9/11 Film Festival, 2025
On 9/11 last week 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 one state, I think New York, maybe others, has revised training manuals 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, for 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 (from the same notes). Below is full information about the festival. What great people, the organizers and participants. 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.
The struggle climaxed at the end of America’s Act 2 with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Now America was controlled by those who want to rule the world’s resources without concern for anyone’s rights, and America died, and Act 3 ended, with 9/11 and the USA Patriot Act, which obliterated our Constitutional rights. America is dead because we don’t live under the Constitution. That’s what 9/11 did. That’s what 9/11 means.
What could/should we do?
We could re-create America by spreading the truth of 9/11, and other horrible truths, to arouse as many as possible to be as brave and hard-working as the founders. We could identify with the power of love and learn what consciousness and reality really seem to be.
Throughout history many have claimed that this is something of a dream where love creates and fear destroys. We experience our true self – infinite love and consciousness – when we love others as our self. We only have what we give to others, in thought, word, and deed, because there are no “others” and all we do is create.
These ideas help us face the horrors of the world and not be like those who inflict them. If haters and killers make us hate and kill, they make us hate and kill ourselves. We should investigate and prosecute crimes. But we should also love and encourage ourselves and others, so everyone has the best chance to love and enjoy life and to create consciously and intentionally.
Two great books about these things are:
… and …
I highly recommend them.
The search for the truth about anything often leads to the truth about ourselves. “Know thyself” was written on the temple of Apollo at Delphi. When enough of us comfort and empower ourselves by comforting and empowering others, we’ll have enough of us to turn things around in our government and get the truth about things like 9/11, so they do not happen again.
The end.
Here’s information about the recent film festival, from sf911truth.org.
We dedicate this 21st Annual Film Festival to Roland Angle, 1942-2025, past Chairman of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and to Joanna Macy, 1929-2025, deep-ecologist, Buddhist, scholar, teacher, author, famously “in love” with the world.
Our event is Thursday, September 11, 2025!
Bonnie Faulkner, host of Guns and Butter, will again open the annual film festival.
We are honored to be joined this year by three distinguished speakers:
Retired Captain Raul Angulo authored the textbook, Engine Company Fireground Operations, 4th Edition, and has instructed internationally. He is a 38-year veteran of the Seattle (WA) Fire Department and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Fire Apparatus and Emergency Equipment magazine. He is a core member of Firefighters for 9/11 Truth.
Bruce de Torres, author of GOD, SCHOOL, 9/11 AND JFK: The Lies That Are Killing Us and The Truth That Sets Us Free, Director of Communications for the American Small Business League, host of Reality with Bruce de Torres, and co-host of America with Lloyd Chapman and Bruce de Torres. He posts on Substack.
Amber Yang is a media educator, restorative justice practitioner, and bridge-builder in a time of social division. She is the Director of WantToKnow.Info, a nonprofit information service founded by a State Dept. whistleblower in 2003 with a mission to educate the public about high-level corruption, cover-ups, and the powerful forces creating positive change and transformation.
This Year’s Films
Beyond Bravo 7, sequel to the outstanding Calling Out Bravo 7, produced by Fire Fighters for 9/11 Truth. [We showed Calling Out Bravo 7 in 2020, almost decided to show it again, as it is one of the best 9/11 truth documentaries, but then we learned about the sequel…] The cover-up of 9/11, is quite revealing, indicating how our world operates. Beyond Bravo-7 examines why and how 9/11 disinformation has lasted as long as it has, detailing how propagandized we are in the West, offering clues to where global power sits, the only power capable of achieving pervasive control and manipulation. [If you can, see Calling Out Bravo 7 first!]
9/11: From Crime Scene to Courtroom. Produced by Richard Gage, AIA, Founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth in cooperation with the Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Truth. We will be showing Part 2, “The Fires of WTC 7 — and the Deception of NIST,” 2024, an excerpt from the series designed to present evidence to a Grand Jury, directed by Michele Lastella. Featuring Firefighter Raul Angulo and Firefighter Erik Lawyer from Seattle FD. Fire Chief & Commissioner Chris Gioia from Franklin Square in NY, Highrise Architect David Mack, and Fire Protection Engineer Brendan Mur.
Footprints of War, Nature under Fire, 2014 Documentary by Maximilian Mönch which covers the devastating historical panorama of the environmental consequences of war.
Transforming the War Machine, One Human Story at a Time, 2025 produced by Amber Yang
As part of our tribute to Joanna Macy, we will be showing-Why The World Needs You To Feel Again, 2025, by Sustainable Human, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to evolve human consciousness such that our society becomes capable of living in harmony with each other and the biosphere.
Tribute to A/E Truth leader Roland Angle, Civil Engineer, 2025, produced by Ken Jenkins, Co-Founder of the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance, 9/11 Truth pioneer.
Excellent talk you gave! Re. Senator Ron Johnson, I heard him speak this week in DC at the 911 Turning Point conference. He is urging Firefighters and 911 Truth experts to organize a citizens grand jury. Former Rep. Curt Weldon is for this approach as well. I had one-on-one chats with both former Rep. Dennis Kucinich who gave a rousing speech and Weldon. Aaron Good presented vast overview of "whodunnit" about the deep state and connections. The third and last day looked into the Pentagon 911 attack. David Chalmer gave a credible talk with details that it was indeed Flight 77 airliner that hit the Pentagon while others believe evidence points to a missile or bomb. May the truth set us free!
Thanks for this Bruce! It's great that you wrote your talk down and I can share it with others. It was filmed, but I don't know how well the audio turned out. What you didn't say was that you helped and contributed tremendously to our event, graciously helping in innumerable ways in every moment of crisis and challenge. We are so lucky that you relocated to Northern California and so generously gave us so much of your precious time! Now that the Film Festival is over, I will have more time to put your recommendations on my "To Read List" thank-you again. I also think that the tide is turning and that the network of friendship and love that were nurtured by this shared experience will continue to grow!