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Guatemala Jails Five Paramilitaries for Massacre

A court in Guatemala has sentenced five former paramilitaries each to 780 years in prison for the 1982 murder of 26 indigenous Mayan villagers.

They received the maximum sentence of 30 years for each of the murders which took place during an infamous massacre of 177 women and children in Rio Negro.

The victims died refusing to move from the site of a new hydroelectric dam.

Guatemala was fighting a civil war at the time in which 200,000 people either died or disappeared.

The five former members of the Civilian Self-Defence Patrols force were also ordered to pay compensation to the relatives of the victims.

Their defence is expected to lodge an appeal against the sentences.

A sixth defendant in the trial, which began in 2004, was acquitted for lack of evidence.

Three paramilitaries were earlier convicted of a role in the massacre while warrants have been issued for three others.

May29.2008|
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Immigration Agency Plans New Family Detention Centers

The federal ICE, which already runs two such facilities, is taking bids for as many as three more. Critics say detaining families is punitive and unnecessary.

The federal government is accepting bids for up to three new family detention centers that would house as many as 600 men, women and children fighting deportation cases.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a call for proposals last month and set June 16 as the deadline. New facilities are being considered on both coasts and on the Southwestern border. The agency calls for minimum-security residential facilities that would provide a "least restrictive, nonsecure setting" and provide schooling for children, recreational activities and access to religious services.

Family detention has been condemned by human rights groups and immigrant rights organizations as punitive and unnecessary. But immigration authorities said it ensures that immigrants show up for their court hearings and leave the country when ordered deported.

"Family detention has had the desired impact," ICE spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said. "We don't see as many families coming across the border. That automatic pass is no longer there."

There are currently two family facilities -- a former nursing home in Pennsylvania and a former prison in Texas. The T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas, opened in 2006 and faced protests and lawsuits within the year charging that the children were living in substandard conditions. A settlement resulted in changes in how the children are treated.

New facilities would allow the government more flexibility and enable the agency to keep families together, Nantel said. In Los Angeles this week, three illegal immigrant mothers and their toddlers, including one American child, were among about 60 people discovered at a drop house used by smugglers. Because there is no family facility nearby, the women and children are being housed in a private shelter.

The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the proposed plan to open new family detention centers.

"After the horrible conditions that were revealed at the Hutto facility, it is very disappointing that the government appears to want to produce more immigration prisons for families and children," said Ahilan Arulanantham, a staff attorney at the Southern California office.

Arulanantham said most families do not pose a safety or flight risk and should not be detained. Instead, he said, they should post bonds, wear electronic monitors or be part of an intensive supervision program.

"There are other ways to deter illegal immigration without imprisoning children," he said. "This shows that we have become addicted to incarceration as a method to solving our problems, which it is obviously not."

In extreme cases, Arulanantham said, he could see families being housed in some sort of halfway house, but not a former prison run by a private prison company.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to review the proposals and make a decision within several months, Nantel said. The bids could come from county governments or private companies. The facilities would house up to 200 people each, about 150 juveniles and 50 adults. Authorities estimate detainees would be kept at the center for between 20 and 30 days.

The proposal calls for minimal security facilities and refers to the centers as residential family shelters, but says the contractor should structure programs "designed to prevent escapes" and should provide a plan that "monitors resident movement and physically counts residents." Nobody with a criminal record would be admitted.

Corrections Corp. of America senior vice president Damon Hininger said he was aware of the request for proposals and that the company was "taking a look at it." The company already runs several immigration detention centers, including Hutto.

Hutto has 450 beds, and as of last week there were about 150 people being held in family detention there. If new facilities are built, Nantel said the agency would consider transferring the families out of Hutto and using it as an adult immigration detention center.

"Running a residential facility in what was a former prison, that was a challenge," she said. "There have been lessons learned out of Hutto."

When the center opened, children were given hospital scrubs to wear, forbidden to have toys and allowed only one hour of recreation per day, attorneys said. As a result of the settlement, children are allowed to wear pajamas, move freely around the center and bring toys into their rooms. There also have been changes made to the facility, including adding individual bathrooms, adding murals and replacing metal doors.

Given the national security goals of the Department of Homeland Security, advocates said they are skeptical about future family centers.

"They really do have this penal system model in their heads," said Andrea Black, coordinator of Detention Watch Network, a coalition advocating reform of immigration detention and deportation. "I think it's going to be challenging for them to actually be able to run a family facility that is nonpunitive given their current philosophy and practices."

The need to imprison families stems from the presence of so many illegal families sneaking across the border or hiding in the United States, said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit group that advocates a reduction in the number of immigrants.

"This is really recognizing the realities of the illegal alien population," he said. "They used to let everybody out and trust them to come back. That hasn't worked out, to say the least. This is simply the pendulum moving back the other way."

Anna Gorman
Los Angeles Times
May18.2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-detention18-2008may18,0,6204367,print.story

Planned Genocide

 
You say you're Christians but you're a fake
Multinationals on the take
Starving children deserve a break today - MDC

MB [Mae Brussell]: Just read your morning paper, and see what is taking place in India, Ethiopia, Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. There are food riots in India. Ethiopia is exporting food, while at the same time, one million Ethiopians are starving. If the Ethiopians are eliminating huge masses of their population, we could do the same thing. One article in this morning's paper stated that the "famine in Ethiopia is bringing prosperity." You might even say we are helping to test out the process. If we allow these things to happen, we will follow their example in a short period of time. With scarcities of food, water, and energy, riots and murders begin to take place that seem to call for punishment of the most "violent" kind. The evidence of planned genocide is there, right in front of us, if we take the trouble to piece it together.

SC: It is true that what seems to be artificially created scarcities of gasoline, and food staples such as meat and grain, have forced prices up to a point where it is becoming more and more difficult for people to feed themselves and their families. "Famine" is a word that couldn't be used in polite society to refer to conditions in democratic, freedom-loving America; but it is easy to see how these conditions could be pushed slightly further, to the point where it would become impossible for large masses of people to obtain food. We seem to be straying from the subject of the Hearst kidnapping.

MB: Keep in mind that the Hearst script is only the beginning. Wait and see what follows. The poor were lined up for food. The food was thrown at them. A suggestion was made by Governor Reagan that they should be fed "botulism." The stage is set for looking at hungry people and insulting them for their lack of "appreciation"...and acceptance of bags of cabbages disguised as steaks.
 
Mae Brussell and Stephanie Curuana
The Berkeley Barb (Number 18)
April 19 - 25, 1974
Inside the Hearst Kidnapping
http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Inside%20The%20Hearst%20Kidnapping.html

High-Tech Reaches a New Age of Style

When Henry Ford began mass producing the Model T Ford he famously said "the customer can have any colour he wants, so long as it's black".

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Other personal technology manufacturers have also hitched their wagon to fashion brands, while handset manufacturers, such as Korea's LG Electronics and Samsung, have scored big with phones bearing names such as Prada and Armani respectively (see below). "The Prada phone has been very successful for us, particularly in Europe," says Jeff Hwang, president of LG Electronics Mobilecomm. As mobile phone penetration has edged towards - and in some cases passed - 100 per cent, handset makers have begun to emphasise design, styling and marketing.

"Phones are very individual, personal items," says Bill Ogle, Samsung's US marketing manager. "The phone you carry says a lot about you."

Younghee Lee, who worked at French cosmetics maker L'Oréal for a decade before joining Samsung as vice-president of marketing in July, agrees. Ms Lee, Samsung's first fe­male vice-president, says her job is to orient Samsung more closely around customer needs. "Design is the DNA of mobile, it is the essence of the business," she says.

Paul Taylor
Financial Times
Apr14.2008
High-tech Reaches a New Age of Style
http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto041420081655188787&page=1

Just as technology manufacturers have realised the benefits of adding a fashionable dimension to products, so fashion has also embraced technology, writes Vanessa Friedman,

After watches, costume jewelery and wellies, the latest trend in product diversification is the cellular phone.

Nokia started it with the launch of its "fashion" line of phones, a designer group of handsets in bright colours and patterns that changed with the seasons. But other designers soon saw opportunities, with Dolce & Gabbana teaming up with Motorola in 2006 to create a blingy gold Razr, Prada following with a super-slick, touch-screen LG in early 2007 and Giorgio Armani and Samsung launching a sleekly understated, credit card-sized number at Christmas.

Meanwhile, Samsung has also worked with Ted Baker, Anna Sul and Diana von Furstenberg, while Sony Ericsson entered the market with a limited edition Julien MacDonald number.

The reason why fashion has jumped on the phone bandwagon is simple: the age of the "it" bag is drawing to a close, with a recent forecast from market research Mintel predicting that luxury handbag sales, while grew 30 percent year-on-year for the past three years, will slow significantly. Brands are hoping the era of the "It' phone will begin.

Vanessa Friedman
Financial Times (Print Edition)
Apr14.2008
How Fashion has Embraced the Cellular Phone Revolution

Corporate Media Selling Weaponization of Space

Space-based lasers

In another area of the facility, scientists are conducting futuristic research on space-based laser technology, with the aim of being able to identify and hit any target with pinpoint accuracy as well as to improve satellite imagery and laser communications, using high bandwidths to relay vast amounts of sensor data.

If the research ever becomes reality, field commanders envision a network of twin-mirror satellites that can relay the high-energy beams of ground-based lasers to any corner of the globe.

The Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft project's potential military applications include detecting and identifying the use of chemical warfare agents, spotting installations that have been camouflaged, lighting up a battlefield at night, and detecting aircraft as well as emissions from underground structures and bunkers.

Headed by spacecraft designer Brij Agrawal, it is being funded by the National Reconnaissance Office and the Missile Defense Agency, and enables researchers to use a $10 million "inertial reference unit" to simulate spaceflight and find ways to correct jitters on fast-moving satellites. They are also focusing on laser beam control, using adaptive optics to correct for disturbances in the atmosphere that can compromise either the fine-point accuracy of a laser beam, or the imagery it transmits.

In a basement lab, researchers are creating docking mechanisms for small robots that are roughly the size of the robot R2-D2 in filmmaker George Lucas' mythical "Star Wars" franchise. The robots, once joined, can multiply their power to communicate, transmit images and attend to other chores. Powered by lithium-ion batteries, the robots use compressed-air thrusters and gyros to navigate on an epoxy floor made for race car pit stops. The docking devices were used last year on the military's Orbital Express satellite, a test flight for robotically refueling satellites.

Jim Doyle
San Francisco Chronicle
May18.2008
Navy's Monterey School is Lab for Terror War
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/18/MN5K10HEKM.DTL&type=printable

"Creating Genocide Conditions for Negro Population"

ce399. 2008

Control the oil and you'll control the nations; control the food and you'll control the people - Henry Kissinger (1970)

'Doctor Seyss-Inquart. Former Austrian Nazi, now in charge of Reich colonial areas, responsible for colonial policies. Possibly most hated man in Reich territory.  Said to have instigated most if not all repressive measures dealing with conquered peoples. Worked with Rosenberg for ideological victories of most alarming grandiose type, such as attempt to sterilize entire Russian population remaining after close of hostilities. No facts for certain on this, but considered to be one of several responsible for decision to make holocaust of African continent thus creating genocide conditions for Negro population. Possible closest in temperament to original Fuhrer, A. Hitler.' - Philip K. Dick. The Man in the High Castle. (1962)

A New Menu at Tesco Stores

Britain might have a new favorite food: Polish. About 1.2 million Poles live in London and the rest of Britain, many of them recent immigrants drawn by jobs and high standards of living.

The big Polish presence has triggered a boom in supermarket sales of food from back home. Britain's biggest chain grocery store, Tesco, started selling Polish products in 2006. The move proved so popular that the retailer now carries Polish food in 500 of its stores in Britain, including many that are near the big Polish communities in London.

Hoping to reach customers who might live near a Tesco store selling Polish items, the company on Wednesday launched a Web site (www.tesco.com/polski/) selling Polish food, including pulpety (meatballs) and delicje (biscuits with chocolate and ham).

"The rocketing demand means that Polish has become the fastest-growing ethnic food range we have ever launched, including our Indian and Chinese cuisines," said Kaska Teofilak, a Tesco buyer who regularly goes to Poland in search of the latest food trends.

Like the U.S., Britain has a long history of embracing other nation's foods. In 2003, a survey by the British Broadcasting Corp. found that eight of the 10 most popular take out dishes were of Indian or other Asian origin.

Aaron O. Patrick
The Wall Street Journal
May08.2008

Global Transhumanist Anschluss

Ars Electronica (not to be mistaken with Ars Electronics of Van Nuys, California), a prestigious digital art and music competition, electronic music festival, and symposium (based in Linz, Austria), advocated genocide for populations 'unfit' to adapt to their transhumanist agenda in an announcement from their 1996 festival.

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Chapter Two of The Critical Art Ensemble´s anti-capitalist, anti-eugenics polemic, Flesh Machine.

Brave New World: Part One (mp3 file)

In Brave New World [this] standardization of the human product has been pushed to fantastic, though not perhaps impossible, extremes. Technically and ideologically we are still a long way from bottled babies and Bokanovsky groups of semi-morons. But by A.F. 600, who knows what may not be happening ? Meanwhile the other characteristic features of that happier and more stable world - the equivalents of soma and hypnopaedia and the scientific caste system--are probably not more than three or four generations away. Nor does the sexual promiscuity of Brave New World seem so very distant. There are already certain American cities in which the number of divorces is equal to the number of marriages. In a few years, no doubt, marriage licenses will be sold like dog licenses, good for a period of twelve months, with no law against changing dogs or keeping more than one animal at a time. As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom.  In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate. - Aldous Huxley. Introduction to Brave New World (1932).

Download 01_brave_new_world_part_one.mp3 (68.8 mb)

Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution, 1962 (mp3 file)

Operation Phoenix and the SLA

The implication or latent threat of force alone was sufficient to insure that the people would comply - CIA Director William Colby

What we're really doing in Vietnam is killing the cause of 'wars of liberation.' It's a testing ground - like Germany in Spain. It's an example to Central America and other guerrilla prone areas - Bernard Fall, Ramparts. December 1965. 

Nelson Brickham viewed Vietnam as a war that would be "won or lost on the basis of intelligence," and he created [the] Phoenix [Program] as the vanguard in that battle. Unfortunately, the Phoenix front line unraveled faster than the VCI's; dissension between the Americans and Vietnamese, and the CIA and the military doomed the program to failure. And while the insurgents held tight, mistrust of U.S. government policy in Southeast Asia born during Tet 1968 and brought to a boil by the Cambodian invasion, began to unravel American society.

Immediately following the Cambodian invasion, massive antiwar demonstrations erupted across the country. In Ohio Governor James Rhodes reacted violently, vowing to 'eradicate' the protesters. On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard responded to his exhortations, firing into a crowd of demonstrators at Kent State College, killing four people.

The spectacle of American soldiers killing American citizens had a chilling on many people, many of whom suddenly realized that dissent was a dangerous in the United States as it was in South Vietnam. To many Americans, the underlying tragedy of the Vietnam War symbolized by Phoenix, was finally felt at home. Nixon himself articulated those murderous impulses when he told his staff, "Don't worry about decisiveness. Having drawn the sword, stick it in hard. Hit' em in the gut. No defensiveness."

Nixon backed his words with actions. He ordered one of his aides, a former Army intelligence specialist and president of the Young Americans for Freedom, Tom Huston, to devise a plan to surveil, compromise, and discredit his domestic critics. The Huston Plan was called evidence of a "Gestapo mentality" by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina.

What Ervin meant by the "Gestapo mentality" was Phoenix in its conceptual sense - the use of terror to stifle dissent. Reflecting Nixon's "Gestapo Mentality," offensive counterintelligence operations were directed against dissenters in America: blacks, leftists, pacifists, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), and American Indians. The most famous example may have been mounted by the CIA's domestic operations branch against the Black Liberation Movement; as in Chile, it provoked a violent reaction by security forces and served to justify repression.

Colston Westbrook, according to Mae Brussell in a July 1974 article in The Realist, was a CIA psywar expert. An adviser to the Korean CIA and Lon Nol in Cambodia,  Westbrook from 1966 until 1969 reportedly worked (undercover as an employee of Pacific Architects and Engineers) as an adviser to the Vietnamese Police Special Branch. In 1970 Westbrook allegedly returned to the United States and was gotten a job at the University of California at Berkeley. According to Brussell, Westbrook's control officer was William Hermann, who was connected to the Stanford Research Institute, RAND Corporation, and the Hoover Center on Violence. In his capacity as an adviser to Governor Ronald Reagan, Hermann put together a pacification plan for California at the UCLA Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. As part of this pacification plan Westbrook, a black man, was assigned the task of forming a black cultural association at the Vacaville Medical Facility. Although ostensibly fostering black pride, Westbrook was in truth conducting an experimental behavior modification program. Westbrook's job, claims Brussell, was to program unstable persons, drawn from California prisons, to assassinate black community leaders. His most successful client was Donald DeFreeze, chief of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). It was Westbrook who designed the SLA's logo (a seven-headed cobra), who gave DeFreeze his African name (Cinque), and who set Cinque and his gang on their Phoenix flight to cremation, care of the Los Angeles SWAT Team, the FBI, and U.S. Treasury agents. 

The Phoenix Program: A Shattering Account of the most Ambitious and Closely Guarded Operation of the Vietnam War by Douglas Valentine. Pgs. 336, 337. ISBN# 0 688-09130-X

Flight of the Phoenix: From Vietnam to Homeland Security

Why Was Patricia Hearst Kidnapped?

Israel to Bar UN Official for Comparing Israelis to Nazis

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it will not allow the U.N. official appointed to investigate Israeli-Palestinian human rights to enter the country, after he stood by comments comparing Israelis to Nazis.

Richard Falk is scheduled to take up his post with the U.N. Human Rights Council in May, but Israel's Foreign Ministry said it will deny Falk a visa to enter Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, at least until a September meeting of the council.

At that meeting, Israel intends to ask the council to expand the envoy's mission to include investigating Palestinian human rights abuses against Israelis. The mandate currently allows him to monitor only human rights violations by Israel in the Palestinian territories.

Israel will also express its displeasure with the council's choice of Falk as investigator. "If he already believes Israel is like the Nazis, how fair will he be?" said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel.

Israel has objected for years to what it perceives as anti-Israel bias by many U.N. bodies.

According to a Tuesday posting on the BBC's Web site, Falk defended statements he made last summer equating Israel's treatment of Palestinians with Nazi treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. He told BCC News that Israel has been unfairly shielded from international criticism.

About 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War II in an effort to liquidate all of Europe's Jews. Mekel called Falk's comments "unacceptable and, in fact, a little strange."

"To compare Israel to the Nazis is not just a total falsehood, it's also a personal insult to everybody," he said.

Mekel said the choice of Falk is indicative of the Human Rights Council's negative attitude toward Israel. "Of all the people to be able to appoint, to find somebody who compares Israel to the Nazis is very bizarre and outrageous," he said.

The council's previous investigator, John Dugard from South Africa, compared Israeli treatment of Palestinians to apartheid, the discriminatory policy of the previous white regime in South Africa toward blacks.

Falk, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, could not be reached for comment.

International Herald Tribune
Associated Press
Apr08.2008

http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=11776931

Multinationals make Billions in Profit out of Growing Global Food Crisis

Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger

Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.

The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving the world's poor – who already spend about 80 per cent of their income on food – into hunger and destitution.

The World Bank says that 100 million more people are facing severe hunger. Yet some of the world's richest food companies are making record profits. Monsanto last month reported that its net income for the three months up to the end of February this year had more than doubled over the same period in 2007, from $543m (£275m) to $1.12bn. Its profits increased from $1.44bn to $2.22bn.

Cargill's net earnings soared by 86 per cent from $553m to $1.030bn over the same three months. And Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world's largest agricultural processors of soy, corn and wheat, increased its net earnings by 42 per cent in the first three months of this year from $363m to $517m. The operating profit of its grains merchandising and handling operations jumped 16-fold from $21m to $341m.

Similarly, the Mosaic Company, one of the world's largest fertiliser companies, saw its income for the three months ending 29 February rise more than 12-fold, from $42.2m to $520.8m, on the back of a shortage of fertiliser. The prices of some kinds of fertiliser have more than tripled over the past year as demand has outstripped supply. As a result, plans to increase harvests in developing countries have been hit hard.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation reports that 37 developing countries are in urgent need of food. And food riots are breaking out across the globe from Bangladesh to Burkina Faso, from China to Cameroon, and from Uzbekistan to the United Arab Emirates.

Benedict Southworth, director of the World Development Movement, called the escalating earnings and profits "immoral" late last week. He said that the benefits of the food price increases were being kept by the big companies, and were not finding their way down to farmers in the developing world.

The soaring prices of food and fertilisers mainly come from increased demand. This has partly been caused by the boom in biofuels, which require vast amounts of grain, but even more by increasing appetites for meat, especially in India and China; producing 1lb of beef in a feedlot, for example, takes 7lbs of grain.

World food stocks at record lows, export bans and a drought in Australia have contributed to the crisis, but experts are also fingering food speculation. Professor Bob Watson – chief scientist at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who led the giant International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development – last week identified it as a factor.

Index-fund investment in grain and meat has increased almost fivefold to over $47bn in the past year, concludes AgResource Co, a Chicago-based research firm. And the official US Commodity Futures Trading Commission held special hearings in Washington two weeks ago to examine how much speculators were helping to push up food prices.

Cargill says that its results "reflect the cumulative effect of having invested more than $18bn in fixed and working capital over the past seven years to expand our physical facilities, service capabilities, and knowledge around the world".

The revelations are bound to increase outrage over multinational companies following last week's disclosure that Shell and BP between them recorded profits of £14bn in the first three months of the year – or £3m an hour – on the back of rising oil prices. Shell promptly attracted even greater condemnation by announcing that it was pulling out of plans to build the world's biggest wind farm off the Kent coast.

World leaders are to meet next month at a special summit on the food crisis, and it will be high on the agenda of the G8 summit of the world's richest countries in Hokkaido, Japan, in July.

Geoffrey Lean
The Independent
4May2008

Multinationals make Billions in Profit out of Growing Global Food Crisis
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/multinationals-make-billions-in-profit-out-of-growing-global-food-crisis-820855.html

Diamanda Galás Worked with Navy Weapons Expert (version)

A Plague on all your Houses

Goblin: Some of your lyrics are satanic, do you literally believe that Satan exists as a personality?

Galás: I would say I have nothing to do with the Anton LaVey school of Satanism. I have often called it Las Vegas Satanism and I often regret that because I hear he's a very charming gentleman. The thing that I'm talking about is a very very ancient form of Satanism -- as considered the enemy of the religious-political Book of Laws of the day. Satan in the Old Testament is always perceived as the enemy of society, someone separate from society by choice or by inheritance, or both.

Goblin: The rebellious angel.

Galás: Exactly, and that's what Baudelaire is referring to when he says, "O Prince de l'exil, a qui l'on a fait tort, Et qui vaincu, toujours te redresses plu fort, O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!" "Oh Prince of Exile, who endurest wrong, Yet growest,in thy hatred, still more strong, Satan, at last take pity on our pain.î The voice of ignominy. And "that" is the voice of the dispossessed. That is what I am talking about. I'm talking about it in the same sense that people have talked for ages about the burning of witches as the scapegoats of a community. That's what the title of my book, The Shit Of God ("Sono le feci dal Signore") refers to. The Shit Of God are God's "mistakes," the ones the lawmakers want to warehouse outside of the city .... and those persons who are uninterested in breeding for the state.

Goblin: So you wouldn't say that Satan is an actual consciousness that does things, he just exists in human kind. Galás: I wouldn't say yes or no to that. I have different feelings about that as most Greek people do. The ancient feeling of the Greeks was always that they had one claw in hell and the other in heaven and that's how they kept their balance. I would never deny any power that I could harness.

Goblin: Are you affiliated with any political group at all or are you completely free form in that area?

Galás: I'm pretty free form. I was affiliated with ACT UP and I always consider myself to be friendly with New York ACT UP. Obviously the various ACT UP organizations behave differently. Primarily I think my status as an individual is the one I find most powerful.

Goblin: Do you vote even? Galás: Well, I must tell you, in the last election I did not. I just thought it was academic. I must tell you on the things that I work on I'm very, very selfish. I can say, "oh that's not my issue. My issue is the AIDS epidemic." None of these people are going to do anything about it unless they're directly involved with the underground which pushes people to make decisions on how much money is spent on AIDS anyway. Whether it's one president or another it seems to not change the status of the AIDS crisis. So I admit to being apathetic about racehorses and models. ...

Goblin: Are you still interested in starting vigilante squads? Galás: Definitely. I don't see any way of getting out of that. Aileen Wuronos is one of my heroes and is erroneously considered a serial killer. She is a woman who was basically trying to earn a living and was exploited by the police force (at that time considered to BE the Green River Killer, for example) who are known to exploit and beat prostitutes because prostitutes have no political power whatsoever. Wuronos did what different prostitutes who didn't get caught sometimes have to do. She reached critical mass, and just decided that she had to run every aspect of her life. And I am with that woman two-hundred percent. I dedicate Iron Lady to her. That's why I sing it. (It was facetiously sung to her by her first lawyer.) Unfortunately, in order to do certain types of things you have to have a lot of money behind you. If you don't you just go to the joint for twenty years and disappear into the system and there's no point in that. You have to have a plan, money, and do it properly. Unfortunately most women are not in a position to take real action when it comes to rape and street harassment. And if they were then something would change.

Goblin: Have you studied martial arts?

Galás: I haven't studied martial arts; I have worked with a weapons expert in the Navy who taught me a few things about guns. I have a .38 special Smith &Wesson that I bought in San Diego years ago.

Goblin: That's more effective than martial arts.

Galás: What's nice about it is there's no human contact at all. As a piano player I don't have to hurt my hands. I've had stun guns and I think pellet guns are the way to go. The police force is working a lot with that because they make so many mistakes they don't want to go to jail for killing the wrong person. These guns should be made available to all women.

Goblin: Is there any thing or any person that really makes you guffaw?

http://sonic.net/~goblin/9galas.html

Note:

The possible connection to the United States Navy or Navy Intelligence may be of interest here to those who have researched the history of the counterculture's infiltration by the National Security State. California (especially San Francisco) has historically served as a strange attractor (intentional magnet) for black ops, dirty tricks and mind control experimentation.

This penetration may have resulted in the premature neutralization of the anti-war (and affiliated) movement(s) in the 1960's and later the punk movement of the1980's by forces that were, perhaps intentionally, significantly less 'activist' in orientation. Both of these movements were a considerable threat to the status quo due to the utilization of continued and persistent civil disobedience. The specific references here are to the Free Speech Movement of the mid-1960's (in particular the year 1964, which coincided with CIA MK-ULTRA guinea pig Ken Kesey's psychedelic cross-country tour) and the activist component of anarcho-punk, which reached its apex in the mid-1980's.

Ms. Galás may have rehearsed or recorded some of her earlier work on a property owned by the U.S.Navy at Hunter's Point, San Francisco, probably some time during the mid-1980's.

The NOTS (Naval Ordinance Test Station) 'module' of the U.S. Navy has been linked to Project Monarch, which involves sexual trauma, torture and the creation of multiple personalities in children.

Disney replicant Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) is the latest child celebrity to undergo this 'trance-formation'.

The front alters can be wonderful Christians, and the deeper alters can be the worst type of Satanic monster imaginable--a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde effect. A great deal is at stake in maintaining the secrecy of the intelligence agency or the occult group which is controlling the slave.

Chapter Two: The Science of Trauma and Torture

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The ALEX (also called ALEXUS) is part of the tracking and AntiChrist-Call-Back Programming. Outside computers are able to interconnect with the Monarch Mind Control slave and call them back for AntiChrist activities.

...an alter by the name of Alex or a similar name [is placed] in high level slaves and they have either via implants or some other type of programming made these slaves available for programming via electronic communications that tie in with their ALEX computers.

Monarch Mind Control Programming Quotes

This is part of what CIA mind control survivor Cathy O'Brien calls Global Education 2000: essentially a global corporate fascist Babalon Working targeting children.

The brief message Bennett programmed me with pertaining to Education 2000 was to be directed to state Governors at the upcoming convention while delivering a packet of information:

"The children. We must consider the children. Think for a moment beyond tomorrow. Our children are the future. Their future lies in education. We can control the future today by regulating education. Our thoughts and plans for the future -- put in their text. A text they can understand. Children's textbooks. The highest levels of government, the most brilliant minds on the face of this Earth would like input into the future by way of the children. You, as Governor, are in a position to provide that link. Global Education 2000 is ready for implementation. Look into it. Look into it and see the future."

The Story of the CIA's "Finders" Operation

The Frankin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska.

The ability of the corporate fascist system to parody itself (Benjamin Barber has also touched upon this same concept in his book Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole)  and use self-deprecating humor to partially disguise and/or reveal PSYOP and black ops creates one of many psychological barriers to the 'general public's'  understanding of how the Power Elite attempt to manufacture and control 'reality.' As one Bush Administration aide stated in 2004:

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Recently, the U.S. Navy has insisted on the continued use of 'low frequency active sonar' off the California coast, despite the serious threat posed to marine life. 

What is Low Frequency Active Sonar or LFA Sonar?

LFA Sonar is an underwater system that the U.S. Navy spent over $375 million tax dollars creating. It is designed to detect “quiet” submarines by emitting an extremely loud low frequency noise into the ocean, and then listening for echoes. This is one of the loudest noises humans have ever made, and it is powerful enough to kill marine mammals and other forms of marine life!

Why are 'they' doing this?

It should be quite obvious by now that so-called Baby Boomers and 'the children of darkness' that they have spawned ('echo,'  'y' and 'millennial') are here for one reason and one reason only: to 'obliterate' all life on planet Earth. History will show that these ‘humans’ were the most repulsive, pompous, selfish and destructive 'life forms' to ever walk the surface of the Earth. 

The grandchildren of Booming corporate transhumanists will not need clean air to breathe or clean water to drink. Cybernetic organisms will not require the nutrients that Madre Tierra has provided 'free of charge' for over 4.5 billion years.

A global eugenic Tiergartenstrasse has already come to pass, but ‘humans’ seem not to have noticed.

Death will not provide an escape for the perpetrators of this global eugenic Holocaust now currently in progress.

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Equally fascinating is his [Michael A. Hoffman II's] study of the 'double initial murders', which took place in Rochester, NY, between 1971 and 1976. In this case, the killer matched wits with the police by laying a trail of clues for them to follow. The first and most obvious of these was the occurrence of double initials in each of the victim's names: Carmen Colon, Wanda Walkowicz, Michelle Maenza and Michelle McMurray. The police, lacking Hoffman's perspicacity, discounted this as pure coincidence. "We decided a long time ago that the initials had nothing to do with it," a spokesman Michael Iaculli declared. Other clues were far more esoteric, and here again it is possible to accuse Hoffman of trying to make the maximum of bricks from the minimum of straw. Analyzing the name of the first victim, he points out that Carmen means 'enchanted' while colon signifies the small intestine or anus. It is also a Latin word meaning 'dove of love.' The dove is, of course, a symbol much used by the OTO; and this fact takes Hoffman a stage further in his chain of reasoning. During his famous 'North Africa Working,' he points out, OTO chief Alesiter Crowley was sodomized - a further anus/colon motif - as part of a rite meant to invoke Choronzon, the Dweller of the Abyss. The same ritual also involved the sacrifice of three doves; "and it was from the blood of these 'feathered colons' that Choronzon was supposed to materialize." The number of Choronzon is given in the Qabala as 333, a multiple of 33. 'C' is the third letter of the alphabet, hence Carmen Colon's initials = 33. Carmen herself was abducted on Route 33. And so on.

(33 is for Hoffman the numerical key to a veritable Pandora's Box of contemporary paranoia. He sees in it a wealth of sinister occult/Masonic significance.)

What Hoffman is suggesting here is that Carmen Colon was actually sacrificed as part of an elaborate ritual designed to invoke Choronzon or some similar entity. From this premise he progresses to Kenneth Bianchi aka the Hillside Stangler, whose victims were left at sites 'sacred' to the OTO (Hoffman casually mentions in passing that one such site is allegedly haunted by a Choronzon-like Lovecraftian 'Lloigor'), and thence to homosexual mass murder John Wayne Gacy, who claimed the lives of 33 boys in the Chicago area.

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Many prominent killers, he points out, are known to have had ties with US officialdom or private law enforcement. Thus Lennon assassin Mark Chapman was a security guard, and David Berkowitz obtained his infamous 'Bulldog .44' handgun from a private security firm. Ted Bundy was a social worker and official close to the Governor of Washington;  Jim Jones was a former San Francisco Housing Authority Commissioner; John Wayne Gacy had political affiliations and, at a Democratic rally in 1978, was photographed alongside Rosalynn Carter, wife of then-President Jimmy Carter, wearing a Secret Service insignia.

Rosalynn Carter with John Wayne Gacy

Rapid Eye 2: Twilight Language by Ian Blake. Pgs 3-5. Edited by Simon Dwyer. Annihilation Press, UK.  ISBN# 1 871592232

Note:

I don't know enough about Michael Hoffman to assess allegations made against him of anti-Semitism toward Jews and Holocaust denial. His publisher, Revisionist History, is based out of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, however, which immediately brings to mind that cities connection with the Aryan Nations. Guilt by association and a few common interests, but, as stated, I don't know enough about this individual or his publisher to have an informed opinion.

Revisionist History published a scathing attack on Thelema and the OTO by Craig Heimbichner, titled Blood on the Altar: The Secret History of the World's Most Dangerous Secret Society, in which he writes: We are in a universal lapse into a state of immaturity, a true indicator that we are in some sort of “era of the child.” The quotation was extracted from a section of the book titled: The Wizards of Oz.

It's worth reading the reader's comments section at length, as some interesting personages (ie Peter-Robert Koenig and Adam Parfrey) add their 'two cents' to the discussion.

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Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity. - Bolivian President Evo Morales, September 24, 2007