"The Demolition of the World Trade Center (The Devil’s Trick)"

The crater in WTC 6

"The Demolition of the World Trade Center 

(The Devil’s Trick)"

by Mark Gaffney

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever 

remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

- Sherlock Holmes

Excerpt: "On the twenty-fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, more than enough evidence exists to draw reasonable conclusions about what happened that day and who was responsible. Most of the basic facts have been known for years, though unfortunately have not been readily available to the general public.

Way back in 2007, a physics professor at Brigham Young University, Dr Steven E. Jones, turned up critical evidence while investigating samples of World Trade Center (WTC) dust. The samples had been collected immediately after September 11, 2001 from the thick deposit of dust that blanketed the WTC site and much of lower Manhattan. Jones found tiny bits of an exotic incendiary known as thermate that can cut through steel like a hot knife through butter. Thermate burns at ~5,000°F. The main product of the reaction is molten iron.

Thermate differs from its better known cousin thermite in that it contains sulfur which lowers the melting point of iron, speeding up the reaction. The presence of both sulfur and aluminum was diagnostic for thermate. Jones called this “the last nail in the coffin.” (Dr. Steven E. Jones, Revisiting 9/11/2001. Applying the Scientific Method, 2007)

Jones also found an abundance of tiny iron microspheres in the dust (up to .05% by volume), proof that large amounts of WTC steel had melted. The diameter of the spheres ranged from one micron to 1.5 mm. When Jones obtained some thermate, which is commercially available, and used it to cut through a steel plate, the reaction produced an intense spray of molten droplets which cooled into iron microspheres identical to the spheres in the dust.

Other studies of the WTC dust also reported the iron microspheres. (Heather A. Lowers and Gregory P. Meeker, Particle Atlas of World Trade Center Dust, posted at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1165/508OF05-1165.html ; also see Damage Assessment: 130 Liberty Street Property. WTC Dust Signature Report: Composition and Morphology. December 2003)

Jones and his colleagues learned that thermite/thermate can be made more explosive by reducing the particle size of the ingredients. This more reactive variety is known as super thermate or nano-thermate. (Niels H. Harrit, et al, Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, 2009)

And there were other revelations. It is indeed shocking how far the development of thermate had “progressed” by the late 1990s. Jones & Co, learned that a liquid sol-gel form of nano-thermate can be applied to steel simply by spraying or painting it on. This means insiders could have prepped the twin towers for demolition undetected during an elevator retrofit, a fireproofing upgrade, or even during routine maintenance. Nor was it necessary to wire the entire building. Ignition can be accomplished remotely using a specially designed thermitic match triggered by a radio signal. Once thermate is ignited, the reaction is self perpetuating. (Kevin R. Ryan, The Top Ten Connections between NIST and Nano-thermites, July 2, 2008)

All of this is consistent with the many eyewitness accounts of explosions on 9/11. And it is consistent with the testimony of New York City firemen, first responders and clean-up crews who reported seeing copious amounts of molten steel on site. As one fireman put it: “molten steel was flowing down the channel rails like in a foundry…”

(David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor revisited, 2008, pp. 31-37; Mark H. Gaffney, The 9/11 Mystery Plane, 2008, pp.132-139; Graeme MacQueen, 118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers)

Office and building fires do not reach temperatures anywhere near hot enough to melt steel which has a melting point of 2,500°F. Nor were there any combustible materials in the WTC, nor any combination thereof, capable of approaching this temperature. Although burning jet fuel has been frequently (and incorrectly) cited as the reason for the WTC collapse, the reality is otherwise. Jet fuel is essentially kerosene and will not burn in air in excess of 1,832°F, far below the melting point of steel.

Not long after the towers collapsed, a hard rain storm drenched Manhattan. Firemen also sprayed millions of gallons of water onto the smoking ruin of the WTC in an attempt to extinguish the fires, all to no effect. This is consistent with burning thermate, which includes its own chemically bound oxygen. This is why a thermate fire cannot be smothered by dowsing and will even burn underwater.

The WTC site was so hot it melted the workmen’s rubber boots. Search-and-rescue dogs brought in to help locate survivors suffered severe burns, and three of the dogs died. Just how hot was the pile? We got an idea on September 16, 2001 when NASA conducted a flyover using an infrared spectrometer (AVIRIS) and detected surface temperatures as high as 1,376° F. Temperatures beneath the pile were undoubtedly much higher. 

(https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0429/thermal.r09.html )

The site remained intensely hot for five months. Molten steel was reported as late as February 2002 when clean-up crews finally reached the bottom of the WTC bathtub. (Jennifer Lin, “Recovery Worker Reflects on Months Spent at Ground Zero”, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, May 29, 2002)

The discovery of thermate in the WTC dust should have been front-page headline news across America, and indeed, around the world. Yet, as we know, the US media went deaf and dumb on the issue. Why? If Muslim jihadists were behind the 9/11 attacks, why would the media censor this breaking story? The only plausible reason for suppressing it was to prevent the truth from emerging about what actually happened. Blanket censorship has been the rule, ever since."

Full article here:

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

- https://www.unz.com/

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• Unanswered 9/11 Questions"

• How 9/11 Was Done"

• CIA Pilot Presents Evidence That No Planes Hit Towers On 9/11"

• Architects and Engineers For 9/11 Truth

• 9/11 Plane Pentagon" Images Search

• Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice

• 9/11 Truth Movement"

"9/11 False Flag Terror OP"

"9/11 False Flag Terror OP: Overwhelming Hard Proof Of An Inside

 Job Pulled Off By US Intel Community and Armed Forces, MOSSAD & MI6"

by Laurent Guyenot

Excerpt: "SOTN Editor’s Note: In light of the anniversary of the 9/11 false flag terrorist attacks perpetrated by the U.S. Intelligence Community & U.S Armed Forces, C.I.A & MOSSAD, among other major organs within the US government as well as foreign state actors, the following exposé is being posted - AGAIN.

This highly authoritative breakdown of what was actually a complex international conspiratorial criminal plot of the highest order proves, unequivocally, that 9/11 was an “inside job”. Should any investigator doubt this obvious conclusion, the following links provide even more indisputable evidence of the quite amateur “inside job”. In other words, the perps really didn’t care if anyone found out who pulled it off or how they really did it. They just didn’t care, so controlled would the massive cover-up be, so they thought. N.B. What follows is the gold standard regarding irrefutable proof confirming that 9/11 was a patently inside job.

Technical impossibilities: Thanks to courageous investigators, many anomalies in the official explanation of the events of 9/11 were posted on the Internet in the following months, providing evidence that this was a false flag operation, and that Osama bin Laden was innocent, as he repeatedly declared in the Afghan and Pakistani press and on Al Jazeera. The proofs of this appalling fraud have been accumulating ever since, and are now accessible to anyone willing to spend a few hours of research on the Web. (Although, while preparing this article, I noticed that Google is now making access to that research more difficult than it was five years ago, artificially prioritizing anti-conspiracy sites.)

For example, members of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth have demonstrated that it was impossible for plane crashes and jet fuel fires to trigger the collapse of the Twin Towers. Even Donald Trump understood this. In fact, speaking of “collapse” is perhaps misleading: the towers literally exploded, pulverizing concrete and projecting pieces of steel beams weighing several hundred tons hundreds of meters laterally at high speeds. The pyroclastic dust that immediately flooded through the streets, not unlike the dust from a volcano, indicates a high temperature mixture of hot gasses and relatively dense solid particles, an impossible phenomenon in a simple collapse. It is also impossible that WTC7, another skyscraper (47 stories), which had not been hit by a plane, collapsed into its own footprint at near free-fall speed, unless by “controlled demolition.”

Testimonies of firefighters recorded shortly after the events describe sequences of explosions just before the “collapse”, well below the plane impact. The presence of molten metal in the wreckage up to three weeks after the attack is inexplicable except by the presence of incompletely burned explosives. Firefighter Philip Ruvolo testified before Étienne Sauret’s camera for his film Collateral Damages (2011): “You’d get down below and you’d see molten steel - molten steel running down the channelways, like you were in a foundry - like lava.”

Aviation professionals have also reported impossibilities in the behavior of the planes. The charted speeds of the two aircraft hitting the Twin Towers, 443 mph and 542 mph, exclude these aircraft being Boeing 767s, because these speeds are virtually impossible near ground level. In the unlikely event such speeds could be attained without the aircraft falling apart, flying them accurately into the towers was mission impossible, especially by the amateur pilots blamed for the hijacking. Hosni Mubarak, a former pilot, said he could never do it. (He is not the only head of state to have voiced his doubts: Chavez and Ahmadinejad are among them.) Recall that neither of the black boxes of the jetliners was ever found, an incomprehensible situation.

And of course, there are the obvious anomalies of Shanksville and Pentagon crash sites: no plane or credible plane debris can be seen on any of the numerous photos easily available.

Inside Job or Mossad Job?

Among the growing number of Americans who disbelieve the official version of the 9/11 attacks, two basic theories are in competition: I called them “inside job” and “Mossad job”. The first one is the dominant thesis within the so-called 9/11 Truth movement, and blames the American government, or a faction within the American Deep State. The second one claims that the masterminds were members of a powerful Israeli network deeply infiltrated in all spheres of power within the US, including media, government, military and secret services.

This “Mossad job” thesis has been gaining ground since Alan Sabrosky, a professor at the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Military Academy, published in July 2012 an article entitled “Demystifying 9/11: Israel and the Tactics of Mistake”, where he voiced his conviction that September 11th was “a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation.”

We can notice from the outset that incriminating Israelis or Arabs are both “outside job” theories (in fact, they are mirror images of each other, which is understandable in light of what Gilad Atzmon explains about Jewish “projected guilt”). Before even looking at the evidence, “outside job” sounds more credible that “inside job”. There is something monstrous in the idea that a government can deceive and terrorize its own citizens by killing thousands of them, just for starting a series of wars that are not even in the nation’s interest. By comparison, a foreign power attacking the U.S. under the false flag of a third power almost seems like fair play. Indeed suspicion of Israel’s role should be natural to anyone aware of the reputation of the Mossad as: “Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act,” in the words of a report of the U.S. Army School for Advanced Military Studies quoted by the Washington Times, September 10th, 2001 - the day before the attacks.

This is an important point, because it raises the question of how and why the 9/11 Truth movement has been led to endorse massively the outrageous “inside job” thesis without even considering the more likely thesis of an attack by a foreign power acting under an Islamic false flag - and what foreign power but Israel would do that?

Of course, the two dissenting theses do not necessarily exclude each other; at least, no one incriminating Israel denies that corrupted elements from the American administration or deep state were involved. The “passionate attachment” between Israel and the U.S. has been going on for decades, and 9/11 is one of its monstrous offsprings."

View,objectively and without preconceptions, complete article here:

- https://stateofthenation.co/

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- https://how911wasdone.blogspot.com/

Bill Bonner, "It's a Trap"

"It's a Trap"

by Bill Bonner

Poitou, France - "Democrats are a party of America’s professional elites plus various interest groups. And given that Trump won a majority of blue-collar voters, they are no longer the natural home of the working class...The practical difficulty is that the party is shaped by elite professions, particularly law, government, media and academia. Such types often have a hard time concealing their distaste for those who voted for Trump. This is a poor starting point."

- Ed Luce in the Financial Times

"The deeper problem for the democrats is the one signaled by German Chancellor Merz: Their program is bankrupt...the economy doesn’t produce enough wealth to support their giveaway social programs and heavy economic regulation.

Since the days of Lyndon Johnson they have promised guns and butter. And in the days following Lyndon Johnson, 1971-2021, the fake dollar made it look as though they could afford them both. But debt rose. Growth slowed. And with the money running out, they turned to disguising the decay, like an aging dowager, hiding harsh truths under a veneer of botox and plaster. The result was hideous.

During the Biden Administration, we were meant to believe that the world would be a better place if we hooked up with a man from Addis Ababa...and pedaled to work after a meat-free breakfast. Federal employees were asked which pronouns they preferred. Bathroom policies became a battleground. And if a murder was committed by a member of a special group, the media was not permitted to say so...or be labelled ‘racist’ or ‘transphobic.’

Much of that cultural claptrap has been sucked down into the maelstrom of Trumpism...causing much wreckage...and leaving the democrats with nothing to offer other than not being Trump.

But Trump faces the same problem. The social spending continues…military spending increases. He can’t afford so many guns and so much butter either. And it will become a bigger problem as stagflation becomes more obvious. Here’s the latest from the OECD: "U.S. GDP Growth Expected to Plummet Amid Trade Policy Uncertainty." "New trade policies are expected to slow American GDP growth from 2.8% to just 1.6% this year. Economic uncertainty and higher tariff rates are driving the projected decline, according to the latest OECD forecast."

And from Newsweek: "Falling lumber prices suggest there is trouble ahead for the struggling U.S. housing market, as builders scale back new construction because of a recent inventory glut and growing economic uncertainty."

After Trump exhausts his phony solutions - lower taxes, tariffs and interest rate cuts, all of which make the situation worse - he will be forced to choose. Guns or Butter? Our guess is that he will choose guns, as Big Men tend to do. That is the real reason, the historic reason, for switching the Pentagon from defending the country...to making war.

Here in France, too, the Wall Street Journal describes a similar situation. Running out of money, President Macron - like Donald Trump in 2017 - hoped to boost revenues by stimulating the economy with tax cuts. The result: "Eight years later, the boom hasn’t arrived. And the yawning deficit created by those tax cuts is now fueling one of France’s most serious political crises of the postwar era, casting doubt on the future of his ambitions to unshackle the French economy.

Macron lost his second government in less than a year on Monday, after a no-confidence motion went against Prime Minister François Bayrou, who had proposed 44 billion euros in cuts to reduce the deficit, equivalent to $51.76 billion. Bayrou resigned on Tuesday."

Thanks largely to the EZ money era wrought by America’s funny money, the world’s reserve currency, feds everywhere spend too much money. Economies adapted to the cash flow. And now, the politicians are all in an ‘inflate or die’ trap. If they cut back, the bubble economy has a coronary and political careers go to the grave. And if they inflate...well...they get a few more years of Argentina, Venezuela...or the Weimar Republic, perhaps followed by re-armament and war.

And what about the great hope from the pampas -Javier Milei? He chose to let the bubble economy die. Rather than try to goose up revenues with more fake money stimulus, he told voters ‘we have no money,’ and cut spending, balanced the budget, and reduced inflation by 90%. But the river of ‘something for nothing’ runs wide and deep. And the current runs swiftly through Buenos Aires province, where he just lost an important local election. If he loses the national election - in 2027 - he will mount the scaffold, the elites will go back to stripping the economy for their own benefit, and Argentina’s 70-year decline will continue. More to come..."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

"Now That Poland Has Formally Invoked Article 4, NATO Is Closer To All-Out War With Russia Than Ever"

"Now That Poland Has Formally Invoked Article 4, 

NATO Is Closer To All-Out War With Russia Than Ever"

by Michael Snyder

"I am sitting here trying to process everything that just happened. I was doing research for this article, and then I got the news that Charlie Kirk had just been shot. I am going to try to find the words to express what I am feeling at this moment, and I will be putting together a full article about this horrifying tragedy later today. Meanwhile, NATO is literally closer to all-out war with Russia than it has ever been before. Last night 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace, and NATO fighter jets shot down several of them…

"Polish fighter jets, with help from NATO allies, shot down multiple Russian drones that entered its eastern border early Wednesday, Sept. 10. It was the first time the NATO member directly engaged with Russian military assets in its airspace since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Polish officials said 19 objects entered its airspace during a large Russian air attack on Ukraine. Polish jets shot down at least three of the aircraft. No casualties have been reported."

This is crazy. Just yesterday I wrote about 13 major World War III developments that had just occurred in a 48 hour period.  And now this has happened. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is warning that his nation is dangerously close to a direct military conflict with Russia…"Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said the country is closer to military conflict “than at any time since the second world war” as Warsaw and Nato allies weighed a response to an incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace. Poland scrambled its own and Nato air defences, shooting down at least three drones, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine spread to Nato territory early on Wednesday in the most significant way since the full-scale invasion more than three years ago."

This is an extremely serious situation. Following the incident with the drones, Poland formally invoked Article 4 of the NATO treaty…"Poland and the United States are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which at its core is a mutual defense pact formed after WWII to deal with the threat posed by the Soviet Union, meaning an attack on one may be considered an attack on all.

Tusk said he had activated Article 4 of NATO’s treaty, under which alliance members can demand consultations with their allies, and that he was in touch with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, who called the incursion “reckless behavior,” irrespective of whether it was deliberate.

A NATO official confirmed to NBC News that Poland had “requested consultations under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty,” only the 8th time that the article - which does not trigger a military reaction - has been invoked since NATO was established in 1949.

Invoking Article 4 does not mean that we are going to war. Instead, what it means is that members of NATO will now discuss what steps should be taken next…"This is not the better-known Article Five, which activates obligatory collective defence from all members, but rather one that triggers a consultation process. Per NATO itself: “Any member country can formally invoke Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty. As soon as it is invoked, the issue is discussed and can potentially lead to some form of joint decision or action on behalf of the Alliance. Whatever the scenario, fellow members sitting around the Council table are encouraged to react to a situation brought to their attention by a member country.”

As NATO leaders talk things through, hopefully cooler heads will prevail. The Russians are insisting that they had absolutely no intention of attacking any targets inside Poland…"Russia labeled the accusations “groundless” and said it did not plan to attack any targets in Poland. The Russian Defense Ministry said it had attacked the “military-industrial complex of Ukraine” in a “large-scale strike” but that “there were no targets envisioned for destruction on the Polish territory,” pointing to the flight range of the drones it said it used against western Ukraine. It said it was “ready to hold consultations with the Polish Ministry of Defense on this matter.”

The Russians obviously do not want NATO to get directly involved in the war in Ukraine. So why did Russian drones end up flying into Poland? The Belarusian military is claiming that the Russian drones “lost their track as a result of the impact of the parties’ electronic warfare assets”…"The Belarusian military earlier reported having given their Polish counterparts early warning that some drones used by Ukrainian and Russian forces for mutual attacks “lost their track as a result of the impact of the parties’ electronic warfare assets. This allowed the Polish side to respond promptly to the actions of the drones by scrambling their forces on duty,” said General Pavel Muraveiko, the chief of the general staff of Belarus.

The general added that some of the stray aircraft had been intercepted by Belarusian air defenses. He stressed that the exchanges with Poland were part of regular communications about incoming threats, with the Polish side regularly informing officials in Belarus about aircraft detected in Ukrainian airspace."

Yes, it is entirely plausible that electronic warfare caused the Russian drones to accidentally veer off course. But I think that there is also a possibility that electronic warfare could have been used to purposely direct those drones into Polish airspace. There are those that are absolutely determined to drag NATO into the war in Ukraine by any means possible.

One of those individuals is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Following the drone incident in Polish airspace, he immediately proposed “a joint air defense system” that would “create an effective air shield over Europe”…"There are several reasons for this brazen behavior of Russia, and they are absolutely obvious to everyone. We need to work on a joint air defense system and create an effective air shield over Europe. Ukraine has long proposed this, and we have concrete solutions. We must respond together to all current challenges and be ready for potential threats to all Europeans in the future. Likewise, we need to significantly increase joint funding for the production of interceptor drones. They have already proven their effectiveness."

In other words, he wants NATO to provide air defense for Ukraine. But it wouldn’t end there. Zelensky knows that Ukraine can never defeat Russia alone. So he is desperate to get NATO ground forces involved, and it is interesting to note that French hospitals have been instructed to prepare for mass casualties by March 2026…"French hospitals have been told to prepare a potential armed conflict in Europe by next year, local media reported. In a letter sent to regional health agencies, revealed by Le Canard Enchaîné , the Ministry of Health asked hospitals to prepare for a “major (military) engagement” by March 2026. The newspaper warned that between 10,000 and 50,000 men could be expected in hospitals over a period of 10 to 180 days."

Ultimately, the direction that NATO takes in the months ahead is going to be largely determined by the Trump administration. Following the drone incident in Poland, President Trump posted a very ominous message on his Truth Social account…

Here we go? I don’t like the sound of that at all. And President Trump is also proposing that the U.S. and the EU should slap extremely high punitive tariffs on China and India because they are still conducting normal levels of trade with Russia…"The United States is ready to broaden tariffs targeting buyers of Russian oil - if the EU takes similar moves - to hit at revenue Moscow needs for the war in Ukraine.

Dialing in to talks between United States and European Union officials, President Donald Trump raised the possibility of tariffs between 50 percent and 100 percent on oil buyers such as China and India, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss these details publicly. The talks come as EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, who has spearheaded the bloc’s global outreach on preventing Moscow’s evasion of sanctions, is leading a delegation in Washington for meetings on Monday and Tuesday."

U.S. tariffs on most Chinese imports are already above 50 percent. If those tariffs are raised by another 50 percent or more, it is likely that the flow of most goods coming over from China will simply stop. That would lead to the sort of shortages that I warned about a few months ago when tariffs on Chinese imports briefly spiked to 145 percent. In addition, much higher tariffs on Chinese goods would be a critical blow to our rapidly deteriorating relationship with China.

U.S. policies over the past decade have driven the Chinese and the Russians into one another’s arms, and now they are very united in their opposition to us. This is a scenario that we should have tried very hard to avoid for obvious reasons. Peace with the Russians is still possible, but it is not going to be produced by threatening the Russians. I have tried to make that point as strongly as I can, but now time is running out."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

"Alert! Civil War USA; Article 4! NATO Closes Airspace; Russian Nuclear Forces On Standby"

Prepper News, 9/10/25

"Alert! Civil War USA; Article 4! NATO Closes Airspace;

 Russian Nuclear Forces On Standby"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

Musical Interlude: 2002, "River Of Stars"

Full screen recommended.

2002, "River Of Stars"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus, it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming molecular cloud. 

This telescopic close-up spans about two full moons on the sky or just over 15 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 1333. It shows details of the dusty region along with telltale hints of contrasty red emission from Herbig-Haro objects, jets and shocked glowing gas emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of stars less than a million years old, most still hidden from optical telescopes by the pervasive stardust. The chaotic environment may be similar to one in which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago."

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Jeremiah Babe, "WTF: Charlie Kirk Assassination, Confirmed Dead, A Terrifying Time For America"

Jeremiah Babe,9/10/25

"WTF: Charlie Kirk Assassination, Confirmed Dead, 

A Terrifying Time For America"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

Live updates: Charlie Kirk has died after being 

shot at an event in Utah, Pres. Trump says.

“The Loss Of Dignity”

“The Loss Of Dignity”

by The Zman

“If you step back and think about it, the normal man can probably list a dozen things he cannot say in public that he grew up hearing on television, usually as jokes. Then the jokes were no longer welcome in polite company and soon they were deemed “not funny” by the sorts of people who worry about such things. The same was true of simple observations about the world. Somehow noticing the obvious became impolite, then it became taboo and finally prohibited.

The reverse is true as well. Middle-aged men can probably think of a dozen things that were unimaginable or unheard of, which are now fully normal. Of course, normal is one of those things that is now prohibited. It implies that something can be abnormal or weird and that itself is forbidden. The proliferation of novel identities and activities that demand to be treated with dignity and respect is a function of the old restraints having been eliminated. When everything is possible you get everything.

The strange thing about all of this is there is seemingly no point to it. The proliferation of new taboos was not in response to some harm being done. In most cases, the taboos are about observable reality. The people turning up in the public square with novel identities or activities demanding respect did not exist very long ago. If they did, not one was curious enough to look into it. The public was happy to ignore people into unusual activities, as long as they kept it to themselves.

Of course, none of what we generally call political correctness is intended to be uplifting or inspirational. The commissars of public morality like to pretend it is inspiring, but that’s just a way to entertain themselves. These new identity groups are not demanding the rest of us seek some higher plane of existence or challenge our limitations. In fact, it is always in the opposite directions. It’s a demand to lower standards and give up on our quaint notions of self-respect and human dignity.

In the "Demon In Democracy", Polish academic Ryszard Legutko observed that liberal democracy had abandoned the concept of dignity. This is the obligation to behave in a certain way, as determined by your position in society. Dignity was earned by acting in accordance with the high standards of the community. In turn, this behavior was rewarded with greater privilege and responsibility. Failure to live up to one’s duties would result in the loss of dignity, along with the status it conferred.

Instead, modern liberal democracy awards dignity by default. We are supposed to respect all choices and all behaviors as being equal. There are no standards against which to measure human behavior, other than the standard of absolute, unconditional acceptance. As a result, the most inventively degenerate and base activities spring from the culture, almost like a test of the community’s tolerance. Instead of looking up to the heavens for inspiration, liberal democracies look down in the gutter.

Dignity comes from maintaining one’s obligations to his position in the social order, but that requires a fidelity to a social order. It also requires a connection to the rest of the people in the society. In a world of deracinated individuals focused solely on getting as much as they can in order to maximize pleasure, a sense of commitment to the community is not possible. Democracy assumes we are all equal, therefore we have no duty to one another as duty requires a hierarchical relationship.

In the absence of a vertical set of reciprocal relationships, we get this weird lattice work of horizontal relationships, elevating the profane and vulgar, while pulling down the noble and honorable. The public culture is about minimizing and degrading those who participate in the public culture. In turn, the public culture attracts only those who cannot be shamed or embarrassed. The great joy of public culture is to see those who aspire to more get torn down as the crowd roars at their demise.

The puzzle is why this is a feature of liberal democracy. Ryszard Legutko places the blame on Protestantism. Their emphasis on original sin and man’s natural limitations minimized man’s role in the world. This focus on man’s wretchedness was useful in channeling our urge to labor and create into useful activities, thus generating great prosperity, but it left us with a minimalist view of human accomplishment. We are not worthy to aspire to anything more than the base and degraded.

It is certainly true that the restraints of Christianity limited the sorts of behavior that are common today, but he may be putting the cart before the horse. The emergence of Protestantism in northern Europe was as much a result of the people and their nature as anything else. Put more simply, the Protestant work ethic existed before there was such a thing as a Protestant. The desire to work and delay gratification evolved over many generations out of environmental necessity.

Still, culture is an important part of man’s environment and environmental factors shape our evolution. It is not unreasonable to say that the evolution of Protestant ethics magnified and structured naturally occurring instincts among the people. With the collapse of Christianity as a social force in the West, the natural defense to degeneracy and vulgarity has collapsed with it. As a result, great plenty is the fuel for a small cohort of deviants to overrun the culture of liberal democracies.

Even so, there does seem to be something else. Liberal democracy has not produced great art or great architecture. The Greeks and Romans left us great things that still inspire the imagination of the man who happens to gaze upon them. The castles and cathedrals of the medieval period still awe us. The great flourishing of liberal democracy in the 20th century gave us Brutalism and dribbles of pain on canvas. The new century promises us primitives exposing themselves on the internet.

There is something about the liberal democratic order that seeks to strip us of our dignity and self-respect. Look at what happened in the former Eastern Bloc countries after communism. Exposed to the narcotic of liberalism they immediately acquired the same cultural patterns. Fertility collapsed. Religion collapsed. Marriage and family formation collapsed. These suddenly free societies got the Western disease as soon as they were exposed to western liberal democracy.

The reaction we see today is not due to these societies being behind the times, but due to seeing the ugly face of liberal democracy. It is much like the reaction to the proliferation of recreational drugs in the 1970’s. At first, it seemed harmless, but then people realized the horror of unrestrained self-indulgence. That’s what we see in the former Eastern Bloc. Their leaders still retain some of the old sense of things and are trying to save their people from the dungeon of modernity.

That still leaves us with the unanswered question. What is it about liberal democracy that seems to lead to this loss of dignity? It is possible that such a fabulously efficient system for producing wealth is a tool mankind is not yet equipped to handle without killing ourselves. Maybe we are just not built for anything but scarcity. Want gives us purpose and without it, we lose our reason to exist. Either way, without dignity, we cannot defend ourselves and the results are inevitable.”

- http://thezman.com/wordpress/

"German POWs Couldn’t Believe They Ate Turkey on Thanksgiving"

Full screen recommended.

by James Clark, 9/5/25

"German POWs Couldn’t Believe

They Ate Turkey on Thanksgiving"

"Discover the untold story of how thousands of German prisoners of war, captured across Europe and North Africa, found themselves eating turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie in American prison camps on Thanksgiving. These hardened soldiers, who had braced for execution or starvation, instead encountered a holiday feast prepared by the very nation they had been told was collapsing under war. From 1943 to 1945, over 371,000 German POWs were held in more than 500 camps across the United States, where they witnessed an abundance that shattered Nazi propaganda. On November 23, 1944, quartermaster records reveal that millions of pounds of turkey were served - not only to American troops, but even to their enemies behind barbed wire.

This meticulously researched documentary uncovers how a single meal symbolized America’s overwhelming strength. From guards casually carving turkey for their captives, to prisoners writing in diaries that “our families starve, while we eat like kings,” the Thanksgiving feast became a turning point in the psychological collapse of Nazi ideology. How could a nation at war spare such luxury for its foes? If prisoners dined on holiday abundance, what must American citizens have enjoyed at home? Based on declassified records, letters, and firsthand accounts, this video explores one of the most surreal episodes of World War II: when turkey and cranberry sauce proved more powerful than bullets. Learn why German POWs remembered Thanksgiving as the day they first doubted Hitler, why attempts to escape were nearly nonexistent, and how acts of humanity in captivity planted the seeds of democracy in postwar Germany."

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Fascinating! What we once were...

"Evening Walk in Moscow, Discover Russia After Dark"

Full screen recommended.

Window to Moscow, 9/10/25

"Evening Walk in Moscow, Discover Russia After Dark"

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The Daily "Near You?"

Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand. Thanks for stopping by!

Judge Napolitano, "Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The Deadly Trump/Zionist Negotiation Tactics"

Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 9/10/25

"Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: 

The Deadly Trump/Zionist Negotiation Tactics"

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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 9/10/25

"Prof. John Mearsheimer: Israel’s True Goals"

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"Death of the Holocaust Industry"

by Chris Hedges

Excerpt: "The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present. Nearly all Holocaust scholars, who see in any criticism of Israel a betrayal of the Holocaust, have refused to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Not one of the institutions dedicated to researching and commemorating the Holocaust have drawn the obvious historical parallels or decried the mass slaughter of Palestinians.

Holocaust scholars, with a handful of exceptions, have exposed their true purpose, which is not to examine the dark side of human nature, the frightening propensity we all have to commit evil, but to sanctify Jews as eternal victims and absolve the ethnonationalist state of Israel of the crimes of settler colonialism, apartheid and genocide.

The hijacking of the Holocaust, the failure to defend Palestinian victims because they are Palestinian, has imploded the moral authority of Holocaust studies and Holocaust memorials. They have been exposed as a vehicles not to prevent genocide but to perpetrate it, not to explore the past, but manipulate the present."

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- https://chrishedges.substack.com/

"Time"

Full screen recommended.

Hans Zimmer, "Time"

"We construct the experience of time in our minds, so it follows that we are able to change the elements we find troubling - whether it’s trying to stop the years racing past, or speeding up time when we’re stuck in a queue, trying to live more in the present, or working out how long ago we last saw our old friends. Time can be a friend, but it can also be an enemy. The trick is to harness it, whether at home, at work, or even in social policy, and to work in line with our conception of time. Time perception matters because it is the experience of time that roots us in our mental reality. Time is not only at the heart of the way we organize life, but the way we experience it."

- Claudia Hammond

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“The Paradox Of Time"

“Time goes, you say? Ah no!

Alas, Time stays, we go;

Or else, were this not so,

What need to chain the hours,

For Youth were always ours?

Time goes, you say? – ah no!

Ours is the eyes’ deceit

Of men whose flying feet

Lead through some landscape low;

We pass, and think we see

The earth’s fixed surface flee;

Alas, Time stays, – we go!

Once in the days of old,

Your locks were curling gold,

And mine had shamed the crow.

Now, in the self-same stage,

We’ve reached the silver age;

Time goes, you say? – ah no!

Once, when my voice was strong,

I filled the woods with song

To praise your ‘rose’ and ‘snow’;

My bird, that sang, is dead;

Where are your roses fled?

Alas, Time stays, – we go!

See, in what traversed ways,

What backward Fate delays

The hopes we used to know;

Where are our old desires?

Ah, where those vanished fires?

Time goes, you say? – ah no!

How far, how far, O Sweet,

The past behind our feet

Lies in the even-glow!

Now, on the forward way,

Let us fold hands, and pray;

Alas, Time stays, – we go!”

- Henry Austin Dobson

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"Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, 

Speeds Up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation"

3I/ATLAS Is Slowing Down - And That Shouldn’t Be Possible"

Full screen recommended.

Earth Through Time, 9/10/25

"3I/ATLAS Is Slowing Down - 

And That Shouldn’t Be Possible"

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Full screen recommended.

RevVolt, 9/10/25

"Mysterious Metal Objects Encircle 3I/ATLAS,

 Harvard Scientist Sounds the Alarm"

"Something strange is happening in deep space - and it has scientists on edge. The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, already shrouded in mystery, has now been spotted with metallic anomalies encircling it. A Harvard scientist has sounded the alarm, warning that this could be far more than just a natural cosmic phenomenon. Are these fragments, an unknown type of spacecraft, or evidence of advanced technology from beyond our solar system? The truth is more shocking than anyone expected. NASA’s silence only deepens the mystery as experts scramble to understand what these bizarre metallic structures mean for humanity."

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Full screen recommended.

Hidden Headlines, 9/10/25

"James Webb Telescope CONFIRMS 3I/ATLAS Is Not a Comet"

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This is the most critically important story in the entire history of Mankind...

And they know a lot more than they're telling us...

"Heaven And Hell"

"Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for a day, sometimes for years, sometimes it doesn't end. The kind of hell that doesn't burn your skin; but burns your soul. The kind of hell that people can't see; but the flames lap at your spirit. Heaven is a place on earth, too! It's where you feel freedom, where you're not afraid. No more chains. And you hear your soul laughing."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Scott Ritter: All In: The World Is Headed for Devastating Wars on Every Front"

Dialogue Works, 9/10/25

"Scott Ritter: All In: The World Is Headed 

for Devastating Wars on Every Front"

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"How It Really Is"

 

"The Biggest Economic Lie Finally Exposed - Recession Hidden for Last 18 Months?!"

Full screen recommended.

Dan, I Allegedly AM 9/10/25

"The Biggest Economic Lie Finally Exposed - 

Recession Hidden for Last 18 Months?!"

"Were we lied to about the recession all along? In this video, I break down the staggering revisions to job numbers, the troubling state of the economy, and what this all means for you right now. From a shocking 919,000 jobs being erased to major banking closures, auto recalls, and consumer struggles, the truth is finally emerging. Bloomberg says we’re already in a recession, Bank of America reports hiring is down, and even big players like General Motors and Ford are making waves with drastic moves. Is the economy weaker than we’ve been told? Let’s talk about it."

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Travelling with Russell, "I Went to a Brand New Russia Supermarket in 2025"

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Travelling with Russell, 9/10/25

"I Went to a Brand New Russia Supermarket in 2025"

"What does a typical Russian supermarket look like inside? Join me as I visit a brand-new supermarket in Moscow, Russia. Platypus Supermarket in Lyublino, 40km from Moscow, is a brand-new, typical Russian Supermarket."

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