TA Versus Reality (1998)
"There's something dark about the man," admitted the Baron. "Even by the standards of the Lithuanian nobility."
"'Dark?'" snorted the Emperor. "Say better: 'black as night.'" He rubbed his heavy jaw thoughtfully. "Why does he wear that mask at all times, for instance? Simply to disguise the scars he claims to have received when he tried to fend off his father's assassins?"
-Shadow of the Lion, by Mercedes Lacke
...how black is your corpse paint?
...trauma was our common bond...
Rev up a chainsaw. Flick on the blender and a couple of power drills. Stand directly behind an F-16, right before it blasts off into space. A jackhammer should do to set the tempo. Now get down on all fours, contort your face into the wickedest grimace you can muster, and scream until your vocal chords collapse. If all of this makes you feel just the least bit ridiculous, hit yourself in the face with a roofing hammer until you can’t laugh anymore. There now. Listen carefully. -Vor Tru
'Embrace Your Mistakes.' -John Waters
Born Jack Rosenberg, Erhard is the founder of est (Erhard Seminar Training) and the Forum.
Erhard is a former Scientologist, and brought many of their tenants and methods with him to est. A shortcut to understanding est is to imagine Scientology, except replace "science fiction writer" with "encyclopedia salesman".
In the mid 1970s, Erhard financed Jack Sarfatti and the Physics/Consciousness Research Group, and was involved with Michael Murphy and the Esalen Institute. According to Sarfatti, Erhard gave funds to the SRI remote viewing project. (Sarfatti, Jack, "In the Thick of It")
John Mack was formerly on the board of advisors for est. Erhard is thanked in the Acknowledgments page of Mind Reach, the book by Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ describing the remote viewing research done at SRI.
According to John Wilhelm, many of the principles in the SRI remote viewing experiments were Scientologists:
Hal Puthoff is claimed to have been at OT (Operating Thetan) Level III at the time of the experiments. He wrote the preface to Scientology: a Religion (can anyone provide a copy), and was married in a Scientology church. "Puthoff says his involvement with the church more than a decade ago was casual"
(McRae, Ronald, Mind Wars, St. Martin's Press, 1984, pg 108)
Ingo Swann was/is at OT Level VII. He presented a paper entitled "Scientological Techniques: A Modern Paradigm for the Exploration of Consciousness and Psychic Integration" (in Proceedings of the First International Congress on Psychotronic Research (Virginia: U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, 9/6/74, Document No. JPRS L/5022-1) at the First International Congress on Psychotronic Research in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
• Pat Price was at OT Level IV.
• Eli Primose, an assistant in the Uri Geller tests.
• George W. Church, Jr., owner of Science Unlimited Research Foundation, which funded some of the early studies.
Ingo Swann allegedly told Wilhelm that there were a total of fourteen "clears" working at SRI.
(Wilhelm, John, The Search for Superman, as reviewed in chapter 30 of Gardner, Martin, Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Prometheus Books, 1981, pg 320-1; Wilhelm, John, "Psychic Spying?", Washington Post 8/7/77, B1)
The relevance?
Not too much, as I can see. There is some historical relevance, as the Scientology factor supposedly scared off four potential sponsors of the research at SRI. (McRae, pg 108) Also, skeptics point towards Scientology's belief in psychic powers as a possible bias in the research.
I have my doubts that the Church of Scientology was ever used as a CIA front, as some have suggested. Scientologists have a form of therapy called "auditing", which involves relating details of one's life while being hooked to an "E-meter", which is a primitive lie-detector. This would violate some of the CIA's security protocals. Furthermore, the Church has revealed details about both MK-ULTRA and the government's psychic spying programs through the FOIA, which would be very inappropriate for a CIA proprietary. Also, there are direct connections between SRI and the intelligence community, so an indirect connection via Scientology isn't necessary for the purposes here. However, I could be very wrong.
SRI
Menlo Park, CA.
Click here for their home page. I couldn't find anything there on remote viewing.
Founded in 1946 at Stanford University, it went independent in 1970 due to protest of its military contracts. Among them were studies with LSD and chemical warfare. Willis Harman and Alfred Hubbard were contracted to study the influence of LSD on the counter-culture and business.
Remote Viewing Program: Led by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. Originally funded by Science Unlimited Research Foundation, San Antonio, TX in April 1972.
The program began with Ingo Swann, after being told of the project by Cleve Backster.
Swann contacted Puthoff on 3/30/72, telling him of previous studies of his abilities. Swann came to the lab that June. His first experiment was to remote view and manipulate a shielded magnetometer. Near the end of this visit, he performed a series of experiments identifying objects inside boxes. Puthoff invited several potential sponsors of his project (including the CIA) to observe, and the CIA was impressed enough to fund an eight month pilot study. Swann returned to New York to clean up some previous commitments.
During this break, Russell Targ joined the research team. At the end of October, Andrija Puharich brought Uri Geller to SRI to be studied for six weeks. After several demonstrations under uncontrolled conditions, Geller did experiments in twisting metal, predicting die rolls, and copying pictures drawn by assistants. Geller was critically evaluated at SRI by Ray Hyman, among others.
Ingo Swann later in 1972 (Swann says he returned in October, Puthoff places Swann's return after Geller's six week study) to start the eight month pilot program funded by the CIA. Reportedly on Swann's suggestion, he began doing remote-viewing experiments using longitude and latitude as a target. A series of 100 experiments were done during the breaks between Swann's normal experiments.
These experiments were formalized into Project SCANATE. These coordinates were supposedly picked by a NSA (National Security Agency) monitor and transmitted to a CIA agent at SRI. On 5/29/73, during this series, Swann identified a military base (reportedly a satellite listening post). Puthoff read these coordinates to Pat Price, whose amazing results led him to join the SRI team. Click here for an extended review of this experiment.
Price and Swann continued their remote viewing experiments, this time using a person as a target. At an assigned time, the viewer would target the person and describe the scene where he/she was located. These experiments were the only ones which have been openly available to other scientists, and have been extensively reviewed (see references below).
In the summer of 1973, Swann finished the eight month pilot program and left SRI. He continued to work occasionally with the project until at least 1988.
By the end of 1973, the SRI team began to use average people in the remote-viewing project, not just "naturals" (i.e. people with natural psychic ability). These experiments included intelligence agents, and reportedly members of Congress. This series of experiments went on until around the fall of 1974, and the lab was allegedly running out of funding.
Author Richard Bach visited the lab for a series of experiments starting in April, 1975. Other experiments included experimenting with an "ESP teaching machne" for NASA. This device simply a random number generator which shows one of four pictures, and the subject tries to guess which picture is chosen each turn. Anoher experiment involved trying to see if individuals could pick signals from a subjects EEG. One subject is in a shielded room, with a strobe light activated at random times, and the other subject tries to detemine when the strobe is on.
(Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold E, Mind-Reach, Delacorte Press, 1977; Puthoff, Harold, "CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Program at Stanford Research Institute", Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1996)
In 1977, the Naval Electronics Systems Command contracted SRI (for $87,000) for "an investigation of the ability of certain individuals to perceive remote faint electromagnetic stimuli at a noncognitive level of awareness."
(McRae, Ronald, Mind Wars, St. Martin's Press, 1984, pg 5)
The activities of the lab are somewhat more sketchy after this point, but published accounts (such as Targ, Russell and Harary, Keith, Mind Race, Villard Books, 1984; Swann, Ingo, Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1991) suggest more of the same, with little expansion and almost no work to isolate the actual mechanisms at work.
Hal Puthoff remains fairly tight-lipped about the classified aspects of the program, but says that the activities focused on studying the possible threat of psi in enemy hands than on actual operations. However, Swann and Price did view many military targets as part of their experiments, so the line between research and operations becomes a bit fuzzy. (see Wilhelm, John, "Psychic Spying?", Washington Post 8/7/77, B1)
I am somewhat skeptical of the claim that the CIA entered the picture sometime after Puthoff began his experiments with Ingo Swann. Here we have a CIA connected parapsychologist (Backster) introducing a subject with a Top Secret clearance (Swann) to a former Naval Intelligence officer who has worked with the NSA (Puthoff) who is working at a military contracted research lab (SRI). I find it highly doubtful that the intelligence community was not involved until experiments were well under way. It's more likely that the CIA was involved from the beginning, and that they might have even initiated the program.
The early experiments were allegedly conducted by researchers involved with Scientology and believers in psi, which some feel may have tainted the data. There are several critical references below.
SRI has a history of mind-control research. "Under contract to the Army, SRI chemists studied psychoactive components like LSD for their potential as chemical-warfare agents". (McRae, pg 94) Puthoff has argued that his research at SRI had nothing to do with mind control (see Puthoff/Constantine Debate). However, it is interesting to note that Puthoff and Targ researched mind-machine interfaces in context with the remote viewing project. (R. Targ, P. Cole and H. E. Puthoff, "Techniques to Enhance Man/Machine Communication," Stanford Research Institute Final Report on NASA Project NAS7-100 (August 1974). Note: I have not seen this paper, but it was referenced by Puthoff). However, this may be techno-speak for telekinesis, much like "novel biological information transfer" is for telepathy.
Around 1976, Dr. Sam Koslov, scientific assistant to the secretary of the Navy, received a briefing on various research projects, including those at SRI. Among the headings on the screen describing SRI's work included "ELF AND MIND CONTROL". ELF stands for extremely low frequency, and electromagnetic radiation in this band has an effect on the central nervous system and has been studied by the military under projects Pandora, Sanguine, and others. Koslov was reportedly upset and shut off Navy funding (although the Navy has been, and continues to be, one of the biggest supporters of electronic mind-control). (Wilhelm, 1977)
Some of the early experiments involved Elizabeth Rauscher as a consultant. In 1985, Hal Puthoff left the lab and was replaced as director by Edwin May, who had joined the lab in 1976. Russell Targ had left in 1982. For reasons unknown to me, the research aspect of the program were transferred from SRI to SAIC in 1991.
Experiments at SRI are documented in:
• Targ, Russell and Harary, Keith, Mind Race, Villard Books, 1984
• Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold E, Mind-Reach, Delacorte Press, 1977
• Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold E, "Information Transmission Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding", Nature, 10/18/74, v252, n5476, pp 602-607 (reprinted in Panati, Charles, ed., The Geller Papers, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976)
Critical reviews of the early experiments are contained in:
• Marks, David and Kammann, Richard, The Psychology of the Psychic, Prometheus Books, 1980
• Gardner, Martin, Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Prometheus Books, 1981
• Randi, James, Flim-Flam, Prometheus Books, 1982
• Wilhelm, John, The Search for Superman, Pocket Books (Note: this text is reportedly hard to find, but is reviewed in Gardner's book above)
Partial list of researchers involved in the SRI study include:
• Michael Persinger, informal consultant
• Hal Puthoff
• Elizabeth Rauscher
• Russell Targ
• Charles Tart
Partial list of subjects:
• Richard Bach, author and patron
• Phyllis Cole, SRI lab technician
• Duane Elgin, SRI futurologist
• Hella Hammid, photographer
• Keith Harary
• Susan Harris
• Gary Langford, SRI computer expert
• Joe McMoneagle
• Marshall Pease, SRI mathematician
• Pat Price
• Marylin Schlitz
• Ingo Swann
• Elisabeth Targ
• Jacques Vallee, SRI computer consultant, ufologist
United States Psychotronic Association
Click here for their website.
Members: Thomas Bearden
Charles Whitehouse, board member. In 1977, Whitehouse sold the Navy a "multipectral image analyzer station" for $5,111. The device supposedly works by focusing psychic energies to locate hidden submarines, using pictures as its target. (McRae, Ronald, Mind Wars, St. Martin's Press, 1984, pg 4) Note: McRae has admitted to fabricating some of the more absurd elements of his book - this probably among them
Theodore Rockwell, "a prominent (Who's Who) nuclear engineer who has worked on naval nuclear propulsion systems and who also serves as vice president" (Durant, Robert J., "Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up?")
Indivduals presenting papers at one time or another:
Eldon Byrd
John B. Alexander
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/places.html#sri
Puthoff-Constantine Debate
[The following was posted to alt.conspiracy -Doc]
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 11:04:37 -0400
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: Puthoff-Constantine Debate (A point of information.)
18 May 1996
To: Alex Constantine & Hal Puthoff
From: Dick Farley ([email protected])
Gentlemen:
Enjoying your repartee.
Just for the record, in 1993 Laurance S. Rockefeller pumped $10,000 into the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) to help keep their 'Journal' up and publishing. Whatever else it does, the 'Journal' give the mind-trekkers and SRI/Stanford alumnae a "refereed" vehicle for keeping the culture alive.
The amount was routed through the Human Potential Foundation, then chaired by U. S. Senator Claiborne Pell, who also is a board member of the Institute of Noetics, directed by ex-SRI guy, Dr. Willis Harmon. "HPF's" president is and was Cdr. C. B. "Scott" Jones, Jr., Ph. D., (USN-Ret.). The SSE donation was made at the request of Peter Sturrock, Ph. D., another veteran of the research in question. Another SSE board member is Dr. Jacques Vallee. Basically some of these fellows are trying to figure out what "these entities" are doing playing around with humanity from "camouflaged" repose in the "interstitial space" interpenetrating our consensus reality. By taking advantages of our limited sensate foci, and working "in league" with some guys who tossed their mental cookies upon "confrontations of their fixed realities" by irrefutable evidence that IT'S REAL, some of these entities are allegedly (according to some SSE members I have interviewed), making a "play" for Ma Earth.
Or maybe not.
Dr. P: Hope to make you acquaintance more directly sometime. There is the matter of an alleged "psi weapon" to discuss. And is the "peace movement" generalizing to the debate about how to deal with these non-physical interlopers in our dimension? That was to be the essential issue on the table when Jones and I were putting together the "When Cosmic Cultures Meet" meet, before Larry Rockefeller pulled Jones' fiscal plug and shifted his "Global Mind Change" initiative to Steve Greer and others.
Where do you come down in all of this? Are you guys ready yet to admit, "We goofed!" and come in from the cold to help us figure out how even to DISCUSS this stuff? That was supposed to be the purpose of a "UFO disclosure" initiative, which has been sidetracked and sandbagged to cover up other kinds of abuses masquerading as "UFOs," in areas of "black budgeting" excesses, human experimentation in "non-lethal warfighting", and of course, Andrijah Puharich's various warnings and fears, which although they derailed him severely, you guys apparently chose to disregard altogether...and now "The Nine" and whoever else is playing with the billionaire boys club's heads is off on their own adventure, having left you "real scientists" behind.
Hey, man. We've got the files....and none of this stuff is "classified," primarily because none of it was "real." But you know, and we know, it is INDEED "real." And as some of us have been fond of saying: "If it's real, it has a politics."
No kidding. Just ask John Mack, right? And Larry Rockefeller?
Just what we need: a global "viral" infection of our collective social mind and body politic by more "revealed truth" from the places where only guys like Terrence McKenna and John Lilly go to play. Free inquiry, free thought and "scientific exploration" are all just fine. It's just that some of us are a bit concerned that the guys who keep their "fingers on THE button" don't let themselves get too hoodwinked into "galactic peace" that they take their eyes off "the ball," (that'd be Earth?), and sell us all out to some indeterminant "non-human intelligences" and their earthside acolytes, dupes and self-dealers. Old story here, Hal. You'd better check in with Scott Jones and Jacques before you get too far afield, Doc. We've been a-waitin' fer ya, as we say out here in West Virginia...home of "alien nation" folk like Budd Hopkins, Gray Barker and Bob "W. Va. UFOs" Teets, also a Jones alumnus like my ol' self. We can do this the easy way, or you can keep up your charade. But we REALLY want to keep it clean.
With the release of the report on "Stargate," the National Command Authority has, essentially, tossed you guys and your powerful benefactors overboard. So now we're having a little fuss over control of "the bridge" on Spaceship Earth, as Bucky liked to call it. And the "CRV" veterans who take their oaths to our Constitution are apparently rather peeved at what they've been learning, since coming out of their "compartmented" lives to see what the "rest of the story" has been, i.e., some of the folks who've pursued what we'd better call "Applied Anomalous Phenomena," (translated to: "We do it to you!").
Looking forward to your reconsideration and perhaps finally deciding, "It's time." As Jacques has pointed out (to you guys, and to the public MANY times), these "entities" have a pattern of cycling their "involvements" along with societal perception from time to time. Only now, it's different. The "Big Boys" are going to "go for it," what with the Post-Cold War chaos and disorder that has them vulnerable to poaching and ruthlessly competitive folks in other financial venues who have LONG coveted the power and control of the Rockefellerian cabal and their friends on resource streams on which their power, and unfortunately, most of our society's underpinnings, are based.
Regards,
Dick Farley
Subj: Puthoff-Constantine Debate (From H. Puthoff to Alex C.)
Date: Fri, May 17, 1996 20:35 EDT
From: [email protected]
X-From: [email protected] (Alex Constantine)
To: [email protected]
Alex,
As former Director of the SRI Cognitive Sciences Program at SRI (from 1972-1985), I can assure you that, in contradiction to your claims, no mind-control program was being pursued. Since your claim would appear to be a major theme in an upcoming book of yours on real or imagined CIA conspiracies, I have some doubt that you will be persuaded by the facts, but, being a stickler for historical accuracy, at least I will have put the truth on the record.
With regard to your reference to the Koslov briefing, if a briefer flashed a chart on his screen labeling SRI's work as "ELF and Mind Control," the briefer was clearly in error, and I would not blame Koslov from being upset.
Our project for the Navy, which is well known in published reports in IEEE and AAAS publications, was simply to see whether remote viewers attempting to focus on light flashes in a remote laboratory would register any specific signature in their EEG. The answer: we found some suggestive EEG correlations with the light flashes, but nothing very robust. (See, e.g., May, Targ and Puthoff, "EEG Correlates to Remote Light Flashes under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," in _Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of ESP_, ed. by Tart, Puthoff and Targ, Praeger, 1979, New York).
As you can see, your suggestion that the project involved "projecting words and images directly to the cranium" is pure fantasy, and the subjects for these experiments were close colleagues who excitedly volunteered for the task, not victims of mind-control experimentation as you claim.
With regard to the SRI remote viewing program in general, although you have characterized it in terms of "transmitting images to the brains of test subjects under the misnomer 'remote viewing'," the complete inaccuracy of your claim is now a matter of clear public record because of recent declassification. This includes articles written by myself and others responsible for the program in the current issue of the _Jour. of Scientific Exploration_, vol. #10, No. 1, Spring 1996, that provides detailed records of the purposes, protocols, sponsor-client relationships, and references to SRI reports now available through FOIA. And the public record now also includes a deluge of firsthand "insider" reports written by program remote viewers, both those in research roles and those in military intelligence. These not only make for fascinating reading but clearly document how far off the mark your speculations are, and how far behind the curve of public knowledge your book will be.
You also claim that EM mind-control machines were championed at SRI by Karl Pribram. As far as I am aware, Pribram never worked at SRI. (You may be confusing Stanford University, where he did have an appointment for a time, and SRI.)
By the time you get into claiming SRI-hatched conspiracies involving the SLA, Scientologists, the People's Temple and the Panthers, your bus has left me far behind. A certain class of reader will no doubt find your version much more exciting and believable than the mundane facts, so I have no illusions that you will backtrack to reality, but at least those of us who know, and others who bother to check, will know the difference.
H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D.
Fmr Director (1972-1985)
SRI Cognitive Sciences Program
To:[email protected]
From:[email protected] (Alex Constantine)
Subject:SRI & mind control
Harold:
Every one of the principals in the experimentation at SRI live in worlds of fantasy, yet you accuse me of the same. The latest to speak out in the mass media was Ed Dames, who claims there is a "time beacon" in Arizona that is signalling "aliens" as they pass through our space. This is the caliber of "scientist" to emerge from the "remote viewing" project, a clutch of seemingly addled confabulators talking about "alien" civilizations beaming Israeli messiahs, etc. And most of them with backgrounds in military intelligence and advanced technology. Tsk. How is one to reconcile the incongruity?
Why do you even bother to contradict what I've written when it is fully sourced?
The SLA was a product of SRI programming. I don't expect you to confirm this. On the contrary, I expect you to appeal to the "aliens" to fill you in. Perhaps you could apply your enhanced perceptions to confirming that I wrote honestly.
Your laser work is classified. What do those devices do? And now the Washington Post and a ranking military official have presumably got it wrong, and you're offering up corrections....
The only correction I take seriously regards Pribram, who was the head of the neruropsychology research Lab at Stanford. If I didn't say so before, I will state this in the future and make it clear in the copy under discussion.
As always, you splash a lot of hogwash around and fully expect that all of the people will believe you all of the time. Excuse me for poking holes in your inane cover stories.
Alex Constantine
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/debate.html
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Of the various insects that like to make their home in our houses, certainly the most interesting, for her beautiful shape, her curious manners, and her wonderful nest, is a certain Wasp called the Pelopaeus. She is very little known, even to the people by whose fireside she lives. This is owing to her quiet, peaceful ways; she is so very retiring that her host is nearly always ignorant of her presence.
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I once saw a Bee-eating Wasp, while carrying a Bee to her storehouse, attacked and caught by a Mantis. The Wasp was in the act of eating the honey she had found in the Bee’s crop. The double saw of the Mantis closed suddenly on the feasting Wasp; but neither terror nor torture could persuade that greedy creature to leave off eating. Even while she was herself being actually devoured she continued to lick honey from her Bee!
Le Fantôme de la Liberté (1947)
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CHAPTER 6.
INSTINCT AND DISCERNMENT.
The Pelopaeus (A Mason-wasp forming the subject of essays which have not yet been published in English.--Translator's Note.) gives us a very poor idea of her intellect when she plasters up the spot in the wall where the nest which I have removed used to stand, when she persists in cramming her cell with Spiders for the benefit of an egg no longer there and when she dutifully closes a cell which my forceps has left empty, extracting alike germ and provisions. The Mason-bees (Cf. "The Mason-bees": chapter 7.--Translator's Note.), the caterpillar of the Great Peacock Moth (Cf. "Social Life in the Insect World" by J.H. Fabre, translated by Bernard Miall: chapter 14.-- Translator's Note.) and many others, when subjected to similar tests, are guilty of the same illogical behaviour: they continue, in the normal order, their series of industrious actions, though an accident has now rendered them all useless. Just like millstones unable to cease revolving though there be no corn left to grind, let them once be given the compelling power and they will continue to perform their task despite its futility. Are they then machines? Far be it from me to think anything so foolish.
Bramble Bees and Others by Jean Henri Fabre
Chapter 5: Experimental Techniques
Cassandra Syndrome is a term applied to predictions of doom about the future that are not believed, but upon later reflection turn out to be correct. This denotes a psychological tendency among people to disbelieve inescapably bad news, often through denial. The person making the prediction is caught in the dilemma of knowing what is going to happen but not being able to resolve the problem without the cooperation of others.
The origin of the named is derived from Cassandra, who, using her prescience, foresaw the demise of Troy. No one believed her.
Cassandra Syndrome
Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in a hostage, in which the hostage exhibits seeming loyalty to the hostage-taker, in spite of the danger (or at least risk) the hostage has been put in. Stockholm syndrome is also sometimes discussed in reference to other situations with similar tensions, such as battered woman syndrome, child abuse cases, and bride kidnapping.
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Outside of the criminal context, a form of the syndrome may take place in military basic training, in which "training is a mildly traumatic experience intended to produce a bond", with the goal of forming military units which will remain loyal to each other even in life-threatening situations.
Similarly, the effects of the "hazing" system of induction into groups such as fraternities and sororities have been compared to the syndrome. In cultural anthropology a similar symptom is common to bride capture situations.
Loyalty to a more powerful abuser — in spite of the danger that this loyalty puts the victim in — is common among victims of domestic abuse, battered partners and child abuse (dependent children). In many instances the victims choose to remain loyal to their abuser, and choose not to leave him or her, even when they are offered a safe placement in foster homes or safe houses. This syndrome was described by psychoanalysts of the object relations theory school (see Fairbairn) as the phenomenon of psychological identification with the more powerful abuser.
The Obliteration of History by the 'Destroyers of Culture'
Trotsky Protests Too Much, Emma Goldman 1938
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence--economic, political, even spiritual--is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
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Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government --must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
Farewell Address, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
Envy's Attack on Creativity
Goya's picture of Saturn (Cronos in Greek mythology) eating one of his children is horrific. It is an insightful depiction of an envious attack on creativity. Saturn's face shows malevolence, rage, anguish and horror to the point of madness. According to Greek mythology, Cronos was, with savage irony, the god of fertility, one of the earliest of the gods. He had castrated his father Uranus at his mother Gaia's behest because she was tired of ceaseless childbearing and angry because Uranus had imprisoned many of their children. Cronos led a rebellion of the Titans and became the leader of the gods in his father's place but he forgot to placate his mother for usurping his father's place and not freeing his brothers. She foretold that he too would be replaced as king of the gods by one of his children. To avert this misfortune Cronos ate his many children at birth till he was tricked by his wife and given a stone to eat instead of the last child, who was Zeus and who duly became king.
In devouring his offspring Cronos showed scant regard for them as sentient beings and that is precisely what envy does to the one who is envied. It negates their subjective reality. As I said above we go to some lengths to avoid being envied; it is an uncomfortable and difficult experience. The envied one feels the attack of envy as a repudiation of their self. All one is and has been is discounted; all the envier sees is the success of the now. The hard work, the suffering, the penury, the anxiety, all are obliterated by the envier. The envied one is no longer a person, they are an object - a thing. 'Whether I now ridicule or covet this possession is not so important as the seeming advantage I gain by reducing... you to your possession (Farber, 1976:40). We do not ask to be envied, indeed we seek to avoid it, but once triggered there is nothing we can do about it. It is the fact of being that is the target, not what we are doing. Nietzsche said, "If I cannot have something, no one is to have anything, no one is to be anything!" (quoted in Ulanov 1983:20)
Chronos and his Children: Envy and Repartation
Pallas Athena. Because of a prophecy that his child would become greater than him, Zeus decided to devour Metis in the first month of her pregnancy. This cannibalistic type of aborting his child was not successful however. When the time had come for the child to be born, Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and patroness of Athens, sprang fully armed from Zeus' head. This was some kind of after effect of Hephaestos' technique to cure headaches: cracking the patient's skull. As Zeus was immortal it did not harm him too much.
In the Olympian pantheon, Athena was remade as the favorite daughter of Zeus, born from his forehead. The story of her birth comes in several versions. In the one most commonly cited, Zeus lay with Metis, the goddess of crafty thought, but immediately feared the consequences. It had been prophesied that Metis would bear children more powerful than Zeus himself. In order to forestall these dire consequences, Zeus transformed Metis into a fly and swallowed her immediately after lying with her. He was too late: Metis had already conceived a child. Metis immediately began making a helmet and robe for her fetal daughter. The hammering as she made the helmet caused Zeus great pain and Prometheus, Hephaestus, Hermes or Palaemon (depending on the sources examined) cleaved Zeus's head with the double-headed Minoan axe (labrys). Athena leaped from Zeus's head, fully grown and armed, and Zeus was none the worse for the experience.
Here is Hubbard's so-called factual and scientific truth that all Scientologist's must not only accept as reality but experience as reality:
75 million years ago, the galactic overlord for this sector of the galaxy was called Xenu. He was in charge of 76 planets, including Earth (at that time known as Teegeeack).
All of the planets Xenu controlled were over-populated by, on average, 178 billion people. Social problems dictated that Xenu rid his sector of the galaxy of this overpopulation problem, so he developed a plan.
Xenu sent out tax audit demands to all these trillions of people. As each one entered the audit centers for the income tax inspections, the people were seized, held down and injected with a mixture of alcohol and glycol, and frozen. Then, all 13.5 trillion of these frozen people were put into spaceships that looked exactly like DC8 airplanes, except that the spaceships had rocket engines instead of propellers.
Xenu's entire fleet of DC8-like spaceships then flew to planet Earth, where the frozen people were dumped in and around volcanoes in the Canary Islands and the Hawaiian Islands. When Xenu's Air Force had finished dumping the bodies into the volcanoes, hydrogen bombs were dropped into the volcanoes and the frozen space aliens were vaporized.
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Today on Earth all the spirits of these aliens have attached themselves to our bodies and are the root cause of the false reality that all but Scientology's "Homo Novis" or OT 8's on earth experience. It is the job of all Scientologists to remove this false reality from the world by auditing each and every space alien spirit and human on earth and the
entire universe to CLEAR. For those who oppose Scientology and stand in their way like the Lisa McPherson Trust and all Scientology critics, Scientology promises to do away with them "quietly and without sorrow".
Demystifying Scientology's Fundamental Reality -- The BT's (Body Thetans)
Parsons and Hubbard together performed their own version of the secret eighth degree ritual (017) of the Ordo Templi Orientis in January 1946. The ritual is called "concerning the secret marriages of gods with men" or "the magical masturbation" and is usually a homosexual ritual. The purpose of this ritual was to attract a woman willing to participate in the next stage of Hubbard and Parsons' Sex Magick.
Hubbard and Parsons were attempting the most daring magical feat imaginable. They were trying to incarnate the Scarlet Woman described in the Book of Revelation as "Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth ... drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus." (018) During the rituals, Parsons described Babalon as "mother of anarchy and abominations". The woman who they believed had answered their call, Marjorie Cameron, joined in with their sexual rituals in March 1946.
"Tom Cruise became psychotic during a secret Scientology initiation in which one is told that rather than being one person, one is composed of thousands of aliens from all over the universe fighting for control of your body. After completing this initiation, known as OT III, Tom appeared sickly with black circles under his eyes and pasty skin."
'No Man Sees My Face and Lives'
Concrete evidence that electronic mind control was the true object of study at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was exposed by the Washington Post in 1977.
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Download Washington Post article: Psychic_Spying? (pdf format) August 7, 1977
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The "remote viewing" team at SRI was really engaged in projecting words and images directly to the cranium. It was not a humanitarian pastime: the project was military and test subjects are subjected to a lifetime of EM torture plied with the same thorough disregard for human rights as the radiation tests conducted at the height of the Cold War. To be sure, the treatment subjects have received at the hands of their own government would be considered atrocities if practiced in wartime.
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Many of the SRI 'empaths' were mustered from L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology, Harold Puthoff, the Institute's senior researcher, is a leading Scientologist. Two "remote viewers" from SRI have also held rank in the Church: Ingo Swann, a Class VII Operating Thetan, a founder of the Scientology Center in Los Angeles, and the late Pat Price.
Stanford, Scientology and the CIA
The German government considers the Scientology organization a commercial enterprise with a history of taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and an extreme dislike of any criticism. The government is also concerned that the organization's totalitarian structure and methods may pose a risk to Germany's democratic society. Several kinds of evidence have influenced this view of Scientology, including the organization's activities in the United States.
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In its March 22, 1995, the Federal Labor Court also found that Scientology utilizes "inhuman and totalitarian practices." Often members are separated from their families and friends. The organization is structured so as to make the individual psychologically and financially dependent on a Scientology system.
In response to numerous petitions, including those from relatives and former members and one signed by over 40,000 concerned citizens, the German Parliament (Bundestag) established a study commission in 1996 to gather factual information on the goals, activities and practices of "so-called sects and psychological groups." The commission included 12 experts from the fields of justice, sociology, psychology, education, religious studies and theology. The commission, which was not focused exclusively on Scientology, neither examined religious and ideological views nor is it preparing a list of groups active in Germany. Following two years of study, in June 1998 the commission issued a final report which included a recommendation that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution keep Scientology under observation. (see below Federal and Regional Action)
Scientology and Germany:Understanding the German View of Scientology
http://www.wernererhard.com/wernererhardlosangelestimes.htm
Famous Scientologists
Celebrity, Influential, Notable Members of the Church of Scientology
Werner Erhard - former Scientologist who founded est
When foreign molecules enter the body, the resulting response is not their automatic destruction but regulation of their levels within the system's other cognitive activities. The response will vary and will depend upon the entire context of the network.
When immunologists inject large amounts of a foreign agent into the body, as they do in standard animal experiments, the immune system reacts with the massive defensive response described in the classical theory. However, this is a highly contrived laboratory situation. In its natural surroundings, an animal does not receive large amounts of harmful substances. The small amounts that do enter its body are incorporated naturally into the ongoing regulatory activities of its immune network.
With this understanding of the immune system as a cognitive, self-organizing and self-regulating network, the puzzle of the self/non-self distinction is easily resolved. The immune system simply does not and needs not distinguish between body cells and foreign agents, because both are subject to the same regulatory processes. However, when the invading foreign agents are so massive that they cannot be incorporated into the regulatory network, as for example in the case of infections, they will trigger specific mechanisms in the immune system that mount a defensive response.
The field of "cognitive immunology" is still in its infancy, and the self-organizing properties of immune networks are by no means well understood.
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In Varela's opinion, a sophisticated psychosomatic ("mind-body") view of health will not develop until we understand the nervous system and the immune system as two interacting cognitive systems, two "brains" in continuous conversation.
The Immune System Our Second Brain
A swarm:
- Made up of individuals that can act independently
- Can communicate between individuals
- Have no one controlling entity
1. Signs, not molecules, are the basic units in the study of life. 2. The simplest entity to posses real semiotic competence is the cell. This is because the cell is a self-referential system based on redescription in the digital code of DNA (Hoffmeyer 1992). 3. Subjectivity - or better "subjectness" - is not an either-or but a more-or-less phenomenon. Subjectness has its own natural history. 4. Living systems exhibit extreme semiogenic behaviour based on the semiotic dynamics of semetic interactions, whereby habits come to signify the release of further habits in an infinitely long and complex web stretching back to the beginning of life and forward to the global semiosphere of tomorrow. 5. Vertebrate bodies are supposed to function on the basis of swarm dynamic principles not unlike those pertaining to social insects. 6. The swarm of cells constituting a human body should be seen as a swarm of swarms, i.e., a huge swarm of overlapping swarms of very different kinds. The minor swarms again are swarm-entities, so that we get a hierarchy of swarms. 7. An image arises in which the brain is functionally integrated into the body. Swarms of immune cells interact with swarms of nerve cells in maintaining the somatic ecology. 8. Thoughts and feelings are not localised entities. They swarm out of our body collective.
Vermin Man. Constantine (2005). Based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore.
'Alexander found Babylon a mistress easier to enter than to leave.' -Ptolemy
As he was pursuing his conquests, Alexander the Great stopped for a time in Babylon and had intended to rebuild. He later returned only to die in it in 322 BC.
Space Preservation Act of 2001 (Introduced in House)
HR 2977 IH
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2977
To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 2, 2001
Mr. KUCINICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Space Preservation Act of 2001'.
SEC. 2. REAFFIRMATION OF POLICY ON THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE IN SPACE.
Congress reaffirms the policy expressed in section 102(a) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2451(a)), stating that it `is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.'.
SEC. 3. PERMANENT BAN ON BASING OF WEAPONS IN SPACE.
The President shall--
(1) implement a permanent ban on space-based weapons of the United States and remove from space any existing space-based weapons of the United States; and
(2) immediately order the permanent termination of research and development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of all space-based weapons of the United States and their components.
SEC. 4. WORLD AGREEMENT BANNING SPACE-BASED WEAPONS.
The President shall direct the United States representatives to the United Nations and other international organizations to immediately work toward negotiating, adopting, and implementing a world agreement banning space-based weapons.
SEC. 5. REPORT.
The President shall submit to Congress not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, a report on--
(1) the implementation of the permanent ban on space-based weapons required by section 3; and
(2) progress toward negotiating, adopting, and implementing the agreement described in section 4.
SEC. 6. NON SPACE-BASED WEAPONS ACTIVITIES.
Nothing in this Act may be construed as prohibiting the use of funds for--
(1) space exploration;
(2) space research and development;
(3) testing, manufacturing, or production that is not related to space-based weapons or systems; or
(4) civil, commercial, or defense activities (including communications, navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance, early warning, or remote sensing) that are not related to space-based weapons or systems.
SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) The term `space' means all space extending upward from an altitude greater than 60 kilometers above the surface of the earth and any celestial body in such space.
(2)(A) The terms `weapon' and `weapons system' mean a device capable of any of the following:
(i) Damaging or destroying an object (whether in outer space, in the atmosphere, or on earth) by--
(I) firing one or more projectiles to collide with that object;
(II) detonating one or more explosive devices in close proximity to that object;
(III) directing a source of energy (including molecular or atomic energy, subatomic particle beams, electromagnetic radiation, plasma, or extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation) against that object; or
(IV) any other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means.
(ii) Inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person)--
(I) through the use of any of the means described in clause (i) or subparagraph (B);
(II) through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations; or
(III) by expelling chemical or biological agents in the vicinity of a person.
(B) Such terms include exotic weapons systems such as--
(i) electronic, psychotronic, or information weapons;
(ii) chemtrails;
(iii) high altitude ultra low frequency weapons systems;
(iv) plasma, electromagnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons;
(v) laser weapons systems;
(vi) strategic, theater, tactical, or extraterrestrial weapons; and
(vii) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons.
(C) The term `exotic weapons systems' includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems (such as the ionosphere and upper atmosphere) or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region on earth or in space.
Lust excites energy and releases strength. Pitilessly it drove primitive man to victory, for the pride of bearing back a woman the spoils of the defeated. Today it drives the great men of business who run the banks, the press and international trade to increase their wealth by creating centers, harnessing energies and exalting the crowds, to worship and glorify with it the object of their lust. These men, tired but strong, find time for lust, the principal motive force of their action and of the reactions caused by their actions affecting multitudes and worlds.
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We must get rid of all the ill-omened debris of romanticism, counting daisy petals, moonlight duets, heavy endearments, false hypocritical modesty. When beings are drawn together by a physical attraction, let them—instead of talking only of the fragility of their hearts—dare to express their desires, the inclinations of their bodies, and to anticipate the possibilities of joy and disappointment in their future carnal union.
Futurist Manifesto of Lust, 1913
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We will glorify war - the world’s only hygiene - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for.
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Im takin your ass in a rented van to venice beach
In a cardboard box
Beatin down your knees with a bag of master locks
Police cant hear you with a dead body tied near you
Its hot, Im drinkin soda with a tech-9 sprayin
Your fan belt motor
Stop the bullshit, blast you hands of the hood
I pull quick
Video tape you in a puddle of blood with razors in
Your dick
With an extra clip I move your torso
Spit on you hips
With mac-11 vice grips, surgery is major
With my sneakers stompin on your pager
With my cup of maxwell coffee, I like niggaz whose
Bossy
The World's Most Powerful Customer
The size of U.S. government contracting is staggering: In 2004, the federal contracting marketplace was nearly $300 billion--and growing. Following the national trend toward outsourcing business functions, the Bush administration has prodded the government to outsource more work. The rising defense budget, the creation of the massive new Department of Homeland Security, the extensive rebuilding in the Gulf Coast, and the reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq also add to contracting opportunities.
The American I.G. Farben
Who were the prominent Wall Street establishment financiers who directed the activities of American I.G., the I.G. Farben affiliate in the United States promoting Nazi propaganda?
American I.G. Farben directors included some of the more prominent members of Wall Street. German interests re-entered the United States after World War I, and successfully overcame barriers designed to keep I.G. out of the American market.
And counting...
Contractor | 98-03 Contract Totals | Rank |
Lockheed Martin | $94,056,641,059 | 1 |
Boeing Co | $81,645,655,401 | 2 |
Raytheon Co | $39,904,717,897 | 3 |
Northrop Grumman | $33,829,847,656 | 4 |
General Dynamics | $33,280,959,821 | 5 |
United Technologies | $17,953,516,117 | 6 |
General Electric | $10,600,007,101 | 7 |
Science Applications International Corp | $10,598,835,883 | 8 |
Carlyle Group | $9,334,962,462 | 9 |
Newport News Shipbuilding | $8,852,781,214 | 10 |
TRW Inc | $8,725,744,602 | 11 |
CLASSIFIED DEFENSE CONTRACTOR | $8,267,851,367 | 12 |
Computer Sciences Corp | $6,789,832,719 | 13 |
Halliburton Co | $6,768,728,331 | 1 |
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We Thank You For Your Continued $upport
Eat $hit and say thank you!
Total and Perpetual Futurist War
And as if by magick, the 'Shop Keeper' suddenly appears...right on cue.
There is no 'up' or 'down' in space.
The title of this sector is:
T-Men (1947)
Tagline: United States Treasury agents O'Brien and Genaro infiltrate a counterfeiting ring which has some dangerously good paper. This is supposedly based on several actual Treasury cases.
Deutschland | 09.11.2004
Schicksalstag der Deutschen
Translating...
From Bosnia To Basra
When the Independant State of Croatia proclaimed its independance on April 10th 1941, during the German invasion of Yugoslavia, part of the land it claimed was the former Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina). The province was an ethnic and religious mix, with a portion of the population being Catholic Croatian, a portion being Orthodox Serbian, and a portion being Croatians of the Muslim faith. It was these Muslim inhabitants of Bosnia that Himmler and the SS would target in their recruitment of a Croatian SS Division (although a portion of the future division's men would be Catholic Croatian as well).
13.Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Handschar" (kroat.Nr.1)
Korporate America Contravenes 'OFAC' and Funds Bu$h Terror Network
IRS
Fresno, CA
To Whom It May Concern:
I am paying my tax bill under protest. HSBC, the world’s second largest bank according to the NYSE, was complicit in funding OBL’s 9/11 terror network via British Arab Commercial Bank and al-Shamal Islamic Bank in Khartoum, Sudan and still has (to the best of my knowledge) a representative office in Tehran, Iran. Unfortunately, I have a financial relationship with HSBC and they, in addition to Visa and Mastercard, are complicit in the terror crimes of 9/11 and are still allowed to do business in the US. As far as I am concerned, all of my contracts with Visa and Mastercard are null and void. These entities are complicit in Treason against the United States of America and, additionally, are contravening every principle of the Nuremberg Tribunals of 1950 by profiteering from an illegal war of aggression in the Middle East. US Treasury and the IRS are complicit in Treason against the United States of America and War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace and Crimes Against Humanity. Along with Halliburton and other entities incorporated in the US, Corporate America is contravening the spirit of the US Treasury Department’s ‘OFAC’ Policy. Has HSBC USA been audited by the IRS to see if they are indeed an independent subsidiary as per the Iran sanctions loophole? Probably not. Why am I paying for DHS and DoD protection and ‘security’ if these 9/11 terror networks are still in place and are being directly funded by the US consumer and Corporate America? As a patriotic American citizen in a democratic society, I deserve immediate answers to these questions.
Sincerely,
Complete Idiot
Office of Foreign Assets Control
OFAC List of Settlements and Assessments
If you want to get round export controls, just sell the product to a front company in Dubai. The middlemen will take it from there.
President George W. Bush said at a Nov. 7, 2001, news conference. "If you do business with terrorists, if you support them or sponsor them, you will not do business with the United States of America.'' Four years later, dozens of banks with offices in the U.S. have helped provide billions of dollars to Iran's government and the other nations accused of being terror sponsors.
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Iran has also been unwilling to deliver to the U.S. or a third country senior al-Qaeda members detained by Iran who were involved in planning the Sept. 11 attacks, he said. Frederick Jones, a spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House, said he couldn't say why the Bush administration allows companies to do business in the U.S. that are also in terror-sponsoring states. Two spokespeople at the State Department, Steven Pike and Carol Thompson, also said they were unable to answer that question.
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Financing Plants in Iran
In March 2002, it agreed to be the lead arranger of a $155 million credit to help build an ammonia and urea plant for Iran's National Petrochemical Co. In February 2003, HSBC agreed to provide NPC a $108 million export credit to finance equipment and services to construct a petrochemical plant. In July 2004, Iran Khodro Industrial Group, the country's biggest maker of cars and trucks, selected HSBC and BNP Paribas to manage a sale of 300 million euros in bonds. Khodro, which is 40 percent owned by the Iranian government, hadn't sold the bonds as of April. In August 2004, HSBC's Tokyo office joined with ING Groep NV, the biggest Dutch financial services company, and Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Japan's export credit bank, to provide a $154 million loan to NPC to finance imports of Japanese equipment and services, according to the Japanese bank, which lends money to help sales of Japanese products abroad. HSBC also has clients in Syria, the other country the U.S. singles out as among the worst of the designated terror states.
Lebanese Office
"Through the Lebanese office of HSBC, there is business done with Syrian entities," HSBC spokesman Martin in Dubai says. Syrians opening accounts have to meet the bank's standards of acceptability and go through the same identification checks as other HSBC clients, he says. HSBC does additional Syrian business through London-based British Arab Commercial Bank Ltd. HSBC owns 46.5 percent of the bank, whose chief executive officer is an HSBC employee on loan. HSBC holds five of the 11 board seats. Other shareholders of British Arab Commercial Bank, known as BACB, are the Libyan government's Libyan Arab Foreign Bank, with 25 percent, and Iraq's state-owned Rafidain Bank, with 4.91 percent. Libyan and Iraqi representatives sit on BACB's board alongside HSBC bankers. During Saddam Hussein's rule, an Iraqi representative traveled from Baghdad to London for some board meetings, according to BACB. BACB is a corner of the HSBC empire that specializes in doing business legally with countries that have been marginalized by sanctions, BACB General Manager and Deputy Chief Executive Mohamed Fezzani says.
'A Small Bank'
"We are a small bank, and we know exactly what we are doing,'' Fezzani, 67, says. "As long as we don't finance the wrong stuff.'' BACB's Web site calls these 'niche markets,' listing Iran, Libya, Sudan and Syria along with other countries that aren't on the U.S. terror list, such as Algeria and Morocco. Leaflets promoting BACB's activities in Syria and Libya are displayed in the lobby of its London headquarters on Mansion House Place, a six-story modern cement building decorated with stripes of brick, nestled behind the 250-year-old official residence of the lord mayor of London. HSBC does its Sudan business through BACB, Martin says. BACB also provides HSBC with a base in Libya; HSBC's Web site lists the BACB Tripoli office as its address in that country. ``We are their representatives in the countries where they have no presence,'' says BACB's Fezzani, whose corner office on the top floor of BACB's headquarters overlooks the Bank of England.
Sudan and Syria
Among BACB's clients, he says, are Commercial Bank of Syria, which the U.S. Treasury says has been used by terrorists; the Central Bank of Syria; Sudan's Kanana Sugar Co.; and Bank of Khartoum, a Sudanese state-owned bank undergoing privatization. Fezzani, a Libyan posted to BACB in 1975 by Libyan Arab Foreign Bank, says he, BACB and HSBC take measures to make sure none of the financing BACB provides is misused. BACB has a rule against financing weapons or anything related to the military, he says, and HSBC, as the biggest shareholder, provides legal help to keep the bank in compliance. BACB also hires a cargo inspection contractor to do spot checks of imports it finances to make sure countries such as Syria are actually buying what they say they are. Fezzani points out the window toward the Bank of England, which has been one of BACB's regulators. "They had a sanctions committee that came to examine us and found everything perfect,'' he says.
Enforcing Sanctions
Bank of England spokesman Peter Rodgers confirmed the central bank had audited BACB and said he couldn't discuss the outcome. The Bank of England helped enforce U.K. and UN sanctions against Libya and UN sanctions against Iraq. In the U.S., HSBC's business dealings -- like those of dozens of other banks including New York-based Citigroup and JPMorgan -- have fallen afoul of sanctions. The U.S. Treasury Department has fined at least 104 financial services companies for more than 300 transactions related to terrorists and terror sponsors since the beginning of 1998, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of Treasury documents that detail fines. The Treasury disclosed the records, which include copies of Treasury's letters to the companies, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Public Citizen, the consumer group founded by Ralph Nader, and the Corporate Crime Reporter newsletter, both based in Washington. Banks say most penalties stem from employees accidentally allowing money transfers to companies, people or countries blocked by the U.S. In some cases, banks voluntarily disclose the transfers after discovering the mistakes.
Modest Penalties
The maximum civil penalty per violation is $11,000 under Iran, Sudan, Syria and terrorism sanctions, according to a Treasury Department fact sheet, and they're often negotiated lower. That provides little deterrent, Arizona Treasurer David Petersen says. "Some of the fines are so puny it's laughable,'' the 55- year-old Republican says. The biggest banks have the greatest number of fines, according to Treasury records. Citigroup, the biggest U.S. bank, paid at least 22 fines from the start of 1998 to April 2005. JPMorgan, the No. 2 U.S. bank, had at least 32. Bank of America Corp. had at least 19, and Wachovia Corp. had at least 24. Both banks are based in Charlotte, North Carolina. American Express had at least 10. "We handle millions of international transactions, and occasionally, an inadvertent human or system error occurs,'' says Shirley Norton, a spokeswoman at Bank of America. "As soon as we become aware of such an instance, we voluntarily report it.''
Fined 18 Times
The Treasury Department has fined HSBC at least 18 times under terror-related sanctions since the start of 1998. One penalty was for a transfer in April 2000 of $100,000 benefiting the Taliban, which at the time was running Afghanistan and providing bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization with the base from which he plotted the Sept. 11 attacks. Some U.S. regulators say HSBC's controls are inadequate. In April 2003, HSBC Bank USA agreed with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the State of New York Banking Department to improve its system of monitoring incoming and outgoing fund transfers for suspicious activity, according to the New York Fed. The agreement said there were "deficiencies'' in the bank's anti-money-laundering policies and procedures, customer due diligence practices and internal controls. "We are taking a number of steps to upgrade our systems and procedures," then HSBC Bank USA Chief Executive Youssef Nasr said in a statement at the time.
Office of the Arizona State Treasurer:
HSBC Chases Profit in Iran, Nations U.S. Says Sponsor Terrorism
HSBC bank: Enemy of the United States of America.
- Headquarters in London
- World's second biggest bank by stock market value
- Presence in 79 countries
- Founded in 1865 by UK nationals in Hong Kong
- Originally called Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
About HSBC:
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBC's international network comprises over 9,500 offices in 76 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa and with assets of US$1,502 billion at 31 December 2005.
With listings on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges, shares in HSBC Holdings plc are held by nearly 200,000 shareholders in some 100 countries and territories. The shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American Depository Receipts.
In the Middle East, the HSBC Group is represented by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited. A principal member of the HSBC Group since 1959, the Bank has 30 branches throughout the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Autonomous Area, including an offshore banking unit in Bahrain. This extensive regional coverage is strengthened by another member of the HSBC Group HSBC Bank Egypt SAE, and by its associated companies, The Saudi British Bank and British Arab Commercial Bank Limited. In addition to its Middle Eastern network, the Bank has a representative office in Tehran, Iran.
HSBC's Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets (CIBM) provide tailored financial products and services to major government, corporate and institutional clients. Within client-focused business lines, Corporate and Institutional Banking, Global Investment Banking, Global Markets and Global Transaction Banking, CIBM offers full range of capabilities, including foreign exchange, equity capital markets, equity sales and trading, fixed income, derivatives, risk advisory, investment banking advisory, payments and cash management, trade services and security services.
In 2006, HSBC won Best Bank for Payments and Collections and Best for Payments and Collections in the Middle East awards from Global Finance magazines. In 2005, HSBC again topped league tables compiled by the Middle East Economic Digest, for the third consecutive year, including 'Best Bank in the GCC Project-Related and Asset Backed Finance Market' and 'Best Financial Institution in Arranging Loans and Regional Bonds'. Euromoney named HSBC as 'Best Bank in the Middle East' for 2005. This is the third successive year that HSBC has received the leading regional banking award. In 2005 Project Finance International awarded HSBC top 'Global Project Finance Advisor'.
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HSBC joins DGCX as Precious Metals Trade Member
As this information came out (especially after the Deuxieme Bureau had assembled information in the months before and after 9/11 as well as information from many different sources) the debate really began about the aid groups and their ties to the Islamic banking community and terrorism. Western banks are also involved. For example, the Giro Credit Bank in Vienna had no problem administering the $350 million account of Islamic fundamentalists for the war in Bosnia. The al-Shamal Islamic Bank in Khartoum uses a correspondent bank, the British Arab Commercial Bank, and the al-Shamal bank is seen by secret services to have administered a great part of bin Laden’s business interests in the second half of the 1990s. The British Arab Commercial Bank is 25% owned by the Libyan Central Bank-controlled Libyan Arab Foreign Bank while another main holder is Hong Kong-Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). During testimony in court regarding the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the State witness Jamal Mohammed al-Fadl said that Al Qaida members had accounts at al-Shamal. Another account was in the Bank Faisal Islami, a second Sudanese bank that the Geneva-based DMI has part ownership in as well. In the same court case another Al Qaida defector, Essam al-Ridi, said bin Laden took $230,000 and transferred it from al-Shamal Bank to Arizona to acquire a plane which was supposed to fly Stinger missiles from Pakistan to Sudan.
Report On Islamists, The Far Right, And Al Taqwa
"HALLIBURTON!" CHIRPED THE employee who answered the telephone in Tehran. Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, part of the "axis of evil"? Yes, the company was a tenant, confirmed the guard in the lobby of a building on Bucharest Street when we dropped in one recent afternoon. The staff rarely invited guests up to their tenth-floor offices, said the guard, and the company's name was not among those displayed on the lobby wall. Halliburton finally dispatched two Iranian staff members to ask this reporter to leave. Said the guard softly: "We're not too sure what the company is up to."
Actually it's no big mystery. In January Halliburton and the local Oriental Kish Oil won a $308 million contract to drill for gas in Iran's giant South Pars field. "Halliburton and Oriental Kish are the final winners," Akbar Torkan, managing director of Pars Oil & Gas, said on national TV. The statement sparked fury among Iran's hardliners. One newspaper warned, "Footsteps of the Yankees heard moving in on Iran's oil sector."
Download US-congress-Lautenberg Report-Halliburton-0205.pdf
US State Department's growing expediency in dealing with Khartoum's terrorist connections, November 5, 2001
http://www.sudanreeves.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=396&page=1
Halliburton Doing Business with the 'Axis of Evil'
While Halliburton insists its activities in Iran are entirely legal, some in Congress claim that the Houston oil services giant is milking a loophole in the U.S. embargo that allows foreign subsidiaries of American companies to work in Iran. "They are operating on the very boundaries of legality of U.S. law," says Dan Katz, chief counsel for Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-New Jersey)...
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Under U.S. law, a foreign subsidiary can legally operate in Iran if it acts independently of its parent and has no American executives. In addition, there's a $40 million limit on how much a non-U.S. company can invest in Iran. Halliburton spokeswoman Beverly Scippa told FORTUNE that HPSL's new contract is worth "between $30 million and $35 million over the next three years."
Nevertheless, Halliburton is under grand-jury investigation for possible sanctions violations in Iran. U.S. Treasury officials began their probe in 2001 after HPSL was found to share its Dubai address and telephone number with Halliburton. Senator Lautenberg plans in February to reintroduce legislation--defeated in the Senate by one vote last year--to ban foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies from doing business in Iran. Meanwhile, the oilmen in Texas are likely to use the loophole as long as it exists.
Dick Cheney, Iran and Halliburton: A Grand Jury Investigates Sanctions Violations
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Halliburton has consistently argued that it is not in violation of U.S. sanctions law because Halliburton Products & Services Limited (which is registered in the Cayman Islands but located in Dubai) operates autonomously without direction from senior management in Houston. In documents the company has submitted to investigators, for example, Halliburton has stated that Halliburton Product & Services' 133 employes include no Americans and that its five-person board of directors includes four British citizens and one Canadian citizen; “none of them is a U.S. permanent resident alien” or green card holder. “Day to day management and decision-making responsibility at HPSL resides with the Management Director (who is a British citizen) and other local management, all of whom reside in Dubai.”
But other company documents and sources familiar with the Justice Department investigation suggest that, at the very least, U.S. government officials have had questions about the Dubai-based subsidiary’s “independence” for some time. Company disclosures show that the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control first questioned Halliburton about whether it was in compliance of U.S. sanctions against Iran as early as mid-2001. In January, 2004, Treasury raised the issue again after a "60 Minutes" report that Halliburton Products & Services was located in, and receiving mail, in the same Dubai office tower address where another of the company’s principal—and indisputably U.S.-controlled subsidiaries, Kellog Brown & Root—also had offices. This led, according to a company report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to a referral of the matter by Treasury to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation. Halliburton then received its first a grand jury subpoena for documents on September 16, 2004, according to the firm’s latest filing with the SEC.
A Halliburton official, who asked not to be identified, noted that a Congressional anti-Iran sanctions law—and Treasury Department regulations interpreting it—expressly allowed foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies that “ran their own affairs” to continue doing business in Iran. This, the official said, is in contrast to U.S.-imposed sanctions on Cuba and North Korea, which explicitly cover all foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies. (Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, is pushing legislation to close what he considers the current loophole in the law by prohibiting any foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies from doing business in Iran.)
WESTERN intelligence agencies are examining more than 40 British companies suspected of being used to launder cash for Osama Bin Laden to finance his terror campaign.
Allegations that Britain is central to the Al-Qaeda terror group's financial empire were being scrutinised as the American Senate was shown a document last week claiming that leading corporations in the Middle East and a member of Bin Laden's family may have helped to manage funds. A chart listed more than 100 suspected Al-Qaeda connections in more than 20 countries.
Further details of the British charities and firms with possible links to Bin Laden emerged in an intelligence report commissioned by the French government. It names 44 British organisations which may be linked to Bin Laden.
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In Washington, Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate's permanent investigations subcommittee, said last week that Bin Laden is suspected of using Sudan's Al-Shamal Islamic bank to shield his financial activities. The bank has correspondent accounts with leading western banks, including three in London, and it is believed that Bin Laden may have used these to transfer funds anonymously.
Al-Shamal was allegedly founded with a £30m cash injection by Bin Laden and its shareholders include senior Saudi businessmen. It was claimed in an American trial this year that it was used to transfer Al-Qaeda funds. Al-Shamal last week denied that Bin Laden was a backer.
The British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB), Banque Française de l'Orient and the American Express Bank in London all had accounts linked to the bank. "We closed the account last Monday," said a spokesman for the American Express Bank. The French bank said it was checking for links to Bin Laden. BACB was unavailable for comment.
British Companies at Heart of Cash Network
The Sunday Times, September 30, 2001
Feds Launch Operation Green Quest
Shareholders in the Bank of Terror
Buenos Aires issues world's first ban on offshore shell companies
The Aberdeen Mafia in Hong Kong
How Libya Thwarts US Sanctions
The Ten Worst Corporations of 2005
Taking On Corporate Power - And Winning
By the way...you are all under arrest.
Brooks: "Col. North, in your work at the NSC, were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster?"
North: [Turns away, annoyed and irritated.]
Sen. Daniel Inouye (Co-chair): "I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so may I request that you not touch upon that."
Brooks: "I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in the Miami papers and several others that there had been a plan developed, by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of an emergency that would suspend the American Constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was the area in which [North] had worked. I believe that it was, and I wanted to get his confirmation."
Inouye: "May I most respectfully request that that matter not be touched upon at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I'm certain arrangements can be made for an executive session."
Nordau's major work Entartung (Degeneration), is an essentially philistine and moralistic attack on so-called degenerate art, as well as a polemic against the effects of a range of the rising social phenomena of the period, such as rapid urbanization and its perceived effects on the human body.
Nordau begins his work with a 'medical' and social interpretation of what has created this Degeneration in society.
Max Nordau, co-founder of the World Zionist Organization
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May 6, 1880 – June 15, 1938
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aka Reticulation of Gelatin Silver Halide Emulsion (2003)
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The central beliefs of Identity are that:
1) - The Biblical God, or Yahweh, created a single race in his own image - the White Race. These are the Chosen People. The message of the Bible, both Old and New testaments, is a message only for the White People. Only White People have souls, or have a hope of salvation. The identity of the White People - and hence the name Christian Identity - is that they are the Old Testament Israelites. Some Identity believers follow all of the dietary laws and prohibitions of the early chapters of the Bible, and the majority maintain a fundamentalist belief in the literal interpretation of Biblical texts. In their view, Christ himself was a blue-eyed, blond-haired Israelite, with absolutely no Jewish ancestry, or any connection to the Jews. To claim that Christ had a Jewish genealogy is, from the point of view of Identity, a blasphemy of the first order. The White People eventually became dispersed from Israel and settled in Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Britain, and eventually, in the ! USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These White People are known as the Aryans, and where they live are the Aryan Nations.
2) - Before the creation of Adam and Eve, the God Yahweh created a second race. These are sometimes called "Mud People" in Identity literature, and are the ancestors of all people of color; Africans, Asians, Aboriginal Australians, African-Americans, and so on. These "Mud People" were intended by God to be the servants and slaves of the White People. They have no souls, are not truly human, and are not valued by God.
3) - The third race of people are the Jews. According to Identity, they were not created by God but by Satan. They are not the Old Testament Israelites, but have simply falsely assumed that ancestry in order to hide their evil origin, and as a cover for their Satanic purposes. The Jews have intermarried with the Mud People and created a variety of mixed racial groups in order to further insinuate themselves into the human community. Lacking souls, or even a conscience, they are able to devote themselves to their true task - the destruction of God's chosen people - the Aryans. The Jews do this through slyly pitting people of color against the Aryans; through taking control of the world banking and financial institutions; through the invention of socialism and communism; by taking control of the media and of the government; and by an endless conspiracy to seize global control through a One World Government.
4) - Identity theology maintains that any intermarriage between Aryans and non-Aryans automatically yields off-spring who are spiritually, biologically, and mentally degenerate, and who are soul-less. They believe that intermarriage is slowly polluting Aryan gene pools and destroying the Aryan peoples. Any Aryan who has mixed-race children, who marries a Mud person or a Jew, is a "race traitor." Race traitors, so defined, are frequently the objects of intimidation, assault, or murder. In the white racist State advocated by Aryan Nations and other militant Identity groups, race traitors would be summarily executed by the State. Parenthetically, the term "race traitor" is sometimes used in Identity literature to denote Aryans who are actively opposed to Identity, such as anti-fascist or anti-racist workers.
5) - Identity also maintains a strong belief in the Second Coming of Christ. Like many fundamentalist Christians, they believe that Christ will return soon and usher in the Millennium - a thousand years of God's Kingdom on earth. However, they also believe that Christ will not return until the Aryan people have done their duty and restored God's original plan; namely, the return of people of color to servant and slave status, and the genocide of the Jews.
Identity theology recognizes that the Jews will not kill themselves, nor will people of color voluntarily return to slave status. Therefore, many Identity groups are heavily armed and engaged in weapons training and survivalist tactics. They are prepared for a racial war - a racial holy war - as a long period of what they call "Tribulations" before Christ's ultimate return. The bombings, murders, and assassinations that Identity organizations have already engaged in must be understood within this religious and political context.
ARYAN NATIONS: CHRISTIAN IDENTITY AND FASCIST TERROR
'The Promised Land' (Eretz Israel)
Zionism in the Age of Dictators
Principle Vl
The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under; international law:
a. Crimes against peace:
i.. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
ii.. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
b. War crimes:
Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or illtreatment of prisoners of war, of persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
c. Crimes against humanity:
Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.
Principle VII
Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principles VI is a crime under international law.
Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunals, 1950
Iraq and the Nuremberg Precedent
I am she who separated Heaven and Earth
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I have overthrown the dominion of Tyrants
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I have made Justice more powerful than silver and gold
I have caused Truth to be considered beautiful
What the hell are you talking about?
Oh, I don't know...guess I'm just delusional. Forget it. Carry on as if there is no illegal war of aggression going on that contravenes every principle of the Nuremberg Tribunals. Let's not even include that concept in any discussion of the Iraq War! Ever! That would be very bad news for the idiotic Democrats that voted for this illegal war. And it would set a very bad precedent for future 'unintentional' Caliphate building by 'Democrats' as well. Not to mention bad for the morale of the US workforce. After all, that's all that really matters, isn't it? We can't afford to have the drone workforce going around thinking that they're complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity on a daily basis, now can we? That would be very very bad for General Dynamics, Raytheon and the parent company, IG Farben.
Bon Appetite!
Israelis to Sue Ahmadinejad for Plotting to Commit Genocide
Obedience and devotion are required but conviction and agreement despised, since the latter imply at least the possibility of a last remnant of spontaneous thought and action. Eichmann, who evinced no spontaneity, spoke in his defense of "the obedience of corpses (Kadavergehorsam)."
Evil:The Crime against Humanity
Duties of a Law-Abiding Citizen
Finally, he established an 'assembly line' system whereby a Jew could up at the Central Emigration Office with his papers and proceed from desk to desk until he arrived at the end, with a passport and an exit visa but stripped of his property, cash and rights.
"Anyone who criticises Israel's actions or argues that pro-Israel groups have significant influence over US Middle East policy," the authors have written, "...stands a good chance of being labelled an anti-Semite. Indeed, anyone who merely claims that there is an Israeli lobby runs the risk of being charged with anti-Semitism ... Anti-Semitism is something no-one wants to be accused of." This is strong stuff in a country where - to quote the late Edward Said - the "last taboo" (now that anyone can talk about blacks, gays and lesbians) is any serious discussion of America's relationship with Israel.
United States of Israel by Robert Fisk
The 'Separation Wall' is not in Palestine.
The 'Green Zone' is not in Baghdad.
The title of this sector is:
'Mistakes' (that keep on giving), Living Abortions, Prima Facie Abominations and Logical Fallacies (2006)
Tagline: The temerity of the cynical, unrepentant, arrogant, hostile, unapologetic, secretive, lying, closed, uncommunicative, in denial, dehydriated, fuzzy, funny and inflexible paradigm that still dominates to this very moment. (200?)
aka Thank You For Hijacking the 21st Century (2000)
Tagline: The mysteries of Greek Papyri and Egyptian Sarcophagi...
aka 'After all necessary due diligence... and after long and careful deliberation ...' We Enjoyed a Nice Serving of Veal for Dinner...and for Dessert We Buried Our Heads in the Desert Sand. After engaging our Logical Fallacies, Lies and Ego Pentagon mechanisms, we shifted the blame and moved on to the Next Weapon of Mass Distraction (2006)
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Tagline: Male calves—'byproducts' of the dairy industry—are generally taken from their mothers when they are less than 1 day old. The calves are then put into dark, tiny crates, where they are kept almost completely immobilized so that their flesh stays tender. The calves are fed a liquid diet that is low in iron and has little nutritive value in order to make their flesh white. This heinous treatment makes the calves ill, and they frequently suffer from anemia, diarrhea, and pneumonia. Frightened, sick, and alone, these calves are killed after only a few months of life. 'Veal' is the flesh of a tortured, sick baby cow, and a byproduct of the milk industry.
All adult and baby cows, whether raised for their flesh or their milk, are eventually shipped to a slaughterhouse and killed.
'...and, D'ya know how they make veal? They hang babay calves upsode down and slit them from top to bottom and let the blood drip out.'
Scenes from an Israeli slaughterhouse:
The Meat Industry by Anonymous
The cows who reach the slaughter house can smell the blood and hear the cries of their friends. Their resistance meets sticks, electric shocks, iron poles and kicks. In Israel, the animals are slaughtered fully conscious, upside down. The animal, whose joints may have been strained, squirm from pain and fear that the slaughters must restrain its neck or grasp its nostrils using tongs in order to slice its throat.
Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. -Theodor Adorno
W.hore of Baba Loin
'You either get 'it' or you don't.'
The first est seminar was held in October, 1971, at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco with nearly 1,000 in attendance. Erhard and est were known for training people to get 'It.'
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est adopted, in part, the Zen master approach, which was often abusive, profane, demeaning, and authoritarian.
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'I received a letter from an attorney today, accusing me of 'Cult Related Abuse.' What do I do?'
[FMS?]
MONOXIDE Thumbs a Ride: Drowsy while driving? Make sure carbon monoxide isn't poisoning you at the wheel. A checkup may save a life. Carbon monoxide is a hitchhiker. We all know that this odorless gas, generated by an automobile at the rate of about a cubic foot a minute, will quickly turn a closed garage into a death chamber, but we apt to overlook the fact that it rides along each time we drive out on the highway. Its handiwork shows up in traffic accident news more frequently than most persons realize. The police report may say that the driver 'apparently fell asleep,' or perhaps a big question mark appears in the space where the cause of the accident should have been recorded, since no one remains alive to tell about it. Some of these accidents, it is true, result from lack of sleep or just plain weariness after long hours of driving, but there seems to be no doubt that a good percentage occur when carbon monoxide, stealing a ride in the car, dulls the senses of the driver.
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THE BAPTIST:
You think love is God's only way? Go to the Dead Sea. Look in the bottom, you'll see the two whores, Sodom and Gomorrah. God was angry. He threw fire at them, turned over the dry land and the sea swallowed them up. That's God's way. 'On the day of the Lord blood will flow from wood and the stones of the houses will come alive and kill their owners!' That day is here. He gave me the ax, now I give it to you.
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as McMurphy goes around to the front of the nurses' station and queues up behind the other Acutes who are getting their medication. McMurphy reaches the window, takes the cup, but doesn't take his pills.
MCMURPHY
(to Big Nurse) Pardon me, ma'am, can I ask you somethin'?
BIG NURSE [NURSE MILDRED RATCHED]
(politely) Yes, Mister McMurphy?
MCMURPHY
How 'bout turning off that music for a while so a man can hear himself think?
BIG NURSE
(pleasantly) That music is for everyone, Mister McMurphy.
McMurphy leans in, placing his hand on the window.
MCMURPHY
(confidentially)Well, say, how 'bout easin' it down a bit so a man don't have to shout!
BIG NURSE (CONT'D)
(aware of his physical proximity) Mister McMurphy, there are old men here who couldn't hear the music at all if it were lower. That music is all they have, and I wish you wouldn't lean against the glass there, your hands are staining the window.
McMurphy jerks his hand away.
MCMURPHY
Sorry, ma'am... Sorry 'bout that...
McMurphy breathes on the glass and wipes it clean with his
sleeve.
MCMURPHY
Sorry to have bothered you.
BIG NURSE
Not at all, Mister McMurphy...
McMurphy turns to walk away.
NURSE PILBOW
Your medicine, Mister McMurphy.
MCMURPHY
(turning back, he examines the contents of the cup)
What's the horse pill for, honey?
NURSE PILBOW
It's just medication, Mister McMurphy, good for you. Now down it goes...
MCMURPHY
Look, miss, I don't like swallowing something without knowing what it is!
NURSE PILBOW
(stepping back a little) Don't get upset, Mister McMurphy...
MCMURPHY
I'm not upset. All I wanna know, for the lovva Jesus...
BIG NURSE
That's all right, Miss Pilbow, if Mister McMurphy does not wish to
take his medication orally, he may...
MCMURPHY
No, that's okay, ma'am. Down it goes.
McMurphy makes a big show of popping the pill in his mouth, holding his paper cup upside down, for all to see, then moving on to Washington, who fills it with orange juice.
McMurphy gulps it down, not without some difficulty, then he smiles at all the concerned faces and crosses the room to the card table, where he sits to see the Acutes looking at him.
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'Because...because...because...of the wonderful things he does.'
'It's a small world after all...'
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In the late 1960s, Erhard studied Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard became a significant influence. Scientologists to this day accuse Erhard of having stolen his main ideas for est from Hubbard. We do know that when Erhard set up est he considered making it a church, as Hubbard had done with dianetics and the Church of Scientology. But Erhard decided to incorporate as an educational firm for profit in a broad market.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
Several recent studies have provided direct evidence for the link between post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psychosis. Patients with psychotic disorders are known to be at a higher risk of traumatization and PTSD. Additionally, preclinical and clinical data suggest that the effects of trauma exposure on neural networks may provide a common diathesis for disorders like PTSD and schizophrenia. This article reviews evidence on a) the magnitude of association between PTSD and psychosis, b) the causal mechanisms implicated, and c) treatment considerations relevant to this association. A comprehensive MEDLINE search was conducted, and articles pertinent to epidemiological, clinical, and treatment aspects of comorbid PTSD and psychosis were identified. High rates of PTSD characterize patients with severe mental illness. Psychotic phenomena may also be a relatively common manifestation in patients with chronic PTSD. However, in clinical settings, the diagnosis is often missed, and few systematic guidelines exist for the identification and treatment of these comorbidities. Future neurobiological and treatment studies may be useful in better informing the clinical management of these subgroups.
Linking post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psychosis
How do I recognise a bully?
Most bullying is traceable to one person, male or female - bullying is not a gender issue. Bullies are often clever people (especially female bullies) but you can be clever too.
Who does this describe in your life?
- Jekyll & Hyde nature - vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target sees both sides
- is a convincing, compulsive liar and when called to account, will make up anything spontaneously to fit their needs at that moment
- uses lots of charm and is always plausible and convincing when peers, superiors or others are present; the motive of the charm is deception and its purpose is to compensate for lack of empathy
- relies on mimicry to convince others that they are a "normal" human being but their words, writing and deeds are hollow, superficial and glib
- displays a great deal of certitude and self-assuredness to mask their insecurity
- excels at deception
- exhibits unusual inappropriate attitudes to sexual matters or sexual behaviour; underneath the charming exterior there are often suspicions or intimations of sexual harassment, sex discrimination or sexual abuse (sometimes racial prejudice as well)
- exhibits much controlling behaviour and is a control freak
- displays a compulsive need to criticise whilst simultaneously refusing to acknowledge, value and praise others
- when called upon to share or address the needs and concerns of others, responds with impatience, irritability and aggression
- often has an overwhelming, unhealthy and narcissistic need to portray themselves as a wonderful, kind, caring and compassionate person, in contrast to their behaviour and treatment of others; the bully is oblivious to the discrepancy between how they like to be seen (and believe they are seen), and how they are actually seen
- has an overbearing belief in their qualities of leadership but cannot distinguish between leadership (maturity, decisiveness, assertiveness, trust and integrity) and bullying (immaturity, impulsiveness, aggression, distrust and deceitfulness)
- when called to account, immediately and aggressively denies everything, then counter-attacks with distorted or fabricated criticisms and allegations; if this is insufficient, quickly feigns victimhood, often by bursting into tears (the purpose is to avoid answering the question and thus evade accountability by manipulating others through the use of guilt)
- is also ... aggressive, devious, manipulative, spiteful, vengeful, doesn't listen, can't sustain mature adult conversation, lacks a conscience, shows no remorse, is drawn to power, emotionally cold and flat, humourless, joyless, ungrateful, dysfunctional, disruptive, divisive, rigid and inflexible, selfish, insincere, insecure, immature and deeply inadequate, especially in interpersonal skills
I estimate one person in thirty has this behaviour profile. I describe them as having a disordered personality: an aggressive but intelligent individual who expresses their violence psychologically (constant criticism etc) rather than physically (assault). For the full profile, click here; to see and be able to recognise the four most common types of serial bully, click here.
What does bullying do to my health?
Bullying causes injury to health and makes you ill. How many of these symptoms do you have?
- constant high levels of stress and anxiety
- frequent illness such as viral infections especially flu and glandular fever, colds, coughs, chest, ear, nose and throat infections (stress plays havoc with your immune system)
- aches and pains in the joints and muscles with no obvious cause; also back pain with no obvious cause and which won't go away or respond to treatment
- headaches and migraines
- tiredness, exhaustion, constant fatigue
- sleeplessness, nightmares, waking early, waking up more tired than when you went to bed
- flashbacks and replays, obsessiveness, can't get the bullying out of your mind
- irritable bowel syndrome
- skin problems such as eczema, psoriasis, athlete's foot, ulcers, shingles, urticaria
- poor concentration, can't concentrate on anything for long
- bad or intermittently-functioning memory, forgetfulness, especially with trivial day-to-day things
- sweating, trembling, shaking, palpitations, panic attacks
- tearfulness, bursting into tears regularly and over trivial things
- uncharacteristic irritability and angry outbursts
- hypervigilance (feels like but is not paranoia), being constantly on edge
- hypersensitivity, fragility, isolation, withdrawal
- reactive depression, a feeling of woebegoneness, lethargy, hopelessness, anger, futility and more
- shattered self-confidence, low self-worth, low self-esteem, loss of self-love, etc
For the full set of symptoms of injury to health caused by prolonged negative stress (such as that caused by bullying, harassment, abuse etc) click here. For details of the trauma that results, click here.
Avoiding acceptance of responsibility - denial, counterattack and feigning victimhood
The serial bully is an adult on the outside but a child on the inside; he or she is like a child who has never grown up. One suspects that the bully is emotionally retarded and has a level of emotional development equivalent to a five-year-old, or less. The bully wants to enjoy the benefits of living in the adult world, but is unable and unwilling to accept the responsibilities that go with enjoying the benefits of the adult world. In short, the bully has never learnt to accept responsibility for their behaviour.
When called to account for the way they have chosen to behave, the bully instinctively exhibits this recognisable behavioural response:
a) Denial: the bully denies everything. Variations include Trivialization ("This is so trivial it's not worth talking about...") and the Fresh Start tactic ("I don't know why you're so intent on dwelling on the past" and "Look, what's past is past, I'll overlook your behaviour and we'll start afresh") - this is an abdication of responsibility by the bully and an attempt to divert and distract attention by using false conciliation. Imagine if this line of defence were available to all criminals ("Look I know I've just murdered 12 people but that's all in the past, we can't change the past, let's put it behind us, concentrate on the future so we can all get on with our lives" - this would do wonders for prison overcrowding).
b) Retaliation: the bully counterattacks. The bully quickly and seamlessly follows the denial with an aggressive counter-attack of counter-criticism or counter-allegation, often based on distortion or fabrication. Lying, deception, duplicity, hypocrisy and blame are the hallmarks of this stage. The purpose is to avoid answering the question and thus avoid accepting responsibility for their behaviour. Often the target is tempted - or coerced - into giving another long explanation to prove the bully's allegation false; by the time the explanation is complete, everybody has forgotten the original question.Both a) and b) are delivered with aggression in the guise of assertiveness; in fact there is no assertiveness (which is about recognising and respecting the rights of oneself and others) at all. Note that explanation - of the original question - is conspicuous by its absence.
c) Feigning victimhood: in the unlikely event of denial and counter-attack being insufficient, the bully feigns victimhood or feigns persecution by manipulating people through their emotions, especially guilt. This commonly takes the form of bursting into tears, which most people cannot handle. Variations include indulgent self-pity, feigning indignation, pretending to be "devastated", claiming they're the one being bullied or harassed, claiming to be "deeply offended", melodrama, martyrdom ("If it wasn't for me...") and a poor-me drama ("You don't know how hard it is for me ... blah blah blah ..." and "I'm the one who always has to...", "You think you're having a hard time ...", "I'm the one being bullied..."). Other tactics include manipulating people's perceptions to portray themselves as the injured party and the target as the villain of the piece. Or presenting as a false victim. Sometimes the bully will suddenly claim to be suffering "stress" and go off on long-term sick leave, although no-one can quite establish why. Alleged ill-health can also be a useful vehicle for gaining attention and sympathy. For suggestions on how to counter this see the advice on the FAQ page.
A corporation is considered a legal 'person' in the United States of America. It has all the similar rights of a real human being. Theoretically, if one is to enter into or continue a 'relationship' with this other 'person,' then the other in the 'relationship' (you) should be able to inquire into the past and present history of said other 'person' or corporation. Otherwise, one is perhaps just engaging in a loveless solicitation of prostitution or fetishizing over pornography--which consists only of a lust for this other 'person's' (or corporation's) 'product.' Credit card companies, for example, do not divulge information to 'consumers' regarding their financial holdings, and are protected by federal guidlines in their decision to make this financial 'relationship' as one way as possible. Next time you 'talk' to a credit card 'corporation' (legal person) ask them if they can give you the name and address of the 'head' of their person, the CEO, and see what they say. Additonally, inform them that you are also 'recording' the telephone conversation for your records, as they might be, and see how quickly the conversation comes to an end.
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These are all just basic and common sense 'dating tips.' My Mother always used to tell me not to go out on 'blind dates' with 'masked' persons--they just might turn out to be lobotomized amnesiacs, serial killers, heroin dealers, Yakuza, pedophilles, rapists, or even worse... Republicans.
This and other similar types of 'relationships' are replicated daily in the 'professional' and 'personal' affairs of 'men,' and take on many different forms and guises.
In amnesiacs, stimuli that at first can be recalled are usually forgotten within 1 min, but the conditions required for this severe forgetting have remained unknown. To examine this, six patients with amnesia due to head injury or stroke and six normal controls heard lists of words (Experiment 1) and stories (Experiment 2). These stimuli were to be recalled immediately or after an extended test delay (10 min in Experiment 1; 1 h in Experiment 2). Although severe forgetting occurred in the amnesiacs following activity-filled delays, much less forgetting occurred in four of these patients after delays spent in a dark, quiet room. This was true even when the patients appeared to sleep during the delays. The results show, in a novel manner, that one deficit underlying their amnesias is vulnerability to retroactive interference.
...the potential for fascism was embedded in the fabric of mass consumer culture, which typically engenders weak personalities with high dependency needs [and no inner emotional life] that could easily be manipulated by commercial advertisers and political demagogues.
Clubs = Spiritual
Hearts = Emotional
Diamonds = Phy sical
'It's in God's hands now. It's out of my kontrol.
There is nothing I can do.'
In a rare example of a crack in the mass media's wall of silence and coverup regarding mind control projects in general and electronic mind control in particular, the Sonoma County Independent weekly newspaper, in their July 9 1998 edition, featured a front page article on electronic mind manipulation by the means of surgically implanted microtransceivers.
The article focuses primarily on the case of a Silicon Valley family; in particular, activities involving their son. Writer J. Douglas Allen-Taylor details a litany of horrors suffered by the Kats family at the hands of "scientists" and "doctors" working at Stanford University Medical Center facilities in the service of government intelligence agencies; pursuing extensive mind control agendas which utilize physical implants for monitoring, tracking and activating pre-encoded psychological "triggers".
Edward and Claudia Kats, Russian immigrants who left when Russia was still part of the Soviet Union, relate how their son Jay was first implanted during a 1982 tonsillectomy operation at Stanford Medical Center.
Stanford and CIA Implant/Mind Control Experimentation
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Otto Skorzeny and SkyNet. The precious and secret little game of elitism. R.I.P. † (?)
Declassified MKULTRA Project Documents
There is much published evidence that the project involved not only the use of drugs to manipulate persons, but also the use of electronic signals to alter brain functioning.[3]
It was first brought to wide public attention by the U.S. Congress (in the form of the Church Committee) and a presidential commission (known as the Rockefeller Commission) (see Revelation below) and also to the U.S. Senate.
MKULTRA
(This blog does not indorse the term 'Illuminati')
Another way of examining this convoluted victimization of body and soul is by looking at it as a complex computer program: A file (alter) is created through trauma, repetition and reinforcement. In order to activate (trigger) the file, a specific access code or password (cue or command) is required. The victim/survivor is called a “slave” by the programmer/handler, who in turn is perceived as “master” or “god.” About 75% are female, since they possess a higher tolerance for pain and tend to dissociate easier than males. Subjects are used mainly for cover operations, prostitution and pornography; involvement in the entertainment industry is notable. A former military officer connected to the DIA, told this writer, “In the ‘big picture’ these people [MONARCH victims] are in all walks of life, from the bum on the street to the white-collar guy”. In corroboration, a retired CIA agent vaguely discussed the use of such personnel to be used as “plants” or “chameleons” for the purpose of infiltrating a designated group, gathering information and/or injecting an ulterior agenda.
There are an inordinate amount of alters in the victim/survivor with numerous back-up programs, mirrors and shadows. A division of light-side (good) and dark-side (bad) alters are interwoven in the mind and rotate on an axis.
One of the main internal structures, (of which their are many) within the system is shaped like a double-helix, consisting of seven levels. Each system has an internal programmer which oversees the 'gatekeeper' (demons?) who grant or deny entry into the different rooms. A few of the internal images predominately seen by victims/survivors are trees, the Cabalistic 'Tree of Life,' with adjoining root systems, infinity loops, ancient symbols and letters, spider webs, mirrors or glass shattering, masks, castles, mazes, demons/monsters/aliens, sea shells, butterflies, snakes, ribbons, bows, flowers, hour glasses, clocks, robots, chain-of-command diagrams and/or schematics of computer circuitry boards.
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ALPHA. Regarded as “general” or regular programming within the base control personality; characterized by extremely pronounced memory retention, along with substantially increased physical strength and visual acuity. Alpha programming is accomplished through deliberately subdividing the victims personality which, in essence, causes a left brain-right brain division, allowing for a programmed union of L and R through neuron pathway stimulation.
BETA. Referred to as “sexual” programming. This programming eliminates all learned moral convictions and stimulates the primitive sexual instinct, devoid of inhibitions. “cat” alters may come out at this level.
DELTA. This is known as “killer” programming, originally developed for training special agents or elite soldiers (i.e. Delta Force, First Earth Battalion, Mossad, etc.) in covert operations. Optimal adrenal output and controlled aggression is evident. Subjects are devoid of fear; very systematic in carrying out their assignment. Self-destruct or suicide instructions are layered in at this level.
THETA considered to the “psychic” programming. Bloodliners (those coming from multi-generational Satanic families) were determined to exhibit a greater propensity for having telepathic abilities than did non-bloodliners. Due to its evident limitations, however, various forms of electronic mind control systems were developed and introduced, namely, bio-medical human telemetry devices (brain implants), directed-energy lasers using microwaves and/or electromagnetics. It is reported these are used in conjunction with highly-advanced computers and sophisticated satellite tracking systems.
OMEGA. A “self-destruct” form of programming, also known as “Code Green.” The corresponding behaviors include suicidal tendencies and/or self-mutilation. This program is generally activated when the victim/survivor begins therapy or interrogation and too much memory is being recovered.
GAMMA. Another form of system protection is through “deception” programming, which elicits misinformation and misdirection. This level is intertwined with demonology and tends to regenerate itself at a later time if inappropriately deactivated.
2 + 2 = 5
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. The Hate had started.
As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience.
Gibbs, the Marine Corps official who first funded Bitar, has a fondness for edgy ideas. A chemical engineer and longtime proponent of nonlethal weaponry, Gibbs funds other offbeat projects, such as Medusa, an attempt to develop a weapon that uses low-power microwaves -- believed to cause an audible buzzing in subjects' heads -- to make people think God is speaking to them. Another such weapon would use beams of energy to make people dizzy and lose their balance.
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Lightning, for example, is a very big fear for Arabs, Bitar contends. Peter Bechtold, the head of Near East studies at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, was dubious that Arabs would be more frightened than anyone else by lightning guns. "It sounds strange," Bechtold said, when presented with Bitar's idea. But ideas are what Bitar overflows with. His latest is to use ultrasonic waves in the dazzler not to just blind enemies, but also to convey messages into their heads, similar to Gibbs's Medusa project. Hearing voices from God is a "big thing" in Arab culture, according to Bitar. "We flash-blind them. And, while their eyes are shut, you could send a recorded message or deep guttural voice that echoes in the inside of their head. They're looking around, 'Hey, did you hear that?'''
Medusa and the Voice of God, Washington Post. Aug 28.2005
The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we should learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
-Mahatma Gandhi
"If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked."
Proverbs, 29:12
The word [liar] is derived from the Indo-European root, leugh, and the old-English, leogan: "to tell a lie". With the prefix, waer, "faith" or "pledge", we get the old-English, waerleogan, or "oath breaker". Waerleogan, in modern English, is Warlock: "a male witch, a demon".
The fossils of the world tell us that false representation, oath breaking, and witchcraft, are part of that complex process known as "lying". A liar, then, is a witch or demon who distorts reality, to your injury and his gain. To establish credibility with you, he may give the appearance of helping you. But in the long term, he claims your life, just as another liar will claim his.
Lying is deadly, and highly contagious. The man who receives his information from a liar will spew out lies when he passes the information on. When you have liars, trained in the demonic arts, controlling the highest seats of governmental authority, you will have liars controlling the information channels. When their lies fill the printed pages, loudspeakers, and TV screens, you will have liars administering the workplaces, marketplaces, schools, churches, and homes. Without realizing it, your nation becomes possessed by demons; your nation practices the politics of witchcraft.
A liar's fortunes are very cleverly established on his pretenses of virtue; otherwise, well-meaning people would have nothing to do with him. He will not think twice about murdering to protect his good reputation.
In a lying society, murder is an acceptable alternative to radically changing one's views. In lying societies, the virtues are brutishness, deceit, sodomy, theft, debt, and suicide. He who is most menacing and monstrous is most popular.
Though powerful in appearance, lies are in reality extremely fragile. There is no protection for a liar except (1) darkness, or (2) the mercy of a more powerful liar. This is why lying societies crave dimness of room and of mind. It is why they seek bondage to human authority.
The Ultimate Evil: Satanism, Mind Control and the US National Security Establishment
I am the Grail and the Glory. I am the Mother of Abominations. I am the one whom you call the Law and they have called lawlessness. In my Name is all power given for I am BABALON. I have given myself to everything that lives and my weakness has subdued their strength. I have attained to the union of the One with the Many. And in that union did I understand, therefore am I called Understanding. I am the flames and fuel that shall ignite an obsolete Age.
This book contains the record of a magical experiment relating to the invocation of an elemental, the thereafter of the Goddess or Force called BABALON, and the results thereof. An appendix con- tains some details of the method, published for the first time. The contents should be clear enough to those who are prepared for understanding, and a little study and effort should make it so for those who desire understanding. For the rest, each will no doubt interpret it in accord with his own predilections.
A note on the underlying philosophy. The present age is under the influence of the force called, in magical terminology, Horus. This force relates to fire, Mars, and the sun, that is, to power, violence, and energy. It also relates to a child, being innocent (i.e. undifferentiated). Its manifestations may be noted in the destruction of old institutions and ideas, the discovery and liberation of new energies, and the trend towards power govern- ments, war, homosexuality, infantilism, and schizophrenia.
This force is completely blind, depending upon the men and women in whom it manifests and who guide it. Obviously, its guidance now tends towards catastrophy.
The catastrophic trend is due to our lack of understanding of our own natures. The hidden lusts, fears, and hatreds resulting from the warping of the love urge, which underly the natures of all Western peoples, have taken a homicidal and suicidal direction.
This impasse is broken by the incarnation of another sort of force, called BABALON. The nature of this force relates to love, understanding, and dionysian freedom, and is the necessary coun- terbalance or correspondence to the manifestation of Horus.
It is indicated that this force is actually incarnate in some living woman, as the result of the described magical operation. A more basic matter, however, is the indication that this force is incarnate in all men and women, and needs only to be invoked to free the spirit from the debris of the old aeon, and to direct the blind force of Horus into constructive channels of under- standing and love. The methods of this invocation are described in the text.
The background of this material may be found in the Book of the Law, the Comment thereon, and other writings of Aleister Crowley; also in various magical, anthropological, psychological, and philosophical texts. These are all necessary to an understanding and use of the material.
One further point. It should be remembered that all human activi- ties, after the vital functions are fulfilled, arise from the need to love or to be loved. It is therfore quite literally true that in understanding (i.e. that which embraces all categories of love) is all power given. A grasp of the principle of bipolarity should make this clear.
With this crude and rudimentary philosophical discourse, then, I present the Book of Babalon...
What is the Mystery of Babylon?
On Tuesday, 17 June, at 5:45 PM, Parsons died after two mysterious explosions devastated his home. He was consumed with flame, just as Hubbard's "channelling" had prophesied some six years previous: "She (Babalon) is the flame of life...She shall absorb thee, and thou shalt become living flame before She incarnates"
Industrial culture in the United States never attained the brooding complexity of its British cousin. In America it remains jumbled up with a salmagundi of styles that include John Waters' consciously anti-political 'trash aesthetics,' slasher movie Grand Guignol, and the deconstruction of highbrow academia by Parisian postmodernism. The French invasion was closely tied to the cultural left through intellectual icons like Michel Foucault. Unlike the bleak British industrialists, transgressive leftist 'art workers' like Karen Finley wanted to 'épater les bourgeois' and promote good causes like feminism and gay liberation.
Since all good transgressives used drugs, liked porn, and despised 'middle America,' Norman Rockwell, Jesse Helms, and Pat Robertson, a natural alliance existed between the West Side liberals at MOMA and the downtown avant-garde at La Mama. Small groups of mostly straight white male scenesters, however, used transgressive tactics to attack what they saw as the therapeutic left's hegemony over bohemia. Unapologetic bad boys in search of an aesthetic that couldn't be co-opted, they turned to cult leaders like Manson and Jim Jones, serial killers like John Wayne Gacy, violent images of deformed or dismembered bodies, weird conspiracy theories from the far left and far right, UFO abduction tracts, and hate rants by black nationalists and Klansmen.
Some wanted to 'épater les communists' because they believed that artists should not live in a world of self-imposed censorship for fear of violating every leftist and feminist dogma de jour. There was also the fear that bohemia, long a bad boy Shangri-La for sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, was turning into a therapeutic 'No Smoking' zone. And what better 'in-your-face' way to say 'fuck you' to the sissies, parlor pinks, and Feminazis than to play the ace card of transgression--aesthetic fascism.
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[Anton] LaVey, who is often only seen as just a libertarian maverick, called for a new kind of fascism in a 1994 interview with Michael Moynihan in Seconds, Moynihan's essay, "The Faustian Spirit of Fascism," was also published in the Church of Satan's magazine, The Black Flame. LaVey even contributed an introduction to a new edition of "Ragnar Redbeard's" Might Is Right, a Nietzschean and Social Darwinist tract first published in 1896 which LaVey had liberally plagiarized in his own book, The Satanic Bible. The editor of the new edition of Might is Right is listed as Katja Lane. She is the wife of David Lane, an Odinist leader of the high-profile far right paramilitary group called the Order, who is now serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder a Denver radio personality named Alan Berg. [The ultimate written account of The Order’s machinations is the book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Fllynn and Gary Gerhardt. Similarly, In Bad Company by Mark S. Hamm documents the exploits of Peter Langan and the ARA – Aryan Republican Army.]
The author of Might's after word is, arguably, even more "devilish" than LaVey. He is none other than George Hawthorne, head of the white racist musical group RaHoWa (Racial Holy War) and founder of Resistance Records, whom Michael Moynihan interviewed for Seconds and The Black Flame. Moynihan is also thanked in the new edition of Might Is Right for helping make the book possible.
According to Alex Constantine: Parfrey is Jewish, the son of a concentration camp internee who, due to his substandard diet, contracted sugar diabetes. Adam inherited the illness. He has no affection for Nazis because they have made him sick, and it is likely his life will be shortened as a result.
Adam Parfrey may perhaps (intentionally?) serve as an interesting case study or microcosm (...as does Anton 'LaVey' Levine--another 'Jew'--but Parfrey even more so...) for a broader geopolitical 'dilemma.'
I expect, for many, Satanic Ritual Abuse is not a serious subject because the devil they know is not a serious figure. Unlike the devil they don't.
The Devil You Know (Part Two)
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These questions permeate the entire 'Western (Mystery) Tradition' and perhaps the 'Eastern Tradition' as well, as they relate to the confluence of politics and spirituality. For example, is the system of 'Crowleyan Thelema' a failed alchemical process? Or was it supposed to initially be a process of alchemical reappropriation and redirection? Reapproraition and redirection from whom or what? And for what end? Does this reappropriation lead to or originate from the same place? Is the distinction accurate and valid? Does the distinction actually exist? Similarly, is invoking ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses a reaffirmation of an oppressive and hierarchical system? ...degrees of historical 'weight' and 'memory...' 'The origins of ancient Egyptian religion...the Holy Roman Empire...'
This is where the socio-political aspect of this conundrum comes into play. It seems as if there is a clear distinction being made between the 'imaginary' 'Whore of Babalon' and the actual 'Whore of Babylon,' which is this 'global system--' a system which has, oddly and coincidently, made tremendous inroads toward global fascism since 1947. A global fascist state the likes of which has never been seen before on Earth since the dawn of recorded history. There can no longer afford to be a partitioning and compartmentalizion of personal spiritual and political systems. The 'high weirdness' and more hardcore political 'factions' must perhaps integrate and arrive at a synthesis.
The award winning environmental writer Geoffrey Lean wrote: “Future historians, looking back from a much hotter and less hospitable world . . . will puzzle over how a whole generation could have sleepwalked into disaster -- destroying the climate that has allowed human civilization to flourish over the past 11,000 years.”
The overwhelming majority of scientists and international climate monitoring bodies now agree that climate change is taking place, that humans are responsible, and that time is running out. In fact, we could reach “the point of no return” in a decade, reported Lean.
BNW,1984,HMT...Peak Fascism...abiotic oil...Marge and Dishwashing Liquid, 'relax, you're soaking in it...' ultimate Planet destroying cynicism...the most dangerous of 'isms' is 'cynicism'...
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In regards to death metal, the problem is, once again, a question of education, history and the vacuous lack of perspective in American culture. Shall we censor the works of poet Charles Baudelaire as well? Baudelaire was perhaps one of the first ‘death metal’ artists.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. - Simone Weil
Three Years Later...
Message from Sofie Scholl and the White Rose, 1942:
Nothing is so unworthy of a civilised nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct. It is certain that today every honest German is ashamed of his government.Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes - crimes that infinitely outdistance every human measure - reach the light of day? If the German people are already so corrupted and spiritually crushed that they do not raise a hand, frivolously trusting in a questionable faith in lawful order of history; if they surrender man’s highest principle, that which raises him above all other God’s creatures, his free will; if they abandon the will to take decisive action and turn the wheel of history and thus subject it to their own rational decision; if they are so devoid of all individuality, have already gone so far along the road toward turning into a spiritless and cowardly mass - then, yes, they deserve their downfall. Goethe speaks of the Germans as a tragic people, like the Jews and the Greeks, but today it would appear rather that they are a spineless, will-less herd of hangers-on, who now - the marrow sucked out of their bones, robbed of their centre of stability - are waiting to be hounded to their destruction. So it seems - but it is not so. Rather, by means of gradual, treacherous, systematic abuse, the system has put every man into a spiritual prison. Only now, finding himself lying in fetters, has he become aware of his fate. Only a few recognised the threat of ruin, and the reward for their heroic warning was death. We will have more to say about the fate of these persons. If everyone waits until the other man makes a start, the messengers of avenging Nemesis will come steadily closer; then even the last victim will have been cast senselessly into the maw of the insatiable demon. Therefore every individual, conscious of his responsibility as a member of Christian and Western civilisation, must defend himself as best he can at this late hour, he must work against the scourges of mankind, against fascism and any similar system of totalitarianism. Offer passive resistance - resistance - wherever you may be, forestall the spread of this atheistic war machine before it is too late, before the last cities, like Cologne, have been reduced to rubble, and before the nation’s last young man has given his blood on some battlefield for the hubris of a sub-human. Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure!
Top Secret - Classified - For The Board - The Elite - The Initiates -
You want the name of Hassan i Sabbah on your filth deeds to sell out the unborn?
What scared you all into time? Into body? Into shit? I will tell you; "the word." Alien Word "the." "The" word of Alien Enemy imprisons "thee" in Time, In Body. In Shit. Prisoner, come out. The great skies are open, I Hassan i Sabbah rub out the word forever.
New Orleans is a dead museum.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Babdle on...
I haven't visited your site lately and I see that I must spend more time here. I've updated my link to you--sorry for the delay, but my time is limited. I hope you post more jfk assassination info.
Posted by: Gary Buell | 19 May 2006 at 09:17
Robert Fisk on His Interview with Former Iranian President Khatami, Why "The IDF Could Not Protect the People of Israel" and More
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/05/1311248
In a wide-ranging interview, Robert Fisk - the veteran Middle East correspondent for the London Independent - discusses Hezbollah and Israel, Hezbollah and his interview this weekend with former Iranian president President Mohammed Khatami. [includes rush transcript]
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U.N Secretary General Kofi Annan ended a two-day visit to Iran on Monday and called for resolving the country's nuclear standoff with the West through talks instead of sanctions. Annan visit's came after Iran ignored the U.N Security Council's deadline for halting uranium enrichment last Thursday. Iran insists that its nuclear program is intended only to produce fuel for nuclear reactors that generate electricity. On Sunday Annan met with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who told him that Iran would not halt its" uranium enrichment program before entering negotiations. He blamed a hostile U.S attitude for sabotaging efforts to resolve the dispute.
Meanwhile, former President Mohammed Khatami became the first high ranking Iranian official in three decades to speak in the United States. On Saturday in Chicago, Khatami addressed the annual ISNA conference - The Islamic Society of North America. The meeting of 40,000 people is the largest gathering of Muslims in the U.S. On Sunday, Robert Fisk interviewed Khatami. Fisk is the chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent.
Robert Fisk, chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. He is author of the book, "Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon" and "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East."
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AMY GOODMAN: On Sunday, Robert Fisk interviewed Khatami. Fisk is the chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. Afterwards, I sat down with Robert Fisk at the ISNA conference for an extended discussion. Fisk began by talking about his conversation with the former Iranian president.
ROBERT FISK: Well, I approached him over the issue of how do you switch off the, quote, “war on terror.” I mean, he’s spoken, of course, about how he believes that the American neoconservatives are not only influenced by lobby groups -- he didn’t say the Israeli lobby, but he obviously meant that -- but how that they’re creating more and more extremism, more and more terror, by continuing the war on terror. And I said to him, “Well, how do you switch it off?”
And he started talking about the need to influence public opinion, which had me yawning a little bit, because, you know, we've heard that one before. We all want to influence public opinion. And then he said that when he was in office as president of Iran, he wanted a civic society and democracy inside the country, and he wanted constant communication and serious mature relationships with people outside the country.
And the problem was, now you couldn't have that, because you were dealing with obviously -- by implication he's a careful man, he speaks in philosophical language -- you can't have a serious relationship conversation with an administration like the Bush administration, because they are ideologically driven. This was the implication of what he said, not his words. And he said, you know, that the policies of the United States are creating more and more extremism, which is then creating more and more extremism within the U.S. administration, which is then creating more and more extremism outside.
And I think he’s right. I mean, if you remember, following immediately after 9/11, there was the bombardment of Afghanistan. And then we spread our wings into Iraq. And now we spread our wings via the Israelis into Gaza and into Lebanon. If you take out Iran and Syria, the whole of the Middle East is now on fire from the border of Pakistan, or even part of Pakistan, all the way to the Mediterranean, outside my own house. And I think Khatami seemed to be very much aware of this.
He also praised me for my Persian. He said it was improving, which was a very good sign, I thought. It was very unkind of me. We were all answering all these demands around the table to say who we were. Of course, they all spoke in English, not in Arabic, which he understands. So I decided I would try introducing myself in Persian, which he did understand, clearly. But I made a mistake of translating Independent wrongly. I said it was azadi, and it should be istiklal.
AMY GOODMAN: What did he say about Ahmadinejad? Did you ask him?
ROBERT FISK: No, we went very gently into that, because obviously he's not the president any more. And his only comments -- and he made them to everyone else, you know, at the same -- we were all gathered around the table. I was talking to him. And his only comment was, ‘Look, you know, you can't have these double standards. There is a nation in the Middle East, which does not sign the nuclear treaty, which has many nuclear warheads.’ He didn't even use the word “Israel.” And he said, you know, ‘We’ve got to realize and treat these things in a mature way. You can't just say, you know, you’re going to select which United Nations resolution you’re going to accept and which you are not.’ He said these things before. I mean, it wasn't anything very exclusive, what he said to me.
But the way he spoke, he has a very measured, careful philosophical way of speaking, but I noticed that, once or twice, you could see an anger in his eye, which I haven't seen before. I mean, this is a very -- you know, this is a divine or a cleric, who one has always associated with, you know, that old Syrian cliché, moderation. He’s not a hawk. This is a man who’s well known for his enormous knowledge of Islamic culture. He talked at great length about the Renaissance, the Reformation. He even talked about the Peloponnesian Wars. I mean, he's obviously been thinking a lot and trying to put what's happening now into the context of history, which I haven’t heard other Muslim clerics do. They’re always looking to the future and the present. He was constantly going back, as well as the future. But I saw once or twice the way this hardness came into his eyes, which I hadn't seen before. And he's obviously extremely angry with the way in which this country’s, United States’ administration is behaving.
AMY GOODMAN: And what kind of role or influence does he have with the current Iranian leadership?
ROBERT FISK: I don't think it's got anything to do with that. I think he has a tremendous standing as a scholar throughout the Islamic world, which is why he got a visa. If he had too close a relationship or even too hostile a relationship with Ahmadinejad, I don't think he would have got his visa to the United States. I mean, the mere fact that this big meeting here was effectively a meeting of Sunni Muslims -- there was not a lot of Shiites around that I have seen. It's pro-Saudi in its essence. The mere fact that it regarded him as such an honored figure to come, from the Shiite world and as a leading Shiite cleric, speaks for itself.
In fact, he's going from here to Geneva, where he's founded an institute, I think for civic responsibility or civic society. And he's then going to meet the Pope in Rome in October. He’s going to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury. He’s receiving an honorary degree from a university in Scotland in the United Kingdom. So, this is a man who has considerable status. But whether it's the status of a Nelson Mandela or the status of a Kofi Annan, which I would rather not have at the moment, I’m not sure.
AMY GOODMAN: And weapons of mass destruction in Iran that the U.S. government, not only, and perhaps more importantly, the U.S. press, continually raises.
ROBERT FISK: Yeah. Well, he -- I mean, I didn't question him about it, because it seemed to me that he had basically dealt with this on Saturday night, because in his speech he talked repeatedly about Islamophobia and the way the media hypes constantly and changes the direction.
And I wasn’t really interested in it, because, you see, from my point of view, I think there is a Muslim nation, which is extremely dangerous to the West, which is packed with Taliban and al-Qaeda supporters and which does have a bomb, and it's called Pakistan. And that's the real crisis. And the more you get involved in discussing the crisis in Iran, the crisis in Iran, the crisis in Iran, you help to put building blocks and foundation stones underneath the Bush administration’s policies, because it's the story. And I think Pakistan is the story. I think Pakistan is a very dangerous place. I think Pervez Musharraf is playing this balancing game between the military and the ISI, the Intelligence Services, and the Taliban supporters and the large number of extreme Sunni groups in Balujistan and other parts of the northwest territories.
AMY GOODMAN: Would you call Musharraf a military dictator?
ROBERT FISK: Oh, he is a military dictator. I always call him the president-general in my articles, which is what he is. If you talk to him, he actually admits that, quite frankly. I mean, given the status, the state in which Pakistani democracy existed and the amount of corruption in it, you can see how he can claim to power quite well.
But the fact is, he knows that the Pakistani ISI, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is giving intelligence and money to the Taliban. I mean, the Taliban, around Kandahar Province now, are rich with cash. They've got a lot of money. Now, where’s it coming from? It’s probably coming, a little bit of it, from Iran, which originally used to talk about the “Black Taliban” and didn't like them, but now it’s quite happy to keep them where they are to keep the Americans busy. And a lot of it must be coming probably from Saudi Arabia via the ISI in Pakistan. But, of course, this is a subject which is not going to be discussed upfront between the Americans and Musharraf, because he’s our friend in the war on terror. That’s part of the scenery, and you mustn’t sort of strip any wallpaper off, because you might not know -- you don't know what you’re going to find behind it, do you?
AMY GOODMAN: So why does the U.S. continue to fight in Afghanistan, losing soldiers?
ROBERT FISK: And losing an awful lot of civilians, of course. The last report, after the British lost a plane with 14 men on board -- it’s in this morning’s papers -- 400 Taliban killed. This is a report from, you know, coalition headquarters. Well, how do they know they’ve killed 400? Some of them must have been civilians. You don’t kill -- this is like Vietnam-type reporting. ‘500 Vietnamese soldiers were reported killed in the Mekong Delta.’ There are always civilians among them.
It also says that four more Canadians have been killed. And that’s putting Canada as getting a lot of dead Canadian soldiers back at the moment. And a lot of people are beginning to question Stephen Harper's wisdom in sending those Canadian troops. You know, another bit like Blair, very keen to show his loyalty to Mr. Bush. That's the effect of Afghanistan internationally at the moment. It's not the fact that it’s a loss. It’s the fact that a lot of dead soldiers are coming home.
AMY GOODMAN: And yet, the U.S. continues to support Musharraf, who is shoring up --
ROBERT FISK: Well, they’re worried about who will come afterwards, you see. I mean, we’re all worried. The reason why they don't really want to topple the President Bashar al-Assad is that maybe those horrible Sunnis from Iraq will cross the border and turn up in Damascus, and that wouldn’t be a good idea, would it? I mean, you can only go on with this policy of ideological self-delusion for so long.
I mean, I watched Condoleezza Rice twice now visiting Beirut, once before the war, the last war, and then once in it. Before she came the last time, ‘There’s a new Middle East. Great new possibilities, great things are happening in the Middle East.’ I thought, well, Iraq’s on fire, and Afghanistan’s on fire, and there’s increasing tensions in southern Lebanon. Then she comes during the war, and we're all watching babies being pulled dead out of buildings that have been hit by the Israelis, and she announces that it's the birth pangs of a new Middle East. Well, in the hospital wards, there's an awful lot of blood, and it’s not from birth pangs, it’s from dying children.
AMY GOODMAN: Let’s talk about Lebanon, where you live. Tell us about it today.
ROBERT FISK: Well, I woke up on the morning of July the 12th, which was my birthday, Amy. It was my 60th birthday. And I received -- I hadn't exactly been partying, but I certainly got up late that morning. I got a phone call from a friend in Paris, who said, “Well, you've certainly got a birthday present today.” And I said, “What do you mean?” A classic case of the journalist who didn’t know what was going on just south of his own apartment. Of course, my friend said, “Well, you know, two Israelis have been kidnapped, captured, and three others killed.” And I thought, “Damn! You know, that's going to be a war,” because I knew that Ehud Olmert was going to do the usual Israeli policy of savage attacks against Lebanon as a result.
AMY GOODMAN: Hezbollah says they didn't know that.
ROBERT FISK: Well, Hezbollah, I think, is telling us a whopper. Nasrallah said, “Even if we had known one percent, we wouldn't have captured their soldiers.” Nonsense. I think the Hezbollah knew exactly what the Israelis were going to do, and they needed to flex their muscles and show their bravery, which it was, although, of course, it was a reckless kind, when you also bring upon death to more than 1,000 people, almost all of them civilians.
They had clearly, with massive bunkers, underground storage depots, planned that war. They hit a warship. They hit an Israeli warship and almost sank it. They hit it on midships, killed four sailors and set it on fire for 15 hours. That wasn't because some guy got up in the morning and ate his morning minutiae with cheese and said, “Oh, let's hit a warship today.” No, that had been planned weeks, months before. You can't just set that up, like that. And, of course, now, according to Seymour Hersh, we are led to believe and it’s possible that the Israelis planned their war for months before. It's possible, as Nasrallah said, that the Israelis were planning a September offensive, which would have led to even more civilian casualties. Well, maybe, but he didn't tell us that beforehand, didn't give us a warning of it, did he -- if he knew it.
AMY GOODMAN: So, describe what has happened to Lebanon since July 12th.
ROBERT FISK: Well, okay, the pulverization of Lebanon by the Israeli Air Force. You approach villages in the south -- I mean, during the war, it was a hair-raising journey to go to the south and drive on those roads, hearing all the time the howl of jets, and you actually see missiles whizzing over the fields. I mean, you can see tremendous explosions.
And I think, you know, it's a war crime for the Hezbollah to fire missiles at Haifa and civilian areas of Israel. It's a fact. But it's also a war crime that was committed against the Lebanese. The Israelis now say, all the Lebanese civilians are being used as human shields. That's what they always say. The British used to say that in Londonderry or Derry, when they shot down Catholics. And it's not true.
I mean, the worst war crimes were committed around a place called Marwaheen, which is actually not a Shiite village, but a Sunni village right on the border with Israel. And the Israelis came along and both on radios and with bullhorns, or loudspeakers, we call them, said, “You must leave your village now. You've got two hours to leave.” And the people packed into a convoy, open-top truck, minibus, cars, left the village and were savagely attacked on the open road by the Israeli Air Force. That's a war crime.
Now, you have then two questions to ask, which we were asking all the time when we were down there ourselves. The Israelis say, “Well, we have these brilliant pilots, and we’re absolute pinpoint accuracy, surgical strikes.” Well, if that's true, then the pilots are deliberately intending to kill civilians. And that's a war crime. That’s a crime against humanity by the Israeli Air Force. Or, they don't know what they’re shooting at, in which case their pilots are a riffraff. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t.
And we had the same thing in 1982. We had the same thing in ’93. We had the same thing in ’96. Here we go again with our little short memories in the news business. The same arguments: human shields, direct perfect pilots, synchronized bombing, surgical strikes. And they kill all these children again and again. And the people of Marwaheen were running away on the orders of the Israeli Army. That's a war crime.
When you approach the villages now -- it's funny, Amy. I was going around -- during the war, you could only be conscious of what's 50 meters each side of you, because you’re trying to stay alive. And I’m one of those guys who does not wear a helmet and flak jacket. It’s too hot. Anyway, I don’t trust them. You can't run fast enough. But going back now and looking at the damage is even more astonishing than when you were there during the war, because you couldn't have time to look at it. And what happened is, you’ll go over this hillside, and you’ll see this hillside of flowers and poppies and tobacco fields looking very neat. In the background, you’ll say, “Oh, that’s Sadikin. I was there last week.” And you’ll go closer to it, and you’ll realize that the buildings don't have the proper shape anymore. And as you approach it, you realize that the village is gray ash.
I took some pictures in a village south of the Litani a couple of hours after the ceasefire came into force in August, and I didn't realize when I was taking the pictures how bad the damage was, because I was too busy concentrating on the camera. I’m one of these people who still uses real film, because there’s definition. I don't use a digital camera. And I got the pictures back to Beirut and took them in to be developed. And I have them blown up big size, so I can understand which is the picture I send to London, because I do my own editing.
And I picked up this picture of this village street, and I said, “It looks Ypres.” It looks like one of those First World War pictures that my father took, which I still have, of villages in the north of France, which had been fought over. This village had been fought over. And I sent it to London. And within an hour, the foreign editor at the Independent on Sunday came back to me and said, “It looks like Ypres.” I said, “Those are exactly the same words I used, you know?” And that’s what it looks like. And, you know, while I was there, there were Hezbollah men and Lebanese soldiers, supposedly meant to be antagonists, and the Lebanese Red Cross, all of them trying to move these slabs of stone, because of the terrible stench underneath. In that village alone, they found 36 civilians buried, rotting under each others' corpses, civilians, in their homes.
AMY GOODMAN: Robert Fisk. We spoke yesterday in Chicago. He is chief Middle East correspondent for the Independent of London. We'll return to the interview in a minute.
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AMY GOODMAN: We return to our interview with Robert Fisk, chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent, author of the books, Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon and The Great War for Civilisation. As we sat at the ISNA conference in Chicago, I asked Robert Fisk about the reports that Israel's foreign ministry is concerned senior Israeli military and government officials could be prosecuted overseas for committing war crimes in Lebanon.
ROBERT FISK: Quite a lot of discussion internationally among lawyers over how to deal with this. Ramon -- I think he’s the Interior Minister [Justice Minister]. I might be wrong. He's the minister in Israel who said, “We now consider all civilians left in the south of the Litani as being part or some kind of a connection with Hezbollah,” presumably including two-month old babies who don't actually have a very large political breadth of scope in discussing Hezbollah. And he would probably want to be particularly careful where he traveled in the future, because there is clear -- you know, even -- I mean, America doesn't recognize the International Criminal Court, but if you go into countries which do have that jurisdiction, they will have the right to potentially arrest you and place you under garde a vue, as the French would say, under questioning.
It is a fact, an absolute fact, that several months ago, the Israeli commander who ordered the air raid on Gaza, which killed so many children and a Hamas official, the one that Ariel Sharon said was a great success, he landed at Heathrow in an Israeli aircraft, and British police went on board and told him that he may be arrested if he gets off the aircraft. And he chose to fly back to Tel Aviv. That is a fact. The Israelis have not discussed it, but it is a fact. I know that to be fact. And he went back to Tel Aviv. He turned around. So there are [inaudible] there.
I mean, Sharon got quite worried himself, remember, that he might get arraigned through the courts in Belgium, before Mr. Rumsfeld paid a private visit to Belgium and suggested that NATO headquarters may be moved if, right? And Sharon actually appointed his own lawyer in Belgium to defend him. That's how seriously he took it.
So this issue of war crimes is quite serious, and you see, when you see, you know, the Milosevices and the other various creatures of the Serb-Croatian Bosnian war, far too many of whom end up hanging in their own prison, of course, but when you see them coming up in court, I think that leaders who know they are playing fast and loose with war crimes get a little bit worried. And that's one of the good -- that’s the only good thing I’ve seen in the last 30 years in my life as a reporter, watching, has been the growing understanding that war criminals must be apprehended. And that includes Israeli war criminals, as well as, by the way, Syrian ones. I mean, it's very interesting that Bashar al-Assad’s uncle, Rifaat al-Assad, brother of the late president, is still living in Europe, and yet he is responsible for the deaths of up to 20,000 civilians in the Hama uprising of February 1982. I think he should be arraigned and put in prison and tried as a war criminal.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain what happened there.
ROBERT FISK: At Hama in ’82, there was an uprising, a Sunni uprising, not unlike the ones in Fallujah. Hafez al-Assad saw it as a danger to his regime, which it clearly was, because the Sunnis were the majority, and there were bomb attacks on his ministers, a car attack on the vice president. He was attacked with a machine gun in the street.
And he said, “This revolution will be crushed ruthlessly.” He had an extraordinary speech. He said, “They are not Muslims, these people, and they should be crushed and killed a thousand times.” He was very angry. I’ve still got a copy of the speech. And he sent his brother Rifaat with the Syrian Special Forces into Hama, in an incident which we didn't pay enough attention to at the time in terms of precedent, because the Sunni insurgents did not stop fighting. They went on to the end. And they were even fighting in tunnels beneath the ancient city of Hama, to the point that in the end, the Syrians razed the ancient city, a great tourist spot, famous throughout history as a water -- Noria waterwheels. And there were huge areas. I went there before, and I remember it well.
I was there during the siege. I actually managed to get in. A soldier or an officer asked me for a lift when I was on the road. I was praying for an officer to ask for a lift, and we took him right down to the battle front. I spent 18 minutes watching the tanks firing into the Blue Mosque in Hama. And I remember one soldier told me that his colleague had run down the tunnels, and a young girl had come up and exploded herself against him. It was suicide killers in those tunnels under Hama, Sunni Muslim insurgents killing themselves, fighting Syrian Special Forces troops.
And in the end, they just massacred anyone left alive, whether they were -- they couldn't account for themselves. I mean, they didn’t kill children particularly, though many children were killed. And I remember the starvation of the people then. I remember a woman and her child climbed into my car, and the child was like a stick figure. And I gave it a Mars bar. And the mother tore the Mars bar away and started eating it herself. That’s what hunger does, you see? It divides you even from your own children, family.
And afterwards, Assad said, “I’ll do that anywhere else it happens in Syria.” And there was complete silence from the international community, because we approved of what Assad was doing. Now, of course, the Syrian regime is terrible and Hitlerian, like we made Saddam later on. That's what happened in Hama.
AMY GOODMAN: The Israeli Foreign Minister Livni Tzipi says that they will not negotiate with Syria until it stops supporting Hezbollah and Palestinian extremists.
ROBERT FISK: You know, it's funny, the self-delusion of everybody -- the Americans, the Israelis, and the Lebanese and the Hezbollah -- is quite extraordinary. The other day, it is a fact that the Lebanese army captured some missiles from the Hezbollah, right? And everyone assumes, “Oh, they stopped them bringing them in from Syria. They obviously blocked the roads, right? They were re-supplying [inaudible].” And the Israelis have no idea what’s going on in Lebanon, because their intelligence is rubbish, total rubbish. Forget Mossad and Shin Bet. This is legend and song.
How I know this is a fact, the Lebanese army got the missiles, because the Hezbollah were trying to ship them back across the border into Syria and out of southern Lebanon to protect the missiles, in case they were found. And the Lebanese army picked them up, not being brought in to re-supply, but being taken out, because the Hezbollah wanted to protect their weapons. That's the real story of Lebanon. It's always the mirror image. It’s always the opposite of what you think.
AMY GOODMAN: What about the cluster bombs?
ROBERT FISK: Well, I saw them lying all over the place and took a very gingerly walk around them. Israel has always used cluster bombs promiscuously. It works on the principle that if it thinks it was a Hezbollah firing base and it can't get there in time to hit the rocket, if you [inaudible] promiscuously over the area, you will eventually get the Hezbollah who were firing it. And maybe they did get a few, but, of course, people live in that area, you and me.
And one of the things you've got to remember about cluster bombs is that not only did the Israelis use them in ’82 in built-up areas, but also you see everything the Israelis have done, the Americans and British have done in Iraq now. So, the moment you say, “Oh, you killed those civilians with cluster bombs,” “But the Americans killed civilians with cluster bombs in the city of Hillah, south of Baghdad.” “Well, alright, but on the other hand, I mean, look, you are deliberately targeting children.” “But didn't the Americans murder some children in Haditha?” You see? Because now, the Americans have set a precedent, as the great power believing in democracy, freedom, etc., and the “rule of law,” quote-unquote, that Israel can follow anything the Americans have done and say, “Well, the Americans are doing it. What's the problem with us? Why can't Israel defend itself?” You see?
AMY GOODMAN: What about this whole issue of the United States, whether Israel was serving the United States' purposes, as opposed to the other way around, the idea that Hezbollah is now taking people on tours of the damaged areas and very much, not even putting it as much on Israel as putting it on the USA? Mohamad Bazzi of Newsday was reporting that.
ROBERT FISK: They’ve always done this. Hezbollah have always put it on the USA, ultimately. And that's what the Iranians want them to do. I mean, let’s not forget that the Syrian-Iranian relationship is intimately involved in what this is about. This is Syria taking revenge on its pullback from Lebanon last year under UN Resolution 1559, and it’s Iran showing that it's a tough country and will not be messed with and don’t you dare come and bomb our nuclear facilities. It's part of this measuring up between the extreme Muslims and the extreme Americans, which is what we're talking about, which is what Khatami was talking about.
You know, the problem with the whole American-Israeli relationship now is this: in the past, when Israel went on these hopeless military adventures, announcing they were going to root out the evil weed of the PLO or the evil weed of Hezbollah -- I mean, the language is the same -- “We shall not sit idly by.” They keep saying the same quote. I’ve heard it in ’78, ’82, ’93, ’96, and again now. They must have a book, you know, that’s opened up. “Well, we’ll use the ‘not sit idly by’ quote, and we’ll use that one about human shields, and let's remind people of the famous RAF raid in Copenhagen, which killed so many civilians.” You know, and you’ll hear them coming up, I mean, 30 years in Lebanon, you say, “I’ll bet we're going to hear the Copenhagen air raid story again.” And, sure enough, we did, from Netanyahu, totally mendacious because the air raid bears no relation to what the Israelis are doing in southern Lebanon, because I’ve been to Copenhagen to investigate it.
But the point is, in the past, you had a constantly self-delusional Israeli government going off on these crazy military adventures in Lebanon and ending up in a mess. And there was always a Clinton or a Carter to say, “Whoa, boy! Whoa! Ceasefire.” But on this occasion, for the first time ever, we had a U.S. administration, which was just as self-delusional and ideologically minded as the Israelis. And when the Israelis said, “We’re going to root out the evil weed of Hezbollah,” they said, “Oh! They’re going to do it! Great! Good on the Israelis!” thinking they could actually do this, when all the facts on the ground proved long before the war started that that was impossible.
There was no way the Israelis could do that. And when they did come in on the ground and the Hezbollah were told under the air attacks, “Just take the punishment. Keep taking the punishment. You will have to get them when they come in on the ground.” And they went in on the ground, and they lost 40 men in 36 hours. And that's the biggest defeat for the IDF, I think, probably in those numbers of times, since way back in the ’73 war, I mean in terms of losses. I mean, no one should ever be happy about the loss of any human being, however good they are or bad they are or anything else, but that was extraordinary punishment. That was not the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, of Sama legend we saw. That was a defeated army.
I’m not saying that Hezbollah won. I think their quotes of divine victory make me puke on the way to the airport. But nonetheless, the Israelis lost that war. They achieved none of their military objectives. They haven't got the soldiers back. They haven't got rid of the Hezbollah. They haven't gotten north of the Litani. They haven't seized their weapons. They haven’t humbled Syria. And they haven’t humbled Iran. So, what have they managed to do, apart from destroying an awful lot of Lebanon?
AMY GOODMAN: What have they done?
ROBERT FISK: They have proved that they can't defend their own people. They needed that ceasefire to stop the rockets falling, Hezbollah rockets falling. They couldn't stop the Hezbollah missiles. Indeed, on the last day, the Hezbollah fired 200 missiles in one day, more than ever before into Israel. They couldn't protect their own people. The IDF could not protect the people of Israel. And that's why the -- if you talk to the Israelis, they know very well what happened. The Americans may -- Bush says, “Oh, Hezbollah lost, and the Israelis won.” The Israelis don't say that at all, which is why there are increasing calls for Dan Halutz, the Israeli commander, to be fired and indeed an inquiry that might lead to Olmert losing his job, but I don't think he will.
AMY GOODMAN: Why?
ROBERT FISK: Because I think there’s a sort of feeling in Israel -- I talk on the phone to Israeli friends -- that if you get rid of Olmert, it’s the final proof that it was a loss, a disaster. A lot of Israelis feel, we’ll keep him there for the time being. Maybe there's a part two we don't know about. Israelis are talking about part two, and so are the Hezbollah, which means that I don't think 1701 is going to work. I can see all kinds of reasons why it can't work, actually.
AMY GOODMAN: What about these UN forces moving in?
ROBERT FISK: I think they will be attacked, not by Hezbollah, not by Shiites at all. There are now very, very powerful Sunni movements, very sympathetic towards the Sunni insurgents in Iraq, who exist in places like Tripoli in the north of Lebanon, in the Palestinian camps around Sidon. I know. I’ve been to see them and talked directly to them.
At least 18 men from Lebanon have gone to Iraq and have committed suicide bombings against American forces in Iraq. I went to the family of one. Their youngest son left the refugee camp, Palestinian, at Mieh Mieh, went to Tal Afar in northern -- he spent some months and actually called his family from Baghdad. And he said, “I’m going to find a bride.” They said, “Well, is that why you went to Baghdad?” He said, “No. My bride is going to be in heaven.” And the mother said, “Come back. We'll find you a real one. Come back! Come back!” And less than a week later, he crashed an explosives-loaded car into an American convoy at Tal Afar, north of Baghdad.
And I was shown a film the family were given by the Iraqi insurgents, the family in Lebanon, showing their son with other young men from the insurgency swimming in the Tigris River and doing arms training with bullets being fired around them and rushing across fields with weapons. At one point, you see their son smiling from a car, and I wondered if that was the car he blew up against the Americans. They were sent the tapes, and they all sat around the room with me, and they wanted to see it again. And the grandmother kept nodding backwards and forwards, and she said, “I’m so proud of him.” These are people who are going to attack the international troops in the south, not the Shiites, not the Hezbollah, if they are attacked.
AMY GOODMAN: Hezbollah does not control them?
ROBERT FISK: It’s nothing to do with Hezbollah. It's a Sunni thing. Hezbollah wouldn’t want anything to do with these people. This is like -- I mean, the Shiites are not in love with al-Qaeda or bin Laden. These people have a kind of admiration for bin Laden, but they say, quite frankly, he's not an apostle, he’s just an influence.
AMY GOODMAN: And Hezbollah's power right now in Lebanon? There was a piece in the Financial Times that was quoting a Maine professor, from Maine.
ROBERT FISK: Oh, yes. That’s right. We’ve got to ring up people in Boston or Maine, haven’t we?
AMY GOODMAN: No, but she was saying Hezbollah has something to teach FEMA, giving out $12,000. FEMA gave out $2,000 to Katrina survivors and then stopped.
ROBERT FISK: They were handing out $42,000 to a man I know in the southern suburbs for the loss of a four-story apartment, which he owned. It was in cash. It was in brand-new $100 bills, which must have come from Iran. There’s no other -- it’s not sitting -- there weren’t any dollars left in the Lebanese banks. So Iran is basically rebuilding Lebanon, yeah, absolutely.
AMY GOODMAN: And Syria just said that they would rebuild a number of villages in South Lebanon.
ROBERT FISK: Syria has actually sent line crews to mend the electricity lines, because I was down in southern Lebanon, and I was going -- every time I saw a truck or a bulldozer who was trying to clear rubble, I would go up and ask who they were working for and who was paying them. And they were quite frank and said, “We're working for the Hezbollah,” or “We’re working for that company, which works for the Hezbollah.” “We’re working for the Ministry of Transport.”
And I went down to these line gangers who were putting up new electric lines near Qana actually, and I realized, talking to them, they had a Syrian accent. So immediately they were from Hama and Aleppo and [inaudible] and Damascus, and they were sent in by the Syrian government to mend the electrical line, so the Syrians are in there, but the Syrians don't have any economic power to do anything for Lebanon. They are happy to promote war there and provoke war there, but they can't do anything about it. But the Iranians have the money.
There is a rumor, and it’s only a rumor, in Lebanon that at the height of the fighting, Ahmadinejad spoke to Nasrallah and said, “If you want to hit Tel Aviv, it doesn't matter what happens to Lebanon, we have the money to repair it.” That’s just a rumor. It sounds like Ahmadinejad. And Nasrallah did not go along with it, of course, if the conversation ever took place. And I say, it is a rumor only. And rumors in Lebanon, it’s like, you know, ghosts that swirl around you and give you nightmares at night, and you wake up and you have a cup of coffee, and you feel better afterwards.
AMY GOODMAN: The relationship between them, Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah?
ROBERT FISK: I don’t know. I have never spoken to Nasrallah about it, and I haven’t met Ahmadinejad, and I haven’t actually tried to very hard. I don’t know. I mean, you know, Fadlallah once -- Sayyid Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, the so-called spiritual chief of Hezbollah, as AP always puts it, but he's not actually, he’s simply a very powerful and eloquent priest in the southern suburbs, or was in the southern suburbs when it existed. And he once said to me that Lebanon is a lung through which Iran breathes. There’s the answer to your question.
AMY GOODMAN: Robert Fisk, chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. Part two, tomorrow.
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