Decoding the Apocalypse

"If nothing changes-Jerusalem will burn"

2009-12-06T08:17:00.001-08:00

http://www.opednews.com/articles/-If-nothing-changes-Jerusa-by-Eileen-Fleming-091203-762.html

December 5, 2009
"If nothing changes-Jerusalem will burn"-Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman
By Eileen Fleming

Israel keeps up Palestinian evictions 04 Nov 09

[East Jerusalem] Since December 1, 2009, the explosive settler situation in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied east Jerusalem, has been filled with violent outbreaks and confrontations; between settlers and police and this morning, Israeli police and secret service forces arrested three Palestinians from the neighborhood.

Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman reported for Rabbi's for Human Rights:

It is 1:30 am, and I just came back from Sheikh Jarakh- I see Jerusalem in flames, and know than my words will not succeed in conveying the horror of what I saw or the dread in my heart.

Today the court ruled in favor of the settlers who had taken over part of yet another family's home in Sheikh Jarakh. Because a lawyer for some of the families in the 1980's recognized Jewish ownership in return for protected tenant's status, the addition the El-Kurd family made to their home was deemed illegal. They had to ask permission from the "owners" to do it. Did the court order the addition demolished or a fine paid? Of course not. Why, anybody should be able to understand that the only logical thing to do was to let settlers move in to the extension.

All day the tension was palpable, sometimes breaking into physical violence. People warily looked at me to determine if I was friend or foe, until I got close enough to be recognized and greeted in Arabic the newcomers who didn't recognize me., Palestinians backed by Israelis and internationals huddled around fires, keeping a watchful eye out, as Arab music reminded settlers huddled inside their new acquisition just where they were. Nasser Ghawi is closing in on his fourth month in a pitiful lean to across the street from where 6 settler families lived in his home, with a constant stream of visitors in and out. He asked me if there was any hope left. Usually full of optimism in even the most difficult situations, I could only mouth some meaningless platitudes about looking for new legal options. Yesterday Maya, our staff person who spends the most time in Sheikh Jarakh, asked me where justice was. I didn't have an answer for her either.

All of a sudden a group of settlers and their supporters comes to the Ghawi home amidst cat calls and insults hurled by Palestinians seeking an outlet for their seething anger and pain. The settler group moves closer and wants to come in to congratulate those within. Everybody jumps to their feet and the gate is slammed shut, but there are settlers already inside as well as outside. I am amazed that no fights break out. The taunts get louder and more vicious. Some spit at the settlers. In similar situations I have urged Palestinians to calm down, but here I felt that I had no right and that it would do no good. The only comment I responded to was when somebody said in Arabic that they wished Hitler had finished the job. I tried to think of what I could do if things escalated further, and didn't come up with any answers. The settlers keep staring at me and my kippah. They don't get it.

The most terrifying indication that we were at the brink of conflagration was that the police were did not wade violently into the Palestinians or arrest people for having the wrong look on their faces, as so often happens in Sheikh Jarakh. I even saw one of the officers trying to clear the way for settlers to come in and out snarl at one of the settlers and tell him that he dare not touch anybody. In other situations I would have been pleasantly surprised, but here this was an indication that the police also knew that they were sitting on top of a volcano about to blow.

Maya arrives. I say to her, "It will be a miracle if the night passes without an explosion."

Every few minutes a new group of settlers comes to look, to smile. At one point a settler inside comes demanding that the Palestinians turn off the blaring music. I have visions of what will happen if he pulls a plug or smashes something. I remind him of the Jewish teaching, "You don't rebuke somebody in the midst of their sorrow."

He goes back in, as Palestinians shout and rattle the windows. One woman addresses at length the Druze officer guarding the door to the captured room. I can only imagine what she is saying.

What is said in Hebrew again and again is, "This is your system of law?" I can only answer what I learned years ago, "Not everything that is "legal" is just."

The worst of it is that I don't know what to suggest. Israel's democracy has failed up until now.

International pressure has failed up until now. The activist community has failed up until now.

Although his worst predictions that their actions would cause the inhabitants of the land to rise up and destroy them never came true, our ancestor Jacob cursed his sons Simeon and Levi until his dying day for their violent and brutal act of revenge in this week's Torah portion, Their weapons are tools of lawlessness. Let not my person be included in their council,, Let not my being be counted in their assembly. For when angry they slay men, and when pleased they maim oxen."(Genesis

I hope that I too am wrong. What is the big deal here? Be angry and upset, but why so worried about one more incident of helpless Palestinian fury directed at an Israeli injustice?

Why should activists spend a sleepless cold Jerusalem night huddling in front of a fire. Why should the political echelons and the courts shake themselves out of their torpor. Can't the international community feel satisfied with itself over its "strong protest?"

Because this is Jerusalem.

As I wrote a week and a half ago, I see a Palestinian anger burning so strong that, unlike what usually happens, neither the threat of arrest or the use of overwhelming force is a deterrent.

That means a third intifada.

That means that the fact that the world community forcing Israel into a settlement freeze (perhaps) may be too little too late.

That means that the Obama administration remains a laughingstock at best, and in many quarters the U.S. is again the subject of scorn and derision.

I see Jerusalem in flames – I see Armageddon straight ahead.

I see everywhere complacent alarm. I know that tens will answer our call to demonstrate today, but we need hundreds and thousands. The diplomats will write urgent reports, but we need effective pressure. The peace and human rights community will say that this is terrible, but we need them to come out of their homes. The politicians will say that it is a matter for the courts and that they can't interfere, while the courts will say that the law takes precedence over their personal conscience. The police will prepare emergency plans.

If nothing changes (olam c'minhago noheg), Jerusalem will burn. - Rabbi Ascherman

A little History:

On August 3, 2009, just before sunrise, Israeli forces evicted seventy more Palestinians from their homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, by the Nahalat Shimon settlers.

The events in Sheikh Jarrah had already garnered international censure from the European Union, the United Nations and from Britain, which said it was 'appalled' at the move. Months ago, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the Israeli evictions "deeply regrettable" and urged "the government of Israel and municipal officials to refrain from such provocative actions." [1]

On December 2, 2009, the Al-Kurd family lost their appeal requesting the settlers be removed from their home. Israeli forces had demolished the Al-Kurd family protest tent for the sixth time by last August.

The Al-Kurd family was evicted from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in November 2008, just prior to my first visit there.

My last visit was on June 10, 2009:

Less than a five minute walk from my room at the Ambassador Hotel and less than ten from the Old City of Jerusalem is the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Around the corner from my hotel and up the hill from where the Al-Kurd Tent had been, is a newly erected community center with a plaque "Dedicated to the Children of Shimon Hazadik Neighborhood" from a Dr. Rubin Brecher and family of Lawrence, New York.

According to Jewish tradition, Shimon Hazadik (which means 'The righteous') was the High Priest at the time of Alexander the Great. He reminded the people of what's important in the world and he used to say: "On three things the world stands: the Torah, on Service [prayer] and on acts of kindness."[2]

Mrs. Al-Kurd, known as Um Kamal [mother of Kamal] and her now deceased husband Mohammed had lived in the neighborhood from 1956 until the morning of November 9, 2008 when the Israeli police enforced a court order that evicted them.

When I returned to the tent on June 10, 2009 and asked Um Kamal where her calm strength and perpetual smile came from, she gestured to the sky and responded, "Allah: God gives me."

Maher Hannoun interjected, "Um Kamal is a strong woman because she has a strong connection to this land where we both were born! Even for millions of dollars we would never sell our land, our hopes, our dreams! We are here legally and we have a contract that was signed between the government and UNWRRA, but what gives us the real power to fight is seeing all the people who come to be with us here believing in human rights. We need every one to carry our message around the world that this is our home and we will never leave here.

"In Gaza they attacked with F16 tanks. In Jerusalem they attack with evictions and transferring property. More than 500 homes in this neighborhood have already received eviction notices. They are building 200 settler units and an American Israeli company named Nahalat Shimon Builders is behind it."

Nahalat Shimon is also the name of a settler group and a real estate company.

On August 2, 2009, "Israeli riot police wielding clubs kicked out two Palestinian families from their homes in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, defying international protests over Jewish settlement activity in the area. Clashes erupted after police moved in at dawn around the homes in the upmarket Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah following an Israeli court decision ordering the eviction of the 53 Palestinians, including 19 minors.

“I was born in this house and so were my children,” said Maher Hanoun, whose family was evicted along with the neighboring Ghawi household. “Now we are on the streets. We have become refugees.”

"The Supreme Court ordered the evictions following an appeal by the Nahalat Shimon International settler group which claimed Jewish settlers have title deeds for the properties, despite UN and Palestinian denials. Jerusalem authorities have also given permission for the construction of about 20 housing units in Sheikh Jarrah, in defiance of global calls for a halt to all settlement activity in occupied east Jerusalem and the West Bank." [3]

On November 9, 2008, at 3:30 AM, Reverend Richard Toll was awakened in his hotel room in the Ambassador while the Israeli Occupying Forces/IOF broke down the door of the home of the Al Khurd family. Rev. Toll informed me that he was jarred awake by a woman's pain filled scream that was indescribable.

The Al Khurd family had lived in their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood since the days when east Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. The United Nations upon contract with Jordan allotted them the land after they became refugees when they were expelled from their home in west Jerusalem by Zionists during the 1948 war.

Hasib Nashashibi, of the Ensan Center for Democracy and Human Rights [an NGO coalition of Palestinian Muslim and Christians] explained to me, “When Jordan controlled this land and the UN granted privileges to the Palestinian refugees including those from west Jerusalem, such as education, health care, and relief and development; they also allowed the refugees to give up some privileges and receive a home and land deed instead. Jordan never fulfilled their obligation to send the written documentation that these west Jerusalem refugees are land owners and not tenants. Now the Israeli's are trying to make them refugees for the second time!”

Since East Jerusalem's occupation by Israel in 1967, the Oriental Jews Associations and the Knesseth Yisrael Association have been waging a brutal take over of the Khurds' home, claiming that the land originally belonged to Jews.

In 1972, they succeeded to register the land in their name with the Israeli Land registrar. In 1999, settlers burst into the home and set up an occupation in a wing of the house that belonged to the couple's son, Raed. The Khurd family hired lawyers and have spent a fortune in court battles and in 2006, the Israeli court finally revoked the claim of ownership by the settlers. However, on February 25, 2007 the Israeli Supreme Court issued an order to evict the settlers but it was never enforced!

In Israeli law, all of Jerusalem, including the eastern half of the city, is considered to be the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish state and religiously fundamentalist settlers have been claiming land all over occupied East Jerusalem based on title deeds that pre-existed 1948.

Since Israel became a state 531 Palestinian villages have been destroyed and 750,000 Palestinians were made refugees in 1948, and Israel continues to make more!

President George W. Bush became a willing collaborator in this on going injustice in his infamous 2004 exchange of letters with Ariel Sharon. Bush agreed that Israel would not be expected to return to the armistice lines of 1949 and declared that Israel would be able to hold on to its “population centers” in the West Bank. This is nothing more than Orwellian spin that attempts to justify the established settlement blocs for every one of them are illegal under international law.

"Michshol Hafrada" is Hebrew for "The Separation Wall" and separation translates to Apartheid in Africana.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out And to whom I was likely to give offence. Something there is that does not love a wall, That wants it down.-Robert Frost

The Wall has divided Palestinians from Palestinians and has stolen their aquifers, denies them access to their land, jobs, families and holy sites and for every mile it consumes over $1.25 Million USA Tax dollars.

The Wall was deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice but no president has yet demanded Israel to tear down this wall!

The so called Holy Land is a Swiss cheese of land locked enclaves; known as Bantustans in Afrikaan. Jewish only colonies have been implanted to divide the Palestinian neighborhoods throughout occupied territory. Over 100,000 Palestinians are trapped and then daily humiliated and tortured at the over 600 checkpoints that deny them access to their families, land, jobs, resources and holy sites.

Since 1967, over 22,000 dwellings -averaging eleven people per unit- have been bulldozed by Israeli forces usually because they interfere with settlement expansion.

Israel attempts to justify their immoral actions with three distinct categories:

1. Collective Punishment: Homes of suspected terrorists-in reality that is anyone who opposes the occupation- as well as the families of suicide/homicide bombers.

These punitive actions amount to 15% of the over 22,000 homes destroyed since 1967.

2. Administrative demolitions for lack of building permits: Israel refuses to issue any and this accounts for 25%. In occupied east Jerusalem one out of four Palestinian homes have a demolition order.

3. Security: The blanket reason given for all of Israel's injustices and illegal actions.

On December 20, 2006, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless work confronting and challenging South Africa's Apartheid regime was quoted in The Guardian: "I've been deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land. I have seen the humiliation at the checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about"Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice"If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land."

Perhaps, Shimon Hazadik might remind "the children" who are taking over the neighborhood that,

"From Moses to Jeremiah and Isaiah, the Prophets taught...that the Jewish claim on the land of Israel was totally contingent on the moral and spiritual life of the Jews who lived there, and that the land would, as the Torah tells us, 'vomit you out' if people did not live according to the highest moral vision of Torah.

"Over and over again, the Torah repeated its most frequently stated mitzvah [command]:

"When you enter your land, do not oppress the stranger; the other, the one who is an outsider of your society, the powerless one and then not only 'you shall love your neighbor as yourself' but also 'you shall love the other.'" [4]

1. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0804/p06s12-wome.html
2. http://www.chabadonline.com/scripts/tgij/paper/Articlecm.asp?articleID=1289
3. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\03\story_3-8-2009_pg4_6
4. Rabbi Lerner, TIKKUN Magazine, page 35, Sept./Oct. 2007

Militarization Of Space: Threat Of Nuclear War On Earth

2009-06-28T12:53:00.000-07:00

June 22, 2009 at 22:45:34
by Rick Rozoff

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Militarization-Of-Space-T-by-Rick-Rozoff-090619-728.html

On June 17, immediately after the historical ninth heads of state summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Yekaterinburg, Russia on the preceding two days, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao announced that their nations were drafting a joint treaty to ban the deployment of weapons in outer space to be presented to the United Nations General Assembly.

A statement by the presidents reflected a common purpose to avoid the militarization of space and said:

"Russia and China advocate peaceful uses of outer space and oppose the prospect of it being turned into a new area for deploying weapons.

"The sides will actively facilitate practical work on a draft treaty on the prevention of the deployment of weapons in outer space, and of the use of force or threats to use force against space facilities, and will continue an intensive coordination of efforts to guarantee the security of activities in outer space." [1]

The statement also addressed the question of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its global expansion as well as an integrally related danger, the US-led drive to development a worldwide - and more than worldwide - interceptor missile system aimed at neutralizing China's and Russia's deterrent and retaliation capacities in the event of a first strike attack on either or both.

The section of the joint communique addressing the above stated, "Russia and China regard international security as integral and comprehensive. The security of some states cannot be ensured at the expense of others, including the expansion of military-political alliances or the creation of global or regional missile defense systems." [2]

The two leaders' comments assumed greater gravity and legitimacy as Medvedev and Hu had both just attended the two-day SCO summit which included heads of states and other representatives of the SCO's six full members [China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), its four observer states (India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan, with the heads of state of all but Mongolia participating, the first time for an Indian prime minister), the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and attendees from Belarus and Sri Lanka, the latter also for the first time at an SCO summit.

The statement by the Russian and Chinese presidents also came the day after the first-ever heads of state summit of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) nations in the same Russian city.

To confirm the seriousness and urgency of Hu's and Medvedev's concerns over the expansion of the arms race and potential armed conflict into space, on the same day as their statement was released Russian Deputy Defence Minister Vladimir Popovkin addressed a press conference in Moscow and issued comments that were summarized by the local media as "Russia warns that technology failure with weapons in space may accidentally invite a massive response amounting to nuclear war."

He warned that his nation's "response to American weapons in orbit would be asymmetric but adequate." [3]

Popovkin's comments were revealing in a number of ways, reflecting as they did on the manner in which the United States twenty years ago became the sole world superpower it has been until recently:

"There is a more adequate answer to the possible deployment by the USA of weapons in outer space; we do not have to deploy in space expensive armaments for it.

"To have weapons of your own for waging space wars, you have to understand first why you need them there. We've already passed the 'Star Wars' epic, and know well how it ended - in the breakup of the Soviet Union.

"Russia has a more adequate answer to the possible deployment by the USA of weapons in space, but we have no need to deploy in space expensive armaments for it; the answer will be absolutely asymmetric." [4]

A week earlier Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov, Commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, said that a "new strategic arms reduction pact with the United States must prohibit any kinds of offensive weapons in space," and expounded on his nation's concerns by adding:

"Our country is interested in including limitations not only on the number of nuclear warheads, but also on the number of their delivery vehicles in the new arms reduction treaty. We also stand for maintaining the ban on the deployment of strategic weapons, offensive and defensive, outside national borders, the prohibition of any kinds of offensive weapons in space, and a more efficient use of inspection and data exchange mechanisms established in line with the START 1 treaty." [5]

Contrariwise, the very same day two US congressmen, Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH) and Rep. Jim Marshall (D-GA), introduced a NATO First Act in the Congress that calls for among other demands that a proposed arms reduction treaty with Russia "not reduce or limit U.S. ballistic missile defenses, space, or advanced conventional weapons capabilities." [6]

Six days before that Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, in speaking about the Pentagon's Prompt Global Strike program, said that he "continues to press for development of a new weapon that would allow Washington to take out a fleeting target in a manner of minutes.

"The Marine Corps general said he has concluded conventionally armed bombers are 'too slow and too intrusive' for many 'global strike missions.'

"Cartwright for several years has advocated for a 'prompt global strike' weapon...."

Asserting (or advocating) that "Over the next few years, the U.S. military is likely to become engaged in a number of hot and cold conflicts, each spanning five to 10 years," Cartwright said that "The military might need a 'hypersonic' weapon that would travel in the exoatmosphere to take out a limited number of fleeting targets...." [7]

For exoatmospheric read space.

Earlier in the year, on March 31, 2009 to be exact, top American military officials attended the 25th National Space Symposium at the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama, the same state that hosts the US Missile Defense Agency in Huntsville.

With the head of the American military, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, present, "A new Special Area of Emphasis topic titled Space as a Contested Environment, was introduced by U.S. military officials...."

The Air University's National Space Studies Center's Col. Sean D. McClung underscored the main theme of the meeting in stating "[A]bove all other communities, the military needs to understand implications of space as a contested environment and how to protect America's interests." [8]

Gen. C. Robert Kehler, the commander of the Air Force Space Command, was quoted in an Air Force report entitled "Spherical battlespace is new theater of operation" as saying:

"I think for far too long we have looked at our conception of future battlespace by standing on the ground and looking up - I think that might be the wrong way to look."

The report also says that for the Special Area of Emphasis, Space as a Contested Environment concept although "the connection between space and cyberspace may be unclear to many outside of these career fields, to those within the space community, the connection is clear," and "The realization that space and cyberspace are inextricably linked is evidenced by the planned creation of a cyber-focused numbered air force under Air Force Space Command." [9]

To make clear what the Pentagon means and what it intends, earlier this May the head of the US Strategic Command, Gen. Kevin Chilton, "insisted that all strike options, including nuclear, would remain available to the commander in chief in defending the nation from cyber strikes" and "said he could not rule out the possibility of a military salvo against a nation like China, even though Beijing has nuclear arms." [10]

For the past two years numerous US and NATO officials have conjured up the threat of employing NATO's Article 5 mutual military assistance - that is, war - clause against alleged cyber attacks of the sort experienced in Estonia in the spring of 2007. The unnamed but unquestioned target of such an action is Russia.

That nation released its new National Security Strategy in the middle of last month in which "it warned that missile defense plans and prospects to develop space-based weapons remain a top threat to Russia's security." [11]

A month before Lieutenant General Yevgeny Buzhinsky, deputy head of the Russian Defence Ministry's chief department for international military cooperation, said that "The United States has already launched the process of militarization of outer space."

Referring to the Bush administration's U.S. National Space Policy of August 31, 2006, a follow up to that of Clinton's 1996 version, Buzhinsky said, "The new doctrine adds a tougher and more unilateral nature to these actions.

"Russian military experts see in this doctrine a disguised bid by the US for the weaponization of outer space. Anti-satellite weapons make an integral part of the U.S. missile defence system." [12]

The U.S. National Space Policy of 2006 states that "In this new century, those who effectively utilize space will enjoy added prosperity and security and will hold a substantial advantage over those who do not. Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power. In order to increase knowledge, discovery, economic prosperity, and to enhance the national security, the United States must have robust, effective, and efficient space capabilities."

It further identifies goals of the policy to include the intention to:

>Strengthen the nation's space leadership and ensure that space capabilities are available in time to further U.S. national security, homeland security, and foreign policy objectives

>Enable unhindered U.S. operations in and through space to defend our interests there

>Develop and deploy space capabilities that sustain U.S. advantage and support defense and intelligence transformation

>Provide, as launch agent for both the defense and intelligence sectors, reliable, affordable, and timely space access for national security purposes

>Support military planning and satisfy operational requirements as a major intelligence mission [13]

The same Russian general quoted above cited as an example of Washington's space war plans the Pentagon's downing of an American spy satellite in February of 2008, allegedly because it had become disabled. General Buzhinsky said, "Despite the statements of some U.S. officials that the satellite's destruction had to be performed once only to minimize risks for life and the health of people, many analysts are of another opinion. They believe that the U.S. tested a new type of weapons capable of destroying spacecraft." [14]

A year later, February of 2009, an American and Russian satellite were reported to have collided over northeastern Russia. Shortly afterward retired Russian general and former head of the nation's military space intelligence Leonid Shershnev asserted that the collision "may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident."

Shershnev's contentions were characterized in a Russian media report of early March as suggesting "the U.S. satellite involved in the collision was used by the U.S. military as part of the 'dual-purpose' Orbital Express research project, which began in 2007.

"Orbital Express was a space mission managed by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and a team led by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).

"The February collision could be an indication that the U.S. has successfully developed such technology and is capable of manipulating 'hostile satellites,' including their destruction, with a single command from a ground control center." [15]

An Associated Press report published shortly after the above said that:

"The Kremlin has criticized U.S. plans for space-based weapons, saying they could trigger a new arms race. Russia and China have pushed for an international agreement banning space weapons, but their proposals have been rejected by the United States.

"As part of missile defense plans developed by the previous U.S. administration, the Pentagon worked on missiles, ground lasers and other technology to shoot down satellites." [16]

Two days later Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke at a disarmament conference in Geneva, Switzerland and warned that "an arms race in outer space is inadmissible," adding that "Prevention of an arms race in space will contribute to ensuring the predictability of the strategic situation" and "We plan, jointly with China, to submit to your consideration soon a document generalizing the results of discussions that have taken place at the conference." [17]

Lavrov had made a similar appeal at the annual Munich Security Conference in February when in addition to first voicing Russia's call for a banning of all nuclear weapons being stationed outside the borders of their owners he said that a new START [Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty] accord also "must ban the militarization of space." [18]

Global, Orbital First Strike Potential: NATO And Asian NATO Partners

NATO's unswerving fidelity to Pentagon initiatives and diktat doesn't require substantiation, but if it did this statement by its Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on March 11 would further underscore the fact: "Given the vital role that space and satellites now play within our cyber networks, should we not also start to follow activities in space more closely and consider the implications for our security?" [19]

Plans for the expansion of military hardware, both surveillance and kinetic weapons (missiles), into outer space are not distinct from but inextricably connected with parallel American and NATO global interceptor missile systems. So-called missile shield facilities already in place or in the process of being stationed in Poland, the Czech Republic, Norway and Britain and their counterparts in Alaska, Japan, Australia and South Korea in the east are to be integrated with space components so that both NATO and what has come to be called Asian NATO will provide radar and ground-based interceptor missile sites, as will Azerbaijan and Georgia in the South Caucasus and Israel in the Middle East in the future.

Many of the above-named nations also possess and will base sea-launched missile killing interceptors on Aegis class destroyers and can host new generation US stealth warplanes designed to penetrate deep into the interior of nations like China and Russia to destroy strategic targets, including silo-based long-range missiles and mobile missile launchers.

This past April Japan announced that its "first strategic space policy will focus on improving missile launch detection abilities" after the passage and implementation of a Basic Space Law last August and that "As many as 34 satellites - twice the current number - will be launched between fiscal 2009 and 2013...." [20]

Last month Australia revealed that not only was it planning to build and launch its own space satellites but that it also "wants to create a new cadre of military space experts inside the Australian Defence Forces," citing Japan as "a good example of the learning process that a new 21st century military space power has to go through." [21]

Recently the Pentagon has also activated new equipment to facilitate the interaction between spaced-based surveillance and earth-based interceptor missile systems.

In April the US Defense Department launched a new-generation military satellite, the Wideband Global Satellite Communication satellite, into space.

A US military website said of the new acquisition that "These satellites are designed to provide high-capacity communications to U.S. military forces. It will augment and eventually replace the Defense Satellite Communication System." [22]

The missile used to launch the satellite into orbit, an Atlas V rocket, is described in the same report: "The Atlas V family of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles has achieved 100 percent mission success in launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station." [23]

The increasingly integrated - to the point of inseparability - work of the Defense Department in general, the US Missile Defense Agency and NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] demonstrates the emphasis that Washington places on the militarization of space and the potential use of it for warfighting purposes.

Eighteen days before Barack Obama was inaugurated the 44th president of the United States the Bloomberg news agency reported that the incoming chief executive would "tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.'s civilian and military space programs" and that "Obama's transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...." [24]

As further confirmation of this obscuring of the distinction between civilian and military uses of space, in May it was reported that "A Delta II rocket managed by NASA's Launch Services Program lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA., Tuesday with a spacecraft for the United States Missile Defense Agency.

"The spacecraft is called the Space Tracking and Surveillance System Advanced Technology Risk Reduction mission, or STSS-ATRR." [25]

The Vandenberg Air Force Base is routinely employed for long-range interceptor missile tests in the Pacific Ocean in coordination with a 28-story sea-based X-Band radar periodically stationed in the Aleutian Islands near the coast of Russia.

The Space Tracking and Surveillance System spacecraft is part of a Ballistic Missile Defense System space sensor layer which "provide[s] combatant commanders with the ability to continuously track strategic and tactical ballistic missiles from launch through termination." [26]

Weeks earlier the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, also in Huntsville, Alabama, received flight-ready nanosatellites from Ducommun Incorporated, which event marked "the completion of the first U.S. Army satellite development program since the Courier 1B communications satellite in 1960." [27]

Space War: United States Against The World

In December of 2001 the George W. Bush administration announced that it would withdraw the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, with Bush stating, "we no longer live in the Cold War world for which the ABM Treaty was designed."

Six months later it formally did so and at the same time "the Pentagon [was] set to break ground...at Fort Greely, Alaska, on the previously prohibited construction of six underground silos for missile interceptors." [28]

An Indian analyst said that "The U.S. withdrawal in 2001 from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty has raised concerns, especially among the Russians and the Chinese, about its intentions in space.

"Ballistic missile defence systems, whether ground-based, airborne or space-based, can also potentially target satellites.

"[T]he U.S. abrogated the ABM Treaty and there was a lot of emphasis on space control, on limiting [space] access to others, which were totally in contravention of the spirit of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967." [29]

The same pattern of arbitrariness and recklessness has been pursued by Washington in relation to the weaponization of space.

Russia and China have for years introduced resolutions in the United Nations calling for the prohibition of weapons in space and against the use of space for military purposes. The US has just as consistently opposed their efforts.

Last September Russia renewed its call to preserve outer space as a zone of peace. After a meeting with Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov urged European nations to join efforts to avoid an extraterrestrial arms race, saying, "It is high time to discuss the problem, and it is crucial that countries with the ability to contribute to its solution take part in the negotiations, especially European nations."-

The report from which the above emanated offered this perspective: "Along with the US missile shield program and the idea of a blitzkrieg, an outer space arms race is among the major destabilizing factors for global security." [30]

A Russian analytical news site reported at the same time that the danger of space war was potentially catastrophic and was being pursued without regard to its consequences:

"[T]he true reason behind the American plans for global anti-ballistic missile defense and space militarization [is that the] United States believes that over the next two to three decades, it can beat the others (Russia and China) in these spheres and gain a decisive strategic military advantage.

"A frightening Cold-War-type arms race to counter the U.S. missile defense systems and militarization of space is about to take off in earnest....This arms race is perhaps as dangerous as the Cold War one. This time, however, the trigger is in the hands of only one party "" the U.S. establishment.

"Unfortunately, the signs are that the United States is already pulling the trigger." [31]

The above echoed comparable concerns voiced by Chinese military experts three months before. In a book published by the government's China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, two armed forces experts stated that "Strategic confrontation in outer space is difficult to avoid. The development of outer space forces shows signs that a space arms race to seize the commanding heights is emerging.

"Dominated by the idea of absolute domination of outer space, a major power is making a big fuss about space domination, creating rivals and provoking confrontation."- [32]

In a stark warning last October, veteran Russian journalist Valentin Zorin said that "The new arms race will be incomplete without plans for the weaponization of outer space" and "U.S. attempts to turn outer space into a third field of combat operations may prove as dangerous as the American decision to use a nuclear device on August, 1945." [33]

Remarking on the fact that in the United Nations General Assembly 166 nations had voted for the Russian and Chinese proposal to ban the militarization of space a week earlier, Russian analyst Alexei Arbatov was quoted as saying last winter that "Washington does plan to deploy its ABM system elements in near-Earth orbits, and it is only Russia that can counter such plans." [34]

Late last November Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, again urged "UN member-states to join the moratorium on the deployment of weapons in outer space" and "mentioned that it is on Russia's initiative that the UN General Assembly has been adopting resolutions, for many years now, aimed at the prevention of the arms race in space. The only one who objected to the adoption of this resolution was the United States...." [35]

A commentary on the US's lone opposition to the resolution reminded readers that "This year it was only the US delegate who voted against a resolution to that end as the US ABM defence programme is known to provide, among other things, for deploying ABM system elements in outer space.

"This actually means that Washington sees space as a potential operations theatre...."

The same source provided this editorial recommendation:

"The United States action can only be described as unilateral and undermining international and strategic stability, actions that could eventually result in another stage of the arms race.

"Before it is too late, one should seriously consider ways to prevent the arms race from being extended to outer space." [36]

Last December Colonel General Nikolai Solovtsov, Commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, stated that the United States "is seriously considering space as a potential sphere of armed struggle and hence is not giving up plans of deploying strike means in space."

He is paraphrased as adding "that the US assumes first strike capabilities and that any attack would wipe out retaliation." [37]

That is, the militarization of space can result in a nuclear conflagration on earth not only by accident or the law of unintended consequences but fully by design.

If the US plan is, by a combination of ground, sea and air delivery systems, to destroy any ability to retaliate after a devastating first blow, the Russian general warned of what in fact would ensue:

"The Americans will never manage to implement this scenario because Russian strategic nuclear forces, including the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, will be capable of delivering a retaliatory strike given any course of developments.

"After receiving authorization from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces it will not take our strategic missile force more than two-three minutes to carry out the task of launching missiles." [38]

What Solovtsov has described is the nightmare humanity has dreaded since the advent of the nuclear age: An exchange of nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles. One that might result from an attack launched at least partially from space and in one manner or other in relation to space-based military assets.

An analogous warning was issued last year by the then commander of Russia's Space Forces, General Vladimir Popovkin, who said, "Space is one of the few places around not yet separated by borders, and any kind of military deployments there would upset the existing balance of forces on our planet."- [39]

This past March American space researcher Matt Hoey stated that an arms race in space would be "increasing the risk of an accidental nuclear war while shortening the time for sanity and diplomacy to come into play to halt crises."

"If these systems are deployed in space we will be tipping the nuclear balance between nations that has ensured the peace for decades.

"The military space race will serve the defense industry much like the cold war and this is already being witnessed in relation to missile defense systems." [40]

Regarding the interconnection between missile defense and spaced-based first strike capabilities, the following indicates what the ultimate Pentagon plan envisions:

"If [the missile defense system] is fully deployed (as three echelons of ground-, sea-, and air/space-based), the United States will regain the capability (for the first time since the 1940s-1950s) of launching a destructive first strike at Russia without fear of retaliation.

"The several dozen Russian missiles likely to survive a combined attack by nuclear and conventional forces (including precision weapons capable of destroying fortified launching sites), and hence meant to provide the retaliatory 'deterrent' strike, would be an easy target for a fully deployed combat-ready missile defense system." [41]

This March Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington said of the militarization of space that "the fallout could be tremendous." He told a major daily that the dangers "are in fact so cataclysmic that arms control advocates like himself would simply seek to prohibit the use of weapons beyond the earth's atmosphere." [42]

In a week when the United Nations reports that over a billion children are threatened by war on the planet and the world's largest arms merchant, Lockheed Martin, boasts of preparing to sell over 6,000 advanced stealth warplanes to the Pentagon and its allies, humanity has enough to contend with on earth without facing the additional threat of war from the heavens.

1) Interfax, June 17, 2009
2) Itar-Tass, June 17, 2009
3) Voice of Russia, June 17, 2009
4) Itar-Tass, June 17, 2009
5) Russian Information Agency Novosti, June 10, 2009
6) American Chronicle, Congressional Desk, June 11, 2009
7) Defense News, June 4, 2009
8) Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, March 30, 2009
9) Maxwell-Gunter Dispatch, April 14, 2009
10) Global Security, May 12, 2009
11) Associated Press, May 13, 2009
12) Itar-Tass, April 3, 2009
13) U.S. National Space Policy, August 31, 2006
www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/Unclassified%20National%20Space%20
Policy%20--%20FINAL.pdf
14) Itar-Tass, April 3, 2009
15) Russian Information Agency Novosti, March 3, 2009
16) Associated Press, March 5, 2009
17) Russian Information Agency Novosti, March 7, 2009
18) Itar-Tass, February 6, 2009
19) NATO International, March 11, 2009
20) Mainichi Daily News, April 28, 2009
21) Space Review, May 11, 2009
22) Air Force Link, American Forces Press Service, April 4, 2009
23) Ibid
24) Bloomberg News, January 2, 2009
25) Aero-News Network, May 7, 2009
26) domain-B, May 15, 2009
27) Ducommun Incorporated, April 29, 2009
28) China Daily, June 14, 2002
29) Strengthening the Outer Space Treaty by N. Gopal Raj
The Hindu, December 12, 2008
30) RosBusinessConsulting, September 23, 2008
31) Russia Profile, September 19, 2008
32) Daily Jang (Pakistan), June 3, 2008
33) Voice of Russia, October 10, 2008
34) Voice of Russia, November 1, 2008
35) Voice of Russia, November 20, 2008
36) Voice of Russia, November 22, 2008
37) Russia Today, December 1, 2008
38) Ibid
39) Voice of Russia, May 24, 2008
40) Space Race Hikes Risk of Nuclear War by Sherwood Ross
OpEd News, March 30, 2009
41) Russian Information Agency Novosti, July 11, 2008
42) Voice of Russia, March 19, 2008

NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar ET/UFO civilizations

2009-06-28T12:17:00.000-07:00

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NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar ET/UFO civilizations

June 19, 4:14 PM · Alfred Lambremont Webre - Seattle Exopolitics Examiner

NASA: LCROSS bombing of Moon, Oct. 9, 2009 (Depic)Commentary: The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep crater as an alleged water-seeking and lunar colonization experiment, is contrary to space law prohibiting environmental modification of celestial bodies. The NASA moon bombing, a component of the LCROSS mission, may also trigger conflict with known extraterrestrial civilizations on the moon as reported on the moon in witnessed statements by U.S. astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and in witnessed statements to NSA (National Security Agency) photos and documents regarding an extraterrestrial base on the dark side of the moon.

If the true intent of the LCROSS mission moon bombing is a hostile act by NASA against known extraterrestrial civilizations and settlements on the moon, then NASA and by extension the U.S. government are guilty of aggressive war which is the most serious of war crimes under the U.N. Charter and the Geneva Conventions, to which the U.S. is subject. The U.N. Outer Space Treaty, which the U.S. has ratified, requires that “ The moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military manoeuvres on celestial bodies shall be forbidden.” 98 nations have ratified and 125 nations have signed the U.N. Outer Space Treaty.

NASA’s LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission

The NASA LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission, which departed on Earth on June 18, 2009. According to one report, “Flying over the moon's southern hemisphere, LCROSS will use its high-precision instruments, as well as close-up images of the terrain gathered by the lunar orbiter, to seek out a crater just shallow enough and dark enough to be a prime bombing target.

“There, acting as what the Ames team calls its "shepherding spacecraft," LCROSS will guide an empty Centaur rocket weighing two tons toward its target. The rocket will crash into the crater at 5,600 mph, creating a new crater - perhaps as large as 5 miles wide. The crash is scheduled to occur Oct. 9.”

The two-ton Centaur rocket qualifies as a space-based kinetic weapon. The reason alleged by NASA for the mission is that “the [LCROSS} probes will map possible landing sites and search for water sources that could be used by a future lunar colony.”

According to NASA, “The Mission Objectives of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) include confirming the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the Moon’s South Pole. The identification of water is very important to the future of human activities on the Moon. LCROSS will excavate the permanently dark floor of one of the Moon’s polar craters with two heavy impactors in 2009 to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there. The impact will eject material from the crater’s surface to create a plume that specialized instruments will be able to analyze for the presence of water (ice and vapor), hydrocarbons and hydrated materials.”

NASA: LCROSS launch of luner orbiter, June 18, 2009
U.S. astronauts, NASA employees, Soviet scientists, NSA confirm the extraterrestrial presence on the moon

There are confirmed reports of an extraterrestrial presence on the moon, both from U.S. astronauts who have visited the moon, from NASA employees, from Soviet scientists and observers of the NASA moon visits, and from witnessed NSA (National Security Agency) reports on a moon based on the far side of the moon.

One report states that, “In a 2006 television documentary, ‘Apollo 11: The Untold Story,’ Buzz Aldrin admitted for the first time publicly that the astronauts saw UFOs on their trip to the Moon, but they were not allowed to discuss this information on the live audio feed to NASA. He stated that he felt it would have caused a ‘panic.’”

Other research on witnessed corroboration of U.S. astronaut sightings of an extraterrestrial presence on the Moon states, “According to hitherto unconfirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after their historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. I remember hearing one of the astronauts refer to a "light" in or on a carter during the television transmission, followed by a request from mission control for further information. Nothing more was heard.”

“According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA's broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:

“NASA: What's there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11...

“Apollo: These ‘Babies’ are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there, lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They're on the Moon watching us!

“In 1979, Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. ‘The encounter was common knowledge in NASA,’ he revealed, ‘but nobody has talked about it until now.’

“Soviet scientists were allegedly the first to confirm the incident. ‘According to our information, the encounter was reported immediately after the landing of the module,’ said Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, a physicist and Professor of Mathematics at Moscow University. ‘Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But his message was never heard by the public-because NASA censored it.’

“According to another Soviet scientist, Dr. Aleksandr Kazantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside. Dr. Azhazha claims that the UFOs departed minutes after the astronauts came out on to the lunar surface.

“Maurice Chatelain also confirmed that Apollo 11's radio transmissions were interrupted on several occasions in order to hide the news from the public. Before dismissing Chatelain's sensational claims, it is worth noting his impressive background in the aerospace industry and space program. His first job after moving from France was as an electronics engineer with Convair, specializing in telecommunications, telemetry, and radar. In 1959 he was in charge of an electromagnetic research group, developing new radar and telecommunications systems for Ryan. One of his eleven patents was an automatic flights to the Moon. Later, at North American Aviation, Chatelain was offered the job of designing and building the Apollo communications and data-processing systems.

“Chatelain claims that ‘all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin-flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence.’ He goes on to say:

“I think that Walter Schirra aboard Mercury 8 was the first of the astronauts to use the code name 'Santa Claus' to indicate the presence of flying saucers next to space capsules. However, his announcements were barely noticed by the general public.

“It was a little different when James Lovell on board the Apollo 8 command module came out from behind the moon and said for everybody to hear:

'PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS.'

“Even though this happened on Christmas Day 1968, many people sensed a hidden meaning in those words."

NASA's Maurice Chatelain, moon whistleblower
NSA photos, documents of an extraterrestrial base on the dark side of the moon

Former USAF U.S. Sgt. Karl Wolfe, a Disclosure Project witness, describes photos, documents of extraterrestrial bases on the dark side of the moon that he witnessed at the NSA (National Security Agency), in the 1960s. One report states that “Sgt Wolfe was working with Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia in 1965. There, he was assigned to the lunar orbital project with the National Security Agency where he met an airman who confided in him that they had discovered bases in the far side of the moon.”

Sgt Wolfe’s Disclosure Project testimony, in which he states that he is willing to testify under oath before the U.S. Congress, can be seen in the video below.

One account states, “The airman told him (Wolfe) that all of the NASA photographs were sent to Langley, where they were enhanced, and eventually made into photographs to be sent to and studied by the different branches of the military. He was also told why security was of the utmost importance at the lab on this particular day-recent enhanced imagery had clearly shown structures on the far side of the Moon. These structures were definitely not created by natural forces-they were made by intelligent beings.

“’We discovered,’ the airman said, ‘a base on the back side of the Moon.’

Wolfe was in no way prepared for what he had just been told. When he airman saw Wolfe nearly shaking in disbelief, he reiterated:

“’Yes, a base on the dark side of the Moon.’

“Although Wolfe had not actually been told that some alien intelligence had made the aforementioned structures, who else could it have been? Although Russia had flown unmanned vessels around to the far side, no landing had been made, and the resources and technology needed to build a station there were far beyond that of Russia at the time. Had they made a landing on the Moon, the entire world would have known about it. And Wolfe knew America was still years from a Moon landing.

“His anxiety reached a new level. He was looking at, and being told about, something that he should not have seen or known about. He was actually afraid of being arrested and a court martial. He only wanted to finish his job, and get out of there, and forget the whole incident. He would finish the repair he was called to do, but he could never forget what he had seen that day at Langley. He would tell not a soul for 30 years.

“His release from the military also required that he not leave the United States for five years. This was a condition of his security status. He also was sworn to not reveal anything he had seen while performing his duties in the military. Wolfe would eventually put a report on what he had seen on video, which is now available on the Internet. There have also been several ex-NASA employees who have come forward telling of their experiences in air brushing structures out of NASA photographs of the Moon.”

NASA’s lunar bombing violates space law and must be stopped

NASA’s use of a 2-ton empty Centaur rocket as a kinetic weapon violates space law in multiple ways and must be stopped, in flight or in lunar orbit, which the LCROSS lunar orbiter reaches on Tuesday June 23, 2009.

The bombing of the moon with a kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile crater is a per se violation of the U.N. Outer Space Treaty, which the U.S. has ratified, irrespective of its being designed as part of an experiment related to lunar colonization.

The U.N. Outer Space Treaty (Article III) provides that “States Parties to the Treaty shall carry on activities in the exploration and use of outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, in accordance with international law, including the Charter of the United Nations.”

The Moon Treaty (Agreement Governing The Activities Of States On The Moon And Other Celestial Bodies (1979)) addresses and bans the specific activity bombing of the moon carried out unilaterally by the U.S. The Moon Treaty prohibits disruption of the environment of the Moon. The LCROSS bombing constitutes a disruption of the delicate balance of the lunar ecology. Article 7 of the Moon Treaty states:

Article 7 of the Moon Treaty

“1. In exploring and using the moon, States Parties shall take measures to
prevent the disruption of the existing balance of its environment whether
by introducing adverse changes in that environment, by its harmful
contamination through the introduction of extra-environmental matter or
otherwise. States Parties shall also take measures to avoid harmfully
affecting the environment of the earth through the introduction of
extraterrestrial matter or otherwise.

“2. States Parties shall inform the Secretary-General of the United
Nations of the measures being adopted by them in accordance with
paragraph 1 of this article and shall also, to the maximum extent
feasible, notify him in advance of all placements by them of radio-active
materials on the moon and of the purposes of such placements.

“3. States Parties shall report to other States Parties and to the
Secretary-General concerning areas of the moon having special scientific
interest in order that, without prejudice to the rights of other States
Parties, consideration may be given to the designation of such areas as
international scientific preserves for which special protective
arrangements are to be agreed upon in consultation with the competent
bodies of the United Nations.”

Although the U.S. has not ratified the Moon Treaty, 13 nations have, and it can be construed as a relevant international standard of what constitutes “international law” under the U.N. Outer Space Treaty.

Is NASA’s LCROSS bombing of the moon a camouflaged attack or attempt to impose moon sovereignty by the U.S.?

There is witnessed evidence, through the testimony of UASF SGT Karl Wolfe and through the statements of U.S. astronauts, NASA employees, former Soviet scientists that the U.S., and its agencies NASA and the NSA has had scientific evidence that the moon has extraterrestrial civilizations and present settlements on it for more than 40 years, since the 1960s.

The U.S. has not attempted any public, peaceful diplomacy with the civilizations on the moon. In fact, the U.S. has imposed an embargo on public knowledge that settlements and an extraterrestrial presence exist on the moon.

What is touted as a scientific experiment – the bombing of the moon – may in reality be an attempt to impose de facto U.S. sovereignty on the moon. Article II of the U.N. Outer Space Treaty, which the U.S. has signed, states: “Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.”

Moreover, the LCROSS bombing of the moon may be an intentional hostile act by the U.S. (which has know the moon is inhabited for at least 40 years by other civilizations), a kind of “shot across the bow” to mark turf against other intelligent civilizations on the moon.

The U.N. Outer Space Treaty prohibits non-peaceful activities on the moon. Article IV states, “The moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military manoeuvres on celestial bodies shall be forbidden.”

NASA’s LCROSS bombing of the moon must be stopped, while the lunar orbiter is in orbit, before the bombing occurs on October 9, 2009.

For more info:
Space Preservation Treaty: www.peaceinspace.org

NASA's mission to bomb the Moon

2009-06-28T12:14:00.000-07:00

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasas-mission-to-bomb-the-moon-2009-06&print=true

June 17, 2009

NASA's mission to bomb the Moon

NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a missile that will blast a hole in the lunar surface at twice the speed of a bullet. The missile, a Centaur rocket, will be steered by a shepherding spacecraft that will guide it towards its target - a crater close to the Moon's south pole. Scientists expect the blast to be so powerful that a huge plume of debris will be ejected.

NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a missile that will blast a hole in the lunar surface at twice the speed of a bullet.

The missile, a Centaur rocket, will be steered by a shepherding spacecraft that will guide it towards its target - a crater close to the Moon's south pole.

Scientists expect the blast to be so powerful that a huge plume of debris will be ejected.

The attack on the Moon is not a declaration of war or act of wanton vandalism. Space scientists want to see if any water ice or vapour is revealed in the cloud of debris.

Though the Moon mostly a dry airless desert, they believe ice could be trapped in crater shadows near the south pole which never receive any sunlight. If so it could provide vital supplies for a manned moonbase.

Last year, British scientists identified regions where water might be found on the Moon and estimated that there could be enough to fill one of Europe's largest reservoirs.

The spacecraft will not head straight for the Moon. First it will orbit the Earth a number of times while its precise target is identified. Finally, it will send the missile into the Moon at twice the speed of a bullet on October 8.

The shepherding spacecraft will follow close behind, taking pictures and analysing the ejected debris as it looks for evidence of water. It has just four minutes to do this before it crashes into the Moon itself, producing a spectacular explosion that should be visible in amateur astronomers' telescopes.

It is a busy time for Moon crashes. Last week Japan's Kaguya probe collided with the Moon at the end of its own mission.

The LCROSS mission - it stands for Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite - will launch on an Atlas V rocket together with another spacecraft, called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The orbiter will circle the Moon for at least a year searching for potential landing sites for astronauts when they return there in the next decade. It will also look for suitable materials that might support a colony.

The dual mission was due to blast off today but was delayed to make way for the shuttle Endeavour. However, another hydrogen leak means that the shuttle launch has now been delayed until next month.

Picture: An artist's impression of LCROSS missile being fired at the Moon. (NASA).

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Scientists Begin To Whisper The Unthinkable: Complete Annihilation

2009-05-06T06:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1222.htm

April 11, 2009

By: Sorcha Faal

“First, the frogs began disappearing, with as many as 122 species becoming extinct worldwide since 1980. Then honeybee colonies began to collapse. Scientists fear that bats might be next”, begins the Washington Post News Services’ shocking report that the mysterious disease killing bats in the United States has, for the first time, hit in their Southern regions where between the States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama are held some of the largest populations of hibernating bats on Earth.

This dire report further states that scientists are beginning to whisper the unthinkable: complete annihilation of some species, such as Dr. Thomas Kunz, an ecologist and bat expert at Boston University, who warns that “If this continues to spread, we are talking about extinctions. I've studied bats for 44 years. This is unprecedented in my lifetime. It's not alarmist. These are just the facts.”

To the greatest danger, though, of this latest catastrophe to befall our World is its occurring at the exact same time as the near wholesale extinction of honey bees due to what is being called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and that is currently sweeping the Globe with Japan being the latest Nation to report being hit by this mysterious disease.

Not being understood by the Western peoples about these mass extinctions is that they are hitting our Earths major pollinator and insect eating species, and which without their being a part of our environment, would radically alter our entire World’s ecosystem leading to cataclysmic loss of life on a scale unprecedented in human history.

Most shocking, however, of these latest events, is how long they have been occurring, and their true causes, without the Western governments either informing their citizens of the dangers they are facing, or even worse, taking those actions needed to avert the deaths of billions of human beings.

As we had reported last year in our March 26, 2008 report “Fears Grow Over ‘Catastrophic’ US Biosphere Collapse”, and wherein we had stated:

“Scientists from the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences (RAAS) are reporting in the Kremlin today of the ‘imminent and catastrophic’ collapse of the United States agriculture sector due to the rampant, and unforeseen, consequences relating to rapidly mutating genetically modified strains of crops inundating their biosphere.

These reports detail that the first casualties of mass biosphere genetic poisoning will always occur first in plant pollinators, and which has been confirmed as occurring in the United States, and as we can read as reported by the BBC News Service:

"A mystery illness that has scientists baffled is wiping out tens of thousands of bats across the north-east of the US."

"The pollination of crops by bees is responsible for a third of the food produced in the US. One in every three mouthfuls has been touched by their tiny feet; but our six-legged friends are in trouble.

They are getting sick and leaving their hives. Without bees, food gets more expensive - some products could disappear altogether. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) emerged last year, and by spring 2007 bees were dying in huge numbers - over the year as a whole the total bee population fell by 30%.

Some beekeepers lost closer to 90%, and the fear is it will get worse. Beekeeper Gilly Sherman says: "It's worse than last year, and last year was worse than the year before, so it's bad, and there are a lot of good big beekeepers that are having a lot of problems.

"I think we're coming in for a big train wreck."

Even more disturbing, these reports continue, is that this genetic poisoning appears to have now hit mammal populations in the US, with their State of Minnesota, one of America’s leading agriculture States, and the third largest planters of genetically modified crops in America, now reporting that the moose population in their northeastern regions are dying in record numbers and nearing extinction, and which is the area of that State most concentrated with these mutant crops.

How critical this situation in the United States has become is stated in a report by US Center for Food Safety, and which says, "It has been estimated that 70-75 percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves--from soda to soup, crackers to condiments--contain genetically engineered ingredients."

One could reasonably expect that a Nation facing such a catastrophe as the United States with the destruction of its biosphere would begin to rapidly eliminate such a disaster from devastating their own citizens, except to note that these Western Nations are becoming so vile that this very week, in the United Nations, they actually declared ‘victory’ when a resolution declaring water as a ‘human right’ was defeated.”

Even more insidious about this catastrophe are the many memes [a postulated unit or element of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, gets transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena] created by Western intelligence agencies, and propagated through their citizenry by their propaganda media organs, specifically designed to mute within these peoples the outrage they should normally feel as their elite classes literally destroy our entire Earth.

One such meme devised by the CIA and MI6 was a quote attributed to the 20th Century physicist Albert Einstein that purported to have had him said “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.”, and which after its being released became viral and can still be found in numerous otherwise factual reports on this growing catastrophe, but by its inclusion fatally taints the truest information needed to be known.

After a generation of destroying their educational system in order to create a docile population unable to ascertain the validity of sound arguments, or even to know the truth when it lies right before their eyes, the American people of today have become nothing more than laboratory specimens in the most insidious plot ever devised by man against himself and his World, and for reasons which if known by these people could not even be comprehended, let alone believed, because of how monstrous it is.

But, to the consequences in store for a World intent upon its own brutal destruction a most interesting theory was postulated this week by the former US intelligence officer and retired US Army Officer, Major Ed Dames, who on a Nationwide broadcast of the Coast To Coast AM radio programme in America stated that our Earth was not only a living entity, but because of its being killed by one of its species, human beings, has sent out a ‘distress signal’ into the Universe and which he states the Sun is preparing to answer in what he describes as a ‘kill shot’ which will annihilate from our Earth all human beings.

It goes without our saying, of course, that the theories and predictions of Major Dames, and all such others like him around the World, will not be reported by the mainstream propaganda US media, in fact, if mentioned at all, they would be ridiculed and put up for scorn. It must be remembered, though, that this is the same propaganda media that still tells the American people that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on their country, an outright fabrication that even this past week was shown for the lie it really is:

“A Dutch TV jury has found Osama bin Laden not guilty of the Sept. 11 attacks. In the conclusion Wednesday night to the show "Devil's Advocate" on Dutch public broadcaster Nederland 2, the jury of two men and three women, along with the studio audience, ruled there was no proof bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.”

There are probably less than 1 out of a 1,000 Americans that even know that their own FBI does not even claim Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, as even though offering a $25 million reward for his capture state that he is only wanted for “Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world.”

Sadly, however, these drugged, genetically food poisoned, and most deluded of all Earths peoples called Americans, will continue to believe their propaganda media organs and government/corporate leaders over all else, even their own common sense. And nowhere can this be seen in its brutal totality more than in a little known (because the mainstream US news never reported it) UPI story from 2 years ago that began:

“It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill. But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don't have autism.”

By our pointing out stunning obvious facts, such as no vaccines=no autism and genetically modified crops and pesticides=catastrophic die off of species, among many others, these Americans don’t even realize how their World has become exactly like the one depicted in George Orwell’s famous book 1984 by their depicting those messengers like us as the distorters of truth instead of the true liars, their own media, corporations and government.

And by listening, even worse believing, the lies being told to them, Orwell warned them of the World they would make….

“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.”

© April 11, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved

What Do You See?

2009-04-19T15:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/182219-What-Do-You-See

Nikki Alexander
OpEd News
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:17 UTC

How would your mind perceive the following sequence of events if you were watching this unfold in another country?

Supreme Court judges betray their oath and prevent votes from being counted in a national election to install an unelected president. (Coordinated nationwide election fraud provides him a second term.)

Nine months later a spectacular mass murder takes place in a major city that involves three skyscrapers imploding into their own footprints within ten seconds each, pulverizing all of the non-metallic constituents into a fine powder that covers the city. Evidence from the crime scene is immediately removed and the unelected regime obstructs investigation into the crime for over one year. Without evidence or trial, foreign patsies are blamed for the crime by a Commission appointed by the unelected president. The unelected president and his regime relentlessly invoke the memory of this shocking event to justify:

The most radical reconstruction of the Government in fifty years

Systematic destruction of civil liberties and constitutional protections

Systematic transfer of government services and functions to private corporations

Ongoing seizure and privatization of public assets by corporate and foreign entities

Dictatorial seizure of unconstitutional Executive authority with presidential signing statements

Government surveillance of citizens: phone, Internet, banking, medical records, library records

Government infiltration, harassment and arrest of peace groups

Arrest and murder of journalists; seizure of their equipment and film

Government kidnapping, detention and torture of thousands of harmless citizens

Wars of aggression perpetrated under false pretenses

Nationwide detention camps constructed for future purposes

Blackwater mercenary bases within the country's borders

Regional Fusion Centers used by police to collect information on every citizen

Secret Government databases mark one million citizens as "terrorists"

Military units deployed to control the civilian population

Unconstitutional Presidential control of State National Guards and local police

Dissolution of national sovereignty through secret agreements with transnational conspirators

Relentless propaganda that misinforms the public through controlled media outlets

The regime is filled with ideological extremists and political appointees who hold dual citizenship:

The dual citizen Attorney General refuses to denounce torture or enforce Congressional subpoenas.

The dual citizen Secretary of DHS is granted authority to waive all laws without judicial oversight.

The dual citizen who leased the demolished skyscrapers is awarded billions of dollars in insurance claims by the dual citizen Judge who concurrently forbad victims to file claims against the government.

The dual citizen White House Chief of Staff recruits Goldman Sachs colleague as Treasury Secretary

Trillions of dollars disappear from Pentagon accounts under the dual citizen Comptroller of the Currency.

Congress systematically destroys financial sector regulations that protect the public

The unelected president declares authority to suspend the Constitution and take over financial institutions

The Federal Reserve Chairman and Treasury Secretary encourage and protect Wall Street fraud

Trillions of dollars in fictitious Wall Street derivatives fracture the country's financial system

Middle class savings, pensions and retirement accounts are eviscerated

Middle class property is devalued and confiscated nationwide through mortgage and foreclosure fraud

Perpetrators of the fraud are rewarded with billions of taxpayer dollars

The Federal Reserve Chairman expands his authority in defiance of constitutional mandates

The Treasury Secretary eliminates Goldman Sachs competition and consolidates its monopoly

The Fed Chairman and Treasury Secretary use taxpayer loans to buy stock in private financial institutions

The national debt escalates to trillions of dollars as the currency collapses.

Taken as a whole does this look like random incompetence or a fascist coup d'etat?

Coup d'etat: a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics, especially: the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.

Author's Addendum 10/16/08

I have been asked by readers about these dual citizens. They are Israeli. I didn't name the country specifically because AIPAC has done such a good job of intimidating everyone that people might dismiss this observation as conspiracy theory or anti-Semitism. When you see the long list of dual US-Israeli citizens in key positions it is startling and not something I can easily dismiss as "nothing." If all these people had dual Russian or Saudi citizenship the public would be screaming. Everyone mentioned below has dual US-Israeli citizenship.

Dov Zakheim was appointed by Bush as Pentagon Comptroller of the Currency. Zakheim's company makes a product that remotely controls up to 8 aircraft at a time. Under his watch 2.3 trillion went missing.

Michael Chertoff, head of DHS, is building a 700-mile Likud wall on the Mexican border. He advises the CIA on torture and detained thousands of innocent Muslims. His DHS ICE raids are persecuting immigrants who try to organize labor unions.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey is the torture advocate who prosecuted Jose Padilla as an "enemy combattant." He has a historical relationship with Rudy Giuliani and was the judge in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein and several insurance companies.

Larry Silverstein leased the WTC complex three months before the "attacks" and collected $7 billion in insurance claims.

Lewis M. Eisenberg, Chairman of the New York and New Jersey Port Authority authorized privatization of the WTC Complex.

Alvin Hellerstein was the sole judge to handle all of the victims' cases against the airlines and security companies (most of which were Israeli owned) and against any potential lawsuits against the government.

Kenneth Feinberg was appointed "Special Master" of the 9/11 Victim's Compensation Fund.

Maurice (Hank the Hammer) Greenberg was CEO of AIG (until recently), the reinsurance crooks that were just bailed out by Henry Paulson. AIG subsidiaries run covert ops.

Jeffrey Greenberg (Hank's son) is chairman of Marsh & McLennan, situated on floors throughout the North Tower of the World Trade Center as well as the top floors of the South Tower. Marsh also had ties to the CIA.

Evan Greenberg (Hank's son) is CEO of ACE Limited, situated in Tower 7, which also contained AIG subsidiary Kroll, closely related to the CIA, also with an office in Tower 7.

Alan "Ace" Greenberg (Hank's cousin) is former CEO of Bear Sterns, where the Bush family, Cheney family, George Schultz, James Baker, et al, did business. It is the leading brokerage firm of the great and all-powerful Bush Familia.

Neocon dual Israeli citizens also gather at Booz Allen Hamilton, an intelligence organization with "advisors" in nearly every government office.

White House Chief of Staff, Joshua Bolten, is the dual Israeli citizen who brought his Goldman Sachs colleague, Henry Paulson, into the Treasury.

Elliott Abrams is a National Security Council Advisor who played an important role in Iran-Contra felonies.

Larry Franklin worked for Douglas Feith and William Luti who was convicted of espionage.

Robert Zoellick, US Trade Representative, replaced Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank.

Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, was specifically named by Sibel Edmonds as one of the high level officials covertly selling nuclear weapons. Thus far, I have discovered at least 50 officials in key government positions who hold dual Israeli citizenship plus 8 US ambassadors!

The companies in charge of 911 airport security are Israeli-owned. Israeli companies control our entire phone system at its source. No one makes a call without them listening in. US taxpayers give Israel $10 million a DAY plus untold amounts of weapons and Pentagon contracts. Israel has staffers in every Congressional office according to www.iasps.com (a Jerusalem-based "think tank").

These events are all tied together ~ 9/11, the controlled demolition of our constitutional framework and the Wall Street Coup. It is tempting to lay the coup at Israel's feet but we cannot discount the century-old Bush Crime Syndicate that financed Hitler, perennial fascists at the Council on Foreign Relations (Rockefeller et al), the Peterson Institute and the Trilateral Commission. Unfortunately, Paul Volcker is one of Barack Obama's financial advisors. The international bankers who openly admit their goal is world domination by a "supranational elite" are global fascists. They financed Hitler, Mussolini, Trotsky and Lenin. These sociopaths all work together, regardless of their religion and passport affiliation. They cross-populate each others institutions and corporations, own the media and control the centers of power. Their only allegiance is to vampire capitalism and the global destruction of human rights.

Nikki has been a full time writer and political researcher since the 2000 coup. She hopes to return to oil painting, her former career, but can't seem to play or do anything fun while the nation is under siege. You can help her get back to expressions of beauty by doing your part to speed up the revolution.

Trends to a New World Order: Parts 1 & 2

2009-04-15T15:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.oldthinkernews.com/Articles/oldthinker%20news/trends_to_a_new_world.htm

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Trends to a New World Order: Part 1
Transnational Elites and Pernicious Globalization
Old-Thinker News | Jan. 3, 2008

"Countless people... will hate the new world order... and will die protesting against it... When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents..." - H.G. Wells, The New World Order (1939)

By Daniel Taylor

As we enter the new year of 2008, themes of a "global community" and a "unified global approach" are becoming more prevalent.

When keeping an eye on current events and reading various think tank projections regarding the future of the world, a sobering picture begins to emerge. Forecasts are being made of a world in which a sharp divide exists between the elite and the rest of humanity. Advanced technology offers those who can afford it a means of personalized "auto-evolution". "Pernicious globalization" takes its toll on the world and global elites thrive, leaving the rest of us in the dust. Increasingly open borders, unchecked immigration and trends to world governance cause communal conflict between various groups. The middle class becomes revolutionary as economic hardship hits hard on millions of Americans. Dictators utilize life extension technologies to prolong their reign of terror. A computer simulation offers government agencies and corporations a system to test marketing strategy and psychological operations on a virtual mirror of the real world in real time. "Gen-rich" and "Gen-poor" classes emerge to form a new "biological caste system".

All of this would make for a thrilling Sci-Fi novel, but these trends come not from science fiction - though science fiction has proven to be a prophetic precursor to these developments -, but from present day realities seen by the U.K. Ministry of Defense, the CIA and other prominent individuals in the fields of technology, science and government.

This short two part report will attempt to answer these questions: What impact has globalization had on us and how will it effect us in the future? How do present day trends in technology, globalization, politics and government relate to the prospect of a New World Order?

The New World Order

A "New World Order" has been heralded by global elites for many years. We are told by these elites that trends to a system of world governance are only natural, that national sovereignty must be eliminated. James Paul Warburg, speaking before the US Senate in 1950, stated that, "We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent."

Globalization and advances in technology have undoubtedly impacted our lifestyles, world-views, and lives dramatically. A "global outlook" has planted itself in our society, but more so among elites. Zbigniew Brzezinski writes of this global outlook in his 1970 book, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era,

"A global human consciousness is for the first time beginning to manifest itself... we are witnessing the emergence of transnational elites... composed of international businessmen, scholars, professional men and public officials. The ties of these new elites cut across national boundaries, their perspectives are not confined by national traditions..." [1]

The dissemination and injection of globalist ideology into the collective vocabulary and consciousness of society has been a leading goal of such transnational elites. Regional governance in conjunction with regional economic systems inside a world government has also been a long term goal of globalist organizations. In order for these regional systems to operate smoothly and to be generally accepted, think tanks have undertaken projects of social engineering on a massive scale to rid the population of "outdated" ideas of national sovereignty. [2]

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a conference in 2002 which was dedicated to the development of strategies to overcome such "outdated" ideas. The political, social and economic integration of the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a union similar to the European Union was discussed. America was acknowledged by the conference panelists as being one of the largest obstacles to globalist planning. Expanding the definition of "we", framing integration in a non threatening manner and a "winner at the polls" were some of the suggested social engineering strategies. A summary of the conference states,

"Further economic, political, and social integration will depend on how citizens of the three countries define their national identities and the degree to which they are willing to cede some of their countries’ sovereignty to a larger entity." [3]
"Foreign policy... provides three things for a nation’s citizens: sovereignty, security, and identity. Sovereignty dictates that the state’s citizens and government (“we”) decide policy, identity defines “who we are” as a nation, and security protects a nation’s sovereignty and identity. Governments must convince citizens that the regional project is consistent with these three values by expanding the definition of the “we.” [4]

As we enter the new year of 2008, themes of a "global community" and a "unified global approach" are becoming more prevalent. The United Nations has recently begun an initiative to bring more into agreement with the "global consciousness" with a comic book geared towards children. Marvel Comics has teamed up with the UN to create a comic book that will teach children "...the value of international cooperation." [5] Another example comes from the London based think tank mi2g, which released a statement in late December of 2007 that stated in part,

"One world: The global community of nations is realizing that regardless of the complex global risk we wish to address, we all have to come together. The mantra of a "unified global approach" is becoming essential whether it is countering climate chaos and environmental degradation... advanced technologies -- bio, info, nano, robo & AI -- ... financial systems and systemic risk; or transhumanism and ethics..." [6]
Combating climate change with a "global unified approach" is a concept that Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, is quite familiar with. In an article carried in the Taipei times, Haass writes that sovereignty must become weaker in a globalized world faced with climate change,

"Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change..."
"Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker. States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves..." [7]

Climate change "the issue" of 2008

Writing in the Business Spectator, economist Craig James states that climate change is "...expected to be the big issue for 2008, dominating public consciousness..." [8] 2007 saw large amounts of attention on this issue as well, when U.K. Prime minister Gordon Brown called for a "New World Order" to combat climate change. [9]

Impact of globalization and possible future scenarios

Globalization, immigration and integration of countries into larger entities brings with it social and political consequences. The Ministry of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency have produced reports forecasting possible outcomes of globalization and integration. The reports carry a familiar tone between them; advancing technology and globalization causing deep divides between elites and the majority of humanity. The CIA report, "Global Trends 2015", outlines possible scenarios for pernicious globalization. The report states,

"Scenario Two: Pernicious Globalization Global elites thrive, but the majority of the world’s population fails to benefit from globalization... migration becomes a major source of interstate tension... Internal conflicts increase, fueled by frustrated expectations, inequities, and heightened communal tensions..." [1]
The Futurist magazine discussed this CIA report in depth in the May-June 2001 edition. Summarizing trends regarding national and international governance, the magazine states,

"Established governments are likely to lose some control over their borders as migrants, technology, disease, weapons, financial transactions, and information of all kinds move about the world. Corporations and nonprofit organizations will exert more influence on state affairs. Winners and losers in globalization will emerge..." [2]
The European Union has seen many of the forecasts cited above come to pass. Massive immigration throughout the porous EU borders has caused tension and loss of entry level jobs for native citizens of the United Kingdom. The signing of the EU treaty in Britain by Foreign Secretary David Miliband has heightened these tensions. [3]

In a an article released by the UK Daily Mail, it is reported that, "Half a million fewer Britons are in work following the unprecedented influx of migrants from Eastern Europe..." The Daily Mail report cites the independent House of Commons Library for the statistics. The report also states that, "The British Chamber of Com-merce has already warned that a generation of British children is at risk of going 'from school straight to welfare' while migrants fill skills shortages in the economy." [4]

The United States open borders between Mexico and Canada have allowed millions of illegal immigrants to flow in and out of the country. Violent gangs such as the Latino group MS13 - identified by the FBI as the single most dangerous gang in America - are becoming more prevalent.

Perhaps one of the most concerning forecasts comes from the U.K. Ministry of Defense in a report released in early 2007. The report, "DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036", foresees the middle classes facing increased economic hardship. In response,

"The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx. The globalization of labour markets and reducing levels of national welfare provision and employment could reduce peoples’ attachment to particular states. The growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible super-rich individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while the growing urban under-classes are likely to pose an increasing threat to social order and stability, as the burden of acquired debt and the failure of pension provision begins to bite." [5]
The report also states,

"Economic globalization and indiscriminate migration may lead to levels of international integration that effectively bring interstate warfare to an end; however, it will also result in communities of interest at every level of society that transcend national boundaries and could resort to the use of violence." [6]
As economic crises hit home for millions in America and abroad in 2008 and beyond, feelings of anger and resentment are undoubtedly going to spread. Trends expert Gerald Celente predicts that in 2008,

"Failing banks, busted brokerages, toppled corporate giants, bankrupt cities, states in default, foreign creditors cashing out of US securities … whatever the spark, the stage is set for panic in the streets. When the giant firms fall, they'll crush the man on the street." [7]
Will the "revolutionary middle class" that poses a threat to social order - bitten by burdens of debt, globalization, and economic hardship - become a reality?

Anti-globalists labeled as terrorists

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano have both suggested - both vaguely and unmistakably - that anti-globalists are terrorists. While speaking at a conference hosted by AKbank in Istanbul Turkey on May 31, 2007, just prior to the scheduled Bilderberg meeting, Henry Kissinger gave a speech in which he stated,

"What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system..." [1]

In June of 2007, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano stated during a press conference that it is, "...psychological terrorism to suggest the spectre of a European superstate." [2]

H.G. Wells' words echo eerily across time; "Countless people... will hate the new world order... and will die protesting against it..."

Citation:

The New World Order

[1] Brzezinski, Zbigniew. Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era. Penguin books, 1976

[2] "The "North American Consciousness" and "European Identity". Old-thinker news. December 22, 2007.

[3] Heard, Emily, Ed. Toward a North American Community? Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 2002. page 7. Available online at

[4] Ibid. page 10.

[5] Brewster, Deborah. "U.N. joining forces with Spider-Man". Financial Times. December 27, 2007. Available at

[6] DK Matai. 2008: The Inflexion Year with Positive Outcomes!. December 21, 2007. Available at

[7] Haass, Richard. "State Sovereignty must be altered in globalized era" Taipei Times. February 26, 2007. Available at

[8] James, Craig. "Economic outlook 2008: climate change will dominate". Business Spectator. December 31, 2007. Available at

[9] "Brown wants a 'new world order'". BBC News. January 19, 2007. Available at

Impact of globalization and possible future scenarios

[1] National Intelligence Council/Central Intelligence Agency. "Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts". page 83. Available at

[2] "The world in 2015". The Futurist. May-June 2001. Volume 35, No. 3. page 7.

[3] "Miliband signs Britain away". The Sun. December 13, 2007. Available at

[4] Slack, James. "500,000 fewer Britons in work following influx of Eastern Europeans". UK Daily Mail. December 28, 2007.

[5] Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre/Ministry of Defense. "The DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036". January 2007. page 81.

[6] Ibid. page 84.

[7] "Top Trends 2008" Vol. XV, No. 1. The Trends Research Journal. Available at

Anti-globalists labeled as terrorists

[1] A video of this speech can be seen at 16:00 into this video

[2] Hartley-Brewer, Julia. "Opponents of EU treaty accused of being 'terrorists'". UK Daily Express. June 17, 2007. Available at

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Part Two

"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values." - Zbigniew Brzezinsky, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

By Daniel Taylor

Techno-biological tyranny seems to be the best descriptor for what is emerging.

As the world moves toward world governance in a new globalized era, technologies that enable extended life spans, and technologically augmented abilities are being developed. These upgrades for the human body come at a high cost, and are unattainable for a large number of people, causing additional societal conflict and the rise of new aristocratic classes defined by their level of "enhancement". Diseases are mostly eradicated among elites, while a large percentage of the population is left still vulnerable. A high tech overlay of sensors and monitoring devices tracks workers activities. Their heart rates, facial expressions, and overall state are monitored to maintain maximum efficiency. Supercomputers run Sentient World Simulation software designed to enable testing of efficient social management and psychological operations against the population in a virtual world. Artificial Intelligence makes health, political and educational decisions that were once made by human beings. Advancing technology offers miraculous cures, while opening doorways to new forms of tyranny and manipulation unimaginable in the past.

In the hands of a hubris filled, power hungry elite who exercise control over world affairs, advancing technology presents disturbing possibilities. When examining these developments in technology, human nature, and the nature of power are vitally important aspects that must be considered. Utopian ideas are one of the ideologies fueling both trends to world governance and advancing technology. Will these trends benefit the average man, woman and child as we are told they will? Or, will a New World Order be constructed solely for the benefit of a tiny elite? History tells us that the latter is most likely.

Societal control through technology

The perfection and fine tuning of social management utilizing high technology is a theme that permeates science fiction literature. Today, this theme is moving into reality. Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote of "pre-crisis management" in his book Between Two ages,

“Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control information. Our existing institutions will be supplanted by pre-crisis management institutions, the task of which will be to identify in advance likely social crises and to develop programs to cope with them." [1]
The Futurist magazine, in its Outlook 2008 forecast lists an intriguing and disturbing trend for 2008. Educational, health, and financial decisions will be increasingly made by artificial intelligence.

"More decisions will be made by nonhuman entities. Electronically enabled teams in networks, robots with artificial intelligence, and other noncarbon life-forms will make financial, health, educational, and even political decisions for us. Reason: Technologies are increasing the complexity of our lives and human workers' competency is not keeping pace well enough to avoid disasters due to human error." [2]
The Sentient World Simulation, developed by researchers at Perdue University - with the help of DOD funding - can be utilized to do just what The Futurist is projecting, and much more. The SWS program allows for behavior modification and anticipation on a scale unknown at any time prior to its existence. By integrating "nodes" representing every man, woman, and child on earth into a virtual world, propaganda, terrorist attacks and other variables can be launched at the unsuspecting virtual population. SWS was originally designed for fortune 500 companies to aid with strategy. The Department of Defense saw the technology as an opportunity too good to pass up. SWS technology has been "...incorporated into the U.S. Army's recruiting efforts by modeling the population of the U.S. that is eligible for military service, thus allowing recruiting commanders to strategize ways to improve recruiting potential soldiers." [3]

The SWS concept paper describes the program's capabilities in depth. Some of the abilities include military planning, and corporate strategy development.

Planning:
"SWS provides tools to develop, reuse, and compose action plans into playbooks. A playbook database enables planners to recall playbooks."

"Planning tools enable plans to be developed for temporally and spatially fine-grained actions as well as long-term actions and to place combined plans into a single playbook."

Operations:

"Augmenting real-time information with near real-time and faster than real-time simulations allows RCC to develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners."

Testing:

"SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP) and Civil Affairs activities, capable of illustrating the impact of these activities on populations."

"Commercial users can construct experiments to use proprietary data in a controlled environment." [4]

Simulex inc. provides the SEAS (Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation) technology - which the Sentient World Simulation is based on - to multiple government and private clients. [5]

The list includes:

Government Clients

-United States Department of Defense
-United States Department of Justice
-United States Army Recruiting Command
-United States Joint Forces Command
-Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center

Private Sector Clients

-Eli Lilly
-Lockheed Martin
-Other Fortune 500 companies

Using the SWS system, pharmaceutical companies can test marketing campaigns for new drugs in the virtual world. Military strategists can plan PSYOPS and carry them out against virtual adversaries. As reported by the Register, "...the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda." [6]

Homeland Security is currently using the technology for a variety of purposes. In a slideshow shown to Homeland Security - presented by the co-author of the SWS concept paper cited previously, Alok Chaturvedi - graphics are shown that describe the uses for the technology. Experimentations with Engineering, Economics, Public policy, Law, Management and Psychology are listed as possible inputs for the virtual population. A graph that displays the emotions for the population reads "Sad," "Content," "Aroused," and "Happy". The "impact of globalization" is also listed as a variable in "modeling an adversaries viewpoint". [7]

Microsoft "monitoring group activities"

The workplace will soon be infiltrated by a technology developed by Microsoft that will, as the Register reports, act as "...some sort of "activity monitoring system" that keeps an eye on worker productivity using various "physiological or environmental sensors." These sensors would track everything from heart rate, respiration rate, body temperature, facial expressions, and blood pressure to brain signals and galvanic skin response."

The purpose of this technology, according to the patent, is to enable assistance to be sent to those workers who need it, or assign the task to someone else who is able to complete it. The Register also points out that the information will be stored away in a database for future reference. This enables "...user performance [that] can be readily compared..." [8]

The Microsoft patent states,

"For example, the system can infer through physiological and activity sensing that a user is becoming more frustrated with his current activity and thus could benefit from assistance from another user who has experience with the same or similar activity. This can be accomplished via parameter and/or threshold settings whereby the detection of parameter violations or satisfied thresholds can indicate a particular frustration level or at the very least that the user has become "frustrated" or "stressed"." [9]

Surveillance and anticipatory conformity

In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, surveillance has expanded exponentially. A phenomenon called "anticipatory conformity" is becoming more prevalent as the surveillance society grows. The term, coined in 1988 by Harvard psychologist Shoshana Zuboff, describes a process of self censorship as a result of constant surveillance. Philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the Panopticon style prison in 1785 which put this principle to use. The prison included a central tower constantly manned by guards that stands in the center of a circular building in which inmates are unsure whether they are being watched. Bentham saw the Panopticon system being used in "...punishing the incorrigible, guarding the insane, reforming the vicious, confining the suspected, employing the idle, maintaining the helpless, curing the sick, instructing the willing in any branch of industry, or training the rising race in the path of education: in a word, whether it be applied to the purposes of perpetual prisons in the room of death, or prisons for confinement before trial, or penitentiary-houses, or houses of correction, or work-houses, or manufactories, or mad-houses, or hospitals, or schools." [emphasis added] [10]

Lynn Duke quotes Soshana Zuboff, coiner of the term anticipatory conformity, in his Washington Post article, Uniqueness lost in surveillance society,

“I think the first level of that is we anticipate surveillance and we conform, and we do that with awareness,” she says. “We know, for example, when we’re going through the security line at the airport not to make jokes about terrorists or we’ll get nailed, and nobody wants to get nailed for cracking a joke. It’s within our awareness to self-censor. And that self-censorship represents a diminution of our freedom." [11]
As surveillance becomes more prevalent, Zuboff says that anticipatory conformity will "become more intense". Zbigniew Brzezinski, again writing in Between two Ages, sees a dictatorship eventually forming in a new technocratic era of electronic surveillance and control,

"This [surveillance and data mining] will encourage tendencies through the next several decades toward a technocratic era, a dictatorship leaving even less room for political procedures as we know them." [12]
Future Eugenics and life extension

The Human Genome Project has given rise to promising developments in the realm of medicine, allowing personalized treatments for disease. The project has also opened a doorway into genetic tinkering with the unborn. Selecting embryos that are disease free has been made possible by genetic screening. Genetic manipulation, unlike screening, may allow in the future a selection of specific traits for an unborn child. Professor Michio Kaku, writing in his 1997 book Visions, warns that there is a danger of a new eugenics emerging from genetic enhancement technology. Kaku states,

"One long-term danger for the far future is that those who are the wealthiest will be able to afford to improve their germ line, while others will not, leaving the rest of society behind, eventually creating a new biological caste system. Gregory Kavka, a philosopher at the University of California at Irvine, says, "Any such move toward genetic enhancement has the potential of reestablishing social inequality, though along new lines. Old aristocracies of birth, color, or gender may dissipate, only to be replaced by a new genetic aristocracy, or 'genotocracy.'"
"The deep fracture lines of society could become chasms if only the wealthy have access to choosing their germ line..." [1]

This scenario of a society divided by advanced genetics was also seen by the U.K. Ministry of Defense strategic trends 2007-2036 report. The report stated,

"The application of advanced genetics could challenge current assumptions about human nature and existence. Initially employed for medical purposes, breakthroughs in these areas could be put to ethically questionable uses, such as the super-enhancement of human attributes, including physical strength and sensory perception. Extreme variation in attributes could arise between individuals, or where enhancement becomes a matter of fashion, between societies, creating additional reasons for conflict." [2]

Many scientists and proponents of genetic enhancement realize that the cost of this technology will be immense. Some of them see the exorbitant cost as a eugenic policy in and of itself, as it would only allow for the "most successful generative lines" to have access to the enhancement. John Campbell of the University of California writes in his paper The Moral Imperative of Our Future Evolution,

"The costs [of genetic enhancement] will be enormous, far beyond what most people could afford. This has kept our democratic society from appreciating that these possibilities will be used and will be important. However, their feasibility cannot be judged from what the average person will be willing to pay to procreate. What matters are the resources that the most successful generative lines will be able to apply to their goals. A million dollars per conception seems a great underestimate to me for the beings who hold evolution's frontier."

"We should not imagine that people will just dabble in their evolution. Another generation will fan autoevolution into the all-consuming endeavor of the intellectuals, scientists and economists. The resources of the world probably will suddenly be shifted to this enterprise. Remaining "humans" will realize that they have been displaced from their former privileged status as the masters of destiny." [3]

Advanced genetics also offers a tool for the creation of subservient workers, though an intent to do so is met with denial. The Times Online reports that, "Aldous Huxley may have got it right. In Brave New World, his classic futuristic novel, the author envisaged a society divided into castes from Alpha at the top to Epsilon at the bottom."

The Times Online reports,

"...experiments conducted on rhesus monkeys have shown for the first time that animal behaviour can be permanently altered, turning the subjects from aggressive to “compliant” creatures."
The scientists did so by blocking the effects of a gene in the brain called D2, which cut off the link between the monkeys’ motivation and perceived reward. Humans have an identical gene. [4]

A doctor working for the project denied any attempt to modify humans into becoming slaves, saying, "Genetically manipulating people to become slaves is not in their interests, but other changes might be."

Life extension

The Ministry of Defense also identified the possible uses of life extension technologies in the aforementioned strategic report. "Dictatorial or despotic rulers" are named as being interested in acquiring such technologies.

"Developments in genetics might allow treatment of the symptoms of ageing and this would result in greatly increased life expectancy for those who could afford it. The divide between those that could afford to ‘buy longevity’ and those that could not, could aggravate perceived global inequality. Dictatorial or despotic rulers could potentially also ‘buy longevity’, prolonging their regimes and international security risks." [5]
The CIA's Global Trends 2015 also discusses life extension, stating, "Biotechnology will drive medical breakthroughs that will enable the
world’s wealthiest people to improve their health and increase their longevity dramatically..." [6]

In summary of parts 1 and 2 of this report, humanity is facing dramatic, challenging, and dire times. Techno-biological tyranny seems to be the best descriptor for what is emerging. As we move full speed ahead into the future, lessons of the past cannot be forgotten. Memories of the slavery and bondage of our ancestors as subjects of royal elites must not fade from our minds.

Citation:

Societal control through technology

[1] ] Brzezinski, Zbigniew. Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era. Penguin books, 1976

[2] "Outlook 2008". The Futurist. Nov-Dec 2007. Available at

[3] Cupp, John. "USJFCOM teams with Purdue University to add the human factor to war game simulations". United States Joint Forces Command. February 4, 2004. Available at

[4] Chaturvedi, Alok Dr. "Sentient World Simulation (SWS): A Continuously Running Model of the Real World". August 22, 2006.

[5] http://www.simulexinc.com/

[6] Baard, Mark. "Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale". The Register. June 23, 2007. Available at

[7] "Towards a Synthetic Environment for Computational Homeland Security". Available at (requires flash player)

[8] Microsoft Patent #20070300174. Available here

[9] Ibid 8.

[10] Clark, Robert. "The Panopticon". The Literary Encyclopedia. Available at

[11] Duke, Lynn. "Uniqueness lost in surveillance society". Washington Post. December 10, 2007. Available at

[12] Ibid 1.

Future Eugenics and life extension

[1] Kaku, Michio. Visions. New York, New York: Doubleday, 1997. page 257.

[2] Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre/Ministry of Defense. "The DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036". January 2007. page 80.

[3] Campbell, Thomas. "The Moral Imperative of Our Future Evolution". Available at

[4] Rogers, Lois. "Scientists find way to make us slaves". Times Online. October 17, 2004. Available at

[5] Ibid 2.

[6] National Intelligence Council/Central Intelligence Agency. "Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts". page 9. Available at

The Financial New World Order: Towards a Global Currency and World Government

2009-04-15T15:04:00.000-07:00

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13070

The Financial New World Order: Towards a Global Currency and World Government

by Andrew G. Marshall

Global Research, April 6, 2009

Introduction

Following the 2009 G20 summit, plans were announced for implementing the creation of a new global currency to replace the US dollar’s role as the world reserve currency. Point 19 of the communiqué released by the G20 at the end of the Summit stated, “We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity.” SDRs, or Special Drawing Rights, are “a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund.” As the Telegraph reported, “the G20 leaders have activated the IMF's power to create money and begin global "quantitative easing". In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body. Conspiracy theorists will love it.”[1]

The article continued in stating that, “There is now a world currency in waiting. In time, SDRs are likely to evolve into a parking place for the foreign holdings of central banks, led by the People's Bank of China.” Further, “The creation of a Financial Stability Board looks like the first step towards a global financial regulator,” or, in other words, a global central bank.

It is important to take a closer look at these “solutions” being proposed and implemented in the midst of the current global financial crisis. These are not new suggestions, as they have been in the plans of the global elite for a long time. However, in the midst of the current crisis, the elite have fast-tracked their agenda of forging a New World Order in finance. It is important to address the background to these proposed and imposed “solutions” and what effects they will have on the International Monetary System (IMS) and the global political economy as a whole.

A New Bretton-Woods

In October of 2008, Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the UK, said that we “must have a new Bretton Woods - building a new international financial architecture for the years ahead.” He continued in saying that, “we must now reform the international financial system around the agreed principles of transparency, integrity, responsibility, good housekeeping and co-operation across borders.” An article in the Telegraph reported that Gordon Brown would want “to see the IMF reformed to become a ‘global central bank’ closely monitoring the international economy and financial system.”[2]

On October 17, 2008, Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he said, “This week, European leaders came together to propose the guiding principles that we believe should underpin this new Bretton Woods: transparency, sound banking, responsibility, integrity and global governance. We agreed that urgent decisions implementing these principles should be made to root out the irresponsible and often undisclosed lending at the heart of our problems. To do this, we need cross-border supervision of financial institutions; shared global standards for accounting and regulation; a more responsible approach to executive remuneration that rewards hard work, effort and enterprise but not irresponsible risk-taking; and the renewal of our international institutions to make them effective early-warning systems for the world economy.[Emphasis added]”[3]

In early October 2008, it was reported that, “as the world's central bankers gather this week in Washington DC for an IMF-World Bank conference to discuss the crisis, the big question they face is whether it is time to establish a global economic "policeman" to ensure the crash of 2008 can never be repeated.” Further, “any organisation with the power to police the global economy would have to include representatives of every major country – a United Nations of economic regulation.” A former governor of the Bank of England suggested that, “the answer might already be staring us in the face, in the form of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS),” however, “The problem is that it has no teeth. The IMF tends to couch its warnings about economic problems in very diplomatic language, but the BIS is more independent and much better placed to deal with this if it is given the power to do so.”[4]

Emergence of Regional Currencies

On January 1, 1999, the European Union established the Euro as its regional currency. The Euro has grown in prominence over the past several years. However, it is not to be the only regional currency in the world. There are moves and calls for other regional currencies throughout the world.

In 2007, Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, ran an article titled, The End of National Currency, in which it began by discussing the volatility of international currency markets, and that very few “real” solutions have been proposed to address successive currency crises. The author poses the question, “will restoring lost sovereignty to governments put an end to financial instability?” He answers by stating that, “This is a dangerous misdiagnosis,” and that, “The right course is not to return to a mythical past of monetary sovereignty, with governments controlling local interest and exchange rates in blissful ignorance of the rest of the world. Governments must let go of the fatal notion that nationhood requires them to make and control the money used in their territory. National currencies and global markets simply do not mix; together they make a deadly brew of currency crises and geopolitical tension and create ready pretexts for damaging protectionism. In order to globalize safely, countries should abandon monetary nationalism and abolish unwanted currencies, the source of much of today's instability.”

The author explains that, “Monetary nationalism is simply incompatible with globalization. It has always been, even if this has only become apparent since the 1970s, when all the world's governments rendered their currencies intrinsically worthless.” The author states that, “Since economic development outside the process of globalization is no longer possible, countries should abandon monetary nationalism. Governments should replace national currencies with the dollar or the euro or, in the case of Asia, collaborate to produce a new multinational currency over a comparably large and economically diversified area.” Essentially, according to the author, the solution lies in regional currencies.[5]

In October of 2008, “European Central Bank council member Ewald Nowotny said a ``tri-polar'' global currency system is developing between Asia, Europe and the U.S. and that he's skeptical the U.S. dollar's centrality can be revived.”[6]

The Union of South American Nations

The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) was established on May 23, 2008, with the headquarters to be in Ecuador, the South American Parliament to be in Bolivia, and the Bank of the South to be in Venezuela. As the BBC reported, “The leaders of 12 South American nations have formed a regional body aimed at boosting economic and political integration in the region,” and that, “The Unasur members are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.”[7]

The week following the announcement of the Union, it was reported that, “Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that South American nations will seek a common currency as part of the region's integration efforts following the creation of the Union of South American Nations.” He was quoted as saying, “We are proceeding so as, in the future, we have a common central bank and a common currency.”[8]

The Gulf Cooperation Council and a Regional Currency

In 2005, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a regional trade bloc among Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced the goal of creating a single common currency by 2010. It was reported that, “An economically united and efficient GCC is clearly a more interesting proposition for larger companies than each individual economy, especially given the impediments to trade evident within the region. This is why trade relations within the GCC have been a core focus of late.” Further, “The natural extension of this trend for increased integration is to introduce a common currency in order to further facilitate trade between the different countries.” It was announced that, “the region's central bankers had agreed to pursue monetary union in a similar fashion to the rules used in Europe.”[9]

In June of 2008, it was reported that, “Gulf Arab central bankers agreed to create the nucleus of a joint central bank next year in a major step forward for monetary union but signaled that a new common currency would not be in circulation by an agreed 2010 target.”[10] In 2002, it was announced that the “Gulf states say they are seeking advice from the European Central Bank on their monetary union programme.” In February of 2008, Oman announced that it would not be joining the monetary union. In November of 2008, it was announced that the “Final monetary union draft says Gulf central bank will be independent from governments of member states.”[11]

In March of 2009, it was reported that, “The GCC should not rush into forming a single currency as member states need to work out the framework for a regional central bank, Saudi Arabia's Central Bank Governor Muhammad Al Jasser.” Jasser was further quoted as saying, “It took the European Union 45 years to put together a single currency. We should not rush.” In 2008, with the global financial crisis, new problems were posed for the GCC initiative, as “Pressure mounted last year on the GCC members to drop their currency pegs as inflation accelerated above 10 per cent in five of the six countries. All of the member states except Kuwait peg their currencies to the dollar and tend to follow the US Federal Reserve when setting interest rates.”[12]

An Asian Monetary Union

In 1997, the Brookings Institution, a prominent American think tank, discussed the possibilities of an East Asian Monetary Union, stating that, “the question for the 21st century is whether analogous monetary blocs will form in East Asia (and, for that matter, in the Western Hemisphere). With the dollar, the yen, and the single European currency floating against one another, other small open economies will be tempted to link up to one of the three.” However, “the linkage will be possible only if accompanied by radical changes in institutional arrangements like those contemplated by the European Union. The spread of capital mobility and political democratization will make it prohibitively difficult to peg exchange rates unilaterally. Pegging will require international cooperation, and effective cooperation will require measures akin to monetary unification.”[13]

In 2001, Asia Times Online wrote an article discussing a speech given by economist Robert A. Mundell at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, at which he stated that, “[t]he "Asean plus three" (the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan, and Korea) ‘should look to the European Union as a model for closer integration of monetary policy, trade and eventually, currency integration’.”[14]

On May 6, 2005, the website of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced that, “China, Japan, South Korea and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to expand their network of bilateral currency swaps into what could become a virtual Asian Monetary Fund,” and that, “[f]inance officials of the 13 nations, who met in the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) annual conference in Istanbul, appeared determined to turn their various bilateral agreements into some sort of multilateral accord, although none of the officials would directly call it an Asian Monetary Fund.”[15]

In August of 2005, the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank published a report on the prospects of an East Asian Monetary Union, stating that East Asia satisfies the criteria for joining a monetary union, however, it states that compared to the European initiative, “The implication is that achieving any monetary arrangement, including a common currency, is much more difficult in East Asia.” It further states that, “In Europe, a monetary union was achievable primarily because it was part of the larger process of political integration,” however, “There is no apparent desire for political integration in East Asia, partly because of the great differences among those countries in terms of political systems, culture, and shared history. As a result of their own particular histories, East Asian countries remain particularly jealous of their sovereignty.”

Another major problem, as presented by the San Francisco Fed, is that, “East Asian governments appear much more suspicious of strong supranational institutions,” and thus, “in East Asia, sovereignty concerns have left governments reluctant to delegate significant authority to supranational bodies, at least so far.” It explains that as opposed to the steps taken to create a monetary union in Europe, “no broad free trade agreements have been achieved among the largest countries in the region, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China.” Another problem is that, “East Asia does not appear to have an obvious candidate for an internal anchor currency for a cooperative exchange rate arrangement. Most successful new currencies have been started on the back of an existing currency, establishing confidence in its convertibility, thus linking the old with the new.”

The report concludes that, “exchange rate stabilization and monetary integration are unlikely in the near term. Nevertheless, East Asia is integrating through trade, even without an emphasis on formal trade liberalization agreements,” and that, “there is evidence of growing financial cooperation in the region, including the development of regional arrangements for providing liquidity during crises through bilateral foreign exchange swaps, regional economic surveillance discussions, and the development of regional bond markets.” Ultimately, “East Asia might also proceed along the same path [as Europe], first with loose agreements to stabilize currencies, followed later by tighter agreements, and culminating ultimately in adoption of a common anchor—and, after that, maybe an East Asia dollar.”[16]

In 2007, it was reported that, “Asia may need to establish its own monetary fund if it is to cope with future financial shocks similar to that which rocked the region 10 years ago,” and that, “Further Asian financial integration is the best antidote for Asian future financial crises.”[17]

In September of 2007, Forbes reported that, “An East Asian monetary union anchored by Japan is feasible but the region lacks the political will to do it, the Asian Development Bank said.” Pradumna Rana, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) economist, said that, “it appears feasible to establish a currency union in East Asia -- particularly among Indonesia, Japan, (South) Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand,” and that, “The economic potential for monetary integration in Asia is strong, even though the political underpinnings of such an accord are not yet in place.” Further, “the real integration at the trade levels 'will actually reinforce the economic case for monetary union in Asia, in a similar way that real-sector integration did so in Europe,” and ultimately, “the road to an Asian monetary union could proceed on a 'multi-track, multi-speed' basis with a seamless Asian free trade area the goal on the trade side.”[18] In April of 2008, it was reported that, “ASEAN bank deputy governors and financial deputy ministers have met in Vietnam's central Da Nang city, discussing issues on the financial and monetary integration and cooperation in the region.”[19]

African Monetary Union

Currently, Africa has several different monetary union initiatives, as well as some existing monetary unions within the continent. One initiative is the “monetary union project of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),” which is a “regional group of 15 countries in West Africa.” Among the members are those of an already-existing monetary union in the region, the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). The ECOWAS consists of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Cape Verde, Liberia, Ghana, Gambia, and Nigeria.[20]

The African Union was founded in 2002, and is an intergovernmental organization consisting of 53 African states. In 2003, the Brookings Institution produced a paper on African economic integration. In it, the authors started by stating that, “Africa, like other regions of the world, is fixing its sights on creating a common currency. Already, there are projects for regional monetary unions, and the bidding process for an eventual African central bank is about to begin.” It states that, “A common currency was also an objective of the Organization for African Unity and the African Economic Community, the predecessors of the AU,” and further, that, “The 1991 Abuja Treaty establishing the African Economic Community outlines six stages for achieving a single monetary zone for Africa that were set to be completed by approximately 2028. In the early stages, regional cooperation and integration within Africa would be strengthened, and this could involve regional monetary unions. The final stage involves the establishment of the African Central Bank (ACB) and creation of a single African currency and an African Economic and Monetary Union.”

The paper further states that the African Central Bank (ACB) “would not be created until around 2020, [but] the bidding process for its location is likely to begin soon,” however, “there are plans for creating various regional monetary unions, which would presumably form building blocks for the single African central bank and currency.”[21]

In August of 2008, “Governors of African Central Banks convened in Kigali Serena Hotel to discuss issues concerning the creation of three African Union (AU) financial institutions,” following “the AU resolution to form the African Monetary Fund (AMF), African Central Bank (ACB) and the African Investment Bank (AIB).” The central bank governors “agreed that when established, the ACB would solely issue and manage Africa's single currency and monetary authority of the continent's economy.”[22]

On March 2, 2009, it was reported that, “The African Union will sign a memorandum of understanding this month with Nigeria on the establishment of a continental central bank,” and that, “The institution will be based in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, African Union Commissioner for Economic Affairs Maxwell Mkwezalamba told reporters.” Further, “As an intermediate step to the creation of the bank, the pan- African body will establish an African Monetary Institute within the next three years, he said at a meeting of African economists in the city,” and he was quoted as saying, “We have agreed to work with the Association of African Central Bank Governors to set up a joint technical committee to look into the preparation of a joint strategy.”[23]

The website for the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that, “The African Union Commissioner for Economic Affairs Dr. Maxwell Mkwezalamba has expressed optimism for the adoption of a common currency for Africa,” and that the main theme discussed at the AU Commission meeting in Kenya was, “Towards the Creation of a Single African Currency: Review of the Creation of a Single African Currency: Which optimal Approach to be adopted to accelerate the creation of the unique continental currency.”[24]

A North American Monetary Union and the Amero

In January of 2008, I wrote an article documenting the moves toward the creation of a North American currency, likely under the name Amero. [See: Andrew G. Marshall, North-American Monetary Integration: Here Comes the Amero. Global Research: January 20, 2008] I will briefly outline the information presented in that article here.

In 1999, the Fraser Institute, a prominent and highly influential Canadian think tank, published a report written by Economics professor and former MP, Herbert Grubel, called, The Case for the Amero: The Economics and Politics of a North American Monetary Union. He wrote that, “The plan for a North American Monetary Union presented in this study is designed to include Canada, the United States, and Mexcio,” and a “North American Central Bank, like the European Central Bank, will have a constitution making it responsible only for the maintenance of price stability and not for full employment.”[25] He opined that, “sovereignty is not infinitely valuable. The merit of giving up some aspects of sovereignty should be determined by the gains brought by such a sacrifice,” and that, “It is important to note that in practice Canada has given up its economic sovereignty in many areas, the most important of which involve the World Trade Organization (formerly the GATT), the North American Free Trade Agreement,” as well as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.[26]

Also in 1999, the C.D. Howe Institute, another of Canada’s most prominent think tanks, produced a report titled, From Fixing to Monetary Union: Options for North American Currency Integration. In this document, it was written that, “The easiest way to broach the notion of a NAMU [North American Monetary Union] is to view it as the North American equivalent of the European Monetary Union (EMU) and, by extension, the euro.”[27] It further stated that the fact that “a NAMU would mean the end of sovereignty in Canadian monetary policy is clear. Most obviously, it would mean abandoning a made-in-Canada inflation rate for a US or NAMU inflation rate.”[28]

In May of 2007, Canada’s then Governor of the Central Bank of Canada, David Dodge, said that, “North America could one day embrace a euro-style single currency,” and that, “Some proponents have dubbed the single North American currency the ‘amero’.” Answering questions following his speech, Dodge said that, “a single currency was ‘possible’.”[29]

In November of 2007, one of Canada’s richest billionaires, Stephen Jarislowsky, also a member of the board of the C.D. Howe Institute, told a Canadian Parliamentary committee that, “Canada should replace its dollar with a North American currency, or peg it to the U.S. greenback, to avoid the exchange rate shifts the loonie has experienced,” and that, “I think we have to really seriously start thinking of the model of a continental currency just like Europe.”[30]

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, while appearing on Larry King Live in 2007, was asked a question regarding the possibility of a common currency for Latin America, to which he responded by saying, “Long term, very long term. What we propose together, President Bush and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all of the Americas. And everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came. He decided to isolate himself. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea.” Larry King then asked, “It's going to be like the euro dollar, you mean?” to which Fox responded, “Well, that would be long, long term. I think the processes to go, first step into is trading agreement. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.”[31]

In January of 2008, Herbert Grubel, the author who coined the term “amero” for the Fraser Institute report, wrote an article for the Financial Post, in which he recommends fixing the Canadian loonie to the US dollar at a fixed exchange rate, but that there are inherent problems with having the US Federal Reserve thus control Canadian interest rates. He then wrote that, “there is a solution to this lack of credibility. In Europe, it came through the creation of the euro and formal end of the ability of national central banks to set interest rates. The analogous creation of the amero is not possible without the unlikely co-operation of the United States. This leaves the credibility issue to be solved by the unilateral adoption of a currency board, which would ensure that international payments imbalances automatically lead to changes in Canada's money supply and interest rates until the imbalances are ended, all without any actions by the Bank of Canada or influence by politicians. It would be desirable to create simultaneously the currency board and a New Canadian Dollar valued at par with the U.S. dollar. With longer-run competitiveness assured at US90¢ to the U.S. dollar.”[32]

In January of 2009, an online publication of the Wall Street Journal, called Market Watch, discussed the possibility of hyperinflation of the United States dollar, and then stated, regarding the possibility of an amero, “On its face, while difficult to imagine, it makes intuitive sense. The ability to combine Canadian natural resources, American ingenuity and cheap Mexican labor would allow North America to compete better on a global stage.” The author further states that, “If forward policy attempts to induce more debt rather than allowing savings and obligations to align, we must respect the potential for a system shock. We may need to let a two-tier currency gain traction if the dollar meaningfully debases from current levels,” and that, “If this dynamic plays out -- and I've got no insight that it will -- the global balance of powers would fragment into four primary regions: North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In such a scenario, ramifications would manifest through social unrest and geopolitical conflict.”[33]

A Global Currency

The Phoenix

In 1988, The Economist ran an article titled, Get Ready for the Phoenix, in which they wrote, “THIRTY years from now, Americans, Japanese, Europeans, and people in many other rich countries and some relatively poor ones will probably be paying for their shopping with the same currency. Prices will be quoted not in dollars, yen or D-marks but in, let's say, the phoenix. The phoenix will be favoured by companies and shoppers because it will be more convenient than today's national currencies, which by then will seem a quaint cause of much disruption to economic life in the late twentieth century.”

The article stated that, “The market crash [of 1987] taught [governments] that the pretence of policy cooperation can be worse than nothing, and that until real co-operation is feasible (ie, until governments surrender some economic sovereignty) further attempts to peg currencies will flounder.” Amazingly the article states that, “Several more big exchange-rate upsets, a few more stockmarket crashes and probably a slump or two will be needed before politicians are willing to face squarely up to that choice. This points to a muddled sequence of emergency followed by patch-up followed by emergency, stretching out far beyond 2018-except for two things. As time passes, the damage caused by currency instability is gradually going to mount; and the very trends that will make it mount are making the utopia of monetary union feasible.”

Further, the article stated that, “The phoenix zone would impose tight constraints on national governments. There would be no such thing, for instance, as a national monetary policy. The world phoenix supply would be fixed by a new central bank, descended perhaps from the IMF. The world inflation rate-and hence, within narrow margins, each national inflation rate-would be in its charge. Each country could use taxes and public spending to offset temporary falls in demand, but it would have to borrow rather than print money to finance its budget deficit.” The author admits that, “This means a big loss of economic sovereignty, but the trends that make the phoenix so appealing are taking that sovereignty away in any case. Even in a world of more-or-less floating exchange rates, individual governments have seen their policy independence checked by an unfriendly outside world.”

The article concludes in stating that, “The phoenix would probably start as a cocktail of national currencies, just as the Special Drawing Right is today. In time, though, its value against national currencies would cease to matter, because people would choose it for its convenience and the stability of its purchasing power.” The last sentence states, “Pencil in the phoenix for around 2018, and welcome it when it comes.”[34]

Recommendations for a Global Currency

In 1998, the IMF Survey discussed a speech given by James Tobin, a prominent American economist, in which he argued that, “A single global currency might offer a viable alternative to the floating rate.” He further stated that, “there was still a great need” for “lenders of last resort.”[35]

In 1999, economist Judy Shelton addressed the US House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Financial Services. In her testimony, she stated that, “The continued expansion of free trade, the increased integration of financial markets and the advent of electronic commerce are all working to bring about the need for an international monetary standard---a global unit of account.” She further explained that, “Regional currency unions seem to be the next step in the evolution toward some kind of global monetary order. Europe has already adopted a single currency. Asia may organize into a regional currency bloc to offer protection against speculative assaults on the individual currencies of weaker nations. Numerous countries in Latin America are considering various monetary arrangements to insulate them from financial contagion and avoid the economic consequences of devaluation. An important question is whether this process of monetary evolution will be intelligently directed or whether it will simply be driven by events. In my opinion, political leadership can play a decisive role in helping to build a more orderly, rational monetary system than the current free-for-all approach to exchange rate relations.”

She further stated that, “As we have seen in Europe, the sequence of development is (1) you build a common market, and (2) you establish a common currency. Indeed, until you have a common currency, you don’t truly have an efficient common market.” She concludes by stating, “Ideally, every nation should stand willing to convert its currency at a fixed rate into a universal reserve asset. That would automatically create a global monetary union based on a common unit of account. The alternative path to a stable monetary order is to forge a common currency anchored to an asset of intrinsic value. While the current momentum for dollarization should be encouraged, especially for Mexico and Canada, in the end the stability of the global monetary order should not rest on any single nation.”[36]

Paul Volcker, former Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, stated in 2000, that, “If we are to have a truly global economy, a single world currency makes sense.” In a speech delivered by a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, it was stated that Paul Volcker “might be right, and we might one day have a single world currency. Maybe European integration, in the same way as any other regional integration, could be seen as a step towards the ideal situation of a fully integrated world. If and when this world will see the light of day is impossible to say. However, what I can say is that this vision seems as impossible now to most of us as a European monetary union seemed 50 years ago, when the process of European integration started.”[37]

In 2000, the IMF held an international conference and published a brief report titled, One World, One Currency: Destination or Delusion?, in which it was stated that, “As perceptions grow that the world is gradually segmenting into a few regional currency blocs, the logical extension of such a trend also emerges as a theoretical possibility: a single world currency. If so many countries see benefits from currency integration, would a world currency not maximize these benefits?”

It outlines how, “The dollar bloc, already underpinned by the strength of the U.S. economy, has been extended further by dollarization and regional free trade pacts. The euro bloc represents an economic union that is intended to become a full political union likely to expand into Central and Eastern Europe. A yen bloc may emerge from current proposals for Asian monetary cooperation. A currency union may emerge among Mercosur members in Latin America, a geographical currency zone already exists around the South African rand, and a merger of the Australian and New Zealand dollars is a perennial topic in Oceania.”

The summary states that, “The same commercial efficiencies, economies of scale, and physical imperatives that drive regional currencies together also presumably exist on the next level—the global scale.” Further, it reported that, “The smaller and more vulnerable economies of the world—those that the international community is now trying hardest to help—would have most to gain from the certainty and stability that would accompany a single world currency.”[38] Keep in mind, this document was produced by the IMF, and so its recommendations for what it says would likely “help” the smaller and more vulnerable countries of the world, should be taken with a grain – or bucket – of salt.

Economist Robert A. Mundell has long called for a global currency. On his website, he states that the creation of a global currency is “a project that would restore a needed coherence to the international monetary system, give the International Monetary Fund a function that would help it to promote stability, and be a catalyst for international harmony.” He states that, “The benefits from a world currency would be enormous. Prices all over the world would be denominated in the same unit and would be kept equal in different parts of the world to the extent that the law of one price was allowed to work itself out. Apart from tariffs and controls, trade between countries would be as easy as it is between states of the United States.”[39]

Renewed Calls for a Global Currency

On March 16, 2009, Russia suggested that, “the G20 summit in London in April should start establishing a system of managing the process of globalization and consider the possibility of creating a supra-national reserve currency or a ‘super-reserve currency’.” Russia called for “the creation of a supra-national reserve currency that will be issued by international financial institutions,” and that, “It looks expedient to reconsider the role of the IMF in that process and also to determine the possibility and need for taking measures that would allow for the SDRs (Special Drawing Rights) to become a super-reserve currency recognized by the world community.”[40]

On March 23, 2009, it was reported that China’s central bank “proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund.” The goal would be for the world reserve currency that is “disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies.” The chief China economist for HSBC stated that, “This is a clear sign that China, as the largest holder of US dollar financial assets, is concerned about the potential inflationary risk of the US Federal Reserve printing money.” The Governor of the People’s Bank of China, the central bank, “suggested expanding the role of special drawing rights, which were introduced by the IMF in 1969 to support the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate regime but became less relevant once that collapsed in the 1970s.” Currently, “the value of SDRs is based on a basket of four currencies – the US dollar, yen, euro and sterling – and they are used largely as a unit of account by the IMF and some other international organizations.”

However, “China’s proposal would expand the basket of currencies forming the basis of SDR valuation to all major economies and set up a settlement system between SDRs and other currencies so they could be used in international trade and financial transactions. Countries would entrust a portion of their SDR reserves to the IMF to manage collectively on their behalf and SDRs would gradually replace existing reserve currencies.”[41]

On March 25, Timothy Geithner, Treasury Secretary and former President of the New York Federal Reserve, spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations, when asked a question about his thoughts on the Chinese proposal for the global reserve currency, Geithner replied that, “I haven't read the governor's proposal. He's a remarkably -- a very thoughtful, very careful, distinguished central banker. Generally find him sensible on every issue. But as I understand his proposal, it's a proposal designed to increase the use of the IMF's special drawing rights. And we're actually quite open to that suggestion. But you should think of it as rather evolutionary, building on the current architectures, than -- rather than -- rather than moving us to global monetary union [Emphasis added].”[42]

In late March, it was reported that, “A United Nations panel of economists has proposed a new global currency reserve that would take over the US dollar-based system used for decades by international banks,” and that, “An independently administered reserve currency could operate without conflicts posed by the US dollar and keep commodity prices more stable.”[43]

A recent article in the Economic Times stated that, “The world is not yet ready for an international reserve currency, but is ready to begin the process of shifting to such a currency. Otherwise, it would remain too vulnerable to the hegemonic nation,” as in, the United States.[44] Another article in the Economic Times started by proclaiming that, “the world certainly needs an international currency.” Further, the article stated that, “With an unwillingness to accept dollars and the absence of an alternative, international payments system can go into a freeze beyond the control of monetary authorities leading the world economy into a Great Depression,” and that, “In order to avoid such a calamity, the international community should immediately revive the idea of the Substitution Account mooted in 1971, under which official holders of dollars can deposit their unwanted dollars in a special account in the IMF with the values of deposits denominated in an international currency such as the SDR of the IMF.”[45]

Amidst fears of a falling dollar as a result of the increased open discussion of a new global currency, it was reported that, “The dollar’s role as a reserve currency won’t be threatened by a nine-fold expansion in the International Monetary Fund’s unit of account, according to UBS AG, ING Groep NV and Citigroup Inc.” This was reported following the recent G20 meeting, at which, “Group of 20 leaders yesterday gave approval for the agency to raise $250 billion by issuing Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, the artificial currency that the IMF uses to settle accounts among its member nations. It also agreed to put another $500 billion into the IMF’s war chest.”[46] In other words, the large global financial institutions came to the rhetorical rescue of the dollar, so as not to precipitate a crisis in its current standing, so that they can continue with quietly forming a new global currency.

Creating a World Central Bank

In 1998, Jeffrey Garten wrote an article for the New York Times advocating a “global Fed.” Garten was former Dean of the Yale School of Management, former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration, previously served on the White House Council on International Economic Policy under the Nixon administration and on the policy planning staffs of Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance of the Ford and Carter administrations, former Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In his article written in 1998, he stated that, “over time the United States set up crucial central institutions -- the Securities and Exchange Commission (1933), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1934) and, most important, the Federal Reserve (1913). In so doing, America became a managed national economy. These organizations were created to make capitalism work, to prevent destructive business cycles and to moderate the harsh, invisible hand of Adam Smith.”

He then explained that, “This is what now must occur on a global scale. The world needs an institution that has a hand on the economic rudder when the seas become stormy. It needs a global central bank.” He explains that, “Simply trying to coordinate the world's powerful central banks -- the Fed and the new European Central Bank, for instance -- wouldn't work,” and that, “Effective collaboration among finance ministries and treasuries is also unlikely to materialize. These agencies are responsible to elected legislatures, and politics in the industrial countries is more preoccupied with internal events than with international stability.”

He then postulates that, “An independent central bank with responsibility for maintaining global financial stability is the only way out. No one else can do what is needed: inject more money into the system to spur growth, reduce the sky-high debts of emerging markets, and oversee the operations of shaky financial institutions. A global central bank could provide more money to the world economy when it is rapidly losing steam.” Further, “Such a bank would play an oversight role for banks and other financial institutions everywhere, providing some uniform standards for prudent lending in places like China and Mexico. [However, t]he regulation need not be heavy-handed.” Garten continues, “There are two ways a global central bank could be financed. It could have lines of credit from all central banks, drawing on them in bad times and repaying when the markets turn up. Alternately -- and admittedly more difficult to carry out -- it could be financed by a very modest tariff on all trade, collected at the point of importation, or by a tax on certain global financial transactions.”

Interestingly, Garten states that, “One thing that would not be acceptable would be for the bank to be at the mercy of short-term-oriented legislatures.” In essence, it is not to be accountable to the people of the world. So, he asks the question, “To whom would a global central bank be accountable? It would have too much power to be governed only by technocrats, although it must be led by the best of them. One possibility would be to link the new bank to an enlarged Group of Seven -- perhaps a ''G-15'' [or in today’s context, the G20] that would include the G-7 plus rotating members like Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Poland, India, China and South Korea.” He further states that, “There would have to be very close collaboration” between the global bank and the Fed, and that, “The global bank would not operate within the United States, and it would not be able to override the decisions of our central bank. But it could supply the missing international ingredient -- emergency financing for cash-starved emerging markets. It wouldn't affect American mortgage rates, but it could help the profitability of American multinational companies by creating a healthier global environment for their businesses.”[47]

In September of 2008, Jeffrey Garten wrote an article for the Financial Times in which he stated that, “Even if the US’s massive financial rescue operation succeeds, it should be followed by something even more far-reaching – the establishment of a Global Monetary Authority to oversee markets that have become borderless.” He emphasized the “need for a new Global Monetary Authority. It would set the tone for capital markets in a way that would not be viscerally opposed to a strong public oversight function with rules for intervention, and would return to capital formation the goal of economic growth and development rather than trading for its own sake.”

Further, the “GMA would be a reinsurer or discounter for certain obligations held by central banks. It would scrutinise the regulatory activities of national authorities with more teeth than the IMF has and oversee the implementation of a limited number of global regulations. It would monitor global risks and establish an effective early warning system with more clout to sound alarms than the BIS has.” Moreover, “The biggest global financial companies would have to register with the GMA and be subject to its monitoring, or be blacklisted. That includes commercial companies and banks, but also sovereign wealth funds, gigantic hedge funds and private equity firms.” He recommends that its board “include central bankers not just from the US, UK, the eurozone and Japan, but also China, Saudi Arabia and Brazil. It would be financed by mandatory contributions from every capable country and from insurance-type premiums from global financial companies – publicly listed, government owned, and privately held alike.”[48]

In October of 2008, it was reported that Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack stated that, “it may take continued international coordination to fully unlock the credit markets and resolve the financial crisis, perhaps even by forming a new global body to oversee the process.”[49]

In late October of 2008, Jeffrey Garten wrote an article for Newsweek in which he stated that, “leaders should begin laying the groundwork for establishing a global central bank.” He explained that, “There was a time when the U.S. Federal Reserve played this role [as governing financial authority of the world], as the prime financial institution of the world's most powerful economy, overseeing the one global currency. But with the growth of capital markets, the rise of currencies like the euro and the emergence of powerful players such as China, the shift of wealth to Asia and the Persian Gulf and, of course, the deep-seated problems in the American economy itself, the Fed no longer has the capability to lead single-handedly.”

He explains the criteria and operations of a world central bank, saying that, “It could be the lead regulator of big global financial institutions, such as Citigroup or Deutsche Bank, whose activities spill across borders,” as well as “act as a bankruptcy court when big global banks that operate in multiple countries need to be restructured. It could oversee not just the big commercial banks, such as Mitsubishi UFJ, but also the "alternative" financial system that has developed in recent years, consisting of hedge funds, private-equity groups and sovereign wealth funds—all of which are now substantially unregulated.” Further, it “could have influence over key exchange rates, and might lead a new monetary conference to realign the dollar and the yuan, for example, for one of its first missions would be to deal with the great financial imbalances that hang like a sword over the world economy.”

He further postulates that, “A global central bank would not eliminate the need for the Federal Reserve or other national central banks, which will still have frontline responsibility for sound regulatory policies and monetary stability in their respective countries. But it would have heavy influence over them when it comes to following policies that are compatible with global growth and financial stability. For example, it would work with key countries to better coordinate national stimulus programs when the world enters a recession, as is happening now, so that the cumulative impact of the various national efforts do not so dramatically overshoot that they plant the seeds for a crisis of global inflation. This is a big threat as government spending everywhere goes into overdrive.”[50]

In January of 2009, it was reported that, “one clear solution to avoid a repeat of the problems would be the establishment of a "global central bank" – with the IMF and World Bank being unable to prevent the financial meltdown.” Dr. William Overholt, senior research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, formerly with the Rand Institute, gave a speech in Dubai in which he said that, “To avoid another crisis, we need an ability to manage global liquidity. Theoretically that could be achieved through some kind of global central bank, or through the creation of a global currency, or through global acceptance of a set of rules with sanctions and a dispute settlement mechanism.”[51]

Guillermo Calvo, Professor of Economics, International and Public Affairs at Columbia University wrote an article for VOX in late March of 2009. Calvo is the former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, and is currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and President of the International Economic Association and the former Senior Advisor in the Research Department of the IMF.

He wrote that, “Credit availability is not ensured by stricter financial regulation. In fact, it can be counterproductive unless it is accompanied by the establishment of a lender of last resort (LOLR) that radically softens the severity of financial crisis by providing timely credit lines. With that aim in mind, the 20th century saw the creation of national or regional central banks in charge of a subset of the capital market. It has now become apparent that the realm of existing central banks is very limited and the world has no institution that fulfils the necessary global role. The IMF is moving in that direction, but it is still too small and too limited to adequately do so.”

He advocates that, “the first proposal that I would like to make is that the topic of financial regulation should be discussed together with the issue of a global lender of last resort.” Further, he proposed that, “international financial institutions must be quickly endowed with considerably more firepower to help emerging economies through the deleveraging period.”[52]

A “New World Order” in Banking

In March of 2008, following the collapse of Bear Stearns, Reuters reported on a document released by research firm CreditSights, which said that, “Financial firms face a ‘new world order’,” and that, “More industry consolidation and acquisitions may follow after JPMorgan Chase & Co.” Further, “In the event of future consolidation, potential acquirers identified by CreditSights include JPMorganChase, Wells Fargo, US Bancorp, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.”[53]

In June of 2008, before he was Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, Timothy Geithner, as head of the New York Federal Reserve, wrote an article for the Financial Times following his attendance at the 2008 Bilderberg conference, in which he wrote that, “Banks and investment banks whose health is crucial to the global financial system should operate under a unified regulatory framework,” and he said that, “the US Federal Reserve should play a "central role" in the new regulatory framework, working closely with supervisors in the US and around the world.”[54]

In November of 2008, The National, a prominent United Arab Emirate newspaper, reported on Baron David de Rothschild accompanying Prime Minister Gordon Brown on a visit to the Middle East, although not as a “part of the official party” accompanying Brown. Following an interview with the Baron, it was reported that, “Rothschild shares most people’s view that there is a new world order. In his opinion, banks will deleverage and there will be a new form of global governance.”[55]

In February of 2009, the Times Online reported that a “New world order in banking [is] necessary,” and that, “It is increasingly evident that the world needs a new banking system and that it should not bear much resemblance to the one that has failed so spectacularly.”[56] But of course, the ones that are shaping this new banking system are the champions of the previous banking system. The solutions that will follow are simply the extensions of the current system, only sped up through the necessity posed by the current crisis.

An Emerging Global Government

A recent article in the Financial Post stated that, “The danger in the present course is that if the world moves to a “super sovereign” reserve currency engineered by experts, such as the “UN Commission of Experts” led by Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, we would give up the possibility of a spontaneous money order and financial harmony for a centrally planned order and the politicization of money. Such a regime change would endanger not only the future value of money but, more importantly, our freedom and prosperity.”[57]

Further, “An uncomfortable characteristic of the new world order may well turn out to be that global income gaps will widen because the rising powers, such as China, India and Brazil, regard those below them on the ladder as potential rivals.” The author further states that, “The new world order thus won't necessarily be any better than the old one,” and that, “What is certain, though, is that global affairs are going to be considerably different from now on.”[58]
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In April of 2009, Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, said that, “If leaders are serious about creating new global responsibilities or governance, let them start by modernising multilateralism to empower the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank Group to monitor national policies.”[59]

David Rothkopf, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration, and former managing director of Kissinger and Associates, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, recently wrote a book titled, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making, of which he is certainly a member. When discussing the role and agenda of the global “superclass”, he states that, “In a world of global movements and threats that don’t present their passports at national borders, it is no longer possible for a nation-state acting alone to fulfill its portion of the social contract.”[60]

He writes that, “even the international organizations and alliances we have today, flawed as they are, would have seemed impossible until recently, notably the success of the European Union – a unitary democratic state the size of India. The evolution and achievements of such entities against all odds suggest not isolated instances but an overall trend in the direction of what Tennyson called “the Parliament of Man,” or ‘universal law’.” He states that he is “optimistic that progress will continue to be made,” but it will be difficult, because it “undercuts many national and local power structures and cultural concepts that have foundations deep in the bedrock of human civilization, namely the notion of sovereignty.”[61]

He further writes that, “Mechanisms of global governance are more achievable in today’s environment,” and that these mechanisms “are often creative with temporary solutions to urgent problems that cannot wait for the world to embrace a bigger and more controversial idea like real global government.”[62]

In December of 2008, the Financial Times ran an article written by Gideon Rachman, a past Bilderberg attendee, who wrote that, “for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible,” and that, “A ‘world government’ would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force.”

He then asks if the European model could “go global,” and states that there are three reasons for thinking that may be the case. First, he states, “it is increasingly clear that the most difficult issues facing national governments are international in nature: there is global warming, a global financial crisis and a ‘global war on terror’.” Secondly, he states that, “It could be done,” largely as a result of the transport and communications revolutions having “shrunk the world.” Thirdly, this is made possible through an awakening “change in the political atmosphere,” as “The financial crisis and climate change are pushing national governments towards global solutions, even in countries such as China and the US that are traditionally fierce guardians of national sovereignty.”

He quoted an adviser to French President Nicolas Sarkozy as saying, “Global governance is just a euphemism for global government,” and that the “core of the international financial crisis is that we have global financial markets and no global rule of law.” However, Rachman states that any push towards a global government “will be a painful, slow process.” He then states that a key problem in this push can be explained with an example from the EU, which “has suffered a series of humiliating defeats in referendums, when plans for “ever closer union” have been referred to the voters. In general, the Union has progressed fastest when far-reaching deals have been agreed by technocrats and politicians – and then pushed through without direct reference to the voters. International governance tends to be effective, only when it is anti-democratic. [Emphasis added]”[63]

In November of 2008, the United States National Intelligence Council (NIC), the US intelligence community’s “center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking,” released a report that it produced in collaboration with numerous think tanks, consulting firms, academic institutions and hundreds of other experts, among them are the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Wilson Center, RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, Texas A&M University, the Council on Foreign Relations and Chatham House in London.[64]

The report, titled, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, outlines the current global political and economic trends that the world may be going through by the year 2025. In terms of the financial crisis, it states that solving this “will require long-term efforts to establish a new international system.”[65] It suggests that as the “China-model” for development becomes increasingly attractive, there may be a “decline in democratization” for emerging economies, authoritarian regimes, and “weak democracies frustrated by years of economic underperformance.” Further, the dollar will cease to be the global reserve currency, as there would likely be a “move away from the dollar.”[66]

It states that the dollar will become “something of a first among equals in a basket of currencies by 2025. This could occur suddenly in the wake of a crisis, or gradually with global rebalancing.”[67] The report elaborates on the construction of a new international system, stating that, “By 2025, nation-states will no longer be the only – and often not the most important – actors on the world stage and the ‘international system’ will have morphed to accommodate the new reality. But the transformation will be incomplete and uneven.” Further, it would be “unlikely to see an overarching, comprehensive, unitary approach to global governance. Current trends suggest that global governance in 2025 will be a patchwork of overlapping, often ad hoc and fragmented efforts, with shifting coalitions of member nations, international organizations, social movements, NGOs, philanthropic foundations, and companies.” It also notes that, “Most of the pressing transnational problems – including climate change, regulation of globalized financial markets, migration, failing states, crime networks, etc. – are unlikely to be effectively resolved by the actions of individual nation-states. The need for effective global governance will increase faster than existing mechanisms can respond.”[68]

The report discusses the topic of regionalism, stating that, “Greater Asian integration, if it occurs, could fill the vacuum left by a weakening multilaterally based international order but could also further undermine that order. In the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, a remarkable series of pan-Asian ventures—the most significant being ASEAN + 3—began to take root. Although few would argue that an Asian counterpart to the EU is a likely outcome even by 2025, if 1997 is taken as a starting point, Asia arguably has evolved more rapidly over the last decade than the European integration did in its first decade(s).” It further states that, “movement over the next 15 years toward an Asian basket of currencies—if not an Asian currency unit as a third reserve—is more than a theoretical possibility.”

It elaborates that, “Asian regionalism would have global implications, possibly sparking or reinforcing a trend toward three trade and financial clusters that could become quasi-blocs (North America, Europe, and East Asia).” These blocs “would have implications for the ability to achieve future global World Trade Organization agreements and regional clusters could compete in the setting of trans-regional product standards for IT, biotech, nanotech, intellectual property rights, and other ‘new economy’ products.”[69]

Of great importance to address, and reflecting similar assumptions made by Rachman in his article advocating for a world government, is the topic of democratization, saying that, “advances are likely to slow and globalization will subject many recently democratized countries to increasing social and economic pressures that could undermine liberal institutions.” This is largely because “the better economic performance of many authoritarian governments could sow doubts among some about democracy as the best form of government. The surveys we consulted indicated that many East Asians put greater emphasis on good management, including increasing standards of livings, than democracy.” Further, “even in many well-established democracies, surveys show growing frustration with the current workings of democratic government and questioning among elites over the ability of democratic governments to take the bold actions necessary to deal rapidly and effectively with the growing number of transnational challenges.”[70]

Conclusion

Ultimately, what this implies is that the future of the global political economy is one of increasing moves toward a global system of governance, or a world government, with a world central bank and global currency; and that, concurrently, these developments are likely to materialize in the face of and as a result of a decline in democracy around the world, and thus, a rise in authoritarianism. What we are witnessing is the creation of a New World Order, composed of a totalitarian global government structure.

In fact, the very concept of a global currency and global central bank is authoritarian in its very nature, as it removes any vestiges of oversight and accountability away from the people of the world, and toward a small, increasingly interconnected group of international elites.

As Carroll Quigley explained in his monumental book, Tragedy and Hope, “[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.”[71]

Indeed, the current “solutions” being proposed to the global financial crisis benefit those that caused the crisis over those that are poised to suffer the most as a result of the crisis: the disappearing middle classes, the world’s dispossessed, poor, indebted people. The proposed solutions to this crisis represent the manifestations and actualization of the ultimate generational goals of the global elite; and thus, represent the least favourable conditions for the vast majority of the world’s people.

It is imperative that the world’s people throw their weight against these “solutions” and usher in a new era of world order, one of the People’s World Order; with the solution lying in local governance and local economies, so that the people have greater roles in determining the future and structure of their own political-economy, and thus, their own society. With this alternative of localized political economies, in conjunction with an unprecedented global population and international democratization of communication through the internet, we have the means and possibility before us to forge the most diverse manifestation of cultures and societies that humanity has ever known.

The answer lies in the individual’s internalization of human power and destination, and a rejection of the externalization of power and human destiny to a global authority of which all but a select few people have access to. To internalize human power and destiny is to realize the gift of a human mind, which has the ability to engage in thought beyond the material, such as food and shelter, and venture into the realm of the conceptual. Each individual possesses – within themselves – the ability to think critically about themselves and their own life; now is the time to utilize this ability with the aim of internalizing the concepts and questions of human power and destiny: Why are we here? Where are we going? Where should we be going? How do we get there?

The supposed answers to these questions are offered to us by a tiny global elite who fear the repercussions of what would take place if the people of the world were to begin to answer these questions themselves. I do not know the answers to these questions, but I do know that the answers lie in the human mind and spirit, that which has overcome and will continue to overcome the greatest of challenges to humanity, and will, without doubt, triumph over the New World Order.

Endnotes

[1] Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency. The Telegraph: April 3, 2009: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5096524/The-G20-moves-the-world-a-step-closer-to-a-global-currency.html

[2] Robert Winnett, Financial Crisis: Gordon Brown calls for 'new Bretton Woods'. The Telegraph: October 13, 2008: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3189517/Financial-Crisis-Gordon-Brown-calls-for-new-Bretton-Woods.html

[3] Gordon Brown, Out of the Ashes. The Washington Post: October 17, 2008: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603179.html

[4] Gordon Rayner, Global financial crisis: does the world need a new banking 'policeman'? The Telegraph: October 8, 2008: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3155563/Global-financial-crisis-does-the-world-need-a-new-banking-policeman.html

[5] Benn Steil, The End of National Currency. Foreign Affairs: Vol. 86, Issue 3, May/June 2007: pages 83-96

[6] Jonathan Tirone, ECB's Nowotny Sees Global `Tri-Polar' Currency System Evolving. Bloomberg: October 19, 2008: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apjqJKKQvfDc&refer=home

[7] BBC, South America nations found union. BBC News: May 23, 2008: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7417896.stm

[8] CNews, South American nations to seek common currency. China View: May 26, 2008: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/27/content_8260847.htm

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[40] Itar-Tass, Russia proposes creation of global super-reserve currency. ITAR-TASS News Agency: March 16, 2009: http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=13682035&PageNum=0

[41] Jamil Anderlini, China calls for new reserve currency. The Financial Times: March 23, 2009: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7851925a-17a2-11de-8c9d-0000779fd2ac.html

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[44] Ashima Goyal, Is world ready for a global currency? The Economic Times: April 3, 2009: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET-Debate/Is-world-ready-for-a-global-currency/articleshow/4352581.cms

[45] R Agarwala, SDR should become the global currency. The Economic Times: April 3, 2009: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET-Debate/SDR-should-become-the-global-currency/articleshow/4352573.cms

[46] Kim Kyoungwha and David Yong, Dollar’s Role Is Safe as IMF Expands Own Currency. Bloomberg: April 3, 2009: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aBbu9JB2mGkc&refer=home

[47] Jeffrey E. Garten, Needed: A Fed for the World. The New York Times: September 23, 1998: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/23/opinion/needed-a-fed-for-the-world.html

[48] Jeffrey Garten, Global authority can fill financial vacuum. The Financial Times: September 25, 2008: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7caf543e-8b13-11dd-b634-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1

[49] CNBC, Morgan's Mack: Firm Was Excessively Leveraged. CNBC: October 16, 2008: http://www.cnbc.com/id/27216678

[50] Jeffrey Garten, We Need a Bank Of the World. Newsweek: October 25, 2008: http://www.newsweek.com/id/165772

[51] Sean Davidson, 'Global central bank could prevent future crisis'. Business 24/7: January 10, 2009: http://www.business24-7.ae/articles/2009/1/pages/01102009_350bc822e4ee4508b724e55b0f1393df.aspx

[52] Guillermo Calvo, Lender of last resort: Put it on the agenda! VOX: March 23, 2009: http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3327

[53] Walden Siew, Banks face "new world order," consolidation: report. Reuters: March 17, 2008: http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSN1743541720080317

[54] James Politi and Gillian Tett, NY Fed chief in push for global bank framework. The Financial Times: June 8, 2008: http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto060820081850443845

[55] Rupert Wright, The first barons of banking. The National: November 6, 2008: http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081106/BUSINESS/167536298/1005

[56] Michael Lafferty, New world order in banking necessary after abject failure of present model. The Times Online: February 24, 2009: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/management/article5792585.ece

[57] James A. Dorn, Dangers in G20 currency moves. The Financial Post: April 2, 2009: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/04/02/dangers-in-g20-currency-moves.aspx

[58] Richard Gwyn, Change not necessarily for the better. The Toronto Star: April 3, 2009: http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/612822

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Andrew G. Marshall is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is currently studying Political Economy and History at Simon Fraser University.

The Big Con Game

2009-04-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/the-big-con-game-by-siv-oneall/

The Big Con Game
By Siv O’Neall
January 28, 2009

Milton Friedman’s Chicago school [1] of deranged predators who wanted, and nearly managed as well, to completely distort the economic system on a global scale was born out of a creed that everything could be gained by a tiny minority. There has been a total lack of concern for everything but those very few who were the profiteers. What was destroyed in the process didn’t bother them in the least. Irreversible damage to the environment was of no consequence. The billions of people on the planet who wanted just to live and be left in peace had no importance whatsoever. They were destined to be cannon fodder and slaves for the gung-ho swindlers who were out to own the world.

Because owning the world, all its resources and all of its production was the ultimate goal for the strangely modeled minds of a select group of economists who were going to be known as the Chicago boys, Milton Friedman’s gang, the squires of Death and Destruction who rode in golden chariots across the continents to rob one country after the other of their resources, always leaving corpses and destruction behind after the deadly deed had been done.

They then happily moved on to the next victim to be raped and plundered. Always with the pie-in-the-sky promise of saving the country from internal collapse or - oh horror - a socialist takeover. Which was of course bound to produce financial mayhem. Or so say the Chicago boys. We had seen how the Soviet Union economy had imploded gradually but surely - proof enough that socialism can never work.

If it had not been for the convenient example of the Soviet bankruptcy, the neoliberal (as they were to be coined) fantasists would never have had what they considered proof that a socialist system is unworkable. The world since the beginning of the cold war had become black and white. After the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, the contrasts deepened ever more and the mere suggestion of an economic model with a slightly socialist bend became anathema, to the economists in the first place and, through rabid propaganda, also to the broad masses of the United States citizens. Capitalist = good. Socialist = bad. Does that ring a bell? Four feet good - two feet bad.[2] Sure. Why not let the pigs run the world?

To reach this state of things, they needed to set afoot a gigantic con game of buying up one country after the other, by any means possible. Greed was the natural instinct that was the driving force behind a world economy. No other human quality ought to have the slightest impact on the economic system. ‘Greed is good’ and we must cultivate it to the very end. The world had been prepared for the takeover of big powers ever since colonial days and so people in the so-called developing countries were used to being victimized and conned out of their natural rights and their natural wealth.

The twin brother of ‘Greed is good’ is ‘War is good’. Peace is bad War is necessary to keep the economy humming. In fact, there is an essential triangle that is necessary to stimulate the economy of the profiteers. Greed, war and consumerism.

However, since one of the major stays that hold up neoliberalism is consumerism, it’s amazing to realize that there is an obvious incompatibility between the steady lowering of living standards of the working people and the need for buying power - in order to make the wealthy wealthier. How could Milton Friedman not see that by ruining the economy of a country, such as Argentina in the nineties, Bolivia in the eighties, etc., people would simply have no money left for buying, in many cases not even the bare necessities? The predators are so intent on making their billions, by any means possible, that they fail to see how they are busy tying their own noose.

There is, generally speaking, such a complete lack of a realistic view of the world and its people that it amounts to sheer blindness to reality. Are they not even aware of the fact that the tower of wealth is going to topple because of the manufactured weakness of the base?

The neocon plan was a take-over of the world, country by country. Europe was going to become an ally and be made to live and think and behave like Americans. That is: propagandized, non-thinking, gullible, patriotic U.S.-like citizens who with a knee-jerk reaction stand at attention, literally or symbolically, whenever they see the American flag, whenever they hear the words ‘War on Terror’. Other countries were either going to be conquered or made to be obedient pawns in the service of the U.S. Empire.

Anything goes, as long as the War on Terror is on. And it would be on for ever, since everybody knew that it was unwinnable. If, as is to be expected now, the new President has seen the transparency of the illusion of the ‘War on terror’, as long as this system continues, there will be other wars to take its place and to assure the continuation and the obscene profits of the corporations that are the actual leaders of the world.

The economic meltdown that has gripped the world in a very visible manner during the past few months may have changed some of the presumed power of unfettered capitalism. The crisis has certainly eaten away at the general faith in the neoliberal system. Millions of people have awakened to the truth of the game and to the fact that they have been had, in a grand manner.

But has the current crisis really changed the faith in unfettered capitalism of the top 1% of the world population in the system that brought them their billions, that brought them to power? As soon as this crisis is over, even though it may take many years or even decades, the predators will be getting out of their hideouts and begin the game all over again. In order to prevent this, a system of strict regulations is required for the handling of money and an adherence to the U.S. Constitution, however inadequate it may be.

The founding fathers were no raving liberals, but with the important amendments that have been added in later years to this document it is nevertheless a beginning for a certain degree of democracy in the country. Over the past few decades and especially over the past eight years, the U.S. has wildly gone astray from any kind of democratic principles in its arrogance and its eagerness to own the world. The plutocratic beginnings of this nation have to be replaced by concern for all people.
For any economic system to function, we can not have masters and slaves. Enlightenment has dawned upon the earth and it’s not just money that makes the world go round. It’s a fair system of cooperation by everybody that is needed now, not the deregulated power of huge corporations and wildcat speculation leading to obscene fortunes that don’t produce anything, that do nothing but deprive the working masses of their just share and make a decent life for the average family a long-gone dream.

What the world is expecting at this time from President Obama is not just that he put an end to the war under false flag in Afghanistan and Iraq but that he change the role of the United States altogether to one of cooperation with the rest of the members of the world community.

The United States is just one of a multitude of nations on this planet and with the meltdown of the deregulated capitalist system it can be hoped that the new world order that is going to emerge from the ashes will be one where the interests of all people will be taken into account. We want an end to the exploitation of poor and rich countries. We want a world where every individual can live in dignity, to eat, have good health and get a good education. We want an end to aggressive wars under mendacious pretexts for the profit of the very few. We want a world where progress is not measured in numbers of GDP but in the quality of life of all people. We want an end to hypocrisy and narrow self-interest.
It is time for the United States to step down from its fake throne and to stop acting as the Master over all the rest of the billions of people on the earth who are treated like slaves with no rights and no voice.

Goodbye to the United States Empire and good morning to a new world of responsibility and equality.

Notes:
[1] Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006 ) is the economist who has the most inspired the neoliberal revolution of economics, which has become known as the Chicago School of economics. His first on-the-ground experiment, after having worked on his free-market ideas since the fifties, was in Chile where he helped stage the coup against Salvador Allende in 1973 - with disastrous consequences. The ‘Chicago boys’ have, since then, ‘come to the rescue’ of one country after the other, always leaving the country in a more serious financial crisis than the one they were in at the beginning.
[2] Reference to George Orwell: ‘The Animal Farm’ (Secker and Warburg August 1945) where the pigs take over the running of the farm.
© Copyright 2009 by AxisofLogic.com

The Rule of the Vultures

2009-04-15T12:11:00.001-07:00

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_25704.shtml

The Rule of the Vultures
By Siv O'Neall
Axis of Logic exclusive
Wednesday, Dec 26, 2007

A net of lies has been spun over our heads and it's been glued over the earth like a heavy fog. It makes it impossible to see through it to the real world that is out there somewhere. We are blindly walking around in the mist breathing in the poison that is belching out of our loudspeakers, feeding us the steady diet of fear and hatred for the other, making us see what's around us in black and white, draining all things of the colors that make for beauty and compassion.

Far above our heads the vultures are circling, ready to pounce on their prey whenever they see someone weak and helpless. The vultures are devoid of any sort of feeling, in the same way the roaring noise around our heads is constantly centered on making us immune to the needs of the other, making us deaf to the cries of despair from the suffering people and blind to the destruction wrought upon the worthy goals and efforts that once filled their lives.

The vultures are running the world and their rule has only one purpose, making sure that the people are deaf and blind. That they are ignorant of the injustice and inequality that are the centerpieces of world domination. That they are ignorant of the rights they have been deprived of. That they are ignorant of the fairy land of beauty and love which used to be theirs.

The people have no rights and no goals. They are just forced to listen to the ceaseless noise that reshapes their views of what is of any value on this earth, the inanities that fill our ears with roaring noise, making us believe that white is good and black is bad. That buying is good but being on the dole is bad. That the West is good and the East is bad. That Christians are good but Moslems are bad. That wealth should be praised but poverty should be punished.

The vultures keep their counsels and they all approve of the basic principles. Invading and destroying a country is good if the people don't do the bidding of the Big Vulture. Buying up countries that can be made to support the Big Vulture is praiseworthy. Even if it means that it harms the lives of the ignorant people at home who have to pay out the millions and billions to the client nations. Ruining countries that have riches that the vultures want to get their claws on is good, as long as those countries are defenseless and can't fight back.

The vultures use their force to control us, to make our lives empty save for the fear and hatred that fit their objectives. Once the world is filled with robots, leader robots and follower robots, it will be much easier to control. Robots don't rebel.

LITTLE BOXES
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

(words and music by Malvina Reynolds, 1962)
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/MALVINA/mr094.ht

Barbarism on the Rise - Civilization on the Wane

2009-04-15T12:07:00.001-07:00

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_25546.shtml

Barbarism on the Rise - Civilization on the Wane
By Siv O'Neall
Axis of Logic
Monday, Nov 26, 2007

Democracy has become an empty word that the world leaders kick around like an inflated balloon when it serves their interests. What is of importance to the Corporatocracy that is running the planet is very much the opposite of democracy. What the leaders are depending on for the continuation of the current misrule of the world is centralized power and dumbed-down, apathetic and poverty-stricken masses who pose no danger to the status quo.

Democracy doesn't promote the interests of the ruling plutocrats. Their goal is to concentrate all the money and power in the tiny elite that hold the strings of the dancing puppets who are politicians. Government and business are all one and the same. Or different parts of the same monster. Some hold the strings of power, others do the kicking and dancing.

What is the difference between a totalitarian state which controls all the means of production and one where the owners of the means of production control the state? A different brand of totalitarianism but the contempt for the people could not be more deadly.

To make the control game possible, the people have to be drugged, muzzled and rendered powerless. Also, the means of running the show have to be deprived of all transparency. Propaganda, biased or filtered media news coverage, violent punishment of 'disobedient' individuals, all clouded in a web of secrecy � these are the tools for running this show of the most flagrant in-egalitarian state of the world that has ever existed. The former lords of money empires pale in comparison to the multi-billionaires of today's distorted world.

Laws have to be ignored or annulled. People who might possibly become a threat to the puppeteers have to be rendered harmless. By any means possible. There are no more any legal limits to what can be done to individuals who are arbitrarily declared to be terrorists or aiding and abetting the 'enemy'. Since international and national laws have become irrelevant, it is no more a big deal to get rid of undesirable persons.

There is also a general tendency to destroy what are considered superfluous masses of people through calculated starvation, wars and well planned genocide. Added to this, there is a carefully staged neglect of the lower classes with more and more of the so-called middle classes falling into the category of the working poor.

Instead of individual nations taking care of their own interests, economy, education, health care and the general running of business we now have transnational powers, both political/financial (WTO, IMF, the World Bank) and the big corporations, who see to the piling up of the wealth of the planet in the hands of a very limited number of plutocrats. Those are the soulless robots who hold the strings of power and who make decisions like so many machines. They decide which people are destined for extinction and which ones can in some way be useful for the money and power machines.

The current dehumanizing process may have started in the U.S. but other nations are following suit. Money is what counts. People are expendables. So there is less and less concern for the rights and the well-being of the people. Use them as slaves, but make sure they are left ignorant and docile, easy to bend to the needs of the powerful.

Europe is slavishly following in the steps of the Empire in the West, and so is Russia. Concentration of power in the executive, which is a Siamese twin of the Big Corporations, is an essential step in the direction of making people powerless pawns. The legislators and the judges are easily bought up by the corporations and so we have a powerless Congress, a symbolic Parliament, a docile Reichtag, a voiceless Duma.

There is fierce competition for the diminishing hydrocarbon resources of the world and the war is on for the domination of the strategic areas where the essential riches of the planet are concentrated.

Europe is fiercely hanging on to the coattails of the U.S., not risking getting left out when the wealth is divvied up. However, China and India will be ever more powerful competitors to the West as far as the limited existing resources are concerned. And all over the world, the urge for producing agro-fuel at any cost is raging. If fields used to grow needed food have to be converted to the growing of agro-fuel crops, so be it.

Obviously all U.S. politicians who subscribe to the supremacy of the Empire are loyal to the idea of an indefinite occupation of Iraq. They are even blindly willing to go along with expanding our influence in the Great Middle East, attacking and occupying other neighboring sovereign countries, running the risk of causing a complete collapse of the entire region. And all the while, Israel, the U.S. 51st State, is doing its utmost to aid the American ambition of destabilizing and ultimately conquering the region.

In all of this desperate grabbing of power and resources, the fate of the people is of no importance whatsoever, nor is there any concern for the environment and the possibility of a continuation of life on our planet.

The whole idea of setting the world aflame for the unipolar domination of the most precious resources seems totally senseless since, at the same time, the planet is thoughtlessly being destroyed and made unlivable for future generations in the name of short-term profits.

What is going on in the world at this time is utter self-destruction and it is looking less and less credible that the U.S. Empire, which is leading the destruction, will ever come to its senses and reverse the trend.

There may still be a chance that the world can be ecologically, financially and socially saved. But where is the Gandhi, where is the Martin Luther King, where are the men and women with hearts and brains who are willing to step up and lead the world back to sanity?

Copyright 2007 by AxisofLogic.com

The Cracks in the Facade are Widening

2009-04-15T12:04:00.000-07:00

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_25233.shtml

The Cracks in the Facade are Widening
By Siv O'Neall
Axis of Logic
Thursday, Sep 13, 2007

The corporation is king

The world has been taken hostage in the most gigantic, megalomaniac and malevolent plot that has ever been conceived by man. Words like democracy and freedom no longer have any meaning. We are all pawns in a huge game of 'get-the-booty' and 'rule-the-world'. Individuals have strictly no value. People only exist so as to be used as slaves until they die from exhaustion or survive in utmost misery and total insecurity, until their children can take over in the same kind of miserable treadmill.

The larger the number that succumb to disease and starvation, the better, in the view of the perfectly callous creatures who are the skippers of the ship at this time. The poor are just ballast and are better gotten rid of.

Who are the people who call the shots in today's world? The real leaders are the financiers who work in collusion with governments, the transnational corporate leaders who care about nothing except immediate gain. The big corporations swallow up the minor ones and it's a free-for-all in this jungle where money is king. Money is what matters and nothing else does.

To make this plunder appear reasonable, the U.S. empire which holds most of the strings to world power, has to have a reason for gobbling up the rest of the world. There are no restrictions due to moral principles, civil rights, international treaties or any constitutional principles whatsoever. Everything has been done to empower the leaders of the empire and the corporations to crush anyone who stands in their way.

An enemy is needed

Since the United States wants to hold on to the image that it is a somewhat civilized nation, an enemy has to be created. It is of no importance whether the enemy has any existence in the world of reality or if it is just a product of propaganda, as long as the world can be convinced that there is one, and one that presents a real threat to the United States and to the world.

Communism or its cousin, socialism, was an extremely handy pretext for world-wide attacks, from Vietnam, to Chile to Panama to Nicaragua. And in cases where communism had nothing to do with the embattled regime, the myth was created. After the great debacle of Vietnam, the empire ran out of breath for a while. During Nixon/Kissinger, Reagan, followed by H.W. Bush and Clinton, however, the American people was convinced again and again that the Communist dragon was threatening to consume us. Warm-up exercises to prove our military superiority were conducted in Chile, Central America, Sudan and Iraq, among other places these wars usually undertaken with the principal aim of boosting a tottering public image of the incumbent president . The object was also generally to prove that the empire still had the fangs to carry out vicious and, from an international viewpoint, totally illegal attacks to consolidate its superiority.

After the end of the cold war, a new enemy had to be created. After the neoconservative clique in Washington laid their plans for a take-over of the world through an endless war, the administrations, from Reagan on, played the conquer-it-all game with great conviction. Then came September 11, like manna from heaven, and the road was open to world domination. And so the war on terror was launched on the world scene with great hysteria and fanfare. Fear would be the clue to keep Americans subdued. Continually renewed fear would keep the American population from getting out of order and try massive anti-war demonstrations and civil disobedience acts. People had to be made to believe that they were in danger and needed to be defended against the Big Evil. So the propaganda machine was set to convince people, with renewed vigor, that the United States was the most morally upstanding country in the world.

Orwellian double-speak was employed with much success. Pax Americana for eternal war, liberation of Iraq for the theft of Iraqi oil resources, the greatest democracy in the world for a nation where civil rights were increasingly curtailed and popular voting rights were made to be a meaningless concept, through the multiple ways of rigging the election process.

War, however, was essential not just to invade and dominate countries like Iraq and whatever countries are going to follow, but in the interest of the arms industry that was being enriched in the most obscene way. The huge corporations, the oil and arms industry in the first place, were all the big players in this winner-take-all game for Money and Power.

People are of no importance

In this totally callous race for profit, the little people, the people who actually did the work, counted for nothing. The leaders took it for granted that the workers would always be around to take care of the drudgery jobs. Social expenses were cut ever more seriously, unions lost their meaning. Everything that smacked of welfare, expenses for education, for health, for the psychological wellbeing of ordinary people, was cut out of the budget as being part of socialist politics that were anathema to the neoconservative leaders. The goal was to set the clock back to the period before F.D.R.'s New Deal.

Where are we now?

So where has this extraordinary megalomania taken us? A nation that was once looked up to in the world, seen as a leader in various fields, education, research, free speech, civil rights, high living standards, has now become universally despised and distrusted.

Where does the United States stand today, with all its enormously wealthy corporations? It is on the brink of an economic collapse. The working people have no more buying power and the values of their homes are collapsing, while the one tenth of one percent of Americans are wallowing in obscene wealth. The land that used to pride itself on the possibility of going from rags to riches, is now a debt-ridden nation with no internal strength left, all set to crumble at the next serious economic or military downturn.

And in addition to the developing economic collapse at home, there is the atrocity and the bungling of the Iraqi occupation, which clearly should never have taken place. And so as to add even more to the disaster of today's U.S. political situation, the deaf and blind leaders are posed to attack yet another country with insane bombing raids. The pretext in the case of Iran is just as flimsy as it once was for the invasion of Iraq.

A ship in storm

The cracks in the U.S. leadership are widening. Important members of the military and of the civilian establishment are abandoning ship, popular disillusion with the current government is increasing daily and a growing number of Republicans are either scandal-ridden or giving up on the blind skipper and leaving the sinking ship.

It's obvious that such misrule cannot go on forever. The voice of reason must ultimately make itself heard, but the timid voices of the "opposition" Democrats can do very little to stabilize the situation or save what can be saved of the nation's standing in the world. It's pretty clear that the U.S. is doomed but there are a number of questions � When will the truth dawn on the clueless leaders? Who will suffer the brunt of the shipwreck? Only the poor and the middle class? Will the capitalists always find a way to save their ill-gotten wealth? The future will tell. However, it's becoming increasingly clear that the days of the U.S. as a superpower are over.

Copyright 2007 by AxisofLogic.com

The Specter of Friendly Fascism: The Unfolding Logic

2009-04-15T11:45:00.000-07:00

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The Specter of Friendly Fascism: The Unfolding Logic

By Bertram Gross
From Friendly Fascism, chapter 7, pp. 159-172. Boston: South End Press, 1980

Cassandra:
Cry, Trojans, cry! lend me ten thousand eyes
And I will fill them with prophetic tears
Troilus:
Cassandra’s mad
WILLLAM SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida

Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the event
And in today already walks tomorrow.
JOHANN VON SCHILLER, Wallenstein

"The logic of events is driving the rulers of the Third World toward more modern and more efficient forms of dictatorship and all modern dictatorships are bound to have fascist features to some extent."
WALTER LAQUEUR

How are the leaders of the "Free World," the Golden international, and the U.S. Establishment responding to the challenges that face them?

If one looks at any particular area, the prompt reply may be: "With cautious confusion." When one looks at this or that part of the U.S. Establishment, one can see reactionaries trying to "turn back the clock of history," conservatives who seem to favor the status quo and liberals who seek some system-strengthening reforms.

But as I survey the entire panorama of contending forces, I can readily detect something more important: the outline of a powerful logic of events. This logic points toward tighter integration of every First World Establishment. In the United States it points toward more concentrated, unscrupulous, repressive, and militaristic control by a Big Business-Big Government partnership that—to preserve the privileges of the ultra-rich, the corporate overseers, and the brass in the military and civilian order—squelches the rights and liberties of other people both at home and abroad. That is friendly fascism.

There is, of course, no master plan, no coordinated conspiracy. There is no predestined path, leading step by step to a sudden seizure of power by friendly fascists. I emphasize these points, if only because it is easy for a confusion to arise. By trying to make my analysis systematic and explicit, I may give the impression that the reality will be equally systematic and explicit.

On the contrary, the powerful leaders of the capitalist world have no single secret flight plan. In fact, the major navigators are in constant dispute among themselves about both the direction and the speed of flight, while their most redoubtable experts display their expertise by nitpicking at each other over an infinity of potentially significant details. At any particular moment First World leaders may respond to crisis like people in a crowded night club when smoke and flames suddenly billow forth. They do not set up a committee to plan their response. Neither do they act in a random or haphazard fashion. Rather, the logic of the situation prevails. Everyone runs to where they think the exits are. In the ensuing melee some may be trampled to death. Those who know where the exits really are, who are most favorably situated, and have the most strength will save themselves.

Thus it was in Italy, Japan, and Germany when the classic fascists came to power. The crisis of depression, inflation, and class conflict provided an ideal opportunity for the cartels, warmongers, right-wing extremists, and rowdy street fighters to rush toward power. The fascist response was not worked out by some central cabal of secret conspirators. Nor was it a random or accidental development. The dominant logic of the situation prevailed.

Thus too it was after World War II. Neither First World unity nor the Golden International was the product of any central planners in the banking, industrial, political, or military community. Indeed, there was then—as there still is—considerable conflict among competing groups at the pinnacle of the major capitalist establishments. But there was a broad unfolding logic about the way these conflicts were adjusted and the "Free World" empire came into being. This logic involved hundreds of separate plans and planning committees—some highly visible, some less so, some secret. It encompassed the values and pressures of reactionaries, conservatives, and liberals. In some cases, it was a logic of response to anticapitalist movements and offensives that forced them into certain measures—like the expanded welfare state—which helped themselves despite themselves.

Although the friendly fascists are subversive elements, they rarely see themselves as such. Some are merely out to make money under conditions of stagflation. Some are merely concerned with keeping or expanding their power and privileges. Many use the rhetoric of freedom, liberty, democracy, human values, or even human rights. In pursuing their mutual interests though a new coalition of concentrated oligarchic power, people may be hurt—whether through pollution, shortages, unemployment, inflation, or war. But that is not part of their central purpose. It is the product of invisible hands that are not theirs.

For every dominant logic, there is an alternative or subordinate logic. Indeed, a dominant logic may even contribute to its own undoing. This has certainly been the case with many strong anticommunist drives—as in both China and Indochina—that tended to accelerate the triumph of communism. If friendly fascism emerges on a full scale in the United States, or even if the tendencies in that direction become still stronger, countervailing forces may here too be created. Thus may the unfolding logic of friendly fascism—to borrow a term from Marx—sow the seeds of its destruction or prevention. But before turning to this more hopeful subject in Part Three, it is first imperative to look carefully at the unfolding logic itself.

MAKING THE MOST OF CRISES
The symbol for "crisis" in Chinese is made up of two characters whose meanings are "danger" and "opportunity." To me, that precisely describes the present situation.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER III
A few years before his death, John D. Rockefeller III glimpsed— although through a glass darkly—the logic of capitalist response to crisis. In The Second American Revolution (1973) he defined the crises of the l960s and early 1970s as a humanistic revolution based mainly on the black and student "revolts," women’s liberation, consumerism, environmentalism, and the yearnings for nonmaterialistic values. He saw these crises as an opportunity to develop a humanistic capitalism. If the Establishment should repress these humanistic urges, he wrote, "the result could be chaos and anarchy, or it could be authoritarianism, either of a despotic mold or the 'friendly fascism' described by urban affairs professor Bertram Gross."

Before his book was completed, one of Rockefeller’s consultants visited with me at Hunter College. We discussed tendencies toward friendly fascism, not humanistic capitalism. I made my case that friendly fascism would be a despotic order backed up by naked coercion as welt as sophisticated manipulation. Above all, I warned that the various crises in American society provided opportunities for Establishment leaders to do things that would accelerate—often unintentionally—the tendencies toward a repressive corporate society. This warning was not reflected in Rockefeller’s book.

The better schools of business management train their students not merely to adapt to the stresses of corporate life but to anticipate challenges before they materialize. The best ones stress the shaping of the crises that may open up new horizons. In national politics, crisis management and crisis exploitation have become welt-established modes of leadership.

At the higher levels of transnational capitalism, therefore, it is only logical for many corporate and political leaders to respond to challenges by creative efforts to perfect their accumulation of capital and privilege. If you were a billionaire, a corporate overseer, or a top executive and dedicated entirely toward advancing your own interests and those of your family members and associates, how would you respond to specific crises of the kind outlined in the previous three chapters? If you were a behind-the-scenes adviser to one of the above, what would you propose? I can answer this question by simply observing the behavior (not the public pronouncements) of Establishment notables as they try to make a virtue of necessity or enjoy the sweet adversity of other people’s misfortunes. But one can get almost identical answers to putting one’s self in their position. Performed as a mental exercise (however unpleasant), the logical result of this is a series of general recipes like the following.

Responding to the Side Effects of Success. Consider a certain amount of frustration as contributing to a stabilizing cynicism and apathy. Nonetheless, tone down overly high aspirations, especially among the lower levels of the Establishment. In turn, provide for tighter integration and higher expectations at the Establishment’s top levels. Publicly lament restlessness, family breakdown, alienation, and other forms of social fragmentation. But recognize that these powerful tendencies deepen the apathy that represents mass consent to governance by the Establishment’s upper levels. Remedy any resulting absenteeism, turnover, and low productivity with human relations programs conveying a sense of employee "participation." Resist regulations that shift to the polluters and makers the cost of antipollution and consumer protection measures; instead, use pressures for protecting people and nature as an excuse for higher prices and more public subsidy. Respond to crime and corruption by expanding "law and order" drives against street-level and middle-level lawbreaking. Direct attention away from the crimes of corporate and government elites; sanitize these activities by legislative and judicial action exempting the elites from scrutiny and prosecution. If necessary, substitute coercion and new forms of authoritarianism for declining public confidence in the authority of leaders, institutions and doctrines.

Responding to the Challenge of a Shrinking Capitalist World. Try to prevent formation of new socialist or communist regimes, overthrow those that are formed, and do profitable business with those that cannot be overthrown. Extend efforts to absorb communist regimes into the world capitalist economy. Undertake the delicate task of absorbing the new crude-oil capitalists and the more powerful Third World regimes into the middle levels of the Golden International. Try to integrate the strategies and policies of the governments and larger corporations of the Trilateral World and the many international agencies that serve them, particularly the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Responding to New Forms of the Old Crises. In the name of "full employment," job creation, and "supply side" economics, promote new forms of open or hidden payments to big business. In the name of combating inflation, cut social expenditures and promote recessions that lower real wages and weaken labor unions. Hold forth the promise of greater profitability in the future. Dampen class conflicts by sharing the spoils of Third World exploitation with parts of the home population. If exploitation of the Third World is less successful, resort to firmer treatment at home. In either ease, "divide and conquer" by co-opting the leaders of potential opposition and nurturing class fragmentation and ethnic conflicts. Try to keep actual warfare limited to small geographical areas and non-nuclear weapons. While calling for a balanced budget, expand arms exports (including the nuclear power plants that enable the proliferation of nuclear war capabilities) and the stockpiling of overkill while striving for "first strike" superiority. Reap the benefits from arms production as a factor in overcoming economic stagnation and a guarantee of profitable growth in the industrial-scientific-military complex. Seek larger armed forces, draft registration and conscription as instruments of military intervention, relief of unemployment, and promotion of militarist discipline in society.

CONSOLIDATING POWER
Lippmann:
The breakdown of forms of authority is a much deeper and wider process in modern history than the Vietnam War. . . . The destruction of that threatens to produce the chaos of modern times.
Steel:
You see this as leading to authoritarianism or fascism?
Lippmann:
It’s absolutely one of the things that will occur.
RONALD STEEL
Back during the early days of World War I, Robert Michels, the German sociologist who later supported Mussolini’s fascism, formulated his famous "iron law of oligarchy." As any organization grows, he held, the more dominant force will be a small minority at the top. Today’s crises and future threats, genuine or conjured, only promise to accelerate what—in deference to the superior technologies of the present—might be renamed the "steel and plastic law of oligarchy." The word "law," of course, is always deceptive. It promises a regularity, a uniformity, an inescapability, which I do not accept. Even within the logic of the passage to friendly fascism there is room for surprises, reverses, and variations.

Behind alt the varied and conflicting responses to different crises, however, them is a broad and almost all-encompassing unity: the effort to consolidate oligarchic power. A flew round of miraculous exploits would be incompatible with too much conflict, chaos, or anarchy within or among the national Establishments. These Establishments must be reshaped and redeployed. This is what President Nixon had in mind when he told C. L. Sulzberger that the trouble with the country was the weakness and division among "the leaders of industry, the bankers, the newspapers. The people as a whole can be led back to some kind of consensus if only the leaders can take hold of themselves."

This, of course, is the fundamental insight underlying the creation and the operations of the Trilateral commission. Where this logic is heading is suggested in The Crisis of Democracy, a sophisticated call for oligarchic integration. This study was prepared for the commission by three social scientists. Samuel Huntington of the United States finds a "democratic distemper" in the United States caused by an upsurge of egalitarian values and an "excess of democracy"? Michel Crozier of France holds that "European political systems are overloaded with participants and demands," while the Communist parties of the area "are the only institution left in Western Europe where authority is not questioned . . .". Joji Watanuki of Japan finds that "in comparison with the United States, where the 'democratic surge' can be regarded as already having passed the peak, in Japan there is no sign of decline in the increasing tide of popular demands, while at the same time the financial resources of the government are showing signs of stagnation." Together, the three seem to agree that "the principal strains on the governability of democracy may be receding in the United States, cresting in Europe, and pending in the future for Japan." Huntington argues that the challenge of communist threats, inflation, unemployment, commodity shortages, and frustrated aspirations can best be met by less, not more, democracy. "Democracy will have a longer life," suggests Huntington, "if it has a more balanced existence." The essence of such balance is to respond to the erosion of authority by more authoritarian government.

This unusual bluntness, as Alan Wolfe points out, shattered "a taboo of American society, which is that no matter how much one may detest democracy, one should never violate its rhetoric in public." As a result, when the report was formally discussed at a Trilateral Commission conference at Kyoto, Japan, in May 1975, various commission members denounced the report as too pessimistic. While some of this disagreement may have been for the public record only, some of it undoubtedly reflected the sincere attachment of old-fashioned conservatives to the liberal proprieties. Also, some top- and middle-level members of First World establishments may have trembled at what might happen to them with a tightening of oligarchic concentration and control. Even the dissenters, however, did not contradict the trilateral report’s assumption of a need for greater consolidation and coordination within and among national establishments.

To discard the remaining liberal checks on growing oligarchies may be a difficult and heart-rending decision for many such individuals. It may be facilitated by a deepened sense of impending threats to the system, like those that appeared to loom up during the 1960s. Writing in the National Review toward the end of that decade, Donald Zoll provided an example of the possible rationalizations. Responding to the turmoil of the antiwar and civil rights movements, Zoll argued in a spirit of rueful advocacy that in the face of truly serious crisis, conservatives must consider expediential fascism. They should contemplate abandoning the "traditional rules of the game" by "candidly facing the necessity of employing techniques generally ignored or rejected by contemporary Western conservatives." He therefore urged "political approaches that are totalitarian in nature [though] not quite in the original fascist sense that puts all aspects of life under political authority, at least in the general sense that political theory can no longer restrict itself to general conditions and procedural rules." His alternative to "totalitarian radicalism" would be a totalitarian conservatism uninhibited by "liberal proprieties as to method." Zoll confessed that this "might imply common cause with the Radical Right or even some form of expediential fascism—hardly an appealing association. But if the alternative to expediential fascism is to let America die," then—according to Zoll’s logic—better fascist than dead.

A similar note of urgency is trumpeted by General Maxwell Taylor who, in contrast with Zoll’s response to internal danger warns – mainly against external dangers. "How can a democracy such as ours," he asks, defend its interests at acceptable costs and continue to enjoy the freedom of speech and behavior to which we are accustomed in time of peace?" Although his answer is not as candid as Zoll’s, he replies that such traditional and liberal properties must be dispensed with: "We must advance concurrently on both foreign and domestic fronts by means of integrated national power responsive to a unified national will" (my italics). Here is a distressing echo of Adolf Hilter’s pleas for "integration" (Gleichschaltung) and unified national will.

THE CAT FEET OF TYRANNY
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
JAMES MADISON
It is hard to grasp the unfolding logic of modem capitalism if one’s head is addled by nightmares of spectacular seizures of power. The combined influence of institutional rigidities, traditional concepts of constitutional democracy, and rifts among powerful elites is so great that friendly fascism could hardly emerge other than by gradual and silent encroachments. Like the tyranny referred to in a New York Times editorial, it "can come silently, slowly, like fog creeping in 'on little cat feet.'" Many of the most important changes would be subtle shifts imperceptible to the majority of the population. Even those most alert to the dangers would be able to see clearly, and document neatly, only a few of these changes. Indeed, some important social and economic innovations in manipulation or exploitation (coming in response to liberal or radical demands) might well be hailed as "progress." In other cases, dramatic exposure, attack, and hullabaloo could have smokescreen consequences, blurring and. sidetracking any effort to uncover root evils.

Hence I deliberately avoid the high-charged attention-attracting drama of predicting the decade, year or circumstances of a sudden seizure of power by the friendly fascists. Like Oliver Wendell Holmes, I have almost no faith in sudden ruin." Although friendly fascism would mean total ruin of the American dream, it could hardly come suddenly— let alone in any precisely predictable year. This is one of the reasons I cannot go along with the old-fashioned Marxist picture of capitalism or imperialism dropping the fig leaf or the mask. This imagery suggests a process not much longer than a striptease. It reinforces the apocalyptic vision of a quick collapse of capitalist democracy—whether "not with a bang but a whimper," as T. S. Eliot put it, or with "dancing to a frenzied drum" as in the words of William Butler Yeats. In my judgment, rather, one of the greatest dangers is the slow process through which friendly fascism would come into being. For a large part of the population the changes would be unnoticed. Even those most alive to the danger may see only part of the picture—until it is too late. For most people, as with historians and social scientists, 20-20 vision on fundamental change comes only with hindsight. And by that time, with the evidence at last clearly visible, the new serfdom might have long since arrived.

MANY PATHS
When the experts of the Rand Corporation or the Hudson Institute prepare step-by-step scripts for future events, the effect is to heighten the drama—and perhaps the saleability—of their work. But the single-track scenario is a highly misleading device. It violently oversimplifies the immense complexity of historical change. It obscures the vast possibilities for accident, spontaneity, and the unpredictable conjuncture of simultaneous action on many apparently different fronts. The logic of events cannot be explained by any simple-minded syllogism or simplistic assumption of unified action along one clear path.

It would be easier to grasp the unfolding logic of modern capitalism if the most powerful leaders in capitalist society could readily agree on the flight plan toward a still more perfect capitalism. As it is, the major navigators are in constant dispute among themselves about both the direction and speed of flight, while their most redoubtable experts prove their expertise by nitpicking at each other on an infinity of potentially significant details. Besides, with weather conditions often turbulent and changing, forward motion sometimes creates more turbulence, and these are situations in which delays or even crashes may occur. Thus, in the’ movement toward friendly fascism, any sudden forward thrust at one level could be followed by a consolidating pause or temporary withdrawal at another level. Every step toward greater repression might be accompanied by some superficial reform, every expansionist step abroad by some new payoff at home, every well-publicized shocker (like the massacres at Jackson State, Kent State, and Attica, the Watergate scandals or the revelations of illegal deals by the FBI or CIA) by other steps of less visibility but equal or possibly greater significance, such as large welfare payments to multinational banks and industrial conglomerates. At all stages the fundamental directions of change would be obscured by a series of Hobson’s choices, of public issues defined in terms of clear-cut crossroads—one leading to the frying pan and the other to the fire. Opportunities would thus be provided for learned debate and earnest conflict over the choice among alternative roads to serfdom. The unifying element in this unfolding logic is the capital-accumulation imperative of the world’s leading capitalist forces, creatively adjusted to meet the challenges of the many crises I have outlined. This is quite different from the catch-up imperatives of the Italian, German, and Japanese leaders after World War I. Nor would its working out necessarily require a charismatic dictator, one-party rule, glorification of the State, dissolution of legislatures, termination of multiparty elections, ultra— rationalism, or attacks on rationality.

As illustrated in the following oversimplified outline, which also points up the difference between classic fascism and friendly fascism, the following eight chapters summarize the many levels of change at which the trends toward friendly fascism are already visible.

Despite the sharp differences from classic fascism, there are also some basic similarities. In each, a powerful oligarchy operates outside of, as well as through, the state. Each subverts constitutional government. Each stresses rising demands for wider participation in decision making, the enforcement and enlargement of human rights, and genuine democracy. Each uses informational control and ideological flimflam to get lower- and middle-class support for plans to expand the capital and power of thee oligarchy and provide suitable rewards for political, professional, scientific, and cultural supporters.

A major difference is that under friendly fascism Big Government would do less pillaging of, and more pillaging for, Big Business. With much more integration than ever before among transnational corporations, Big Business would run less risk of control by any one state and enjoy more subservience by many states. In turn, stronger government support of transnational corporations, such as the large group of American companies with major holdings in South Africa, requires the active fostering of all latent conflicts among those segments of the American population that may object to this kind of foreign venture. It requires an Establishment with lower levels so extensive that few people or groups can attain significant power outside it, so flexible that many (perhaps most) dissenters and would-be revolutionaries can be incorporated within it. Above all, friendly fascism in any First World country today would use sophisticated control technologies far beyond the ken of the classic fascists.

While the term "friendly" is useful (indeed invaluable) in distinguishing between the old-fashioned and the modern forms of repressive Big Business-Big Government partnerships, the word should not be stretched too far. The total picture provided by the following eight chapters may be thought of as a cinematic holograph of horror—all the more horrifying if the reader finds himself or herself entranced, if not captured, by its compelling logic.

Despite my emphasis on the United States, this unfolding logic is not strictly American. It may be discerned in the other "Trilateral" countries (Canada, Western Europe, and Japan) and in the closely related capitalist societies of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. In all the more developed capitalist societies, corporate oligarchies tend to transcend the nation-state, while in the less developed ones—often with the rhetoric of socialism—State control plays a more decisive role in fostering the growth of big capital and its entry into the larger world of the Golden International. Moreover, the emergence of neofascism in the First World will often continue to be blurred by denunciation of old-style autocracies and military dictatorships as "fascist" in accordance with the colloquial identification of fascism with simple brutality or oppression. Often, the germ of truth in such denunciations is that under dependent fascism old-style dictatorship may often serve to nurture the growth of big capital. On the other hand, when genuine neofascism emerges it may re associated with a relaxation of crude terror and the maturation of ore sophisticated, effective, and ruthless controls.

A major factor, of course, is the historic pattern of relationships within the big-business community and between big business and government. Thus, in Japan, the logic of oligarchic integration in response to economic adversity is much more compelling and feasible than in the United States—so much so that many American business leaders look longingly at the pattern of what they like to call "Japan, Inc." On the other hand, it is distinctly possible that the Japanese may plunge far ahead of the Americans in the creation of a tighter power structure. In Japan, Business Week has reported, "vast empires are growing, embracing scores of companies in a dozen or more businesses, each company nominally independent, but with increasingly centralized management, and often bound together by ties that go back a century to the original zaibatsu. . . All the groups are drawing more tightly together today in the face of economic diversity—consolidating resources and integrating management." Similar tendencies may also be found in Germany; there the resurgence of Nazi-style parties, fashions, and cults must also be taken into consideration. The United States, in turn, may outpace all the others in exploiting ethnic conflicts and organized disorder. Also, big capital in America, already more transnational than the Japanese, has a flying head start in making the leap towards an international capitalist Establishment with dc-Americanized Americans as the first among the senior partners. This possibility is underscored by the Americans’ low-key leadership through the Trilateral Commission in articulating—as Richard Falk has put it—the "general recognition by the elites in the most powerful states that there is an emergent crisis of unprecedented proportions that involves, in particular, the capacity of capitalism to adapt to the future." Americans on the commission have vigorously insisted "that national governments are not necessarily capable on their own of working out the adaptations that are necessary to sustain the existing elites in power in these three centers of global wealth." Thus, as Falk has explained, the Trilateral Commission operates "as a geo-economic search for a managerial formula that will keep this concentration of wealth intact, given its nonterritorial character and in the light of the multiple challenges to it."

As an American traces the many paths to friendly fascism, he or she may find—as Theodore Draper did in commenting on my first article on the subject many years ago—an "uncanny resemblance to present-day America." Those from Canada, Japan or Western Europe may find distressing similarities with their own countries. The reason is that I offer facts on a present "in which already walks tomorrow" and judgments concerning a possible future clearly suggested by present trends.

In so doing, I may have underestimated the evils of friendly fascism and overstated the present facts and tendencies relating to America’s world orientation, establishment, informational management, rewards and punishments, and modes of system maintenance. These are empirical questions; I stand ready to be corrected by any superior presentation of the indicators. Also subject to an empirical challenge is my analysis in the following eight chapters of the various paths toward repression and exploitation by a new corporate society. Speculation and conjecture have their place, of course, and I have used both. But so do informed judgments on demonstrable—albeit controversial—indicators and trends. I should be more than delighted if someone can demonstrate that there is little or no motion along any or most of the paths through which I trace the unfolding logic of friendly fascism.

The 2012 Hoax

2009-04-12T07:35:00.000-07:00

Personally, I *Think* the world is ending faster! All those hundreds of millions of layers of negative energy that is engulfed around the world is starting to collapse us all! Add in the time jumps (read data4science.net) and the melting hologram (the world and the universe is a hologram - proven by German scientists two months ago - see my blog ) and we're out of time and luck! Then I've had some devastating Visions About This lately. But yeah, this 2012 stuff is a hoax! Something new to terrify everyone so they don't see the Real Reality Around Them! The serpent puppet masters keep you looking in left field while they manipulate us and slowly kill us in right field. ~Martha

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-2012-Hoax-by-G-E-Nordell-090409-902.html
April 11, 2009

The 2012 Hoax
By G.E. Nordell

This whole thing about The World Is Gonna End! on 12 December 2012 is just another manipulation to instill more fear into the population.

The purpose? A population that lives in fear--about anything, and especially when the fear is about everything--is to that extent paralyzed and diverted from addressing the very real dangers that continually threaten the existence of Mankind here on the Blue Planet.

War, pestilence, famine, death, cancer, droughts and floods, hurricanes, Chinese toys, exploding auto tires, vampires, unions and/or management, white supremacists, Muslim extremists, Christian extremists, atheist extremists, illegal aliens here to take your job, environmentalists here to take your job, Democrats who want to take your guns, rednecks who carry guns to the grocery store, wolves who eat your stock, deer who eat your crops, homeless people who just want something to eat, bankers who want to foreclose your home, a 'healthcare' industry that makes people sick-- the list goes on and on.

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Remember the Y2K phenomenon? At least that non-event got a few retired COBOL programmers put back to work updating software badly designed so as not to handle the four-digit year and-or the rollover to first digit of 2.

Other than that, what actually happened? A peak in sales of bottled water, camping supplies, and Meals Ready To Eat. Lots and lots of fear that ended in a gigantic fizzle.

And the big frenzy about Jesus Is Coming, soon swept aside by celebu-tart news stories. (My favorite from back then was the "Jesus is coming - and boy is He p*ssed!" bumper stickers.)

At one company where I worked in the 1990s, some of the Christians spent their weekends up in the mountains training for the End Times; what was most amazing to me was that one of my Jewish co-workers was training with them.

Nothing really happened, Jesus is still missing, it was all simply another fear-based ruckus in the media about nothing, as will be the increasing hooferaw about the 2012 farce.

Each of these media-driven programs of fear-mongering will often run for years. The Y2K thing was lengthened by the silly furor over when exactly the Millennium changed. The big Millen-nium parties were held in Las Vegas and Tokyo and elsewhere on 31 December 1999 (the False Millennium) and then the B Team held further parties on 31 December 2000--because they could. (The facts are simple: the artificial First Millennium began 1 January in Year One, therefore the Second Millennium began on 1 January of the year 2001. Duh!)

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And let us not forget the decades-long Baby On Board fad. This spread to the U.S from Germany about the time that Reagan was running for President, and still flourishes in the U.K. It began during the same time period that the unthinking religionist sheeple masses were first organizing their political shenanigans, and the very unconscious meaning behind the whole deal was con-nected to the 'Jesus Is Returning At The Millennium' myth.

Using no logic whatsoever, if Jesus returns in 2000 or 2001, then he'd have to be twenty or so, so he'd have to be born anywhere from 1978 to maybe 1980, or if by 1982 then he'd be 18 years old, that could work. So any child of a Christian family could be very, very special, there's no way to know, so for a couple years, let's not kill babies and let's all drive real carefully, because anyone could be the proud parent of a kid who survives being a teenager in America and is revealed by hosts of angels to be the Son of the Christian God-head. (Film at eleven!)

Logic? What if Jesus comes back as a girl? Or even better, someone born into the LGBT community? And the arrogance of us Americans: we are 6% of the overpopulated planet, any such godling is three times more likely to be Chinese.

Well, those yellow diamond-shaped signs that were stuck inside millions of car windows got old after a while, but the kitsch-dealers kept it going. 'Pet on board' and other variations, then 'Driver carries no cash' (as if robbers and car-jackers might obey the sign), which eventually evolved into 'Baby carries no cash', which was kind of the end of the silliness here in America.

We protected all those babies and then none of them grew up to be Jesus. Bummer!

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This whole Mayan calendar 2012 myth is just more of the same, a waste of time designed to distract and divert the populace from Reality.

Forests will be cut down to report opinions for and against this Mayan myth from dozens of uninformed opinion-mongers who will promote their worthless books on the boob-tube and will draw millions of dollars out of the pockets of the ever-eager fools and idiots that live right in your neighborhood.

Nothing much can be done to prevent the meaningless frenzy, as the idiots are too many among us. It will all play out as the previous such phenomena did, including the people with nothing better to do who will buy tickets and take time off work and get happily drunk at End of The World parties around the globe--"Fox News On The Scene, Live!"--and when they wake up on December 15th they will still feel hangover-ish, and in the next week or so will receive the charges for their excesses on their credit card billing statements.

If you want to have a little fun with these dolts, then any time anyone brings up the subject of 2012 as The End of The World, offer them ten dollars for their automobile or $100 for their house, based on a written & notarized contract that becomes due on 15 December in 2012. If they won't sign such a contract, then they are fools for promoting a mythical event that they don't really believe in. And if anyone does sign such a contract with you, then they are truly major idiots who deserve to be thinned from the herd, and they truly deserve their comeuppance on December 15th when you show up with the paperwork to collect your new house or car.

Author's Website: www.working-minds.com

Author's Bio: author / philosopher / revolutionary G.E. Nordell lives & works in rural New Mexico

AUTISM, MASS POISONING & THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA

2009-04-11T09:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.opednews.com/articles/THE-DUMBING-DOWN-OF-AMERIC-by-Ginger-McClemons-090404-387.html

April 10, 2009

THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA.

By Ginger McClemons

Have you ever wondered why there are so many children developing autism? Indeed, this dread disease has increased its hold on children over the past 15-20 years. What used to be an occasional diagnosis has become an epidemic. Why? One need only look at our government and its demands that we have our children vaccinated with vaccines that actually cause autism in our children. Many of these diseases are no longer a threat yet we are still required to vaccinate our children against them, using a vaccine with a mercury base that causes mental retardation as well as autism. Who could be sick enough to want to cause such a terrible disease in a child? Could it be our shadow government as a way of controlling the population, to make us more reliant upon them, to keep us afraid, unable to think for ourselves?

Bi-Polar disorder has become rampant among adults as well as children. These are not contagious diseases. We can’t catch these diseases from each other. So how do we get them?

Let’s talk about Mercury poisoning. We are now being told that mercury is good for us…our children, even though for years we have been told that it causes brain damage. Yet mercury destroys the brains neurons, and causes autism.

We should all be aware of how poisonous fluoride is by now. Yet, Germany during the second world war used it as a way of controlling the population, and now our government is doing the same. ADD and ADHD are caused by fluoride. Not only this, but it reduces the IQ of our children and can cause sterility in women. After years of accumulating in our bodies it can manifest itself in the form of unexplained aches and pains, such as fibromyalgia, a disease that was once considered an imaginary disease by doctors and has only recently been recognized as a real disease. Surprised? Well, it has been well document and known by the CDC for years that fluoride was a toxic poison and still they put it into our drinking water, food. Why?

…the fluoridation of community water supplies can no longer be held to be either safe or effective in the reduction of dental caries….Therefore, the practice should be abandoned."- Foulkes, 1992
For the rich to stay in power they must be able to control the masses. The only way to do that is to reduce their intelligence, to create a population of drones who can do the menial work without complaint. The problem is, they are creating a population of idiots and children unable to live in a normal society. More and more people are succumbing to the effects of the very controlling agents they have been using to control us. The rest of us are controlled by fear.

Watch the video and see for yourself how easy it has been for our government to betray it’s populous. Are you mad yet? Don’t get mad…get even.

Serfing The Third Wave

2009-03-16T16:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com/agenda/bigbrother/912

By Amy de Miceli, on 03-09-2009 22:36

The plan to bring forth a new soviet man right here in America has become a chilling reality. George Lucas has even called attention to it in his latest installment of Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is set in the 1950's, Indy has been kidnapped by Russians. Mid film his captor, Col. Dr. Irina Spalko, straps Jones to a chair and in a hush voice surrounded by ambient music she softly tells us what we have become, and where we are headed, and if you listen close you'll hear how its been done.

"Imagine, to peer across the world and know the enemies secrets, to place our thoughts into the minds of your leaders, make your teachers teach the true version of history, your soldiers attack on our command. We'll be everywhere at once more powerful than a whisper invading your dreams thinking your thoughts for you while you sleep. We will change you Dr. Jones, all of you, from the inside; we will turn you, into us and the best part-- you wont even know its happening "
Our dreams have been invaded and a frightening reality has been developed. Our leaders and teachers, none of them are as they seem, they have been turned from the inside, and we have been lead along for many generations. We are in the midst of a merger of the Russian and American models, a step closer to forming the perfect system of control. We are being crushed by the third wave of change. It is not coming, it is here.

"The First Wave of change— the agricultural revolution—took thousands of years to play itself out. The Second Wave—the rise of industrial civilization—took a mere three hundred years. Today history is even more accelerative, and it is likely that the Third Wave will sweep across history and complete itself in a few decades. We, who happen to share the planet at this explosive moment, will therefore feel the full impact of the Third Wave in our own lifetimes."
---Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave-1980
The first wave to hit us reveals just how long and far we have been lead, right into our current position, and with each wave of change that crashes our bonds grow tighter.

The agricultural revolution interrupted hunting and gathering and quickly replaced it with the domestication of plants and animals; within only a few thousand years the knowledge spread to all parts of the world. How and why the information was uncovered and implemented at such an expedited pace can be debated in theory, but there are few known facts as to what actually triggered the revolution.

The wanderers became farmers, as hunting grounds became farm land, and by the 17th century the second wave began to roll out, change was slow at first, man became farmer and owner, and with it came barter, money and bondage.

Since then we have been even more hurried through time, the industrial revolution was realized in hundreds of years, as opposed to thousands. The crushing changes of the second wave were directly aimed at our families, although several families managed to fare quite well through the assault. Toffler wrote that just like the first wave, "historians cannot pin down the "cause" of the industrial revolution" (The Third Wave p. 358), however we can see those that were involved in shaping the minds of men throughout it.

Industry drove people from the farm, and as families began moving closer to factories, children would no longer work as they did on the farms, an acceptable solution was mass education and it was ushered in. Toffler points out in The Third Wave, that school was to train children to become good factory workers, punctual, obedient people who can complete mundane tasks repetitively for eight hours a day, which is true, but that describes only half the purpose, mass education was, and still is, much worse than that.

...place our thoughts into the minds of your leaders, make your teachers teach the true version of history
In 1954 the Reece Committee investigated the inner workings of tax exempt foundations, such as those run by the Carnegie, Rockefeller and Ford families. The investigation was brought forth in part because of growing suspicion that these organizations were un-American. It was ultimately revealed that these tax exempt foundations were working in tandem, using foundation money to meddle with our minds.They needed to change our way of thinking, and using the power and influence of their organizations, they promote the idea of global government. One important way to capture and control us (the enemy) was uncovered, get us young and vulnerable, and teach us to love our servitude.

...we'll be everywhere at once more powerful than a whisper invading your dreams thinking your thoughts for you while you sleep
America was being slowly lead down a path of collectivism, in fact one report uncovered by the Reece committee summarized the third wave we were sleep-walking into, it was from the American Historical Foundation (est. in 1889) and states, "the day of the individual in the United States of America had come to an end, and that the future would be characterized, inevitably, by some form of collectivism..."

...we will change you...all of you, from the inside, we will turn you into us and the best part-- you wont even know its happening
The harsh changes of the third wave are aimed at the individual and the Reece Committee was not the only proof of the war on for our minds. Former KGB propagandist, Yuri Bezmenov, revealed soviet secrets of psych warfare that were not only introduced to children by their teachers, but also spread through Hollywood by various artists (directors, writers, actors, poets, musicians, painters,) and pushed ahead by government leaders, and the press. They are all working against the individual, knowingly and unknowingly, in an attempt change our perception of reality. America has been attacked from the inside, through soviet ideological warfare.

Yuri has given some insight as to how effortless brainwashing an entire society can be. First the people must be demoralized, and that can take about fifteen years to indoctrinate a single generation, and when they are grown they will lead the next generation, parroting the doctrine. Once the majority has been reprogrammed they will react properly to the planned destabilization, and accept the Stalin or Lenin type leaders that will rise. Then a generated crisis will be used to make people more agreeable, and finally, normalization, (which may never end) making the brainwashed society find normalcy in a way of life that no one of sound mind would ever willingly accept.

We have been lead through these waves of change for many generations, and have ourselves endured life long doses of brainwash. Many have been changed and the plans to turn us into a collective are nearing completion, a brave new world awaits us. It is up to those who have refused to be demoralized and have managed to hold on to their conscience to bring the truth forward. Fight the globalist plan to destroy the individual, stop the birth of the collective or prepare to suffer total enslavement.

Eternal Resistance to Tyranny!

Raining Blood Over the Temple of Set: Chemtrails Are Turning Us Into Cannibals & Human Sacrifice Victims

2009-03-14T13:42:00.000-07:00

Martha Rose Crow, M.S.

Raining blood
From a lacerated sky
Bleed its horror
Creating my structure
Now I shall reign in blood!
From the song ‘Raining Blood’ by Slayer

An Article in Six Parts:

I. Chemtrails
II. Cannibalism
III. Human Sacrifice
IV. Serpent Race, Serpent God & the Temple of Set
V. Sacred Executioners & Disposable Victims
VI. Connecting the Dots

I.
Chemtrails

Behind closed eyes lie
The minds ready to awaken you,
Are you at war with land
And all of its creatures,
Your not-so-gentle persuasion
Has been known to wreck economies
Of countries, of empires, the sky is over
From the song ‘Sky is Over’ by Serj Tankian

Exotic Weapon or Exotic Tool of Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice?

In 2002, Representative Dennis Kucinich introduced a bill that sought to ban space weapons. Tucked deep into a sub-clause in the first draft of H.R. 2977 was the word "chemtrails," listed among the weapons and practices Kucinich wanted outlawed. It was the first time the word had ever appeared in any sort of official document in Washington.

‘Chemtrails’ were officially defined as an ‘exotic weapons system’, as defined in Section 7, C.

When this was discovered, Kucinich quickly removed the word ‘chemtrails’ and denied responsibility for the original inclusion.

Chemtrails are chemicals, metals, biological organisms (dead or alive) and other things combined together and sprayed over places populated areas. They aren’t sprayed over the middle of oceans, nor sprayed over the North Pole and Antarctica.

Chemtrails are not the same as normal, everyday aerial contrails (normal jet exhaust). There is a definite observable difference in both the formation and behavior of these two similar phenomena, which clearly distinguishes one from the other.

Normal contrails are composed of fragile ice crystals formed by aircraft flying at altitudes of 31,000 feet or higher. At altitudes below 31,000 feet, contrails can not form behind an aircraft, regardless of its type or design. At above 31,000 feet, normal contrails appear pencil-thin when observed from ground level and in almost every circumstance, contrails evaporate within a minute or so.

Although chemtrail planes can fly at altitudes as high as 33,000 feet, most chemtrail planes generally fly below 30,000 feet. Since normal contrails cannot form at these low altitudes, it is very likely that any ‘exhaust’ you see in the sky are chemtrails.
Chemtrail particles are carried by air currents, spreading a fine dust of pathogenic materials throughout the environment. Not only do people inhale the devil’s brew falling on them from the sky, but chemtrail toxins find their way into crops and water.

The dust is nearly impossible to avoid since people can ingest it simply by breathing, eating and drinking.

Because governments and NATO deny that chemtrails exist, there are many theories about chemtrails. Some theorists think that chemtrails are part of an experiment to create biological warfare. Other theorists believe that chemtrails are used to change the chemical composition of the atmosphere in order to alter the weather conditions of certain countries (to end droughts or as a weapon of war).

Another group of theorists believe that chemtrails are chemical agents that somehow positively impact the atmosphere, reducing global warming. Then there are other theories that speculate that chemtrails are used for mind control or are tools of population control (including birth control) and genocide.

Test results from Chemtrials have returned positive for aluminum, barium, arsenic, bacteria, virus, human blood, human blood plasma, molds and more.

KSLA ran the substances through a lab and found high levels of Barium (6.8 ppm) and Lead (8.2 ppm) as well as trace amounts of other chemicals including arsenic, chromium, cadmium, selenium and silver. Of these, all but one are metals, some are toxic while several are rarely or never found in nature. http://jonesreport.com/article/01_08/080108_chemtrails.html

Heavy metals such as barium oxide aluminum oxide and silver are hard on the heart and lungs when inhaled. Barium oxide contamination has been associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Many blame chemtrails for Morgellon’s Disease.

Morgellons is now reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. and abroad… Many sufferers report string-like fibers of varying color popping out through the skin lesions. These fibers can be black, white, red or even iridescent blue. Others report black specks falling from their bodies that litter their sheets and bathrooms. Eventually a variety of bugs and worms begin to find their way out of the body through the lesions. Other accompanying symptoms include hair loss, debilitating and chronic fatigue, hard nodules beneath the skin, and joint pain. http://www.naturalnews.com/025757.html

People suffering from existing diseases, including lung diseases, struggle harder to breathe from chemtrails including asthmatics. Because ‘chemtrails’ don’t officially ‘exist’, asthmatic and other deaths are blamed on ‘pollution’ which is partially true as chemtrails are pollution from the sky.

It is obvious that ‘someone’ is poisoning us with chemtrail cocktails of poisons, but why the human blood and plasma cells? For dark, diabolical reasons.

II.
Cannibalism

Medieval Depiction of Cannibalism

I’m the sadist that reminds you of your blessing,
And the reaper that takes them away
To a place where they can lay there,
And wilt and rot away
From the song ‘Cannibal Vs. Cunning’ lyrics by Dead Poetic

“Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals.”
Maori Proverb

There are many who refuse to believe that cannibalism is practiced in this modern, "civilized" age. However, there is much evidence suggesting that it does occur and with more frequency than other ages because it is disguised better; because it has gone underground and thus, under the radar.

Cannibalism and its Siamese twin sister, human sacrifice, reach across centuries and cultures all the way back to pre-historic times.

Cannibalism is the eating of human flesh by other humans (though it can also refer to any species that prey on their own kind).

The word originates with the Carib Indians of the West Indies. Christopher Columbus and his crew discovered that the Caribs participated in a particularly gruesome practice of ritual cannibalism. The explorers mispronounced the name of the tribe and referred to them as "Canibs," which was evolved into "canibales," meaning thirsty and cruel in Spanish.

The existence of cannibalism is a widely disputed topic in academia. However, the evidence supporting its existence is abundant and is represented in every medium imaginable, including stories (including fairy tales), symbols, legends, myths, histories, writings, archeological evidence and first hand accounts.

Cannibalism remains a practice all over the world. In some cultures, cannibalism is a sacred and revered custom. Cannibalism is an undeniable occurrence rooted in antiquity and branching forth to the present-day.

There are four primary forms of criminal cannibalism: sexual cannibalism; aggression cannibalism; spiritual and ritual cannibalism; and, epicurean/nutritional cannibalism.

These various forms usually overlap with one another. For example, one may consume human flesh for several purposes, such as to achieve a sense of power and control (aggression cannibalism), yet one may also find the taste to be agreeable (epicurean/nutritional cannibalism).

Another person may indulge in cannibalism in order to reach a higher spiritual affinity with the person they have devoured, simultaneously achieving intense sexual and gratification.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/cannibalism/4.html

Then there is cannibalistic social behavior:

There are fundamentally two kinds of cannibalistic social behavior; endocannibalism (eating humans from the same community) and exocannibalism (eating humans from other communities).

A separate ethical distinction can be made to delineate between the practice of killing a human for food (homicidal cannibalism) versus eating the flesh of a person who was already dead (necro-cannibalism). http://www.crystalinks.com/cannibalism.html

Survival cannibalism is rare and explicable in many cases. When some people think of survival cannibalism they think of the ‘Donner party’, a wagon train of eighty-nine men, women and children led by a man named George Donner. The group set out across the Sierra Nevada Mountains on their way to California in 1846. As the Donner Party was traveling, the weather got bad and the party was forced to take an alternative route. The travelers ran out of food and other resources plus many died from exposure and starvation. After awhile, the remaining people went mad and began to eat the flesh of their dead. Some killed each other for food.

The 1976 movie ‘Survive!’ and a similar 1993 movie ‘Alive’ has an influence on the Collective Consciousness about non-ancient cannibalism as well. Both are about the same true story of a Uruguayan rugby team stranded from an airplane crash in the Andes who ate the dead bodies of those who died from the plane crash. They called the human flesh ‘protein’.

In 1974, British writer Piers Paul Read wrote a book, ‘Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors’, about this Andean plane crash and thus the ensuing cannibalism. Then there is a 2008 documentary, ‘Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains’.

The two movies, book and documentary have reached billions of people world-wide, exposing and reinforcing the mindset of ‘acceptable’ cannibalism in these modern times.

In the classic science fiction movie ‘Soylent Green’, the food that people of the futuristic, dying world eat is other humans in their rations of soylent green. Of course the regular people don’t know it but the leaders do.

There are many incidences in history where cannibalism has come out of famine and war. Cannibalism was rampant during the Siege of Lenningrad and it was practiced by Japanese the World War II pacific theater.

In most cases of cannibalism, eating another person is usually a Symbolic Act or way to express a relationship of power over the person/s being eaten. American Indian tribes, including the Pawnee and Ho-Chunk , and the Maori of New Zealand ate killed and ate the bodies of their prisoners of war.

Cannibalism is mentioned in that book of black magick called the bible. Here are two of many examples:

You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. Lev. 26:29

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. Micah 3:3

Depictions and symbols of modern cannibalism are everywhere in the socio-cultural tapestry of daily life. These depictions are in movies, on television, in print (e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, internet), in video games, so forth.

Fairy tales – those stories that ‘entertain’ children – are rife with cannibalism. ‘Hansel and Gretal’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, ‘The Juniper Tree’, ‘Snow White’ and ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ are all samples of dreamscape stories of cannibalism.

Psychologists will tell you that fairy tales send subliminal messages to the brain. Yes, some fairy tales are morality stories meant to teach morals through horror (a psychopathic way to teach a child) but they also teach cannibalism with no moral warnings as well, as if cannibalism is somehow ‘natural’ to the human environment.

Because cannibalism is so disgusting and such a taboo subject, there are few laws against it.

Because of this ‘oversight’, the German High Court was faced with trying a man (in 2004) who killed a willing victim through legal euthanasia and consumed him. The German High Court had to ask fundamental questions including: Did the perpetrator break a law even though it was not written on man's books?

'Cannibal relatives ate boy alive’ (June 2008)
“A seven-year-old boy was kept chained in a closet as relatives hacked off pieces of his flesh to eat, a court has heard…” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepublic/2162250/%27Cannibal-relatives-ate-boy-alive%27.html'Cannibal-relatives-ate-boy-alive'.html

III.
Human Sacrifice

Human Sacrifice Altar Over a Thousand Years Old at Wat Phu Champasak (Laos)

Rites of sacrifice in darkness offering the flesh
for thee... Master, ruler of the underworld of fire
I desire, waiting on the altar. Stars that shine,
moon that hides rising behind mountains here in
these lands of carthage where Baal reigns supreme…
From the song ‘Rituals of Human Sacrifice for Lord Baal’ by Inquistion

I cannot write about cannibalism without writing about human sacrifice because both are intricately related. Human sacrifice and cannibalism are Siamese twins, sharing two separate torsos but connected as one at the hip.

Why? With rare exceptions (necro-cannibalism or eating someone while they’re still alive), cannibalism can’t exist without human sacrifice because a human being must die so a cannibal can eat. This means that whether it’s done crudely or elaborately (with or without a formal ritual), invisibly and visibly (soft or hard kill) , a life is sacrificed.

Like cannibalism, human sacrifice falls into the category of diabolism, a belief system in which an act of ultimate evil confers magical power, thus the murder gives the ultimate power of life and death.

The practice of sacrifice is found in the oldest human records. The archaeological record contains human and animal corpses with sacrificial marks long before any written records of the practice...Human sacrifice was practiced by many ancient cultures. People would be ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease a god or spirit. While not widely known, human sacrifices for religious reasons still exist today in a number of nations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice#Human_sacrifice

Some scholars point out that violence and other social ills in are veiled forms of modern human sacrifice. I absolutely agree. It is the Luciferian Illuminati elite who start wars and members of their group rarely die in battle. Instead, they ‘command’ wars far away in some war room and some wal-street or government office. With few exceptions, it is always the common people who are sacrificed in wars plus civilians (‘collateral damage’).

Although you can’t have cannibalism without human sacrifices (in most cases), human sacrifice doesn’t always end in cannibalism, particularly when human sacrifice is conducted in the abstract by third-party means, including: war, class wars, famines, bio weapons, genocide, other depopulation programs, matricide, poison in the air/water/medicine/food/so forth, secret birth control programs, capitalism/economics, socially-driven suicide and murder, forced abortions, sieges of all kinds, and more.

Meme - Cultural idea, social practice, concept or action that becomes a norm and begins to repeat itself consciously in a society -term coined by Richard Dawkins in his book ‘The Selfish Gene’ 1976

Meme - A thought that spreads through society taking a life of its own

At some point in Earth's time, a meme was established for human sacrifice. That thought-form repeated itself throughout the whole of humanity and possibly into the land that humans reside. Such a powerful inclination it was that in all parts of the world, human sacrifice was not only accepted, but it was a way of life. http://www.spirit-of-the-torah.com/sacrifice.html

A ‘favorite’ form of human sacrifice of the secret puppet masters of this world is scapegoating. The leaders or secret puppet masters of this world blame someone – a person or a group – and sacrifice them on all levels.

During the times of the Temple in Jerusalem, a scapegoat was a goat that was driven off into the wilderness as part of the ceremonies of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement,. The rite is described in Leviticus 16.

Since this goat carried the sins of the people placed on it, it was sent away to perish. The word "scapegoat" has come to mean a person or persons, usually innocent. They are blamed and punished (usually killed) for the sins, crimes, bad luck, superstitions, religions or sufferings of others.

Blaming scapegoats is a classic way leaders use to distract the Village’s attention from the real causes of the problems. Somehow, the scapegoating of the innocent ‘righteously’ justifies the murder/s.

Scapegoats are usually those who can least defend themselves from accusation. The powerless (people, races, groups, classes, countries, so forth) are scapegoated by the powerful all the time in this modern world. Factor in the dynamic that the media/communication syndicate - the propaganda arms of government or other institutions of power - propel scapegoating with the constant finger pointing, mantras (incessant repetition that turn into chanted incantations) and target painting of chosen victims.

Scapegoats rarely get a trial and if they do, it usually is an unfair trail.

For example, the world economy is collapsing and although the captains of the financial sector, industry, investor class and politicians are responsible for this, poor people are being blamed instead of the ‘free market’. The media has spun and continues to spin the lies that somehow poor people who defaulted on their mortgages broke the ‘mortgage bubble’ and now this is bringing the whole house of cards down.

Ironic, the criminals behind the crimes are being rewarded for their psychopathic business practices with trillions of dollars from the government.

Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill President Kennedy (the Brotherhood of the Serpent did), but he was sacrificed for the deeds of the killers. The public got blood revenge and that ‘satisfied’ a lot of the Village.

In other times (and sometimes now) when crops failed or asteroids fell from the sky or the village got sick, a ‘witch’ would be scape-goated and burned.

Scapegoating is so common that people have become desensitized to it that they begin to think of scape-goating as ‘natural’ when it is psychopathic.

The bible is rife with stories of scapegoating where someone becomes a symbol for the sins/evil of others and thus must be sacrificed.

Because human sacrifice comes from twisted, psychopathic thinking, death somehow becomes ‘life’.

Formal, ritual human sacrifice is many times alluded to as being ‘fertility’ rites.

Pawnee Indians in America performed human sacrifice in religious ceremonies for ‘the bringing of life’. Babies, children and adults were regularly sacrificed to the ‘fertility’ god Set/Molech/Baal/Chemosh/so forth in ancient Egypt and middle east.

Countless world religions over the millennium have called themselves ‘life’ or ‘fertility’ groups when they worship death and call it life while sacrificing human beings. Some would call this hypocrisy, contradictory, ‘double speak’ and/or ‘double think’ but in reality, it is psychopathic speaking (demonspeak) and thinking (demonthink).

Romans practiced human sacrifice, directly and indirectly. They sacrificed human beings at funerals, during festivals and at munera (blood contests), including ritualized killings of humans in the arena. Gladiators were sacrificed to Saturn in the gladiatorial games in December and to Jupiter in the Feriae Latinae (Festival of Jupiter). These ritualized killings of humans came with religious overtones and concerns as homicide in ancient times always involved the sacred.

"Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." (Exodus 22:29)

The Judhahite priests and their ilk (those are the guys who wrote the Pentateuch or the first five books of the bible) sacrificed their first-born to Molech, one of the many names for the god of evil at that time. Proof of this is written in esoteric and exotic theology, anthropology and archaeological literature that mostly insiders know about and few of the common people had access to until the advent of the internet.

There are many reasons why humans are sacrificed but it’s usually to get some kind of power in life (win a battle, get money, dominate people, save your village, feed the blood thirsty god to get the blood thirsty god off your back, so forth). Dark occultists also get a drug buzz off the sacrifice but that is covered later.

Like cannibalism, fairy tales around the world teach/incorporate human sacrifice. And remember: 99.99% all cannibalism requires human sacrifice.

In modern Asia, human sacrifices are made to the ‘mother’ goddess Kali. She is, according to Hindu mythology, a violent slayer of evil with an unquenchable thirst for blood. In the nineteenth century, a child was killed every day at the Kali temple in Calcutta. The concept of Kali is hypocritical: She slays ‘evil’ but is blood-thirsty? Isn’t requiring the deaths of children in the evil arena?

Because of laws prohibiting the sacrifice of humans, the number of human sacrifices in Asia is unknown, but is still regularly reported in newspapers.

There is self-sacrifice that can easily turn into human sacrifice, whether direct or indirect. The whole thema of this world is about self-sacrifice: Sacrifice for your country; sacrifice for your god; sacrifice your principles and values for a bigger bowl of rice and extra privileges in society; sacrifice your free speech against corruption and evil; so forth.

Self-sacrifice is a trick by the secret and apparent tricksters to make you (invisible) slaves for them and their institutions. Right now, President Obama and the serpent –lying major media are calling for citizens to self-sacrifice. But why must people sacrifice more when many have been sacrificing for a long time? Globalism negatively and lethally affected people many decades ago and now more must suffer and die for this evil thing/institution?

There is no ‘nobility’ in sacrificing yourself for the ancient, evil, established systems that control this modern world. It was servants of the hidden puppet masters that caused this world depression and now they want more suffering disguised in the ‘righteous ideals’ of self-sacrifice.

Sacrifice (literal, metamorphical, symbolic and/or self-sacrifice) is the cornerstone of almost every religion.

Christ is not only a Mystical Symbol/Icon for cannibalism (“eat my flesh, drink my blood”) and human sacrifice (Christ was ritualistically murdered on a cross by and for religion), Christ is a Symbol/Icon for self-sacrifice and scapegoating as we’re told that he ‘gave’ his life in exchange for ‘saving’ all the lives of the world.

Those in esoteric circles know about the consumption of human flesh after ritual human sacrifice: theologians of inner circles; anthropologists; archeologists; elite circles; the Illuminati; the masons; other secret societies; historians of ancient history; occultists including magicians and alchemists (both Light and Dark); plus a host of others in related fields.

You can find this information on the internet or listen to David Livingstone’s interview at http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2009/01jan/RICR-090122.php

Livingstone plus legions of others back me up on this connection between human sacrifice and cannibalism. Livingstone describes the human sacrifice of babies in the ancient middle-east and describes that the babies were eaten afterwards. He talks and writes about the orgies.

Again, most human sacrifice that results in death are done ‘behind the veil’. This means that it is done by third-parties including institutions and laws. More, people are being sacrificed one-by-one or in small groups and the deaths are blamed on something else. This is done so the trail of blood doesn’t lead back to those individuals or groups who caused the sacrifice deaths.

There’s a big, ‘secret’ human sacrifice ritual going on right now before our very eyes and almost everyone denies it because it is compartmentalized in various boxes (war, crime, suicide, so forth). All the compartments are connected to the ‘Big Sacrifice’, or the depopulation of the majority of the world’s population.

In ancient times, the pharaohs of Egypt and other ancient kings killed off some of the slave population when it got too large and thus a threat to power. This is the same paradigm/tactic of rulers that is being diabolically used today .

It is evident that there is a depopulation program going on in the world right now. The elite have proclaimed this in public. Dr. Henry Kissinger wrote, "Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World." In 1975, Henry Kissinger established a policy planning group in the U.S. State Department's Office of Population Affairs and prepared the depopulation document ‘Global 2000’ document for President Jimmy Carter.

Investigations by EIR [Executive Intelligence Review] have uncovered a planning apparatus operating outside the control of the White House whose sole purpose is to reduce the world's population by 2 billion people through war, famine, disease and any other means necessary... http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwopopcnsaglobal2000report10mar81.shtml

Prince Philip of Britain, a member of the elite secret society the Bilderberg Group said, "If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”

When you look around you or at the data, few people but the elite live to very old age and few people die from natural causes. Instead, most people die prematurely before they reach their prime age (or fertility age as with child sacrifice).

In my article, ‘Baby Boomer Die-Off: There will be no Social Security Crisis’ at (http://martharosecrow.blogspot.com/2009/01/baby-boomer-die-off-there-will-be-no.html), I prove that people are dying prematurely.

Depopulation is real, it is evil, it is happening and it is human sacrifice.

If you want to know about how the puppet masters are depopulating America through secret human sacrifice by secret genocide, read my article ‘The Nine Stages of American Autogenocide’ at http://martharosecrow.blogspot.com/2009/01/nine-stages-of-american-autogenocide.html

In most countries of the modern world, there are laws against human sacrifice, which is simply considered ritual murder. Murders are punished accordingly by law .

So why are we born into a people-eat-people, human sacrifice planet? Why are almost all of the systems of this planet so cruel, barbaric, super-macho, ruthlessly competitive, violent and anti-life?
It all goes back to pre-historic times. For millennum, almost all the people in charge of this world and its institutions are psychopathic. There is a hidden reason for this: They are part of a secret race living among us.

IV.
Serpent Race, Serpent God & the Temple of Set

I’ve been telling people for years that we live in a human sacrifice temple ( a giant Temple of Set); that people are being deliberately and invisibly-but-tangibly sacrificed.

Imagine my surprise and horror when I found something in the mainstream media that said the same thing but in another voice. I almost fell off my chair from disbelief and had to watch it several times just to grasp that this cartoon exposed the social secrets/rites, hidden in the closet of humanity, and revealed this taboo/hidden subject to a mainstream audience.
Ironic, it’s a South Park cartoon. It’s Episode 1202 (Season 12) and is called ‘Britney’s New Look’. You can watch it for free at www.southparkstudios.com

It’s startling how a lampooned Britney Spears is a secret sacrifice for ‘the harvest’. Ironic, the term ‘the harvest’ is a term that evil uses when referring to us goyim, or human cattle. It’s startling to see Stan, who is against Britney’s hidden ritual sacrifice, become a supporter of it in the end.
Many Gods

I know this sounds cliché, but we are living on a battleground between good (life-Light) and evil (death-Dark) forces. The players in this uber (super) cosmic ‘war’ are gods of good and evil plus their creations (us), and we are actual spiritual extensions of whichever god or goddess created them.

Gods come from the ‘Mysterious’ Well of Gods and gods self-create their own personalities, thus either vibrate high energies of Light or low energies of Darkness. Gods are eternal; they cannot die.

Gods themselves chose how they wish to think, thus they chose how to govern their creations either by strict, psychopathic control using force (Darkness) or by patience, understanding and gentle guiding using the non-violent power of infinite love (Light).

Gods are not perfect. We’re programmed to believe that there is one ‘god’ and he is ‘perfect’ but those are lies sold over the last two millennium to get us believing in monotheism.

Monotheism is a people control tool: Universal religion means universal control of people. Religion and politics always lie in bed together: For the Power/Dominance over the goyim (the human cattle) and to get us deep enough into the dream state (and keep us there) so we won’t say anything or do anything about evil, including the human sacrifice going on around us in plain sight.

Because gods are not perfect, they have problem gods within their ranks. All gods live on the 7th density (level of Existence) that the ancient Greeks called Olympus. The gods of Light live uncomfortably with the few gods of Darkness and have been unable to make these gods of Darkness stop causing trouble for them. The gods of Light want them to go somewhere else and live but how can you throw a god out of their legal home?

I’ve suspected for a long time that these issues of the gods (and other issues) are being settled in this realm of mortality we find ourselves trapped in. The gods use us pawns to prove points and to win points. This thinking and philosophy is certainly in the literature, ancient and now.

There are two major gods of this planet: The Major God of Light (the Beautiful Mind) and the Major God of Darkness (the Cruel Mind) plus a smorgasbord of minor gods that serve one of the major gods.

Suggestion of two gods and two races of men are mentioned in the bible. There are two creation stories in Genesis: the first creation story takes place in Genesis 1, while the second takes place in Genesis 2.

‘Man’ is created by ‘god’ in Chapter One of Genesis, and then ‘man’ is created again by ‘god’ again in Chapter Two. Because the bible redactors, editors and apologists never changed these contradictory passages, it seems that there are two gods and two races of men.

The bible also mentions that there are many gods. It also mentions many gods in Genesis One:

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Genesis 1:26

Set

Set is the devil or Lucifer or the major god of evil. Nowhere in the bible does it say that Set-an was a ‘fallen angel’. Bible apologists and other esoteric theologians came up with that theory to try to make Set-an seem to have less power than the monotheist god as angels are Creations and servants of god, thus they are not as powerful as god.

In history, Set was an Egyptian god whose Priesthood can be traced to pre-dynastic times. Images of Set have been dated to around 3200 BCE, with astronomically-based estimates of inscriptions dating to 5000 BCE.

Some historians of ancient history believe that Egyptian gods originally came from Mesopotamia, but in lieu of the time-line, it seems that serpent and other worship of human sacrifice gods was identical throughout the world at the same time. Interesting, Marduk, the chief god of the ancient Mesopotamians appeared to mortals and his priests as a serpent.

Classical writers have described Egyptian sacrificial rites as witnessed in various lands. What is so very interesting is that in Ethiopia, Achilles Tatius reports a virgin with hands bound behind was led around an altar by a priest chanting an Egyptian hymn; then "all retired from the altar at a distance," the maiden was tied down, and a sword was first plunged into her heart and then slashed her lower abdomen from side to side. The remains were burned, cut to pieces, and eaten… http://www2.ida.net/graphics/shirtail/sacrific.htm

Set had the head of a ‘strange animal’ and the body of a man but he also appeared in the form of a monster serpent, and when he did, Set took with him as hell-pers a large number of small serpents and noxious creatures of various kinds.

In Egyptian tradition, the god Seth or Set "stands for the forces of chaos and destruction, or energy misplaced. He was the manifestation of Apep or Typhon, opposers of the power of light." - Murray Hope, Practical Egyptian Magic

Set is a shape-shifter and a name-changer.

Set is represented by many Symbols including the serpent, bull, ram and owl. He is also represented as a sun god, a rising sun and as a morning star. Set’s name, depiction and symbols can be found in secret societies including the Masons.

In the bible, Set is given these names of animals or creatures:
The serpent (Genesis 3:1-2, 4, 13-14; 2Corinthians 11:3; Revelation 12:9, 14-15)
Ancient serpent (Revelation 12:9; Revelation 20:2)
The coiling serpent (Isaiah 27:1)
The gliding serpent (Isaiah 27:1)
The dragon (Revelation 12:4, 7, 13, 16-17; Revelation 20:2)
Enormous red dragon (Revelation 12:3)
The great dragon (Revelation 12:9)
The monster of the sea (Isaiah 27:1)
The wolf (John 10:12)

Four of the above are serpents, three are dragons, one is a monster of the sea and one is a wolf. All are predators without a Conscience. All will kill and eat you.

I have already proven that Set is the god of the bible with my UNCENSORED article, ‘Who Is the Real God of the Bible’ (http://uncensored.co.nz/who-is-the-real-god-of-the-bible/)

Two Races of Man

Ancient texts, myths, archeological finds, so forth, report that ancient people believed in many gods (either good or evil) plus they believed in two races of man: the serpent race who looked like and acted like their serpent god and the humanoid race that looked like and behaved like their god.

In the form of man they amongst us,
but only to sight were they as are men.
Serpent-headed when the glamour was lifted
but appearing to man as men among men.
Crept they into the Councils,
taking forms that were like unto men.
Slaying by their arts
the chiefs of the kingdoms,
taking their form and ruling o'er man.
Only by magic could they be discovered.
Only by sound could their faces be seen.
Sought they from the Kingdom of shadows
to destroy man and rule in his place. Emerald Tablet of Thoth, Tablet 8

The primary symbol for the evil race of men and their god Set is the serpent.

Reports about serpent gods from the sky and serpent people date back to the earliest human writings, story telling and myths. The Ancients left writings, statues, idols, human sacrifice altars, and more about the serpent race all over the planet that are still being discovered today.

Some writings come from Sumer (meaning "land of the guardians"), Babylon (meaning "gate of the gods") and other civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia. Their beliefs eventually spread over that region of the earth. Interesting, remote parts of the world also believed in a serpent race during this same time.

Thousands of clay tablets that have been recovered from the Mesopotamian area and translated. These tablets date from earliest recorded history, including some documents that record events dating back 240,000 years.

One of these tablets, the Sumerian King List, tells the story of the god, Anu, chief god of an extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki, and his sons, Enki and Enlil. It is clear from the texts and the illustrations left by the Sumerians that at least some of these "gods", including Enki (also known as Ea), were reptilian in appearance. It is Enki who gave the first people the fruit of the tree of knowledge and who later saved humanity by warning a Noah-like figure of the great flood. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_28.htm

The Perception of the Two Races of Man in Modern Times

Many mystics and shamans of the modern era identify the two races of man as ‘Pre-Adamic’ (belonging to the God of Evil, the god of Genesis One), and ‘Adamic’ (belonging to the God of Good, the god of Genesis Two).

Many psychiatrists and psychologists identify these two races as psychopathic (evil) or non-psychopathic (good or the majority of people). Science has discovered that five to six percent of the population are naturally born psychopaths.

Psychopaths basically have no Conscience and care only for themselves. They are ‘programmed’ or ‘set’ for cruelty (the mind of their god), chaos, destruction and violent domination of others. This domination can be ‘micro’ as in dominating families, groups they belong to and co-workers or with fellow psychopaths or this domination can be ‘macro’.

Psychopaths are ruthless in their quest for power and will use people and do anything (lie, cheat, steal, murder, extort, so forth) to climb the steps of ladders to power. That is why almost every institution (including government) is run by them or by ‘secondary psychopaths’; people who were born mentally (and spiritually) healthy but became infected with the disease of evil and went psychopath path.

As for not having Souls, I have read many articles about psychopaths where psychiatrists, psychologists and other professionals say that these people seemingly don’t have Souls. Psychics, shamans, occultists and others report that they can’t see a Light in psychopaths but a dark light in a mist of black ether.

Because most people are taught disinformation and misinformation by the institutions of the world and because predator evil prefers to remain hidden, most people are not aware of the two races. This is because we’re told (again) there is only one god, because this ‘one’ god created all men, and that ‘everyone’ is born good, it takes a long time for people to put the pieces of the truth together and figure out what is really going on.

There are many books and places on the internet that say there is a pure serpent/lizard race living inside the earth. More, youtube is filled with peoples’ accounts of seeing ‘lizard people’ while driving, walking or seeing them peer through their windows.

A lot of people are aware of this other race (and its various forms) living among us or in the next plane. This other race is called ‘reptilians’, dragon people, lizard people, ‘lizzies’, so forth.

Sometimes, the snake race and/or their children are called Nephilim. The Nephilim are mentioned in Genesis 6:1-4. Many scholars and students of the esoteric believe that this race could be aliens or angels. The evidence tilts in the favor of aliens.

Genesis and the Book of Enoch say that ‘the sons of god’ found mortal women beautiful and made them pregnant, resulting in another race, a race of ‘giants’ and that is why ‘god’ destroyed the world with a flood.

If you search ‘reptilian humanoid’ on wikipedia, you will see that all ancient cultures around the world believed in them. Snakes are reptilian.

According to writer David Icke, 7-foot (2.1 m) tall, blood-drinking reptilian humanoids from the star system Alpha Draconis are the force behind a worldwide conspiracy directed at humanity. The reptilians maintain their control through the generation of fear and negative emotion, which is food to these entities, by manufacturing conflicts, primarily wars. He contends that most of the world's leaders are in fact related to these reptilians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_humanoid

There is evidence everywhere on this planet that early man believed in serpent people and serpent gods. They left figures and statues of them that are still being dug up by archeologists.

More, there is evidence all over this world about the ancient snake cult. For example, here are snake mounds all over the world. My relatives have lived for generations by the Serpent Mound of Ohio.

Other Helpers in this Cosmic Drama

There are helpers in this holo deck or hologram. I’ve known that the universe and all its contents was a hologram for a long time and now science has proven this.

The hell-pers of evil are demons who dwell between dimensions. The helpers of good are Spirits and Angels who operate from the Spirit World (5th density) or between dimensions. They and demons also operate in the material realm (3rd density).

Then there are the ‘projectionists’, those beings that operate the hologram. A friend told me recently about their friend who met some of those projectionists. He found a crack in a rock face and went inside. He was sucked up into a worm hole and found himself outside of the universe in a control booth. The man said that the beings there were intelligent and friendly and explained that they were controlling the hologram.

The Serpent or the Evil Seed

He who does not carry demonic seeds within him will
never give birth to a new world. Adolph Hitler
http://peeringthrough.blogspot.com/

There are ancient accounts of a serpent race from the galaxy Alfa Draconis who were chased here to earth by humanoid aliens in this quadrant of the universe. The alien humanoids blew up a planet near Jupiter to form the Van Allen Belt and the asteroid belt around our solar system so the serpent race would be imprisoned on earth.

Subsequently, for whatever reasons, the serpent race infused their DNA with the humans living on earth in ancient times, infecting them with the evil seed that all of us carry in varying degrees. If we have strong serpent DNA and mate with someone who also carries strong serpent DNA, we beget psychopathic children or serpent race children.

There is an esoteric theory of the Serpent Seed doctrine:

The Serpent Seed doctrine is the teaching that in the Garden of Eden, the serpent (the devil) had sexual relations with Eve. The result was that she bore Cain. The descendents of Cain are called Kenites. Abel, however, is the result of Adam and Eve having relations…http://www.carm.org/religious-movements/shepherds-chapel/serpent-seed-and-kenites
The idea about a serpent or evil seed in peoples’ physiology (DNA) is not new. This idea is thousands of years old and found in ancient mythology, theology, history and records.

In ancient days, there were many Gnostic sects. The Jewish Gnostics believed in the evil serpent seed:
Jewish Gnostics concluded that there were two races, the pure and undefiled seed of Seth, which avoid sexual intercourse, and the children of Cain, given over to lust, sin, evil and damnation. These two races must not intermingle. ...

The Gnostics knew themselves to the be the 'other seed,' the progeny of Seth who was born to Adam and Eve after she had successfully escaped the lustful attacks of the ignorant creator...
Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, by John D. Turner, pg. 236

Ancient Gnostics believed in two gods: one of good and one of evil. They also believed in the serpent race and the race of the God of the Light. They believed that the world was in control of the serpent people and their god.

In early Christian history, several Gnostic groups believed that the Church as well as the Old Testament came from Satan. The Church, of course, labeled these Gnostics as ‘heretics’ and burned their books as well as the ‘heretics’ themselves. Many Gnostics have seen the blade of a Christian sword over the millennium as well. The world has been forced for many thousands of years to believe in death religions by the threats and weapons of the gods of death.

When the early Christians burned ancient libraries with ancient texts, they almost disappeared all writing, thus history and evidence, of the serpent race.

More, during the ‘early years’ of the Church, representatives of the Church destroyed pagan temples while building their major, mega Christian temple (the Vatican) on the site of an ancient pagan temple. It is rumored that human sacrifices happened in this ancient temple.

During during and after the fall of Rome, the ‘holy’ Roman Church plunged all countries it controlled into a Dark Ages that lasted until the Renaissance. This means that the Church purposely tried to erase all the wisdom, history, philosophy and everything else that didn’t jive with Church propaganda, their bible, dogma and teachings. Again, the Church did this with force and they purged the memories with time, so few people would remember the old gods, religions, civilizations, so forth.

There are many stories in the bible about human sacrifice connected with the serpent seed. The biblical story of Cain is the first story.

Cain and Abel were the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain was a farmer and Abel was a shepherd. At harvest time, Cain brought the god of the bible a gift of his farm produce and Abel brought the fatty cuts of meat from his best lambs. Both presented their offerings before 'god'. 'God' accepted Abel's offering but rejected Cain's offering. Cain got pissed off and slew Abel in premeditated murder (according to the bible, Cain deceived Abel into going in the fields).

Whether it was an official human sacrifice or unofficial sacrifice, any murder is human sacrifice.

But there might be more to this. Maybe Cain offered his brother up to 'god' when grain and fruit weren't good enough. It seems that ‘god’ would only take blood tithes.

Maybe Abel was real tasty to ‘god’ because Cain didn't suffer any real consequences for his evil act of Evil Executioner. Cain wasn't executed for his evil deed and he didn't suffer because he went on to found a city called Enoch, after his son. If Cain had any kind of a Conscience, he would have named the city 'Abel' or made some other kind of monument to the brother that he killed.

It is very likely if there was a real Cain, he was from the serpent seed or a pre-Adamic.

As for Eve being seduced by the serpent (Lucifer), well if this is a true story, she was probably raped or the serpent race DNA was inserted into her eggs.

The seed of evil was implanted in Eve in the garden of eden…Through this connection the devil had gained a foothold into the physical world, enabling him to put into effect the powers of destruction to men, through men, on our earthly plane. The first born son on earth was of the devil's seed. http://www.reptilianagenda.com/research/r102099j.shtml

As for the serpent god raping a mortal woman (Eve), well the ancient texts, religious texts and ‘myths’ tell us that gods rape women.

A word about ‘myths’ here.: Many ancient histories have been twisted into ‘myths’ only because they contradicted the Church.
But there are many things we can learn from what we know about ancient theologies and histories turned ‘myth’.

We are programmed to believe that gods are 'sexless'. If you read ancient Roman or Greek theology, you will learn real fast that gods and goddesses from Olympus were always coming down to earth to have sex with mortals and many times, got someone pregnant or a goddess got pregnant.

Hercules was the son of Jupiter, the supreme god of Olympus, and of Alcmene, a mortal married woman. Juno, the wife of Jupiter, hated Hercules because she could see the future and knew that Hercules would be the most famous and successful of Jupiter's many illegitimate children.

Juno delayed Hercules’ birth and then, when he was finally born, sent two large snakes to kill him as he lay in his crib. Hercules was so strong that he strangled the snakes, one in each hand. The image of the infant Hercules strangling the snakes was extremely popular in early ancient Rome.

The Hercules story not only tells us that gods and goddesses have sex with us lowly mortals, but they’re horny, fertile, jealous, interfering and murderers (the snakes in Hercules’ baby bed) plus they deceive and play games with mortals. The goddess Juno made Hercules go so that he killed his children. Hercules had to atone for murdering his children by doing his famous ‘Twelve Labors’.

So it could very well be true that Eve was raped by the serpent or one of his organic portals. Whether it happened in the ‘garden of eden’ or elsewhere, the evidence shows that the serpent race put some of their DNA in us.

But why tinker with our DNA, why did they put their evil seed in us? To make organic vehicles (bodies) viable for demonic possession by Set. A newborn baby to be possessed must have strong snake DNA for this possession. Otherwise, the baby is given a Soul by the God of the Light.

Vampires

Because Darkness vibrates on low-frequencies, it cannot make it’s own energy/fuel like Light can because it vibrates on higher frequencies. Set, his serpent race and his demons are vampiric: they must steal the Light of the Souled for spiritual fuel. More, it is our Light that fuels the hologram.

You’d be surprised how much Light we produce but most of that is stolen and almost all of us don’t know it. The theft of Light is done usually done in two ways. The serpents use snake-like tendrils from their ether spirit and suck our Light with those tendrils. Then they use ‘extractors’ that are suction worm holes that move over the sky, ‘harvesting’ our Light, particularly when we are asleep or grouped together.

Aura of a Person Before and After Being Drained from a Psychic Vampire
http://www.llewellynjournal.com/article/513

A later study funded by the Parapsychology Foundation of New York not only confirmed the findings of our earlier research, it showed that certain persons were highly skilled at deliberately tapping into and directly feeding upon the aura of others. By draining energy from another person's aura, these so-called psychic vampires not only deplete the aura's energy resources, they interrupt the capacity of the aura's central core to generate new energy, particularly when the interaction is prolonged. Consistent with our earlier findings, direct observations of the aura as well as aura photographs taken before and after a psychic vampire interaction showed the victim's aura becoming severely de-energized and constricted following an attack while the vampire's aura became energized and expansive. http://www.llewellynjournal.com/article/513

Connecting Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice With Set and His Serpent Race

First of all, remember that cannibalism depends on human sacrifice. Those are connected. Human sacrifice can be ritualistic or non-ritual, apparent or ‘invisible’.

Set and his crew are not only psychic vampires or spiritual parasites, Set is a blood thirsty god. He has always demanded human sacrifice since the beginning. Set likes to eat human flesh, too. He tastes it through his human agents, the pre-Adamics.

Another reason why there is human sacrifice is because Set likes to hurl insults to the God of the Light by killing the Souled. The rituals for ritual human sacrifice symbolically mock and insult the goodness of Adamics and their god.

All human sacrifice is also about power. It is a show of power (symbol) of the serpents and their serpent god over the Adamic race and god.

There is usually sexual activity during the ‘rites’ and then there’s usually an orgy that follows afterwards.

The sex during the ritual is performed on an altar in a form of ‘sacred marriage’ re-enactment between the evil god and mortal female (a symbolic Eve, but this Eve is eve-ill). A human male becomes a portal for the devil and the devil’s spirit fills/possesses him.

The female counterpart to this ‘sacred marriage’ is usually a high priestess or an evil female who is in estrus (ovulating). Any child who is conceived on the evil altar will be considered ‘sacred’ and is usually born a very evil person. The evil god – through the male portal - and female have intercourse.

Remember, the ancients always believed that gods had sex with mortals. It’s in their ancient literature and ‘myths’. The New Testament says that the ‘holy spirit’ came upon the Virgin Mary to make her pregnant (Matt. 1:18, 20; Luke 1:35; Gal. 4:29).

Since gods do not have bodies, they probably go through mortals (Pre-Adamics or organic portals) and have sex with women (and men) through the portals.

Gods are never held to the same principles and morals that humans are held to. They give us laws but don’t obey those laws themselves. One of these laws is the incest. If your god ‘comes upon’ you, then it’s literally your ‘father’ that is having sex with you.

After the main ritual of incantations for the human sacrifice, sex with the devil, the bloodletting of the human sacrifice, the inhaling/consumption of the andrenalinechrome (a chemical from the pineal gland that is generated from the victim’s fright – it gives the leader a rich, evil high), the subsequent drinking of blood in a ‘holy’ chalice and the eating of flesh, comes the sex ‘party’ which is also part of the ritual. Children conceived in the orgy are usually born evil or serpentine.

Because the predator serpent race prefers to remain hidden, because their blood god Set requires oceans of blood and because the Pre-Adamics fear an uprising by the Adamics if exposed, most human sacrifices are carried out non-formally, with the causes of death being blamed as something else. I wrote about this ‘indirect’ human sacrifice in Part 3.

The Temple of Set

This whole planet has been designed since ancient times to be a human sacrifice machine for Set, his serpent race and system of evil systems. We are living in a Temple of Set.

Look around you with an open mind and see how everything, including governments, economic systems, religions and the rest are institutionalized evil. Do some research and see how almost every person with a Soul is cut down before their prime. Almost every death on this planet has now become a secret human sacrifice of some kind or another. Serpent god worship and its ensuing human sacrifice are very old.

In October of 2007, Archaeologists discovered what seems to be the remains of the world's earliest religious worship site in the remote Ngamiland region of Botswana. The Tsodilo Hills are a sacred place for the local San people, who call them the "Mountains of the Gods" and the "Rock that Whispers".

Archaeologists found a mysterious rock that resembled the head of a huge python. On the six meter long by two meter tall rock, they found three to four hundred indentations that could only have been man-made. It is estimated that this religious site is 70,000 years old.

So far, the serpent worship is the oldest identifiable religion on earth because the ancients didn’t leave any evidence of nature worship or any other kind of worship.

According to the bible, the Hebrews worshiped serpents down to the days of King Hezekiah who abolished idols.

The ‘Oldest’ known African human sacrifice

“The tomb of a 5,500-year-old man surrounded by three sacrificed humans, two dogs and exquisite ceramics were exhumed north of Khartoum by Neolithic expert Jacques Reinhold and his 66-year-old Austrian wife.

“This is the oldest proof of human sacrifice in Sudan, in Egypt, in Africa,” Reinhold told reporters next to the remains in El Kadada village… http://anthropology.net/2008/02/19/the-oldest-known-african-human-sacrifice/

Human sacrifice is on the rise

The APEC [American Psychological Evaluation Corporation] study monitored 872 religions, cults, orders, and societies. Of these 381 were formed within the past five years. Of the latter group, 58 were organizations that espouse or feature human sacrifice. Previous studies of such groups have revealed a 285 percent rise in the number of human sacrifice-friendly groups since 1991. The explosion of so-called "New Age" religions and the growing popularity of parlor divinations such as table tipping, astrology, and nephrology point to a quasi-mystical frenzy sweeping the world. Seeking answers in arcane mysticism and nonrational behavior is generally regarded as a stress reaction induced by the complexities of modern industrial society. But the growing popularity of human sacrifice is not easily explained by any standard sociological model. http://www.fright.com/vmoon/6_19a.html

'My daughter was killed for human sacrifice’ (October 9, 2008)
Lucknow: The body of a six-year-old girl was found near a temple in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday. The girl's father has alleged she was killed as part of a human sacrifice ritual… http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1196725

V.
Sacred Executioners & Disposable Victims

There is an ancient system of apparent and occult (hidden) human sacrifice that is still operating today (same leopard, different spots). Someone has to do the killing and someone (individual or group) has to die.

The killer is wrapped in mystique and ‘sacredness”. This system is best described by Peter Myers, in his excellent paper, ‘Hyam Maccoby, The Sacred Executioner’. (http://mailstar.net/maccoby.html)

The Sacred Executioner of all the modern sacrificial institutions is masked. The Sacred Executioner seemingly dwells in the dream world because of ‘myth’ and the deliberate hiding of the serpent race, god and culture, the Sacred Executioner is very real. You could ask the victims, but they’re all dead (executed).

In modern times, ‘sacred executions’ are still done individually and collectively and the Sacred Executioner can be an individual or is a composite of a group or groups and/or institutions, including societies, political organizations, commerce/economic organizations, the military, so forth.

‘Hyam Maccoby, The Sacred Executioner’ is a lengthy. To keep this article as short as possible, I’ve truncated the highlights and the [ ] are mine :

A figure in mythology that has received little attention is that of the Sacred Executioner. By this I mean the figure of a person (either a god or a human being) who slays another person, and as a result is treated as both sacred and accursed.

Commonly, such a person in myth is ejected from society and condemned to long wanderings; yet he is also regarded as having special privileges, such as being protected from attack and having his life prolonged beyond the average. There are many variations on this pattern; sometimes the person is treated as more sacred than accursed, sometimes as more accursed than sacred....

…In general, rituals are earlier than myths…Myths often arose in order to explain a ritual; often too, they became detached from the ritual, which had become obsolete, and functioned simply as stories for poets or playwrights, though such stories also had a ritual function, being recited at festivals, and being regarded as holy writ.
Ritual is not the only source of myth, which may arise from a historical event; yet in the background of such a transformation the influence of the ancient ritual may often be felt, arising from a fundamental need for placation and expiation in the face of unmanageable fear….

Thus a story based on fact, by being interpreted in a way consonant with ancient sacrificial ritual, may actually take the place of that ritual and function in such a way that it is as if the ritual were being perpetually performed. The best example of this is the case of Jesus, whose death was interpreted as the sacrifice of a man-god, the placation of an angry father-god and the expiation of otherwise unpardonable sins; the blame for the shocking but necessary sacrifice was borne by a whole nation, the Jews (though crystallized in the individual form of Judas), who were given the role of a collective Sacred Executioner….

The historical reality that lies behind all these stories, I shall argue, is the institution of human sacrifice...

For human sacrifice seems almost never to have been unaccompanied by guilt on the part of the society in which it occurred and by a consequent desire to shift the blame, despite the desperate need that was felt to accomplish the deed. How do we know then, that ritual sacrifice is the real subject of the myth? This is betrayed [portrayed not betrayed] by the equivocal character of the story. Some good consequence will be seen to flow from the slaying: a city will be founded, or a nation will be inaugurated, or a famine will be stayed, or a people will be saved from the wrath of the gods, or a threatening enemy will be defeated. Such good consequences are exactly the results that were hoped for by the performance of human sacrifice.

If the slaying is blamed entirely on accident [such as chemtrails, capitalism, ‘democracy’, so forth], then nobody will be blamed; but usually the slaying is attributed to malevolence on the part of the slayer. In this case, the hidden character of the story is betrayed by the equivocal nature of the punishment meted out to the slayer. He will be cursed, but not put to death; he will acquire special magic powers; he will be driven out of society, but special pains taken to ensure that he survives. By taking the blame for the slaying, he is performing a great service to society, for not only does he perform the deed, but he takes upon himself the blame for it, and thus absolves society as a whole completely from the guilt of a slaying for which they, in fact, are responsible and by which, in theory at least, they benefit...

How can a Sacred Executioner be ‘sacred’ if he is serving a god of evil and death? But the idea and symbolism of a Sacred Executioner appeases the guilt of the Collective Souled who allow ‘allowed’ human sacrifice to happen. Somehow, murderers have become ‘mystical’ persons who will do the dirty job of murder for the ‘benefit’ of others.

The victims of sacrifice also become ‘mystical’ in the Collective Mind. ‘Mystical’ means occult: spiritually symbolic and obscure in meaning. And in this mix of mysticism, the Sacred Executioner becomes a (dark) ‘hero’ where the human sacrifice is just another disposable victim and nothing more.

The Executioner, the ritual (formal or informal, direct or indirect) and the victim/s are occult as ‘occult’ means hidden or obscure. That is because the people of the world are under layers upon layers of dark hypnosis for mind and spiritual control plus they are programmed to avoid the real reality but accept and/or believe in the reality they’re told to accept and/or believe in by their serpent masters.

More, since the subjects of cannibalism, of the serpent god and his race, human sacrifice and the rest are taboo, nobody really wants to talk about these taboo subjects because they are frightening. It might make people uncomfortable as their Consciences may bother start to bother them or people are too busy dreaming in the deep hypnotic state and prefer that to dealing with the real reality.

This serpent death world is wrapped in cabbage-like layers of superstition. People ignore or deny the evil around them, believing if they ignore or deny the evil, that it will leave them alone and go down the road and claim someone else for the blood thirst of the vampire god and his vampire agents.

The taboo subjects of evil, serpents, cannibalism and human sacrifice are pushed back into the back of the mind and psyche.

This makes the subjects and reality surreal, thus dream-like and less tangible.

The Sacred Executioner, his hell-pers (including supporters) and the victim/s involved usually remain faceless and nameless.

This helps to keep evil ‘invisible’ or hidden in the minds of the Village.

The Sacred Executioner, plus the secret human sacrifice ritual and sacrificed victims, are not only symbols of the occult because they are hidden, they are symbols of other things.

The Sacred Executioner wields the power of life and death, another important symbol of dark power. On the other hand, the victims are symbols of powerlessness because they’re hypnotized, drugged, tied up (ritual human sacrifice) and they’re terrified.

The Sacred Executioner is the symbol of the predator and the symbol of the parasite. The sacrificed is the symbol of the prey.

The sacrificed victim/s are also symbols of the serfs’/slaves’ blood payment to the hidden ‘lord’ of this world, Set.

The facelessness of the Sacred Executioner, hell-pers and victims are symbols in themselves because they represent shadows. Predators hide in the shadows plus they hide their deeds in the shadows. The facelessness is also symbolic of the veils the serpents put on the psyche of the Mind.

Another symbol is that the Sacred Executioner gets to live while his victims have to die. It indirectly tells who gets priority to live in this world.

The Sacred Executioner (state or religious murderer) is considered ‘holy’ while the victim/s are not. They are the lambs (as in children) or sheeple (as in adults) who must die in magical blood payments to Set.

Sometimes, the victims of sacrifice are considered ‘martyrs’. Christ falls into this category besides – again- the categories of human sacrifice and self-sacrifice. But with few exceptions, the names and faces of the sacrificed are never remembered and forgotten.

No matter what the serpents sell you (literal snake oil) to escape your Conscience, no matter how much you try to wash your hands of blood like Pontius Pilate tried to, the blood remains.

America is responsible for the disappearance of hundreds of millions of lives on ther planet because of its imperial ambitions. Although the common man-slaves are mostly against the human sacrifice methods done to force and enforce empire, they still have the blood on their hands.

Mark Hertzgaard said, “Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.”

Blood on the hands - acceptance or silence of all the things the Brotherhood of the Serpent does – is another way to weave you into the Serpent Systems that control this world today.

Set and his serpent race use fear to control us physically, mentally, psychically, emotionally and spiritually. When we begin to understand who and what they are and overcome our fear of them, they no longer have control over us. When we organize collectively, we can overthrow the serpent slave masters and their system of systems.

VI.
Connecting the Dots

I have been convinced that we, as an Order, have come under the power
of some very evil occult order, profoundly versed in science both occult
and otherwise, though not infallible, their methods being black magick,
that is to say, electro-magnetic power, hypnotism and powerful
suggestion. We are convinced that the order is being
controlledby some sun order, after the nature of the
illuminati, if not by that order itself.
Duke of Brunswick

Ironic, when I was working on this last part of this article, I was listening to Alex Jones on infowars.com and he talked about Mexico and how its falling into civil war. He also mentioned the murders on the US/Mexico border, including the mass graves being found with hundreds of female corpses whose hearts have been cut out. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that this is evidence of human sacrifice.

Whether it’s indirect human sacrifice (civil wars designed behind the wizards’ curtain) or direct human sacrifice (killing women and cutting their hearts out), it’s still human sacrifice and probably cannibalism. What happened to the hearts cut out the women?

Now, I will connect all of these dark, dynamic things mentioned above to a Bigger Picture.

Chemtrails are raining human blood and plasma over the Temple of Set. We are ingesting these things (plus the other things). When we ingest this blood and plasma, we become indirect cannibals.

Chemtrails are killing us one-by-one and these deaths are secret human sacrifice deaths. The causes of the deaths are called something else because governments deny that chemtrails exist.

The serpent race are not only predators, they are parasites or psychic vampires and so is their serpent god. The endless need for the god to be propitiated by blood is reflected in the Old Testament and is also reflected in the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews: "Indeed, under law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins." (Heb. 9:22)

The signs and symbols of the Temple of Set are everywhere. Serpents, reptiles, predator animals, obelisks, ancient Egyptian symbols and more are found on clothing, posters, household furnishings, tattoos, toys and many other things.

The caduceus symbol with entwining snakes represents ‘health’.

Snake symbols are phallic symbols and the world is certainly drowning in them. The cross of Christ is a symbol of serpents and crucifixes (which also portray human sacrifice) are everywhere. The word ‘Cross’ comes from the Latin word ceras, which also means ‘serpent’.

Spirals are symbols of serpents. The swastika is a stylized spiral. Interesting, swastikas show up in mazes and labyrinths. The word ‘labyrinth’ comes directly from the ancient Minoan Snake Goddess culture of Crete, where the swastika was used as a symbol of the labyrinth and is linked etymologically with the “double headed axe” – the Tau Cross. Similar labyrinthine shaped swastikas have been found in the ancient city of Harappa from the 2000 BC.

Set and his symbols are all over military hardware and insignias. Soldiers wear patches on their uniforms of cobras and serpent plus dragons and other predator reptiles and animals. The straps of many ceremonial military headdresses are made of snakeskin-like leather.

Set is many times depicted as a sun god. Look around you and see all the symbols of suns and rising suns everywhere.

Symbols and references to Set are embedded in culture, including music. I’ve tried to show the reader this with lines of lyrics from songs that have been played hundreds of millions of times around this world.

We are living in a huge pagan temple of Set that is visible but invisible at the same time. Listen to Chris Knowles’ interview on Red Ice Creations (http://www.redicecreations.com/live/2008/12dec/RIL-081206.html).

Knowles has it right when he tells about all the pagan symbols and hidden pagan temples entrenched in this world. What Knowles fails to see is that this whole earth is one ancient evil temple.
Almost everything done on this planet is done in ritual and it goes back to serpent thinking and the way the serpent race operates. Listen to Freeman’s interview on Red Ice Creations to learn more about some of these rituals (that we don’t think of as rituals) at http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2009/02feb/RICR-090222-SUB.html

Our goal is to unite the elect who consciously walk the path of the black dragon (the Transcendental Anti-cosmic Satanism). To concentrate the powers of the eternal black flame and burn further black holes in the world’s soul (anima mundi) and the collective unconscious of mankind, to open new dark portals to Chaos, this way contributing to the beginning of the endless dark aeon and the invasion of cosmos by the disharmonic and sinister energies. http://www.evilness.com/slayermag/interview_mlo3.html

Why are we being turned into indirect cannibals? Because cannibalism corrupts us. It corrupts our bodies and psyches plus it corrupts our Souls. There is more than just a war for our minds and bodies (control) going on here. There is also a war for our Souls.

On the physical side, the chemicals, metals, fungus, blood, blood products, germs and other things in chemtrails are designed to make the body sick and weak so we are easier to control. Chemtrails are designed to kill us, too.

The serpents secretly feed us human blood and plasma to poison us to turn us into cannibals so we will corrupt and become evil like them. They sacrifice humans through their institutions and other third-party persons to give us collective ownership of their occult or hidden human sacrifice by chemtrails.

In reality, all deaths by chemtrails are Secret Human Sacrifice Deaths. Any evil act of murder is a ritual whether formal or informal in this Temple of Set.

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http://bookofthenephilim.blogspot.com

How many of us have awakened from political/social phantasmagoria and seen The Beast?

2009-03-13T16:35:00.001-07:00

http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-many-of-us-have-awaken-by-W-Christopher-Epl-090312-126.html

March 12, 2009

How many of us have awakened from political/social phantasmagoria and seen The Beast?

By W. Christopher Epler (Bill)

The philosopher Plato was a dualist. He said life had two radically different parts. One was the trivial world of our senses and the other was the transcendental, abstract world of forms and ideas.

The consensus mind set of our species is contaminated with similar dualities. For example, the gulf between the so-called "separate self" and the so-called "external world" (i.e., that from which the separate self is separate).

This belief is still nearly universal in the human mind set, even though it is beyond absurd. For example, there’s the philosophical toy of when a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one to hear it, is there any sound?

Well, in the first place this isn't a "toy" question and it isn't even a paradox, because when asked with sophistication, is it self evident that the answer is categorically no.

Think of it like this. When a tree falls in the forest and there isn't any life form (it certainly doesn't have to be human) with an auditory nervous system which transacts with vibrating air, there is no sound. Indeed, "sound" and "hearing" are two different aspects of the same phenomenon. No one "hears" sound, since hearing/sound is a unity.

More radically, the same is true for the visible world which never exists unless a life form with an optical nervous system is keyed into some interval of the electromagnetic spectrum. Succinctly put, your don't view the view, since the view IS the view.

Again, it must be emphasized that the above is not toy talk, hopeless paradoxes, or empty intellectualizing. It is (or should be) the self evident truth of things. The larger moral is that it proves the alleged duality between humans and nature is utter nonsense. The empirical world we live in (a bad way to say it) is the world our species "evokes", and this in turn is a beautiful reminder that the Universe is our home. We are necessary "participants" -- not "visitors".

OK, enough philosophy/science.

All of the above was intended to be a thoughtful (and hopefully interesting) way to introduce a very different duality. We can say this several ways. We can borrow the appearance/reality distinction of Plato or use an ancient image from the Orient and talk about the Veil of Maya which "covers" (at least mentally) the ultimate truth of things.

In any event, the human condition is PROFOUNDLY divided into two unimaginably different worlds.

The first world is the one probably 98% of the human race is semi-consciously "living" in. Note, living was in quotes, because this first world is what the Buddha called Dukha (anguish) and it is an endless vale of tears. The supreme lie of our species is that the world practically all of us are living in isn't a world of broken hearts, bodies, and minds.

But is this being exaggeratedly "negative"? Thinking precisely that it is what keeps the game going, because the only way billions of life forms would submit to chronic abuse and even genocide is to become a species of "enablers" who never see the elephant in the living room (that wonderful image from family systems theory).

However, the Buddhist take on life is not the issue here for all its sublime wisdom.

No, the issue is The Beast.

And the Beast is what? To begin with, The Beast is the second world. It is the TRUE REALITY behind the systematically suicidal "first world", i.e., the world of politics, TV sitcoms, three jobs, lost health insurance, a raped and murdered Mother Nature, broken health, and world wide genocide of the working class.

The infinite tragedy is that nearly every human being alive thinks the first world is the ONLY world. This is as good as it gets, and nirvana is keeping up with your credit cards (even as the interest keeps rising and rising). Hey, this is it; this is life; this is reality. End of conversation.

Ah, but what about the "second world"? What about The Beast, because if extraterrestrials are monitoring us, they know with absolute certainty that the Earth is the Kingdom of The Beast. They probably don't even acknowledge all of rest of us (even though they may pity us), because they know what's on "this" side of the veil is us, i.e., around 6 billion infinitely brainwashed human cattle and creatures so far beyond being "suckers" we don't even have a word for it.

So, back to The Beast, back to Reality. And The Beast is what? That question is easy. The Beast is a hellish stew of mentally ill religious fanatics, the lunatic right wing fringe of every county on the Earth, and parasitical, vampire elites (Paris Hilton comes to mind and, of course, the Bush Royal Family which is all of a piece with the Saudi Royal Family, etc.).

However, the "quantitative" thing about The Beast is that it is made up of very few humans, since relatively few of us can be multimillionaires and multimillionaires. Hence, this is a very, very select "club".

And The Beast relates to human cattle how? Well, for openers there is now abundant evidence (do a search) that The Beast is committing systematic genocide all over the planet since they want to wean out about two billion human cattle. Think of Africa and the "induced" epidemic of aids by white Europeans.

What else? Well, The Beast may be roughly 1% of the human race, but they have 95% (or more) of the wealth of the planet. In other words, The Beast is made up of literal Greek Gods of wealth and power -- Kings and Queens, really, even though they try not to use those words anymore.

So two worlds. One subjugated, systematically murdered, and turned into walking blood banks for the vampire elites. The other, a world of ASTRONOMICAL WEALTH beyond the dreams of Midas.

However, The Beast isn't only living in a world of God-like wealth; it is also seething with putrescent religious fanatics. And that horrific combination is probably nowhere so much in evidence on the planet as the lunatic right wing fringe of Israel. Hey, how much longer are we going to keep our lips sewed together about these infinitely righteous, billionaire psychopaths? Of course, it also should be added that these monsters do not now and never have spoken for the entire State of Israel.

The most loathsome thing about religious fanaticism (for ALL religions -- no exceptions) is that they so comfortably turn all the rest of the human race into expendable slugs.

We saw this over and over again during the anti-Christ Bush years, when the "religious right" made it tragically clear they believed Muslims to be subhuman filth. The surest symptom of psychotic religious fanatics (and we should keep in mind that these people are certifiably psychotic), is their joyful murder in the name of God.

The “religion” word usually has two meanings. Institutional religions are strictly businesses and religious fanatics are out patients from hell. Proof? People who actively massacre hundreds of thousands of other people “in the name of God” are evil incarnate.

The point that's being groped for here is almost impossible to get our minds around because it is the TRUE REALITY of the Earth and this true reality is a reality of virtually cosmic evil.

EVIL is the God of this planet; it is the "second world" which we (the first world) cope with only with pitiful denial and stupidity.

Well, that may be, but what options does the "other" 98% of the human race have?

That question is a measure of our pathetic and MASSIVE conditioning. How can we even ask such an insect-like question? The truth of things is screaming in our face 24/7. It's not that most of the human race, at least on some level of consciousness (however dim), doesn't have an almost ESP sense of The Beast. That's not the issue, even though the denial is so dense you have to cut it with a knife.

No, the "issue" is what the bloody hell do we DO about it?

Well, that question may have literally hundreds of answers, but ONE ANSWER utterly dominates them all. And it’s so simple even barnyard animals know the answer.

Put it like this. The mythologist Joseph Campbell used to talk about following your bliss. A beautiful man with beautiful intuitions, but for what we're talking about now, Joe is irrelevant.

However, to rephrase his saying, the answer is FOLLOW YOUR RAGE, because if several billion human beings "follow their rage" about these tiny enclaves of Greek Gods, the outcome will be inevitable. And this tsunami of rage will totally transcend politics (a game invented by and for the elites).

The point is not to feel bound by someone else's "game rules". In THIS game the only rules are OUR rules. We don't have to "answer to" the abstract structures (financial, political, religious, etc.) which have for millennia protected The Beast.

To HELL with politics. To HELL with religion. To hell with ANYTHING that gets in our way. We must unleash a hurricane of rage that will literally annihilate (whatever that means!) The Beast.

The alternative is to continue our Duh, submissive, sitcom, blood bank existence.

One last shot. The subtle point is we must TRANSCEND the social game rules which enslave the human race, and the only thing that can and will do that is to FOLLOW OUR RAGE.

And don't forget, The Beast (remember Africa, remember Israel/Palestine, remember New Orleans, etc.) is already killing us off by the millions.

And oh yes, it helps to remember 9/11 -- the ultimate and treasonous desecration of The Beast.

We didn't start this "war", but we absolutely have to FINISH it. The mathematically exact bottom line is will The Beast destroy the human species (and of course, itself as well), or will the human species destroy The Beast?

We aren't slugs, we aren't cattle, and we aren't blood banks. We are children of the universe and it's time to once and for all claim our birthright -- WHATEVER THE COST!

Viva the human race.

http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/

W. Christopher Epler (Bill)

ps A good bumper sticker would be: SPECIES RAGE or SPECIES EXTINCTION.

"Perfecting" the Imperfect

2009-03-13T16:05:00.000-07:00

http://sovereignsentience.blogspot.com/2008/12/perfecting-imperfect.html

By Matthew D. Jarvie

December 31, 2008
SovereignSentience.blogspot.com

One of the mottos in Freemasonry is "to perfect that which was left imperfect." This has different meaning to the lowly initiates at the bottom of the proverbial pyramid, who merely serve as useful idiots, compared to what the adepts at the top of the pyramid believe. These adepts believe that the creator of the universe left the world -- including mankind itself -- in an imperfect state. The deviants at the top of the ladder, who run the stage show of consensus reality through their various levels of command and control, see themselves quite literally as Gods who, having reached perfection themselves, have the ability and natural right to shape and reshape the world according to their plan known as the "Great Work." They see themselves as re-creators, above and at odds with the true creator of the universe.

The secular humanists and high priests of science have largely taken over from the control mechanism of organized religion, instilling a belief in people's minds that the material world is the extent of all truth, and that all truth is to be found through the understanding of science. As with organized religion, Freemasonry and other such organizations, what the "profane masses" at the bottom are given to believe is far different from that which the controllers at the top know and use against us lowly, "lesser-evolved" types, who are seen as nothing more than cannon fodder for the rebuilding of Solomon's (Sol-Om-On) Temple, which itself is exoteric allegory for the Great Work; the "perfection" of mankind and everything else under the sun.

Science fiction writer and futurist, Arthur C. Clarke, stated in his "laws" of prediction that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," and it's this "magic," which is the science behind the advanced technology unknown to the general public, that is being developed and perfected, not to free humanity but enslave and ultimately destroy it.

People in the Western nations are constantly being beat over the head with well-funded propaganda designed to instill in their minds hope of a cure for cancer and AIDS. Well-meaning but painfully naive people driven by fear and emotion will then donate their hard-earned money to what they think is a noble cause, not knowing that these donations are going to the very same government-linked institutions that gave us AIDS and are working to create -- not cure -- even faster-acting cancer viruses and plagues; the former being unleashed from the tip of a needle, with the latter waiting in some government laboratory to be released at a time seen fit by the psychopathic controllers on an oblivious public (no doubt to be blamed on some Middle Eastern patsies).

NASA spends billions of dollars on a PR campaign aimed at enthralling us with the wonders of space travel and future missions to Mars, but how many people know about the satellite technology that can spot a penny on the ground and even see through people's walls? What about the technology that evolved out of the Star Wars program, which has more than likely since been further developed and weaponized to control the weather, control people's minds, torture and harass people, strike targets on the ground, and even create nuclear-like explosions anywhere on the earth using directed-energy and other satellite-based electromagnetic weaponry?

The big agribusinesses like Monsanto, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) have for years been leading the push in the peddling of genetically-modified crops under the banner of feeding the third world population, "ending starvation" as their New World Order minions work to exterminate these same people with World Health Organization vaccination campaigns sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But we already know this is a big lie because the evidence is overwhelming that these GM crops don't help, but sicken those who consume them and the foods made from them. It is estimated that over 70% of the processed garbage that passes as "food" found at the grocery stores is made from genetically-modified ingredients. Meanwhile, hardly a week passes where we don't hear something in the establishment media about the obesity epidemic and rising rates of childhood diabetes. Of course no connection is made to the organ-damaging, blood-altering GM waste that's in the junk they're eating.

So above is just a few examples of how the "new" religion of the masses -- the religion of humanism and science -- which is yet another exoteric version of the ancient religion of the Kabbalistic/Freemasonic controllers, is leading us into the darkness instead of into the light, as they would have us believe. We are lead to believe that humans today are on the cutting edge of technological discovery, and this technology is being developed to only help benefit the average person that is in fact a target for extermination by the same cryptocracy behind the development of this same technology that it also controls, administers and directs to meet its own agenda. Through flattery and reliance on the ignorance of a deliberately dumbed-down public oblivious to real history, the controllers, via their media, lead the people to believe that they're the most advanced people to ever walk the earth. By placing science above creation, this cements the flawed idea that man himself can become God through the understanding of science, and thus is the key to salvation in the material world, which we are supposed to believe is the extent of all existence. However, this salvation will not be for the many but rather the select few at the very top, who seek immortality in the material world through the mastering of science and the understanding of nature.

The controllers' "perfection" of the world is nearing completion. They already have control over the planet's weather and crops with HAARP, scalar technology and GMO seeds. The metaphorical capstone will be added to the pyramid once humanity has been "pefected" with the emergence of the "New Man," which was frequently mentioned by the communists as being the peak of human evolution. However, this is to be an engineered evolution born in a laboratory and designed to serve its masters with total efficiency once the majority of the world's population, after serving its purpose, is eliminated to make way for the utopia of the chosen few.

Silent Armageddon?

2009-03-13T15:53:00.000-07:00

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by Alexis Zeigler
28 February 2009

Editor's note: Written especially for Culture Change readers, this solid analysis asks "At what point do we recognize that expensive technologies meant to maintain a 'sustainable' consumer society among the world's wealthiest people are utterly divorced from any reasonable moral coherence? Are we ever going to provide plug in hybrids to the citizens of Darfur?"
The greatest danger of the ecological collapse of civilization is that we might not notice. There are a few taboos in political and academic discussion that serve to make our leaders look important and moral. We are not supposed to admit that our minds are directly influenced by the Earth on which we walk, or the degree to which we benefit from the exploitation of the global underclass. Our failure to recognize these things hides the impacts of ecological collapse.

As much as those in the progressive environmental community are striving to have a realistic discussion of the combined impacts of peak oil, global warming, the breaching of other environmental limits, we seem to be largely ignoring the most obvious scenarios. The most likely future, at least in the medium to near term, is a simple extrapolation of current trends. We seem to talk as if ecological limits are going to disrupt all of modern society, and transform our lives. The reality is that both in the U.S. and the world, incomes have been polarizing rapidly, especially since the early 1980s. (For a number of decades before that, the income gap in the U.S. was actually growing smaller owing to progressive taxation and other factors.)

A simple extrapolation of current trends would indicate that those in power are going to try to stay in power, try to maintain their privilege, and will be willing to use many different schemes, overt and covert, to do so. They are going to try to shuffle the distress downward. This will likely require a greater centralization of state power. A brutal reality of the modern environmental crisis is that for much of humanity it is already here. The number of malnourished people in the world has increased by about 20% in the last decade, from 800 million to near a billion people. That's the number of starving people, not the number of poor people. The increase in poverty is much higher, owing to the efforts of neoliberal economic adjustment in the 1990s and oil price spikes in the 2000s.

These increases in poverty and hunger are not merely coincidental with the “war on terror.” Now that the global energy pie is stalled in growth or shrinking, the only way the U.S. can continue to eat gluttonously (literally and figuratively) is to eat an ever larger share of the remaining pie. The only way the U.S. and the other wealthy nations can continue to expand their claim on a shrinking resource pie is to maintain an aggressive foreign policy, and that in turn demands a greater concentration of state power. If one simply extrapolates these current trends into the future, the picture seems both dire and very different from most of what is painted regarding environmental limits.

It is highly likely that environmental limits will be manifest as a series of economic shocks that will be noticed by everyone, but the greater brunt of these shocks are going to be borne by the very poor. The problem is that the entire process is likely to be so hidden and politicized that we are likely to be fighting the “barbarians at the gates” for a long time to come without any open recognition of the ecological linkages between their well being and political change in our own society. Specifically, although oil prices have fallen dramatically with the current economic downturn, grain as traded on world markets has not fallen nearly as much. Why is that? There are three reasons. First, global warming is already making itself felt in the drying out of grain producing areas in Australia, China, Africa, and arguably the American west. Second, because of the global polarization of wealth, the upper classes are eating more meat, thus putting greater strain on global grain supplies. Meat production has in the last few decades increased about twice as fast as population itself. And thirdly, the competition for agricultural outputs for biofuel is supporting global food prices at higher levels, again with a direct linkage to the consumption of the wealthier classes.

In short, a simple extrapolation of current trends indicates increasing prices in general, as the world becomes more crowded as resources of all kinds become more scarce. As prices go up, those with less money are going to grow hungrier, and more restless. We can expect to see both an increase in state power and conflict over resources, except these trends are likely to be shrouded in religion and ideology. The bottom line is that the global upper class is likely to remain largely shielded and purposefully unaware for quite some time to come of the ecological roots of political conflict.

The reality is that the industrial powers, the U.S. in particular, have the power the debt their way out of extraordinary problems. Other countries do not have the privilege to act like that. We get away with it because we print the global trade currency, and we have a great deal of military and economic power to back up our profligacy.

We may be able to debt our way out of the current crisis, or it may be that so much purchasing power has now been cornered by the upper class that the economy itself, apart from ecological concerns, has been undermined by removing the capacity of the middle and lower classes to generate consumer demand. That, in a nutshell, is one way to describe the Great Depression. Class conflict is often played out as a battle over the supply of money. Rich people want to keep that supply limited, and controlled. That is why the Great Depression lasted so long, because of the tendency of wealthy conservatives to maintain a tight fiscal policy. The problem now is not so much tight fiscal policy per se, but the fact that so much of the money supply is simply being soaked up by the wealthy that our consumer, demand-driven economy is being undermined.

In as much as the concentration of state power is a predictable response to ecological constraints, don't expect anyone to announce that on the evening news. The various convulsions through which we travel will always be cast in immediate, political terms, and our understanding of history tends to get whitewashed beyond recognition.

The root of the problem is that our ecological overshoot is changing much faster than our thinking about it. By various measures, we are in overshoot, meaning we are already consuming more resources than the Earth can sustain by any reasonable measure. The further we progress into overshoot, the more divorced our “solutions” to the ecological crisis become. Ever since the 1970s, we have been advocating for “alternative energy” and more efficiency. Let us extrapolate this trend into the future. Suppose current trends continue (which is likely), and the consumer society goes through various economic convulsions, but remains essentially intact. Meanwhile, starvation across the world continues to grow. Are we going to continue to advocate plug-in hybrid cars and other expensive technologies as the “solution” to the environmental crises when two billion people are severely malnourished? When there are three billion? Four? At what point do we recognize that expensive technologies meant to maintain a “sustainable” consumer society among the world's wealthiest people are utterly divorced from any reasonable moral coherence?

The history of Nazi propaganda is interesting in this context. The Nazis had very active charity programs, collecting money on the street to feed the poor. This program was accompanied by heart-rending posters exhorting good Germans to give to the less fortunate, and workers who collected funds on the street for that purpose did so in the name of the Nazi party. The Nazis also had some rather progressive environmental polices, not the least of which was an aggressive anti-smoking campaign. The Supreme Aryan Race was supposed to be freed of such polluting influences. The Nazis are easy to pick on because they have become such an archetype of evil that one does not have to explain that there was something fundamentally astray in their social order. One does not have to expand upon the extremely cynical nature of collecting funds to feed the poor while simultaneously building an efficient industrial genocide machine.

If we transpose this historical lesson onto the modern world, the lessons are a bit more sobering. The number of hungry people in the modern world is growing, and that growth is accelerating upward on a parabolic (geometric) curve. The rate of increase in the number of hungry people is increasing. Because of the aforementioned factors (global warming, increased meat consumption, and biofuel) this trend is likely to continue. Given this rapid acceleration of poverty and starvation, is trying to solve the modern environmental crisis with plug-in hybrids and other expensive technologies that are ultimately intended to simply pad the lifestyles of the world's wealthy the moral equivalent of Nazi “charity”? If not now, will the comparison become more appropriate when there are two billion malnourished? Three billion? Are we ever going to provide plug in hybrids and a “hydrogen economy” to the citizens of Darfur?

Based on an extrapolation of current trends we can predict that the supplying of expensive alternative energy technologies to the poorest of the world's peoples can be described on a timetable that might be surmised as “never.” The problem is changing much faster than our thinking is changing. One could perhaps plausibly argue in 1972 that improving the efficiency of the consumer society would ramp down consumption among the rich even as we developed efficient technologies that might “trickle down” to everyone else. Without debating the finer points of what was true in 1972, that approach becomes less and less morally viable as we move further into overshoot. When we are down to naked mass genocide, which is the mature state of a market economy operating on a contracting energy supply, are we still going to be advocating expensive techno-toys for the rich as a solution to the environmental crisis? How many billions equals “naked mass genocide”?

It is my contention that we are already over that line. What may have made sense in 1972 does not now make sense. Improving efficiency of the consumer society with no recognition of the blood flowing through our fuel lines puts us in unsavory company. The problem is that we have gotten to the point where the easy answers are wrong and the right answers are difficult, at least from a political perspective.

The reality is that the modern economy is going to undergo some enormous changes in the next few decades whether we like it or not. A simple extrapolation of current trends, including the success of most of the conservation and alternative energy aspirations of the mainstream environmental movement, leads us to a world where a few live in the sustainable techno-bubble while billions die.

The political distress generated by the demise of so many people from “natural causes” will be manifest as a decline of democracy and civil liberty and the rise of authoritarian government. As much as we have a highly flattering and mental notion of modern democracy as being a triumph of social progress, the reality for ancient states and ourselves is that democracy is the process by which economically empowered persons express that power in the political forum. Inasmuch as a general decline in resources, or an increase in prices, results in a decline in the number of economically empowered persons, democracy will decline. But the process will be, as it always has been, highly politicized. The speeches from the late Roman Empire are most instructive on this regard. They hearken back to a golden age when men were virtuous, the barbarian terrorists were not to be found, and prosperity reigned. I suppose we will be dusting those off soon.

A lack of efficiency is not the driving force behind our ecological predicament. It is a red herring that allows us to ignore the realities of the division of class power. The reality is that the western industrial economy is driven by throughput. If we leave the coal in the ground and the trees standing in the forest, nothing much happens economically. If we dig up the coal, cut down the trees, and then sell, buy, and burn these “resources,” we generate economic activity. Particularly given that the U.S. prints the global trade currency (the U.S. dollar), and given that we can issue debt seemingly at will (perhaps we will find a limit to that soon), we are a consumption driven society. The more we consume, the more we stimulate the economy, the more powerful we become. The consumption of cars and houses has historically driven our economy, notably the great booms of the “roaring twenties,” the post World War II boom, and all the growth period since then, not the least of which was the most recent housing bubble. In a consumption-driven economy, the more we consume, the more powerful we become. That is the reason why Americans drive SUVs while people starve in Darfur. That's why, when we hit hard times, our political leaders tell us to go shopping.

Efficiency cannot touch throughput. The reality is that, if current trends continue and the market economy remains intact, then the throughput economy will remain functional, eating up unfathomable volumes of “resources” to feed the lifestyles of the rich and famous, even as we slide down the scale of global decline. We may paint a green veneer of efficiency or “alternative” energy over these consumption habits, but that does not change the basic equation. The upper class maintains its power, in part, by consuming so much. The power to consume means that great resources, financial and otherwise, can also be diverted to such police and military endeavors will serve to maintain the social order under conditions of energy decline.

The bitter irony is that we are almost certain to hesitate just long enough in embracing real solutions as to ensure the destruction of countless millions of people and our civil society, to arrive only slightly later at the same material circumstance, but under very different political conditions, than if we had embraced these real solutions much sooner. One hundred years from now, our descendants will not be living in a consumption-driven economy. They will not be propping up the economy by buying cars they cannot afford and building spacious private houses they cannot pay for even in the course of decades. They will be doing what they have to do -- sharing meager technologies that actually work. Our children's children will be living cooperatively, growing food locally and without chemical inputs, not because of some higher ideological calling, but rather because they are compelled to do so. The difference will be political. If we can create a movement now that downscales faster than we are compelled to do so, a movement that creates a conscious culture that undermines the power of the ruling elite by building a localized economy from the bottom up, then we can arrive at the future cooperative society with some measure of democracy and civil liberty left in place. If we wait until we are forced to scale down by actual scarcity, then our children's children will arrive at their cooperative future under an ecofascist boot.

Nationalism is so deeply and profoundly embedded in American culture that we easily fall under its persuasion without even noticing. Nationalism has overtaken the environmental movement. We have become focused on “alternative” energy production, in spite of the fact that these technologies are not a real solution. The real solutions are actually fairly easy. They simply involve doing what we will be doing in the future -- using resources cooperatively -- a little sooner than we are compelled to do so. Unwinding the throughput economy cannot and will not be achieved by enlightened social policy. The throughput economy can only be changed by a bottom-up movement that seeks fundamental structural change in our society.

Phrases like “culture change” or “conscious culture” seem to evoke the image that we should all play nice -- liberal utopianism. A real understanding of culture leads us to the conclusion that the ecological and economic foundations of a society have a dominating influence over the social structure and belief system over time. A sustainable future does not mean we teach everyone to be tolerant. Though there is no harm in such lessons here and now, to achieve real “culture change” means rebuilding society from the bottom up, building a truly localized and sustainable society. You might imagine that is unlikely, but that is precisely what is going to happen, either by plan or by default. The latter would be much messier, and lead to a society that is neither equitable nor conscious. By getting ahead of the curve, we could arrive at the same point, but in a society that is conscious of its own process of social evolution. That society will not be a liberal utopia. It will be a sustainable society where power is devolved to the community level so people are empowered to defend themselves, and to create the future they want. It will not happen by policy, nor will it ever be announced on the evening news. It will happen as the minority movement of people who want to see it happen grows through the coming waves of change. See you in the street.

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Alexis Zeigler is a self-educated activist, green builder, and orchardist living in central Virginia. He has organized numerous campaigns around environmental and social justice issues, built super-insulated buildings and alternative energy systems, and has lived in intentional community all of his adult life. More information, including articles, interviews, and downloadable books, can be found at his website, conev.org or by contacting him by email: tradelocal "at" yahoo "dot" com.