Suspicious acts before 7.3 Christmas quake terrorizes Vanuatu people
December 25th, 2010 3:19 pm ET
Vanuatu earthquake: The earthquake location map on Dec. 25 at 13:16 UTC time, or 8:15am EST. (USGS.gov)
Only several weeks before the 7.3 earthquake hit the South Pacific Island, Vanuatu on Christmas Day, terrorizing locals, all of its seismic monitoring equipment had been stolen, leaving no way to monitor earthquakes in the vicinity of the Port Vila city, no means to warn of tsunami triggers, and less means to determine if the U.S. military is to blame due to testing environmental warfare technology.
The criminal act of stealing the equipment is suspicious in lieu of military Weapons of Mass Destruction that can trigger or cause what appears to be "natural disasters" for geopolitical gain. (See: What are environment modification techniques and environmental warfare? Human Rights info 101, Dupré, D., Examiner, Dec. 6, 2009 and Global warming and intellectual climate change crisis: Myths, military and WMDs, Examiner, Dec. 14, 2009)
The Christmas 7.3 magnitude quake hit the Least Developing Country, Vanuatu just after midnight on December 25. It struck about 140 miles (225 kilometers) south of Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila and near Tana Island according to Associated Press. The quake was unusually shallow, only 15 miles below the ocean floor.
On November 9, over vt 1 million dollars worth of earthquake prediction and monitoring equipment was stolen from Vanuatu's Meteorological and Geohazards Department station at Devils Point on Efaté Island according to the nation's newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post in its article, Over Vt1 million worth earthquake equipment stolen again.
The criminal act is reported as professionally executed, unlike most reported crimes in the Third World nation where developed nation weapons such as guns are highly atypical. Among the world's hungry, Ni-Vanuatu people live on less than a dollar a day and use spears and hand-made weapons for food gathering. "Professional" criminal acts are also atypical.
The Vanuatu Daily Post reported that Acting Director, Ms Patricia Mawa said the equipment was stolen around 8:30 a.m. by "thieves that seemed to be familiar with the seismic monitoring devices and telemetry system." The apparent insiders "cut the fence wire, and carefully dismantled the instruments."
"These vital equipment included: one Solar Panel – 80 Watts (as sold by Pacific Power at Fresh Water); a VLF – (Very Low Frequency) Receiving/ Transmitting System, and the cables."
“Without these stations, the people of Vanuatu will no longer be able to get accurate information and timely warnings during events of earthquakes and tsunamis."
On October 1, vital equipment was stolen at one of the other two stations in the Efate Seismic Network, the station at Klem’s Hill, according to the Acting Director.
The center stated, "There is apparently no tsunami threat to Hawaii, but 'some coastal areas in Hawaii could experience small non-destructive sea level changes and strong or unusual currents lasting up to several hours" and "sea level changes are expected around 10:51am HST."
God or ENMOD?
Many people attribute the surge in earthquakes and other "natural disasters" to God's work. Others recognize that these disasters can be attributed to military technology applied in a war against the world.
The term, "Environmental modification techniques" refers to any technique for changing - through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes - the dynamics, composition or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space. (Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, United Nations, Geneva: 18 May 1977)
"Environmental warfare" is defined as the intentional modification or manipulation of the natural ecology, such as climate and weather, earth systems such as the ionosphere, magnetosphere, tectonic plate system, and/or the triggering of seismic events (earthquakes) to cause intentional physical, economic, and psycho-social, and physical destruction to an intended target geophysical or population location, as part of strategic or tactical war." (Eco News)
Michel Chossudovsky has reported about military manipulations of the environment in his article, Excluded from the Copenhagen Agenda: Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) and Climate Change - The manipulation of climate for military use:
"The possibility of climatic or environmental manipulations as part of a military agenda, while formally acknowledged by official government documents and the US military, has never been considered relevant to the Climate debate. Military analysts are mute on the subject. Meteorologists are not investigating the matter, and environmentalists are strung on global warming and the Kyoto protocol." (Chossudovsky, M., Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) and Climate Change, Global Research, December 5, 2009; Also see D. Dupre, A gory truth about climate change mind control, Examiner, December 6, 2009)
Wayne Hall reports on Rense.com, that "there remains the task of breaching the secrecy that surrounds the subject. Given that the ecological organizations are clearly not going to do this, we must initiate discussions with them to decide who should be assigned the task. Who is going to bell the cat?" (Hall, W. Chemtrail Secrets: Strategies Against Climate Change?, Rense.com, January 2004)
Vanuatu's stretch of small islands is north of Fiji, south of the Solomon Islands and about 1,200 miles from the coastal Australian city of Brisbane. It is in the archipelago called the “Pacific Ring of Fire” where a large amount of volcanic and seismic activity occur, perfect military testing ground for new weapons of mass destruction.
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clif high bucks the system
Plan 'B'.....
with respect, and awareness, let us begin...
They, the powers that used to be, are trying it again.
You know, the whole 'problem, response, solution' thing that they use to control large numbers of mostly hypnotized people on this planet. They create a 'problem' that causes you to go into fear mode which is chemically triggered by the R-complex in your lower brain matrix, and then they control you through your emotions by manipulating events such that you agree to give them your power in exchange for them providing a 'solution' to the 'problem' that they caused.
They had thought that their 'israel versus iran' problem would be sufficient to lever the planetary populace into a middle east focused global war. It did not work since so many of us were watching for so long.
Note, and you may certainly argue with me, that the planetary populace focus on the potential for a [nu-war] beginning with the [israeli mistake] has contributed to the destruction of potential emotional energy for that war to exist. Also note i am not saying anything more than words from hph *participated* in the process of grounding that potential war. It works on an energetic level beyond the condensate matter plane which is the 'place' where your body, the planet, universe and all the pies exist. It works at this energetic level by concentrating 'attention' which is a form of 'directly focused consciousness (note...little 'c' consciousness, not BIG 'C"). This directly focused consciousness acts as a spot light may act on a particularly vulnerable area of a house, which is to say, preventing burglary and other mischief due to the 'exposure' to the whole neighborhood.
So they fell back to Plan 'B'..... also please note that tptw (the powers that were) undoubtedly have Plan B as a bolded statement in their minds. This is due to their whole attitude of "we are the grown-ups in this world" and we have 'really really serious plans'. Yeah..right (sarcastic derision here).
The Plan B, it appears, is to generate a war between amongst the Korean peoples. Nope, not as good as getting the whole planetary populace whipped up about the Israeli's and Jews versus the Farsi and Islamists, but hey? what can you do...it's a plan B. Ok, so mostly Korea is too far away from the energy (oil) center of the planet, (note that location matters to tptw in their majic plots, so to have to move their war is quite irritating indeed), and outside the usual emotional framework of the hundreds of millions of sheeple that tptw (the powers that were) are trying to herd, but what the hell. In cases of desperation, you take what you can get.
So they are trying to promote this latest [nu-war] effort into their [coup-de-grace] that would, in their twisted reptilian minds, lead to WW3, then the N W O, and their wet dream of the great harvest of souls.
They are desperately working their Plan B, this is, by the way, their response to the Chinese submarine continental ballistic missile signal off the coast of California. All this shit is connected...in case you were not paying attention. The Plan B, again as an aside, is no where near their ideal energy draining control-of-planetary-humans optimum, and they, that is the former powers-that-be, are in a desperate, and intensely fearful state, as they realize just how shaky their position has become. They know they are in deep and sinking fast.
So look for them to be both stupid, and careless.
Since the former-powers-that-be are trapped in ritualistic, even reptilian, thinking, they will re-run one of their previous hits, which is to say, expect another 'gulf of tonkin' incident. Only this time in the seas off of Korea, and considerably more violent. In fact, judging from our emotional quantifiers and the steady erosion of emotional tone sums within the FPTB (Former ThePowersThatBe) entity in our modelspace, they will likely have to pretty much totally destroy at least 1/one large, American carrier group in the Gulf Of Tonkin Incident, Part Deaux.
Now please note...if you are ignorant of what the Gulf of Tonkin Incident is, and how it affected your life and the social fabric of the planet, you should go look it up now. We will wait till you get back...
Ok, she's back.
And now we have our cultural perspective, yes? The twisted humans that we all call minions, also known as scummy politicians, are being instructed by their masters, which include but are not limited to, the banksters, to 'play' us all with a new war, and to do it NOW.
They will arrange for an 'in your face' provocation to the North Koreans, that will NOT be visible to anyone other than the North Koreans. This will be their 'problem statement', that they anticipate will drive the North Koreans quite batshit, and they in turn will respond violently (as they have been trained by decades of trauma induced and planned by the old TPTB). The violent response is likely to be an unexpectedly sophisticated low flying missile attack on multiple ships in a carrier group. The attack, as tptw hope, would be devastatingly successful since the American fleet commanders are *not* aware that they are the sacrificial goats this time. The use of the word 'goats' is quite specific as many of the upper echelon naval surface ship officers are masons ( a secret society abhorrent to regular humans), and thus really should know better. But, probably they were out the day of the meeting and so were chosen to be the goat by everyone else. Yes, masons, i do know of what i speak and the mental image in your mind now is quite deliberate.
The resultant horrific destruction of ships and men, it is thought by the former-powers-that-be, would be enough to compensate, energetically, in sparking their global war.
Will it?
Well.... time and all the planetary humans will determine the outcome of their Plan B approach.
You see, it is a question of energies, not only nuclear and armies of men and machines, but also of the energy of focused attention by humans. This is the woo-woo part in case you had not noticed. The focused concentration of all the planetary humans is now being directed to the stage play organized by a bunch of twisted/damaged minds around the traumatized Korean peoples. For them, that is, the twisted fuckers who planned this, the situation *appears* to be a prime Plan B.
But, as any human knows, plans usually don't work out in manifesting universe, at least not as conceived inside the limitations of mind. To think otherwise is delusion...do not kid yourself.
So...what i am doing is to consider the problem of the Korean peoples not from the view being crafted by tptw and their loyal but stupid press minions, but rather to focus my attention on the whole production (getting my mind away from their narrow perception), and to consider the Korean peoples not as warring parties, but as a family of related humans, deeply traumatized by the insidious and hideous actions of a small group of power elite that behave as though they are not human.
Now then, what is to be done about Plan B? Well....do not expect me to answer that question for you. There are thoughts i have, mainly of trying to heal the trauma state of the Koreans, and yes, some of the healing involves pie (if you don't get it by now, and can't smell the cinnamon wafting up in the warm scent of baked apples carried by the gently roasting wheat, then you seriously need to learn to bake). And yes, they, the thoughts are a good start, but obviously not enough. We live in the plane of matter condensed from the energy of universe. Some of the thoughts must express themselves on the material plane....thus this missive. Not a missile. Rather a string of words designed to excite other words in other minds until maybe, just maybe, within the storm of words, will arise the necessary vibrational harmonic that will begin the resonance that will derail Plan B.
We could tell the American navy guys, through their buddies in secret society criminal activities, the masons, that we know. But you can't warn them...that would probably be some kind of criminal act under the many constraining 'laws' from the minions and tptw (the powers that were). But, we could express our sadness - to them, their families will find out soon enough so don't go adding to their up coming trauma and please stand by to aid and comfort all of the families of those who will be sacrificed for the political and banker welfare in this next new war. This needs to be treated with respect as these men and women will all soon be dead and deserve no less than our serious intent to preserve their lives, even if they think the wu-jo to be woo-woo, and their 'mission' to be righteous. If you take their death and their mission seriously, and acknowledge their courage, even in the presence of the larger ignorance about their fate, then they may be reachable. Not that it would, or even could change much. Been there (military brat), so i understand the situation that traps these brave humans.
We could figure out a way to tell the Koreans that they are being 'played by the elites', but will they listen? Would they recognize the power that they have to step outside the paradigm being rapidly built to fence them in to a cage match? Would they, even if they understand the broader strategy employed against them, have the raw human courage to stand up and say, "i am human. i am courage personified. i fiercely fight for my family, my tribe, my country, my planet. i do not fight for profit and amusement for twisted minds. Your fucking war does not start with me." The Koreans that i know are such people as to say this. They are the koreans of the Tae Kwon Do...which is also an art of peace.
But i am open to suggestion. These are just my thoughts, what are yours?
If we don't do something, the obvious will continue. This Plan B does not suit me, how about you?
clif
November 28, 2010
with respect, and awareness, let us begin...
They, the powers that used to be, are trying it again.
You know, the whole 'problem, response, solution' thing that they use to control large numbers of mostly hypnotized people on this planet. They create a 'problem' that causes you to go into fear mode which is chemically triggered by the R-complex in your lower brain matrix, and then they control you through your emotions by manipulating events such that you agree to give them your power in exchange for them providing a 'solution' to the 'problem' that they caused.
They had thought that their 'israel versus iran' problem would be sufficient to lever the planetary populace into a middle east focused global war. It did not work since so many of us were watching for so long.
Note, and you may certainly argue with me, that the planetary populace focus on the potential for a [nu-war] beginning with the [israeli mistake] has contributed to the destruction of potential emotional energy for that war to exist. Also note i am not saying anything more than words from hph *participated* in the process of grounding that potential war. It works on an energetic level beyond the condensate matter plane which is the 'place' where your body, the planet, universe and all the pies exist. It works at this energetic level by concentrating 'attention' which is a form of 'directly focused consciousness (note...little 'c' consciousness, not BIG 'C"). This directly focused consciousness acts as a spot light may act on a particularly vulnerable area of a house, which is to say, preventing burglary and other mischief due to the 'exposure' to the whole neighborhood.
So they fell back to Plan 'B'..... also please note that tptw (the powers that were) undoubtedly have Plan B as a bolded statement in their minds. This is due to their whole attitude of "we are the grown-ups in this world" and we have 'really really serious plans'. Yeah..right (sarcastic derision here).
The Plan B, it appears, is to generate a war between amongst the Korean peoples. Nope, not as good as getting the whole planetary populace whipped up about the Israeli's and Jews versus the Farsi and Islamists, but hey? what can you do...it's a plan B. Ok, so mostly Korea is too far away from the energy (oil) center of the planet, (note that location matters to tptw in their majic plots, so to have to move their war is quite irritating indeed), and outside the usual emotional framework of the hundreds of millions of sheeple that tptw (the powers that were) are trying to herd, but what the hell. In cases of desperation, you take what you can get.
So they are trying to promote this latest [nu-war] effort into their [coup-de-grace] that would, in their twisted reptilian minds, lead to WW3, then the N W O, and their wet dream of the great harvest of souls.
They are desperately working their Plan B, this is, by the way, their response to the Chinese submarine continental ballistic missile signal off the coast of California. All this shit is connected...in case you were not paying attention. The Plan B, again as an aside, is no where near their ideal energy draining control-of-planetary-humans optimum, and they, that is the former powers-that-be, are in a desperate, and intensely fearful state, as they realize just how shaky their position has become. They know they are in deep and sinking fast.
So look for them to be both stupid, and careless.
Since the former-powers-that-be are trapped in ritualistic, even reptilian, thinking, they will re-run one of their previous hits, which is to say, expect another 'gulf of tonkin' incident. Only this time in the seas off of Korea, and considerably more violent. In fact, judging from our emotional quantifiers and the steady erosion of emotional tone sums within the FPTB (Former ThePowersThatBe) entity in our modelspace, they will likely have to pretty much totally destroy at least 1/one large, American carrier group in the Gulf Of Tonkin Incident, Part Deaux.
Now please note...if you are ignorant of what the Gulf of Tonkin Incident is, and how it affected your life and the social fabric of the planet, you should go look it up now. We will wait till you get back...
Ok, she's back.
And now we have our cultural perspective, yes? The twisted humans that we all call minions, also known as scummy politicians, are being instructed by their masters, which include but are not limited to, the banksters, to 'play' us all with a new war, and to do it NOW.
They will arrange for an 'in your face' provocation to the North Koreans, that will NOT be visible to anyone other than the North Koreans. This will be their 'problem statement', that they anticipate will drive the North Koreans quite batshit, and they in turn will respond violently (as they have been trained by decades of trauma induced and planned by the old TPTB). The violent response is likely to be an unexpectedly sophisticated low flying missile attack on multiple ships in a carrier group. The attack, as tptw hope, would be devastatingly successful since the American fleet commanders are *not* aware that they are the sacrificial goats this time. The use of the word 'goats' is quite specific as many of the upper echelon naval surface ship officers are masons ( a secret society abhorrent to regular humans), and thus really should know better. But, probably they were out the day of the meeting and so were chosen to be the goat by everyone else. Yes, masons, i do know of what i speak and the mental image in your mind now is quite deliberate.
The resultant horrific destruction of ships and men, it is thought by the former-powers-that-be, would be enough to compensate, energetically, in sparking their global war.
Will it?
Well.... time and all the planetary humans will determine the outcome of their Plan B approach.
You see, it is a question of energies, not only nuclear and armies of men and machines, but also of the energy of focused attention by humans. This is the woo-woo part in case you had not noticed. The focused concentration of all the planetary humans is now being directed to the stage play organized by a bunch of twisted/damaged minds around the traumatized Korean peoples. For them, that is, the twisted fuckers who planned this, the situation *appears* to be a prime Plan B.
But, as any human knows, plans usually don't work out in manifesting universe, at least not as conceived inside the limitations of mind. To think otherwise is delusion...do not kid yourself.
So...what i am doing is to consider the problem of the Korean peoples not from the view being crafted by tptw and their loyal but stupid press minions, but rather to focus my attention on the whole production (getting my mind away from their narrow perception), and to consider the Korean peoples not as warring parties, but as a family of related humans, deeply traumatized by the insidious and hideous actions of a small group of power elite that behave as though they are not human.
Now then, what is to be done about Plan B? Well....do not expect me to answer that question for you. There are thoughts i have, mainly of trying to heal the trauma state of the Koreans, and yes, some of the healing involves pie (if you don't get it by now, and can't smell the cinnamon wafting up in the warm scent of baked apples carried by the gently roasting wheat, then you seriously need to learn to bake). And yes, they, the thoughts are a good start, but obviously not enough. We live in the plane of matter condensed from the energy of universe. Some of the thoughts must express themselves on the material plane....thus this missive. Not a missile. Rather a string of words designed to excite other words in other minds until maybe, just maybe, within the storm of words, will arise the necessary vibrational harmonic that will begin the resonance that will derail Plan B.
We could tell the American navy guys, through their buddies in secret society criminal activities, the masons, that we know. But you can't warn them...that would probably be some kind of criminal act under the many constraining 'laws' from the minions and tptw (the powers that were). But, we could express our sadness - to them, their families will find out soon enough so don't go adding to their up coming trauma and please stand by to aid and comfort all of the families of those who will be sacrificed for the political and banker welfare in this next new war. This needs to be treated with respect as these men and women will all soon be dead and deserve no less than our serious intent to preserve their lives, even if they think the wu-jo to be woo-woo, and their 'mission' to be righteous. If you take their death and their mission seriously, and acknowledge their courage, even in the presence of the larger ignorance about their fate, then they may be reachable. Not that it would, or even could change much. Been there (military brat), so i understand the situation that traps these brave humans.
We could figure out a way to tell the Koreans that they are being 'played by the elites', but will they listen? Would they recognize the power that they have to step outside the paradigm being rapidly built to fence them in to a cage match? Would they, even if they understand the broader strategy employed against them, have the raw human courage to stand up and say, "i am human. i am courage personified. i fiercely fight for my family, my tribe, my country, my planet. i do not fight for profit and amusement for twisted minds. Your fucking war does not start with me." The Koreans that i know are such people as to say this. They are the koreans of the Tae Kwon Do...which is also an art of peace.
But i am open to suggestion. These are just my thoughts, what are yours?
If we don't do something, the obvious will continue. This Plan B does not suit me, how about you?
clif
November 28, 2010
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"The art and mystery of banks... is established on the principle that 'private debts are a public blessing.' That the evidences of those private debts, called bank notes, become active capital, and aliment the whole commerce, manufactures, and agriculture of the United States. Here are a set of people, for instance, who have bestowed on us the great blessing of running in our debt about two hundred millions of dollars, without our knowing who they are, where they are, or what property they have to pay this debt when called on."
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
"Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs."
"The treasury, lacking confidence in the country, delivered itself bound hand and foot to bold and bankrupt adventurers and bankers pretending to have money, whom it could have crushed at any moment…These jugglers were at the feet of government. For it was not, any confidence in their frothy bubbles, but the lack of all other money, which induced…people to take their paper"
"I own it to be my opinion, that good will arise from the destruction of our credit. I see nothing else which can restrain our disposition to luxury, and to the change of those manners which alone can preserve republican government. As it is impossible to prevent credit, the best way would be to cure its ill effects by giving an instantaneous recovery to the creditor. This would be reducing purchases on credit to purchases for ready money. A man would then see a prison painted on everything he wished, but had not ready money to pay for."
"If the debt which the banking companies owe be a blessing to anybody, it is to themselves alone, who are realizing a solid interest of eight or ten per cent on it. As to the public, these companies have banished all our gold and silver medium, which, before their institution, we had without interest, which never could have perished in our hands, and would have been our salvation now in the hour of war; instead of which they have given us two hundred million of froth and bubble, on which we are to pay them heavy interest, until it shall vanish into air... We are warranted, then, in affirming that this parody on the principle of 'a public debt being a public blessing,' and its mutation into the blessing of private instead of public debts, is as ridiculous as the original principle itself. In both cases, the truth is, that capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by economy; but jugglers only will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks with paper."
"The Bank of the United States is one of the most deadly hostilities existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution. An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?"
Regulating Banking Institutions
"The principle of rotation... in the body of [bank] directors... breaks in upon the espirit de corps so apt to prevail in permanent bodies; it gives a chance for the public eye penetrating into the sanctuary of those proceedings and practices, which the avarice of the directors may introduce for their personal emolument, and which the resentments of excluded directors, or the honesty of those duly admitted, might betray to the public; and it gives an opportunity at the end of the year, or at other periods, of correcting a choice, which on trial, proves to have been unfortunate."
Paper Speculation
"A spirit... of gambling in our public paper has seized on too many of our citizens, and we fear it will check our commerce, arts, manufactures, and agriculture, unless stopped."
"Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation."
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
"Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs."
"The treasury, lacking confidence in the country, delivered itself bound hand and foot to bold and bankrupt adventurers and bankers pretending to have money, whom it could have crushed at any moment…These jugglers were at the feet of government. For it was not, any confidence in their frothy bubbles, but the lack of all other money, which induced…people to take their paper"
"I own it to be my opinion, that good will arise from the destruction of our credit. I see nothing else which can restrain our disposition to luxury, and to the change of those manners which alone can preserve republican government. As it is impossible to prevent credit, the best way would be to cure its ill effects by giving an instantaneous recovery to the creditor. This would be reducing purchases on credit to purchases for ready money. A man would then see a prison painted on everything he wished, but had not ready money to pay for."
"If the debt which the banking companies owe be a blessing to anybody, it is to themselves alone, who are realizing a solid interest of eight or ten per cent on it. As to the public, these companies have banished all our gold and silver medium, which, before their institution, we had without interest, which never could have perished in our hands, and would have been our salvation now in the hour of war; instead of which they have given us two hundred million of froth and bubble, on which we are to pay them heavy interest, until it shall vanish into air... We are warranted, then, in affirming that this parody on the principle of 'a public debt being a public blessing,' and its mutation into the blessing of private instead of public debts, is as ridiculous as the original principle itself. In both cases, the truth is, that capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by economy; but jugglers only will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks with paper."
"The Bank of the United States is one of the most deadly hostilities existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution. An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?"
Regulating Banking Institutions
"The principle of rotation... in the body of [bank] directors... breaks in upon the espirit de corps so apt to prevail in permanent bodies; it gives a chance for the public eye penetrating into the sanctuary of those proceedings and practices, which the avarice of the directors may introduce for their personal emolument, and which the resentments of excluded directors, or the honesty of those duly admitted, might betray to the public; and it gives an opportunity at the end of the year, or at other periods, of correcting a choice, which on trial, proves to have been unfortunate."
Paper Speculation
"A spirit... of gambling in our public paper has seized on too many of our citizens, and we fear it will check our commerce, arts, manufactures, and agriculture, unless stopped."
"Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation."
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The Root Of All Evil
IMF Meeting Stokes Fear of Currency War
Mil Arcega 12 October 2010
New Fears of A "Currency War"
EU, China Cannot Agree on Currency Measures
Group Calls for Agreement on Global Currencies
Fears of a global currency war have increased after the meeting of finance leaders at the International Monetary Fund in Washington last week. Talk of trade imbalances and uneven growth due to artificially low currencies has already sparked discussions about possible intervention. Analysts say it's an issue that's not likely to go away anytime soon.
As nations emerge from the global downturn, it's becoming clear that some countries are recovering faster than others.
In its most recent outlook, the International Monetary Fund says growth in developed countries will remain sluggish - even as emerging economies, especially those in Asia, are booming.
Last week, World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned that uneven growth is causing friction.
"We see this now in debates on currencies: developed countries are easing monetary policies; some developing countries are tightening in response to growth; some surplus countries are intervening to lower the value of their currencies to boost exports," he said. "And all this is causing international tensions."
The failure of finance ministers to come up with solutions last week in Washington has only deepened the divide. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
"Many are talking about a currency war," he said. "Myself, I think I use this vocabulary which may be a bit too military. But it's true to say that many do consider their currency as a weapon and that's certainly not for the good of the global economy."
The US, for example, blames China's undervalued currency for contributing to the massive trade imbalance between the two.
And countries such as Japan and Brazil have threatened to devalue their currencies to gain a competitive edge in exports.
Economist Toby Nandle says it's a big problem with no easy solutions.
"This is not a problem that can be delegated to an international organization such as the IMF," he said. "It's a problem that needs to be addressed by heads of state and by finance ministers because the resolution of said problem has profound affects on different economies."
Among them, China.
Beijing has pledged greater flexibility in determining the value of the yuan. But Chinese premier Wen Jiabao says it will not happen overnight.
"Without this stability of the RMB exchange rate, there would be no stability for businesses, for employment, for our people, and also, if China has social and economic problems, it would be a disaster for the world," he said.
Experts say currency disputes have already jumped to the top of the queue as world leaders prepare for the G-20 summit in South Korea. Barring a resolution, Nandle says the warning from Brazil could become reality.
"If there is no agreement by November 12th as to the global disconnect, I think that Guido Mantego [Brazil's Finance Minister] hit the nail on the head - we have a global currency war underway," he said.
Governments can devalue their currencies in different ways - from giving their central banks the ability to set margins on exchange rates to buying up foreign currencies to lower demand for their own.
Economists say the resulting fluctuations would have serious implications for trade, causing nations to demand additional tariffs, and even blockades, against cheap imports.
Such laws would hurt trade, further delaying a global recovery.
Mil Arcega 12 October 2010
New Fears of A "Currency War"
EU, China Cannot Agree on Currency Measures
Group Calls for Agreement on Global Currencies
Fears of a global currency war have increased after the meeting of finance leaders at the International Monetary Fund in Washington last week. Talk of trade imbalances and uneven growth due to artificially low currencies has already sparked discussions about possible intervention. Analysts say it's an issue that's not likely to go away anytime soon.
As nations emerge from the global downturn, it's becoming clear that some countries are recovering faster than others.
In its most recent outlook, the International Monetary Fund says growth in developed countries will remain sluggish - even as emerging economies, especially those in Asia, are booming.
Last week, World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned that uneven growth is causing friction.
"We see this now in debates on currencies: developed countries are easing monetary policies; some developing countries are tightening in response to growth; some surplus countries are intervening to lower the value of their currencies to boost exports," he said. "And all this is causing international tensions."
The failure of finance ministers to come up with solutions last week in Washington has only deepened the divide. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
"Many are talking about a currency war," he said. "Myself, I think I use this vocabulary which may be a bit too military. But it's true to say that many do consider their currency as a weapon and that's certainly not for the good of the global economy."
The US, for example, blames China's undervalued currency for contributing to the massive trade imbalance between the two.
And countries such as Japan and Brazil have threatened to devalue their currencies to gain a competitive edge in exports.
Economist Toby Nandle says it's a big problem with no easy solutions.
"This is not a problem that can be delegated to an international organization such as the IMF," he said. "It's a problem that needs to be addressed by heads of state and by finance ministers because the resolution of said problem has profound affects on different economies."
Among them, China.
Beijing has pledged greater flexibility in determining the value of the yuan. But Chinese premier Wen Jiabao says it will not happen overnight.
"Without this stability of the RMB exchange rate, there would be no stability for businesses, for employment, for our people, and also, if China has social and economic problems, it would be a disaster for the world," he said.
Experts say currency disputes have already jumped to the top of the queue as world leaders prepare for the G-20 summit in South Korea. Barring a resolution, Nandle says the warning from Brazil could become reality.
"If there is no agreement by November 12th as to the global disconnect, I think that Guido Mantego [Brazil's Finance Minister] hit the nail on the head - we have a global currency war underway," he said.
Governments can devalue their currencies in different ways - from giving their central banks the ability to set margins on exchange rates to buying up foreign currencies to lower demand for their own.
Economists say the resulting fluctuations would have serious implications for trade, causing nations to demand additional tariffs, and even blockades, against cheap imports.
Such laws would hurt trade, further delaying a global recovery.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Signs, Signs Everywhere the Signs
According to the Guardian, the DECC, the Bank of England and the British Ministry of Defence are working alongside industry representatives to develop a crisis plan to deal with possible shortfalls in energy supply.”
To the final outcome of all of these events it is not in our knowing, other than to note, as we had in done in our September 26th report “Obama Prepares For “Fortress America” As Global Food And Solar Crisis Near”, that we are not only living in the most perilous times of our lives, the clock is clicking ever downward towards the abyss.
This report concludes Part V of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal 5 part series “Shock World Court Ruling Warned Will Destroy Obama, America”
To the final outcome of all of these events it is not in our knowing, other than to note, as we had in done in our September 26th report “Obama Prepares For “Fortress America” As Global Food And Solar Crisis Near”, that we are not only living in the most perilous times of our lives, the clock is clicking ever downward towards the abyss.
This report concludes Part V of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal 5 part series “Shock World Court Ruling Warned Will Destroy Obama, America”
Sunday, August 29, 2010
It's that Serious
Corporate Meteors Strike US Gulf
(They Got the Whole World In Their Hands)
By Mary Sparrowdancer
Copyright 2010 - All Rights Reserved
8-29-10
Perhaps the British Petroleum/Nalco event was the wakeup call we needed in order to look more closely at untouchable corporations that began running the whole world 100 years ago. This is a paper about corporate communism, which is otherwise known as "monopolies" that are now rampant in the US. Monopolies always engage in conspiracy, and their first goal is to conspire to eliminate their competition and choices, establish control over prices and the masses by an elite few. The April 20, 2010, BP oil catastrophe in America's Gulf can be described as a monumental corporate conspiracy. BP was permitted by cronies to dig a hole to China off Louisiana's shores without safety measures or concern for the Gulf's marine ecosystem. Rather than immediately corking its gusher, BP quickly tapped a relatively unheard of company named Nalco on the shoulder for millions of gallons of its toxic Corexit dispersant. BP began adding Corexit to the oil-ravaged Gulf on April 23, and thumbed its nose at the US government when it suggested that something less toxic and more effective than Corexit be used.
"Corexit" does not "correct" anything as its corporately cute name implies. It makes the oil less visible on the surface, but making something less visible has never been a way to "correct" anything or change what needs to be changed. In addition, the containers holding Corexit carry a substantial warning about coming in contact with it or inhaling its vapors. Many of those who came in contact with the oil and the version of Corexit used while trying to "clean up" the Exxon-Valdez catastrophe remained sickened for years. Similarly, a number of newly unemployed US fishermen in the Gulf who began taking jobs to help clean up BP's mess have reported illnesses. Low oxygen levels are being reported, and when the water is low in oxygen, it means our air is also low.
According to numerous reports, these fishermen, who are the "first responders" in this most recent manmade disaster, state they have been told the air is safe to breathe, the water is safe to come in contact with despite being filled with chemicals, and that respirators will not be permitted. Numerous journalists and photographers, as well as scientists have been ordered to stay away from the disaster site or face arrest. We have an arrogant British company running things here in the US so sloppily they have shrugged-off having recently killed eleven men whose bodies were never found, and now they are ordering Americans around as though we are presumed British subjects.
Nalco is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, with corporate headquarters in Illinois. Although we "little people" might not have been familiar with Nalco until now, it appears that directors and former directors from notable corporate giants have been quite familiar with Nalco for years. The question of why BP selected Nalco's more toxic, less efficient Corexit instead of other less toxic dispersants has remained basically unanswered by BP. Not even congressmen have been able to extract this answer from BP's reps. All that has been truly known was that BP immediately felt their oil volcano was going to need a mother load of dispersants, and there was only one dispersant manufacturer prepared to step into this windfall opportunity for a dispersant manufacturer: Nalco.
Corexit suspends the oil in a subsurface manner, where oil-eating microbes flock to it, and it is this activity that scientists say leads to depleted oxygen levels in the seas. In addition, the use of subsurface Corexit one mile down was reportedly not based upon any science at all. It was another experiment being conducted by the chemical companies. Despite the "toxic stew" that BP/Nalco have created in the Gulf, news reports continue with conflicting statements in that "it is not known" what caused the subsequent, massive fish kills after the Gulf was filled with oil and dispersant chemicals. Conflicting reports certainly do not end with the fish kills. Nalco, on their website, states, "All of the ingredients contained in Nalco's dispersants are safe and found in common household products" However, the Safety Data Sheet for Corexit 9527A, which was the first dispersant reportedly used in the Gulf, has the following warnings:
"SKIN CONTACT :
Can cause moderate irritation. Harmful if absorbed through skin.
INGESTION :
May be harmful if swallowed. May cause liver and kidney effects and/or damage. There may be irritation to the gastro-intestinal tract.
INHALATION :
Harmful by inhalation. Repeated or prolonged exposure may irritate the respiratory tract.
SYMPTOMS OF EXPOSURE :
Acute : Excessive exposure may cause central nervous system effects, nausea, vomiting, anesthetic or narcotic effects.
Chronic : Repeated or excessive exposure to butoxyethanol may cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver.
AGGRAVATION OF EXISTING CONDITIONS :
Skin contact may aggravate an existing dermatitis condition.
HUMAN HEALTH HAZARDS - CHRONIC :
Contains ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (butoxyethanol). Prolonged and/or repeated exposure through inhalation or extensive skin contact with EGBE may result in damage to the blood and kidneys."
It is possible that while no trace of Corexit might be found in the dead marine life, the marine life is dying from the effects of depleted oxygen levels caused by the oil and dispersants, or dying from organ damage caused by chemicals that have already passed through their systems, damaging organs on their way out. However, according to Nalco's Corexit EC9500A (the version of Corexit that was primarily used in the Gulf) on the Safety Data Sheet, the Toxicological Information states, "No toxicity studies have been conducted on this product." This means another chemical experiment is in progress.
In a report dated June 1, 2010 from Mobile, Pensacola News, WKRG, a massive fish kill took place sometime the night before June 1. "Josh Edwards, an employee of River Shack Restaurant, said, 'Literally, it looked like the whole river back there behind the restaurant had frozen up. It looked like snow and ice on top of the water,'" he said, describing the millions of small, young, silvery fish called menhaden that were now floating dead on the water's surface. Menhaden reach a length of about one foot as adults if they have the good fortune to live that long, but it appears that nearly all of the menhaden killed recently were juveniles, representing the ocean's future stock of menhaden. While many news stories are dismissing the menhaden as "a baitfish," the truth is that the menhaden are the most important fish in the sea. "Menhaden" comes from a Narragansett word meaning fertilizer, after the Narragansett Indians discovered hundreds of years ago that adding dead, nutrient-rich menhaden to mounds that were to be planted with corn, would produce robust, healthy corn.
According to NASA, the all-important phytoplankton are the very beginning of the marine food chain, providing not only rich nutrients but approximately half of the earth's supply of oxygen. The menhaden swim with their mouths open, absorbing the smallest delicacies of the sea, cleaning the seas of sunlight-blocking detritus and eating the phytoplankton that are high in omega-3 fatty acids. They help bring sunlight in for the photosynthesis process of vegetation, thereby increasing the oxygen levels. Then, the menhaden become the next in line in the marine food chain, providing a highly nutritious and highly sought after source of food for nearly every other type of marine life, including the larger fish whose names we are more familiar with because they are on our menus. Menhaden also provide food for turtles, birds, and marine mammals, including whales. Menhaden are extremity sensitive to oxygen levels, and will die when deprived of sufficient oxygen, thus their lives depend upon their task at hand. Ours might, as well.
In the wake of this Gulf disaster, Barack Obama ordered a six-month ban on dangerous offshore drilling, only to have the ban initially overruled by a federal court. The judge ruled instead for the posturing presidents, directors and CEOs of corporate monopolies rather than favoring the discretion of the person some feel might be the President of the United States. This indicates that a handful of corporate presidents, CEOs and directors have finally formed monstrous monopolies and transmonopolies that are so large they have clearly become a form of controlling government that cannot be addressed by the government of the United States. We are their victims.
If they wish to experiment on us and around us, they have, they can, and they continue doing so at this moment. They reap the benefits of their experiments with profits, and we pay the price either by submitting to their unending price gouging or we pay with our national condition of deteriorating health due in part to the massive chemical contaminations we are forced to endure. Poisoned by our food, our water, and the air we breathe, we are then forced to rely upon our deteriorating, abysmal healthcare industry that stands ready to treat our growing list of symptoms with more chemicals. The healthcare system is being run by insurance and pharmaceutical monopolies.
According to a Consumer Affairs article, a study conducted by the American Medical Association (another monopoly that has eliminated competitors and removed people's choices for medical treatments) found that between 1995 and 2005 there were more than 400 mergers between health insurance companies, resulting in only a handful of insurance monopolies that now provide most of the coverage in the US, thus controlling and driving prices ever higher and fleecing Americans out of billions of dollars. From their offices, insurance personnel make medical decisions affecting patients they have never laid eyes on. In order to help this unnecessary middleman to prosper even more, our government now wants to force Americans to pay the wages of our labor to the insurance industry for protection or face the frightening consequences. This type of activity is otherwise known as extortion when it is carried out by organized crime groups. In forcing us to pay our wages to health insurance monopolies, we will be agreeing to spend part of our work hours each month as slaves, then giving the wages for those hours to corporate monopolies for a "service" that is criminally overpriced, not needed, out of control and has nothing whatsoever to do with actual healthcare.
The US laws, including antitrust laws, were meant to keep cutthroat monopolies from driving and fixing prices, killing their competition, poisoning people, poisoning and killing wildlife, poisoning and destroying the environment, forcing consumers to have unfair enslavement or reliance upon poor quality monopoly products, hiding their activities from view, and engaging in outrageous conspiracies and behaviors. One large monopoly that has its hands firmly gripped on our food supply, and also has a propensity for dragging itself repeatedly through the mud, is Monsanto. Among other unsavory activities it has engaged in, Monsanto dumped millions of pounds of deadly PCBs throughout an Alabama community and then covered it up for 40 years.
An article in the Washington Post states: "For nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. In 1966, Monsanto managers discovered that fish submerged in that creek turned belly-up within 10 seconds, spurting blood and shedding skin as if dunked into boiling water. They told no one. In 1969, they found fish in another creek with 7,500 times the legal PCB levels."
When Monsanto's managers saw that they had already contaminated everything to such a degree that there would be no easy fix for this mess, their stunning decision, according to internal memos, was that "there is little object in going to expensive extremes in limiting discharges." In other words, they would continue to dump their toxic wastes into the environment and the local community of unsuspecting people.
According to another article in the Washington Post, when Monsanto was finally "caught," a 2002 Alabama jury found it guilty of all charges, including: "negligence, wantonness, suppression of the truth, nuisance, trespass and outrage." The Post goes on to explain, "Under Alabama law, the rare claim of outrage typically requires conduct 'so outrageous in character and extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society.'"
According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), as the truth began to emerge about the Monsanto's PCB deception, Monsanto underwent a "self-induced identity crisis," eventually claiming that it no longer existed. In September, 1997, Solutia, Inc. was spun off from Monsanto Co. and assumed chemical operations as well as liability. In 2000, Monsanto merged with Pharmacia and Upjohn, becoming Pharmacia, its new name. Later that year, Pharmacia created an agricultural subsidiary, naming it Monsanto Co. Incredibly, "ICIS, the world's largest information provider for the chemical and oil industry," states in its company structure information, "Solutia was founded in St Louis in 1901 as Monsanto Company."
Changing or hiding one's name will do little to alter the real problem if the real problem is accountability. Accountability costs money. There is no accountability when companies and corporations merge into monopolies and overlapping transmonopolies that are so large, not even the government can demand accountability from them. The solution is to break corporations down into smaller, accountable firms and encourage competition rather than allowing competition to be destroyed.
The US government, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), appears to have some pressing work to do, because matters continue to spiral out of hand. The untouchable transmonopolies being quietly formed in boardrooms have borders, boundaries and goals that are not easily understood or demarcated, and as they form and merge they bring in vast riches that for far too long have meant they can buy their way out of true accountability by paying victims off with frequently paltry sums followed by "silence" clauses that prevent the victims from talking about their personal tragedies.
The BP/Nalco affair offers us a glimpse of how a potentially untouchable transmonopoly might be formed.
According to the Guardian, UK, and BP, Peter Sutherland was the chairman of BP from 1997 until he stepped down and was replaced by another person effective January, 2010. According to the UN.org, Mr. Sutherland has also been the chairman of Goldman Sachs International since 1995, as well as associated with the Trilateral Commission. According to InvestorsMorningstar, Goldman Sachs sold almost 400,000 shares of BP at the end of January, 2010.
According to the Telegraph.co.uk, Tony Hayward, the disgraced CEO of BP at the time of the deadly explosion (who seems to have been held singularly to blame for this disaster while all other players have remained hidden from view), also cashed in a portion of his holdings of BP one month before the BP Gulf explosion, disposing of 223,288 shares on March 17, 2010. The Telegraph states, "There is no suggestion that he acted improperly or had prior knowledge" of what was about to happen that the company for which he was then somewhat responsible was about to take down the Gulf ecosystem, and then "finish the job" by adding unprecedented millions of gallons of toxic dispersants into the waters, in another chemical experiment. Mr. Hayward told members of Congress that he was "out of the loop" regarding decisions about the blown well. They were not happy to hear this, but when corporations are allowed to become so large that there can be no reasonable supervision of their affairs and practices, disasters and corruption appear to be inevitable.
The BP/Nalco toxic event happened just as heightened awareness of the health benefits from omega-3 fish oil was creating a very profitable market for the fish oil industry. The rich corporation that corners the market and provides nearly all of the omega-3 fish oil for the United States is Omega Protein, Inc. According to their website, their omega-3 fish oil comes solely from menhaden.
The Omega Protein corporation depends upon their fleets' use of spotter planes to search for the silvery clouds of menhaden glittering and flickering like raindrops on the surface of the sea, and when the planes spot the schools the fishing fleets are alerted and dispatched with large nets to the exact area, sometimes capturing and removing forever entire schools at a time. The omega-3 oil is then extracted from the menhaden to be placed into capsules for human use. The rest of the dead menhaden that are so critically vital to the existence of nearly all marine life, are used as fertilizer and fishmeal that is fed to land animals, including chickens, pigs, cows, dogs, cats, used in the production of lipstick and linoleum, and also fed to large fish farming operations, thus leaving the wild marine life without their most critical source of nutritious food.
According to Greenpeace, the population of menhaden is now at an all-time low. The direness of this critical situation has been brought forth by one of the world's foremost experts on menhaden, H. Bruce Franklin, a Rutgers professor and author of at least 18 books, including "The Most Important Fish In The Sea. Menhaden In America."
In a brilliant article in Mother Jones by Bruce Franklin, Professor Franklin writes of the menhaden: "They are filter feeders that live on phytoplankton, which most other aquatic animals are unable to eat. Dense schools of menhaden, sometimes numbering in the hundreds of thousands, pour through these waters, toothless mouths agape, slurping up plankton and detritus like a colossal submarine vacuum cleaner as wide as a city block and as deep as a train tunnel. Each adult fish can filter about four gallons of water a minute. Purging suspended particles that cause turbidity, this filter feeding clarifies the water, allowing sunlight to penetrate and encourage the growth of aquatic plants that release dissolved oxygen and harbor a host of fish and shellfish.
"Much of the phytoplankton consumed by menhaden consists of algae. Excess nitrogen can make algae grow out of control, and that's what happens when vast quantities of nitrogen flood into our inshore waters from runoff fed by paved surfaces, roofs, wastewater, overfertilized golf courses and suburban lawns, and industrial poultry and pig farms. This can generate devastating blooms of algae, such as red tide and brown tide, which cause massive fish kills, then sink in thick carpets to the bottom, where they smother plants and shellfish, suck dissolved oxygen from the water, and leave dead zones that expand year by year.
"In the natural ecosystem, menhaden cleaned the upper layers while another great filter feeder, the oyster, cleaned the bottom. But as oysters have been driven to near extinction in many Atlantic bays and estuaries by overfishing and pollution, menhaden are left as the only remaining check on deadly phytoplankton explosions."
According to observations made by James Price of the Chesapeake Bay Ecological Foundation, striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay have been now found diseased, thin and covered with red sores. In examining their stomach contents, he states that the stomachs that were once filled with menhaden can now be found empty. The dwindling numbers of over-fished menhaden have now been further decimated by the recent fish kills that occurred after the Gulf was filled with BP's oil, and Nalco's Corexit.
In looking at who is on Nalco's boards of directors, and at current or former affiliations with other large corporations, one director of Nalco is Douglas A. Pertz. Mr. Pertz was also the CEO of IMC Global, which later merged with part of Cargill forming The Mosaic Company, for which he also served on the board of directors. Mosaic is another extremely large company that many have not heard of because it keeps a highly profitable portion of its business, for the most part, just under the radar.
The Mosaic Company is one of the largest phosphate fertilizer mining operations on earth. From its phosphate fertilizer, Mosaic then "scrubs," removes and captures toxic fluorides along with other pollutants and radioactive wastes found in phosphate rock that has no use by the fertilizer industry. This gaseous slurry that contains fluoride is then distributed and sold throughout North America, largely by the Lucier Company. It is sold to our municipal waterworks companies to be used as "water fluoridation," which is another chemical experiment.
The production of "water fluoridation" from phosphate fertilizer waste materials is a highly profitable, very dependable, but relatively unknown branch of the phosphate fertilizer industry. Common sense will lead one to understand why this profitable and ever-expanding operation throughout theUS is not openly and proudly advertised: Many people are now aware of and opposed to the "fluoridation" lie, but have no voice. Further investigation of why Mosaic is keeping quiet reveals another chemical experiment now conducted on 70% of the US, who have no choice but to submit to their tap water.
An article written by George Glasser, who is a respected investigative environmental journalist, further explains. Although this slurry used in water fluoridation is referred to as "fluoride," it is actually much more. "The product is not 'fluorine' or 'fluoride' as proponents state," Mr. Glasser writes. "It is a pollution concentrate. Fluorine is only one captured pollutant comprising [about 19% to] 23% of the total product," Mr. Glasser writes. Included in the concentrate making up the remaining percentage is whatever else that is not desired by the fertilizer industry, including polonium and other deadly agents.
The municipal waterworks folks have been led to believe that fluorides became something suddenly needed by the human body after the Atomic Bomb Era when fluoride wastes became ubiquitous in the US. The municipalities then add this slurry into our drinking water. Various officials claim that we all need to drink this chemical to prevent cavities in our teeth whether we want it or not, or whether we even have teeth or are as edentulous (i.e., toothless) as the many "optimally fluoridated" people of Kentucky now are. The people of Kentucky have been "optimally fluoridated" at almost 100% for a long time. They have won government awards for being "optimally fluoridated," but those award-winning folks now have one of the highest rates of dental cavities and toothlessness in the US, perhaps because fluoride is known to cause and exacerbate periodontal disease. It has never been found to prevent cavities. Boiling fluoridated water increases the concentration of the fluoride; freezing it does nothing to remove the fluoride. Bathing in fluoridated water it results in dermal absorption.
It is unknown whether the municipal waterworks "officials" perform their own assays on each new shipment of pollutants they purchase from the phosphate fertilizer industry and distributors. Assays would be the only way of determining what else in addition to fluoride, including polonium, is in the tank before disposing of it on behalf of the fertilizer industry into our drinking water. Each shipment contains a unique percentage of pollutants and levels of radioactivity. Concerned lawyers reading this should note that if the municipal "authorities" are not performing individual assays on each shipment of "fluorides," then they can and should be held liable for breaking standing laws by deliberately contaminating public drinking water with unknown pollutants. This is now classified as an act of terrorism. It should also be known that testing should not be done by common Ion Specific Electrodes that only detect the presence of fluoride but cannot accurately report elevated levels. The far more sophisticated test is forensic Ion Chromatography, which gives accurate reading levels of fluoride. At this time, therefore, it is doubtful that most know what level of fluoride waste is being placed in our drinking water or how much is coming out of our taps.
Unlike other chemical pharmaceuticals, no physician will ever check the public citizen who is drinking deliberately contaminated water to see whether he or she is having any detrimental, allergic reactions to their "fluoride" treatment, because professional follow-up services were never a part of the national fluoride treatment plan. The individual and entire household never really received a prescription for their lifelong, daily dosing of fluoride in the first place. No physician would prescribe a life-long chemical pharmaceutical medication and then have no medical follow-up plans to make sure that the patient was doing well on their "medication."
We are being medicated by politicians, corporate presidents, directors, and CEOs whose main concern is making money. The CDC, which is a pharmaceutical propaganda mouthpiece, has pronounced water fluoridation as one of the "Ten Great Public Health Achievements" during the 1900s, which is true in a sinister sort of way. Those who are being forced to drink the fluoride wastes are not the ones benefiting from this "great achievement." Fluoridation is a "great achievement" for the corporations selling it, and then fluoridation becomes a "great achievement" for the pharmaceutical industry, which is the largest, most profitable industry in the US. The pharmaceutical industry reaps benefits from fluoridation by treating the resulting national symptoms.
Most physicians have no training regarding fluoride's systemic effects and symptoms. This is despite the fact that virtually all patients now are contaminated with fluoride toxins from water, air, processed foods, fluorinated drugs, dental retardation activities, teas, beverages, wine, grapes, raisins, household cleansers, floor wax, Scotchguard, Stainmaster, insecticides, pesticides, Teflon-coated pans, food packaging, plastics and toothpastes.
Fluoride has been known since the 1930s in Germany to block thyroid function. Some of the symptoms of fluoride poisoning include depression, behavioral problems, aggression, weight gain, aches, pains, tendon/muscle rupture, severe kidney problems, skeletal problems, erectile dysfunction, visual problems, muscle spasms and twitches, connective tissue damage, cancer, heart problems, lung problems, premature aging because of collagen breakdown, declining IQ, severe GERD, mental confusion, gum disease, tooth rot, and Barrett's esophagus, etc. It has been known for years that fluoride forms concretions in the pineal gland, located within the brain. It affects every part of the body because it is a systemic poison, not a nutrient as the propaganda mouthpieces continue to claim. The effect of fluoride on kidney patients is so severe that the use of water containing elevated fluoride levels during dialysis has resulted in patient deaths.
Despite the fact that the Mosaic company keeps a rather low profile, they have shown their own unconscionable activities carried out for money. According to the Miami Herald, St. Petersburg crabber Howard Curd's crab fishing grounds in Tampa Bay were "killed off when HurricaneFrances blew out a retaining wall at a phosphate pit that spewed acidic water into the bay. The fertilizer company, Mosaic, persuaded a trial court and an appeals court that Curd and other fishermen couldn't sue because they didn't own the seafood that was potentially killed, so they weren't technically damaged."
Curd said, "'Crabbing in the bay is bouncing back, but the BP spill is depressing seafood sales even though the oil is nowhere near the western coast of Florida.' He's prepared to sue BP, but harbors no illusions about facing a big corporation in court."
Curd further said, "They've got all the money, and all the attorneys and all the experts on retainer. It really doesn't cost them anything. It's like it's cheaper to pay their attorneys and fight in court than paying the money to people they hurt and doing the right thing."
Another director Nalco is J. Erik Fyrwald, Nalco's CEO, and President. According to Nalco, Mr. Fyrwald is also on the Board of Directors of Eli Lilly and Co., and was Group Vice President of DuPont's "Agriculture and Nutrition" division, a division name that might qualify as an oxymoron to anyone who knows anything about nutrition and the current state of the US petrochemical, agricultural industry.
Also among Nalco's board members is Richard Friedman. According to Bloomberg, Mr. Friedman is the head of Goldman Sachs, as well as on the board of trustees of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, to which he recently gave $20 million for the creation of the Friedman Brain Institute, according to the Wall Street Journal. It should be noted that if one has acute fluoride poisoning in NYC, you cannot have your urine tested for fluoride anywhere in New York or surrounding areas. Your urine will have to be FedExed out of New York to a remote forensic lab for ion chromatography fluoride testing. (Perhaps the Friedman Brain Institute can look into those somewhat troubling pineal gland concretions.)
Also on the board of Nalco is Daniel Sanders. According to Forbes, Mr. Sanders is the former President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company.
Also onboard Nalco is Rodney Frank Chase. According to Bloomberg's BusinessWeek.com, Mr. Chase has been a senior advisor of Lehman Brothers, as well as former Deputy Group Chief Executive of BP, Managing Director, and CEO of BP Finance International.
Also among the list of directors on Nalco is Mary Margaret VanDeWeghe. According to various sources, Ms. VanDeWeghe has been a high-ranking executive with the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed Martin emerged after a fusion between Lockheed and Martin Marietta. According to the Lockheed website the corporation is the world's "leading provider of safety-critical nuclear instrumentation & control (I&C) systems for commercial and DoD customers for over 50 years." It now owns several Superfund sites that were at some point contaminated with chemicals. One is near Columbine, where a massacre happened. Another is in Paducah, near another school massacre. We do not know what the chemicals are doing to us.
Also on Nalco's board is Carl M. Casale. Most of us have probably never heard of Carl Casale, but a closer look at corporate affiliations and a comparison of photos indicates that Mr. Carl M. Casale is also the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Monsanto.
In 2005, the EPA and DuPont settled a lawsuit in which the EPA charged DuPont with knowing about the dangers of C8 (perfluorooctanoic acid, another form of fluoride used in the production of Teflon), contaminating a town's drinking water with it and keeping quiet for approximately 20 years. According to the EWG, this hiding allowed "DuPont more than two decades of multi-hundred million dollar annual profits, while guaranteeing contamination of the entire planet with Teflon [fluoride] chemicals, now recognized as persistent global pollutants that nearly universally pollute human blood."
In 2006, BP announced that it was forming a partnership with DuPont in order to create new biofuels. In 2006, Monsanto announced it was going to create a genetically modified (GM) soybean that would have high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. Health markets were newly and increasingly profitable for omega-3 products. The primary source of the omega-3 fatty acids had been the menhaden, but Monsanto warned that fish populations were being depleted, and that a more renewable, land-based source of omega-3 fatty acid was needed for our good health. Monsanto said their new GM omega-3 soybeans should be ready by about 2010 or 2011. Monsanto then partnered with Solae, which is primarily owned by DuPont, to bring about new GM soybeans.
"Soy beans represent a renewable, land-based source of omega-3s," said Jerry Steiner, Executive Vice President of Monsanto (Sustainability & Corporate Affairs).
According to a 2007 article in Food Navigator-USA.com, "Consumer awareness of the health benefits of omega-3 has sky-rocketed in recent years as the scientific evidence stacks up. Industry experts predict that the market for omega-3 products could be worth as much as $7bn by 2011. But concerns over the sustainability of fish sources, as well as the amount of fish oil available to the nutrition industry as demand for crude fish oil from the aquaculture industry increases." Indeed, this same article goes on to state, "The problem with plant sources like flax, however, is that they yield upALA, a shorter chain fatty acid which is less bioavailable for humans than DHA and EPA, of which fish is the best source. This was the spur for Monsanto and Solae/Dupont to embark on their respective R&D [Research and Development] projects."
At the end of May, 2010, an article in the Chemical and Engineering News carried the following headline: "Gulf Oil Spill Boosts Nalco Sales," and then stated, "Water treatment firm Nalco has told investors that it expects sales of dispersants used in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will have reached $40 million by May 21."
In June, 2010, NutraIngredients-USA.com announced, "Omega-3 is 'among the most successful functional ingredients ever, with sales of omega-3 ingredients destined for processed foods undented by the global economic turndown,' according to Euromonitor." According to a Monsanto press release dated July 10, 2010, food companies are now testing a new product: "Soymega, the world's first SDA (stearidonic acid) soybean oil, is making it easier for food companies to incorporate more omega-3s into a variety of products." The press release also states, "SDA soybean oil is the result of a collaboration project between Solae and Monsanto Company." The downside of this is that many people feel that the consumption of GM foods, as well as r-BGH/r-BST dairy are more chemical experiments with end-results unknown. The "r" in rBST stands for "recombinant." Monsanto sold its bovine growth hormone to Eli Lilly in 2008, indicating perhaps that Monsanto was giving up on its long battle trying to convince the consumer that engineered dairy was "identical" to non-rBST dairy. The public literally was not buying it.
This tells us how powerful we, as consumers, actually are. We are more powerful than monopolies. Our first line of business at this moment is to call for a moratorium on all "menhaden reduction" fishing activities so that the menhaden can be allowed to replenish their population and act as the oceans' natural filters, and thus increase the world's declining oxygen levels. The earth, in fact, might depend on this act. If the government will not step up and realize it must regulate and protect this important fish, then we consumers can stand up and avoid all menhaden products until the little fish makes a powerful comeback. Then we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Choose another type of fatty fish for omega-3s. .
Our second line of business will require the help of lawyers. We need to sue the hell out of the municipal waterworks companies until they stop putting fluoride wastes and other unknown toxic pollutants into our drinking water. Those responsible for doing this should know they are going to be held criminally accountable for deliberately adding pollutants into drinking water. According to the Nuremberg Code, Directives for Human Experimentation, the first code states: "The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential." This has never happened. Number 10 states: "During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe . . . the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject." We now have probable cause.
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Mary Sparrowdancer is an investigative journalist and author of two best-selling books, English versions of which are currently sold-out. German and Japanese versions remain available. She is of Narragansett/Five Nations, Irish and Italian descent, and was born near Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. She and her children live in Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. Her training was in laboratory sciences including bacteriology, microscopic analysis, veterinary sciences and ornithology. She is the mother of John Shaw, who recently ran unopposed in the Florida Primary Election for Senator. He is a Constitutional Republican, protecting the Constitution rather than corporations. His platform is the reintroduction of industrial hemp as a sustainable, renewable, national fuel and source of new industries and revenue for our economy. John also owns John Shaw Computers. Mary is the mother of Emily Shaw, who is a Deputy Sheriff and a bank fraud specialist. Emily and John are former professional Irish Step Dancers, trained by experts from Riverdance. Mary is the former caretaker of wild animals, having cared for over 20,000 of them, including endangered species and many brown pelicans that were sent to Louisiana to replenish the dwindling number of endangered pelicans in Louisiana. "We do not know how many of our brown pelicans and offspring are now covered in toxic oil and chemicals." Mary wishes to commend all of those who are trying to help clean this mess up. "Please be careful." She extends her sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the eleven men who lost their lives during the BP explosion.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07
/23/AR2010072305419.html?hpid=topnews
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/As-oil-spews-in-Gulf-BP-chief-apf-
1422722456.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/06/09/09greenwire-ingredients-
of-controversial-dispersants-used-42891.html
Monsanto claims it is extinct
http://web.archive.org/web/20060928131949/http://www.
ewg.org/reports/anniston/shells/lowdown.html
Nalco news
http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/4279.htm
Nalco: our dispersants are safe
http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/4348.htm
Health Insurance Trends
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/04/ama_insurance_study.html
Menhaden die-off
http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/thousands-of-dead-
fish-at-local-marina/892412/Jun-01-2010_5-33-pm/
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/14/news/companies/nalco_
macondo_bp_spill.fortune/index.htm
Mosaic leading producer of Fluorosilicic acid for water fluoridation.
http://www.ct.gov/dph/LIB/dph/drinking_water/pdf/NEWSLETTER3_1.pdf
and
http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.u3Axn.a.htm#1stPage
Peter Sutherland, chairman since 1997
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oct/01/oilandpetrol.news
http://business.highbeam.com/436155/article-1G1-186911700/
carl-m-casale-named-director-nalco-holding-company
Gulf Fish Good Source of Omega 3
http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/omega-3/
http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/3563.htm
http://www.monsanto.com/features/omega.asp
http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/cwf_status.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename
=article&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31
Casale purchases 8,026 shares Nalco.
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126218/0001298341
10000008/xslF345X03/primary_doc.xml
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/board.asp?ticker=NLC:US
http://people.forbes.com/profile/carl-m-casale/54821
http://www.tracked.com/person/j-erik-fyrwald/
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/
2010/06/15/20100615oil-spill0615.html
Highly questionable BP activities before blowout
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/27/94963/
doomed-rigs-manager-says-bp-tried.html
Rodney Frank Chase
http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/
person.asp?personId=394476&ticker=LEHMQ:US&previousCapId=
25990742&previousTitle=Presidio%20International%20Inc.
Richard Friedman
http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/
people/person.asp?personId=68912&ticker=GS:US&previousCapId=
4069317&previousTitle=Mosaic%20Phosphates%20Co.
Halliburton Buys Boots & Coots, two weeks before blowout
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/investing/halliburton-snaps-up-boots-and-coots/19435689/
Peter Sutherland
http://www.nndb.com/people/086/000112747/
BP Dumps Peter Sutherland, Goldman Sachs Dumps BP Stocks
http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-
selling.html?t=BP®ion=USA&culture=en-US
Hayward Dumps BP Stocks, too
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/
7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html
http://www.monsanto.com/products/seeds_traits/food_platform/omega3_soybeans.asp
Daniel Sanders
http://people.forbes.com/profile/daniel-s-sanders/7022
Mary Margaret VanDeWeghe
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.
asp?personId=11181598&ticker=LMT:US&previousCapId=290733&previous
Title=NALCO%20HOLDING%20CO
Monsanto: Land-based omega-3, not fish
http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=59872
Monsanto: non-marine sources of omega 3
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Financial-Industry/Monsanto
-Solae-joint-forces-for-omega-3-from-GM-soy
The Packaged Facts report indicates however that consumers still associate omega-3 with fish oil. Which may be an indication that ingredients manufacturers trying to sell their non-fish versions of DHA will have to take marketing efforts up a notch.
The report highlights the issue of potential contaminants as a factor that could nudge consumers away from fish-derived omega-3 ingredients.
"Worries about environmental pollutants and contaminants like heavy metals, however, may prompt some consumers to shy away from marine sources of omega-3s," says the report.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Consumer-
Trends/Omega-3-foods-market-bucks-recession
http://maya12-21-2012.com/2012forum/food-health/monsanto-and-agent-orange/
Monsanto sold its bovine hormone to eli lilly
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0118/americas-best-
company-10-gmos-dupont-planet-versus-monsanto.html
Monsanto PCBs cover-up
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54914-2002Feb22?language=printer
Demand for Corexit "most unusual."
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=382521
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7018942
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=382521
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/environment/88/8821busc7.html
http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2010/06/07/4
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/03/1714485
_p2/bp-wasted-no-time-preparing-for.html
http://www.ewg.org/node/8732
Corexit not approved for use in the UK
http://www.marinemanagement.org.uk/protecting/
pollution/documents/approval_approved_products.pdf
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Tent Sion
Jane Burgermeister’s most recent e-mail:
The Austrian government’s and Big Pharma’s ludicrous agenda to frame Jane Burgermeister and get her jailed has now reached a new level.
Anyone who thought that judges and prosecutors in Austria are not capable of the most blatant mafia methods to set up critics of the swine flu vaccination campaign for arrest needs to think again.
The state prosecutor for corruption Mag Katja Wallenchewski sent me a letter yesterday as part of a blatant attempt to switch the criminal charges I filed on July 23 with documented evidence of file manipulation and corruption of Austrian judges and replace them with a completely different set of charges I never filed and which belong to a total stranger.
According to Wallenschewski’s letter dated July 27th, the criminal charges of complete strangers – two people called Christine Cote and Heiner Lohmann -- are listed under my name and under my file number.
You have to read the small print on page 2 to find out that the letter informing me that the prosecutors office has dropped the criminal charges against the Judge Michaela Lauer actually refers to completely different criminal charges altogether – namely to the charges of someone called Christine Cote filed on July 5th as well as of a Heiner Lohmann filed on 15 July.
http://wakenews.net/Brief_Seite_1.JPG
http://wakenews.net/Brief_Seite_2.JPG
http://wakenews.net/JMBurgermeisterStaatsanwalt100730.pdf
So why am I getting the letter? What have their charges got to do with me and my file number?
It can be assumed that these criminal charges by total strangers are now filed under my name while my own criminal charges have been switched over to their file or another file.
To send me a letter informing me that the criminal charges of totally unknown people have been dropped is in itself a serious error at best because a third party should never be informed about the status of the charges filed by others.
Googling around, I found out that Christine Cote appears to have run an eccentric swine flu vaccine site that has also been critical of me. I tried to email her at Christine.cote@aon.at yesterday but the email bounced. No one answers a number listed under that name in Vienna or replies to messages left on the answerphone.
My bet is that these criminal charges by Christine Cote and Heiner Lohmann against Judge Michaela Lauer are full of violent threats and hysteria and so will offer the perfect excuse for the Austrian police to arrest me any time. Certainly, this pair of "swine flu activists" have never ever contacted me.
My own set of charges with the stamp of the prosecutors office confirming I handed them in on July 23rd are very factual: every single allegation of corruption and file manipulation is well documented as anyone can read at this link:
http://wakenews.net/anzeige-jb.pdf
I also filed appeals in civil courts in Vienna on July 5th and July 9th documenting the evidence of systematic corruption by Judge Lauer in connection with the inheritance of my father and the court custody of my aunt as can be seen under the link:
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father_1.pdf
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father_2.pdf
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father_3.pdf
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father_4.pdf
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father5.pdf
http://wakenews.net/html/burgermeister-rekurs-dok_.html
I am happy to send anyone pdf copies myself if the above links don’t work.
The systematic corruption is so well documented by me, in fact, that the Austrian judges are obviously getting very worried and having to resort to this blatant frame up and maneuver to get me jailed or under custody.
As soon as a criminal charges with threats against a judge are put into my file, even if it is a blatant error by the prosecutor, the police can be sent to arrest me and at literally any moment.
I have not seen Christine Cote’s and Heiner Lohmann’s charges against Judge Lauer but they probably confirm every cliché about conspiracy swine flu theorists as lunatics.
In fact, the claims I made from the beginning about the swine flu pandemic being hyped by the pharmaceutical companies have been substantiated by bodies such as the widely publicized report by UK MP Paul Flynn at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly at the beginning of June -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10396382 -- as well as the prestigious British Medical Journal.
Deborah Cohen (BMJ features editor) and Philip Carter document in a June 3rd report how scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare swine a global pandemic level 6 emergency have close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines .
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/jun03_4/c2912
Even the corporate mainstream media that played an instrumental role in hyping the virus has printed reports saying that the pandemic was exaggerated. Der Spiegel published a report called the “Chronology of a hysteria” in March 2010.
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-69407395.html
Der Spiegel also reported on the Bilderberg meeting in Spain in June 2010.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,698844,00.html
Far from being a crazy conspiracy theorist, I have thoroughly documented the claims I have made thanks to my background as a science journalist who has been working for years for publications such as Nature:
http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0708/full/climate.2007.35.html
http://www.nature.com/bioent/bioenews/122004/full/bioent841.html
http://www.nature.com/bioent/2004/040901/full/bioent827.html
http://www.nature.com/bioent/bioenews/102004/full/bioent833.html
the British Medical Journal. See, for example,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC214077/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC214066/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1125282/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC261767/
Reuters
http://www.reutershealth.com/en/index.html
The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.com/search/search_results.jsp?cx=003264466409666250718%3Aqrpes37jcpu&cof=FORID%3A11&q=jane+burgermeister&sa=Search&siteurl=www.the-scientist.com%2F#926
As well as the Guardian, the European Voice and American Prospect and many other publications.
But before the next mass vaccination campaigns or pandemics are launched, effective investigative journalists who document the corruption of WHO and national governments have to be removed and the internet censured.
They have to be framed by an elaborate process involving judges and state prosecutors interacting with “swine flu” activists”.
Ever since I filed charges against Baxter at the beginning of April 2008, presenting evidence that the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu with the bird flu virus – supplied by WHO – had been deliberate given the fact the laboratories have to follow strict biosafety level 3 regulations, I have been hounded by the government.
I have also been ridiculed by much of the corporate mainstream Austrian media. But then again, every journalist in Austria working for Austrian media still needs a government license!
The same media were largely silent about the Baxter incident and also about that the fact the Vienna state prosecutor had ordered an investigation into Baxter’s contamination of the vaccine material, although the charges were dropped in September 2009 just in time for Baxter to get its approval for its swine flu jab.
I soon felt the wrath of the government after filing charges on the Baxter incident in April 2009. I had to take legal action in May 2009 against the same Judge Lauer at the court in Hietzing for the way she tried to smear me and exclude me from the court guardianship of my father, who ended up dying on October 23,2009 in a hospital in Hietzing in which the Rothschild family through a foundation still play an active role .
I stated in my criminal charges Lauer might be working for the shadowy Bilderberg network and Big Pharma and asked for an investigation. But the very same Mag Wallenschewski who is now trying to frame me as a crazy swine flu conspiracy theorist also played a key role in stopping an investigation back then. I never even got to see the files.
More than one year later, the evidence is even stronger that Judge Lauer is under orders from higher ups who work for Big Pharma and the Bilderberg network in Austria -- and that the orders are coming in from high up to do everything to strip me of my assets and my civil liberties and bend every law to do it.
The Chancellor Werner Faynmann went to the 2008 Bilderberg meeting of the world’s shadowy elite.
The banking family Rothschilds – considered by many to be at the core of the Bildeberg group together with the Rockefellers -- are even active in the hospital in Hietzing (Krankenhaus Hietzing mit Neurologischem Zentrum Rosenhügel) where my aunt and Dad had so many problems.
http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20021024_OTS0037/wiener-kav-krankenhaus-wird-umbenannt
On another flank Johan Niklasson, the webmaster, has hijacked www.theflucase.com website as well as the www.janeburgermeister.org website.
At the beginning of June. I moved back to my old birdflu666 blog because I realized Johan Niklasson was working to sabotage the site and my work.
At the end of June, just as Lauer was starting to try to get me under court custody on the grounds I am a conspiracy theorist, Niklasson posted a report advocating mindless violence which conveniently got the website classified as a terrorist site.
He also blocked my log. I immediately had to put a disclaimer on my birdflu666 blog to make it clear this report had nothing to do with me.
We can see how the whole shadowy network pulls different strands together to implement a long term plan to destroy an investigative journalist’s work and even life.
But the Bilderberg minions must realize. I was born a free person and I will die a free person and I will never go under the court custody of Austrian judges, whose corruption has been so well documented it borders on a black comedy. That is like surrendering to the mafia.
I recognize I will highly likely never come out of any court custody alive anyway for what incentive is there for these people have for allowing me, a whistleblower documenting their crimes, to live?
I refuse to be held as a prisoner or slave by the minions of the Bilderberg international corporate crime syndicate which has its tentacles so deep into governments in the EU and USA that they ordered 100s of millions of inadequately tested and toxic jabs for their populations for a mild virus, and who have crashed the entire economy for the profits of the banks.
It is clearly better to commit suicide than to be murdered or abused after an illegal court guardianship process or arrest. I have no fear of death. My conscience is clear. I will not spend one minute alive under the court custody.
I was born of an Irish mother who was fearless as her own parents were fearless and I owe them nothing less than that I too stand fearlessly against the ludicrous frame up of the Bilderberg and Big Pharma minions in Austria – and if necessary to die fearlessly.
I remember my mother telling me how the IRA shot bullets at the feet of my grandparents when they walked down the mainstreet of Sligo, Ireland, after getting engaged and how they never flinched but kept on walking arm in arm without even looking at the people who could have killed them any moment. My grandmother, an O Hara, supported the IRA while my grandfather, McGoldrick, was an Irish army officer who supported the partition of Ireland. The IRA did not like it that my grandmother got engaged to him.
So God give me strength, I too will never flinch as my grandparents never flinched.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Winc
In a sign that illegal surveillance programs launched by the Bush administration are accelerating under President Obama, The Wall Street Journal revealed last week that a National Security Agency (NSA) program, PERFECT CITIZEN, is under development.
With a cover story that this is merely a "research" effort meant to "detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants," it is also clear that the next phase in pervasive government spying is underway.
With "cybersecurity" morphing into a new "public-private" iteration of the "War On Terror," WSJ reporter Siobhan Gorman disclosed that giant defense contractor Raytheon "recently won a classified contract for the initial phase of the surveillance effort valued at up to $100 million."
This wouldn't be the first time that Raytheon had positioned itself, and profited from, a media-driven panic. As investigative journalist Tim Shorrock documented for CorpWatch, "as the primary spying unit of defense industry giant Raytheon," the firm's Intelligence and Information Services division (Raytheon IIS) is the premier provider of command and control systems "capable of transforming data into actionable intelligence."
According to Shorrock, the unit's "most important clients ... are the NSA, NGA, and NRO, for which it provides signals and imaging processing, as well as information security software and tools;" in other words, agencies that are at the heart of America's electronic warfare complex.
The program, Gorman writes, "would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack." While Journal sources claim the program "wouldn't persistently monitor the whole system," a leaked Raytheon email paints a different picture, in line with other NSA intrusions into domestic affairs.
"The overall purpose of the [program] is our Government...feel[s] that they need to insure the Public Sector is doing all they can to secure Infrastructure critical to our National Security," the whistleblower writes. "Perfect Citizen is Big Brother."
These revelations have triggered concerns that projects like PERFECT CITIZEN, and others that remain classified, signal a new round of secret state surveillance and privacy-killing programs under the catch-all euphemism "cybersecurity."
The Journal reports that information captured by PERFECT CITIZEN "could also have applications beyond the critical infrastructure sector, officials said, serving as a data bank that would also help companies and agencies who call upon NSA for help with investigations of cyber attacks, as Google did when it sustained a major attack late last year."
In other words, the program will have major implications "beyond the critical infrastructure sector" and could adversely affect the privacy rights of all Americans. In fact, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to hypothesize that PERFECT CITIZEN may very well be related to other "intrusion detection programs" such as Einstein 3's deep-packet inspection capabilities that can read, and catalogue, the content of email messages flowing across private telecommunications networks.
One unnamed military source told the Journal, "you've got to instrument the network to know what's going on, so you have situational awareness to take action."
However, as the UK publication The Register noted, "many of the networks that the NSA would wish to place Perfect Citizen equipment on are privately owned, however, and some could also potentially carry information offering scope for 'mission creep' outside an infrastructure-security context."
The Register's Lewis Page, a former Royal Navy Commander and frequent critic of the surveillance state, writes that "full access to power company systems might allow the NSA to work out whether anyone was at home at a given address. Transport and telecoms information would also make for a potential bonanza for intrusive monitoring."
When queried whether the program would be yet another snooping tool deployed against the public, NSA spokesperson Judith Emmel told The Register Friday: "PERFECT CITIZEN is purely a vulnerabilities-assessment and capabilities-development contract."
According to NSA, "This is a research and engineering effort. There is no monitoring activity involved, and no sensors are employed in this endeavor. Specifically, it does not involve the monitoring of communications or the placement of sensors on utility company systems."
When specifically asked by Page if NSA is "seeking to spy on US citizens by means of examining their power or phone usage, tracking them through transport systems etc, the NSA would simply never think of such a thing."
"Any suggestions that there are illegal or invasive domestic activities associated with this contracted effort are simply not true. We strictly adhere to both the spirit and the letter of US laws and regulations," insisted Emmel.
Which raises an inevitable question: what would lead a Raytheon insider to compare the project to "Big Brother"? This is strong language from an employee of one of America's largest defense firms, a company in the No. 4 slot on Washington Technology's 2010 Top 100 list of prime federal contractors with some $6.7 billion in total revenue, 88% of which are derived from defense contracts.
At this point we don't know, and Siobhan Gorman hasn't told us since the Journal, as of this writing, hasn't seen fit to enlighten the public with the full text, if one exists, as to why someone obviously familiar with the program would put their job at risk if PERFECT CITIZEN were simply a "vulnerabilities-assessment and capabilities-development contract" and not something far more sinister.
The Pentagon Rules. Any Questions?
The Journal reported that the project began as "a small-scale effort" under the code name APRIL STRAWBERRY. Over time, the classified program was "expanded with funding from the multibillion-dollar Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, which started at the end of the Bush administration and has been continued by the Obama administration," Gorman wrote. Now, with billions of dollars available "the NSA is now seeking to map out intrusions into critical infrastructure across the country."
As Antifascist Calling reported earlier this year (see: "Obama's National Cybersecurity Initiative Puts NSA in the Driver's Seat"), although the administration has released portions of the Bush regime's National Security Presidential Directive 54 (NSPD-54) in a sanitized version called the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), the full scope of the program remains shrouded in secrecy.
Indeed, most of NSPD-54 and CNCI have never been released to the public. This led the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) to write in a 2008 report that "virtually everything about the initiative is classified, and most of the information that is not classified is categorized as 'For Official Use Only'."
Due to the opacity of the highly-secretive program and stonewalling by the administration, the SASC joined their colleagues on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and called for the initiative to be scaled-back "because policy and legal reviews are not complete, and because the technology is not mature."
Hardly beacons of transparency themselves when it comes to overseeing depredations wrought by the secret state, nevertheless SASC questioned the wisdom of a program that "preclude public education, awareness and debate about the policy and legal issues, real or imagined, that the initiative poses in the areas of privacy and civil liberties. ... The Committee strongly urges the [Bush] Administration to reconsider the necessity and wisdom of the blanket, indiscriminate classification levels established for the initiative."
In fact, as the investigative journalism web site ProPublica reported last summer, the White House "has erased all mention of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from its Web site. The removal, which was done with no public notice, has underlined questions about the Obama administration's commitment to the board." As of this writing, it remains an empty shell.
Despite repeated efforts by civil liberties and privacy groups, the Obama administration has been no more forthcoming than the previous regime in answering these critical concerns, particularly when the "policy and legal issues" are cloaked in secrecy under a cover of "national security."
Instead, CNCI's "Initiative #12. Define the Federal role for extending cybersecurity into critical infrastructure domains," offer little more than linguistic sedatives meant to lull the public as to how and through what means the administration plans to build "on the existing and ongoing partnership between the Federal Government and the public and private sector owners and operators of Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR)."
While the administration claims that the "Department of Homeland Security and its private-sector partners have developed a plan of shared action with an aggressive series of milestones and activities," as we now know the civilian, though securocratic-minded Homeland Security bureaucracy is being supplanted by the Pentagon's National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command as the invisible hands guiding the nation's "cybersecurity" policies.
As I reported last month (see: "Through the Wormhole: The Secret State's Mad Scheme to Control the Internet"), corporate greed and venality aren't the only motives behind hyped-up "cyber threats." Armed with multibillion dollar budgets, most of which are concealed from public view under a black cone of top secret classifications, agencies such as NSA are positioning themselves as gatekeepers over America's electronic communications infrastructure.
The Media's Role
With corporate media serving as "message force multipliers" for the flood of alarmist reports emanating from industry-sponsored think tanks such as the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), or lobby shops like the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), it is becoming clear that consensus has been reached amongst Washington power brokers, one that will have a deleterious effect on the free speech and privacy rights of all Americans.
Floated perhaps as a means to test the waters for restricting internet access, The New York Times reported July 4 that "the Internet affords anonymity to its users--a boon to privacy and freedom of speech. But that very anonymity is also behind the explosion of cybercrime that has swept across the Web."
Reporter John Markoff, a conduit for "cyberwar" scaremongering, informs us that "Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyberczar, offered the Obama administration's proposal to make the Web a safer place--a 'voluntary trusted identity' system that would be the high-tech equivalent of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled into one."
"The system" Markoff writes, "might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential linked to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services."
Schmidt has described the Obama administration's approach (note the warm and fuzzy phrase hiding the steel fist) as a "voluntary ecosystem" in which "individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with confidence, trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure that the transaction runs on."
Markoff's reporting would be humorous if we didn't already know that secret state agencies themselves have already compromised the Secure Socket Layer certification process (SSL, the tiny lock that appears during supposedly "secure" online transactions), as computer security and privacy researchers Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm revealed in their paper, Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL.
In March, Soghoian and Stamm introduced the public to "a new attack, the compelled certificate creation attack, in which government agencies compel a certificate authority to issue false SSL certificates that are then used by intelligence agencies to covertly intercept and hijack individuals' secure Web-based communications." They provided "alarming evidence" that suggests "that this attack is in active use," and that a niche security firm, Packet Forensics, is already marketing "extremely small, covert surveillance devices for networks" to government agencies.
Not everyone is thrilled by Schmidt's call to create this allegedly "voluntary" system. Lauren Weinstein, the editor of Privacy Journal, told the Times that "such a scheme is a pre-emptive push toward what would eventually be a mandated Internet 'driver's license' mentality."
The stampede for increased state controls are accelerating. Stewart Baker, the NSA's chief counsel under Bush, told the Times that the "privacy standards the administration wants to adopt will make the system both unwieldy and less effective and not good for security." Baker and his ilk argue that all internet users "should be forced to register and identify themselves, in the same way that drivers must be licensed to drive on public roads."
Considering that police have increasingly turned to license plate readers that are fast becoming "a fixture in local police arsenals," as the Center for Investigative Reporting revealed last month, and that such devices have been deployed for political surveillance here in the heimat and abroad, as both The Guardian and Seattle Weekly disclosed in reports documenting outrageous secret state spying, a licensing scheme for internet users is an ominous analogy indeed!
The Grim Road Ahead
A confidence game only works when "marks," in this case American citizens, allow themselves to be defrauded by a person or group who have gained their trust.
And when trust cannot be won through reason, fear tends to take over as a powerful motivator. This is amply on display when it comes to Washington's ginned-up "cybersecurity" panic.
According to this reading, fraudulent internet schemes, identity theft, even espionage by state- and non-state actors (say corporate spies who benefit from NSA's ECHELON program) have been transformed into a "war," one which Bush's former Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, currently an executive vice president with the spooky Booz Allen Hamilton firm, claims the U.S. is "losing."
But as security technology expert Bruce Schneier wrote last week, "There's a power struggle going on in the U.S. government right now.
"It's about who is in charge of cyber security, and how much control the government will exert over civilian networks. And by beating the drums of war, the military is coming out on top."
Schneier avers that "the entire national debate on cyberwar is plagued with exaggerations and hyperbole." Googling "cyberwar," as well as "'cyber Pearl Harbor,' 'cyber Katrina,' and even 'cyber Armageddon'--gives some idea how pervasive these memes are. Prefix 'cyber' to something scary, and you end up with something really scary."
Hackers, criminals and sociopaths have been around since the birth of the "information superhighway." Schneier writes, "we surely need to improve our cybersecurity. But words have meaning, and metaphors matter. There's a power struggle going on for control of our nation's cybersecurity strategy, and the NSA and DoD are winning. If we frame the debate in terms of war, if we accept the military's expansive cyberspace definition of 'war,' we feed our fears."
This is precisely the intent of our political masters. And if the purpose of "cyberwar" hype is to breed fear, mistrust and helplessness in the face of relentless attacks by shadowy actors only a mouse click away then, as Schneier sagely warns: "We reinforce the notion that we're helpless--what person or organization can defend itself in a war?--and others need to protect us. We invite the military to take over security, and to ignore the limits on power that often get jettisoned during wartime."
Destroy trust, increase fear: create the "Perfect Citizen."
Tom Burghardt is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Tom Burghardt
With a cover story that this is merely a "research" effort meant to "detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants," it is also clear that the next phase in pervasive government spying is underway.
With "cybersecurity" morphing into a new "public-private" iteration of the "War On Terror," WSJ reporter Siobhan Gorman disclosed that giant defense contractor Raytheon "recently won a classified contract for the initial phase of the surveillance effort valued at up to $100 million."
This wouldn't be the first time that Raytheon had positioned itself, and profited from, a media-driven panic. As investigative journalist Tim Shorrock documented for CorpWatch, "as the primary spying unit of defense industry giant Raytheon," the firm's Intelligence and Information Services division (Raytheon IIS) is the premier provider of command and control systems "capable of transforming data into actionable intelligence."
According to Shorrock, the unit's "most important clients ... are the NSA, NGA, and NRO, for which it provides signals and imaging processing, as well as information security software and tools;" in other words, agencies that are at the heart of America's electronic warfare complex.
The program, Gorman writes, "would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack." While Journal sources claim the program "wouldn't persistently monitor the whole system," a leaked Raytheon email paints a different picture, in line with other NSA intrusions into domestic affairs.
"The overall purpose of the [program] is our Government...feel[s] that they need to insure the Public Sector is doing all they can to secure Infrastructure critical to our National Security," the whistleblower writes. "Perfect Citizen is Big Brother."
These revelations have triggered concerns that projects like PERFECT CITIZEN, and others that remain classified, signal a new round of secret state surveillance and privacy-killing programs under the catch-all euphemism "cybersecurity."
The Journal reports that information captured by PERFECT CITIZEN "could also have applications beyond the critical infrastructure sector, officials said, serving as a data bank that would also help companies and agencies who call upon NSA for help with investigations of cyber attacks, as Google did when it sustained a major attack late last year."
In other words, the program will have major implications "beyond the critical infrastructure sector" and could adversely affect the privacy rights of all Americans. In fact, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to hypothesize that PERFECT CITIZEN may very well be related to other "intrusion detection programs" such as Einstein 3's deep-packet inspection capabilities that can read, and catalogue, the content of email messages flowing across private telecommunications networks.
One unnamed military source told the Journal, "you've got to instrument the network to know what's going on, so you have situational awareness to take action."
However, as the UK publication The Register noted, "many of the networks that the NSA would wish to place Perfect Citizen equipment on are privately owned, however, and some could also potentially carry information offering scope for 'mission creep' outside an infrastructure-security context."
The Register's Lewis Page, a former Royal Navy Commander and frequent critic of the surveillance state, writes that "full access to power company systems might allow the NSA to work out whether anyone was at home at a given address. Transport and telecoms information would also make for a potential bonanza for intrusive monitoring."
When queried whether the program would be yet another snooping tool deployed against the public, NSA spokesperson Judith Emmel told The Register Friday: "PERFECT CITIZEN is purely a vulnerabilities-assessment and capabilities-development contract."
According to NSA, "This is a research and engineering effort. There is no monitoring activity involved, and no sensors are employed in this endeavor. Specifically, it does not involve the monitoring of communications or the placement of sensors on utility company systems."
When specifically asked by Page if NSA is "seeking to spy on US citizens by means of examining their power or phone usage, tracking them through transport systems etc, the NSA would simply never think of such a thing."
"Any suggestions that there are illegal or invasive domestic activities associated with this contracted effort are simply not true. We strictly adhere to both the spirit and the letter of US laws and regulations," insisted Emmel.
Which raises an inevitable question: what would lead a Raytheon insider to compare the project to "Big Brother"? This is strong language from an employee of one of America's largest defense firms, a company in the No. 4 slot on Washington Technology's 2010 Top 100 list of prime federal contractors with some $6.7 billion in total revenue, 88% of which are derived from defense contracts.
At this point we don't know, and Siobhan Gorman hasn't told us since the Journal, as of this writing, hasn't seen fit to enlighten the public with the full text, if one exists, as to why someone obviously familiar with the program would put their job at risk if PERFECT CITIZEN were simply a "vulnerabilities-assessment and capabilities-development contract" and not something far more sinister.
The Pentagon Rules. Any Questions?
The Journal reported that the project began as "a small-scale effort" under the code name APRIL STRAWBERRY. Over time, the classified program was "expanded with funding from the multibillion-dollar Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, which started at the end of the Bush administration and has been continued by the Obama administration," Gorman wrote. Now, with billions of dollars available "the NSA is now seeking to map out intrusions into critical infrastructure across the country."
As Antifascist Calling reported earlier this year (see: "Obama's National Cybersecurity Initiative Puts NSA in the Driver's Seat"), although the administration has released portions of the Bush regime's National Security Presidential Directive 54 (NSPD-54) in a sanitized version called the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), the full scope of the program remains shrouded in secrecy.
Indeed, most of NSPD-54 and CNCI have never been released to the public. This led the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) to write in a 2008 report that "virtually everything about the initiative is classified, and most of the information that is not classified is categorized as 'For Official Use Only'."
Due to the opacity of the highly-secretive program and stonewalling by the administration, the SASC joined their colleagues on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and called for the initiative to be scaled-back "because policy and legal reviews are not complete, and because the technology is not mature."
Hardly beacons of transparency themselves when it comes to overseeing depredations wrought by the secret state, nevertheless SASC questioned the wisdom of a program that "preclude public education, awareness and debate about the policy and legal issues, real or imagined, that the initiative poses in the areas of privacy and civil liberties. ... The Committee strongly urges the [Bush] Administration to reconsider the necessity and wisdom of the blanket, indiscriminate classification levels established for the initiative."
In fact, as the investigative journalism web site ProPublica reported last summer, the White House "has erased all mention of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from its Web site. The removal, which was done with no public notice, has underlined questions about the Obama administration's commitment to the board." As of this writing, it remains an empty shell.
Despite repeated efforts by civil liberties and privacy groups, the Obama administration has been no more forthcoming than the previous regime in answering these critical concerns, particularly when the "policy and legal issues" are cloaked in secrecy under a cover of "national security."
Instead, CNCI's "Initiative #12. Define the Federal role for extending cybersecurity into critical infrastructure domains," offer little more than linguistic sedatives meant to lull the public as to how and through what means the administration plans to build "on the existing and ongoing partnership between the Federal Government and the public and private sector owners and operators of Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR)."
While the administration claims that the "Department of Homeland Security and its private-sector partners have developed a plan of shared action with an aggressive series of milestones and activities," as we now know the civilian, though securocratic-minded Homeland Security bureaucracy is being supplanted by the Pentagon's National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command as the invisible hands guiding the nation's "cybersecurity" policies.
As I reported last month (see: "Through the Wormhole: The Secret State's Mad Scheme to Control the Internet"), corporate greed and venality aren't the only motives behind hyped-up "cyber threats." Armed with multibillion dollar budgets, most of which are concealed from public view under a black cone of top secret classifications, agencies such as NSA are positioning themselves as gatekeepers over America's electronic communications infrastructure.
The Media's Role
With corporate media serving as "message force multipliers" for the flood of alarmist reports emanating from industry-sponsored think tanks such as the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), or lobby shops like the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), it is becoming clear that consensus has been reached amongst Washington power brokers, one that will have a deleterious effect on the free speech and privacy rights of all Americans.
Floated perhaps as a means to test the waters for restricting internet access, The New York Times reported July 4 that "the Internet affords anonymity to its users--a boon to privacy and freedom of speech. But that very anonymity is also behind the explosion of cybercrime that has swept across the Web."
Reporter John Markoff, a conduit for "cyberwar" scaremongering, informs us that "Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyberczar, offered the Obama administration's proposal to make the Web a safer place--a 'voluntary trusted identity' system that would be the high-tech equivalent of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled into one."
"The system" Markoff writes, "might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential linked to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services."
Schmidt has described the Obama administration's approach (note the warm and fuzzy phrase hiding the steel fist) as a "voluntary ecosystem" in which "individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with confidence, trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure that the transaction runs on."
Markoff's reporting would be humorous if we didn't already know that secret state agencies themselves have already compromised the Secure Socket Layer certification process (SSL, the tiny lock that appears during supposedly "secure" online transactions), as computer security and privacy researchers Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm revealed in their paper, Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL.
In March, Soghoian and Stamm introduced the public to "a new attack, the compelled certificate creation attack, in which government agencies compel a certificate authority to issue false SSL certificates that are then used by intelligence agencies to covertly intercept and hijack individuals' secure Web-based communications." They provided "alarming evidence" that suggests "that this attack is in active use," and that a niche security firm, Packet Forensics, is already marketing "extremely small, covert surveillance devices for networks" to government agencies.
Not everyone is thrilled by Schmidt's call to create this allegedly "voluntary" system. Lauren Weinstein, the editor of Privacy Journal, told the Times that "such a scheme is a pre-emptive push toward what would eventually be a mandated Internet 'driver's license' mentality."
The stampede for increased state controls are accelerating. Stewart Baker, the NSA's chief counsel under Bush, told the Times that the "privacy standards the administration wants to adopt will make the system both unwieldy and less effective and not good for security." Baker and his ilk argue that all internet users "should be forced to register and identify themselves, in the same way that drivers must be licensed to drive on public roads."
Considering that police have increasingly turned to license plate readers that are fast becoming "a fixture in local police arsenals," as the Center for Investigative Reporting revealed last month, and that such devices have been deployed for political surveillance here in the heimat and abroad, as both The Guardian and Seattle Weekly disclosed in reports documenting outrageous secret state spying, a licensing scheme for internet users is an ominous analogy indeed!
The Grim Road Ahead
A confidence game only works when "marks," in this case American citizens, allow themselves to be defrauded by a person or group who have gained their trust.
And when trust cannot be won through reason, fear tends to take over as a powerful motivator. This is amply on display when it comes to Washington's ginned-up "cybersecurity" panic.
According to this reading, fraudulent internet schemes, identity theft, even espionage by state- and non-state actors (say corporate spies who benefit from NSA's ECHELON program) have been transformed into a "war," one which Bush's former Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, currently an executive vice president with the spooky Booz Allen Hamilton firm, claims the U.S. is "losing."
But as security technology expert Bruce Schneier wrote last week, "There's a power struggle going on in the U.S. government right now.
"It's about who is in charge of cyber security, and how much control the government will exert over civilian networks. And by beating the drums of war, the military is coming out on top."
Schneier avers that "the entire national debate on cyberwar is plagued with exaggerations and hyperbole." Googling "cyberwar," as well as "'cyber Pearl Harbor,' 'cyber Katrina,' and even 'cyber Armageddon'--gives some idea how pervasive these memes are. Prefix 'cyber' to something scary, and you end up with something really scary."
Hackers, criminals and sociopaths have been around since the birth of the "information superhighway." Schneier writes, "we surely need to improve our cybersecurity. But words have meaning, and metaphors matter. There's a power struggle going on for control of our nation's cybersecurity strategy, and the NSA and DoD are winning. If we frame the debate in terms of war, if we accept the military's expansive cyberspace definition of 'war,' we feed our fears."
This is precisely the intent of our political masters. And if the purpose of "cyberwar" hype is to breed fear, mistrust and helplessness in the face of relentless attacks by shadowy actors only a mouse click away then, as Schneier sagely warns: "We reinforce the notion that we're helpless--what person or organization can defend itself in a war?--and others need to protect us. We invite the military to take over security, and to ignore the limits on power that often get jettisoned during wartime."
Destroy trust, increase fear: create the "Perfect Citizen."
Tom Burghardt is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Tom Burghardt
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