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
Monday, December 11, 2006
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
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
China is now a "SuperPower!"
The US Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, warned that China's steady military and economic expansion may ultimately lead to Beijing attaining superpower status while the United States steadly declines as a superpower.
"Globalization is causing a shift of momentum and energy to greater Asia, where China has steadily expanding reach and may become a superior competitor to the United States at some point," Negroponte said at a hearing of the US Senate Armed Services Committee on global security threats.
"Consistent high rates of economic growth, driven by exploding foreign trade, have increased Beijing's political influence abroad and fueled a military modernization program that has steadily increased Beijing's force projection capabilities," the US intelligence czar said.
In the foreign policy domain, China is focused for now on other Asian nations "where Beijing hopes to make economic inroads to increase political influence and to prevent a backlash against its rise," said Negroponte.
But he suggested however that China's sphere of influence will broaden over time.
"Beijing also has expanded diplomatic and economic interaction with other major powers, especially Russia and the European Union, and begun to increase its presence in Africa and Latin America," he said.
On the military front, Negroponte noted that China is "vigorously" pursuing a modernization program of its weapons systems.
China's runaway economic expansion is slowed however by "a number of difficult economic and legal problems," including corruption, a faulty education system, and environmental degradation.
"Beijing's biggest challenge is to sustain growth, sufficient to keep unemployment and rural discontent from rising to destabilizing levels, and to maintain increases in living standards," said Negroponte.
"Indeed, China's rise may be hobbled by systemic problems and the Communist Party's resistance to demands for political participation that economic growth generates," he said.
"Beijing's determination to repress real or perceived challenges, from dispossessed peasants to religious organizations, could lead to serious instability at home and less effective policies abroad."
At the same hearing, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Michael Maples, said China's military near future includes efforts "to expand and modernize all categories of its ballistic missile forces, to increase survivability and war-fighting capabilities, to enhance their deterrence value and to overcome ballistic missile defenses."
Michael Hayden, the deputy director of national security, said China's military buildup may exceed what is needed to protect their own security, and may be designed to defeat the United States in a military showdown.
"They have this perception, there's almost a momentum in Chinese thinking, that they are great powers. They clearly want and need to be viewed as a great power. As history has so bloodly shown..."Great powers feel they need certain things."
"They're not necessarily tied to a specific military event, either proposed or expected, but simply become the trappings of -- I'll use the word -- their global legitimacy.
"Globalization is causing a shift of momentum and energy to greater Asia, where China has steadily expanding reach and may become a superior competitor to the United States at some point," Negroponte said at a hearing of the US Senate Armed Services Committee on global security threats.
"Consistent high rates of economic growth, driven by exploding foreign trade, have increased Beijing's political influence abroad and fueled a military modernization program that has steadily increased Beijing's force projection capabilities," the US intelligence czar said.
In the foreign policy domain, China is focused for now on other Asian nations "where Beijing hopes to make economic inroads to increase political influence and to prevent a backlash against its rise," said Negroponte.
But he suggested however that China's sphere of influence will broaden over time.
"Beijing also has expanded diplomatic and economic interaction with other major powers, especially Russia and the European Union, and begun to increase its presence in Africa and Latin America," he said.
On the military front, Negroponte noted that China is "vigorously" pursuing a modernization program of its weapons systems.
China's runaway economic expansion is slowed however by "a number of difficult economic and legal problems," including corruption, a faulty education system, and environmental degradation.
"Beijing's biggest challenge is to sustain growth, sufficient to keep unemployment and rural discontent from rising to destabilizing levels, and to maintain increases in living standards," said Negroponte.
"Indeed, China's rise may be hobbled by systemic problems and the Communist Party's resistance to demands for political participation that economic growth generates," he said.
"Beijing's determination to repress real or perceived challenges, from dispossessed peasants to religious organizations, could lead to serious instability at home and less effective policies abroad."
At the same hearing, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Michael Maples, said China's military near future includes efforts "to expand and modernize all categories of its ballistic missile forces, to increase survivability and war-fighting capabilities, to enhance their deterrence value and to overcome ballistic missile defenses."
Michael Hayden, the deputy director of national security, said China's military buildup may exceed what is needed to protect their own security, and may be designed to defeat the United States in a military showdown.
"They have this perception, there's almost a momentum in Chinese thinking, that they are great powers. They clearly want and need to be viewed as a great power. As history has so bloodly shown..."Great powers feel they need certain things."
"They're not necessarily tied to a specific military event, either proposed or expected, but simply become the trappings of -- I'll use the word -- their global legitimacy.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
China's hidden military buildup
Commercial satellite photos made public recently provide a new look at China's nuclear forces and bases -- images that include the first view of a secret underwater submarine tunnel. A Pentagon official said the photograph of the tunnel entrance reveals for the first time a key element of China's hidden military buildup. Similar but more detailed intelligence photos of the entrance are highly classified within the U.S. government, the official said. "The Chinese have a whole network of secret facilities that the U.S. government understands but cannot make public," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "This is the first public revelation of China's secret buildup." Satellite images from 2000 to 2004, show China's Xia-class ballistic missile submarine docked at the Jianggezhuang base, located on the Yellow Sea in Shandong province. Nuclear warheads for the submarine's 12 JL-1 missiles are thought to be stored inside an underwater tunnel that was photographed about 450 meters to the northwest of the submarine. The high-resolution satellite photo shows a waterway leading to a ground-covered facility. Other images show additional underground military facilities, including the Feidong air base in Anhui province with a runway built into a nearby hill. The images were obtained by the nonprofit groups Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Federation of American Scientists. The photos first appeared Friday in the winter edition of the quarterly newsletter Imaging Notes. The images are sharp enough to identify objects on the ground about 3 feet in size. Such digital images were once the exclusive domain of U.S. technical intelligence agencies, but in recent years, commercial companies have deployed equally capable space-based cameras. Disclosure of the underground bases supports analyses of Pentagon and intelligence officials who say China is engaged in a secret military buildup that threatens U.S. interests, while stating publicly that its forces pose no threat.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said during a trip to China in October that Beijing was sending "mixed signals" by building up forces in secret and without explaining their purpose.
Adm. Gary Roughead, commander of the Navy's Pacific Fleet, said he DID consider China "a threat." But he also said in a speech Tuesday that China's purpose behind its rapid military buildup is not fully known. "That's a little unclear," he said, noting that "increased transparency" is needed from China. The photographs included several shots of Chinese H-6 strategic bombers and related aerial refueling tankers at Dangyang airfield in Hubei province. Also, 70 nuclear-capable Qian-5 aircraft were photographed parked at an airfield in Jianqiao, Zhejiang province, on the East China Sea coast.
The Pentagon's four-year strategy report made public earlier this month stated that China is emerging as a power with "the greatest potential to attack the United States." The report stated that Beijing is investing heavily in "strategic [nuclear] arsenal and capabilities to project power beyond its borders." The report did not provide specifics. U.S. officials said, however, that the secrecy of the Chinese buildup has fueled a debate within the U.S. government over the threat posed by that country.
U.S. intelligence agencies recently produced a National Intelligence Estimate, or major interagency analysis, that concluded China is using strategic deception to fool the United States and other nations about its goals and programs, including its military buildup.
Pentagon officials have asked China to allow visits to underground facilities such as the submarine tunnel and a command center in Beijing, but either the requests were denied or the existence of the sites was denied. "The Chinese have denied having any underground submarine facilities," the Pentagon official said, noting that the satellite photos indicate that China has misled the United States. Underground submarine sites are one of 10 major types of facilities hidden by the Chinese military, U.S. officials said. The others include nuclear missile storage facilities, other weapons plants, command centers and political leadership offices. In 2004, China revealed the first of a new class of submarines. The development of the Yuan-class submarines was kept secret through the use of an underground factory in south-central China, the officials said. Since 2002, Beijing has deployed 14 submarines. And it is working on a new ballistic-missile submarine, known as the Jin class, and two new Shang-class attack submarines.
According to a classified Defense Intelligence Agency assessment, China's nuclear forces
include about 45 long-range missiles, 12 submarine-launched missiles and about 100 short-range missiles -- each with a single warhead. By 2020, China's arsenal will include up to 220 long-range missiles, up to 44 submarine-launched missiles and up to 200 short-range missiles, the DIA report stated. Richard Fisher, a China military analyst at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said that in addition to the northern submarine base, China also has a major submarine base at Yulin, on Hainan island in the South China Sea. The southern base gives Chinese missile submarines easier access to firing upon AMERICAN CITIES.
America will be attacked by a China-Russian alliance. You can take that to the Bank!!!
Robert A.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said during a trip to China in October that Beijing was sending "mixed signals" by building up forces in secret and without explaining their purpose.
Adm. Gary Roughead, commander of the Navy's Pacific Fleet, said he DID consider China "a threat." But he also said in a speech Tuesday that China's purpose behind its rapid military buildup is not fully known. "That's a little unclear," he said, noting that "increased transparency" is needed from China. The photographs included several shots of Chinese H-6 strategic bombers and related aerial refueling tankers at Dangyang airfield in Hubei province. Also, 70 nuclear-capable Qian-5 aircraft were photographed parked at an airfield in Jianqiao, Zhejiang province, on the East China Sea coast.
The Pentagon's four-year strategy report made public earlier this month stated that China is emerging as a power with "the greatest potential to attack the United States." The report stated that Beijing is investing heavily in "strategic [nuclear] arsenal and capabilities to project power beyond its borders." The report did not provide specifics. U.S. officials said, however, that the secrecy of the Chinese buildup has fueled a debate within the U.S. government over the threat posed by that country.
U.S. intelligence agencies recently produced a National Intelligence Estimate, or major interagency analysis, that concluded China is using strategic deception to fool the United States and other nations about its goals and programs, including its military buildup.
Pentagon officials have asked China to allow visits to underground facilities such as the submarine tunnel and a command center in Beijing, but either the requests were denied or the existence of the sites was denied. "The Chinese have denied having any underground submarine facilities," the Pentagon official said, noting that the satellite photos indicate that China has misled the United States. Underground submarine sites are one of 10 major types of facilities hidden by the Chinese military, U.S. officials said. The others include nuclear missile storage facilities, other weapons plants, command centers and political leadership offices. In 2004, China revealed the first of a new class of submarines. The development of the Yuan-class submarines was kept secret through the use of an underground factory in south-central China, the officials said. Since 2002, Beijing has deployed 14 submarines. And it is working on a new ballistic-missile submarine, known as the Jin class, and two new Shang-class attack submarines.
According to a classified Defense Intelligence Agency assessment, China's nuclear forces
include about 45 long-range missiles, 12 submarine-launched missiles and about 100 short-range missiles -- each with a single warhead. By 2020, China's arsenal will include up to 220 long-range missiles, up to 44 submarine-launched missiles and up to 200 short-range missiles, the DIA report stated. Richard Fisher, a China military analyst at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said that in addition to the northern submarine base, China also has a major submarine base at Yulin, on Hainan island in the South China Sea. The southern base gives Chinese missile submarines easier access to firing upon AMERICAN CITIES.
America will be attacked by a China-Russian alliance. You can take that to the Bank!!!
Robert A.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Laughing all the way to the Bank
The first 12 aircraft of the F-22 Raptor advanced tactical fighter entered service with the U.S. Air Force in mid-January 2006. The delivery of the new U.S. fighter triggered a heated debate regarding the U.S. technological superiority over the armies of other countries. Russia has traditionally built military equipment on a par with U.S.-made military machines. Now, the Americans also have the Chinese who are now not far behind the Americans in military aviation technology.
In the past, Russian military equipment exceeded the American one in terms of combat efficiency. In July 2006 the Russian's will field a new fighter capable of competing against the F-22 Raptor.
Experts say that the F-22 Raptor is a milestone in the development of the U.S. Air Force. The fighter is equipped with the radar that uses an active electronically scanned antenna array of 2,000 transmitter/receive modules, which provides agility, low radar cross-section, and bandwidth. The F-22 Raptor can fly at sustained supersonic speeds without the use of afterburner. The aircraft has a high multi-mission capability in ground attack as well as air-to-air roles.
The U.S. military information website Strategypage released a previously unpublished report by now defunct British Defense Evaluation and Research Agency. The report says that the F-22 Raptor is superior to Russia’s newest Su-35 fighter. A real combat casualty ratio between the F-22 and the Su-35 would be 1 by 10 at the very least. However, the report did trigger a gusher of euphoria in the U.S.
One F-22 Raptor costs $133.1 million while one Su-35 costs $30-$38 million. Even the U.S. can not afford such huge costs.
To save up $2.6 billion for funding 180 F-22’s, the Pentagon has already cut 33 reconnaissance aircraft U-2 Dragon Lady, 55 strike aircraft F-117 Stealth (the entire fleet), and 76 passenger aircraft C-21 Learjet. The military also reduced the fleet of bombers B-52 Stratofortress by 40 percent. The USAF had an initial plan for purchasing 648 aircraft.
The F-22 Raptor was originally built for combat against similar enemy aircraft, which were built only in the Soviet Union/Russia. The lack of the enemy resulted in a decrease of the number of F-22’s purchased by the Pentagon.
The USAF has recently conducted a joint exercise with the Indian Air Force. The U.S. F-15C/D’s simulated combat against several Russian-made Su-30MKi, MiG-27, MiG-29 and even pretty obsolete MiG-21 Bison, which defeated the U.S. F-22 Raptors totally and utterly. U.S. General Hal Homburg, head of the USAF Air Combat Command, said that the result of the exercise was a big surprise to the American pilots.
Commander in Chief of the Russian Air Force Vladimir Mikhailov said recently that Russia’s reply to the “American miracle” would be on the wing at the end of 2006. The demonstration prototype aircraft, designated I-21, has been successfully tested in a wind tunnel. The aircraft’s avionics and engine were on display at last year’s air and space show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. Russian designers maintain that the avionics and engine of the new aircraft are not worse, and probably even better than those used in the U.S. aicraft
In the End..the Russians are laughing all the way to the Bank!!!
In the past, Russian military equipment exceeded the American one in terms of combat efficiency. In July 2006 the Russian's will field a new fighter capable of competing against the F-22 Raptor.
Experts say that the F-22 Raptor is a milestone in the development of the U.S. Air Force. The fighter is equipped with the radar that uses an active electronically scanned antenna array of 2,000 transmitter/receive modules, which provides agility, low radar cross-section, and bandwidth. The F-22 Raptor can fly at sustained supersonic speeds without the use of afterburner. The aircraft has a high multi-mission capability in ground attack as well as air-to-air roles.
The U.S. military information website Strategypage released a previously unpublished report by now defunct British Defense Evaluation and Research Agency. The report says that the F-22 Raptor is superior to Russia’s newest Su-35 fighter. A real combat casualty ratio between the F-22 and the Su-35 would be 1 by 10 at the very least. However, the report did trigger a gusher of euphoria in the U.S.
One F-22 Raptor costs $133.1 million while one Su-35 costs $30-$38 million. Even the U.S. can not afford such huge costs.
To save up $2.6 billion for funding 180 F-22’s, the Pentagon has already cut 33 reconnaissance aircraft U-2 Dragon Lady, 55 strike aircraft F-117 Stealth (the entire fleet), and 76 passenger aircraft C-21 Learjet. The military also reduced the fleet of bombers B-52 Stratofortress by 40 percent. The USAF had an initial plan for purchasing 648 aircraft.
The F-22 Raptor was originally built for combat against similar enemy aircraft, which were built only in the Soviet Union/Russia. The lack of the enemy resulted in a decrease of the number of F-22’s purchased by the Pentagon.
The USAF has recently conducted a joint exercise with the Indian Air Force. The U.S. F-15C/D’s simulated combat against several Russian-made Su-30MKi, MiG-27, MiG-29 and even pretty obsolete MiG-21 Bison, which defeated the U.S. F-22 Raptors totally and utterly. U.S. General Hal Homburg, head of the USAF Air Combat Command, said that the result of the exercise was a big surprise to the American pilots.
Commander in Chief of the Russian Air Force Vladimir Mikhailov said recently that Russia’s reply to the “American miracle” would be on the wing at the end of 2006. The demonstration prototype aircraft, designated I-21, has been successfully tested in a wind tunnel. The aircraft’s avionics and engine were on display at last year’s air and space show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. Russian designers maintain that the avionics and engine of the new aircraft are not worse, and probably even better than those used in the U.S. aicraft
In the End..the Russians are laughing all the way to the Bank!!!
America's Inferiority is becoming Apparent
New Asian Naval Exercises Announced!
February 15, 2006 Amid persistent warnings about China's growing military clout, the US military said Tuesday it would hold one of its biggest naval exercises in the Asia Pacific this summer.
The large-scale operations will involve several carrier strike groups, each of which includes at least three warships, an attack submarine and a support ship.
Four carriers would be involved in three military maritime exercises -- one of them touted as the world's largest -- between June and August in the region, Commander of the US Pacific Fleet Admiral Gary Roughead said in Washington.
Two of the exercises are expected to be largely confined to US forces and held in the Western Pacific while the third involving navies from at least eight countries, including Australia, Chile, Japan, South Korea and Peru, would occur near the Hawaiian Islands.
While the war games would boost bilateral and multilateral cooperation and improve military preparedness, it "and clearly shows that American military might is still a deterrent for anyone who would wish us ill," Roughead told a forum organized by the US-based Asia Society, which aims to bridge ties between the two sides of the Pacific.
A major Pentagon review of US military strategy earlier this month singled out China as the country with the greatest potential to challenge the United States militarily.
The Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), conducted every four years, said a key goal for the US military in the coming years will be to "shape the choices of countries at a strategic crossroads."
The QDR report noted China's secretive military buildup since 1996.
Some analysts also see recent China-Russian joint war-games as an unmistakable sign of China's semi-secret desire to wrest military and economic power in the Asia-Pacific region from the United States.
It has been at least 10 years since four aircraft carriers have operated in the Pacific Ocean at one time. His spokesman Navy Captain Matt Brown said it could be the largest combined aircraft carrier operations in the Pacific since the Vietnam War.
Aside from the Japan-based Kitty Hawk, the other carriers to be involved in the exercises are the San Diego-based Ronald Reagan and one more each from the Pacific and Atlantic fleets.
Elaborating on the exercises, Brown said, "As the QDR mentioned, it is important for us to be focusing on the our ability to wage war in the Pacific theater.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Iran's War plans..
Iran's top secret war plan, should push come to shove with the United States, certain European countries and Israel.The plan, which was drawn up primarily by the Revolutionary Guards and approved by Iran's delusional president, consists of 5 main strategies:
(1) The removal of Iranian funds (already begun) from all foreign banks where those funds could be seized as a result of sanctions and war;
(2) The destruction of oil facilities in Gulf states hosting US forces or otherwise friendly to the US, and the mining of the Persian Gulf, in order to drive oil prices above $100/barrel and adversely effect financial markets;
(3) The weakening of US and European national resolve to win a war against Iran by causing massive US and European casualties requiring deployment of reinforcing forces, attacking into Iraq and the Gulf waters with conventional forces and weapons (such as ballistic missiles), the possible use of chemical and biological weapons on the Iraqi battlefield, and a massive increase in the number and level of terrorist attacks within Iraq (for which Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been laying the groundwork since the spring of 2003);
(4) The use of "Fifth Column" forces against US, European and Israeli targets, with the forces consisting of terrorist cells from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, with which Iranian President Ahmadinejad met on 20 January 2006 in Syria, and;
(5) The attacking of Israel with ballistic missiles, possibly with the aid of Syria, with the intent of causing great damage to Tel Aviv, Haifa and other major Israeli cities, and the destruction of Israel’s nuclear weapons facility at Dimona, which the Iranians hope will spread radiation across a wide area.
Iran's plan is "clever, asymmetric and 100% effective in accomplishing all their goals. It is also way outside of the proverbial box that the Americans and the E.U. are willing to fight in. An is especially interesting side note is that it has the approval of President Ahmadinejad, who is believed to be quite delusional and perhaps clinically insane. Iran's President Ahmadinejad, is without a doubt a fanatical lunatic is search of nuclear arms. He also truly believes in the inevitablity of an impending apocalypse. One in which HE is the Re-incarnation of a 10th Century Muslim messiah returned from the dead.
Bobby Anding
robertda333@gmail.com
(1) The removal of Iranian funds (already begun) from all foreign banks where those funds could be seized as a result of sanctions and war;
(2) The destruction of oil facilities in Gulf states hosting US forces or otherwise friendly to the US, and the mining of the Persian Gulf, in order to drive oil prices above $100/barrel and adversely effect financial markets;
(3) The weakening of US and European national resolve to win a war against Iran by causing massive US and European casualties requiring deployment of reinforcing forces, attacking into Iraq and the Gulf waters with conventional forces and weapons (such as ballistic missiles), the possible use of chemical and biological weapons on the Iraqi battlefield, and a massive increase in the number and level of terrorist attacks within Iraq (for which Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been laying the groundwork since the spring of 2003);
(4) The use of "Fifth Column" forces against US, European and Israeli targets, with the forces consisting of terrorist cells from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, with which Iranian President Ahmadinejad met on 20 January 2006 in Syria, and;
(5) The attacking of Israel with ballistic missiles, possibly with the aid of Syria, with the intent of causing great damage to Tel Aviv, Haifa and other major Israeli cities, and the destruction of Israel’s nuclear weapons facility at Dimona, which the Iranians hope will spread radiation across a wide area.
Iran's plan is "clever, asymmetric and 100% effective in accomplishing all their goals. It is also way outside of the proverbial box that the Americans and the E.U. are willing to fight in. An is especially interesting side note is that it has the approval of President Ahmadinejad, who is believed to be quite delusional and perhaps clinically insane. Iran's President Ahmadinejad, is without a doubt a fanatical lunatic is search of nuclear arms. He also truly believes in the inevitablity of an impending apocalypse. One in which HE is the Re-incarnation of a 10th Century Muslim messiah returned from the dead.
Bobby Anding
robertda333@gmail.com
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Tick..Tock..goes the Atomic clock...
Russia has been aggressively pursuing construction of several massive underground facilities. The largest being at Yamantau Mountain and the city of Mezhgorye (formerly the settlements of Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16). A current copy of the Russia's federal budget lists the project as a closed territory containing installations of the Ministry of Defense.
On April 16, 1996, the New York Times
"In a secret project reminiscent of the chilliest days of the Cold War, Russia is building a mammoth underground military complex in the Ural Mountains, Western officials and Russian witnesses say.
"Hidden inside Yamantau mountain in the Beloretsk area of the southern Urals, the project involved the creation of a huge complex, served by a railroad, a highway, and thousands of workers."
The complex, being built inside Yamantau mountain by tens of thousands of workers, covers an area the size of the Washington area inside the Beltway.
There are reportedly provisions for living inside the man-made caves. There is an underground warehouse for food and clothing, a shelter for the Russian national leadership in case of nulcear war, and rumors that the Yamantau Mountain project was associated with the so-called 'Dead Hand' nuclear retaliatory command and control system for strategic missiles.
Most American C.I.A. analysts believe the secret underground complex beneath Yamantau Mountain states firmly that the Russian military is preparing to fight and win a Nuclear war!
Priors on the Record
It is now known that the Soviet Union used secret underground bases in Eastern Europe to conceal nuclear missiles at the end of the Cold War, as an integral part of its nuclear war-fighting strategy. In all, some 73 SS-23 missiles, packing a nuclear punch 365 times the bomb that detonated over Hiroshima, were hidden by the Soviets in violation of the INF Treaty, which went into force in June 1988.
If war had broken out those missiles would have given the Soviets an overwhelming strategic advantage against the United States, allowing them to decimate NATO forces in Europe in a surprise attack. 'Supposedly...' The last of these missiles will be destroyed by the government of Slovakia, under a grant from the United States.
Today, Russia IS conducting nuclear deception on a far vaster scale beneath Yamantau Mountain, where it has dug out a gigantic underground military complex designed to withstand a sustained nuclear assault. A U.S. intelligence source was quoted as saying that the Yamantau complex is one of over 200 secret deep underground nuclear war-fighting sites in Russia.
What causes the West concern is that many of these secret sites have been significantly upgraded over the past six years at a cost of billions of dollars.
U.S. intelligence sources believe the Russian government has pumped more than $6 billion into Yamantau alone, in preparation for a surprise attack on Western forces. What other reason could there be to construct a sprawling underground complex that spans some 400 square miles? Especalliy, when the Russian economy is under severe duress.
In 1998, in a rare public comment, then-Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) Gen. Eugene Habinger, called Yamantau "a very large complex -- we estimate that it has millions of square feet available for underground facilities. It has only one purpose and that is to survive and win a nuclear war with the United States."
It is believed to be large enough to house 60,000 persons, with a special air filtration system designed to withstand a nuclear, chemical or biological attack. Enough food and water is believed to be stored at the site to sustain the entire underground population for months on end.
"The only use for this site is a post-nuclear war command and control center" --- Rep. Roscoe Bartlett said recently. Bartlett is one of the handful of members of Congress who have closely followed the Yamantau project.
The Yamantau Mountain complex is located close to one of Russia's remaining nuclear weapons labs, Chelyabinsk-70, giving rise to speculation it could house either a nuclear warhead storage site, a missile base, a secret nuclear weapons production center, a directed energy laboratory or a buried command post. Whatever it is, Yamantau was designed to survive a nuclear war.
In response to repeated U.S. inquiries, the Russian government has provided no fewer than 12 separate and contradictory explanations for the site, none of them believed to be credible.
A 1997 Congressional Research Service report said that the vast sums invested to build the Yamantau Mountain complex "provide evidence of excessive military modernization in Russia."
"It is only a matter of time before Russia/China attacks the United States....." says Bobby Anding, a well conected Washington insider.
Russia is pouring money into this and other underground nuclear sites at the same time U.S. taxpayers have provided billions of dollars in aid to Russia to help dismantle nuclear warheads taken off line as a result of START I and START II.
"Yamantau Mountain is the largest post-attack nuclear-secure project in the world... They have very large train tracks running in and out of it, with enormous rooms carved inside the mountain. It has been built to resist more then half dozen DIRECT nuclear hits, one right after the other. It's very disquieting that the Russians are doing this when they don't have $200 million to build the service module on the international space station and can't pay housing for their own military people," ---Rep. Bartlett.
The Russians have constructed two entire cities over the site, known as Beloretsk 15 & 16, which are closed to the public, each with 30,000 workers. No foreigner has ever set foot near the site. A U.S. military attaché stationed in Moscow was turned back when he attempted to visit the region a few years ago.
Neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor the Defense Intelligence Agency will comment on what the Russians are doing at Yamantau Mountain.
"There's not a lot we could say without venturing into the classified realm," CIA spokesman Mike Mansfield said. "It's hard to discuss it with any specificity." Though Bobby Anding has stated in print that the Atomic clock is ticking with the United States running out of time.
The little that is known about the site comes from Soviet-era intelligence officers, who defected to Great Britain and the United States. In public testimony before a House Armed Services Subcommittee last October, KGB defector Col. Oleg Gordievsky said the KGB had maintained a separate, top-secret organization, known as Directorate 15, to build and maintain a network of underground command bunkers in preparation for a planned offensive aganist the United States.
"And what is interesting was that President Vladimir Putin and Russia's military leaders are using those facilities, and the same service is still running the same facility, like it was 10, 15 years ago." --- Col. Oleg Gordievsky
Yamantau Mountain is so secret that only a handful of Russian government officials knows about it, says Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., who speaks Russian and travels frequently to Russia, chairing a congressional working group that discusses strategic issues with counterparts from the Russian Duma.
"I ask the Russians about it every time I meet with them... We've never had a straight answer."
Weldon got interested in Yamantau Mountain in 1995 when he saw a public report suggesting it was a vast mining project.
"I went to Moscow and spoke with the deputy interior minister who was in charge of mining," Weldon says. "I asked him if there was any mining activity there. He just shook his head and said he had never heard of it. So I mentioned the other name the Russians use for it: Mezhgorye. He said he hadn't heard of that either. Then he sent an aide out to check. Twenty minutes later, the aide came back, visibly shaken. He said they couldn't say anything about it."
Weldon also met with Andrei Kokoshkin, a former deputy defense minister, in charge of President Yeltsin's National Security Council.
"Kokoshkin called it a public works project, and said there was nothing to worry about, since the Defense Ministry had no involvement in it. So I brought out a copy of the Defense Ministry's budget -- it's only a few pages long -- and showed him the line item for Mezhgorye. He smiled and said it must be for bridges, roads and schools. When I then asked if I could see it, he said that could only be arranged through Putin. The site was controlled directly by the president."
Weldon then tried sending a 3-page letter to Putin in Russian.
"I told him all the things I was trying to do to foster better U.S.-Russia understanding, but said that I couldn't help if they couldn't clear up something as important as this. He never replied."
Where's the Money Coming From?
The cause for concern is that the US is currently sending many Billions of dollars to Russia, supposedly to help that country dismantle old nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Russian parliament has been complaining that it cannot pay $250 million in back wages owed to its workers at the same time that it is spending money to comply with new strategic arms reduction treaties.
Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that "It seems the nearly $30 billion a year spent on intelligence hasn't answered the question of what the Russians are up to at Yamantau Mountain in the Urals. The huge underground complex being built there has been the object of U.S. interest since 1992. 'We don't know exactly what it is,' says Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's international security mogul. The facility is not operational, and the Russians have offered 'nonspecific reassurances' that it poses no threat to the U.S."
The following is an excerpt from an interview between Chris Ruddy and Col. Stanislav Lunev, a Russian military intelligence officer who defected in 1992. Col. Stanislav Lunev is the highest-ranking military intelligence officer ever to have defected from Russia.
You ask about Yamantau Mountain. Well, this is a huge underground city, which could be used in time when many Russian cities are destroyed, but the Russian military and political elite will survive and live until our planet will try to restore itself.
Bobby Anding at his most recent round table discussion stated that "American funds ARE subsidizing a Russian (WMD) factory? Banging his hand on the table he added further....
"The Americans are placing the down payment for their own demise..."
Bobby Anding
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