U.S. built major Iranian nuclear facility

U.S. built major Iranian nuclear facility

Sam Roe
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

August 23, 2006

In the heart of Tehran sits one of Iran’s most important nuclear facilities, a dome-shaped building where scientists have conducted secret experiments that could help the country build atomic bombs. It was provided to the Iranians by the United States.

The Tehran Research Reactor represents a little-known aspect of the international uproar over the country’s alleged weapons program. Not only did the U.S. provide the reactor in the 1960s as part of a Cold War strategy, America also supplied the weapons-grade uranium needed to power the facility-fuel that remains in Iran and could be used to help make nuclear arms.

As the U.S. and other countries wrestle with Iran’s refusal this week to curb its nuclear capabilities, an examination of the Tehran facility sheds light on the degree to which the United States has been complicit in Iran developing those capabilities.

Though the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, has found no proof Iran is building a bomb, the agency says the country has repeatedly concealed its nuclear activities from inspectors. And some of these activities have taken place in the U.S.-supplied reactor, IAEA records show, including experiments with uranium, a key material in the production of nuclear weapons.

U.S. officials point to these activities as evidence Iran is trying to construct nuclear arms, but they do not publicly mention that the work has taken place in a U.S.-supplied facility.

The U.S. provided the reactor when America was eager to prop up the shah, who also was aligned against the Soviet Union at the time. After the Islamic revolution toppled the shah in 1979, the reactor became a reminder that in geopolitics, today’s ally can become tomorrow’s threat.

Also missing from the current debate over Iran’s nuclear intentions is emerging evidence that its research program may be more troubled than previously known.

The Bush administration has portrayed the program as a sophisticated operation that has skillfully hid its true mission of making the bomb. But in the case of the Tehran Research Reactor, a study by a top Iranian scientist suggests otherwise.

After a serious accident in 2001 at the U.S.-supplied reactor, the scientist concluded that poor quality control at the facility was a “chronic disease.” Problems included carelessness, sloppy bookkeeping and a staff so poorly trained that workers had a weak understanding of “the most basic and simple principles of physics and mathematics,” according to the study, presented at an international nuclear conference in 2004 in France.

The Iranian scientist, Morteza Gharib, told the Tribune that management of the facility had improved in the past three years. When asked whether sloppiness at the reactor might have contributed to some of Iran’s troubles with the IAEA, Gharib wrote in an email: “It is always possible, for any system, to commit infractions inadvertently due to lack of proper bookkeeping.”

Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert at Harvard University, said bungling might be to blame for some infractions, but the Iranians clearly concealed major nuclear activities, such as building a facility to enrich uranium. “This was not an oversight,” he said.

Another overlooked concern about the Tehran reactor is the weapons-grade fuel the U.S. provided Iran in the 1960s-about 10 pounds of highly enriched uranium, the most valuable material to bomb makers. It is still at the reactor and susceptible to theft, U.S. scientists familiar with the situation said.

This uranium has already been burned in the reactor, but the “spent fuel” is still highly enriched and could be used in a bomb. Normally, spent fuel is so radioactive that terrorists cannot handle it without causing themselves great harm. But the spent fuel in Iran has sat in storage for so long that it is probably no longer highly radioactive and could be handled easily, the U.S. scientists say.

The fuel is about one-fifth the amount needed to make a nuclear weapon, but experts said it could be combined with other material to construct a bomb.

In an interview, Linton Brooks, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, an arm of the U.S. Energy Department, said the U.S. would like to retrieve the U.S.-supplied fuel, but the top priority has been to get Iran to suspend its enrichment efforts.

Under the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. But the UN Security Council, saying Iran has failed to prove it is not building weapons, has demanded Iran stop enrichment by Aug. 31 or face economic sanctions. This week, Iran offered “serious talks” on its nuclear activities but did not promise to stop enriching uranium.

While Brooks downplayed the proliferation risk of the Tehran Research Reactor, some experts believe the facility is so important to Iran’s nuclear program that it would be targeted in a U.S. military strike on Iran.

“Its purpose is mainly advanced training and producing a cadre of nuclear engineers,” said Paul Rogers, an arms control expert at the University of Bradford in England. “So it’s one of the facilities that is really quite significant.”

Exactly how significant is unclear. The Tehran reactor provided the foundation for Iran’s nuclear program, but that program now consists of numerous other facilities as well. And over the years, Iran has obtained nuclear aid from various sources, including Russia and the black market network of Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. China also has supplied research reactors.

Most of the world’s nuclear research reactors, which train students or produce radioisotopes for medicine, fall under IAEA restrictions. Agency inspectors have visited the Tehran facility several times in recent years. Iran says its nuclear program, including the U.S.-supplied reactor, is solely for peaceful purposes.

When arguing for tough penalties on Iran, U.S. officials have pointed to activities in the U.S.-supplied reactor.

In 2004, John Bolton, the State Department’s senior arms control official at the time, told a congressional panel that Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program was marked by a “two-decades-long record of obfuscation and deceit.” He cited experiments in the reactor as part of the evidence.

Several months later, Bolton told another congressional panel that Iran had received technological assistance from companies in Russia, China and North Korea in an attempt to develop missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

Countries that provide Iran such weapons-of-mass-destruction technology “ought to know better,” said Bolton, now the American ambassador to the United Nations. If foreign companies aid Iran, the U.S. “will impose economic burdens and brand them as proliferators.”

What Bolton didn’t note: America’s role in Iran’s nuclear program.

That role has complicated U.S. efforts to gain support for greater restrictions on Iran. For instance, the U.S. wants Russia to take a firmer stance on Iran’s nuclear program and has been critical of Russian efforts to help Iran build a nuclear power plant.

But Russia has noted the U.S. had no problem providing Iran a research reactor and highly enriched uranium when it was politically expedient.

Those who defend the U.S. say it should not be faulted for aiding Iran in the past. “It’s not the international community’s fault for helping Iran exercise its rights in the past” to develop nuclear energy for peaceful uses, said Lewis, the Harvard expert. “It’s Iran’s fault for not living up to its safeguards obligation.”

Iran’s nuclear program can be traced to the Cold War era, when the U.S. provided nuclear technology to its allies, including Iran. In 1953, the CIA secretly helped overthrow Iran’s democratically elected prime minister and restore the shah of Iran to power.

In the 1960s, the U.S. provided Iran its first nuclear research reactor. Despite Iran’s enormous oil reserves, the shah wanted to build numerous nuclear power reactors, which American and other Western companies planned to supply.

Yet today, the U.S. argues that Iran does not need to develop nuclear power because of those same petroleum resources.

In 1979, when the shah was overthrown and U.S. hostages taken, America and Iran became enemies; Iran’s nuclear power program stalled.

The U.S. refused to give Iran any more highly enriched uranium for its reactor, and Iran eventually obtained new fuel from Argentina. This fuel is too low in enrichment to be used in weapons but powerful enough to run the facility. To this day, the reactor runs on this kind of fuel from Argentina.

In papers filed with the IAEA, Iran states that before the 1979 revolution it gave the U.S. $2 million for additional highly enriched uranium fuel for its American-supplied reactor but the U.S. neither provided the fuel nor returned the $2 million.

In 2003, shortly after IAEA officials inspected the U.S.-supplied reactor, Iran acknowledged it had conducted experiments on uranium in the reactor between 1988 and 1992-activities that had not been previously reported to the agency.

The IAEA rebuked Iran for failing to report these experiments and expressed concern about other activities in the reactor. These included tests involving the production of polonium-210, a radioisotope useful in nuclear batteries but also in nuclear weapons.

Inspectors also were curious why some uranium was missing from two small cylinders. Iran said the uranium probably leaked when the cylinders were stored under the roof of the research reactor, where heat in the summer reached 131 degrees Fahrenheit.

When inspectors took samples from under the roof, they indeed found uranium particles. But inspectors did not think Iran’s explanation about leaking cylinders was plausible.

Eventually, Iran acknowledged the missing uranium had been used in key enrichment tests in another facility.

Monkeys control a robot arm with their thoughts

BENEDICT CAREY/New York Times

The recent explosion these past couple of years of the showcasing of technology like this on the History Channel and other media outlets is designed to lure people with the sweet treats of saving lives, making life easier for the disabled, and increased social status. This is intended to culminate in a brain chip which will allow you to control computers, but also allow for easy control of us.

Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary, scientists reported on Wednesday.

Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary, scientists reported on Wednesday.

The report, released online by the journal Nature, is the most striking demonstration to date of brain-machine interface technology. Scientists expect that technology will eventually allow people with spinal cord injuries and other paralyzing conditions to gain more control over their lives.

The findings suggest that brain-controlled prosthetics, while not practical, are at least technically within reach.

In previous studies, researchers showed that humans who had been paralyzed for years could learn to control a cursor on a computer screen with their brain waves and that nonhuman primates could use their thoughts to move a mechanical arm, a robotic hand or a robot on a treadmill.

The new experiment goes a step further. In it, the monkeys’ brains seem to have adopted the mechanical appendage as their own, refining its movement as it interacted with real objects in real time. The monkeys had their own arms gently restrained while they learned to use the added one.

Experts not involved with the study said the findings were likely to accelerate interest in human testing, especially given the need to treat head and spinal injuries in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

“This study really pulls together all the pieces from earlier work and provides a clear demonstration of what’s possible,” said Dr. William Heetderks , director of the extramural science program at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Dr. John P. Donoghue, director of the Institute of Brain Science at Brown University, said the new report was “important because it’s the most comprehensive study showing how an animal interacts with complex objects, using only brain activity.”

The researchers, from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, used monkeys partly because of their anatomical similarities to humans and partly because they are quick learners.

In the experiment, two macaques first used a joystick to gain a feel for the arm, which had shoulder joints, an elbow and a grasping claw with two mechanical fingers.

Then, just beneath the monkeys’ skulls, the scientists implanted a grid about the size of a large freckle. It sat on the motor cortex, over a patch of cells known to signal arm and hand movements. The grid held 100 tiny electrodes, each connecting to a single neuron, its wires running out of the brain and to a computer.

The computer was programmed to analyze the collective firing of these 100 motor neurons, translate that sum into an electronic command and send it instantaneously to the arm, which was mounted flush with the left shoulder.

The scientists used the computer to help the monkeys move the arm at first, essentially teaching them with biofeedback.

After several days, the monkeys needed no help. They sat stationary in a chair, repeatedly manipulating the arm with their brain to reach out and grab grapes, marshmallows and other nuggets dangled in front of them. The snacks reached the mouths about two-thirds of the time — an impressive rate, compared with earlier work.

The monkeys learned to hold the grip open on approaching the food, close it just enough to hold the food and gradually loosen the grip when feeding.

On several occasions, a monkey kept its claw open on the way back, with the food stuck to one finger. At other times, a monkey moved the arm to lick the fingers clean or to push a bit of food into its mouth while ignoring a newly presented morsel.

The animals were apparently freelancing, discovering new uses for the arm, showing “displays of embodiment that would never be seen in a virtual environment,” the researchers wrote.

“In the real world, things don’t work as expected,” said the senior author of the paper, Dr. Andrew Schwartz, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh. “The marshmallow sticks to your hand or the food slips, and you can’t program a computer to anticipate all of that.

“But the monkeys’ brains adjusted. They were licking the marshmallow off the prosthetic gripper, pushing food into their mouth, as if it were their own hand.”

The co-authors were Meel Velliste, Sagi Perel, M. Chance Spalding and Andrew Whitford.

Scientists have to clear several hurdles before this technology becomes practical, experts said. Implantable electrode grids do not generally last more than a period of months, for reasons that remain unclear.

The equipment to read and transmit the signal can be cumbersome and in need of continual monitoring and recalibrating. And no one has yet demonstrated a workable wireless system that would eliminate the need for connections through the scalp.

Yet Dr. Schwartz’s team, Dr. Donoghue’s group and others are working on all of the problems, and the two macaques’ rapid learning curve in taking ownership of a foreign limb gives scientists confidence that the main obstacles are technical and, thus, negotiable.

In an editorial accompanying the Nature study, Dr. John F. Kalaska, a neuroscientist at the University of Montreal, argued that after such bugs had been worked out, scientists might even discover areas of the cortex that allow more intimate, subtle control of prosthetic devices.

Such systems, Dr. Kalaska wrote, “would allow patients with severe motor deficits to interact and communicate with the world not only by the moment-to-moment control of the motion of robotic devices, but also in a more natural and intuitive manner that reflects their overall goals, needs and preferences.”

Iran off the table? Israel falling from grace?

by Stefan Fobes

Over the weekend four very strange events happened. First, Israeli jets were scrambled to intercept a private plane Tony Blair was on, and threatened to shoot it down! It is reported that they were under the impression that Blair was a terrorist coming to attack their country. Right thought, wrong context, guys. Reportedly, they threatened to shoot the plane down when they tried to talk to Blair’s people, and got no response. What?! This isn’t Joe Smith from some small town in Indiana, this is Tony Blair, 1000 proof Illuminati. Are we supposed to believe that he just waltzes from country to country without calling first? I feel like I’m watching some show like 24, which treats me like I’m a total idiot or something. And here comes the best part:

According to the report in the Times, the former prime minister was unaware of the situation.

“They were unaware of it while they were on the plane,” Ruti Winterstein, a spokeswoman for Mr Blair’s office in Israel, told the paper. “They didn’t hear about it until afterwards, from the media.”

I can understand that maybe, in the heat of the moment, the crew might have been rushing about to cover their butts, but being moments from possible death and he has to wait to know until the media tells him what happened? That’s not the sort of situation anyone would overlook or forget. Hmm…sounds like something might be brewing behind the scenes here.

The second thing is Jimmy Carter coming out at a press conference in Wales saying that Israel had a stockpile of at least 150 nukes. That’s been known for like 25 years now after Mordechai Vannu brought that out to the public in the ’80s. He paid the price for that. Kidnapped by the Mossad, taken back to Israel,put away for 20 years in prison (much of it in solitary), and being arrested many times after that even when he was released. A real eyecatcher though was what he said about the treatment of Palestinians in Israel.

“One of the greatest human rights crimes on earth is the starvation and imprisonment of 1.6m Palestinians,” he said.

The former US president cited statistics which he said showed the nutritional intake of some Palestinian children was below that of children in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as saying the European position on Israel could be best described as “supine”.

All true. And they love to sonic boom the Palestinian kids on purpose while they’re going to school in the morning. To punish them for the crimes of someone who they most likely didn’t know who got in a shootout and killed one or two soldiers. Cold thugs. A former military intelligence chief got mad at Carter for throwing the light on their guns, calling him irresponsible and adding:

“The problem is that there are those who can use these statements when it comes to discussing the international effort to prevent Iran getting nuclear weapons,” he said.

Damn right. If they have a conscience that is. Poor baby mad. Poor baby don’t get to kill millions of Innocent people. Baby cry! And they have dragged totally brainwashed, weak minded fools worldwide into their orbit, mimicking their psychosis and getting power trips thinking they are right there with the Israelis, showing the scum Palestinians who’s boss. Here’s an example right here. Too outrageous for words.

You have to wonder though what is up here with Carter. This guy is a lifelong, one world government pushing insider to the hilt. He was a founding member of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller (who called Mao’s killing of 60 million Chinese a successful social experiment) and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Also is a member of the Council on Foriegn Relations whose real goal, unknown to most the members is the dissolution of America’s borders to create a North American Union to set the stage for the Earth Union. When someone like him, who as President gave the slave labor utilizing, mass murdering Chinese full diplomatic and trade relations starts talking about human rights, it should make one quite suspicious.

Third on the list is the story out there of Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert taking illegal payments of cash totaling $150,000. This is a fast growing story out there these past few days which is quite surprising considering when the Israeli President raped several women, it barely got any attention in the media.

And finally, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the daywalker himself, coming out and saying some unique things (for someone of his position) about Israel and AIPAC, the Israel lobby tentacle in the US.

Mr Brzezinski said “it’s not unique to the Jewish community – but there is a McCarthyite tendency among some people in the Jewish community”, referring to the Republican senator who led the anti-Communist witch hunt in the 1950s.

“They operate not by arguing but by slandering, vilifying, demonising. They very promptly wheel out anti-Semitism. There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.”

This one is ruthless to the core. Co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, friend of Henry Kissinger, and was key in goading the Soviets into invading Afghanistan through US funding of the mujahideen fighters. A fact which he bragged about in a ‘98 interview with the French paper Le Nouvel Observateur. When asked if there were any regrets about this, he said: “Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it?”

This occupation from 1979-89 left more than a million Afghans dead, left land mines which kill dozen a month, and weakened the country so no one could effectively resist either the Taliban or the coalition forces after them. Just look at this ghoul. This thing will most likely be the next national security advisor to President Obama of the USA.

He also lays out a plan for Palestine and Israel.

In Mr Brzezinski’s view, whoever is the next US leader must persuasively propose the following dramatic steps to peace: a) Palestinians give up the right of return from Jordan b) demilitarise of the Palestinian state c) Israel share Jerusalem d) Israel return to its pre-1967 war borders with “equitable adjustments”.

Equitable for who, though? Well, we know that Ziggy is backing Obama. Obama would actually be perfect for this because of his skin color, which actually might help him be a sort of middle man between the predominantly European Israeli population and the darker skinned Palestinian Arabs. And he has the Arab middle name which would appeal to the Arab Palestinian population. He also does not have the history of a McCain or Clinton, who are seen as too Israel oriented. All he would really have to do is to lay in one of those magic holy speeches of his, and they’d swing the votes his way.

The West is already against an armed Iran conflict, having learned lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan. These four unprecedented things here show that the bloodthirsty Israeli government, (not the people) behind the scenes, are being given a serious message that they aren’t as powerful as they think they are, and to curb their fangs on Iran and perhaps, even Palestine. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some new stories come out about Israel funding Hamas or some other groundbreaking thing of that nature.

It seems there is a feud going on between the Israel controlling Rothschilds and the British-USA controlling Windsors. Brzezinski seems to want to do things by guile, bloodlessly, while the other faction seems to want to carry things out brutally and with maximum bloodshed. Which side will win? Well, it’s like Alien vs Predator, whoever we let win, we lose.

Russia and China take first steps toward new alliance

Russia’s New President Makes First International Trip to China

By Stephanie Ho
Voanews.com
23 May 2008

Russia’s new president Dmitry Medvedev says his country seeks what he calls a reasonable, pragmatic and friendly relationship with giant neighbor, China. He arrived in Beijing Friday for a two day visit – as part of his first trip abroad since he took office earlier this month. Stephanie Ho has more on the story.

Dmitry Medvedev, left, shakes hands with counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing, 23 May 2008

Ties between former Cold War rivals, China and Russia, are warming. Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Li Hui says his government appreciates the Russian leader’s choice of destinations.

He says President Medvedev’s decision to make China one of his first foreign visits only half a month after taking office ful ly demonstrates the high degree of importance he and the Russian government place on the China-Russia relationship.

The Russian leader’s Beijing schedule includes meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and other senior Chinese leaders.

The two countries are expected to discuss energy issues, as well as military cooperation and trade.

Sergey Razov

Russian Ambassador to China, Sergey Razov, told reporters the two countries share many similar views on major international issues. He says on sensitive issues, including the Iran and Korean peninsula nuclear issues, among others, they have a common position.

Jing-dong Yuan, an associate professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, says the two countries already have strong defense cooperation.

“This is the most, probably salient, component of this relationship,” said Yuan. “China has imported major weapons systems from Russia, and also military technology transfer, over the last decade and a half. And they have, in recent years, moved beyond simple arms sales to joint military exercise and other military cooperation.”

He says the two countries are likely to expand their cooperation in space and nuclear technology.

At the same time, he says both countries need to work on expanding economic ties.

“Currently, the bilateral trade is only $48 billion annually, so it’s very low for countries such as China and Russia, two big economies and neighboring countries,” said Yuan.

Official Chinese media say the Russian leader’s visit coincides with the release of a Chinese language version of “Russian National Development Issues,” a collection of speeches President Medvedev gave when he was recently the country’s prime minister. Chinese authorities also have designed a set of special stamps and a commemorative envelope to mark the visit.

The Russian leader came to China after stopping in Kazakhstan Thursday. He is scheduled to deliver a speech at Peking University Saturday.

The South American Union and Hugo Chavez showing his true stripes

by Stefan Fobes

Many have said over the years that Hugo Chavez is an Illuminati puppet, citng his capture during the Venezuela coup back in 2002 and his still being here with us among the living, but have not really gone into or been able to go with something of substance, really because he hasn’t done anything blatantly NWO-like. Now, his real function has come into view.

Novinite.com reports that twelve South American nations have come together to form Unasur, a regional union. They are: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. They even plan to have their own president and elections. Just another step to making a world government with the continents as superstates controlled by it. David Rockefeller, Chase Manhattan Bankster, says in his book Memoirs on p. 405:

For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

Back to Chavez. During the 2002 Venezuelan military coup, Hugo Chavez said that when he was captured and taken by the military high command to the Venezuelan island of Orchila, he saw a private plane with US markings on it ready to take him away to exile. Now I won’t take just his word for it, but given the fact that those carrying out the coup said that they did it because they blamed him for the killing of 11 anti-government demonstrators, I think that there might be something to this statement. What is possibility turns into certainty after eyeing this New York Times piece:

Senior members of the Bush administration met several times in recent months with leaders of a coalition that ousted the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, for two days last weekend, and agreed with them that he should be removed from office, administration officials said today.

Of course the government spun it, saying that the opposition leaders came to them and the government agreed with them that he should be removed from office. Well, if the Venezuelan military guys were doing it on their on dime and time, why would they need to go to the US for anything?

Still, critics say, there were several signs that the administration was too quick to rally around the businessman Pedro Carmona Estanga as Mr. Chávez’s successor.

One Democratic foreign policy aide complained that the administration, in phone calls to Congress on Friday, reported that Mr. Chávez had resigned, even though officials now concede that they had no evidence of that.

And on Saturday, the administration supported an O.A.S. resolution condemning ”the alteration of constitutional order in Venezuela” only after learning that Mr. Chávez had regained control, Latin American diplomats said.

How would they know that Chavez resigned when he hadn’t? With past circumstances similar to this, such as running the Pinochet and other military coups across the world, why should we believe that the same was not the case here?

Before the coup, Chavez had brought the country’s inflation rate down from 40-12%, an awesome feat for any nation, and upped primary school enrollment by 1 million.

Maybe the mass protest that got Chavez back in was instigated by the Illuminati, maybe not, but whatever the case, he is in now. The Illuminati are masters of deception and long-term planning. Staged incidents, fake opposition, and good cop/bad cop scenarios are their bread and butter. Another favorite of theirs is the two steps forward, one step back technique. They knew that a superstate of the Americas, both North and South America was way too big a job, so they used him to kill the Free Trade Area of the Americas, wait things out a couple of years, and then roll this out. What they have done here is use him, under a sort of neo-socialist track, to get the people on his side. The Venezuelan people know from hard experience that the European and US powers wish to control and exploit them, and so the anti evil US empire banner is used in combination with this to build strong rapport with him and thus keep him, or someone else with the same rhetoric, in power until the final world government trap can be sprung. Out of the BBC:

Prior to the Brasilia summit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez described the “empire” of the United States as Unasur’s “number one enemy”.

The Brazilian president boasted that this showed that South America was “becoming a global player”. You wish, bud. You wish.

But…perhaps Hugo Chavez is just a guy who is just looking out for his fellow Venezuelans, and just sees this as a way to counter out of control US imperialism. Ok. However, It is admitted by the Freemasons themselves that many US presidents, bankers, media barons, businessman, and other famous people have held high places in their ranks. Secret handshakes and signs too, they also admit they have. Here’s one of them, displayed on a proud “e-Mason” site.

Seinfeld star Michael Richards, and 33rd degree Freemason.

And compare to this photo of Chavez, dressed in the much beloved ritual Illuminati color red. This one would fit so well in Texe Marrs’ Codex Magica. Knowing that these secret society initiates have these handsigns, and that they often can be found in positions of leadership and influence, it is impossible to a fully functional logical mind to just dismiss this straight off. Have you ever seen anyone you know, other than gang members, (bigger gangs such as the Crips and Bloods do have intelligence agency liasons and connections by the way) put their hands in anything resembling these positions?

Is he or isn’t he? Is he really saying, I love your nice hair? You decide.

The new generation of Freemasonry

Freemasons in midst of popularity, membership boom

The secretive society gains a higher, hipper profile as younger men seek out a place for fraternal bonding.

By Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 18, 2008

IN LOS FELIZ, across from a 7-Eleven on North Vermont Avenue, a few dozen men in their early 20s to late 80s share a dinner behind closed doors. Some wear full tuxedos with bow ties and jeweled cuff links, some have shoulder-length hair, and others wear open-collared shirts that reveal the slightest filigree of tattoo arching across their chests.

Jonathan Kanarek, owner of a men’s vintage clothing boutique called Everything’s Jake, displays a tattoo that includes the Masonic symbols of a compass and square. Another tattoo on his back references the three pillars of Freemasonry: strength, wisdom and beauty.

Over Italian food, retired lawyers and judges sit elbow-to-elbow with owners of scrap metal yards and vintage clothing boutiques. They hold forth on philosophy, the weather; they rib each other and joke about saving room for cannoli. As they reach for seconds, they reveal skull-cracking rings emblazoned with a compass and a square.

Meet the millennial Masons. As secret societies go, it is one of the oldest and most famous. Its enrollment roster includes Louis Armstrong and Gerald Ford, and it has been depicted in movies such as “The Da Vinci Code” and “National Treasure.” Once more than 4 million strong (back in the 1950s), it has been in something of a popularity free-fall ever since. Viewed with suspicion as a bastion of antiquated values and forced camaraderie, the Masons have seen membership rolls plummet more than 60% to just 1.5 million in 2006.

Only now the trend seems to be reversing itself, and nowhere more noticeably than in Southern California. The reasons seem clear. In another Masonic Hall, this one on La Cienega, a Sri Lankan-born banker, a sunglasses-wearing Russian immigrant and a continent-hopping Frenchman break bread, poke at their salads and chat about their health.

“For a time it looked as if Masonry was going into a sharp decline, if not the death throes,” said UCLA history professor Margaret C. Jacob, who has written extensively about the fraternal order. “But it looks like it may be making a comeback.”

That’s because the Freemasons, whose tenets forbid soliciting or recruiting members, have enthusiastically embraced the Internet as a way to leverage curiosity about an organization with its roots in Europe’s medieval stonemasons guilds. Freemasonry today sees itself as a thinking man’s salon, a learned society with a philanthropic bent.

The nation’s seventh president was a member of Harmony Lodge No. 1 in Nashville, Tenn. Old Hickory also had a seriously stylish head of hair, proving early on that fashion sense and Freemasonry could coexist.

“We had a record number of new members last year,” said Allan Casalou, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of California. “We added 2,000 men, which is the most since 1998 and our seventh straight year of membership increases.”

And, to paraphrase that Oldsmobile campaign, these definitely aren’t your father’s Freemasons. They are bar owners, male models and olive-oil brokers. They are men like Zulu, an L.A. tattoo artist with a swirling Maori-inspired design inked across his face and a panoply of metal piercing his ears, nose and face. They are men like Jonathan Kanarek, who runs a men’s vintage clothing store on Hollywood Boulevard and whose retro chic wardrobe of polka-dot ascots, glen-plaid jackets and smartly pressed pocket squares earned him a spot on Esquire magazine’s 2007 list of best-dressed real men in America. And they are men like Daemon Hillin, whose surfer-dude looks and blinding white smile can be found on Japanese TV, where he plays sidekick and comic foil to the Japanese version of the Hilton sisters.

They are also all men who want to be part of an all-for-one and one-for-all brotherhood built on shared ideals, philosophical pursuits and a penchant for rings, aprons and funny hats. As Zulu bluntly put it: “I joined because I was looking for people to hang with that were like-minded but also hip and cool, and a lot of tattoo artists tend to be drunks and druggies.”

New or old, one hallmark of Freemasonry fashion is a penchant for rings, usually in a precious metal and bearing a version of the square and compass logo. Here Zulu, left, Jonathan Kanarek and Daemon Hillin show off their Masonic bling.

Hillin, who originally joined the Masons in Temecula, moved to L.A. and is interested in the Santa Monica-Palisades Lodge No. 307, one of the youngest and most diverse congregations in the state (the average age of active brothers is just 33). The lodge’s senior deacon, Jim Warren, calls it ” ‘Star Trek’ without the chicks.” “We have every possible national origin, ethnicity and religious denomination you could imagine,” he said.

Warren credits the Internet. “We were one the first lodges in the state to have a website up,” he said. “That led to a huge spike in membership.”

Other lodges followed suit, putting up their own sites and drawing a crowd. That’s how prospective Mason Johnny Royal ended up at the door of Elysian Lodge No. 418 last month. Intrigued by the distinctive Masonic architecture that graces most halls, the 31-year-old publicist with sideburns to his chin and hair to his shoulders and a Renaissance lute player tattoo on his right forearm hit the Web.

What he read about the Masonic ideals — wisdom, strength, beauty and the pursuit of knowledge — made him decide to pursue membership. “My generation wants to be part of something beyond itself,” Royal said. “I want to learn; I want to participate.”

The Web generation

THE INTERNET hasn’t only made it easier to learn about the Freemasons, Casalou says, it’s changed the type of men coming forward. “There is so much information on the Internet that by the time someone comes to a lodge to seek membership, they already know a lot about Masonry,” he said. “Which is a big departure from previous generations. And it means they are more likely to be active participants.”

Zulu became curious about Freemasonry after tattooing Masonic symbology on several clients. He joined five years ago at age 39 and now serves as webmaster and senior warden of North Hollywood Lodge No. 542. He has also gone on to become both a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner (Masonic membership is a prerequisite for both), and next year he will become the leader of his lodge. “I’ll be the first black worshipful master in the lodge’s history,” he said, using the proper term of respect.
But he probably won’t be the last. Because California’s contingent of Freemasons is expected to grow, the average age of its members, once 71 and now 65, is expected to drop. By 2018, as Casalou predicts, the state will be awash in 55-year-old pre-retirement Masons giving each other secret handshakes, wearing ritual aprons and invoking the Grand Architect of the Universe.

The Internet continues to help. Zulu said that he gets at least four e-mails a week from prospective Masons around the globe who see his tattooed and pierced visage at the lodge website and want to be reassured such an alternative look isn’t a barrier to membership.

In addition to his Masonic ring and several tattoos with Masonic motifs, Zulu also sports a skull ring and carries a skull-topped walking stick.

“Yeah, I think it’s going to become hip and chic to be a Mason,” Zulu said. “And that could be a dangerous thing.”

Face & license plate scanning police chopper on NYC spy duty

NYPD eye in the sky is tool against terror fight

Copter crammed with sophisticated gear keeps a close watch

May 24, 2008

Tom Hays/AP

NEW YORK – On a cloudless spring day, the NYPD helicopter soars over the city, its sights set on the Statue of Liberty.

A dramatic close-up of Lady Liberty’s frozen gaze fills one of three flat-screen computer monitors mounted on a console. Hundreds of sightseers below are oblivious to the fact that a helicopter is peering down on them from a mile and a half away.

“They don’t even know we’re here,” said crew chief John Diaz, speaking into a headset over the din of the aircraft’s engine.

The helicopter’s unmarked paint job belies what’s inside: an arsenal of sophisticated surveillance and tracking equipment powerful enough to read license plates — or scan pedestrians’ faces — from high above the nation’s largest metropolis.

Police say the chopper’s sweeps of landmarks and other potential targets are invaluable in helping guard against another terrorist attack, providing a see-but-avoid-being-seen advantage against bad guys.

“It looks like just another helicopter in the sky,” said Assistant Police Chief Charles Kammerdener, who oversees the department’s aviation unit.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said that “no other law-enforcement agency in the country has anything that comes close” to the surveillance helicopter, designed by a team of engineers at Bell Helicopter and computer technicians based on specifications of the NYPD.

The helicopter is named simply “23,” for the number of police officers killed in the Sept. 11 attacks.

The decision to customize the helicopter at a cost of $10 million reflects a new frontier in cutting-edge counterterrorism technology at the nation’s largest police department.

Elsewhere, the NYPD plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to strengthen security in the Lower Manhattan business district with a network of closed-circuit television cameras and license-plate readers posted at bridges, tunnels, and other entry points. It also has deployed hundreds of radiation detectors – some worn on belts like pagers, others mounted on cars and in helicopters, to detect possible “dirty” bombs.

Kelly envisions someday using futuristic “stationary airborne devices” similar to blimps to conduct reconnaissance and help detect chemical and biological threats.

Civil rights advocates are not as enthusiastic about the surveillance, arguing it reflects the NYPD’s evolution into ad hoc spy agency. “From a privacy perspective, there’s always a concern that ‘New York’s Finest’ are spending millions of dollars to engage in Peeping Tom activities,” said Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Police insist the law-abiding have nothing to fear. “Obviously, we’re not looking into apartments,” Diaz said. “We only want to observe anything that’s going on in public.”

The helicopter’s powers of observation reach far and wide, thanks largely to a robotic, high-powered camera mounted on a turret projecting from its nose like a periscope. The camera has infrared night-vision capabilities and a satellite navigation system that allows police to zoom in on a location by typing in the address on a computer keyboard.

The surveillance system can beam live footage to police command centers or even to wireless handheld devices.

During this sweep, the helicopter circumvented Manhattan, using the camera to look for signs of trouble. The decks of the Staten Island ferry terminal, the stanchions of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the giant air vents feeding the Lincoln Tunnel, the aviation fuel lines stretching toward John F. Kennedy International Airport – targeted in a plot uncovered last year – all passed inspection.

During the recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI, 23 patrolled the skies, at one point receiving a call from officers who had looked up and spotted a suspicious man with a camera on a Fifth Avenue rooftop near the pontiff’s residence. Diaz radioed back that it was a false alarm.

Notice the first sentence. If this is allowed to continue unchecked, we can expect a fleet of these in each city on the planet. Fear and tension will become a constant in our lives as we restrict and censor ourselves because we might be “acting suspicious”.

One more step to checkmate – The US-Burma-China connection

by Stefan Fobes

And the drums of war are being beaten yet again. There’s an article that was put out last week by time.com called Is It Time to Invade Burma? Should have read Is It Time to Bomb Burma Back to the Wood Age? Which is what will happen if the UN forces are allowed to go in there. What an sweet, empathetic person that writer is. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon the other day, started coming out, talking about Burma-Myanmar, bringing up some bullshit called the ‘responsibility to protect’. Read: responsibility to protect the Illuminati plans. It certainly doesn’t mean protecting countries like China, or as I call it, the 666th ring of hell. The government thinks so little of the people that they actually make beauty products from the skin of prisoners who are executed by lethal injection immediately after the verdict in death vans. The Chinese government has long denied killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs, but one former military doctor’s testimony proves otherwise:

“In June 2001, Wang Guoqi, a Chinese former military physician, told US congressmen he had worked at execution grounds helping surgeons to harvest the organs of more than 100 executed prisoners, without prior consent. The surgeons used converted vans parked near the execution grounds to begin dissecting the bodies, he told the house international relations committee’s human rights panel.

Skin was said to be highly valued for the treatment of burn victims, and Dr Wang said that in 1995 he skinned a shot convict’s body while the man’s heart was still beating. Dr Wang, who was seeking asylum in the US, also alleged that corneas and other body tissue were removed for transplant, and said his hospital, the Tianjin paramilitary police general brigade hospital, sold body parts for profit.”

If they will do that, they would hardly have any problem taking organs from anyone else in their clutches either, would they?

It is a quest of herculean proportions to be able to find a product that is made in America anymore. It may seem that those insidious Chinese have singlehandedly sucked away America’s manufacturing base. But was it sucked away, or thrown to them?

The Asian Human Rights Commission reports:

“A TOY STORY:

China makes 70 per cent of the world’s toys.
Its exports, now worth .5bn (pounds 4.7bn) annually, have doubled in eight years.
China exports nearly bn of plastic Christmas trees, ornaments and lights, tinsel, plastic angels and bells, Santa suits, framed pictures of Jesus and Bible scenes.
Toy factories in china are owned by the likes of Disney, Mattel (makers of Barbie), Hasbro, McDonald’s, and Warner Bros.
All major US retail shops carry toys manufactured in these factories: Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, Target and the like.”

And what is it like for the workers themselves in there?

“Usually the toy rabbits for processing were delivered to the labor camp by a middle aged woman riding a tricycle. It would go through over 30 processing lines to make a rabbit like this, and it would take over 10 hours to make one. But the processing fee for each rabbit was only 30 cents (equivalent to Au$0.06, US$0.04). The processing fees were paid to the labor camp. We didn’t get anything. Usually we began work after getting up at 5 o’clock in the morning, and worked until 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning the next day. Sometimes we had to work overtime, otherwise we could not finish the job. At the busiest time, I did not dare to wash my hands after going to the toilet, in order to save a few minutes. At night, sometimes I was so exhausted that I could not even count clearly from 1 to 9. Yet I still had to force my eyes open to knit sweaters. The pattern of the sweater was quite complicated; sometimes we finally finished the knitting after much effort only to discover the next morning it had been knitted completely wrongly. So, we had to unpick the stitches and redo it. Long hours of highly intensive workload and severe lack of sleep made me feel, for a very long period of time, that the only thing I needed in my life was sleep.”

Saddam Hussein was no angel, but really, if it was a question of which government was the greater suppressor of fundamental human rights and had to be taken out pronto militarily, who would you choose? We are bombarded with images and messages daily to make us believe that the evil Arabs are hard at it every day planning to wipe the West off the face of the Earth, when in truth, there is no such thing as terrorism as we know it. Every single terror case that we have seen in the past publicized by the mainstream media has been government run or controlled.

If the UN is going to talk about protecting, then where were they in ‘88 when the government there in Burma massacred 3000 pro-democracy demonstrators? Why a news blitz about their situation NOW? It has been decades of torture for the Burmese people. Why is there this raw desparation for the UN and Western countries to get in there yesterday? True, Burma is oil and resource rich, but so is every other country on the face of the planet, it’s just that the people don’t know it. Peak oil, finite oil are scams perpetrated on the public to justify at will “scarcities” to control the people. If you can’t move, eat, or stay warm, you are fair game for manipulation. In this fantastic article, Dave McGowan just tears apart the official story of the true nature of oil.

The real goal, what the Illuminati are really looking for is a manufactured war involving China. It is said that in 1871 a letter was written from Albert Pike, masonic god and founder of the KKK, to Guiseppi Mazzini, founder of the Mafia and Italian Freemasonry. In it is detailed a plan for three world wars. Here’s the alledged plan for the second world war. The last sentence is quite interesting.

“The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.”

Here we see why China has been given the West’s manufacturing base, and why its historically unprecedented atrocities are allowed to continue. The recent lead paint stories in the media are to keep China from becoming a little too big for their britches, as they say. And for the third world war:

“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”

The reality of the letter is disputed, but what is definitely for sure is that it is a mirror image for what we see playing out today.

It is now common knowledge that the US armed up Saddam. Then they came in and busted the crap out of Iraq. And the same is being done with Iran, when in 2001 the British government approved the sale of beryllum, an key element needed in bombmaking. From the BBC:

” British officials have approved the export of key components needed to make nuclear weapons to Iran and other countries known to be developing such weapons.

An investigation by BBC Radio 4 programme File on Four will disclose that the Department of Trade and Industry allowed a quantity of the metal, Beryllium, to be sold to Iran last year.

That metal is needed to make nuclear bombs.

Britain has had an arms embargo to Iran since 1993 and has signed up to an international protocol which bans the sale of Beryllium to named countries, including Iran.”

We see the game also being played in North Korea. They were basically given, with the US government’s full sanction, two nuclear reactors for them to play with in exchange for them ending their nuclear weapons program. Uh…?

“Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rarely keeps his opinions to himself. He tends not to compromise with his enemies. And he clearly disdains the communist regime in North Korea. So it’s surprising that there is no clear public record of his views on the controversial 1994 deal in which the U.S. agreed to provide North Korea with two light-water nuclear reactors in exchange for Pyongyang ending its nuclear weapons program. What’s even more surprising about Rumsfeld’s silence is that he sat on the board of the company that won a $200 million contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors.”

And in the Project for the New American Century document, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, written by Dick Cheney, they call it a hostile state. A made to order one, more like. Speaking of PNAC, every single country (Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria) that they call hostile regimes in their Rebuilding America’s Defenses report, have one thing in common–at the time the PNAC report was written, there were no US military bases in any of those countries. And we look at Burma…same deal.

“America wants to install “a puppet government” in Burma and seize an island in the Andaman Sea and a mountain near China so the Pentagon can build military bases and attack Asia, according to Burma’s official media.

“If the [U.S.] power has a naval base on our Coco Kyun Island, it can launch a blitzkrieg against the eastern or the western hemisphere,” the military regime’s official New Light of Myanmar newspaper said.

Burma, mainland Southeast Asia’s biggest country, is also known as Myanmar and has been ruled by its military since 1962.

“If the big nation [America] can deploy troops and missiles in the north of Myanmar, it can target and attack any specified country in and around the region,” it said.”

Yes. Just look at this map. Burma is smack dab in the heart of Southeast Asia. From there you could easily launch attacks against “rogue states” like North Korea and encircle China like a noose. And I put forth that this is exactly the plan, not only there but in Africa as well. China is fast becoming the new economic colonial master there, going after the natural resources, bossing the people around, and after just a short time there, already started to profit at the expense of Africans, just like the British did the Chinese in colonial times. I read occasionally, the Chinese government officials complaining about how the terrible foriegners exploited their country in those days. It is like a guy who got raped in prison, and then in a while soon rapes some 18-year old kid that got in for a DUI and makes some asinine reference to “prison culture”. I look at the situation here and it looks very much like China is being given managership (at least in public) of these countries by the Illuminati in order to justify going to war against them on an African front, and to allow the CIA, MI6, and more important arms of the Illuminati to have greater operational cover. In the near future we will see the usual propaganda blasted by the mainstream media. I can see the CNN newsdroids going: Significant inroads being made by Al-Qaeda in Africa! Send in the troops to protect! This is the real reason for government issued Arabs like bin Laden or Haroon Rashid Aswat. They will create a nuclear hell on Earth, and then, when the people cry out for help to the very people who caused it, they will create another even worse than that. Don’t let it happen world. The power lies with us, as it always will. Asserting it, moving past the created lines of division, will leave no road ever closed to us.

Ron Paul and Satanism?

Hell, I’m not 100% sure what to think about this Ron Paul Freemasonic/Satanic connection biz, but one thing for sure is, something is definitely not right here. Setting aside the claims set forth here for a minute. And check out what he does with his hands after getting out of that car in this youtube clip. And then this pic here.

Unmistakable. Something’s not right here…

Horn Hex Rally – Satanic origin of the UT “hook em horns”

by Stefan Fobes

So today I was looking around searching for Obama flashing the satanic hand sign, which all Illuminati slaves are required to do during their campaigns, and I come across this forum post

with the above pic of Obama flashing that, which was quickly replaced on the FOX News site where it came from with something a little more sanitized.

I also saw solid gold there, a link to the Austin-American Statesman site describing their `hex rally`. This hex rally, it is admitted, goes back to 1941 when they had a palm reader (a palm reader for that???) put a curse on the rival team, Texas A&M. Certainly, the way Obama did it is exactly like the North Carolina State Wolfpack handsign, but you have to ask yourself, why is it that politicians, royalty, and dozens of heads of state around the world who have no big physical connection to Texas or North Carolina do this same sign? Who also are involved in dozens of secretive organizations like the Freemasons, the Bilderbergers, and Skull & Bones, who actually call non-members (not in public of course!) the profane, vulgar, and barbarians. It is said that they are probably doing the sign language for I love you, but the woman who invented it, Helen Keller, was herself an occultist. I do not ask anyone to believe a damn word I say, but just to put what I have said, and what those who would “debunk” what I say side by side and go with what makes the best sense to you.