Loose Change is an internet film written and directed by Dylan Avery, produced by Korey Rowe with researcher Jason Bermas. The film presents a 9/11 conspiracy theory to set forth the claim that elements within the United States government planned and executed the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

It was one of the most watched films on the Internet, with over 10 million viewers, in 2006.

The accuracy and fairness of Loose Change has been heavily disputed by the counter-video Screw Loose Change, Popular Mechanics, media outlets and independent researchers. On September 11, 2006 Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas appeared on "Democracy Now! the War and Peace Report", to debate James Meigs and David Dunbar, two editors of Popular Mechanics and the book Debunking 9/11 Myths.

The film has been edited and re-released in a second edition, then recut again removing some of the inaccuracies that were in previous editions. A further "final cut" version was originally planned for release on September 11 2006, but was delayed and is now pushed back to "late summer 2007."

View the debunking video "Screw Loose Change" here.















Download a DVD quality version of Loose Change 2nd Edition by torrent here

Producers Note: "Loose Change 2nd Edition contains unlicensed footage including, without limitation, copyrighted footage owned by FOX, CNN, NBC, CSPAN and Camera Planet, as well as Gedeon and Jules Naudet and James Hanlon, directors of the documentary film entitled "9/11 - The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition."

The views expressed in Loose Change may not represent the views of the copyright owners or the individuals featured in such footage. With respect to the Naudet brothers and Mr. Hanlon, out of sensitivity to and respect for the victims' families, they have consistently refused to license any of their footage (with the sole exception of footage of the first plane striking Tower 1, which is thought to be the only footage of this event) to anyone for any purpose, regardless of the point of view expressed in any resulting film, program or other commentary.

The Naudet brothers, Mr. Hanlon, the firefighters they interviewed for their film and Paramount (which distributes the Naudet/Hanlon film) do not endorse or support the views expressed in Loose Change."


Corrections

The original release of Loose Change Second Edition had factual inaccuracies; some of these have been corrected (or removed) in the recut Second Edition. The most notable are:

The New York's Empire State Building was not hit by a B-52 in 1945, but rather a B-25 Mitchell which is less than one-third the size of a B-52. (the first prototype B-52 would not fly for another seven years)

The suggestion that $167 billion in gold was stored in vaults beneath the World Trade Center was removed as it exceeded the entire amount of U.S. gold reserves by approximately $67 billion. The "$230 million in precious metals" stored at the WTC complex were in fact recovered.

Loose Change implies 757's only have Pratt & Whitney engines made of steel and titanium alloy, when in fact the engines used in Flight 77 are Rolls-Royce engines. Bollyn, an American Free Press reporter whom Loose Change references got the incorrect information from a factory in Indiana which makes engines for smaller aircraft; rather than the companies in Quebec and Derby that overhaul the 757 engines.

In response to some of these errors Korey Rowe, the producer of the "Second Edition", claimed in an interview:

“ We know there are errors in the documentary, and we’ve actually left them in there so that people discredit us and do the research for themselves."


More info available at the Official Loose Change Website and Blog.

Labels: 9/11 Conspiracy, Dylan Avery, Flight 93, Jason Bermas, Korey Rowe, Loose Change, Pentagon, WTC

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