Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 For today's blogcast, I'd like to reconnect you to our ad-hoc News Department, the Political Waves list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Political_Waves/ Scanning through the earlier posting of Sept. 11 articles, there are two that I want to point out. One was written by the Planet Waves staff in 2002, called "I Was There." It's a series of personal accounts of Sept. 11, 2001 by people all over the country and a few abroad. It's a touching, personal and early private description of what we all went through at the time, when the event was much closer to memory and consciousness than it is now. Looking through it, I'm reminded of people who, in their time, made excellent contributions to Planet Waves, and who I miss dearly. Many are lurking in the background of the project to the current day, staying in touch as friends or helping out when and how they can. http://www.ericfrancis.com/issues/0209/0209nine11essays.html Then there's a piece called "Were It So." Reading this, you'll find out that I am one of the nut cases who thinks there was no jetliner crashed into the Pentagon. That is correct; that's what I think, feel and believe. Something definitely hit that building, but it was not a big airplane. I believe it was a small drone called a Global Hawk, armed with a little bunker buster conventional warhead that pierced through a bunch of layers of the structure. The article below was written six months after 9/11, at a time when it was still very nearly like committing blasphemy to not go along with the official line. After I finished the article one Friday evening, I felt a true sense of liberation like I've rarely ever felt in my life. Four years after the fact, with the political religiosity of American society toned down a little, it may even seem plausible that something other than a 757 created that explosion. I mean, no wreckage and no fireball? With the impact on military headquarters happening 59 minutes AFTER the Trade Center was hit? It's an outrageous notion. I have not read the piece in a while, but I've seen an excellent Flash animation that's been going around the Internet and which I've linked to here previously. I am familiar with many of the facts they present in that video. Since writing the article below, I have been given a lead that there was a hushed-up plane crash near the West Virginia border on Sept. 11, but I have not been able to track it down. Maybe you've heard something. http://www.ericfrancis.com/articles/wereitso.html Have a good Sunday. Yes, I'm taking some time off today -- thanks for your reminders. And thanks everyone for your excellent news leads and astrology research. It's really a pleasure to be in touch with so many readers. If anyone out there in Internet land would like to do a stint as a volunteer webmaster for a news section of Planet Waves, we do have the material, as many people suddenly seem to be taking an interest in journalism for some strange reason. Please do let me know. Meanwhile, we refer you to Political Waves and our friends at http://truthout.org. Catch you soon. I am sure you would like to read about astrology in this space one of these days. Let's make that next.     e