Posted on 01/05/2009 4:12:38 PM PST by RaceBannon
UPDATED - ALERT - Frightening Text Messages Being Forwarded Around NY Jews January 2, 2009 3:00PM EST: [UPDATE BELOW] With the situation in Gaza deteriorating by the day, and anti-semitism rampant around the world, thousands of NY Jews were frightened upon receiving the following text message which has been going around on Friday afternoon:
“A Jewish woman gave a tip to a Muslim taxi driver and out of appreciation he warned her not to go to Manhattan next week Wednesday.”
YWN has reached out to high-ranking members of the NYPD, and have stated that although they received the same text message, “there are no credible threats to be concerned about - and don’t even know where this text message originated from”.
The only message that they do have for the public is the same message that they have been saying since 9/11. That message is “always be aware of your surroundings, be vigilant, and if you see anything suspicious contact the police department immediately to report what you have seen”.
UPDATE 3:50PM EST: YWN has just spoken with NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind who tells us that he has received various reports regarding this ‘threat’ and has personally contacted the FBI who is currently investigating them.
He thanked YWN for our alert to calm the public, and echoed the call for calm and vigilance at anytime and any location. “If you see something, say something,” Hikind said.
“The FBI and the NYPD take these types of threats very seriously, and investigate them thoroughly to ensure the safety of the public.”
May Hashem protect us from no harm - no matter where in the world we are located.
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(Yehuda Drudgestein - YWN)
Actually, NYC's tap water is among the best in the world. It's piped in from upstate reservoirs, not drawn from the Hudson. As of last year, NYC was one of only a few cities in the US that wasn't required to filter its water before treating it.
> Actually, NYC’s tap water is among the best in the world. It’s piped in from upstate reservoirs, not drawn from the Hudson. As of last year, NYC was one of only a few cities in the US that wasn’t required to filter its water before treating it.
I don’t dispute that. But it is still highly unlikely to be cleaner than ours.
“C’mon, now....this is really silly stuff.
You’ve been pwned, friend”
I would bet if you had plans in NYC on Wednesday you would cancel them.
It depends on where you are relative to the reservoir. How long it would take for the elevated water tanks to run dry will, of course, vary from one place to another.
Even if the power is out chances are excellent that the water will continue to flow no worries.
The water will continue to flow, but the longer the power is out, the more likely some sort of backflow compromises the system. We've had a couple of "boil water" advisories around here after power outages. Of course, that's a CYA reaction to marginally less-safe water, not an indicator of a serious threat, but it does let greeblies (a new word to me, but I really like it) into the pressurized, post-treatment part of the system where they're not supposed to be.
I didn't have any water problems when the power went out, but some parts of the county had extremely low pressure. A lot of the people I talked to had no idea that anything was wrong. In a crisis, with panic adding increased use to reduced capacity, there's a potential for delivery problems.
Sewerage, too: toilets are one piece of household technology that are unlikely to fail in an emergency.
Absolutely. That's why one of my priorities in emergency water is having enough on hand to refill the toilet tank.
Fair enough. It sounds like y'all are jockeying for position in the top few percentile, and I don't have a dog in that civic pride fight.
“Please cease and desist. I am a cop here and have heard nothing of consequence. And I would have.”
How many people did you warn on 9/11 if you were a cop in NYC? It’s a fact there were people who knew and got out.
Just askin’.
Husayn ibn Ali gave a speech to people the day before his departure from Mecca and said:
“... The death is a certainty for mankind, just like the trace of necklace on the neck of young girls. And I am enamoured of my ancestors like eagerness of Jacob to Joseph ... Everyone, who is going to devote his blood for ours sake and is prepared to meet Allah, must depart with us...”
The battle of Karbala: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karbala
Kinda sounds to me like if something happens in NYC on Wednesday, the Jews did it.
I missed this ping last night.
Interesting. Can you name one person?
Nope. I’m on Long Island, most of my friends work in Manhattan and they’d rib me to no end if I suggested they stay home on that day.
I’m telling you, that story is older than my daughter. Let it go.
He wouldn't say much but he did admit he thought 'something' would happen in 2009, perhaps before the inauguration.....but he was making the correlation of '93 to 2001/eight years......2001 to 2009/eight years.
FWIW
Ain't that right...
I call BS on this. NYC cabbies all have picture ID Hack licenses plainly visible to the riders in the back seat. I find it hard to believe that none of those ‘warned’ took note of the driver’s name and number to report to LEOs.
I was in Jersey City/Manhattan this past weekend for a friend’s 25th wedding anniversary. My first drive there in 25 years... and my last. $32 to park for the day. $ 338 for a second-rate hotel. Ah, the driving in JC/NYC! $37.68 for breakfast for two at a greasy spoon. More Obama/Biden posters and stickers than I would have believed two months after the election. Everywhere. Mail boxes. Public buildings. Store fronts. People who had to be in NYC for their job but who hated it so much they walked down the street with snarls plastered on their faces, leaning forward, squinting, daring you to say something. 45 minutes to drive two miles. Ugh! May I never have to be there again; ever.
ping
Any new information this morning except for the winter storm warnings for tomorrow here in CT?
I don’t know anyone personally. I had heard stories back then and just found this.
Monday, November 3, 2008
According to a report by Jeremy R. Hammond of the Foreign Policy Journal, senior executives of a major U.S. corporation were warned by a former CIA operative to leave New York on September 11, 2001, the latest smoking gun to add to a bulging stack of examples concerning specific prior knowledge of the attacks.
The article cites an anonymous source who worked under a managing director as number two at a European branch of the media giant Warner Bros. The source’s boss was close friends with a senior executive who worked at the head office in L.A. and had also formerly worked for the CIA.
During the memorial arrangements for a senior director from a foreign office who had died, the L.A. executive rejected September 11th as a date for the service because “something big is happening that day” and the top executives from the New York office would all be traveling out of the city.
When asked further about this big event, the executive replied that it was a confidential matter and disclosed no further details, except to say that it was “not corporate”.
The source told the Journal, “I had no reason to think that the ‘event’ could be anything more than perhaps a junket, an out of town think tank exercise or whatever – I remember that these possibilities ran through my mind.”
But after 9/11, thinking back upon the conversation, he grew more curious and tried to ascertain where the board members had been that day. They had indeed been out of New York, he says, traveling not to one location, but each to their own destination. Destinations included overseas locations such as Paris, London, and Amsterdam.
Foreign Policy Journal has not been able to verify the location of individuals on 9/11 or other aspects of the story concerning any potential warning received or given by any Time Warner executives, but did confirm the source’s position at the foreign branch office, the name and position of that office’s managing director, and the name and position of the senior executive from the Los Angeles office.
The fact that senior corporate executives were absent from New York on 9/11 is interesting considering what we know about Warren Buffet hosting a “charity fundraiser” that was preceded by CEO’s receiving a tour of the US Strategic Command (Stratcom) headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, and also being given an “unclassified mission briefing”.
The corporate media has given limited coverage to reports of general prior knowledge about 9/11, while almost universally ignoring specific examples of foreknowledge.
Perhaps the most blatant example of specific prior knowledge is the fact that, as Newsweek reported in its September 13th 2001 issue, top brass Pentagon officials were warned the night before the attacks and cancelled a trip scheduled for the next day.
Warnings about a big event happening in New York were widespread in the weeks and days before the attacks.
In a story entitled Some Got Warning: Don’t Go Downtown on Sept. 11, the New York Daily News reported, “Some Middle Easterners in the New York area were warned ahead of time to stay out of lower Manhattan the morning of Sept. 11,” noting that federal investigators received tips about overheard conversations in which people were “boasting about or warning about coming attacks.”
Another case involved a Palestinian boy at the New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn. On September 6th, 2001, the boy looked out of his classroom window towards lower Manhattan and said, “Do you see those two buildings?” while pointing at the WTC twin towers. “They won’t be standing there next week.”
This was not an “urban legend” as some have claimed, it has been proven in triplicate by numerous mainstream media reports and acknowledged by federal authorities and the FBI.
This was just one example amongst several reports of schoolchildren in the New York area circulating knowledge of the attacks before they happened. If school kids knew that a major attack was about to take place, how on earth could the most sophisticated intelligence apparatus in the world have failed to pick up on it?
German police confirmed that an Iranian man frantically tried to warn U.S. authorities of an attack on the eve of 9/11, attempting to call them from his deportation cell.
Another proven example of specific prior knowledge that the establishment has attempted to sideline as an “urban myth” is the story concerning the Israeli instant messaging company, Odigo.
A report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which was later confirmed by the Washington Post, related how employees of Odigo were warned specifically about the attack via instant messages two hours in advance.
Mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown was set to fly into New York on the morning of September 11. However, he got a call from what he described as his ‘airport security’ late September 10th advising against flying due to a security threat. Brown awoke on September 11th to scenes of the WTC on fire and his flight was cancelled.
A record number of ‘put’ options, speculation that the stock of a company will fall, were placed on American and United Airlines in the days preceding September 11th. This despite a September 10th Reuters report stating ‘airline stocks set to fly.’
Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United
Airlines, but only 396 call options. On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls.
The investigation as to which criminals benefited from advance knowledge of the terrorist attack led straight to Alex Brown/Deutsche Bank - chaired up until 1997 by executive director of the CIA, Buzzy Krongard.
Why would muzzies warn Jews of an attack? I don’t get it.
Got that right.
I bet that when nothing happens they will all say, “See, our warnings got the attention of the authorities and the plot was foiled!”
Back to the popcorn.
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