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He's laying in the cold, cold ground

2011-10-19T03:07:00.001-05:00

Nothing's caused such block in me as resolving my brother's death. I satisfactorily concluded he was killed by EM weapons.
It's more than writer's block. He was my only sibling. He'd just turned 53 and was a couple weeks away from his first wedding anniversary. He died January 27, 2004, the day after the tsunami.
I didn't begin reading about classified technologies with the idea of explaining it, or did I? I doubt I'd have attributed his death to anything other than natural causes except that his wife wasn't satisfied with that, knew a crime scene when she saw it and raised the subject with me again and again. I didn't want to discuss it at first, and admit I let the discussion begin from her need for comfort and assurance, patronage bouyed by skepticism and denial.
Her identifying the situation as a mystery was interesting, though. He told me days before he died he thought he was losing his mind. I told him it was clear he wasn't, and I could see what was happening didn't come from something he'd consumed or from inside his head. It looked like some kind of radio bleedover—maybe?—that thusfar had made him feel anxious and experience dazzling perceptions, but had done no real harm, and we couldn't know whether it was benign or a hazard. They wanted to talk about it in real time in an attempt to figure it out.
I concluded he died by psychoenergetics after a million questions, pouring over the entire episode a thousand times and and plenty of reading over not quite but almost four years. The conclusion explains everything that happened. We learned a few things; sadly, too little too late to have acted and saved his life, although the killers were determined, there is no available defense and you won't last forever on preventive measures. The best I could have done probably wouldn't have mattered.
It's also called for me to decide, once and for all, if Tesla's primary circuit is real and if all the things I learned as a child were true. So, as one by one the OMG moments made me hit the floor, I allowed time to reflect and let the reverberations die out before the next meteor strike. I haven't told this story except to a few people and a member of Congress. His hair immediately turned white. Can you guess who? Note to him: sorry about that. Bubba's wife doesn't want to talk about it and doesn't want me to talk about it, because she doesn't want us to die. This makes very good sense. With what she's been through, I'm surprised she hasn't gone totally insane. One mustn't contemplate whether life makes sense. My dad said, "your brother was a piece of work." Indeed he was. If he were in my place and made this discovery, would he act? Yes, any possible excuse to start a fight was the rule, and I was never above the rule.
Directed energy devices used as psychological weapons can be thought of as quantum weapons and don't leave forensic traces for most kinds of attacks. Spontaneous human combustion is an example where that isn't true, and SHC is never an accident or natural occurrence. Visually observable physical evidence including disintegration, or the transmutation of matter into dust is an example. That isn't necessary to kill someone, and generally the heart or breathing is turned off. The death looks natural, and the crime eludes detection.
In my brother's case, we had lots of clues, because the operatives conducted their business in carnival fashion. They were ruthless, remorseless psychopaths of serial killer mentality. They attacked and tortured him, and then both him and his wife, for about a year before the last attack when he died. They were attacked two or three times a week, and the attacks lasted five to perhaps 20 hours or more, and they may have had more than three attacks in a week. I spent a couple hundred hours or more with them as it happened, beginning one day they called and said a police tactical team was about to kick in the door. I'd been hearing this story from them, and they told others. I went to the house, but no one else was there, nor had anyone been there.
The activity increased, and their descriptions became more exotic. They saw lights that weren't there and people coming through walls. He kept seeing a tall man dressed in a fire helmet and long coat come through the window. She saw a big, red hairless cat with big, glowing red eyes. Almost always, there was a SWAT team outside that arrived with sirens blaring starting miles away. They were sure of it, and described their perceptions in great detail. They could smell the dust kicked up, hear radios crackling and rifle actions snapping. They could hear the dogs running and barking, and feel the ground vibrate from the people's footsteps. They could identify the insignias on the vehicles and the officers' uniforms as local, state and national. They perceived it many times, but it only happened in their minds' eyes.
The killers allowed them to hear conversation among themselves, and they told me what they heard. The killers knew who they were, and had the audacity to let them know. At first, the whole thing looked very silly to me. I could posit one theory after another that was a joke or insult, but I quickly saw it wasn't behavioral, hysteria or substance-induced, and stopped joking about it.
Lights in the house went on and off by themselves. His television turned itself on every morning on the same channel despite the setting when turned off, at full volume. An identical television put in its place and hook-up didn't behave that way. We left it hooked up awhile, then pulled the plug because it was too spooky. She moved the TV to another house a few miles away and this behavior continued. Then, she gave it to a relative in the next town, and after it left the city limits, it behaved normally. The TV didn't have an internal clock, snooze or alarm feature, and we had no explanation for why this happened.
They weren't both having onset of psychosis, and at times they were both perceiving the same things that weren't there. I saw and heard nothing, and these are all clues or hallmarks. They were shown images like Daniel Perle's beheading and other video vulgarity. The attacks came and went very suddenly, then they immediately returned to normal. One night he dropped her at my house and sped away. She was crying and told me he said a couple cops confronted him at a convenience store and said she wanted them to arrest him. The cops then did nothing, and I told her I knew he thought this happened, but it didn't happen, and he wasn't imagining it—but I couldn't explain it beyond that.
At sunrise the day he died, he dropped out of his chair onto the floor. She had been seeing dead people and the grim reaper pointing at him, and was told he was to die. She heard a voice say the operation had progressed from enforcement up to the next level, although no actual enforcement occurred. He crawled to the bathroom, told her not to leave him and became unresponsive. She called 911 as she administered CPR. He went in and out of consciousness. The last thing he said to her was if he dies, to make sure she got the KKK going again in our state, which was a joke, unfunny but meant as humor. The ambulance company came and put him on a gurney, ceasing CPR, and he died before they loaded him.
She received at least one more visit where it seemed she was being observed visually through the walls, and her life was threatened. They described many more things to me I've forgotten in discussing the volume. After that, she wasn't attacked until recently, and while always willing to share what she experienced, she was reluctant to tell me for fear I'd think she was beginning to crack! My brother was a character who left a wide swath of destruction in my life. But, he wasn't guilty of any capital crimes. My father said it was a wonder he lived as long as he did. But, this wasn't an example of revenge.
From what we saw and can read, we learned attacks by directed energy weapons are very common. If the experience of my family is representative of the greater society, roughly 30% of all people have been attacked in the last 20 years, and about 1 in 10 of those has been killed. The attacks are specific to location, so traveling out of your city limits or into a town from a rural area can remove you from the transmission. This is the only defense suggested by what I saw. A technological solution would be better, but the data is classified. That means no one in the world can defend himself. Electrical devices can be targeted, and the attack is specific to individual devices. Murder has no statute of limitations, but the words "scalar electromagnetic interferometer" don't appear in U.S. Code. You can report it to the police, but they are powerless to proceed, and you might end up as a handful of dust almost immediately. This is murder by a method that conceals the perpetrator, leaves no forensic traces and isn't illegal, the perfect crime. Suppression of this technology fully deprives you of your second amerndment rights. I don't know who conducted this operation. The technology is the exclusive possession of military intelligence and their contractors. I understand it's farmed out sometimes to state and local law enforcement, and due to the high police image content, I suspect someone local was complicit.
It doesn't matter what his or my name is. My brother is your brother, your father, your husband, your cousin, your neighbor...you. The horror in me grows larger with every passing second.
Supplement, 10/20/11: I forgot this, and it's very important. It became very clear the ability to tap his cell phone and read its GPS location was essential. Precise location data enables attacks. They can't happen without it, although the literature suggests there are other ways to target people and things. Knowing what you do and where you are at all times helps the perpetrators play dirty tricks and conceal the crime. Talk about this is ruthlessly suppressed, and entities that operate these devices spend lots of money to keep it quiet. They wish to retain the element of surprise because genocide is so easy by this method. It's been going on for decades. I'm furious. It's unacceptable.

Bradley Manning is dead

2011-04-22T01:49:00.000-05:00

No, I haven't seen the cadaver. But, there is no reliable eyewitness who's seen Bradley Manning since before December. Manning was facing the death penalty. Under the circumstances, I'd say he's dead.

Rep. Kucinich has been trying to see Manning since the first week of February, and describes his experience with DoD as 'Kafkaesque.' Meanwhile, Manning's captivity is perfectly analogous to burning Christians at the stake for the heresy of translating the Bible.

Quantico probably made a mistake, broke his neck or beat him to a pulp, and he bled to death. They don't want to tell on themselves, and you can't blame them. Corpses are smelly messes, and public relations was never DoD's long suit. It isn't their fault anyway Manning is dead. When I tell you what killed him, you won't believe it. What killed Bradley Manning is the same thing tearing down everything in this country that's being torn down, and is at the heart of many things gone wrong.

It's odd enough Quantico, which isn't Guantanamo, would deny access by the UN Rapporteur on Torture and a member of Congress. That these individuals were treated with rough dismissal is noteworthy. Last week, Kucinich managed Scott Walker's admission that eliminating public employees' collective bargaining would save Wisconsin no money. You can bet Dennis Kucinich would like to know what the hell is happening. My money says he does know, and wonders how anyone can bear to hear it.

At a time when the FBI and other intelligence agencies are declassifying documents at a breakneck pace, including some of the first official admissions we've collected crashed extraterrestrial aircraft, what is the value of torturing and most likely killing an active service member accused of leaking classified information? These things can be explained.

Manning's hometown is Crescent, OK, one of the things giving the story a close, personal aspect for me. Crescent is a few miles away from where I live. It's a small town where the country's oil pipelines intersect, and what happens at this intersection influences how the price of oil in America is determined. The few people needed to turn the valves and staff the local prison form Crescent's economy—a narrow, grim cross-section of socioeconomic deprivation like the rest of this state. People here are good hearted and straight talking, and will not spare your feelings. When Oklahomans say they support the troops, they mean they support people like Bradley Manning.

I was glad to be the first and only person to point out the week it was enacted that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 had an obvious, glaring provision so offensive no one had dared to mention it, or read enough to notice...

...Congress could have set up this unnecessary injustice system another way or done nothing. They chose to make it part of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, meaning its primary application was for active service members, not terrorists. I said the act provides for use on soldiers, and given half a chance it would be. I theorized it could be accidental expediency to throw a little water on my own argument, knowing it was no accident.

I was getting acquainted with people in political blogs. Any person can find himself in Manning's predicament, a simple matter of ticking the right checkboxes on the paperwork. Making these statements may have been popular on that site, but it began a long process of pushback for Uranus on many websites. That's no coincidence.

With this article attacking the Innocent Images program, Luke shortly thereafter announced he was closing the blog. I was shunned by third hand friends and went forward to argue with some of these big names who didn't ignore me completely and disagreed with points in those posts. Luke Ryland is a young man in Australia whose reading and summary of the daily news I'd called the best in the world. He must have been reading a thousand pages a day of only great sources, and published 6 posts or more, and had been doing it every day of the week for years. He had a global following, and I became aware governments were reading it. We asked him if he'd been threatened and he said no, but he gave no other explanation. Since, a surprising list of sites won't post comments signed Uranus.

I told that wrenching story in part because the same thing that somehow produced the Military Commissions Act of 2006 killed Bradley Manning and causes Scott Walker to chisel labor and makes Paul Ryan choose starvation for retirees. It closed Luke's blog. It gags Sibel Edmonds, it causes lawmakers to promote repression, it destroyed manufacturing and continues to chew away at labor in America. It's the trouble in banking, what's behind bankrupt states and why the Federal Reserve continues to print $75 billion a month. It's why you get insurance instead of cures, the internet kill switch, the drug war, the pro-life movement, affirmative action, our prison culture, wars and the suppression of technology.

It's why Karl Rove didn't get a grand jury indictment, even though one was drawn up and Patrick Fitzgerald delivered it himself, trusting no one. It's why for reporting such stories, Truthout.org underwent a hostile takeover, ostensibly for union organization, but almost two years later continues to operate without a contract while making the fraudulent claim it is a union organization—and this noncompliance is heartily endorsed by Bill Moyers. Even NLRB says (now spelled) truth-out (ironically) is the one outfit that doesn't need their scrutiny, certification or a contract. It's a formula. The same ideology does all this.

The story of attempts to learn Manning's fate is austere, and the reporting is a solitary cry in the wilderness. In early March, Kucinich sought to invoke the name of Robert Gates in hopes of enlisting his support. In early February, some speculated Manning was crafting a defense from the claim of torture—ya think? He was probably already dead then. This article claims Firedoglake's David M. House saw Manning in late January even though the UN could not, suggesting House's account is undependable. Shoq suggests psychological voodoo in pursuit of propaganda, then accuses others of self-aggrandizement with false witnesses and holds a Twitter slap fight with Jason Leopold.

Poor Bradley! Last week more than 250 legal scholars signed a protest letter to the president. Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor and legal advisor to the Obama justice department until three months ago signed the letter. Tribe joins P.J. Crowley as the only two Obama figures at odds with Manning's captivity. Did they think their letter would resurrect Manning? Did the lawyers remember to ask if Manning's grieving family could recover his body? Recall Tribe is from Harvard, and see how strange this picture really is.

All the things I mentioned, Bradley Manning's handling and many more you can imagine, bear hallmarks of Common Purpose, ostensibly a fraudulent charity and Oxford-based education program. The website calls Common Purpose "a criminal organisation that is dependent upon insider dealing, secrecy and corruption for its existence. Common Purpose creates control over its members by doing them 'favours,' such as finding them lucrative employment in powerful positions, covering for their mistakes, and benefits from accessing its secret network. In return, Common Purpose requires that its graduates act illegally on its behalf, as salespeople for their snake-oil products, exploiting their positions of power, and helping the organisation grow in power."

CP's American counterpart is the 'Advanced Management Program' offered by—guess who—Harvard University. If you look at no other links, look at that one. It's hilarious in that they say the program isn't for everyone, and its two versions cost $64,000 and $66,000. Housing is included and damn sure should be. Harvard vets applicants to be sure they represent the proper combination of promotion, psychopathy and corruputibility. The courses serve as induction and indoctrination. Its mission is to establish a single, communist-style, world government, described as a designer government form drawing from other oppressive types called "communitarian" or "communitarianism." Its modis is the production of a network of complete asshole troublemakers who infiltrate business, government, unions, banking, media and every possible sector and tear the organization apart through audacious acts, secrecy, fear, profligate spending, tax evasion and a variety of other means. It operates like a cult. Common Purpose is one of the most powerful and secret groups that is almost completely unknown. It is rooted in the old European banking system headquartered in London.

David Icke remarks Harvard offers two different programs and says, "Harvard is a key proponent of Common Purpose ideology. And that's friggin' scary." Bankers want to rule the world, and set to the task of destroying what they think opposes their world communist government vision, according to the linked articles.

This is a smoking gun, but it seems it's only one of so many.

I had hoped pointing out the Military Commisisions Act of 2006 legalizes torturing our own soldiers, for God's sake, would derail tragedies like Manning's, but big money had more to say. Old, big money in London—so that's why my car doesn't fly. It may be too late for Bradley Manning, but hopefully not for He Who Should Have Been President Dennis Kucinich. To those precious, third hand friends who defended Innocent Images, you see what happened to Alberto Gonzales and Rachel Paulose. You found consternation in my statements about the Military Commissions Act. Look at where we are today. I felt no regret about all that. I knew the reason behind it would be revealed, and so it is.

You can battle the endemic evil of communitarianism by understanding it, calling it out and opposing it where you find it. But, what breaks this fortification? The antidote is to do what Bradley Manning, the only person who is right in this dreary picture, did: disclose what's classified, open source all of it. Intellectual honesty and the revelation of hidden science will bring about the industrial revolution a century past due. Nothing less will burn back all this ugliness. Suppression is the reason you don't have free energy, the ability to transmute matter, miracle cures, free travel to anywhere in the universe, even your own planet. Unseen hands stop it like they hold Bradley Manning.

They don't consider disclosure would improve even their privileged lives. Civilians, soldiers, money, the intelligence community and politicians will have to hold hands better than this, or after they exterminate us, these idiots will exterminate themselves.

Sentenced to rape

2009-11-29T23:13:00.002-06:00

I promised the first blog business if and when I established online service would be a review of the Bearden website. I have been working on that post for more than a year (not full time), and it isn't complete, but I'm getting close. In the meantime, I covered a number of topics found on his website in a series of short posts on the KFOR YourSpace blog. Here is a list of my posts.

I stay home as much as I can. I have much work to do around the house, but practically nothing gets accomplished because minute by minute, strange, unexpected and large catastrophes happen. I can't say I've ever lived anywhere that is like this. I despise it, and attribute it to the fact I live in a really lousy neighborhood. It wasn't that way when I arrived, but it was devolving quickly. I don't mind most days, but two or three days a week are noteworthy in how a little neglect by someone else turns into hours of extra disaster control needed from me.

The story about the rape of inmates on work release at the Oklahoma governor's mansion isn't like that, and I devoted a few days in October to making some notes, sending e-mail and reading a little to understand what the hell this is about.

I've thought about it long and hard, so to speak; yet, understanding eludes me. Something very big is missing. Maybe this isn't Newworldorderism, but it damn sure looks like it. Channel four's follow-up story is here.

This is no love story, it is a fuck story. It has deep roots and long reach. The governor's mansion is the flagship site, yet just another location of a prevalent and common, everyday occurrence for women in prison throughout Oklahoma—nonconsensual fucking, often accompanied by battery—at a time when Oklahoma has become the state that imprisons more women per capita than any other jurisdiction on earth. Director Justin Jones said:

So, do you ever stop and reflect on why this great state of Oklahoma incarcerates more adult females per 100,000 than any other state? As a matter of fact, we incarcerate more females per capita than any other place in the world. What makes this even more note worthy for discussion is that Dr. Jim Austin, a nationally recognized social research and developer of offender risk assessments, etc. has recognized that Oklahoma has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the nation.

But, at least he expresses ingenuine regret:

Unlike sports, having the number one ranking for female incarceration rates should be embarrassing. We should apply every best practice possible in an effort to be last in the nation.

Justin Jones must be about the sorriest, most worthless fuck who ever fucked. It isn't his fault almost all these women were jailed for bounced checks and drug and alcohol offenses, and draw surprisingly long sentences. I'm not for that, and conclude it's derived partially by prison guards' preference of sex with women rather than men. That is Jones' fault. The Department of Corrections (DOC) dismisses them as criminals and offenders, throws out all the rules and encourages guards to fuck all they can, and beat women senseless if it helps these monsters get excited. In their minds and deeply entrenched culture, it's okay because criminal offenders don't fucking matter, except for fucking.

I understand that part. They only employ people who are exhumed, not hired, and sign their applications with an X. But I don't understand Oklahoma's eagerness to jail women in large numbers for nonviolent "crimes" that have poverty and genetic indicators as their driving mechanisms. The point must be to have a large selection of women available for DOC's multitudinous perverts, because it's no coincidence. For this mess to take shape required the long term commitment of lawmakers and law enforcement, and their commitment stinks to high heaven.

I've spent over 80% of my life as an eligible bachelor. In that time, I've met many amazing women who did unexpected, unbelievable things. Some of those things were legal. But, all things considered, I haven't observed that women in Oklahoma should go to jail in greater numbers than women any other place. So, this part loses me, and my conscience says they are jailed in droves because guards want to fuck them. Otherwise, it wouldn't happen, because it causes great discontent and calamity in society, and people don't want it. Of course, people don't have anything to say, and can't fix it. That's puzzling.

So, the complainant asked for Janet's help. She had the guts to scream bloody murder at DOC for being beaten up and raped while entrusted to two central services employees working at the mansion. She is said to be one of eight women who are known and wish to testify. They believe there were at least a few more, and perhaps many more, and that the abuse extended over a period of certainly months, if not years.

DOC didn't call the police, or ask the state bureau to investigate; instead, they turned it over to their lone internal investigator who found that yes, these men had been out of line, and Russell Humphries and Anthony Bobelu were terminated. Janet asked DOC if the investigative report had been turned over to the prosecutor, in this case the Oklahoma county district attorney, David Prater.

The investigator lied to her. Assuming Janet was a dumb girl fresh out of law school, and being a lying liar, he said a grand jury had reviewed the evidence and would in one day hand down indictments for these men, and their arrests were imminent. She thought these lies were facts, and felt the community should take part in this historically significant, important event. She did not call the media. She did not ask anyone to call the media.

People hearing the story through the wall were surprised, and wanted to share it. By then, the DOC investigator figured out Janet was an experienced attorney with decades of experience in law enforcement, and redacted the report to the point its pages were all nearly blank. Then, he lied to the media.

Then, this pathetic liar lied to Prater. There's some cutting-edge crime fighting. Rape and cover-up lies are always so much sweeter when they're done on state property by people on the state payroll. Janet pointed out the report had been revised and was misleading, and Prater's office told the DOC investigator to conduct all the interviews again, review the evidence and make a new report, which is ongoing. That seems nice and thorough, except it's really just lolligagging and foot-dragging—delay so as to deny due process and the chance for justice.

I felt a bit indignant. According to the brilliant news analysts at Associated Press, if women were beaten and raped at the governor's mansion, a security threat to the precious, helpless chief executive is revealed. Even in Oklahoma, AP writers are fawning, world-class servant typists for little tin god, self-appointed, big shot dickfaces like Brad Henry.

I'm not sure what AP was trying to tell us. I think, but I'm not sure, that they believe the Taliban wants to take Brad Henry out to the shed and fuck him. For four decades, I've been a stalwart, stand up, state party democrat, and voted for Henry twice. I have earned my place at the front of the line of those qualified to criticize—and I never made a bigger mistake than to vote for this pathetic and infected, wreaking sewage, this wretched effluent, this stupid poison that calls itself Brad Henry. Yeah, there might be security issues, as in someone might swat him across the chops, even though he wouldn't notice, know what happened or where or who he is.

I find it puzzling how one person could come to stink so much, and become so morally defective in one lifetime. It must have taken monumental effort and much support, encouragement and assistance from many, many people, and so it did. You know what happens at your house, and I know what happens at mine. If you are away, you may be unaware if a woman is beaten and raped at your house. But you won't be unaware for long, and everyone who is home knows. Anyone could have picked up a phone and called 911. State troopers come and go at the mansion all day. No one did anything. Could it be Gov. Henry approves?

Yes, it could be he does and in fact he does. Throughout his tenure, Henry has been silent about inmate rape, ignoring the pleas of victims and their families to act. The DOC director reports to the governor, and the governor's office runs DOC. Regarding inmate rape, the DOC director is the governor's little bitch—and the guards have their orders.

Pamela Smith has been fighting DOC in court 11 long years, yet her lawsuits are swept away. In a letter, two state troopers assert that influence of Brad's cousin, Tenth Circuit Judge Robert Henry, caused her suit and others to disappear, because Brad didn't think the state should be financially obligated to compensate rape victims. You might say they reasoned, "that'll teach the fucking fuckers."

This abhorrent and breathtaking conundrum, that justice and people's lives are a break-even opportunity for governors, makes strawmen of the Henry boys. Smith has gone up the ladder requesting help at the national level. The silence is deafening. Could it be the Henrys are enacting an unwritten edict from the Department of Justice? We don't know—appearances can be deceiving, and we can't assume DoJ wants things this way, but DoJ does nothing and gives this appearance absolutely.

It is only my opinion, but I think Brad and Robert Henry are a couple of perverts. Hearing them speak makes my skin crawl. It always did. I voted for Brad because he seemed a better choice than his opponent, and he proved I am no judge of people. Brad and Robert Henry's deliberate actions and inactions in these matters prove they're perverts, and criminals as well, having defied their sworn duties to uphold the law with dignity, integrity and honor.

I have bad news for the governor, Judge Robert, DOC and all of Oklahoma's taxpayer-supported jail sluts: this is NOT how the law reads. Furthermore, for all the ways Oklahomans screw up, Oklahoma juries do NOT look the other way when it comes time to decide the fate of officials who can't keep their pants fastened:

A former western Oklahoma sheriff was sentenced to 79 years in prison Tuesday for using his power over female drug court defendants to force them to have sex with him. [...]

A jury in Major County—where the case was moved because of pretrial publicity—found Burgess guilty in January of 13 felony counts, including five counts of second-degree rape. But jurors acquitted him of 23 other counts, including second-degree rape, forcible sodomy and rape by instrumentation. [...]

The jury that convicted Burgess had recommended a sentence of 94 years. [...]

Besides the rape counts, Burgess was convicted of three counts of bribery by a public official, two counts of forcible sodomy and one count each of kidnapping, sexual battery and engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses. The sexual battery conviction involved a female former sheriff's deputy he was accused of groping.

Burgess also was fined $15,000.

Bobelu and Humphries hired the same great legal team that delivered this mammoth sentence for Custer county Sheriff Mike Burgess to defend them in what can only be described as the greatest leap of faith in history. The lawyers, Henderson and Huddleston, plan to use the same arguments to defend their clients in the governor's mansion rapefest as with Burgess, if the DA files charges—and Prater has not decided to charge them:

Oklahoma City attorney Tim Henderson said Wednesday neither Russell Humphries, former executive chef at the mansion, and Anthony Bobelu, the former groundskeeper supervisor, has been charged. Henderson says they lost their jobs over a mere allegation.

Henderson says there is no physical evidence to support the accusations. He says all of the women are convicted felons and claim they were assaulted in hopes of collecting monetary damages from the state through a civil lawsuit.

In these cases, the state does not collect and preserve incriminating forensic evidence. The victim is unable to collect and preserve forensic evidence. But, in such cases, this evidence, which the defense lawyers insist is imperative, IS NOT REQUIRED ANYWAY.

Their approach hopes to disqualify the plaintiffs, or at least establish reasonable doubt in the minds of jury members. You see how well that strategy worked for Mike Burgess. It was a disaster, and it always will be, even in Oklahoma. The jury didn't buy it, not even a little. These arguments are another way of saying, "we have no defense, just smoke and mirrors. We are much more than incompetent, even more than derelict. Our clients' defense is nonexistent."

In this case, Janet, the complainant's attorney, works pro bono—her client is her stepson's wife, and they are both practically destitute. The complainant had a heart attack while in custody of Delaware county. She was taken to the hospital, and a stent was installed in one of her coronary arteries. DOC was to take custody, but when they learned she had a stent, they refused to take her. To resolve it, she was sent back to the hospital and they took out the stent. Since then she has had extreme health issues, and has at times been in a fight for her life.

She would be happy to put distance between herself and her prison stay, and get out of it with her ass. She felt losing their jobs was not punishment enough for being beaten and raped by these freaks, and at the governor's mansion, no less. What would happen to you or me if that went on at our house? Everything bad is what would happen. A guilty verdict in a criminal case isn't a necessary prerequisite for successful civil litigation—and the lawyers for the accused know it. But, there is no talk of a civil suit; indeed, how far could a civil case proceed in this environment? They know all that, too. The defense attorneys' whithering, old saw arguments are invisible.

Bouncing checks, drinking or possessing drugs may be illegal, but beating and raping inmates is perfectly all right because prosecutors refuse to bring charges; so, good defense arguments and the lawyers themselves thusfar aren't even needed.

I just don't get it.

DOC sycophants loudly proclaim inmates deserve no better treatment. Citizens are complacent. Prison takes away all of a person's freedom; however, that is all inmates sacrifice. Their civil liberties remain. The express law states it, and juries demand it. Oklahoma's Department of Corrections has forgotten inmates are not simply criminals or offenders, and their personal lab rats: THEY ARE ALSO CITIZENS. They are our sisters, wives, girlfriends and mothers, and they are entitled to the utmost care and protection from harm. Rape is never right or legal. That is not less but more true for those behind bars, people who are among the most helpless of the helpless.

Working on it—I promise

2009-09-07T05:33:00.001-05:00

Thanks for reading the blog. I've been working on the preparation of the next post for months. There is much that goes in it. I promised the next and first thing I will do is revise "zero point energy," that is the plan and it's hard.

Fortunately, I learned some very important things and can clarify the subject, slightly. Although it remains a matter of digging for material, it gets a little easier all the time to find something new to read. I regret it doesn't come nicely packaged in an easily understood, consumable form, because most people could fully grasp the material, and engineer their own hardware.

As I work on the post, I've changed the appearance of the blog a little, attempting to make it easier to see. I'm still not satisfied, and will probably change it over and over. I apologize for any confusion or inconvenience.

I don't know when all the work gets finished, and that includes the post. But, it should be worth the wait. So far the post is okay, but like the rest of these, painful to write. It doesn't have a snappy lead or other journalistic self aggrandizement.

One document described the push for the technological bounce as being like trying to climb a greased pole. People keep trying and failing, but eventually, someone will make it to the top. I pray to think I'm helping push. I make small, invisible victories, and otherwise accomplish nothing. So, you'll no doubt want to see what happens and perhaps join in the fun, because there are endless opportunities for spectator participation.

Still alive

2008-09-03T12:30:00.002-05:00

Yes, I'm still alive. I won't say there is a concerted effort to keep me quiet, but things have sure worked out that way. Life without a phone or internet service is really great, and not getting those weekly bills from Cox Communications, which thought it should be able to worm $2-400 a month out of me, is even better. I've made a few nice discoveries and some that are unwanted, such as the new intrusion of rain water around my house's exterior doors, threatening the structural integrity of the whole building. So, the natural course of things changes my routine into something I don't want and will no doubt spend my meager savings. I was disappointed to find there is no wi-fi signal in my neighborhood I could exploit to log onto the web on the sly. Maybe I'll find some cheap dial-up service or just say to hell with the whole thing. This ISP market isn't competitive thanks to the zombies of the state corporation commission. I continue to seek and create advocates for the declassification of Tesla's overunity device and scalar wave technologies, and encourage everyone to do the same for the sake of these primarily significant things.

Dodd's bill creates stunning new database to track all online sales, purchases and credit card transactions

2008-06-21T01:07:00.001-05:00

Digby doesn't understand Barack's supporting telecom immunity.

If she'd been reading the few things I write she would. I even told her that. But she doesn't. So, she doesn't. I despise telephone and internet companies, and in about a week will attempt to go through the rest of my life without them. So, I may not be writing here—but don't count on it.

Election fixation is letting a lot of really big deals slip under the radar. Did you know Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd's senate housing legislation contains a breathtaking, sweeping provision to create a new federal database which collects each and every online purchase, sale and credit card transaction? You can read about it here. Hat tip to Janet.

This has little or nothing to do with lobbying. The same thing causing Barack to support exonerating lawbreaking phone companies and the politicians enabling them makes this legislative provision and others like it happen: the more powerful, secret budget operations thought to consume one-fourth of the gross national product. Because of that, there are those who advocate bulldozing Washington. I prefer to think Washington needs our help, and I don't mean by writing on blogs.

What is zero point energy technology?

2008-06-12T03:23:00.001-05:00

A discussion of zero point energy technology in the aftermath of Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment of the president is fortuitous, apocalyptic and monumental. It is appropriate. Presidents can declassify. ZPE is more than classified—it's defense black op's most precious, valuable and highly guarded secret. That was never meant to be.

Zero point energy technology is the biggest little idea you've never heard of, and the biggest news story of the next ten millenia. Of all important things that aren't on the table today, ZPE is the most important.

If I'd never seen a car battery, and someone told me a plastic vessel containing lead plates and an acid solution could take a charge and deliver electric current, I'd say it wouldn't work, and that they'd lost their mind. I probably still wouldn't believe it after seeing a volt meter hooked to it. But, it does work, and I'd have been mistaken, and out of line. At least one can examine a lead battery.

Zero point energy technology was invented about 100 years ago by Nikola Tesla. There are different versions, but Tesla's is the recognized standard. Tesla invented a great many things, most of which you can fully study and examine. But, not the zero point energy device, the motionless electromagnetic generator, or MEG. For decades I've wondered why, resigned to the idea entrenched interests didn't want the competition, until I realized the other day it's highly classified (duh).

Tesla is inarguably our most gifted physicist. Everything that made Edison and Einstein noteworthy was invented by Nikola Tesla. So, why is he so obscure? The corporatocracy, military black ops and legitimate government don't want humanity following his work because this one, simple device enables the most powerful weapons ever made and makes all other forms of energy as obsolete as the conestoga.

Aside from being unbelievably talented, Tesla loved to showboat with electricity at a time when it was a new concept. He was also interested in experiments with devices that required extremely high current, far more than he could get in the ordinary ways around the turn of the twentieth century or even now. So, he started thinking about what he knew about nature and what he could do. He knew the entire universe is a river of electromagnetic energy of unlimited force. He knew if he could capture that force, it could be converted into electric current—a lot of electric current.

His solution was a fiendishly clever, devilishly simple apparatus, the MEG. Think of it as a circuit component consisting of a dipole, or two separated magnets, in a vacuum chamber. One is wired for input power, the other for output power. The vacuum causes the output power to be stepped up a hundred, or hundreds, of times the input power. If the generator is off, it requires a little current to start (like an AAA battery). Then, the device can be close-looped and the power stepped up to the level needed, so it is self-sustaining. So, the motionless electromagnetic generator is a power supply which provides current at levels beyond conventional parameters such as kilowatt hours, produces no waste or exhaust, and uses no fuel. It is a source of unlimited, clean, free electricity.

You can see a picture of a model of this device here. There is a technical discussion of how it works here, although I find it incomprehensible. The author claims his device is not the same thing as zero point energy—and so the confusion on this subject begins. (I expect it varies slightly from Tesla's version.)

That confusion isn't helped by the handful of hucksters, con artists and devotees with their books and websites spewing megabytes of gibberish and off-topic speculation. Here's an example. The author tells lots of compelling stories, and has a good point when he says to forget any idea you have of saving the world by producing these devices, because if you can get it to work, it will be taken away from you. Some people offer instructions or schematics, and none of them are cheap. Keep your money. Tom Bearden wants investment capital. If his prototype works, he doesn't need money: anyone who knows what they're doing could build the device with a few dollars' worth of components.

This one is a prize winner. They're looking for "strategic partners" to manufacture different devices in different regions. They have pictures of their products and even a price list. I went looking for the order form. There isn't one. They have no employees. They're looking for people with working prototypes, and want a demonstration. They either don't know this information is classified, or it's a U.S. government fishing expedition (the company is based in Nevada).

This website, despite its rough appearance, gives a great description of all the unknown things Tesla invented. Don't let the way it looks fool you. He invented these things and said they work. That's the thing about Tesla. He was his own hardest critic, diligent and devoted to checking himself over and over. If he said it worked, it worked. Nobody believed him. Then, he'd put the apparatus together and show them it worked. He invented the electric motor and tested models up to 5,000 hp. If you want to learn about those, you can. You have them in your home, too.

Not the motionless electromagnetic generator. Complete, accurate specifications and schematics don't exist in the public domain. The government swears they don't work. If they don't work, why can't we learn about them?

Because they do work, like gangbusters. Combined with Tesla's scalar wave technology, they are the fundamental enabling technologies of light speed-plus travel. This video is the thing that got me all fired up. In particular, the statements made by Mark McCandlish beginning at approximately 1:13:30 through 1:20 were the final straw for me. Scientists reverse engineering crashed UFOs were puzzled by the propulsion systems that didn't have fuel or moving parts. But, they recognized the power source: Tesla's motionless electromagnetic generator.

To Tesla, it was a piece of lab equipment he'd have been honored for everyone to possess. Tesla hated the idea of infrastructure, and thought of it as oppressive, ridiculous, superfluous. He was absolutely right; but even in his day, corporations he depended on for his livelihood wouldn't have it.

Our (shadow) government has been experimenting with this technology for decades, mastering light speed-plus travel probably in the 1950s or 1960s. They have advanced technology thousands of years right under our noses, on our dime. They didn't buy this technology from Tesla. They stole it from him when he died in 1943. It wasn't among the files they returned to his family. Today, it's the crown jewel of secrets our government keeps from us, and they've spent trillions of our tax dollars on research and development. Yet, we can't have it.

Instead, we get oil wars, economic collapse, global privation and bullshit about terrorism; indeed, these buttholes will turn their advanced weapons on us and kill us all before they'll give up this prize of prizes. Every president since 1943 failed to declassify this information, and deserved removal from office and prosecution. The passage of time makes this greatest crime in history only more venomous. McCain and Obama's backs are against the wall to explain whether or not they will declassify these technologies, and disband our shadow government, the greatest evil humanity has ever known.
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I recommend reading U.S. Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights by Project Censored, a document which vanished from their website. The 150 footnotes have abundant resources for learning more about these fascinating subjects. My previous posts on the subject are now obsolete.

Kucinich introduces 35 articles of impeachment against Bush

2008-06-10T01:01:00.002-05:00

Think Progress has video.

I thought they'd never go after Nixon. Once it started, it was a beautiful thing. Kucinich has 'em by the short hairs now.

They didn't have to die.

2008-06-09T14:05:00.001-05:00

I have a friend who had nine siblings—count 'em, nine—who died of cancer. They didn't have to die. Your government has the science that could have saved them. I have pinched nerves in my back and neck. Some days it causes so much pain I can hardly move. I'm also at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Our health care system has no effective treatment. But the cures exist.

Any physical or mental impairment can be quickly, painlessly and unobtrusively normalized with scalar wave technology. It was invented by an American. When he died, the government stole the technology and has spent trillions of your tax dollars developing it, while moving mountains and bending over backwards to erase the inventor's name from history. It's their most closely guarded secret and prized possession. Coupled with zero point energy technology, it makes light speed plus travel possible. It can bring matter in and out of existence and manipulate matter, space and even the passage of time itself.

You can't have that technology, even though we invented it and paid for it—and black ops doesn't have a better excuse than they think they're special. All you get is Mickey Mouse technology, half-assed, expensive health care and a parasitic insurance industry, which costs all your money, destroys the environment and isn't effective, all so some overstuffed scumbags can rob and betray you. Oh, and don't forget the upcoming economic collapse. When oil is selling at $500 a barrel, and it could be within months, and 9 out of 10 people in America can't get anything to eat, you'll understand what a pernicious disease America's shadow government really is.

I'm furious about all that, and you should be, too. There is nothing more important you can do than carry the news about zero point energy and scalar wave technology, and demand Washington produce these ultimate instruments of human progress immediately.

Transparency or Armageddon

2008-06-08T15:15:00.001-05:00

I can be tortured and brutally killed for simply talking to you about zero point energy technology. I wasn't aware of that. So, cherish these words, and count how many days it takes for the goons to come for me.

The crown jewels of physics, zero point energy and scalar wave technology are simple enough for a high school graduate to understand. In the marketplace, these technologies would modernize the world in a very big way and a very big hurry. Pollution, our energy woes, our economic troubles, disease and want would all vanish.

But this technology was stolen by America's shadow government, developed by your tax dollars at a rate of around a trillion dollars every two years and is now the exclusive property of defense black ops. This technology enables weapons that make the H-bomb look like a ladyfinger. Its caretakers are the worst, slimiest and dumbest people who ever lived. These programs are also funded by illegal arms and drug sales programs conducted by psychotic-criminal "public servants" who believe they are saving the world from hostile, interdimensional, shapeshifting aliens. The real plan is to make as much trouble and destruction as possible for everyone.

The antidote is transparency, disclosure and submission to the public domain. The battle is between more than good and evil, it is between prosperity and privation. This is about access to the Grand Unified Theory. The alternative is Armageddon.

A unified theory of authoritarianism: they aren't human.

2008-06-05T15:12:00.002-05:00

For Janet and Robin

Recently, we've discussed the causes, motives and goals of America's newborn fascism, totalitarianism, monarchy or whatever you'd like to call it. It's been a hotly debated subject for over 100 years in this country, but is as old as communal living.

Depart forever from the very mistaken idea the terms conservative and liberal are relevant. Far more true are the ideas that if one is uneducated and frightened, he tends to embrace authoritarianism, and if one is educated and unfrightened, he tends to embrace freedom. There is nothing partisan or socioeconomic about it. Granted, it isn't absolutely true, but more so than the overused, misused notions conservative and liberal.

Numerous, popular models of modern oppression explain some or much of why we suffer from diminished freedom and the decay of everything. However complete, the best of them falls short of explaining the full horror of what is unfolding. We fail to understand this phenomenon at our peril. There can be no effective solution to an unknown problem.

So, we busy ourselves with endless discussion while we politely wait, generation after generation after generation, for "the system" to do its work and stampede this garbage back into the trash from which it arose, as we acknowledge the system is hopelessly broken. Ghandi's approach to British subjugation may have worked where and when it did. Our approach to what's wrong in America has been substantively the same thing. But the jury has returned. It hasn't worked. It never will. Could it be we just don't comprehend the problem?

It could be. The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, which recently closed its website, alluded to global American hegemony. That's what happens when the defense industry funds a think tank. Another well accepted, understood idea is corporate control of government and all of us, once national, now seeking to go multinational. That's the idea of one world government, the so-called New World Order, explained in Zeitgeist, The Movie. One world government sort of explains why the Bush administration has done every conceivable thing to destroy our economy and as many others as it can—but not really. And, if the next part of the plan is to dissolve Canada, the United States and Mexico and form the North American union, why is our government breaking laws and busting our asses to build a very long fence along our southern border?

That doesn't make sense at all, unless the real purpose is to make a lot of people mad. Inspiring anger is a thread running through virtually everything these snakes have done. That doesn't amount to a unified theory, either. Is there a single concept that actually explains this mess? With all we've been through, we could use a few laughs. Let's get to that business first—and try to keep a straight face, although you will fail.

Could it be our evil, corporate overlords and political enablers...are somehow different than the rest of us? If so, it could help to know. Do I even have to say it?

These things aren't human.

I must be the last to find out—I'm not the first. They look human, don't they? Except that, no, they don't, they don't even look human. That's the funniest part of all. I've read thousands of miles of text scroll in search of what makes the Neoauthoritarians tick, and all I had to do was just look at them. You can see what it is. These things aren't human.

They don't like humans either, buddy. I've been hearing about hostile nonhumans among us since the 1960s, and I never believed it. Just because Tom Delay acts like a reptile doesn't mean he is one. If a writer calls Rumsfeld or Cheney a reptile, it's just another day.

The idea of other intelligent species living on earth has a long history. One of the most unusual stories came from Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to the north pole in 1947. One of his day's most admired figures, Admiral Byrd was not known for telling fairy tales.

To a rapidly growing legion of people, the idea authoritarians aren't human is the plain and literal truth. Does that make them the species equivalent of a racist: are these people specists? The sale is made tougher by websites asking for eyewitness accounts when people post things like this:

Greetings, I am Ashtar of the POOP (Protection Organization Ordacity People), section of the Federation of Light. I would like to inform the people on this site, about the impending threats of lizard men, and the things which you call "greys". First of all the lizard men who you people are so intent on destroying, can simply be destroyed by saying the words Kebert Xela in an irish accent. Greetings, I am Ashtar of the POOP (Protection Organization Ordacity People), section of the Federation of Light. I would like to inform the people on this site, about the impending threats of lizard men, and the things which you call "greys". First of all the lizard men who you people are so intent on destroying, can simply be destroyed by saying the words Kebert Xela in an irish accent. Also, there is no such thing as a "grey". These rumors you people are spreading are doing nothing but making people fear the "grey"'s, which they need not. I hope this has been helpful.

P.S. The Lizard Men's correct name is the Zorganakis Magnifitalicus.

Good grief. Run for your lives, it's the attack of the lizard people. I can't believe this story; look at how he misuses quotation marks. Other posts ask where humans could meet lizards of both sexes for forbidden, reptile love. Then, there are the many others with tales of chilling encounters, written by people who act like they wish it hadn't happened. Here's a woman who says our reptilian overlords manipulate us in the "dreamscape," particularly sexually. Still, my beating heart.

This site has a fabulous image of Cheney in mid-shapeshift about halfway down and lots of links. Entertaining, but detrimental if the site owner's intention was affirming the existence of lizard-humans.This glitzy site has regular features on the subject. Can you say "reptilian shapeshifter" quickly three times without laughing? I can't either.

Something is going on all right, and the truth is more awful than you think—and downright hard to dig up, cloaked under the heaviest veil of American black ops secrecy—more to protect their own stupid blunders than to deprive us of panic.

I needed something more to convince you. Does this go from myth to reality? Yes. I don't believe everything I read, and you don't either. It's an important subject with the big news story of the next 10,000 years embedded. It doesn't end like I expected.

The idea of reptilian humanoids wasn't dreamed up to answer the question of why there is so much evil in the world. It began with eyewitness accounts, like this famous story of Wes Penre. Alex Collier has a serious discussion about the subject.

No one is bigger or having more fun with this genre than David Icke. On his website you can watch many hours of video. I watched a few hours and discovered he's maybe the most engaging public speaker I've ever seen. It's not all about reptiles, either: the video about "repeaters" struck a nerve—those people who repeat news or opinion because someone else repeated it to them. He's written many thick books. Janet is reading two of them now and says they're fantastic. Icke tells us these things are more than present on earth, they're running the world. Glory be, after all this time and effort, a radical, exotic, single, simple theory that actually explains it all.

James Casbolt says some of them are terrestrial and some are alien. This Navy yeoman says he's seen pictures of aliens. This document talks about strange things observed on the moon and Mars, far more than we've been told. Persuasive, fun to read, but I still wasn't sold.

Suddenly last Sunday, all that changed. I saw a video and have been seething with fury ever since. This website must be new, because no one seems to have been aware of it. Before I give you the link, I want to point out a few things about it. The video might hang up or not start. If that happens, refresh the page and try again. The video is two hours long and well worth your time. It advances by great measure the material in U.S. Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights. What you see is over 20 expert witnesses representing more than 400 others called The Disclosure Project, carefully vetted, from government, science, intelligence and the military, with documentation and the offer to testify under oath to Congress on a variety of black ops topics about which they felt we should be informed. All these very serious people tell sobering stories, particularly about UFO sightings and crash scene recovery. They documented UFOs' disabling our ballistic missiles. They explain the weaponization of space was never to defend the U.S. from attack by other nations, but done solely to fire upon UFOs—and that this judgmental failure credibly risks provoking an extraterrestrial attack on the world. Watch The Disclosure Project.

I was especially interested and embittered by remarks near the end of the video about reverse engineering crashed UFOs. We are told the U.S. spent more (successfully) developing an antigravity device than it spent on the Manhattan Project, and has been testing faster than light speed spacecraft for many years. At first, scientists didn't understand the propulsion systems at all. However, they recognized the power supply device, the very same device invented by Nikola Tesla a hundred years ago to exploit the naturally occurring flow of electromagnetic energy everywhere in the universe, the MEG, or motionless electromagnetic generator. It turns out it works after all, and it turns out the MEG is the most closely guarded and valuable black ops secret in the U.S. arsenal. They explain in questions and answers that if your car were powered by this device coupled with the antigravity device, the vehicle would never touch the ground and you could travel at light speed plus.

That's a lot of electrical energy, and the MEG, my favorite of Tesla's work, turns out to be the big news story of the next 10,000 years. It's the electromagnetic equivalent to putting a sail in the wind. You can see a supposed model of it here. Tesla never intended for it to be patented or anyone's exclusive property. When he died in 1943, the FBI confiscated all of his paperwork and gave some of the files back to his family. Apparently, the MEG was not among them. The device can be small. The pictures in the preceding site show a device about the size of a breadbox. It's simpler than your PC. It isn't connected like a rotary generator, it's more like a circuit component. If it is off, it requires a small charge of electricity to start it; then, it close-loops and powers itself. The device is a simple dipole magnet in a vacuum chamber. Current enters one side and is increased in exponential magnitudes for output by the immense force of electromagnetic current flowing everywhere. For a few dollars worth of parts, you could build your own; but, as Tesla pointed out, it doesn't work if it isn't configured properly.

So, here is a simple device that produces almost unlimited power, has no moving parts, produces no exhaust and uses no fuel. Black ops lets certain weapons contractors have this most privileged information. It was stolen from Nikola Tesla and the world, and black ops thinks of it as their personal property, which it is not. We paid the money it cost to develop the technology. It belongs to us. We don't get the benefits. Instead, its main use has been to test light speed travel vehicles, start trouble with alien races and power horrifying weapons. We get coal and oil, a trashed environment, economic collapse, deprived of our rights and endless war, and junk like Main Core.

The news conference in the Disclosure Project video took place in May, 2001—seven years ago. No one in the American Press Association picked up the story. You can know, then, that even this private organization was owned by the military industrial complex, as the media is still today. Usually, when I mention Tesla in these forums, government debunker troll-reptiles converge to tell me I'm out of control and to shut the fuck up. Until I saw this video, I talked about this, hoping it was true but not really believing it, I admit. To think it works this well but only benefits bad and greedy people who stole it and want to cause all harm to the world is the ultimate betrayal and perversion.

Referred to in the video by the Air Force's Mark McCandlish, Tesla's zero point energy technology and scalar wave technology, called "fundamental enabling technologies" for light speed travel, are the crown jewels of physics, and will be the vehicle of humanity's progress and greatest adventures in the next ten millenia—assuming we survive. No other energy technology is worth one more penny or one more second of our time. We must ask the candidates if, as their first act as president, they plan to declassify Tesla's zero point energy technology and make it available to the public domain, as it should be—and if not, why not. Sorry gang, but the answer will be no. They don't care about the consequences.

Do you still doubt we are being led by politicians and corporatists who are not human, and hate humans? Look at every issue in the authoritarian agenda. Bush's immigration program alone is designed to start a world war. Washington has done everything it can think of to destroy the country's and world's economies. Look at Roe v. Wade. Who would want to make virtually every woman in the country furious? Only a damned fool and monumental troublemaker. But even that doesn't explain it. Congress has powerful tools to compel testimony and produce evidence from the executive but doesn't use them. The country has been screaming for impeachment for years; yet, Congress won't consider it. How do you explain it? It doesn't defy description: these things aren't human.

Need more proof? Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged President Dickface to attack Iran. As I've said before, the attack plan of choice is to strike underground targets with ballistic missiles armed with five megaton nuclear warheads fired up and down in a maneuver called "over the shoulder bombing." The plan specifies 2,000 or more targets. Five megatons times 2,000 is a yield of 10 billion tons, or 10 gigatons. Nuclear warheads are not conventional ordnance. This bombing method would put the warheads 50 to 75 feet below the surface, not deep enough to contain the explosion or ejection of radioactive particulate into the atmosphere.

There is some confusion among readers about whether or not this is dangerous. Astrophysicists from Carl Sagan to the present day agree that a rapid succession detonation of 100 megatons is enough to create an extinction-level event. What the White House wants to do in Iran is 100 times that yield. The executive and legislative branches are fully aware of that, don't believe for a second they are not. The whole world has been telling them for years. Yet, the Senate was more than happy to virtually cede its authority to declare war to the White House in an almost unanimous vote. Why would they do that?

There can be only one possible answer: these beasts, these creatures, these things may look human, but they aren't. They include your presidential candidates, who in recent days have promised that so far as the war effort is concerned, nothing will change. John Hagee? Rod Parsley? Pffft. Can you look at Roberts and Alito, Bush and Cheney, Perle, Hadley, Addington, et. al., and tell me they're human? What about the 118 people Project Censored says make all the big decisions?

We'd best get the list started. Selecting which reptiles to apprehend will take extensive screening, and is a sacred thing. The other day David Swanson had this fine article about arresting war criminals. His article is based on the premises the rule of law is in force (and it isn't) and that these people are human (and they aren't). Impeachment and prosecution don't apply to them, and will not work. That isn't how the local shelter handles dogs at large. I recommend as many people as possible get the idea they are suicide jockeys, and at peace with it. Then, we should all acquire a long, heavy-duty snare pole. Then, you chase the subject down the street, snag it and take it to central processing. If it's healthy, spay or neuter and vaccinate, and try to adopt it out to a loving family. Not a pretty picture, but that's what we have to do. In the future reformed America, if any, the snare pole could be depicted in the national seal. If you are uncertain about the morality of such a program, acquire (probably through your library) and view the movie, "Hanged On A Twisted Cross: The Life, Convictions and Martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer," a film by T. N. Mohan, another outstanding investment of a couple hours.

Finally, it appears we'd better be happy with being at least an interstellar waystation, if not an all-out star war fortress. There is word scientists are doing time-space and interdimensional experiments using supercolliders and satellites. Could a gigantic supercollider be underneath this 20 km. high monolith encircling Iapetus, a moon of Saturn? Also, the moon appears geodesic, not spherical. If so, it's artificial—not natural. Does that have anything to do with this 15,000-mile-wide hexagonal structure that has appeared in the atmosphere of Saturn? It's been suggested it's related to an alien time-space portal. One thing is certain: these objects don't appear to be natural. If none of the other resources in this article convinced me we have the company of other intelligent species, the Saturn-Iapetus phenomena do...still...

...the idea the world's authoritarians are reptiles seems unfair to other reptiles. I'd have sworn they are vermin or rodents.

Surprise: U.S. falling more behind in broadband service

2008-05-23T21:57:00.002-05:00

Even broadband service in the U.S. is a racket. I hate to remind people about such things, and try not to whine about my personal challenges, but this got my dander up:

According to data released today by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), at the end of 2007 the United States ranked 15th out of the 30 member nations in broadband penetration—down from 12th place in 2006, and continuing its slide from fourth place in 2001.

"International comparisons cause a lot of hand-wringing in the United States, with apologists furiously working to excuse or poke holes in the results," said S. Derek Turner, research director of Free Press. "But the reality is that because we lack meaningful broadband competition in this country, consumers pay too much for connections that are too slow. And many Americans—especially in rural communities—still don't even have high-speed Internet access. We need solutions—not excuses."

According to analysis by Free Press:

Even after accounting for factors like income, geography and education, more than a dozen countries are still ahead of the United States in broadband penetration.

Consumers in over two-thirds of the OECD nations pay less on average per month for broadband than consumers in the United States. Only seven countries pay more: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Mexico, Iceland, Hungary, Poland and Norway.

In nearly half of the other OECD countries, the average advertised maximum download speeds are faster than the those in the United States. Ten countries have faster advertised cable modem download speeds than the United States. Twenty-six countries have faster advertised DSL download speeds—the United States is only slightly ahead of Mexico, Turkey and Poland.

The fastest advertised download speed in the United States was 50 Mbps—in Finland, France, South Korea and Sweden it was 100 Mbps, and in Japan, consumers can buy 1,000 Mbps connections.

For years I had the noisiest, slowest dial-up in the world. It disconnected frequently and hardly managed a throughput speed of 1-3 kbps. That's right, kbps, not mbps. Viewing video or running applications online was out of the question, and updating a new installation took a minimum of 24 hours. I was happy to get faster service when I moved to this town.

It has become so expensive I can no longer afford it. My provider, Cox Cable, can only be described as a racket. If you are Lifeline qualified (on TANF, food stamps, Medicaid or have in Indian card), you can get their full feature bundle for $12 a year. The rest of us have to pay around $2,000. I have basic service. In March, I paid my bill by phone as usual and their system told me the transaction was completed. There was sufficient money in my bank account for the transaction. A week later they disconnected me, claiming I was insufficient when their phone system malfunctioned during the transaction. Their 20-something associate assured me it would be corrected. Two months later I received the bill: an extra $214.00. At the end of next week, I'll say goodbye to them and mainstream media forever.

The alternative is AT&T's DSL, an NSA lapdog, which I won't buy, or...noisy, slow dial-up. Fantastic.

In the 1980s consumers prepaid the large interstate telephone companies to provide residential fiber optic service, but rich CEOs decided it'd be more fun to just steal the money and never install it. A couple guys lost their jobs but, fortunately, they got to keep the stolen money, billions of dollars. Cities were happy to give cable companies free easements, maintained by public funds, to install their systems and become a broadband monopoly which, as you can see, treats customers any old way. I assume our corporation commission (Oklahoma) gets barrels of payola to perpetuate this criminal enterprise. I can't prove it, but there must be some reason I owe $214 for the provider's error. They won't get a penny.

Cross post links to Lessons 1, 2 and 3

2008-05-17T14:56:00.003-05:00

I posted Lessons 1, 2 and 3 on Daily Kos and The Smirking Chimp. Here are the links:

Daily Kos: 1 2 3

The Smirking Chimp: 1 2 3
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Long gone from the front pages, they'll get no more comments. You can read the comments and get an idea of how many readers saw the posts. I didn't know what to expect, and thinking back, something interesting revealed itself. There was some disagreement about the legitimacy of elections. There was a broad swath of readers whose rigid thinking couldn't allow them to consider energy could be supplied by anything other than petroleum. That was the worst of it, that people refuse to think freely and own their minds; however, it was no surprise. The biggest surprise was with number three: no one argued the assertion the government wants to attack civilians for no real reason beyond the joy of doing it. The concept appears well recognized and accepted. I expected that point would be the most argued, not the least. Therein lies the fallacy of assuming something, anything, you think or believe you know, is right.

Lesson 3: The Ugly/Come fry with me, we'll sizzle like shrinky dinks

2008-05-05T18:37:00.003-05:00

The main topic of Project Censored's terrific report, "US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights" is exotic, new, secret weapons, mind control, nonlethal applications, cognitive liberty, these weapons' lethal capabilities and so much more. Written by millenium-class patriots, this masterpiece mysteriously vanished from their website. The error page says not found, if it ever existed, but be assured it was not censored!

Be assured it does exist, because I posted a copy of the original file here. You can copy the file from that location, but you have to join the group. You can read the report in its entirety here. I'm not sure PC was bullied, only 99% sure. Let's pause and talk about freedom of expression.

Only a few years ago, prior restraint was as taboo and illegal as torture or the practice of slavery. The Bush administration changed all that; these are small issues compared to their insatiable need to destroy the world. I've been fascinated to discover some people have trouble with free speech. The first amendment is plain: this is the U.S.A. Whatever it is, you can think it, say it, read it, write it, copy it and share it—period. You either defend it all, including the worst, most controversial and despicable of it, or you don't. I don't care about pornography. I don't understand child pornography, and admit I don't even really like kids. The Bush administration launched a ridiculous crusade to give very long jail sentences for "violations" of free expression called "The Innocent Images National Initiative," 18 USC §1462, 1465, 1466, 1467, 1470, 2241, 2251, 2251A, 2252, 2252A, 2253, 2254, 2257, 2260, 2421, 2422, 2423, 2425 and 13032 (whew). Protecting children was never the point: the points were eroding our guarantee of freedom of expression while terrorizing the locals, spying on people and making select people commit suicide. There are adequate, correct laws penalizing people caught producing child pornography. But possessing it, sharing it, in my eyes, isn't worth a single day of free room and board in prison. These statutes may be in US Code, but they are unconstitutional. Unfortunately, impartial courts in Bush's America are as nonexistent as the rule of law, privacy and democracy.

If Project Censored was silenced, and I insist they were, I'll speak for them because I am inconsequential and nobody but nobody cares what I say. I like that. Should that change, here's what loyal Bushies can do: take a number and get in line outside, and you may have your turn sucking my unsucked ass. If I'm mistaken, and I could be, my apologies to PC and you. For government associates, the offer stands. I reached these conclusions after months of rereading, thinking and discussing it with others who had read it.

Primarily, the document discusses the issues of psychological war versus free thought. As for psychological war, there is particular emphasis on how new electronic devices achieve a variety of mind control in their nonlethal setting, depriving the target of freedom of thought. Since these devices are developed by private industry and funded by black budgets, they are free of FOIA requests. These clever things can cause your skin to get hot, make you sleep, feel euphoric or depressed, have feelings of deep fear or dread, even implant certain thoughts—although the author's sources indicate that technology is not fully developed. There is a brief bit about pulsed projectile weapons (like rail guns) they say fire at nearly the speed of light with pinpoint accuracy to two kilometers. It mentions implant, radio, sound, magnetic and lightwave weapons. The lengthy historical perspective, list of devices and chances to excerpt here could make this post very long. Better that you just read it yourself. If you studied this site, you read about scalar howitzers and the scalar electromagnetic interferometer which, when used as a weapon, can target everything from a single individual, change his mood or disintegrate him, to wiping out entire countries. That's one man at a control panel half a world away—no hardware or soldiers in the field. This technology makes all weapons manufacture and the military itself obsolete.

I saved space to excerpt about the lethal application; in particular, this story from 2003 which was hotly disputed by war cheerleaders:

In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less than fluent, describes the weapon as reminiscent of a flame thrower, only immensely more powerful. It is unclear what principle the weapon is based on. Searching for a description, al-Ghazali said it appeared to be shooting concentrated lightning bolts rather than just ordinary flames. Drawing on his many years as a professional engineer, al-Ghazali speculates that radiation of some kind probably figures into the weapon's hideous capabilities. Like all men in Saddam's Iraq, al-Ghazali was compelled to serve in the Iraqi equivalent of the Army National Guard and fought in three wars over the past thirty-odd years. Via email, he told me he has seen virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and is well acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but nothing in his extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of what he saw in Baghdad on April 12th.

On that date, al-Ghazali and his family sheltered in their house as a fierce street battle erupted in his neighborhood. In the midst of the fighting, he noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly configured tank. Then to his amazement the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it. He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.

In a city littered everywhere with burned-out civilian and military vehicles, US forces were abnormally scrupulous about immediately detailing bulldozers and shovel crews to the job of burying the grim wreckage. Nevertheless, telltale remnants remained as Dillon found when al-Ghazali later took him to the site. Dillon said they easily uncovered large puddles of resolidified metal and mounds of weird fibrous material that, al-Ghazali explained, were all that remained of the vehicles' tires. Dillon, who accumulated plenty of battlefield experience as a medic in Viet-Nam, and has since covered a number of wars from Somalia to Kosovo, told me that he has witnessed every kind of conventional ordnance that can be used on humans and vehicles. "I've seen a freaking smorgasbord of destruction in my life," he said, "flame-throwers, napalm, white phosphorous, thermite, you name it. I know of nothing short of an H-bomb that conceivably might cause a bus to instantly liquefy or that can flash broil a human body down to the size of an infant. God pity humanity if that thing is a preview of what's in store for the 21st century."

Project Censored offers what appears to be confirmation of this frightening story:

Asked if there are human rights concerns associated with these particular non-lethal weapons, [Carol] Smith answered, "Yes—it depends though by what is meant by 'the wrong hands.' For people who are targeted for experimentation—all such devices need testing—all hands are the wrong hands, be they government, private commercial, or sadistic/commercial. Ionatron, a large company based in Arizona, developed plasma channel directed energy weapons and state in their website: 'What are LIPC laser-guided directed-energy weapons? Laser-guided directed-energy weapons work like "man-made lightning" to disable people or things. LIPC technology is Ionatron’s proprietary type of laser-guided directed-energy weapon. LIPC stands for laser-induced plasma channel; the plasma channel is how the energy is directed through the air at the target. Extremely fast femto-second lasers cause light to break into filaments, which form a plasma channel that conducts the energy like a virtual wire. This technology can be adjusted for non-lethal or lethal use.'"

Chilling. The document correctly states the neocon movement arose out of concern (by insane people) over the "permissiveness" of the 1960s; specifically, because some kids in Oakland decided to take the summer off in 1968, think about things and enjoy life for a few weeks before entering the world of work. There were people who wanted to kill them all, fearing they wouldn't voluntarily sacrifice all their money and lives for endless war—and that it would become a movement. It was just like today, except for the draft.

Not everything is for everyone. Some people don't understand that.

From Project Censored:

In September 2006, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne announced that crowd control weapons should be tested on Americans first. "If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a non-lethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."

This talk was quickly silenced. Well, sort of.

Americans have little idea about the research concerning the capabilities of electromagnetism, directed acoustics, or computer-human interfacing. The majority of Americans do not know that we are currently using these new-concept weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Indiana University law professor David Fidler stated to the Economist, "because these weapons are most likely to be used on civilians, it is not clear that using them is legal under the international rules governing armed conflict…if they are used in conjunction with conventional weapons, they could end up making war more deadly, rather than less." [...]

Whereas Cameron focused on creating traumatized individuals through intense psychological pressure, Dr. Jose Delgado was investigating the direct route to control of "human subjects." Delgado physically invaded the brains of subjects with electrodes in order to create emotions and control actions with the push of a button. As he stated himself,

"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain." [...]

A prominent neuroscientist, Francis Crick stated in 1994, that "your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."

Delgado and Crick are real nice guys! People who would oppose secret weapons build up and their use on civilians don't believe there are people who are that mean. If nothing like that is on the table, why does the Homeland Security think it needs a detailed topographic map of the country?

The document concludes with a call to take seriously the founders' statement in the Declaration of Independence that the time comes in a democracy when a government must be disassembled and rebuilt from the ground up. An unlimited budget of unknown amount, to build unknown weapons to be used to kill civilians for no apparent reason, does indeed qualify as the final insult, and proper justification for overhaul. Since writing these posts I've come to think people won't believe any of it until everyone in the world has been exterminated. Hopefully that's wrong. I also wrote a comment on a blog that a fundamental approach to breaking the corporate hold on our government would be starve the beast; that is, influential war industry vendors should see their markets vanish. Shortly thereafter Nick Turse had this fine article that points out almost everyone who manufactures anything in the country has defense as a customer. I've never purchased anything from 90 percent of the companies he names—but I'm particularly cheap, so that doesn't count. Earlier I had blog posts you can see here and here. There's a reference and link about inventor Stanley Meyer I omitted in this series. I cross posted at Smirking Chimp and DailyKos. The document had material about Tesla's death ray, city killing machine, unmanned aerial vehicles and many other things I omitted here.

Please read "US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights" and share it.

Lesson 2: The Good/Demand free energy now

2008-05-04T18:01:00.001-05:00

You shouldn't have paid for energy in your entire life—not one cent.

Solving our economic, energy and environmental disasters is something we could do cheaply and almost immediately, really and completely. When you see how, you're going to boil over. Face it: we've got to do something. The Federal Reserve has to cut interest rates for the Dow Industrials to have a good day. How CNBC loves it. They say Bush-o-nomics is a big success, happy days are here and our troubles are behind us forever, and media and tech reporter Dennis Kneale, the guy with pubic hair on his head and face, sneers, "liberals want recession." I've heard many of their reporters blame poor market performance on the political left's bad attitude. The second day after a rate cut—one day later—the Dow finishes flat or in the red, some days deeply in the red. Everyone at the Federal Reserve should be hauled away in chains and the place bulldozed. If you're unclear, watch Russo's brilliant America: Freedom To Fascism, newly reposted on Google.

Two things are clear. We're in very serious trouble, and the world is ready for the next really big thing. I've heard about the next really big thing for 50 years, and try not to think about it. Project Censored's amazing, vanishing "US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights" abruptly jogged my memory, bringing up the name Nikola Tesla. Bad regarding weapons, but the best news for the positive contribution it can make—what we'll eventually go to anyway, and the only real solution we desperately need, right now. Read from the last link, and be astonished. You can read the entire text of PC's document here.

What made Edison's and Einstein's careers noteworthy was Nikola Tesla's innovative physics. He's the most brilliant and neglected inventor in history because entrenched interests didn't and still don't want humanity following his work. If it did, they'd go the way of the conestoga. It was Tesla, not Marconi, who invented radio. He told people about it in the 1880s, and like so many of his inventions, people didn't understand it, were sure it wouldn't work and that he'd lost his marbles—until they saw it really worked, then they understood and Tesla was a big hero. He gave his first public demonstration of radio in 1893.

In that same demonstration, he showed another invention, wireless power transmission. He devised a relatively simple, inexpensive, global, solar-driven wireless power delivery system that could have provided everyone on earth all the clean energy they wanted free of charge. Even in 1893, rich corporations that might have developed this technology had no interest, thinking why give it away when they could charge for it. The rest is history. As PC said in footnote 43:

To illustrate the control of science for corporate profit, Tesla’s practical applications all shared one thing in common, they were devoid of any profitable application. As a result, Tesla’s development of wireless electricity has never borne fruit, leaving us still in the 21st century surrounded by a landscape of transmission wires, faulty electrical grids, destructive (though profitable) electrical generation systems, wars for oil, and a suffering environment. See Marc J. Seifer, The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Citadel Press, 1998.

For the last 115 years, we haven't needed the grid, coal, enriched uranium, natural gas, heating oil, gasoline engines, diesel engines or jet engines. All we needed was a little radio to power our homes, vehicles, furnaces and factories, with clean, free electricity. It's like so many things his theoretical physics invented, rather simple technology. We could set that network up today in probably just a year or two. But we won't. Bush and Cheney have licensed dozens of new coal-fired and nuclear generation facilities to insure a long future of hideously expensive, filthy power. You'll pay the cost of constructing and insuring them. A couple weeks ago, T. Boone Pickens announced he plans to borrow $10 billion to build a series of windchargers. Cleaner, but still another big, expensive grid plug-in. This isn't the future of energy, nor are hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cells, ethanol, geothermal or biofuels. The future is off of oil and off of the grid. None of us may live to see it, because the super rich need more, new barrels o' billions.

If that doesn't really piss you off, I don't know why. I've been publicizing this great Project Censored document for months, and it has seen no interest. I sent my blog links and a copy of the report to many of our favorite authors. I won't mention their names, except for the only one who read the material, William J. Broad of The New York Times. Thanks for caring about the future of humanity, Bill.

You could spend the rest of your life thinking and writing about how free, wireless electric transmission would make the economy boom like no living person has seen, and equalize the balance of wealth and power in the world like nothing else. The 118 people who decide things in America will move heaven and earth to stop it. I confess: I entertain the notion Washington ordered PC to pull this document from their site, complete with threats—not so much because it talks about secret weapons or begins by saying the Bush administration rendered the Constitution inert with the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and evisceration of habeas corpus and posse comitatus. They'd be unconcerned the authors recommended Americans take seriously the founders' charge we take our government back. But hurt the precious, established energy industries? That would be unacceptable, and an excuse to deploy battalions. After five years, a trillion dollars and more thousands of dead Americans and millions of dead and displaced Iraqis than Bush will admit, we're looking at gas for $10 a gallon. The middle east wars aren't about our access to oil, just about the oil industry's access to our money. A holiday for the gas tax? We pay and pay. What a bunch of shit.

Tesla's other energy solutions weren't as well documented as wireless power transmission, like my favorite, the MEG, or motionless electromagnetic generator, a breadbox-size device simpler than your computer with no moving parts. I know Tesla put it to work and said, properly configured, it would give you more current than you could use. Wireless electrical transmission, however, is no fairy tale. Tesla publicly demonstrated it more than once. Many people saw it, and their observations were well documented.

If you have anything at all to say to Washington, demand free energy now. You need say no more than that. They know exactly what you're talking about. Washington will never, never do anything to make it happen, so it's left up to you. Just be aware that if you try to set up a wireless power transmission station, and anyone knows, every highly-paid mercenary and assassin on earth will show up to shoot you.

Project Censored is far from finished telling you about this miraculous technology. I read everything on this website years ago and had the satisfaction of sharing the link on blogs, only to be told by open-minded progressives that unless I were a world-class quantum physics expert, I had absolutely no business discussing any of this with anyone, ever. I admit I don't have one percent of the education or mental horsepower to mathematically quantify Tesla's theoretical physics or explain how the theories and devices work in lay language. So much of what is on that site has been confirmed to me since I first read it, and there are instances in PC's document, which speaks of the rapid healing of bones. The scalar wars site talks about a device that can treat any and every injury, infirmity or affliction, physical or mental, quickly and painlessly with magnetic waves. It offers a solution to our most daunting medical problems, like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and cancer. It hints it can painlessly repair a broken arm or leg in 15 to 30 minutes; so, add to the industries made obsolete by Tesla the medical industry and the attendant, parasitic health care insurance industry. It'd be a shame to lose them. My heart bleeds purple piss. The website claims these aren't just theories, but real things that actually exist. It reminds us of Tesla's mathematically proven insistence that through the electromagnetic spectrum, man can bring matter in and out of existence, create life in its infinite variety, manipulate matter and space and even the passage of time itself.

Which brings us back to the presidential candidates. When faced with the opportunity to eliminate all of these scourge-of-the-earth, life-robbing industries, and bringing us into a bright, peaceful and prosperous, happy world, do you believe any of the big three candidates would embrace and promote ANY of these new technologies (which really aren't new)? The answer is no: no way buddy—no way baby—NOT IN A MILLION YEARS. And that is why I hate them, all of them, truly and from deep inside.

The main topic of PC's report concerns other real things—dreadful things which are our government's deepest secrets, the biggest purchase taxpayers will make after the wars, things even Congress and the president don't know about, but which you should know about, before they are rolled or flown into your neighborhood for a Terminator-style cookout. That's Lesson 3.

Lesson 1: The Bad/And the winner is...

2008-05-03T20:22:00.002-05:00

[This is the first of my latest effort to publicize Project Censored's great report. Here's hoping it'll stir up a little action.]

Finally, I posted the entire text of US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights, a Project Censored (herein, PC) report which mysteriously vanished from their website. I got three lessons from the report, as in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the first calling for inferences the authors never intended: who will be the next president?

The report teaches that, and everything else there is to know about how the United States reached its present sociologic and economic condition and what is ahead for our society. Its social and political commentary is the best thing I've read in years, maybe ever—a true modern classic of literature, and more informative than my entire history education. Watching the news closely every hour of every day doesn't tell me as much about what's going on this minute as this fantastic document. Even the footnotes are amazing. Number 20 says their search found no instances of executive or legislative mention of electromagnetic weapons, nor did a 2001-2006 Lexis-Nexis search find a single instance in the mainstream media. No wonder you've never heard about it. And they DON'T want you to know, wishing to retain the element of surprise when they are used on American citizens! That's for Lesson 3. If ever there were a document The Bush Despotism™ would censor and prevent you from reading, this is it. Not to suggest the fed demanded its removal; indeed, it'd be like taking a big dump on a church alter, and Bush and Cheney wouldn't...never mind. It's a fabulous and wonderful thing everyone should see, and the only article or book I've ever felt a sense of mission to publicize. It will not be stifled, and God bless Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton, Lew Brown and Project Censored.

Let's start things off with a bang by congratulating our lucky winner. John McCain, come on down! You're the next president of the United States! I predict John can't fail to win, even if he pulls no more than a rock-solid 20 percent of the popular vote. It's only my opinion, of course, and people by the millions would argue it. Recent history and my reading of "US Electromagnetic Weapons" demand the general election can have no other result. Published in December, 2006, the writers in no way addressed the issue of the next presidential election, and had no intention of making any forecast. The report's primary topic is cognitive liberty, since these secret weapons influence the mind and therefore behavior. Yet, the historical perspective in it allows one to extrapolate so easily, by a line of reasoning that is as dumb as it is transparent, plain and clear, making it simple to see what will happen in November—and beyond.

Having just finished heaving, something I've done thousands of times since first reading it, you must know I'm not a McCain supporter trying to mislead you. I hate all the candidates, and you'll see why in lesson two. I'm writing this sentence April 30. Today, MSNBC cable news reported Clinton and Obama are less than one percent separated in popular support. Do you believe that? My friends, it just cannot be. Thanks to PC I know every poll figure, the delegate and vote counts are fabricated, pulled from thin air and unrelated to the outcome. You know corporations and the war industry influence government, but you don't know how that works. Terse and in your face, PC tells you precisely:

The repression of human rights has been present within the US Government throughout our history. A long thread of sociological research documents the existence of a dominant ruling class in the US that sets policy and determines national political priorities. The American ruling class is complex and inter-competitive, maintaining itself through interacting families of high social standing with similar life styles, corporate affiliations, and memberships in elite social clubs and private schools.

This American ruling class is self-perpetuating, maintaining its influence through policy-making institutions such as the National Manufacturing Association, National Chamber of Commerce, Business Council, Business Roundtable, Conference Board, American Enterprise Institute, Council on Foreign Relations and other business-centered policy groups. C. Wright Mills, in his 1956 book The Power Elite, documents how World War II solidified a trinity of power in the US, comprised of corporate, military and government elites in a centralized power structure motivated by class interests and working in unison through "higher circles" of contact and agreement. Mills described how the power elite were those "who decide whatever is decided" of major consequence. [...]

The media is complicit in omitting information necessary to make democratic decisions. A global dominance agenda includes penetration into the boardrooms of the corporate media in the US. A research team at Sonoma State University recently finished conducting a network analysis of the boards of directors of the ten big media organizations in the US. The team determined that only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director of the ten big media giants. These 118 individuals in turn sit on the corporate boards of 288 national and international corporations. Four of the top 10 media corporations in the US have DOD contractors on their boards of directors including:

William Kennard: New York Times, Carlyle Group
Douglas Warner III: GE (NBC), Bechtel
John Bryson: Disney (ABC), Boeing
Alwyn Lewis: Disney (ABC), Halliburton
Douglas McCorkindale: Gannett, Lockheed-Martin

Given an interlocked media network, big media in the US effectively represent corporate America's interests. The media elite, a key component of policy elites in the US, are the watchdogs of acceptable ideological messages, the controllers of news and information content, and the decision makers regarding media resources.

Look at those names. Those five people alone are capable of controlling almost all the news you get, how the campaign is perceived and who wins. If you've wondered how mainstream media has produced nothing but prowar news, you need wonder no longer. We all knew it was happening. Seeing names takes it up a few levels.

I'd like to see their list of 118 people and those 288 corporations. One could learn much—including how to end the neocon, authoritarian nightmare. The real revolution is knowledge, and Washington has worked hard to make us idiots. Understand, fellow imbeciles, when they tell you McCain won by a squeak and we should get over it, since we get the government we deserve: War Jackboot America™ isn't wanted by citizens and wasn't made by them, and isn't their fault.

After several readings, I get the idea the war industry is really in love with your money. I never thought about it like that, although I knew the level of affection was beyond avarice. Certainly the 2009 discretionary budget request clearly shows it. If you add $70 billion war supplement to the $541 billion defense allotment, defense becomes 57 percent of the budget. There is talk of a supplement over $170 billion for the wars, so that it doesn't become an election season issue.

New weapons development gets a large share of it, and black ops programs don't show in these figures. Black ops weapons could be the single largest thing taxpayers buy in 2009, after the wars, and even members of Congress can't tell you what they are or how much they cost. "US Electromagnetic Weapons" tells us black ops are 40% of the defense budget. That doesn't count so-called black budgets, secret allocations the amounts of which are known by no one. This control failure gives a whole new meaning to the word entitlement.

These people have a choice of presidents, and there must be no mistake. What the rest of the world thinks doesn't matter—only their money. The president must be the best example of two qualities, cold-bloodedness and profound stupidity. Thus, he can't fail to choose conflict, and he is easy to control. In this race, a clear winner emerges: John. It's just my opinion, and I hate it more than you. Could it really be that simple? It was for the last two four-year terms.

If you hated Lesson 1, don't miss Lesson 2 tomorrow. It's far better, the money shot of the three. Have plenty of vomit bags.

U.S. Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights

2008-04-28T23:02:00.002-05:00

This is the text of a report authored by Project Censored titled, "US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights." A modern classic of literature, the report has been removed from their website. They have not responded to my request for information. The report deserves to see the light of day. I made some small editing changes, mostly regarding periods and quotation marks. Every effort was made to preserve the report's original text. It is a very great privilege to present this important document to you in its entirety.
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US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights

By Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton

A Study of the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights
Violations and Continuing Research in Electromagnetic Weapons

Completed December 2006

Sonoma State University
Project Censored
Media Freedom Foundation

US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights
By Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton

This research explores the current capabilities of the US military to use electromagnetic (EMF) devices to harass, intimidate, and kill individuals and the continuing possibilities of violations of human rights by the testing and deployment of these weapons. To establish historical precedent in the US for such acts, we document long-term human rights and freedom of thought violations by US military/intelligence organizations. Additionally, we explore contemporary evidence of on-going government research in EMF weapons technologies and examine the potentialities of continuing human rights abuses.

In the 1950s and 60s the CIA began work to find means for influencing human cognition, emotion and behavior. Through the use of the psychological understanding of the human being as a social animal and the ability to manipulate a subject’s environment through isolation, drugs and hypnosis, US funded scientists have long searched for better means of controlling human behavior. This research has included the use of wireless directed electromagnetic energy under the heading of "Information Warfare" and "Non Lethal Weapons." New technological capabilities have been developed in black budget projects1 over the last few decades—including the ability to influence human emotion, disrupt thought, and present excruciating pain through the manipulation of magnetic fields. The US military and intelligence agencies have at their disposal frightful new weapons, weapons that have likely already been covertly used and/or tested on humans, both here and abroad, and which could be directed against the public in the event of mass protests or civil disturbance. Human Rights belong to people collectively. To believe in rights for some and not others is a denial of the humanness of people worldwide. Yet, denial is exactly what Congress and George W. Bush did with the signing of the Military Commission Act of 2006. The new official US policy is that torture and suspension of due process are acceptable for anyone the president deems to be a terrorist or supporter. This act is the overt denial of the inalienable rights of human beings propagated in our Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. More so, US actions declared to the world that the US suspends human rights for those it believes are evil.

The precious words, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," did not declare that only some men (and women) possess unalienable rights. Our independence was founded on the understanding that all men and women are recognized by this nation as having innate rights derived by their humanity.

Likewise, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created by the United Nations in 1948, signed and ratified by the US Congress, specifies in its preamble that "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world."

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been a guide for international law for most of six decades, and as such binds the United States to its general principles. Article 10 states that "everyone is entitled to full equality, to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him," and Article 5 specifically prohibits torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Both of these basic human rights have been superceded by the passage the of Military Commissions Act of 2006. Additionally, the Universal Declaration of Human rights declares that everyone has the right to freedom of thought and freedom of expression and opinion. This means that humans have the inalienable right to be able to freely think their own thoughts and discover their own truths. This paper addresses this most fundamental human right and explores the pending threats to individual freedom of thought posed by new EMF weapons technologies.

Freedom of thought or cognitive liberty is the natural human right of each person to be secure in their ability to perceive the world to the best of their ability. To have true cognitive liberty in a world as complex as ours would mean that first we must have access to truthful and unbiased information about the actions of others and the general state of the world. The Center for Cognitive Liberties defines this as “the right of each individual to think independently and autonomously, to use the full spectrum of his or her mind, and to engage in multiple modes of thought.”2 Without accurate representations we cannot make independently informed choices. It is imperative that the human body and mind be considered sacrosanct. To invade a person’s body without their consent is an egregious human rights crime.

The circumstance may soon arrive in which anti-war or human rights protesters suddenly feel a burning sensation akin to touching a hot skillet over their entire body. Simultaneously they may hear terrifying nauseating screaming, which while not produced externally, fills their brains with overwhelming disruption. Not only are both phenomena currently possible, but designs for more powerful EMF technologies receive continuous funding from the US Government.

We are in a time of extremism, permanent war, and the unilateral manifestation of ethnocentrism and power by a cabal of people in the US government. These power elites have been in operation for decades and are set on nothing less than the total US military domination of the world. They defy the foundational values of the American people to achieve their ends. This is not a new phenomenon.

The repression of human rights has been present within the US Government throughout our history.3 A long thread of sociological research documents the existence of a dominant ruling class in the US that sets policy and determines national political priorities. The American ruling class is complex and inter-competitive, maintaining itself through interacting families of high social standing with similar life styles, corporate affiliations, and memberships in elite social clubs and private schools.4

This American ruling class is self-perpetuating,5 maintaining its influence through policy-making institutions such as the National Manufacturing Association, National Chamber of Commerce, Business Council, Business Roundtable, Conference Board, American Enterprise Institute, Council on Foreign Relations and other business-centered policy groups.6 C. Wright Mills, in his 1956 book The Power Elite, documents how World War II solidified a trinity of power in the US, comprised of corporate, military and government elites in a centralized power structure motivated by class interests and working in unison through "higher circles" of contact and agreement. Mills described how the power elite were those "who decide whatever is decided" of major consequence.7

With the advent of the military-industrial complex after World War II, President Eisenhower observed that an internal military industrial power faction was consolidating their long-term plans for the domination of America and, eventually, the world. Eisenhower was in no position to fight these men, and history records his feelings on the subject with the text of his short farewell address:

"….But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. Of these, I mention two only…

…This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence–economic, political, even spiritual–is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government."8

We now understand that Eisenhower was referring to the conjunction of redirected tax monies to research secret new technology aimed at nothing less than increasing the controlling power of the military industrial elite to a global scale.

One particular faction of ambitious men, the former cold warriors and emerging neo-conservatives, were close followers of philosopher Leo Strauss. This elite group included not just generals and industrialists but philosophers, scientists, academics, and politicians have now become the most powerful public-private war organization ever known.

Strauss espoused an elitist philosophy that fawned over the characteristics of those who inherited wealth and lived lives of leisure to pursue whatever their interests may be. His ideas have been transformed into a cogent ideology in which the media, religion, and government are used to subdue the masses while the real “nobles” follow their own will without regard to the laws designed to control lesser men. Strauss was likewise fond of secrecy, as a necessity for control, because if the lesser men found out what was being done to them they would no doubt be upset.

"The people will not be happy to learn that there is only one natural right–the right of the superior to rule over the inferior, the master over the slave, the husband over the wife, and the wise few over the vulgar many." In On Tyranny, Strauss refers to this natural right as the "tyrannical teaching" of his beloved ancients.9

Leo Strauss, Albert Wohlstetter, and others at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought receive wide credit for promoting the neo-conservative agenda through their students, Paul Wolfowitz, Allan Bloom, and Bloom's student Richard Perle.

Canadian cultural review magazine Adbusters, defines neo-conservatism as, "The belief that Democracy, however flawed, was best defended by an ignorant public pumped on nationalism and religion. Only a militantly nationalist state could deter human aggression …such nationalism requires an external threat and if one cannot be found it must be manufactured."10

The neo-conservative philosophy emerged as a reaction to the 1960s era of social revolutions. Numerous officials and associates in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidencies were strongly influenced by the neo-conservative philosophy including: John Ashcroft, Charles Fairbanks, Richard Cheney, Kenneth Adelman, Elliot Abrams, William Kristol and Douglas Feith.11

Within the Ford administration there was a split between Cold War traditionalists seeking to minimize confrontations through diplomacy and detente and neo-conservatives advocating stronger confrontations with the Soviet’s "Evil Empire." The latter group became more entrenched when George H.W. Bush became CIA Director. Bush allowed the formation of "Team B" headed by Richard Pipes along with Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Paul Nitze and others, who formed the second Committee on the Present Danger to raise awareness of the Soviet threat and the continuing need for a strong aggressive defense policy. Their efforts led to strong anti-Soviet positioning during the Reagan administration.12

The Committees on the Present Danger (CPD) extend from the 1950s Russian threat to the present. The current CPD proudly boasts on their website;

"In times of great challenge to the security of the United States, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents have traditionally joined to make an assertive defense of American interests.

Twice before in American history, The Committee on the Present Danger has risen to this challenge. It emerged in 1950 as a bipartisan education and advocacy organization dedicated to building a national consensus for a strong defense against Soviet expansionism. In 1976, the Committee on the Present Danger reemerged, with leadership from the labor movement, bipartisan representatives of the foreign policy community and academia, all of whom were concerned about strategic drift in US security policy. With victory in the Cold War, the mission of the Committee on the Present Danger was considered complete and consequently was deactivated.

Today, the current CPD promotes radical Islamists as the primary threat to the American people and millions of others who prize liberty. They claim that the threat is global. They also claim that they operate from cells in a number of countries. Rogue regimes seek power by making common cause with terrorist groups. The prospect that this deadly collusion may include weapons of mass murder was the justification for the invasion of Iraq."13

Journalist John Pilger recalls his interview with neo-conservative Richard Perle during the Reagan administration: “I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about 'total war,' I mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term again in describing America's 'war on terror', "No stages, this is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now."14

There is ample evidence available to show that some individuals within government and industry have little problem with violating the public trust and using their positions to kill, maim, torture and destroy. It is of the utmost importance to our traditional American values of human rights and cognitive liberty that we recognize this threat from within. We must move to identify those who show these proclivities and ensure that their activities have adequate oversight.

Stanley Milgram's famous experiment involving obedience to authority proved that individuals are fairly easily cowed into submitting to anyone who has a claim of authority, and that on average 61 percent of people will administer pain to another person if instructed to do so.15 Both test groups in these experiments rationalized their behavior by appealing to "the greater good." Because it was for the "advancement of science" they were able to be convinced they should ignore personal judgment and obey the instructions given to them by the experimenters.16

Martin Orne, who was one of those paid by the CIA to conduct experiments on obedience, showed in 1962 that people would go to tremendous lengths to please a person in authority. Orne conducted research that involved presenting subjects with a stack of 2,000 pages of random numbers and instructing them to add each two adjacent numbers until he returned. Over 90 percent of the test subjects continued in this meaningless task for up to five hours.17

Today the combination of political climate and technological capability presents a condition in which widespread manipulation of, not only the flow of information through the media, but also the manipulation of the emotional states and cognitive ability in large populations could be achieved. If policy elites are unaccountable to the public for their actions, and the public has been emotionally manipulated to support them, we can assume that they will certainly abuse their positions in the pursuit of their agendas.

Previous human rights and cognitive liberty violations are evidenced in CIA and FBI records pertaining to the infamous MK-ULTRA project and the grim record of harassment and subversion uncovered in the COINTELPRO program in force through the 1950s and into the 1970s. We also examined some of the cases of illegal experimentation on the public dating back to the 1930s. We consider, in depth, the forms of electromagnetic weapons entering the battlefield today that trace their origins back through the secret projects of the Defense Department in the 1950s and 1960s.

Psychological Warfare, Information War, and mind control may seem to be exotic topics, but the impact of these technologies and techniques is profound. Our minds are being impacted through a longstanding series of programs aimed at manipulating public opinion through intelligence agencies, think tanks, corporate media and a host of non-governmental organizations designed to engender fear, division and uncertainty in the public.18 Media manipulation involving the artificial framing of our collective reality is often a hit or miss proposition, but psychological operations have been carried out in the past, and are being carried out even today, through the practices of "Information Warfare," directed at enemies abroad and at the American people.19

According to Mary C. FitzGerald of the Hudson Institute, New-concept weapons, such as laser, electromagnetic, plasma, climatic, genetic and biotechnological are the central principle driving the modernization of national defense. The potential for these weapons to be used for both good and bad deserves a great deal of attention, but there is little to be found in the media or discussed by our administration.20

The US is a system of many institutions including those whose sole function is to provide government oversight. When problems arise that threaten the stability of the country or the safety of the people, the US government is designed to have checks and balances that allow the people to challenge misconduct either directly or through congressional representatives. Increasingly, oversight is disintegrating. According to a 2006 report in the Boston Globe, the intelligence committee does not read most intelligence reports in their entirety.21

The media is complicit in omitting information necessary to make democratic decisions.22 A global dominance agenda includes penetration into the boardrooms of the corporate media in the US. A research team at Sonoma State University recently finished conducting a network analysis of the boards of directors of the ten big media organizations in the US. The team determined that only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director of the ten big media giants. These 118 individuals in turn sit on the corporate boards of 288 national and international corporations. Four of the top 10 media corporations in the US have DOD contractors on their boards of directors including:

William Kennard: New York Times, Carlyle Group
Douglas Warner III, GE (NBC), Bechtel
John Bryson: Disney (ABC), Boeing
Alwyn Lewis: Disney (ABC), Halliburton
Douglas McCorkindale: Gannett, Lockheed-Martin

Given an interlocked media network, big media in the US effectively represent corporate America’s interests. The media elite, a key component of policy elites in the US, are the watchdogs of acceptable ideological messages, the controllers of news and information content, and the decision makers regarding media resources

It is not suggested that everyone in the government believes in global domination, nor that it is the intent of every government official to 'cover up' misconduct.23 Scientists involved in potentially harmful technology are not 'mad scientists.' In fact, there are many reports in the public sphere addressing government and military misconduct that are put forth by people within these very institutions. The problem is when the government threatens whistleblowers, intimidates officials with job loss, infiltrates activist organizations, and increases surveillance.24

PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR

Modern Psychological Operations (Psy-Ops) were significantly advanced in the Second World War25 and were brought to bear on the American public during the 1950s with the formation of a widespread network of social scientists, journalists, politicians, military specialists and intelligence operatives. Psy-Ops were used to promote a variety of programs in cooperation with the Industrial Military Complex. Their key piece of information warfare was the Communist Red Menace.26

One of the opening salvos in this war of deception was fired by George Kennan, the American ambassador to Moscow, describing the Soviet threat in a "long cable" sent to Washington in 1946. Kennan spent decades studying the Russian political scene. He became convinced that there would be little chance of cooperation with the Soviets and recommended a number of actions, most notably the institution of “political war” through the newly formed CIA—a decision he later regretted, even arguing for the elimination of the CIA in 1997.27

In the late 1950s, a right-wing cadre of men within the new CIA was busy building secret armies, planning assassinations, and generally devising plans for world domination that still play out today. Operation Gladio was one example, well documented and international in scope, in which right-wing members of the US intelligence community created "stay-behind" armies in many of the nations of Europe. Those armies managed to infiltrate the highest levels of politics (most notably in Italy where the term "Gladio" refers to a double edged sword) and have been held responsible for numerous false-flag terrorist acts through the 1980s and 1990s. Terror and propaganda often go hand-in-hand in the extremist elements within our military and intelligence communities.28

To counter the divisions within the intelligence community, a greater voice was given to organizations formal and informal. In the 1950s, one such group, the first Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), promulgated a series of "gap crises." The Bomber Gap, the Missile Gap, the Space Gap, and the Brainwashing and Psychotronic Gap were used to justify increased military technology spending. Congress was led to believe that the Soviets were a much greater threat than they actually were, and that a terrifying new weapon was being developed that threatened America. They were thus convinced to vote for virtually any black budget proposal that came their way. The CPD ran a series of broadcasts to the public through the Mutual Broadcasting Network that spread fear in the minds of the public.

Under the first civilian CIA Director, Allen Welsh Dulles, the Company began to push forward with its agenda of manufacturing consent from the American people for a new state of perpetual war industrialization. Dulles was a well-connected individual, a successful spy for the OSS in Switzerland during the war, related to three secretaries of state, and the chief advisor to Dewey when he ran for President in 1948. Dulles had access to the highest echelons of policy making and his influence was global in scope, counting among his close friends Henry Luce, publisher of Newsweek. Relying heavily upon established circles of contacts within the nation's media elites, Dulles recruited key members of the media to work directly for the CIA under Operation Mockingbird. Mockingbird was a psychological information campaign against the American people. In a campaign that would lead to acceptance of blanket secrecy for "national security," "the Red Scare" became the excuse for spending vast sums of money on weapon systems and an increase in covert operations both in foreign countries and within the United States. In the 1950s and 1960s, movies, news articles, books, radio and television programs were carefully laced with anticommunist messages and images designed to produce an acceptance of the policies being promoted by the defense elite’s propaganda machine.29

"Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were William Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the Louisville Courier-Journal and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, The Miami Herald, and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune. By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with The New York Times, CBS, and Time Inc."30

One of the engineers of this deception was a former head of the stay-behind network, Edward W.Barrett, director of the Interdepartmental Psychological Strategy Board (IPSB) and, not coincidentally an editor at Newsweek. Barrett was seen as being very effective in his efforts to manipulate public opinion. At the same time, CPD was a "non-political group of citizens of the western coast" and launched a media campaign in favor of the urgent reinforcement of the national defense. Among the organizers of the Committee were Frank Altschul (Director of the Council for Foreign Relations), William Donovan (former head of the OSS during WWII) and General Dwight D. Eisenhower.31

All of this activity was more than enough to stoke the fears of the public and encourage policy makers to accept the Cold War view of the world. This allowed Truman to convince Congress to approve a tripled military budget that provided funding for secret research and development and turn a blind eye (in the name of National Security) to "black operations" programs authorized under the new Cold War rubric of "containment" and aimed at undermining otherwise peaceful nations and fomenting war, torture and assassination in countries as diverse as Iran, Guatemala and Indochina.32 Post-war developments in Europe, especially the British withdrawal from Greece, led Truman to decide it was necessary to have a permanent American presence in the old continent to counteract the Communist influence.33 General George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, designed a vast plan that mixed economic assistance and secret actions aimed at establishing democracies and making sure that voters in foreign countries made "the right choice." National Security Council directive NSC 10/2, essentially written by Kennan, made official the creation of an anti-Communist interference network.34

The US intelligence community had an ace in the hole, Reinhardt Gehlen, a Nazi spymaster with an existing network of agents became the front man in Eastern Europe for American intelligence. General Reinhardt Gehlen proved to be troublesome for the CIA over the years. Communist counterspies infiltrated his network, his information was often incorrect, and he had downplayed his eagerness to serve the Reich. But Gehlen was only one of thousands of Nazis recruited to assist in the new "Cold War" through Operation Paperclip.35 In fact, the intelligence assets acquired by bringing the Gestapo onto the US public payroll was overshadowed by the acquisition of dozens of brilliant Nazi scientists and researchers.

At this juncture, Truman, through the application of the 1947 National Security Act and the newly formed National Security Council36, authorized a vast number of secret projects involving chemical, biological, nuclear and electromagnetic experiments. Former Nazis were put in charge of many of the most sensitive programs and facilities. The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) was entrusted to the former SS officer Wernher von Braun.37 Kurt Debus, another ex-SS officer, directed Cape Canaveral. At this time scientists began working on "black" projects in earnest, including attempts at finally developing the "lost" theories of Nicola Tesla, the Serbian-born American physicist, into military and intelligence applications.38

TESLA AND EMF

Military interest into the weaponization of the electromagnetic spectrum has a long history, based on the theoretical work of Nikola Tesla. Radar, in its early inception, was seen not only as a means of tracking the position and speed of enemy targets, but as a potential weapon in its own right. There are very real problems however with overcoming the normal decrease in effect of an electromagnetic field over distance. This effect is a natural function of the laws of physics and applies to both electrical and magnetic fields39. In short, the strength of a field drops off in inverse proportion to the distance of the target from the source. Without a means of concentrating and directing a beam of energy across long distances, any effect that an EMF weapon may have would be limited to its immediate vicinity. From 1900 until his death in 1943, Nikola Tesla worked to develop just such a weapon.

In a letter to the New York Times editor in 1908 Telsa wrote,

“When I spoke of future warfare I meant that it should be conducted by direct application of electrical waves without the use of aerial engines or other implements of destruction...What I said in regard to the greatest achievement of the man of science whose mind is bent upon the mastery of the physical universe, was nothing more than what I stated in one of my unpublished addresses, from which I quote: "According to an adopted theory, every ponderable atom is differentiated from a tenuous fluid, filling all space merely by spinning motion, as a whirl of water in a calm lake. By being set in movement this fluid, the ether, becomes gross matter. Its movement arrested, the primary substance reverts to its normal state. It appears, then, possible for man through harnessed energy of the medium and suitable agencies for starting and stopping ether whirls to cause matter to form and disappear. At his command, almost without effort on his part, old worlds would vanish and new ones would spring into being. He could alter the size of this planet, control its seasons, adjust its distance from the sun, guide it on its eternal journey along any path he might choose, through the depths of the universe. He could make planets collide and produce his suns and stars, his heat and light; he could originate life in all its infinite forms. To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man's grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny."40

Tesla made several claims during the latter years of his life, published by the New York Times in what became an annual event. His theory of the hidden nature of our universe supplants those of many of his contemporaries in that he was able to infer a multidimensional model of the universe that is only now being investigated through the theoretical mathematics of our leading physicists.41

Tesla also developed means of remotely controlling aircraft as early as 1915, foreshadowing the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) of today’s battlefields. In 1934 Tesla offers to build a "Death Ray" that would make the power of an opponents air force obsolete. This was one of the earliest recorded statements regarding directed energy weapons.42 Tesla’s offer to build this device for the US government for a bargain price, but with many caveats, was refused by officials who, preferred instead to pump money into the new Army Air Corp, which in turn gave rise to the military aviation complex that we have today.43

Before the war the airline industry was not a major part of the economic life of the nation.44 With huge wartime contracts, however, corporations such as Hughes, McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, and Northrop quickly grew in power commensurate with the financial bonanza that was unearthed in the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific.45 These companies formed the core of the "military-industrial complex." Their investors and managers began to consolidate their clout in political circles to keep the nation on a wartime economic footing, a simple and vastly powerful weapon that would make aircraft, bombs, missiles and attendant industries irrelevant would certainly be seen as a direct threat to the growing power of military arsenal. Instead, a "black budget" program was put into motion, which exploited the work of Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein and others. The Manhattan Project, developed by the DOD in 1942, generated a vastly destructive weapon that required a well established and unbelievably expensive aerospace industry, along with unprecedented levels of secrecy and autonomy from Congress and the public.46

The US government also ignored Tesla’s offer to produce a "city killing machine," which was composed of an electromagnetic shield and a wireless torpedo. Tesla made several proposals during the 1930s, none of which received funding. Among Tesla’s claims, published annually on his birthday in the New York Times, were methods of harnessing the power of the sun to electrify the earth and provide free electrical power to anybody, anywhere.

Tesla did, however, conceive of at least one device that became a major part of our nation’s arsenal—radar. As early as 1917 he published his theory and developed the first prototype in 1934. It is from the basis of this technology that future research into weaponizing the electromagnetic spectrum proceeded. At the same time Tesla was working on methods of transmitting and receiving communication signals through interplanetary space and reading the images on a sleeping person's retina (by extension mind reading). His prediction that future wars would be fought with electromagnetic means foreshadowed the rise of electronic warfare and the non-lethal weapons technology being deployed today.47

At first glance, it would seem probable that the military had taken over the management of Tesla's material. In fact, a number of projects related to his life’s work were in development. For instance, the building of beam weapons at Wright Patterson Air Force Base under the code name "Project Nick"48 headed by Brigadier General L.C. Craigie. This project was however, cancelled due to an apparent lack of understanding of Tesla’s means of transmitting high-energy waves without a loss of power over great distances. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) began another project in 1958 codenamed "Seesaw" at Lawrence Livermore Labs49 aimed at combating reported Soviet advances in electromagnetic weapons and defenses, advances that many believe came about after 1952 when the bulk of Tesla’s research and personal effects were turned over to his nephew, Sava Kosanovic, who promptly whisked them away to Yugoslavia. Eight years later Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev would state that, "A new and fantastic weapon is in the hatching stage,"50 horrifying many and prompting calls for more effective means of using EMF, espionage and counter-espionage.

On February 9, 1981, the office of the Undersecretary of Defense Research and Engineering department sent a letter to the FBI that requested the papers of Tesla, stating, “We believe that certain of Tesla’s papers may contain basic principles which would be of considerable value to certain ongoing research within the DOD. It would be very helpful to have access to these papers. The letter was signed by Lt. Col. Allan J. Mclaren, an R.O.T.C. graduate from M.I.T. in 1960, who later went on to become a project director with Lockheed Martin Space Systems from which he retired in 2003.51

This section of his memo to the FBI was not declassified until 1993. In response, the FBI issued the same response as to all of the other inquiries with one exception, this time they identified who it was that examined the stored effects; it was the Office of Scientific Research and Development from MIT, a breeding ground of CIA. technical types the Office of Naval Intelligence and agents from US Naval Research.52 What they may have been looking for had likely already been taken, according to a recent PBS special entitled Tesla: Life and Legacy, Tesla's nephew reported that Tesla’s most recent journal was missing from the bulk of material stored by the OAP.53 In recent years high profile projects such as the High Altitude Auroral Project ("HAARP"), the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars"), and many of the devices promoted by proponents of "Non-Lethal Weapons" have Tesla’s intellectual fingerprints all over them.54

MK-ULTRA

In terms of mind-control and the breaking down of prisoners for military interrogations, the events at Abu-Ghraib, Guantanamo, and in the CIA network of secret prisons dotting the globe, all have their intellectual origin in the work carried out by a network of scientists under the behest of the intelligence community beginning in the World War II period. Mind-control, per se, refers to a wellfunded, broad based series of programs designed to explore the furthest reaches of human cognitive ability. The Nazis, as well as the Japanese, had been experimenting on prisoners throughout the war. Recovery of the records of these experiments led the US to proceed with investigations into new means of interrogations and the building of resistance to interrogations of US personnel.55

The CIA, in association with various other agencies, undertook a long series of experiments on unsuspecting prisoners, students, military personnel and others recruited into one of the at least 162 subprojects of what became known as MKULTRA.56 Interest was certainly piqued by the case of Cardinal Mindseztny and the reports of brainwashing techniques used on American soldiers in prisoner of war camps in Korea.57 But even prior to the Korean War the resiliency of the human mind was being tested by researchers on the black budget. These projects reportedly at times violated every conceivable notion of human rights and dignity.58

Frank Olson, a mid-level CIA operative, worked on the development of aerosol delivery of drugs and poisons at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. His work, which is still classified, was. funded through MKULTRA. Olson took a trip to England where MI6 and the CIA were working together on ways to prevent allied spies and servicemen from yielding to interrogation. Olson also traveled to Frankfurt, where the two agencies conducted fatal experiments on prisoners of war and others considered to be "expendable." Olson had an ethical dilemma with the research and, after voicing his concerns, returned to the United States. On November 28, 1953, Olson was in room 1018A of the Hotel Statler in New York. At 2 a.m., Olson fell from the 10th floor window of his room to his death on the sidewalk below. The headline reported his death as an accident or suicide. This report was discredited when, in 1975, another official lie was issued to ease his family’s suffering and deflect public scrutiny. This time Olson was called the victim of an LSD experiment.59 Media reports cited in the New York Times focused on the sensational aspects of LSD use and psychic warfare, but did not dwell on the more egregious violations of human rights and dignity inherent in the programs overseen by the CIA.60

The truth was not revealed until 1994 when his son finally had his body exhumed and examined. The autopsy showed that Olson’s left temple had been fractured before he fell. According to the New York Times Magazine CIA tradecraft books from 1953, that have since been released teach that "one of the surest methods of killing somebody without a trace involves impairing their reflexes with alcohol (or drugs) and then stepping up behind them and stunning them with a blow to the temple. After that you quickly grab their ankles and in a single motion flip them over a bridge, balcony or out of a window more than 70 feet off of the ground."61 What Olson saw, and what cost him his life and his family their peace of mind for 30 years, was the beginning of a long term strategy to develop means of making individual both resistant to "brainwashing" and to control the actions of individuals.62 The cover story that was used to justify the beginning of the project was that there was a “brainwashing gap” with the Koreans.63

Experimenters used college students, servicemen, mental patients, the poor and, in several instances, children as young as four years old, in attempts to create untraceable assassins, couriers and other operatives. MKULTRA sub-projects involved the services of many notable universities and used a number of false front corporations such as the Foundation for the Study of Human Ecology and think tanks such as RAND, to shield the source of funding from those with ethical “problems.”64 We would still know nothing of these activities had it not been for the release of 16,000 pages of documents in 1977 through the FOIA request filed by the surviving family of Frank Olson. Unfortunately CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of any MKULTRA records shortly before the order came in to his office65, leaving an incomplete picture of a concerted effort by various agencies to create new and better means of controlling the thoughts, emotions and thus behavior, of unsuspecting individuals.

ILLEGAL EXPERIMENTATION

MKULTRA was, however, neither the first nor the last project funded by government or industry to experiment on people in the name of some greater good. A quick review of the history of secret experimentation and medical atrocities reveals a pattern of deadly behavior.

The Tuskegee Experiments in 1932 cruelly condemned scores of black men to death from syphilis.66 The Pellagra Incident, in which millions died over two decades, in spite of the fact that the US Public Health Service knew at the time that these deaths were caused by little more than a niacin deficiency.67

In 1940 scientists exposed four-hundred prisoners in Chicago with malaria (a US experiment Nazis cited at the Nuremberg trials to defend their own experimentation).68

During WWII, Seventh Day Adventist conscientious objectors were enlisted into Operation Whitecoat by the US Army and the Adventist Church. They were told that they were being tested for defensive research purposes while the government was in fact testing offensive chemical and biological weapons.69

After WWII, matters became far worse for those who were caught up in the web of illegal scientific testing. In 1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the US Atomic Energy Commission issued a secret document stating that the agency would begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects. At the same time atomic tests in which the residents of Utah and Nevada were purposely exposed to radioactive fallout. There were also a series of operations during the 1940s and 1950s in which US cities were attacked secretly by the military through the spread of biological agents in order to track their propagation through a real population.70

THE SCIENTISTS

Dr. Ewen Cameron71

Once the details of MKULTRA came to light, the focus in the media and in the Senate, was on the use of drugs, especially LSD. While the researchers within the project did indeed concentrate on developing a variety of hallucinogenic concoctions, they did so with an end in mind. The goal was to devise means and methods of enabling undercover operatives, soldiers, contractors or anyone who was involved in secret projects, to be able to keep those secrets if they were captured or interrogated. Hypnosis, combined with drugs, sensory deprivation and systematic abuse were seen as a means to that end. The leader in this pharmaceutical and psychological research was Dr. Ewen Cameron.

Cameron was at the time, one of the most esteemed psychiatrists in the world. As president of the American Psychiatric Association, Canadian Psychiatric Association, and one of the founders of the World Psychiatric Association, Dr. Cameron began experimenting on brainwashing techniques as early as the 1930s with schizophrenic patients. At this time lobotomies were not yet in common use, though the procedure would begin to be implemented in 1936 on a wide scale. Electroshock therapy was some years from being accepted as a primary means of changing behavior.72

Cameron relied on torturous and highly stressful techniques for breaking down the personality of his patients. Schizophrenics would be stripped down naked beneath red lights for eight hours a day, sometimes for up to eight months with repeated messages inundating their senses. In other experiments Cameron would attempt to induce the delirium associated with a high fever by cooking his patients in an electric cage until their body temperature reached 102 degrees.

From January of 1957 until September of 1960 Cameron became one of the promising researchers the CIA turned to in order to develop means and methods of “brainwashing” and programming human beings to do the will of the agency. Cameron received $64,242.4473 from the CIA. to develop a combination of techniques that would destroy an individual’s memory of an event and enable the programmer to control their behavior through post-hypnotic commands. Cameron used a variety of drug combinations coupled with prolonged sleep deprivation, isolation, hypnosis, and electro convulsive therapy in order to “wipe” an individual’s memory. His techniques worked, to a certain extent, but ethical considerations led the CIA to cut Cameron’s funding in the US, prompting Cameron to move to Canada to continue his work with funding channeled through the Canadian Government.

He continued his work, officially, from 1961 until 1964 in Montreal where he received an additional $57,750.74 During this time Cameron combined his techniques (in a "therapy" he called depatterning) with electroconvulsive therapy in which the voltage introduced into one subjects brain, Linda Macdonald, exceeded the APA’s guidelines by 76.5 times. He succeeded in wiping her memory and to this day, she cannot remember anything prior to 1963. In a January 17, 1984 broadcast of the Canadian Broadcasting System, a program called “The Fifth Estate” detailed the experiments of Cameron, prompting a burst of investigative journalism culminating in a class-action suit brought against the CIA by former subjects. In 1988, the case was settled out of court for $750,000, divided between 8 plaintiffs. Linda Macdonald received $100,000 and legal fees from the Canadian government, but Cameron himself, faced no punishment.75

Dr. Jose Delgado

Whereas Cameron focused on creating traumatized individuals through intense psychological pressure, Dr. Jose Delgado was investigating the direct route to control of “human subjects.” Delgado physically invaded the brains of subjects with electrodes in order to create emotions and control actions with the push of a button. As he stated himself,

"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain." 76

In his paper "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording in Completely Free Patients," Delgado observed that:

"Radio Stimulation on different points in the amygdala and hippocampus in the four patients produced a variety of effect, including pleasant sensations, elation, deep thoughtful concentration, odd feelings, super relaxation (an essential precursor for deep hypnosis) colored visions, and other responses."77

Delgado, to his credit, did make great strides toward a better understanding the physiology of brain structures and their attendant behavioral and emotional correlates, strides that did not go unnoticed by the intelligence community and the military.

While Delgado worked in an area of specific interest, the direct stimulation of brain structures through implanted electronics, other researchers explored means of creating multiple personalities and programming the alternate personalities that emerged to do a variety of intelligence related work as operatives, still others explored the effects of various drug combinations and other "programming" and interrogation techniques aimed at creating super spies and breaking down enemy agents.

THE EXPOSURE OF WATERGATE/MKULTRA/COINTELPRO

According to testimony by Senator Edward Kennedy in 1977,

"Some 2 years ago, the Senate Health Subcommittee heard chilling testimony about the human experimentation activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over 30 universities and institutions were involved in an 'extensive testing and experimentation' program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens 'at all social levels, [high and low], native Americans and foreign.’ Several of these [tests involved] the administration of LSD to ‘unwitting subjects in [social] situations.' ... The Central Intelligence Agency drugged American citizens without their knowledge or consent. It used university facilities and personnel without their knowledge." 78

As an example of the hubris wrought by institutions veiled in secrecy, given unlimited funds and staffed with amoral people we can only refer to the statement made by George White in a letter to MKUltra director Sidney Gottleib: "I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun! Where else could an American boy lie, cheat, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All Highest?" 79

After Watergate, more information hit the papers, COINTELPRO was uncovered by a group of people who have never been apprehended, in spite of a six-year FBI investigation. The COINTELPRO program was secret until 1971, when an FBI field office was burglarized by a group calling themselves the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. These people broke into an FBI office in Pennsylvania, rifled through the filing cabinets and leaked to the press documents detailing the abuses suffered by a wide variety of activists, including a long-term plan to destroy Martin Luther King Jr.:

"Agents tapped his phone, bugged his rooms, trumpeted his supposed commie connections, and his sexual proclivities, and sicced the Internal Revenue Service on him. When it was announced in 1964 that King would receive a Nobel Peace Prize, the FBI grew desperate. Hoping to prevent King from accepting the award, the Bureau mailed him a package containing a tape of phone calls documenting King's extramarital affairs and an anonymous, threatening letter (shown here in censored form). In barely concealed language, King was told to commit suicide before the award ceremony or risk seeing his "filthy, abnormal fraudulent self" exposed to the nation. Fortunately, King ignored the FBI's advice. He accepted the award and lived four more years until his assassination." 80

Some of the largest COINTELPRO campaigns targeted the Socialist Worker's Party, the Ku Klux Klan, the "New Left" (including several anti-war groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Black Liberation groups (such as the Black Panthers and the Republic of New Africa), Puerto Rican independence groups, the American Indian Movement, and the Weather Underground. Later, Director Hoover declared that the centralized COINTELPRO was over, and that all future counterintelligence operations would be handled on a case-by-case basis.81

In addition, the MKULTRA documents hit the press and a number of books were written about the subject, most notable were "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate" by John Marks, "Bluebird" by Colin A. Ross MD, and "A Nation Betrayed" by Carol Rutz. At this point victims began to come forward with claims of being horribly abused in these programs, one of the most famous is a woman named Candy Jones who described in stunning detail a tale of corruption and abuse.82

When Jimmy Carter became President in 1976 he promptly moved to introduce a modicum of control, he instituted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act establishing an 11 member secret court to oversee the surveillance activities of our covert agencies. As an example of the limited reporting requirements for the court we have the first report issued to Vice President Mondale from Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti in 1979:

This report is submitted pursuant to Section 107 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, Title 50, United States Code Section 1807. During calendar year 1979, 199 applications were made for orders and extensions of orders approving electronic surveillance under the Act. The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued 207 orders granting authority for the requested electronic surveillances. No orders were entered which modified or denied the requested authority.83

Pointedly Carter’s reform measure did not do anything to insure that the American public would be protected in the future from abuse and testing at the hands of the intelligence arm of the military-industrial complex. Carter’s move to reform the CIA was to appoint an outsider as head of the agency, Admiral Stansfield Turner. After Turner took over as Director of the CIA 800 "rogue" agents were let go, though most all of them found work in various false front companies that had been set up in the previous years.84

Both the Rockefeller Commission and the Church Committee revealed a long standing pattern of both developing new psychological, pharmaceutical and radiological technologies, to influence individuals and groups and long standing pattern of behavior whereby politically disruptive citizens were systematically targeted, harassed and destroyed. Yet there have, to date, been no provisions instituted which would stop this behavior, nor is there any guarantee that these kinds of covert programs ever actually ceased. The only practical change engendered by the disclosures of the 1970s was to drive these kinds of operations further into the shadows. That such research and experimentation may still be occurring is evidenced by a DOD directive, issued by the Secretary of the Navy on November 6, 2006 that specifically requires prior approval of the Under Secretary of the Navy before conducting "severe or unusual intrusions, either physical or psychological, on human subjects (such as consciousness altering drugs, or mind-control techniques)."85

Non-Lethal Weapons Research Today

There is a long history that illustrates US Intelligence operations had tragic results for many involved. There was, however, no public debate surrounding these black operations because they were classified under the guise of national security. MKULTRA, Project PANDORA, plutonium testing, and many more projects conducted by the DOD and the CIA were exposed by committees led by Senators Rockefeller and Church in the 1970s.86 However, tighter restrictions on human experiment including accountability and transparency did not occur until 1997, when President Clinton instituted revised protocols on human experiments.87

Official reports insist that the research involving experiments during the 1950s through the 1970s was destroyed. Yet, the scientists involved went without punishment, free to continue their careers.88 Given the levels of ongoing EMF technology research today, and the recent retroactive approval of torture approved by the Military Commissions Act, it may be that human testing is occurring under post-9/11 national security protocols. Can we accept that all the psychological research conducted with government funding up to the 1970s was simply destroyed? At this time, the American public has no way to answer this question. The current administration classifies more information than any previous US administration.89 Unclassified documents have even been recalled and re-classified.90

In the 1980s nuclear radiation experiments on humans became public knowledge and Russian tests making use of the electromagnetic spectrum were exposed.91 Countries around the world passed laws and signed treaties in response to the danger of weapons that could adversely effect human behavior or manipulate human cognition. The Russians banned all EMF weapons in 2001.

These treaties have roots in the human radiation experiments of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In effect, these treaties declared a basic tenant of human rights and cognitive liberties.92

In the quest for global military superiority, the US stepped up funding for the concept of the "Future Warrior" beginning in the late 1990s with the use of advanced nano-technology.93 The idea was to streamline the military, improve soldier performance, control the fighting in real-time and avoid soldier mortality. Toward this end, the concept was to enhance the ability of soldiers in the field to interface with computer systems by using their own brain waves.94 The US began to fund research into decoding the brain as well as other neurological research. President George H.W. Bush declared the 1990s "The Decade of the Brain."95 At the same time, funding for computer to human interface poured into universities and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) stepped up their research and development. In the universities, the field became "cognitive science" and within DARPA, the term "augmented cognition" was born.96 While developments in brain research are touted for their amazing therapeutic advances in the medical field, they primarily serve the purposes of the US military.97

Americans have little idea about the research concerning the capabilities of electromagnetism, directed acoustics, or computer-human interfacing. The majority of Americans do not know that we are currently using these new-concept weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Indiana University law professor David Fidler stated to the Economist, "because these weapons are most likely to be used on civilians, it is not clear that using them is legal under the international rules governing armed conflict…if they are used in conjunction with conventional weapons, they could end up making war more deadly, rather than less."98

A peek into the US arsenal of weapons is like a look into a science fiction film. DARPA and various military research labs provide a view of the current technology available to enhance US soldiers in the field and manipulate the emotions and behaviors of the perceived enemy. As American sentiment toward the Iraq war spirals downward, along with the approval ratings of the US president, domestic civil disobedience is likely to rise, as it has in many countries in response to US foreign policy.

Are new electromagnetic weapons in the possession of the government be used on American citizens? The issue at hand is whether the research and technology currently being developed will benefit or harm us and how much liberty we are willing to sacrifice for a possibly skewed sense of national security and protection.

In September 2006, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne announced that crowd control weapons should be tested on Americans first. "If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a non-lethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."99

Non-lethal weapons sound harmless in relation to guns and bombs. However, non-lethal weapons are not just tazers and annoying sounds. Nor are they harmless. In fact, NLWs are such a concern that many countries have treaties demanding transparency. Beginning in the 1990s, groups have formed to provide oversight of NLW research, including international committees, concerned scientists, and citizens’ groups including the Federation of American Scientists and the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics.100 The proliferation of NLWs have raised concern within the EU, Russia, and other countries, as records of Cold War abuses come to light and people come forward with complaints of illegal testing.101

The concern is more than a political issue and stretches beyond civil liberties into human rights as they relate to a person’s cognitive liberties. The following section highlights technologies with the capability to control and manipulate individuals or large groups of people.

Crowd Control using the Electromagnetic Spectrum

The electromagnetic spectrum has provided the military with an expanse of weapons, which are operational and in military and private use today in the form of millimeter waves,102 pulsed energy projectiles, and high power magnetic weapons.

Project Sheriff

The US has deployed the Project Sheriff active denial weapon in Iraq. Raytheon outfitted Humvees with their Silent Guardian Protection System, a device capable of heating the skin to 1/64 of an inch, causing instant pain similar to intense sunburn,103 with the goal to facilitate dispersing a crowd. According to a report released by the Air Force on the human effects of this weapon, people with contact lenses and those wearing metal suffered greater effects. An imprint of a coin was discovered on the skin of a test subject and death or severe heart problems may occur.104

Pulsed Energy Projectiles

Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs) are another form of weaponry that is used to paralyze a victim with pain. According to New Scientist magazine, the expanding plasma effects nerve cells, but the longterm effects remain a public mystery.105 The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program reports that, PEPs create a flash bang effect that startles and distracts.106 However, the effects are much greater than just startling an individual. A 2001 Time magazine article states that the PEP “superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the pep travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy…as far away as 2 km.”107

While the effects of these weapons appear to be short-term and topical in nature, there is evidence that electromagnetic weapons have effects on the brain, including sleep disruption and behavior changes.108 They can produce anxiety and fear or compliance in humans. It is possible to use these weapons as a means of torture, yet without knowing exactly when, where, and how the weapons are used, we are left to speculate.109 An article by David Hambling in New Scientist magazine, March 2005, was titled, "Maximum pain is aim of new US weapons." In 2006, Dr. Brian Martin, associate professor in Science, Technology and Society, University of Wollongong, Australia, co-authored a paper entitled "Looming struggles over technology for border control," which describes the potential catastrophes that would lead to an extreme border protection plan. In the event of a natural disaster, or the rapid reduction of resources, or a major climactic change such as drought, rich countries will have a need to reinforce their borders against a massive influx of refugees. This scenario is often described in the nation-state context but it is possible to imagine such a perceived need in the event of internal civil unrest.

Directed Acoustics

In Maoist China, cities were equipped with megaphones, bombarding the people with on-going propaganda. The megaphones were in full vision of the people, yet there was no way to escape the sound. Today technology exists that fills a similar purpose. Voice to Skull directed acoustic devices are neuro-electromagnetic non-lethal weapons that can produce sounds within the skull of a human.110

A similar technology, known as Hypersonic Sound, is used in a similar fashion. According to its inventor, Elwood Norris of American Technology Corporation (ATC), the handheld speaker can focus sound waves directly at a person without anyone else hearing the sound. The technology is being tested by corporations such as McDonald’s and Wal Mart to direct advertisements into a consumer’s head.

The Long Rage Acoustical Device (LRAD),111 is used by the military in situations such as crowd control, mass notification, and perimeter enforcement. For instance, an unruly mob may not hear a warning to disperse with traditional acoustic technology, or border enforcement agents may need to warn an approaching intruder to turn away or face bodily harm. The technology has advantages over lethal force, yet it also has the potential to inflict physical harm, emotional manipulation, and death. According to Defense Update, the LRAD can produce a 150-decibel acoustic beam from 300 meters away. The human threshold for pain is between 120 to 140 decibels.112 In a 2003 New York Times article Mr. Norris demonstrates his technology to the reporter. At 1% of capacity, the reporter’s eyes hurt, and hours later still experienced a headache.113

This technology can inflict permanent damage and death despite its classification as a non-lethal weapon. While the LRAD may be seen as a way to save lives in times of disaster or to avoid civilian casualties, the LRAD and similar directed acoustics may be cause for concern to those who exercise their right to assemble and conduct peaceful demonstrations and protests. The New York City police used the LRAD at the Republican National Convention and it was also used in Miami at a WTO Free Trade protests.114 Covering one’s ears will not protect a person and given, the long-range capabilities, fleeing from the beam may not help either (as evidenced in the use of directed acoustics against Jewish settlers in Gaza). The Associated Press (AP) reported that a device called “the scream” was used in a 2005 protest against Palestinians who "covered their ears and grabbed their heads, overcome by dizziness and nausea, after the vehicle-mounted device began sending out bursts of audible, but not loud, sound at intervals of about 10 seconds. An AP photographer at the scene said that even after he covered his ears, he continued to hear the sound ringing in his head."115

Neurological Technology

Neurobiology has many facets including therapeutic applications with Alzheimer's, epilepsy, depression, and stroke victims using Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Bush's Decade of the Brain produced outstanding advances for those with spinal cord injuries as well, which allows a paralyzed person to control a computer screen or a limb with a brain implant. There is also a new field in neurological research, Augmented Cognition. From universities to private business to the military, advances in neuro-technology can be used for amazing good. However, as we learned from the history of the Cold War, technology that has the capacity to heal also has the capacity to harm.

Of great concern is the research being conducted at DARPA, which is trying to revolutionize the way soldiers receive information, respond to orders, adapt to stress, and perform while sleep deprived.

TMS is being developed for military purposes using electrical impulses at close proximity to the skull to enhance mood, affect sleep patterns, and increase creativity.116 This technology is beginning to replace electro-shock therapy. DARPA granted a contract to the Medical University of South Carolina to research now to improve a soldier’s performance. A soldier’s reaction to stress may be less intense, or a 40-hour flight will allow for the soldier to remain awake without the side effects of sleep deprivation.117 Few, if any, understand the long-term effects of TMS, given its relative infancy in the overall field of Augmented Cognition. Does TMS produce unknown neurological effects ten, twenty, fifty years down the road? To what extent is TMS being researched? TMS is part of the overall field of Augmented Cognition. In essence, Augmented Cognition allows a human to interact with a computer through brain waves. The idea is to enhance a person’s cognitive capabilities in the area of memory, learning, attention, visualization, and decision-making.

One application of augmented cognition allows a user to monitor a person's brain functions and send anticipatory commands to the person being monitored. For instance, a military command unit will be able to monitor a pilot in a cockpit, and based on the sensory output of the soldier, the base command can input messages directly into the pilot’s brain to improve performance. DARPA describes this as a human computer symbiosis whereby, "This research will enable development of closed loop human-computer technologies, where the state of the user is measured, analyzed, and automatically adapted to by the computational system."118 The increase in human-computer relations and the ability to manipulate and control a person’s senses, memory, and neural output has wide implications.

The basic ability to enter a person’s mind is not a futuristic fantasy. This is real and in prototype. DARPA began this research in 1983.119 The Internet has become a focal point in our lives with reliance for information and communication. Our interaction and intimacy with computers is increasingly pervasive, as is our exposure to the field of augmented cognition. DARPA does not address the implications of such symbiosis, or the dilemma of he extent to which a person can or should be manipulated. The use of this technology is used for military purposes but it may not be long until it is used to “improve” the factory worker, prisoners, or the mentally ill.

The Implant

Another realm of brain research is the field of neural implants. Until recently, implants were a futuristic fantasy. Current advances in the private and military sectors have produced an implant that can allow a victim of a spinal cord injury to walk again or give an amputee the ability to control her leg with her mind. In the private sector, Cyberkinetics is leading the way to liberating some people from wheelchairs. This technology is a path to a more functional way of life, but it is also possible that the use of implants could be used for malevolence.

John Donohoe, founder, chief scientific officer, and director of Cyberkinetics, addressed the issue of mind control and neural implants. When asked if creating a brain-machine interface will open the door to mind control Donohoe responded, "We do that all the time already. Advertising is mind control. Even pharmaceutical agents are a form of mind control. When people have behaviors that deviate far from the norm, they are given medications that bring their mind back into the realm of behavior that we call normal. If a child were to have a seizure and became unconscious because of the seizure, and we controlled his mind so that he did not have seizures, that would be a wonderful thing. We want to do that."120

The Experts121

Many scientists, philosophers, psychologists, and military analysts have written on the possibilities of accumulating information directly from the human brain as well as controlling human beings for various governmental and militaristic purposes using the aforementioned technologies. What follows are excerpts from recent interviews conducted by the authors with notable experts focusing on the capabilities of US EMF technologies and concerns about human rights and cognitive liberty. We contacted twenty-two experts in the fields of EMF technologies, many would not comment. The following are quotes from four experts who were willing to publicly address the subject.

Vladimir Nikolaevich Lopatin
Director of The Republican Scientific Research Institute of Intellectual Property, Moscow, former Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the Vologda from 1995 to 1999, and Senior Assistant to the General Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation. During the 1990s Lopatin was active in the Russian Federation’s banning of EMF technologies for military purposes.122

The following are quotes from Lopatin:

"At the same time, the necessity of protection from information weapons, information terrorism and information war is being discussed more often during the last years."

"…according to the Security Department of the Russian Federation, directors of Russian Special Services and the Ministry of Defense of Russia. Based on the data of special services, by the beginning of the 21st century expenses for purchasing means of information war increased within the last 15 years in the USA in four times and are ahead of all armament programs. Information confrontation during the times of a regular war began to change to a new, higher level—information war."

"According to article 6 of the Federal Law "On weapons," as of July 30, 2001, on the territory of the Russian Federation it is forbidden to circulate as means of civil and service weapons: 'weapons and other objects, destructive ability of which is based on the use of electro-magnetic, light, heat, infrasound and ultrasound radiation and which have output parameters that exceed the amounts, set by state standards of the Russian Federation and norms of the federal body of executive power responsible for healthcare, and also mentioned above weapons and objects, manufactured outside of the territory of the Russian Federation.'"

Carol Smith
British psychoanalyst, private practice in London, member of The College of Psychoanalysts and the Institute for Psychotherapy and Social Studies and member of their Ethics Committee.

Asked if there are human rights concerns associated with these particular non-lethal weapons, Smith answered, "Yes—it depends though by what is meant by 'the wrong hands.' For people who are targeted for experimentation—all such devices need testing—all hands are the wrong hands, be they government, private commercial, or sadistic/commercial. Ionatron, a large company based in Arizona, developed plasma channel directed energy weapons and state in their website: 'What are LIPC laser-guided directed-energy weapons? Laser-guided directed-energy weapons work like "man-made lightning" to disable people or things. LIPC technology is Ionatron’s proprietary type of laser-guided directed-energy weapon. LIPC stands for laser-induced plasma channel; the plasma channel is how the energy is directed through the air at the target. Extremely fast femto-second lasers cause light to break into filaments, which form a plasma channel that conducts the energy like a virtual wire. This technology can be adjusted for non-lethal or lethal use.'"

Discussing neurotechnology, Smith adds, "Brain mapping indicated to us the pleasure centers of the brain. TMS is the accessing of these with rapidly changing magnetic fields to produce electrical fields. If the right hand rule is operative, the effect of inducing electrical fields by changing magnetic fields improves mood."

(Lenz’s law, however, gives the direction of the induced electromotive force (EMF) resulting from electromagnetic induction, thus: The EMF induced in an electric circuit always acts in such a direction that the current it drives around a closed circuit produces a magnetic field which opposes the change in magnetic flux.) In other words, it would be possible to create depression and a feeling of overwhelming hopelessness by the induction of a current into the electrical circuit of the brain, which opposed the change in magnetic flux.123

"In 2004, The US Air Force Directorate: Controlled Effects gives a clear picture of objectives: "The Controlled Effects long-term challenge focuses technology developments in three primary areas Measured Global Force Projection looks at the exploitation of electromagnetic and other nonconventional force capabilities against facilities and equipment to achieve strategic, tactical, and lethal and non lethal force projection around the world. Controlled Personnel Effects investigates technologies to make selected adversaries think and act according to our needs. Dominant Remote Control seeks to control, at a distance, an enemy's vehicles, sensors, communications, and information systems and manipulate them for military purposes. The S&T Planning Review panel looked first at extending the applications of advanced military technologies currently under development and then at new, revolutionary technologies for their military significance."

"For the Controlled Personnel Effects capability, the S&T panel explored the potential for targeting individuals with non lethal force, from a militarily useful range, to make selected adversaries think or act according to our needs. Through the application of non-lethal force, it is possible to physically influence or incapacitate personnel. Advanced technologies could enable the war fighter to remotely create physical sensations such as pressure or temperature changes. A current example of this technology is Active Denial, a non-lethal counter-personnel millimeter wave system that creates a skin heating sensation to repel an individual or group of people without harm. By studying and modeling the human brain and nervous system, the ability to mentally influence or confuse personnel is also possible. Through sensory deception, it may be possible to create synthetic images, or holograms, to confuse an individual's visual sense or, in a similar manner, confuse his senses of sound, taste, touch, or smell. Through cognitive engineering, scientists can develop a better understanding of how an individual's cognitive processes (pattern recognition, visual conditioning, and difference detection) affect his decision-making processes. Once understood, scientists could use these cognitive models to predict a person's behavior under a variety of conditions with the potential to affect an adversary's mission accomplishment via a wide range of personnel effects."124

Dr. Dean Radin
Former positions at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs on advanced telecommunications R&D, appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, SRI International and Interval Research Corporation, co-founder of the Boundary Institute, Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Adjunct appointment at Sonoma State University, Distinguished Consulting Faculty for Saybrook Graduate School.

"I have spoken with experts in this area (extremely low frequency) about health effects in general and the consensus seems to be that non-ionizing EM radiation definitely does have effects on living systems, from individual cells to human behavior. The principle health concern is childhood leukemia associated with proximity to high-tension lines. There the epidemiological evidence is fairly clear. On other sources of EM, like cell phones and microwaves, the jury still seems to be out, although I strongly suspect that directed microwaves at non-ionizing strength can induce all sorts of behavioral changes through direct influence of the nervous system. This comes from my contacts in the non-lethal weapons arena, which is often lumped in with the hysteria over supposed psychic mind-control. All things being equal, I’d rather see development of non-lethal weapons than lethal ones. How such weapons are actually used is another matter, of course."

"The question is, were there ever elements of the intel/military world engaged in experiments on human behavior (not mind) control? Yes, many decades ago, during the cold war. But is such work still taking place? I don’t know, because if it is it would be a black project and then by definition only those involved would know of it. I hope no such projects are underway, because I do believe that EMF, used in nefarious ways, can destabilize the brain, and potentially generate feelings of violence or apathy. But I very strongly doubt that specific thoughts or intentions or actions can be induced."

Dr. Nick Begich
He is the editor of Earthpulse Flashpoints, a new-science book series and published articles in science, politics and education and is a well known lecturer, having presented throughout the United States and in nineteen countries. Begich has served as an expert witness and speaker before the European Parliament and has spoken on various issues for groups representing citizen concerns, statesmen and elected officials, scientists and others. He is the publisher and co-owner of Earthpulse Press and Executive Director of The Lay Institute of Technology, Inc. a Texas non-profit corporation.

"There are several ways that microwaves can affect humans. For instance, the Sheriff and weapons that can heat the skin for crowd control do what the military states but they are capable of much more. The thermal heating weapons act like a car radio; you can change the frequencies to get different effects. The electromagnetic weapons send an impulse through the nervous system. They can transfer sounds, like Woody Norris' directed acoustic weapons, which is contracted to the US government. It modulates a signal that is a radio frequency, which can be changed to affect certain organs. It can override an organ like the heart or the liver. So changing the perimeter is like changing the broadcast on the radio. These extremely low frequencies also have the capability to send messages directly into the head when only the receiver can hear it. (see the 1985 Radiofrequency Radiation Dosimetry Handbook)."

"The handbook talks about electromagnetics and about the rapid healing of bones. The frequencies can also be used to manipulate the brain and create a disequilibrium. These frequencies can also imbed signals on radio broadcasts to create a feeling of fear or anxiety. The US military would embed these signals on the Muslim prayer broadcasts during the first Gulf War. This was called Project Solo."

"During the 1990’s, in both presidential administrations, non-lethal weapons such as these and others received priority funding. The Secretary of Energy under Clinton, O’Leary, warned that over a 40 year period, 500,000 had been unwitting test subjects for military research on non-lethal weapons, including MKULTRA who claims among many victims, Ted Kaczinky, the Unabomber. There is no way to know who these people are or how to help them because there is paranoia in the military and no oversight in Congress. These black projects probably don’t even make it to the President."

"The problem is that the military's role is to be paranoid and think up scenarios where the worst can happen then prepare for this in order to protect the people from a hypothetical future event. But there is little to no oversight. The Senate Intelligence Committee is made up of people like Ted Stephens who thinks the internet is made up of pipes and tubes. These people do not have the required background knowledge to ask the right questions. According to the defense budget report, 40% of the budget is dedicated to black projects. There is no oversight and no public knowledge. In the European Union, things are much different."

"In February 1998, I testified before the European Union parliament for an hour and a half and convinced them of the detrimental effects of non lethal weapons on humans, their behavior and their minds. The EU was convinced and passed a resolution banning the use of weapons that can manipulate a person (see Parliament Resolution A4-005/99 entitled "Resolution on the Environment, Security, and Foreign Policy" passed on January 29, 1999). During the hearings, the US representative and NATO representatives sat in the back and declined to participate when asked. In the US, there is no such resolution or anything remotely close to being considered by any member of Congress. There is no concern for it in the US because no one knows about them."

"During the 1980’s and 1990’s, there were a lot of papers that came out of the Naval War College and from top military officials that advocated using weapons that would cut down on the carnage seen by the American public in order to maintain public support. There was another paper that discusses how people will give up their liberties if they lived in a climate of fear by an outside enemy. If the US public knew about these weapons and what they could potentially asked to give up, their minds, the public would resist. So now, these weapons are being developed by the companies that comprise the industrial military complex who are immune from FOIA requests."

"Without oversight, these weapons will allow a government to have absolute control. These weapons are most certainly in the hands of most industrialized countries. China certainly has them as intelligence reports released by the CIA reveal claims about these new concept weapons. There needs to be a debate in the public sphere because while these weapons appear frightening, they have amazing therapeutic potentials. There is the possibility of quicker healing and curing disease and what is just as important about government transparency concerning weapons is the transparency of life saving science being kept from the public. If we have the ability to cure and the government or military hides this, we have just as big a problem."

Summary Analysis of Expert Interviews

From the four interviews we were able to complete, there is a clear consensus of concern for the potentiality of human rights abuses with EMF weapons testing and use. They collectively agree that the US is the leading global researcher in this area and spends increasingly more money building this technology. It is also clear that we know very little about the actual levels of experimentation, research, and capabilities of EMF weapons technologies due to high levels of US government security.

Department of Defense Military Contractors

Military contractors run our wars in concert with power elites. The corporation also has the power to determine which studies will reach the public.125 To be certain, the military, in the interest of budgets, will allow negative or alarming studies to remain unreported or lost in a sea of classified documents.

The power of the military and DOD contractors is staggering. In the interest of national security and lessons learned from an open democracy during the 1970s and the 1990s, operations have become more black. In essence, no one can know with certainty what our military, government, or corporations have in store for the world, though, we have some clues.

Michael Vickers, senior adviser to the Secretary of Defense for the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review and principal strategist for the largest covert action program in the CIA's history, recently testified on the importance of black operations:

“US Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) emphasis after 9/11 has been to make white Special Operations Forces (SOF) more gray and black SOF more black. It is imperative, however, that white and black SOF be integrated fully from a strategic perspective."126

The money involved in the non-lethal weapons industry is growing and military contractors are reaping the profits. According to Defense Industry Daily, Aaardvark Tactical, Inc. in Azusa, CA won a $50 million contract to develop non-lethal weapons, anti-terrorism capabilities, and riot gear.127 Ionatron was awarded a $12 million contract to develop the Laser Induced Plasma Channel technology which produces man-made lightening bolts.128 SAIC received a $49 million in November 2004 to develop High Power Microwave and other directed energy systems while Fiore Industries received a $16.35 million contract for similar technology and ITT received a $7.85 million contract for the same in 2000.129 Fiore Industries received a $7.1 million for High Power Microwave Research and Experiment Program as early as 1994 and the same year Hughes Missile Systems Company received a $6.6 million contract for High Power Microwave Suppression of Enemy Air Defense Technology.130 Lockheed Martin secured a deal with DARPA in 2005 to continue the development of the Space Based Radar Antenna Technology in a $19.5 million contract.131 According to the Lockheed press release, the technology, "could significantly increase global persistent surveillance coverage."

In May of 2006, the Air Force issued $24 million in contracts for “Electro Magnetic Effects Research and Development” to Northrup Gruman, Voss Scientific, Lockheed Martin, Electro Magnetic Applications, and SAIC among others.132 The DOD viewed electromagnetic research and development as a key component in future wars as early as the 1990s. Emmett Paige Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence declared in 1996 that, "Well over a decade ago, a Soviet general reportedly said something like 'to prevail in the next conflict, one must control the electromagnetic spectrum.' That statement proved true in the Bacca Valley and on deserts in Iraq. The Department of Defense is committed to ensuring that 'in the next conflict it is we who will control the spectrum. We know its value.'133 Increasingly, the value of non lethal weapons continues to rise as they produce fewer images of death in the media than traditional weapons."

In addition to DOD contractors, the realm of non-lethal weapons extends into the universities with millions of dollars in scholarships and research fellowships. Pennsylvania State University, sponsors the Institute for Non-Lethal Defense Technologies (INLDT), the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has the Stress and Motivated Behavior Institute, University of New Hampshire houses the Non-lethal Technology Innovation Center, and many US military schools have classes directly related to non-lethal weapons technology.134 There are also numerous conferences each year hosted by the Department of Defense, contractors and universities.135 The business of non-lethal weapons is expanding and will continue to grow. In 2006, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate received $43.9 million compared to $25.8 million in 2000.136

Ionatron’s website states that, "…the market for new directed-energy applications will increase to $12.7 billion over the next ten years for the defense market alone."137

Despite Clinton’s reforms on human testing, the government, military and the corporation will undoubtedly want to test these weapons on humans whenever possible. Easiest to test would be prisoners in undisclosed CIA detention centers, civilians in war torn regions, and even US citizens in protest crowds or civilian jails. In addition to the rubber bullets and pepper spray, which are common in many police forces, new concept weapons are also in use. Perhaps soon Americans will learn firsthand, the effects of the new human control technologies.

However, hundreds of people continue to assert that a person or persons, whom they do not know, have been targeting them with electromagnetic weapons in a widespread campaign of either illegal experimentation or outright persecution.

These experiences involved a number of discrete phenomena:

Hearing voices when no one was present.

Feeling sensations of burning, itching, tickling, or pressure with no apparent physical cause.

Sleeplessness and anxiety as a result of “humming” or “buzzing”.

Loss of bodily control, such as twitching or jerking of an arm or leg suddenly and without control.

Unexpected emotional states, such as a sudden overwhelming feeling of dread, rage, lust or sorrow that passes as quickly as it arises.138

The levels of research on directed energy is now large enough to support a Directed Energy (DE) Professional Society made up of private contractors and Department of Defense officials with security clearances. They have been holding high security symposiums since spring 2001 including a planned meeting set for March 2007. The following is from the Directed Energy Professional Society’s website.

"The Directed Energy (DE) Systems Symposium (March 2007) will focus on systems aspects of DE in a limited-attendance environment. The Systems Symposium consists of co-located technical sessions organized by five separate conferences, with joint technical and plenary sessions to encourage discussion outside narrow technical limits. Attendance at all sessions is limited to US citizens with classified visit requests on file.

Symposium Highlights

Beam Control Conference
Directed Energy Modeling and Simulation Conference
Employment of Directed Energy Weapons Conference
High Energy Laser Lethality Conference
High Power Microwave Systems and Effects Conference"139

The following are three course descriptions from the October Directed Energy Conference:

Course 9.†Military Utility Analysis for DE (Direct Energy) Systems

Classification: Secret

Course Description: This course will provide an overview of military worth analysis for DE weapon systems. The course will include a description of four areas of systems engineering assessment that are brought together to form military worth analysis. These are: 1) weapon system concept performance trade studies, 2) target vulnerability assessment, 3) engagement-level system operational effectiveness assessment, and 4) war gaming and mission/campaign level analysis. Each of these areas will be covered during the short course, with emphasis on the elements that are drawn from each of these areas to support military worth analysis. The course will particularly emphasize methods for assessing system level effectiveness in the context of traditional weapon effectiveness tools such as the Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals (JMEMs) and for providing data on DE weapons effectiveness to mission and campaign level analysis tools and to models and simulations used to support war gaming.

Topics to be covered include:

Definition of military worth analysis
Elements of DE weapon system performance trade studies and how they feed military worth analysis
Target vulnerability assessment and its use to support weapon effectiveness
Adapting standard weapon "kill" criteria to measure benefit of DE effects
Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals (JMEMs) weapon effectiveness models
Military utility studies
Modeling and simulation to support war games and war fighter exercises
Mission and campaign level modeling

Course 10. Laser Lethality

Classification: Secret

Course Description: This course reviews laser material interactions over parameter ranges of interest for weapons applications. Fundamental considerations of the optical coupling of the laser energy into the material will be presented. This will be followed by physics-based treatments of the response of metals, organic-based materials, and ceramics to the laser irradiation.

Metals: Simple cw, one-dimensional treatments will be utilized to illustrate the general principles of the response of metals to laser radiation, but two-dimensional cases, phase changes, and pulsed effects will be discussed as well.

Organic Based Materials: The effects of high-energy laser (HEL) radiation on organic based materials, including fiber reinforced composites, plastics and coatings will be reviewed. Materials will range from char formers and charring ablators to clean ablators. The relationship between the pyrolysis processes taking place in various materials during HEL radiation will be reviewed as a function of material composition, form and structure.

Ceramic Materials: Considerations of the response of ceramic shapes when laser loading is added to in-service stresses will be presented. An understanding of these responses from models, which are based on a combination of the thermo-mechanical stress calculations and statistically based fracture initiation, will be presented.

Course 11. Directed Energy Bioeffects

Classification: Secret

Course Description and Topics: This course will introduce the basics of the biological effects of Directed Energy on cells, tissues, organisms, and humans, with particular emphasis on the influence of such effects on the development of use of Directed-Energy-Emitting technologies.

The student will learn about the mechanisms, resulting damage, and mission impact of laser-tissue interaction. The student will learn what tissues are most susceptible to laser damage based on wavelength, exposure duration, and irradiance. The potential mission-impact of sub-threshold, threshold, and suprathreshold exposures will be discussed.

Student will understand the nature of RF bioeffects research, including human/animal studies, modeling and simulation, and biotechnology approaches. Students will become familiar with current state of knowledge on potential health effects RF, such as cancer, memory loss, and birth defects. Students will become familiar with basis and structure of current RF safety standards, comparison between competing standards, and how RF safety standards are applied. Students will be instructed on common RF measurement equipment and important factors for investigating potential RF overexposures.

Topics to be covered include:

Laser damage of the eye (retina and cornea)
Laser damage to the skin
Laser safety standards
Laser damage as a function of energy, pulse duration, wavelength, and spot size
RF bioeffects research and the current scientific consensus on RF hazards
RF safety standards
RF measurement basics
Investigating RF overexposures140

The US Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate released a paper in 2004 which presents "Crowd Control Modeling and Simulation." This report discusses behavioral changes human populations.141 That the Department of Defense calls for new weapons systems designed to work on the psychological underpinnings of a population should give human rights activists great cause for alarm. The use of electromagnetic weapons to alter the emotional state, hamper the ability of an enemy or US citizens, to think clearly, and result in chaos and pain are morally problematic for a number of reasons:

1. Creating fear, anxiety confusion and irrational behavior within an individual or a population is counterproductive to the operations of a free society and to the execution of warfare. Chaos only breeds the need for greater and greater means of physical repression; irrational behavior is by definition unpredictable and as such provides significant difficulty when the task is to secure an area.

2. These weapons leave no tell tale clues. There are no bullet holes or gross damage (with the exception of those designed to maim, burn or explode targets).

3. They are operated from a great distance, meaning that the operator has no feedback as to the effects of his or her actions. This provides us with a very dangerous circumstance very similar to Millgram's experiment where we can predict with certainty gross abuses of power.

4. Any device that invades a persons mind, either through induction of "evoked potentials" through electromagnetic means or through the various "crazy-making" tactics employed in both information warfare and psychological operations is a violation of human rights and cognitive liberty. In terms of authorizing and administering tests of radioactive substances and other tests on unsuspecting members of the public, history shows that people without ethical standards can rise to positions of great responsibility and once ensconced in such positions of trust, produce the most horrifying abuses without fear of reprisal. When layers of secrecy overlay the activities of otherwise rational and intelligent men, the failings of their hearts more readily show. In the case of actually attempting to control human behavior through both overt and covert means our departments of defense and intelligence agencies, both subordinate to the executive branch of government have historically proven incapable of protecting the public and undeserving of the trust given them to perform their functions for the public good.

Total Surveillance: Cognitive Liberties vs. National Security

Today the US and the U.K. are becoming total surveillance societies in the name of national security. London, like cities across the US, is equipped with cameras citywide. Daily human actions are recorded with video and voice recognition device, while our email and computer usage is monitored. Increased demand for resources, the erosion of middle classes, war, poverty, and environmental disasters are historically factors leading to social uprisings and infiltration of political borders. As governments reinforce the threat of terror, people increasingly turn to their governments for protection.

The US has a long history of human rights violations through harassment, telephone tapping, video surveillance, behavior manipulation, torture, drug-induced states of conscience and psychological control. Congress’s passage of the Military Commission Act of 2006 put universal human rights outside the scope of US policy. Today, the US government is using the most technologically advanced forms of surveillance and control, along with the propaganda of fear and intimidation against its citizens. The US engages in covert torture, covert imprisonment, increased censorship and the massive secret classification of government documents.142

A prominent neuroscientist, Francis Crick stated in 1994, that "your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."143

Is it possible that today’s scientists in the employ of the US neo-conservative global-dominance policy elites believe the same? According to Steven Rose, there are, "bad hats" in neuroscience: "There are always opportunists. The current affairs of our country have produced many."144 The abundance of neuro-research has led to the development of several products by private business in the name of national security, including brain fingerprinting.145

John Norseen, a neuroscientist interested in Biofusion, the relationship between humans and computers, says, “If this research pans out you can begin to manipulate what someone is thinking even before they know it.” Norseen says he is agnostic on the moral ramifications of this research. He feels that he is not a “mad” scientist - just a dedicated one. “The ethics don’t concern me,” he says, "but they should concern someone else."146

We, the authors of this report, contend that human ethics should concern every person who believes in human rights and desires control over their own mind and body. Our brains control our bodies, actions, and thought processes. If the government and the scientists they employ perceive that the human mind as simply a collection of neurons, it then becomes possible to justify the surveillance of the human mind and body for national security purposes.

The control and manipulation of a human brain is a terrifying possibility. Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L. Thomas, US Army (ret), published an article in the military journal Parameters which likens the mind as a new battlefield. He quotes a Russian army major in relation to mind wars, "It is completely clear that the state which is first to create such weapons will achieve incomparable superiority." Thomas expresses concern about "information dominance" though he stops short on the moral implications.147

Under the cover of secrecy provided by claims of national security, researchers in service to higher circle policy elites have implanted electrodes into human subjects to control minds and tortured prisoners and the mentally ill in efforts to find better "brainwashing" techniques. They have poisoned thousands with atomic testing, experimented on young children using drugs, trauma and hypnosis, sprayed major cities with biological agents to prepare for a future attack, overthrown governments, instituted mass killings, and engaged in every form of information distortion.

The current "War on Terror" has revealed to the public some of the tools that the military has been developing for decades. High profile weapons systems flash across the nightly reports of the major news networks, including highflying Stealth bombers on grainy green tinted video from the noses of "smart" bombs. On occasion glimpses are given through the media of what one article dubbed "Wonder Weapons."148 Weapons that fall under the military category of "Non-Lethal Weapons." In fact the general position of the agencies who do comment on weapons that exploit the lower end of the electromagnetic spectrum is that they have no biological effect at all, except for what are dubbed "thermal effects," in essence heating of human cells.149

Research into this subject has shown that this position is inaccurate, and that the effects of electromagnetic radiation weapons on human beings are in fact both chilling and dramatic. As reported in 2001, the statement of Dr. Eldon Byrd should be considered with great weight:

“A medical engineer, Eldon Byrd, reported a case that illustrates this point. After working on the Polaris submarine, which carried long-range nuclear weapons, Byrd developed non-lethal weapons with reversible effects. He regarded this as a humanitarian alternative to ‘punching holes in people and having their blood leak out’ in battle. His inventions used magnetic fields at biologically active wave frequencies to affect brain function. Byrd could put animals to sleep at a distance and influence their movements. When the success of his research became evident, suddenly he was pulled off the project and it went "black." His believes the electromagnetic resonance weapons he developed have been used for psychological control of civilians rather than for exigencies in battle. That is, to ensure his participation, he was uninformed about the true nature of the project. Byrd’s case also illustrates how morally tolerable operations may transition to morally intolerable operations, or at least rise above the atrocity line”150

Power elites who fund and support efforts at supplanting the will of the people do so from on high. Their ability to redirect public attention to ward external threats and away from their own motivations in effect silences opposition to their programs. By controlling the flow of information in society, the power elites provide the public with a limited choice in all matters that pertain to machinations of government and corporate control. Given more advanced technologies for the control of information unscrupulous individuals who ascribe to a "might makes right" philosophy may will find the ways and means of employing these technologies against those who would oppose their plans. The dangers here are great, in that the individual who would direct the torture and killing of innocents is usually removed from the actual fact. It is left up to lesser authorities to administer the beatings, bullets, and mind/body bending technologies.

For the US Government to unilaterally declare that our country will not comply with international human rights laws, nor uphold the core values of our nation’s foundation is an indication of extremism that supersedes the values and beliefs of the American people. When such extremism exists we need to take seriously the founders' declaration that, "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." (Declaration of Independence 1776)
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Peter Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of Project Censored. Principle researchers on this report were Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton. Lew Brown holds a degree in Psychology and was the main writer and researcher on the historical sections of this paper. Bridget Thornton is a senior level History major at Sonoma State University and the primary researcher and writer for the new EMF technologies portion. Final editing was completed by Trish Boreta with Project Censored. Special thanks to Andy Roth Ph.D. for his editorial review.

Appendix A

ORGANIZATIONS CONCERNED WITH ILLEGAL EXPERIMENTATION AND INDIVIDUAL VICTIMS
Angelic Harp Foundation
2219 Lexford LN.
Houston, Texas 77080-5216
713-461-0623
Fax: 713-461-0091
http://angelicharpfoundation.org

Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics
P.O. Box 73481
Davis, CA 95617-3481 USA
Fax: 205-449-3119

COPUS
Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
The Royal Society
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London
SW1Y 5AG
United Kingdom
Fax +44 (0)20 7839 5561
http://www.copus.org.uk

Federation of American Scientists
1717 K St., NW Suite 209
Washington, DC 20036
Voice: (202) 546-3300
Fax: (202) 675-1010
http://www.fas.org

The Lay Institute
Nick Begich, Executive Director
Dallas, Texas
info@layinstitute.org

Mind Justice
Cheryl Welsh, Executive Director
E-mail: welsh@mindjustice.org

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Signalistgatan
9 SE-169 70
Solna Sweden
Phone: +46-8-655 97 00
Fax: +46-8-655 97 33
E-mail: sipri@sipri.org

Sunshine Project Germany
The Sunshine Project
Scheplerstrasse 78
22767 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49 40 431 88 001
Fax: +49 40 67 50 39 88

Sunshine Project USA
PO Box 41987
Austin TX 78704
USA
Phone/Fax: +1 512 494 0545
http://www.sunshine-project.org
World Transhumanist Association
PO Box 128
Willington CT 06279 USA
http://www.transhumanism.org

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Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project
Research Report #8
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Controlling the Human Mind
Nick Begich
Earthpulse Press, 2006

Human Network Attacks
Timothy L. Thomas
Military Review, September-October 1999
Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS.

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Pollack H.
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Footnotes

1 Black budgets are government funded projects that are classified/secret to Congress and the American people. For an in-depth analysis on the topic, see Weiner, Tim , Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget, Warner: 1990.

2 See the Center for Cognitive Liberty at http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/

3 For a full discussion on the Global Dominance Group currently operating in the US see: http://www.projectcensored.org/downloads/Global_Dominance_Group.pdf

4 G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America? (New York: McGraw Hill, 2006 [5th ed.] and Peter Phillips, A Relative
Advantage: Sociology of the San Francisco Bohemian Club, 1994, (http://library.sonoma.edu/regional/faculty/phillips/bohemianindex.html)

5 Early studies by Charles Beard in the Economic Interpretations of the Constitution of the United States (1929), established that economic elites formulated the US Constitution to serve their own special interests. Henry Klien (1933) in his book Dynastic America claimed that wealth in America has power never before known in the world and was centered in the top 2% of the population owning some 60% of the country. Ferdinard Lundberg (1937) wrote American's Sixty Families documenting inter-marring self-perpetuating families where wealth is the "indispensable handmaiden of government. C. Wright Mills determined in 1945 (American Business Elites, Journal of Economic History, Dec. 1945) that nine out of ten business elites from 1750 to 1879 came from well to do families.

6 See R. Brady, Business as a System of Power, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943) and Val Burris, Elite Policy Planning Networks in the United State, American Sociological Association paper 1991.

7 C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956).

8 Public Papers of the Presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960, p. 1035- 1040

9 Leo Strauss, "On Tyranny," Edited by Victor Gourevitch and Michael S. Roth, University Of Chicago Press, 2000.

10 Guy Caron, “Anatomy of a Neo-Conservative White House,” Canadian Dimension, May 1, 2005.

11 Alain Frachon and Daniel Vernet, “The Strategist and the Philosopher: Leo Strauss and Albert Wlhlestetter,” Le Monde, April 16, 2003, English translation: Counterpunch 6/2/03.

12 Anne Hessing Cahn, Team B; The Trillion-dollar Experiment, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1993, Volume 49, No. 03

13 The Committee on the Present Danger mission statement can be accessed at
http://www.fightingterror.org/whoweare/index.cfm

14 John Pilger, "The World Will Know The Truth," New Statesman (London) (December 16 2002).

15 Stanley Milgram "Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View," New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

16 "Obedience as a determinant of behavior is of particular relevance to our time," Behavioral Study of Obedience, Stanley Milgram, Yale University, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. 67, No. 4, p. 371.

17 See Martin Orne-Orne, Martin T., "On The Social Psychology of the Psychological Experiment: With Particular Reference to Demand Characteristics and Their Implications," Am. Psychol. 17 (1962): 776-783, Orne, M.T. The potential uses of hypnosis in interrogation. In A.D. Biderman (Ed.), The Manipulation of Human Behavior (pp. 169-215). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1961.

18 For an analysis on the interlocking of the corporate media, think tanks and government organizations, see Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Lew Brown “ The Global Dominance Group and the US Corporate Media” in Censored 2007, Seven Stories Press.

19 See: Snow, Nancy, Information War American Propaganda, Free Speech, and Opinion Control Since 9/11, 2004 Seven Stories Press and Chomsky, Noam Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, 2002 Seven Stories Press.

20 In researching this article, there are no instances of remarks by senior White House, Pentagon, or Congressional officials that specifically address the human effects of non-lethal EMF weapons. A search in Lexis Nexis from 2001-2006 returned no results in American mainstream media.

21 Classified Intelligence Bills Often Are Unread: Secret Process Can Discourage House Debate, Susan Milligan, Boston Globe August 6, 2006.

22 The Global Dominance Group and the US Corporate media, by Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Lew Brown, published in Censored 2007, Seven Stories Press, 2006, Chapter 10.

23 Remarks on Classification, The Hon. Lee Hamilton, Information Security Oversight Office, October 18, 2005. "At a time when the US intelligence community is under intense scrutiny in the aftermath of 9/11 and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, we only increase public skepticism about our government by denying the public information."

24 See: Valerie Plame, the Richard Leiby, Spy Who Got Shoved Out Into the Cold, Washington Post, October 29, 2005; Page C01; Amended 2006 surveillance bill by Bush; The FBI and the Engineering of Consent, Noam Chomsky, From Public Eye Magazine, Volume One, Number Two; and Demian Bulwa, Oakland: Police spies chosen to lead war protest, San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, July 28, 2006.

25 See William E. Daugherty and Morris Janowitz, A Psychological Warfare Casebook, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1958. In particular, see Daugherty's article on "US Psychological Warfare Organizations in World War II," pp. 126-136.

26 For a current view of these kinds of operations and how they are outsourced see James Bamford’s article in the Rolling Stone, The Man Who Sold the War Meet John Rendon, Bush's General In The Propaganda War, November 17, 2005. For more information on CIA control of the media refer to Carl Bernstein, "The CIA and the Media -- How America's Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up", Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977, p.63.-the title of the original operation was "Mockingbird."

27 George F. Kennan. "Spy and Counterspy." The New York Times, May 18, 1997. For a sympathetic biography see George F. Kennan and The Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950, Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C, 1993 Princeton University Press. George F. Kennan. "Policy Planning Staff memorandum on the inauguration of organized
political warfare," May 4, 1948. Published in Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945-1950: Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment. Discusses the need for political warfare: that is, measures short of war, such as propaganda and covert operations.

28 History News Network, USA 13 June 2005, Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach to NATO’s Secret Stay-Behind Armies, by Daniele Ganser, The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 1 June 2005, Kennan published his analysis anonymously in Foreign Affairs, the official magazine of the Council for Foreign
Relations (CFR). [Mr. X (Alias ‘George C. Kennan): "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," in Foreign Affairs, July 1947.]
(http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/documents/collection_gladio/Terrorism_Western_Europe.pdf.)

29 Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, The CIA and The Cult of Intelligence, Dell Books,1975 (as a matter of general interest this is reportedly the first book the Government went to court to have censored. There are 168 missing pages as a result of the courts ruling but the spaces were retained in the first edition.)

30 "The CIA and the Media," Carl Bernstein Rolling Stone, Oct. 20, 1977.

31 David F. Krugler, Will It Play in Peoria? The 1950 Campaign of Truth and the Reconstruction of Cold War Propaganda, British Association of American Studies Annual Conference April 1997 University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.

32 William Blum, Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995; Ralph McGehee, Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA, New York: Sheridan Square Publications, 1983. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CIA Footnote on Ops)

33 Daniele Ganser, NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass Publishers, 2004.

34 See the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence resource program, National Security Council [NSC] Truman Administration [1947-1953] at http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsc-hst/index.html.

35 Linda Hunt, Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990, St. Martin's Press, 1991.

36 The National Security Act of 1947 can be accessed at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cwr/17603.htm

37 Biography of Werner VonBraun produced by NASA: www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/braun.html and at the Marshall Space Flight Center located at http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/index.html.

38 Hunt, L. Secret Agenda. The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991. Simpson, C. "Blowback. The First Full Account of America’s Recruitment of Nazis, and the Disastrous Effect on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy." New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.

39 There are two laws of note here: the inverse square law, which relates to forces such as gravity, and the inverse cube law, which relates to electromagnetic forces. Both equations describe the relationship between the power of the force and the decrease in that forces effect over distance. In regards to magnetism we refer to the work of Maxwell. One easily accessible online source for his equations is: http://www.rialian.com/rnboyd/maxwell.htm. A good place to start for understanding the man and his work is the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation at: http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/html/links.html

40 New York Times, April 21st, 1908 (p.5 column 6) Tesla Letter to the Editor.

41 "The Cosmic Triangle: Revealing the State of the Universe," in the May 28, 1999 issue of the journal Science discusses Dark Energy and Margaret Cheney, Tesla: A Man Out of Time, Dell Publishing, 1983.

42 Front page New York Times, July 11 1934 was entitled, "TESLA, AT 78, BARES NEW 'DEATH BEAM'" and told of the inventor's proposal that would "send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 250 miles..."

43 To illustrate the control of science for corporate profit, Tesla’s practical applications all shared one thing in common, they were devoid of any profitable application. As a result, Tesla’s development of wireless electricity has never borne fruit, leaving us still in the 21st century surrounded by a landscape of transmission wires, faulty electrical grids, destructive (though profitable) electrical generation systems, wars for oil, and a suffering environment. See Marc J. Seifer, The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Citadel Press, 1998.

44 John B. Rae, Climb to Greatness: The American Aircraft Industry, 1920-1960, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968. Roger E. Bilstein, The American Aerospace Industry: From Workshop to Global Enterprise, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

45 Carol L. Cook, The Aerospace Industry: Its History and How it Affects the US Economy, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 2005.

46 See the National Atomic Museum’s archives concerning the Manhattan Project at
http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/manhattanproject.cfm and the Brookings Institute’s archives at http://www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/MANHATTN.HTM.

47 New York Times, 1937 "…will send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 250 miles from the defending nation's border and will cause armies of millions to drop dead in their tracks When put into operation, Dr. Tesla said, this latest invention of his would make war impossible. This death-beam, he asserted, would surround each country like an invisible Chinese wall, only a million times more impenetrable. It would make every nation impregnable against attack by airplanes or by large invading armies." For an interesting article about Tesla’s "Death Ray" and the relationship to Tunguska see: http://www.viewzone.com/tesla.ray.html).

48 Tesla: Master of Lightning, archived at PBS: www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html.

49 Tesla: Life and Legacy, Missing Papers, archived at PBS: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html.

50 Max Frankel, "Khrushchev Says Soviets Will Cut Forces a Third; Sees 'Fantastic Weapon,' New York Times, January 15,1960.

51 See Tesla’s FBI files at the FBI FOIA site located at http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/tesla.htm.

52 Tesla: Life and Legacy, Missing Papers, archived at PBS: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html.

53 Tesla: Master of Lightning PBS documentary Dec. 12th, 2000.

54 Box#8 of Declassified CIA documents pertaining to MKULTRA contains the following fragment: The Application of Tesla's Technology in Today's World. Obtain, online, through the National Security Archives at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/.

55 Harris, S. (1994) Factories Of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45, And The American Cover-Up. London: Routledge.Tanaka, Y. 1998. Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, Michalczyk, J. J. 1994. Medicine, ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues (METR). Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed & Ward.

56 This site provides a selection of memorandum from within the CIA, in which funding is discussed. http://cryptome.org/mkultra-0003.htm Digital MK-Ultra files can be found at: http://www.intellnet.org/mkultra/general note about MK-ULTRA funding.

57 Stephen Budiansky, Erica E. Goode and Ted Gest, "The Cold War Experiments," U.S News and World Report January 24, 1994.

58 Patricia Greenfield, CIA's Behavior Caper, APA Monitor, December 1977, pp. 1, 10-11.

59 Thomas O'Toole, "CIA Infiltrated 17 Area Groups, Gave out LSD Suicide Revealed," front-page story Washington Post, June 11, 1975.

60 Carl Bernstein, "The CIA and the Media: How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up," Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977.

61 Michael Ignatieff, "What did the C.I.A. Do to Eric Olson's Father?" New York Times Magazine, April 1, 2001.

62 ibid. and The Frank Olson Project at
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Contents.htmlhttp://www.frankolsonproject.org/Statements/FamilyStatement2002.htm. l. Dr. Eric Olson continues to do what he can to bring to light the truth of his father’s death. At the above website there are memorandum written by Dick Cheney to Donald Rumsfeld in regards to the families lawsuit during the Ford administration in 1975.

63 Reported in the New York Times as "Mind Control Studies had Origin in Trial of Mindszenty," Aug. 2, 1977, p.16.

64 See Athan G. Theoharis, "Researching the Intelligence Agencies: The Problem of Covert Activities," The Public Historian, 1984 National Council on Public History, University of California Press.

65 Project MKULTRA, The CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification, August 3, 1977, US Senate, Select Committee on Intelligence, and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources.

66 Jean Heller (Associated Press), "Syphilis Victims in the US Study Went Untreated for 40 Years" New York Times, July 26, 1972: and VN Gamble, "Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care." American Journal of Public Health 7(1997):1773-1778.

67 Jon M. Harkness, "Prisoners and Pellagra," Public Health Reports, Sep/Oct96, Vol. 111 Issue 5, p 463.

68 "They Were Cheap and Available: Prisoners as Research Subjects in Twentieth Century America." British Medical Journal 315:1437.

69 Krista Thompson Smith, "Adventists and Biological Warfare," Spectrum Magazine, Vol 25, no. 3, March 1996 and David R. Franz, DVM, PhD, Cheryl D. Parrott, Ernest T. Takafuji, MD, MPH, "The US Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs" in Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Part 1; The Textbook of Military Medicine, Office of Surgeon General, Borden Institute 1997; p. 425-436.

70 Atomic Energy Commission Secret Memo by Kirkpatrick, E. E. Col. A January 8, 1947, This was a draft memo from Colonel Kirkpatrick, Acting Manager, Field Operations of AEC, to the AEC Berkeley Area Engineer, puts the AEC stamp on termination of human testing, while simultaneously revealing it was going on under the Manhattan Project-at the request of Oppenhiemer: "Until the Atomic Energy Commission is able to consider sponsoring this type of experimentation, authorization cannot be given for the use of radioactive materials in human subjects under this contract." A more current report from the National Security Archives that clearly lays out the timeline and the assault by researchers on “subjects” can be found at
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet12/brief12/tab_f/br12f1d.txt----"Personal Statement from Elizabeth Zitrin, Attorney at Law Public Member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Radiation Experiments." For information on biological warfare experiments a good starting place is : Biological Warfare: A Historical Perspective, by LTC George W. Christopher, USAF, MC; LTC Theodore J. Cieslak, MC, USA, MAJ Julie A. Pavlin, MC, USA, and LTC (P) Edward M. Eitzen Jr., MC, USA. -- Operational Medicine Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, as posted at http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/cbw/bw.htm

71 This section about Dr. Cameron is based on Orlikow Vs. United States, CIA Settlement of Some Complaints. Ewen Cameron and the Allan Memorial Institute - Subproject 68 funded by CIA from March 18, 1957 to June 30, 1960. Without conceding liability, in 1988 the CIA agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a case brought on behalf of nine plaintiffs who were subjected to federally funded mind control experiments sponsored by the CIA and conducted by prominent psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, M.D. The experiments included heavy does of LSD, electroshock and psychic driving.

72 See "CIA Brainwashing Experiments," MacLean’s; January 28, 1985, Vol. 98 Issue 6, p46, 1/3p and "A cold-war horror show's last act," US News & World Report; October 17, 88, Vol. 105 Issue 15, p13, 1/3p.

73 CIA MORI ID 17468: www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrol

74 Collins, Anne. In the Sleep Room. The Story of CIA Brainwashing in Canada. Ken Porter Books, 1988.

75 Tyner, Arlene. Mind-Control Part 1: Canadian and US Survivors Seek Justice, PROBE Magazine, March-April, 2000.

76 Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado Director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School. Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974.

77 "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording in Completely Free Patients," The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, October, 1968.

78 Testimony of US Senator Edward Kennedy, Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence, US Senate, 95th Congress, 1977.

79 (letter to Sidney Gottleib) See also Sex, drugs and the CIA, by Douglas Valentine posted at http://www.counterpunch.org/valentine0621.html.

80 Martin Luther King, Jr., "Statement on Joseph Alsop and J. Edgar Hoover's charge of alleged Communist infiltration of the Civil Rights Movement," 23 April 1964 and Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans, Book III, Final Report. 14 April 1976.

81 "Me and My Shadow": A History of the FBI's Covert Operations and COINTELPRO - Part 1. Produced by Adi Gevins, Pacifica Radio. 1976. Rebroadcast by Democracy Now! Wednesday, June 5, 2002. See also Paul Wolf's website for a detailed archive of official COINTELPRO documents and transcripts of the Church Committee hearings: http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm.

82 Donald Bain, The Control of Candy Jones. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1976. (Reissued in 2002 by Barricade books as The CIA's Control of Candy Jones with a new introduction by Bain.)

83 1979 FISA report can be obtained at the Federation of American Scientists website:
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/1979rept.html.

84 William Blum, The CIA: A Forgotten History, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, Zed Books Ltd. 1986; Alan Moore Bill Sienkewitz, Shadowplay-The Secret Team, Forestville CA, Eclipse Books, 1987 and Leslie Cockburn, Out of Control, New York, Atlantic Monthly Press 1987.

85 SECNAV Instruction 3900.39D, Subj: "Human Research Protection Program," November 6, 2006. www.fas.org/irp/DODdir/navy/secnavinst/3900_39d.pdf.

86 The Church and Rockefeller Committee reports can be accessed through the Assassination Archives and Research Center: http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/contents.htm

87 Memorandum of March 27, 1997--Strengthened Protections for Human Subjects of Classified Research. [Federal Register: May 13, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 92)] [Page 26367-26372].

88 Scientific American talks about the work of Jose Delgado and states that Dr. Delgado stopped doing research as late as the 1990s, see: John Horgan, "The Forgotten Era of the Brain," Scientific American, September 26, 2005.

89 Declassification in Reverse: The US Intelligence Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program, Matthew M. Aid. Located at the George Washington University National Security Archive, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB179/#report.

90 Executive Order 12958, originally signed by Clinton after Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos scientist was accused of giving the Chinese information, was amended by George W. Bush pm March 25, 2003. The amendment can be accessed at the White House website, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030325-11.html.

91 The United Nations and Disarmament: 1945-1985 by the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs. (1985) New York, UN Publication Sales.

92 For a comprehensive listing of treaties and international conferences surrounding these concerns, see the Sunshine Project at http://www.sunshine-project.org/, See Also: Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision, Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005.

93 Amy Kruse, Program Manager at Defense Sciences Office, DARPA "Defense and Biology: Fundamentals for the Future." MIT also has The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies established in 2002 with a five-year, $50 million contract from the US Army, http://web.mit.edu/isn/index.html.

94 See DARPA, "Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts," http://www.darpa.mil/dso/thrust/biosci/nia.htm.

95 The proclamation declaring the 1990’s the "Decade of the Brain" was signed by President George H.W. Bush on July 17, 1990, which can be accessed at the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/loc/brain/proclaim.html.

96 See the Augmented Cognition International Society, http://www.augmentedcognition.org/history.htm.

97 Fronteirs in Neuroscience- Artificial Intelligence in the Pentagon and Beyond.
http://www.neuropsychiatryreviews.com/mar06/android.html

98 "Electromagnetic weapons: Come fry with me," The Economist, January 30, 2003.

99 Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press, 9/12/2006. In addition to this comment, the Air Force released a declassified document located at the website of the Federation of American Scientists, http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/hamilton.pdf directing the acquisitions team from the media. The author is the USAF principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, management and logistics, Darlene Druyun: "Effective immediately, I do not want anyone within the Air Force acquisition community discussing any of our programs with the media (on or off the record). This includes presenting program briefings in any forums at which the media may be present."

100 For a list of these groups see, Non Lethal Weapons, July 2005, compiled by Terry Kiss, Bibliographer, Air University Library, Maxwell AFB, AL accessed at the Maxwell Internet site, http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/soft/nonlethal.htm and Appendix A of this paper.

101 For further reading on these treaties, see The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, September/October 1994 pp. 40-45 (vol. 50, no. 05), "The Soft Kill Fallacy" by Steven Aftergood and Barbara Hatch Rosenberg's in the same issue, "Sidebar: A non-lethal laundry list." Rosenberg cites the Conference on Disarmament, Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons to the Conference on Disarmament, Aug. 26, 1992, Nos. 22, 25, 34 (CD/1170) as well as the treaty, "Convention on Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects."

102 A detailed study conducted by Andrei G. Pakhomov, Yahya Akyel, Olga N. Pakhomova, Bruce E. Stuck, and Michael R. Murphy with the Brooks Air Force Base, Human Effectiveness Directorate, offers a scientific analysis of the effects of millimeter waves, “Current State and Implications of Research on Biological Effects of Millimeter Waves: A Literature Review," McKesson BioServices (A.G.P., Y.A., O.N.P.), U. S. Army Medical Research Detachment of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (B.E.S.), and Directed Energy Bioeffects Division, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory (M.R.M.), Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX.

103 US Non Lethal Weapons for Iraq http://www.oft.osd.mil/library/library_files/article_461_Boston%20Globe.doc.

104 "Rumsfeld's Ray Gun," By Kelly Hearn, AlterNet. Posted August 19, 2005, http://www.alternet.org/story/24044/

105 See government contract M67854-04-C-5074, University of Florida, Division of Sponsored Research, July 1, 2004. Also located at http://www.defensetech.org/peoplezapping.pdf.

106 According to a 2002 Joint Non Lethal Weapons Program document: www.dtic.mil/ndia/2002infantry/swenson.pdf.

107 Lev Grossman, "Beyond the Rubber Bullet," Time Magazine, July 21, 2002.

108 David S. Walonick, "Effects of 6-10 Hz ELF on Brain Waves," www.borderlands.com/archives/arch/elf.htm.

109 David Hambling, Maximum Pain is Aim Of New US Weapons, New Scientist, March 2005.

110 Definition from the Center for Army Lessons Learned, Fort Leavenworth, KS: “Nonlethal weapon which includes (1) a neuro-electromagnetic device which uses microwave transmission of sound into the skull of persons or animals by way of pulse-modulated microwave radiation; and (2) a silent sound device which can transmit sound into the skull of person or animals. NOTE: The sound modulation may be voice or audio subliminal messages. One application of V2K is use as an electronic scarecrow to frighten birds in the vicinity of airports." http://call.army.mil/products/thesaur/00016275.htm.

111 The LRAD is another invention of Elwood Norris of American Technology Corporation.

112 Jurgen Altmann, "Acoustic Weapons: A Prospective Assessment," Science and Global Security, Vol. 9, p. 13.

113 Marshall Sella, "The Sound of Things to Come," New York Times, March 23, 2003.

114 Amanda Onion, "RNC to Feature Unusual Forms of Sound," Aug. 25, 2004, ABC News.

115 Associated Press, "Israel May Use Sound Weapon On Settlers," 6/10/2005. Available at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/06/10/israel-may-use-sound-weap_n_2444.html.

116 "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: An Introduction," Grant Balfour, v1.0 - May 6, 2002 available at:
www.cognitiveliberty.org/issues/TMS_index.html.

117 MUSC To Develop Brain Stimulation Device For Military, Charleston, SC, May 9, 2002, www.musc.edu/pr/darpa.htm, "The overall goal of the project is to use the unique resources at MUSC's Brain Stimulation Laboratory and Center for Advanced Imaging Research to determine if: 1. non-invasive stimulation of the brain can improve a soldier's performance, 2. and then design, manufacture and test a prototype of a system that would be capable of delivering this technology in the field."

118 Improving Human Performance Through Advanced Cognitive System Technology, Dylan D Schmorrow and Amy A. Kruse, LCDR MSC USN, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, VA, Strategic Analysis Inc., Arlington, VA, Available at:
http://ntsa.metapress.com/(2pq1al55mfylqgf0n3cvjc45)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,91,16 7;journal,5,7;linkingpublicationresults,1:113340,1.

119 New Generation Technology: A strategic plan for its Development and Application to Critical Problems in Defense, DARPA, 1983.

120 Neuroscience: John Donoghue By Aaron J. Sender, Discover Vol. 25 No. 11, November 2004, Mind & Brain.

121 Gaining interviews with DARPA scientists and officials at the Human Effectiveness Directorate at Brooks proved troublesome. For information about current projects, see DARPA Defense Science Program, specifically COL Geoffrey Ling, M.D., PhD's program "Human-Assisted Neural Devices" and Amy Kruse's Improving War fighter Information Intake Under Stress (AugCog) and Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts. At the Human Effectiveness Directorate see Andrei G. Pakhomov, Yahya Akyel , Olga N. Pakhomova , Bruce E. Stuck , Michael R. Murphy, "Current state and implications of research on biological effects of millimeter waves: A review of the literature," in Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 19, Issue 7, Pages 393-413.

122 The following are excerpts of an interview with Lopatin translated by U.C. Davis student, Tatiana Kanare.

123 To access Lenz’s Law online, go to: http://www.launc.tased.edu.au/online/sciences/physics/ Lenz's.html.

124 For the complete briefing see the Air Force Research Lab website at http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Jun04/DE0401.html.

125 From Microwave News, July 2006, "Radiation Research and The Cult of Negative Results:" "When we investigated who sponsored the microwave-DNA papers published in Radiation Research, we discovered that four out of five were paid for by the wireless industry—notably Motorola—and/or the US Air Force, both of which have a long history of trying to control or suppress EMF research. Indeed, industry and the USAF paid for more than 75% of all the negative genotox studies, that is those published in all the various journals."

126 According to Michael Vickers biography at the Center for Strategic Defense Budget Studies’ website, "The paramilitary operation that drove the Soviet army out of Afghanistan and played a major role in ending the Cold War." http://www.csbaonline.org/6About_Us/2Staff_Directory/Michael_Vickers.htm

127 "$50M for USMC Riot Gear, Protection Items, and Non-Lethal Weapons," Defense Industry Daily, July 27, 2005.

128 "Ionatron Facing Scrutiny Over Laser Projects," Defense Industry Daily, May 24, 2006.

129 "USAF Detachment 8 Continues US Research Into EMP-Microwave Weapons," Defense Industry Daily, March 7, 2006.

130 ibid.

131 Lockheed Martin news release, May 23, 2005, "Lockheed Martin Selected for Continued Development of the Innovative Space Based Radar Antenna Technology (ISAT)."

132 US Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), No. 169-06 March 01, 2006.

133 United States Department of Defense Speech, Volume 11, Number 83. "Electromagnetic Spectrum: Key to Success in Future Conflicts," http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/index.html.

134 See Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Naval War College, and the US Army War College course offerings on their websites.

135 Bunker, Robert J., "Non-Lethal Weapons Conferences," Military Review, vol. 80, no. 2, Mar./Apr. 2000, pp. 103-109.

136 Pappalardo, Joe, "Homeland Defense Plan Favors Non-Lethal Technology," National Defense Magazine, June 2005.

137 Direct quote from the Ionatron website: http://www.ionatron.com/default.aspx?id=4, accessed August 2006.

138 This list of symptoms was compiled from material available on the website of Californians Against Human Rights Abuses (CAHRA) and can be found at www.mindjustice.org. In addition the authors conducted interviews with seven individuals who wish to have their identities protected and who presented anecdotal and physical evidence to support their assertions. There is, however, little in the public domain that conclusively states the existence of direct human manipulation by governments, militaries or private companies/researchers in the current day, MKULTRA and other historic programs notwithstanding. However, there are many organizations that seek to help these people including concerned scientists, Russian Duma members and EU parliamentarians, psychologists and academics. A list of organizations follows in Appendix A.

139 Directed Energy Professional Society, Monterey, CA, 19-23 March 2007, Directed Energy Modeling and Simulation Conference 2007, http://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/DEMSconf07.html.

140 Directed Energy Professional Society, 2006 Directed Energy Symposium Short Courses, 30 October 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico: http://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/DEsymp06ShortCourse.html.

141 Louis Slesin, "Radiation Research and The Cult of Negative Results," Microwave News, July 31, 2006.

142 For verification of US torturing people to death see, "US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq," Project Censored Top 10 Uncensored Stories of 2006: http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#7.

143 Michael Shermer, "Astonishing Mind: Francis Crick 1916–2004 recollections on the life of a scientist."

144 Steven Rose, The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind, Jonathan Cape Publishing, March 31, 2005.

145 The official explanation of Brain Fingerprinting from Dr. Lawrence Farwell: "Brain Fingerprinting testing is a scientific technique to determine whether or not specific information is stored in an individual's brain. We do this by
measuring brain-wave responses to words, phrases, sounds or pictures presented by a computer. We present details about a crime, training or other types of specific knowledge, mixed in a sequence with other, irrelevant items. We use details that the person being tested would have encountered in the course of committing a crime, but that an innocent person would have no way of knowing. We can tell by the brainwave response if a person recognizes the stimulus or not. If the suspect recognizes the details of the crime, this indicates that he has a record of the crime stored in his brain." For more research, see the Brain Wave Science site, the official internet identity of Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories at http://www.brainwavescience.com/Publications.php.

146 Douglas Pasternak, "John Norseen Reading your mind - and injecting smart thoughts," US News and World Report, January 3-10, 2000.

147 Timothy L. Thomas, The Mind Has No Firewall, Parameters, Spring 1998, pp. 84-92.

148 Douglas Pasternak, "Wonder Weapons," Newsweek August 22, 1994 p. 57.

149 H. Pollack, "Epidemiologic data on American personnel in the Moscow embassy," Bull N Y Acad Med., 1979 Dec; 55(11):1182-6.

150 Military and Civilian Perspectives on the Ethics of Intelligence—Report on a Workshop at the Department of Philosophy Claremont Graduate University, September 29, 2000, Jean Maria Arrigo, Ph.D. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy Paper presented to The Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics Springfield, Virginia January 25-26, 2001.

MSNBC says top three evenly matched

2008-04-10T18:39:00.002-05:00

Who didn't see this coming?

Republican Sen. John McCain has erased Sen. Barack Obama's 10-point advantage in a head-to-head matchup, leaving him essentially tied with both Democratic candidates in an Associated Press-Ipsos national poll released Thursday.

It's what I told you in 118 people. The top three are almost precisely matched. The three will become two candidates, and they will be about 10 points apart at certain phases of the campaign. Going into the actual vote, they will be neck-and-neck, almost precisely matched in the so-called, nonindependent "polls" reported by nonindependent "mainstream media."

That way, a rationale or two blaming voters is all it takes for the 118 to choose your next president. So, get ready for four more years of war and unaffordable prices for everything, led by unbelievably expensive oil. In my next life, I'm not coming back.
__________

Update 4/23/08: Yesterday's Pennsylvania primary demonstrated this phenomenon perfectly. Boy, the mainstream media! They sure love a close race. How sad it is so many people believe this stuff is real. I'm getting the Project Censored report ready to post here, and will make some inferences its authors clearly never intended.

Welcome to DC, good buddy Petraeus

2008-04-08T01:44:00.002-05:00

Let's go over this ONE MORE TIME—shall we?

Yesterday:

"An Iranian attack against Israel would trigger a tough reaction that would lead to the destruction of the Iranian nation," National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said in remarks of rare virulence. [...]

Israel, along with its ally the United States and other Western powers, accuses Iran of pursuing the development of a nuclear bomb under the guise of its civilian nuclear programme - a charge Tehran denies.

This week, Gen. Petraeus will talk to Congress about Iraq, and is expected to contribute to the ongoing sales snow job for endless war in Iraq and the wholesale destruction of Iran.

Ben-Eliezer, Bush and Petraeus are so roughie-toughie, the whole world shits the bed nightly. It's been said producing a nuclear warhead requires floor space equivalent to the American auto industry. I haven't been to every auto plant in the country, but I've been to almost all of them, and I assure you, you're talking about a couple hundred square miles of factory space. Even if that were all happening underground, under the strictest secrecy, in this day and age, it would be a fact known by every person on earth.

They keep telling us Iran is building nuclear warheads, but they don't have the photo evidence. Let's see the pictures, the complete set of satellite surveillance photos. They can't show those because there's nothing to photograph—not that a lack of evidence stops the Bush administration from lying us into war.

We've known for some time the attack plan of choice is to hit 2,000-plus targets in Iran as quickly as possible using ballistic missiles as earth penetrators armed with "low yield" nuclear warheads thought to yield five megatons apiece, in a maneuver called "over-the-shoulder bombing." Five megatons is 333 times the yield of the 15 kiloton bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. It was suggested some targets might require more than one warhead.

Forget the initial attack will probably kill almost everyone in the country. Forget the gamma radiation cloud that will shower lethal radiation for 20 hours after each detonation, and that more than a billion people downwind will be showered by radioactive fallout, including India, a country to which the United States provides enriched uranium free of charge. That's never happened before, so we don't know how people will take it. It doesn't matter anyway. What else can we say about the environmental impact of such an attack?

A recent program on the History Channel stated that an asteroid exploding over a major city with a force of 20 megatons would inject enough dust into the upper atmosphere to encircle the earth and produce an extinction-level event. I don't know if their physics is good, but that's probably true. And, that isn't even radioactive dust.

Let's assume one five megaton warhead each for 2,000 targets. The yield would be 10 billion tons, or 10 gigatons. I'm not a nuclear physicist. I'm ballparking (guessing) that a nuclear yield of 10 gigatons is far more than required to produce an extinction-level event.

Let's also assume there are no other nuclear exchanges, and the attack goes as planned. What will it look like?

Everything would seem normal for a couple days or so as the massive, radioactive dust cloud travels around the world and from pole to pole. Then, one morning you'll wake up and the sky won't be blue, but a strange, brown color. During the day that brown will turn black as india ink, and the air will become saturated with radioactive dust and chunks. Breathing very little of it will make you sick.

And like everyone and everything else, you will die quickly in horror and agony as your body sizzles and comes apart. It isn't a happy prospect. I'm not sure what operative issues are so urgent as to require that, and conclude these guys are typical suicide jockeys who believe everyone hates living as much as they do.

The governments of Israel and the United States are fully aware of the environmental impact of such an attack, and still can't wait to make it happen. Don't make the mistake of thinking the subject never arises. If a guy in the middle of nowhere can figure it out, don't think the people who own these damn things can't. Don't think that the impact of such an attack will be that the United States' image around the world will be diminished! There won't be a world that thinks one way or the other about it, with all life extinguished globally—including the very idiots who made it happen. It's just another one of the hard facts excluded from today's current events discussion, because this is a world full of little, frightened wienies who are too scared and too cowardly to simply say it.

I'm not willing to get involved in that conversation anymore. It isn't sophisticated, it's ignorant and callous, hateful and deceitful, and part of scheming murder, even from those who claim to oppose it. It's better to be a lone voice in the silence than a part of the deplorable cowardice that debates the political pros and cons. Life is about living, not killing and dying. I thought it was self-evident. Apparently not.

See for yourself.

2008-03-31T20:19:00.002-05:00

The numbers tell the whole story:

The Fiscal Year 2009 budget request includes $997 billion for discretionary spending, money the President and Congress must decide and act to spend each year, roughly $541 billion of which will go to "National Defense" (Function 050). The "National Defense" category of the federal budget for FY'09 represents over half of all discretionary spending (54 percent). [NOTE: These totals do NOT include funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the $70 billion requested for the "Global War on Terror" were included in both the request for the Department of Defense and the total for discretionary spending, the percentage of Pentagon spending of total discretionary spending would jump to over 57 percent.]

And they swear Social Security is destroying the economy.

118 people, part two

2008-03-25T00:07:00.003-05:00

You can read part one here.

What will society look like in 10 or 20 years without a functional Department of Justice, the rule of law and habeas corpus? I picture a feudal, warlord-tribal culture complete with dirt trails and ox carts. What will you do without DoJ, the rule of law and habeas corpus? What if you get arrested for some minor offense? Will you let the police take you away? Will you ever be seen again? I ask myself such things, in that it's good to think about it before it happens, and not a single word is being spoken by the presidential candidates or anyone else about restoring any of the essential guarantees and protections we had come to take for granted.

That's because none of them plan to change us back like we were, like we're supposed to be. Instead, no one says anything, and what's left is a field of candidates which are exactly alike. Heard anyone address the issue of the unitary executive? Corporate lawmaking? Reducing defense's share of the federal budget? Ending the wars? Will all Americans be forcibly enrolled in health insurance plans like mine, which does nothing but cost money and produce a deluge of junk mail? Do you hear anyone talk about creative, legitimate schemes to keep the economy from tanking?

You don't hear the candidates talk about these things, because none of them would change a thing, even if anyone knew what to do, and no one does. Never has ever-candidate Ralph Nader so clearly outclassed his opponents. It's downright psychedelic. Nader will lose, but I may vote for him this time. You'll get someone from the clone candidate pool. The delegate and vote counts are irrelevant. The self-annointed, privileged 118 will pick your next president.

That assertion is well supported by the Project Censored report. If you didn't read it, it's great. Despite its lapses in good proofreading, the report goes to some very good places. The best is Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-born American physicist who, if not the most brilliant mind in all history, invented some of the most miraculous and brilliant inventions of all time. He did it as a physicist, and expressed his ideas mathematically using his own unique concept of the universe [page 15]:

Tesla made several claims during the latter years of his life, published by the New York Times in what became an annual event. His theory of the hidden nature of our universe supplants those of many of his contemporaries in that he was able to infer a multidimensional model of the universe that is only now being investigated through the theoretical mathematics of our leading physicists.

Tesla also developed means of remotely controlling aircraft as early as 1915, foreshadowing the Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) of today’s battlefields. In 1934 Tesla offers to build a "Death Ray" that would make the power of an opponents air force obsolete. This was one of the earliest recorded statements regarding directed energy weapons.42 Tesla's offer to build this device for the US government for a bargain price, but with many caveats, was refused by officials who, preferred instead to pump money into the new Army Air Corp, which in turn gave rise to the military aviation complex that we have today.

Before the war the airline industry was not a major part of the economic life of the nation. With huge wartime contracts, however, corporations such as Hughes, McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, and Northrop quickly grew in power commensurate with the financial bonanza that was unearthed in the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. These companies formed the core of the “military-industrial complex.” Their investors and managers began to consolidate their clout in political circles to keep the nation on a wartime economic footing, a simple and vastly powerful weapon that would make aircraft, bombs, missiles and attendant industries irrelevant would certainly be seen as a direct threat to the growing power of military arsenal. Instead, a "black budget" program was put into motion, which exploited the work of Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein and others. The Manhattan Project, developed by the DOD in 1942, generated a vastly destructive weapon that required a well established and unbelievably expensive aerospace industry, along with unprecedented levels of secrecy and autonomy from Congress and the public.

The US government also ignored Tesla’s offer to produce a "city killing machine," which was composed of an electromagnetic shield and a wireless torpedo. Tesla made several proposals during the 1930s, none of which received funding. Among Tesla’s claims, published annually on his birthday in the New York Times, were methods of harnessing the power of the sun to electrify the earth and provide free electrical power to anybody, anywhere.

Wikipedia on Nikola Tesla. One of the hard parts about putting this post together has been comprehending the scope of his work. The everyday things he created that the average person enjoys today are so varied and many in number, all of them giant leaps in science.

The tremendous claims he made for his inventions coupled with the later onset of obsessive compulsive disorder caused many people to think and say he was psychotic or insane, an assertion corporations and the government were happy to accommodate because they understood the enormous economic and strategic possibilities of his work. Likewise, one or a few of his off-market technologies made obsolete many industries which could and would become gigantic. It was no insane person who invented the electric induction motor, AC power, the AC hydroelectric power generation and transmission station, the loudspeaker, the amplifier, radio and radar. Miraculous and rock solid as they are, these things don't scratch the surface of the full scope of Tesla's work.

Yet, I was taught Marconi invented radio decades after Congress officially recognized Tesla as its true creator—and I imagine it's still taught that way. The established infrastructure doesn't want humanity following Tesla's work. The Wikipedia description has a good history and list of inventions, and you can see their enormous peacetime and defense promise—and as far as weapons are concerned, the nearly endless possibilities for undreamt horror.

The many devices he invented and demonstrated that we don't possess are fantastic, including wireless power transmission. Take a moment to let the meaning sink in of Tesla's demonstrated method of broadcasting plentiful, free, wireless electricity everywhere on earth.

We haven't needed gasoline or diesel engines, the grid, natural gas, uranium or coal since 1893. We could have had all the clean, free energy we wanted. How would that have changed the world? How would it change the world now? How would it change your life now? Gnaw on that bone awhile—and give me lots of heavy breathing.

My personal favorite is the MEG, the motionless electromagnetic generator. In very general terms, the theory says you can wire a dipole and in a vacuum a current will flow through the wire. A small device simpler than your PC with no moving parts, it's like a receiver for power that's present everywhere. This website says it's how the electrical systems in our Minuteman missiles are powered. I saw another site that said it powers our Nike missiles. I haven't confirmed that information. Reading it and wondering if it's true is the thing that got me started writing this tirade. The U.S. government swears these things don't work. These applications require a power source that will withstand shock and impact and is the most reliable thing.

If this is what they use, I'm really furious. The missiles have hydraulic systems, telemetry, computer and radio systems, and probably other things. Whatever runs all that will run your car, or your house.

As I watch the price of oil hit record highs day after day, it's very hard to reconcile this knowledge with our current, horrifying predicament. Contemplating the profound stupidity of it all has taken a huge block of time, and caused me to do my best Lost In Space robot imitation: "warning, warning! My hooks are flailing wildly." Don't want an electric car? Here's a guy who worked for years in his garage and developed a part you could add to your gas vehicle that extracts hydrogen from water by an efficient electrolysis process and meters it to the engine. All that's different is the driver fuels with water, not gasoline. Some people say big oil had him rubbed out, and others hotly insist he died of natural causes after defrauding his investors. These videos on Google get changed: the link I saved is inoperative, so I referred you to the related videos page for Stanley Meyer. Search there if the embedded link above gives you trouble and watch some of that, it's really worth your time. The lost video featured Meyer claiming by adjusting the electric source's "attenuation," he had increased the efficiency of the process exponentially, but that his schematics didn't express the components' values in scientific terms engineers and physicists could understand.

Bush says we'll get hydrogen from natural gas, setting up the next big fleecing. You can extract hydrogen from grass clippings, garbage, water and many other things. You don't need hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cells, ethanol, biofuels, wind chargers, solar cells or any of the other nonsolutions to powering the world. They aren't the future of energy, any more than petroleum. The future of energy is electromagnetism. Indeed, Tesla's theoretical physics will take us to the stars.

There isn't a reason in the world you shouldn't have this technology except politicians and oil companies won't be happy until they have EVERYONE's last nickel.

The U.S. government and the oil industry can pay for and deliver my excellent new electric car or new hydrogen powered car for their complicity in keeping these products out of the market; furthermore, they can pay for and deliver a vehicle to anyone and everyone on earth who simply wants one. They should be reminded of it every minute. We won't get those. But wasn't it great for a moment playing Let's Pretend In Happy Make Believe Land?

I think about that when I put $3.30 gasoline in my vehicle and pay my electric bill, which has doubled in the past two years.

I've had the satisfying experience of posting this link on a couple "progressive" blogs, and was quickly attacked by some so-called open minded people who told me straight away that the site's amateurish HTML leant unbelievability to the content, and unless I were a world-class expert in quantum physics, I had absolutely no business talking about any of this to ANYONE. I admit I don't have one percent of the education to examine the pertinent math and explain these theories, how and why they work, or don't. Moreover, I lack the fundamental mental horsepower of Tesla who must have educated himself and drove his calculations into one exotic field after another. Tesla said all these things work. This website says they not only work, but actually exist in the real world—and the emergence of his name in the Project Censored report is really bad news. But it's also good. I read this the first time a few years ago, and even though I had a passing familiarity with Tesla's work, didn't believe a word. As time goes by, I've found one small confirmation after another. People in military special ops tell me they learn about all of it. But, they don't want to talk about it.

The site talks about controlling the mood and psychology of individuals or groups of people, like the Project Censored report. It also describes an electromagnetic device that can cure any illness, physical or mental, and does it the same way in each case, by rolling the cells back to a time when they were healthy. All it takes is a short, painless session. Such a thing would make the health industry, and attendant, parasitic health insurance industry, obsolete. Imagine that.

The article talks about longitudinal wave howitzers and scalar electromagnetic interferometers which can be used as weapons, and do many other amazing things. A person at a control panel half a world away can target an individual, affect his psychology, mood, immune system or make him combust or explode. A person can destroy a whole city, region or country. That's one man and a control panel, no hardware in the field and no soldiers. The technology makes all weapons and the military obsolete. Your best defense against such an attack is don't be there—unless you can devise an instrument which shields you. They assert certain crop circles which are so intricate and precise and where atomic or DNA changes in the mashed crops aren't made by local yahoos with 2 X 4s on ropes laughing about how it's all a hoax, but scalar electromagnetic interferometer operators manipulating a plasma ball, practicing using the device and asking the rhetorical question, "is anyone paying attention?"

It also claims the device can cause a star to explode, as in our sun. Well, you can understand that some people wouldn't want everyone in town to be able to do that. This is the technology Tesla said could alter the earth's sun orbit, or take the earth out of orbit and to any other place in the unvierse. People weren't ready for that. The action of the weapons it describes are mostly horrifying, that more energetic attacks can disintegrate things. It also claims scalar electromagnetism can manipulate space and matter, and even the passage of time itself.

Dr. Nick Begich [pages 34-35]:

"There are several ways that microwaves can affect humans. For instance, the Sheriff and weapons that can heat the skin for crowd control do what the military states but they are capable of much more. The thermal heating weapons act like a car radio; you can change the frequencies to get different effects. The electromagnetic weapons send an impulse through the nervous system. They can transfer sounds, like Woody Norris’ directed acoustic weapons, which is contracted to the US government. It modulates a signal that is a radio frequency, which can be changed to affect certain organs. It can override an organ like the heart or the liver. So changing the perimeter is like changing the broadcast on the radio. These extremely low frequencies also have the capability to send messages directly into the head when only the receiver can hear it. (see the 1985 Radiofrequency Radiation Dosimetry Handbook)."

"The handbook talks about electromagnetics and about the rapid healing of bones. The frequencies can also be used to manipulate the brain and create a disequilibrium. These frequencies can also imbed signals on radio broadcasts to create a feeling of fear or anxiety. The US military would embed these signals on the Muslim prayer broadcasts during the first Gulf War. This was called Project Solo."

"During the 1990’s, in both presidential administrations, non-lethal weapons such as these and others received priority funding. The Secretary of Energy under Clinton, O’Leary, warned that over a 40 year period, 500,000 had been unwitting test subjects for military research on non-lethal weapons, including MKULTRA who claims among many victims, Ted Kaczinky, the Unabomber. There is no way to know who these people are or how to help them because there is paranoia in the military and no oversight in Congress. These black projects probably don’t even make it to the President."

"The problem is that the military’s role is to be paranoid and think up scenarios where the worst can happen then prepare for this in order to protect the people from a hypothetical future event. But there is little to no oversight. The Senate Intelligence Committee is made up of people like Ted Stephens who thinks the internet is made up of pipes and tubes. These people do not have the required background knowledge to ask the right questions. According to the defense budget report, 40% of the budget is dedicated to black projects. There is no oversight and no public knowledge. In the European Union, things are much different."

"In February 1998, I testified before the European Union parliament for an hour and a half and convinced them of the detrimental effects of non lethal weapons on humans, their behavior and their minds. The EU was convinced and passed a resolution banning the use of weapons that can manipulate a person (see Parliament Resolution A4-005/99 entitled "Resolution on the Environment, Security, and Foreign Policy" passed on January 29, 1999). During the hearings, the US representative and NATO representatives sat in the back and declined to participate when asked. In the US, there is no such resolution or anything remotely close to being considered by any member of Congress. There is no concern for it in the US because no one knows about them."

"During the 1980’s and 1990’s, there were a lot of papers that came out of the Naval War College and from top military officials that advocated using weapons that would cut down on the carnage seen by the American public in order to maintain public support. There was another paper that discusses how people will give up their liberties if they lived in a climate of fear by an outside enemy. If the US public knew about these weapons and what they could potentially asked to give up, their minds, the public would resist. So now, these weapons are being developed by the companies that comprise the industrial military complex who are immune from OIA requests."

"Without oversight, these weapons will a government to have absolute control. These weapons are most certainly in the hands of most industrialized countries. China certainly has them as intelligence reports released by the CIA reveal claims about these new concept weapons. There needs to be a debate in the public sphere because while these weapons appear frightening, they have amazing therapeutic potentials. There is the possibility of quicker healing and curing disease and what is just as important about government transparency concerning weapons is the transparency of life saving science being kept from the public. If we have the ability to cure and the government or military hides this, we have just as big a problem."

Iraqi infrantryman Majid al-Ghazali told this amazing story in 2003 of a strange, unknown weapon the U.S. deployed in Baghdad:

In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less than fluent, describes the weapon as reminiscent of a flame thrower, only immensely more powerful. It is unclear what principle the weapon is based on. Searching for a description, al-Ghazali said it appeared to be shooting concentrated lightning bolts rather than just ordinary flames. Drawing on his many years as a professional engineer, al-Ghazali speculates that radiation of some kind probably figures into the weapon's hideous capabilities. Like all men in Saddam's Iraq, al-Ghazali was compelled to serve in the Iraqi equivalent of the Army National Guard and fought in three wars over the past thirty-odd years. Via email, he told me he has seen virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and is well acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but nothing in his extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of what he saw in Baghdad on April 12th.

On that date, al-Ghazali and his family sheltered in their house as a fierce street battle erupted in his neighborhood. In the midst of the fighting, he noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly configured tank. Then to his amazement the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it. He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.

In a city littered everywhere with burned-out civilian and military vehicles, US forces were abnormally scrupulous about immediately detailing bulldozers and shovel crews to the job of burying the grim wreckage. Nevertheless, telltale remnants remained as Dillon found when al-Ghazali later took him to the site. Dillon said they easily uncovered large puddles of resolidified metal and mounds of weird fibrous material that, al-Ghazali explained, were all that remained of the vehicles' tires. Dillon, who accumulated plenty of battlefield experience as a medic in Viet-Nam, and has since covered a number of wars from Somalia to Kosovo, told me that he has witnessed every kind of conventional ordnance that can be used on humans and vehicles. " I've seen a freaking smorgasbord of destruction in my life," he said, "flame-throwers, napalm, white phosphorous, thermite, you name it. I know of nothing short of an H-bomb that conceivably might cause a bus to instantly liquefy or that can flash broil a human body down to the size of an infant. God pity humanity if that thing is a preview of what's in store for the 21st century."

Forget the source is rense.com, which some people say is always unreliable. The story was hotly disputed by right-wing war enablers as the ravings of psychotic, cowardly pacifists. I saw a video interview of al-Ghazali talking about this event. He seemed lucid, not insane, and indignant. Then, I found this in the Project Censored report [pages 36-37]:

Michael Vickers, senior adviser to the Secretary of Defense for the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review and principal strategist for the largest covert action program in the CIA's history, recently testified on the importance of black operations:

"US Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) emphasis after 9/11 has been to make white Special Operations Forces (SOF) more gray and black SOF more black. It is imperative, however, that white and black SOF be integrated fully from a strategic perspective."

The money involved in the non-lethal weapons industry is growing and military contractors are reaping the profits. According to Defense Industry Daily, Aaardvark Tactical, Inc. in Azusa, CA won a $50 million contract to develop non-lethal weapons, anti-terrorism capabilities, and riot gear. Ionatron was awarded a $12 million contract to develop the Laser Induced Plasma Channel technology which produces man-made lightening bolts. SAIC received a $49 million in November 2004 to develop High Power Microwave and other directed energy systems while Fiore Industries received a $16.35 million contract for similar technology and ITT received a $7.85 million contractfor the same in 2000. Fiore Industries received a $7.1 million for High Power Microwave Research and Experiment Program as early as 1994 and the same year Hughes Missile Systems Company received a $6.6 million contract for High Power Microwave Suppression of Enemy Air Defense Technology. Lockheed Martin secured a deal with DARPA in 2005 to continue the development of the Space Based Radar Antenna Technology in a $19.5 million contract. According to the Lockheed press release, the technology, "could significantly increase global persistent surveillance coverage".

In May of 2006, the Air Force issued $24 million in contracts for "Electro Magnetic Effects Research and Development" to Northrup Gruman, Voss Scientific, Lockheed Martin, Electro Magnetic Applications, and SAIC among others. The DOD viewed electromagnetic research and development as a key component in future wars as early as the 1990s. Emmett Paige Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence declared in 1996 that, "Well over a decade ago, a Soviet general reportedly said something like 'to prevail in the next conflict, one must control the electromagnetic spectrum.' That statement proved true in the Bacca Valley and on deserts in Iraq. The Department of Defense is committed to ensuring that 'in the next conflict it is we who will control the spectrum. We know its value'. Increasingly, the value of nonlethal weapons continues to rise as they produce fewer images of death in the media than traditional weapons." [...]

Despite Clinton’s reforms on human testing, the government, military and the corporation will undoubtedly want to test these weapons on humans whenever possible. Easiest to test would be prisoners in undisclosed CIA detention centers, civilians in war torn regions, and even US citizens in protest crowds or civilian jails. In addition to the rubber bullets and pepper spray, which are common in many police forces, new concept weapons are also in use. Perhaps soon Americans will learn firsthand, the effects of the new human control technologies.

However, hundreds of people continue to assert that a person or persons, whom they do not know, have been targeting them with electromagnetic weapons in a widespread campaign of either illegal experimentation or outright persecution.

These experiences involved a number of discrete phenomena:

Hearing voices when no one was present.

Feeling sensations of burning, itching, tickling, or pressure with no apparent physical cause.

Sleeplessness and anxiety as a result of "humming" or "buzzing".

Loss of bodily control, such as twitching or jerking of an arm or leg suddenly and without control.

Unexpected emotional states, such as a sudden overwhelming feeling of dread, rage, lust or sorrow that passes as quickly as it arises.

al-Ghazali's lightning cannon sounds like the kind of thing produced by Ionatron, a magnetically-directed, electrified plasma gun. You don't want to be this bad boy's target. Where's the love? The special people privileged to see the video are desperate for real world applications, and have been openly stating this kind of weapon would be useful for dispersing crowds of protestors in the U.S.; that is, they want to use them on us. Testing them out in elective wars of convenience is just a prelude to their wider use around the world, including at home. Once again, [page 44]:

Power elites who fund and support efforts at supplanting the will of the people do so from on high. Their ability to redirect public attention to ward external threats and away from their own motivations in effect silences opposition to their programs. By controlling the flow of information in society, the power elites provide the public with a limited choice in all matters that pertain to machinations of government and corporate control. Given more advanced technologies for the control of information unscrupulous individuals who ascribe to a "might makes right" philosophy may will find the ways and means of employing these technologies against those who would oppose their plans. The dangers here are great, in that the individual who would direct the torture and killing of innocents is usually removed from the actual fact. It is left up to lesser authorities to administer the beatings, bullets, and mind/body bending technologies.

For the US Government to unilaterally declare that our country will not comply with international human rights laws, nor uphold the core values of our nation’s foundation is an indication of extremism that supersedes the values and beliefs of the American people. When such extremism exists we need to take seriously the founders’ declaration that, "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." (Declaration of Independence 1776)

The picture that emerges is of a cadre of idle, rich bully-types dreaming of cutting down humanity to discourage resource depletion, promote corporate market saturation and create terror to reinforce their iron-fisted rule. They are simultaneously frightened and fascinated by these weapons, the most destructive ever created, exploiting some of our best technology. Your tax dollars paid for it. Answerable to no one, they're ready to promote themselves to Head Dickbags. History should tell them this illustrious plan is ill-fated; but they think they can pull it off with strong enough weapons. They could be right.

Another popularly-mentioned practice with this technology is controlling weather and making cloud patterns in the sky. You might find this and this of interest.

Conclusion

Brain dead yet? I sure am. If you made it this far, I'm really proud of you. It's hard to choose what about all this is hardest to reconcile, and thinking about it delayed my finishing writing the post by many weeks. I'm humbled and horrified by my inadequate education. No child should leave grade school without being able to mathematically quantify any of Nikola Tesla's work. Yet, education now is a faint shadow of what it was decades ago. I can't give a mathematical description of these devices' performance, or lack of it, and admit the main reason I know it's all real is that Tesla said so and proved it at every opportunity.

In the 1880s Tesla was in his thirties and described to people what radio could do and how it worked. Steam power was an historically new thing, there was no electric or telephone service, and people said it won't work, what is it good for anyway and hey, you must be crazy. So, he put the components together and showed that it worked, demonstrating wireless power transmission the same day. Over and over, it was always the same thing—and the world treated him like rubbish, stole his ideas and made sure he got paid nothing, then vilified him. His best things got put in the back room so wretched cum guzzlers could get wealthy raping humanity.

That part is hard to think about, too. All these technologies are intimately related to radio, and radio proves his multidimensional universe theory is the correct and true reality of nature. If his energy distribution model alone could be put to work next year, it would put a lot of money in the pocket of everyone in the world, and the economy would boom like no living person has ever seen.

Do you think John McCain, Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama would push that program forward, knowing it would make entrenched industries go the way of the conestoga? No way buddy, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS. I don't care what it says on Obama's podium. War will expand. Oil and therefore everything else will get more expensive, and the noble greenback will flop. Not one of the big three can think his or her way out of a wet paper sack. If you think you found a candidate who's different, you are sadly mistaken. The old guard has the situation squarely by the scruff.

Meanwhile your tax dollars are buying horrifying weapons for the intended purpose of culling the population, and the whole process, from appropriations to execution, is beyond anyone's oversight, and done without the knowledge of Washington's top leadership. During the GOP new millenium reign of terror, much fear and condemnation has been characteristically expressed about armed insurrection, and some big blabbermouths have admitted public service is wild with the idea of incinerating civilians with mysterious weapons. If the point is extermination, why not do it cheaply, quickly and quietly with biowarfare? The dumb answer is psychopaths congregate—and when they get together, they come up with some zany ideas. It's an ugly picture. One reader of the Project Censored report expressed the global corporatocracy should be complete within the next decade. That would mean anyone over 40 is finished. God pity humanity indeed.

I wasn't taking any of this seriously. Gigantic defense spending increases and the idea the United States is pinning its future on black op weapons has caused me an extreme about-face. Thinking about it is very hard. The cash register of our tax dollars is open, and spending unlimited, for the development of secret things no one knows about, and the apparently robust program vigorously strives to consume the entire national budget.

No one escapes blame, either, even though these programs are secret beyond classified, because while most people aren't aware of secret weapons development, it is far from unknown. Furthermore, one needn't read far into the "work" of neoconservative think tanks and the likes of Leo Strauss, Albert Wohlstetter and the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought to understand the neocon global empire model and its selective population control aspect. About the time you think you've seen it all, along comes yet another dazzling surprise, and there's nothing "new" or "conservative" about it—just the same tyranny in all its ugly detail which predates the Roman empire.

The difference now is these idiots have amazing new tools to wipe out people quickly, easily and in large numbers, with breathtaking new appropriations made toward their development. You don't know about it because they don't want you to know, and you paid for it. We could use informed discourse and resistance!

But once again, we're really very sorry, but you can't have that. I promised I'd go down this road at the end of part one and meant it. You can't look at George Bush and Dick Cheney, and look at how their administration has conducted itself, and tell me the people of the United States elected them. And, indeed they didn't. You can't look back to the 1960s and every point between and really believe the GOP has had the country's and its own best interests in mind. Any appearance of it is just show, and the poor republican party has become the province of would-be world dictators. You would think so-called "liberals," "politically left," "progressive" "democrats," or some such persons, would scream bloody murder, and people would stampede this nonsense back into the trash. But even those few dedicated left-leaners who get involved in public affairs are solidly and inextricably in denial. As a result, they're bought in and sold to the right wing framework in its entirety. They believe if it's a thing they don't see in their everday experience, it doesn't exist. They believe the only possible source of energy in the universe is oil, and they believe the biotic genesis of petroleum theory and therefore peak oil. They say they oppose war, but "understand" the "necessity" of oil wars, giving their tacit approval, even though events in the real world give them overwhelming evidence that the premises aren't valid. Subliminally mesmerized by the idea of "from chaos, order," they don't believe there are government black ops or black ops weapon development. They don't believe there are people evil enough to envision global conquest by military action, let alone attempt it, and resist getting the education needed to understand it's not only possible but a demonstrated fact dating back thousands of years. So, you don't get opposition from the only people who would call it out, just like you don't get a peace, prosperity and progress presidential candidate. The vote count in the general election has been evenly divided for decades because the candidates are always identical corporate and defense associates.

So, I might vote for Ralph Nader, or I might not. But one thing's for sure, I won't vote for Clinton, Obama or McCain. I can't do it. Not one has the snap to deal with this subject (except maybe Ralph), and one of them will have to deal with it.

Epilogue

I wish I'd made all this up and had the revenues of a hit comic book series safely stashed away in euros. Yesterday, the "official" war death count for Iraq exceeded 4,000. Because the extreme restrictions on which deaths make up the count, some have suggested the real count, including mercenaries, probably exceeds 10 to 20 times that many Americans. If you knew in fact the death count was 80,000, would you invest more time in resisting the war? If you doubt that's possible, and most people would argue with it, read this, and you'll learn everything there is to know about how Bush counts casualties.

I've been on a small rant about this for weeks, and the other day Janie asked how we're supposed to answer. Good question. Those privy to these operations have been warning for years they'll quell violence in the streets with the new generation of "nonlethal" weapons, which I take to mean they intend to start trouble somewhere as a pretext to test some of the new stuff. That might never happen. The real revolution they need fear is the one without a shot fired nor even a single exchange of unpleasantry. How we should answer and what must happen is that the wealthy corporations that own media, government, defense and all of us must find their markets have vanished. My advice to everyone is get off the grid. Don't buy gas. Don't buy anything nonessential. Keep your money. Trade anything you can. Replace old technologies with new ones that don't feed established interests to the extent you can, as an individual. Don't wait to be served, be inventive. You could well spend your whole life trying to do that and fail, but try we must. Like the revocation of your civil liberties, black ops weapons aren't something we think about. But suddenly, these issues become real things of first priority to real people, always to their utter amazement. With new, unbelievable increases in the defense budget and the way big media is rather quiet about the 2009 discretionary budget, one can't help but be curious. I have a couple or dozen tasks for MEGs at my house. My local radiotelephone expert told me it doesn't put out much power, but Tesla said correctly configured, it gives you more than you need. I should spend all my time figuring it out. There are some things around here I'd like to see go the way of the covered wagon.
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Update: Sure enough, that report has disappeared from Project Censored's website. They have a different link for it, but it also doesn't work. I have the file and can e-mail it to you if you'll give me an address. I posted it in an MSN group, but the site's permissions require you to join to download the file, so I won't bother you with all that. If anybody can think of a place where I can post it so you can read it, please pass that information along.

Update 2: Send your request to me at i_am_uranus@hotmail.com and I'll send the report to you.

Inner-worlders to the rescue

2008-03-15T23:35:00.001-05:00

So, what becomes of humanity after the U.S. attacks Iran? The Arianni will help the few survivors reestablish human culture, later sometime. It comes as a great comfort. Hat tip to Janet.

I'm still working on the previous post! It's a love-hate relationship inspired by my blind devotion.

Goodbye Admiral Fallon; hello obliteration

2008-03-11T16:16:00.002-05:00

I knew this would happen:

WASHINGTON - Adm. William Fallon is stepping down as head of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees military matters in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Tuesday.

Gates said that Adm. William J. Fallon had asked for permission to retire and that Gates agreed. Gates said the decision, effective March 31, was entirely Fallon’s and that Gates believed it was "the right thing to do."

Eat shit and die, Gates, you fucking weirdo. I was busily hammering away at 118 people, part two, believe it or not, when I got this news item, which is The Worst Thing That Could Happen, so I thought I'd take a minute to shout shenanigans.

There is only one clear message here: Bush and Cheney will do whatever it takes to kill us all. The neocon agenda won't be denied, and to hell with the whole damn world. No one gives their permission to exterminate the human race in order to rebuild it into some magical, storybook GOP totalitarian monarchy. There are idiots in the world who actually think that will happen, and full speed ahead. Nobody explains how they'll do that without people. I assume it's a secret.

Recently I saw a program on the History Channel which said a meteor strike on one of today's major cities would be enough to cause a worldwide extinction-level event. The planned attack on Iran will launch much more dust into the atmosphere than that, and it will be radioactive dust. Admiral Fallon was an important firewall between that and the Bush administration, and as CENTCOM commander was the single best friend of life on earth. Now the plan is for a third Bush-Cheney administration, if we live that long, and also for the rest of us to kiss our asses goodbye. Esquire on Fallon.

118 people, part one

2008-01-27T15:11:00.001-06:00

[Here is the post I've been writing since the first of the year. It's been extremely busy at my place in January, but I accomplished a lot. This post isn't finished, but I don't want to sit on it any longer.]

Happy new year! I've meant to write posts for weeks, but I'm too busy enjoying life. Actually, that isn't quite it. Throughout the month of December, the temperature has been well below average. The cats love it, and have been quite active and therefore quite hungry, so my time has been dedicated almost exclusively to filling and washing their bowls and working the door. It's hard to believe, but day and night, if I've let a cat outside, the usual wait for another to show for food service has been about three minutes. During the most extreme, bitter cold nights, the cats have wanted to stay outdoors, which worries Daddy, and I haven't slept well. I've had them inside and napped with them as much as they will allow, as it gives us bonding time that I see as essential for their survival in an environment that is hostile and challenges their sense of attachment. It's time well spent, but hardly constructive when it comes to home or blog maintenance. Suddenly the weather turned to spring, with thunderstorms and the year's first tornado warnings, before going back to subfreezing.

With the caucuses and primaries consuming every news outlet, it's easy to forget many important things unrelated to the election are happening. One is impeachment. Before new years, David Swanson had this stunning article detailing impeachable offenses of 2007 and a few before. The list is impressive for its length and severity. I was going to summarize his list, but after a few hours' study decided it was too onerous. You may wish to review it yourself. To give you an idea of what's there, here are Swanson's categories: standing offenses; secrecy and coverups, 9 references; signing statements and assertions of dictatorial power, 7 references; turning government agencies into republican party machine, 16 references; election fraud, 3 references; spying, 15 references; global warming, 6 references; California energy crisis: new evidence, 1 reference; ongoing intentional destruction of New Orleans, 1 reference; lying to Congress and public in state of the union—an annual ritual, 7 references; threatening a war of aggression in Iran, 3 references; Iran lies, 2 references; Iraq lies: new evidence, 14 references; Plame, 5 references; Libby commutation, the misuse of commutation to avoid implication is itself an impeachable offense; ongoing and worsening occupation of Iraq, 7 references; war crimes, 20 references; mercenaries, 6 references; torture and illegal prisons, 24 references; plus he mentions Bush got a new attorney general who refuses to recognize torture.

Consider that if there were only one republican in Congress, a democratic president would be summarily impeached for committing even one offense equal to anything on this very long list. It's no wonder the word "change" came up, first from Obama and then, almost immediately, from almost everyone else. It's astonishing and mesmerizing for Jonathan Schell:

To state the obvious, this word, taken by itself, is an almost perfect vacuum. Its ubiquity marks a surprisingly metaphysical turn in American politics, as if Hegelians or the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers had taken charge of our political discussion. In actuality, of course, it is not philosophers but political consultants, market researchers, TV ad writers and pollsters who have created the new abstract vocabulary, distilling all the particulars of American aspirations into a few blurry, glowing phrases—or in this case, just one word.

Please! The word change has been used in campaigns since the beginning of time, as if voters can't distinguish different policies from different politicians. They're great at saying let's leave behind the clumsy, greedy people and ideas of the past to something new: someone else's clumsiness and greed. i wanted to make this post Jan. 1 because I'm weary of this mundane rationale. Personality colors Washington politicians' behavior but falls far short of explaining why we get the caliber of rubbish policy. No party has a franchise. Who are these people? What motivates them, and for whom do they work? They don't work for us, the people who elected them, and who, in all matters of discourse, are seen by Washington as an element to marginalize.

• Robert Parry from Dec. 31, 2007:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is signaling that a second Clinton presidency will follow the look-to-the-future, don’t-worry-about-accountability approach toward Republican wrongdoing that marked Bill Clinton’s years in office.

That was the significance of former President Clinton’s remarkable Dec. 17 comment that his wife’s first act in the White House would be to send Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush on an around-the-world mission to repair America’s damaged image. [...]

In responding to Bill Clinton’s remark, George H.W. Bush issued a statement making clear he would not join in any slap at his son’s foreign policy. That also means Hillary Clinton’s “first thing” is unthinkable if her new administration were trying to exact any accountability from George W. Bush for his wrongdoing. [...]

In the mid-1990s, even as the Republican attack machine pounded the Clintons with allegations about alleged ethical lapses and marital infidelities, the Clinton administration acted like it was determined to prove that it could be trusted with the nation’s dark secrets, that it could cover up wrongdoing with the best of them.

The consequence for America, however, was different. With George H.W. Bush’s dubious public record whitewashed, the door was opened to the restoration of the Bush Dynasty. If the full truth had been known about former President Bush, it’s hard to conceive how George W. Bush ever could have become President.

I'd like to think voters are ahead of Robert Parry on this most damning point about Sen. Clinton, or up to his level of thinking at least. I don't have any real reason to think that's the case. The Clintons are Bush subjects, and for the life of me I don't know why. Something else would seem to explain Hillary's consistent support for war than currying Bush's or the GOP's favor when she knows it alienates most democrats.

Are voters, the vote count and democracy itself so irrelevant that politicians can crash the world economy conducting wars the majority oppose because they are beholden to war industry campaign donations? The answer is yes. Parry's point isn't wasted on me, and he's stated many times impeachment was Bill Clinton's reward for his forebearance of prosecuting Bush Sr.'s Iran-Contra fiasco. We the people were rewarded with George W. Bush. Why does it suck for everyone but the Bushes, who deserve a swift kick in the britches? In recent days Hillary has been criticized for showing emotion, and some pundits speculate her campaign is looking for direction. It's annoying that the guns on Hillary's hips are giant cannons she of course won't draw. She's the only candidate with the potential to win with a big landslide—not that I've been a supporter. It's irritating to see someone getting a rare chance, having the tools to achieve it and blowing it by not using the tools. Hillary should declare a miraculous moment of spiritual realization wherein she's seen she works for the people and will stop the middle east wars. From her, it would mean something. She could say she's sad and angry with what has happened, and will hold the criminal perpetrators of the Bush administration accountable; furthermore, she could promise to avenge her husband's impeachment—then go forward and actually do all of it.

What other candidate has a weapon that large in their repertoire? None of them. If you ask me, a fully engaged, emotionally aroused Hillary Clinton is just what the doctor ordered for this country.Her supporters in New York should be all right with that and her place in the senate secure, assuming she'd remain and the seat is chosen by voters and not another process. Even if she lost the presidential race, she would have to her credit the most distinguished campaign of all time, with a message that would resound for generations.

I don't think Robert Parry and I are the only ones who understand that, even though it seems most of Hillary's supporters are people who think things were better under President Clinton, and they'd like to go to something better, while the idea of wrestling control of the country away from the small group of self-appointed rulers in which she belongs or aspires is likely prevalent among Hillary's opponents. As Rep. Waxman has the opportunity to give a public hearing for Sibel Edmonds, Sen. Clinton could do the right thing and sea change the world. But they won't. In Sen. Clinton's case, there's a great chance it will cost her the election and soon you can be certain the executive and legislative branches (at least) will be populated by only the world's biggest criminals. I can understand Hillary doesn't want to go the way of John F. Kennedy, his brother and son—as I understand when JFK was killed, so was democracy.

This is all rather pure truth. It's also boring, tedious, mundane and a repetition of what you read everywhere. Bush and Cheney break the law nonstop because they're congenital criminals, but that doesn't explain the whole of what they're doing. Previous generations would have tossed them in short order. Today it can't happen. Why is that? Hillary Clinton has the best story ever told in a campaign and a once-in-a-lifetime, golden opportunity to run the world's most powerful nation. Instead of telling the story, she enables the opposing, minority party and is the polar opposite of her own. When you add all that up, it doesn't make sense; that is, it doesn't make sense if you assume voters select the president, vice president and members of Congress.

One of these days the world will figure out something else is happening. Our executive and legislative branches and the laws they make aren't what citizens want. Instead, they are what the war industry wants. In his article, Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?, Ira Chernus says:

In itself, faith in politics poses no great danger to democracy as long as the debates are really about policies—and religious values are translated into political values, articulated in ways that can be rationally debated by people who don't share them. The challenge is not to get religion out of politics. It's to get the quest for certitude out of politics.

The first step is to ask why that quest seems increasingly central to our politics today. It's not simply because a right-wing cabal wants to impose its religion on us. The cabal exists, but it's not powerful enough to shape the political scene on its own. That power lies with millions of voters across the political spectrum. Candidates talk about faith because they want to win votes.

Voters reward faith talk because they want candidates to offer them symbols of immutable moral order. The root of the problem lies in the underlying insecurities of voters, in a sense of powerlessness that makes change seem so frightening, and control - especially of others - so necessary.

The only way to alter that condition is to transform our society so that voters will feel empowered enough to take the risks, and tolerate the freedom that democracy requires. That would be genuine change. It's a political problem with a political solution. Until that solution begins to emerge, there is no way to take the conservative symbolic message of faith talk out of American politics.

Sorry, Ira, I disagree. The repressive and authoritative, warmongering ass America has become isn't voters' or citizens' fault; indeed, voters and the vote count are irrelevant, as they've been for decades. Increased citizen activism, courage or some other miraculous, transformative hocus pocus won't change that. So long as the majority of the budget goes to defense, defense owns Washington, politics and us. I appreciate Ira's scholarship and that of everyone else in this discussion. He's correct to say the solution lies with the population, but our all-war-all-the-time society isn't caused or wanted by the population, and isn't their fault.

Dennis Kucinich's omission by NBC (which is owned by major defense supplier General Electric) from the Nevada democratic debate, upheld by a conservative court, resulting in his being forced out of the presidential race, demonstrates why America stays in the war cycle. War profiteers will move heaven and earth to make sure there is no choice in the presidential election except between the most strident war hawks on earth. This point has never been more elegantly presented than in this 48-page report on electromagnetic weapons from a year ago:

A long thread of sociological research documents the existence of a dominant ruling class in the US that sets policy and determines national political priorities. The American ruling class is complex and inter-competitive, maintaining itself through interacting families of high social standing with similar life styles, corporate affiliations, and memberships in elite social clubs and private schools.

This American ruling class is self-perpetuating, maintaining its influence through policy-making institutions such as the National Manufacturing Association, National Chamber of Commerce, Business Council, Business Roundtable, Conference Board, American Enterprise Institute, Council on Foreign Relations and other business-centered policy groups. Wright Mills, in his 1956 book The Power Elite, documents how World War II solidified a trinity of power in the US, comprised of corporate, military and government elites in a centralized power structure motivated by class interests and working in unison through "higher circles" of contact and agreement. Mills described how the power elite were those “who decide whatever is decided” of major consequence. [...]

We now understand that Eisenhower was referring to the conjunction of redirected tax monies to research secret new technology aimed at nothing less than increasing the controlling power of the military industrial elite to a global scale.

One particular faction of ambitious men, the former cold warriors and emerging neo-conservatives, were close followers of philosopher Leo Strauss. This elite group included not just generals and industrialists but philosophers, scientists, academics, and politicians have now become the most powerful public-private war organization ever known.

Strauss espoused an elitist philosophy that fawned over the characteristics of those who inherited wealth and lived lives of leisure to pursue whatever their interests may be. His ideas have been transformed into a cogent ideology in which the media, religion, and government are used to subdue the masses while the real “nobles” follow their own will without regard to the laws designed to control lesser men. Strauss was likewise fond of secrecy, as a necessity for control, because if the lesser men found out what was being done to them they would no doubt be upset.

“The people will not be happy to learn that there is only one natural right–the right of the superior to rule over the inferior, the master over the slave, the husband over the wife, and the wise few over the vulgar many.” In On Tyranny, Strauss refers to this natural right as the “tyrannical teaching” of his beloved ancients.

Leo Strauss, Albert Wohlstetter, and others at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought receive wide credit for promoting the neo-conservative agenda through their students, Paul Wolfowitz, Allan Bloom, and Bloom's student Richard Perle. [...]

There is ample evidence available to show that some individuals within government and industry have little problem with violating the public trust and using their positions to kill, maim, torture and destroy. It is of the utmost importance to our traditional American values of human rights and cognitive liberty that we recognize this threat from within. We must move to identify those who
show these proclivities and ensure that their activities have adequate oversight. [...]

Psychological Warfare, Information War, and mind control may seem to be exotic topics, but the impact of these technologies and techniques is profound. Our minds are being impacted through a longstanding series of programs aimed at manipulating public opinion through intelligence agencies, think tanks, corporate media and a host of non-governmental organizations designed to engender fear, division and uncertainty in the public. Media manipulation involving the artificial framing of our collective reality is often a hit or miss proposition, but psychological operations have been carried out in the past, and are being carried out even today, through the practices of “Information Warfare,” directed at enemies abroad and at the American people. [...]

The US is a system of many institutions including those whose sole function is to provide government oversight. When problems arise that threaten the stability of the country or the safety of the people, the US government is designed to have checks and balances that allow the people to challenge misconduct either directly or through congressional representatives. Increasingly, oversight is disintegrating. According to a 2006 report in the Boston Globe, the intelligence committee does not read most intelligence reports in their entirety.

The media is complicit in omitting information necessary to make democratic decisions. A global dominance agenda includes penetration into the boardrooms of the corporate media in the US. A research team at Sonoma State University recently finished conducting a network analysis of the boards of directors of the ten big media organizations in the US. The team determined that only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director of the ten big media giants. These 118 individuals in turn sit on the corporate boards of 288 national and international corporations. Four of the top 10 media corporations in the US have DOD contractors on their boards of directors including:

William Kennard: New York Times, Carlyle Group
Douglas Warner III, GE (NBC), Bechtel
John Bryson: Disney (ABC), Boeing
Alwyn Lewis: Disney (ABC), Halliburton
Douglas McCorkindale: Gannett, Lockheed-Martin

Given an interlocked media network, big media in the US effectively represent corporate America’s interests. The media elite, a key component of policy elites in the US, are the watchdogs of acceptable ideological messages, the controllers of news and information content, and the decision makers regarding media resources.

The assertion is that 118 privileged corporatists run the world and therefore dictate political and public policy for everyone everywhere. I agree. I'd like to see their complete list, and hear all these individuals explain themselves. Political discourse is directed too much to minor details at present. We don't look at this bigger picture. Because we don't, humanity is permanently relegated to subjugation.

These concepts are marvelously simple to wrap your mind around. I've enjoyed taking my sweet time reading this report, simultaneously nurturing the growing knot in my stomach assembling this post. I'll finish it shortly with a discussion of where we're going that even the most ardent left denies.

Update: You can read part two here.

The hospitality of strangers.

2008-01-21T18:36:00.000-06:00

This isn't the post promised in the previous one, which is still in the works. I see that either Blogger removed Luke from the contributor list or he did it himself. I didn't do it. I wanted to let everyone know.

I'm not done with Luke. He posted this bit January 11 and it received this interesting comment which is something I myself should have suggested. There's more than one way to skin a cat. These blogs are a great way to catalog current events and your thoughts, but in and of themselves they don't accomplish anything. In this case, a guy has expressed a way to get the facts on record and even named a ready forum. This approach is the best I've seen and can bear fruit, but it will take time and effort devoted to something other than blogging. If the way John Doraemi suggests doesn't work out, a search must be made for hospitable individuals and jurisdictions. I'll even start that process: exclude everyone in Oklahoma. As judges go, we're over our heads in redneck communistas.

I can recommend doing the search quietly, if it's necessary, because if a guy does agree to host a proceeding, DoJ will know about it immediately and it'll drive 'em crazy. I might have kicked the subject around had I thought of it. At one time I had a pretty good education, but I've forgotten more about the law than I know now.

That comment reminded me of the contentious discussion of altenatives to impeaching Bush and Cheney; in particular, of the writ of quo warranto, that "remains a right under the Ninth Amendment which was understood and presumed by the Founders, and which affords the only judicial remedy for violations of the Constitution by public officials and agents." The original purpose of the writ was to ask a court to pass judgment on the legitimacy of an individual's holding public office. In recent centuries it has been used mostly to establish the validity of companies and corporations to do such things as conduct business under a given name so as to establish fraud or liability.

But the writ of quo warranto is, happily, still used to challenge people's right to hold office when there may be reason to believe their election was improper, or where, in lieu of other remedies, egregious constitutional infractions have been committed. It was my hope to be able to assemble the necessary documentation and post it online and/or file it myself, but surprise. It's just not that easy. You don't have to be a lawyer to do this, but you need specific things including competent work, so a full-fledged member of the bar would come in handy. The process begins with the filing a motion of intervention of right and application for writ in the nature of quo warranto that sets forth the relevant facts and legal issues and asks the court to pass judgment. Here is an example.

Another thing you need is the proper jurisdiction, and finding it comes first, since while theoretically you may file in any court, not every state allows this kind of proceeding and individual judges can agree to conduct a proceeding or dismiss at the outset. See part three and book four here. In reading this material I realized the motion and application for writ of quo warranto with regard to Bush and Cheney should have been pursued immediately after the Supreme Court shoved them down our throats in 2000; after all, that isn't how elections are supposed to be decided. In some cases the passage of time renders this kind of proceeding moot in the eyes of some judges. And, I became strongly aware that the selection of the state, court and judge where such an action is attempted is absolutely critical and not easily chosen because not every state, court and judge will hear a case in quo warranto, and not everyone that will would proceed against their heroes Bush and Cheney.

That doesn't mean such venues don't exist. They do. Finding an hospitable court to file is the first step with quo warranto, just as finding the right judge is Luke's next step. It's difficult but not impossible—and it's a great idea. It's certainly more promising than continued Waxman arm-twisting.

Taking a station break.

2008-01-19T01:55:00.000-06:00

I've been working on a post for this site since the first of the year. I meant to put it up at the first of the year, and wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten and have been working. It started as a message to Hillary Clinton, and snowballed into a description of my astonished disappointment with the campaign and candidates. Granted, I expected the campaign to be pathetic, and it is, with its zero issue discussion. It could be worse: we aren't submerged in total absolutism yet. My reading in recent weeks has yielded a nice eye-opener about why we are where we are in politics, war, who really runs things and where we're headed.

The bad news is, if we aren't already there we're very close and will be there any minute. Even Pat Buchanon, a Nixon-era, conservative republican, recently stated Dennis Kucinich is the only real candidate in the pack. The rest of the campaign is a carnival freak show-horror between a random bunch of ghouls racing to declare him or herself the Antichrist. Of course, when a chief executive is allowed to violate the law with his every thought and act, as CheneyBush has done, it sets a bad example and doesn't attract the brightest and best to the festival. Something else is happening. It takes more than a little space to explain, and it goes unacknowledged by almost everyone, making putting it into words difficult and emotionally trying. What's happening and where we are headed is a very dark place, and universal health care won't save anyone. The campaign, politics, where we are and where we go grows daily into the bigger story of how the promises of American democracy and the evolution of technology are unfulfilled as greedy people attempt to take over the world.

It's a different picture than I expected, and it comes as no surprise; however, I'm shocked with how close our evil, self-appointed overlords have come to meeting their goals. It's certainly closer than I thought I'd see in my lifetime. Viewed beside the mass market's don't-care attitude, it's unbelievable. When I think of how good life could be except for this greed, my heart is broken anew. I concluded that between wanting to win elections and build better weapons, the rush to authoritarian totalitarianism for the U.S. and the world has consumed both major parties. Having funded defense with two-thirds of our tax revenue, a funny thing happened: we bought more than security, we sold our bodies and souls to the war industry. The industry has begun to feed, and is poised to feed on us, because some people think the world is too densely populated for the entitled to become truly wealthy.

It's a gloomy thought, that we're all merely meat for some nebulous grinder, and there is no indication as to when the grinding begins. Sadly, each day makes it easier. Bad actors act worse and grow stronger, the population sees nothing as the greedy move to cull and enslave the world. People don't want to talk about it because they don't know. They want change, but they don't know what the change is, lost in their government's asserting they should hate Mexicans and fence them out and letting them have any and every job once inside the country. Do we buiild fences for them, too? Are we still hating Iraqis, Christmas and gay matrimony? It's easy to understand why people are confused.

You ain't seen nothin'. Think it's confusing now? You can be attacked by an arsenal of new weapons for which there is no common defense, their development paid for by your tax dollars and their existence kept as quiet as humanly possible. Changing Washington's majority won't fix it, and the people who've felt so safe defending the new radical right are as vulnerable as anyone. So, I'll keep working on it and get that posted. Meanwhile, ask yourself a question...

...with 80% of the country opposed to Bush's middle east wars, why can't we get even one mainstream presidential candidate who is anything short of the most strident war hawk on the planet? You know the answer.

R.I.P. Perry Kucinich

2007-12-20T19:07:00.000-06:00

Dennis Kucinich's brother Perry died yesterday, Dec. 19:

Perry Kucinich, brother of Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, was found dead Wednesday morning at his eastside Cleveland home, officials said.

His body was discovered by another brother, Larry, in his apartment about 9 a.m., a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County Coroner told CNN.

Powell Caesar said the cause of the 51-year-old man's death won't be known until the results of the autopsy are returned. But, Caesar said, the body did not show injuries and there appeared to be no signs of foul play.

I wondered how Corporate News™ would cover this story today. They didn't. I'd hate to see them do anything to make people ask, "who's Dennis Kucinich?" I'll tell you who he is. He's the guy I'm voting for for president of the U.S. in the primary, after which I'm changing my party affiliation to independent; unless, of course, Dennis scores in the primary, which is doubtful, but in which case I'll remain a democrat and be glad I am.

Biting the kitten

2007-12-19T21:10:00.000-06:00

• This, like almost all issues in Washington, is getting plain silly:

The issue before the Senate is fairly simple. Last summer, President Bush asked Congress to close a gap in the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act created by advancements in technology. He waited until the eve of a recess, and then, as is his habit, falsely presented it as a matter of life and death. Having spooked Democrats on terrorism yet again, Mr. Bush larded the bill with dangerous expansions of his power to spy on Americans.

That law expires in February, which means Congress has to pass new legislation giving the intelligence agencies a little more leeway in the wireless Internet age. But once again, the White House, aided by some misguided Democrats, is trying to give the president powers he should not have: the ability to spy on Americans without a warrant and eviscerate the authority of the court that oversees electronic espionage. The bad bill Mr. Reid has now delayed would also give amnesty to telecommunications companies that—for five years—provided Americans’ private data to the government without a warrant.

The White House says it wants to protect patriotic executives. It really wants to make sure Americans never find out how much illegal spying their president ordered up after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

First of all, it is a well-known, often-reported fact the Bush administration pushed forward warrantless wiretapping almost immediately after taking office in 2001; yet, The New York Times continues to emphasize in all its accounts of this issue the White House took no action until after September 11, 2001, as if its intentions were honorable. This obvious, ingenuine LIE is disgusting to the point of nauseating. The sycophantic GOP apologists at The Times can annoint Bush and Cheney if they feel they must, but it fools no one. This is the sort of thing Nixon felt entitled to do, and is a major program of Cheney's Revenge Syndrome. Nixon's and Cheney's motives are identical: to know their political opponents' moves and to identify, locate and suppress critics. Lots of heart and soul in these guys, who couldn't have a law-abiding or patriotic notion if their lives depended on it. It wouldn't be yellow journalism for The Times to tell the truth about it, and it's outrageous that its editors still want everyone to know they still absolutely refuse.

Second, the progressive alternative press is hailing Sen. Reid's pulling this bill as a grand victory. To be sure, every day this legislation isn't enacted is a great day, but that the bill exists at all is an humiliating shame and sin. How should it be written? If I were the author, my bill would do away with FISA and put these matters back in the hands of public courts. There would be some language about tempered steel restraints for rotten, criminal politicians and crooked public utility employees and lengthy jail sentences without parole. That's a reality-based law, not the fantasy world, authoritarian law writing which makes the phony claim we're threatened by people driven insane paying homage to Allah when republican wiretapping has absolutely nothing to do with that, and never did.

Last week, Mr. Reid started pushing a bill by the Senate Intelligence Committee that gave Mr. Bush all of that—with a six-year expiration date to tie the hands of the next president. It wasn’t his only choice. He could have supported a bill by the Senate Judiciary Committee, similar to one passed by the House, with a two-year sunset, real judicial supervision, restraints on executive power and no amnesty. A few Democratic senators, including Pat Leahy, Russ Feingold and Christopher Dodd, opposed Mr. Reid, who tried to get around them by cutting deals with Republicans but failed.

If the authoritarian communists who call themselves republicans won't accept gigantic concessions like this, why give them anything? The point is to write good legislation, not keep moving the bar lower so as to avoid an unpleasant difference of opinion with some fanatic mental cases. Ordinarily, any group will get behind doing the right thing, but at some point you have to start doing the right thing. How are today's Congressional democrats going to look and feel if Mike Huckabee becomes the next president?

In January, the Senate will reconsider this issue in the midst of the primary season, with the February expiration date looming. Mr. Bush and his allies will issue dire warnings that intelligence agents won’t be able to listen to phone calls by Osama bin Laden. That was not true before, is not true now and won’t be true then.

The intelligence agencies can easily be given the flexibility they need without sacrificing the Constitution. If the law expires, fine. It won’t harm national security, and it will give Congress time to reflect. The Constitution has been battered enough by rushing through major bills like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act.

The Times has learned to frame its reasoning well from the Bush-Cheney era. How unfortunate the two men's cowardice has so thoroughly rubbed off on the paper of record. I read a piece of rubbish like this and wonder why I keep doing it, letting The New York Times kick me around. With less time and effort they could say the bill should be thrown out. After all, the title of this editorial is "Bad Bill Now, Bad Bill Later." While they're at it, they could say the Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act of 2006 should be repealed en toto. But, seeing and telling the truth takes that half a teaspoon of courage Congressional democrats and The New York Times can't bring themselves to swallow.

• Speaking of obstructionism:

WASHINGTON—The Republican Senate minority today filibustered an omnibus budget bill, setting a modern-day record for blocking the most legislation during a congressional session. A new report released today by the Campaign for America's Future details the 62 times conservatives have used the filibuster to block legislation (or force modification of bills) in the first session of the 110th Congress. In just the first year of this two-year Congress, their use of the filibuster in the Senate topped the previous record, reached during the entire 107th Congress. [...]

"In just one session, a minority in Congress has prevented a mind-blowing 62 pieces of legislation from going to the floor for an up or down vote," said Campaign for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey. "Our report shows how over and over again, the uncompromising minority has thwarted the will of majorities in Congress and of the American people, holding the Senate floor hostage to a radical right-wing agenda."

Sixty votes are needed to invoke cloture and end a filibuster. The 62nd cloture vote of the session is more than any single session of Congress since at least 1973, the earliest year cloture votes are available online from the Senate. Republicans are on pace to force 134 cloture votes to cut off a filibuster, according to the Campaign for America's Future analysis, more than double the historical average of the last 35 years.

Even pieces of legislation that have made it past the Senate filibuster blockade have been obstructed by President Bush. Last week the President vetoed for the second time a popular bill that would expand health coverage for 10 million American children. According to the Campaign for America's Future report, Bush has threatened to veto 84 bills and has vetoed six as of December 17. In contrast, during the period when the Republicans were in the congressional majority, Bush went the longest time without vetoing a bill since President Arthur Garfield.

Eric Lotke, Campaign for America's Future research director and lead author of the new report, calls the obstruction a "deliberate strategy." He observes that the congressional Republicans block legislation, then blame the Democrats for getting nothing done. "It's like mugging the postman and then complaining that the mail isn't delivered on time."

Of course, you don't get the facts laid out by mainstream media. After all this time, the only thing I can think is that corporate America thinks it will make more money under a communist government than a democracy. So, add to my list of legislative priorities, more funding for education, the prohibition of private funding for candidates and the repeal of political parties. Hey, I think we're on to something!

• No surprises here: it turns out the White House knew about the torture videos as early as 2003 and strongly supported their destruction:

WASHINGTON — At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials. [...]

Those who took part, the officials said, included Alberto R. Gonzales, who served as White House counsel until early 2005; David S. Addington, who was the counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney and is now his chief of staff; John B. Bellinger III, who until January 2005 was the senior lawyer at the National Security Council; and Harriet E. Miers, who succeeded Mr. Gonzales as White House counsel.

It was previously reported that some administration officials had advised against destroying the tapes, but the emerging picture of White House involvement is more complex. In interviews, several administration and intelligence officials provided conflicting accounts as to whether anyone at the White House expressed support for the idea that the tapes should be destroyed.

One former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the matter said there had been "vigorous sentiment" among some top White House officials to destroy the tapes. The former official did not specify which White House officials took this position, but he said that some believed in 2005 that any disclosure of the tapes could have been particularly damaging after revelations a year earlier of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

And so forth. The formula is always the same, destroy the evidence to stay out of prison, then have spokespeople present confusing, conflicting accounts or just say you don't remember. There's never anything to wonder about: everyone knew everything from the start, they're all complicit and can't be hanged soon or high enough.

• Rep. Wexler's petition exceeds 100,000 signatures. While the petition of support to initiate impeachment proceedings against Dick Cheney has no legal force of its own, it is persuasive evidence majority leaders in Congress will be hard pressed to ignore. This time, talk about impeachment is serious. If you haven't signed on, please do.

• Blogger wasn't displaying the pictures in the nameplate properly for some reason. After multiple attempts to post/change the picture, I just took it out. Too bad, too—the picture of Bush biting a kitten says it all.

Building a better world by e-mail

2007-12-15T19:11:00.000-06:00

While petitioning Washington to air grievances has been rather futile since Bushco's® overthrow of democracy and the constitution, I'm not willing to give up. Neither should you. I actually still write to these things and ignore how silly it makes me feel. Won't you take a few minutes and join in the fun?

Support Rep. Robert Wexler's new push to impeach Cheney by signing the petition. He needs 50,000 signatures. Huffington Post and Alternet have articles and video with more information.

Ask Sens. Clinton, Biden and Obama to support Chris Dodd's filibuster of FISA legislation which would grant telecom companies retroactive immunity for the warrantless wiretapping of every possible American.

Meanwhile, Luke is still hot on the trail of a proper forum for Sibel Edmonds, who's now saying she'll violate her gag orders if that venue presents itself. Man, she's a tough act to follow! You can e-mail some of these media outlets/personalities who've had an interest in the past and remind them they can have the big story of the last few decades: Keith Olbermann • 60 Minutes • ABC News • MSNBC and NBC.
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Update: Holy shit!

It's not being reported in the corporate media, which also refused to publish an opinion piece penned by six-term Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). But a whopping 50,000 people responded in just one day to Rep. Wexler's call for people to sign his on-line petition supporting an immediate start to hearings on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Cheney Impeachment bill (H Res 799)

As of Sunday morning, 54,000 people had signed the petition at www.WexlerWantsHearings.com calling for action now. And names are being added at a rate of one every one or two seconds!

Wexler has said he wanted at least 50,000 signatures. But why stop there? If people get behind this, and if the impeachment movement spreads the word, he could easily get closer to 500,000 signatures over the next few days.

And if each of us were to send out a call to sign to ten of our friends, then we'd have half a million signatures, which would be hard for Conyers and the Democratic leadership, Speaker Nancy Pelosi included, to ignore.

That's what I call action. It's been hard to get more than a few thousand signatures for a petition calling for impeachment. It could be the intelligence community's repudiation of all those lies trying to sell us on the idea of destroying Iran with nuclear weapons was the final nail in the BushCheney coffin. Think how much things have changed in the past couple months!

The internet: no rule is the best rule

2007-12-12T22:55:00.000-06:00

Of all the articles one could read about internet freedom, ZDNet News has this great one by Larry Downes:

Rep. Edward Markey is preparing to reintroduce legislation that would prohibit Internet access providers from offering priority service to content providers--known as the Net neutrality principle.

Similar legislation has failed in both the House and Senate in the past, but proponents of Net neutrality haven't given up.

If only they would.

The Internet has thrived in large part because it has managed to sidestep a barrage of efforts to regulate it, including laws to ban indecent material, levy sales tax on e-commerce, require Web sites to provide "zoning" tags, and to criminalize spam, file sharing, and spyware.

Some of these laws have been overturned by the courts; some died before being passed; and the rest--well, the rest are effectively ignored, thanks to the Internet's remarkable ability (so far) to treat regulation as a network failure and reroute around the problem.

Proponents of Net neutrality--some of whom have led the battles against other forms of network regulation--argue that this law is different. Mandating Net neutrality is simple, fair, and preserves the very features of the Internet that make it so valuable. Indeed, the Senate's version of Net neutrality legislation carries the lofty title of Internet Freedom Preservation Act.

Who could be against preserving freedom?

But the information superhighway to hell is surely paved with good intentions.

That's the lesson of America's first misadventure in enforcing "neutrality" on a key piece of national infrastructure: the railroads.

Nearly 100 years ago, shippers in cities between the Mississippi and the West Coast, which were largely served by only one road, found that they were being charged higher rates to subsidize competitive tariffs from cities east of the Mississippi, where shippers had several choices.

Like those calling today for Net neutrality, the Intermountain shippers demanded "reasonable and fair" rates of carriage. Congress agreed, but it left the definition and enforcement of these deceptively simple terms to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

So, what was "reasonable"?

The ICC struggled for decades to answer that single question, spending 20 years and hundreds of millions of dollars before giving up, unable to agree on how to value the railroad's assets in order to calculate a reasonable rate of return. With the industry consumed by this "simple" effort to make its operations "fair," other forms of transportation emerged and ultimately put the railroads out of their misery.

More recently, the Civil Aviation Board (CAB), which micromanaged U.S. commercial air travel until 1978, worked to ensure "fair" ticket prices for everyone but in practice created a mess of routes, subsidized carriers, and indecipherable rate structures. Since the CAB was dismantled, air travel has not only expanded but, thanks to market forces, is now also cheaper for consumers.

And what about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the law passed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate scandals? SOX requires "transparency" in financial statements, a worthwhile goal, but one that, so far, has cost public companies that weren't committing fraud billions of dollars in compliance. No one seriously believes that money has helped investors make sense of a single balance sheet. [...]

"Net neutrality" only sounds obvious. Cable operators already discriminate between your Internet traffic and your TV traffic, in favor of the latter, because the programming needs priority to maintain its integrity. The Federal Communications Commission--left, like the ICC before it, to work out the details under all proposed Net neutrality legislation--would need to carve out an exception for that non-neutral behavior.

There will be many such exceptions, some based on network activities not yet invented. Indeed, in response to the remarkable range of unplanned uses to which the Internet has been put over the last 10 years, some of its original designers are working on technologies to optimize the Web's increasingly complex traffic patterns--efforts that would run afoul of Net neutrality proposals, perhaps unintentionally.

Worse still, imagine how complaints of non-neutral rates of carriage would be investigated. The FCC would have to monitor network traffic and seize and open the packets in question. So why do the same civil-liberties groups that recognize the value of keeping the government out of Internet content want to open a loophole large enough to drive several Mack trucks through?

Then, as now, there is an appropriate role for government. The development of the U.S. railroad system was greatly aided by initial investment in infrastructure, including basic research, land grants, rights-of-way, and efforts to help the industry agree on standards for track gauge (like the Internet, an open standard), operating techniques, and interline cooperation.

State and federal governments have performed similar positive services on behalf of the national communications infrastructure, and they continue to do so in the form of auctions, basic protocols, and "spectrum grants" for new communications services such as digital TV. (These days, state and federal dollars aren't being invested in communications infrastructure. Witness California's recent massive infrastructure bonds, which include transportation, education, and water, but not communications.) [...]

Let's preserve Internet freedom--freedom from regulation, that is.

ZDNet News is the definitive place to go to read about this issue, but be ready to find an overwhelming set of links, like the 8,195 you'll find by clicking the tag Internet—plus lots of really tasty downloads.

Take a chance: just say no.

2007-12-07T15:31:00.000-06:00

It's been only 16 months, but it seems like a thousand years since my front page debut on WIIG4. I started with railing about the Bush administration's plans to use nuclear-equipped robust nuclear earth penetrators to attack Iran's underground weapons production facilities, with lurid descriptions of the adverse impact of such an attack to illustrate it's an idiotic idea.

Sixteen months is the same length of time since Fidel Castro has made a public appearance. The world was already sick and tired of being frightened by what the illegitimate, insane imbeciles holed up in the White House might do next. And, may I add, almost everyone on earth, including the most vehement war hawks, were fully aware Bush and Cheney had no genuine, real life reason to attack Iran, and didn't need an intelligence report to activate their bullshit detectors. We waited impatiently for the empirical data that would shoot it down, suspecting it to be in the NIE hidden under Deadeye's big ass.

• Then Monday came:

While many Democrats said they remain cautious about the National Intelligence Estimate's (NIE) conclusion that Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in 2003, several said that Congress should investigate the discrepancy between the Bush administration's recent doomsday rhetoric on Iran and the NIE's judgments. [...]

"There is absolutely no question that there should be oversight on this issue," said Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) who for years has been trying to push legislation that would ensure congressional authorization for any military action with Iran.

President Bush's "credibility is absolutely zero," McDermott said in an interview. "We are dealing with a president who has no shame. Anyone who can turn down $10 million for children's [health insurance] is not going to be turned off by a report," he added.

He said that even though the report's conclusion is not a victory he wants, it shows that the Democrats "told the American people the truth."

• Seymour Hersh tells CNN the White House has known for a year Iran halted its nuclear weapons program.

• After claiming ignorance all day, the White House finally admitted Bush lied when he claimed Iranian nuclear attacks were about to start World War III and nuclear war, because he knew the contents of the NIE in August:

On Tuesday, Bush said “nobody ever told me” to back down from his hawkish rhetoric on Iran. No, maybe not. But Bush knew Iran “may have suspended” its nuclear weapons program and that the intelligence community was in the process of “changing its assessment.”

Now I see. None of this was Dickface's fault because someone told him to lie us into starting global nuclear obliteration. Learn to say no, Stupid, and say it often.

Do I need to go on with this discussion? I have at least a couple dozen hot links with interesting things to look at. This week I've read dozens and scores of stories about this—and you have to know I've been having one solid, deep, long gut-chuckle about it. Bush isn't exactly Kennedy And The Cuban Missile Crisis. Then, he goes on TV and tells us, "but they might restart their program any minute," like the NIE changes nothing. The animated Bushtoon™ in my head has been running full blast, with Saint King Monkeylips being hauled away in a straitjacket screaming, "their nostril hairs! They might be trimmed now, but THEY'LL GROW BACK! We have to launch our cruise missiles...!"

The very dubious claim is made that an NIE in 2005 suggested a weapons program was ongoing, but since this latest report is so different, it was time to make it public. Certain rightist blowholes insist it's a knife in the back for Bush from the CIA, that they're out to get him—begging the question, "so?" Is that a random guess or wishful thinking? Joseph Biden comments. "They were lying and knew it." Blah, blah, blah. Everyone else knew it, too.

Recall that those of us who (once again) got it right with Iran have been portrayed from the beginning to the present in the most negative terms, and rest assured there will be plenty more discussion of the topic which will not go well for America's screwball authoritarians, who are now clearly and unmistakenly revealed as liars, feebs and maniacal cuckoos.

Here lies the real problem: these people aren't smart, and they aren't sane, either. There is an astonishingly urgent need in the world to be able to HUMANELY identify and rehabilitate the mind which destroys and kills obsessively. That's currently a terrible problem in the American government's executive and legislative branches, not in the country at large—which brings us to another hot discussion in current events...

• HR 1955, aka S 1959, aka The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007—cool name, huh? I like the word "homegrown" thrown in. It makes me think The Nanny State® is going to pass out reefers to placate the masses.

I've read this loathsome bit of legislation which, thank heaven, isn't long, and you can read a fair dissection of it here, although I'm not sure how relevant the New World Order talk is. I kind of like this part, though:

This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately. The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.

A scathing appraisal. I know there are more scholarly treatments, but I haven't gone looking for them because I want to give my own critique without the benefit of a more considered opinion. Many recent articles about this bill verge on yellow journalism, such as this one and this one. Sure, when the express language says it is for the stated purpose and for "other purposes" which are unstated, it could act as a first step toward making most anything a crime without naming the crime, and most anyone a criminal without entitling a person (as a rapist or burglar, for example).

We have become so velocitized by the currently fashionable, authoritarian executive and legislative branches which say one thing and mean, then do, another, that it's easy to think the real goal of legislation like this lies between the lines. Then we fail to read the words over and over and let their meaning sink in so as to understand at least what the express language is saying. I've done that and can tell you what it entails. This bill is not a statute aimed at prohibiting unwanted behavior. It creates a commission with a wild-eyed, haywire name which is essentially a blue-ribbon, fact-finding committee authorized to spend money like it's going out of style in pursuit of the age-old question of what motivates the suicide bomber and those of his ilk. Understanding this, the goal then would be to short-circuit this process and stop social, political and religious dissent which gets out of hand in the United States. That's the troublesome part.

The commission is required to meet, talk with experts and issue reports at six-month intervals, the final report being issued 18 months after the group first meets. Although the commission is required to hold public hearings, that is subject to executive review and the commission is encouraged to enlist employees, contractors and experts with active security clearances; so, it's possible that some, most or all of the commission's business could remain classified. That is troubling, too.

While appearing to be an important first step at labeling political dissent as homegrown terrorism, and dissenters as terrorists, what this bunch would end up deciding is anyone's guess, and limited only by the imagination. Under "Findings" you see the provocative statement, "The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens." Really? Then, is censorship the object? We don't know, and they aren't saying, and as always, what constitutes "terrorist-related propaganda" is a matter of opinion.

Last year when I said we have passed the time when revolution is needed, is that what this gang wants to stifle? We can't know, but probably it is. Heaven knows the crown tried to stifle the states' move to autonomy in the late eighteenth century. If someone says Bush and Cheney have earned a smart rap across the bridge of the nose, delivered by every citizen of this country with a baseball bat while they are tied to a tree, is that an unprotected expression? By the language of this legislation, it is protected. They want to detain people who are making tangible plans to do such things, or so they say: while there is a difference between a stated message to a specific individual and a threat of imminent violence, which is clear today, tomorrow that line can be blurred, and I suspect that is the commission's aim, and in blurring the line create new categories of crimes as a prelude to imprisonment.

But some things slip through the cracks. When the U.S. military in Iraq, under Gen. David Petraeus's command, misplaced 190,000 rifles and pistols and tens of thousands of other pieces, allowing them to fall into the hands of "bad actors" and costing a tidy sum, did Petraeus commit a possible offense under this act? No prosecutor in this country would consider it a close call, in spite of the fact it conforms in many ways with what the act states it wants to control. Besides, the GOP has a very long, rich heritage of arming both sides of a dispute to prolong hostilities and profiteering, suggesting it was no simple act, omission or negligence but that he was under direct orders to do it; of course, that's just my opinion, having become jaded and cynical after years of the Bush administration's oppressive despotism.

It galls me this bill was sponsored by a democrat, California's Rep. Jane Harmon. This is a perfect example of why I said the terms liberal and conservative are inapplicable. Party affiliation may be no indicator of an individual's temperament and predisposition; still, I don't expect an extremely authoritarian program to be launched by a member of the democratic party. It just shows you can't make that assumption, because here it is. It's clear Rep. Harmon stands behind her hard line to feed prisons with people doing who knows what, but certainly things that aren't criminal offenses now, from this letter to the ACLU she shares on her website:

November 28, 2007

Ms. Caroline Fredrickson
Director, Washington Legislative Office
American Civil Liberties Union
915 15th Street NW, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Dear Ms. Fredrickson:

I have read your letter of November 21, and find it confusing. At the same time you discuss the ACLU’s efforts to express concern about HR 1955, and attach suggested revisions (some of which we believe would improve the legislation) you also state that, even if your changes are accepted, it is unlikely the ACLU will support the bill because it focuses on speech and belief.

This makes me wonder why you took the time to suggest changes (which are in addition to changes you proposed and that were largely incorporated into HR 1955 in March) – and, frankly, whether anything I and Committee members have been saying for months is being heard. HR 1955 is not about interfering with speech or belief – the hearing record makes that abundantly clear. Radical speech, as I have said repeatedly, is protected under our Constitution.

I have always admired the ACLU’s efforts to protect free speech, even when that is unpopular – and my voting record over seven terms in Congress reflects how strongly I agree with you. But ideologically based violence is not a protected act – it is a crime. Our bill would establish a diverse, well-qualified, nonpartisan, short-term commission to make recommendations to Congress so it can better understand and hopefully take responsible steps to prevent ideologically based violence. This is not the “thought police” and surely it is not censorship. 404 members of the House agreed just weeks ago.

Because the House has passed HR 1955, the focus now shifts to the Senate. But regardless of which chamber is involved, it seems counterproductive to invest more time in further meetings or negotiations when you have announced your steadfast opposition in advance.

Are you in fact interested in working with us and the Senate on the bill?

Sincerely,

JANE HARMAN

The act and this letter demonstrate Jane's not much of a thinker or author, she just likes oppressive authoritarianism and is a risk-taker. I'd like to see the ACLU's letter and response to this! It must be a blistering assault, or Jane would share it, in that she went to the trouble to post her letter. Let's write our own letter to Jane. You can e-mail through her website here or contact her by mail, phone or fax by looking here; contact members of the senate democratic caucus here; contact the entire senate here:

The Honorable Rep. Jane Harmon
2400 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Jane,

The universally humiliating, withering criticism of HR 1955 proves people don't want to see new legislation aimed at creating draconian, authoritarian prohibitions of nonexistent crimes. If it was your intention, and that of an overwhelming House majority, to prevent terrorist acts which don't happen in the United States, it is an ingenuine intention which will only swell our prison population at a time when we need to be finding ways to decrease that population.

I don't live in California, but as a lifetime democrat I feel compelled to help you and your colleagues who have adopted the right's "tough on terrorism" framing which is nonsense when the United States doesn't even have a problem with terrorism; at least, it doesn't have a terrorism problem with the population at large. And, as a democrat, I feel the need to help you and Congress generally because it is clear you have absolutely no idea what you are doing, and have lost your grip on reality.

Jane, do you remember back in the 1960s when The Anarchist's Cookbook was published? It was highly criticized, and there was a lot of talk and alarm about how this "irresponsible" book would certainly create a nation of homemade bomb makers. But, 40 years later, you see that didn't happen. Why do you suppose that is? I'm no expert, but I can tell you that the reason people aren't blowing up police stations, churches, mosques and themselves in the United States is, despite what problems our country has, we remain a relatively free, open and prosperous society. That has a LOT more to do with preventing discontent than focusing on topics of dissent and people who whine and complain, stifling the sale of the possible tools of weapon-making and undermining the first amendment's guarantees of freedom of expression. Indeed, The Anarchist's Cookbook was never intended to be a homegrown terrorist's handbook of horror; it was intended to test the first amendment's guarantees. As a kid in public school, I understood that.

This year I have been required to show my drivers license, and my name put on an offender database, when I purchased Class III pharmaceuticals, pseudoephedrine, lighter fluid and rubbing alcohol, with the dubious, express purpose of subverting terrorism. I resent the assumption I am a criminal offender because I want to control my overactive sinuses, clean surfaces and fuel my lighter. I can purchase gallons of far more dangerous, terror-useful gasoline with no questions asked. I'm reminded that recent events force one to choose whether he will think and live as a free person, and be a bulwark against the kind of discontent which leads to acts of terrorism, or give in to fear and think and live as an authoritarian, giving rise to the kind of injustice and oppression which sow the seeds of that discontent. It is incumbent upon all of us to make the proper choice, and upon you and others in Congress as lawmakers in particular to understand a free and prosperous society, dedicated to justice and the rule of law, does everything needed to promote contentment and the public peace. Apparently, too many lawmakers in Washington and nationwide can't grasp this concept and want to go in the opposite direction, when thousands of years of human history prove again and again it is a grievous error. I am saddened and disheartened that this is the choice you so willingly make.

Things can go wrong in a hurry, Jane. Why would you want to subvert public discourse with novel, wild notions like "ideological radicalization" in an era when the whole world can be destroyed in a single day? Just for fun, let's consider a hypothetical example, since HR 1955 deals with suppositive flights of the imagination.

What if there were an election in which the country selected one candidate for president, but the Supreme Court threw a coup and installed the other candidate? I know that seems farfetched, but it could happen, even though that isn't how elections are supposed to work. And what if the adminstration were returned for a second term because of massive poll irregularities, and Congress refused to address the issue? It sounds fantastic, but we're just pretending. What if this rogue, unelected executive usurped Congress's authority to declare war and launched the first pre-emptive wars in the country's history based on selling lies to Americans, Congress and the world? Then, what it they wanted to launch a new war based on more lies and this time planned a nuclear attack which would kill millions of people in that country and millions more caught in the fallout field? And, Jane, what if Congress refused to intervene to stop it, and wouldn't consider impeaching these obviously lying, feeble-minded maniacs? I know it's an extreme departure from reality, and you probably think nothing like that could ever happen—but I assure you, it can happen, because there is no mechanism to screen out of public service the kind of feeble-minded, maniacal liars who might do it.

Wouldn't you say that is a far more serious and urgent matter than trying to stop suicide bombers who don't even exist? Wouldn't you do everything you could think to do so as not go down in history as a part of the Congress that sat back and did nothing to stop it? You'd think you would. You'd think anyone would, and that it would be self-evident. But this is not the choice you and your colleagues have made. You don't care about keeping America and the world safe and at peace, and I can see you no longer want your Washington career.

As a citizen, shouldn't I be able to say that I am opposed to the actions of that illegitimate regime? Shouldn't I be able to do whatever I can to stop what can only be described as a bunch of crazy people from blowing up the whole world? You'd think that I should. But HR 1955, now S 1959, wants me and everyone else to shut up, and say and do nothing.

How could you possibly be the author of that? How could anyone in Congress support it? I don't understand. And Jane, you have failed to provide a single argument which enlists my understanding, and I predict neither you nor anyone else ever will. I guess you'll be retiring from Congress after this term. I wish you good fortune in your future endeavors, and if you can't apply your thought process better than this surely you will need it.

To those in the Senate, if you pass this loathsome, oppressive act, make sure you take it in a different direction. There is indeed a need in the world to stop those who cause destruction, injury and death without conscience, whether or not they are in government. A good place to start would be the article by Gene Bylinsky, "New Clues To The Causes Of Violence," published in Fortune in 1973, which you can read at http://www.violence.de/bylinsky/article.html. I had hoped this research would bear fruit, and that we wouldn't have war and more and more prisons by this time. If you can figure out a way to identify and cure those people who cannot control their violent urges which is humane and protects their civil liberties, you will have risen to this challenge and done something miraculous.

Your friend, «—U®Anu§—»

cc: Everyone in the U.S. Senate

If you decide to send such a letter, you may want to sign by acronym in order to avoid extraordinary rendition.

Good riddance, Tucker Carlson

2007-11-26T19:16:00.000-06:00

Think Progress reports MSNBC may be considering canceling Tucker Carlson's show.

They suggest you write to MSNBC and tell them what you think about Tucker. And, they link to this website constructed by a couple of his supporters to rally the troops with statements like this:

This decision by MSNBC will silence a conservative voice, part of a move by MSNBC to swing left and become "FOX for the Liberals," dropping any pretense of objectivity or balance.

I could tell what this guy was going to be about the first time I saw him listed in the TV guide for his program on PBS. Since then, I've watched many hours of his dreary droning and read miles of transcript excerpts on blogs. He appeared in the name of "balance" after the Bush administration decided to cast out Bill Moyers for telling the truth and listing some of their infinite crimes. It just goes to show how easy it is to get plum media jobs when you're related to the right people.

His downfall just goes to show what I've been telling you: authoritarianism is not a majority position—never was, still isn't and never will be. America's founders came here to escape authoritarianism and put it to rest forever. In the 21st century, people who are still trying to beat life into the dead horse of authoritarianism demonstrate they know nothing of history, and altogether can't manage a collective IQ of 14, besides not understanding anything about the American creed. Giving these people and their authoritarian ranting a public forum in the name of "balance" assumes authoritarianism is a legitimate platform—which it is not. It's as unAmerican as it is unChristian and undemocratic. News stories and television programs devoted to authoritarianism are propaganda and only propaganda, and the political authoritarianism of the last 40 years is of a caliber that even its proponents cannot permanently abide. On top of all this, Tucker is awful, truly terrible, and anyone who hired him supposing he is intelligent and engaging has urgent reason to question his own judgment.

Tucker's vanishing audience and talk of dropping his program are proper examples of all of it. He and all the so-called "conservative" pundits aren't the result of a lack of vigilence in protecting democracy and our free society as much as they are the result of individuals who wrongly chose to embrace principles that were dead on arrival.

As good as on, the war with Iran

2007-11-19T21:36:00.000-06:00

A contingent of top American military leaders oppose war with Iran. Last weekend the obsequious crew of The McLaughlin Report stated overwhelming opposition from all quarters insures this new war simply can't happen.

Ayatollah Emami-Kashani said in a sermon November 9 that nuclear weapons are forbidden by Islamic law, and that Iran doesn't want them. Rep. Neil Abercrombie has introduced a bill clarifying that the authorization to use military force does not allow Bush to attack Iran, and that he needs new Congressional approval. All this sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

Yes, it all sounds good, and it means exactly nothing. Saudi Social Affairs Minister Abdel Mohsen Hakas and Rihab Massoud, Prince Bandar ben Sultan's right hand, are resigned to the certainty of an American strike on Iran before Bush leaves office.

Freedom's Watch has been assembling focus groups this month to craft sales pitches, arguments, slogans or language designed to promote support for a war with Iran. This story also says the group expects to raise $200 million in funds for an advertising campaign by this time next year.

If it's legal for people to do this, is it legal for other people to use them for target practice?

America has a pleasure problem.

2007-11-18T22:23:00.000-06:00

There are those who may feel I've been a little too hard on the Bush and Cheney. But, I promise that any flaming fudge bags they may have received definitely did not come from me.

How can I say this? My commentary about the presidency of George W. Bush is mild compared to what awaits if Hillary Clinton is elected president. I was planning to change my party affiliation to independent after the primaries anyway, but I ramble...

• Eric Blumrich says it better:

Let me make it clear: Anyone would make a better president than Bush. I'll even go so far as to say that (with the exception of Giuliani and Thompson) any of the republicans running for the highest office will make a better president than Bush. However- that's not really saying much, as a moldy cup of ramen noodles would make a better commander-in-chief than Bush has been.

Considering that the republican party is so much out of public favor that it is likely to show up on "The Surreal Life" as Bronson Pinchot's roomie, it's all but certain that the democrats will capture the white house. Further, with resignations and scandals heralding an all-out collapse of the republican congressional delegation, the democrats have a fair chance to gain a fillibuster-proof majority in both houses of congress.

The only thing that could stop this from happening, is if Hillary Clinton gets the democratic nomination.

Good old Eric—after all these years, we still have no points of disagreement.

• It's a joke story. Right?

Barry Bonds was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday and could go to prison instead of the Hall of Fame for telling a federal grand jury he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.

It's not a joke story. In fact, to hear the TV network guys tell it Thursday and Friday, it's the biggest story of all time: a grown man playing a kid's game with a stunning record of hitting home runs is looking at up to 30 years in jail for lying under oath about taking steroids. Have we all just suffered profound brain death? Am I the only one who sees the infinite inanity of this incredible and absurd nonsense?

Has public discourse devolved to a point that it's a contest from one story to the next of how many invalid, inconsequential premises we can stack? This story doesn't belong in a court, and it doesn't belong as a matter of primary concern for Washington:

In Washington, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: "The president is very disappointed to hear this. As this case is now in the criminal justice system, we will refrain from any further specific comments about it. But clearly this is a sad day for baseball."

The sad part is that there are people who are so unbelievably stupid that this is the most important business, the biggest issue, in their sad, little lives—and I'd cry my eyes out about it except that I'm laughing so hard when I think about how one would need a lifetime to nurture, cultivate and master the uneducated, dimwitted ignorance needed to think this is a matter requiring a second's thought or a single spoken word. Truly the drug war and antidrug message has been so oversold, it goes beyond extremism to life-and-death fanatacism.

How, then, should Bonds be penalized? If only we could torture him up to the point of death while subjecting him to hard manual labor and starvation, then nurse him back to health, while scourging him with a cat-o-nine tails, then execute him at day's end and resurrect him overnight to repeat the punishment and drive home the tragic horror of his sinful crime with each new day. But somehow, it's just not enough. Shouldn't anyone who can say the words "Bonds," "drug" or "steroid" be summarily executed by torture chamber? Well, why the fuck not...

...or perhaps we could nuke our own country over and over and over to purge the impurity from this virginal land, satiating the psychopathic authoritarians who so wholeheartedly believe this humliating and unnecessary episode has some point, and sets a worthy precedent. It makes me completely ashamed to be a member of the human race.

• THEN, I got THIS deplorable piece of shit in e-mail entitled "THE JOB - URINE TEST" with the comment someone made, "This makes so much sense!!!!"

(I sure would like to know who wrote this one! They deserve a HUGE pat on the back!)

I HAVE TO PASS A URINE TEST FOR MY JOB... SO I AGREE 100%

Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test.

Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their ASS, doing drugs, while I work. . . .

Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check? Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don't. Hope you all will pass it along, though... Something has to change in this country--and soon!

How authoritarian and servile. Is this supposed to be funny? No, the uneducated author is serious, and points out what is wrong with the drug war. By calling it a "war," the law embedded the idea that civil liberties can be thrown out of the window, that there would be shooting, and the related killing, even of innocent bystanders, was legitimate and part of the cost of fighting The Last Ultimate Evil.© What's wrong with this logic is the same thing that's wrong with our system of criminal justice. People on juries want to inflict injustice on others because they themselves have suffered injustice. Issues, facts and evidence just don't matter. A "crime" was committed. Someone was arrested. Whether or not the defendant was the perpetrator is irrelevant. The matter is disposed of, and the juror is exonerated of blame, if the maximum penalty is assessed. The juror never considers how he would feel if he were a falsley accused defendant. He doesn't consider that an innocent person suffers and a guilty person escapes judgment, nor care. And, whether or not the issue is a proper one for adjudication is certainly never a consideration.

All that matters is the opportunity to have the pleasure of arbitrarily hurting someone with the sanction of the law finally presented itself. Receiving pleasure from inflicting pain on another person is one of the hallmarks of psychopathy.
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I have a confession. I've been trying to figure out a way to transition into this topic for almost three months, and this is a pretty good place for it. I read a great article about the mechanism of violence (in individuals) in the early 1970s. In late August, I went searching for it online, not expecting to find it. There is good news and bad news.

The good news is, unbelievably, I found the article: New Clues To The Causes of Violence by Gene Bylinsky, originally published in Fortune January, 1973. There was discussion in those days that if the medical community could understand people's tendency toward violence, perhaps it could be controlled, and crime and war would become things of the past.

The bad news is, I became so disillusioned and jaded reading it again after all these years, but especially by my search for it, I haven't had much urge to research and write since then. I made what, two posts here in the month of September? All this time I've thought about how silly it is to be blocked by such things, although the point is arguable. I felt sad and discouraged, because I was in my first year of college when it was published, and I believed that by this time we would learn how to stifle the impulse in some people to resort to violence, whether irrational, as part of the act of committing a crime (as in aggravated robbery) or as a means of settling a dispute (as in unnecesarily joining in or starting a war).

The article discusses different approaches to the study of the causes of violent behavior, like family history, behavioral, cultural and socioeconomic. Most of the article deals with the interesting idea violent behavior results from changes in brain enzymes and extraordinary architecture of certain brain structures. There is the implicit hint, then, that violence is the product of an internal mechanism some people can't control, a suggestion with which I agreed and still do, and that this mechanism could be brought under control—and that the world could suffer fewer violent crimes and maybe, eventually, no more war.

I felt discouraged by my search for this article because 34 years later, not only has the optimistic promise of less violence in the world not been realized, but when one goes looking for problem-solving information about violence, it is almost wholly absent. Instead, you find endless support groups and nonprofits begging for a handout. Even the groups' specialties give reason to be disheartened: help for victims of crime, families of murder victims, abused spouses, and even parents who have been abused by their children, if you can believe that, but nowhere did I find help for children who are abuse victims. There must be some. That is what I was looking for specifically, hoping it would provide some insight, and I couldn't find one. Similarly, I didn't go past my initial, cursory search for articles dealing with the subject of violence, its causes and treatment or even casual advice. Again, they must exist.

However, this was a hot topic 34 years ago. If the study had attracted the interest of enough of the right people, the most basic search criteria should have yielded more material than one could read in a lifetime. But, it just isn't there.

Understand how exciting this subject is:

Other novel approaches may emerge from studies that are under way. For example, development of a vastly improved brain-wave recording machine, now in progress at Tulane, would enable doctors to detect signals of trouble from deep in the brain without surgically implanting recording electrodes there. It may also become possible to treat damaged deep-nerve networks ultrasonically, thereby avoiding surgery.

It is clear that much more specific therapies than those in use today are needed for people who have brain damage. Vernon H. Mark and Frank R. Ervin observe in their recent book, Violence and the Brain: "Hoping to rehabilitate such a violent individual through psychotherapy or education, or to improve his character by sending him to jail or by giving him love and understanding–all these methods are irrelevant and will not work. It is the malfunction itself that must be dealt with, and only if this fact is recognized is there any chance of changing his behavior."

Remember, it's at this point in time the conservative agenda decreed punishment as the cure for all ailments, the drug war was born, domestic oil was declared depleted and that we would get it from OPEC, and we must move from a manufacturing to a service economy. Today, you see how all that hasn't worked out.

The time it takes to study this article is time well spent. Here is a sample:

Until a few years ago, scientists knew comparatively little about the intricate inner mechanisms of the brain that initiate and control violence. These mechanisms lie deep in an inaccessible area called the limbic system, wrapped around the brain stem, as shown in the drawing on page 136. In the limbic system, the hypothalamus stands out as the single most important control center. Regulating many of man's primitive drives, its networks of nerve cells, or neurons, direct not only aggressive and violent behavior but also the states of sleep and wakefulness, as well as sexual and feeding behavior. The front part of the hypothalamus contains networks of nerve cells that promote calmness and tranquillity. The back part regulates aggression and rage.

Nearby lies the almond-shaped amygdala, which restrains the impulses from the hypothalamus. Another close-by structure, the septum, seems to inhibit messages from both the hypothalamus and the amygdala. The cerebellum, the large structure at the back of the brain, filters sensory impulses. The hippocampus, a short-term memory bank in front of the cerebellum, is importantly involved in ways that brain researchers do not yet adequately understand.

All these structures are functionally as well as anatomically interrelated. Electrical signals, arising in response to sensory or internal cues (e.g., sight or thought), speed along nerve pathways to activate or block the function of other nerve cells. Chemicals such as noradrenaline and dopamine, which are normally present in the brain and are known as neurotransmitters, apparently ferry these electrical signals across the tiny gaps between nerve cells, called synapses, to such control centers as the hypothalamus. At the same time, the neurons are constantly bathed in waves of background electrical activity. In still unknown ways, this background "music" apparently conveys information, too. [...]

Fortunately for the advance of knowledge about human aggression, the limbic systems of animals have recently been found to bear an amazing functional resemblance to that of man. So laboratory experiments with animals (notably monkeys, cats, and mice) underpin the still limited investigations of aggression systems in the human brain.

Using fine electrodes inserted into animal brains, researchers have induced a fascinating range of aggressive behavior. Cats that normally do not attack rats, for instance, will stalk and kill a rat when stimulated in a certain area of the hypothalamus. On the other hand, a cat stimulated in anothei nearby region of the hypothalamus may ignore an available rat and attack the experimenter instead. Destruction of the nucleus of the amygdala will turn a friendly cat into a raging beast that claws and bites without provocation, because the signals from the hypothalamus are no longer dampened by the amygdala. [...]

Further evidence of the cerebellum's role in violence comes from the work of A. J. Berman, a neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Medical School and the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn. He has successfully modified autistic and aggressive behavior in isolation-reared monkeys by removing presumably abnormal sections of cerebellum that deal with the reception of sensory signals. In one experiment, Berman performed similar surgery on two monkeys called Ding and Dong, who had fought viciously and continuously. The operation turned Ding into a submissive animal, while Dong remained as aggressive as ever. Berman attributes the difference to the location of the surgery. Some tissue was removed from the midline section of Ding's cerebellum while the excision on Dong was microscopically closer to the side of that brain structure.

Berman suggests that his finding may one day be relevant to treating humans. "Walk into the back wards of any mental institution," he says, "and you'll find children whose behavior is identical with that of Harlow's monkeys."

All these and many other experiments have led a number of scientists to conclude that people who behave overaggressively may have an abnormality in the mechanism by which they perceive pleasure. In animals reared in isolation, as in pathologically violent people, the impulses resulting from the stimulation of movement and skin sensations may not be reaching their normal destinations in the brain. The feeling of pleasure may thus be experienced only partially or not at all.

This may explain, among other things, why both institutionalized children and monkeys brought up in isolation generally rock back and forth for hours on end and respond violently if touched. Adults with damaged pleasure systems similarly may be trying to derive pleasure from the rough physical contact involved in violent acts; they may, in effect, be seeking an additional stimulus. Researchers have also found that electrical stimulation of pleasure centers in the brain eliminates feelings of rage, because the brain seems to contain rival nerve systems that suppress opposing emotions chemically and electrically.

This theme of individuals with exceptional or damaged brains receiving pleasure from violence or inflicting pain on others, or in other ways people without brain damage or extraordinary brain architecture experience pleasure recurs in the many articles I've read. You may find some of the articles linked here of interest.

Most of them, however, simply describe aberrant behavior as a means of reaching a diagnosis. Think about the possibilities. If Bush and Cheney had electrodes implanted in their brains, when they start talking about starting a new war, we could just give them a little juice (zzzzzt!) and presto, no more war talk.

Bonds probably could have made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame without steroids, but he decided differently. Could he be an addictive personality? If so, the solution would be to derail the mechanism of that behavior. Much of the trouble he's in has happened because he wanted to hide prohibited or possibly illegal drug use. The assumption social condemnation and criminal indictment combined with long jail sentences are necessary things may be personally satisfying to people with abnormal brains who derive pleasure from others' suffering, but as a means of deterring the behavior in defendants or others they have proven through time to be not only totally ineffective, but very expensive to society.

Wouldn't something cheaper, faster and effective be better? Of course. But so long as the punishment remedy is so oversold as to be the only thing anyone can imagine, the cycle of crime and punishment remains unbroken—and we fight wars and build prisons forever, in spite of thousands of years of history showing wars and prisons don't do anything but cost lives and money.

When someone I know lands in jail or dies of substance misuse, I grieve over the tragedy of it, and the tragedy of so many people having so little or such poor education that we've known a long time how to change it, but lack the collective knowledge and will to do it. Because of this very thing, the United States will be over its head in debt for the rest of my life, and subject to economic collapse. Changing federal leaders won't help when the change is to just more of the same.
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Update: I got a trackback on this item from this website, which didn't make much sense—but hey, I thought, "man, I have the next Nobel prize in literature in the bag." So, I went to the site and put a "thanks for the shout" message in their moderated comments. Then I found that the site was using some software called Blogdigger to find material. I guess this program also posts what it finds without operator intervention, because most of their articles have little or nothing to do with debt. That program must be a wonderful thing to see in action, despite the fact it doesn't work. Maybe it will pick this article up again, since I put in the link back to their site. So, the moderator must have seen my comment and realized the material wasn't appropriate, and he pulled the link and the trackback on this site. I wasn't aware such things happen! Oh well. Bylinksy's article has meant a great deal to me as time has gone by, Nobel notwithstanding.

Some of it's hot, some of it's not.

2007-11-07T21:02:00.000-06:00

I told Rimone there have been some great news stories in the past few days.

As always, you have to look past Big Name News© because who cares who Pat Robertson or Sam Brownback endorse for president? I don't—except when Keith Olbermann comments:

Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition -- a man who blamed the 9/11 attacks on America and its tolerance of abortion -- apparently now places more trust in preventing future terrorist attacks in Rudolph Giuliani...than he does in the faith he has spent half a century selling as if it were toothpaste.

Some news is just not so hot. But other stories really excite me:

• Jason Leopold spells out Cheney's plans to more easily license dozens of new nuclear plants with practically no public scrutiny. This one's a gigantic blockbuster.

• Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson has this very hot story about the Bush administration's politicization of inspectors general. A sample:

No inspector general has been more criticized for his lack of independent oversight than Robert "Moose" Cobb, who served as associate White House counsel under Alberto Gonzales before being appointed inspector general of NASA in 2002. According to a report by the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, an office run by fellow IGs to police the work of their peers, Cobb helped cover up the theft of nearly $2 billion in rocket-engine data from NASA's servers. The council also found that Cobb had tipped off Sean O'Keefe, the head of NASA, to impending FBI search warrants, and sought O'Keefe's input on how he should structure his "independent" audits.

Cobb wasn't nearly so considerate of those under him: According to the council, he berated subordinates as "knuckle-draggers" and "fucksticks," causing more than half of his staff to quit. As his own hand-picked assistant testified before Congress, "Mr. Cobb's arrogance, his abusive, bullying style, absence of managerial experience, limited understanding of investigative processes, egotism and misplaced sense of self-importance make it impossible for him to successfully manage and lead an organization."

Lots of thrills and chills in that one, and how I love it!

• Tom Engelhardt deserves recognition as a great reporter who digs up incredible facts which reveal that no matter what Washington says about troop levels, they plan to keep a vast number of troops in the Middle East until the end of time—and expand our offshore torture prisons:

By the way, don't overlook Guantanamo itself. That crown jewel of our offshore prisons is now a hive of construction activity. Don't even worry about the $10-$12 million that's already being spent to create a semi-permanent "tent city" on an unused runway there in which the U.S. military plans to hold war-crimes trials for some of the prison's detainees; focus instead on the $16.5 million camp that's going to be built elsewhere on the base to house up to "10,000 Caribbean migrants" - just in case, assumedly, something happens in post-Castro Cuba. And that may only be a detention appetizer. The main course could be a $110 million-dollar contract to build a second "compound" that would hold 35,000 more of those "migrants."

Tom's article is a horrifying revelation about America's policy decisions to make war and create detainees long into the future, itemized as building opportunities for young contractors.

No wonder the dollar is collapsing. You can't funnel off trillions of dollars for all this useless, nonproductive junk and expect anything but catastrophe. But, that would be a subject for many libraries jam-packed with fat volumes.

• Robert Scheer has one of the many great articles about trouble in Pakistan, proving Wrongway Dubya and Deadeye Cheney's collective penchant for running us down dead ends, at unbelievable expense. The Reagan-Bush White House did everything to make Pakistan's nuclear weapons program happen, and to spread that technology to other nations, some of which are the most hostile to the United States on earth.

• One man tried to stop it:

All this could have been avoided, says Richard M. Barlow, the former CIA and Defense Department expert whose warnings on the acquiescence of Reagan and Bush administration officials in Pakistan's nuclear program were quashed by the Pentagon and avoided by Congress.

For his candor, and despite the backing of some top intelligence officials, Barlow was stripped of his Top Secret/Codeword clearances and hounded out of the Pentagon.

Now he lives in a motor home, divorced, broke and unemployed. He spends half the year in a campground in Montana, the other half in California, living off the quickly diminishing proceeds of the sale of his house.

"I have serious financial problems," Barlow, now 52, told me by phone last week. "I basically live like a vagrant."

The only possible conclusion is that the Bush family has conspired for decades to deliver nuclear weapons to our country's most hateful and radical enemies. They had a proper motive: they did it to get money. The "God told me to do it" line doesn't work anymore.

Torture? What's THAT?

2007-11-02T21:58:00.000-05:00

I don't comment on everything in the news, and the only reason I comment on the confirmation of former federal judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general is that the conversation with the Judiciary Committee regarding whether or not waterboarding amounts to torture has gone much too far.

• Sens. Schumer and Feinstein's vote assure his confirmation:

In announcing her support for Mukasey, Feinstein, D-Calif., said "first and foremost, Michael Mukasey is not Alberto Gonzales," referring to the former attorney general who resigned in September after months of questions about his honesty.

Really? How is he not the very same thing as Gonzales? Mukasey has stated he doesn't really know what waterboarding is, so he doesn't know if it's illegal. It's been done for many centuries. It's done one way only. International law prohibits it. Mukasey hasn't said he doesn't know that; yet, panelists laud his honesty:

Schumer's announcement followed a private meeting Friday with Mukasey to discuss waterboarding.

"I deeply oppose it," Schumer said of waterboarding. "Unfortunately, this nominee, indeed any proposed by President Bush, will not agree with this. I am, however, confident that this nominee would enforce a law that bans waterboarding."

Schumer, who was Mukasey's chief Democratic sponsor, said the retired judge told him that if Congress passes a law banning waterboarding "the president would have absolutely no legal authority to ignore such a law." Schumer said Mukasey said he would enforce any congressional ban the [sic] controversial interrogation method.

What kind of logic is this? Utterly ridiculous is what kind, and the discussion has slogged along for three weeks. Does Mukasey mean to suggest it's possible the Bush administration has invented some form of nontorturous waterboarding? No, he just wants to protect them from litigation:

Mukasey has called waterboarding personally "repugnant," and in a letter to senators this week said he did not know enough about how it has been used to define it as torture. He also said he thought it would be irresponsible to discuss it since doing so could make interrogators and other government officials vulnerable to lawsuits.

Incredible! Not only is the man a feeb, he's a lying feeb—and truly cut from the same cloth as Alberto Gonzales. Yes, it'd be a shame if someone filed a lawsuit, as if there is a judge in this country today who wouldn't throw the case out in response to the government's assertion of national security. I'm not aware of criminal statutes prohibiting forms of torture, but I know they're enumerated by international law under which our government is subject. Would any reasonable person have a problem identifying waterboarding as torture? NO!

Consider the analogy of interrogating people while stretching them on the rack. The rack works one way only: a person is immobilized on a plank, his arms tethered to a locking, ratcheted wench which, when taken to an extreme, can pull the arm joints out of the shoulder sockets. I'm fairly certain there isn't state or federal legislation prohibiting this technique; but, can a reasonable person say it isn't painful, cruel or unusual? A man in his sixties who has served as a federal judge who says he's never heard of such things is simply not telling the truth—and lying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee should bounce him out of contention.

Bush's arguments for Mukasey's confirmation are characteristically underwhelming:

On Thursday, Bush had warned that the Justice Department would go without a leader in a time of war if Democrats thwarted Mukasey.

Bush also said that if the Judiciary Committee were to block Mukasey because of his noncommittal stance on the legality of waterboarding, it would set a new standard for confirmation that could not be met by any responsible nominee for attorney general.

DoJ hasn't had a leader since Bush entered the White House, and his assertion there isn't a single member of the bar in the whole country who is familiar with torture, knows it's illegal and could manage DoJ is pure and utter nonsense. So Mukasey will be confirmed and waterboarding will continue. You can expect to learn later interrogators added racks and probably iron maidens as well. Mukasey won't know what those are, either, because he doesn't want anyone to get a summons. What sniveling cowardice.

How a war supporter thinks

2007-11-02T16:36:00.000-05:00

We had our "Stop the Iran War" chat room open again this week. Stormy's husband is working in another state, and she went with him. She spent her days in a small travel trailer in an RV park, watching people come and go and feeling claustrophobic. So, she's wanted to have a chat room where we could have a conversation because it's easier than using an instant message client.

I picked the topic about the Iran war because I was interested in seeing how people would support their positions for or against, and also because while she had no particular opinion at first, her husband, who works in the oil industry, is behind Bush all the way, she told me.

After watching the vitriolic hate coming from the war promoters, she's been won by the anti-war movement.

I've thrown this one guy Carlo out of the chat room at least a couple dozen times because he and his friends do nothing but call us names. It's really quite revealing:

› Carlo_Chambers has joined the conversation.
Carlo_Chambers : hey idiot, I dare you to come to my room and prove you're not a fucking pussy who's afraid of debate
› Carlo_Chambers has left the conversation.
› Carlo_Chambers has joined the conversation.
Carlo_Chambers : come to my room & debate me you fucking pussy
› Carlo_Chambers has left the conversation.

According to this individual, who I know is an adult because he's online all day and night, if you don't believe Bush and Rush that islamofascism is real and are against attacking Iran, you're a pussy coward, faggot, traitor and a stupid idiot. This clarifies the mind of war supporters in all its detail.

To the pro-war crowd, the more people who die, the more it costs, the more countries we invade, the bigger the weapons we use, the better. Period. One hundred thousand dead Americans is only a third as good as 300,000. A trillion dollars spent is only a third as good as $3,000,000,000,000.00. Conventional bombs are only as fractionally good as their larger, nuclear counterparts. Invading two countries is only a third as good as invading six.

The death, the debt, the consequences and the operative issues don't matter one bit. The only thing that matters is escalation and the show of force. Anyone who disagrees with this elegant simplicity gets called a stream of vile names, hatefully. This is the mindset of the Bush administration, and this is what Congress has decided to fund, again and again and again. The government and the country can have no other business because all resources have to be diverted to funding the war, and placating the simplest people who ever lived.

In the back of my imagination, that place that never finds its way to spoken or written language, I suspected this was true. Running the chat room demonstrated it's completely true. It would be laughable if it weren't so sad and troubling. Carlo would be happy to die in a nuclear retaliation for our adventurism, so long as it meant escalation and more show of force, even though he hasn't thought it through. I'm sure a large number of people agree. However, they are no more than one-fourth or one-third of the population, a minority.

Majority leaders have expressed their intention to postpone Bush's war funding request until after the first of the year in part because he plans to use some of the funding to start a new war with Iran. Whether or not they will decide to hand him more money is anyone's guess. We have this time to attempt to talk them out of it, if for some reason they've finally decided to listen.