what a difference a decade makes

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presented for (a) all you empiricists out there who insist dollar debasement inflation isn't a problem; and (b) anyone who thinks that anything foisted upon us by anyone in power during the past 10 years was a good idea.

h/t mark mchugh at across the street

what, you were expecting hearts and flowers?

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every year at this time, as america is manipulated by its government and its media into alternating bouts of patriotic wailing and rending of garments on one hand, and scared-rabbit fear of an anniversary attack on the other, i go back and watch the video i posted on this day last year, and a cold, quiet rage reignites within me.

not, understand, at the ragtag band of allahu akbar-shrieking primitives we're told planned and pulled off all this destruction all by themselves, but at the masterminds, whoever and wherever they might be.

only this year, i find i'm far from the only architecturally-trained skeptic out there.  an organization calling itself "architects & engineers for 9/11 truth" has produced a riveting 15-minute video, which, in the three weeks of its existence, has already garnered some serious attention.

i really don't care what your views are on conspiracy theories in general or 9/11 in particular--i invite you to tear yourself away from the ground-zero circus long enough to watch something that might actually matter.