I watched Fahrenheit 451 on Tubi and my big takeaway was being reminded that George W. Bush was just as stupid and devious as Donald Trump.
I just can't join in to this annual orgy of "comemmoration" because it's bogus. One of the better blogs on Substack is Foreign Exchanges, and Derek Davison posted an excellent piece I highly recommend. Here is a small excerpt:
"So we’ve spent 18 years and counting lashing out at perceived enemies both at home and abroad, and the toll has been, to say the least, appalling. Our thirst for vengeance has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people over the past 18 years, multiple times the number who were killed in the 9/11 attacks. Do we care? I believe some of us do, but I suspect most of us don’t. Certainly the people who performatively take to social media every year on the anniversary of 9/11 to recount Where They Were and How They Felt on that day (you know who they are) believe that nothing that’s happened since 9/11 could possibly be as horrifying as what they experienced. Which means that, on some level, they believe the lives we’ve taken around the world since then were hundreds of times less valuable, less worthy, than the lives we lost at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."
Of course, we've been manipulated into that old fear and outrage again in these past several weeks, and it culminated into the usual self pity and "why, why, why" that politicians and the media feed and use to justify our never getting past being pissed off and getting to an understanding of the part we've been playing all over the world, of supporting corrupt autocrats with horrific human rights violations, of siding unquestioningly with Israel, of scheming to take control of oil and money all over the world. We're going to do it again unless we change our ways.
I’m with this guy. I can’t get onboard with all of the self flagellating every 9/11. It is one huge pity party for the military industrial complex. How about we have annual memorials for the children gunned down in schools a few times every year by our own home grown terrorists?
Pity? No. It's all about Americans being told to be angry and afraid, and keeping them in that state because that's when they're willing to go along with the program, where America fights wars based on lies and our democracy slips away. The Patriot Act is an example of what happens when we don't understand that we would be much safer if we'd stop provoking these terrorist attacks.
Thanks for the brilliance that you continue to send to me and that I pass along to my grandchildren!
Michael, I fear for your life. You are a very dangerous man to many who despise the truth...please continue to do what you do, take care of yourself and let others watch out for your safety and help your message get out into the world.
If you can think of anything (In addition to my financial support) that a heathy, enthusiastic, passionate 84 year old bubbie can do, don't hesitate to contact me!
💜💜💜💜Oh, @Barbara, this is Valerie, aka Purple Heart Lady, this is sooo beautiful and true what you write. I feel the same about Michael. I wish I could support and look after him, I have even volunteered to do something or anything, but I am 61 and sick myself and feel bad because I don’t have transportation, or financial means at all. But I told him, if he can make a way, I would in a heartbeat. I adore this gentleman. You are a dear lady. Michael has never answered me back on here. 😪😪. nenaanaya55@gmail.com 💜💜. Maybe one day, he will surprise me. I live alone, have no family, and need something to do. His writings and podcasts inspire me each day to want to wake up, have something to look forward to, and he makes my days brighter, happier, healthier, and takes away my pain which I have constantly due to a very rare condition. I use Purple Hearts to Stand Out from the others so he knows it’s me. Once again, beautiful message about MM. I pray he reaches out to me to protect him. LOL. I would volunteer to Sincerely help him in anyway with anything. @Michael, I hope you see and read this and all my others on different posts too and reach out. Please in the meantime, be safe. 💜💜💜💜
The only people Michael has to fear are the right-wingers in Traverse City on the odd occasion when he visits there. The government has already written him off as an outlier whose work, while substantial and truthful, is largely ignored by the Illuminati. Unfortunately, Mr. Moore doesn't have as wide a following as even Al-Qaeda these days, which is sad.
Thanks for sharing this. Your tone in this piece brings me back to more accurate memories of the time. Seeing Bush's smirking face in Fahrenheit 9/11 reminded me who he really is, not the guy that was "at least not as bad as Trump". Yes, I remember now.
I attended the 1972 Olympics in Munich, not as a competitor, but as the guest of a German who I had met and been pen pals with throughout high school. I had been a competitive springboard diver and swimmer so the idea of attending the Olympics in any capacity was a dream come true. We stayed at my friend’s brother’s apartment in Munich that was essentially across the street from the Olympic Village. We awoke one morning to the site of heavily armed soldiers and tanks in the streets. Did East Germany invade? Were we suddenly in the midst of a war zone? Scary stuff. We spent the day listening to the radio with my friend translating for me. At dusk, we watched the helicopters take off for the airport. We could clearly see all the athletes, blindfolded with hands cuffed behind their backs, looking truly terrified. The terrorists sat across from them, stone faced, guns pointed at the athletes. It’s an image permanently seared into every cell of my brain. My first thought was “They’re all dead.” My second thought was “There but for the grace of God go I.” We were listening to a German reporter live from the airport when all hell broke loose. No translation was needed for the sound of gunfire and screaming.
Years later my ex-husband and I bought our wedding rings in the World Trade Center. I worked just a couple blocks away and used to walk over to the WTC on my lunch hour to buy same day tickets for Broadway shows at a greatly reduced price. Every morning on my way to work the first thing I saw coming up out of the subway were the twin towers, eventually coming to inspire me with their soaring elegance the same way that Pike’s Peak used to elevate my spirit when I lived in its shadow.
All these experiences are greatly personal to me, and yet, I have somehow managed to never buy into the BS pooped out to us by our nation’s most ardent warmongers. Terrorism sucks, no doubt about it, but our nation has unfortunately been more perpetrator than victim.
An eye for an eye just leaves the whole world blind.
Thank you Michael for this Fahrenheit 911 movie night on Friday. However, it made me feel physically ill as it progressed. I watched the "elites" shaking hands, making deals, laughing it up across the globe (USA to Saudi Arabia) and it started to dawn on me that 911 could have been "in the works" for awhile. It sure didn't take long for Congress to pass the Patriot Act!!!
The people in the "seats of power" would be my first choice of Persons of Interest in any investigation of 911 and the subsequent 20- year shake-up of American Democracy. While it might be natural for everyday humans to seek dominance over others it takes an extraordinarily depraved human to be willing to sacrifice the life and liberty of thousands of people, at once to stay on top. Anybody else feeling sick?
The clip of Dubya trying not to laugh in the seconds before he was to address the nation on live television always floors me. I just cannot understand why he's been forgiven by most of the country because he was every bit as cynical as Trump. And Bush served two terms and left office with an approval rating of 28%.
A lot of people are still sick after 20 years, really sick from all the debris from the building collapse. We will never know the true cost of that day, it is the taking lives!
I am always sickened by the greed of the 1% and how they go about acquiring $$.
Thank you for replaying Fahrenheit 9/11. It was chilling to watch and it was good to be reminded about all the things I had learned from it 20 years ago that the intervening time has made me forget. I’ve been enjoying being a member of your Substack. How can young people get more involved in the work that you are doing? Do you have internships?
Thank you Michael as I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 again last evening, it reminded me how much I loathe the Bush dynasty. I have ranted for years, as have you, that the Saudis were those responsible and why were we invading and killing innocent people who had nothing to do with that horrible disaster and the loss of lives here. Please continue to report truth, as there is so little to be found in the news reports today. Stay safe!
It always feel right to mourn the loss of life, whether accidental, intentional or for any other reason. What doesn't feel right is not to honor all of those who our country has labeled as collateral damage, when revenging our own losses.
Michael, I watched your magnificent movie for the umpteenth time from South Africa. It was around 3am when it started, and after it ended, I watched your wonderful guests. You are heaven sent, and bloody brave. I love and admire so much about the States, but have to admit, the greed, willful ignorance and lies by the Right is making us all a bit crazy at the moment. We lived through the Apartheid years here, and so much of the Nationalistic fervor takes me back to a terrible past. Unfortunately many of our own Right Wing LOVE what’s happening in America. Will we never learn? Anyway, Michael, there’s you, and there’s me and there are countless others who choose humanity, and reject the lies, greed and utter selfishness. We cannot give up. With gratitude and enormous respect,
What you went through during the Apartheid I can only imagine..
I am having a very hard time watching our nation go through this pandemic, if only we had a stable captain at the helm in the very beginning, it might have been a whole different story! We will never know! Listening to Michael’s podcasts saved my sanity.
He is the truth teller of our time.
I am a supporter! Just got some of his books on audible. I love his voice, it soothes my soul!
Dearest Susan, thank you for you kind words, and like you, I crave truth in a world led by skilled tricksters, and the willingness of so many to support even the most obvious lies, along with the harm and suffering those lies cause. It is all too easy to look away or to become so despondent, believing that we are helpless to change any of it. And then, one hears a lone voice of a man who - at a time when others are silent, stands up and says what nobody else dares to even think - and we recognize the authenticity of not only his message, but also his intention. And you are right, Michael has had a profound effect on me too, because I need to know that courage, integrity and compassion are not dead in a world gone mad. I don’t know how he hasn’t given up in despair, but I sincerely hope he never does, because as long as he continues to speak, we will continue to listen and not give up ourselves. I wish you only the very best, Susan - it’s comforting to know good people exist 💐
Your response made my heart swell with love! To know that there are like minds all over the world and we connected over our love of the truth. The truth seekers of the world are uniting, Michael is our beacon of truth!
💜💜💜💜💜💜Susan, I agree, 1,000,000%. I would like to become a Uranium member, but not even sure what this is or about. Can you help me here on this or my email is listed above on a reply to Barbara Susan. Michael ‘s podcast ‘s makes me want to live a day longer because he uplifts me with HOPE in all he feels and thinks and says. I feel as he does, but he is our voice indeed. We need him. I need him desperately daily. 💜💜💜💜💜💜. I truly feel depressed, and down, and in more pain when I don’t see something from him. I have to check out audible too. Are these new from MM? Your words were beautiful and touched me. Thank You sooo dearly and I hope you reply back.
Michael’s voice soothes my soul. His podcast saved my sanity at a time when I was on the edge of despair. I would listen to him for hours at a time. When I had listened to every episode, I listen to my favorites again!
I listen to audio books and
found a few by Michael.
I will be all set now!
I look forward to his letters! Thank you for your kind words! We can talk about future letters from Michael.
Michael you’re like that scene from the Wizard of Oz when the curtain is pulled back and the banality of the wizard is revealed; I can’t help but think that the techniques of deception which are used on us are so easily forgotten unless we go back to review what happens during these momentous periods of history; I couldn’t help but think of the similarities of the techniques that George W. Bush used and say Donald Trump used. I think it’s important that we review events and I think your films and your writings or an important part of that review process. And by the way what’s so bad about peace and love?
Thank you for sharing your work. You answered my question about the musical direction without my asking. I am amazed at people who can take music and weave their own ideas into the published works of other musicians. I’m interested to see how Endeavour on PBS will be scored this season. Their long time musical director,Barrington Phelong has died. I remember watching an episode with a friend in Midland. During the opening credits they made use of Un Bel Di from Puccini’s Butterfly. I turned to her and said…..”murder mystery with a suicide” ? She said “how do you know that”? “It’s in the music”. Your attention to the details are spot on but it takes more than one viewing to catch everything. I look forward to what comes next.
Thank you, thank you, Michael for sharing. One of my friends lost her husband in the second tower. I live in Colorado, so we spent hours on the phone after the horror and shock. She has never recovered emotionally.
Your reflections help all of us old enough to remember just how horrifically that day began and for those not yet born or too young to be aware it will serve as a stark reminder of the vulnerability of our world. Anything can happen and does many times because of the greed and arrogance of people in our country as well as others. Your interview on ABC tied together so well the fact that we still have not learned the lessons of peace. Until we bring our military home from those 800 posts in other countries, stop funding the military more than we do the services and people in the USA and vote the warmongers out of office, we are complicit in the bloodshed here and abroad. Thanks, Michael. You are a jewel that just keeps shining!
I watched Fahrenheit 451 on Tubi and my big takeaway was being reminded that George W. Bush was just as stupid and devious as Donald Trump.
I just can't join in to this annual orgy of "comemmoration" because it's bogus. One of the better blogs on Substack is Foreign Exchanges, and Derek Davison posted an excellent piece I highly recommend. Here is a small excerpt:
"So we’ve spent 18 years and counting lashing out at perceived enemies both at home and abroad, and the toll has been, to say the least, appalling. Our thirst for vengeance has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people over the past 18 years, multiple times the number who were killed in the 9/11 attacks. Do we care? I believe some of us do, but I suspect most of us don’t. Certainly the people who performatively take to social media every year on the anniversary of 9/11 to recount Where They Were and How They Felt on that day (you know who they are) believe that nothing that’s happened since 9/11 could possibly be as horrifying as what they experienced. Which means that, on some level, they believe the lives we’ve taken around the world since then were hundreds of times less valuable, less worthy, than the lives we lost at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."
Of course, we've been manipulated into that old fear and outrage again in these past several weeks, and it culminated into the usual self pity and "why, why, why" that politicians and the media feed and use to justify our never getting past being pissed off and getting to an understanding of the part we've been playing all over the world, of supporting corrupt autocrats with horrific human rights violations, of siding unquestioningly with Israel, of scheming to take control of oil and money all over the world. We're going to do it again unless we change our ways.
I’m with this guy. I can’t get onboard with all of the self flagellating every 9/11. It is one huge pity party for the military industrial complex. How about we have annual memorials for the children gunned down in schools a few times every year by our own home grown terrorists?
Pity? No. It's all about Americans being told to be angry and afraid, and keeping them in that state because that's when they're willing to go along with the program, where America fights wars based on lies and our democracy slips away. The Patriot Act is an example of what happens when we don't understand that we would be much safer if we'd stop provoking these terrorist attacks.
I will NEVER forgive Dumbya, THE DICK and the Neocon liars with their pals in the press who lied any lie to trigger war with Iraq and Afghanistan.
Whoops, I meant 911. Wow, I just gave away my age.
Mr Moore, Your humanity and refusal to give up, are a commendable and humbling example to us all … Thank you.
Thank you for reminding the world of the truth of that day. You are the real truth teller of our times!
Susan Borodemos
Thanks for the brilliance that you continue to send to me and that I pass along to my grandchildren!
Michael, I fear for your life. You are a very dangerous man to many who despise the truth...please continue to do what you do, take care of yourself and let others watch out for your safety and help your message get out into the world.
If you can think of anything (In addition to my financial support) that a heathy, enthusiastic, passionate 84 year old bubbie can do, don't hesitate to contact me!
Barbara Sarah....... barbarasarah18@gmail.com
💜💜💜💜Oh, @Barbara, this is Valerie, aka Purple Heart Lady, this is sooo beautiful and true what you write. I feel the same about Michael. I wish I could support and look after him, I have even volunteered to do something or anything, but I am 61 and sick myself and feel bad because I don’t have transportation, or financial means at all. But I told him, if he can make a way, I would in a heartbeat. I adore this gentleman. You are a dear lady. Michael has never answered me back on here. 😪😪. nenaanaya55@gmail.com 💜💜. Maybe one day, he will surprise me. I live alone, have no family, and need something to do. His writings and podcasts inspire me each day to want to wake up, have something to look forward to, and he makes my days brighter, happier, healthier, and takes away my pain which I have constantly due to a very rare condition. I use Purple Hearts to Stand Out from the others so he knows it’s me. Once again, beautiful message about MM. I pray he reaches out to me to protect him. LOL. I would volunteer to Sincerely help him in anyway with anything. @Michael, I hope you see and read this and all my others on different posts too and reach out. Please in the meantime, be safe. 💜💜💜💜
The only people Michael has to fear are the right-wingers in Traverse City on the odd occasion when he visits there. The government has already written him off as an outlier whose work, while substantial and truthful, is largely ignored by the Illuminati. Unfortunately, Mr. Moore doesn't have as wide a following as even Al-Qaeda these days, which is sad.
Thanks for sharing this. Your tone in this piece brings me back to more accurate memories of the time. Seeing Bush's smirking face in Fahrenheit 9/11 reminded me who he really is, not the guy that was "at least not as bad as Trump". Yes, I remember now.
Seeing Bush at a 9/11 memorial was an abomination of hypocrisy.
Funny, I thought the same thing. Maybe he’s trying to right his wrong. Maybe.
I attended the 1972 Olympics in Munich, not as a competitor, but as the guest of a German who I had met and been pen pals with throughout high school. I had been a competitive springboard diver and swimmer so the idea of attending the Olympics in any capacity was a dream come true. We stayed at my friend’s brother’s apartment in Munich that was essentially across the street from the Olympic Village. We awoke one morning to the site of heavily armed soldiers and tanks in the streets. Did East Germany invade? Were we suddenly in the midst of a war zone? Scary stuff. We spent the day listening to the radio with my friend translating for me. At dusk, we watched the helicopters take off for the airport. We could clearly see all the athletes, blindfolded with hands cuffed behind their backs, looking truly terrified. The terrorists sat across from them, stone faced, guns pointed at the athletes. It’s an image permanently seared into every cell of my brain. My first thought was “They’re all dead.” My second thought was “There but for the grace of God go I.” We were listening to a German reporter live from the airport when all hell broke loose. No translation was needed for the sound of gunfire and screaming.
Years later my ex-husband and I bought our wedding rings in the World Trade Center. I worked just a couple blocks away and used to walk over to the WTC on my lunch hour to buy same day tickets for Broadway shows at a greatly reduced price. Every morning on my way to work the first thing I saw coming up out of the subway were the twin towers, eventually coming to inspire me with their soaring elegance the same way that Pike’s Peak used to elevate my spirit when I lived in its shadow.
All these experiences are greatly personal to me, and yet, I have somehow managed to never buy into the BS pooped out to us by our nation’s most ardent warmongers. Terrorism sucks, no doubt about it, but our nation has unfortunately been more perpetrator than victim.
An eye for an eye just leaves the whole world blind.
Thank you Michael for this Fahrenheit 911 movie night on Friday. However, it made me feel physically ill as it progressed. I watched the "elites" shaking hands, making deals, laughing it up across the globe (USA to Saudi Arabia) and it started to dawn on me that 911 could have been "in the works" for awhile. It sure didn't take long for Congress to pass the Patriot Act!!!
The people in the "seats of power" would be my first choice of Persons of Interest in any investigation of 911 and the subsequent 20- year shake-up of American Democracy. While it might be natural for everyday humans to seek dominance over others it takes an extraordinarily depraved human to be willing to sacrifice the life and liberty of thousands of people, at once to stay on top. Anybody else feeling sick?
The clip of Dubya trying not to laugh in the seconds before he was to address the nation on live television always floors me. I just cannot understand why he's been forgiven by most of the country because he was every bit as cynical as Trump. And Bush served two terms and left office with an approval rating of 28%.
A lot of people are still sick after 20 years, really sick from all the debris from the building collapse. We will never know the true cost of that day, it is the taking lives!
I am always sickened by the greed of the 1% and how they go about acquiring $$.
On the day of the attack, I asked myself who's going to benefit the most and greatly from this attack? I was right.
Thank you for replaying Fahrenheit 9/11. It was chilling to watch and it was good to be reminded about all the things I had learned from it 20 years ago that the intervening time has made me forget. I’ve been enjoying being a member of your Substack. How can young people get more involved in the work that you are doing? Do you have internships?
Thank you Michael as I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 again last evening, it reminded me how much I loathe the Bush dynasty. I have ranted for years, as have you, that the Saudis were those responsible and why were we invading and killing innocent people who had nothing to do with that horrible disaster and the loss of lives here. Please continue to report truth, as there is so little to be found in the news reports today. Stay safe!
It always feel right to mourn the loss of life, whether accidental, intentional or for any other reason. What doesn't feel right is not to honor all of those who our country has labeled as collateral damage, when revenging our own losses.
Michael, I watched your magnificent movie for the umpteenth time from South Africa. It was around 3am when it started, and after it ended, I watched your wonderful guests. You are heaven sent, and bloody brave. I love and admire so much about the States, but have to admit, the greed, willful ignorance and lies by the Right is making us all a bit crazy at the moment. We lived through the Apartheid years here, and so much of the Nationalistic fervor takes me back to a terrible past. Unfortunately many of our own Right Wing LOVE what’s happening in America. Will we never learn? Anyway, Michael, there’s you, and there’s me and there are countless others who choose humanity, and reject the lies, greed and utter selfishness. We cannot give up. With gratitude and enormous respect,
Annie Macmillan
What you went through during the Apartheid I can only imagine..
I am having a very hard time watching our nation go through this pandemic, if only we had a stable captain at the helm in the very beginning, it might have been a whole different story! We will never know! Listening to Michael’s podcasts saved my sanity.
He is the truth teller of our time.
I am a supporter! Just got some of his books on audible. I love his voice, it soothes my soul!
Dearest Susan, thank you for you kind words, and like you, I crave truth in a world led by skilled tricksters, and the willingness of so many to support even the most obvious lies, along with the harm and suffering those lies cause. It is all too easy to look away or to become so despondent, believing that we are helpless to change any of it. And then, one hears a lone voice of a man who - at a time when others are silent, stands up and says what nobody else dares to even think - and we recognize the authenticity of not only his message, but also his intention. And you are right, Michael has had a profound effect on me too, because I need to know that courage, integrity and compassion are not dead in a world gone mad. I don’t know how he hasn’t given up in despair, but I sincerely hope he never does, because as long as he continues to speak, we will continue to listen and not give up ourselves. I wish you only the very best, Susan - it’s comforting to know good people exist 💐
Dear Annie,
Your response made my heart swell with love! To know that there are like minds all over the world and we connected over our love of the truth. The truth seekers of the world are uniting, Michael is our beacon of truth!
❤️🌻❤️
💜💜💜💜💜💜Susan, I agree, 1,000,000%. I would like to become a Uranium member, but not even sure what this is or about. Can you help me here on this or my email is listed above on a reply to Barbara Susan. Michael ‘s podcast ‘s makes me want to live a day longer because he uplifts me with HOPE in all he feels and thinks and says. I feel as he does, but he is our voice indeed. We need him. I need him desperately daily. 💜💜💜💜💜💜. I truly feel depressed, and down, and in more pain when I don’t see something from him. I have to check out audible too. Are these new from MM? Your words were beautiful and touched me. Thank You sooo dearly and I hope you reply back.
Michael’s voice soothes my soul. His podcast saved my sanity at a time when I was on the edge of despair. I would listen to him for hours at a time. When I had listened to every episode, I listen to my favorites again!
I listen to audio books and
found a few by Michael.
I will be all set now!
I look forward to his letters! Thank you for your kind words! We can talk about future letters from Michael.
Michael you’re like that scene from the Wizard of Oz when the curtain is pulled back and the banality of the wizard is revealed; I can’t help but think that the techniques of deception which are used on us are so easily forgotten unless we go back to review what happens during these momentous periods of history; I couldn’t help but think of the similarities of the techniques that George W. Bush used and say Donald Trump used. I think it’s important that we review events and I think your films and your writings or an important part of that review process. And by the way what’s so bad about peace and love?
Hello Michael Moore:
Your movie and these phrases of George Orwell complement each other:
- "The War is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous."
- "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
the war in Irak was a tragic excuse for profits.
The US needs to focus on the real problems at home and stop invading poor countries.
Thank you Michael for the work you do.
Thank you for sharing your work. You answered my question about the musical direction without my asking. I am amazed at people who can take music and weave their own ideas into the published works of other musicians. I’m interested to see how Endeavour on PBS will be scored this season. Their long time musical director,Barrington Phelong has died. I remember watching an episode with a friend in Midland. During the opening credits they made use of Un Bel Di from Puccini’s Butterfly. I turned to her and said…..”murder mystery with a suicide” ? She said “how do you know that”? “It’s in the music”. Your attention to the details are spot on but it takes more than one viewing to catch everything. I look forward to what comes next.
Thank you, thank you, Michael for sharing. One of my friends lost her husband in the second tower. I live in Colorado, so we spent hours on the phone after the horror and shock. She has never recovered emotionally.
Your reflections help all of us old enough to remember just how horrifically that day began and for those not yet born or too young to be aware it will serve as a stark reminder of the vulnerability of our world. Anything can happen and does many times because of the greed and arrogance of people in our country as well as others. Your interview on ABC tied together so well the fact that we still have not learned the lessons of peace. Until we bring our military home from those 800 posts in other countries, stop funding the military more than we do the services and people in the USA and vote the warmongers out of office, we are complicit in the bloodshed here and abroad. Thanks, Michael. You are a jewel that just keeps shining!