There are flakes in this photo. We promise.

​It's actually winter! Kind of...The city is seeing some light snow this morning. The National Weather Service predicts accumulation of less than one inch. It's not much, but it's something in this winter that hasn't always really felt like winter. According to a NY1 report from last night, the Department of Sanitation was put under snow alert at 10 p.m. Because of the threat of powder, the MTA scrapped some weekend subway work. (Don't get your hopes up, L riders. Or for that matter, you people planning on taking on the 1, 2 or 7.) Regardless, there won't be much to do in this snow. Still, it's kind of comforting to know it's there. [NWS, NY1, CBS]

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A Dutch architecture firm has designed a building in Seoul that has offended some because of its uncomfortable resemblance to the World Trade Center in a cloud of dust and smoke:

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The project, called "The Cloud," is the work of MVRDV, a firm in Rotterdam. It's intended to be luxury high-rises. This week the firm has issued a statement apologizing for "any connotations The Cloud projects evokes regarding 9/11."

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​Jeffrey Schreier, a victim of the September 11 attacks who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, had his name inscribed, along with the names of the 2,982 other victims, in the bronze memorial at Ground Zero. His family went there on Sunday to pay respects and grieve, located his name . . . and found it spelled wrong, "Jeffery" instead of "Jeffrey." They, quite reasonably, were not happy -- "Jeffery"?

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​Yesterday, along with a lot of grief and terrible sadness, there was also courage, and hope to move on, while, of course, "never forgetting." And there was a lot of nervousness. Nervousness about a possible terror attack, which we had been warned there was a "credible" threat of. Nervousness about what happened 10 years ago, which is a kind of nervousness that will never go away and instead ebbs and flows, depending on the day and what's happening around us. Nervousness about planes in the air, and who might be flying, and who might want to do what to us. We had been urged to say something if we saw something, and so, we did. Various security incidents around the U.S. were reported, some more dramatic than others.

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And on 9/12, everything was different...

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On the 10th anniversary weekend of the September 11 attacks, every single living American blogger wrote a 9/11 memorial post. (Those who did not have been drummed out of the union.)

Rightbloggers' 9/11 posts are always interesting, so we figured they'd be extra-good for 9/11 X. We were not disappointed. While some mercifully contented themselves with anodyne reminiscences ("On this day we remember those who died and those who became heroes, during that tragic wake up call," etc), many took the occasion to reflect on the treacherousness of America's sworn enemies, namely Democrats and liberals.

At Andrew Breitbart's Big Government, for example, John Nolte informed us that "9/11 Only Paused the Left's Attack on America."

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​Nine years, 23 hours, and 55 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, economist Paul Krugman published a peculiar post to his New York Times blog. He titled it, "The Years of Shame," and it briskly bemoans the fact that 9/11 has become a wedge issue. He says, "The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it." There is a complex and highly difficult series of points he wants to make, but Krugman makes almost no effort to elaborate; the post is merely 181 words, including the final sentence: "I'm not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons."

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​With the 9/11 commemoration taking place in lower Manhattan as well as two presidents' presence and the elevated security measures following a "credible, but unconfirmed" threat of a "vehicle-borne" terrorist attack, there are a myriad of street closures in New York today. Plan for a complicated commute all day, with unforeseen security measures being a very real possibility. After the jump, a list the locations and times of street closures.

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​Commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks are being held around the country to remember those lost a decade ago. At the site of the World Trade Center memorial--which opens to the general public tomorrow--President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush will speak, as well as other officials who will give short readings. You can watch a live stream here. [NYC.gov]

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von Bulow: CIA blew up the World Trade Center

There are 9/11 conspiracy nuts who are nuts and then there's German politician Andreas von Bülow, a member of the center-left Social Democrats who spent 25 years in the Bundestag and was Helmut Schmidt's Minister for Research and Technology for a few years in the '80s.

Von Bülow's The CIA and September 11 (Die CIA und der 11.September) blames the CIA for directly causing the 9/11 deaths and destruction. Der Spiegel's Christian Stöcker has a good piece on the guy -- the excellent German news magazine has notably debunked him time and again, especially one of his claims that the 9/11 hijackers are in fact still alive. But like those "zombie terrorists," as Der Spiegel derisively called them, von Bülow's ideas won't stay dead, and his book still sells. He remains reasonable-sounding and may in fact be the only mainstream-type guy who is greatly admired by both left-wing and right-wing radicals.

His theory is at least interesting, considering that he rightly points out that the U.S. government has pathologically lied about so much stuff, so why not this? In his view, the CIA didn't screw up and allow 9/11 to happen. The spy agency actually did the bad deeds. As if the CIA could get it together enough to pull something like that off.

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