A commercial airline being flown directly into one of two World Trade Centers in New
York City on the morning of September 11, 2001
(photo courtesy of a friend of a friend of a friend of actor Jonas Moses.)
In spite of the horror that has occurred to our United States this morning of
September 11, 2001, the management of Dream Masters Studios, LLC. asks that we all
remember that:
We are Americans
We were born from a fight for liberty
We offer anyone in the world who wants to join us as an American the opportunity to
do so
And that ... in times like this ... all American's must not be guided by emotion or
unfounded SUSPICION or JUDGMENT of our neighbors, but call upon the "standing
tall" spirit in all Americans to join together in mind, heart, body, and spirit to do
our part, wherever we may be, to assist in both recovery, and a watchful eye, as we
can. Needless to say, our condolences are extended to those who have lost loved
ones.
- Joseph Palermo, Executive Producer, DMS, LLC.
SPECIAL NOTE:
----- Original Message -----
From: rambld <rambld@erols.com>
To: <rambld@erols.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: Friday Night at 7:00 p.m.
> Friday Night at 7:00 p.m. step out your door, stop your car, or step
> out of your establishment and light a candle. We will show the world that
> Americans are strong and united together against terrorism.
> Please pass this to everyone on your e-mail list. We need to reach
> everyone across the United States quickly.
> The message: WE STAND UNITED -
> WE WILL NOT TOLERATE TERRORISM!
Commentary we've received about this historic September 11, 2001 day
Our hearts and prayers are with our firends in the United States of
America this very tragic day.
I am also asking people to send us a message... a prayer... to our friends in the US which
will be posted at www.xzone-radio.com/USA and
people can send us their comments for positing at america_under_attack@hotmail.com.
Thank-you Joseph....
Please, be safe - our thoughts and prayers are with you all.
We are 15 miles away and the wind is strong blowing toward what use to be the
WTC.
Fighters are overhead.
My immediate family is OK but an elderly aunt is missing in NYC.
This sucks big time.
ADDITIONAL E-MAIL ...
Boy, this still sucks.
Yesterday the wind shifted toward us. The air was so thick you could see, smell,
taste and even feel it. So I took Brad out of school and took him to my Mom's.
Later, TV confirmed what was obvious to me: this is very, very bad air. Lots of PCB's and
Asbestos.
Cash here has stopped moving since the markets are closed. Clients are calling
asking where to send their 401(k) deposits because addresses no longer exist.
One blessing is that my secretary's brother left his job last Friday on the 72nd Floor of
the WTC to move to Florida.
Will try to call you (Jonas Moses) this weekend.
PRAYERS FOR PEACE
By focusing our attention on Peace, Love & Joy,
we can and will change the flow of events around
the world and in our homes.
Our love is strong, and shines like the sun.
Each of us lit brightly illuminates the worlds
around us, and together we bring light to even
the farthest reaches of space.
To help us stay focused today on the idea of Peace,
here are twelve prayers of peace from spiritual
people from faiths around the world, as I found
on the http://www.lightshift.com web site today.
Wishing you all the best that life has to offer,
Cynthia Larson
Dear Friends, Colleagues & Associates:
I would like to start off by telling all of you who live in the great United States of
America, that my prayers and thoughts are with each and every one of you today, September
11th., 2001, on what has to be, the most horrific, devastating and "life
shattering" day in the United States of America.
I can only feel the feelings that a good friend and neighbour feels when tragedy of such
a magnitude strikes.
If there is anything that we can do for you, our neighbours, here in Canada, I will do.
To friends, colleagues and associates around the world, I have put up a webpage that is
dedicated to letting our friends in the United States of America know what is in our
hearts and our prayers on this "Black Wednesday", when the United States of
America was attacked by persons and forces, as yet, identified. The page is at www.xzone-radio.com/USA .
Please send this message to others and have them show our American neighbours, that in
this tragic time, we, the people of Planet Earth can unite and that those responsible for
this deliberate act of terrorism will be brought to justice.
I personally would like to ask every reader of TheCelebrityCafe.com to extend their
prayers and thoughts to the victims of the World Trade Center tragedy.
I have many friends, colleagues and I personally was directly affected by this tragedy and
hope that we all do our part to help.
What if....what if,
the energy spent upon retaliation and revenge and hatred was to be shifted
to solutions for health & wellbeing of this beautiful planet and all
life there upon?
Maybe, just maybe, the galactic communities would know we were grown
up enough to join them in grand creative endeavors.
What rejoicing there would be throughout Creation!
The smoke is clearing and we enter a time of solemn prayer for the unfortunates who got
caught up (the multitutudes who lost their lives) in the awful affairs of our times. We
realize also a new day has come upon us where we must all make major changes in our
attitudes for taking so much for granted.
These are trying times for the people of the civilized world, not just the US. This is
about the right for our way of life to exist. America's value system has been one that
much of the world admires by virtue of its promise of freedom and personal liberties. Now
we may have to make some sacrifices in the way we go about issues like airport security,
and may also have to allow increased capability of the National Security apparatus to
carry out its duties on behalf of the American people. The question now arises in which
direction does interest in ET matters now go?
Right now, the devastation leaves little room for chat about ET. We will be too
preoccupied with damage control for some weeks ahead as a nation I would think. But I do
feel that if it is the Principles of Democracy at stake, then we should not forget them
and continue with the right for open debate, despite all, and in the face of adversity.
That would be American way.
Countries that support terrorists like Bin Laden know little of the freedoms we hold
dearly. There still remains a vast struggle in the world for the semblance of views needed
for global unity. It seems this is what is happening right now on this planet.
It seems ET has stepped back from all this, leaving us to our own doings. They certainly
must be watching with great interest if as some say they truly exist? They probably
have a galactic mandate to let us sort it out for ourselves, who knows? And what are they
interested in anyway; watching us "go at it" like this?
.....Maybe of interest is the very test of our will and spirit, and what humans will need
to learn about their own ultimate truth in order to survive and thrive. Maybe then they
will make themselves known to the world.
Francis C. P. Knize
Subject: Please Read This
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:31:48 -0700
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>> > > > Nostradamus' prediction on WW3:
>> > > >
>> > > > "In the year of the new
century and nine months,
>> > > > From the sky will come a great
King of Terror...
>> > > > The sky will burn at
forty-five degrees.
>> > > > Fire approaches the great new
city..."
>> > > > "In the city of york
there will be a great collapse,
>> > > > 2 twin brothers torn apart by
chaos
>> > > > while the fortress falls the
great leader will succumb
>> > > > third big war will begin when
the big city is burning"
>> > > >
>> > > > - NOSTRADAMUS
>> > > >
>> > > > He said this will be bigger
than the previous two.
>> > > > 2001 is the first year of the
new century and this is the 9th
>>> > > month. New York is
located at the 41st degree Latitude.
It has been discovered that this is not an actual writing of Nostrodamus, but a
student activity of some sort.
Paul Heckmann, Tricia Connell and all the Moderators of FlixUSA extend our deepest
sympathies to the victims of yesterday's tragedy and their families.
Red Cross can contacted at the following numbers:
212-875-2067
212-875-2068
212-875-2069
AIRLINE INFORMATION HOTLINES
800 245 0999 American
800 932 8555 United
Please pray for the families of these victims and by donating your blood, food, clothing,
time or money. PLEASE pass
along this information to all those you know. God Bless and remember that this is the
country we live in and all these victims are like our brothers and sisters! Reach out!
Dear WebProNews Subscribers, Yesterday, people fighting a meaningless fight attacked America. The point seems to be
death and destruction and nothing else. Apparently, these individuals are willing to die
to advance the political agendas of leaders who hide in cowardice. I would ask; if this
type of senseless death and destruction is a path to Allah or the afterlife, as they have
been lead to believe, why then do their leaders hide from it?
These individuals have awakened the democracies of this world and they will be sorry. As
the President of the United States said,
"We will make no distinction between the
terrorists who committed these acts, and those who harbor them." I am confident that
those responsible and their allies will soon realize what a foolish and terrible mistake
they have made. These acts will not go unpunished.
As iEntry's publisher, with newsletters going to over 4 million business professionals
around the World, I want you to know that America is continuing business as usual, but
with a seething anger and outrage towards these enemies of freedom and their allies who
dance in the streets with them. All those responsible for the senseless deaths of innocent
civilian men, women and children will be held accountable and justice will be served.
In
the meantime, I would like to express our deepest sympathies to the families and friends
of those lost in yesterdays tragic events. We have suffered a tremendous loss as
both a nation and a society, but we will persevere.
If you have any evidence or information regarding these crimes, please go here:
In light of the tragic events in New York City and Washington D.C., we have postponed
this weekend's RESFEST in Seattle, Washington. Ticket exchanges and refunds will be
honored. If you have any questions please email: resfest@resfest.com
On behalf of the entire staff of RES, I wish to extend condolences to families affected by
this tragedy.
We stand together.
Jonathan Wells
Festival and Editorial Director
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RESFEST Chicago and the rest of the tour will remain on schedule as follows:
RESFEST 2001 Tour
San Francisco September 6-8 Palace of Fine Arts
Seattle September 13-15 Egyptian Theater POSTPONED
Chicago September 20-22 Biograph Cinema
New York October 10-14 Tishman Auditorium
Los Angeles October 25-28 Egyptian Theatre
London October 4-6 The Gate/The Ritzy
Bristol October 25-28 Watershed Media Centre
Seoul October 25-28 DongSoong Hall
Cape Town November 11-17
Tokyo November 23-25 Laforet Museum
Osaka December 1-7 On Air Osaka
Rio December 7-9
Sao Paulo December 11-13
In the aftermath of the attack on America many are reflecting on the meaning of life, the
meaning of our way of life, and whether we are as culpable in the act as those who
terrorizes us. There are many opinions. And, except for those Palestinians in
Lebanon who seem to have rejoiced over our tragedy, most are shocked and dismayed at the
brazen act of these forces of terrorism.
Pardon me if I quote from an ancient source of wisdom, the Dhammapada wherein Buddha is
quoted as saying,
"For hate is never conquered by hate.
Hate is conquered by love.
This is an eternal law.
Many do not realize that we must all come to an end here;
but those who do realize this, end their quarrels at once."
And he who came in peace said that he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
Despite words from the Great Ones, humankind persists in its follys.
We must advance spiritually and socially if we are to reach the stars or we might not
survive long enough to land our
spaceships on distant worlds.
What must we do now, as a people, as a nation?
We must change our thinking before it is too late.
A friend of mine just informed me that he received a call to report to the entrance of an
underground bunker. He has a JEEP Level 2 card that assures him sanctuary after those who
have a Level 1 card are safe. This is part of the COG (Continuity of Government program)
instituted by the National Program Office. When there is a national emegency FEMA takes
charge.
My friend said that those who contacted him were worried about war breaking out in the
MidEast and the possibility of escalation. He has not gone to his assigned place yet and
is monitoring the news very closely.
Should the rest of us worry about war? the economy? We do anyway, but now we have an
opportunity to reflect and think. We cannot save those who died in that horrible tragedy
at the World Trade Center. It is inconceivable to even contemplate being at Ground Zero.
Life must go on for the rest of us.
And what about those UFOs we are so fond of? Have intelligent observers now familiar with
humankind looked at our broadcasts, the pain, the tragedy? What do they feel if anything?
There is some evidence that we were being observed
closely in all the great wars. Have some of them also passed through our stages of
evolution and strife? What can we eventually learn from them and the greater arena of life
in the universe?
After the atomic bomb Einstein said that everything had changed but our thinking. Perhaps
it is now time to change our thinking.
Peace,
Bill Hamilton
Executive Director
Skywatch International Inc.
(from old college friends regarding the request for a national candlelight moment
Friday, September 14th) thanks joe we'll be out there. It is very hard to pray for my enemies today,
but I feel a strength i sorely need at this time when I pray for God's blessing and grace
for Ossama bin Lauden and all who work with him. I
send a column from todays sf paper, reading it made me feel less like a germ.
Phil Bronstein, the executive editor of The
Chronicle, sent out a memo Wednesday about
emotions. He mentioned that journalists tend to bury
their emotions while covering a tragedy, and said
this was not a good thing for either the journalist or
the journalism. He said that if people were feeling
overwhelmed, there was a number to call, a place
to go.
What interested me about the memo was that it did
not track very well with my own emotions. I was
not feeling overwhelmed or teary; neither was I
feeling stoical or brave. I was mostly feeling
confused, which is an emotion of the head rather
than the heart.
Of course, I lost no loved ones in the tragedy. I
have no close friends who lost loved ones. I am
saddened by the tragedy and heartened by the acts
of heroism great and small, but in a generalized way.
I do not feel less secure than I did three days ago,
perhaps because I never feel secure.
My early life did not have a lot of security in it. I
expect the worst in all situations. Every sunrise is a
miracle. Every failure to meet violence with more
violence is a surprise. Blessed are the peacemakers,
because there are not a lot of them and usually they
get blamed for everything.
And I am a child of the media. I was alone a lot as a
child, through no fault of my overworked single
mother, and my companions were radio and
television and books. I learned, for my own sanity,
to distinguish between the real world and the media
world and to treat them with different levels of
seriousness.
I saw the World Trade Center collapse. I saw the
White House blow up. Both of those events were
on a television screen. I understand that one was
"real" and one was "just a movie," but I have
learned to distrust those distinctions. I have been
lied to by presidents and press secretaries and
financial experts, but Kevin Kline has always told
me the truth. Is a lie about the real world better than
the truth about an unreal world?
I don't know the answer to that question. I know
better than to stake my heart on either one. My
wife, my children, my parents, my friends -- that is
the world in my heart. Everything else is knowledge,
speculation, entertainment, art. They go to my brain
first, and my brain is a suspicious gatekeeper.
IDISTRUST FACILE mourning. I consider it an
artifact of manipulation. It is unexamined and
disproportionate. On April 30, 1991, 139,000
people were killed by a cyclone in Bangladesh.
They were mothers and fathers and children; they
were heroes and fools and poets and thieves. I
recall no candlelight vigils -- indeed, I do not recall
the event at all. I had to look it up.
I imagine the president sent a pro forma letter of
regret. I imagine that he did not spend a minute
thinking about those people. If human loss is the
yardstick by which we measure our pain, we should
have the date burned into our brains. It's in the
previous paragraph; can you recall it without
looking back?
IAM FRUGAL with my grief because grief can be
manipulated. I am seeing the president do it now.
This is a cowardly act, he has said again and again,
although "cowardly" is exactly the wrong adjective
to describe the hijackers. They were brave. It
would be good to understand what made them
brave. Self- sacrifice is always interesting, since it
runs so contrary to our most basic instincts.
"Cowardly" would be a good word to describe our
waging of the war in Kosovo, or our current
bombing runs in Iraq. I am a patriotic American,
besotted with the Constitution, but I do not think
our foreign policy is wise or just.
We should retain our privacy now, I think; work on
a human scale; remember that a politician is most
dangerous when he is announcing that something is
"beyond politics."
It is best to hide your heart, because the world is full
of thieves.
end of column
God bless you joe
john o'neill
Recevied 9/19/01
Dear America,
We wrote this song for you, America. America, we were born in your heartland at another
time when your existence was threatened by evil. You prevailed then, America, and carried
your torch of freedom forward in peace as we are sure you will do now. America, we have so
little to offer to ease your pain and suffering. Please take this song and share it with
all who love you as much as we do ~
Your humble servants,
I was just reading Yahoo news and the San Antonio Express newspaper. You know what
upsets me? People with absolutely nothing to do with their lives, so they complain
on how
the U.S. is treating the prisoners or "Detainees" from Afghanistan.
Do you know why they are complaining? They see a picture on the news or the Internet
and they see someone who is shackled and blindfolded and walking with two armed guards
behind razor wire. This picture tells them they are treated unfairly.
Here is what I see....
I see a thin, sickly looking person who under severe mental duress from being bombed, was
cleaned up, given a haircut to prevent infestation of parasites, and given new clothes and
shoes to wear. I see a person who is given three nutrious meals per day and a bed to
sleep
in a tropical climate, not the cold desert floor of Afghanistan, eating worms, bugs, and
goat.
I see a person who will be able to get relief from their pains and illnesses without
paying a
dime for medical expenses. They will get rest, educated, and their mental stress levels
will
have dropped tremendously because they were taken out of a combat area and will not be
shot at again.
I see these people blindfolded and shackled behind razor wire. I have the intellectual
ability to understand why they are this way. For those that do not have this
ability, let me
explain it to you.
They are blindfolded to protect OUR U.S. SOLDIERS from further harm.
These people cannot plan to destroy something if they cannot see it. They are shackled
because these same people have proven they will easily give up their lives to kill just
ONE AMERICAN. We are protecting their life as well as our own. The razor
wire is a
mental deterrent, just like the little alarm company warning signs most of you out there
have on your home, but don't have the actual alarm system. You would think many times
over before actually trying to cross that razor wire.
For all of you people out there thinking how bad these poor detainees have it under
such strict guard, you need to do a lot more thinking about other things in your life.
I was born on September 11th, 1966, and every birthday I have from now on will never
be a happy one. Why, do you ask? Because as I am out somewhere trying to have a nice
dinner, someone will have a candle or a ribbon or something, crying about the anniversary
of a national tragedy. And then I will think, about how insignificant my one little
birthday
actually is compared to everything else that had happened on that one day.
It boggles my mind that there are actually people out there in this world, in leadership
positions, head of companies that actually think that we are doing something wrong
when it comes to protecting our nation and our people.
These same people will be the first ones to complain about something that happens to
them when they are vacationing outside this country. They will ask why the U.S. does
not do anything about their misfortune.
These are the same people that complain about taxes and how bad their lives actually
are.
If you receive this email, please pass it on to everyone in your address book. I am not
afraid or ashamed to speak my peace. I am an American, my father fought for this country,
and was willing to die for it.
Dr. Steven Tomaselli, Uvalde, Texas,
United States of America
--
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.