Amen brother amen. I started researching from exactly the same perspective and I applaud you for having it.

In fact, January 6 was a big breaking point for me. I have never voted for a Republican in my life and was never any fan of Donald Trump, but the insistence that January 6th was an insurrection was indeed insulting stupid. I spent weeks trying to unravel how one group of people was so intent on demonstrating that there was an organized and planned conspiracy to “attack” the capitol, but this same group was totally and completely uninterested in any of the video of Ray Epps that seemed to prove that exact thing. It was baffling and frustrating and infuriating.

And it led me to a video by someone named “Wooz News” that presented what at the time was a shocking explanation. (It’s not as shocking to me now, as I’ve now seen video analysis of the same type for the Boston Bombing, Sandy Hook, Vegas, 9/11 and others from Pekay, Sophia Smallstorm, Dallas Goldbug and others).

I encourage you to start with the Wooz News video and then check out the others.

The basic claim, which sounds insane until you actually examine the ample evidence, is that there are organized emergency drills that occasionally “go live” which essentially means they are reported to the media as live events. This is actually detailed at length in the Department of Homelabd Security’s HSEEP manual, the industry standard policy manual for conducting these drills - the media is frequently not told the event was just a drill until it’s over (and, these filmmakers argue, sometimes are never told). One wild example is the Taft High School shooting a week after Sandy Hook, where the media admits that the students were drilling a shooting when the shooter came in (what the hell are the odds. Another example is Uvalde where multiple students told the news that they had done “a drill” that day.

With that in mind, to answer your question - on 9/11, it is acknowledged that 4 war games were being run during the morning of the attacks. The war games simulated hijacked airplanes being flown into buildings, and spoofed FAA radars with planes. Famously, one FAA operator asked “is this real world, or is this exercise”. While these war games are acknowledged, they for some insane reason didn’t make it into the Commission Report.

9/11 was a series of emergency exercises that “went live” combined with a controlled demolition of those towers and a hijacking of the airwaves. Yes, the major networks often do “pool reports” where one network feeds the others the content. (Incidentally the Jan 6 committee was entirely a pool report from ABC, I had this explained to me by a Fox employee. He also told me the script for the Committee Hearings contained parentheticals, ie stage direction on emotional cues for how to say the lines)

There’s a documentary called September Clues that analyzes this last theory in depth, showing all the timing and cues that suggest one broadcast was performed from the same studio across all the major networks. I suspect it was run from inside Giuliani’s “terrorism headquarters” inside WTC7.

That documentary is the most thorough in demonstrating how there was actually only one “live” shot of a “plane” hitting anything, how it is deeply deeply flawed, and how the rest of the shots are created later (amateur footage) but the hook is already in.

You also made a great point - how was anyone on the ground fooled? They weren’t. There are exactly two kinds of people who were “on the ground” that morning, if you watch through the footage. People who seem confused and unsure when you talk about a plane, and others who are SURE they saw a plane, and they know exactly where it was flying and how fast and what kind of plane it was and this was definitely some kind of terrorist attack (crisis actors). It’s also worth noting that the many many people who heard multiple explosions of controlled demolition are confident of what they heard, but it’s not like these people who saw a plane - they’re not hyper determined to convince you.

To draw some of these conclusions, you have to watch as much footage as you can, which I did (and referred to in my original post). The techniques of all these events are extremely familiar to me as I work in fiction film, where the artifice is admitted. But it’s the exact same techniques taking place in news media and for the exact same reason - to get your eyeballs, make you feel a certain way, be a part of the group, manipulate you, make you feel something.

I hope this helps, I’m happy to find links to any sources you want to see, I’m happy to discuss this til the cows come home; I’m extremely admiring of your attitude about the pursuit of truth. We’ve been lied to for too long to stay duped. Cheers 🍻