WATCH ALL THREE ADAM CURTIS DOCS HERE:

http://freedocumentaries.org/mod.php?prodName=Adam+Curtis

The Power of Nightmares:
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Nightmares-Adam-Curtis/dp/B001707D98/ref=pd_...

Century of the Self:
http://www.amazon.com/Century-Self-2-DVD-Set/dp/B000VA5Z9A/ref=sr_1_2?ie...

The TRAP:

North Texans for 911 Truth (new site)
http://tellstruth.webs.com/index.htm
North Texans for 911 Truth Meetup Site
http://9-11.meetup.com/249/

http://www.errolmorris.com/content/interview/believer0406.html

It Becomes a Self-fulfilling Thing
The Believer

On October 31, 2005, Errol Morris, Academy Award winning director of The Fog of War, interviewed Adam Curtis, director of “The Power of Nightmares”, the documentary film which asks the question “Did Johnny Mercer bring down the World Trade Center?” Originally broadcast on the BBC, a film version was shown at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, where it was widely praised. Drawing extensively on archival footage from the BBC Library, the film has encountered difficulties in finding distribution in the U.S.
Morris and Curtis discuss conspiracy theories, unintended consequences, and notional moles.
I. ONE MAINE
EM: The Power of Nightmares uses a substantial quantity of archival material and stock-footage. I call it re-processed media. Perhaps a better expression would be re-purposed media. It’s different from the traditional use of found footage in news documentaries. Here stock-footage becomes expressionistic – never literal – an excursion into a dream – or, if you prefer – nightmare. I tried at various times in the last six months to find out why The Power of Nightmares is not being shown in the United States. The archival material from the BBC library has been cleared for use in the UK but not worldwide.
AC: It’s not physical censorship, although none of the TV networks want to show it. Something I always wanted to ask you, was McNamara happy with the way you cut him?
EM: No, he was not happy. But I'm not sure that anything would’ve made him happy. He never said this to me directly, but he did tell Craig, his son, that he liked the movie.
AC: I thought you treated him just fine. You were ambiguous. It was difficult to know what you thought about him.
EM: I still don’t know what I think. The New York Times, today on the front page, had an article about new evidence concerning incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964. The incidents – which are discussed in The Fog of War – have been disputed for over forty years. There are those that believe that they were part of a conspiracy to escalate the Vietnam War. Here’s a question: Are they right? And, in an even more general sense, is history primarily a history of conspiracy? Or is it just a series of blunders, one after the other? Confusions, self-deceptions, idiocies of one kind or another?
AC: It’s the latter. Where people do set out to have conspiracies, they don’t ever end up like they're supposed to. History is a series of unintended consequences resulting from confused actions, some of which are committed by people who may think they're taking part in a conspiracy, but it never works out the way they intended. For example, you could say the Gulf of Tonkin was a conspiratorial action to accelerate entry into war, yes?
EM: Here’s the conspiracy argument. The Johnson administration wanted to escalate the war in Vietnam. But they needed a pretext. And so they provoked these two incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin in order to get Congressional approval for escalation. The claim is: they had a grand plan. And the plan was war. I’ve never had much of an appetite for conspiracy theories. Here's my argument in a nutshell. People are too much at cross purposes with each other, too stupid, too self absorbed to ever effectively conspire to do anything....

More: http://www.errolmorris.com/content/interview/believer0406.html

Part 1

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2798679275960015727

Part 2

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6277881193659506084

Part 3

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1433149975726132762

*by the way, I am reading Jon Ronson's "The Men Who Stare At Goats" (which is being made into a movie with George Clooney)...there's some interesting stuff in there about a fella down in Florida named Bert Rodriguez who teaches martial arts to "ex-military guys, ex-Special Forces. Spooks." (pg.82).

"In April 2001, Bert Rodriguez took on a new student. His name was Ziad Jarrah. Ziad just turned up at the US I Fitness Center one day and said he had heard that Bert was good. Why Ziad chose Bert, of all the martial arts instructors scattered around the Florida shoreline, is a matter of speculation. Maybe Bert's uniquely occultic reputation preceded him, or perhaps it was Bert's military connections. Plus, Bert had once taught the head of security for a Saudi prince. Maybe that was it.

Ziad told Bert that he was a businessman who traveled a great deal and wanted to learn how to defend himself if a group attacked him." (pg. 83)

"Bert trained Ziad for six months. He liked him, sympathized with his tough upbringing in Lebanon. He gave Ziad copies of three of his knife-fighting training manuals, and Ziad passed them out to a friend of his, Marwan al-Shehhi, who was staying up the road in room 12 of the Panther Motel and Apartments in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

We know this because when Marwan al-Shehhi checked out of the Panther Motel on September 10, 2001, he left behind a flight manual for a Boeing 757, a knife, a black canvas bag, an English-German dictionary, and three martial arts manuals written by Bert Rodriguez, the man Stuart Heller had called "the most First Earth Battalion guy I know." (pg.84)

just thought I'd throw that out there.

> People are too much at cross purposes with each other,
> too stupid, too self absorbed to ever effectively conspire to do anything.

This is something I constantly hear and I don't understand it at all. Since a single human being can't really do anything alone, how do these people think that anything at all ever gets done? Manhattan Project? Hoover Dam?