The United States goverment's new toy......
Raytheon HAARP --- the High frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
Then an Alaskan political activist and science researcher in Anchorage, Nick Begich, networked with Patrick and Gael Crystal Flanagan, who are self-described TechnoMonks living in Sedona, Arizona, and was told to check out that same Australian-based magazine. Begich was surprised to see an item from his hometown in Nexus, and immediately headed to the local library to dig out the documents cited in the article.
That research led to articles and the book, Angels Don't Play this HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology , which is 230 pages of detailed information on this intrusive project. This article will only give highlights. Despite the amount of research (350 footnotes), at its heart it is a story about ordinary people who took on an extraordinary challenge. HAARP Boils The Upper Atmosphere
HAARP will zap the upper atmosphere with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam. It is an advanced model of an "ionospheric heater". (The ionosphere is the electrically-charged sphere surrounding Earth's upper atmosphere. It ranges between about 40- to 600 miles above Earth's surface.)
Put simply, the apparatus for HAARP is a reversal of a radio telescope; antennas send out signals instead of receiving. HAARP is the test run for a super-powerful radiowave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything -- living and dead.
HAARP publicity gives the impression that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program is mainly an academic project with the goal of changing the ionosphere to improve communications for our own good. However, other U.S. military documents put it more clearly -- HAARP aims to learn how to "exploit the ionosphere for Department of Defense purposes". Communicating with submarines is only one of those purposes.
Press releases and other information from the military on HAARP continually downplay what it could do. Publicity documents insist that the HAARP project is no different than other ionospheric heaters operating safely throughout the world in places such as Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Tromso, Norway and the former Soviet Union. However, a 1990 government document indicates that the radio-frequency (RF) power zap will drive the ionosphere to unnatural activities.
"...at the highest HF powers available in the West, the instabilities commonly studied are approaching their maximum RF energy dissipative capability, beyond which the plasma processes will 'runaway' until the next limiting factor is reached."
If the military, in cooperation with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, can show that this new ground-based "Star Wars" technology is sound, they both win. The military has a relatively-inexpensive defense shield and the University can brag about the most dramatic geophysical manipulation since atmospheric explosions of nuclear bombs. After successful testing, they would have the military megaprojects of the future and huge markets for Alaska's North Slope natural gas.
Looking at the other patents which built on the work of a Texas' physicist named Bernard Eastlund, it becomes clearer how the military intends to use the HAARP transmitter. It also makes governmental denials less believable. The military knows how it intends to use this technology, and has made it clear in their documents. The military has deliberately misled the public, through sophisticated word games, deceit and outright disinformation. The military says the HAARP system could: give the military a tool to replace the electromagnetic pulse effect of atmospheric thermonuclear devices (still considered a viable option by the military through at least 1986) or replace the huge Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) submarine communication system operating in Michigan and Wisconsin with a new and more compact technology.
Be used to replace the over-the-horizon radar system that was once planned for the current location of HAARP, with a more flexible and accurate system.
provide a way to wipe out communications over an extremely large area, while keeping the military's own communications systems working.
provide a wide area earth-penetrating tomography which, if combined with the computing abilities of EMASS and Cray computers, would make it possible to verify many parts of nuclear nonproliferation and peace agreements.
be a tool for geophysical probing to find oil, gas and mineral deposits over a large area.
be used to detect incoming low-level planes and cruise missiles, making other technologies obsolete.
The above abilities seem like a good idea to all who believe in sound national defense, and to those concerned about cost-cutting. However, the possible uses which the HAARP records do not explain, and which can only be found in Air Force, Army, Navy and other federal agency records, are alarming. Moreover, effects from the reckless use of these power levels in our natural shield - the ionosphere - could be cataclysmic according to some scientists.
Two Alaskans put it bluntly. A founder of the NO HAARP movement, Clare Zickuhr, says "The military is going to give the ionosphere a big kick and see what happens."
The military failed to tell the public that they do not know what exactly will happen, but a Penn State science article brags about that uncertainty. Macho science? The HAARP project uses the largest energy levels yet played with by what Begich and Manning call "the big boys with their new toys". It is an experiment on the sky, and experiments are done to find out something not already known. Independent scientists told Begich and Manning that a HAARP-type "skybuster" with its unforeseen effects could be an act of global vandalism.
HAARP History
The patents described below were the package of ideas which were originally controlled by ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI), a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company, one of the biggest oil companies in the world. APTI was the contractor that built the HAARP facility. ARCO sold this subsidiary, the patents and the second phase construction contract to E-Systems in June 1994.
E-Systems is one of the biggest intelligence contractors in the world -- doing work for the CIA, defense intelligence organizations and others. $1.8 billion of their annual sales are to these organizations, with $800 million for black projects -- projects so secret that even the United States Congress isn't told how the money is being spent.
E-Systems was bought out by Raytheon, which is one of the largest defense contractors in the world. In 1994 Raytheon was listed as number forty-two on the Fortune 500 list of companies. Raytheon has thousands of patents, some of which will be valuable in the HAARP project.
The twelve patents below are the backbone of the HAARP project, and are now buried among the thousands of others held in the name of Raytheon.
Bernard J. Eastlund's U.S. Patent # 4,686,605 , "Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere" was sealed for a year under a government Secrecy Order.
The Eastlund ionospheric heater was different; the radio frequency (RF) radiation was concentrated and focused to a point in the ionosphere. This difference throws an unprecedented amount of energy into the ionosphere. The Eastlund device would allow a concentration of one watt per cubic centimeter, compared to others only able to deliver about one millionth of one watt.
This huge difference could lift and change the ionosphere in the ways necessary to create futuristic effects described in the patent. According to the patent, the work of Nikola Tesla in the early 1900's formed the basis of the research.
What would this technology be worth to ARCO, the owner of the patents? They could make enormous profits by beaming electrical power from a powerhouse in the gas fields to the consumer without wires.
For a time, HAARP researchers could not prove that this was one of the intended uses for HAARP. In April, 1995, however, Begich found other patents, connected with a "key personnel" list for APTI. Some of these new APTI patents were indeed a wireless system for sending electrical power.
Eastlund's patent said the technology can confuse or completely disrupt airplanes' and missiles' sophisticated guidance systems. Further, this ability to spray large areas of Earth with electromagnetic waves of varying frequencies, and to control changes in those waves, makes it possible to knock out communications on land or sea as well as in the air. The patent said:
"Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level, particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of various yields at various altitudes..."
'..it is possible not only to interfere with third party communications but to take advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the world's communications are disrupted. Put another way, what is used to disrupt another's communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this invention as a communication network at the same time."
.'.. large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction ...
" Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device. ... molecular modifications of the atmosphere can take place so that positive environmental effects can be achieved. Besides actually changing the molecular composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules can be chosen for increased presence. For example, ozone, nitrogen, etc., concentrations in the atmosphere could be artificially increased...
Begich found eleven other APTI patents. They told how to make Nuclear-sized Explosions without Radiation", power-beaming systems, over-the-horizon radar, detection systems for missiles carrying nuclear warheads, electromagnetic pulses previously produced by thermonuclear weapons and other Star-Wars tricks. This cluster of patents underlay the HAARP weapon system.
Related research by Begich and Manning uncovered bizarre schemes. For example, Air Force documents revealed that a system had been developed for manipulating and disrupting human mental processes through pulsed radio-frequency radiation (the stuff of HAARP) over large geographical areas. The most telling material about this technology came from writings of Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisory to U.S. President Carter) and J.F. MacDonald (science advisor to U.S. President Johnson and a professor of Geophysics at UCLA), as they wrote about use of power-beaming transmitters for geophysical and environmental warfare. The documents showed how these effects might be caused, and the negative effects on human health and thinking.
The mental-disruption possibilities for HAARP are the most disturbing. More than 40 pages of the book, with dozens of footnotes, chronicle the work of Harvard professors, military planners and scientists as they plan and test this use of the electromagnetic technology. For example, one of the papers describing this use was from the International Red Cross in Geneva. It even gave the frequency ranges where these effects could occur -- the same ranges which HAARP is capable of broadcasting.
The following statement was made more than twenty-five years ago, in a book by Brzezinski which he wrote while a professor at Columbia University:
"Political strategists are tempted to exploit research on the brain and human behavior. Geophysicist Gordon J. F.MacDonald -- specialist in problems of warfare -- says accurately-timed, artificially-excited electronic strokes 'could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the earth...In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period'...No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages , to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades."
In 1966, MacDonald was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee and later a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality. He published papers on the use of environmental control technologies for military purposes. The most profound comment he made as a geophysicist was, "The key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy." While yesterday's geophysicists predicted today's advances, are HAARP program managers delivering on the vision?
The geophysicists recognized that adding energy to the environmental soup could have large effects. However, humankind has already added substantial amounts of electromagnetic energy into our environment without understanding what might constitute critical mass. The book by Begich and Manning raises questions: Have these additions been without effect, or is there a cumulative amount beyond which irreparable damage can be done? Is HAARP another step in a journey from which we cannot turn back? Are we about to embark on another energy experiment which unleashes another set of demons from Pandora's box?
As early as 1970, Zbigniew Brzezinski predicted a "more controlled and directed society" would gradually appear, linked to technology. This society would be dominated by an elite group which impresses voters by allegedly superior scientific know-how. Angels Don't Play This HAARP further quotes Brzezinski:
"Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Technical and scientific momentum would then feed on the situation it exploits", Brzezinski predicted.
His forecasts proved accurate. Today, a number of new tools for the "elite" are emerging, and the temptation to use them increases steadily. The policies to permit the tools to be used are already in place. How could the United States be changed, bit by bit, into the predicted highly-controlled technosociety? Among the "steppingstones" Brzezinski expected were persisting social crises and use of the mass media to gain the public's confidence.
In another document prepared by the government, the U.S. Air Force claims:
"The potential applications of artificial electromagnetic fields are wide-ranging and can be used in many military or quasi-military situations...Some of these potential uses include dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare. In all of these cases the EM (electromagnetic) systems would be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. In addition, the ability of individuals to function could be degraded to such a point that they would be combat ineffective. Another advantage of electromagnetic systems is that they can provide coverage over large areas with a single system. They are silent and countermeasures to them may be difficult to develop... One last area where electromagnetic radiation may prove of some value is in enhancing abilities of individuals for anomalous phenomena."
Do these comments point to uses already somewhat developed? The author of the government report refers to an earlier Air Force document about the uses of radiofrequency radiation in combat situations. (Here Begich and Manning note that HAARP is the most versatile and the largest radio-frequency-radiation transmitter in the world.)
The United States Congressional record deals with the use of HAARP for penetrating the earth with signals bounced off of the ionosphere. These signals are used to look inside the planet to a depth of many kilometers in order to locate underground munitions, minerals and tunnels. The U.S. Senate set aside $15 million dollars in 1996 to develop this ability alone -- earth-penetrating-tomography. The problem is that the frequency needed for earth-penetrating radiations is within the frequency range most cited for disruption of human mental functions. It may also have profound effects on migration patterns of fish and wild animals which rely on an undisturbed energy field to find their routes.
As if electromagnetic pulses in the sky and mental disruption were not enough, Eastlund bragged that the super-powerful ionospheric heater could control weather. Begich and Manning brought to light government documents indicating that the military has weather-control technology. When HAARP is eventually built to its full power level, it could create weather effects over entire hemispheres. If one government experiments with the world's weather patterns, what is done in one place will impact everyone else on the planet. Angels Don't Play This HAARP explains a principle behind some of Nikola Tesla's inventions -- resonance -- which affects planetary systems. A Bubble Of Electric Particles
Angels Don't Play This HAARP includes interviews with independent scientists such as Elizabeth Rauscher. She has a Ph.D., a long and impressive career in high-energy physics, and has been published in prestigious science journals and books. Rauscher commented on HAARP. "You're pumping tremendous energy into an extremely delicate molecular configuration that comprises these multi-layers we call the ionosphere." The ionosphere is prone to catalytic reactions, she explained; if a small part is changed, a major change in the ionosphere can happen.
In describing the ionosphere as a delicately balanced system, Dr. Rauscher shared her mental picture of it -- a soap-bubble-like sphere surrounding Earth's atmosphere, with movements swirling over the surface of the bubble. If a big enough hole is punched through it, she predicts, it could pop. Slicing The Ionosphere.
Physicist Daniel Winter, Ph. D. , of Waynesville, North Carolina, says HAARP high-frequency emissions can couple with longwave (low-frequency, or ELF) pulses the Earth grid uses to distribute information as vibrations to synchronize dances of life in the biosphere. Dan terms this geomagnetic action 'Earth's information bloodstream'., and says it is likely that coupling of HAARP HF (high-frequency) with natural ELF (extremely low frequency) can cause unplanned, unsuspected side effects.
David Yarrow of Albany, New York, is a researcher with a background in electronics. He described possible interactions of HAARP radiations with the ionosphere and Earth's magnetic grid:
"HAARP will not burn 'holes' in the ionosphere. That is a dangerous understatement of what HAARP's giant gigawatt beam will do. Earth is spinning relative to thin electric shells of the multilayer membrane of 'ion-o-speres' that absorb and shield Earth's surface from intense solar radiation, including charged particle storms in solar winds erupting from the sun. Earth's axial spin means that HAARP -- in a burst lasting more than a few minutes -- will slice through the ionosphere like a microwave knife. This produces not a 'hole', but a long tear -- an incision." Crudely Plucking The Strings
"Second concept: As Earth rotates, HAARP will slice across geomagnetic flux...a donut-shaped spool of magnetic strings -- like longitude meridians (on maps). HAARP may not 'cut' these strings in Gaia's magnetic mantle, but will pulse each thread with harsh, out-of-harmony high frequencies. These noisy impulses will vibrate geomagnetic flux lines, sending vibrations all through the geomagnetic web."
"The image comes to mind of a spider on its web. An insect lands, and the web's vibrations alert the spider to possible prey. HAARP will be a man-made microwave finger poking at the web, sending out confusing signals, if not tearing holes in the threads."
"Effects of this interference with symphonies of Gaia's geomagnetic harp are unknown, and I suspect barely thought of. Even if thought of, the intent (of HAARP) is to learn to exploit any effects, not to play in tune to global symphonies."
Among other researchers quoted is Paul Schaefer of Kansas City. His degree is in electrical engineering and he spent four years building nuclear weapons. "But most of the theories that we have been taught by scientists to believe in seem to be falling apart," he says.
He talks about imbalances already caused by the industrial and atomic age, especially by radiation of large numbers of tiny, high-velocity particles "like very small spinning tops into our environment. The unnatural level of motion of highly-energetic particles in the atmosphere and in radiation belts surrounding Earth is the villain in the weather disruptions, according to this model, which describes an Earth discharging its buildup of heat, relieving stress and regaining a balanced condition through earthquakes and volcanic action.
A 'Feverish' Earth, if you will.
"One might compare the abnormal energetic state of the Earth and its atmosphere to a car battery which has become overcharged with the normal flow of energy jammed up, resulting in hot spots, electrical arcing, physical cracks and general turbulence as the pent-up energy tries to find some place to go."
In a second analogy, Schaefer says "Unless we desire the death of our planet, we must end the production of unstable particles which are generating the earth's fever. A first priority to prevent this disaster would be to shut down all nuclear power plants and end the testing of atomic weapons, electronic warfare and 'Star Wars'."
Meanwhile, the military builds its biggest ionospheric heater yet, to deliberately create more instabilities in a huge plasma layer -- the ionosphere -- and to rev up the energy level of charged particles. Electronic Rain From The Sky!
They have published papers about electron precipitation from the magnetosphere (the outer belts of charged particles which stream toward Earth's magnetic poles) caused by man-made very low frequency electromagnetic waves. "These precipitated particles can produce secondary ionization, emit X-rays, and cause significant perturbation in the lower ionosphere."
Two Stanford University radio scientists offer evidence of what technology can do to affect the sky by making waves on earth; they showed that very low frequency radio waves can vibrate the magnetosphere and cause high-energy particles to cascade into Earth's atmosphere. By turning the signal on or off, they could stop the flow of energetic particles.
Weather Control
Avalanches of energy dislodged by such radio waves could hit us hard. Their work suggests that technicians could control global weather by sending relatively small 'signals' into the Van Allen belts (radiation belts around Earth). Thus Tesla's resonance effects can control enormous energies by tiny triggering signals.
The Begich/ Manning book asks whether that knowledge will be used by war-oriented or biosphere-oriented scientists.
The military has had about twenty years to work on weather warfare methods, which it euphemistically calls weather modification. For example, rainmaking technology was taken for a few test rides in Vietnam. The U.S. Department of Defense sampled lightning and hurricane manipulation studies in Project Skyfire and Project Stormfury. And they looked at some complicated technologies that would give big effects. Angels Don't Play This HAARP cites an expert who says the military studied both lasers and chemicals which they figured could damage the ozone layer over an enemy. Looking at ways to cause earthquakes, as well as to detect them, was part of the project named Prime Argus, decades ago. The money for that came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, now under the acronym ARPA.)
In 1994 the Air Force revealed its Spacecast 2020 master plan which includes weather control. Scientists have experimented with weather control since the 1940's, but Spacecast 2020 noted that "using environmental modification techniques to destroy, damage or injure another state are prohibited". Having said that, the Air Force claimed that advances in technology "compels a reexamination of this sensitive and potentially risky topic." 40 Years Of Zapping The Sky?
As far back as 1958, the chief White House advisor on weather modification, Captain Howard T. Orville, said the U.S. defense department was studying "ways to manipulate the charges of the earth and sky and so affect the weather" by using an electronic beam to ionize or de-ionize the atmosphere over a given area.
In 1966, Professor Gordon J. F. MacDonald was associate director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, and later a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality. He published papers on the use of environmental-control technologies for military purposes. MacDonald made a revealing comment:
"The key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy."
World-recognized scientist MacDonald had a number of ideas for using the environment as a weapon system and he contributed to what was, at the time, the dream of a futurist. When he wrote his chapter, "How To Wreck The Environment", for the book Unless Peace Comes, he was not kidding around. In it he describes the use of weather manipulation, climate modification, polar ice cap melting or destabilization, ozone depletion techniques, earthquake engineering, ocean wave control and brain wave manipulation using the planet's energy fields. He also said that these types of weapons would be developed and, when used, would be virtually undetectable by their victims. Is HAARP that weapon? The military's intention to do environmental engineering is well documented.
U.S. Congress' subcommittee hearings on Oceans and International Environment looked into military weather and climate modification conducted in the early 1970's. "What emerged was an awesome picture of far-ranging research and experimentation by the Department of Defense into ways environmental tampering could be used as a weapon," said another author cited in Angels Don't Play This HAARP.
The revealed secrets surprised legislators. Would an inquiry into the state of the art of electromagnetic manipulation surprise lawmakers today? They may find out that technologies developed out of the HAARP experiments in Alaska could deliver on Gordon MacDonald's vision, because leading-edge scientists are describing global weather as not only air pressure and thermal systems, but also as an electrical system. 'Small Input, Big Effect'
HAARP zaps the ionosphere where it is relatively unstable. A point to remember is that the ionosphere is an active electrical shield protecting the planet from the constant bombardment of high-energy particles from space. This conducting plasma, along with Earth's magnetic field, traps the electrical plasma of space and holds it back from going directly to the earth's surface, says Charles Yost of Dynamic Systems, Leicester, North Carolina.
"If the ionosphere is greatly disturbed, the atmosphere below is subsequently disturbed.".
Another scientist interviewed said there is a super-powerful electrical connection between the ionosphere and the part of the atmosphere where our weather comes onstage, the lower atmosphere.
One man-made electrical effect - power line harmonic resonance - causes fallout of charged particles from the Van Allen (radiation) belts, and the falling ions cause ice crystals (which precipitate rain clouds).
What about HAARP? Energy blasted upward from an ionospheric heater is not much compared to the total in the ionosphere, but HAARP documents admit that thousandfold-greater amounts of energy can be released in the ionosphere than injected. As with MacDonald's "key to geophysical warfare", "nonlinear" effects (described in the literature about the ionospheric heater) mean small input and large output. Astrophysicist Adam Trombly told Manning that an acupuncture model is one way to look at the possible effect of multi-gigawatt pulsing of the ionosphere. If HAARP hits certain points , those parts of the ionosphere could react in surprising ways.
Smaller ionospheric heaters such as the one at Arecibo are underneath relatively placid regions of the ionosphere, compared to the dynamic movements nearer Earth's magnetic poles. That adds another uncertainty to HAARP - the unpredictable and lively upper atmosphere near the North Pole.
HAARP experimenters do not impress common sense Alaskans such as Barbara Zickuhr, who says "They're like boys playing with a sharp stick, finding a sleeping bear and poking it in the butt to see what's going to happen." Could They Short-Circuit Earth?
Earth as a spherical electrical system is a fairly well-accepted model. However, those experimenters who want to make unnatural power connections between parts of this system might not be thinking of possible consequences. Electrical motors and generators can be caused to wobble when their circuits are affected. Could human activities cause a significant change in a planet's electrical circuit or electrical field? A paper in the respected journal Science deals with manmade ionization from radioactive material, but perhaps it could also be studied with HAARP-type skybusters in mind:
"For example, while changes in the earth's electric field resulting from a solar flare modulating conductivity may have only a barely detectable effect on meteorology, the situation may be different in regard to electric field changes caused by manmade ionization..."
Meteorology, of course, is the study of the atmosphere and weather. Ionization is what happens when a higher level of power is zapped into atoms and knocks electrons off the atoms. The resulting charged particles are the stuff of HAARP. "One look at the weather should tell us that we are on the wrong path," says Paul Schaefer, commenting on HAARP-type technologies.
Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology is about the military's plan to manipulate that which belongs to the world - the ionosphere. The arrogance of the United States government in this is not without precedent. Atmospheric nuclear tests had similar goals. More recently, China and France put their people's money to destructive use in underground nuclear tests. It was recently reported that the US government spent $3 trillion dollars on its nuclear program since its beginnings in the 1940's. What new breakthroughs in life science could have been made with all the money spent on death?
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
Chips anyone..
Soon no one will likely find it unremarkable that he and almost everyone he knows will be permanently implanted with a microchip. Automatically tracking your location in real time, it will connect you with databases monitoring and recording your smallest behavioural traits.
Most people anticipate such a prospect with a sense of horrified disbelief, dismissing it as a science-fiction fantasy. The technology, however, already exists. For years humane societies have implanted all the pets that leave their premises with a small identifying microchip. As well, millions of consumer goods are now traced with tiny radio frequency identification chips that allow satellites to reveal their exact location.
A select group of people are already "chipped" with devices that automatically open doors, turn on lights, and perform other low-level miracles. Prominent among such individuals is researcher Kevin Warwick of Reading University in England; Warwick is a leading proponent of the almost limitless potential uses for such chips.
Other users include the patrons of the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, many of whom have paid about $150 (U.S.) for the privilege of being implanted with an identifying chip that allows them to bypass lengthy club queues and purchase drinks by being scanned. These individuals are the advance guard of an effort to expand the technology as widely as possible.
From this point forward, microchips will become progressively smaller, less invasive, and easier to deploy. Thus, any realistic barrier to the wholesale "chipping" of Western citizens is not technological but cultural. It relies upon the visceral reaction against the prospect of being personally marked as one component in a massive human inventory.
Today we might strongly hold such beliefs, but sensibilities can, and probably will, change. How this remarkable attitudinal transformation is likely to occur is clear to anyone who has paid attention to privacy issues over the past quarter-century. There will be no 3 a.m. knock on the door by storm troopers come to force implants into our bodies. The process will be more subtle and cumulative, couched in the unassailable language of progress and social betterment, and mimicking many of the processes that have contributed to the expansion of closed-circuit television cameras and the corporate market in personal data.
A series of tried and tested strategies will be marshalled to familiarize citizens with the technology. These will be coupled with efforts to pressure tainted social groups and entice the remainder of the population into being chipped.
This, then, is how the next generation will come to be microchipped.
It starts in distant countries. Having tested the technology on guinea pigs, both human and animal, the first widespread use of human implanting will occur in nations at the periphery of the Western world. Such developments are important in their own right, but their international significance pertains to how they familiarize a global audience with the technology and habituate them to the idea that chipping represents a potential future.
An increasing array of hypothetical chipping scenarios will also be depicted in entertainment media, furthering the familiarization process.
In the West, chips will first be implanted in members of stigmatized groups. Pedophiles are the leading candidate for this distinction, although it could start with terrorists, drug dealers, or whatever happens to be that year's most vilified criminals. Short-lived promises will be made that the technology will only be used on the "worst of the worst." In fact, the wholesale chipping of incarcerated individuals will quickly ensue, encompassing people on probation and on parole.
Even accused individuals will be tagged, a measure justified on the grounds that it would stop them from fleeing justice. Many prisoners will welcome this development, since only chipped inmates will be eligible for parole, weekend release, or community sentences. From the prison system will emerge an evocative vocabulary distinguishing chippers from non-chippers.
Although the chips will be justified as a way to reduce fraud and other crimes, criminals will almost immediately develop techniques to simulate other people's chip codes and manipulate their data.
The comparatively small size of the incarcerated population, however, means that prisons would be simply a brief stopover on a longer voyage. Commercial success is contingent on making serious inroads into tagging the larger population of law-abiding citizens. Other stigmatized groups will therefore be targeted. This will undoubtedly entail monitoring welfare recipients, a move justified to reduce fraud, enhance efficiency, and ensure that the poor do not receive "undeserved" benefits.
Once e-commerce is sufficiently advanced, welfare recipients will receive their benefits as electronic vouchers stored on their microchips, a policy that will be tinged with a sense of righteousness, as it will help ensure that clients can only purchase government-approved goods from select merchants, reducing the always disconcerting prospect that poor people might use their limited funds to purchase alcohol or tobacco.
Civil libertarians will try to foster a debate on these developments. Their attempts to prohibit chipping will be handicapped by the inherent difficulty in animating public sympathy for criminals and welfare recipients — groups that many citizens are only too happy to see subjected to tighter regulation. Indeed, the lesser public concern for such groups is an inherent part of the unarticulated rationale for why coerced chipping will be disproportionately directed at the stigmatized.
The official privacy arm of the government will now take up the issue. Mandated to determine the legality of such initiatives, privacy commissioners and Senate Committees will produce a forest of reports presented at an archipelago of international conferences. Hampered by lengthy research and publication timelines, their findings will be delivered long after the widespread adoption of chipping is effectively a fait accompli. The research conclusions on the effectiveness of such technologies will be mixed and open to interpretation.
Officials will vociferously reassure the chipping industry that they do not oppose chipping itself, which has fast become a growing commercial sector. Instead, they are simply seeking to ensure that the technology is used fairly and that data on the chips is not misused. New policies will be drafted.
What might Hitler, Mao or Stalin have accomplished if their citizens were chipped, coded, and remotely monitored?
Employers will start to expect implants as a condition of getting a job. The U.S. military will lead the way, requiring chips for all soldiers as a means to enhance battlefield command and control — and to identify human remains. From cooks to commandos, every one of the more than one million U.S. military personnel will see microchips replace their dog tags.
Following quickly behind will be the massive security sector. Security guards, police officers, and correctional workers will all be expected to have a chip. Individuals with sensitive jobs will find themselves in the same position.
The first signs of this stage are already apparent. In 2004, the Mexican attorney general's office started implanting employees to restrict access to secure areas. The category of "sensitive occupation" will be expansive to the point that anyone with a job that requires keys, a password, security clearance, or identification badge will have those replaced by a chip.
Judges hearing cases on the constitutionality of these measures will conclude that chipping policies are within legal limits. The thin veneer of "voluntariness" coating many of these programs will allow the judiciary to maintain that individuals are not being coerced into using the technology.
In situations where the chips are clearly forced on people, the judgments will deem them to be undeniable infringements of the right to privacy. However, they will then invoke the nebulous and historically shifting standard of "reasonableness" to pronounce coerced chipping a reasonable infringement on privacy rights in a context of demands for governmental efficiency and the pressing need to enhance security in light of the still ongoing wars on terror, drugs, and crime.
At this juncture, an unfortunately common tragedy of modern life will occur: A small child, likely a photogenic toddler, will be murdered or horrifically abused. It will happen in one of the media capitals of the Western world, thereby ensuring non-stop breathless coverage. Chip manufactures will recognize this as the opportunity they have been anticipating for years. With their technology now largely bug-free, familiar to most citizens and comparatively inexpensive, manufacturers will partner with the police to launch a high-profile campaign encouraging parents to implant their children "to ensure your own peace of mind."
Special deals will be offered. Implants will be free, providing the family registers for monitoring services. Loving but unnerved parents will be reassured by the ability to integrate tagging with other functions on their PDA so they can see their child any time from any place.
Paralleling these developments will be initiatives that employ the logic of convenience to entice the increasingly small group of holdouts to embrace the now common practice of being tagged.
At first, such convenience tagging will be reserved for the highest echelon of Western society, allowing the elite to move unencumbered through the physical and informational corridors of power. Such practices will spread more widely as the benefits of being chipped become more prosaic. Chipped individuals will, for example, move more rapidly through customs.
Indeed, it will ultimately become a condition of using mass-transit systems that officials be allowed to monitor your chip. Companies will offer discounts to individuals who pay by using funds stored on their embedded chip, on the small-print condition that the merchant can access large swaths of their personal data. These "discounts" are effectively punitive pricing schemes, charging unchipped individuals more as a way to encourage them to submit to monitoring. Corporations will seek out the personal data in hopes of producing ever more fine-grained customer profiles for marketing purposes, and to sell to other institutions.
By this point all major organizations will be looking for opportunities to capitalize on the possibilities inherent in an almost universally chipped population. The uses of chips proliferate, as do the types of discounts. Each new generation of household technology becomes configured to operate by interacting with a person's chip.
Finding a computer or appliance that will run though old-fashioned "hands-on"' interactions becomes progressively more difficult and costly. Patients in hospitals and community care will be routinely chipped, allowing medical staff — or, more accurately, remote computers — to monitor their biological systems in real time.
Eager to reduce the health costs associated with a largely docile citizenry, authorities will provide tax incentives to individuals who exercise regularly. Personal chips will be remotely monitored to ensure that their heart rate is consistent with an exercise regime.
By now, the actual process of "chipping" for many individuals will simply involve activating certain functions of their existing chip. Any prospect of removing the chip will become increasingly untenable, as having a chip will be a precondition for engaging in the main dynamics of modern life, such as shopping, voting, and driving.
The remaining holdouts will grow increasingly weary of Luddite jokes and subtle accusations that they have something to hide. Exasperated at repeatedly watching neighbours bypass them in "chipped" lines while they remain subject to the delays, inconveniences, and costs reserved for the unchipped, they too will choose the path of least resistance and get an implant.
In one generation, then, the cultural distaste many might see as an innate reaction to the prospect of having our bodies marked like those of an inmate in a concentration camp will likely fade.
In the coming years some of the most powerful institutional actors in society will start to align themselves to entice, coerce, and occasionally compel the next generation to get an implant.
Now, therefore, is the time to contemplate the unprecedented dangers of this scenario. The most serious of these concern how even comparatively stable modern societies will, in times of fear, embrace treacherous promises. How would the prejudices of a Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, or of southern Klansmen — all of whom were deeply integrated into the American political establishment — have manifest themselves in such a world? What might Hitler, Mao or Milosevic have accomplished if their citizens were chipped, coded, and remotely monitored?
Choirs of testimonials will soon start to sing the virtues of implants. Calm reassurances will be forthcoming about democratic traditions, the rule of law, and privacy rights. History, unfortunately, shows that things can go disastrously wrong, and that this happens with disconcerting regularity. Little in the way of international agreements, legality, or democratic sensibilities has proved capable of thwarting single-minded ruthlessness.
"It can't happen here" the Jews said the same thing in Germany in 1938. It's happening right now. At this very momnet there are implantable micro-chips so far advanded of the advertised 'Digital Angel.' Which do much more then passively emit an 18 digit number. There are implantable micro-chips which can monitor, as well as effect, emotions, thought-patterns, and physcial actions.
What does that mean for those soon to be 'Chipped?'
It means when the Police/Goverment/Those in Power want to they will be able to induce emotions or thoughts at the touch of a button. After all the human brain is nothing more then a conductor of electrical impluses which ARE decipherable, and HAVE BEEN deciphered.
There is a reason 'CELL-TOWERS' , in far to large numbers, have been put up in every neighborhood in America. What happens when they stop recieving phone calls and start broadcasting signals to the innocent implanted-micro-chips? Of course this will only be done in case of emergency. They will only activate the 'IMPLANTABLE MICRO-CHIPS' in case of a national or local emergency.
We can trust them...after all their the Goverment
Most people anticipate such a prospect with a sense of horrified disbelief, dismissing it as a science-fiction fantasy. The technology, however, already exists. For years humane societies have implanted all the pets that leave their premises with a small identifying microchip. As well, millions of consumer goods are now traced with tiny radio frequency identification chips that allow satellites to reveal their exact location.
A select group of people are already "chipped" with devices that automatically open doors, turn on lights, and perform other low-level miracles. Prominent among such individuals is researcher Kevin Warwick of Reading University in England; Warwick is a leading proponent of the almost limitless potential uses for such chips.
Other users include the patrons of the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, many of whom have paid about $150 (U.S.) for the privilege of being implanted with an identifying chip that allows them to bypass lengthy club queues and purchase drinks by being scanned. These individuals are the advance guard of an effort to expand the technology as widely as possible.
From this point forward, microchips will become progressively smaller, less invasive, and easier to deploy. Thus, any realistic barrier to the wholesale "chipping" of Western citizens is not technological but cultural. It relies upon the visceral reaction against the prospect of being personally marked as one component in a massive human inventory.
Today we might strongly hold such beliefs, but sensibilities can, and probably will, change. How this remarkable attitudinal transformation is likely to occur is clear to anyone who has paid attention to privacy issues over the past quarter-century. There will be no 3 a.m. knock on the door by storm troopers come to force implants into our bodies. The process will be more subtle and cumulative, couched in the unassailable language of progress and social betterment, and mimicking many of the processes that have contributed to the expansion of closed-circuit television cameras and the corporate market in personal data.
A series of tried and tested strategies will be marshalled to familiarize citizens with the technology. These will be coupled with efforts to pressure tainted social groups and entice the remainder of the population into being chipped.
This, then, is how the next generation will come to be microchipped.
It starts in distant countries. Having tested the technology on guinea pigs, both human and animal, the first widespread use of human implanting will occur in nations at the periphery of the Western world. Such developments are important in their own right, but their international significance pertains to how they familiarize a global audience with the technology and habituate them to the idea that chipping represents a potential future.
An increasing array of hypothetical chipping scenarios will also be depicted in entertainment media, furthering the familiarization process.
In the West, chips will first be implanted in members of stigmatized groups. Pedophiles are the leading candidate for this distinction, although it could start with terrorists, drug dealers, or whatever happens to be that year's most vilified criminals. Short-lived promises will be made that the technology will only be used on the "worst of the worst." In fact, the wholesale chipping of incarcerated individuals will quickly ensue, encompassing people on probation and on parole.
Even accused individuals will be tagged, a measure justified on the grounds that it would stop them from fleeing justice. Many prisoners will welcome this development, since only chipped inmates will be eligible for parole, weekend release, or community sentences. From the prison system will emerge an evocative vocabulary distinguishing chippers from non-chippers.
Although the chips will be justified as a way to reduce fraud and other crimes, criminals will almost immediately develop techniques to simulate other people's chip codes and manipulate their data.
The comparatively small size of the incarcerated population, however, means that prisons would be simply a brief stopover on a longer voyage. Commercial success is contingent on making serious inroads into tagging the larger population of law-abiding citizens. Other stigmatized groups will therefore be targeted. This will undoubtedly entail monitoring welfare recipients, a move justified to reduce fraud, enhance efficiency, and ensure that the poor do not receive "undeserved" benefits.
Once e-commerce is sufficiently advanced, welfare recipients will receive their benefits as electronic vouchers stored on their microchips, a policy that will be tinged with a sense of righteousness, as it will help ensure that clients can only purchase government-approved goods from select merchants, reducing the always disconcerting prospect that poor people might use their limited funds to purchase alcohol or tobacco.
Civil libertarians will try to foster a debate on these developments. Their attempts to prohibit chipping will be handicapped by the inherent difficulty in animating public sympathy for criminals and welfare recipients — groups that many citizens are only too happy to see subjected to tighter regulation. Indeed, the lesser public concern for such groups is an inherent part of the unarticulated rationale for why coerced chipping will be disproportionately directed at the stigmatized.
The official privacy arm of the government will now take up the issue. Mandated to determine the legality of such initiatives, privacy commissioners and Senate Committees will produce a forest of reports presented at an archipelago of international conferences. Hampered by lengthy research and publication timelines, their findings will be delivered long after the widespread adoption of chipping is effectively a fait accompli. The research conclusions on the effectiveness of such technologies will be mixed and open to interpretation.
Officials will vociferously reassure the chipping industry that they do not oppose chipping itself, which has fast become a growing commercial sector. Instead, they are simply seeking to ensure that the technology is used fairly and that data on the chips is not misused. New policies will be drafted.
What might Hitler, Mao or Stalin have accomplished if their citizens were chipped, coded, and remotely monitored?
Employers will start to expect implants as a condition of getting a job. The U.S. military will lead the way, requiring chips for all soldiers as a means to enhance battlefield command and control — and to identify human remains. From cooks to commandos, every one of the more than one million U.S. military personnel will see microchips replace their dog tags.
Following quickly behind will be the massive security sector. Security guards, police officers, and correctional workers will all be expected to have a chip. Individuals with sensitive jobs will find themselves in the same position.
The first signs of this stage are already apparent. In 2004, the Mexican attorney general's office started implanting employees to restrict access to secure areas. The category of "sensitive occupation" will be expansive to the point that anyone with a job that requires keys, a password, security clearance, or identification badge will have those replaced by a chip.
Judges hearing cases on the constitutionality of these measures will conclude that chipping policies are within legal limits. The thin veneer of "voluntariness" coating many of these programs will allow the judiciary to maintain that individuals are not being coerced into using the technology.
In situations where the chips are clearly forced on people, the judgments will deem them to be undeniable infringements of the right to privacy. However, they will then invoke the nebulous and historically shifting standard of "reasonableness" to pronounce coerced chipping a reasonable infringement on privacy rights in a context of demands for governmental efficiency and the pressing need to enhance security in light of the still ongoing wars on terror, drugs, and crime.
At this juncture, an unfortunately common tragedy of modern life will occur: A small child, likely a photogenic toddler, will be murdered or horrifically abused. It will happen in one of the media capitals of the Western world, thereby ensuring non-stop breathless coverage. Chip manufactures will recognize this as the opportunity they have been anticipating for years. With their technology now largely bug-free, familiar to most citizens and comparatively inexpensive, manufacturers will partner with the police to launch a high-profile campaign encouraging parents to implant their children "to ensure your own peace of mind."
Special deals will be offered. Implants will be free, providing the family registers for monitoring services. Loving but unnerved parents will be reassured by the ability to integrate tagging with other functions on their PDA so they can see their child any time from any place.
Paralleling these developments will be initiatives that employ the logic of convenience to entice the increasingly small group of holdouts to embrace the now common practice of being tagged.
At first, such convenience tagging will be reserved for the highest echelon of Western society, allowing the elite to move unencumbered through the physical and informational corridors of power. Such practices will spread more widely as the benefits of being chipped become more prosaic. Chipped individuals will, for example, move more rapidly through customs.
Indeed, it will ultimately become a condition of using mass-transit systems that officials be allowed to monitor your chip. Companies will offer discounts to individuals who pay by using funds stored on their embedded chip, on the small-print condition that the merchant can access large swaths of their personal data. These "discounts" are effectively punitive pricing schemes, charging unchipped individuals more as a way to encourage them to submit to monitoring. Corporations will seek out the personal data in hopes of producing ever more fine-grained customer profiles for marketing purposes, and to sell to other institutions.
By this point all major organizations will be looking for opportunities to capitalize on the possibilities inherent in an almost universally chipped population. The uses of chips proliferate, as do the types of discounts. Each new generation of household technology becomes configured to operate by interacting with a person's chip.
Finding a computer or appliance that will run though old-fashioned "hands-on"' interactions becomes progressively more difficult and costly. Patients in hospitals and community care will be routinely chipped, allowing medical staff — or, more accurately, remote computers — to monitor their biological systems in real time.
Eager to reduce the health costs associated with a largely docile citizenry, authorities will provide tax incentives to individuals who exercise regularly. Personal chips will be remotely monitored to ensure that their heart rate is consistent with an exercise regime.
By now, the actual process of "chipping" for many individuals will simply involve activating certain functions of their existing chip. Any prospect of removing the chip will become increasingly untenable, as having a chip will be a precondition for engaging in the main dynamics of modern life, such as shopping, voting, and driving.
The remaining holdouts will grow increasingly weary of Luddite jokes and subtle accusations that they have something to hide. Exasperated at repeatedly watching neighbours bypass them in "chipped" lines while they remain subject to the delays, inconveniences, and costs reserved for the unchipped, they too will choose the path of least resistance and get an implant.
In one generation, then, the cultural distaste many might see as an innate reaction to the prospect of having our bodies marked like those of an inmate in a concentration camp will likely fade.
In the coming years some of the most powerful institutional actors in society will start to align themselves to entice, coerce, and occasionally compel the next generation to get an implant.
Now, therefore, is the time to contemplate the unprecedented dangers of this scenario. The most serious of these concern how even comparatively stable modern societies will, in times of fear, embrace treacherous promises. How would the prejudices of a Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, or of southern Klansmen — all of whom were deeply integrated into the American political establishment — have manifest themselves in such a world? What might Hitler, Mao or Milosevic have accomplished if their citizens were chipped, coded, and remotely monitored?
Choirs of testimonials will soon start to sing the virtues of implants. Calm reassurances will be forthcoming about democratic traditions, the rule of law, and privacy rights. History, unfortunately, shows that things can go disastrously wrong, and that this happens with disconcerting regularity. Little in the way of international agreements, legality, or democratic sensibilities has proved capable of thwarting single-minded ruthlessness.
"It can't happen here" the Jews said the same thing in Germany in 1938. It's happening right now. At this very momnet there are implantable micro-chips so far advanded of the advertised 'Digital Angel.' Which do much more then passively emit an 18 digit number. There are implantable micro-chips which can monitor, as well as effect, emotions, thought-patterns, and physcial actions.
What does that mean for those soon to be 'Chipped?'
It means when the Police/Goverment/Those in Power want to they will be able to induce emotions or thoughts at the touch of a button. After all the human brain is nothing more then a conductor of electrical impluses which ARE decipherable, and HAVE BEEN deciphered.
There is a reason 'CELL-TOWERS' , in far to large numbers, have been put up in every neighborhood in America. What happens when they stop recieving phone calls and start broadcasting signals to the innocent implanted-micro-chips? Of course this will only be done in case of emergency. They will only activate the 'IMPLANTABLE MICRO-CHIPS' in case of a national or local emergency.
We can trust them...after all their the Goverment
Saturday, December 09, 2006
9-11 the Myth
Let's start at the begining shall we...
:19 hijackers of Middle Eastern descent and radical Islamic persuasion, commandeer 4 airliners and expertly pilot 3 of the 4 airliners into targets, those being, the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon. The towers collapse due to jet fuel fires. Confusion on the part of NORAD and the FAA allows the planes to reach their targets, while one plane, Flight 93, is brought down by passenger revolt and crashes into a field in Pennsylvania. Pre-warnings of the attack are bungled by the intelligence agencies' lack of communication and cooperation.Show me proof, so that I may believe. -- 9/11 truth activistProve It:Show us the passenger lists with the 19 alleged hijackers names.Show us the remains of the 4 airliners.Show us the autopsies of the 19 alleged hijackers and the passengers of the planes.Show us a peer reviewed study that corroborates the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) report explaining the WTC collapses.Show us samples of the steel from the towers.Show us the confiscated surveillance videos that captured the alleged 757 hitting the Pentagon.Show us the personnel that were punished, reprimanded, demoted or fired as a result of the massive incompetence that allowed the attack to succeed.Show us the case against Bin Laden. The FBI does not list him as being wanted for the 9/11 attack, because 'there is no hard evidence'.Show us proof as to how WTC Building 7 fell at close to free fall speed into its own footprint, even though, it was not hit by a plane.Show us the backgrounds of the alleged hijackers and their alleged Islamic extremism.
Now that Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, the lead authors of the 9/11 Commission Report, have written that NORAD lied to them; why should we accept, at face value, any of the government's assertions?
This was a brutal, criminal attack on America. Why did it take 14 months to start a commission to do an investigation into the details? After all, if one person is found murdered, an investigation starts immediately, does it not?
The Result of 9-11 on the citizens of America....
War with Afghanistan.War with Iraq.The Patriot Act 1, The Patriot Act 2.The Department of Homeland SecurityWiretaps on Americans.Prisoners held without charges or representation indefinitely.Torture of prisoners.Suspension of Habeas Corpus.800 signing statements that allow the President to ignore Constitutional laws and protections.Implementation of a national ID card.Free speech zones.Increased police presence.Militarization of the policeIncreased camera surveillance.Illegal search and seizure.Jailing and harassment of journalists.
$1.6 billion, that's billion with a 'B' spent by the government to provide fake news.Billions made by the establishment on anti-terror businesses. Billions made by the oil and oil support corporations. Billions made by military contractors. Billions shifted into defense and away from social programs.
Thousands of our sons and daughters killed in Iraq and AfghanistanThousands and thousands more of our sons and daughters maimed physically and mentally.Thousands and thousands and thousands of Iraqis killed and wounded, including women and children and babies, as well as soldiers.It is easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information. It's an unfortunate reality that the issuance of incomplete information and even misinformation by government may sometimes be perceived as necessary to protect vital interests.-Solicitor General Theodore Olson (whose wife Barbara was killed in the attack on 9/11)
The Reality:America was attacked on 9/11, but not by Islamic extremists, directed from a cave in Afghanistan. Planes flew into buildings, but, they were not flown by these same unskilled Cessna pilots. Buildings collapsed, but not because of jet fuel fires. The Pentagon was hit by something. Flight 93 allegedly vaporized upon impact in Pennsylvania, but left a debris field eight miles long. Multiple war games and terror drills were running which diluted the air defense capabilities and confused the FAA. There was even a drill running with a hijacked plane hitting a building. What are the odds? How did Bin Laden know about the war games and terror drills?
The Truth about 9-11:
The truth is that only the highest up in the chain of conspirators knows the complete truth. What we have available to us are many, many little truths that comprise the evidence and circumstantial evidence that clearly and loudly screams to all patriotic Americans; We Must Have A New, Completely Independent Investigation Into The Attack Of 9/11.The truth is that buildings do not fall at almost freefall speed unless supports have been removed with precision timing, so that no resistance to the fall exists. This can only be achieved through carefully controlled demolition. Dr. Steven Jones tested several samples of steel from the towers and has conclusively found the cutter charge, thermate (thermite and sulfer; used by controlled demolition to cut steel like a hot knife through butter). This is being peer reviewed. [link to www.infowars.com]
The truth is that evidence was quickly removed from all 3 crime scenes. The list of that evidence includes; the steel and concrete dust from the WTC site, the airplanes from all three sites, the surveillance tapes from businesses around the Pentagon, the black boxes from the planes, the molten steel found in the debris of all three of the collapsed buildings 5 weeks after 9/11, the front lawn of the Pentagon being covered with dirt on September 12, fire fighters' communications with dispatch being unavailable for a year after the attack, FAA tapes being destroyed and, I assure you, the list goes on and on.The truth is that evidence was planted, such as a passport that landed on top of the rubble, even though titanium engines and black boxes made of the most impervious metal known to man, vaporized. A single piece of luggage was left behind by one of the alleged hijackers that contained, not only a will, but, a 'terrorist manual' and the names of the other hijackers. Who carries a will along with them on a suicide mission where it will be destroyed? And, most damningly, the Bin Laden confession video, that clearly shows a right-handed man, with a gold ring and a much smaller nose, is clearly, a fake.
The truth is that NORAD lied to the 9/11 Commission about the timeline of events and responses and this leaves the Commission Report flawed.The truth is that none of the 19 alleged hijackers' names appear on the passenger lists of the 4 flights.The truth is that there was clear foreknowledge of the plot. Examples include; extraordinary buying of puts on United Airlines (4 x the normal amount), American Airlines (11 x the normal amount) and on Boeing stock (5 x the normal amount), 11 countries warning the US of intelligence and chatter, FBI agents stifled in investigations that would have exposed the threat, important people, like Mayor Willie Brown, warned not to fly on 9/11 by Condi Rice, and a Presidential brief entitled, 'Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US', which was ignored.The truth is that Bin Laden is not listed on the FBI's most wanted list for the attack of 9/11, because 'there is no hard evidence'. [link to www.teamliberty.net]
The truth is that the administration fought for 14 months before granting an investigation to be lead by handpicked members who were subsequently lied to and prevented from attaining information through the use of 'state secrets' excuses. In addition, it was under-funded and completely dependent on a flawed NIST report.The truth is that the NIST report has not been peer reviewed because their real world tests did not prove the theory, so they instead, relied on a computer model with doctored numbers.The truth is that Bush and Cheney would not answer questions under oath. In fact, Bush and Cheney would only 'agree' to be questioned together at the White House.The truth is that in spite of all of these facts, the mainstream media will not ask any questions.
Why is it that the media of the United States repeats again and again and again, a LIE? It is designed to propagandize' terror' in order to condition the citizenry to unquestioningly support the myth of the benevolent goodness of the US government and to ensure the profits of its corporate owners.The truth is that we are being lied to on a massive scale.
Dueling Conspiracy Theories:A conspiracy theory is simply a theory that a conspiracy exists. If that theory is supported by even one fact, the theory becomes a possibility. If that theory is supported by fact after fact after fact after fact; it becomes a probability.The 'official' conspiracy theory asks you to believe that buildings collapse at freefall speed, because briefly burning, relatively cool fires can, indeed, weaken and melt steel tested to sustain much higher temperatures and for much longer periods of time. Never before has any steel framed building fallen due to fire and yet three fell on 9/11.
The 'official' conspiracy theory also asks you to believe that 19 alleged hijackers were able to carry out a mission, even though the US air defense system is built and maintained to the tune of $500,000,000,000 per year and is second to none.
The 'official' conspiracy theory also asks you to believe, that the US intelligence services, which are the most heavily funded and highly advanced and powerful in the world, were made to look like The Keystone Cops by 19 extremists and their leader, who was living in a cave in Afghanistan. The 'official' conspiracy theory once again asks you to believe that two jet airliners vaporized upon impact, even though this has never happened in the history of aviation.
The 'official' conspiracy theory was edited of all conflicting evidence, such as the firemen, the police, the news reporters and the victims who said there were secondary explosions at the WTC and the Pentagon and that there was no sign of the wreckage of jet airliners at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.I stopped being a coroner after about twenty minutes, because there were no bodies there. I have not to this day seen a single drop of blood. -- Wally Miller, Somerset County Coroner, referencing the crime scene in Shanksville, Pa.
The alternative to the 'official' conspiracy theory is what I call the TRUTH. Even though evidence was destroyed and removed by the government, the visual and audio clips, documented paper trails, eyewitness testimony and logical connections, paint a powerful and convincing case for an 'inside job'. WTC 7 was brought down by pre-planted explosives. There is simply no other rational explanation, so the 'official' conspiracy theory simply left it out. The WTC towers pancaked down, floor upon floor, and yet they fell, with no resistance and left no pancakes (only concrete dust and severed steel). This defies the laws of physics. We must face the science and simply ask; how could this have happened? Visual evidence at the Pentagon contradicts the 'official' conspiracy theory that a 757, flown by a below average Cessna pilot, slammed into the building and vaporized, leaving a 16 foot hole, but no wings, tail section or engines behind. Something hit the building, probably a radio controlled Global Hawk or an A 3 Sky Warrior. The most recently released tapes show a grainy black and white image which is hardly more then static. Why then did it take 5 years to release this tape?
Flight 93 or something else was either shot down or it exploded in mid air, but it did not crash into the ground and leave debris for eight miles. The last three minutes of the flight recorder from flight 93 is 'unaccounted for'. That last three minutes would be quite valuable now, wouldn't it? The conspiracy probability produces questions that demand answers.
Those answers remain locked within an 'official' vault of 'state secrets'. The vault is additionally protected by a lapdog media and a naïve public, largely blinded by propaganda and unable to discern the difference between patriotic duty to country and misguided allegiance to government. The alternative conspiracy probability is an intellectually based, factually grounded, citizen organized questioning of an all powerful ruling entity, that has proven both historically and through recent actions, to be quite capable of lying to its people. (Watch Terror Storm for a brief history on proven false flag, state sponsored terror and provocation [link to video.google.com] )
Let us not tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories. -- George W. Bush
What Do You Believe?
:19 hijackers of Middle Eastern descent and radical Islamic persuasion, commandeer 4 airliners and expertly pilot 3 of the 4 airliners into targets, those being, the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon. The towers collapse due to jet fuel fires. Confusion on the part of NORAD and the FAA allows the planes to reach their targets, while one plane, Flight 93, is brought down by passenger revolt and crashes into a field in Pennsylvania. Pre-warnings of the attack are bungled by the intelligence agencies' lack of communication and cooperation.Show me proof, so that I may believe. -- 9/11 truth activistProve It:Show us the passenger lists with the 19 alleged hijackers names.Show us the remains of the 4 airliners.Show us the autopsies of the 19 alleged hijackers and the passengers of the planes.Show us a peer reviewed study that corroborates the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) report explaining the WTC collapses.Show us samples of the steel from the towers.Show us the confiscated surveillance videos that captured the alleged 757 hitting the Pentagon.Show us the personnel that were punished, reprimanded, demoted or fired as a result of the massive incompetence that allowed the attack to succeed.Show us the case against Bin Laden. The FBI does not list him as being wanted for the 9/11 attack, because 'there is no hard evidence'.Show us proof as to how WTC Building 7 fell at close to free fall speed into its own footprint, even though, it was not hit by a plane.Show us the backgrounds of the alleged hijackers and their alleged Islamic extremism.
Now that Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, the lead authors of the 9/11 Commission Report, have written that NORAD lied to them; why should we accept, at face value, any of the government's assertions?
This was a brutal, criminal attack on America. Why did it take 14 months to start a commission to do an investigation into the details? After all, if one person is found murdered, an investigation starts immediately, does it not?
The Result of 9-11 on the citizens of America....
War with Afghanistan.War with Iraq.The Patriot Act 1, The Patriot Act 2.The Department of Homeland SecurityWiretaps on Americans.Prisoners held without charges or representation indefinitely.Torture of prisoners.Suspension of Habeas Corpus.800 signing statements that allow the President to ignore Constitutional laws and protections.Implementation of a national ID card.Free speech zones.Increased police presence.Militarization of the policeIncreased camera surveillance.Illegal search and seizure.Jailing and harassment of journalists.
$1.6 billion, that's billion with a 'B' spent by the government to provide fake news.Billions made by the establishment on anti-terror businesses. Billions made by the oil and oil support corporations. Billions made by military contractors. Billions shifted into defense and away from social programs.
Thousands of our sons and daughters killed in Iraq and AfghanistanThousands and thousands more of our sons and daughters maimed physically and mentally.Thousands and thousands and thousands of Iraqis killed and wounded, including women and children and babies, as well as soldiers.It is easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information. It's an unfortunate reality that the issuance of incomplete information and even misinformation by government may sometimes be perceived as necessary to protect vital interests.-Solicitor General Theodore Olson (whose wife Barbara was killed in the attack on 9/11)
The Reality:America was attacked on 9/11, but not by Islamic extremists, directed from a cave in Afghanistan. Planes flew into buildings, but, they were not flown by these same unskilled Cessna pilots. Buildings collapsed, but not because of jet fuel fires. The Pentagon was hit by something. Flight 93 allegedly vaporized upon impact in Pennsylvania, but left a debris field eight miles long. Multiple war games and terror drills were running which diluted the air defense capabilities and confused the FAA. There was even a drill running with a hijacked plane hitting a building. What are the odds? How did Bin Laden know about the war games and terror drills?
The Truth about 9-11:
The truth is that only the highest up in the chain of conspirators knows the complete truth. What we have available to us are many, many little truths that comprise the evidence and circumstantial evidence that clearly and loudly screams to all patriotic Americans; We Must Have A New, Completely Independent Investigation Into The Attack Of 9/11.The truth is that buildings do not fall at almost freefall speed unless supports have been removed with precision timing, so that no resistance to the fall exists. This can only be achieved through carefully controlled demolition. Dr. Steven Jones tested several samples of steel from the towers and has conclusively found the cutter charge, thermate (thermite and sulfer; used by controlled demolition to cut steel like a hot knife through butter). This is being peer reviewed. [link to www.infowars.com]
The truth is that evidence was quickly removed from all 3 crime scenes. The list of that evidence includes; the steel and concrete dust from the WTC site, the airplanes from all three sites, the surveillance tapes from businesses around the Pentagon, the black boxes from the planes, the molten steel found in the debris of all three of the collapsed buildings 5 weeks after 9/11, the front lawn of the Pentagon being covered with dirt on September 12, fire fighters' communications with dispatch being unavailable for a year after the attack, FAA tapes being destroyed and, I assure you, the list goes on and on.The truth is that evidence was planted, such as a passport that landed on top of the rubble, even though titanium engines and black boxes made of the most impervious metal known to man, vaporized. A single piece of luggage was left behind by one of the alleged hijackers that contained, not only a will, but, a 'terrorist manual' and the names of the other hijackers. Who carries a will along with them on a suicide mission where it will be destroyed? And, most damningly, the Bin Laden confession video, that clearly shows a right-handed man, with a gold ring and a much smaller nose, is clearly, a fake.
The truth is that NORAD lied to the 9/11 Commission about the timeline of events and responses and this leaves the Commission Report flawed.The truth is that none of the 19 alleged hijackers' names appear on the passenger lists of the 4 flights.The truth is that there was clear foreknowledge of the plot. Examples include; extraordinary buying of puts on United Airlines (4 x the normal amount), American Airlines (11 x the normal amount) and on Boeing stock (5 x the normal amount), 11 countries warning the US of intelligence and chatter, FBI agents stifled in investigations that would have exposed the threat, important people, like Mayor Willie Brown, warned not to fly on 9/11 by Condi Rice, and a Presidential brief entitled, 'Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US', which was ignored.The truth is that Bin Laden is not listed on the FBI's most wanted list for the attack of 9/11, because 'there is no hard evidence'. [link to www.teamliberty.net]
The truth is that the administration fought for 14 months before granting an investigation to be lead by handpicked members who were subsequently lied to and prevented from attaining information through the use of 'state secrets' excuses. In addition, it was under-funded and completely dependent on a flawed NIST report.The truth is that the NIST report has not been peer reviewed because their real world tests did not prove the theory, so they instead, relied on a computer model with doctored numbers.The truth is that Bush and Cheney would not answer questions under oath. In fact, Bush and Cheney would only 'agree' to be questioned together at the White House.The truth is that in spite of all of these facts, the mainstream media will not ask any questions.
Why is it that the media of the United States repeats again and again and again, a LIE? It is designed to propagandize' terror' in order to condition the citizenry to unquestioningly support the myth of the benevolent goodness of the US government and to ensure the profits of its corporate owners.The truth is that we are being lied to on a massive scale.
Dueling Conspiracy Theories:A conspiracy theory is simply a theory that a conspiracy exists. If that theory is supported by even one fact, the theory becomes a possibility. If that theory is supported by fact after fact after fact after fact; it becomes a probability.The 'official' conspiracy theory asks you to believe that buildings collapse at freefall speed, because briefly burning, relatively cool fires can, indeed, weaken and melt steel tested to sustain much higher temperatures and for much longer periods of time. Never before has any steel framed building fallen due to fire and yet three fell on 9/11.
The 'official' conspiracy theory also asks you to believe that 19 alleged hijackers were able to carry out a mission, even though the US air defense system is built and maintained to the tune of $500,000,000,000 per year and is second to none.
The 'official' conspiracy theory also asks you to believe, that the US intelligence services, which are the most heavily funded and highly advanced and powerful in the world, were made to look like The Keystone Cops by 19 extremists and their leader, who was living in a cave in Afghanistan. The 'official' conspiracy theory once again asks you to believe that two jet airliners vaporized upon impact, even though this has never happened in the history of aviation.
The 'official' conspiracy theory was edited of all conflicting evidence, such as the firemen, the police, the news reporters and the victims who said there were secondary explosions at the WTC and the Pentagon and that there was no sign of the wreckage of jet airliners at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.I stopped being a coroner after about twenty minutes, because there were no bodies there. I have not to this day seen a single drop of blood. -- Wally Miller, Somerset County Coroner, referencing the crime scene in Shanksville, Pa.
The alternative to the 'official' conspiracy theory is what I call the TRUTH. Even though evidence was destroyed and removed by the government, the visual and audio clips, documented paper trails, eyewitness testimony and logical connections, paint a powerful and convincing case for an 'inside job'. WTC 7 was brought down by pre-planted explosives. There is simply no other rational explanation, so the 'official' conspiracy theory simply left it out. The WTC towers pancaked down, floor upon floor, and yet they fell, with no resistance and left no pancakes (only concrete dust and severed steel). This defies the laws of physics. We must face the science and simply ask; how could this have happened? Visual evidence at the Pentagon contradicts the 'official' conspiracy theory that a 757, flown by a below average Cessna pilot, slammed into the building and vaporized, leaving a 16 foot hole, but no wings, tail section or engines behind. Something hit the building, probably a radio controlled Global Hawk or an A 3 Sky Warrior. The most recently released tapes show a grainy black and white image which is hardly more then static. Why then did it take 5 years to release this tape?
Flight 93 or something else was either shot down or it exploded in mid air, but it did not crash into the ground and leave debris for eight miles. The last three minutes of the flight recorder from flight 93 is 'unaccounted for'. That last three minutes would be quite valuable now, wouldn't it? The conspiracy probability produces questions that demand answers.
Those answers remain locked within an 'official' vault of 'state secrets'. The vault is additionally protected by a lapdog media and a naïve public, largely blinded by propaganda and unable to discern the difference between patriotic duty to country and misguided allegiance to government. The alternative conspiracy probability is an intellectually based, factually grounded, citizen organized questioning of an all powerful ruling entity, that has proven both historically and through recent actions, to be quite capable of lying to its people. (Watch Terror Storm for a brief history on proven false flag, state sponsored terror and provocation [link to video.google.com] )
Let us not tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories. -- George W. Bush
What Do You Believe?
Thursday, December 07, 2006
The US Dollar R.I.P.
Anti-American NWO Thugs Steal Trillions From American People To Purposely Bring Down Economy
Wanta $4.5 Tillion at the crux of trillions stolen by last three presidential administrations. Media and Congress complicit in treason for trillion dollar heist and should be ousted, according to Michael C. Cottrell, treasurer of the Wanta group trying to repatriate trillions back to American people.
The common thieves in the White House and its illegal occupant, George W. Bush, are engaged in treasonous acts on a daily basis, according to Michael C. Cottrell, treasurer of an American corporation trying to repatriate $4.5 trillion in off shore money.
Cottrell is helping former U.S. Treasury agent and Ambassador Leo Wanta recover the stolen trillions earmarked for the American economy but hijacked by the black squad of Vatican-led Bush Illuminati thugs firmly in control of the fascist U.S. government.
Wanta has been trying to repatriate the money for years, while alerting Americans how three presidential administrations have stolen more than $70 trillion dollars of off shore and off-the-books money used for covert operations.
For his efforts, Wanta has been threatened, tortured and jailed simply for not giving into George H. Bush who has personally led a campaign to steal trillions from the American people for his New World Order agenda.
Recently, Wanta entered into an agreement with New World Order minions to get back only a portion ($4.5 trillion) of the estimated $27.5 trillion under his financial control according to the Reagan protocols.
However, the Bush administration under recently appointed U.S. Treasury Secretary, Henry M. Paulson, have stolen the Wanta money that Cottrell traced to being illegally transferred for New World profits in several large U.S. and German banks.
Once the money is released, if ever, approximately $1.5 trillion is earmarked for the U.S. Treasury for taxes and the remainder to be reinvested to jump start the American economy. But as the months pass Wanta and Cottrell have been unable to penetrate a media and Congressional black out on the massive theft by three presidential administrations, indicating both entities remain firmly in the pocket of the Vatican-led New World Order.
"Paulson and Bush have proved to be nothing more than thieves guilty of treason for purposely bringing down the American economy," said Cottrell in an extended conversation Monday from his East Coast home. "The dollar is tanking and it is directly related to the thievery of trillions of this off shore money. They are killing the dollar so that the 'Amero' can be born and power can be concentrated into a very small and powerful circle of men. The only thing standing in their way is the American people.
"The country is about to experience the worst financial nightmare since the 1920s. The economy is tanking because of the idiocy of Bush and Paulson. By Jan. 1 2007, you will see heavy mortgage defaults as prices skyrocket since the dollar has no value.
"These criminals in power are stealing the cash and without the war in Iraq they have no way to mask their thievery. All I can say is we are doing everything in our power to secure the $4.5 trillion for the betterment of the American people before it's too late.
Asked what was the real importance of the Wanta story, he said it clearly showed how the Bush administration has violated the rule of law by not honoring its financial commitments, demonstrating the administration was more concerned with lining the pockets of global banksters and "privateers" with trillions of dollars instead of doing the right thing by enforcing offshore tax payments and stabilizing the American economy.
Cottrell added that since President Reagan passed Executive Order 12333, the last three presidential administrations have illegally used offshore money for their own nefarious purposes without paying U.S. taxes to the tune of more than $100 trillion dollars.
He also said the thievery continues on a large scale, including the illegal use of the $4.5 trillion earmarked for Wanta.
"Instead of the U.S. officials honoring the Wanta agreement and the rule of law entered into last May, we have caught them using the money illegally and filling financial holes to cover their tracks," said Cottrell.
As background, Wanta has been at odds with the powers that be ever since he was declared legal trustor of more than $27.5 trillion accumulated as a result of his financial efforts on behalf of President Ronald Reagan to destabilize the Russian currency at the end of the Cold War.
Furthermore, Wanta was jailed for the better part of a decade for trying to return trillions to the American people, as Reagan had dictated, but later was backstabbed by the following three presidential administrations who instead wanted to illegally pocket the money for their own personal use, according to Wanta.
Previously, Wanta came forward with these allegations, presenting documentation of more $745 billion in misdirected and stolen money, attributing the thievery to those occupying the White House after Reagan left office.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Orbital Battle Station new speak for 'Star Wars'
The Bush administration is going to ask Congress for funding to begin development of an “orbital battle station” that will be able to attack enemy missiles in their vulnerable boost phase.
Each Battle Station would be a fairly large satellite that carried a number, perhaps 40 to 50 infrared guided “kill vehicles.” On orders from the ground, the battle station would launch these kill vehicles, roughly about the size of a loaf of bread, at incoming missiles. Professor Everett Dolman of the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama and the author of Astropolitik - Classical Geopolitics in The Space Age, says that space based systems are “the only viable option for global defense against the most likely threats, such as an attack by Iran against Israel or by Pakistan against India.”
“The technology,” Dolman said, “for a basic orbital interceptor that could hit an ICBM in mid flight has been available to the U.S. for at least two decades. Indeed should the U.S. dedicate itself to a fast track development and deployment of several dozen networked anti-missile satellites, it could have a baseline capability in place within two years.”
The truth being that the US has for over 2 decades employed much more advanced weapons then these being proposed. This is simply a trial ballon to inform the public of what has already been done previously. The current level of development is the HAARP series of directed energy weapons. This HAARP series of weapons is one of the reasons the US, Europe, Russia, and China have been poisioning the atmosphere with over-spray fights of metal particulates.
Each Battle Station would be a fairly large satellite that carried a number, perhaps 40 to 50 infrared guided “kill vehicles.” On orders from the ground, the battle station would launch these kill vehicles, roughly about the size of a loaf of bread, at incoming missiles. Professor Everett Dolman of the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama and the author of Astropolitik - Classical Geopolitics in The Space Age, says that space based systems are “the only viable option for global defense against the most likely threats, such as an attack by Iran against Israel or by Pakistan against India.”
“The technology,” Dolman said, “for a basic orbital interceptor that could hit an ICBM in mid flight has been available to the U.S. for at least two decades. Indeed should the U.S. dedicate itself to a fast track development and deployment of several dozen networked anti-missile satellites, it could have a baseline capability in place within two years.”
The truth being that the US has for over 2 decades employed much more advanced weapons then these being proposed. This is simply a trial ballon to inform the public of what has already been done previously. The current level of development is the HAARP series of directed energy weapons. This HAARP series of weapons is one of the reasons the US, Europe, Russia, and China have been poisioning the atmosphere with over-spray fights of metal particulates.
Monday, November 13, 2006
USA 1776--2008....R.I.P.
China's military buildup accelerates...
China is beginning to reap the rewards of an intensive and very costly military modernization program designed to turn its armed forces into a streamlined and integrated force.Over the past decade, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been engaged in an ambitious and concerted effort to become a modern, war-fighting organization, one that can project its military power well beyond China’s borders.Taiwan is the immediate focus of the army’s strategy, but the PLA is also taking a longer-term view and is upgrading its capabilities to become a world-class fighting force. However, during its transformation, it has to deal with the obsolescence of old equipment as it tries to acquire new arms.
The balance of power across the Taiwan Strait is tipping in China’s favor, but Beijing has to contend with the United States and Japan, allied powers that want to contain the PLA’s expansion and deter any adventurism on its part toward Taiwan.The PLA will want to test its capabilities against the most modern fighting forces it can, the most cooperative being Russia. It cannot count on Moscow to provide the most up-to-date military hardware, but it will secure some level of technology to carry modernization forward. However, Moscow appears willing to engage in regular military exercises, and there is likely to be an increase in activity here.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the PLA has deployed between 650 and 730 ballistic missiles near the Taiwan Strait. The army is also understood to be building an arsenal of at least 200 Hong-Niao cruise missiles within the next year.Taiwan’s long-standing superiority in the cross-strait military balance has been erased by China’s rapid build-up. However, the PLA still does not have sufficient firepower to be confident of launching a successful invasion against the island, at least until the early part of the next decade.The United States has been boosting its military support and arms sales to Taiwan while trying to thwart the pace of China’s military transformation. One of Washington’s diplomatic priorities is to dissuade the European Union from lifting an arms embargo on China that has been in place since the 1989 military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests.Chinese military planners assume that the United States, with logistical support from Japan, will intervene militarily against China in the event of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait. A key element of the PLA’s military preparations against Taiwan has consequently been to execute a quick and decisive victory against Taiwanese forces while deterring or holding off an effective U.S. military response.
To achieve such an objective, the PLA would need to execute what has been classified as 'The Assassin's Mace strategy.' First blinding US satellites, then jamming the joint US-Japanese’s communication apparatus. Finally, centering on the neutralization of Taiwan’s civilian and military command-and-control apparatuses, hitting vital infrastructure and communication facilities and targeting its key military capabilities.Japan and the United States have been closely monitoring China’s military modernization efforts. Last December, the Japanese government issued a national-program outline to guide the country’s defense and security policies over the next 10 years. This pointed out that China was a potential threat and its military modernization efforts, especially the development of its naval, air and missile forces, needed close monitoring.
The United States has been strengthening its naval presence around the Taiwan Strait in the face of the Chinese buildup. The U.S. Navy has established a forward deployment base in Guam for its nuclear attack-submarine fleet. In response, Chinese submarines have become increasingly active in waters around Japan and Guam. Last November, a diplomatic row flared up between China and Japan after a Han-class nuclear submarine was detected in Japanese waters.China is trying to expand its security ties with Russia to balance any efforts by the United States and Japan to contain its military buildup.
In August, the Chinese and Russian armed forces held a weeklong series of military exercises on the Liaodong Peninsula in northeast China. Although officials described them as counterterrorism exercises, the participation of airborne assault forces, marines, Tu-22M strategic bombers and other major military assets allowed the PLA a rare but invaluable opportunity to test its improving capabilities against a major military power. These are critical war-fighting capabilities that the PLA would employ in the event of conflict in the Taiwan Strait. Both countries have indicated that these exercises could become an annual event.The PLA wants to accelerate the already rapid pace of military transformation within the new 11th five-year defense plan, to begin in 2006. While the specifics of the plan remain secret, civilian and military leaders have highlighted key priorities for the PLA and the industrial defence base to focus on in the medium-to-long term.
China’s leaders have given strong backing to the PLA’s transformation and regeneration efforts, with hefty and sustained increases in military spending over recent years. The official defense budget has risen by an annual average of 15 percent over the past five years, from 121 billion renminbi ($15 billion) in 2001 to 220 billion renminbi last year. The real purchasing power of the defense budget has been further boosted by a benign inflationary climate during this period.
At the March National People’s Congress, defense spending for 2005 was budgeted at 247 billion renminbi, representing a 12.6 percent increase over 2004. These published figures represent between one-third and one-half of actual military expenditure.Balancing the costly demands of the military while meeting the needs of the country’s fast-paced economic development will test Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and State President Hu Jintao, who took over from Jiang Zemin as commander in chief of the armed forces in September last year. Hu will have learned from his predecessor that to win the confidence and loyalty of senior officers he must ensure that the PLA benefits from a rising share of the country’s growing prosperity.As long as overall economic growth remains robust, Hu should be able to satisfy the military’s budgetary demands. However, if the economy were to falter — a possibility if recent concerns over economic overheating were to trigger a hard landing — the hefty increases in official and off-budget defense spending might prove unsustainable.
With little previous experience in operational military matters, Hu has been focusing most of his attention on overseeing political issues centered on party-army relations and ensuring the continued political loyalty of the military rank and file. While he will leave professional and war-fighting issues to the higher levels of personnel, the deepening tensions in cross-strait issues may require him to spend more of his time on military issues than his predecessors.With strong political support and steadily rising defense budgets, China’s defense transformation will continue at an accelerating pace over at least the next few years. Chinese defense chiefs will become increasingly confident they can project their military power far from the country’s shores. However, the PLA has not been involved in actual combat for the past 25 years, and its newly acquired war-fighting capabilities and skills are untested.
Friday, August 11, 2006
The Martyrdom Of The Theban Legion
In the year of our Lord 290 A.D. one of the worst Roman emperors, Diocletian, appointed a Cesar named Maximian. Diocletian was trying to keep the Empire together by sharing power with the new strong man, who was in Diocletian's words, "a barbarian" .
The Roman Empire was starting to fall apart at this time, and policy was to recruit legions from one part of the Empire and then send them to put down rebellions in distant parts. The theory was that if they had no shared language and culture with the rebels, they wouldn't be tempted to side with them.
The Theban legion was recruited in Upper Egypt in the region of the city of Thebes, now Luxor. They were all Coptic Christians, members of one of the oldest continuous expressions of the Body of Christ on earth. Maximian Cesar was facing a rebellion by the Gauls north of the Alps, across the St. Bernard pass, so he sent the Thebans to put it down.
When Maurice, the commander of the Theban legion, heard that the rebels were also Christians and that their crime against Rome was refusing to worship the Emperor as a god, he led his men in a flat refusal to attack them. Maximian ordered the Thebans to worship him, as he shared divinity status as a sort of co-Emperor, and then to obey his command to attack the Christians. When Maurice again refused, Maximian ordered the "decimation" of the Thebans, which meant that one man out of every ten was put to death. When this horrific intimidation didn't work, he ordered a second decimation. When that had no effect, he commanded the execution of the rest of the 7,000 members of the Theban legion, his own soldiers, for refusing to worship him and to put to death their fellow Christians.
Groups of the Thebans had already been sent to several locations in Switzerland, but despite their being separated they remained united in their stand against this idolatry.
Many women traveled with the legion, and some survived. One of the nurses, Verena, decided that she had been spared so that God could use her to stay on in Switzerland as a missionary. She dedicated her life to ministering to the poor, specifically in teaching them the principles of hygiene.
A few decades later, Eucherius, Bishop of Lyon, wrote down the speech of Maurice as it had been handed down by church tradition. It is a model of clarity of thinking and expression on the difference between submission and obedience, a subject often misunderstood today.
Here is a part of Maurice's declaration:
"Emperor, we are your soldiers, but we are above all servants of God. We owe you military obedience, but we owe Him innocence. We receive from you the wages of our labor, from Him we have received life. We cannot deny God our Creator and Lord, and your Creator also, whether you wish it or not.
If we are not forced to offend Him by such crimes, we will yet obey you as we have always done; otherwise we will obey Him rather than you. We offer you, to employ them against any enemy, our hands which we will not cover with innocent blood. These hands know how to battle against enemies and unbelievers, but they will not strike pious men and fellow citizens. For we have taken up arms for our fellow citizens, and not against them.
We have always fought for justice, respect, and the lives of the innocent; that was our recompense for the dangers we faced. We have fought in faithfulness; but how can we preserve this faithfulness toward you, if we refuse it toward our God? We have first of all sworn an oath to God, and secondly to the Emperor. Know that our second oath is meaningless, if we violate the first. You order us to put Christians to death. Search no further, here we are! We confess our faith: "We believe in God, Father and Creator of all things; we believe in His Son Jesus Christ, our God."
We have seen our comrades in arms slain by iron. Their blood has run over us. But we do not mourn our holy companions, we do not pity them. Rather we praise them, and we are full of joy, because they were found worthy to suffer for the Lord. Now the supreme need to live will not push us into rebellion against God. The despair which gives us such strength in the face of danger will not force us to take up arms against you, Emperor. Here we stand with our weapons, but we do not resist you. For we would choose to live rather than to kill, to perish innocent rather than to live guilty. If you make new decrees against us, if you give us new orders, if you bring new threats, fires, tortures, or swords, we are ready to bear all.
Christians we declare ourselves to be; we cannot persecute other Christians."
The memory of this martyrdom has been preserved down through the centuries, both in the Catholic Church in Switzerland and in the Coptic Church in Egypt. The site of it is known, and a small chapel was built there which still stands down beyond the other end of the lake from us. It is outside Agaune, presently St. Maurice, at a place now called Verolliez, where the mountains come down to a narrow defile. The Celts and then the Romans fortified this spot, to control the traffic going through. The Theban legion was encamped there.
Starting in the 4th century a bigger church was built in the town of Agaune over the bones of the martyrs, and in 515 King Sigismod of the Burgondes called monks from several monasteries together and charged them with maintaining the "Laus perennis", or perpetual praise to the Lord from that place. Every day since then, for 1490 years despite fires, floods, and invasions, praise has gone up to God from that Abbey. It is the oldest place of continuous worship in the West.
Tertullian said "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church."
The Roman Empire was starting to fall apart at this time, and policy was to recruit legions from one part of the Empire and then send them to put down rebellions in distant parts. The theory was that if they had no shared language and culture with the rebels, they wouldn't be tempted to side with them.
The Theban legion was recruited in Upper Egypt in the region of the city of Thebes, now Luxor. They were all Coptic Christians, members of one of the oldest continuous expressions of the Body of Christ on earth. Maximian Cesar was facing a rebellion by the Gauls north of the Alps, across the St. Bernard pass, so he sent the Thebans to put it down.
When Maurice, the commander of the Theban legion, heard that the rebels were also Christians and that their crime against Rome was refusing to worship the Emperor as a god, he led his men in a flat refusal to attack them. Maximian ordered the Thebans to worship him, as he shared divinity status as a sort of co-Emperor, and then to obey his command to attack the Christians. When Maurice again refused, Maximian ordered the "decimation" of the Thebans, which meant that one man out of every ten was put to death. When this horrific intimidation didn't work, he ordered a second decimation. When that had no effect, he commanded the execution of the rest of the 7,000 members of the Theban legion, his own soldiers, for refusing to worship him and to put to death their fellow Christians.
Groups of the Thebans had already been sent to several locations in Switzerland, but despite their being separated they remained united in their stand against this idolatry.
Many women traveled with the legion, and some survived. One of the nurses, Verena, decided that she had been spared so that God could use her to stay on in Switzerland as a missionary. She dedicated her life to ministering to the poor, specifically in teaching them the principles of hygiene.
A few decades later, Eucherius, Bishop of Lyon, wrote down the speech of Maurice as it had been handed down by church tradition. It is a model of clarity of thinking and expression on the difference between submission and obedience, a subject often misunderstood today.
Here is a part of Maurice's declaration:
"Emperor, we are your soldiers, but we are above all servants of God. We owe you military obedience, but we owe Him innocence. We receive from you the wages of our labor, from Him we have received life. We cannot deny God our Creator and Lord, and your Creator also, whether you wish it or not.
If we are not forced to offend Him by such crimes, we will yet obey you as we have always done; otherwise we will obey Him rather than you. We offer you, to employ them against any enemy, our hands which we will not cover with innocent blood. These hands know how to battle against enemies and unbelievers, but they will not strike pious men and fellow citizens. For we have taken up arms for our fellow citizens, and not against them.
We have always fought for justice, respect, and the lives of the innocent; that was our recompense for the dangers we faced. We have fought in faithfulness; but how can we preserve this faithfulness toward you, if we refuse it toward our God? We have first of all sworn an oath to God, and secondly to the Emperor. Know that our second oath is meaningless, if we violate the first. You order us to put Christians to death. Search no further, here we are! We confess our faith: "We believe in God, Father and Creator of all things; we believe in His Son Jesus Christ, our God."
We have seen our comrades in arms slain by iron. Their blood has run over us. But we do not mourn our holy companions, we do not pity them. Rather we praise them, and we are full of joy, because they were found worthy to suffer for the Lord. Now the supreme need to live will not push us into rebellion against God. The despair which gives us such strength in the face of danger will not force us to take up arms against you, Emperor. Here we stand with our weapons, but we do not resist you. For we would choose to live rather than to kill, to perish innocent rather than to live guilty. If you make new decrees against us, if you give us new orders, if you bring new threats, fires, tortures, or swords, we are ready to bear all.
Christians we declare ourselves to be; we cannot persecute other Christians."
The memory of this martyrdom has been preserved down through the centuries, both in the Catholic Church in Switzerland and in the Coptic Church in Egypt. The site of it is known, and a small chapel was built there which still stands down beyond the other end of the lake from us. It is outside Agaune, presently St. Maurice, at a place now called Verolliez, where the mountains come down to a narrow defile. The Celts and then the Romans fortified this spot, to control the traffic going through. The Theban legion was encamped there.
Starting in the 4th century a bigger church was built in the town of Agaune over the bones of the martyrs, and in 515 King Sigismod of the Burgondes called monks from several monasteries together and charged them with maintaining the "Laus perennis", or perpetual praise to the Lord from that place. Every day since then, for 1490 years despite fires, floods, and invasions, praise has gone up to God from that Abbey. It is the oldest place of continuous worship in the West.
Tertullian said "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church."
Sunday, March 19, 2006
American Freedom....R.I.P. 2006
American Freedom 2006RIP
Sometime before the 2008 presidential election, and possibly much, much sooner, the United States Government will detonate a small to medium nuclear weapon in an American city, killing 10,000 to 100,000 civilians. The U.S. government will blame Al Qaeda or Iran. In doing so upcoming elections will be postponed. The government will suspend the Constitution and imposing martial law. ‘Posse-Comitatus’ will be suspended as the 101st Airborne are ordered into the large American cities and the terrified American public will go along with it all.
The U.S. government will control the “investigation” of the nuclear explosion. The media will follow along as they will be in no position to challenge the government’s findings. The American public swooning patriotism and bloodlust will demand immediate retaliation. No one will balk as the government institutes a draft of all 18 to 25 year old males. Propaganda mixed with lies will silence any of the military’s detractors. A new America for the 21st century the posters will say.
As for the unlucky city in this ill-fated lottery, any mid-sized American city in the throes of Urban decay with a large Arab population that the government can accuse of being Al Qaeda sympathizers would fit the bill nicely.
The government can plant several other nuclear bombs in other cities, such as San Francisco, Miami, or any other city with a midsized media outlet. Big enough to get the story out, but not big enough to have quality reporters who could sniff out a lie. Then after the first bomb is detonated, the government can “find” these other unexploded bombs and claim that they believe there are others still lurking out there. Seeing one bomb go off, finding two others, and believing that there are still more would so scare the public that they would beg Congress to suspend the Constitution and declare permanent martial law.
Public “analysis” (i.e. spoon feeding government lies to the media) of these additional unexploded bombs can provide weeks of infotainment while giving the government a means to PAINT other countries with the brush of accomplishes. For instance, the government can claim that these bombs are “crude” and thus probably the work of amateurs, bearing the hallmark traits that suggest Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, North Korea, etc.
The U.S. government has already announced that it would attack Iran in the event of another major terrorist attack, REGARDLESS of Iran’s culpability. The U.S. government’s analysis will be completely fabricated, but people and the press will be so scared that they will accept without question whatever the government claims.Fast forward to today. First, I read about military nuclear terrorism exercises in Charleston, South Carolina scheduled to end around April 2nd. Curious timing. There were five military exercises on 9/11 having to do with hijacked airplanes flying into buildings! That’s a pretty stunning coincidence.
Detonating a nuclear bomb in a crowded stadium would kill 70,000 people (within my stated range) while minimizing damage to the out lying physical city. Considering the almost certainly faked "warning" from Osama bin Laden a couple of weeks ago, a large sports event would be an excellent symbolic target for a would be "Islamic terrorists."
In March Iran is supposedly going to launch an ‘Oil Bourse’ that will trade oil for euros instead of American dollars, which would likely destroy the dollar and the U.S. government.
For months the U.S. has been ratcheting up the rhetoric against Iran, following the SAME playbook it used with Iraq, and clearly angling for another war. Just the other day the U.S. succeeded in getting Iran referred to the U.N. Security Council, just like Iraq. Next stop…..WWIII. Bush’s poll numbers are in a slump and his administration is in disarray, just like before the 9/11 ‘attacks’. The Republican party’s image is eroding rapidly, congressional elections are approaching, and there are signs the Republicans will fare very badly in the elections. The Patriot Act has lost its momentum. And now, after over a year of silence, Osama bin Laden suddenly issues a dire "warning"? What convenient timing for Bush. Soon…very soon, we’ll see a major "terrorist" attack! It will be attributed to Osama via Iran, Via Syria, via Jordan, via North Korea, etc.
Then the world will watch as an attack on Iran follows. The Bush administration has already stated that it will attack Iran in the event of a major terrorist attack in the U.S., regardless of Iran’s culpability. And if the "terrorist" attack in the U.S. is a nuclear one, then using tactical nuclear "bunker buster" missiles in Iran will be more then justifiable. The idea will be to destroy Iran’s ability to build and produce it’s own nuclear weapons. This is not because the American are against Nuclear arms proliferation but because the Americans do not want their military blown to kingdom come when they put Abrams tanks in downtown Iran.
Using nuclear weapons will accomplish one very important goal. The fact that the United States’ is both highly ‘willing and capable’ of using nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive strikes against it’s perceived enemies. Their us is outlined in the "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations," published by the Department of Defense less than one year ago.
Conveniently, attacking Iran will likely destroy its plans for an Oil Bourse, extending the dollar’s life a little bit. The public in the U.S. think that the economy is just fine, sailing on smooth waters if you will. The fact, however, is, and I’m quoting financial experts from the likes of Morgan Stanley and Standard & Poor’s, the U.S. economy is on the brink of "Economic Armageddon." Three decades of failed economic policies has left the U.S. economy fundamentally weak, severely imbalanced, and highly vulnerable to external x-factors. For example rocketing oil prices, huge foreign currency reserves. China alone holds 800 to 900 Billion in U.S. currency reserves. While it shows no outward signs of desperation, those in the U.S. government who know the score are utterly desperate to survive. They know that the U.S. is on the precipice of a massive economic collapse.
As we all know, those of us who study history, the only way out of an economic collapse is WAR. Think Germany 1930’s after the economic collapse it suffered after WWI.
With the U.S. dollar worthless, the Americans will be forced to take the global resources and labor it needs by force. The Americans have already secured Iraqi oil and Afghan pipe lines by using it’s military force. The United States already makes extensive use of prison laborers When the economy comes crashing down, hordes of angry, rioting Americans will create a large pool of newly criminalized slave laborers. Rounding up and incarcerating large numbers - think millions - of Americans is something that’s been planned for years in the event of a quote ‘National Emergency.’ Everything necessary to accomplish it is in place, waiting to be activated.
In addition, hordes of destitute Americans will create a large pool of potential soldiers, solving the military’s recruitment problems. Do you think American soldiers would balk at incarcerating or even shooting American civilians? I don’t. If people are fearful enough about their own prospects for survival, they will do just about anything. Again, think of Jews loading Jews into boxcars for Auschwitz.
The government will have to nationalize major industries such as energy, minerals, agriculture, communications, and transportation. The government may not overtly characterize it as nationalizing. By using corporations as proxies and then controlling the corporations, the government can perpetuate the facade of a market economy and pretend that it’s not a dictatorship. Many if not all prisons in the U.S. today are, in fact, run by private corporations, who have a vested interest in expanding their ‘market.’ The government will also confiscate everything with any international value, such as gold. It will also need to confiscate peoples’ guns. After all a victim is only a victim if they can’t effectively fight back. It would definitely not behoove the government to have it’s population armed and asking questions. There are currently plans by the Department of Homeland Security to confiscate bank accounts and the contents of bank safe deposit boxes of anyone considered a ‘terrorist.’
The other major factor that’s largely been kept out of public sight is "Peak Oil." We are probably at the peak of oil production right now, but it won’t be clear until several years after we pass the peak that we’ve done so. Thus, competition for the world’s remaining oil supplies is going to become much more intense, vicious, and violent. It’s no coincidence that the U.S. attacked Iraq and is now agitating to go after Iran. Iraq and Iran possess the world’s number two and number three largest known oil reserves and Iran possesses the world’s second largest natural gas reserves. The U.S.’s own natural gas fields are already in decline and the nature of natural gas production is that it falls off abruptly. Some experts think natural gas production in the U.S. is about to fall off precipitously starting soon, maybe even this year. One third of electricity in the U.S. is produced from natural gas. So you can see it’s a very important resource. Therefore, finding an alternative source for natural gas, such as Iran, might seem like a good idea. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to transport natural gas from Iran to the U.S. Nevertheless, controlling Iran ’s natural gas gives the U.S. a mighty lever with which to control the rest of the world, particularly Europe and the Far-East.
This is also a secondary reason to control Middle Eastern oil, as Europe, India, Russia, China, North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Japan are completely dependent on the stuff, while the U.S. actually produces about half of the oil it consumes. If Peak Oil is indeed imminent, then the country that controls the bulk of the world’s oil controls the world.
Tick…Tock…Tick….Tock…
Goes the Atomic Clock…
Bobby Anding
Sometime before the 2008 presidential election, and possibly much, much sooner, the United States Government will detonate a small to medium nuclear weapon in an American city, killing 10,000 to 100,000 civilians. The U.S. government will blame Al Qaeda or Iran. In doing so upcoming elections will be postponed. The government will suspend the Constitution and imposing martial law. ‘Posse-Comitatus’ will be suspended as the 101st Airborne are ordered into the large American cities and the terrified American public will go along with it all.
The U.S. government will control the “investigation” of the nuclear explosion. The media will follow along as they will be in no position to challenge the government’s findings. The American public swooning patriotism and bloodlust will demand immediate retaliation. No one will balk as the government institutes a draft of all 18 to 25 year old males. Propaganda mixed with lies will silence any of the military’s detractors. A new America for the 21st century the posters will say.
As for the unlucky city in this ill-fated lottery, any mid-sized American city in the throes of Urban decay with a large Arab population that the government can accuse of being Al Qaeda sympathizers would fit the bill nicely.
The government can plant several other nuclear bombs in other cities, such as San Francisco, Miami, or any other city with a midsized media outlet. Big enough to get the story out, but not big enough to have quality reporters who could sniff out a lie. Then after the first bomb is detonated, the government can “find” these other unexploded bombs and claim that they believe there are others still lurking out there. Seeing one bomb go off, finding two others, and believing that there are still more would so scare the public that they would beg Congress to suspend the Constitution and declare permanent martial law.
Public “analysis” (i.e. spoon feeding government lies to the media) of these additional unexploded bombs can provide weeks of infotainment while giving the government a means to PAINT other countries with the brush of accomplishes. For instance, the government can claim that these bombs are “crude” and thus probably the work of amateurs, bearing the hallmark traits that suggest Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, North Korea, etc.
The U.S. government has already announced that it would attack Iran in the event of another major terrorist attack, REGARDLESS of Iran’s culpability. The U.S. government’s analysis will be completely fabricated, but people and the press will be so scared that they will accept without question whatever the government claims.Fast forward to today. First, I read about military nuclear terrorism exercises in Charleston, South Carolina scheduled to end around April 2nd. Curious timing. There were five military exercises on 9/11 having to do with hijacked airplanes flying into buildings! That’s a pretty stunning coincidence.
Detonating a nuclear bomb in a crowded stadium would kill 70,000 people (within my stated range) while minimizing damage to the out lying physical city. Considering the almost certainly faked "warning" from Osama bin Laden a couple of weeks ago, a large sports event would be an excellent symbolic target for a would be "Islamic terrorists."
In March Iran is supposedly going to launch an ‘Oil Bourse’ that will trade oil for euros instead of American dollars, which would likely destroy the dollar and the U.S. government.
For months the U.S. has been ratcheting up the rhetoric against Iran, following the SAME playbook it used with Iraq, and clearly angling for another war. Just the other day the U.S. succeeded in getting Iran referred to the U.N. Security Council, just like Iraq. Next stop…..WWIII. Bush’s poll numbers are in a slump and his administration is in disarray, just like before the 9/11 ‘attacks’. The Republican party’s image is eroding rapidly, congressional elections are approaching, and there are signs the Republicans will fare very badly in the elections. The Patriot Act has lost its momentum. And now, after over a year of silence, Osama bin Laden suddenly issues a dire "warning"? What convenient timing for Bush. Soon…very soon, we’ll see a major "terrorist" attack! It will be attributed to Osama via Iran, Via Syria, via Jordan, via North Korea, etc.
Then the world will watch as an attack on Iran follows. The Bush administration has already stated that it will attack Iran in the event of a major terrorist attack in the U.S., regardless of Iran’s culpability. And if the "terrorist" attack in the U.S. is a nuclear one, then using tactical nuclear "bunker buster" missiles in Iran will be more then justifiable. The idea will be to destroy Iran’s ability to build and produce it’s own nuclear weapons. This is not because the American are against Nuclear arms proliferation but because the Americans do not want their military blown to kingdom come when they put Abrams tanks in downtown Iran.
Using nuclear weapons will accomplish one very important goal. The fact that the United States’ is both highly ‘willing and capable’ of using nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive strikes against it’s perceived enemies. Their us is outlined in the "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations," published by the Department of Defense less than one year ago.
Conveniently, attacking Iran will likely destroy its plans for an Oil Bourse, extending the dollar’s life a little bit. The public in the U.S. think that the economy is just fine, sailing on smooth waters if you will. The fact, however, is, and I’m quoting financial experts from the likes of Morgan Stanley and Standard & Poor’s, the U.S. economy is on the brink of "Economic Armageddon." Three decades of failed economic policies has left the U.S. economy fundamentally weak, severely imbalanced, and highly vulnerable to external x-factors. For example rocketing oil prices, huge foreign currency reserves. China alone holds 800 to 900 Billion in U.S. currency reserves. While it shows no outward signs of desperation, those in the U.S. government who know the score are utterly desperate to survive. They know that the U.S. is on the precipice of a massive economic collapse.
As we all know, those of us who study history, the only way out of an economic collapse is WAR. Think Germany 1930’s after the economic collapse it suffered after WWI.
With the U.S. dollar worthless, the Americans will be forced to take the global resources and labor it needs by force. The Americans have already secured Iraqi oil and Afghan pipe lines by using it’s military force. The United States already makes extensive use of prison laborers When the economy comes crashing down, hordes of angry, rioting Americans will create a large pool of newly criminalized slave laborers. Rounding up and incarcerating large numbers - think millions - of Americans is something that’s been planned for years in the event of a quote ‘National Emergency.’ Everything necessary to accomplish it is in place, waiting to be activated.
In addition, hordes of destitute Americans will create a large pool of potential soldiers, solving the military’s recruitment problems. Do you think American soldiers would balk at incarcerating or even shooting American civilians? I don’t. If people are fearful enough about their own prospects for survival, they will do just about anything. Again, think of Jews loading Jews into boxcars for Auschwitz.
The government will have to nationalize major industries such as energy, minerals, agriculture, communications, and transportation. The government may not overtly characterize it as nationalizing. By using corporations as proxies and then controlling the corporations, the government can perpetuate the facade of a market economy and pretend that it’s not a dictatorship. Many if not all prisons in the U.S. today are, in fact, run by private corporations, who have a vested interest in expanding their ‘market.’ The government will also confiscate everything with any international value, such as gold. It will also need to confiscate peoples’ guns. After all a victim is only a victim if they can’t effectively fight back. It would definitely not behoove the government to have it’s population armed and asking questions. There are currently plans by the Department of Homeland Security to confiscate bank accounts and the contents of bank safe deposit boxes of anyone considered a ‘terrorist.’
The other major factor that’s largely been kept out of public sight is "Peak Oil." We are probably at the peak of oil production right now, but it won’t be clear until several years after we pass the peak that we’ve done so. Thus, competition for the world’s remaining oil supplies is going to become much more intense, vicious, and violent. It’s no coincidence that the U.S. attacked Iraq and is now agitating to go after Iran. Iraq and Iran possess the world’s number two and number three largest known oil reserves and Iran possesses the world’s second largest natural gas reserves. The U.S.’s own natural gas fields are already in decline and the nature of natural gas production is that it falls off abruptly. Some experts think natural gas production in the U.S. is about to fall off precipitously starting soon, maybe even this year. One third of electricity in the U.S. is produced from natural gas. So you can see it’s a very important resource. Therefore, finding an alternative source for natural gas, such as Iran, might seem like a good idea. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to transport natural gas from Iran to the U.S. Nevertheless, controlling Iran ’s natural gas gives the U.S. a mighty lever with which to control the rest of the world, particularly Europe and the Far-East.
This is also a secondary reason to control Middle Eastern oil, as Europe, India, Russia, China, North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Japan are completely dependent on the stuff, while the U.S. actually produces about half of the oil it consumes. If Peak Oil is indeed imminent, then the country that controls the bulk of the world’s oil controls the world.
Tick…Tock…Tick….Tock…
Goes the Atomic Clock…
Bobby Anding
Thursday, March 02, 2006
A Life Such as This.....
The Story of Stanislawa Leszczynska
If anything can be said of accusations against the Catholic Church in World War II it is that they are as predictable as they are monotonous. Far more interesting (and revealing) is the heroism of thousands of ordinary Catholics who suffered and died at the hands of Hitler's reign of terror. The martyrdom of St. Maximillian Kolbe, who was put to death at the Auschwitz concentration camp, is well known. But such courage was not unique, as the revealed in the remarkable history of Stanislawa Leszczynska. The following is an abridged version of a study by Polish historian Prof. Maciej Giertych which provides some inkling of the horrors which Polish Catholics, and other Catholics throughout Europe, underwent during the Second World War. Sadly, such accounts — though they are numerous — are generally disregarded by modern academia and the media.
Slave Factories for the Reich
Auschwitz had all sorts of facilities, such as sleeping quarters, offices, kitchens and latrines. It also had a "sick ward" where, in atrocious conditions, sick prisoners were looked after by physicians who were prisoners themselves. Anyone who appeared unlikely to get well was killed. Thus the physicians were constantly concealing serious cases by falsifying records to permit a longer stay to those who otherwise would have been sent to the crematorium. Almost all survivors of Auschwitz suffered from typhoid, a disease that qualified inmates for liquidation, but was never reported thanks to the courage of the physicians. They were risking their lives since the punishment for breaking any rule in the concentration camp was death. Auschwitz also had a "maternity-ward." Many of the women who arrived at the camp were pregnant. They were needed for work; their babies were not. One of the midwives working in the ward was
Stanislawa Leszczynska.
Stanislawa's Life
Born Stanislawa Zambrzyska in 1896, she married Bronislaw Leszczynski in 1916 and together they had two sons and a daughter. In 1922, she graduated from a school for midwives and began working in the poorest districts of Lodz. In pre-war Poland, babies were normally delivered at home. Stanislawa made herself available at any time, walking many kilometers to the homes of the women she helped. Her children recall that she often worked nights but she never slept during the day.
After the war, she returned to her job in Lodz. Her husband had been killed in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, but all of her children survived and, inspired by their mother's example, went on to become physicians. Stanislawa supported their education, earning the family livelihood through a devoted service to childbirth.
In March 1957, as her retirement neared, a reception was organized to commemorate her 35 years in the profession. Her son, Dr. Bronislaw Leszczynski, remarked to her before the reception that she might be asked about Auschwitz. Until that time, she had said nothing about her work in the concentration camp. Her son began taking notes and later, during the reception when all the speeches were over, he stood up and told his mother's story. What follows is taken from Maternal Love of Life: Texts About Stanislawa Leszczynska, edited by Bishop Bejz, 1988.
Introduction to Hell
Stanislawa was arrested in Lodz on February 18, 1943, with her daughter and two sons. The sons were sent to the labor camp at Mathausen and Gusen to work in the stone quarries. She and her daughter, Sylvia, were sent to Auschwitz where they arrived on April 17, 1943. They were given the numbers 41335 and 41336, tattooed on their forearms. They would remain as mementos of the camp.
They were deprived of all possessions, stripped, shaven, and given camp clothing – striped overalls and some underwear. Sylvia recalls that she received two left-foot slippers and a slip. All of the clothing was infested with lice. Stanislawa spent two years in the women's facility at Auschwitz, working as a midwife in three different blocks. The "sick-ward" in all of these was the same: 40-meter long bare wooden barracks heated by single brick stove. Because the camp was situated in a low-lying area, the barracks were frequently flooded with 2-3 inches of water. Within the sick-ward were three layers of bunks, lining both sides of the building. Up to three or four women would sleep on the filth-covered bunks at a time. The straw "mattresses", ridden with vermin, had long ago been ground nearly to dust and thus provided little comfort. Most women were left to lie on nothing more than wooden planks.
Stanislawa recalls the conditions the sick inmates had to contend with: "In the winter, when the temperatures were very low, icicles formed on the ceiling from the breath and perspiration – one silvery rod next to another. When, in the evening, the lights were put on, they glittered beautifully. They looked like one great crystal chandelier. But under these icicles, people slept and sick women delivered their babies."
The brick stove, says Stanislawa, "served as the only place for deliveries, because no other. . . arrangement for the purpose was available. The oven was only lit a few times during the year. . . Thirty bunks nearest the oven constituted the so-called maternity ward."
Stanislawa goes on to describe the misery of life in the camp: "In general the block was dominated by infections, stench and all kinds of vermin. Rats were abundant. . . . The victims of the rats were not only sick women but also the newborn children." There were 1,000 to 1,200 patients on average in the sick-ward. Of these at least a dozen died each day.
"In these conditions," explains Stanislawa, "the fate of the women in labor was tragic, and the role of the midwife extremely difficult. There were no antiseptics, no dressings, and no medicine, other than a small quota of aspirin." The food, such as it was, consisted mainly of "decayed, boiled greens." Initially, Stanislawa had to manage on her own, with occasional help from her young daughter. "The German camp physicians – Rhode, Koenig and Mengele – could not, of course, 'soil' their medical vocations by giving help to non-Germans...." Later, she was aided by female physicians who were themselves prisoners. As evidence of Stanislawa's deep humility, she placed very little emphasis on her own remarkable work. Rather, she spoke of the "greatness of the doctors, their devotion, [which] is frozen in the eyes of those who, tormented with the bondage of suffering, will never speak again. . . . The physicians did not work there for fame, approval, nor for the fulfillment of professional ambitions. All these motives were put aside. There remained only the medical duty of saving life in every case and in every situation, compounded with compassion for human suffering."
The illness afflicting most inmates was dysentery. Typhus also swept through the camp and, for a time, Stanislawa herself fell victim to the disease. She says that "the incidence of typhoid fever was, as far as possible, concealed from the Lagerarzt [the SS camp physician] usually by writing on the sick-list that the patient had the 'flu,' since those sick with typhoid were immediately liquidated . . . ."
Small Miracles Amid the Squalor
During her imprisonment, Stanislawa helped deliver over 3,000 babies. But there was something even more remarkable than her trying to cope amidst these hostile conditions. As she explained to her son, the Lagerarzt ordered her to make a report on the infections and mortality rate for mothers and infants. She replied, "I have not had a single case of death, either among the mothers or the newborns." The Lagerarzt's response was a look of disbelief. "He said that even the most perfectly handled clinics of German universities cannot claim such success. In his eyes I read anger and envy." In a self-deprecating manner, Stanislawa attributed this to fact that "the emaciated organisms were too barren a medium for bacteria." However, her children and fellow inmates ascribe this miraculous record to causes more than natural.
Planned Parenting in Auschwitz
When time for delivery approached, the already famished mother had to give up her bread ration for a time in order obtain a sheet which would be used to make diapers and clothing for the child. Needless to say, the Nazis did not provide such things. To make things worse, there was no running water in the barracks which made cleaning diapers a risky experience, since inmates were not permitted to move freely in the block. Any cleaning had to be done surreptitiously. Finally, there was no extra food or milk allocated for the infants. But simple neglect apparently did not satisfy the camp administrators. Thus, criminal inmates were employed to dispose of the troublesome infants.
Until May 1943, all the children born in Auschwitz were drowned in a barrel. These operations were performed by Schwester [sister] Klara, a German midwife who was imprisoned for infanticide. "As a Berufsverbrecherin (one guilty of occupational crime), and thus forbidden to practice her profession," says Stanislawa, "she was entrusted with a function to which she was more suited." Later, Klara was aided by a German prostitute, the redheaded Schwester Pfani. "After each delivery, the mothers were able to hear the characteristic gurgle and splashing water" as their babies were disposed of.
The situation changed somewhat in May 1943. "Aryan-looking" children, with blue eyes and fair hair, were spared Schwester Klara's treatment and sent to a center in the town of Naklo to be "de-nationalized." There they would end up in orphanages or were placed with German parents.
"Hoping that in the future it would be possible to recover these children, to bring them back to their mothers," Stanislawa explains, "I organized a method of marking the children with a 'tatoo' that would not be recognized by the SS guards. Many a mother was comforted by the thought that some day she would be able to find her lost happiness." Meanwhile, the fate of those left behind was hardly improved. The infants slowly died from malnutrition. Among the countless tragedies witnessed by Stanislawa, one in particular, stands out.
"I vividly recall a woman from Vilno, sent to Auschwitz for giving help to the partisans. Immediately after giving birth to a child her number was called out. . . I went to excuse her. This did not help but merely intensified anger. I realized she was being called out to the crematorium. She wrapped the child in a dirty piece of paper, pressed it to her breasts. . . Her lips moved noiselessly. She tried to sing her baby a song, as mothers often did there, murmuring to their infants various lullabies with which they tried to compensate them for the piercing cold and hunger, for their misery. However, she did not have the strength. . . she was unable to emit a sound . . . only large copious tears came from under her eyelids, flowing over her unusually pale cheeks and falling onto the head of the tiny child condemned to death."
Stanislawa Leszczynska concludes her brief but terrible memoir with the following remarks: "All of the babies were born alive. It was their purpose to live." Of the infants who remained at Auschwitz, "scarcely thirty survived the camp. Several hundred were sent to Naklo. . . . About 1,500 were drowned by Schwester Klara and Pfani. More than 1,000 died of cold and hunger." These figures cover the period from April, 1943, when Stanislawa arrived, to the liberation of the camp in January, 1945.
Other Accounts
In view of Stanislawa's reticence, we must rely on family members and fellow inmates to give us a more complete picture of her heroic activities. Her son, Bronislaw, reports that upon her arrival in the camp she tried to conceal her midwife identity card. "With this in hand, she stopped a German doctor in the camp, which was an act of courage in itself, punishable by death. She showed him her document. . . He thought about it for awhile and decided that she would perform the function of midwife in the so-called 'maternity ward.'" There she met the aforementioned Schwester Klara who informed her that each child delivered was to be declared "still-born," leaving it up to her as to how to "dispose" of the baby. Says Bronislaw, "She later beat my mother on the head. . . for not abiding by her instructions. . . She was then called to the Lagerarzt and he ordered her to perform infanticide if she wanted to survive. He was surprised when this small, weak woman, who he could crush with his boot, replied: 'No, never.' Why they did not kill her then, no one knows."
Her son goes on to recall Stanislawa's encounter with the notorious Dr. Mengele (who performed medical experiments on the inmates). Despite the gruesome setting, the following account is not without some humor. "When my mother opposed Mengele, who ordered her to kill babies being born in Auschwitz, he became furious. Describing this, my mother said: 'I only saw his long boots jumping back and forth. . . and I heard him shout: 'Befehl ist befehl' [an order is an order]. "Recalling these words many years later, I realized that since my mother was quite small and she had the habit of looking down when she thought about something. . . she stood with lowered eyes and saw his long boots nervously jumping in front of her.... Was this terrible murderer (he was a physician after all) trying to explain away his order to kill newborn babies? In any case, neither then nor at any other time, did he raise his murderous hand against my mother." On another occasion, Dr. Mengele entered the maternity ward. Seeing Stanislawa busy with deliveries, he said: "Mutti [Mother], you have earned a lot of money today. You must stand a beer." "How is one to understand this joke?" asks her son. "Mengele no doubt knew that the suffering inmates treated Stanislawa Leszczynska as a mother and commonly referred to her as 'Mother'. If consciously, or unconsciously, he referred to this, he at the same time showed respect to the maternal love and moral force which Stanislawa personified there."
One of the more fortunate inmates, Maria Saloman, gives us her impressions of Stanislawa: "For weeks she never had a chance to lie down. She sometimes sat down near a patient on the oven, dozed for a moment, but soon jumped up and ran to one of the moaning women. . . . When Mrs. Leszczynska first approached me, I knew that everything would be alright. I do not know why, but this was so. My baby managed to last three months in the camp, but seemed doomed to die of starvation. I was completely devoid of milk. 'Mother' somehow found two women to wet-nurse my baby, an Estonian and a Russian. To this day I do not know at what price [she did this]. My Liz owes her life to Stanislawa Leszczynska. I cannot think of her without tears coming to my eyes."
Stanislawa displayed as much common sense as courage. One survivor tells how she would procure water and, on occasions, an herbal brew which she used to wash the infants. Having to use the same water for all the babies, Stanislawa washed the healthy children followed by the sick ones so as not to infect the former. Kazimera Bogdanska explains that she was unable to nurse her tiny daughter. Nevertheless, Stanislawa informed her that she should still give the child an empty breast "so the glands would not stop working." "Mother was right," says Kazimera, "How lucky I was that I believed her. When liberty came in January 1945 and I was taken to a real hospital (since I had typhoid fever) the doctor allowed me to continue to give my child my breast devoid of milk. After some time milk returned. My daughter began to gain weight. . . . She started to become round and rosy cheeked. . . . Mother's wisdom and faith saved my only child."
Above all things it was Stanislawa's great piety which sustained her and which she always tried to impart to others. According to Maria Saloman: "Before making a delivery, [Stanislawa] made the sign of the cross and prayed. She whispered a prayer in which she sought not only help and hope, but found strength to sustain her in her inhuman toil. She worked for us alone, day after day, night after night. Without a moment's rest, without any replacement." One of the female physicians, Elzbieta Pawlowska, remembers that Stanislawa "was able to organize her prayers in such a manner that she got others to participate. . . . We would sit on the bunks. 'Mother' would start some prayer and then we would sing. We sang quietly. It was not possible otherwise. It was only a moment – some 15 or 30 minutes – but all was peaceful. There was an atmosphere she was able to create. I remember Russian women from nearby wards coming to participate."
Maria Oyrzynska says that one day, while assisting Stanislawa with a delivery, the latter took the baby, washed it, wrapped it in paper and a blanket and said: "Now the most important thing. We shall baptize the child." "I was the godmother," Maria recalls, "this was my first godchild. . . [Stanislawa] poured some water on the baby's head and said: 'I baptize you, Adam, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.' As godmother I took my responsibility very seriously and looked after Adam. Considering the camp conditions he lived relatively long. A whole three weeks."
Growing Devotion to Polish Midwife
Since she passed away in 1974, there has been growing devotion to Stanislawa Leszczynska in Poland. Pilgrimages are organized to her grave, while materials are being compiled as evidence for her process of beatification. She was commemorated in a "Chalice of Life," offered to the famous Czestochowa shrine at Jasna Gora by Polish women in May 1982, and in 1983 the Krakow School for Obstetricians was named in her honor. Numerous people have attested to favors obtained through her intercession, particularly in connection with child-birth problems. As Prof. Giertych concludes, "The life of Stanislawa Leszczynska is that of an exemplary mother and devoted midwife. Thus she is especially suited to be a patron of the fight for life against the child murderers who, just as in the concentration camps, continue to ply their deadly trade."
Thank you God for One such as this.....
Stanislawa Leszczynska
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