http://www.projectcensored.org/downloads/Global_Dominance_Group.pdf 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1130731388742388243

The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror - Video

You can have your "Under God" back when I get my "Liberty and Justice For All" back.  synthetic environment

I read this with great interest - well worth the read- just one small quibble- I disagree with the assessment that Rove wouldn't have been salivating over the prospect of having our forces attack Iran & that he has somehow lost out to Cheney. Mayberry Machiavellis Redux Ad Nauseum

I think he left because the longer he remains the more violating the Hatch Act he becomes vulnerable to, the more of a legal liability he is, plus he is less scrutinized off site & off the payroll, he can operate in that good old-fashioned Ralph Reed way. They only have one guiding principle- Divide, Conquer & Profit, so it must be more effective for him to do this behind the scenes, with an eye to 08, etc. And a dark corporatist war profiteering new world ordery underbelly down there in Texas that needs his tender loving care, after all.

That 15M propaganda campaign is another story that should be weaved in- that alone seems like a prelude to a "surge" into Iran. It's also terrifyingly sad to see those whose personal lives have been most impacted become the most exploited by this cabal - and often in a Stockholm Syndrome-like manner of identifying with the aggressors because they most need to find meaning in the war (and before I get yelled at for using the word "aggressors" to describe the strong arm tactics the Bushies have been so happy to use, Yes, I do realize very very much there were are are real victims from Sept. 11th, and those dead & injured in war), but the original SAUDI hijackers are & have been dead, for god's sake).

The "real money" left for the cabal to make domestically (assuming they can't grab Social Security right away, buy hey, no guarantee the dem POTUS scheme can work & also not clear what it actually delivers if we get it) going forward seems to be in the re-arming industry. As well, they'll be cleaning up with contracts in Iraq in that very special COEHM way.

This is yet another reason I wish Wes was running for POTUS- to convince those who may be reachable within the MID that these industries can and must be retooled & recalibrated pro-actively- become "REAL" security minded & modernized contributing positively to the economy (also a national security issue, NO?) instead of cranking out this Cold War assembly line of obscene profit, obscene suffering & doom & manufacturing wars to use up the materials.

I was stunned to see those pictures of the MRAP vehicles on the news- here's a pic of one - anyway, I saw some on the news being loaded out of a bay and it was much longer- a "stretch" version- and I was soooooooooo POd because the angle shows how these basically look like (and are underneath?!) Hummers!

We don't seem to have a f* problem supplying Celebrity X with ten Hummers!!!

I agree with that diarist however that many Americans seem to believe that there is no way Bush has the political will to override the resistance to going to war with Iran- I see it on the news every night, this pundit or that one. It seems like they don't understand- once it starts, once the dogs of war are loosed - it is not so easy to call them back.

They're looking for a skirmish. We already know if they can't find one one can be made to happen. And we may wake up one morning to an Bush America that has lobbed a so-called tactical nuclear weapon into Iran or done some other catastrophically idiotic thing to further engulf a destabilized Middle East.

The arms deals are unbelievable All I know is, I don't know much & what little I do know makes me feel very sick

 http://writ.findlaw.com/dean/20070810.html

The So-Called Protect America Act: Why Its Sweeping Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Pose Not Only a Civil Liberties Threat, But a Greater Danger As Well
by John w. Dean

Friday, Aug. 10, 2007

Congressional Democrats are getting a lot of well-earned heat from rank-and-file members of their party, not to mention editorial writers and bloggers, for their lack of spine in refusing to reject the Bush/Cheney Administration's sweeping amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Just before Congress departed for its August recess, the Administration jammed through in five days - from start to finish -- the dubiously titled Protect America Act (PAA) of 2007, over the protest of the Democratic leadership. The only thing good about the PAA is that it is temporary - with a six month expiration date (although surveillance programs authorized under it can operate for up to one year.)

On her Democracy NOW daily program, Amy Goodman's (streaming video) interviewed Salon.com's law blogger, Glenn Greenwald, and the president of the National Lawyers Guild, Marjorie Cohn, about the PAA. The interview nicely sets forth what happened and its broad implications. Simply stated, Bush threatened to make a political issue of any effort by Congressional Democrats to protect the civil liberties of American. Bush surely succeeded beyond his most fervent hope in his intimidation of sixteen Democratic members in the Senate and forty-one Democratic members in the House, earning these members a place on "the roll of shame" in the blogosphere.

 
A Threat Greater Than That to Civil Liberties: Executive Aggrandizement

The Washington Post, the New York Times, and politically-diverse organizations ranging from the John Birch Society and the Cato Institute to the American Civil Liberties Union all agree that the PAA is a serious mistake, and threat to the civil liberties of Americans. They point out that the law ignores the Fourth Amendment while, at the same time, hiding its actual operations in national security secrecy. Indeed, Congress was not even certain about the full extent of what it has authorized because President Bush and Vice-President Cheney refused to reveal it.

It is not likely that law-abiding Americans will even know that the U.S. Government's intelligence gathering operations are listening in on their calls to and from foreign countries, or similarly scanning emails. For this reason, it is not to be expected that many Americans will care about what the Democratic Congress has given a Republican president who has proven himself insensitive to anyone's privacy other than his own.

There is, however, a threat in this new law even greater than its robbing Americans of their communications privacy, which commentators and critics have virtually ignored. This law is another bold and blatant move by Bush to enhance the powers of the Executive branch at the expense of its constitutional co-equals.

Congress was willing to give Bush the amendments to FISA that would make this law effective under current technology. The 1978 law did not account for the fact that modern digital communications between people outside the United States often is routed through the United States, yet the FISA Court said surveillance of such routed communications required a warrant. Nevertheless, Bush rejected the legislation proposed by the Democrats because it also contained checks on the use of surveillance powers.

This, of course, is consistent with Bush and Cheney's general drive to weaken or eliminate all checks and balances constraining the Executive. This drive was evidenced by countless laws enacted by the Republican-controlled Congresses during the first six years of the Administration, and in countless signing statements added by the President interpreting away any constraints on the Executive. Thus, when even the GOP Congresses required presidential compliance and reporting, they were thwarted.

The most stunning aspect of the Democrats' capitulation is their abandoning of their institutional responsibility to hold the president accountable. The Protect America Act utterly fails to maintain any real check on the president's power to undertake electronic surveillance of literally millions of Americans. This is an invitation to abuse, especially for a president like the current incumbent.

Fixing the Dangerously Deficient Albeit Quickly Sunsetting Protect America Act And Ignoring the White House's Requests For Even More Power

Though it is quite certain abuses of the surveillance powers under the Protect America Act will occur, they have not yet occurred. The failure to provide a check on such potential abuses, however, has already occurred. It represents the greatest failing of the Democratic Congress in acceding to the demands of Bush and Cheney. It is this failure that should be a paramount concern of the Congress when it next addresses this temporary law.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to the chairmen of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, requesting they develop legislation "addressing the many deficiencies" of the temporary law as soon as Congress returns from its recess.

Even though the White House got everything it demanded from Congress, it is requesting even more. When signing the Protect America Act, Bush said, "When Congress returns in September, the Intelligence Committees and leaders in both parties will need to complete work on the comprehensive reforms requested by Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, including the important issues of providing meaningful liability protection to those who are alleged to have assisted our Nation following the attacks of September 11, 2001."

Bush also wants legislative immunity for the American companies, and government officials (including himself), to protect them from criminal prosecution for violating the criminal provision of FISA. As readers will recall, before Congress caved and gave Bush power to conduct this surveillance, he - and telecommunication companies simply opted to do so illegally. Now, Bush will claim, with some justification, that because Congress has now made legal actions that were previously illegal, it should retroactively clear up this nasty problem facing all those who broke the law at his command.

If the Democrats fail to stand up to the bullying of this weak president, and ignore his demands for more unaccountability, they might as well start looking for another line of work. Not only are their fellow rank and file Democrats going to turn on them in 2008, but the overwhelming numbers of independents who assisted them in regaining power are going to desert them in droves.

At bottom, Democrats truly only need to add one fix to this dangerous law: meaningful accountability. They must do so, or face the consequences.

No one wants to deny the intelligence community all the tools it needs. But regardless of who sits in the Oval Office, no Congress should trust any president with unbridled powers of surveillance over Americans. It is not the way our system is supposed to work.

You can have your "Under God" back when I get my "Liberty and Justice For All" back.  synthetic environment

These were my first thoughts when I heard Rover was leaving. First thing...hadn't even crawled out of bed yet....."We're attacking Iran", I thought. Wasn't sure why, I thought this....couldn't quite pin it all down in my mind. Even mentioned to someone I thought this meant Cheney and his ilk had won the argument. I rambled about it here a few days back. Hoping to gawd I was wrong and just being paranoid.

Not very comforting being in this good company with my thoughts, tho. And not in the least bit satisfying. Makes me feel sick.

Thanks for posting this, early-bird....all these articles in one place. Will be interesting reading later tonite....maybe it will answer my question of why and connect those dots. :)

And one more time.........if anyone thinks this idiot is a "lame duck".....they are sorely mistaken.

Rove psychosis is only about "winning", regardless of cost and principle. His only convictions are to his ego.

So, McGovern's presumption that Rove serves a purpose above the morals of "scumbag" actually surprises me. Everyone is speculating about his reasons, but as for my own hypothesis I believe that Rove's intent is a mix of several converging factors.

• First, Rove in all likelihood destroyed the Republican Party at least in Congress. That'll be his legacy. He's radioactive to those in his own Party, at least in public.

• Secondly, Rove is probably the central figure in the Senate Judiciary investigations regarding the USDA firings. However, his resignation will allow him to continue his nefarious activities against the country, and clearly against DEMs. Therefore, Rove's resignation actually free's him from Congressional scrutiny and oversight (esp any damaging WH/RNC emails).

• Thirdly, given the persistent Senate Investigation into the firings, I believe that Rove is actually running "scared". He's epecially concerned about possible indictments in consequence; and therefore, he'll seek to protect his butt by starting to build his legal defense fund. (and truthfully, a couple of books should settle that).

 http://rawstory.com/news/2007/British_Army_deploys_new_weapon_based_0823.html

Published: Thursday August 23, 2007

Parliament not told, minister says

A new 'super-weapon' being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the "thermobaric" principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted across a wide air by sucking the air out of lungs and rupturing internal organs.

The so-called "enhanced blast" weapon uses similar technology used in the US "bunker busting" bombs and the devastating bombs dropped by the Russians to destroy the Chechen capital, Grozny.

Such weapons are brutally effective because they first disperse a gas or chemical agent which is lit at a second stage, allowing the blast to fill the spaces of a building or the crevices of a cave. When the US military deployed a version of these weapons in 2005, DefenseTech wrote an article titled, "Marines Quiet About Brutal New Weapon."

According to the US Defense Intelligence Agency, which released a study on thermobaric weapons in 1993, "The [blast] kill mechanism against living targets is unique--and unpleasant.... What kills is the pressure wave, and more importantly, the subsequent rarefaction [vacuum], which ruptures the lungs.… If the fuel deflagrates but does not detonate, victims will be severely burned and will probably also inhale the burning fuel. Since the most common FAE fuels, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, are highly toxic, undetonated FAE should prove as lethal to personnel caught within the cloud as most chemical agents."

A second DIA study said, "shock and pressure waves cause minimal damage to brain tissue... it is possible that victims of FAEs are not rendered unconscious by the blast, but instead suffer for several seconds or minutes while they suffocate."

"The effect of an FAE explosion within confined spaces is immense," said a CIA study of the weapons. "Those near the ignition point are obliterated. Those at the fringe are likely to suffer many internal, and thus invisible injuries, including burst eardrums and crushed inner ear organs, severe concussions, ruptured lungs and internal organs, and possibly blindness."

British defense officials told the UK Guardian that British bombs were "different."

"They are optimized to create blast [rather than heat]", one said, speaking on the standard condition of anonymity in Britain. The official added that it would be misleading to call them "thermobaric."

Officials told the Guardian the new weapon was classified as a soldier launched "light anti-structure munition" and that the bombs would be more effective because "even when they hit the damage is limited to a confined area."

"The continuing issue of civilian casualties in Afghanistan has enormous importance in the battle for hearts and minds," said Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell in the article. "If these weapons contribute to the deaths of civilians then a primary purpose of the British deployment is going to be made yet more difficult."

According to Campbell, the deployment of the weapons was not announced to Parliament.

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001944.html

http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/02/chech0215b.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon

History
 
RPO-A ShmelArguably, the introduction of flamethrowers in the trench warfare of World War I (the modern flamethrower was a German invention) could constitute the first use of a primitive "vacuum weapon", in that they could suffocate people protected from the direct weapon effects inside a pillbox or bunker. Other such effects were seen to occur in the firestorms that followed the Allied bombing raids at Dresden and elsewhere.

In the form that exists today, these devices (often dubbed Fuel-Air Munitions) are said to have been developed in the 1960s and used by the United States during the Vietnam War to destroy Viet Cong tunnels, clear forest for helicopter landing sites and to clear minefields. However, it is not clear that this is entirely the case; in particular, the very large parachute-delivered "Daisy Cutter" bomb used for this purpose was suspected to have been such a weapon but the current published details indicate that it was not (it seems to be filled with ANFO, a mixture of ammonium nitrate and jet fuel, instead). FAMs are certainly in published literature available to English-speaking readers by the mid-1970s. [1]

The Soviet armed forces also developed FAE weapons, including thermobaric warheads for shoulder-launched RPGs (RPO-A Shmel Bumblebee /Russian: РПО-А "Шмель"/). Russian forces have a wide array of these weapons[1] and reportedly used them against Chinese forces in a 1969 border conflict, and certainly used them in Afghanistan and in Chechnya. Russian troops report that a single RPO-A round in an urban environment has an equivalent effect to a 152 mm artillery round. TOS-1 "Buratino" is another Russian Army FAE weapon system, composed of a multiple rocket launcher mounted on a T-72 chassis. The TOS-1 was the main thermobaric delivery system that the Russians used against Grozny in the Second Chechen War.

An FAE system from Israel was developed for minefield clearing. The system uses a small rocket-propelled thermobaric charge which explodes over the minefield and activates exposed or buried mines.

Current US FAE munitions include:

BLU-73 FAE I
BLU-95 500-lb (FAE-II)
BLU-96 2,000-lb (FAE-II)
CBU-55 FAE I
CBU-72 FAE I
In 2003, United States Marines used a thermobaric version of their Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon, called a Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon-Novel Explosion (SMAW-NE), in the Invasion of Iraq. One team of Marines reported that they had destroyed a large one-story masonry type building with one round from 100 yards. [2] The thermobaric explosive used in this weapon, PBXIH-135 or a variant, was developed at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Indian Head Division and had previously been used in BLU-118/B air-dropped bombs against al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan in early March, 2002.

Newest U.S. small arms FAE munitions
Introduced to the Afghanistan conflict, the XM1060 40-mm grenade is perhaps the first small-arms thermobaric device released in a U.S. theater of war. Developed and fielded in just under five months by the Picatinny Arsenal, the XM1060 was delivered to U.S. forces in Afghanistan on April 30, 2003. The grenade was designed to be used with existing battlefield delivery systems presently in use by squad-level field forces.

You can have your "Under God" back when I get my "Liberty and Justice For All" back.  synthetic environment

http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/ElectromegnaticWeapons.pdf
http://mindjustice.org/2003_survey.htm
http://educate-yourself.org/mc/listofmcsymptoms05jun03.shtml 

they the neocons act above the law untouchable is because they have SUPER weapons to kill and control; Congress is not going to stop it hell as Wes said in some article Aug or July - the Congress critters are under 'unimagineable' pressure - said in response to why don't they DO ANYTHING except concede to Bush;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Fitzwater

On October 24, 1990, President George H.W. Bush's White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater discussed Republicans who had opposed the President's policies, threatening: "If they can sleep with their conscience, let them try." He cautioned that while they were free to "say whatever they want," penalties might ensue, "but we never discuss it in public." He suggested that they would "suffer in their private purgatories." Pressed for an explanation, he responded: "I can't tell you. If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise (11)."

Associated Press, Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ, Thursday, October 25, 1990, p. 13

http://www.angelfire.com/nj/jhgraf/anidall.html#note11
http://www.angelfire.com/nj/jhgraf/hereshow.html

http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/ElectromegnaticWeapons.pdf
http://mindjustice.org/2003_survey.htm
http://educate-yourself.org/mc/listofmcsymptoms05jun03.shtml 

You can have your "Under God" back when I get my "Liberty and Justice For All" back.  synthetic environment

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2003-2004/publicacttable/PDF/2003-PAT.PDF

MICHIGAN

PA No. 256

Enrolled  HB - 4513
I.E. yes / no  ( YES)
Governor approved date  12/28
Filed date  12/29
Effective Date  1/1/04
Subject crimes: definitions; harmful electronic or electromagnetic device; define.
Rep. M Nofs Page 18

PA No. 257
Enrolled HB - 4514
I.E. yes / no ( YES)
Governor approved date 12/29
Filed date 12/29
Effective date 1/1/04
Subject: crimes; other; manufacture, delivery, or possession of harmful electronic or electromagnetic device;
prohibit.

Michigan Anti-Electronic Harassment Law
This is Public Law 256 2003 and 257 2003.  

You can have your "Under God" back when I get my "Liberty and Justice For All" back.  synthetic environment

Whistleblowers on Fraud are Jailed and Tortured by CTLiberal Fri Aug 24, 2007 at 08:42:04 PM PDT

Men and women who step forward to report massive fraud in the reconstruction of Iraq are being villified, demoted, fired and tortured states an article from the Associated Press posted on Forbes.

For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.

There were times, huddled on the floor in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring dawn to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over, that Vance began to wish he had just kept his mouth shut.

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Donald Vance thought he was doing the right thing when he told the FBI about the illegal sale of guns, land mines and rocket launchers, all sold for cash with no receipt required.  The buyers were Iraqi insurgents, American soldiers, State Department workers, and Iraqi embassy and ministry employees.  

So Vance says he blew the whistle, supplying photos and documents and other intelligence to an FBI agent in his hometown of Chicago because he didn't know whom to trust in Iraq.

For his trouble, he says, he got 97 days in Camp Cropper, an American military prison outside Baghdad that once held Saddam Hussein, and he was classified a security detainee.

Also held was colleague Nathan Ertel, who helped Vance gather evidence documenting the sales, according to a federal lawsuit both have filed in Chicago, alleging they were illegally imprisoned and subjected to physical and mental interrogation tactics "reserved for terrorists and so-called enemy combatants."

A report issued a few weeks ago by the Government Accountability Office states the US has "lost" more than 190,000 AK-47 rifles and pistols.  If Donald Vance is to be believed these weapons are being sold to whoever has the cash, which brings me to my theory that the Bush Administration has no interest in ever winning their illegal war.

As long as there are well armed insurgents our troops will need to stay in Iraq and money can be handed over to American corporations at astronomical amounts.  For the corporations the war in Iraq has been a tremendous success and anyone who blows the whistle on this money making endeavor will pay the price.

Congress gave over 30 billion dollars for the reconstruction of Iraq with
8.8 billion of it missing. Why has this never been investigated?

Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse knows this only too well. As the highest-ranking civilian contracting officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, she testified before a congressional committee in 2005 that she found widespread fraud in multibillion-dollar rebuilding contracts awarded to former Halliburton subsidiary KBR.

Soon after, Greenhouse was demoted. She now sits in a tiny cubicle in a different department with very little to do and no decision-making authority, at the end of an otherwise exemplary 20-year career.

People she has known for years no longer speak to her.

The message is clear, if you blow the whistle they will make your life hell.

Julie McBride testified last year that as a "morale, welfare and recreation coordinator" at Camp Fallujah, she saw KBR exaggerate costs by double- and triple-counting the number of soldiers who used recreational facilities.

She also said the company took supplies destined for a Super Bowl party for U.S. troops and instead used them to stage a celebration for themselves.

"After I voiced my concerns about what I believed to be accounting fraud, Halliburton placed me under guard and kept me in seclusion," she told the committee. "My property was searched, and I was specifically told that I was not allowed to speak to any member of the U.S. military. I remained under guard until I was flown out of the country."

Halliburton and KBR denied her testimony.

This is nothing new as its been 72 years since Smedley Butler wrote his book, War is a Racket detailing the first references to the Military Industrial Complex.

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

The mafia runs rackets and so does the United States government.  We've been taken over by a criminal faction hell bent on torturing, killing, maiming and destroying people for profit.

We will never get our democracy back until we tame corporate power and get their money out of our politicians pockets. We will never get their money away from our politicians until we elect candidates for office who refuse to take lobbyist and corporate donations.

Our people powered movement is a war.  It's a battle of the people versus corporate power and it will take years to win, maybe a lifetime. But win we must if we're ever to get our country back to the principles it was founded upon.

So, give what you can to our people powered candidates and don't ever get discouraged, this battle is long.

Update: scardanelli asks some excellent questions in the comments:

Where does the money lead? (1+ / 0-)
Recommended by: CTLiberal
There's a lot of underexplained goings-on in the article you link to.

Vance says the seller is an Iraqi-owned company. The buyers include US soldiers. Um, WTF? American soldiers buying weapons from an Iraqi-owned company, and the US gov't is protecting it?

This suggests laundering on a massive scale.

Who owns the (Iraqi) owners of Shield Group Security Co.?
What are the American soldiers doing with the weapons they buy?
Why is there no Congressional investigation into this?

We need at the very least a congressional inquiry; write or call your member of congress, (202)224-3121.  

Update II: Danger durden has written a diary urging everyone to write to Keith Olbermann at Countdown to see if he will cover this story Monday night.

countdown@msnbc.com
KOlbermann@msnbc.com
feedback@msnbc.com

You can have your "Under God" back when I get my "Liberty and Justice For All" back.  synthetic environment

Weapons for Paralysis, Sleep Induction and Mind Control
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/edit/index.php?op=view&itemid=943

One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources -- the output of which can be pulsed, shaped, and focused -- that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscle movements, control emotions (and thus actions), produce sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere with both short-term and long-term memory, produce an experience set, and delete an experience set. This will open the door for the development of some novel capabilities that can be used in armed conflict, in terrorist/hostage situations, and in training.

New weapons that offer the opportunity of control of an adversary without resorting to a lethal solution or to collateral casualties can be developed around this concept. This would offer significant improvements in the capabilities of our special operation forces. Initial experimentation should be focused on the interaction of electromagnetic energy and the neuromuscular junctions involved in voluntary muscle control.

Theories need to be developed, modeled, and tested in experimental preparations. Early testing using in vitro cell cultures of neural networks could provide focus for more definitive intact animal testing. If successful, one could envision a weapon that would render an opponent incapable of taking any meaningful action involving higher motor skills, (e.g. using weapons, operating tracking systems).

The prospect of a weapon to accomplish this when targeted against an individual target is reasonable; the prospect of a weapon effective against a massed force would seem to be more remote. Use of such a device in an enclosed area against multiple targets (hostage situation) may be more difficult than an individual target system, but probably feasible. It would also appear possible to create high fidelity speech in the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion and psychological direction.

When a high power microwave pulse in the gigahertz range strikes the human body, a very small temperature perturbation occurs. This is associated with a sudden expansion of the slightly heated tissue. This expansion is fast enough to produce an acoustic wave. If a pulse stream is used, it should be possible to create an internal acoustic field in the 5-15 kilohertz range, which is audible. Thus, it may be possible to "talk" to selected adversaries in a fashion that would be most disturbing to them.

In comparison to the discussion in the paragraphs above, the concept of imprinting an experience set is highly speculative, but nonetheless, highly exciting. Modern electromagnetic scattering theory raises the prospect that ultrashort pulse scattering through the human brain can result in reflected signals that can be used to construct a reliable estimate of the degree of central nervous system arousal.

The concept behind this "remote EEG" is to scatter off action potentials or ensembles of action potentials in major central nervous system tracts. Assuming we will understand how our skills are imprinted and recalled, it might be possible to take this concept one step further and duplicate the experience set of another individual. The prospect of providing a "been there-done that" knowledge base could provide a revolutionary change in our approach to specialized training. How this can be done or even if it can be done are significant unknowns. The impact of success would boggle the mind!
 

You can have your "Under God" back when I get my "Liberty and Justice For All" back.  synthetic environment

http://mirror.electromagnet.us/vistas96.html 

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/edit/index.php?op=view&itemid=943 
Page 89, New World Vistas, Air and Space Power for the 21st Century, Ancillary Volume,Ý unattributed article, 1996

 Looking 50 years into the future is extremely easy and, at the same time, exceedingly difficult. Easy, since I will not be around to catch the flak for being very wrong. Difficult, since it is really presumptuous to pretend that you have the vision to see the future. Nonetheless, you asked for it and here goes.

As we look forward to the future, it seems likely that this nation will be involved in multiple conflicts where our military forces increasingly will be placed in situations where the application of the full force capabilities of our military might cannot be applied. We will be involved intimately with hostile populations in situations where the application of non-lethal force will be the tactical or political preference. It appears likely that there are a number of physical agents that might actively, but largely benignly, interact or interfere with biological processes in an adversary in a manner that will provide our armed forces the tools to control these adversaries without extensive loss of life or property. These physical agents could include acoustic fields, optical fields, electromagnetic fields, and combinations thereof. This paper will address only the prospect of physical regulation of biological processes using electromagnetic fields.

 The literature regarding the interaction of biological processes with electromagnetic fields is growing at a rapid rate. Sources are becoming more available, biomedical instrumentation is improving so that the interactions between biological processes and physical fields can be examined with fewer artifacts, and the principles underlying these interactions are becoming clearer and more amenable to theoretical prediction.

 Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion of knowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved a clear understanding of how the human brain works, how it really controls the various functions of the body, and how it can be manipulated (both positively and negatively). One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be pulsed, shaped, and focused, that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscular movements, control emotions (and thus actions), produce sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere with both short-term and long-term memory, produce an experience set, and delete an experience set. This will open the door for the development of some novel capabilities that can be used in armed conflict, in terrorist/hostage situations, and in training. New weapons that offer the opportunity of control of an adversary without resorting to a lethal solution or to collateral casualties can be developed around this concept. This would offer significant improvementsÝ in the capabilities of our special operation forces. Initial experimentation should be focused on the interaction of electromagnetic energy and the neuromuscular junctions involved in voluntary muscle control. Theories need to be developed, modeled, and tested in experimental preparations. Early testing using in vitro cell cultures of neural networks could provide a focus for more definitive intact animal testing. If successful, one could envision a weapon that would render an opponent incapable of taking any meaningful action involving any higher motor skills, (e.g. using weapons, operating tracking systems). The prospect of a weapon to accomplish this when targeted against an individual target is reasonable; the prospect of a weapon effective against a massed force would seem to be more remote. Use of such a device in an enclosed area against multiple targets (hostage situation) may be more difficult than an individual target system, but probably feasible.

 It would also appear possible to create high fidelity speech in the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion and psychological direction. When a high power microwave pulse in the gigahertz range strikes the human body, a very small temperature perturbation occurs. This is associated with a sudden expansion of the slightly heated tissue. This expansion is fast enough to produce an acoustic wave. If a pulse stream is used, it should be possible to create an internal acoustic field in the 5-15 kilohertz range, which is audible. Thus, it may be possible to "talk" to selected adversaries in a fashion that would be most disturbing to them.

 In comparison to the discussion in the paragraphs above, the concept of imprinting an experience set is highly speculative, but nonetheless, highly exciting. Modern electromagnetic scattering theory raises the prospect that ultrashort pulse scattering through the human brain can result in reflected signals that can be used to construct a reliable estimate of the degree of central nervous system arousal. The concept behind this "remote EEG" is to scatter off of action potentials or ensembles of action potentials in major central nervous system tracts. Assuming we will understand how our skills are imprinted and recalled, it might be possible to take this concept one step further and duplicate the experience set in another individual. The prospect of providing a "been there-done that" knowledge base could provide a revolutionary change in our approach to specialize training. How this can be done or even it it can be done are significant unknowns. The impact of success would boggle the mind!

Page 89, New World Vistas, Air and Space Power for the 21st Century, Ancillary Volume,Ý unattributed article, 1996.

The Ancillary Volume contains the following Foreword:

 "New World Vistas was a major undertaking for the USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Many people participated and made important contributions to the 14 other Volumes of this study. As the other 14 Volumes were being completed it became clear that some of the work was going to fall on the editing room floor. While many of the ideas were captured in the other Volumes, the specific work was not. The purpose of this 15th Ancillary Volume is to capture these significant contributions which otherwise would be lost.

 "What follows is in three basic parts. First are the proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board held on November 10, 1994. Next are papers requested by the Chairman of the SAB, Dr. Gene McCall, for members of the SAB to forecast possible developments over the next 50 years. Finally, a series of interviews with distinguished Americans who provide their insights into t he future."
 

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The CIA's Project MOCKINGBIRD: Ongoing Covert Control of the Media

June 30, 2007
Alex Constantine / Totse.com

It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold war, when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets. This secret CIA program was code-named Operation MOCKINGBIRD. By the early 1950s, the CIA had infiltrated the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles — controlling as many as 600 reporters, according to a former CIA analyst.

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(June 30, 2007) — Who Controls the Media?

Soulless corporations do, of course. Corporations with grinning, double-breasted executives, interlocking directorates, labor squabbles and flying capital. Dow. General Electric. Coca-Cola. Disney. Newspapers should have mastheads that mirror the world: The Westinghouse Evening Scimitar, The Atlantic-Richfield Intelligentser.

It is beginning to dawn on a growing number of armchair ombudsmen that the public print reports news from a parallel universe — one that has never heard of politically-motivated assassinations, CIA-Mafia banking thefts, mind control, death squads or even federal agencies with secret budgets fattened by cocaine sales — a place overrun by lone gunmen, where the CIA and Mafia are usually on their best behavior. In this idyllic land, the most serious infraction an official can commit —is a the employment of a domestic servant with (shudder) no residency status.

This unlikely land of enchantment is the creation of MOCKINGBIRD.

It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold war, when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets.

In this period, the American intelligence services competed with communist activists abroad to influence European labor unions. With or without the cooperation of local governments, Frank Wisner, an undercover State Department official assigned to the Foreign Service, rounded up students abroad to enter the cold war underground of covert operations on behalf of his Office of Policy Coordination.

Philip Graham, a graduate of the Army Intelligence School in Harrisburg, PA, then publisher of the Washington Post, was taken under Wisner's wing to direct the program code-named Operation MOCKINGBIRD.

"By the early 1950s," writes formerVillage Voice reporter Deborah Davis in Katharine the Great, "Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA analyst."

The network was overseen by Allen Dulles, a templar for German and American corporations who wanted their points of view represented in the public print. Early MOCKINGBIRD influenced 25 newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as organs of CIA propaganda. Many of these were already run by men with reactionary views, among them William Paley (CBS), C.D. Jackson (Fortune), Henry Luce (Time) and Arthur Hays Sulzberger (N.Y. Times).

Activists curious about the workings of MOCKINGBIRD have since been appalled to find in FOIA documents that agents boasting in CIA office memos of their pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major news publication in the country. It was not until 1982 that the Agency openly admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field.

"World War III has begun," Henry's Luce's Life declared in March, 1947. "It is in the opening skirmish stage already." The issue featured an excerpt of a book by James Burnham, who called for the creation of an "American Empire," "world-dominating in political power, set up at least in part through coercion (probably including war, but certainly the threat of war) and in which one group of people ... would hold more than its equal share of power."

George Seldes, the famed anti-fascist media critic, drew down on Luce in 1947, explaining that "although avoiding typical Hitlerian phrases, the same doctrine of a superior people taking over the world and ruling it, began to appear in the press, whereas the organs of Wall Street were much more honest in favoring a doctrine inevitably leading to war if it brought greater commercial markets under the American flag."

On the domestic front, an abiding relationship was struck between the CIA and William Paley, a wartime colonel and the founder of CBS. A firm believer in "all forms of propaganda" to foster loyalty to the Pentagon, Paley hired CIA agents to work undercover at the behest of his close friend, the busy grey eminence of the nation's media, Allen Dulles. Paley's designated go-between in his dealings with the CIA was Sig Mickelson, president of CBS News from 1954 to 1961.

The CIA's assimilation of old guard fascists was overseen by the Operations Coordination Board, directed by C.D. Jackson, formerly an executive of Time magazine and Eisenhower's Special Assistant for Cold War Strategy. In 1954 he was succeeded by Nelson Rockefeller, who quit a year later, disgusted at the administration's political infighting. Vice President Nixon succeeded Rockefeller as the key cold war strategist.

"Nixon," writes John Loftus, a former attorney for the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, took "a small boy's delight in the arcane tools of the intelligence craft - the hidden microphones, the 'black' propaganda." Nixon especially enjoyed his visit to a Virginia training camp to observe Nazis in the "special forces" drilling at covert operations.

One of the fugitives recruited by the American intelligence underground was heroin smuggler Hubert von Bl_cher, the son of A German ambassador. Hubert often bragged that that he was trained by the Abwehr, the German military intelligence division, while still a civilian in his twenties.

He served in a recon unit of the German Army until forced out for medical reasons in 1944, according to his wartime records. He worked briefly as an assistant director for Berlin-Film on a movie entitled One Day ..., and finished out the war flying with the Luftwaffe, but not to engage the enemy - his mission was the smuggling of Nazi loot out of the country. His exploits were, in part, the subject of Sayer and Botting's Nazi Gold, an account of the knockover of the Reichsbank at the end of the war.

In 1948 he flew the coop to Argentina. Posing as a photographer named Huberto von Bleucher Corell, he immediately paid court to Eva Peron, presenting her with an invaluable Gobelin tapestry (a selection from the wealth of artifacts confiscated by the SS from Europe's Jews?). Hubert then met with Martin Bormann at the Hotel Plaza to deliver German marks worth $80 million. The loot financed the birth of the National Socialist Party in Argentina, among other forms of Nazi revival.

In 1951, Hubert migrated northward and took a job at the Color Corporation of America in Hollywood. He eked out a living writing scripts for the booming movie industry. His voice can be heard on a film set in the Amazon, produced by Walt Disney. Nine years later he returned to Buenos Aires, then D_sseldorf, West Germany, and established a firm that developed not movie scripts, but anti-chemical warfare agents for the government.

At the Industrie Club in D_sseldorf in 1982, von Blcher boasted to journalists, "I am chief shareholder of Pan American Airways. I am the best friend of Howard Hughes. The Beach Hotel in Las Vegas is 45 percent financed by me. I am thus the biggest financier ever to appear in the Arabian Nights tales dreamed up by these people over their second bottle of brandy."

Not really. Two the biggest financiers to stumble from the drunken dreams of world-moving affluence were, in their time, Moses Annenberg, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and his son Walter , the CIA/mob-anchored publisher of the TV Guide.

Like most American high-rollers, Annenberg lived a double life. Moses, his father, was a scion of the Capone mob. Both Moses and Walter were indicted in 1939 for tax evasions totalling many millions of dollars - the biggest case in the history of the Justice Department.

Moses pled guilty and agreed to pay the government $8 million and settle $9 million in assorted tax claims, penalties and interest debts. Moses received a three-year sentence. He died in Lewisburg Penitentiary.

Walter Annenbeg, the TV Guide magnate, was a lofty Republican. On the campaign trail in April, 1988, George Bush flew into Los Angeles to woo Reagan's kitchen cabinet. "This is the topping on the cake," Bush's regional campaign director told the Los Angeles Times.

The Bush team met at Annenberg's plush Rancho Mirage estate at Sunnylands, California. It was at the Annenberg mansion that Nixon's cabinet was chosen, and the state's social and contributor registers built over a quarter-century of state political dominance by Ronald Reagan, whose acting career was launched by Operation MOCKINGBIRD.

The commercialization of television, coinciding with Reagan's recruitment by the Crusade for Freedom, a CIA front, presented the intelligence world with unprecedented potential for sowing propaganda and even prying in the age of Big Brother. George Orwell glimpsed the possibilities when he installed omniscient video surveillance technology in 1948, a novel rechristened 1984 for the first edition published in the US by Harcourt, Brace.

Operation Octopus, according to federal files, was in full swing by 1948, a surveillance program that turned any television set with tubes into a broadcast transmitter. Agents of Octopus could pick up audio and visual images with the equipment as far as 25 miles away.

Hale Boggs was investigating Operation Octopus at the time of his disappearance in the midst of the Watergate probe.

In 1952, at MCA, Actors' Guild president Ronald Reagan - a screen idol recruited by MOCKINGBIRD's Crusade for Freedom to raise funds for the resettlement of Nazis in the U.S., according to Loftus - signed a secret waiver of the conflict-of-interest rule with the mob-controlled studio, in effect granting it a labor monopoly on early television programming. In exchange, MCA made Reagan a part owner.

Furthermore, historian C. Vann Woodward, writing in the New York Times, in 1987, reported that Reagan had "fed the names of suspect people in his organization to the FBI secretly and regularly enough to be assigned 'an informer's code number, T-10.' His FBI file indicates intense collaboration with producers to 'purge' the industry of subversives."

No one ever turned a suspicious eye on Walter Cronkite, a former intelligence officer and in the immediate postwar period UPI's Moscow correspondent. Cronkite was lured to CBS by Operation MOCKINGBIRD's Phil Graham, according to Deborah Davis.

Another television conglomerate, Cap Cities, rose like a horror-film simian from CIA and Mafia heroin operations. Among other organized-crime Republicans, Thomas Dewey and his neighbor Lowell Thomas threw in to launch the infamous Resorts International, the corporate front for Lansky's branch of the federally-sponsored mob family and the corporate precursor to Cap Cities.

Another of the investors was James Crosby, a Cap Cities executive who donated $100,000 to Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. This was the year that Resorts bought into Atlantic City casino interests. Police in New jersey attempted, with no success, to spike the issuance of a gambling license to the company, citing Mafia ties.

In 1954, this same circle of investors, all Catholics, founded the broadcasting company notorious for overt propagandizing and general spookiness. The company's chief counsel was OSS veteran William Casey, who clung to his shares by concealing them in a blind trust even after he was appointed CIA director by Ronald Reagan in 1981.

"Black radio" was the phrase CIA critic David Wise coined in The Invisible Government to describe the agency's intertwining interests in the emergence of the transistor radio with the entrepreneurs who took to the airwaves. "Daily, East and West beam hundreds of propaganda broadcasts at each other in an unrelenting babble of competition for the minds of their listeners. The low-price transistor has given the hidden war a new importance," enthused one foreign correspondent.

A Hydra of private foundations sprang up to finance the propaganda push. One of them, Operations and Policy Research, Inc. (OPR), received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the CIA through private foundations and trusts. OPR research was the basis of a television series that aired in New York and Washington, D.C. in 1964, Of People and Politics, a "study" of the American political system in 21 weekly installments.

In Hollywood, the visual cortex of The Beast, the same CIA/Mafia combination that formed Cap Cities sank its claws into the film studios and labor unions. Johnny Rosselli was pulled out of the Army during the war by a criminal investigation of Chicago mobsters in the film industry. Rosselli, a CIA asset probably assassinated by the CIA, played sidekick to Harry Cohn, the Columbia Pictures mogul who visited Italy's Benito Mussolini in 1933, and upon his return to Hollywood remodeled his office after the dictator's.

The only honest job Rosselli ever had was assistant purchasing agent (and a secret investor) at Eagle Lion productions, run by Bryan Foy, a former producer for 20th Century Fox. Rosselli, Capone's representative on the West Coast, passed a small fortune in mafia investments to Cohn. Bugsy Seigel pooled gambling investments with Billy Wilkerson, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter.

In the 1950s, outlays for global propaganda climbed to a full third of the CIA's covert operations budget. Some 3, 000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts. The cost of disinforming the world cost American taxpayers an estimated $265 million a year by 1978, a budget larger than the combined expenditures of Reuters, UPI and the AP news syndicates.

In 1977, the Copely News Service admitted that it worked closely with the intelligence services — in fact, 23 employees were full-time employees of the Agency.

Most consumers of the corporate media were - and are - unaware of the effect that the salting of public opinion has on their own beliefs. A network anchorman in time of national crisis is an instrument of psychological warfare in the MOCKINGBIRD media. He is a creature from the national security sector's chamber of horrors.

For this reason, consumers of the corporate press have reason to examine their basic beliefs about government and life in the parallel universe of these United States.

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 Here is my rough description of a scalar weapon:

first one type pulsed energy will travel distance path ( linear )

another type pulsed energy  is released (scalar curvature )

both pulsed energies arrive at the same destination as the scalar curvature

comes into phase with the linear longitudinal energy but it by-passes the dimension

of time

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=1037

Weather War: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction

http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/enmod/text/environ2.htm
CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF MILITARY OR ANY OTHER HOSTILE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES

Signed in Geneva May 18, 1977
Entered into force October 5, 1978
Ratification by U.S. President December 13, 1979
U.S. ratification deposited at New York January 17, 1980

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http://www.angelfire.com/oz/cv/scalarweapons.html

TWELVE THINGS YOUR SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SCALAR WEAPONS

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci330659,00.html

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitude_%28mathematics%29

scalar - 1) In mathematics, scalar (noun) and scalar (adjective) refer to a quantity consisting of a single real number used to measured magnitude (size). Voltage, mass, and temperature measurements can be described as scalar quantities.

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/CLASS/1DKin/U1L1b.html

Scalars are quantities which are fully described by a magnitude (or numerical value) alone.

Vectors are quantities which are fully described by both a magnitude and a direction.

http://hypertextbook.com/physics/mechanics/kinematics-two-three/

kinematic definitions presented in this chapter - - first the scalar quantities …

Distance is a scalar measure of the interval between two locations measured along the actual path connecting them.
Speed is the rate of change of distance with time.

Displacement is a vector measure of the interval between two locations measured along the shortest path connecting them.
Velocity is the rate of change of displacement with time.
Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity with time.

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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (Hardcover)
by Daniel Ellsberg (Author)

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Bill Moyers  - - History of Our Secret Government  

John F Kennedy's bodyguards being told to stay away from JFK

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