BBC- 9/11 Conspiracy Road Trip

Andrew Maxwell takes five typical young British conspiracy believers on a road trip from New York to Washington to try and tackle the truth about the events of 9/11.

This September marks the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, one of the biggest terrorist atrocities of the 21st Century. Nineteen hijackers, all members of Al Qaeda, crashed four planes on American soil, leading to the deaths of 2,973 innocent people.

This horrific event has generated a multitude of conspiracy theories that contradict the official findings of the US government's investigation into the events of that day.

Andrew Maxwell, a comedian, believes in the findings of the official investigation, which claim the responsibility for the attack lies with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. He thinks the conspiracies theories are unsubstantiated nonsense. So in this film he offers to take five young Brits, who believe some of these conspiracy theories, on a road-trip from New York to Washington. They visit Ground Zero where two planes hit the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, home of vast American defence HQ and Shanksville in Pennsylvania where United 93 crashed.

Each of them believes different elements of the conspiracy theories. Charlotte, a North London nanny who witnessed the attacks, thinks the American government is responsible. She can't believe the hijackers, barely out of flying school, could have steered jetliners into the Twin Towers with such deadly accuracy. Rodney a health worker who studied biochemistry suspects the collapse of the towers was not caused by the planes that went in to them and he wants to get to the bottom of the science. Student Emily, an active member of the 9/11 Truth Movement, thinks the US government was forewarned of the attacks and yet ignored the intelligence allowing it to happen. Shazin, a qualified surveyor, wants to find out how the passengers on United 93 could have made phone calls to loved ones from a plane. And Charlie, an ex-banker thinks 9/11 was an excuse for the US Government to go to war with Iraq. Andrew Maxwell thinks all five of them are wrong and wants to change their minds by confronting them with the facts. So as the bus criss-crosses the east coast of America he tries to convert them to his point of view. He wants to prove to them that 9/11 was no conspiracy and that sometimes the truth, whilst not easy to accept, is staring you right in the face. In order to do so, he takes them to meet experts, the chief air traffic controller on the day, demolition specialists, voice morphing engineers and he gets them to conduct scientific experiments and even fly an aeroplane.

Finally they meet a mother who tragically lost her son, to listen to her account of what it was like to live through this monumental tragedy. Andrew believes it is easy to judge world events from the safe distance of a computer screen in your bedroom but not easy when you are brought face to face with the real human stories behind them Andrew Maxwell fights an exhausting battle for the truth and in his mission to convert his fellow travellers there are rows, falling-outs and tears. But there are also moments of tenderness, empathy and warmth.

Originally broadcast on BBC Three, September 9, 2011. 57 minutes.

Jonathan Kay On Reality Check Radio

Jonathan Kay discussed his book Among the Truthers on Reality Check Radio. Kay comes on at the 33:00 mark and that's me calling in at 80:50. Originally aired on May 19, 2001.

Jonathan Kay: It's All a Conspiracy

Jonathan Kay: It's All a Conspiracy

Guest: Jonathan Kay, columnist with the National Post and author of Among the Truthers.

Is bin Laden really dead? Did we really land on the moon? Author Jonathan Kay spent time researching conspiracy theories for his new book "Among the Truthers". Kay sits down with Steve Paikin to tell us what he believes is behind the rise in conspiracy theories.

TVO, Ontario, Canada. Originally broadcast May 13, 2011.

The Debate: The Truth is Out There

Birthers, truthers and conspiracy theorists. People who don't believe that US President Obama is American-born. People who don't believe that Osama bin Laden was killed. Why don't people "believe"? Is it cynicism run amok? Or are there legitimate reasons for questioning what we're told?

Guests: Jonathan Kay, columnist with the National Post and author of Among the Truthers.

Barrie Zwicker, independent documentary producer, writer, and political activist. He is the author of Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11.

Richard Gage, San Francisco Bay area based architect, who founded Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth in 2006.

Paul Zarembka, editor of The Hidden History of 9/11.

TVO, Ontario, Canada. Originally broadcast May 13, 2011.

Jesse Ventura - Fake Phone Calls Claim Debunked

"Jesse Ventura's second season finale of "Conspiracy Theory" ended with an episode concerning what happened at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Among the many fraudulent claims made in the television program, Ventura included a segment dealing with the ridiculous claim that fake phone calls were made from aboard the hijacked planes that morning, further purposing the idea that the calls were actually created by voice morphing technology. Jesse Ventura called upon forensic audio expert Kent Gibson for a demonstration of voice morphing technology during the show. I had a conversation with Kent concerning his appearance on Ventura's show. Mr. Gibson had some very interesting things to say about the fake calls claim, Jesse Ventura and his Conspiracy Theory show. The ludicrous claim of faked phone calls on 9/11 is also being pushed by others including prominent 9/11 researcher David Ray Griffin." Jeff Hill www.pumpitout.com

Coast to Coast AM 9/11 Debate

Host: Ian Punnett. Guests: Richard Gage, Dave Thomas, Kim Johnson, Niels Harrit.

Richard Gage, from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and Dave Thomas a physicist from New Mexicans for Science and Reason, joined Ian Punnett for the entire program to debate how the World Trade Center buildings collapsed on September 11, 2001. Physicist Kim Johnson and chemist Niels Harrit join the debate in the last segment.

Broadcast August 21, 2010. 2 hrs. 36 min.

The VicSim Report: A New Low In Troof

Not only were the planes fake, the victims were fake too.

YouTube video by JREF member Unsecured Coins. (NSFW language)

Troofer video about VicSim on YouTube (you can skip to the 3:35 mark).

CBC - The Fifth Estate - The Unofficial Story

A largely uncritical look at the 9/11 truth movement by the CBC News program The Fifth Estate. Broadcast on November 27, 2009.

You Tube playlist in 5 parts.

Richard Gage Radio New Zealand Interview

Kim Hill of Radio New Zealand National interviews Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. 35 minutes. Recorded November 21, 2009.

The Hard Evidence Down Under Tour 2009

JREF Forum member Brainache meets the truthers (including Luke Rudkowski) in Sidney on the Hard Evidence Down Under Tour. Recorded on November 15, 2009. You Tube playlist in 6 parts.

Norwegian State Television Examines 9/11 Conspiracies

Schrödinger’s Cat, a Norwegian State Television television program about scientific research, technology and popular science looks at 9/11 conspiracies. Broadcast on 9/10/2009.

You Tube play list in 2 part. English subtitles.

Don't Quote Me: Truthers And Quote Mining

For 9/11 conspiracy theorists, the anniversary of the attacks functions as a PR peg for spreading their version of what happened that day. WNYC's Beth Fertig is taking special note this year, after discovering that her reporting from September 11, 2001 is being used as evidence on conspiracy theorist websites and literature.

WNYC On The Media podcast for September 11, 2009. 7 mins. Mp3 link.

Dylan Avery On The Drew and Mike Show

A petulant Dylan Avery interviewed by Drew and Mike on WRIF 101FM, Detroit, on Friday, August 28, 2008. You Tube playlist in 2 parts.

National Geographic Special: 9/11 Science And Conspiracy

America watched in horror as the events of September 11, 2001, unfolded before our eyes. Now, eight years have passed and no stone has been left unturned in the painstaking process of piecing together what happened on that fateful day. Yet according to a 2006 poll, 33 percent of us still do not accept the U.S. government's account. Were the attacks really the work of just al-Qaida terrorists, or is it possible something even more sinister was at work?

On Monday, August 31, 2009, at 9pm ET, National Geographic Channel's "9/11: Science and Conspiracy" conducts a forensic investigation to test the tenets of some of the most common conspiracy theories. Did the Twin Towers really collapse from the fires, or did explosives inside cause the buildings to implode? Was the Pentagon hit by a missile, and not a commercial airliner? And why do so many people believe theories like these?

The government's official version of the events has been consistent: Hijackers commandeered commercial jetliners in a highly coordinated attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that took the lives of some 3,000 Americans. Now we hear from a group of theorists, dubbed the "9/11 Truth Movement," who believe the official version is not only inconsistent with reality, it is impossible. Some even go so far as to suggest that the U.S. military plotted a colossal scheme to replace hijacked plans with remotely piloted rogue planes. And their seeds of doubt have spread widely around the world and across the internet.

"Our country, our government and our mind-set as a whole would not be where it is today without 9/11. And I don't think it's by accident, I think it's by design, " says Dylan Avery, theorist and director of the popular 2005 Internet-based documentary "Loose Change."

Using high-tech forensic experiments, CGI re-creations, eyewitness footage and in-depth analysis by experts and theorists on all sides of the story, "9/11: Science and Conspiracy" examines the alleged conspiracies and available evidence.

Many theories exist that contradict the official findings, covering many aspects of the worst terrorist attack on American soil. Of these, a handful have been persistent: The fires never got hot enough to deform the steel in the WTC towers and cause their collapse; there was an insiders' conspiracy to bring down the towers with a controlled demolition made to look like an attack; the Pentagon was really damaged by an explosive missile or a bomb instead of a jetliner.

Architect and "Truther" Richard Gage: "We're not conspiracy theorists. We're looking at the science-based, rational facts found at the crime scene and otherwise available to us...It's up to the American people to demand a real investigation with subpoena power that may reveal who may have done it, how they did it, what are all the surrounding circumstances."

Finally we look at how and why conspiracy theories persist in our culture despite the official government reports, as we recall American suspicion around other national tragedies such as Pearl Harbor and JFK's assassination.

Journalist and author David Aaronovitch: "I think there are very common threads to conspiracy theories, both in the desire the people have to tell them, the feeling they get at the point when they say then, and duplicate them...the desire that there is to have a story which is better than reality, than messy reality. I think these things are almost eternal."

You Tube playlist in 10 parts.

Paranoia Strikes Deep

Alex Jones gets paranoid in Washington DC and at a hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, when a fire alarm goes off just before the annual Bilderberger conference. From the recent IFC New World Order documentary.

The Children's Crusade

This is a portrait of Seth Jackson, a sincere but sad and, to my mind, troubled young truther from Mississippi. It is quite obvious his 9/11 truth activities are related to his religious beliefs. The worlds and images speak for themselves. Don't miss the final moments.

Troof 2008 Year In Review

Some lowlights of the last year in the truth movement by Unsecured Coins. 2 part You Tube playlist.

Jon Gold/ Pat Curley Debate

Debate between 9/11 Activist Jon Gold and Pat Curley the creator of the popular blog ScrewLooseChange.

The debate took place on Monday, November 24th, 2008 on the Franklin Pierce University closed circuit television show The Dynamic Duo and was moderated by the show's hosts Justin Martell and Eric Jackman.

The only editing that has been done to the three segments is all references to commercials have been removed (to make the conversation continuous), along with the opening and closing credits. The content of the debate has not been altered in any way. FP-TV's The Dynamic Duo is in no way affiliated with the GCN Radio Network show of the same name.

Calgary Debunker Debates Truthers

Theories? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Theories!

Excerpt from the updated BBC The Conspiracy Files, 9/11 - The Truth Behind The Third Tower program. Truthers don’t need a plausible theory or a coherent narrative of what happened on 9/11/01 because they’re “just asking questions” and, according to Dylan Avery, they don’t want to be “backed into a corner.”