{"id":482,"date":"2006-05-10T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T21:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=482"},"modified":"2006-05-11T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T00:50:22","slug":"loose-screws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Loose Screws"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s sad, really, when otherwise intelligent-seeming people abandon all common sense and reason to superstition and hysteria. I’ve had people with graduate-level educations claim to my face that the events of 9\/11 were some sort of government operation.<\/p>\n

The video called “Loose Change” has, in its two incarnations, become somewhat of an internet phenomenon. I’m not going to give its creators any more traffic; you can find it easily enough.<\/p>\n

It’s an elaborate mishmash of the usual looney conspirazoid “theories” about 9\/11, leading to the inevitable and, of course, entirely reasonable conclusion that it was all a government operation.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it’s a pack of lies, half-lies and outright fabrications. Just a few samples of its “evidence”:<\/p>\n