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Learning From September 11th

Photo by slagheap / Flickr Most people remember where they were on September 11th, 2001 – 9 years ago – when they heard the news about airliners crashing into the World Trade Center and subsequently collapsing. I was working in a skyscraper in downtown Toronto when I heard the news before we were evacuated (after ...

Charlie Sheen’s Conspiracy Theory 8

Photo “September 11th” by hankplank / Flickr Charlie Sheen has been on the offensive lately, demanding answers to questions surrounding the events of September 11th, 2001. Careful to distance himself from being just another “deluded Hollywood liberal”, Sheen simply wants answers from the government and is demanding a “truly independent congressional investigation into 9/11 and ...

The city that saved Mark Wahlberg

I was talking yesterday with my super-awesome cousin Jessica about how I like Mark Wahlberg (as an actor) ever since he played the role of “Tommy Corn” in I Heart Huckabees (2004). Wahlberg’s character Tommy Corn was a Fireman and environmentalist who rides his bike everywhere because he can’t bring himself to consume petroleum and ...

The original 9/11 plan

In between studying I’ve been reading through the 9/11 Commission report. My personal opinion is that the investigation done by the 9/11 Commission was very thorough, and they have done a good job trying to turn over every rock relating to the events leading to 9/11. Not all of the 9/11 report has been declassified ...

5 years later – Save us Oprah 1

Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of the horrific September 11th attacks. Every person in North America and many other places around the world remember what they were doing at the exact time they found out about the commercial airliner attacks on the World Trade Center. As a 21-year student working in a large office building ...

Fear fear fear!

You must have fear people. Reading the American news the last couple days you might be fearful of an apparent imminent threat, another “September 11th” in the works. But upon further investigation when reading the small print on CNN, you will notice that the individuals who were planning an attack on a UK airliner have ...