New York Film Maker Predicted September 11, 2001 to the Day in Major Print Media
This is One Story of the 9-11 Cataclysm that Has Never Been Told
From September 7-17, 2001 the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival was scheduled to take place at designated movie theatres all over New York City. The Grand Opening Night Gala took place at The Theatre in Madison Square Garden on September 7th.
It was well attended. There were at least 10,000 people from all over New York, all over the country and all over the world there. On this night there was a film program issued in black and white. Thick glossy paper with many film listings inside. In a Nostradamus like incident, one of the listings said:
Tuesday September 11
10:00 PM
Nuclear Warrior
Scott Lifshine, dir.
20min. The biggest event in the history of America.
I am the filmmaker. You can imagine my shock as I woke up that day to the negative events surrounding the country and the world. The Nuclear Warrior film was scheduled to premiere on September 11th. I billed the film as "the biggest event in the history of America."
I wish the interference would never have happened, and somehow the diabolical terrorist plot could have been disrupted. We didn't need that kind of cataclysm. I had a great friend who I lost in the Twin Towers. His name was Jason Sekzer. The way things turned out were really terrible for all concerned.
As a side note the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival organizers cancelled all films scheduled to run for that day. My film was scheduled for the theatre on East 59th Street at 10PM. New York was in terrible straights at that time. The Triboro Bridge and Tunnel Authority was letting everyone cross the bridges without paying tolls in order to expedite traffic for people leaving the city and getting to wherever they had to go unhindered.
As a coincidence I also have Super 8 films I shot of the World Trade Center Under Construction which I display with this contribution. I occasionally seek out stock films and photos for stories. But in this case I don't have to. These clips were not part of "the biggest event in the history of America" as an entry to this film.
I cleared myself with the FBI and the 9-11 Commission by informing them of the incident and faxing them copies of the actual film festival program. They never did get back to me for further clarification or follow-up.
I spoke on The Art Bell Radio Show about this too. He was amazed at the incident and in utter disbelief as well.
How the prediction, or better phrased the premonition came about was innocent enough. Approximately a week and half before 9-11 I went to the offices of the the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival at 873 Broadway and we created a listing for my film. They asked me how we should do the wording. I said the first thing that came to mind. Call it "the biggest event in the history of America." They asked me how September 11 would work for a date. I agreed.
I got in just under the deadline. I would've taken out a display ad if I had more time.
After the cataclysms I met with the director of the film festival Stuart Alson to discuss the rescheduling of the Nuclear Warrior film. He said it was quite a coincidence that I listed my film that way and on that date. Keep in mind the circulation of the film guide probably reached 20,000 people. I don't know how many copies were published originally but it was a substantial number. This was a major New York film festival.
Does this look like a Nostradamus-like prediction to you? I'd rather think of it as a premonition. So many people saw that listing. I still have copies of it myself. This is certainly an untold, unbelievable story of 9-11. Until now.
This is not the first time I have published premonitions of major world catastrophes and cataclysms in major print.
In April 1986 I published my Nuclear Warrior band logo for the first time ever in a monthly trade newspaper named The Music Paper in Manhasset, Long Island. Shortly thereafter and within that month the Chernobyl cataclysm took place.
For only the second time since Chernobyl I published the same band logo on the week of May 17th, 1987 in The Aquarian Weekly out of Montclair, New Jersey. That is when the USS Stark cataclysm happened.
Once again from The Aquarian Weekly in 1986 I published a small article a year ahead of Black Monday that there was going to be a stock market crash.
Published by Scott Lifshine
American filmmaker of corners gone by. Music enthusiast, but mostly my own. Known as the one who taped the behemoth California Jam off the radio when no one else did. Also been called the most awesome band o... View profile
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16 Comments
Post a CommentWhat type of man uses a tragedy like this committed upon his fellow NY'ers to make a buck? An utter disgrace.
Disgusting behavior. His work should be pulled by AC immediatly.
Michael,
If you think this is sad, go to the california_jam yahoo group and check out some real good stuff directly from the mouth of Scott Lifshine. Actually nobody post there anymore except Scott. You can also reach me at fraudulentfrets1@yahoo to find out more about the CalJam, music, my upcoming book, my radio tour, and other things.
Doc
Very sad that someone would want to use 9/11 to promote themselves.
Scott claims he predicted this tragic event. If that were the case, why didn't he tell somebody? You know...save lives! As usual, he only cares about himself and getting his daily fix of attention. The jerk is a pathological liar and self-absorbed ego-manic. Oh, the white care in the corner of the photo? Next he'll start claiming he thought up the idea for the Beatles Abby Road album cover.
Scott Lifshine: "You don't have me to blame for 9-11. If anything, I was the only one trying to do something to prevent it." Are you seriously saying that you were the only person in the entire world who knew about this planned attack and was actively doing anything to stop it?
Scott Lipshits is a self proclaimed god of nothing. Hey ya like anybody can claim they predicted this or that 10 years after it happened. Who the hell cares?
I slept in that day... it must have been a premonition.
Scott Lifshine: "I didn't say anything about pyschic powers."
No, you only heavily implied it with "In a Nostradamus like incident..."
You "feel this story must be told," eh? There's no story being told here other than you are a sick individual.
You don't have me to blame for 9-11. If anything, I was the only one trying to do something to prevent it. So I'll have to sacrifice all Rock and Roll and Classic Rock. So what? That was the plan all along. There's an upper echelon somewhere that doesn't want to see Nuclear Warrior happen. I've been around for 25 years.
And btw, there was no "tragedy." A tradegy is when two cars collide at an intersection. That is a tragedy. This was a cataclysm.