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Sep 10, 2023Liked by Petra Liverani

Thank you, Petra, for giving some publicity to the late Gerard Holmgren. An original thinker who was very good at seeing through BS.

Let me add a link to 911 Closeup, which, as I'm sure you know, was Gerard's original site. The original webpage is long gone, but a copy of it is available all in one place at the web archive, in case anyone want to explore it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090309212103/http://www.911closeup.com/index.shtml

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"Fruit cakes in a fruit loop", great info.

Just FYI and just out today:

https://911revision.substack.com/p/building-7-the-real-truth-cut

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Sep 10, 2023Liked by Petra Liverani

I found this remembrance/tribute site where people who knew Gerard posted messages. There are also some videos of him playing the blues. He was a good guitarist and seems to have been a very down-to-earth bloke.

One person,Peter, wrote: "Gerard started teaching me guitar this year. I learned so quickly off him, he gave me such confidence to keep playing and didn't laugh or ridicule, at me being a newbie, a true teacher. So sad to see him get ill so quickly and pass, I believe I must have only spoken to him a week or so before he died. I am buddhist. I hope his next rebirth is a light and happy one. Peace Gerard and to his family and friends Peter"

https://respectance.com/tribute/gerard-holmgren

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Sep 10, 2023Liked by Petra Liverani

On 9/11, most of us saw war the perps meant us to see. It wasn't until 2004 that I was alerted to the story being not as it seemed, after which I became an avid "truther" for about five years, after which my enthusiasm waned.

Ever since I read and heard Gerard Holmgren explaining why they didn't use planes , I've considered "no planes" to be the most reasonable explanation. But this put me at odds with more conventional conspiracy theorists, who claimed no planes was a distraction and a ruse to make everyone who questions the official narrative look stupid.

Interestingly, the link I gave you doesn't appear on my Google search. I found it through Yandex. So it is being actively buried, which means somebody doesn't want too many people reading it.

And when you read what's on the site, you'll find that he's said some unflattering things about both Jim Fetzer and Morgan Reynolds.He labels both of them plagiarists and worse. On reading it today, my impression is he thought they were both frauds but Fetzer was the worse offender.

I also remember reading something Reynolds wrote before Holmgren died about Reynolds having invited Holmgren to a conference in the US and Holmgren declining to get involved despite Reynolds' encouragement. So I think we can conclude that he didn't like the smell of the organized 9/11 truth movement.

Given that Holmgren died so young, and so quickly, while Fetzer and Reynolds are both still with us, my intuition tells me that he may have been gotten rid of. Although I have no evidence to back up that hunch.

I don't know much else about Gerard Holmgren apart from that he was a musician and that he has a more famous brother David, who was one of the originators of the permaculture concept. Interesting, David has a Wikipedia entry, but Gerard is not mentioned in it. So again,I conclude that somebody doesn't want too many people knowing about Gerard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Holmgren

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Mar 17·edited Mar 17

And these people have the audacity to call us "tin foil hatters". If that isn't proof that they're the crazy ones, I don't know what is.

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