~ It's Time to Rise and Shine ~
We as spiritual beings or souls come to earth in order to experience the human condition. This includes the good and the bad scenarios of this world. Our world is a duality planet and no amount of love or grace will eliminate evil or nastiness. We will return again and again until we have pierced the illusions of this density. The purpose of human life is to awaken to universal truth. This also means that we must awaken to the lies and deceit mankind is subjected to. To pierce the third density illusion is a must in order to remove ourselves from the wheel of human existences. Love is the Answer by means of Knowledge and Awareness! |
A Tragedy Is Recycled Giuliani ordered the thousands of tons of WTC steel sold and melted down before it could be examined by investigators. Much of it was sent to S Korea where Bush/bin Laden's Carlyle Group has a massive investment. Now it's being recast as souveniers to be sold near Giuliani's WTC disaster area tourist-viewing platform. For detailed coverage of Giuliani's WTC-9/11 coverup see http://baltech.org/lederman/ Daily News 1/30/2002 A Tragedy Is Recycled World Trade Center steel becomes a souvenir By GREG GITTRICH Daily News Staff Writer Georgia metals company has bought 500 tons of steel from the World Trade Center - and is melting it into "commemorative medallions" that go for $29.95 a pop. Front view of medallion The enterprise has sparked outrage from victims' families, who say company officials are heartless profiteers cashing in on tragedy. "I'm going to throw up," said an infuriated Monica Gabrielle. "My husband's remains have not been found and they are doing this. Bastards." "This is ghoulish," said Sally Regenhard, whose son, Firefighter Christian Regenhard, died Sept. 11. "This is so inappropriate. I'm disgusted." But officials at International Agile Manufacturing insist they mean no offense by hawking the "Eyewitness World Trade Center Commemorative Medallions" through their Web site and at collectible stores. Bruce Zutler of International Agile Manufacturing holds commemorative medallion being sold for $29.95 on company's Web site. "At $30 anybody can buy it," said Alfonzo Hall, International Agile's president and chief executive officer. "That's a small token for anyone who wants a piece of history." The Statesboro, Ga., foundry will make "just a small profit" through the sales, said Bruce Zutler, the company's national marketing representative. The company has pledged 10% of its profits to the Fund for the City of New York - and names the charity in its literature. Hall said the fund's vice president, the Rev. Alfonso Wyatt, visited the foundry. But a fund spokeswoman said it "never approved" the use of its name or agreed to take any money. The 1-pound "individually crafted" medallions feature a flag waving behind the twin towers. They come with a certificate of authenticity, a plastic display easel and an American flag fabric carrying pouch - and are forged from an alloy of which 25% is recycled Trade Center steel. Zutler said the company could have made the medallions completely out of the Trade Center steel, but that would have made them much more expensive. International Agile Manufacturing says it has enough steel to forge 6 million medallions. It pledged to set aside 5,000 to 10,000 medallions that the victims' families could obtain at no charge. "I don't want one," said Michael Cartier, co-founder of Give Your Voice, a civilian victims' families group. "There is going to be a large number of people never found because their bodies were pulverized. In all probability, their bodies could be with the steel in those medallions. Where would you display that?" Tons to Recycle About 60,000 tons of steel from the Trade Center have been cut into manageable pieces and shipped to recyclers around the world. Most was sent to South Korea, but shipments also have gone to U.S. cities. The steel is used to make soup cans, appliances, car engines, buildings - and now medallions. Hall said his company bought the steel from Metal Management Northeast of Newark, which did not return calls yesterday. Metal Management is one of two New Jersey salvage yards that has bought Trade Center steel from the city to recycle. The city's decision - made in the days after Sept. 11 - to sell the steel so quickly has infuriated many victims' families and engineers who want the recycling halted so the steel can be more thoroughly examined. A federally commissioned team of engineers is trying to determine how the Trade Center collapsed. "We are not trying to offend anyone," said Hall, who noted International Agile lost 40% of its business after Sept. 11 and hopes to avoid layoffs by selling the medallions. "Would it be better to see the steel overseas and see it in a soup can or the fender of a car?" he asked. "We think we are doing the best thing to honor the victims and to show that the country will still stand." About 10,000 medallions have been sold and shipped in recent weeks, he said. "After the families go through this horrendous grieving period," Hall said, "if they want a medallion, we will be happy to give it to them." Vincent Ragusa, whose firefighter son Michael was killed, said that day won't come. "They are profiteering off a terrible, terrible incident," Ragusa said. "When does it end?" - Newsday.com - Rudy to Get Reagan Freedom Award http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-rudy0129.story Rudy to Get Reagan Freedom Award THE ASSOCIATED PRESS January 28, 2002 Former first lady Nancy Reagan will present Rudolph Giuliani with the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award for the former New York mayor's service to freedom-loving people around the world. The Freedom Award is given to an individual who contributed to the cause of freedom worldwide, and Reagan said Giuliani was the obvious choice for this year's award. Giuliani is the eighth recipient of the Freedom Award, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation's highest honor. Past recipients are Mikhail Gorbachev, Colin Powell, Yitzhak Rabin, King Hussein, Margaret Thatcher, the Rev. Billy Graham and Bob Hope. Giuliani will be honored during a $1,000-a-plate Ronald Reagan Presidential Library fund-raising dinner March 8th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Copyright © 2002, Newsday, Inc. http://newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-rudy0129.story Here's what the president of the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs Inc. has to say about Giuliani stealing public records. For the real deal on this felony (at least two counts of grand larceny) see http://baltech.org/lederman/ Daily News 1/29/2002 Critics Err - Rudy Papers Will Be Open By SAUL S. COHEN The not-for-profit Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs was established in response to the extraordinary level of national interest in the achievements of the Giuliani administration. One of the primary charges of the center will be to make available to the public the records of Giuliani's years in office in an organized, indexed and comprehensive fashion. In the past, it has taken years to organize the materials of mayoral administrations. Since there is virtually no public awareness of the existence of these materials, they are rarely viewed or used. This is a real loss to New Yorkers and others who love our great city. To expedite the organization of the Giuliani records, the center, after speaking to the heads of New York's major libraries, entered into an agreement to work with the city's archives by providing archival expertise and storage space - all at the center's own expense. In light of the substantial public value that will come from the establishment of the Giuliani Center and the speedy and efficient organization of the materials, I am surprised that some people have raised questions about its efforts to preserve and organize these records. These critics either are unfamiliar with the limitations of the city's archiving resources or don't know that, as with every other mayor's records, the city's own archivists will routinely distinguish personal documents from official documents. And the critics may not know that if there is any dispute, the city can call back all documents by terminating the agreement, a right it may exercise at any time it chooses. Perhaps the critics' status quo attitude would be satisfied if both official and personal documents were left to deteriorate in a City Hall subbasement. Since the city does not now have an appropriate location that meets archival standards, the records are being temporarily stored at a leading document depository in Queens. There, while they are properly organized and indexed, the documents remain the city's property and the city has unrestricted access to them. When the classifying job is done, the center will make and keep copies, and the official originals will be returned to the city. In addition to preserving the Giuliani administration's records, we created the center to sponsor, either on its own or in affiliation with one of the city's universities, educational forums and programs to foster in the U.S. and overseas the best practices in city management. With the support of private citizens, the center will provide America's brightest students with scholarships and internships to study urban issues. The critics, distressed by the Giuliani administration's successes, follow a double standard. That is why New York has yet to hear one word from them about former Mayor Ed Koch, who, although himself a vocal critic of the center's efforts, has refused to let anyone except his biographer see his personal papers. The center will create the Giuliani archives in record time, in strict compliance with the law and the highest archival standards. The archives will be an extraordinary resource for New Yorkers. I would think it will be hard even for the critics to carp at that. Cohen is president of the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs Inc. Original Publication Date: 1/29/02 |