Discovery of ancient skull further proves that history is wrong!

The term "history" is such a nebulous term. As a historian, I know this better than 99.9% of the population who have not been trained in the art of historiography. To be blunt about it though, most people think of history as the story of our past. More specifically it has come to refer to the written history of our past as seen through the eyes of the historian who must take the available evidence and synthesize it into a cohesive story that fits with what we already know to be "true." The problem is that once we accept something as more or less true, we tend to reject an ideas that fly in the face of this so-called "history."

A recent story caught my attention and reminded me that history is basically, more or less, the fictional account created by historians based on their available evidence. Everything we actually believe about history is basically wrong though. A story released in The Independent in London reads "It has long been agreed that Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution. Then these bones were found in Georgia." Steve Connor, science editor for The Independent, has reported that the skull from an archeological site near the Georgian capital of Tbilisi seems to indicate that human civilization may have had more than one cradle. At the very least, the evidence suggests a long evolutionary interlude by ancient humans in Eurasia before returning to Africa just prior to the final migration out of Africa.

This is a great story because it shows clearly once again that even those breaking the news are unwilling to break with the old paradigm. Here we have evidence that humans may have been in different locations in the ancient past and that civilization may not have originated from one source, and yet, the story is reported as if there must be some connection between ancient humans in Africa and of those now found in Eurasia. Why can we not just accept the fact that perhaps these are completely unrelated? What if life were seeded by other beings in the universe long ago and in several places all over our planet? The reason the establishment cannot let go of their interpretive framework is because they have a vested interest in keeping the status quo, whether it be in the form of research funding, or whether it be disrupting to their belief systems. The insistence that this discovery must be connected to ancient African human life betrays the belief that there was a "man" (Adam) and a "woman" (Eve) who were the progenitors of the human race. What if there were many Adams and many Eves? Just a thought for now...more on this later...

Here is the link for the story reviewed above: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-skull-that-rewrites-the-history-of-man-1783861.html

Chupacabra Found in Texas

A recent find of a strange hairless animal in Blanco, Texas, has started speculation over whether or not the bald creature might be the remains of the legendary, Chupacabra. Legend has it that this now infamous creature has been wandering the Americas sucking the blood of farm animals who provide its primary source of nourishment. The word Chupacabra is a combination of two Spanish words which, when taken together, literally mean "Goatsucker." The first reported Chupacabra attack was in March 1995 in Puerto Rico where several sheep were found dead with puncture wounds in their chest and all of the blood drained from their bodies. Initially it was believed that this was the work of a Satanic cult, but later became the stuff of the Chupacabra lesson as similar killings began to pop up on farms everywhere throughout Puerto Rico. Since then, the stories have spread to the American mainlands.

This most recent finding has resulted in the reemergence of the story, but this time with a little more substantial proof. The body of the animal is now in the possession of taxidermist Jerry Ayers who received the body of the animal from a former student whose cousin left poison in the barn to deal with an animal that was constantly breaking in and threatening the livestock therein. Video and photo footage reveals a gruesome creature that appears to be a genetically defective coyote or something from the canine family. Tissue samples have been taken by Texas A & M University in order to determine the actual genetic makeup and identity of the creature. To view the CNN video of this story CLICK HERE NOW.

The Return of Planet X?

If you've been paying attention to your own intuition or perhaps to what Hollywood has been telling us for the last fifteen years or so, you might be concerned. You might be really concerned if you turned on the news one day and there was a NASA official or some astronomer being interviewed about an interstellar object or piece of debris heading toward the planet. It would be like Will Smith's character in "Independence Day" who woke up oblivious to the fact that there was a giant spacecraft hovering over his hometown and then, WHACK! Like a brick in the face it would hit you that the end was near, very near. Now this might sound like the stuff of science fiction or simply good material for a Hollywood movie, but there does seem to be some evidence that things are a bit out of whack on earth and in our solar system and this may be due to some type of interference or disturbance by an interplanetary object of massive proportions.

I recently picked up a copy of Jayson Rand's work on the return of Wormwood. Wormwood is the "star" mentioned in the book of Revelation that supposedly strikes the earth wiping out a significant portion of the population because of the way that it poisons the earth's waters. This almost sounds like something radioactive in nature, possibly a nuclear blast rather than space debris. There are those, however, like Rand who see this as the inevitable return of Planet X or what Zechariah Sitchin referred to as the Twelfth Planet (so-named because of the Sumerians and their tendency to count the Sun and the Moon as planets also). It is believed that this planet may be a brown dwarf star, part of a binary star system with our sun, whose path takes it through our solar system once every 3600 years. According to the calculations of many, this would have made its last pass sometime in the era of the Biblical Exodus and make its current arrival time SOON. Rand contends that the best research shows that it will make its first path possibly around September, 2009 before making its way into deep space and then making its second pass in December 2012. It may be that Rand has worked his way backwards from the December 2012 date using the Mayan Calendar as the basis for his intitial conclusions.

I'll not be spending time analyizing the validity of Rand's or anyone else's approach at this time. What I would like to briefly make note of is the fact that we are constantly bombarded with news of Near Earth Objects barely missing the earth and with movies and shows on T.V. that seem preoccupied with this subject. I have said elsewhere that this may simply be a way of desensitizing us to the reality that we will all soon be dead or fighting to survive in a vastly different and almost post-apocalyptic type of world. Evidence suggests that human civilization has come and gone many times throughout the past and that when it disappeared, it did so quickly. This may indicate that certain catastrophes precipitated its demise. I will be exploring this topic in future articles, but for now, I simply want to note that we are not being told about what is going on or what is coming--perhaps for good reason. NASA and the rest of the world of Astronomy (along with the world's governments) are likely afraid that such news would send the world into a state of shock and chaos and that we would one day wake up to find that proverbial saucer in the sky, only this time in the form of a brown dwarf star whose gravitational pull would spell the end of life as we traditionally know for human beings.

12 ft. Giant Reported in Malaysia

This one is too weird for me to even bother putting my own spin on it. This was reported on the coasttocoastam.com website as follows:

Steve Quayle forwarded us a newspaper article about a "weird figure" seen in Malaysia that appeared to be around 12 ft. tall. He received the article from a woman named Ann C. who was touring South East Asia. She writes:

Hi Steve,

Being a long time listener and website reader from Canada, I was touring South East Asia lately when I spotted this newspaper report from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was reported by Sin Chew Press a local Chinese paper on 13th July 2009 the clipping of which I had scanned and attached together with another high definition scan of the figure photo taken by a witness using his cellphone. Please note that the bottom of the balcony stands about 10 feet from the ground. Here is a translation of the news clipping:

The appearance of a weird figure in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

Nobody knows what it is and where it came from.

Reported by Ang of Sin Chew Press.

A resident of Kampung Sri Cempaka, Ahmad Sachari was the first person who witnessed this weird figure one night near his home in Kampung (village) Sri Cempaka but it quickly disappeared. "When I was at the garbage dump disposing garbage I saw it when I lift my head. It just stood there and it emitted multiple sounds but I can't understand what it was trying to say, just like many sounds pile up in a stack. "

Another Chinese man, Cheong from Subang also saw this weird figure...."it appeared to be roughly 12 feet tall and had 2 legs but many heads." Cheong recounted his response "it looked not frigntening at all, like a very gentle giant."

"When I first saw it talking, the voices seemed to originate from different heads at the same time but gave me a feeling of being friendly," he added. (He took a photo of this figure with his cellphone). The local police authorities would investigate this case and urged the residents to remain calm and not to jump to any conclusion. "We cannot confirm what this weird figure is," a spokesman for the police said.

"We do not believe it is a threat to humans and on contrary we could attempt to communicate with it. " There were reports that the police would work with the local UFO investigators. Meanwhile, the police proposed that residents be not alarmed and to keep in contact with family and close friends and to follow the newspapers or TV reports for further updates.

Web Bot Predicts Typhoon That Hit China

Just when it looked as if world events couldn't get any worse, they did. August 9, 2009: mark it as the day that the web bot prediction of a "global coastal event" came true. Now admittedly, the term global coastal event is a bit ambiguous and it could mean just about anything. I picked up this snippet from realufos.netthat gives a synopsis of what George Ure and Cliff believed the global coastal event to be:

Global Coast Event likely in early to mid 2009
• Permanent loss of low lying territory globally but one continent in particular get hit badly. We don’t know which one, but we hope it’s like a Greenland or some not heavily populated area. (*working on this now, but it’s at the limit of our software)
• Places to avoid: anything at sea level (Bangladesh/Florida/ etc).

At this point we do not know if the typhoon is going to result in "permanent" loss of territory or not and we cannot say that this event is "global" in nature, but even so, we can draw some other conclusions which might qualify this as the event predicted. The very fact that this typhoon caused the displacement of one million people makes it a pretty extraordinary correlation with what was predicted. Furthermore, that it hit a major center of Chinese industry means that this will have global impact. I will not be surprised to see the markets tank tomorrow in response to the possibility that there may be significant manufacturing and other industry lost. As one of the world's emerging economic superpowers, China's impact on the other nations of the world is easily recognized. This could be a setback to any economic recovery that had started to take place. On top of all of this, we have to remember that George and Cliff also predicted that the economy would be showing signs of recovery right before the markets crash again. Could this be the next thing to happen?

Second American Revolution Underway

It has begun. Check out this rushed news story post from Alex Jones' site:

There can longer be any doubt, the White House and their army of cult followers are publicly censoring the news and restricting free speech.

People in opposition to Obama’s policies are now being beaten up in the streets everywhere and the White House has unleashed tattle tale squads to flag and report dissenters. We have now been directly censored. Even we are shocked.

It’s just like what Obama did with Odinga in Kenya– my God, these people are for real.

Again, we are under attack right now. Within the next hour, we’ll have a video and story up, so watch this space.

The enemy is moving against everyone, not just us.

It’s like 1918 in Russia, or the takeover in China by Mao or the rise of Hitler.

I’m working feverishly with my team. We’ll have details for you within the next 2 hours. Please stand by to get this info out to everyone you know. This is a Red alert.

I told everyone on Friday the country is on the edge of Revolution. The bankers know this; they knew there’d be resistance to their corporate takeover of the United States, so they are trying to restrict dissent and take over public meetings, because their illusion is in trouble.

Tyrannts slowly get you to accept their abuse, until all of a sudden you wake up and realize that you’re under the oppression seen in Germany in 1935.

Swine Flu Pandemic to Bring Martial Law This Fall

So have you had Swine Flu symptoms yet? No? Big surprise! The swine flu scare that enveloped the country has had little to no basis in reality this past year. And yet, it is quite amazing that the story has lingered in the press up until now. Could it be that the puppetmasters pulling the strings are getting ready to hit us with another dose of the "P" word? PANDEMIC! We've heard the word used repeatedly in relation to the swine flu and the need for swine flu vaccinations and yet the H1N1 virus has proved to be less destructive than traditional flu strains which kill thousands each year. Why is it then that an International Swine Flu Conference is going to be held in Washington, D.C., from August 19-21? One the conference's website one can actually go and look at the brochure containing the conference agenda: CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE WEBSITE

Much of the groundwork for responding to the Swine Flu pandemic was laid in the avian flu outbreak scare a few years ago. Note this yahoo news story from May, 2007:

The US military has begun to plan for a possible avian flu pandemic that could kill as many as three million people in the United States in as little as six weeks, a Pentagon planning document said.

The Defense Department's "Implementation Plan for Pandemic Influenza," which was posted Wednesday on a Pentagon website, lays out guidelines and planning assumptions for US military services and combatant commands.

Possible scenarios include US troops being called in to put down riots, guard pharmaceutical plants and shipments, and help restrict the movement of people inside the country and across its borders.



The plan envisions fast moving, catastrophic waves of disease that would overwhelm health facilities and cripple the ability of state and local authorities to provide even basic commodities or services.

"A pandemic in the United States could result in 20-35 percent of the population becoming ill, three percent being hospitalized, and a fatality rate of one percent," the document said in a section on "planning assumptions."

A human-to-human outbreak of avian flu was most likely to occur outside the United States and may not be contained effectively, it said.

"A pandemic outbreak will last between 6-12 weeks and multiple pandemic waves will follow," it said.

If a pandemic influenza starts outside the United States, it will enter the US at multiple locations and spread quickly to other parts of the country, according to the report.

A vaccine for the specific strain of flu would not be available for distribution for a minimum of six to nine months after a human-to-human outbreak had been clinically confirmed, it said.

Transportation within states or internationally will be restricted to contain the spread of the virus, and communities may voluntarily close schools and limit public gatherings.

"Quarantine and other movement restrictions, especially if the restrictions are involuntary, will have minimal effect on the spread of the disease due to a very short incubation period and the ability of asymptomatic individuals to shed the virus," the document said.

"Military and civilian medical treatment facilities will be overwhelmed," it said.

It said the military will be called on to evacuate non-infected people from areas abroad that are having problems, and to help allies.

But the guidance said the US military's top priority would be to preserve the operational effectiveness of the Defense Department and its forces around the world.

Additionally, the Defense Department will develop a plan to ensure the continuity of operations of the US government and be prepared to support civilian authorities with medical supplies, airlift and security forces.

A key military role will be to distribute medical supplies and medications and provide security for the production and shipment of vaccines on orders of the president.

"When directed by the president, DoD will provide support to civil authorities in the event of a civil disturbance," the document said. "DoD will augment civilian law enforcement efforts to restore and maintain order in accordance with existing statutes."

The military also may assist civil authorities in "isolating and/or quarantining groups of people in order to minimize the spread of disease during an influenza pandemic," it said. (End Story)

What is the purpose in causing such an unwarranted scare? It may be that the globalists are finally making their move to institute martial law and subdue the population. The threat of a pandemic would be the perfect occasion for the implementation of martial law and a clamp down on the population of the world. We noted in earlier blogs that forced vaccinations are likely--the U.S. has purchased 135 million doses of the vaccine. It is believed by many that the member nations of the WHO will use this opportunity to finally institute world population control and perhaps introduce depopulation, not through a swine flu pandemic, but through mass murder brought on by what is contained in the virus. Again, we've noted elsewhere that there are indications that this vaccine is not safe. As noted on coasttocoastam.com: "Barbara Loe Fisher, the co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), pointed out that legislation passed in the wake of 9-11 allows experimental vaccines to be tested on Americans without liability, in the event of a "public health emergency." And now with the advent of Swine Flu, the US government may be planning forced inoculations in schools this fall. She noted that "adjuvants" added to vaccines to make them more potent can cause problems for certain people. Fisher and Falkov advised people to educate themselves on vaccine risks and specific public health laws in their state." When you put all of this together with the web bot predictions, you end up with the foundation for a pretty horrific scenario that may play itself out this fall....stay tuned.

Jersey Devil Has Rival in Florida

NBC Channel 2 in the North Port Florida area is reporting that a creature now known as the North Port Devil has been purportedly wandering the woods in the local area. Michael Rowley and his son Shane, 16, have reported several encounters over the last several months since they moved into the area. Shane has indicated that this "extra-terrestrial" being has been seen at or through his bedroom window late at night. Michael has admitted that he has seen the creature fly.

The story has gained the attention of the investigative organization MUFON, or Mutual UFO Network, which has issued the following report regarding the case: CLICK HERE FOR THE REPORT

Rowley has also put together his own website: http://www.northportdevil.com

I had to report this story here because it immediately conjured up memories of the X-Files episode where Mulder investigated the Jersey Devil. Sometimes these stories prove to be as fascinating as any UFO or Ghost Story.

Israel and Iran Set to Face Off In Nuclear War?

As if terrorism and terrorist attacks are not enough to keep the world on its toes, all of the talk of an Israel-Iran war is looking more like a reality some time in the near future. The threat of a nuclear Iran has, it seems, sent Israel into a tizzy and has placed the entire world on red alert. Now, as the Jerusalem Post is reporting, there is ongoing discussion between the United States and Israel about colluding to impose an import ban on Iranian oil (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249275684237&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull) Such a ban would, in fact, exacerbate the ongoing problems between Israel and Iran by isolating Iran and turning this into an Israel-Arab conflict as Islamic Iran would call upon its neighbors to help put down the infidel insurrection against the religion of Islam and its nations. This battle has been brewing for quite some time, well since the beginning of recorded time in fact if you take the biblical account at face value. The Iran-Israel conflict has been at the forefront of world news for months now and only seems to indicate that something ominous is on the horizon. Whether or not this represents Armageddon or an end time bible prophecy ultimately coming true or not, remains to be seen. That these end of the world predictions have never come true cannot be disputed, but we have to keep in mind that once they do we'll never be able to say that again, or anything else for that matter.

Israel's attack on Iran Just Around the Corner

I've been saying all along that an Israeli attack on Iran is just around the corner. This video should confirm what I've been writing up to this point. Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran because it is currently planning one:

Recession Not Over--Revolution to Follow?

Despite recent signs that the economy in the United States and elsewhere has started to pull out of the prolonged recession which has dominated the news headlines for the last year, it appears as if things could go from bad to better to much much worse. Keeping in mind what George Ure and Cliff have predicted with the use of their web bot technology, it is difficult to show any real optimism about the last few days positive signs. Ure has been keenly right about his predictions especially with regard to economic matters. It seems as if the web bot technology is remarkably accurate in predicting long term economic trends and outcomes. What Ure and Cliff have recently predicted is that in August the economy will show signs of recovery. Here we are just a couple of days into August and the news agencies are already reporting that the economy is on the road to recovery. Let's not get too excited.

The web bot has also indicated that August is most likely the last time that we can speak economic recovery for quite some time. Sometime during August or just shortly thereafter, the economy is to begin another tremendous slide into the proverbial toilet. Throughout September and on into October, this slide will lead to the "death of the dollar" and a period of hyperinflation in 2010. It is also mid-October, specifically around the 25th, when Israel is set to attack Iran.

Why spend time focusing on such negative predictions? Well, as I began my research for today's topic, I came across a story from the renowned Christian Science Monitor which visits the possibility of economic calamity leading to revolution. Here is an excerpt:

"For the first time in generations, people are challenging the view that a free-market order – the system that dominates the globe today – is the destiny of all nations. The free market's uncanny ability to enrich the elite, coupled with its inability to soften the sharp experiences of staggering poverty, has pushed inequality to the breaking point. As a result, we live at an important historical juncture – one where alternatives to the world's neoliberal capitalism could emerge."
To read the entire story simply CLICK HERE

As a professional historian and professor of history, I do believe that we are standing on the precipice of a new historical era. Revolutions often occur when economic conditions create a gap between the "haves" and "have nots" that no longer can be tolerated. Things are, it seems, quickly spiraling out of control. Even if things appear better in the short-term, this economic crises has clearly exacerbated the growing tensions between the various socio-economic classes. We have a tendency to be short-sighted when it comes our history. We never think that we will be that generation that lives through a revolution like the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 or even the watershed American and French Revolutions. We need to be aware of what is going on around us so that we are not surprised when the real revolution begins.

Martial Law Just Around the Corner in U.S. and Around the World

Rough economy? Need a job? Try the Army National Guard. You can go work for them as an Interment Specialist and round up your fellow Americans putting them in prison if they refuse to take the Swine Flu Vaccine which is going to probably kill thousands of people on its own without the help of the H1N1 virus. I'm going to publish Kurt Nimmo's story below so that you can read it in full:

Doubt the government plans to impose martial law and round up dissidents and other malcontents? Well, the Army National Guard is advertising for qualified personnel to work as Corrections Officers and Internment/Resettlement Specialists.
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“Avenge me, boys!” Fiction becomes fact. In the film Red Dawn, Harry Dean Stanton is put in a communist re-education camp.


“As an Internment/Resettlement Specialist for the Army National Guard, you will ensure the smooth running of military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility, similar to those duties conducted by civilian Corrections Officers,” a classified ad posted on the web states. “This will require you to know proper procedures and military law; and have the ability to think quickly in high-stress situations. Specific duties may include assisting with supervision and management operations; providing facility security; providing custody, control, supervision, and escort; and counseling individual prisoners in rehabilitative programs.”

The term “rehabilitative programs” is key. Glenn Beck and the corporate media may attempt to discredit the fact there are FEMA camps, but military documents demonstrate the government plans to herd people into internment camps. Army Regulation 210-35, entitled “Civilian Inmate Labor Program,” provides “guidance for establishing and managing civilian inmate labor programs on Army installations. It provides guidance on establishing prison camps on Army installations.”

In Mao’s China, the government established a sprawling system of administrative detention centers — known as Laogai — designed to reeducate dissidents and other social misfits through forced slave labor. In the Soviet Union under Stalin, a network of gulags — a Russian acronym for The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies — were established, primarily for political prisoners and as a mechanism for repressing political opposition to the Soviet state.

Rex 84 was created in the United States for basically the same reason. “The Rex-84 Alpha Explan (Readiness Exercise 1984, Exercise Plan; otherwise known as a continuity of government plan), indicates that FEMA in association with 34 other federal civil departments and agencies, along with other NATO nations, conducted a civil readiness exercise during April 5-13, 1984. It was conducted in coordination and simultaneously with a Joint Chiefs exercise, Night Train 84, a worldwide military command post exercise (including Continental U.S. Forces or CONUS) based on multi-emergency scenarios operating both abroad and at home. In the combined exercise, Rex-84 Bravo, FEMA and DOD led the other federal agencies and departments, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service, the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Veterans Administration through a gaming exercise to test military assistance in civil defense,” writes Diana Reynolds. “The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major demonstrations and strikes that would affect continuity of government and/or resource mobilization. To fight subversive activities, there was authorization for the military to implement government ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, the arrest of certain unidentified segments of the population, and the imposition of martial law.”

Rex 84 falls under master military contingency plan, Operation Garden Plot, allegedly developed in response to the civil disorders of the 1960s and now under the control of the U.S. Northern Command. Garden Plot was last activated as Noble Eagle following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Under National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive (National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51/Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-20, or called simply “Executive Directive 51″ for short), signed by George W. Bush on May 4, 2007, the government has the authority to declare a national emergency and impose martial law. NSPD 51 grants extraordinary police state powers to the White House and Homeland Security, presumably including detention of a large number of people as established under Rex 84 and other military programs.

On July 30, CNN reported that the U.S. military is gearing up to get involved in the H1N1 swine flu outbreak promised to strike later this year. “The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials,” a proposal that is currently on the desk of Sec. Def. Robert Gates, according to CNN. “As a first step, Gates is being asked to sign a so-called ‘execution order’ that would authorize the military to begin to conduct the detailed planning to execute the proposed plan.”

It looks like the Army National Guard is gearing up to staff camps and “execute the proposed plan” of forcibly vaccinating the public and rounding up and hauling off those who refuse to be injected with a soft kill eugenics weapon as dangerous enemies of the state who need to be interned in forced labor and re-education camps.

***End of Story**** Scared yet? You should be.

Cheerio and keep your eyes to the skies.

NASA Puts out A.P.B. on Incoming Asteroid

All eyes on the skies fellow stargazers and UFO enthusiasts. You've seen me write this before and now that phrase has taken on a little more serious meaning given NASA's most recently announced project. NASA is now moving out into cyberspace in much the same way that the SETI project did several years ago. SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is a government sponsored organization that primarily exists for the purpose of searching out intelligent life in the known universe. Several years back SETI set up a website where subscribers could go and help with the search. One's home computer basically became a monitor for the search for non-earthly life.

NASA is now getting into the watch the skies from home game. Using either RSS feeds or twitter accounts, subscribers can now receive updates from NASA regarding any near Earth objects which may have the potential to collide with rock number three from the sun. The NASA site is aptly named "Asteroid Watch": http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/ There is much more to this site than the feeds that bring news about these Near Earth Objects. In fact, the site provides a wealth of information on the subject of asteroids, comets, and space debris that may have affected planet earth or the rest of the solar system in times past.

What is odd to me, but not surprising, is the amount of publicity these stellar objects are receiving lately. If anyone recently caught the two week mini mini series "Meteor", they'll know what I'm talking about here. It seems as if objects striking the earth is becoming a commonplace thought that people must deal with on an almost daily basis. Every week there is this story or that story about how another object recently missed Earth by several hundred thousand miles and was not even seen until it passed by. I wonder if the boys and girls at NASA are trying to tell us something in a very subtle yet forthright manner. There are, of course, many of us out there who already believe that something of this nature is already known about and expected. Zecharia Sitchin's insistence that Niburu returns every 3600 years or so has been the source of great debate among all those involved in the Near Earth Object discussion. Eerily similar is Ed Dames' prediction of the killshot which is precipitated by the passage of a large object through the solar system. If, in fact, our solar system is like many of the others out there, then this remains a real possibility. Most known solar systems are binary star systems. Some believe ours to be one as well, speculating that the sun's counterpart is a brown dwarf that passes through our system every 3600-4000 years. An object of this size would have tremendous gravitational pull and might bring with it considerable debris from comets and/or meteor fields, some of which might strike the earth.

Only time will tell whether or not the NASA's site has an ulterior motive of desensitizing us to the possibility of collisions with earth, but what is certain is the oddness of such a site at this time. Even the Vatican has gotten in on the skywatching business by building one of the most advanced observatories in the world. Does the Pope also know something we don't? We definitely need to start taking heed of the warning signs all around us. Preparation is key. In future postings, I will be posting information on survival techniques and strategies for preparing for the worst. Whether it be an asteroid strike or nuclear war, we need to be somewhat prepared. Stay tuned for these tips.

Swine Flu Vaccine Unsafe

Just in case you were considering giving in to government demands and getting a vaccination for the swine flu this fall, I thought I'd post this story so that you can have a much more accurate picture of what you might be getting yourself into. Apparently pharmaceutical companies have been granted legal immunity by the World Health Organization in the event of a stage six pandemic. What this means to you is that these companies are now immune from much of the normal testing and legal compliance that typically regulates the industry. Using a state of worldwide emergency, the WHO is reportedly allowing not only the bypassing of certain legal restrictions in administering the vaccines, but is also being allowed to use expired stockpiles of Tamiflu and Relenza. As Harold Gray is reporting, "The new stock of vaccines the governments purchased, has been fast tracked for approval by the FDA. Health officials admit that the clinical tests are about dosage amounts, and not safety. So the new vaccines being approved for the fall campaign, have the potential to cause severe harm or death, due to the lack of safety tests." (http://www.infowars.com/health-officials-admit-fast-tracked-h1n1-vaccines-will-not-be-tested-for-safety/)

If these stories are true, we may be in for a global pandemic of a different type by the end of 2009, one that is man-made and government supported. It could be that the forces in power are now moving more swiftly to established their New World Order before the masses can wake up and smell the proverbial coffee. Don't be one those sheep that finds itself in the slaughterhouse. Keep reading this blog to stay informed.

Cheerio and keep your eyes to the skies. The Truth IS out there.

World Health Organization Expects 2 Billion People to Contract Swine Flu

You might read the headline above and wonder why in the world I am covering the swine flu on a paranormal website. Well let me put your mind at ease: This one falls under the realm of conspiracy theory--perhaps the mother of all conspiracy theories. While only 800 people have actually died from the contraction of H1N1, or the swine flu, the story just won't seem to go away. Don't you find that a bit odd? I know I do. During the 1970s, an outbreak of the swine flu precipitated the vaccinations of thousands of people which actually killed more people than the actual influenza strain itself. So why then do we all of a sudden need a worldwide vaccination effort on such a grand scale? Well, the answer may be more simple and more sinister than you could have possibly imagined. THEY WANT YOU DEAD. There you have it. If you've read any of my previous posts, you'll know that there is a growing sinister plot that clearly indicates a desire by the elites to reduce the world's population.

This pandemic, false though it may currently be, may be just the excuse for them to do this. There are indications that this so-called swine flu is a man-made phenomena. Let's hope this is not actually true, but I'm starting to see the plot unfold before me every night when I sleep. By the end of the year we could a nuclear attack by Israel on Iran, a worldwide pandemic that may take the lives of millions, forced vaccinations that may inflate these numbers, the final devastating collapse of the world economy, and need I go on?

For more on the upcoming flu pandemic, see Alex Jones' website. The story is located here: http://www.infowars.com/world-health-officials-say-two-billion-people-may-contract-swine-flu/

Keep in mind that I in NO WAY endorse Jones or his views, or the views of any that post on his site. I find he and his followers to be full of rage and their vitriolic comments to be detestable and, in many cases, antisemitic and racially biased. Nonetheless, the website is a good source of conspiracy theory information and a decent barometer of the anti-establishment voice. You can take from it grains and kernels of truth as with any news source. Furthermore, I think that the commercialized appearance of the site makes clear that Jones has a vested economic interest in promoting chaos and degradation. I too have attempted to monetize my blog as any good blogger or webmaster would do, but I think once you visit Alex's site, you'll see the difference in what I am talking about.

Cheerio and keep your eyes to skies.

JL

Space Shuttle to Return--No Killshot This Time Ed Dames!

It looks as if the space shuttle Endeavor will soon be making its trek home as it has now undocked from the International Space Station. This is good news for human beings and planet earth. If you read my earlier blog regarding the Killshot predicted by Ed Dames, you know that an early return of the shuttle brought on by a meteor shower is what he believes to be "THE SIGN" to watch for just before the sun unleashes a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that will heat the atmosphere on earth to levels that make life difficult to sustain. In short, this is an E.L.E. or Extinction Level Event (see the movie Deep Impact). Endeavor is set to return on July 31, 2009. This still leaves two days for potential meteor showers, but it seems less likely at this point. Don't breathe too much of a sigh of relief though. Space Shuttle Discover launches on August 18!

Is the moon actually a space ship or station?

Have you ever wondered why there is so much controversy surrounding the moon? There are some that say we've never been--it's an obvious hoax. That it was a hoax is not so easy to establish, however, as more rational minded folk will definitely tell you. Others are asking the more important question of why we've never been back. Did we see something while we were there the first time that makes us not want to go back? Maybe there was a warning given telling us to stay away. The answer is unclear. As N. Huntley has noted, "The first academic enigma must surely be that the Moon is apparently in its wrong orbit for its size. However, this would presumably be based on its assumed density. Technical reports claim a density of 3.3 for the Moon compared with 5.5 for Earth. Astronomy data indicates that the internal regions of the Moon are less dense than the outer, giving rise to the inevitable but outrageous speculation that it could be hollow." Read more of Dr. Huntley's speculations here: (http://www.trudeausociety.com/home/Frontpage/2008/09/16/02245.html)

In the end, the question still remains what purpose the moon actually serves, if any. Why is there a continual dark side that we never get to see? Why does it make a ringing sound when struck by meteorites (indicative of its hollowness). What of all the folk stories that indicated extra-terrestrial life may be found there. Whatever may be said, I guess it remains and will remain a mystery.

Swine Flu Soon to Kill Millions--U.S. and other governments responsible

You do know don't you that the governments of the world have been conspiring to kill off millions upon millions of people in the upcoming year? If you didn't know, then you need to take heed because this may be the mother of all conspiracy theories. Your life and the lives of those you love may well be at risk. Isn't it odd that the swine flu story seems to die down and then pop up again ever so conveniently? Here is what Kurt Nimmo recently reported in his findings:

On March 25, Shepard Ambellas, reporting for Infowars, documented preparation of mass graves at the Department of Veterans Affairs Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona.

	A UK Home Office cabinet committee brought up the specter of the Great Plague and burial pits used during the seventeenth century.

Ambellas’s story followed a harrowing report by D. H. Williams of the Daily Newscaster in February. Williams reported on revelations of an Indiana county municipal official in the vicinity of Chicago who detailed FEMA and DHS discussions with county officials about the prospect of mass graves and a mass vaccination program.

On March 28, we reported on a large expansion of graves at the Houston National Cemetery in Texas.

Aaron Dykes, reporting for The Jones Report on April 3, detailed how the State of New York Division of Cemeteries sent out “Mass Fatality forms” to cemeteries in that state to collect data about their ability to deal with the high volume of casualties that would occur if their were a flu pandemic or other disaster. “Should a prolonged mass fatality disaster or pandemic flu occur in your community would your cemetery be able to provide temporary or permanent internment space for a significant number of disaster or flu deaths in additional to your current burial services?” the form stated.

In response to the mass grave stories posted on the Infowars and Prison Planet websites, Larry Scott, a self-described Veterans Administration critic, went on the Thom Hart radio program in late March and characterized the stories as “rumor-mongering.” According to Scott, the expansion of graves around in Phoenix was part of a standard upgrade intended to accommodate a record number of veteran deaths. Larry Scott put the number at an astounding 700,000 per year. Other critics have also characterized the stories as preposterous.

And yet, according to an AFP news item, governments are indeed planning for mass graves in response to a flu pandemic. In Exter, England, the city council recently moved to use underground burial chambers, currently a tourist attraction, to store the corpses of swine flu victims if the pandemic worsens. “A council spokesman said the plan could be put into operation if the cemeteries and the crematorium could not keep up with funeral demands.”

Furthermore, this video indicates the possibility that this is a man made virus:

Villagers Tormented by Mysterious Beasts

ONGWEDIVA – Unknown creatures that reportedly devour and suck blood from livestock are haunting villagers at Onheleiwa, Oidiva and Oikango of Ongwediva constituency.

Over 20 goats have been killed at Onheleiwa and Oidiva villages and an unknown number at Oikango, where the situation is said to be worse.

Villagers are convinced that the creatures have something to do with witchcraft. They are now accusing an elderly man who has a house at Onheleiwa village and his sister who has a house at Oikango village of being the owners of these strange, blood-sucking beasts.

Oshana Police spokesperson, Christina Fonsech, said the police were called at Onheleiwa last week where they followed the creatures’ footprints.

According to her, the creatures’ footprints are bigger than a dog’s footprints, and police could not identify the creatures.

“We followed them but they walked until a spot where they just vanished. It’s difficult to explain what happened to those footprints because they looked as if they climbed onto something but it was in an open space, so we don’t know what happened,” she said.

Olivia Shikongo had her whole kraal wiped out by the creatures, leaving her with only two kid goats.

According to Shikongo, on July 3 five of her goats were eaten up. All that was left were traces of hooves and heads of some of the goats, while other goats had their stomachs cut open and had no intestines or liver.

“Last Wednesday they came to the kraal again. When I heard the goats making noise, I started to scream. It seems that they could no longer kill the goat that they had bitten so they left. When we went to the kraal in the morning, there were only three goats. One goat, which is the bigger one, was fighting for its life. There was no trace of five other goats that were also at the kraal the previous night,” she explain
According to her, when she and other villagers looked around all they could find were the footprints of the unknown creatures while her five goats seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

Shikongo lost a total of 11 goats in two nights.

“I’m only left with two small goats that we now lock up inside a room in the house,” she said.

Another villager who also lost a goat said he saw the creatures when he ran to the kraal after he heard his animals making noise.

According to him, he found four animals at the kraal but when they saw him, they ran away.

The villagers that claim to have seen the unknown creatures, said they look like tigers. Although the community members are also scared for their lives, they said they understand that the animals do not attack human beings.

“If you find them at night, they just sit still on the side of the path and wait for you to pass by,” said another villager.

Original story: http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=5628

Launching of a New Paranormal Research Society

As my readers know, this blog is primarily devoted to things outside the mainstream. Up until now, most of the posts have dealt with conspiracy theories, apocalyptic scenarios, and geopolitics. It is my intention to still cover these topics because it is important to know what is going on behind the scenes so that we can be ready for what is to come in the future, even if we can't know what that is with any degree of real certainty. While we speculate, we will continue to build our library of stories, news, and research into the paranormal realm.

Currently I am looking for funding to start a new paranormal research society or paranormal research group which will go out and actively seek to conduct paranormal investigations whenever and wherever paranormal phenomena are to be found. Thanks to the popularity of shows like Paranormal State, the paranormal is moving into the mainstream. Other shows like Ghosts Hunters are now among the most popular video chronicles of paranormal investigators going out to investigate paranormal activities and hopefully gain video and picture evidence of hauntings, poltergeists and the like. Many of these groups use specialized paranormal investigation equipment that is supposed to detect the presence of paranormal activity. As is the case with the Penn State paranormal research team, sometimes paranormal research and defense against entities encountered in such research also becomes necessary. This site will now begin to move in the direction of these shows in helping to broaden our understanding of the non-material world.

As a result of this new focus (it's not really new; I have intended this all along, but have felt compelled to focus on current events due to the dire state of our world and political scene), I will now be looking to network with other paranormal research groups and teams whether they be ghost hunters, psychics and futurists, or simply those who have an interest in such things. My desire is to obtain the necessary funding to purchase the necessary paranormal research equipment in order to begin investiations of ghosts, poltergeists, shadow people, orbs, haunted places, and so forth. Because I have another job and am not financially independent enough to commit to this full-time, I will ask you to be patient until the full transition can take place. I will be seeking out government grants, small business loans, and possibly interested benefactors who wish to further this field. My qualifications for leading such an organization, I think, speak for themselves, but I should list them here so that random readers will know that I am not a random whacko posting in cyberspace with no real investigative knowledge or no background to run the paranormal research society as a business:

I currently work in the financial sector but also continue to teach part-time as a college professor as I have done for the last eight years. I currently hold a bachelor's degree in history and a minor in religious studies, so I am no stranger to research. Furthermore, I have a Master's Degree in the area of religion as well. I am currently just shy of a Ph.D. in history but have put that on hold due to other familial and financial obligations. I have won a number of awards for my scholaship and have taught history, religion, and philosophy for the last eight years. Now that I've "tooted my own horn", let me move on to a brief plea to all readers. If anyone has a story they'd like to contribute, knows of possible funding sources, or wants to put me in contact with other like-minded individuals or groups, you should email me at:

paranormalOK66@yahoo.com

Secret U.S. and Israeli Meeting Spells Doom for Iran

That Israel is planning to attack Iran in the near future is a reality that most people are either aware of or are choosing to ignore at this point. But amidst all of the Israeli preparations there is another story emerging that is closely related to Israel's preparations. According to Ria Novosti, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is planning to visit Tel Aviv within the next two weeks to discuss a whole range of international issues, including Tehran’s nuclear case, in secret meetings with the Netanyahu government. This was reported last Friday.

Ongoing Israeli preparations have gone casually under the radar as of late, but for those of you who read this blog, you know that this is an ongoing development that has not yet reached its culmination. You need not be a prophet or psychic to see what is about to occur. The real trick is in seeing what the outcome will be and what the impact will be on the rest of the world scene.

While one could argue that Israel is simply flexing its muscles in order to keep Iran at bay, we need to consider an anonymous statement in the Times by a prominent Israeli official who indicated that this seemingly slow dance around actual armed conflict on the part of Israel is nothing more than Israel investing time in what will ultimately prove to be a very complex military manuever. It has been clear since February that Netanyahu has been moving Isreal closer to the inevitable preemptive strike against Iran. This preparation has taken place amidst an unclear picture painted by the U.S. White House as to where America stands in this emerging scenario. Vice-president Joe Biden has indicated that the U.S. will not stand in the way of the sovereign nation of Israel should it decide to take out Iran's nuclear facilities while President Obama has retracted Biden's statement somewhat by clearly indicating his opposition to armed conflict.

Which way will the tide turn? It is difficult to say, but I think it safe to assume that as the Muslim and Jewish worlds continue to collide, either Israel or or its neighbors will seek justification for some type of preemptive attack in the name of national security.

Dire Web Bot Predictions

George Ure and "Clif" were on Coasttocoastam last night and had several very negative predictions based on their web bot technology. If you've never heard of this, they've figured out a way to crawl or spider internet sites all across the web and analyze the language of what people are saying. They believe that this language reveals something about the subconscious mind of all of humanity which knows the future on some level. It is really fascinating stuff and they have been right on some but not all predictions in the past. Here are there newest predictions:

# A big crisis is kicked off on October 25, 2009. It could be that Israel bombs Iran, or that Swine Flu goes into a level of extreme lethality. 10 days later, in relation to this crisis, the Obama administration will be thrown into chaos.
# When Israel bombs Iran, they'll use a nuclear-tipped bunker buster that will hit something unforeseen underground. As a result, a radioactive cloud will form that will pollute and sicken Southeast Asia. This will cause much of the world to turn against Israel.
# The "Death of the Dollar" will be a continuing trend, with a hyper inflationary period in 2010, and banking crises/confidence losses that will begin in August 2009 and escalate by November 2009.
# "Global Coastal Phenomena" will be gradual, yet by March/April 2011 the situation could be disturbing for many people. Unusual movements of the Moon brought on by anomalies in the magnetosphere could cause coastal disruptions.
# The magnetosphere problems could lead to ultraviolet scorching of food crops. Grain crops will fail, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to food riots in the winter of 2010/spring of 2011. Specifically, they'll be riots in Rome that will spill over into the Vatican.
# In South America, they'll be large or mass sightings of UFO-related phenomena. In the summer of 2010, a video crew will interview an escapee from an internment facility. The young bald man will later be revealed to be a "non-Terran" human.

Israel and U.S. Plan for Catastrophic Death Toll in Attack on Iran

In a hare-brained nightmare scenario dreamed up by the Center for Strategic and International Studies — home-base for neocon crackpots such as Michael Ledeen and war criminals of Madeleine Albright’s caliber — Iran manages to produce a nuclear weapon and drops it on Israel, ultimately killing 800,000 people. “Retaliatory Israeli nuclear strikes, with higher-yield bombs and accurate rocket delivery systems, would be far more destructive,” writes Peter Goodspeed for the National Post. “A full-fledged Israeli nuclear response, using some, but not all, of its 200 nuclear weapons, would target most major Iranian cities and major military bases. It would kill 16 million to 28 million people within three weeks.”
featured stories Globalist Think Tank Trots Out Iran Attack Scenario
featured stories Globalist Think Tank Trots Out Iran Attack Scenario

Fallout From Nuclear Attack on Natanz and Isfahan. With scale showing levels of radiation exposure. Over a few days, exposure at greater than 10 rems per hour will cause death, and at 1 rem per hour exposures lead to radiation sickness.


It is estimated Israel has around 400 nuclear weapons. As Israeli arms technician Mordecai Vanunu revealed in 1986, the Israelis have produced 100 to 200 advanced fission bombs and have mastered a thermonuclear design. In 1986, it appeared to have a number of thermonuclear bombs ready for use. According to the Institute for Defense Analyses, Israel’s facilities at Soreq and Dimona have the same mission as the Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories in the United States. More than twenty years ago, Israel was developing the computer “codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs.”

Meanwhile, Iran is not up to speed, never mind the scary science fiction story weaved by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Iran did manage to enrich a small amount of uranium using a cascade of 164 centrifuges that spin uranium hexafluoride gas at supersonic speed. The enriched uranium that Iran produced cannot be used in a nuclear weapon because it contains just 3.5% U-235, whereas a nuclear weapon typically requires highly-enriched uranium that contains more than 90% U-235.

Never mind highly-enriched uranium – Iran has problems with low-enriched uranium. Earlier this year, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had badly underestimated previous assessments of how much low-enriched material it had produced. The IAEA stressed that technical constraints and equipment inefficiencies would prevent Iran from further refining the low-enriched uranium into an adequate supply of weapon-grade material.

However, this has not stopped Israel and the neocons from hysterically claiming Iran has “enough enriched uranium fissionable material to manufacture at least one or two atom bombs of the Hiroshima type,” as Uri Dan wrote for the Jerusalem Post in early 2006. If it didn’t have the nuclear material for a couple crude bombs, “Iranian President Ahmadinejad would not have dared come out with his declaration that Israel should be wiped off the map,” claims Rafi Eitan, key architect of Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Mossad (the operative motto for Mossad is: “By way of deception, thou shalt do war,” according to Victor Ostrovsky, a former Mossad agent).

As it turns out, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not call for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” as Eitan, the neocons, and most of the corporate media (most notably the New York Times) repeatedly and dishonestly claim. Ahmadinejad’s speech was deliberately mistranslated by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, a Mossad front masquerading as a news service. “Starting with Juan Cole, and going via the New York Times’ experts through MEMRI to the BBC’s monitors, the consensus is that Ahmadinejad did not talk about any maps,” Jonathan Steele wrote for the Guardian in June, 2006. Ahmadinejad did not talk attacking Israel. He made a vague wish for the end of political Zionism — which is, of course, for some the same as attacking Israel with a nuclear bomb.

The ludicrous Center for Strategic and International Studies report — coauthored by the former director of intelligence assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Anthony Cordesman — has appeared in the wake of the dismal failure by Israeli and U.S. intelligence to sabotage the Iranian elections and foment a “color revolution.” It is also designed to coincide with Israel’s provocative Red Sea military exercises that are a rehearsal for an attack on Iran. “Defense experts in Israel said … that the naval activity had been publicized with the intent of sending a message to Iran,” the Telegraph reported last week.

In the real world, the only nuclear threat in the Middle East is the one posed by Israel. If Israel follows through on its threat — increasingly likely with the passing of each week — to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, the result will be catastrophic. In the aftermath of an attack, “huge amounts of radioactive material will be lofted into the air to contaminate the people of Iran and surrounding countries,” explains Dr. Helen Caldicott, who consulted with an eminent international authority on nuclear weapons. “This fallout will induce cancers, leukemia, and genetic disease in these populations for years to come, both a medical catastrophe and a war crime of immense proportions,” she writes in her book, “Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer,” published in 2007. She cites the example of Chernobyl.

Finally, as analysts note, conventional weapons will not be effective against Iran’s underground nuclear materials storage site and uranium conversion plant at Isfahan and the underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. “Iranian officials have acknowledged the Isfahan facility is specifically designed to be impervious to conventional attack, making it a prime nuclear target. The Natanz plant is buried between 18 and 23 meters below the surface, making it a difficult target for conventional attack. For this scenario, we modeled attacks, each with three B61-11 earth-penetrating nuclear weapons set to explode with a yield of 340kt. Meteorological models in the HPAC were used to determine the distribution pattern of fallout,” write Physicians for Social Responsibility.

“From our map [above] we can see that within 48 hours, fallout would cover much of Iran, most of Afghanistan and spread on into Pakistan and India. Fallout from the use of a burrowing weapon such as the B61-11 would be worse than from a surface or airburst weapon, due to the extra radioactive dust and debris ejected from the blast site. In the immediate area of the two attacks, our calculations show that within 48 hours, an estimated 2.6 million people would die.” In the wider area, over 10.5 million people would be exposed to significant radiation from fallout. “In the immense fallout zone, very few people would have access to adequate medical care, increasing the potential number of casualties of an attack. From studies conducted after the use of nuclear weapons against Japan we know that there would also be a severe psychological trauma for the affected population, which would further exacerbate negative health outcomes for attack victims.”

The Saudis are taking the threat seriously. In 2008, the Saudi Shura Council — comprised of an elite group making decisions for the autocratic inner circle — prepared “national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts’ warnings of possible attacks on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactors,” according to the kingdom’s leading newspaper, Okaz. In September of 2008, Israel also began preparing civilians for the inevitability of radiation exposure.

Israel and the United States are ready to accept this massive death toll and radioactive contamination in order to “send a message” to Iran. In addition to millions of initial deaths, an Israeli attack – naturally conducted with U.S. participation — would deal a death blow to the global economy and kick off a third world war (the neocons like to call this the “fourth world war,” the third being the so-called Cold War).

http://www.infowars.com/globalist-think-tank-trots-out-iran-attack-scenario/

Forced Vaccinations Just Around the Corner?

There is a knock at the front door. Peeking through the window, a mother sees a man and a woman, both in uniform. They are agents of health-care reform.

“Excuse me, ma’am,” says the man. “Our records show that your eleven-year-old daughter has not been immunized for genital warts.”

“And your four-year-old still needs the chicken-pox vaccine,” says the woman.

“He will not be allowed to start kindergarten unless he gets that shot, you know,” says the man—smiling from ear to ear.

“So, can we please come in?” asks the woman. “We have the vaccines right here,” she says, lifting up a black medical bag. “We can give your kids the shots right now.”

“We are from the government,” says the man, “and we’re here to help.”

Is this a scene from the over-heated imagination of an addlepated conspiracy theorist? Or is it something akin to what is actually envisioned by the health-care reform bill approved this week by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee.

The committee’s official summary of the bill says: “Authorizes a demonstration program to improve immunization coverage. Under this program, CDC will provide grants to states to improve immunization coverage of children, adolescents, and adults through the use of evidence-based interventions. States may use funds to implement interventions that are recommended by the Community Preventive Services Task Force, such as reminders or recalls for patients or providers, or home visits.”

Home visits? What exactly is the state going to do when it sends people to “implement interventions” in private homes designed “to improve immunization coverage of children”?

The draft of the bill posted on the committee Web site provides more details.

Title III of the bill is entitled, “Improving the Health of the American People.” It includes four subtitles. They are: “Subtitle A: Modernizing Disease Prevention of Public Health Systems,” “Subtitle B: Increasing Access to Clinical Preventive Services,” “Subtitle C: Creating Healthier Communities,” and “Subtitle D: Support for Prevention and Public Health Information.”

The program authorizing home “interventions” to promote immunizations falls under “Subtitle C: Creating Healthier Communities.” This subtitle directs the secretary of health and human services to “establish a demonstration program to award grants to states to improve the provision of recommended immunizations for children, adolescents, and adults through the use of evidence-based, population-based interventions for high-risk populations.”

The bill lists eight specific ways that states may use federal grant money to carry out immunization-promoting “interventions.” Method “E” calls for “home visits” which can include “provision of immunizations.”

Says the draft bill: “Funds received under a grant under this subsection shall be used to implement interventions that are recommended by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (as established by the secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) or other evidence-based interventions, including—“(A) providing immunization reminders or recalls for target populations of clients, patients, and consumers; (B) educating targeted populations and health care providers concerning immunizations in combination with one or more other interventions; (C) reducing out-of-pocket costs for families for vaccines and their administration; (D) carrying out immunization-promoting strategies for participants or clients of public programs, including assessments of immunization status, referrals to health care providers, education, provision of on-site immunizations, or incentives for immunization;(E) providing for home visits that promote immunization through education, assessments of need, referrals, provision of immunizations, or other services; (F) providing reminders or recalls for immunization providers;(G) conducting assessments of, and providing feedback to, immunization providers; or (H) any combination of one or more interventions described in this paragraph.”

Many vaccines routinely administered to children in the United States are utterly uncontroversial. But in recent years there have been controversies about the chicken pox vaccine and the vaccine for HPV, which causes genital warts, which can cause cervical cancer.

On March 15, 2007, Bloomberg news summarized a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which discovered that the chicken pox vaccine does not provide permanent protection against chicken pox, leaving children who have been immunized vulnerable to getting ill with the virus later in life when it can cause a more serious bout of the disease.

“Merck & Co.'s chickenpox vaccine weakens as children age, possibly leaving them vulnerable to a more serious infection as adults, a U.S.-sponsored study in California found,” reported Bloomberg. “The power of the vaccine, Varivax, the only one available in the United States against chickenpox, starts to fade after five years, according to the study in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The results suggest that children should get a second dose, which advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended in June.”

Bloomberg quoted the study as saying, "Waning immunity is of particular public health interest because it may result in increased susceptibility later in life, when the risk of severe complications may be greater than that in childhood.”

In March of this year, the Washington Post reported about the controversy sparked when the Merck pharmaceutical company campaigned to have states mandate that school girls receive Gardasil, its vaccine against HPV.

“Merck also began an ambitious marketing campaign and lobbying push to persuade states to add the vaccine to the list of those required for children to attend school,” reported the Post. “But the company eventually abandoned the strategy in the face of an intense backlash from critics who argued that the decision should be left to parents. Although many states considered such mandates, so far only Virginia and the District have imposed one, and [a Merck official] said the company has no plans to pursue that strategy again."

The Post's report noted that at least some experts questioned the wisdom of promoting use of the vaccine when its long term impact is still unknown.

“Federal health officials, Merck and others say they are confident that the vaccine is safe," reported the Post. "But some experts said they are concerned that there is insufficient evidence about how long Gardasil's protection will last, whether serious side effects will emerge and whether the relatively modest benefits for boys are worth even the small risks associated with any vaccine."

Original: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51115

GET READY! It's coming: Israeli warships rehearse for Iran attack in Red Sea

Israeli warships have deployed to the Red Sea for what has been described as a rehearsal for a possible attack on Iran.


By Our Foreign Staff
Published: 2:20PM BST 16 Jul 2009

Israeli and Egyptian officials said two ships had sailed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea.

Media reports in Israel said the two Saar-class missile ships had been sent as a "message" to the Tehran government, which has repeatedly issued threats against Israel and is developing nuclear technology believed by the West to be intended for atomic weapons programme.

While Iran denies this, saying its enrichment of uranium is for civlian purposes only, so that it can generate electricity.

Israel has also deployed a submarine using the Suez Canal, but it has since returned to the Mediterranean.

Defence experts in Israel said this week that the naval activity had been publicised with the intent of sending a message to Iran.

The Israeli government has reserved the right to carry out a first strike on Iran's nuclear facilities if the country continues to defy the international community and spreads instability in the Middle East.

Israel also accuses Iran of sponsoring the Hizbollah movement in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

Original Story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/5842963/Israeli-warships-rehearse-for-Iran-attack-in-Red-Sea.html

Moon Landing a FAKE!

It captivated millions of people around the world for eight days in the summer of 1969. It brought glory to the embattled U.S. space program and inspired beliefs that anything was possible.
Moon landing hoax theorists point to the "rippling" flag as evidence the landings were faked.

Moon landing hoax theorists point to the "rippling" flag as evidence the landings were faked.
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It's arguably the greatest technological feat of the 20th century.

And to some, it was all a lie.

Forty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon, a small cult of conspiracy theorists maintains the historic event -- and the five subsequent Apollo moon landings -- were staged. These people believe NASA fabricated the landings to trump their Soviet rivals and fulfill President Kennedy's goal of ferrying humans safely to and from the moon by the end of the 1960s.

"I do know the moon landings were faked," said crusading filmmaker Bart Sibrel, whose aggressive interview tactics once provoked Aldrin to punch him in the face. "I'd bet my life on it."

Sibrel may seem crazy, but he has company. A 1999 Gallup poll found that a scant 6 percent of Americans doubted the Apollo 11 moon landing happened, and there is anecdotal evidence that the ranks of such conspiracy theorists, fueled by innuendo-filled documentaries and the Internet, are growing.
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Twenty-five percent of respondents to a survey in the British magazine Engineering & Technology said they do not believe humans landed on the moon. A handful of Web sites and blogs circulate suspicions about NASA's "hoax."

And a Google search this week for "Apollo moon landing hoax" yielded more than 1.5 billion results.

"We love conspiracies," said Roger Launius, a senior curator at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. "Going to the moon is hard to understand. And it's easier for some people to accept the answer that, 'Well, maybe we didn't go to the moon.' A lot of it is naivete."

Conspiracy theories about the Apollo missions began not long after the last astronaut returned from the moon in 1972. Bill Kaysing, a technical writer for Rocketdyne, which built rocket engines for NASA's Apollo program, published a 1974 book, "We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle."

In the book and elsewhere, Kaysing argued that NASA lacked the technology in 1969 to land humans safely on the moon, that the Apollo astronauts would have been poisoned by passing through the Van Allen radiation belts that ring the Earth and that NASA's photos from the moon contained suspicious anomalies. Video See improved NASA footage of the 1969 moonwalk »

Kaysing theorized NASA sent the Apollo 11 astronauts up in a rocket until it was out of sight, then transferred the lunar capsule and its three passengers to a military cargo plane that dropped the capsule eight days later in the Pacific, where it was recovered. In the meantime, he believed, NASA officials filmed the "moon landing" at Area 51, the high-security military base in the Nevada desert, and brainwashed the astronauts to ensure their cooperation.

Some believe Kaysing's theories inspired the 1978 movie "Capricorn One," in which NASA fakes a Mars landing on a remote military base, then goes to desperate lengths to cover it up. Others insist NASA recruited director Stanley Kubrick, hot off "2001: A Space Odyssey," to film the "faked" moon landings.

Oh, and those moon rocks? Lunar meteorites from Antarctica.

Decades later, Kaysing's beliefs formed the foundation for "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" a sensational 2001 Fox TV documentary that spotted eerie "inconsistencies" in NASA's Apollo images and TV footage.

Among them: no blast craters are visible under the landing modules; shadows intersect instead of running parallel, suggesting the presence of an unnatural light source; and a planted American flag appears to ripple in a breeze although there's no wind on the moon.

The hour-long special sparked such interest in the topic that NASA took the unusual step of issuing a news release and posting a point-by-point rebuttal on its Web site. The press release began: "Yes. Astronauts did land on the moon."

In various documents, NASA has countered that the Apollo astronauts passed through the Van Allen belts too quickly to be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation; that the module's descent engines weren't powerful enough to leave a blast crater; that the shadows in photos were distorted by wide-angle lenses and sloping lunar terrain; and that the Apollo flags had horizontal support bars that made the flags swing.

Kaysing died in 2005, but not before grabbing the attention of Sibrel, a Nashville, Tennessee, filmmaker who has since become the most visible proponent of the Apollo hoax theories. With funding from an anonymous donor, Sibrel wrote and directed a 47-minute documentary in 2001 that reiterated many of the now-familiar hoax arguments.

Critics of moon-landing hoax theorists, and there are many, say it would be impossible for tens of thousands of NASA employees and Apollo contractors to keep such a whopping secret for almost four decades.

But Sibrel believes the Apollo program was so compartmentalized that only its astronauts and a handful of high-level NASA officials knew the entire story. Sibrel spent years ambushing Apollo astronauts and insisting they swear on a Bible before his cameras that they walked on the moon.

"When someone has gotten away with a crime, in my opinion, they deserve to be ambushed," Sibrel said. "I'm a journalist trying to get at the truth."

In an episode made infamous on YouTube, Sibrel confronted Aldrin in 2002 and called him "a coward, a liar and a thief." Aldrin, then 72, socked the thirtysomething Sibrel in the face, knocking him backwards.

"I don't want to call attention to the individuals who are trying to promote and shuffle off this hoax on people," Aldrin told CNN in a recent interview. "I feel sorry for the gullible people who're going to go along with them. I guess it's just natural human reaction to want to be a part of 'knowing something that somebody doesn't know.' But it's misguided. It's just a shame."

It's been 37 years since the last Apollo moon mission, and tens of millions of younger Americans have no memories of watching the moon landings live. A 2005-2006 poll by Mary Lynne Dittmar, a space consultant based in Houston, Texas, found that more than a quarter of Americans 18 to 25 expressed some doubt that humans set foot on the moon.

"As the number of people who were not yet born at the time of the Apollo program increases, the number of questions [about the moon landings] also may increase," NASA said in a statement. "Conspiracy theories are always difficult to refute because of the impossibility of proving a negative."

Launius, the National Air and Space Museum curator, believes Apollo conspiracy theories resonate with people who are disengaged from society and distrustful of government. He also believes their numbers are overblown.

"These diehards are really vocal, but they're really tiny," he said.

But Stuart Robbins, a Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics at the University of Colorado who gives lectures defending NASA from Apollo hoax theorists, believes their influence can be harmful.

"If people don't think we were able to go to the moon, then they don't believe in the ingenuity of human achievement," he said. "Going to the moon and returning astronauts safely back to Earth is arguably one of the most profound achievements in human history, and so when people simply believe it was a hoax, they lose out on that shared experience and doubt what humans can do."

In its information campaign against Apollo's "debunkers," NASA may have a potent ace up its sleeve, however. Its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is now circling the moon with powerful cameras, snapping crisp pictures that could reveal Apollo 11's Eagle lander squatting on the moon's surface.
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Then again, conspiracy theorists may just say NASA doctored the photos.

"Will the LRO's incredibly high-resolution images of the lunar surface, including, eventually, the Apollo landing sites, finally quell the lunacy of the Moon Hoax believers? Obviously it won't," writes astronomer Phil Plait in his blog on Discover magazine's Web site. "These true believers don't live in an evidence-based world."

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Space Shuttle Mission Underway, BEWARE!

If you read my earlier blog post about Ed Dames and his prediction several years ago of a "kill shot" or a coronal mass ejection from the sun that would be presaged by a shuttle mission cut short by a meteor shower, then you, along with me, are watching the events of the Endeavor launch with great anticipation and a great deal of trepidation as well. If you are not aware of what I am talking about, please read my previous post below. It may be that Dames is completely off his rocker and that such an event will never ever occur, but I don't want to be the one to miss the news if such a harbinger of doom does present itself during one of these shuttle missions. I do know that remote viewing CAN be accurate as I have practiced it before with some success. I was shocked to see that it worked as well as it did. Dames has claimed that he and his team of operatives have honed it to a much greater degree of accuracy since its inception in the 80s and 90s when it was used by the military to spy on the Soviets. Call me paranoid, but I'll at least be ready should such an event occur. I've heard Dames say on a number of occasions that when you see this event (the shuttle mission cut short) you'll want to be in your safe place. What cannot be said is how soon after that the supposed killshot is to occur. If we look at the records of the ancients and consider that entire civilizations were seemingly buried beneath the ocean waters in just a short matter of time catching the inhabitants completely off guard, we should be no more confident that our frail civilization could withstand such a cataclysmic event either. We all know that 2012 supposedly marks a significant date on the cosmic calendar even though we cannot agree on why. As we move forward toward that date, I hope that we will all at least make some level of minimal preparation.

U.S. Government Spying Illegal

Patrick Martin
Global Research
July 13, 2009

Reports in the American press on Friday and Saturday reveal massive illegality in the US government and intelligence apparatus. They demonstrate not only routine violations of democratic rights through illegal spying and wiretapping both at home and abroad, but also disregard for legally required reports to Congress.

According to a report Sunday in the New York Times, the CIA kept the House and Senate intelligence committees in the dark for eight years about a “secret counterterrorism program,” on the instructions of then Vice President Richard Cheney. The Times account said that the current CIA Director Leon Panetta, a former Democratic congressman, recently told both the House and Senate intelligence committees about the existence of the program and Cheney’s role in concealing it.

The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, citing an internal study by five intelligence agency officials, that the electronic surveillance under the Bush administration “went beyond the widely publicized warrantless wiretapping program … encompassing additional secretive activities that created ‘unprecedented’ spying powers.”

This program, conducted by the National Security Agency and separate from the CIA program, “came to be known in the Bush administration as the ‘President’s Surveillance Program’,” the newspaper said. The study was conducted jointly by the Inspectors General of the Justice Department, Pentagon, CIA, Directorate of National Intelligence and National Security Agency. The unclassified version of the study, released Friday night, blacked out all details of the expanded surveillance program.

As in the case of the CIA program, the office of the vice president played a central role in enforcing secrecy and cover-up of the NSA operation. Cheney’s legal adviser and later chief of staff, David Addington, had to personally approve every government official who was to be “read in” to the program by the NSA. Addington refused to be interviewed by the Inspectors General, as did former CIA director George Tenet, former attorney general John Ashcroft, and John Yoo, the Justice Department lawyer tasked with drafting legal guidelines for the secret surveillance.

The secret CIA counterterrorism program was first made public last Wednesday night, when the House Intelligence Committee released a letter to Panetta. The letter noted Panetta’s appearance before a closed-door session of the committee on June 24, where he announced that he had just discovered the existence of the secret counterterrorism program and was shutting it down, as well as notifying Congress as required by law.

The letter demanded that Panetta retract a statement he issued May 15, in response to criticism of the CIA by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, denying that the CIA had a policy of misleading Congress. This was contradicted, they wrote, by his admission that “top CIA officials have concealed significant actions … and misled” members of Congress since 2001.

The ranking Republican member of the intelligence panel, Congressman Peter Hoekstra, made light of the program, saying, “It was on-again, off-again and never happened.” One committee Democrat, Anna G. Eshoo of California, responded, “The whole committee was stunned” by Panetta’s disclosure. “I think this is as serious as it gets.”

What was the CIA doing?

The blizzard of press reports and commentaries that have followed Panetta’s revelation—including the front-page “exposé” in Sunday’s New York Times—seem to be at least in part an exercise in damage control, if not outright disinformation, since they conceal the exact nature of the secret CIA program and downplay its actual significance.

The Times report asserts, “Intelligence and Congressional officials have said the unidentified program did not involve the CIA interrogation program [i.e., torture] and did not involve domestic intelligence activities.” It adds that the program, “never became fully operational, involving planning and some training that took place off and on from 2001 until this year.”

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The Washington Post cited “two former agency officials who were familiar with the program” claiming that it “did not involve interrogations of detainees or surveillance of U.S.-based communications.” An earlier Post article (July 10) cited other unnamed “officials” declaring that the program “was an intelligence-collection activity run by the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center … It was not a covert action, which by law would have required a presidential finding and a report to Congress.”

The Associated Press, in an interview with former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden, quoted another “former official” declaring that CIA leaders were “‘very cautious’ in their handling of the program and that they made decisions to narrow its focus. The official said that the program fell on a continuum between foreign intelligence collection and covert action.”

It is not possible, on the basis of reports so far, to determine the exact nature of either the CIA or the NSA programs. But the close involvement of top officials of the Bush administration, including, in the case of the CIA program, Cheney’s personal role, suggests that these activities were significant and extensive.

A remark by Representative Hoekstra of Michigan, former chairman of the House intelligence committee and currently the ranking Republican, is suggestive, even chilling. He told the New York Times that Congress might have approved the secret CIA program immediately following the 9/11 attacks—“Maybe on September 12”—but not later on.

It takes some effort to imagine a counterterrorism program so invasive or extreme that the US Congress would balk. Congress approved a sweeping war powers resolution in October 2001, which effectively authorized the US invasion of Afghanistan in advance—a resolution employed by the Bush and Obama administrations as the legal justification for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. In November 2001, Congress approved the USA Patriot Act, with only a single senator voting “no.”

In subsequent years, Congress has passed laws ratifying the Bush administration’s rejection of habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo prisoners, authorizing a system of kangaroo-court military tribunals, legalizing Bush’s illegal spying operations and immunizing telecommunications companies that helped the US intelligence agencies spy on American citizens, and most recently, barring the release of photos of US torture victims. (Obama voted in the Senate for the telecom immunity provision and has pledged to issue an executive order if needed to keep the torture photos secret.)

Congressional Democrats and Republicans have rubber-stamped all manner of police-state measures in the name of the “war on terror.” It is therefore worth asking what kind of a program was so atrocious or politically dangerous that it had to be kept secret even from the House and Senate intelligence committees.

A “state within a state”

A remarkable aspect of the revelation of the secret CIA program, passed over virtually without comment in the media coverage, is that CIA Director Panetta was not informed of the program for more than four months after he assumed nominal control of the spy agency. He was sworn in as director on February 19, but his “subordinates” did not bother to tell him of the existence of the program that had been kept secret from Congress until June 23.

This means that throughout the so-called “debate” between President Obama and former Vice President Cheney over the release of Justice Department memos justifying torture, which took place in April, Cheney was in possession of information about secret CIA operations of which the new “commander-in-chief” was ignorant.

The military/intelligence apparatus operates according to its own rules, disclosing or withholding information from its supposed civilian superiors only when it is felt politically necessary. What is being revealed—or rather only hinted at, since the key details are still shrouded in secrecy—is the existence of a “state within the state,” a secret government that continues to function regardless of the individual who inhabits the White House.

The congressional Democrats and the Obama administration are active participants in the attack on democratic rights of both the American people and the people of the world. As political representatives of big business, they rely on this state apparatus to defend their class interests no less than the Republicans and Bush before them.

It has become a truism that there is more similarity than difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration in relation to the defense of the US intelligence apparatus and its ongoing attacks on democratic rights.

On Wednesday, Obama threatened to veto the intelligence authorization bill if it requires expanded briefings of Congress, beyond the so-called Gang of Eight, the Democratic and Republican leaders of both houses and both intelligence committees. A White House statement said the veto would be necessary to prevent “restricting an important established means by which the president protects the most sensitive intelligence activities that are carried out in the national security interests.”

The congressional Democrats claims of concern are largely play-acting, however. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, deplored the concealment of the program but claimed that it represented no threat to civil liberties.

The struggle to defend democratic rights and to defeat the reactionary conspiracies of the US intelligence agencies must be taken up by the working class. Working people must raise the demand for the full exposure of all the covert operations of the CIA, NSA and other US intelligence agencies, and for the prosecution of all those officials responsible for authorizing and directing them.

This includes bringing to justice officials like Cheney, Bush and other top government officials who have been directly linked to crimes of spying, torture, kidnapping, secret detention without trial and mass murder.

http://www.infowars.com/new-reports-of-massive-spying-criminality-by-us-government/

http://www.infowars.com/new-reports-of-massive-spying-criminality-by-us-government/

Patrick Martin
Global Research
July 13, 2009

Reports in the American press on Friday and Saturday reveal massive illegality in the US government and intelligence apparatus. They demonstrate not only routine violations of democratic rights through illegal spying and wiretapping both at home and abroad, but also disregard for legally required reports to Congress.

According to a report Sunday in the New York Times, the CIA kept the House and Senate intelligence committees in the dark for eight years about a “secret counterterrorism program,” on the instructions of then Vice President Richard Cheney. The Times account said that the current CIA Director Leon Panetta, a former Democratic congressman, recently told both the House and Senate intelligence committees about the existence of the program and Cheney’s role in concealing it.

The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, citing an internal study by five intelligence agency officials, that the electronic surveillance under the Bush administration “went beyond the widely publicized warrantless wiretapping program … encompassing additional secretive activities that created ‘unprecedented’ spying powers.”

This program, conducted by the National Security Agency and separate from the CIA program, “came to be known in the Bush administration as the ‘President’s Surveillance Program’,” the newspaper said. The study was conducted jointly by the Inspectors General of the Justice Department, Pentagon, CIA, Directorate of National Intelligence and National Security Agency. The unclassified version of the study, released Friday night, blacked out all details of the expanded surveillance program.

As in the case of the CIA program, the office of the vice president played a central role in enforcing secrecy and cover-up of the NSA operation. Cheney’s legal adviser and later chief of staff, David Addington, had to personally approve every government official who was to be “read in” to the program by the NSA. Addington refused to be interviewed by the Inspectors General, as did former CIA director George Tenet, former attorney general John Ashcroft, and John Yoo, the Justice Department lawyer tasked with drafting legal guidelines for the secret surveillance.

The secret CIA counterterrorism program was first made public last Wednesday night, when the House Intelligence Committee released a letter to Panetta. The letter noted Panetta’s appearance before a closed-door session of the committee on June 24, where he announced that he had just discovered the existence of the secret counterterrorism program and was shutting it down, as well as notifying Congress as required by law.

The letter demanded that Panetta retract a statement he issued May 15, in response to criticism of the CIA by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, denying that the CIA had a policy of misleading Congress. This was contradicted, they wrote, by his admission that “top CIA officials have concealed significant actions … and misled” members of Congress since 2001.

The ranking Republican member of the intelligence panel, Congressman Peter Hoekstra, made light of the program, saying, “It was on-again, off-again and never happened.” One committee Democrat, Anna G. Eshoo of California, responded, “The whole committee was stunned” by Panetta’s disclosure. “I think this is as serious as it gets.”

What was the CIA doing?

The blizzard of press reports and commentaries that have followed Panetta’s revelation—including the front-page “exposé” in Sunday’s New York Times—seem to be at least in part an exercise in damage control, if not outright disinformation, since they conceal the exact nature of the secret CIA program and downplay its actual significance.

The Times report asserts, “Intelligence and Congressional officials have said the unidentified program did not involve the CIA interrogation program [i.e., torture] and did not involve domestic intelligence activities.” It adds that the program, “never became fully operational, involving planning and some training that took place off and on from 2001 until this year.”

* A d v e r t i s e m e n t
* efoods

The Washington Post cited “two former agency officials who were familiar with the program” claiming that it “did not involve interrogations of detainees or surveillance of U.S.-based communications.” An earlier Post article (July 10) cited other unnamed “officials” declaring that the program “was an intelligence-collection activity run by the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center … It was not a covert action, which by law would have required a presidential finding and a report to Congress.”

The Associated Press, in an interview with former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden, quoted another “former official” declaring that CIA leaders were “‘very cautious’ in their handling of the program and that they made decisions to narrow its focus. The official said that the program fell on a continuum between foreign intelligence collection and covert action.”

It is not possible, on the basis of reports so far, to determine the exact nature of either the CIA or the NSA programs. But the close involvement of top officials of the Bush administration, including, in the case of the CIA program, Cheney’s personal role, suggests that these activities were significant and extensive.

A remark by Representative Hoekstra of Michigan, former chairman of the House intelligence committee and currently the ranking Republican, is suggestive, even chilling. He told the New York Times that Congress might have approved the secret CIA program immediately following the 9/11 attacks—“Maybe on September 12”—but not later on.

It takes some effort to imagine a counterterrorism program so invasive or extreme that the US Congress would balk. Congress approved a sweeping war powers resolution in October 2001, which effectively authorized the US invasion of Afghanistan in advance—a resolution employed by the Bush and Obama administrations as the legal justification for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. In November 2001, Congress approved the USA Patriot Act, with only a single senator voting “no.”

In subsequent years, Congress has passed laws ratifying the Bush administration’s rejection of habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo prisoners, authorizing a system of kangaroo-court military tribunals, legalizing Bush’s illegal spying operations and immunizing telecommunications companies that helped the US intelligence agencies spy on American citizens, and most recently, barring the release of photos of US torture victims. (Obama voted in the Senate for the telecom immunity provision and has pledged to issue an executive order if needed to keep the torture photos secret.)

Congressional Democrats and Republicans have rubber-stamped all manner of police-state measures in the name of the “war on terror.” It is therefore worth asking what kind of a program was so atrocious or politically dangerous that it had to be kept secret even from the House and Senate intelligence committees.

A “state within a state”

A remarkable aspect of the revelation of the secret CIA program, passed over virtually without comment in the media coverage, is that CIA Director Panetta was not informed of the program for more than four months after he assumed nominal control of the spy agency. He was sworn in as director on February 19, but his “subordinates” did not bother to tell him of the existence of the program that had been kept secret from Congress until June 23.

This means that throughout the so-called “debate” between President Obama and former Vice President Cheney over the release of Justice Department memos justifying torture, which took place in April, Cheney was in possession of information about secret CIA operations of which the new “commander-in-chief” was ignorant.

The military/intelligence apparatus operates according to its own rules, disclosing or withholding information from its supposed civilian superiors only when it is felt politically necessary. What is being revealed—or rather only hinted at, since the key details are still shrouded in secrecy—is the existence of a “state within the state,” a secret government that continues to function regardless of the individual who inhabits the White House.

The congressional Democrats and the Obama administration are active participants in the attack on democratic rights of both the American people and the people of the world. As political representatives of big business, they rely on this state apparatus to defend their class interests no less than the Republicans and Bush before them.

It has become a truism that there is more similarity than difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration in relation to the defense of the US intelligence apparatus and its ongoing attacks on democratic rights.

On Wednesday, Obama threatened to veto the intelligence authorization bill if it requires expanded briefings of Congress, beyond the so-called Gang of Eight, the Democratic and Republican leaders of both houses and both intelligence committees. A White House statement said the veto would be necessary to prevent “restricting an important established means by which the president protects the most sensitive intelligence activities that are carried out in the national security interests.”

The congressional Democrats claims of concern are largely play-acting, however. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, deplored the concealment of the program but claimed that it represented no threat to civil liberties.

The struggle to defend democratic rights and to defeat the reactionary conspiracies of the US intelligence agencies must be taken up by the working class. Working people must raise the demand for the full exposure of all the covert operations of the CIA, NSA and other US intelligence agencies, and for the prosecution of all those officials responsible for authorizing and directing them.

This includes bringing to justice officials like Cheney, Bush and other top government officials who have been directly linked to crimes of spying, torture, kidnapping, secret detention without trial and mass murder.

http://www.infowars.com/new-reports-of-massive-spying-criminality-by-us-government/