"Blueprint for Truth" is a documentary purporting to "prove" that the WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolitions. Made by Richard Gage, an architect responsible for a number of fireproof steel-framed buildings, it's better than most other 9/11 conspiracy documentaries, though many of the structural engineers and architects present at the screening I attended countered its better points with equally solid rebuttals. Short of someone constructing scale models of the towers and re-staging the calamity several times under test conditions, uncertainties are unlikely to be fully resolved.
"Blueprint" goes off on several interesting tangents. Assuming controlled demolitions brought the towers down, it says, one would only need to place charges along the central spine of the building. This spine houses the building's elevators and is concealed. Coincidentally, an extensive elevator modernisation project was underway at WTC buildings 1 and 2 until the very morning of 9/11 (many books have chartered the web of relationships linking this elevator company, which has since disappeared, to various other prominent 9/11 characters). The documentary suggests that it is possible to covertly rig an entire skyscraper.
The "follow the money" maxim is put to use here. It is revealed that the WTC buildings were "bought" by Larry Silverstein weeks prior to their destruction and that Silverstein leased the buildings knowing that they were "outdated, needed to be condemned and needed extensive asbestos removal". As manually scrapping the buildings would be hugely expensive, Silverstein sought permission to have the buildings demolished by controlled demolitions, but was denied three times. The suggestion is thus that the buildings were money losers (if that were so, why were so many other companies bidding for ownership?). The documentary also goes into suspicious "protection against terrorism" insurance polices taken out on the buildings shortly before their destruction. The implication: rather than "losing money" paying for his buildings to be demolished, Silverstein essentially got them scraped for free, won a big insurance payout (upward of six billion), and will subsequently profit from leasing the new buildings that shall be erected on their site. Ignoring all these theories, it seems clear that the real conspiracy is in the massive cases of favouritism and back door dealings which led to both Silverstein getting the buildings leased cheaply and the Port Authority being pushed to privatise the towers.
"Blueprint" focuses mostly on structural anomalies, but of course many investigators have pointed out a bevy of other 9/11 oddities, ranging from demolition countdowns being heard on police radios, fire alarms being turned off on building 7, suspicious demolition trucks, faked Bin Laden footage, the textbook free-falls of buildings into their own footprints, tales of missing gold, 3 trillion dollars suddenly missing from pentagon accounts, key 9/11 air traffic controllers being coincidentally present for shady air crashes in the past, George Bush's bro being WTC security chief up until the day of the calamity, Mossad agents occupying offices "illegally" in the towers, Mossad "explosive vans" incidents, the hijackers' links to Saudi Arabia, strange explosions inside buildings before the towers fell, and the documented "assassinations" (suicides, strange deaths, threats, poisonings) of people surrounding the event, like Emergency Services Deputy Directors, cameramen, various whistle-blowers, flight officers, witnesses, firemen etc.
Then there are the bizarre military drills (at least six) that were coincidentally held on 9/11, some of which were drills about planes hitting government buildings, some of which created spy satellite gaps (the National Reconnaissance Office sent 3000 employees home), all of which led to much disarray. Coincidentally, 2 months prior to 9/11, laws were passed changing how jets are mobilised, essentially "ensuring" that the hijacked planes struck their targets. Bizarrely, an Israeli state company present in the North tower broke their lease and hauled themselves out of the WTC a few days before 9/11. The FBI agent who was looking into this suspicious move was promptly "removed" (such 9/11 angles frequently degenerate into allegations of antisemitism). Then there are various links to the infamous Project For the New American Century Paper, which essentially advocated the necessity of a Pearl Harbour-like incident to mobilise America against the Middle East. And on and on it goes.
Some argue a conspiracy can't involve "many people", but various authors suggest that as little as 40 people need to be "in on it". In comparison, something like the Manhattan project involved millions of persons and was successfully kept a secret until the bomb dropped. The philosophical, postmodern argument against conspiracy is that there is "no conspiracy", "no Big Other", that "all is chaos", which of course discounts the fact that people nevertheless themselves behave, on a daily basis, as though "they are rational, fully autonomous agents". 9/11 conspiracies are also deemed to be "without precedent", but history is rife with similar flash-points or false flag operations, from Pearl Habour (niether a surprise or unprovoked), to Operation Northwood (designed to kill Americans to provoke a war), the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the USS Liberty incident, the Mukden incident, the Maco Polo Bridge Incident, the Kassa attack, Operation Trust, the counter gangs of the Mau Mau uprising, the Reichstag incident, the Gleiwitz incident, the multiple false flag incidents around Gulf War 1 (Nurse Nayirah, incubator and satellite photo lies etc), Operation Ajax and of course similar lies/coups surrounding Libya, Iraq and Iran. Engineering calamity as a pretext for mobilisation is common.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about 9/11 is that it functions as a kind of performance art, spectators forced into the role of art critics, juggling competing metaphors (often politically motivated), perceptions, emotional reactions, and physical evidence. It's the ultimate postmodern object, its intended message "whatever you want it to be" (or nihilistically, there is no message, it's just an "insane", "irrational" act), and where even the author of the work is subject to personal interpretation and/or speculation.
7.5/10 – Worth one viewing.
"Blueprint" goes off on several interesting tangents. Assuming controlled demolitions brought the towers down, it says, one would only need to place charges along the central spine of the building. This spine houses the building's elevators and is concealed. Coincidentally, an extensive elevator modernisation project was underway at WTC buildings 1 and 2 until the very morning of 9/11 (many books have chartered the web of relationships linking this elevator company, which has since disappeared, to various other prominent 9/11 characters). The documentary suggests that it is possible to covertly rig an entire skyscraper.
The "follow the money" maxim is put to use here. It is revealed that the WTC buildings were "bought" by Larry Silverstein weeks prior to their destruction and that Silverstein leased the buildings knowing that they were "outdated, needed to be condemned and needed extensive asbestos removal". As manually scrapping the buildings would be hugely expensive, Silverstein sought permission to have the buildings demolished by controlled demolitions, but was denied three times. The suggestion is thus that the buildings were money losers (if that were so, why were so many other companies bidding for ownership?). The documentary also goes into suspicious "protection against terrorism" insurance polices taken out on the buildings shortly before their destruction. The implication: rather than "losing money" paying for his buildings to be demolished, Silverstein essentially got them scraped for free, won a big insurance payout (upward of six billion), and will subsequently profit from leasing the new buildings that shall be erected on their site. Ignoring all these theories, it seems clear that the real conspiracy is in the massive cases of favouritism and back door dealings which led to both Silverstein getting the buildings leased cheaply and the Port Authority being pushed to privatise the towers.
"Blueprint" focuses mostly on structural anomalies, but of course many investigators have pointed out a bevy of other 9/11 oddities, ranging from demolition countdowns being heard on police radios, fire alarms being turned off on building 7, suspicious demolition trucks, faked Bin Laden footage, the textbook free-falls of buildings into their own footprints, tales of missing gold, 3 trillion dollars suddenly missing from pentagon accounts, key 9/11 air traffic controllers being coincidentally present for shady air crashes in the past, George Bush's bro being WTC security chief up until the day of the calamity, Mossad agents occupying offices "illegally" in the towers, Mossad "explosive vans" incidents, the hijackers' links to Saudi Arabia, strange explosions inside buildings before the towers fell, and the documented "assassinations" (suicides, strange deaths, threats, poisonings) of people surrounding the event, like Emergency Services Deputy Directors, cameramen, various whistle-blowers, flight officers, witnesses, firemen etc.
Then there are the bizarre military drills (at least six) that were coincidentally held on 9/11, some of which were drills about planes hitting government buildings, some of which created spy satellite gaps (the National Reconnaissance Office sent 3000 employees home), all of which led to much disarray. Coincidentally, 2 months prior to 9/11, laws were passed changing how jets are mobilised, essentially "ensuring" that the hijacked planes struck their targets. Bizarrely, an Israeli state company present in the North tower broke their lease and hauled themselves out of the WTC a few days before 9/11. The FBI agent who was looking into this suspicious move was promptly "removed" (such 9/11 angles frequently degenerate into allegations of antisemitism). Then there are various links to the infamous Project For the New American Century Paper, which essentially advocated the necessity of a Pearl Harbour-like incident to mobilise America against the Middle East. And on and on it goes.
Some argue a conspiracy can't involve "many people", but various authors suggest that as little as 40 people need to be "in on it". In comparison, something like the Manhattan project involved millions of persons and was successfully kept a secret until the bomb dropped. The philosophical, postmodern argument against conspiracy is that there is "no conspiracy", "no Big Other", that "all is chaos", which of course discounts the fact that people nevertheless themselves behave, on a daily basis, as though "they are rational, fully autonomous agents". 9/11 conspiracies are also deemed to be "without precedent", but history is rife with similar flash-points or false flag operations, from Pearl Habour (niether a surprise or unprovoked), to Operation Northwood (designed to kill Americans to provoke a war), the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the USS Liberty incident, the Mukden incident, the Maco Polo Bridge Incident, the Kassa attack, Operation Trust, the counter gangs of the Mau Mau uprising, the Reichstag incident, the Gleiwitz incident, the multiple false flag incidents around Gulf War 1 (Nurse Nayirah, incubator and satellite photo lies etc), Operation Ajax and of course similar lies/coups surrounding Libya, Iraq and Iran. Engineering calamity as a pretext for mobilisation is common.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about 9/11 is that it functions as a kind of performance art, spectators forced into the role of art critics, juggling competing metaphors (often politically motivated), perceptions, emotional reactions, and physical evidence. It's the ultimate postmodern object, its intended message "whatever you want it to be" (or nihilistically, there is no message, it's just an "insane", "irrational" act), and where even the author of the work is subject to personal interpretation and/or speculation.
7.5/10 – Worth one viewing.