Reality with Bruce de Torres 70: Reflections on 9/11

On 9/11, 2025, I spoke at the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance’s 21st Annual Film Festival (sf911truth.org).

Breaking news, I felt, was shared by retired firefighter Captain Raul Angulo, a 38-year veteran of the Seattle, WA Fire Department who authored the textbook, Engine Company Fireground Operations, 4th Edition, has instructed internationally, and is a core member of Firefighters for 9/11 Truth.

He said that training manuals are being revised to include the possibility of high-rise collapse, to conform with the lie that WTC Building 7 "collapsed" due to office fires. That is dangerous and outrageous, he explained, because it will change and inhibit what firefighters will do, making them less effective and putting civilians more at risk.

I called my talk “Reflections on 9/11.” Here is the gist of what I said. Enjoy.

Reflections on 9/11 by Bruce de Torres

What happened?

What does it mean?

What could/should we do about it?

What happened was that many people found that the government and media lied about what happened. Many people wrote books, made documentaries, spread the word, and organized to spread the word and protest. I wrote a book, GOD, SCHOOL, 9/11 AND JFK: The Lies That Are Killing Us and The Truth That Sets Us Free. (Read the amazing reviews at brucedetorres.com.)

Now Senator Ron Johnson and other prominent people are also exposing the lies. Senator Johnson especially should be contacted, maybe every month, with encouragement and urged to launch a new investigation. When enough of us of clamor for the truth, perhaps enough of our representatives will be moved to help.

What does it mean?

Like Lincoln said, “If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.”

I say that 9/11 means that we are no longer America.

Stories are often told in three acts. The beginning, middle, and end. In Act 1, we meet the hero and their nemesis. Then something happens that throws the story into Act 2, a big adventure. A big challenge. In The Wizard of Oz, it’s the tornado. Act 2 ends with the climax, not the end of the story. The meeting or confrontation that throws the story into Act 3 and to the end. In The Wizard of Oz, that’s when Dorothy douses the Witch and she melts and then Dorothy makes her way to the end, when she goes home.

America’s Act 1 was the founding, with the nemesis being the British Empire, whose loyalists resisted our industrialization and development, to maintain the colonial economy of wealth and resource extraction. They are well represented by the secret society at Yale University, Skull and Bones, formed in 1832. The Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln threw the story into Act 2. That generation was wiped out and wounded, allowing a generation or two of Skull and Bones members and their kind to capture our government and society in service to the British Empire’s goals of subjugating and exploiting other countries.

A must-read book about that is by Anton Chaitkin called Who We Are: America’s Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy, Volumes 1 and 2. (He’s writing Volume 3 now.) Many resisted and tried to keep America working for the improvement and elevation of not only the American people but also other nations, so no nation or empire could subjugate or exploit another.

REALITY WITH BRUCE DE TORRES

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