[kudos to Wymarshian for this one]
You would think that with a blog name of “koan911″, I would have published something on the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
Frankly, I don’t give a damn any more. (But if I had have, maybe this is what I would have posted.)
The first 2.5 seconds of the collapse of WTC7 on 9/11 were at free-fall acceleration.
This means that all major structural support in the building was removed almost instantaneously in the style of controlled demolition.
NIST, headed at the time by Arden Bement, one of the world’s leading experts on hi-tech explosives, including nanothermite, did not investigate the possibility of explosives being used in the WTC building collapses, because it simply “didn’t expect to find any”.
But meanwhile evidence of nano-thermite material, exploded and unexploded, has been found in the dust generated at the World Trade Center:
This means that NIST and the US government have deliberately covered up what they know about 9/11.
Isn’t that all you need to know about 9/11? You don’t have to believe a single word of any conspiracy theory about 9/11, (including none of the US government’s “official theory”).
No conspiracy. No controversy.
Not long ago, my neighbor, Freedom Smith, asked me this welcome question:
how did you come by your blog name, if you don’t mind me asking.
Please, call me “k9″. All my friends do. 
I find Zen attractive and useful although my knowledge about it is perhaps quite limited.
This short article, Understanding the meaning of Zen Koans, is quite illuminatory with regard to the first part of my name, kōan, (公案, “public idea”, pronounced “co-arn”), and how it might possibly connect to the second part, 9/11.
In my case, I think of 9/11 as a kōan. So that is the connection that forms my blog name.
A Zen saying:
“Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water;
after enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.”
And for my epitaph:
“heavy snow falling / my final dwelling — dead drunk / two metres under”, Kobayashi Issa
I've seen my favorite movie, The Big Lebowski, over 140 times. [CAUTION: koan911 exaggerates 115% of the time -- think of it as the truth with a gratuity.]
Last night, I black-mailed my brother into renting the movie. (It's not really a kids' movie and they left the room pretty early. I've also forced my mother to viddy it. She lasted 20 minutes. She cannot stand profanity.)
I remember hosting a private screening of this movie in Japan in 2000. About 66.6% of the way through the flick, my friend, Mizue, a rather milquetoast personality, reached for her dictionary and fumbled for a while and then turned to me to say, "I am giving up on English. I've been studying for ten years and … no progress. Why have I never heard this word, ファック [fakku], before? What does it mean?", obviously discouraged.
I was, by that point in history, always serving mandatory White Russians with every screening of The Big Lebowski, but there is no half-and-half in Japan, so I had been using dozens of those miniature cream-and-chemical-preservative cuplet packages you see in fast-food restaurants and was discovering a rather devastating, cumulative effect. "Just a guy-word, Miz…no real import", I mumbled, lying face-down in the rug, wondering what readily-available ingredient to substitute in the future. Being Japanese, she understood that concept readily.
So this morning, my brother (voluntarily!) ran the movie again, and with English subtitles. I love that. A habit I picked up from one of the most eloquently articulate persons I know, a Nigerian buddy — English, nevertheless, not his native language (and fast becoming not mine, the rate at which senility is setting in.) In the opening scene with the Dude shopping for half-and-half at Ralphs, cut with flashes from George Herbert Anti-Christ Walker Bush's "this aggression against Kuwait will not stand" speech, the Dude signs the check (for 0.69c) with the date, 9/11/1991. Hell's Bells!! Ten years to the day before "Son of Geo." got his chance to go settle family scores with Saddam for once and all.
Thank you, little brother, for pointing that out. (People may not know this about koan911, but I collect trivia about September 11th, another day that will live in National Security infamy.) I rushed forthwith here to the "desk of koan911" to make a breathless report, only to find… there is nothing new under the sun. [The speech was indeed made on 9/11/91.] The conspiracy nuts are all over this one…
Oh well. (Despite my best efforts), there are probably still a few people out there who haven't seen this movie, so I hope this post will provide just one more incentive for those to get on the ball… 
[This post authorized by koan911; all names changed to protect the innocent; koan911 may or may not be my real name; my real name may or may not be "George Bush", ptthhh!!]
