each time people try to blame the Saudis for funding 9/11.
I mean seriously.
You lament the fact that by and large we have been devoting almost all our research efforts to the destruction of the towers and other physical evidence when we should be taking aim at the money trail.
It is my contention that any efforts to track down the perps by spending time trying to follow the money would be futile.
First of all, the money trail has been permanently compromised with critical records having been deliberately destroyed. (Puts/calls trading etc.)
The money (gold bars) stolen after 9/11 could have gotten a few criminals put behind bars. They likely would just have been opportunists looting the remains of the bars that the perps didn’t have time to gather.
The Baer comment of knowing the “going down tomorrow” guy certainly could have been useful to track down the perps!
So for me the ‘follow the money’ strategy used for traditional crimes wouldn’t work for 9/11.
9/11 was simply too big to fail.
If I ever should need a detective to help me with a criminal matter, I sure won’t contact you.
Despite the obviously deep pockets of the real perps, money and financial records, down to measly strip club receipts and flight training classes provide very specific and concrete evidence. You allow that Baer’s comment should be more ruthlessly investigated. This is no different than the put option issue. These things can be investigated, but the will of law enforcement is lacking. Even less direct issues, like where did the gold go, provide threads to pull, leading to the unraveling of coverups. Putting Silverstein on the hot seat would be a logical first step for that thread, where it would lead we don’t know precisely, but it should lead to other middlemen, some of who would sing under pressure. Same with Giuliani, NIST, etc., etc.
If I allow that looking into all the connections involving money trails are foolish, I must ask, “What do you suggest”?
Hank says,
“If I ever should need a detective to help me with a criminal matter, I sure won’t contact you.”
I agree.
It is very poor investigative detective work to poo-poo the significance of money trails.
f) Yes, I will add the missing gold to my list above. It wasn’t at the top of my head.
“If I allow that looking into all the connections involving money trails are foolish, I must ask, “What do you suggest”?”
I will answer your question but I know you won’t like my answer. I’ll be blunt as I usually am.
You guys don’t get it.
In a world where justice always prevails, sure it would be wise to go for the jugular IF IT’S POSSIBLE. Trace the puts/calls, the stolen gold bars, grill Siverstein etc.
But the perps have covered all their bases. If anyone came anywhere close to tracing evidence back to the perps they’d be dispatched as quick as you could say ‘Saddam Hussein’. The perps are in total control of all critical areas where progress could be made; the government, the courts, the media, public opinion etc.
They have ALL the money and resources in the world to make sure no one comes even close to outing them.
You guys are dreamers! The only people in the world who care about 9/11 today are us 9/11 conspiracy theorists!!!
No one else gives a shit!
I’ve said it many times before, but I’ll say it again.
9/11 was a done deal when after the first few days/weeks no one called it out.
Same goes for the scamdemic. Same goes for Oct 7th.
The timing for 9/11 turned out to be perfect.
Had they tried to pull it off after Youtube and the social media frenzy came on the scene they could have been called out quickly.
But the perps had a good five years to seal the deal. The vast majority of people in the world don’t have a clue about 9/11 and never will. And most couldn’t care less about it.
We at the Corbett Report belong to a small esoteric community of people who study geo-political issues of the world. We participate in intellectual exercises.
‘Never Forget’ indeed!
— Only Two Directions in Life —
In my opinion, there are only two directions that a person can take in life; more awareness or less awareness. By default, sitting-on-the-fence makes one less aware. More awareness is an active endeavor for any caring human being. And again, by default, an aware caring human being would desire to disseminate that gained understanding to the unaware.
We degrade ourselves, our own integrity and our own compassion for the world by not investigating. Becoming more aware and sharing that knowledge is a critical aspect of man’s humanity.
Nobody expects the New World Order to be dismantled and brought to justice by a prosecutor’s office.
I would argue that “Exposing the Truth” in itself is a form of justice.
For example: Prince Andrew now forever lives with a tarnished reputation in the Court of Public Opinion.
Public perception is changing towards more awareness.
The Overton Window is rapidly changing.
It is obvious that the awareness of the 9/11 Cover-up has grown by millions of people during the past two decades.
Compared to ten years ago, it is obvious that millions of people are now aware of Jeffrey Epstein.
Grocery stores no longer have the 6-foot distance markers and plastic cashier-shields. There are no mask mandates or nurses dancing for Covid vaccines. There was no ‘official decree’ as these propaganda narratives were melted by a splash from the Court of Public Opinion.
“In the end, the real fight is not in Washington. It’s in the court of public opinion. And for once the side of justice is on the ascendant.” – James Corbett
https://corbettreport.com/its-official-the-us-is-now-usrael/
HRS I agree with all you said. If those blessed with the 9/11 knowledge we have
choose to take the time to spread it to as many people as possible then more people can become aware of 9/11 truth. And there is a satisfaction in doing that.
But again, let’s not fool ourselves.
As much as I truly wish I am wrong, not only do I not foresee any true justice ever occurring to the 9/11 perps I also don’t foresee the removal of all the unnecessary restrictions that were imposed on us in the name of ‘national security’ any time in the near future.
Fawlty Towers says,
“As much as I truly wish I am wrong, not only do I not foresee any true justice ever occurring to the 9/11 perps.
I also don’t foresee the removal of all the unnecessary restrictions that were imposed on us in the name of ‘national security’ any time in the near future.”
FT, I agree completely. I think you are spot-on to the nail. …and like you said, “I truly wish I am wrong.”
9/11 is going to get “justice” as much as JFK did. As times passes, conspirators will die and the true knowledge about the events (even if certainly compartmentalized) with them.
The trouble is, the vast majority of the people (even here) do not wish to come to terms with the fact that the system won’t process itself. Not in this day and age and not in a meaningful way.
👍
“You guys are dreamers! The only people in the world who care about 9/11 today are us 9/11 conspiracy theorists!!!
No one else gives a shit!”
I don’t think I would want you on my football team either. You don’t know me, but you already have definitive a label. Is it because I noticed the shallowness of your critique of James’ article? You may be a legend in your own mind. James is a legend in his own time. He has found a way to channel the outrage we all feel into real and widespread education. BTW you seemed like you were going to supply an improved alternative to ‘follow the money,’ but I somehow missed it in your response.
I share your disappointment and frustration with the 9/11 Truth movement, and the other false flags and cover ups. I just don’t see any good in expressing my frustration as pure defeatism. James has not done so; thank God! The fighting spirit is not a guarantee, but it is certainly necessary when we are behind in the score.
I don’t think fawlty over there is black pilling people as you may think. I didn’t get the “there’s no point, lets go home” vibe from what he’s saying there, but a more general “lets be real about this” type of thing. I could be wrong, obviously, it’s how vibes and reception of them work.
I would like to see his ideas of how we should more effectively proceed.
Mr. Fawlty,
I believe we have so much in common; I, personally don’t put stock in the idea of a proper investigation being realistic, but I am glad for the work of those who used that as a goal to do the tremendous amount of work that we all benefit from. (That is, if you think knowing the truth is a benefit, not just a burden).
We all suffer the onus of having taken the red pill. I am resigned to now only talking in person about this stuff. As paltry as it seems in today’s mediascape, it is the best traction that I can get. To that end, I have benefited from having to improve my communication skills, and refine my arrogance and ego. This info is painful for those who really need it. Great patience and sensitivity are required to overcome the natural resistance of the normie. Forgive the metaphor, but an angry spewing of all the facts can be like an unpleasant rape. In a face to face situation, you can ease into it, and tell when the recipient of this shocking news is open to listening. Sometimes never, at least to you. That would be analogous to a lovemaking situation vs a rape. It is not often fun and rewarding, but since COVID, it is a little easier to have these conversations.
Still dreaming… Hank
Hi hanky, yes we do have a lot in common indeed.
I’m sorry if I came across as pessimistically as it seems I did.
I agree that it is important to continue to educate as many people as possible about the truth of 9/11, if for no other reason than to ensure our species (9/11 truthers) doesn’t die out in the coming decades. I don’t think we can rely on the printed word to communicate 9/11 truth.
The 9/11 truth movement needs a bright charismatic organizer
who can bring together all 9/11 truthers so that they work together to make real progress with the knowledge they have.
First and foremost it would involve forming consensus on the most basic elements of what really happened on 9/11.
Teams would be created to disseminate these basic elements
to the rest of the world. One or more businessmen with very deep pockets would be required to fund this dissemination of knowledge.
Fawlty,
Thanks for the reply. I am glad you are expressing a more positive side, even on this very frustrating and dragged out issue.
However, I see a catch 22 in forming the consensus
first. For me, the simplest thing is to concentrate on their exposed lies. (BTW That was the heart of James’ most successful post, 9/11 A Conspiracy Theory)Consensus on what really happened would be very powerful, but it is out of our reach as a starter, with all of the censorship, infiltration, and infighting. A lot of their lies are documented by the mainstream themselves and are very easy to prove, even to a normie. A lot are crimes, and the statute of limitations doesn’t affect murder. This is still an important pivotal issue, concerning the evolution of humanity. Although I don’t see really clearing up this case, it is good if we can use it to slow down the widespread embrace of future big lies. This is the small, but potentially critical, silver lining of COVID. Waking people up, most often in undramatic small ways, could be the key to a major change of the prevailing paradigms. Truth and integrity are a path not a conclusive and glorious prize.
I think there’s only one way as it has always been. One mind at a time.
Watch This Man Start to Question the 9/11 Attacks in Real Timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpK-3bE1Mns
streamed live on Fri September 11 – New York City
Derrick Broze of The Conscious Resistance
Watch This Man Start to Question the 9/11 Attacks in Real Time
9:48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpK-3bE1Mns
👍
Sorry for the late response hanky. I was trying to find how to subscribe to my posts and just discovered how to do it right now. 🙂
Actually I wasn’t planning to supply an alternative to ‘follow the money’.
I was simply saying that this crime (9/11) was not a standard crime where ‘following the money’ is often very helpful in tracking down the criminals.
I’m also sorry for giving you the impression that there are no benefits to the 9/11 truth movement.
However, if the truth movement continues forward the way it has been going for the past 20+ years then it will in fact be a futile effort indeed.
If I were to get involved in the movement (I never have except for belonging to the worldwide researchers) then I would take on an organizational role rather than a debating role.
I haven’t had time yet to check out the results of the 9/11 conference in New York last week but I am almost certain it will be very similar to what happened at last year’s conference (given the roster of the participants/speakers).
If that’s the case, then it would be a shame.
Senator Ron Johnson, god bless him, gave 9/11 truthers a golden opportunity to get their message out to the government and other public officials. He gave them a very specific road map to follow to achieve this.
I wonder if any truthers organized themselves to take him up on his offer?
a) The two (or maybe even three) towers were full of asbestos. It was just a matter of time before the Port Authority would be forced to deal with that problem. (=money)
b) Lucky Larly Silverstein saw an oportunity to make a ton of money through the insurance of the twin towers. (=money)
c) All the Enron files (and most assuredly papers from dozens of other cases) disappeared that morning. (=money)
d) The security infrastructure that has been built up (including corporations that are part of it) in the past 25 years. (=money)
e) On the day GHW Bush made his infamous NWO speech (35 years an one day ago now.) he purchased financial papers that would mature on 9/11/2001 , and with the SEC knocked out that day he cashed in his chips without any oversight. This indicates foreknowledge ten plus years in advance.(=money)
f) The missing gold in the sub-basement in one of the towers. (=money)
These are just six examples that confirm following the money would have been the right thing to do. ….., but of course, the government isn’t going to investigate its own crimes.
Physical evidence of a false flag:
A Structural Reevaluation of the Collapse of World Trade Center 7
https://ine.uaf.edu/projects/wtc7/
It was not a collapse. It was a demolition.
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade
Center Catastrophe
https://web.archive.org/web/20190102163558/http://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOCPJ/TOCPJ-2-7.pdf
From other sources: This material burned under water for weeks.
Identify – By identifying the trajectory and the remains of the planes we can identify the planes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMQDjhv7Jt8
In short: The engines at the crash sites are from military versions of these planes.
And during a weird transponder black-out, there were military planes exactly near the
positions of the civil planes.
This follows the CIA operation Northwoods, planned for Cuba.
Dancing Israelis FBI documents.
https://archive.org/details/DancingIsraelisFBIReport/fbi%20report%20section%201/
They obviously had foreknowledge
Happy Anniversary!
Thank you James, for your great work, and perseverance.
I don’t have a TV, and rarely listen to the radio, but for some reason, today I clicked on the car radio, and the Mesquite High school oldies radio station came on. They inserted an intermittent series of student recitations of their short essays. They were cringe-worthy regurgitations of main stream 9/11 stories, with a heavy accent on heartstring tugs. The kids each finished their respective speeches by saying that they weren’t yet born, but they are here to listen and learn, and that they care deeply nonetheless. And that the events of 9/11 still affect everyone today. The Chinese Communists would have been proud of this propaganda. It almost brought a tear to my dog’s eye, but I don’t have a dog.
Here in downtown Dallas TX, the day started with my car being held up in traffic by a loud and impressive motorcade, replete with black SUVs, police cars, motorcycle guards, and sirens. This was next to the fanciest hotel in town (7:20 AM). Was it Trump going out for breakfast? Was it a loud and expensive decoy? I am not sure, as no one dropped their license I.D. in the street for me to find.
BTW Is Eastasia our friend or foe now? AlQeda? Transgenders?
Excellent observation Hanky.
Just like some chick flick that starts playing a soft, high note piano, or one of those Star Search shows where a goofy person suddenly hits the cliche’ high notes and on and on. The majority of Americans have been so inundated with behavior control, for the controllers, it is just a choice of which “button” to push, be it jets flying over a football game?? or songs or images.
Here’s a good one about this I wrote back in 2021…
A PSYCHIC EPIDEMIC (Life)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/1hqeShieZ2jY/
EJ,
There is no question that the masses are being psychologically manipulated masterfully. And we skeptics are being manipulated too, with financial pressures, with the minds of our friends and children being crippled, etc.
I was just sharing my 9/11 anniversary day with y’all, and the flavor of the propaganda that I stumbled on.
Good meal, thanks 😎
Before receiving free cable and WIFI from my landlord in 2016 I was on the road in my van using libraries, coffee houses, etc. for WIFI downloading as much as I could. At that time 2001-20teens a wealth of information was available from dozens of excellent researchers and very little obfuscating or dissimulation was going on.
One of the best articles by:
[Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth.]
9/11: Planes/No Planes and “Video Fakery” | Veterans Today
9/22/12
Has been scrubbed from the web, not on Veterans Today or on any search engine. In it he covered much of all the scientific and logical (provable) FACTS from 14 years ago that are dripping out lately by “alternative” good-ol-boy researchers.
Dr. Fetzer has also put his skill to work on Sandy Hook, The Boston Marathon and more. He does a weekly show on Russ Winter’s “Winter Watch” Yet the so-called “alternative” world of information full of petty jealous people with agendas of destructionism and out right shill work for the government has blocked any real interviews with him with accusations filled with anger.
The same is true for Dr. Judy Wood and others. It seems when people “buy” a theme or explanation that is presented by the so-called “alternative” narrative to go outside it brings the ‘frogs in the bucket’ behavior. I know there is a psychological term for this, just can’t recall it :-/
The details and truths of the 9/11 false flag event have been proven beyond a doubt, What hasn’t ever been proven is the claimed truth by the government for ANY event whose goal is the reduction in freedom and life quality for us from the recent destruction of food manufacturing plants or auto dismantlers, to JFK, MLK, and our narcissistic, sociopathic, pedo president’s joining of a Middle Eastern Zionist colony that has become a brutal, murdering, genocidal criminal mob desiring to plunge the world into war to fulfill some ridiculous, unprovable myth of bringing back their Messiah to rule what will be left of the world because they are the “Chosen Ones.” This Can’t Go On.
THIS CAN’T GO ON
https://old.bitchute.com/video/T5BCk1gmkNcC/
Try this link: https://shoah.org.uk/911-planesno-planes-and-video-fakery/
There you go, Jim’s been a key to truth for a long time.
His break down on other false flags is just as powerful.
[None of the pics at the no planes site are visible for me, just blank boxes :-/]
BTW: I have a photo of a bunch of girls at a 10 year reunion of the Sandy Hook event. Don’t understand how Alex Jones got so ripped for speaking the truth.
Thx
James Corbett says,
“After all, 9/11 was, at base, a crime, and we all know how to go about solving a crime: Follow the money.”
There is absolutely no doubt that the financial aspects surrounding 9/11 are integral to the entire scenario.
Honestly, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the massive amounts of resources, wherewithal and money needed to orchestrate the complexity of the 9/11 event and cover-up. The cover-up continues to this day.
Cold-blooded psychopaths have no qualms on ‘making bank’ over the bodies of victims.
— GOLD –
People should view Corbett’s hypertext links about the gold.
Corbett excerpts: “By some reports, these vaults held as much as $1 billion worth of gold and silver… …In the end, only $230 million of gold was announced recovered.”
On 9/11/2001, “gold spiked in price from $273 per ounce to $290.”
At today’s (9/11/2026) spot price gold is about $4,390 per ounce which turns that $230 million into $3.48 billion. …and that is what was recovered.
— Treasuries —
The Government Securities Clearing Corporation (GSCC) is NOT part of a U.S. government agency. It was owned by the major financial institutions and market participants that use GSCC clearing services. [E.g. JPMorgan Chase Bank (JPMC) and the Bank of New York (BoNY)]
“On an average day in 2001, GSCC compared and netted about 55,000 transactions with a market value of about $1.4 trillion.”
“Settlement “fails” jumped from $1.7 billion a day in the week ending September 5 to $190 billion a day in the week ending September 19.”
https://resources.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/02v08n2/0211flempdf.pdf
With all the confusion of 9/11/01, there is no telling what went on in the Treasury and bond market.
Ten-year bonds from Sept 1991 would come due. With all the CIA corruption during that 1991 era, there is speculation that a “$240 Billion Dollar Covert Operations” bond strategy was washed on 9/11/2001.
“He goes: ‘Right now, it’s almost $500 billion worth of gold.'” — FDNY Rescue 3 Captain John O’Connell
[Sometimes as we age, the fish gets larger every time the story is told. So, who knows?]
Wed Sept 9, 2026
John O’Connell’s Story of the Gold Beneath the World Trade Center
10:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpEWDdIGrLE
“…On the first floor, there’s like $200 million worth of silver…”
“Well, first off, they had to find a place that would take it. So, this huge warehouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard said they would take it. So, they had to load it up on like Brinks trucks, but they could only load up like a million and change into each truck, because that’s all the trucks were insured for.
So, the trucks ran for like two days round a’ clock to get all the gold out.”
[…Cage rooms with gold from various countries.]
November 22, 2021
GETTIN SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST: Ep. 72 | FDNY RESCUE 3 F.F. JOHN O’CONNELL
QUEUE to the 1:14:40 mark for the gold and silver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn7aLH0vVo4
In this podcast, John says that it took about a week for the trucks to get it all out of there. Following the clearance, they took a high-powered vacuum in order to catch all the gold dust.
PHOTO of gold and O’Connell
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLSBNC6OAIl/
Reddit post PHOTO My father standing in the gold storage vault under WTC
https://www.reddit.com/r/911archive/comments/1fefkmz/my_father_standing_in_the_gold_storage_vault/
Small PHOTO (as seen in Corbett’s link) with two news sources
https://www.reddit.com/r/911archive/comments/1b4xqo0/what_happend_to_the_gold_reserves_that_were_under/
Dr Jim Fetzer is a frequent guest of Dr Kevin Barrett on FFWN. Both Dr Barrett and Dr Fetzer are Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Kevin Barrett is one of the speakers at Turning the Tide. The latest FFWN episode is his tribute to David Ray Griffin at his memorial:
https://rumble.com/v7f8f02-my-talk-at-david-ray-griffins-memorial-how-david-made-me-a-911-truther.html
Thanks for the info. Yeah, Kevin and Jim were partners on a radio show back in the 20Ohs. I was a guest with Jim in 08 or 09. Kevin is an Islamic follower or whatever it is called. Another clear headed thinker that is ignored by “the movement.” :-/
[The Autodidactic and Autodidactic 2 programs from Down Under are pretty good, tho I am not a flat Earther]
Thank you, It is so good to come across someone who appreciates Kevin Barrett and his work as much as I do.
It would be interesting to listen to the radio program you took part in. Is it available on the internet?
I had never heard of the programs from Down Under. I came up with Autodidact as a user name because I couldn’t think of anything else and I learn so much from the Corbett Report. I don’t think it’s possible to change one’s user name so I’m probably saddled with it.
Ps Sorry, I think I was mistaken about Kevin Barrett being one of the speakers at Turning the Tide. He was just book signing.
I don’t know if Jim has a library of past shows. I wasn’t very good as I was just starting to tinker with the digital/web world and hadn’t seen TV or movies, etc. in over 40 years at that point but figured I knew enough about life to offer some good points. Alas, Jim was so loaded with current issues, names, events that I probably said “dah” a lot 🙂
He thought I was a native American because my email address had TheUrbanShaman in it from the title of one of my recent books then. He has a good website. He is getting older like a lot of use and his health is challenging.
This is /Campbell’s 2nd channel: Autodidactic 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc5t0oEW3Eg
Shorter stuff. His other channel has hour+ long coverage usually on one subject each time like, the ocean and what’s going on under it; Tartaria stuff; etc. with guests.
This is a song about Tartaria:
TARTARIA
https://old.bitchute.com/video/qAJQRsNRdBiU/
“And, even more puzzlingly, why has the 9/11 Truth movement—a movement whose very existence is predicated on the debunking of every lie propounded by the 9/11 Commission and all the other official government sources of information about the events of September 11, 2001—seemingly agreed with the 9/11 Commission Report on this point?”
Perhaps because the people in the front of the movement have somehow been captured(?)
@Greater
IMO, Many have grown old and have different priorities, especially after exposing the truth, the culprits, methods, etc. and no one is wearing orange after all their work.
Plus look at how many other false flags of huge consequences have occurred in 25 years and the overwhelming amount of illegals flooding in breaking down our nation, all part of the Kalergi Plan which of course is demonized with the “C word” of activism, conspiracy theory, yet it is working along with many other agendas of domination, destruction and reduction of humans.
UN Agenda 21&2030; UN Wildlife Project; The New World Order Agenda, the 45 Communist Goals from nearly 60 years ago.
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Zbigniew Brzezinski (Morning Joe’s father in law)
Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (written 60 years ago)
“People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.”
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
This isn’t the 60’s where our focus was pretty simple…anti-war. The bad guys control the narrative through their lock on the MSM, Entertainment biz, TV, Movies, Education, etc.
When young folks would rather be a celeb then smart or 6 year old kids are using facial and hair products that is a clear indication that ‘movements’ no longer will work but homegrown local action is still possible.
SOLUTIONS (essay)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/TsqcMC9tPGg2/
James Corbett says,
“…Amazingly, all of this is still only scratching the surface of the 9/11 money trail.
There are many, many other severely under-explored and long-neglected rabbit holes for researchers to tumble down.
A few intrepid researchers have done work on this subject, but sadly these researchers number in the single digits.
There’s Mark Gaffney, whose Black 9/11: Money, Motive and Technology is one of the few book-length explorations of the subject….”
The hypertext link for Gaffney’s “Black 9/11: Money, Motive and Technology” takes the reader to Corbett’s September 7, 2012 “Interview 539 – Mark Gaffney on Black 9/11”.
No video is posted and there is no active comment section.
Here is the VIDEO…
Sept 8, 2012
Black 9/11: Mark Gaffney on GRTV
12:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WScykeCbqUw
DESCRIPTION
As America prepares itself for the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, some of the most vital questions about the financing of those attacks and the monetary anomalies of that day remain unanswered. In a new book on the subject entitled Black 9/11: Money, Motive and Technology, author Mark H. Gaffney tries to shine a light on these important aspects of the day that changed the world forever. Find out more in this week’s GRTV Feature Interview.
Another brilliant, lucid presentation from James on this important topic. I suspect that most people know the truth in their hearts, but they don’t want to go there because it would mean admitting that everything they have worked for and are working for is a lie.
True. I hope they know somewhere buried in their subconscious, compartmentalized to avoid facing their contradictions, but it is no way to live. It shortens life. It takes energy to suppress knowledge, lie to oneself. Nothing changes. The same mistakes continue. I wonder: Would they be better off not knowing, and make them easier to reach, to inform, to teach? They wouldn’t have a mental block, feel threatened. They wouldn’t be “Their own worst enemy”.
All of this is of little practical significance.
Good one!
— WeAreChange Los Angeles & 9/11 Truth Activism —
James Corbett often shows us some important historical video clips.
The video segments with Jeremy Rothe-Kushel of WeAreChangeLA are classic.
I invite people to explore the YouTube Channel of WeAreChange Los Angeles.
https://www.youtube.com/@wearechangela/videos
A monumental YouTube video is “9-11 Truth makes HUGE appearance at Los Angeles Anti-War March” but it is age-restricted because it dynamically portrays 9/11 Truth as a significantly large movement.
Here is a cool one…
“9-11 Truth march in Santa Monica – 11am on 11-11-2007″
Back in that era, 9/11 Truth Activists could often ride the tailcoats of the events by the “Peace Movement” of the Democratic Party.
~~~ May 15, 2009, Los Angeles, CA ~~~
~ Jeremy Rothe-Kushel and Bruno Bruhwiler of WACLA Media ~
Evidence of nano-thermite delivered to the hand of Vice President Joe Biden
https://corbettreport.com/nwnw20210909/#comment-117696
As a strong 9/11 Truth Activist, I often followed the on-the-ground activism and 9/11 Truth dissemination actions around the world. During that era, it was prolific across the globe. Many groups and individuals were getting out into the communities to disseminate information. It was inspiring and contagious. Certainly, NBC wasn’t telling people about 9/11 Truth.
I’m solidly convinced that the on-the-street activism did have a significant ripple effect of greater awareness about the 9/11 Cover-up. Countless numbers woke up to 9/11 as a result of activist actions.
— The Fade of 9/11 Truth Activism —
However, one of the things that probably helped to fade 9/11 Truth Activism was that, for the most part, it was invisible to even its own community.
9/11 Truth pundits and alternative media rarely would feature activism actions. Pundits would write their weekly 9/11 pieces or alternative video news personas would give their 9/11 rant, but never mention the activist grunts in the field.
9/11 Activists knew how much sweat and expense went into the actions, along with the vast numbers of the public who were exposed to the information.
But these activists’ actions were invisible to most people in the 9/11 Truth Movement.
Eventually, 9/11 Truth Activism faded away.
In a way, it wasn’t missed, because it had been invisible to those who did not participate.
There is a general MAXIM that I learned from this: “Make things visible.”
“Shine a spotlight on those things which should be noticed. Reinforce attention towards those people and things which benefit others.”
~~~ Foot in the door…
‘Controlled Demolition of the World Trade Center Buildings’ as a dissemination tool “to get people’s foot in the door of 9/11 truth”…
Luke Marshall says it well,
“Discussions about how the building fell always seemed to me as if it was only good in so far as it was a way to get people’s foot in the door of 9/11 truth and to get them to these bigger subjects…”
Luke has more interest “in things like the insider trading or the fact that Israeli spy rings were operating on US soil around the time of 9/11 and that they likely had fore-knowledge, or the tenants inside the World Trade Center building who had the means and the motive to do the 911 attacks.”
[2:13 minute mark]
The Hijacking of 9/11 Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEGLGMY_NFI
— HISTORICAL RECORD —
On Thursday September 10, 2026, James Corbett gave us a preview rendition of this here Episode 508 – What About the 9/11 Money Trail? when he was speaking at Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later.
A dynamic emcee for the event, Jason Bermas gave James Corbett a stellar introduction.
As far as what happened physically in 2001 the link below is the best description I have seen.
There were no planes because planes cannot travel at that speed at that height as the air is too dense and the planes were not added to the videos of what happened after the event so what was in the sky?
There was no controlled demolition because the building turned into dust and tower 3 came down at free fall speed so what happened to them?
Try watching this…
It was released in 2018… It is very informative…
https://odysee.com/@911PlanesResearch:b/911-Alchemy-Facing-Reality:f