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biography:
Small town, working class from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 1990 went to work for the MDOC; the very forefront of the U.S. Prison / Industrial Complex.
I learned there, the hard way, that if I wasn't one of them; "they" would be pit against me. Survived thus far in spite of the long, dangerous and mine-filled path traveled and I've learned much along the way. I'd like to now share these lessons and am actively seeking the assistance of those less war torn and weary than I, to help spread the Truth regarding our Collective Path.

currently reading:
“File Your Own Bankruptcy” by Edward A. Haman Attorney at Law

currently watching:
“Assassins” as performed by the Northern Michigan University Theatre Class

currently listening to:
Peter Gabriel’s “Long Walk Home” musical score from the “Rabbit Proof Fence”.
Robert Plant’s “Fate of Nations”

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The Plan?

B15998 / Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:11:27 / "War on Terror"

A comprehensive understanding of the sophisticated threat that we collectively face requires a multidisciplinary understanding of politics, military force and technologies, law enforcement, electronic surveillance, macro economics, energy systems, climate science and computer science and communications networking as well.

The solution system that has evolved around us and that will be utilized to “save civilization itself” incorporates and exploits both the realities and the perceptions of each of these areas of research and endeavor.

Data mining and surveillance technologies have greatly centralized the control of what was once a much larger and more diffuse base of control of the military and industrial complex.

What used to demand the knowing allegiance of the many, even the majority of those in positions of power, now requires the consent and knowing allegiance of a far fewer number and an ever smaller percentage of those who are needed to maintain control of the system are “in the loop”.

As this new paradigm advanced with fewer and fewer players in need to know positions all that was required of the majority of players was their complicity, not an actual understanding of the end that the means is to accomplish.

This was perceived as a strength while engaged in the process of reducing the numbers of those in need to know positions, but is a potential weakness due to the concentration of power within an ever shrinking circle of those with full knowledge and understanding of the events to come.

The weakness lies in the inability to maintain the conditioned complicity of the necessary majority of the power structure, once they begin to perceive that as individuals the end result may no longer be in their personal self interest.

Self interest is the reason most have sought power and few understand the potential end game that is necessary for the survival of the elite and the capitalist system of oligarchic government in the face of a global population growth and diminishing resources.

The efficiency of the command and control structure used by those few who truly need to be in the loop, is both their greatest strength and their greatest weakness.

The Nazi’s as a group were cock sure of their own supremacy and had they understood that they were the victims of American and British Imperialists and used as a buffer to stem the tide of communism from its sweep across continental Europe, they may have reconsidered their march into Stalinist Russia.

Little has happened purely by chance politically since the Roman empire.

The strength of the Nazi system was the creation of a master race as a stated goal and a shared delusion in Aryan superiority. The Nazis believed that their German society had a destiny to fulfill.

Though not all Germans internalized this belief, it was an allegiance to this stated though somewhat abstract goal that was crucial to being offered and maintaining a position of authority within that system.

Even in the face of certain military defeat, the Germans chose to remain largely united and continued the fight to within their own national borders and faced almost total destruction without total surrender. They resisted until the opposing armies from both East and West crushed them in a final pincher move.

The size of the current power base without any uniting goals or common understanding of the end game, with only complicity in the system simply for the purpose of individual self interest assures that this system of power control is vulnerable and has been designed for collapse.

Economic stability, let alone growth, depends upon meeting ever increasing demands for energy and materials. Even with no or negative per capita growth, these demands for energy and material continue to grow as the population expands.

The United States has 5% of the worlds population and uses 20% of the energy.

How many people who live and work here in the U.S. are actually necessary to providing the goods and services needed by the elite?

That is why this system is based upon self interest without a shared goal or insight to provide coherence and stability in the face of adversity.

It is a power structure designed for rapid collapse.

All the elite have to do is control the timing of said collapse and maintain control of the larger global economy and the military assets that are widely dispersed and largely based offshore.

Economic collapse of the global economy is inevitable due to rising population and diminishing resources.

It only makes sense to design the biggest most expensive and thus most dispensable society to collapse into it’s own footprint in a metaphorical controlled demolition to maintain power and viability over the larger system of commerce and military power that is now truly global in nature.

This prevents the necessity and even the possibility of widespread global conflict or the chance of nuclear holocaust in the event of an actual total breakdown of the U.S. brought on by allegedly unexpected and or events that appear to be beyond the control of our government.

If you doubt the validity of this claim of premeditated design, study the economics of recent U.S. history and the detail of U.S. government efforts to undermine our unions, export jobs and move the manufacturing base offshore.

As with imported energy, the trade and budget deficits have been touted as “problems” for years. As the government has addressed these problems they have grown ever larger and will ultimately result in an economic collapse not unlike that which occurred in 1929, that will have lasting global impact.

That the government would willfully implement policies that would downsize and consolidate segments of the private economy and violate the property rights of individual citizens isn’t science fiction, it’s historical fact.

Ask a family farmer, should you be fortunate enough to find one.

Reagan and Bush farm policies in the 1980’s and early 90’s virtually ended the “family” farm that had existed in America for generations as agribusiness reaped the rewards.

When you see one of those upscale monster tractors tilling, sowing or harvesting a field these days, the odds are better than even that the operator of that equipment is an employee and not the owner or a descendent of the owner of that land.

In order to counter years of national deficit in energy, trade and government budget, sacrifices have been and will continue to be made.

Recently the sale to foreign business interests of ports and other large and critical infrastructure has been questioned because of security reasons when they are purchased by corporations based in certain regions of the world.

The problem with this publicity is that it only exposes the tip of the iceberg, that is the firesale of formerly American held assets to foreign interests and ownership.

As the housing bubble shrinks and interest rates rise in concert with energy prices to check inflation, it will eventually break the cycle of consumer spending that drives the American economy and this will trigger global recession/depression and likely the last major military endeavor to secure the remaining reserves of cheap oil, also known as Iran.

It is said of the “Great Depression” of the 1930’s that when the U.S. caught cold the rest of the world got pneumonia. For millions of Americans families that “cold” cost them their farms, businesses and homes. It cost some of them their lives.

When the next economic collapse occurs, and it looms large on the horizon, the same if not worse conditions will be upon us. It isn’t hard to understand the real motive behind immigration reform movement that has the recently had the attention of the major media and Congress.

When the American economy fails the elite will do with the assets and homes of insolvent American families the very same thing that has happened to the family farm.

These assets and homes will be sold to foreign elite foreign families with the wealth to emigrate from their own collapsing economies to the “security”of the U.S. and the older and most inefficient homes will fall into disrepair and likely be demolished.

Our domestic energy deficit can be completely overcome by restricting the transportation sector and limiting the ownership of the automobile and making largely obsolete the single family home that has become the standard for the American middle class.

The influx of foreign capitol to assume ownership of the surplus McMansions and the newer and most efficient housing will viably support the security system and prevent a complete economic meltdown.

This will insure the American “cold” while the rest of the world endures “pneumonia”.

For the American middle class, it will redefine a whole new dimension for the term ”SOLD OUT”.

Evil ultimately preys upon itself.

Sometimes no Peace,

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NSA Domestic Spying: Building a Bigger Haystack

B15973 / Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:11:32 / Civil Liberties

Anybody starting to get the idea that maybe there’s a reason that the government is tracking the activities of “innocent” Americans?

If you track the previous pattern of calls made or e-mails sent, you’ll immediately be able to identify any variance to this pattern. New number? New e-mail address?

The calls or e-mails that will send up the red flags are the ones that are made outside the normal or previous pattern of calls made or e-mails sent.

If you want to screw with the NSA and this domestic spy program, spend some time meeting strangers via the telephone.

A ten second call to a wrong number will immediately be identified as such.

A ten minute call to a total stranger explaining to them that the reason you called is to explain to them the importance of the individuals personal privacy and that the NSA has been invading their privacy and the true purpose of your phone call, beyond educating the listener, is to create havoc with the very system that is being employed to track the conversation your currently having.

Follow up with a request for the listener to do likewise. Next time you’re hanging with friends, swap a few phone numbers that are preprogrammed into your cell phones. Oh yeah, they can track those too. You won’t even need to make a call then.

Just look up a couple in the phone book and randomly program them in.

Doesn’t need to be long distance, probably creates more suspicion by calling somebody across town.

No sense running up your phone bill.

Same goes for e-mails. I’ve got hundreds of valid e-mail addresses from ridiculous forwards that are passed along to me on a regular basis.

I’d be happy to swap a few in order to break some new ground and create a little smoke.

We all know there are various ways to harvest addresses that are valid and if you’re introducing yourself and your methods to a single individual address and not mass mailing, I don’t think that qualifies as spamming.

Give it a whirl, you can consider it poll taking and legitimate research into the attitudes of Americans regarding the President directing the NSA to spy on who they talk to on the phone or e-mail with their computers.

Much better idea than calling the NSA.

Peace,

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Wind turbines in Great Lakes?

B15926 / Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:56:08 / Environment

Some locals opposed ahead of meeting to talk about prospects
By Todd Richmond
The Associated Press

Updated: 9:58 a.m. ET June 7, 2006

ALGOMA, Wis. – A little red lighthouse. Boardwalks. The blue-green waters of Lake Michigan stretching to the horizon.

It’s just another pretty-as-a-postcard view on the shores of this sleepy town of 5,700 a half-hour east of Green Bay. But how long the unspoiled vista in Algoma and in other communities along the Great Lakes will last is anybody’s guess.

Government and industry officials are set to meet in Madison and Toledo, Ohio, this month to talk about the prospects for installing giant electricity-generating windmills out in the Great Lakes.

Advocates say offshore wind turbines would be an efficient means of producing power. Opponents fear the windmills would harm the lakes’ natural beauty and hurt tourism and fishing.

“I’ll fight this every way I can,” said Algoma Alderman Ken Taylor, chairman of the city’s marina committee. “The beautiful view we have would be destroyed. ... How many are going to come here if we have these things off our coastline?”

The rows of windmills would tower as high as 400 feet and float or stand in relatively shallow water.

Winds over water are generally stronger, less turbulent and more consistent than those on land, said Walt Musial, senior engineer and offshore programs leader for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy contractor.

Major population and industrial centers such as Cleveland, Chicago, Gary, Ind., and Milwaukee are situated on the Great Lakes’ shores, reducing the need for long-distance transmission.

Twice as efficient
“Offshore machines can make about twice as much as onshore,” said Musial, who will make a presentation at a June 14 conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s a potentially big resource for renewable energy. You want to generate the electricity close to where people are going to use it.”

The UW-Madison conference will look at such things as efforts to gather wind data on the Great Lakes, technological barriers to offshore wind farms, and the political policies needed to spur their development.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency are among the agencies sponsoring the June 27-29 session in Toledo. Discussions are set on how to protect birds, bats and fish from the windmills.

European countries such as Denmark and Britain have developed wind farms in the North and Baltic seas. A Houston energy company plans to build a 170-turbine farm in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas’ Padre Island. An additional 50 turbines are planned off Galveston, Texas. East Coast offshore projects have been proposed off Long Island and Cape Cod.

But the idea has been slow to catch on around the Great Lakes. Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin regulators said they have yet to be approached by any energy companies with proposals for offshore windmills in the Great Lakes.

Utilities not quick to back
Some utilities consider the technology unproven and say the financial risks and the bureaucratic hurdles are too high.

Rob Benninghoff, director of renewable and special projects for Wisconsin Public Service Corp., which supplies power to much of northeastern Wisconsin, including the Green Bay area, said the utility is reluctant for now to pour ratepayers’ money into what would be a difficult approval process.

“I see it as a high-risk proposition,” Benninghoff said. “I don’t know of anyone who’s got any plans to do anything in Lake Michigan or the bay or anything. Not to say it won’t move in that direction ultimately.”

Besides having to shoulder the construction costs — the Padre Island project, for example, is expected to cost $1 billion to $2 billion — developers also would have to get federal and state permits.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has jurisdiction over structures in the lakes. Developers also would have to lease tracts of lake bottom from the states, and state utility regulators would have to sign off.

Hanging over every proposal would be concerns about fish, lake bottoms and migratory birds. And then there are worries about the view.

“That’s the No. 1 problem we face today in getting this industry started,” Musial said. “Visual pollution is preventing the country from embracing them.”

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Addendum to the End of Civilization.......

B15919 / Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:11:30 / "War on Terror"

That was very well said.

Now remove yourself from the delusion that the “worker bee” class will be left to face a future of reduced resources and a return to living in some sort of “middle age” life style.

You hit the population problem exactly on the head. Human population growth is not sustainable.

History is many times the best indicator of what course governments will chart in the future. When competition for resources intensifies, or begins to limit the growth of the most technologically advanced cultures, they generally react by differentiating themselves from the larger whole and begin a process of vilification of those not part of their culture.

Hence a long and bloody history of warfare. During the German domination and occupation of Europe not only did this process occur with cultures outside of Germany but those within as well.

In an age of weapons of mass destruction, widespread full scale warfare would yield no benefit to the winning culture. Limited war is also an expensive proposition and can only be economically justified in regions where the resources are so critical that the economic benefit justifies this military action.

Take for instance our current oil war.

Iraq with 10% of the world’s oil reserves and only .004% of the world’s population is a prime example. Economics has always prevailed over ethics. As for the expense of the war, now racing towards 250 billion, if you work that cost out towards the potential reward of control of a 115 billion barrel crude oil reserve, it is just over $2.00 a barrel. Worst case estimates now put the cost of the war possibly as high as trillion dollars.

$8.70 a barrel.

Given reduced production costs because of the nature of oil drilling in the region’s geography along with today’s higher value placed on crude oil, that’s still a relative bargain basement price for cornering this market.

But this still doesn’t address the fundamental problem of growing population and diminishing resources. The answer then is the general war on terror. We’ve seen it in various forms throughout the ages. Those necessary for support of the existing system protected, those deemed unnecessary vilified and eliminated.

This process need not be accomplished on an industrial scale as it was in Europe by the Nazi’s.

Another example would be the American holocaust of the Native American population that took centuries to end in the near total assimilation of the remaining population.

What the future will reveal of the end-game of the “war on terror” will no more resemble either of these examples than they do each other, but the result will be the same.

“You’re either with us or against us.”

As the will of the elite, becomes the action of governments, those who serve their interests will be the “Cowboys” and those who do not will become the “Indians” and no one will ride the fence.

If you believe you’ll survive whatever comes by accepting a more primitive and earth friendly lifestyle, look around. There was an entire race of people that excelled at that lifestyle for millennia.

Their descendants are operating casinos.

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Samson Option: Israel's Plan to Prevent Mass Destruction Attacks

B15288 / Sat, 13 May 2006 10:23:54 / International

by David Eberhart

Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001

With American bombing raids into Afghanistan and a tough President Bush intimating more of the same for other terrorist-harboring nations, experts and armchair war-watchers are inserting nuclear powerhouse Israel into the calculus of potential Armageddon in the Middle East.

Adding yet other variables, a defiant Saddam Hussein issued an ominous warning in late August, just weeks before the terror attacks on New York City and the Pentagon: “The battle [against the U.S.] continues on the economic, political and military fields. We are convinced we will be victorious.”

All that the saber-rattling Iraqi dictator left out of this latest diatribe was a bold repeat of his 1991 pre-Desert Storm boast that if America attacked, the first to feel his wrath in the “mother of all battles” would be Israel.

After decades of living among hostile neighbors, Israel has yet to be attacked by an enemy using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. One reason may be the horrific plan some claim Israel drew up to prevent such an attack. The plan was called the Samson Option. An astute investigative journalist and student of history chalked a dramatic potential solution to the volatile equation on the blackboard – a decade ago.

“Should war break out in the Middle East again and should the Syrians and the Egyptians break through again as they did in 1973 [Yom Kippur War], or should any Arab nation fire missiles again at Israel, as Iraq did [in the 1991 Gulf War], a nuclear escalation, once unthinkable except as a last resort, would now be a strong possibility.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning author (“My Lai 4”) Seymour M. Hersh made this hypothesis in his 1991 best seller “The Samson Option.”

Captured and cruelly maimed, the book’s biblical namesake uttered the ultimate fighting words, “Let my soul die with the Philistines.”

That said, the divinely empowered Samson pushed apart the temple pillars – collapsing the roof and killing himself as well as his enemies.

In his exposé of Israel’s clandestine nuclear arsenal, Hersh suggested that in the early days (late 1960s) of crude big-flash-and-bang nukes, one defensive option to counter an attack on Israel with weapons of mass destruction was for the beleaguered nation to mimic Samson and grimly trade holocaust for holocaust.

Hersh’s 1991 prognostication of a “strong possibility” of the use by Israel of nuclear weapons rested on his knowledge that by the mid-1980s, Israeli technicians at the super-secret Dimona nuclear plant had produced hundreds of low-yield neutron warheads capable of destroying large numbers of enemy troops with minimal property damage.
Israel’s ability to use nukes tactically and surgically, however, has evolved a great deal since the Samson option was still realistically an option.

Israel’s Military Might

In 1997, Jane’s Intelligence Weekly examined satellite photographs of what it described as an Israeli military base at Kfar Zechariah, concluding academically, “Israel’s nuclear arsenal is larger than many estimates.”

According to Jane’s, the site was said to house about 50 Jericho-2 missiles, believed to have a maximum range of about 3,000 miles with a warhead of about 2,200 pounds.

According to the report, the installation contained nuclear bombs, configured for dropping from bombers.

Furthermore, five bunkers at the site were cited as capable of safeguarding 150 weapons.

“This … supports indications that the Israeli arsenal may contain as many as 400 nuclear weapons with a total combined yield of 50 megatons,” the report concluded.

In 1998 the New York Times reported a Rand Corp. study commissioned by the Pentagon that opined Israel had enough plutonium to make 70 nuclear weapons.

More light was shed on the issue in February of last year when the Israeli Knesset (parliament) held the first public discussion on the country’s nuclear arms program.
Issam Mahoul, an Arab Israeli MP and member of the Hadash (Communist) Party, petitioned that country’s Supreme Court to force the government to permit a parliamentary debate on the forbidden subject.

The upshot of this bold and generally unpopular tactic was an unprecedented televised session of the Knesset at which Mahoul stated that, according to experts’ estimates, Israel had stockpiled huge numbers of nuclear warheads.

This had increased to what he described as the “insane amount of 200-300.” The weapons had been developed with the help of the South African apartheid regime.

Working up a head of rhetorical steam, Mahoul grandly alleged that three new German-built submarines just purchased by Israel were to be fitted with nuclear weapons.

Their stated purpose, he said, was “to cruise deep in the sea and constitute a second strike force in the event that Israel is attacked with nuclear weapons.”

Mahoul also announced what was hardly a news bulletin – Israel was producing “biological warfare” weapons at the government’s Biological Institute in Ness Ziona.

The obstreperous MP concluded that the government’s official policy of “nuclear ambiguity” was the height of self-delusion. “All the world knows that Israel is a vast warehouse of atomic, biological and chemical weapons that serves as an anchor for the Middle East arms race,” he said.

Despite the bristling inventory of nukes, the Israelis have a laudable history of restraint in brandishing, much less using, these most destructive of all weapons of mass destruction.
In fact, for most of the latter half of the 20th century, the Israeli Bomb remained invisible and unacknowledged. Israel’s official position was to neither confirm nor deny its nuclear status, only pledging on the record “not to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East.”

A Show of Restraint

According to Hersh, the best example of Israeli restraint in the face of great provocation came during the Gulf War.

On the second day of the American invasion, Saddam Hussein fired eight Scud missiles at noncombatant Israel. Two of the conventionally armed missiles landed on Tel Aviv. Then Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir responded by ordering mobile missile launchers armed with nuclear weapons moved into the open and deployed facing Iraq.

The Samsonesque strongman of the Middle East had stirred – and the world held its breath.

Promising Patriot missile batteries and loads of future aid, the United States pressured Israel to keep cool. After all, the allied coalition included a number of Arab nations, and the U.S. feared that dramatic Israeli retaliation could fragment the fragile alliance.
By the end of the Gulf War, Israel had dutifully absorbed 26 Scuds – none armed with biological or chemical weapons.

And therein lies the rub. What if the missiles had featured biochemical agent warheads?
Israel’s prime ministers have plenary jurisdiction over their country’s nuclear activities.

The refrain used consistently by the Israeli leaders has been and remains an unqualified: “Israel reserves the right to retaliate if attacked.”

Traditionally, Israeli leaders have pigeonholed nuclear weapons as a psychological insurance policy for unthinkable contingencies, under the heading of “last resort.”

The hope of those in the inner sanctums of national security is that the exigencies of America’s New War send no such unthinkable contingencies in the direction of America’s quiet ally.

David Eberhart is the former news editor for The Stars and Stripes and Stripes.com. A retired military officer and the published author of five novels, he recently contributed to the New York Times best seller “Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul.”

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