I can’t figure it out. Someone made a feature length documentary covering dozens of alternative hypotheses about the events of September 11, 2001, and the movie’s not even listed on IMDB. Maybe there’s some kind of conspiracy against the filmmakers.

The movie is Loose Change 2nd Edition. You can watch it on Google Video. Among other theories, the film suggests:

  • Commercial jets didn’t hit the twin towers. Unmanned US military planes did.
  • The towers didn’t fall because of the planes. They fell because of carefully placed demolition charges.
  • A plane did not hit the Pentagon. A US cruise missle did.
  • Flight 93 didn’t crash in Pennsylvania. It landed safely in Cleveland.
  • The cell phone calls from scared passengers were faked.

Believe me, I’m not saying I buy into all of this (or any of it). I don’t typically buy into conspiracy theories anyway, and I won’t accept any of the film’s ideas without further investigation. But it is incredibly interesting and I do hope the case isn’t offically closed regarding September eleventh. In 20, 50, or 100 years, what will the history books say about 9/11? Will the current government endorsed answers continue to be accepted? Will someone investigate the hypotheses brought up in this film? Will any or all of these theories prove to be true?

40 Responses to “9/11 Conspiracy Theories - Loose Change 2nd Edition”

  1. on 10 Apr 2006 Nunya

    Was someone high on crack when they made this film?! Damn, I hope you don’t buy into that shite!

  2. on 10 Apr 2006 ©madbull

    I always check movies at wikipedia lately. I don’t really like Imdb anymore.

    As for the conspiracy, I liked reading this (several interesting links in the metafilter.com article)

  3. on 10 Apr 2006 JJ

    Nunya:
    And I hope you don’t buy into the government’s official explanation just because it’s coming from the government. I think some of the points made in this film should be investigated. I definitely will not say I believe these theories until I see further proof (ie. actual videos of the Pentagon attack which exist but have not been declassified aside from 5 gifs).

    Madbull:
    Thanks for the link. One of the commenters there said it best:
    “I’m not in the ‘a missile hit the Pentagon’ camp, I would not even put myself in a ‘conspiracy’ camp, but I am squarely in the ’something is amiss and they are not telling us everything’ camp.”

  4. on 10 Apr 2006 Marc

    JJ, remember Jim Walter Corp. from Tampa? Jim Walter’s kid is spending his inherited fortune to promote that documentary and this theory. W had him on the show. He seems to be the “Arthur” (Dudley Moore) of the family, if you catch my drift.

    Drive through the park, JJ. I love the park.

  5. on 10 Apr 2006 JJ

    Marc:
    Sometimes I just think funny things.

  6. on 10 Apr 2006 Ron

    While I don’t agree with the “something else other than a plane” theory, I do agree that we aren’t being told everything.

    But until W is gone, I don’t think we can even start to find out what is going on.

  7. on 10 Apr 2006 Ev

    I don’t buy it, then again I’m sure people didn’t buy Watergate when it happened.

  8. on 10 Apr 2006 JJ

    Ron:
    I just hope that when the next administration takes office, they don’t continue to let the details remain swept under the rug. At the very least, I’m simply curious to learn the”facts” that are currently classified.

    Ev:
    Good point. Here’s another one: Are there people out there who still believe Kennedy was shot by a lone gunman on the grassy knoll?

  9. on 10 Apr 2006 Ev

    Mcmanis always said: Oswald was a fag.

  10. […] Thanks JJ for the inspiration. […]

  11. on 10 Apr 2006 The Soviet

    I think “landed safely in Cleveland” is an oxymoron.

  12. on 10 Apr 2006 Brad

    I was extremely skeptical before seeing the movie, and it certainly gave me pause. The Reichstag Fire analogy is looking more and more fitting. I blogged about this flick a while ago, and I’m glad more people are getting to see it.

    That’s hysterical, Soviet. Stupid Cleveland.

  13. on 10 Apr 2006 James

    I don’t buy the “official story”, I buy the photographs of the lawn @ the pentagon… shards of plane wreckage near the crash site. Photographs from the rooftops of nearby buildings near ground zero showing strips of feuselage with passenger windows and curtains. Photos of the huge scar in the ground, scattered with scredded plane parts in PA.

    If this was all an “unmanned” conspiracy, they had to silence a TON of people to do so, and that… is impossible.

  14. on 10 Apr 2006 JJ

    MadBull:
    Pingbacks rule!

    Soviet:
    Yes. Brad’s right. Your comment literally had me laughing out loud.

    Brad:
    Yeah, that’s what I was hoping. I don’t care if people change their mind about what happened. I know I’m not convinced wither way. I’m just glad someone’s bringing attention to these inconsistencies.

    James:
    Hey, I’m with you here. I don’t buy into theories. If I see something happen and someone tells me it didn’t happen, then obviously that’s bullshit. But I think this movie brought up a lot of great points, many of which have never been addressed publicly by the 9/11 Commission.

  15. on 10 Apr 2006 antickpix

    sheesh, the time it takes to get this thing to stream..

    i’m with you. whether or not it was Osama, W is hiding something.

    Let’s see what Oliver Stone has to say about it..

  16. on 10 Apr 2006 MacBros

    There’s only one theory that made me go, “Hmmmmm…” and that was the Pentagon one about the missel. The Parking lot cam is what actually got me on that one.

  17. on 10 Apr 2006 MacBros

    Ok, I just watched it. What’s with the explosions while the WTC”s were collapsing? There is a lot of fishy stuff, but it still doesn’t dismiss the fact of the huge loss of lives.

    But I have to admit that this video is hell bent on proving something, and they go a bit overboard.

  18. on 11 Apr 2006 shirley

    What’s up with the Sept. 11 posts lately? There seem to be a lot of movies coming out/publicized at the same time (now), and a lot of people writing about it.

    What’s to say? It happened, and ofcourse I have an open mind, I don’t know exactly what “it” was. But I was here watching it happen from an office cafeteria window in Soho, and even if the causes were mysterious, the effects were real. People had real emotional reactions to this. Fuck political bullshit - and I mean fuck both sides of it! The only thing that was certain was that everywhere I went in the city that month, people would break down crying on the street, and 20 other people would stop and take care of him/her. That was the only time that people weren’t reacting out of selfish motives.

    It is complete and utter bullshit that at least 3 movies are coming out capitalizing on what happened. I see it as the same sort of manipulation that pushed through the PATRIOT Act. People aren’t really all that dumb, let everyone figure out their own feelings for a few years. Fuck!

    (sorry JJ)

  19. on 11 Apr 2006 Shelly

    The Loose Change movie isn’t about conspiracy theories; it’s about evidence. The only reason it’s not on imdb is that it’s an amateur video and I don’t believe imdb lists amateur videos. There is plenty of evidence besides those two movies that something was very off about 9/11. You don’t have to be an engineer to see how the buildings came down, with obvious explosions going off floor by floor.
    Video doesn’t lie. Presidents do . . .

  20. on 11 Apr 2006 rockyjay

    In hundred years they think that Lee Harley Oswald survived and became Osama Bin Laden and single handedly organized 9/11.

    Can’t you see; resemblance is eerily alike.

    Fortunately, they will have the Internet. A source of very reliable information. Especially, all millions of bloggers….

  21. on 11 Apr 2006 JJ

    Antickpix:
    Yes. That’s all I’m saying. There’s got to be more to the story. And I’m curious.

    MacBros:
    Excellent point. Yes, they’re trying very hard to refute the current official explanation of events. Sometimes the filmmakers go overboard.

    Shirley:
    “It is complete and utter bullshit that at least 3 movies are coming out capitalizing on what happened.”
    So true. The one thing this movie has going for it is that it’s free on Google Video. I honestly believe the filmmakers aren’t in ot for the money. As far as the other movies are concerned, that’s clearly not the case. They are wide release Hollywood films that simply tell a story. They’re not on a fact-finding mission.

    Shelly:
    “The Loose Change movie isn’t about conspiracy theories; it’s about evidence.”
    I admit there’s a negative stigma attached to the term “conspiracy theory.” But the deal is - sometimes there are conspiracies. When you suggest that there might be a conspiracy surrounding an event, you’re voicing a “conspiracy theory.”

    RockyJay:
    “A source of very reliable information. Especially, all millions of bloggers” Hahahahaha!!

  22. on 12 Apr 2006 jessica

    what do you mean oxymoron? cleveland is lovely.

    perhaps you’ve just never been to the proper places… you can email me for a fantastic NEO travel guide :)

  23. on 18 Apr 2006 sam

    HAVE YOU SEEN THE 9 11 ON TRAILS AND PROVED GUILTY?
    pLEASE SEE THE WINGTV

    http://www.wingtv.net/911ontrial.doc/911ontrialindex.html
    yOU CAN WATCH PART OF TRIAL IF U DO NOT WANT TO SEE IT ALL, JUST SEE:
    Archived Witness Testimony
    Introduction
    Opening Statement
    and
    Witness 18
    Closing Argument
    It has no conspircy theory at all, it deal with the subject as science and prove it with math evidence, there is no chance of any conspiracy at all, worth to let yr friend to know .

  24. on 19 Apr 2006 sam

    I just posted a comment but could not see it appearing at all, any gueses?

  25. on 19 Apr 2006 JJ

    Hi Sam,

    If the comment included more than one link, my spam blocker probably deleted it. The settings are pretty strict.

    I’ll keep an eye out for future comments and will allow them if they are relevant.

  26. on 20 Apr 2006 sam

    ok many thanks HAND

  27. on 20 Apr 2006 sam

    See Alex J caught red handed by wingtv :
    Main page
    http://www.wingtv.net/index.html

    The Alternative Media Speaks Out:
    Jeff Rense & Alex Jones Censorship

    tp://www.wingtv.net/thorn2006/censorshipaltmedia.html

    in the same page see:

    Rense & Alex Jones: Caught Red-Handed

    John is caught red handed on censorship, these mortgaged media must be exposed:it is our duty to do so.
    I think the Bankers too preparing alternative monarchy, when this system collapse they have like Alex and Dylan of the loose change will accepted by the public. The same game happing in front our noses, the Euro is a fake competitor of Dollar, it belongs to the same group, it is a controlled competitive currency, so no one else comes up with real one.
    Just see how the bankers in distress when Iran announced to open an oil bourse, that is real danger to bankers, so they rally behind each other to destroy the coming bourse even its in Euro. Some one might ask if dollar melt away, it will be good for Euro. No sir the Banker will loose and to protect their interest they will do what ever necessary to stop fall of Dollar. Do you know if Dollar goes and we have USA note it will be blessing to the American and the world?
    There will be very little tax
    The debt will disappear within one year
    The deficit will be from the history
    So all these are the crime of the Bankers, I wonder when we can stop these crime, 9 11 was a drop in the ocean of the history of THE MONEY MASTER)
    W Wilson the USA president said I betrayed my country, can any one ask to home?

  28. on 21 Apr 2006 sam

    Please watch this (less than 5 min) and see what George Bush America stand for after 911?

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6782011043386916706&q=George+Bush+Address+Gone+Halarious&pl=true

  29. on 21 Apr 2006 JJ

    I’ve seen that clip before, but I forgot how funny it is. Hilarious!

  30. on 22 Apr 2006 sam

    jj
    and diff what Neocon does and what bush says in the clip, any one?
    how can we now believe an official statement when they produce Bin Laden Clips, and just after 24 hrs they will confirm its genuinety?
    Is there any cridiblity left?

  31. on 23 Apr 2006 sam

    there is no diff what Neocon does and what bush says in the clip, any one?
    how can we now believe an official statement when they produce Bin Laden Clips, and just after 24 hrs they will confirm its genuinety?
    Is there any cridiblity left?
    Today they put dead Ben Laden on Aljazeera again, watch the space, this new video clips will have some reason, the Neocon loosing the war , they want to lead the event the only way they can do it is by new London Bombing, or someting some where else, but this video is raising alarm, is the date will be 06.06.06 or before?
    God save the innocent victimsplease read:

    http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/3607.php

    this site will tell why it is an inside Job:

    http://journals.aol.com/foxxgiavani/REALNEWSPOLITICS/entries/691

  32. on 24 Apr 2006 sam

    Did you ever wonder…?

    how the U S government managed to survive in the 121 years before there was an income tax? ….. and what all the income tax you pay is really used for?
    what the Constitution means (Article I, sect 8, clause 5) when it says “Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof…”? ….. and yet the government seems to find it necessary to borrow money from the bankers?
    why we have no Civil War debt, when all the later wars created “federal debt?” ….. and To whom does the government really owe this soon-to-reach 8 trillion dollars of “federal debt”?
    why your parents or grandparents could buy a five-course dinner at a good steak house for less than a buck in 1940, while the same meal would cost you more than $20 today?….. or, even worse, how much that dinner will cost your own kids in 2020?
    why the harder you work and save, the more behind you seem to get? ….. especially if your job may be taken over by someone in another country where labor is cheap, so your employer is moving its plant there, and closing its plant here?
    why all the new “social” laws, like social security, medicare, head-start, child care, welfare, fair employment, and many more, which all sounded good when they were enacted, all seem to create enormous financial problems for Congress and local governments?….. and why no one in charge seems to know how to solve them?
    why almost half of our kids live with only one parent?….. why street gangs ignore the law and openly sell drugs in major cities? ….. why the public schools are struggling to educate our children?….. yet some high school graduates can’t read or do simple math?
    in short ….. why so many things seem to be wrong with our country today, despite what we hear on the managed TV news? ….. so that old feeling of insecurity about the future keeps gnawing at you?

  33. on 24 Apr 2006 sam

    just look :sam said,
    on April 21st, 2006

    Today they put dead Ben Laden on Aljazeera again, watch the space, this new video clips will have some reason, the Neocon loosing the war , they want to lead the event the only way they can do it is by new London Bombing, or someting some where else, but this video is raising alarm, is the date will be 06.06.06 or before?
    God save the innocent victimsplease read

    Just we heared 3 big explossion gone in Egypt (Sanya Dhahab resort) at least 33 innocent victim died and over 150 injured.
    Can any body remeber what I said yester day?
    just see this , today is 24. 04.2006.
    2+4=6
    04+2000= 2+ 4= 6
    06= 6
    666
    this what the every one knows the trick now.
    these are the crime carried infront our eyes, and what we as sheep doing about it nothing, untill our turns come?

  34. on 26 Apr 2006 sam

    Carly Sheehan: A Nation Rocked to Sleep
    A Film by Peter Dudar and Sally Marr

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11079.htm

    2 min video worth watching.

  35. on 26 Apr 2006 abm

    do we know how much the desabled will cost us , any clue?
    just look at these picture?

    These picture Bush avoid american to see
    achievement in Iraq

    http://www.voltairenet.org/article137035.html

  36. on 26 Apr 2006 JJ

    Thanks for continuing to add comments to this post. I really do appreciate it. Those pictures are incredible. What a sacrifice!

  37. on 14 Aug 2006 Mtuwahaki

    I watched part 1 and part 2 of loose change and i think that they did an excellent job of exposing the 9-11 cover up. i have painful deception and a lot more tapes that come at 9-11 in different ways they all seem too agree tht it was an inside job. right after 9-11 i was on the computer for hours resarching what really happened and i realized then that it was definitely a coverup. Busthe NSA CIA FBI MOUSSAD CFR THE ILLUMANATI and THE MILITARY MAINLY THE AIRFORCE WAS IN THIS THING TOGETHER THE MONARCHY AND THEIR PUNS WORKED THEIR MAGIC TOGETHER TOO PULL THIS OFF. CONGRESS CHOSE TOO LOOK THE OTHER WAY AND SO DID ALL THE OTHER LAW MAKERS AND ENFORCERS. THE RULING CLASS OF AMERICA OILCOMPANY OWNERS BANKSTERS ETC WON’T TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP ON THE PLANET BY SQUEEZING THE LIFE OUT OF ITS INHABITANTS. NOBODY TRUST THIS COUNTRY ANYMORE AND NOBODY BELIEVE IN IT ANYMORE SO AMERICA BELIEFS THAT THEY HAVE TOO CONTINUE TO TAKE WHAT IS NOT THEIRS THATS HOW THEY BECAME A SUPERPOWER. THE WAY THEY THINK IS DUMB TOO US BUT BRILLIANT TO THEM BECAQUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO. AND YOU KNOW SOMETHING THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT. THEY HAVE CONTROL OVER EVERY GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION AND KNOWBODY IN THE WORLD CHALLENGES THEM THE WAY THAT THEY SHOULD BE CHALLENGED. MOST OF THE PUBLIC HAVE BEEN DUMBED DOWN BY THE MEDIA ESPECIALLY BLACK AND HISPANIC PEOPLE. THE DUMBEST THING I HEAR PEOPLE SAYING IS HOW CAN THEY PUT BOMBS IN A BUILDING WHEN THEY HAVE SECURITY. THOSE CAN’T THINK IGNORAMOUSIS DON’T REALIZE THAT THEIR IS SOMETHING CALLED SECURITY CLEARANCE. I HAVE TALKED TO PEOPLE THAT WERE SECURITY GUARDS IN THE WTC AND THEY TOLD ME THAT WERE BOMBS IN THE BUILDING. ITS PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT THE FUEL DID NOT BURN LONG ENOUGH TO WEAKEN THE STEEL. WHAT CAN I SAY OTHER THAN THAT PEOPLE ARE LIKE SHEEP THAT FOLLOW THE LYING MALICIOUS SHEPERD CALLED THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

  38. on 15 Aug 2006 Shelly

    The first post I see here is Nunya’s, saying they hope we don’t “buy into this crap”. I want you guys to know this: The GOP plants people in Democratic/liberal/conspiracy type blogs to comment. When they see a blog that they feel threatens the GOP line, or official story or whatever, they send their messengers out to literally post comments that go against what the prevailing concensus is. They have even admitted doing this. They have thousands of people online doing just this thing on blogs like this. Karl Rove himself used to do it using the name “Thor” on various forums and discussion boards. So when someone shows up on your blog and just says “nah, don’t believe it” and then leaves without explaining themselves or debating, it could easily be a GOP operative on your blog. You can sometimes tell them from the regular people because they just strike and leave.

    Mtuwahaki, please email me about your knowledge of bombs in the WTC. I’m a private citizen, a liberal, and I do a podcast that’s political. I’m talking about 9/11 recently and I’d like to know what you know so I can tell other people.
    citizenagainstlies @ gmail.com

    Anyone else with knowledge like this also, feel free to email me about it.

    Also, another good video to watch on this subject is called “911 Eyewitness”. There is also a good podcast on 9/11 that you can subscribe to through iTunes (not mine) called ‘911 News’. It’s very well done.

  39. on 15 Aug 2006 JJ

    Shelly,

    Nunya’s cool. She’s keeps a private blog, so she doesn’t like to link to it on other websites.

    I checked out your site. You have some good stuff going on over there. Keep it up.

    Rock on,
    JJ

  40. on 19 Feb 2007 j watt

    all goverments do this from rome to berlin america was about to become bankrupt oil was the only remady if america fell so would england usualy 7 weeks later motives are everywhe,any court will tell you/ a motive then a crime/ case solved

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