Watching Zeitgeist really opened my eyes on other theories out there that challenge goverment authority, global issues and media exposure. The part I needed to watch was part 2 in the documentary. It starts by theorising an idea that the goverment was part of the 9/11 attacks, with accusations that the President and Osama Bin Laden were connected, the buildings infrastructer was tampered with and even evidences conferences with congressman who completely ignore important facts that challenge the ‘terriost attack’.

Starting off there was articles being pulled up about the CIA running scenarios of planes crashing into the Pentagon and the World Trade Centers two years before 9/11, so they were perfectly aware of the procedure to take to avoid a scenerio like 9/11. I’ve searched for these articles online from New York Times and they do actually exists and were not just fornicated for the documentary. It also claims that George Bush had a relationship with Osama and his family, stating that on the day of 9/11 George was meeting Osama’s brother at a Carlye Group function. The Carlye Group is said to be directly linked with some of the world’s largest defense contractors, who made much profit on the post 9/11 anti-terrorism programme. This however cannot be proved, I’m trying to keep a very open mind whilst researching and try not to get too caught up in what the documentaries are informing me. The one part that got me was talking about the infrastructure of the building, with it interviewing the engineers who designed the builing it was pretty evident that something strange may have went on. The building collapsed in a pancake fashion, very similar to a controlled demolition as there was no resistance whatsoever. Even if the floors did heat enough to collapse they would fall through and leave the steel body still standing. Jet engine fuel burns at 

1500 degrees yet molten steel which was over 2000 degrees was found at the bottom of the rubble even 5 weeks after the attack. It leaves you thinking to yourself, how is it that jet engine fuel managed to completely melt the infrastructure to the point the entire frame and building topples into what looked like molten lava. Another thing was there was images of parts of the building found that looked like they had been sliced, just like a controlled demolition. This cannot be proven its from 9/11 though. The final thing I want to go over was the completely disintegrated planes that hit the Pentagon and the Shanksville crash site, now I used to be a little obsessed with planes when I was younger, especially after 9/11 so I used to watch Air Crash Investigations. I can say in confidence that every single plane crash accounted for, not matter the situation, always left rubble, body parts, and other parts of the plane scattered around the crash site.

After watching the documentary it really opened my mind on what issues the goverment chose not address, how it portrayed 9/11 across mainstream media and the message it sent out which still effects the minds in society in this present day. I am still having a very open minded view on the documentary as reading other peoples criticisms on the internet made me realise not to take everything as the truth. However it does seem apparent that something is not quite right about the situation, and the way the president dealt with it afterwards is very mistrusting. It also contributes towards my research on how the media portray situations and are able to give a very biased or untruthful message to the public to get them to think in a certain way. Again I think its useful to have this informatino for my proposed practical idea, to inform and educate the public.