The tyranny of green: The bigger picture behind global car bans

By Stefan Fobes

This week, New York introduced a car ban in and around Herald Square and Times Square, the most car packed areas of the city.

On the surface it does look like a beautiful idea. No waiting for the lights, just plopping down all comfy in a nice lawn chair and relaxing.

The illusion must be dissipated, though. There is no better way of controlling populations than to make them believe that they are the ones benefiting from the system that has actually been put in to lock them down, and the case is hardly different here. The New York Post reports:

While in Times Square, Andrew Fine, 41, real estate broker from the Upper East Side, said he was livid. He normally uses his car for chauffeuring clients.

“To cut off five blocks of traffic in the busiest intersection in the world so people can sit on folding chairs doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

“This could paralyze midtown and discourage people from coming to Times Square,” he said.

Tom Mirayes, 53, HVAC technician, said it took him 45 minutes to find a parking space on 48th Street off Broadway. It normally takes him 10 minutes.

I find it deeply troubling when I see people going off on petty ego trips and slap the stupid label on governments. The IRS alone should stop that thought process. Every little legal nook, causeway, and cranny is always gone over with a fine toothcomb, and if something is in a law, it was clearly planned that way. Continuing on in the article:

Abdul Karim, pedicab bike rider, said that police would not let him into the cordoned off Times Square streets.

“They are treating us like a car,” he griped.

Richard Garcia, 34, who drives a Budweiser beer delivery truck straight down Broadway from 47th Street, said, “Look at this. They messed everything. They do everything nice for the tourist but what about the workers?”

What? The agenda here is about constricting the flow of commerce, making sure that people are herded into a position where they are not in control over the way they travel, and can be easily scooped up at any time. Times Square alone is the premier tourist destination in the city. As the Post article said, it also has the heaviest amount of traffic. Now it will only be redirected somewhere else, cause even more problems, and another call for greater governmental control will be raised. Problem-Reaction-Solution again. The environmental groups that called for this that aren’t bought and paid for will be crying when they see what they helped to bring in. But that is another part of the program. Give them coverage when the agenda needs them, ignore them when they are surplus to requirements.

This vicious treatment of New York bike riders was deliberately allowed an entry pass by the puppet mainstream media to the TV sets of the public in order to gain sympathy and public acceptance of the car ban. Yet this is exactly what will happen again if this cars out, bikes in agenda takes hold.

The car ban in this key nexus point of New York is having a ripple effect even now. It is meant to cause a great economic shock which will then be used to provide the justification for calls for ever greater control. It has been used here, without the carbon label as far back as about twelve years ago. In September of 1999, for a day 150 European cities banned cars from stretches of roads for a day.
This did not take, but as always with the agenda, in standard Terminator fashion, it will robotically keep on rolling until stopped.

Throughout the ancient world, the dictators known as royalty imposed strict regulations and controls on the populace. Rome had the wearing of the color purple restricted exclusively to the emperors, to broadcast their claimed divinity.

In imperial Japan, bladed implements were banned to the commoners, (seem familiar?) and their use designated exclusively to the court chefs and the nobility’s private armies of samurai fighters.

In modern times the seige on human freedoms has resurged. An infamous California state report which they were forced to back off from concluded that jet black cars were an “environmental issue”. And last year Washington state’s government was telling local municipalities to prohibit driveway car washes.

Already the framework has and is being set up for a South American Union, European Union, Asia-Pacific Union, Mediterranean Union, and, Iraq government honchos have unveiled a plan for a Middle Eastern Union. Countless researchers have already documented what the New World Order plan is, but in a nutshell it will be Communist China meets Star Wars. Every week, some article comes out saying we gotta centralize this, we have to have a world this, we have to give all these powers to that body.

For a mega list of all the world heads of state calling for a new world order and global government, this will do well.

So many researchers have said what this is going to be, and I suppose many are really kind of deadened to it, and overburdened with the ease of availability of all the information. Isn’t it just so nice to have all that information just served up to you, and not having to go out and find it yourself? Isn’t it so good to be able to feel that you’re just so much better than those dumb sheep who aren’t as fortunate as you to know about the thousands of alternative media sites?

3 million plus cameras in every city. Robot social workers making regular visits to your home. You, your clothes, the appliances, the wiring, the pets, all are able to be computer controlled by the world central computer at will. Children raped and subjected to high tech programming which is able to be “cleanly” beamed directly into the subconscious mind.  Programmed sleepers are commonplace, with hardly a memory of a time when this was actually rare. No need to rush to 10 minutes hate Junior Anti-Sex Leagues, or the telescreen in 2184. It’s all in your head. Literally. Regular participation in sick Satanic rituals that make Eyes Wide Shut look cute is a literal every-minute occurence. Step out of line in even the smallest way, say, for example, to ask for just a little bit more rations so you can lose that scarecrow physique, then the electronic units in your account are all deleted, and you won’t have to worry about food ever again. If you need to travel, permits are mandatory for even a two minute ride to the market. The government bleeds you dry with taxes and fees so bad, if someone popped open a history file about the IRS, you’d think it was like water in the Sahara. This is the new Earth empire. This is the sad fate of humanity.

If the latest programming session on a TV which talks to you like you are a four year old, which bears no resemblance to your life is more important than real issues like this, then why be afraid of the government anymore? After all, why cry over what you don’t want to use anyway? Don’t put all that strain on your system. Just sit back and accept the men in black uniforms. Lovingly give yourself over to hell.

Or if there is any part of you that is repulsed beyond words by 100 Chinese cities, Dublin, Jakarta, Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, and New York banning cars for “the environment” over the last two years while Mr. Green Al Gore, when asked by the US Senate to take a personal energy pledge to consume no more than the average American, refused, then it’s time to get creative — and cracking.

Two handlers of mind controlled slaves exposed, more gang stalking tactics revealed

By Stefan Fobes

People have asked in my previous articles why would they devote all these resources for me, just one person. It would take someone extremely abnormal to do something like that, and also like this.

As I’ve said, my mother was mind controlled and perhaps she has passed some programming functions down to me through genetics that I may not know of. I won’t rule that out. The Fobes family claims descent from many British and Scottish royals, such as Robert the Bruce. They are of the Illuminati Bruce bloodline, one of the real 13. So I’m not surprised that so many resources can be deployed in my case.

There is information locked in the minds of programmed people about Illuminati black projects, sexual perversions on their part, and rituals that would blow the agenda sky high if it ever got out. Look at the gigantic military type convoy which was described by CBS News as nearly the size of a football field headed to programming factory UCLA Neuropsychiatric Medical Institute for blatantly programmed Britney Spears when she had what was called her breakdown. Yes, her programming breakdown. If she ever got to a good deprogrammer and publicly talked about what she has been through…..wow. It’d rock this world. This is why they use everything they have. It is a desperate struggle for survival in their part. And with circumstances and the world going the way it is, there is only one inevitable ending now.

Yet, there are several key players in every intelligence agency operation whom without they cannot be truly effective. In this article I will expose one critically important class of agent — the tactical predictor.

As I’ve written in two previous articles, I have been gang stalked for months. After some digging around, I have come up with a name and with that, a photo. This man is Simon Keith Wheeldon. He lives down the hall from the apartment I live in with his partner.

He has multiple functions — pun intended. He is not only fully mind controlled, as is his partner, it seems that he is a handler for a lot of programmed individuals also.

Sad, in pain, hurting inside. Whenever you see people who have this look, you are looking at a mind controlled individual.

Unfortunately, this can only be really written at this point to people who understand what government mind control operations are, but for those who do not, take a look at the pictures included in their books of people who claim to have been subjected to these torturous procedures of them during the time they claimed to be mind controlled. Then take a look at some pictures of schizophrenics, abuse victims, bipolar individuals, murderers, and others with common mental illnesses. For those that have, they will see that people claiming to have been mind controlled have a unique look found nowhere else in the spectrum of mental disorders. Their eyes appear like their spirit has literally been turned into a block of ice.

A handler of mind controlled slaves is inevitably wildly paranoid due to what they do and this Simon Wheeldon is no different. This is how his personality is. A constant expression of rage and/or suspicion on his face and filled with constant fear, a prime one being his fear of his posessions being stolen. His blue car on the block where I and he live has a little sign on one of the windows with NO STEREO in big black caps on it. His female partner, apparently, is deathly afraid of being robbed and raped. These are echoes of the initial abuse that formed their alter system. I do not hate them for what they do, but nor do I pity them for their condition. And I obviously cannot allow them to continue what they have been sent in to do, yet it is my deep wish that they and a skilled deprogrammer do some healing work together.

Daily, this Simon Wheeldon individual clop-clop-clops up and down the stairs, making the arrangements for spotters to be placed at points around the neighborhood, increasing or decreasing numbers depending on their state of desperation on a given day to observe my route and destination. An example from last Tuesday: Six people sitting in cars near no school or event taking place at about 4PM. Since he is aware of the information I reveal here and tactics will change accordingly, I will simply lay out the prime script-program that the intelligence agencies work by.

- Ex-government mind control subject Stewart Swerdlow talks in his Blue Blood, True Blood: Conflict and Creation book of watchful eyes positioned in Black communities to scope out the most amoral individuals who will do anything for profit and get them recruited. These people are actually in every single community in America. In apartment buildings, music schools, public schools, convenience stores, luxury apartment building doormen, hot dog vendors, building superintendents, janitors. Every single ethnicity and race has a minute portion of these spies and these are the people who have been put out to spy on me.

- Two astounding examples I have found are one Black plumber who works at New York’s Central Synagogue and a White woman who works at the Austrian Consulate General’s Office not too far from there. They are all trained and used for a wide array of purposes.

- They try to use a point to point relay system by which they keep one person behind, (to try to keep wise of any doubling back by someone they are spying on) one person ahead. In the intelligence agency spnsored movies, they usually depict operatives as following someone on foot from behind. In reality operatives are instructed to run ahead of the person they are following as this is never known of or expected by anyone, much like 99.9% of people never look up. The person ahead looks over their shoulder quickly and repeatedly to try to make sure of things.

- They are assisted in this by people who look down in their government paid for apartments as backup eyes.

- For burglaries, the general policy is never come in unless they are absolutely sure that it is safe to do so. This isn’t set in stone, though.

- Place at least one person on the block of someone they try to spy on to obtain the exact time they leave, after which their Matrix-style operator is notified and the next person down the line afterwards is robotically activated to keep their eyes open. This occurs assembly line style.

- If you know you are being followed and you think it is just one group of spies with one operator and you can just evade, this is not the case. There are always at least two operators (some are multillingual) and as soon as one spotter notifies their operator as to your position, it is a definite that the spies living on your block all have been notified.

- Use spies working at stores to try to do psychological probes via conversation or try to keep an eye on people they are spying on. An example in my case is a Black woman operative working at the copy department on the first floor of the Staples at 87th and 3rd in New York who were doing some sort of pretend theater involving some pictures that were “to be developed”. When I talked to her she just responded in total agency lingo.

- Openly try to take pictures with mobile devices or cameras. Operatives are instructed to try to use them for intimidation when cognizance of their activities is seen as a concern.

- Paranoid and cowardly as they are, if awareness is reached of their presence they will call backup who are dispatched to observe the situation.

- Increasing the manpower occurs when too many gaps in information gathering capability appear.

- Any form of physical transportation is used to get on scene or off scene.

- Entrapment, through offering of drugs or attempts to trick someone into other criminal endeavors is used.

- Female or male honeypots are used. Some even get jobs at the places where the person they are spying on works at and even try to marry them in cases. Which shows a victim mentality on the Illuminati’s part because they use their own family members for this without hesitation. And a big victim like they are is due to attract a mighty big oppressor.

- Extensive acting and theater is used for operatives to cloak themselves in public. If a spy is living in the same home as someone they are spying on, this can include anything from pretending to type all day to setting up a false business with “payments” from other operatives. It is very sophisticated.

- If a person comes from a background of heavy abuse and/or mind control, extensive psychological probes will be attempted to be used such as asking for directions , openers such as “hi” and “how are you?” by random people will be used to determine how well adjusted socially the person is, their mental, emotional, energetic potency, and most importantly to them, exactly how dissociative they are. Physical strength tests are also used such as asking to a person to help carry items, to see how well the person can handle themselves physically.

- Mobile devices such as TomToms with their map function are used for on the go tracking and navigation across a city or town. If you see a hell of a lot of people in your neighborhood standing around at odd hours, or even not so odd hours with a mobile device just staring at it for a long time — these guys are on duty.

- On the web, they resort to connecting directly through to the servers and intercepting emails that way. I have stefobes@gmail.com,  stefobes@yahoo.com, and dukecrass@yahoo.com where I cannot send anyone emails because they are not recieved. Even emails sent to myself take an hour to be recieved on these accounts. Forging email addresses, spambots, the tactic is to interfere with clean electronic communication flows. Simon Wheeldon is pretty proficient with those computers he has. I wonder what type of software he has on them, eh?

- Kidnapping is also attempted for young children. When I was in the second grade, a man came up to me while I was sitting on the steps of the apartment building I live in now and tried the old “you wanna make three bucks and help me carry this painting?” These are the people who do this. Kidnappers, thieves, burglars, cold blooded killers, rapists, terrorists.

- Physical attacks are used, but if they cannot sucessfully beat a person down physically, they then switch to guile and subtlety, such as trying to spread rumors such as guns, drug involvement, anything to discredit. Strangely enough, at least in my case, they only try to spread rumors around saying that I do what they themselves are doing. This can backfire though.

- There was a man called John Todd back in the 80s who talked about his experiences with the Illuminati. who claimed he was from the Collins bloodline, and one of the most remarkable things he said was that they had a special computer system whereby they could run a check and see whether they have operatives placed at certain areas in certain positions or not. Judging by the manner and speed at which certain dirty trick attempts have happened in my life, such as messing around with a birth certificate application (this is documented) as well as deleting my “father’s” name from my birth certificate permanent record from the computer system itself, I believe that this computer system does exist — and needs to be brought to light fast.

Another person has also been involved in this who is another handler. His name is Ronald Zeck. He is another handler who has been around for a long while. I remember always thinking, this guy looks like he’s CIA. And it turns out he is a fed. He is also mind controlled with deep abuse issues from childhood which causes him to drink. He is very emotionally unstable.

From all the handlers I have seen it seems to be a constant that they are always filled with rage. I suppose this is intentional, the better to keep their handlees in line. Sitting in a public atrium near the Lehman Brothers Bank building I observed one handler with a look of barely suppressed rage on his face and the mind controlled woman he was handling just sitting there looking at me, her with her frozen eyes.

The Satanic network and the secret government are one and the same, and members even work together regularly on missions with zero discomfort on their part whatsoever.

This Simon Wheeldon and his female partner are responsible for the prediction aspect, where they use deductive reasoning based on where I’ve been in the past to make a guess when I’ll be out and make the call to put the spotters out in advance of the guessed time. They just sit there in that apartment, reclining with their mobiles and computers. Due to their programming, sleep is not really much of an issue and in Robert Fobes’s case, his alter system has been programmed to keep the body awake for, except for a few minutes, nearly 24/7. These other two, will be up as early as 6AM and as late as 3AM. Yet there is one thing they can never predict, even if they do have psychics. Consciousness. The real, all-knowing power even beyond what the energetic computer known as the mind can ever access.

The science of voodoo: The reverse placebo effect detailed

The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body

5.13.09 / Helen Pilcher / New Scientist

Late one night in a small Alabama cemetery, Vance Vanders had a run-in with the local witch doctor, who wafted a bottle of unpleasant-smelling liquid in front of his face, and told him he was about to die and that no one could save him.

Back home, Vanders took to his bed and began to deteriorate. Some weeks later, emaciated and near death, he was admitted to the local hospital, where doctors were unable to find a cause for his symptoms or slow his decline. Only then did his wife tell one of the doctors, Drayton Doherty, of the hex.

Doherty thought long and hard. The next morning, he called Vanders’s family to his bedside. He told them that the previous night he had lured the witch doctor back to the cemetery, where he had choked him against a tree until he explained how the curse worked. The medicine man had, he said, rubbed lizard eggs into Vanders’s stomach, which had hatched inside his body. One reptile remained, which was eating Vanders from the inside out.

Great ceremony

Doherty then summoned a nurse who had, by prior arrangement, filled a large syringe with a powerful emetic. With great ceremony, he inspected the instrument and injected its contents into Vanders’ arm. A few minutes later, Vanders began to gag and vomit uncontrollably. In the midst of it all, unnoticed by everyone in the room, Doherty produced his pièce de résistance – a green lizard he had stashed in his black bag. “Look what has come out of you Vance,” he cried. “The voodoo curse is lifted.”

Vanders did a double take, lurched backwards to the head of the bed, then drifted into a deep sleep. When he woke next day he was alert and ravenous. He quickly regained his strength and was discharged a week later.

The facts of this case from 80 years ago were corroborated by four medical professionals. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is that Vanders survived. There are numerous documented instances from many parts of the globe of people dying after being cursed.

With no medical records and no autopsy results, there’s no way to be sure exactly how these people met their end. The common thread in these cases, however, is that a respected figure puts a curse on someone, perhaps by chanting or pointing a bone at them. Soon afterwards, the victim dies, apparently of natural causes.

Voodoo nouveau

You might think this sort of thing is increasingly rare, and limited to remote tribes. But according to Clifton Meador, a doctor at Vanderbilt School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, who has documented cases like Vanders, the curse has taken on a new form.

Take Sam Shoeman, who was diagnosed with end-stage liver cancer in the 1970s and given just months to live. Shoeman duly died in the allotted time frame – yet the autopsy revealed that his doctors had got it wrong. The tumour was tiny and had not spread. “He didn’t die from cancer, but from believing he was dying of cancer,” says Meador. “If everyone treats you as if you are dying, you buy into it. Everything in your whole being becomes about dying.”

He didn’t die from cancer but from believing he was dying of cancer

Cases such as Shoeman’s may be extreme examples of a far more widespread phenomenon. Many patients who suffer harmful side effects, for instance, may do so only because they have been told to expect them. What’s more, people who believe they have a high risk of certain diseases are more likely to get them than people with the same risk factors who believe they have a low risk. It seems modern witch doctors wear white coats and carry stethoscopes.

The nocebo effect

The idea that believing you are ill can make you ill may seem far-fetched, yet rigorous trials have established beyond doubt that the converse is true – that the power of suggestion can improve health. This is the well-known placebo effect. Placebos cannot produce miracles, but they do produce measurable physical effects.

The placebo effect has an evil twin: the nocebo effect, in which dummy pills and negative expectations can produce harmful effects. The term “nocebo”, which means “I will harm”, was not coined until the 1960s, and the phenomenon has been far less studied than the placebo effect. It’s not easy, after all, to get ethical approval for studies designed to make people feel worse.

What we do know suggests the impact of nocebo is far-reaching. “Voodoo death, if it exists, may represent an extreme form of the nocebo phenomenon,” says anthropologist Robert Hahn of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, who has studied the nocebo effect.

Life threatening

In clinical trials, around a quarter of patients in control groups – those given supposedly inert therapies – experience negative side effects. The severity of these side effects sometimes matches those associated with real drugs. A retrospective study of 15 trials involving thousands of patients prescribed either beta blockers or a control showed that both groups reported comparable levels of side effects, including fatigue, depressive symptoms and sexual dysfunction. A similar number had to withdraw from the studies because of them.

Occasionally, the effects can be life-threatening (see “The overdose”). “Beliefs and expectations are not only conscious, logical phenomena, they also have physical consequences,” says Hahn.

Nocebo effects are also seen in normal medical practice. Around 60 per cent of patients undergoing chemotherapy start feeling sick before their treatment. “It can happen days before, or on the journey on the way in,” says clinical psychologist Guy Montgomery from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Sometimes the mere thought of treatment or the doctor’s voice is enough to make patients feel unwell. This “anticipatory nausea” may be partly due to conditioning – when patients subconsciously link some part of their experience with nausea – and partly due to expectation.

Catching

Alarmingly, the nocebo effect can even be catching. Cases where symptoms without an identifiable cause spread through groups of people have been around for centuries, a phenomenon known as mass psychogenic illness. One outbreak (see “It’s catching”) inspired a recent study by psychologists Irving Kirsch and Giuliana Mazzoni of the University of Hull in the UK.

They asked some of a group of students to inhale a sample of normal air, which all participants were told contained “a suspected environmental toxin” linked to headache, nausea, itchy skin and drowsiness. Half of the participants also watched a woman inhale the sample and apparently develop these symptoms. Students who inhaled were more likely to report these symptoms than those who did not. Symptoms were also more pronounced in women, particularly those who had seen another apparently become ill – a bias also seen in mass psychogenic illness.

The study shows that if you hear of or observe a possible side effect, you are more likely to develop it yourself. That puts doctors in a tricky situation. “On the one hand people have the right to be informed about what to expect, but this makes it more likely they will experience these effects,” says Mazzoni.

Catch 22

This means doctors need to choose their words carefully so as to minimise negative expectations, says Montgomery. “It’s all about how you say it.”

Hypnosis might also help. “Hypnosis changes expectancies, which decreases anxiety and stress, which improves the outcome,” Montgomery says. “I think hypnosis could be applied to a wide variety of symptoms where expectancy plays a role.”

Is the scale of the nocebo problem serious enough to justify such countermeasures? We just don’t know, because so many questions remain unanswered. In what circumstances do nocebo effects occur? And how long do the symptoms last?

It appears that, as with the placebo response, nocebo effects vary widely, and may depend heavily on context. Placebo effects in clinical settings are often much more potent than those induced in the laboratory, says Paul Enck, a psychologist at the University Hospital in Tübingen, Germany, which suggests the nocebo problem may have profound effects in the real world. For obvious reasons, though, lab experiments are designed to induce only mild and temporary nocebo symptoms.

Real consequences

It is also unclear who is susceptible. A person’s optimism or pessimism may play a role, but there are no consistent personality predictors. Both sexes can succumb to mass psychogenic illness, though women report more symptoms than men. Enck has shown that in men, expectancy rather than conditioning is more likely to influence nocebo symptoms. For women, the opposite is true. “Women tend to operate more on past experiences, whereas men seem more reluctant to take history into a situation,” he says.

What is becoming clear is that these apparently psychological phenomena have very real consequences in the brain. Using PET scans to peer into the brains of people given a placebo or nocebo, Jon-Kar Zubieta of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, showed last year that nocebo effects were linked with a decrease in dopamine and opioid activity. This would explain how nocebos can increase pain. Placebos, unsurprisingly, produced the opposite response.

Meanwhile, Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin Medical School in Italy has found that nocebo-induced pain can be suppressed by a drug called proglumide, which blocks receptors for a hormone called cholecystokinin (CCK). Normally, expectations of pain induce anxiety, which activates CCK receptors, enhancing pain.

Ultimate cause

The ultimate cause of the nocebo effect, however, is not neurochemistry but belief. According to Hahn, surgeons are often wary of operating on people who think they will die – because such patients often do. And the mere belief that one is susceptible to a heart attack is itself a risk factor. One study found that women who believed they are particularly prone to heart attack are nearly four times as likely to die from coronary conditions than other women with the same risk factors.

Despite the growing evidence that the nocebo effect is all too real, it is hard in this rational age to accept that people’s beliefs can kill them. After all, most of us would laugh if a strangely attired man leapt about waving a bone and told us we were going to die. But imagine how you would feel if you were told the same thing by a smartly dressed doctor with a wallful of medical degrees and a computerful of your scans and test results. The social and cultural background is crucial, says Enck.

Meador argues that Shoeman’s misdiagnosis and subsequent death shares many of the crucial elements found in hex death. A powerful doctor pronounces a death sentence, which is accepted unquestioningly by the “victim” and his family, who then start to act upon that belief. Shoeman, his family and his doctors all believed he was dying from cancer. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Nothing mystical

“Bad news promotes bad physiology. I think you can persuade people that they’re going to die and have it happen,” Meador says. “I don’t think there’s anything mystical about it. We’re uncomfortable with the idea that words or symbolic actions can cause death because it challenges our biomolecular model of the world.”

Perhaps when the biomedical basis of voodoo death is revealed in detail we will find it easier to accept that it is real – and that it can affect any one of us.

Editorial: Breaking the voodoo spell

The overdose

Depressed after splitting up with his girlfriend, Derek Adams took all his pills… then regretted it. Fearing he might die, he asked a neighbour to take him to hospital, where he collapsed. Shaky, pale and drowsy, his blood pressure dropped and his breaths came quickly.

Yet lab tests and toxicology screening came back clear. Over the next 4 hours Adams received 6 litres of saline, but improved little.

Then a doctor arrived from the clinical trial of an antidepressant in which Adams had been taking part. Adams had enrolled in the study about a month earlier. Initially he had felt his mood buoyed, but an argument with his ex-girlfriend saw him swallow the 29 remaining tablets.

The doctor revealed that Adams was in the control group. The pills he had “overdosed” on were harmless. Hearing this, Adams was surprised and tearfully relieved. Within 15 minutes he was fully alert, and his blood pressure and heart rate had returned to normal.

It’s catching

In November 1998, a teacher at a Tennessee high school noticed a “gasoline-like” smell, and began complaining of headache, nausea, shortness of breath and dizziness. The school was evacuated and over the next week more than 100 staff and students were admitted to the local emergency room complaining of similar symptoms.

After extensive tests, no medical explanation for the reported illnesses could be found. A questionnaire a month later revealed that the people who reported symptoms were more likely to be female, and to have known or seen a classmate who was ill. It was the nocebo effect on a grand scale, says psychologist Irving Kirsch at the University of Hull in the UK. “There was, as far as we can tell, no environmental toxin, but people began to feel ill.”

Kirsch thinks that seeing a classmate develop symptoms shaped expectancies of illness in other children, triggering mass psychogenic illness. Outbreaks occur all over the world. In Jordan in 1998, 800 children apparently suffered side effects after a vaccination and 122 were admitted to hospital, but no problem was found with the vaccine.

Jim Tucker: More post May Bilderberg info, plus unprecedented Bilderberg II next month in Israel

BILDERBERG AGENDA EXPOSED

AFP’s editor crashed the secret meeting of the global elite and uncovered some scary schemes

Jim Tucker / American Free Press

Bilderberg boys are a bunch of grumpy old men but remain fiercely dedicated to usurping sovereignty in the United States and throughout the world. Patriots can celebrate their setbacks but never let up: Bilderberg still threatens the sovereignty of all nations while fighting for world government.

Major goals remain exploiting the global recession and an imaginary “swine flu pandemic” to establish global departments of treasury and health under the United Nations. But at the May 14-17 meeting in Vouliagmeni, Greece, near Athens, Bilderberg took a keen interest in persuading the United States to surrender sovereignty to the International Criminal Court, or ICC.

Bilderberg is also setting up a “summit” in Israel June 8-11 so “the world’s leading regulatory experts” can “address the current economic situation in one forum,” said Zohar Goshen, chairman of a subgroup of the International Association of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). Mary Shapiro, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will represent this country.

Bilderberg found President Obama a Willing Wilkie at its June, 2008 meeting in Chantilly, Va. near Washington. They were reassured when he chose their boy, Harold Koh, a strong advocate of the U.S. accepting the ICC, as the State Department’s top lawyer.

In the Penn State Law Review, Koh wrote sneeringly of “nationalists” who oppose surrendering sovereignty to international institutions, including the ICC. He praised the “transnationalist faction” on the Supreme Court and the wisdom of the jurists for their rejection of the “nationalist faction.”

“Generally speaking, the transnationalists tend to emphasize the interdependence between the United States and the rest of the world, while the nationalists tend instead to focus more on preserving American autonomy,” Koh wrote. “The transnationalists believe in and promote the blending of international and domestic law, while nationalists continue to maintain a rigid separation of domestic from foreign law.”

The “transnationalists view domestic courts as having a critical role to play in domesticating international law into U.S. law, while nationalists argue instead that only the political branches can internalize international law,”

Koh wrote. “Transnationalists believe that U.S. courts could and should use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system, while the nationalists tend to claim that U.S. courts should limit their attention to the development of a national system.”

Five Supreme Court justices have said, to Koh’s delight, that U.S. courts should take into consideration the rulings of foreign courts in deciding domestic cases. They are: John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.

In a Bilderberg warm up, the Washington-based American Society of International Law called on the U.S to embrace the ICC. These luminaries included former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, former Rep. Mickey Edwards and a roster of educated fools.

Carl Bildt, Sweden’s minister for foreign affairs, made a pitch for two other major Bilderberg goals: creating a global Department of Treasury and Department of Health, with all nations surrendering sovereignty over these issues to the UN. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to become the Treasury Department and the World Health Organization the World Health Department. But Bildt seized on an old Bilderberg issue, global warming, to make the case for WHO. Bilderberg propaganda over a “swine flu pandemic” has fallen victim to facts: On average, 300,000 Americans develop flu each year and 30,000 die. Only a few have died or even been seriously afflicted by “swine flu.”

The world economic meltdown is a “once-in-a-generation crisis while global warming is a “once-in-a-millennium challenge,” Bildt told Bilderberg. Sources inside Bilderberg said Bildt’s speech mirrored an address he gave to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. Carnegie’s president, Jessica Mathews, is a long-time Bilderberg participant.

“We are at a critical time,” Bildt told Bilderberg. “The order of magnitude [of world crises] are more challenging than we are used to. The world economic recession has already reversed strong annual growth rates in many developing [poor] nations and in some parts of Europe and has the potential to bring down governments. . . . ”

“When we hit bottom, we can’t be sure where we’ll bounce back up,” Bildt said. “This is an urgent economic crisis unlike anything we have dealt with in living memory.” However, he called for a bounce-back within years, not a decade-long recession as some called for in efforts to exploit human misery.

Bildt then turned to selling global warming as the gateway to a World Health Department under the UN. Bilderberg boys, including David Rockefeller and others who inherited great wealth as the sons of smokestack industrialists, grabbed global warming as an issue more than a decade as a means of generating huge profits with investments to “save the planet.” Now, global warming has a new role.

“We know we need to take action,” Bildt said of global warming. “The global crisis is now,” he said. “The necessity to take action on climate change is now.” His calls for “global action” on these supposed “crises” were thinly disguised calls for UN control.

Bildt called for world (UN) solutions to virtually all problems. He cited the European Union as “model of integration, saying, “the EU is emerging as a global actor.” He advocates expanding NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere to create an “American Union.”

The International Monetary Fund sent a report to Bilderberg advocating its rise to the role of World Treasury Department. “Further actions by policymakers, particularly in the financial sector, are needed to restore market trust and confidence,” said Marek Belka, director of the IMF’s European department and former prime minister of Poland.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner enthusiastically endorsed the plan for a World Treasury Department, although he received no assurance that he would become its leader. He expressed “hope” that American and European leaders could “work together” to achieve such a “global solution” to the world economic meltdown.

The IMF’s planned new role as a world Treasury Department should be welcome news to the “little guy,” Geithner told Bilderberg. “The damage has been unfair and indiscriminant,” he said. “Ordinary Americans, small business owners and community banks who did the right thing and played by the rules are suffering from the actions of those who took on too much risk.”

But, even with a World Treasury Department, problems will not disappear overnight, Geithner warned. “These are all welcoming signs, but the process of financial recovery and repair is going to take time,” he said, lending his weight to a relative short-term recession as opposed to those who backed a long-term recovery. The people of Europe and America will have suffered enough to embrace a World Treasury Department, he said.

“Our hope is that we can work with Europe on a global framework, a global infrastructure which has appropriate global oversight,” Geithner said. “We can’t allow institutions to cherry-pick among competing regulators and ship risk to where it faces the lowest standards and weakest constraints.”

Bilderberg is fervently working to persuade the Irish to accept an even stronger Lisbon Treaty, which would create an even stronger European Union, creating a permanent (instead of rotating) chairman and a more powerful Parliament. The EU Parliament can even now impose laws on member states.

Irish voters rejected this EU expansion in an earlier referendum, but Bilderberg is pressing for another vote. Citizens of France and Germany overwhelmingly opposed the measure, numerous polls showed, but their heads of state signed off. Ireland requires a referendum before approval.

A meeting is planned June 18-19 in Brussels to cross t’s and dot i’s in an effort to induce Irish voters to reverse themselves and endorse the treaty. Under EU rules, all states must back a change for it to take effect. Bilderberg leaders plan a “private meeting” in advance of the formal session to push ratification.

“They’re going to make us vote until we vote their way,” said an Irishman protesting at the gates of Bilderberg, who feared reprisals if identified. There were a large number of European journalists fighting to expose Bilderberg and much is being published in Europe. Many were seized by police, surrounded by pointed guns and had their film and notes seized.

But The Times of London had a helpful story the opening day of the Bilderberg meeting, Thursday, May 14. “What we have been able to establish from a World Bank spokesman, Alexis O’Brien, that the organization’s president, Robert Zoellick, will be in Athens on unspecified business May 14,” the paper said. “And that U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s public schedule is mysteriously empty for the next two days. Jo Ackermann, head of Deutsche Bank, will be traveling “somewhere in Europe.’

Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, will not be around until the end of the week.” (This was a moment when all journalists were striving to identify Bilderberg participants.)

“Jim Tucker, veteran stalker of the Bilderberg club meetings, claims that [Margaret] Thatcher was ordered “to dismantle British sovereignty, but she said ‘no way,’ so they had her sacked,” the paper said. (Events confirmed this, as did Lady Thatcher in a later conversation with Tucker.)

Billionaires Rockefeller, Gates, Buffett, Soros, Winfrey in hush-hush discussion on how to curb world population growth

Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation

America’s richest people meet to discuss ways of tackling a ‘disastrous’ environmental, social and industrial threat

5.24.09 / John Harlow / UK Sunday Times Online

SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education.

The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.

Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.

These members, along with Gates, have given away more than £45 billion since 1996 to causes ranging from health programmes in developing countries to ghetto schools nearer to home.

They gathered at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel prize biochemist and president of the private Rockefeller University, in Manhattan on May 5. The informal afternoon session was so discreet that some of the billionaires’ aides were told they were at “security briefings”.

Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, said the summit was unprecedented. “We only learnt about it afterwards, by accident. Normally these people are happy to talk good causes, but this is different – maybe because they don’t want to be seen as a global cabal,” he said.

Some details were emerging this weekend, however. The billionaires were each given 15 minutes to present their favourite cause. Over dinner they discussed how they might settle on an “umbrella cause” that could harness their interests.

The issues debated included reforming the supervision of overseas aid spending to setting up rural schools and water systems in developing countries. Taking their cue from Gates they agreed that overpopulation was a priority.

This could result in a challenge to some Third World politicians who believe contraception and female education weaken traditional values.

Gates, 53, who is giving away most of his fortune, argued that healthier families, freed from malaria and extreme poverty, would change their habits and have fewer children within half a generation.

At a conference in Long Beach, California, last February, he had made similar points. “Official projections say the world’s population will peak at 9.3 billion [up from 6.6 billion today] but with charitable initiatives, such as better reproductive healthcare, we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion,” Gates said then.

Patricia Stonesifer, former chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which gives more than £2 billion a year to good causes, attended the Rockefeller summit. She said the billionaires met to “discuss how to increase giving” and they intended to “continue the dialogue” over the next few months.

Another guest said there was “nothing as crude as a vote” but a consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.

“This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers,” said the guest. “They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming.”

Why all the secrecy? “They wanted to speak rich to rich without worrying anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government,” he said.

Synagogue bomber “plot” never would have gotten off the ground without FBI informant

FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus

Turns out it is really the handiwork of a creepy FBI informant. The story strengthens the narrative that the “homeland” is under attack. It’s not.

5.23.09 / Richard Dreyfuss / The Nation

By the now, it’s maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it’s revealed that the suspects are a hapless bunch of ne’er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle: the entire plot is revealed to have been cooked up by a scummy government agent-provocateur.

I’ve seen this movie before.

In this case, the alleged perps — Onta Williams, James Cromitie, David Williams, and Laguerre Payen — were losers, ex-cons, drug addicts. Al Qaeda they’re not. Without the assistance of the agent who entrapped them, they would never have dreamed of committing political violence, nor would they have had the slightest idea about where to acquire plastic explosives or a Stinger missile. That didn’t stop prosecutors from acting as if they’d captured Osama bin Laden himself. Noted the Los Angeles Times:

Prosecutors called it the latest in a string of homegrown terrorism plots hatched after Sept. 11.”It’s hard to envision a more chilling plot,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Eric Snyder said in court Thursday. He described all four suspects as “eager to bring death to Jews.”

Actually, it’s hard to imagine a stupider, less competent, and less important plot. The four losers were ensnared by a creepy FBI agent who hung around the mosque in upstate New York until he found what he was looking for. Here’s the New York Times account:

Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad, the imam at the mosque where the authorities say the confidential informant first encountered the men, said none of the men were active in the mosque. …Mr. Cromitie was there last June, and he met a stranger.

He had no way of knowing that the stranger’s path to the mosque began in 2002, when he was arrested on federal charges of identity theft. He was sentenced to five years’ probation, and became a confidential informant for the F.B.I. He began showing up at the mosque in Newburgh around 2007, Mr. Muhammad said.

The stranger’s behavior aroused the imam’s suspicions. He invited other worshipers to meals, and spoke of violence and jihad, so the imam said he steered clear of him.

“There was just something fishy about him,” Mr. Muhammad said. Members “believed he was a government agent.”

Mr. Muhammad said members of his congregation told him the man he believed was the informant offered at least one of them a substantial amount of money to join his “team.”

So a creepy thug buttonholes people at a mosque, foaming at the mouth about violence and jihad? This is law enforcement? Just imagine if someone did this at a local church, or some synagogue. And the imam says the people “believed he was a government agent.”

Preying on these losers, none of whom were apparently actual Muslims, the “confidential informant” orchestrated the acquisition of a disabled Stinger missile to shoot down military planes and cooked up a wild scheme about attacking a Jewish center in the Bronx.

It gets even more pathetic:

The only one of the four suspects who appears to have aroused any suspicion was Payen, a Haitian native who attended the Newburgh mosque. Assistant imam Hamid Rashada said his dishevelment and odd behavior disturbed some members, said the assistant imam, Hamid Rashada.When Payen appeared in court, defense attorney Marilyn Reader described him as “intellectually challenged” and on medication for schizophrenia. The Associated Press said that when he was asked if he understood the proceedings, Payen replied: “Sort of.”

Despite the pompous statements from Mayor Bloomberg of New York and other politicians, including Representative Peter King, the whole story is bogus. The four losers may have been inclined to violence, and they may have harbored a virulent strain of anti-Semitism. But it seems that the informant whipped up their violent tendencies and their hatred of Jews, cooked up the plot, incited them, arranged their purchase of weapons, and then had them busted. To ensure that it made headlines, the creepy informant claimed to be representing a Pakistani extremist group, Jaish-e Muhammad, a bona fide terrorist organization. He wasn’t, of course.

It is disgusting and outrageous that the FBI is sending provocateurs into mosques.

The headlines reinforce the very fear that Dick Cheney is trying to stir up. The story strengthens the narrative that the “homeland” is under attack. It’s not. As I’ve written repeatedly, since 9/11 not a single American has even been punched in the nose by an angry Muslim, as far as I can tell. Plot after plot — the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge! bombing the New York Subways! taking down the Sears Tower! bombing the Prudential building in Newark! — proved to be utter nonsense.

The scum who collected $1000 a day to design CIA waterboarding procedure

Waterboarding, Interrogations: The CIA’s $1,000 a Day Specialists

New Focus on Two Retired Military Psychologists Called the ‘Architects’ of the CIA’s Techniques

4.30.09 / Brian Ross, Matthew Cole, Joseph Rhee / ABC News

As the secrets about the CIA’s interrogation techniques continue to come out, there’s new information about the frequency and severity of their use, contradicting an 2007 ABC News report, and a new focus on two private contractors who were apparently directing the brutal sessions that President Obama calls torture.

According to current and former government officials, the CIA’s secret waterboarding program was designed and assured to be safe by two well-paid psychologists now working out of an unmarked office building in Spokane, Washington.

Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, former military officers, together founded Mitchell Jessen and Associates.

Both men declined to speak to ABC News citing non-disclosure agreements with the CIA. But sources say Jessen and Mitchell together designed and implemented the CIA’s interrogation program.

Click here to see Jessen refusing to talk to ABC News.

“It’s clear that these psychologists had an important role in developing what became the CIA’s torture program,” said Jameel Jaffer, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.

Click here to see Mitchell refusing to talk to ABC News.

Former U.S. officials say the two men were essentially the architects of the CIA’s 10-step interrogation plan that culminated in waterboarding.

Associates say the two made good money doing it, boasting of being paid a $1,000 a day by the CIA to oversee the use of the techniques on top al Qaeda suspects at CIA secret sites.

“The whole intense interrogation concept that we hear about, is essentially their concepts,” according to Col. Steven Kleinman, an Air Force interrogator.

Both Mitchell and Jessen were previously involved in the U.S. military program to train pilots how to survive behind enemy lines and resist brutal tactics if captured.

Mitchell and Jessen Lacked Experience in Actual Interrogations

But it turns out neither Mitchell nor Jessen had any experience in conducting actual interrogations before the CIA hired them.

“They went to two individuals who had no interrogation experience,” said Col. Kleinman. “They are not interrogators.”

The new documents show the CIA later came to learn that the two psychologists’ waterboarding “expertise” was probably “misrepresented” and thus, there was no reason to believe it was “medically safe” or effective. The waterboarding used on al Qaeda detainees was far more intense than the brief sessions used on U.S. military personnel in the training classes.

“The use of these tactics tends to increase resistance on the part of the detainee to cooperating with us. So they have the exact opposite effect of what you want,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich).

The new memos also show waterboarding was used “with far greater frequency than initially indicated” to even those in the CIA.

Abu Zubaydah was water boarded at least 83 times and Khalid Sheikh Mohamed at least 183 times.

Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou Says Waterboarding is Torture

That contradicts what former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who led the Zubaydah capture team, told ABC News in 2007 when he first revealed publicly that waterboarding had been used.

He said then, based on top secret reports he had access to, that Zubaydah had only been water boarded once and then freely talked.

Kiriakou now says he too was stunned to learn how often Zubaydah was waterboarded, in what Kiriakou says was clearly torture.

“When I spoke to ABC News in December 2007 I was aware of Abu Zubaydah being waterboarded on one occasion,” said Kiriakou. “It was after this one occasion that he revealed information related to a planned terrorist attack. As I said in the original interview, my information was second-hand. I never participated in the use of enhanced techniques on Abu Zubaydah or on any other prisoner, nor did I witness the use of such techniques.”

A federal judge in New York is currently considering whether or not to make public the written logs of the interrogation sessions.

The tapes were destroyed by the CIA, but the written logs still exist, although the CIA is fighting their release.

A CIA spokesperson declined to comment for this report, except to note that the agency’s terrorist interrogation program was guided by legal opinions from the Department of Justice.

The myth of suitcase nukes exposed

Suitcase nuclear weapons? Probably a myth

Hollywood, Congress stoke fears of weapon; experts doubt their existence

11.10.07 / AP

WASHINGTON – Members of Congress have warned about the dangers of suitcase nuclear weapons. Hollywood has made television shows and movies about them. Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency has alerted Americans to a threat — information the White House includes on its Web site.

But government experts and intelligence officials say such a threat gets vastly more attention than it deserves. These officials said a true suitcase nuke would be highly complex to produce, require significant upkeep and cost a small fortune.

Counterproliferation authorities do not completely rule out the possibility that these portable devices once existed. But they do not think the threat remains.

“The suitcase nuke is an exciting topic that really lends itself to movies,” said Vahid Majidi, the assistant director of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. “No one has been able to truly identify the existence of these devices.”

Majidi and other government officials say the real threat is from a terrorist who does not care about the size of his nuclear detonation and is willing to improvise, using a less deadly and sophisticated device assembled from stolen or black-market nuclear material.

Yet Hollywood has seized on the threat. For example, the Fox thriller “24” devoted its entire last season to Jack Bauer’s hunt for suitcase nukes in Los Angeles.

Government officials have played up the threat, too.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., once said at a hearing that he thought the least likely threat was from an intercontinental ballistic missile. “Perhaps the most likely threat is from a suitcase nuclear weapon in a rusty car on a dock in New York City,” he said.

In a FEMA guide on terrorist disasters that is posted in part on the White House’s Web site, the agency warns that terrorists’ use of a nuclear weapon would “probably be limited to a single smaller ‘suitcase’ weapon.”

“The strength of such a weapon would be in the range of the bombs used during World War II. The nature of the effects would be the same as a weapon delivered by an intercontinental missile, but the area and severity of the effects would be significantly more limited,” the paper says.

The genie that escaped
During the 1960s, intelligence agencies received reports from defectors that Soviet military intelligence officers were carrying portable nuclear devices in suitcases.

The threat was too scary to stay secret, government officials said, and word leaked out. The genie was never put back in the bottle.

But current and former government officials who have not spoken out publicly on the subject acknowledge that no U.S. officials have seen a Soviet-made suitcase nuke.

The idea of portable nuclear devices was not a new one.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. made the first ones, known as the Special Atomic Demolition Munition. It was a “backpack nuke” that could be used to blow up dams, tunnels or bridges. While one person could lug it on his back, it had to be placed by a two-man team.

These devices never were used and now exist — minus their explosive components — only in a museum.

Following the U.S. lead, the Soviets are believed to have made similar nuclear devices.

Suitcase nukes have been a separate problem. They attracted considerable public attention in 1997, thanks to a “60 Minutes” interview and other public statements from retired Gen. Alexander Lebed, once Russia’s national security chief.

Lebed said the separatist government in Chechnya had portable nuclear devices, which led him to create a commission to get to the bottom of the Chechen arsenal, according to a Center for Nonproliferation Studies report. He said that when he ran the security service, the commission could find only 48 of 132 devices.

The numbers varied as he changed his story several times — sometimes he stated that 100 or more were missing. The Russians denied he was ever accurate.

Even more details emerged in the summer of 1998, when former Russian military intelligence officer Stanislav Lunev — a defector in the U.S. witness protection program — wrote in his book that Russian agents were hiding suitcase nukes around the U.S. for use in a possible future conflict.

“I had very clear instructions: These dead-drop positions would need to be for all types of weapons, including nuclear weapons,” Lunev testified during a congressional hearing in California in 2000, according to a Los Angeles Times account.

Naysayers noted that he was never able to pinpoint any specific location.

In a 2004 interview with the Kremlin’s Federal News Service, Colonel-General Viktor Yesin, former head of the Russian strategic rocket troops, said he believes that Lebed’s commission may have been misled by mock-ups of special mines used during training.

Yesin believed that a true suitcase nuke would be too expensive for most countries to produce and would not last more than several months because the nuclear core would decompose so quickly. “Nobody at the present stage seeks to develop such devices,” he asserted.

Some members of Congress remained convinced that the suitcase nuke problem persists. Perhaps chief among these lawmakers was Curt Weldon, a GOP representative from Pennsylvania who lost his seat in 2006.

Weldon was known for carrying around a mock-up of a suitcase nuke made with a briefcase, foil and a pipe. But it was nowhere near the weight of an actual atomic device.

Majidi joined the FBI after leading Los Alamos National Laboratory’s prestigious chemistry division. He uses science to make the case that suitcase nukes are not a top concern.

First, he defines what a Hollywood-esque suitcase nuke would look like: a case about 24 inches by 10 inches by 12 inches, weighing less than 50 pounds, that one person could carry. It would contain a device that could cause a devastating blast.

Nuclear devices are either plutonium, which comes from reprocessing the nuclear material from reactors, or uranium, which comes from gradually enriching that naturally found element.

Majidi says it would take about 22 pounds of plutonium or 130 pounds of uranium to create a nuclear detonation. Both would require explosives to set off the blast, but significantly more for the uranium.

Although uranium is considered easier for terrorists to obtain, it would be too heavy for one person to lug around in a suitcase.

Plutonium, he notes, would require the cooperation of a state with a plutonium reprocessing program. It seems highly unlikely that a country would knowingly cooperate with terrorists because the device would bear the chemical fingerprints of that government. “I don’t think any nation is willing to participate in this type of activity,” Majidi said.

That means the fissile material probably would have to be stolen. “It is very difficult for that much material to walk away,” he added.

There is one more wrinkle: Nuclear devices require a lot of maintenance because the material that makes them so deadly also can wreak havoc on their electrical systems.

“The more compact the devices are — guess what? — the more frequently they need to be maintained. Everything is compactly designed around that radiation source, which damages everything over a period of time,” Majidi said.

Proving a negative
A former CIA director, George Tenet, is convinced that al-Qaida wants to change history with the mushroom cloud of a nuclear attack. In 1998, Osama bin Laden issued a statement called “The Nuclear Bomb of Islam.”

“It is the duty of Muslims to prepare as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of God,” he said.

Among numerous of avenues of investigation after the Sept. 11 attacks, Tenet said in his memoir that President Bush asked Russian President Vladamir Putin whether he could account for all of Russia’s nuclear material. Choosing his words carefully, Tenet said, Putin replied that he could only account for everything under his watch, leaving a void before 2000.

Intelligence officials continued digging deeper, hearing more reports about al-Qaida’s efforts to get a weapon; that effort, it is believed, has been to no avail, so far.

But intelligence officials are loath to dismiss a threat until they are absolutely sure they have gotten to the bottom of it.

In the case of suitcase nukes, one official said, U.S. experts do not have 100 percent certainty that they have a handle on the Russian arsenal.

‘Like SUV-sized’
Laura Holgate, a vice president at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, says the U.S. has not appropriately prioritized its responses to the nuclear threat and, as a result, is poorly using its scarce resources.

Much to many people’s surprise, she noted, highly enriched uranium — outside of a weapon — is so benign that a person can hold it in his hands and not face any ill effects until years later, if at all. It can also slip through U.S. safeguards, she says.

The Homeland Security Department is planning to spend more than $1 billion on radiation detectors at ports of entry. But government auditors found that the devices cannot distinguish between benign radiation sources, such as kitty litter, and potentially dangerous ones, including highly enriched uranium.

Holgate considers the substance the greatest threat because it exists not only at nuclear weapons sites worldwide, but also in more than 100 civilian research facilities in dozens of countries, often with inadequate security.

Her Washington-based nonproliferation organization wants to see the U.S. get a better handle on the material that can be used for bombs — much of it is in Russia — and secure it.

The big problem, she said, is not a fancy suitcase nuke, but rather a terrorist cell with nuclear material that has enough knowledge to make an improvised device.

How big would that be? “Like SUV-sized. Way bigger than a suitcase,” she said.

Awakened, or still grazing in the pasture?

Thinking Long Thoughts: Crucial to Finding Our Answers

4.5.09 / Bronte Baxter / Splinter In The Mind

Have you ever wondered why some people are brilliant, capable of making new connections in thought that are regarded as genius by others? And why most people are followers, in awe of brilliance, but not original thinkers themselves? Is it really that some are gifted with that much extra intelligence, or is it a difference in the way we use our intelligence?

Creative thinkers, leaders in the realm of ideas, are those who know how to think long thoughts, to sustain a mental question long enough to reach the end of the answer. Few people do this. We’ve been trained since birth to accept what others tell us as reality without looking deeper. Children are rewarded for getting “the right answers” on test rather than for growing original answers or questioning the pat answers they’ve been given. Curious kids are told “curiosity killed the cat” or “you ask too many questions.”

The system is set up to discourage long thoughts because people who think are a danger to the system. Thinking deeply enough allows you to connect isolated pieces of information, revealing the system’s real mechanics and ultimately its agenda. If enough sheep on the farm start thinking about their situation, noticing the pens that confine them, wondering why their wool regularly vanishes and what happens to their friends who disappear, that’s a danger to the sheep farm operation. Humans getting too smart is a danger to the New World Order.

We say “people are waking up.” They are, and it’s good to see the numbers who are not accepting the long-standing answers anymore. But what disturbs me is that so many simply replace one imposed thought system with another, rather than becoming truly independent thinkers.

I’m noticing this in the Truth Movement, the continuous parroting back of what David Icke says, what Alex Jones says, what Zeitgeist Addendum says, what various leaders in the Truth Movement think. Icke and Jones are independent thinkers, but what about the rest of us? Isn’t simply repeating such people’s brilliant insights almost as dangerous to truth as parroting back the system’s propaganda?

Let me explain why I ask that. Conspiracy researchers have their fingers much closer to the pulse of what’s really happening than the mainstream news (which is dedicated to promoting human dependence and illusion). But Icke, Jones and other outspoken lovers of freedom have not figured everything out nor do they claim they have. Their understandings are works in progress.

To swallow whole everything you read in a David Icke book without examining the research yourself is to be a follower, and being followers got the human race into its current fix. When we act like sheep, we tend to get herded into a pen.

To accept as final truth everything David or Alex says, or that anyone else says, is to limit the mind’s ability to grow beyond a certain point. It limits the ability of the human race to grow in knowledge, because how will human knowledge evolve, if the humans themselves refuse to evolve it?

Worse, making someone “knowledge king” in our minds takes away our power and bestows it on another individual. That power can then be misused by the leader for his own self-aggrandizement, or manipulated by others who find a way to influence the leader and through him all the people that he leads.

It is hard for many people to resist the temptation of power, but we offer that temptation to people we put on pedestals. That they typically grow arrogant and messianic is our fault as much as their own. Better to listen to brilliant people, with their fresh perceptions and insights, and let their ideas inspire and stimulate our own original thought. Then we contribute to the growth of knowledge and human freedom, along with the person who inspired us. If we simply swallow whole everything the person we admire thinks, we’re nothing more than a groupie, comfortably finding personal identity in another individual rather than doing the work of becoming ourselves.

I never understood before I started this blog how much even aware people tend to follow the leader. I see it in the people who write in for advice, setting me up as an authority on life when I am just a person who insists on asking questions and thinking long and hard until I get to my answers. I see it in the fawning emails some people write, and in the hateful emails they typically write later. Such readers diminish themselves, believing because I have original ideas I must be superior to them. They then try to correct the mistake by heaping on me personal abuse to right the balance. It’s like school children – worshipping people they place on pedestals one moment, then drawing mustaches and horns on their heads the next.

Where I see group-think most is in the emails that go on  and on expounding Eastern philosophy, attempting to correct my misguided opinions. These people don’t see that they’re regurgitating the easy, familiar explanations and excuses they’ve been taught. They refuse to look deeper, into the holes in the excuses and the gaps between the explanations.

When we give up one belief system to adopt another, it makes us feel free. We’re tempted to regard ourselves as enlightened. In fact, we’ve jumped from one pen into a slightly larger one. We think we’re out in the open range because we refuse to look at the edges, those disturbing still-existing fences, the boundaries of the thought system. We may frolic happily for a while, feeling superior to the sheep who haven’t leaped the wall we did,  growing irate at anyone’s suggestion that the space we cavort in may not be real freedom.

I haven’t been writing much lately because I’m going through an inward period, deeply thinking through many things. This isn’t an answer time for me, an expounding time. It’s a contemplative time, looking at the holes, the gaps, the still-remaining questions. Insights are coming in bits – small puzzle pieces. I write when I have something to say, and I won’t say until I understand. Long thought can’t be hurried.

Anyone can teach themselves to think profoundly, to discover new and deeper connections. You simply have to ask “why” and “how” and “what evidence supports this.” You have to refuse to accept other people’s viewpoints as fact, even the unique and brilliant ones, even your own unique and brilliant ones. You must look at the uncomfortable places where your beliefs are in self-contradiction, or where they don’t fully explain your experience. These chaotic spots are not something to shy away from, but keys to deeper answers. They are disguised doors that, when engaged, lead outside the holodeck.

Thinking takes time. We have to make space for it. We need quiet time to think long thoughts, to get to the bottom of things. It’s not accident that our lives are so busy and loud that most of us have no time for quiet thinking. That keeps the humans sheep, oblivious of our pens, following the dictates of our masters.

I’m reading a stimulating book right now that I don’t like at all, a book a reader suggested to me. I recommend it. It’s called, “Making a Soul,” by John G. Bennet, a disciple of Gurdjief’s. I don’t like the book because I don’t like Bennet’s conclusions, but I cherish the experience of reading it because it challenges me.

The author has seen through parts of the illusion. He thinks deep thoughts and posits profound questions. His conclusions get waylaid because of some of the assumptions he still makes, but how refreshing it is to read something filled with original, provocative ideas rather than rehashings of the dogmas we’re accustomed to.

I get some of my best insights from reading new things I don’t like and listening to original opinions that disturb me. The uncomfortable clash between another person’s insights and my current opinions always forces me to delve deeper in my own pursuit of truth.

Bronte Baxter

© Bronte Baxter 2009

How traditional ways of raising children are the biggest source of Illuminati power

By Stefan Fobes

Those who are aware of the activities and final agenda of the group of entities that operate the secretive pyramid structure of control over planet Earth often ask what can be done to stop it. The truth is, the solution is simpler than most people would allow themselves to believe. It is not what needs to be done to take down the pyramid, it is the blocks (humanity) that need to each nonviolently take the action step of ceasing to be a collective pyramid in the first place.

Here is the chief reason why this Illuminati group is still in power, and will absolutely continue to be if this persists.

A great many people reading this right now have children, or plan to bring some into the world soon. In the conspiracy research field, the “great” American family unit is extolled as being one of the great bulwarks that stopped the current industrial assembly line style system of control put in place after World War II and is being faced today. Yet it is exactly the thing which enabled and enables the agenda to roll forward.

When a baby is born, they are nursed and nurtured for at least some time and in some way by their mother and father. They are fed, clothed, bathed, wiped up after, told where and how to sit, and cuddled. Which itself in those first couple of years of life is a good thing because there are serious psychological problems that result from a baby being given no attention and love. But when baby turns into toddler, this still, in some form or another continues on into adulthood, where they are supposed to suddenly go the path of rugged individualism.

Rewind.

It’s already solidly established that the first five years of life are the most crucial to learning and whatever behaviors and perspectives are taken in then generally tend to be the chief influences on the direction a child’s life goes and how it copes with itself and other people. During this time period the child is told what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and where to do it. Give them water, clean up after them, tell them what to study, what they will be when they grow up, what to worship, who to marry.

In America, where publicly people have more freedom of expression than any other country on Earth, this stoppage of the flow of what the child, then teenager, then adult wants to do itself in life slowly fills them up with subconscious resentment which builds up over the years and ultimately manifests during the teenage years as “rebellion”. The pressure has built up and it usually explodes in these ways: Doing drugs, subscribing to the emo, goth, vampire lifestyle, joining cults, gangs, violence against their peers and at times even against their parents, and doing anything their parents say not to.

It is tough for older people to read, but always infinitely tougher for young people to experience.

Rewind again. The child is taught gently and patiently how to clean up after themselves and do some simple chores, with more complex ones added as intelligence and physical strength allows, money’s value and how to use it and save it, given a savings account as early as possible for this to sink in, and one of those toy cars that they can get in and drive for short distances. Objects burned in a fire while being spoken to softly shows what happens to their bodies when they stick their hands or fingers in there, as well as what could happen to the home if playing with matches goes overboard. Gun lessons early can teach the value of self-defense and what can happen to themselves and others if a firearm is misused for any reason. All countries who do this have the lowest gun related deaths in the world — see Switzerland where everyone is required by law to own one. Regular trips to the library, where they are not ordered to read or study along rigid guidelines, but the idea conveyed that they read whatever they feel like. A child blooms when they are given real responsibilities, treated like an adult, and so happy to feel like a real grownup. It is plain to see.

The forbidden fruits of drugs and sex are the largest urges out there for youth. Privately teaching them how they came to be and holding nothing back will remove the mystery of it, the sweetness of the fruit, and ensure that they wisely choose sexual partners. Drugs are another succulent mystery, and telling them point blank exactly what they do, as well as who really ships it in, and then allowing them to make their own decision on the matter regardless of consequences will be met with eternal respect and love. If we want to have children become adults physically and mentally we have to raise them as adults. Aerosmith’s Stephen Tyler was asked on 60 Minutes some years ago if he forbade his son to take drugs. He said, basically, no, I never tell my son not to take drugs, and I tell him if he wants to take some, just come and tell me. I would never so much as touch that sewage because I know where it comes from and who really stands to gain by more and more people getting hooked on them, and if you clicked the link, now so do you.

Instead of pressuring the child, their true nature is nurtured and their true life path comes into view where they enjoy what they do for a living when they grow to adulthood, which might not always bring in great amounts of dollars, but which is better than a 9-5 vampire on them which leaves them exhausted, bored, unappreciated, and given disproportionate amounts of money to the energy they put out in many cases. More psychological effects are adults who are also pressured, apathetic, slothlike, deadened, and thus easy prey for the television and mainstream news programming sessions with all the lies and propaganda that come with them. This is what lets the black magic of the school system do its work. They cannot be blamed for anything because the parents are the ones that provide the initial programming base for them to work with. The spell cast over children in the “schools” only can work with what is already there. People laugh and make fun of and do violence to the homeless and say, “Get a job, and take responsibility for yourselves!” While at the same time not wanting to take responsibility for something as important as their own children, the adults of tomorrow. There are no excuses at all for this and indeed if this is read and discarded by you the reader, then obviously (and not feeling one whiff of emotional resonance with the Illuminati themselves), a camp is in order for you because now you now hold the knowledge of what their main power source is.

This is what causes so many people to flock to the militaries and intelligence agencies throughout the world. They are still children inside and if you analyze the way they act, they do go off through their missions like they are in the beginning stages of childhood. Following every order without question, not even knowing who benefits from what they do, and never daring to check up on that or refuse to follow orders for fear of a “spanking”.
One day, I saw one mother yelling at her child, just telling him point blank, “You have to do what I say!” Doesn’t anyone see? The praised tradition of paddling only traumatizes children. Yes, it will stop one undesired behavior but it will create a dozen others in its place, not all of them obvious. And nothing stimulates open reptilian brain attitudes like trauma. Reptilian attitudes resonate to the reptilian Illuminati and thus keep humanity and them clasped together by way of resonance. The fear of being spanked by the parent is just transferred to fear of recieving some form of negative stimulus from the government if they do not submit to governmental intimidation tactics. This is why so many haven’t mustered up the inner strength to assert their rights. They’ve been programmed not to by their parents! There are so many kinder ways to convey to children, if they have done something that wasn’t the best choice in the world, the message that they can do better in the future.

I have seen an example this myself on occasion. I’ve even heard one spy who was following me say to his handler, “Just tell me where to go, boss, I’ll go wherever you say.” These types are all locked in to the “Tell me what to do!” mentality which has been burnt into them for as long as they can remember. If you want there to be no agents working to betray your home country, then you can prevent the manpower from being generated in your own home.