Powell Symphony Hall, formerly St. Louis Theater

JAMES H. writes:

In response to “Nihilist America:”  When we attended St. Louis Cardinal baseball games – we dressed up.  When we attended the St. Louis Muni Opera – we dressed up.  When we travelled – we dressed up.  When we attended the movies, we dressed up!

On May 31st, 1965, Mom and Dad assembled the “troops” and took us to the St. Louis premier of The Sound of Music at the St. Louis Theater.  The St. Louis Theater was one of the grandest theaters in the world opening on November 25, 1925 – four years after Dad’s birth.   The theater was enormous, seating 4,100 patrons.  The Sound of Music ran 86 weeks, from 1965 to 1966 and closed immediately afterwards when the restoration for the St. Louis Symphony began.  You can still visit the St. Louis Theater today which is now known as Powell Symphony Hall – its grandeur evocative of an earlier better age.

We sat near the front of the balcony on the right as you face the screen and I will never ever forget the opening scenes from the Sound of Music on that enormous screen. The theater was equipped with a 70-millimeter projector and with stereophonic sound to showcase the movie’s beautiful Todd-AO large-format cinematography. Seeing that magnificent movie in that spectacular theater was one of my fondest memories as a child.  And you can bet, we (all seven children with 2 yet to come) dressed up!

When I grew up America had a bright future – and we looked our best for it.  Today, not so much. Read More »

TED WALTER, in a piece posted yesterday at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, examines the initial interpretations of how the Twin Towers collapsed.

This is a must-read article. (Video of interviews with firefighters may be upsetting and is not for the sensitive.)

Despite the fact that most members of the fire department thought the buildings were leveled with explosives—and many of them had directly witnessed what they believed were explosions—Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik both denied having any information about secondary explosions at a press conference that afternoon, with FDNY Commissioner Thomas Van Essen standing by their side …

For 17 years, those who have argued that the buildings were exploded have been ignored or demonized as mentally ill. Meanwhile, the experts on the ground that day insisted explosives were involved.

BILL DONOHUE, president of the Catholic League, has written a sharply-worded letter to state attorney generals who are seeking to emulate Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s sensationalistic, defamatory grand jury report on sex abuse in the Catholic Church.

Note: There has indeed been sexual abuse of children by clergy, particularly in the decades immediately after the 60s and the advent of the Sexual Revolution — and sex abuse of children is always, without exception, a heinous crime, worthy in this blogger’s opinion of the death penalty not psychological counseling. Nevertheless, Shapiro’s report is deceptive, unconstitutional, inflammatory and, unlike most grand jury reports, had almost nothing to do with bringing legal charges against wrongdoers, which is the normal purview of attorney generals. There is evidence of much more sex abuse in public schools  — and yet there is no call for similar grand jury investigations of public education. There are also many documented instances of sex abuse in Orthodox Jewish communities, even though these communities have been known to punish severely those who come forth with charges, and yet we see no comparable investigations there, or comparable media campaigns. Wonder why.

Though I don’t accept Donohue’s general position on the Vatican II Church, and believe the Vatican II revolution unleashed a plague of homosexuality among its clergy, I embrace Donohue’s mission to prevent more organized defamation.

LYDIA SHERMAN writes:

I’m really liking what you are putting up on your blog about 9/11.

I found this quote by a man named Robert Grodin, from a documentary called “Plaza Man”

“What happens to the individual who dissents or finds the truth: he is marginalized, harassed, intimidated, caricatured, smeared, which, as the DA stated, has the same effect as liquidating him.”

(Note: I’m under-impressed with Robert Grodin as a family man, but the quote is so true. It has happened to even the most benign blogger!)

NOTICE the security detail behind Mark Walsh as he plants the official explanation of building collapses on 9/11. The explanation and the entire exchange are obviously scripted.

FOR MORE information, see the Wikispooks entry, “Israel Did It.”

“DR. Niels Harrit is the Associate Professor for Chemistry at the Copenhagen University in Denmark, and a globally recognized scientist who has published various scientific papers. He was part of the scientific team which discovered nanothermite in samples of dust from the 9/11 W.T.C attacks.”

Watch the full interview here.

NO PASSENGER PLANE was seen at the Pentagon on 9/11. The building was hit by a missile. This is an excellent interview with April Gallup who was at the Pentagon that day. The very first police officer on the scene also said there was no plane.

THE crater was made by a military drone, seen by at least one eyewitness, and not a passenger plane. As Donald Rumsfeld said (in a slip up during a speech), Flight 93 was shot out of the sky and the debris was elsewhere.

Christopher Bollyn on “the Shanksville deception:”

Something incredibly ugly happened to Flight 93 over rural Pennsylvania on 9-11.  A mass murder atrocity could explain why the public was deceived into thinking that a small crater was the crash site while the bodies of the victims and wreckage were actually being picked up from the real debris field hundreds of meters away in the dark woods.  How many victims were there anyway?  Two hundred?  Why was the wreckage of Flight 93 kept hidden?

IF THE opponents of the official version of the 9/11 attacks relied on something as minor as this recording — which could have been tampered with — they would not have much of a case.

But this is one detail in a mountain of evidence against the official story. It is a very compelling detail nevertheless. This flight attendant was likely not on the plane at the time of this call.

FROM Laurent Guyenot’s article today at Unz Review, “9/11 Was an Israeli Job: How America was neoconned into World War IV:”

Researchers who believe Israel orchestrated 9/11 cite the behavior of a group of individuals who have come to be known as the “dancing Israelis” since their arrest, though their aim was to pass as “dancing Arabs.” Dressed in ostensibly “Middle Eastern” attire, they were seen by various witnesses standing on the roof of a van parked in Jersey City, cheering and taking photos of each other with the WTC in the background, at the very moment the first plane hit the North Tower. The suspects then moved their van to another parking spot in Jersey City, where other witnesses saw them deliver the same ostentatious celebrations.

One anonymous call to the police in Jersey City, reported the same day by NBC News, mentioned “a white van, 2 or 3 guys in there. They look like Palestinians and going around a building. […] I see the guy by Newark Airport mixing some junk and he has those sheikh uniforms. […] He’s dressed like an Arab.” The police soon issued the following BOLO alert (be-on-the-look-out) for a “Vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration with ‘Urban Moving Systems’ sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center. Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion.”

By chance, the van was intercepted around 4 pm, with five young men inside: Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner, and Omer Marmari. Before any question was asked, the driver, Sivan Kurzberg, burst out: “We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem”.The Kurzberg brothers were formally identified as Mossad agents. All five officially worked for a moving company (a classic cover for espionage) named Urban Moving Systems, whose owner, Dominik Otto Suter, fled the country for Tel Aviv on September 14.[4] Read More »

ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS FOR 9/11 TRUTH looks at three anomalous events that occurred at the World Trade Center Towers in the months and weeks immediately preceding the attacks:

There was an increase in security at the Trade Center in the two weeks before 9/11, for reasons that are unclear, which only ended the day before the attacks. Also, the fire alarm system in World Trade Center Building 7 was placed on “test condition” every morning in the seven days before the attacks and on the day of 9/11. While it was in this mode, any alarms would be ignored. WTC 7 was a massive skyscraper located just north of the Twin Towers, which mysteriously collapsed late in the afternoon of September 11. And some of the elevators in the Twin Towers were out of service in the months before the attacks, supposedly due to maintenance work or modernization.