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The fluoride synergism effects leading to rise in world wide health effects.
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The Fluoride Factor
The Fluoride Disaster
The Fluoride Factor The fluoride synergism effects leading to rise in world wide health effects.
(Hydrogen Fluoride damages the Pineal Gland and HPA Axis factors that lead to long term diseases, illness, and early death.)
By: Jim Phelps Copyright 2004, 2005
This monologue is presented to orient persons, using plain language and lots of simple references, to the problems associated with fluorine and fluoride chemicals.
If I were to name one element or one element or chemical compound that would represent the "Bane of Mans existence on Earth" it would be fluorine or fluoride. Fluorine has caused huge problems for man since the beginning of time due to volcanic effects on Earth. Fluorine or Hydrogen Fluoride released from volcanic events or even meteor terminal events is the principle effect for extinction events on this planet.
The real story of fluorides in industry reads like the PBS-TV documentary called "Trade Secrets" by Bill Moyers on the chemical called vinyl chloride or the book called "Silent Spring" about rising chemical pesticides problems by Rachael Carson. The risks from fluoride chemicals are a thousand times worse than what was presented by these two reports on health risks. Fluoride was seen as a necessary evil for the production of metals, coal energy, and uranium for nuclear weapons. Our own US Government covered up the dangers of fluoride concentrations rising in the environment.
Rising levels of fluoride are directly connected to disruption of enzymes necessary for cell repair (glutathione particularly) and removal of toxic metals from the human body. The effect results in the rise of lead, mercury and other toxic metals in children that impair their IQ and long term health. In the elderly is hastens the onset of gray hair because it is linked to mercury concentrations in the body. It also adds to brittle bone problems, dementia from toxic metals effects on the brain, and quite literally onset for immune illnesses and death. Fluoride is not a friend to children's teeth, but a deadly cumulative poison where 98 percent of the fluoride ingested goes right to the bone of children to disrupt their health in much the same way that Sr-90 from nuclear testing was feared to cause cancer in children.
This report will take a look at the information that sheds the greater light of truth on the dangers of fluoride and what it is doing to the general welfare of the US citizens. We shall take a look at prominent books on the topic, at the latest peer reviewed research articles, and how the Manhattan Project's knowledge has been suppressed as well as other industry induced harms to the public's risk factors due to fluoride releases to the environment.
Fluoride in the body rises constantly with age and there is even one excellent book named for this effect: "Fluoride The Aging Factor" by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis [ISBN 0-913571-03-2]. Fluoride increases in the bones with age and all the effects of aging leading to immune system dysfunction and death track the retention of fluoride in the human body. Yianouyiannis and others have picked up on this effect. See excerpts of his book: Click Here and Here.
The industrial age has brought on a huge rise in the levels of fluoride in the air, water, and food supplies. Persons like the German doctor George Waldbott were some of the first to begin to point out the problems of fluoride. One of his books even presents the issue as the Dilemma: "Fluoride The Great Dilemma" by George Waldbott, MD [ISBN 0-87291-097-0] with foreword by Alton Ochsner, MD. Waldbott has this book foreword'd by one of the lead persons on the kill Castro with Cancer methods using SV-40 effects with a trigger method using radiation or fluoride. See book excerpts: Waldbott Book.
One of the most interesting books on fluoride is self published by Dr. Geoffrey Smith and called "The Fluoride Conspiracy and the Secret War." It is only available in Australia these days. Smith points out that a vaccine could have managed tooth decay. If one looks into the root of the problem with cavities, all the evidence points to refined sugar. Refined sugar is an immune system poison and strongly hinders the macrophages and other immune cells from cleaning and killing the bacteria on the teeth. This effect shows up strongly when one looks at India, where this people's culture does not use the refined sugar, and their teeth are all near perfect. Exceptions being in areas of India where the fluoride levels are high and then teeth are broken and have ugly coloration. One more reason the governments pushed for fluoride to control cavities was to support the huge sugar industry dominance in the US. Monetary interests to promote sugar and promote emissions of fluoride from aluminum, steel, uranium and other toxic release industries dictated fluoride. Whereas common sense and the natural order of immune processes would say fluoridation is based on insane logic. The use of toxic fluoride plays a role in killing the human immune system.
More recent books speak to the huge cover up of industry and the US Govt. on the issues of fluoride connected to the nuclear bomb and strategic metals processing, see: "The Fluoride Deception" by Christopher Bryson [ISBN 1-58322-526-9]. Book Review. The health damages due to fluoride releases of these operations were so destructive that the Govt. with industry partners [DuPont, ALCOA, Rockefellers, Kettering Labs of Cincinnati, Oh.] decided to conceal the effects from the public. Kettering Labs is located where the occupation illness center in the US is located and Kettering is funded by the polluters and most all their files on fluoride research are kept locked away from the public. This has lead to extreme levels of abuse toward citizens and their health in the name of attempting to defeat communism. See: Kettering History.
Fluoride (cryolite dust--aluminum-fluoride compound) has been used as a pesticide for centuries and when one looks for the method of which it kills bugs, one quickly discovers the mechanism involves the upsetting of trace metal metabolism within cells. In insecticide uses, higher concentrations are applied, but when these same poisons enter the human food chain these same effects happen, only more slowly. Every human on the face of planet Earth is affected by this fluoride effect, some more than others depending on geographic, food consumption, industry, and water pollution. Fluoride is cumulative from even the subtlest levels taken in by human consumption.
The key to understanding the most damaging effect of fluoride is to know about these trace metal upsets that control enzyme repairs and other processes within cells. Upsets in these trace metals occur due to the fact that fluorine is the most electronegative element and when present within the body will seize onto trace metals spontaneously. This effect keeps these trace metals from being able to do their essential jobs within the body and cells. This effect leads to rise in cell damages, higher levels of oxidation like damage to DNA, rises in the cytokine levels, loss of immune system tolerance in detection and elimination of varied pathogens, etc.
The problems associated with fluoride doesn't stop with the metals-complex issues, as fluoride damages the thyroid hormone due to iodine like valence effects, it damages the pineal gland and the melatonin / serotonin hormones, it contributes to arterial plaque, it upsets many of the immune cells like macrophage energy, it associates to heart attacks, kidney damage, and etc. If there were one element that were to be associated with the "God of the Underground," Death, and Hell; it would be fluorine.
Rising fluorine toxic effects set up the need for the SSRI class of drugs used to combat the damage to the pineal gland and the reduction of serotonin hormone levels. These serotonin levels are essential for the brain's immune repair function and higher performance cognitive processing skills. It is this connection for why fluorine was used in German and Russian prisons to keep their inmates dumbed down and not resistant to authority. It is a sort of mind control vector by allowing mental dysfunction. Today, the industrial based politics of the US apply this same sinister control upon the US citizens themselves, taking the public hostage in their control schemes.
Fluoride effects are directly related to loss of IQ in children and the dumbing down of the population that makes them easier to lead. Fluoride effects linked to aluminum are linked to the passage of aluminum across the blood-brain-barrier that is linked with Alzheimer's effects. Fluorides complex with aluminum to form G-protein like substances that are able to permanently upset cell bonding sites and shut down GSH and SOD enzymes. Fluorides increase the retention of toxic metals in the body and lower the retention of the beneficial trace metals, and this is a death keel to essential enzyme processes.
The mechanism for the toxic metals rise in the body due to fluorides is due to damage to the selenium based glutathione enzyme that clears toxic metals from the body. Fluorides rising in the body shuts down the enzyme glutathione and others and cause a rise in the toxic metals like lead, mercury and others in the body. In children, the effect causes loss of IQ and cognitive processing abilities. In older persons it is directly connected to the process of gray hair because rising mercury toxicity on the hair follicles induces it. And directly linked to dimentia and Alzheimers because the glutathione can no longer clear out aluminum and other toxic metals and keep them from the brain.
Fluorine was a large factor in the health problems in London due to the "London Fogs" that stemmed from the burning of high fluoride "Sea Coal." These emissions produced fogs so thick they were called "Pea Soup" and persons had to lead carriages around the streets in broad daylight with lanterns. It is this same area that spawned the problems connected to "Jack the Ripper," who appeared to be looking at the health effects of prostitutes connected to these toxic effects. A good book that goes into some of this is: "When Smoke Runs Like Water" by Dr. Devra Davis [ISBN 0-465-01521-1]. See excerpts: Here.
Fluorine began being exposed industrially in the 1930s in the Meuse Valley in Belgium from the emissions of aluminum processes, where it is used as a flux and melting point modifier for aluminum smelting. In the US in 1948, fluoride became a huge issue for the town of Donora, Pa. from an air inversion that trapped coal smoke and fluoride vapors from the flux operations of the steel mills there.
In the 40s era Manhattan Project it was a huge problem connected to national security and huge accidents near Buffalo, NY were concealed and problems from DuPont's Peach Bottoms emissions were the start of huge Govt. sponsored cover ups on the damaging effects of fluorine processes. Fluorine was the only element that led to the lowest temperature gaseous form of uranium compounds.
So, the Govt. in working with the Rockefellers and AMA designed medicine around taking note of fluorides damage to human health. This made this faction rich in the process and they attack those that expose this planned oversight and conspiracy of silence.
Fluoride damage to enzymes is dependent on the G-protein mimic effect for TSH, that shuts down the GSH and SOD enzymes. Other effects from mercury and pesticides all act in some fashion on this G-protein channel. Almost 80% of the drugs use some method of action on G-protein channels to correct for the problems that natural pollution and industrial pollution do to these two enzymes.
One can see there formed a Govt. and industry sponsored cover up of the dangers of fluoride that matured into something to make it associated with good for children's teeth. The truth of this deceptive process is that it put a deadly poison within the reach of nearly every child in America. The deadly truth is that there is enough fluoride in one tube of the sweet and flavored toothpaste to kill an adult. Short of doses that kill the fluorides toxic effect robs children of their IQ, robs them of essential trace metals needed to immune health, and leaves them with a lifelong predisposition toward cancers, immune illnesses, and HIV.
When one knows and recognizes the issues of fluorine intake affecting the immune system, then other factors come into view. For example, rodents have long been associated with spreading the "Black Plague" bacteria in Europe. Most of these outbreaks have occurred correlated with major volcanic events. Rodents like to chew on bones to sharpen their teeth and this also puts high levels of fluorine into their diets. These levels tend to rise after volcanic events and this is associated to the immunity being damaged to the extent that the black plague bacteria are not controlled.
Since rodents have naturally been exposed to much higher levels of fluoride in their food chain due to the bone consumption, this effect has also upset the data derived from their use in medical research. Reference 1 below speaks to the finding of rodents by Wake Forest University with drastically different immune responses to cancer than that from all previous lines of mice used in cancer research. The long isolation of mouse lines in captivity and their being fed low fluoride diets have lead to some of them recovering their immune functions. This basically means that all the data collected with mice has been flawed by the generational damage done by fluoride.
Bone meal fluoride is a huge undisclosed problem. It shows up in cattle fed bone meal leading to the issues of "Mad-Cow" or "BSE." It shows up in gardeners that use bone meal on food they consume and who then come down with similar illnesses. And it has shown up in children fed "pablum," which was made from bone meal.
Natural fluoride effects even upset the reproduction of salmon fish, which must migrate into fresh water with less than the 1ppm fluoride in sea water. Various fish hatcheries have been harmed by fluoride levels of only 0.5 ppm in varied industrial cases.
Fluoride compounds taken into the stomach is converted by the stomach acid to hydrofluoric acid, which is highly absorbed into the body and highly retained. It is a cumulative effect. The effect is most pronounced in rodents that consume bones that highly concentrate fluorine from the environment. The effect highly drives cancer resistance. This effect entered the studies on cancer as a weapon against Castro using SV-40 mutations. Details.
DuPont's mess made from fluorine not only made an ecological disaster from the Manhattan Project, it went on to wreck the world and even individual children's young lives. DuPont made the lead for leaded gasoline. DuPont made the fluorine to make the UF-6 used to make the bomb uranium and they made the "Teflon" used to seal the processes and the "Freon" used to remove the heat of compression from the gas diffusion process. The Freon would go on to wreck the global environment due to the Fluorine being so close in mass to air that it lingers and builds in the upper atmosphere. Here it absorbs high levels of IR radiation and contributes to global warming, and also sequesters hydrogen that adds to the UV-b levels from ionization effects and damages the ozone like chlorine.
The DuPont mess does not end there as the stain resistant compounds like "Scotchguard" are tied to Infant Deaths. Infants tend to burp up stomach contents and this gets onto Scotchguard surfaces of baby mattresses. Here the acid liberates the fluoride used in the stain resistant coating and makes HF, which can cause SIDS. Scotchguard has recently been discontinued due to these effects, in the same way that Freon has been discontinued. DuPont's Teflon was even seen to break down in cooking applications and poison and kill household birds.
The Manhattan Project is riddled with fluorine problems. The very first deaths connected with the project came from liquid diffusion experiments hitting some water and causing a huge explosion and HF release that killed several people. The problems never ceased, as in Oak Ridge they killed a worker named Jack Owens who sat on some "Green Salt" at the Y-12 plant that was wet with HF and he died of a heart attack a few days later. HF has a sudden death effect due to skin absorption effects on the heart. Persons like Paducah's Joe Harding cleaned out gas diffusion equipment and received HF exposures by crawling around and getting HF into his tendons around knees, elbows, etc. The fluoride hardened his ligaments and these would flake off and look like fingernails coming through his skin. He eventually died of stomach cancer. GDP operation.
Fluoride even has some more sinister uses, as it was used in Russia and in Germany to pacify prisoners. The infamous "Red Trains" of Russia took undesirables to work camps in Siberia. Here the Jewish operators of these camps administered the fluoride to change resistant attitudes. Ironically, Jewish Communists in Russia banned religions due to some of the problems of state within a state effect that religion caused that challenged the power of Governments. Many of these religious dissidents landed in these Jewish operated Siberian prisons and were given the same methods of treatment that Moses dealt to the Egyptians using the alchemical methods of fluoride.
The people of Russia and Europe have rejected the use of fluoridation because they know of its more sinister properties in taking control of societies. The Russian Jews that banned religions also likely saw through the real alchemical meanings from the veiled messages and parables presented in the Torah. Meanwhile, the communists stood by and watched the problems that wrecked Europe for so long be pilloried against the US and the UK. The toxic methods of fluoride have so lamed the minds of citizens of these countries that they don't even notice the greater plan to take over the country from within, as forecast by Russia's Khrushchev. Fluoride has some very sinister purposes once the Old World religion meanings are unveiled.
Fluorides released from industry causes problems and more sinister uses of fluorides to control people also cause problems. Natural effects are not exempted as even natural effects of fluoride levels are tied to the transmission of HIV and the resultant pandemic. The East African Rift Zone in Africa has the highest levels of HIV cases, and these areas also have the highest levels of fluoride in their food and water. Reference 2 below speaks to the issue of manganese being able to stop HIV reverse transcription replication and transmission in its tracks. This is one of the fluorine-metal complex effects that make for the problems of the HIV pandemic. The use of fluoride here is population control, and the Govt. does know the real issues behind HIV. It fits the Rockefeller depopulation plans and their AMA system of profiting.
The high levels of fluorine in the bone mass of persons in these regions set up the fluoride-aluminum formation leading to interaction with manganese, which renders it unavailable in cells. In the process the immune system cells have low concentration of manganese for viral control enzyme production, which is essential for cells to resist infection with HIV. This is why the immune cells are the hardest hit with HIV infections, they propagate it, and they sequester it in the gut region.
Fluorine combines with aluminum to mimic G-proteins that affect the pituitary TSH receptor sites on cells and lock them from proper performance. The effect is similar to how aluminum based vaccine adjuvants (alum) attempt to lock the memory of dendritic cells to vaccine pathogens. The AlFx compound formed won't clear from cell bonding sites due to the high strength of the fluorine bond to the cell site. AlFx compounds mimic the TSH hormone of the pituitary, but not well. AlFx compounds don't follow the day and night cyclic patterns of natural TSH from the pituitary, and the near permanent bonding effects on TSH receptor sites highly upsets thyroid hormone regulation. It is this effect that keeps the cells of the body from making the needed levels of GSH and from powering down in the night and day cycles of normal TSH.
In the human body the HIV virus tends to remain latent in the immune system cells of the abdomen, which is where the food and water intake would tend to affect the immune system the most due to fluoride retention. Other factors like gay male's seamen also add to the concentration effects of fluorides because it tends to concentrate the fluoride toxics. Add to this that drugs like cocaine also affect the immune system and make HIV more infectious. This is how the gay population was so heavily affected by HIV.
The real issues of natural effects of fluoride and ever more sinister uses for it appear far back in history. Fluoride issues go back to the times of the origin of Alchemy in Egypt and the parable presentations in the Biblical narratives. The Egyptians were into religious rights used at mining temples to gather and purify gold. This was the source of the "black chemistry" called Alchemy. The Egyptians appear to be some of the first to observe that gold could be used as a medicine effect.
They did not know why at the time, only that it aided health. Today, we can see that gold added to the body tends to complex with fluorine and render it less harmful. This later went into how the Jews of Exodus survived the toxic effects of the Mt. Sinai linked volcano chain next to Midian. They added gold to their cooking methods as told by the golden calf story. Even today, the Chinese believe in adding gold flakes to their food and even cooking with a gold coin to achieve these same effect. We can see similar effects on the immune system and the susceptibility to flu by adding increased zinc to ones diet.
Moses was exposed to this mining temple Alchemy science linked to gold for the Egyptian royal courts. When Moses came for his people he used poison methods that were presented in alchemical imagery terms linked to symbols of the snake and the staff as power. Moses took his people to the Mt. Sinai volcano and here they did the mining techniques to extract gold from its deposits. They learned to survive the HF emissions by using the gold techniques. This is the heart of the science of colloid gold and silver, because these nano-fine particles gain entrance into the body and cells and can render the fluoride effect harmless by complexing with the fluorine atoms.
Even when we get up to the times of Jesus we see the Egyptian Alchemy being linked to "Star Metals." The only thing the Egyptians valued more than gold was the "Star Metal," which was basically just low carbon iron from meteorites. It was the steel of the times, and highly valued. It was this substance that the "Three Wise Men" story of Jesus' birth relates. The Jews wanted a new savior and the Wise Men liked the concept and imparted to them the inner secrets of the Alchemy.
Mary, Joseph, and thus Jesus learned the inner meanings of the story of Genesis and the methods of Moses and his volcano Alchemy from their contact with the alchemical wise men. They were also directly exposed to the Egyptian culture in the times of Cleopatra and saw the things that influenced Moses. They could then see through issues of the Jewish Torah in ways that had not been presented by Holy Rabbis of the times. Due to this inspirational epiphany of Mary and Joseph, Jesus became the reformer for the Jews over these inner secrets of the Torah (Torah is the first five chapters of Christian's Bible). Even when we go back to Noah, we find the volcanic effects link to 40 days and nights of rain and the need to sequester food and shelter animals from the poisons of these events.
We can see these similar effects on animals today from volcanic events in Iceland, where the HF is cooled and deposited on the snows that melt and flow into rivers. The cattle and other animals hundreds of miles away from these events are often killed by drinking the HF contaminated water from the rivers. Similar effects are seen around aluminum plants where cows eat contaminated grass and either die or suffer extreme degenerative health effects.
Even the parable on Sodom and Gomorrah is one about the Dead Sea regions rift zone, which due to pressure and volcanic issues released all matter of fluorides into the ground water and wells of the region. What followed were toxic effects on the population there and the story that God or Nature destroyed them as it sank beneath the Dead Sea.
This story is little different than the current problems in Ethiopia, where fluoride levels are extremely high in the water supplies and the rift effects are going to make in inland ocean of a large part of the country due to subsidence of the land.
We can even see the aphrodisiac effects of fluorides from the parables on Sodom and Gomorrah, and the very same effects happen to workers of the Govt.'s nuclear plants in Oak Ridge. These sex drive effects were so bad that all the office and lab windows and door glass had to be removed and replaced with clear glass to limit the private areas for sexual activities. Oak Ridge and other sites that experienced the toxic effects of fluorides experienced a unique visit back in time to the problems seen in the biblical narratives. It is how places like Oak Ridge unlocked the deeper issues of God and Nature from the Bible's stories.
The secrets of religion are directly related to the alchemical science that evolved around the effects of fluorine from the Old World and the stories of the Old Testament. Jesus and the New Testament set forth to challenge the Torah and the Solomon's Temple Jewish Priests or Pharisee who misinterpreted these alchemical images stories. Jesus held the greater sense on what was and was not God. The Old Testament is really the anti-Christ and the New is the Christ, and this is where the ultimate story of understanding the most electronegative element on the planet leads.
The secret of fluorine is a most sinister one that involves its sequestration and build up in the bone marrow where it robs the immune cells there of their essential trace metals that make their enzyme repair processes work. Likewise, the fluorine also builds in the calcium rich tissues of the pineal gland and upsets the levels of melatonin and serotonin in the brain that are essential toward brain cell repair. The effect plays a dominant role in aging and senescence leading up to diseases and death. The AlFx hormone mimic of TSH appears to play a role in these hormones imbalance.
Today, we know that the fluorine's rise in the body sets up the slow impact on melatonin levels that regulate sexual puberty and that the lowering of the age of sexual maturity of children is a direct effect from the rise of fluorine in the environment. We even know the strange aphrodisiac effects seen in workers exposed to fluorine gases of the uranium gas diffusion plant was a direct effect of melatonin antagonism. We also know the like effects on serotonin levels made for a work force that would not question, but do what they were told to the point of self injury from its long term toxic effects.
One can literally steer sexual urges and aggression by controlling metatonin and fluorine levels in the body. If one wants to lower sexual urges one takes melatonin as a supplement and then sleeps better at night and wakes with higher-level brain function in the morning. If one wants to enhance sexual urges then one consumes food and water with more fluorine concentration. The latter effect is happening to the majority of the population due to industry cover-ups and AMA corruption.
We can also see why the alternative health therapies work that involve things as simple as acupuncture, magnets, and minerals like zinc and selenium. Acupuncture uses needles made of the precious metals silver or gold typically. When these are inserted into the body around sites of inflammation and rotated or electrically driven, they give off metal ions into these local tissues. These metals interfere with the formation of the toxic Fluoride-metal compounds and form soluble complexes that remove fluorine from these tissues and the body. Similarly, the magnet therapies tend to collect the ferrous metals in the tissues, which don't form dangerous fluorine compounds and do form compounds that will enhance removal of fluorine from the tissues and body. Similarly, mineral supplements of zinc and selenium do the same. All these are very ancient methods that work, and even Egypt's Cleopatra used the magnet methods in her time.
Those that truly understand the messages of Jesus would have to note that his message is about "Health Care" by prevention and not the "Illness Care" methods of today that have gone wild due to the suppression of toxic effects on the world population. Jesus was an Environmentalist of his times and he spoke against the deceptive war methods of Moses' God using fluoride alchemical chemical warfare. This is the message shown in the icon imagery of Mary standing on the Snake with an apple in its mouth to control the levels of poisons getting into the human food chain. It is the story of putting only good things into the body and treating it as a temple.
The science of fluorine is literally so pontifical that it is the divine gatekeeper between what are the concepts of Heaven and Hell for Humans on this planet. This is how powerful the study of the full issues of fluorine relates. Fluorine gets into the inner circle of the secrets of religion, and the flaws in the interpretations of religion. This is how fluorine comes to play such an instrumental role in the Revelations message of Jesus from the Biblical narratives.
Fluorine effects are directly linked to the great health plagues of cancer and HIV that we see today, as prophesied by Jesus in the Revelation narratives. The major weather effects are directly connected to the global warming effects being generated by fluorine building in the upper atmosphere. The full understanding of the effects of fluorine lead to the life-spans of 1,000 years presented in the Biblical Narratives Genesis. This being the best interpretation for "Eternal Life" and the saving messages from Jesus.
The Manhattan Project has played a pivotal role in the keeping of these huge secrets that have falsely empowered the few and intentionally mislead so many. It is linked to the messages of the End-Times, when false prophets have surrounded us. The Manhattan Project likes to falsely play up that radiation is the cause of the many health problems, but this is only an intentional misleading story salted into the public's mind. The Manhattan Project and religion have long been linked in a mutual act of preservation of huge lies that are harmful to all citizens of this planet.
If the church gives up its inner sanctum secrets liked to these effects or the Manhattan Project scientists tell the real relationships, then both sides go down in a huge implosion. It is indeed a corrupt truth reminiscent of Rapture. The Pharisee and those that followed them have tried to modify these simple origins of Moses' god using much words of spirituality. But the inner core of Moses is one of the natural order of volcanic effects and this has both a warlike vengeful god connotation as well as one of Satan. These cover-ups are the root of all the massive wars the people of this world have been drawn.
The ultimate antithesis is fluoride sets up the ultimate contrast between reasons for communism's ban on religion and those that pillory people with religion for power and control. Lost between the paradigms is the factor of good and the real God. The real dialectics Jesus spoke of are missing. The fact is that in the US, the war on communism used the church. The catharsis that exposes all is the study of fluoride connections to Egypt, the biblical narratives of Moses, and Jesus objections toward these spiritual words that attempted to conceal the real story. It is a story that most of the Jews that know Torah and Talmud know well.
It gets down to a method for the NWO, where the god of Moses is slipped into the bible narratives and not explained well to the Christian masses. It is explained so poorly that most think the god of Moses, the nationalistic human built god of the Jews, and the God of Jesus are one in the same. It is this omission and the conspiracy of silence tied to it, that is part of the Jews thinking their subtle take over methods are acceptable to organized religion in the US and the world. The war on communism has been used by the power seeking methods of the Jews to take economic control of the US.
It is ultimately the evangelical uses of spirituality to embellish these issues in such a way as to confuse and obfuscate them that empowered this sinister oligarchy. It is done because these evangelicals are more interested in loosing a little money from the pocketbooks of their parishioners, more-so than telling the full story of correct spiritually and incorrect conspiracies of silence of the whole story. The real story is the church, as an ultimate weapon against communism and a tool for the Jews conquest, has presented a lie and a conspiracy of silence. The "War on Communism" that joined the Jews and the Christians against Russia also deadlocked the "Second Coming" of Christ issue.
These are the methods of power and control using the false concepts presented by those of religion. This is the story of how science met religion in the Manhattan Project and beyond---and how the real message of Jesus was introduced to most in the US National Security system. Many of the very same interests that covered up the dangers of fluoride were the same players that cover up the reasons JFK was assassinated. It is the strong overlap of fluoride-related issues into Jewish / Torah religion factors and how these influenced the church and the war on Communism that played the essential role in the death of JFK. Details. This is why Oak Ridge's Y-12 plant played a preeminent role in the assassination of JFK by networking with Jacob Rubenstein, AKA Jack Ruby.
The war against communism is a no win when the best defenses are based upon a lie, and likewise a democracy built upon the false concepts of religion is doomed to be taken from within, a people exploited. Likewise, the church cannot be called a Church based in Christ, unless these truths become known. The Church has become a part of the Conspiracy of Silence that leads the flock astray. The only way to proceed now is all the facts on the table, the end of the secrecy, and return to the concepts of equality to all the people.
I hope that each of you have enjoyed these insights into the inner secrets of the Manhattan Project and the health effects of fluorides. May these secrets unleashed here set all free to enter a kinder and gentler time. One can see how fluorine is the Bane of man's existence on Earth, but it is also the axis of knowledge that leads everyone toward and better understanding of man, nature, and God.
THE PRINCIPLE DAMAGE FACTORS FOR FLUORIDE:
1. Fluoride seeks bone and there upsets the beneficial trace metals in the immune system cells formed there. Fluoride is an enzyme poison and reduces the enzyme glutathione based on selenium that clears toxic metals from the body. [Ref 4] Rising levels of fluoride induce toxic metal poisoning and excessive free radical damage to cells from mitochondrial malfunction. It is the prime cause for the HIV pandemic worldwide via manganese availability reduction in cells. Fluoride is the same bone marrow and immune cell health damage effect that Sr-90 presented from nuclear testing due to damage to the RNase L enzyme process that controls viral infections of cells.
2. Fluoride rising in the environment with toxic trace metals like aluminum form AlFx protein that damage G-protein signal systems for TSH, leading to GSH depletion damage of the immune cells in the lymph nodes, cells in other organs and tissues. Fluoride-aluminum complexes shut down the ability of the cells to produce GSH and SOD, particularly in the lymph system's control for varied pathogens in the cells. This is a prime effect for CFS, Cancers, and AIDs.
3. Fluoride is antagonistic toward the generation of melatonin and serotonin in the body and this effect causes the lowering of the age of puberty in children and the rising need for drugs like SSRIs to attempt to control rising problems with sexual promiscuity, rage, and violence.
4. Fluoride upsets the thyroid hormones from both the liver and thyroid process and causes problems associated with rise in obesity to ability to do daily duties.
5. Fluoride levels in the bone literally set the entire progression of human and animal life in this planet. The rise of fluorine in the body determines puberty and decline of learning abilities via melatonin / serotonine effects. The rise of cumulative fluorine determines immune system viability leading to illness and disease over time and literally death. Bone concentrations of fluorine exactly track these developmental phases of humans and even sets up their life-span and death.
6. Fluoride and fluorine are some of the veiled effects spoken about in biblical narratives and the exploitation of this secret of fluorine is used by various political and religion factions to take control of countries like the US.
REFERENCE 1
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99993669&sub=Medical
Lucky discovery uncovers cancer-proof mouse By Shaoni Bhattacharya
A cancer-proof mouse, which can survive being injected with any number of cancer cells, has been discovered by US scientists. The discovery of the resistant mouse could pave the way for future gene or drug therapies if the mechanism by which it fights cancer can be understood
Researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina have now bred a colony of 700 cancer-proof mice from the resistant male they stumbled across while doing other experiments.
Doctors have known for many years that in rare cases, cancers can mysteriously clear up of their own accord. But this is the first time such cancer-killing ability has been shown to be genetic.
"The power of this resistance seems to be unlimited," said biochemist Zheng Cui, the study leader. "You can give them many, many tumour cells and the mice get rid of them."
"This is at a preliminary stage, but very promising," adds pathologist Mark Willingham, another member of the team. "Our hope is that, some day, this will have an impact on human cancer."
Seven generations
The scientists discovered the original cancer-proof mouse by luck during experiments in which mice were injected with soft tissue cancers, called sarcomas. Despite repeated injections, one mouse did not develop cancer. When this mouse bred with a normal mouse, some of their offspring were resistant. And these resistant mice were also able to confer resistance, for at least seven generations. "The resistance appears to be caused by just one gene, or a cluster of closely related genes," Cui told New Scientist.
The cancer-killing ability of the mice was unusually consistent with different types of cancer. "What's surprising is it appears these mice are able to recognise something in common to all cancer cell lines," said Cui. "Usually it's difficult to find a common theme."
Willingham told New Scientist that the cancer cells are killed by the mice in a "somewhat novel" way. The body's usual first line of defence against invaders - white blood cells called T-cells - were not employed. Instead the body's innate immune system, consisting of cells like neutrophils and macrophages, attacked the tumour cells and ruptured them.
Previous mice bred so that their immune systems could beat cancer went on the develop autoimmune diseases, but that did not happen with these mice. One significant puzzle that remains is how the mice detect the cancer cells in the first place. Cui speculates that some kind of diffusible factor from the tumour may betray the deadly cells.
Paul Ko Ferrigno, a cancer biologist at the MRC's cancer cell research unit in Cambridge, UK, calls the findings "very tantalising". "I'm intrigued and excited. If they can pin down what the immune basis for resistance to cancer is it should be straightforward to train a patient's immune system to do the same," he told New Scientist. Although they are preliminary, the study's findings have "huge potential", he says.
The top priority now, says Willingham, is to identify the mouse gene responsible for the resistance. "Because of the Human Genome Project, we could then look for a correlate gene in humans," he said.
Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: (doi/10.1073/pnas.1031601100)
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-04/jhmi-mbh042502.php
Manganese blocks HIV replication; Lab finding points to potential new class of HIV treatments
Johns Hopkins scientists have found that simply increasing manganese in cells can halt HIV's unusual ability to process its genetic information backwards, providing a new way to target the process's key driver, an enzyme called reverse transcriptase.
By measuring DNA produced by a related reverse transcriptase in yeast, the Hopkins team discovered that higher than normal levels of manganese, caused by a defective gene, dramatically lowered the enzyme's activity. The scientists then proved that HIV's reverse transcriptase responds to manganese in the same way. Hopkins graduate student Eric Bolton determined that the defective gene is PMR1, whose protein carries both manganese and calcium out of cells. Using special yeast developed by others at Hopkins, he discovered that manganese stops reverse transcriptase, the team reports in the April 26 issue of Molecular Cell.
"These results really point to a never-before-proposed way to try to stop HIV in its tracks -- that simply manipulating concentrations of a metal, manganese, can have a profound effect on reverse transcriptase," says Jef Boeke, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and genetics at the school's Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. "We expect the human equivalent of PMR1 could be a good target for developing new drugs against HIV."
Retroviruses like HIV use reverse transcriptase to make copies of their DNA from RNA, the opposite of how genetic information is usually processed in cells. Each retrovirus has a distinct version of the enzyme, identical in function but different in form and sequence, says Boeke, also a professor of oncology.
The scientists found that each reverse transcriptase they studied has at least two places where manganese and the similar metal magnesium can "dock." Having these spots filled with the right metal is crucial for the enzyme's activity -- its ability to read a particular set of RNA, the scientists learned. When the metals' balance is out of whack, the enzyme doesn't work properly, they report.
"Most reverse transcriptases we studied prefer to bind magnesium. At the very least they were more active when magnesium was bound to them," says Boeke. "But a little extra manganese changes the activity of the enzyme."
Normally, charged magnesium ions outnumber those of manganese by the thousands inside cells. Having just three times more manganese than normal can cut the activity of HIV's reverse transcriptase in half, the scientists report, even though there's still much more magnesium.
HIV's ability to adapt and overcome drugs means that current treatments like AZT, which target reverse transcriptase directly, generally stop working over time. Using a combination of drugs helps block the virus on many fronts, but finding new drugs or a new class of drugs is needed to help keep the virus at bay. The new work suggests that targeting a cell's manganese transporter could be an effective way to stop HIV from replicating, without targeting HIV's reverse transcriptase directly.
"We've been working under the idea that studying reverse transcriptase in yeast may help improve understanding of retroviruses and lead to new ways to deal with HIV," says Boeke. "By studying yeast genetics we made an important discovery about how HIV works and have identified a target for a new class of anti-retroviral drug. It was completely unexpected, but very satisfying."
The yeast that were missing PMR1 appeared fine, suggesting that targeting the manganese transporter in humans may be relatively safe, the scientists suggest. It's not known whether targeting manganese levels will have a therapeutic benefit, but the mantra of HIV treatment is to reduce the number of copies of the virus.
The studies were funded by the National Institutes of Health. Albert Mildvan, M.D., professor of biological chemistry, is also an author of the report.
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http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride/000097.htm
AlFx: the useful tool in laboratory investigations, but potential danger for humans.
Anna Strunecká, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Czech Republic. Jirí Patocka, Military Medical Academy, Department of Toxicology, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Andreas Schuld, Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children, Vancouver, Canada.
Summary Aluminofluoride complexes (AlFx) have been widely used in laboratory investigations for stimulation of various guanine nucleotide-binding proteins. These complexes are able to simulate phosphate groups in many biochemical reactions. They are formed in water solutions containing fluoride and traces of aluminum. Reflecting on many studies, which utilize AlFx in laboratory investigations, a new view of fluoride and aluminum toxicity can be suggested. Moreover, many ecological studies bring evidence about the detrimental effects of fluoride and aluminum ions in humans. The hidden danger of their long-term action is not fully recognized at this point.
Introduction Transfer of phosphate groups is the basic mechanism in the regulation of the activity of numerous enzymes, energy metabolism, cell signaling, and regulation of cell growth. Phosphate is an important component of phospholipids in the cell membranes. In view of the ubiquity of phosphate in cell metabolism, a phosphoryl transfer transition state analog might represent a useful tool for laboratory investigations, but also a strong potential danger for living organisms including humans. Such compound has been already found, described, and opted for molecule of the month March 1997 1,2,3. Moreover, the new phosphate analog has been used in experimental work in numerous laboratories.
Scientists need not buy this powerful compound through any catalog or drug store. Fluoride anions, generally introduced as NaF solutions, have long been known to influence the activity of various enzymes and the GTP binding proteins (G proteins). These proteins are part of a three-component transmembrane signaling system that serve as intermediaries carrying signals from numerous receptors to the cell interior. It has been later demonstrated that the effects primarily attributed to fluoride are caused by aluminofluoride complexes (AlFx) because experiments were performed in the presence of trace amounts of aluminum. This fact had at first been ignored because aluminum is a normal component of glass from which it is etched by a solution with fluoride 4.
However, the exact structure of the activatory complexes able to simulate PO43- group in many biochemical reactions, were disputed. AlFx (where x = 1-6) forms in aqueous solutions of fluoride and aluminum. The different coordination numbers of aluminum originate mainly from the difference of pH 3, 5. The bound AlFx occurs as AlF3 at pH 8.5 but as AlF4 at pH 4.5.
AlFx - phosphoryl transfer transition state analog Analogies between a phosphate group and aluminofluoride complexes consist in atomic and molecular similarities.
The fluorine atom has the same size and the same valence orbitals as oxygen. Of course, fluorine is more electronegative than oxygen and has greater capacity for forming hydrogen bonds. Aluminum is close to phosphorus, their valence electrons are in the same shell. An Al-F bond is the same length as a P-O bond in phosphate, i.e.1.5 to1.6 Å. Like phosphorus, aluminum has possible coordination numbers of 1 - 6, due to the possible hybridization of its outer shell 3p electrons with the 3d orbitals. AlFx are not permanent, equilibria exist between the various possible complexes, depend on the excess concentration of free F- ions and on the pH of the solution 1, 3, 5.
These complexes can bind to proteins by hydrogen bonds to the fluorine atoms just as to oxygen atoms of a phosphate ion. So can arise an aluminofluoride analog of pyrophosphate, R-O-PO2-O-AlF3, which may be bound at the site for the (-phosphate. Thus, for instance, in a GTP-binding protein whose nucleotide site already contains a GDP, an aluminofluoride complex can form hydrogen bonds with the donor groups of the (-phosphate site and bind ionically to the terminal oxygen of the (-phosphate of the GDP. Enzyme-bound ADP or GDP could therefore form a complex with the AlFx that imitated ATP or GTP.
However, an important functional difference between a phosphate group and the structurally analogous AlFx complexes exists 1,6. In phosphate, oxygen is covalently bound to the phosphorus and does not exchange with oxygen from solvent. In AlFx, ionic bonds are formed between the electropositive aluminum and the highly electronegative fluorine. While the reaction of a bound phosphate compound with orthophosphate is endergonic and slow, the corresponding reaction with AlFx is rapid and spontaneous. AlFx bind ionically to the terminal oxygen of GDP (-phosphate. Enzyme-bound GDP or ADP could therefore form a complex with AlFx that imitates ATP or GTP in its effect on protein conformation. This effect often causes a structural change that locks the site and prevents the dissociation of the trisphosphate.
AlFx in laboratory studies Low cost and availability of these fluorometallic complexes contributed probably to the fact that their use as a useful tool in laboratory studies of G proteins widely spread 1,7. The heterotrimeric G proteins mediate the transfer of information from receptor to effector molecules. These studies brought a great deal of knowledge about the involvement of G proteins in cell signaling. Numerous papers bring evidence that AlFx influence various functions and biochemical reactions of all cells and tissues of the animal or human organisms with powerful pharmacological efficacy. Fluoride in the presence of trace amounts of aluminum affects all blood elements, endothelial cells and blood circulation, the function of lymphocytes and cells of the immune system, bone cells, fibroblasts and keratinocytes, ion transport, calcium influx and mobilization, processes of neurotransmission, growth and differentiation of cells, protein phosphorylation, and cytoskeletal proteins 7. It is not surprising in respect to the role of G proteins in signal transduction.
Physiological agonists of G protein-coupled receptors include neurotransmitters and hormones, such as dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, serotonin, acetylcholine, glucagon, vasopressin, melatonin, TSH, neuropeptides, opioids, excitatory amino acids, prostanoids, purines, photons and odorants 8.
It has been demonstrated that AlFx may clone or potentiate the action of numerous extracellular signals. The principle of amplification of the initial signal during its conversion into the functional response has been a widely accepted tenet in cell physiology. AlFx therefore affects the levels of second messenger molecules, including c AMP, phosphoinositide signaling system, and cytosolic calcium homeostasis. Biological signaling pathways interact with one another to form complex networks 9.
The discoveries of receptor diversity, numerous G proteins, and phospholipase C families, broadens enormously the possibilities of interactions of signal transduction events. The question as to how cells manage to make the right responses at the right times is still disputed. The phosphate-analog models of AlFx action have been accepted for G-proteins but may be extended to all enzymes that bind phosphate or nucleoside-polyphosphate. AlFx mimicks a phosphoryl group being transferred. Phosphoryl transfer reactions are involved in processes such as energy transduction, regulation of cell growth, activation of metabolites, and cytoskeletal proteins assembly.
Evidence about the action of AlFx in humans The interpretation of laboratory investigations using isolated animal and human cells or tissues on the intact human organism could be discussed. Nevertheless, many ecological and clinical studies bring evidence about the detrimental effects of synergistic action of fluoride and aluminum ions in humans.
Most of the ill effects caused by fluoride were first recognized among workers in aluminum factories, where fluoride and aluminum are present in high concentrations. The levels of fluoride in serum, urine, and hair of these workers are higher than in the control subjects 10.
Osteoarthritis and related disorders in such workers have been reported since the 1930 s 11. Observation of industrial fluorosis (osteosclerosis) led to the use of fluoride as a treatment to increase bone mass in osteoporosis patients. Psychiatric disturbances were also reported in aluminum smelter workers 12 - 14. The study of persons living near an enamel factory reports a distinct decline in mental activity, poorer memory, inability to coordinate thoughts and reduced ability to write. Those living further away from the factory were less affected and had lower urinary fluoride content (14). Chronic effects of fluorides on the pituitary-thyroid gland system in industrial workers engaged in fluorine production showed also moderate functional changes 15.
Fluoride intoxication with multiple nonspecific symptoms has been observed in chronic hemodialysis patients 16. In some regions, the water used for the dialysate also contained a lot of aluminum. Some patients used aluminum-containing medications. Moreover, patients with renal failure cannot remove aluminum from the blood. Elevated aluminum levels have been also implicated as the cause of dialysis encephalopathy or dementia 17. Dialysis dementia can arise after three to seven years of hemodialysis treatment. Speech disorders precede dementia and convulsions.
Fluoride has been used in the prevention of tooth decay for over 50 years. While official medicine is convinced that the epidemiological evidence that fluoride protects against dental caries is overwhelming 18 many studies reporting and evaluating the risks and adverse effects of fluoride on human organism were published during the same period 19 - 21. Some of them demonstrate the positive correlation between the higher intake of fluoride and osteoarthritis, changes in bone structure, and various non- specific symptoms. Reduction of children intelligence 22, 23, various psychiatric symptoms in adults, such as memory impairment, and difficulties with concentration and thinking were reported 19 - 21. Elevated fluoride content was found in embryonic brain tissues obtained from required abortions in areas where fluorosis was prevalent. These studies showed poor differentiation of brain nerve cells and delayed brain development 24.
Understanding the role of phosphate and G proteins in cell signaling allows to accept the fact that fluoride in the environment, water, and food chains followed by aluminum, can evoke various and multiple pathological symptoms 19, 25. The endocrine glands such as the parathyroid gland, the thyroid, the pituitary gland, and the pineal gland, are extremely sensitive to fluoride (25, 26). Of particular importance relating to G protein activation is the ability of fluorides to clone the role of thyroid-stimulating-hormone (TSH). Fluoride is used in laboratory animals specifically to substitute for TSH. The synergistic action of thyroid on fluoride toxicity has been reported since 1940. Fluorides effects on thyroid hormone synthesis can be observed on many different levels. There is a direct dose-response relationship with iodine: the higher the fluoride intake - the lower the iodine in the system. The major areas of iodine deficiency are identical to endemic fluorosis areas. The comparison of fluoride toxicity symptoms and symptoms of thyroid disorders has been reviewed 25. The functional changes of the hypophysis-thyroid gland system caused by disorders of the regulatory chain and fluorine impact on thyroid hormones metabolism at the level of target cells were reported 15. Moreover, the melatonin concentrations were positively correlated with TSH levels in hypothyroidism, and negatively correlated with T3 in hyperthyroidism 27. Regarding the crucial role of the thyroid in regulation of growth, development, and metabolism of many tissues, AlFx might influence the proper function of the entire human body.
Chronic exposure of humans to AlFx begins in the foetus 21, 24. Every minute at least one child is dying due to excess fluoride exposure dressed up as iodine deficiency. High fluoride exposure appears to weaken mental function among children, as well as adults. In respect to the etiology of Alzheimer s disease, the long term action of AlFx also represents a serious and powerful risk factor for the development of this new threat of human civilization epidemy (28). AlFx may affect all pathological hallmarks of this disease: processes of neurotransmission, ( amyloid generation, plaque formation, metabolism of apolipoprotein E, protein tau phosphorylation, cytoskeletal protein organization, transport of ions, energy metabolism, and calcium homeostasis 29,30. In light of the published findings, the AlFx s harm to intelligence would not be neglected by responsible scientists and physicians. AlFx represent serious hidden danger for homeostasis, metabolism, growth, and differentiation of the living organism including humans.
Fluoride and aluminum in ecosystems Aluminum, the metal of the earth's lithosphere, is everywhere: in water sources, in nourishment, in different food additives and also in air in the form of dust particles. Aluminum is present in all living organisms including human 31. It has, until relatively recently, existed in forms not generally available to living organisms, and was therefore regarded as non-toxic. With the appearance of acid rains and the use of aluminum in industry, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of uncomplexed aluminum in ecosystems. The water supply industry uses aluminum salts to produce a less turbid drinking water. In the UK, concentrations of between 0.01 and 3.5 mg/l have been found in potable waters 32. Toxic effects of increased aluminum concentration have already been observed in some animal and plant species living in lakes with aluminum concentrations of between 0.1 and 0. 8 mg/l 31.
Fluoride comes from fluoridated water, from crops grown with fluoridated water, from medicines, dental products, pesticides, fertilizers, fuels. About 143, 000 tons are pumped yearly into drinking water supplies in the U.S.A. 500, 000 tons a year goes into fresh waters and the sea, 155, 000 tons of fluoride are released annually into America s air 21. Industrial fertilizers and pesticides increase the amount of this element in agricultural products and food sources 21, 33. Several studies reported a high content of fluoride and aluminum in all tested Chinese, Indian and herbal teas (34). A cup of green tea can contain up to 22 mg of fluoride, as much as 22 l of fluoridated water, a cup of black tea 17.25 mg. Tea is the second most-consumed beverage after water in the world. That the aluminum present in tea is indeed resorbed in the simultaneous presence of fluoride was demonstrated in healthy male volunteers after drinking equal volumes (1.2 l) of tea, coffee or tap water on separate days. In every case the amount of the urinary excreted aluminum increased on the day when tea was taken. The results indicated that tea consumption must be considered in any assessment of the total dietary intake of aluminum in human beings 35.
Reports of fluorosis popped up in the 1970's when phosphate fertilizer plants dramatically increased production. For more than one hundred years, Florida has been a major producer of superphosphate fertilizer. Residents have complained at different times of difficulty in breathing, sore throats, and various nonspecific health problems due to excessive emissions from phosphate fertilizer plants. Spills from toxic waste water ponds dump hundreds of millions of gallons of highly acidic water laced with toxic fluorides, into rivers and streams. People living near phosphate fertilizer plants are twice as likely to develop lung cancer and osteoblastic leukemia 36.
No one can predict what happens in the human body after a truly chronic exposure to an increased content of fluoride and aluminum in body fluids and in various tissues. The severity and the development of the symptoms depend on a person s age, genetic background, nutrition status, kidney function, and many other factors. The natural barrier systems for aluminum such as low absorption in the gastro-intestinal tract, and various physiological ligands, such as citrate, phosphate, and silicic acid, were efficient buffers preventing the increased intake of this metal in natural conditions. The population is now exposed to soluble aluminum, which is more bioavailable. The presence of fluoride caused more aluminum to cross the blood-brain barrier and be deposited in the brain of rat 37. This study compared behavior, body weight, plasma, and brain fluoride levels after NaF exposures during late gestation, at weaning or in adults. Rats exposed as adults displayed behavior-specific changes typical of cognitive deficits, whereas rats exposed prenatally had dispersed behaviors typical of hyperactivity. Aluminum-induced neural degeneration in rats is greatly enhanced when the animals were fed low doses of fluoride 38.
Conclusions The discovery of AlFx as a new class of phosphate analog brought numerous demonstrations of their powerful pharmacological efficacy. It is not surprising in respect to the role of G proteins in signal transduction. G proteins take part in an enormous variety of biological signaling systems, helping control almost all important life processes 39. It might seem difficult to decide if numerous laboratory experiments demonstrate a potential toxicological risk of fluoride and aluminum for the human population. The origins of many human diseases are in the functioning (and malfunctioning) of signaling components 9. Pharmacologists estimate that up to 60% of all medicines used today exert their effects through G protein signaling pathways (39). However, it is evident that AlFx is a molecule giving the false information amplified by processes of signal transmission.
The understanding of mechanism of action of these fluorometallic complexes could allow us to explain numerous observations about the effects of increased amount of fluoride and aluminum in the environment, drinks, and food. Fluoridation of public water treated with aluminum salts together with the wide use of fluoride and aluminum in medicine, industry, and agriculture, started the era of supplementation of human bodies with these ions as never before in the history of human race. Science has already accumulated evidence about their detrimental effects on the living organism. It seems that scientists still need more significant data to be sure about the causal relationship between the action of AlFx and disturbances of human health. However, numerous published reports bring us at least strong warning.
Chronic exposure of humans to AlFx begins during the first trimester in the womb. It is evident that children are at highest risk. It therefore follows that the sources of fluoride available to children must get addressed first, prioritizing on sources with highest content. For many this is not only water. For some it is fluoride in formula and prepared cereals, for others it is exposure to coal smoke during cooking. For others yet it is close vicinity to power plants with high fluoride emissions, or exposure to other fluoride-emitting industries. Then there are fruit juices and iced tea products, the first beverages introduced to toddlers, as well as toothpaste and other dental products. Vaccines, allergy skin tests, 25% human serum albumin, baby skin creams, baby diaper wipes, and antacids, which are frequently given to infants, are extremely high in aluminum. For adults, the accumulation continues from suntan lotion, cookware, aluminum cans and skin moisturizers. Such items as deodorants, vaginal douches and baby wipe not only have high aluminum content, but are applied to areas wherethere is far greater tendency to absorption through the skin.
The increasing content of fluorides and aluminum in food chains has raised the possibility that the near future will supply us with much more data about the danger of AlFx for humans, if it has not already done so. How long shall we wait to obtain evidence about the destructive actions of AlFx on the human race? How many subjects including ourselves, our children and our friends, shall we need for an overwhelming study?
Information about the authors:
Anna Strunecká, Professor of Physiology, Charles University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Vinieckná 7, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic. Email: strun@natur.cuni.cz Faculty of Sciences, biology and chemistry, graduated in 1966, Ph.D. in normal and pathological physiology 197O, DSc in physiology 1988 Charles University, Professor of physiology 1988. 1981 - 199O Head of the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University. pa: New York Academy of Science, International Union of Physiological Science, International Union of Biochemical Science. Her previous research was focused on the role of phospholipids, phosphoinositides, and calcium ions in the regulation of cell metabolism. She addressed her work to the implications in the development of pathological states of cells in blood diseases, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer s disease. The interactions of phosphoinositide signaling system with cytoskeletal proteins in red blood cells and the effect of aluminofluoride complexes were studied. In the past research the insect flight muscle, rat hepatocytes, human red blood cells, and platelets were used. She has published more than 15O scientific papers, four textbooks, and numerous articles in the lay press. She has 3O years experience teaching biologists, biochemists, and biophysicists. Her biography is included in, e.g., Who s Who of Women, Who s Who in Science in Europe, Who s Who of Professional and Business Women, etc. She is the Associate Editor of the News in Physiological Sciences and a member of the American Biographical Institute s Research Board of Advisors.
Jirí Patocka, Professor of toxicology, Department of Toxicology, Military Academy, Vimkova 870, 500 01 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic email: patocka@.pmfhk.cz Faculty of Sciences, chemistry and physics, graduated in 1962, PhD in biochemistry 1974, DSc in toxicology 1992. Head research worker and Professor of toxicology at the Department of Toxicology, Military Academy, Hradec Králové. Member of the Czech Chemical Society, Czech Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Czech histo- and Cytochemical Society, Czech Society of Industrial Toxicology, Czech Society of Biological Psychiatry, Czech Psychopharmacological Society, The European Peptide Society and IBRO. He has published more than 250 scientific papers and presented more than 200 lectures and posters on scientific meetings. Co-autor of 8 books and/or textbooks. Almost 400 citations to SCI. His scientific work focuses on the biochemical mechanisms of toxic action of different biologically active compounds, mainly on inhibition of cholinesterases, include their application as Alzheimer s disease drugs and on the function of centrally active anticholinesterases and different peptides in teaching and memory processes.
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"http://www.slweb.org/inkielewicz-2004.html"
Fluoride 2004; 37(1): 7-12.
Fluoride effects on glutathione peroxidase and lipid peroxidation in rats.
I Inkielewicz I,(a) J Krechniak (a,b)
a Department of Toxicology, Medical University of Gdansk. b For Correspondence: Dept. of Toxicology, Medical University of Gdansk. 80-416, Gdansk, Al. Gen. Hallera 107, Poland, Email: woczar@amg.gda.pl
SUMMARY: Eight-week old male Wistar rats weighing 180 g were given sodium fluoride in drinking water at a concentration of 5 and 25 mg F-/L for 12 weeks. Control animals received tap water containing 0.3 mg F-/L. The activity of glutathione peroxidase and the concentration of malondialdehye (MDA) were determined in kidney, liver, brain, testis, and blood or plasma. In exposed animals the activity of glutathione peroxidase decreased significantly, and the concentration of MDA increased in a dose and exposure-time dependent manner. The results of this study confirm other reports that fluoride induces free radical toxicity in animals.
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2007 musings by an old junior officer on "Duty, Honor, Country" to "USA corporate usurped, mercenary canon fodder"
Duty, Honor, Country 2007
An Open Letter
to the New Generation of "USA" Military Officers Serving and Protecting Our Nation
By Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret., 1978
National Commander, The Patriots
Dear Comrades in Arms,
You are facing challenges in 2007 that we of previous generations never dreamed of.
I.m just an old fighter pilot (101 combat missions in Vietnam, F-4 Phantom, Phu Cat, 1969-1970) who.s now a disabled veteran with terminal cancer from Agent Orange.
Our mailing list (over 22,000) includes veterans from all branches of the service, all political parties, and all parts of the political spectrum. We are Republicans and Democrats, Greens and Libertarians, Constitutionists and Reformers, and a good many Independents.
What unites us is our desire for a government that (1) follows the Constitution, (2) honors the truth, and (3) serves the people.
We see our government going down the wrong path, all too often ignoring military advice, and heading us toward great danger. And we look to you who still serve as the best hope for protecting our nation from disaster.
We see the current Iraq War as having been unnecessary, entered into under false pretenses, and horribly mismanaged by the civilian authorities. Thousands of our brave troops have been needlessly sacrificed in a futile attempt at occupation of a hostile land. Many more thousands have suffered wounds which will change their lives forever. Tens of thousands have severe psychological problems because of what they have seen and what they have done. Potentially hundreds of thousands could be poisoned by depleted uranium, with symptoms appearing years later, just as happened to us exposed to Agent Orange.
The military services are depleted and demoralized. The VA system is under-funded and overwhelmed. The National Guard and Reserves have been subjected to tour after tour, disrupting lives for even the lucky ones who return intact. Jobs have been lost, marriages have been destroyed, homes have been foreclosed, and children have been estranged. And for what?
We have lost allies, made new enemies, and created thousands of new terrorists, further endangering the American people. But you know all this.
I.m sure you also see the enormous danger in a possible attack on Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons. Such an event, seriously contemplated by the Cheney faction of the Bush administration, would make enemies of Russia and China and turn us into the number one rogue nation on earth.
The effect on our long-term national security would be devastating.
Some of us had hoped that the new Democratic Congress would end the occupation of Iraq and take firm steps to prevent an attack on Iran, perhaps by impeaching Bush and Cheney.
These hopes have been dashed. The lily-livered Democrats have caved in, turning their backs on those few (like Congressman Jack Murtha) who understand the situation. Many of us have personally walked the halls of Congress, to no avail.
This is where you come in. We know that many of you share our concern and our determination to protect our republic from an arrogant, out-of-control, imperial presidency and a compliant, namby-pamby Congress (both of which are unduly influenced by the oil companies and other big-money interests). We know that you (like us) wouldn.t have pursued a military career unless you were idealistic and devoted to our nation and its people. (None of us do it for the pay and working conditions!) But we also recognize that you may not see how you can influence these events. We in the military have always had a historic subservience to civilian authority.
Perhaps I can help with whatever wisdom I.ve gathered from age (I retired in 1978, so I am ancient indeed). Our oath of office is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Might I suggest that this includes a rogue president and vice-president? Certainly we are bound to carry out the legal orders of our superiors. But the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which binds all of us enshrines the Nuremberg Principles which this country established after World War II (which you are too young to remember). One of those Nuremberg Principles says that we in the military have not only the right, but also the DUTY to refuse an illegal order.
It was on this basis that we executed Nazi officers who were only carrying out their orders.. The Constitution which we are sworn to uphold says that treaties entered into by the United States are the .highest law of the land,. equivalent to the Constitution itself. Accordingly, we in the military are sworn to uphold treaty law, including the United Nations charter and the Geneva Convention.
Based on the above, I contend that should some civilian order you to initiate a nuclear attack on Iran (for example), you are duty-bound to refuse that order.
I might also suggest that you should consider whether the circumstances demand that you arrest whoever gave the order as a war criminal.
I know for a fact that in recent history (once under Nixon and once under Reagan), the military nuclear chain of command in the White House discussed these things and were prepared to refuse an order to nuke Russia.
In effect they took the (non-existent) button out of the hands of the President. We were thus never quite as close to World War III as many feared, no matter how irrational any president might have become.
They determined that the proper response to any such order was, "Why, sir?." Unless there was (in their words) a damn good answer, nothing was going to happen.
I suggest that if you in this generation have not had such a discussion, perhaps it is time you do.
In hindsight, it´s too bad such a discussion did not take place prior to the preemptive "shock and awe" attack on Baghdad. Many of us at the time spoke out vehemently that such an attack would be an impeachable offense, a war crime against the people of Iraq, and treason against the United States of America.
But our voices were drowned out and never reached the ears of the generals in 2003. I now regret that I never sent a letter such as this at that time, but depended on the corporate media to carry my message. I must not make that mistake again.
Also in hindsight, President Bush could be court-martialed for abuse of power as Commander-in- Chief. Vice President Cheney could probably be court-martialed for his performance as Acting Commander-in-Chief in the White House bunker the morning of September 11, 2001. We in the U.S. military would never consider a military coup, removing an elected president and installing one of our own. But following our oath of office, obeying the Nuremberg Principles, and preventing a rogue president from committing a war crime is not a military coup.
If it requires the detention of executive branch officials, we will not impose a military dictatorship. We will let the Constitutional succession take place. This is what we are sworn to. This is protecting the Constitution, our highest obligation.
In 2007,
this is what is meant by "Duty, Honor, Country."
Thank you all for your service to this nation. May God bless America, and sustain us in this difficult time. And thanks for listening to the musings of an old junior officer.
Respectfully,
Robert M. Bowman, PhD, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. 1978
1494 Patriot Dr, Melbourne, FL 32940
home phone (321) 752-5955; cell (321) 258-0582
An Open Letter
to the New Generation of "USA" Military Officers Serving and Protecting Our Nation
By Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret., 1978
National Commander, The Patriots
Dear Comrades in Arms,
You are facing challenges in 2007 that we of previous generations never dreamed of.
I.m just an old fighter pilot (101 combat missions in Vietnam, F-4 Phantom, Phu Cat, 1969-1970) who.s now a disabled veteran with terminal cancer from Agent Orange.
Our mailing list (over 22,000) includes veterans from all branches of the service, all political parties, and all parts of the political spectrum. We are Republicans and Democrats, Greens and Libertarians, Constitutionists and Reformers, and a good many Independents.
What unites us is our desire for a government that (1) follows the Constitution, (2) honors the truth, and (3) serves the people.
We see our government going down the wrong path, all too often ignoring military advice, and heading us toward great danger. And we look to you who still serve as the best hope for protecting our nation from disaster.
We see the current Iraq War as having been unnecessary, entered into under false pretenses, and horribly mismanaged by the civilian authorities. Thousands of our brave troops have been needlessly sacrificed in a futile attempt at occupation of a hostile land. Many more thousands have suffered wounds which will change their lives forever. Tens of thousands have severe psychological problems because of what they have seen and what they have done. Potentially hundreds of thousands could be poisoned by depleted uranium, with symptoms appearing years later, just as happened to us exposed to Agent Orange.
The military services are depleted and demoralized. The VA system is under-funded and overwhelmed. The National Guard and Reserves have been subjected to tour after tour, disrupting lives for even the lucky ones who return intact. Jobs have been lost, marriages have been destroyed, homes have been foreclosed, and children have been estranged. And for what?
We have lost allies, made new enemies, and created thousands of new terrorists, further endangering the American people. But you know all this.
I.m sure you also see the enormous danger in a possible attack on Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons. Such an event, seriously contemplated by the Cheney faction of the Bush administration, would make enemies of Russia and China and turn us into the number one rogue nation on earth.
The effect on our long-term national security would be devastating.
Some of us had hoped that the new Democratic Congress would end the occupation of Iraq and take firm steps to prevent an attack on Iran, perhaps by impeaching Bush and Cheney.
These hopes have been dashed. The lily-livered Democrats have caved in, turning their backs on those few (like Congressman Jack Murtha) who understand the situation. Many of us have personally walked the halls of Congress, to no avail.
This is where you come in. We know that many of you share our concern and our determination to protect our republic from an arrogant, out-of-control, imperial presidency and a compliant, namby-pamby Congress (both of which are unduly influenced by the oil companies and other big-money interests). We know that you (like us) wouldn.t have pursued a military career unless you were idealistic and devoted to our nation and its people. (None of us do it for the pay and working conditions!) But we also recognize that you may not see how you can influence these events. We in the military have always had a historic subservience to civilian authority.
Perhaps I can help with whatever wisdom I.ve gathered from age (I retired in 1978, so I am ancient indeed). Our oath of office is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Might I suggest that this includes a rogue president and vice-president? Certainly we are bound to carry out the legal orders of our superiors. But the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which binds all of us enshrines the Nuremberg Principles which this country established after World War II (which you are too young to remember). One of those Nuremberg Principles says that we in the military have not only the right, but also the DUTY to refuse an illegal order.
It was on this basis that we executed Nazi officers who were only carrying out their orders.. The Constitution which we are sworn to uphold says that treaties entered into by the United States are the .highest law of the land,. equivalent to the Constitution itself. Accordingly, we in the military are sworn to uphold treaty law, including the United Nations charter and the Geneva Convention.
Based on the above, I contend that should some civilian order you to initiate a nuclear attack on Iran (for example), you are duty-bound to refuse that order.
I might also suggest that you should consider whether the circumstances demand that you arrest whoever gave the order as a war criminal.
I know for a fact that in recent history (once under Nixon and once under Reagan), the military nuclear chain of command in the White House discussed these things and were prepared to refuse an order to nuke Russia.
In effect they took the (non-existent) button out of the hands of the President. We were thus never quite as close to World War III as many feared, no matter how irrational any president might have become.
They determined that the proper response to any such order was, "Why, sir?." Unless there was (in their words) a damn good answer, nothing was going to happen.
I suggest that if you in this generation have not had such a discussion, perhaps it is time you do.
In hindsight, it´s too bad such a discussion did not take place prior to the preemptive "shock and awe" attack on Baghdad. Many of us at the time spoke out vehemently that such an attack would be an impeachable offense, a war crime against the people of Iraq, and treason against the United States of America.
But our voices were drowned out and never reached the ears of the generals in 2003. I now regret that I never sent a letter such as this at that time, but depended on the corporate media to carry my message. I must not make that mistake again.
Also in hindsight, President Bush could be court-martialed for abuse of power as Commander-in- Chief. Vice President Cheney could probably be court-martialed for his performance as Acting Commander-in-Chief in the White House bunker the morning of September 11, 2001. We in the U.S. military would never consider a military coup, removing an elected president and installing one of our own. But following our oath of office, obeying the Nuremberg Principles, and preventing a rogue president from committing a war crime is not a military coup.
If it requires the detention of executive branch officials, we will not impose a military dictatorship. We will let the Constitutional succession take place. This is what we are sworn to. This is protecting the Constitution, our highest obligation.
In 2007,
this is what is meant by "Duty, Honor, Country."
Thank you all for your service to this nation. May God bless America, and sustain us in this difficult time. And thanks for listening to the musings of an old junior officer.
Respectfully,
Robert M. Bowman, PhD, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. 1978
1494 Patriot Dr, Melbourne, FL 32940
home phone (321) 752-5955; cell (321) 258-0582
jueves, 4 de octubre de 2007
Abolish the Federal Reserve Bank System, Now!
“We Hold These Truths”by Richard C. Cook
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
For the last nine months the author has been publishing essays on economic and monetary reform on Global Research and other websites. The essays have evoked a worldwide response, translation into a number of languages, and a readership in the tens of thousands.
“We Hold These Truths” is the concluding article of the series.
The author took on this project after retiring after thirty-two years in the field of public policy and finance. Following graduation from the College of William and Mary in 1970, he worked for the federal government and taught history. He spent over twenty years with the U.S. Treasury Department where his experience was practical rather than academic.
His basic thesis is that we have today a tragically escalating danger to democracy and world peace which stems from a flawed monetary system that is essentially a centuries-old relic.
In 1913, the nation’s private bankers, allied with those of Great Britain and continental Europe, gained nearly complete control of the monetary supply of the U.S. They did this through passage by Congress of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The immediate result was massive inflation and a huge increase in the national debt through bank financing of World War I.
There then followed the prosperity of the industrial growth of the 1920s until the bursting of a speculative bubble and contraction of the money supply brought on the Great Depression. The Depression ended, not by any action by the banks or the initiative of the private sector, but through massive government spending on social programs followed by expenditures for World War II.
After the war, the U.S. remained the world’s greatest industrial power until the 1970s. Since then, the policy known as monetarism has prevailed, by which the private financial interests reasserted the predominance they had lost during and after the New Deal.
Today those interests reign supreme. The difference is that while at the start of the Depression the financiers exerted their power by making money scarce, they have adapted to circumstances and now accomplish the same ends by inflating it out of recognition.
Meanwhile, U.S. manufacturing has been replaced by the rise of the “service economy,” with reliance on worldwide “dollar hegemony” backed by military power to finance our trade and fiscal deficits.
An economy subservient to monetarism administered at the top by the Federal Reserve System is one that is based on financial bubbles and an escalating pyramid of debt.
Consumers, businesses, and government at all levels are drowning in so much debt that the only people making any money are those who operate the financial sector and control the global corporations.
The profits of private financial interests in 2006 exceeded $500 billion in an economy with a GDP of $13 trillion. The ill effects of this drag on the economy cannot be overestimated. While the financial sector has prospered, even through the recent crisis marked by Federal Reserve bailouts of floundering investors, the producing economy of working men and women has been in recession for over a year and is bogged down in a stagflation reminiscent of the 1970s.
The author’s primary recommendation is to replace a Federal Reserve controlled by private finance with a new structure centered around the creation of a democratic currency, one based on recognition of credit as a public utility.
Such a system could be created by using the best ideas of monetary reformers from American history, elsewhere around the world, and past practices such as issuance of the Greenbacks in Civil War days and low-cost credit made available during the New Deal.
If applied worldwide, such reforms could remove many of the causes of the economic and social distress that have made the last century, though prosperous for a minority, among the most destructive in human history. To achieve the potential offered to mankind by today’s era of science and technology applied to production, the program described herein is among the most far-reaching ever presented.
What We Must Do Today
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are, or should be, the fruits of democracy. But the political democracy as defined by the Declaration of Independence has not been achieved, because economic democracy for the masses remains a distant dream. The attainment of real economic democracy is the next task for the human race in a world on the brink of destruction.
In the midst of the most productive world economy in history, the U.S. and much of the world today are in crisis, with stagnant or falling incomes, rising prices, collapse of societal purchasing power, persistent poverty, and skyrocketing debt. Many experts are predicting a worldwide economic depression, as people with money mobilize their institutions, armies, and police forces to protect themselves inside their gated communities and “green zones.”
No one in an official capacity has provided a convincing explanation of what is really going on in the world economy. In the West, we have been deceived for generations by the notion that economics is a science that operates under fixed laws that can be modeled mathematically by specialists trained in “neoclassical” methods. Many economists, especially those associated with the “Chicago School,” bow at the mention of “market forces,” assuming they are somehow “real,” though existing beyond the reach of human will and direction.
None of this is true. There are no such things as the “laws” assumed by the neoclassicists, as even Nobel laureates are starting to recognize. See, for instance, “There is No Invisible Hand” by Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, The Guardian, December 20, 2002. The concept of an Invisible Hand guiding market forces was invented by English writers of the pre-industrial age to explain supply-and-demand in a village economy. It gained ideological force because it was a convenient way to fight Marxism and keep government from interfering with the growing power of finance capitalism during the nineteenth century.
Of course there are plenty of habits and conventions, myths and prejudices in the way modern economies function. But the “laws” are the ones created by governments controlled by powerful people who work the levers of legalized influence to augment their wealth through legislative favor. Behind all the rhetoric about “markets” are a host of government-granted monopolies and cartels, especially those engaged in the lending of money, the trading of oil, and the manufacture of weapons.
The most egregious and harmful monopoly of all is the banking monopoly that controls the Federal Reserve System.
Again, the laws of the economic system are man-made. In some cases, the laws may provide benefits to those who work for a living, but in most cases not. What we forget is that any of these laws can be changed and that many of them now should and must be changed.
Besides, haven’t we learned by now that what has aptly been called “market fundamentalism” is really shorthand for the totalitarianism of money? It’s a fact that long ago control of economic life in the U.S. and other Western nations was turned over to a monetary elite who control both industry and resources through the issuance of credit that originates from the privilege of centrally-controlled fractional reserve banking.
Through this system, the people of the world, even in prosperous nations, have been reduced to the status of debt-slaves. This vestige of the financial system of the Middle Ages allows banks to produce credit “out of thin air” and lend it at a profit. Similar systems exist in communist nations like China. The only difference is that the central bank there is controlled by the government and the ruling party elite.
Within the U.S., the banks lend to consumers, businesses, investors, speculators, and to federal, state, and local governments. Under the banking laws, they generate this credit against a small “reserve base” consisting of customer deposits, government debt, and overnight deposits from corporations and government agencies known as repurchase agreements, or “repos.” The size of these deposits, along with lending potential based on them, has exploded over the last two decades in the era of electronic funds transfer.
The dependence of economic life on debt has assured that there has been a steady flow of wealth from the producing economy of goods and services into the financial web which surrounds it. Debt from lending at interest grows at an exponential rate. This is especially the case today when the banks rule the economy through the system of monetarism, where the money supply is regulated by the raising and lowering of interest rates. This is in fact a system of institutionalized usury.
Within the U.S., where the public and private infrastructures have been stripped through privatization, outsourcing, mergers, and acquisitions, every period of economic growth in the last generation has been largely a bank-created bubble. Each time a bubble bursts the financiers gain more wealth by buying assets at bankruptcy prices. The latest was the housing bubble, and we have started to see the bursting of an even larger bubble consisting of securities and investment funds. In fact, the financiers have already been taking advantage of the broad monetary collapse by purchasing bargain stocks through the fluctuations of the stock market.
Control of wealth by high finance is the main reason the bounty of science and technology has not assured a better life to the majority of the people of the world.
Despite the power of industrial processes which have the capability of providing a decent living to everyone in the world—contrary to the myth of global overpopulation—the world still lives under the illusion of scarcity. This tends to justify the senseless struggle for wealth and control of resources. But it’s one of the most glaring examples of the condition of mass hypnotism that has weighed humanity down throughout the ages.
Ethically, the illusion of scarcity leads to the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, the fight for dominance and supremacy. “Economic man,” whether capitalist or communist, still lives at the animal or sub-human level. The higher laws of human ethics, including the injunction to “love our neighbors as ourselves,” have been ignored. But they need not be forgotten if we wake up to the fact that we have it in our power to live in a much different and better world.
The present situation is just as harmful to the wealthy and powerful who hold their fellow men in bondage as it is to the debtors they oppress, for the rich as well are deprived of the benefits of living in a world where human being are free, happy, generous, and productive. Also, the system harms everyone through the gross over-consumption and waste needed to maximize profits, as well as through potentially catastrophic pollution.
The solution to the problem that cries out around the world for recognition is monetary reform based on principles of economic democracy. But such reform must include the realization that science and technology long ago removed the need for everyone on the planet to work all the time just to survive. Humanity, through its work and sacrifice, has earned the “leisure” dividend that reformers have talked about for over a century but which has yet to be realized.
Research shows that the U.S. actually had a balanced and reasonable approach to monetary matters for much of its history. The thirteen American colonies built a dynamic pre-industrial economy without the presence of a single bank. Throughout the nineteenth century, we developed the most powerful economy on earth without a large national debt. Our economy was largely capitalized by the availability of land, the capital markets, and retained corporate earnings. Money came into circulation by minting of gold and silver coins, government distribution of gold and silver certificates, Greenbacks that had been spent into circulation by the government during the Civil War, and a modest amount of bank money used to support commerce.
It took the efforts and sacrifice of the organized labor movement and even the threat of revolution, but by the year 1900, workers in the U.S. and Europe had begun to share in the bounty. Much of the world was at peace after a century of economic development, and it seemed to many that mankind stood on the threshold of epochal breakthroughs in prosperity and cooperation. Today in 2007, where people’s spirits have been crushed by decades of war, social and interpersonal conflict, and the economic rat race, we have no appreciation at all of the sense of excitement and optimism abroad in the world around the turn of the twentieth century. Even in history books, this spirit has seldom been captured, with the 965-page volume by historian Page Smith entitled The Rise of Industrial America the rare exception.
But by 1914 a world war had begun. The completely unanticipated horror and devastation of this conflict shattered an entire generation. It led to a century of war, economic turmoil, and psychic alienation that continues in full force today. In the U.S., the shift to an age of upheaval was marked by a crucial turning point which took place when Congress gave away its constitutional authority over money to a small group of private bankers known as “the Money Trust” through enactment of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
It happened on December 23, 1913, when most of Congress had left Washington, D.C., for the Christmas recess. The plans for the Federal Reserve System had been drawn up by a committee of politicians and financiers, including bankers imported from Europe to explain to the Americans how these sorts of things were done. Informed people had always known that a central bank controlled by financial interests was the road to economic tyranny, which was why both the First and Second Banks of the United States had been discontinued long ago and why the nation had operated without a central bank since the 1830s. Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., (D-MN), father of the future aviator, called the Federal Reserve Act “the worst legislative crime of the ages.” But the Money Trust prevailed.
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which had been passed earlier in 1913, created an income tax that would be needed to pay the interest on the national debt that the financiers knew would soar into the stratosphere once the Federal Reserve System had been implemented. It was a fact that throughout history, central banks, government debt, and excessive military spending had gone hand-in-hand. Not accidentally, the Federal Reserve Act marked the beginning of the tragic century of world conflict that still afflicts us.
We in the U.S. now need to reclaim our monetary system as an institution of democracy before our government and those of the great Asian land powers make the fatal error of igniting yet another world conflagration. The war in Iraq and the ongoing U.S. military conquest to control Middle Eastern oil and shore up the sliding dollar are just another episode in a sad, familiar story. Whether we do it now or in the midst of the rubble of our civilization, we must remove the central monetary controllers from their stranglehold over the economy as the first step in a return to social, political, and economic sanity.
A lifetime of involvement in public finance with the federal government has led the author to call for one basic reform to move in the direction of accomplishing this objective. In order to start redressing the damage that began in 1913, we should now abolish the privately-controlled Federal Reserve as a bank of issue and re-establish constitutional control of credit as a public utility.
Public creation of credit should be reflected in two basic policies: 1) direct issuance of credit to citizens through a basic income guarantee, a periodic National Dividend, and low-interest bank lending; and 2) direct spending by government for essential services—i.e., restoring the Greenback last seen in Civil War days and the decades following—combined with public low-interest financing of infrastructure investment.
Taking these steps would allow us to reduce much of the onerous burden of taxation at the federal, state, and municipal levels. It would also create a money supply which is properly independent of the banking system. Under a system of economic democracy, banks would have a role, but only in facilitating commerce. They would not create money through debt, and they would not dictate economic decisions based exclusively on pecuniary values.
At this point a note of clarification is in order. There are many people today who advocate a return to the gold standard but who are confused about the definition of “fiat money.”
There are actually different types of “fiat money.”
The debt-based credit created by the Federal Reserve System, often called “fiat money,” is not money at all. It is simply temporary credit with a lien against it for repayment with interest.
But real “fiat money,” like the Civil War Greenbacks or the American colonial paper currency, was true democratic money that was spent into circulation by government and was never inflationary in and of itself. Rather it allowed commerce to expand and people to prosper.
This type of fiat money created at the grassroots level to generate citizen purchasing power is actually the key to economic democracy in the modern industrial era. The question of assuring purchasing power to the masses of citizens is the key economic issue of the industrial age, though it was not recognized as susceptible of correction by national governments until the onset of what came to be called Keynesian economics during the Great Depression.
But Keynesian economics—leading to the hybrid known as the welfare state—was only a partial solution and was largely abandoned upon the arrival in the 1980s of the conservative ideologies associated with “Reaganism” in the U.S. and “Thatcherism” in Great Britain. These were really throwbacks to pre-industrial economic thinking, where it was assumed that additional “supply” would generate the purchasing power necessary to consume it—hence the term “supply-side economics.” In fact, it was the economics of the medieval manor brought back to life in the space age, with a good deal of bitterness thrown in when it didn’t work.
The results are what we see today—an escalating economic disaster where, under the monetarist system, the shortage of purchasing power is imperfectly met by bank lending at a level that ultimately bankrupts consumers, businesses, and government alike.
Instead, what the author is advocating it the issuance of grassroots credit through a basic income guarantee, a National Dividend, and low-cost bank lending, combined with self-financed government infrastructure programs that would reflect the necessary role of government in supplying the deficit in purchasing power to the economy.
This would correct the flaws in Keynesian economics by removing government deficit spending and high levels of taxation from the credit equation.
More details on this program are provided by the author’s Global Research articles, particularly the ones entitled “An Emergency Program of Monetary Reform for the U.S.” (April 26, 2007) and “Monetary Reform and How a National Monetary System Should Work” (May 11, 2007). These articles rely heavily on the Social Credit ideas of British engineer C.H. Douglas (1879-1952). Douglas, like Keynes, identified the chronic gap between prices and purchasing power as the central problem in economics, a gap whose existence had been denied by the early industrial “classical” economists such as Mill, Malthus, and Ricardo.
The existence of the gap between prices and purchasing power had been identified by Keynes as the central problem in economics in his landmark work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, published in 1935. Keynes knew that the underlying cause of the Great Depression was the fact that an industrial economy generated insufficient income through wages, salaries, and dividends for society to pay the prices firms had to charge for their output in order to secure sufficient retained earnings. A substantial level of reinvestment is an absolute necessity for firms operating in an industrial economy because of the depreciation of the physical plant and access to resources, also known as entropy. Keynes recommended that governments commit to deficit spending through borrowing as a means by which society could fill the price-purchasing power gap.
But Douglas saw this as an imperfect solution which would only add to the economy’s overall debt burden. Instead he advocated the simple expedient of a direct government payment to individuals through both a National Dividend and price subsidies. The National Dividend would be a payment against a book entry based on the overall appreciation of the value of the economy over time and, reflecting growth of societal wealth, one which would be non-inflationary and generated without recourse to taxation or borrowing. Douglas’s ideas were repressed through opposition by British and U.S. financiers who quite willing to support the Keynesian solution because government borrowing played into their hands.
Since World War II, the U.S. economy, the strongest in the world, has been a battleground between Keynesianism and monetarism, though the struggle has borne a certain resemblance to the fight to the death between the tyrannosaurus and triceratops of popular movie fare in that it’s really a struggle between two outmoded dinosaurs.
Thus we have not been able to do without massive amounts of government deficit spending, with monetarism meanwhile working to generate huge amounts of debt at relatively high interest rates compared to the New Deal era. Economic growth, which Keynesian economics relied on to stay ahead of the debt curve, has not been able to keep pace since the 1970s.
Today’s bankrupt monstrosity is the result. The solution is to do today what should have been done in the 1930s, which is to implement economic democracy, with Douglas’s Social Credit ideas a starting point. It’s the whole package of reforms which the author has come to refer to as “credit administered as a public utility.”
Reform Recommendations
The articles compiled in the Global Research essays referenced above contain numerous recommendations for actions that would restore the issuance and management of credit as a public utility under the commonwealth of American citizens which is recognized by the U.S. Constitution as the ultimate governing authority. That is what is meant by “We the People.” Credit administered as a public utility would reflect the discoveries of C.H. Douglas and other reformers and is the single most important principle that must be understood for economic democracy to become a reality either in the U.S. or the rest of the world.
The monetary system that rules the world today mainly benefits the financial controllers because credit is defined by law as their property. The principle of administering credit as a public utility, as it properly should be in a democracy, would change this. People who want to escape the status of debt-slavery should think about this principle, talk about it, and then implement it, remembering that every democratic culture in history has been based on the ability of the individual to create economic value without being under the total control of someone in power over him.
That ability still existed in the U.S. and other places around the globe until early in the twentieth century. Over the course of the last hundred years, it has been completely taken away through the twin atheistic collectivisms of finance capitalism and communism. These are really two sides of the same coin, for the banker and the commissar are both financial dictators living under the materialistic delusion.
Following is a comprehensive list of reforms that would restore the ability of economic self-direction at the citizen level within the U.S. The recommendations are divided into immediate, near-term, and long-term actions.
Note that monetary reform will make possible a large number of additional economic and political changes, including a transformation of the military posture of the U.S., since we no longer will have to fight the rest of humanity to compensate for our monetary weaknesses.
Monetary reform would also make available the tools to deal with the scourge of over-consumption and resource waste that exist because of the need to artificially inflate the GDP in order to pay down the societal debt burden.
Immediate
· Abolish the Federal Reserve as a bank of issue and reconstitute it as a financial processing bureau servicing the public and private financial sectors under the authority of the U.S. Treasury Department.
· Place all U.S. monetary operations under a Monetary Control Board that shall operate as a federal regulatory agency under the administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury.
· Abolish Federal Reserve open market operations by authorizing credit directly issued by the U.S. Treasury as collateral for all U.S. bank lending.
· Restore private banking operations in the U.S. to the “real bills” doctrine and abolish all lending for financial asset and securities speculation.
· Outlaw hedge funds.
· Replace all Federal Reserve notes by U.S. Treasury certificates.
· Place the entire U.S. national debt under bankruptcy reorganization.
· Authorize the executive branch to begin direct Greenback-type funding of selected operational programs.
· Establish a self-collateralized Federal Infrastructure Bank to lend to state and local governments for long-term projects at zero percent interest.
· Restore the pre-2005 federal personal bankruptcy law.
· Utilize an off-budget national credit account to issue an annual guaranteed basic income to all legal U.S. residents in the amount of $10,000 per adult and $5,000 per dependent child.
· Establish a National Price Commission to work toward a system-wide fair pricing policy for the U.S.
· Freeze budgets and hiring for all federal government agencies, including the military and all contractors.
Near-Term
Adopt as a primary monetary goal the backing of our currency with domestic production within the physical economy rather than the “print, loan, charge, and spend” policy of bank-centered monetarism.
Extend the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate and eliminate predatory financial practices within U.S. capital markets that are destructive to U.S. industry, infrastructure, and labor.
Use the findings of the National Price Commission to establish an annual National Dividend that provides citizens with their rightful benefits accruing from the appreciation of national productive capacity through the application of science and technology to productive processes.
The National Dividend shall utilize the amount of the guaranteed basic income as a floor in calculating benefits and shall consist in both direct payments to citizens and pricing subsidies for products sold in U.S. markets.
Establish a new federal agency to oversee and regulate mortgage funding, assure low-interest lending for housing, and protect the housing markets from predatory financial practices including the inflation and deflation of housing bubbles.
Assure funding and legislative support to implement energy-conservation actions such as those contained in the 2005 report of the Rocky Mountain Institute entitled, “Winning the Oil End-
Game: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security.”
Provide increased federal R&D funding for new energy technologies.
Provide funding for free college-level education for all U.S. citizens.
Reverse privatization of public utilities and re-regulate on a fair-price basis.
Protect and extend union collective bargaining rights.
Restore public service requirements for media broadcasting.
Establish public funding for all U.S. elections along with mandatory free air time for political candidates.
Depoliticize all agencies of the executive branch from undue corporate influence in decision-making and establish new and meaningful programs of public access and participation.
Establish federal support mechanisms allowing community banks to provide low-interest loans at one percent interest to small businesses and consumers.
Utilize a federal-state partnership to establish a series of ten regional mega-universities within the United States to serve both U.S. and international student audiences.
Reconstitute the federal budget by eliminating programs supplanted by the guaranteed basic income, utilization of direct Greenback-type funding where appropriate, and selective users’ fees.
Eliminate collateralization of private sector banking with federal debt securities. Emergency borrowing by the federal government will take place only through direct sale of Treasury bonds, not through the banking system.
Eliminate all federal, state, and municipal income taxes and replace to the extent needed with a national sales tax.
Establish a mandatory annual income ceiling for individuals and corporations.
Establish a mandatory national building and zoning code that provides for affordable housing, use of renewable energy resources, and expanded mass transit.
Recreate and revitalize the nation’s railroads.
Establish a system of single-payer universal health care that draws heavily on concepts of lifestyle and prevention.
Establish meaningful programs of center city renewal to transform “death zones” into vibrant centers of urban culture.
Abolish the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the North American Free Trade Association and replace them with an international monetary authority under the U.N. whose function is to regulate international currency exchange to the mutual benefit of all parties.
Place all outstanding loans by the IMF and World Bank under bankruptcy reorganization.
Support models of sustainable economic development among developing countries.
Begin the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from overseas bases.
Outlaw all covert warfare carried out by U.S. government agencies.
Eliminate all military programs of domestic surveillance and all overseas surveillance, detention, and torture contrary to established international law.
Reduce U.S. arms sales abroad to essential defense requirements.
Eliminate all U.S. funding of mercenary or contractor military forces.
Reconstitute the CIA and NSA as supporters of a defensive military posture and depoliticize their operations in order to assure accurate professional data-gathering and analysis.
Reconstitute the State Department as an agency to support the democratic aspirations of the people of the world.
Long-Term
Eliminate the entire U.S. national debt.
Carry out a general demilitarization of American culture.
Reduce the military budget by elimination of wars of “choice,” abandonment of “full spectrum dominance,” and restoration of a military devoted to defense of the U.S.
Work with the nations of the world on establishing democratic economic systems based on utilization of credit as a public utility in accordance with U.S. constitutional traditions.
Undertake reclamation and desalination programs to bring water supplies to drought-stricken areas.
Accomplish a permanent long-term conversion to renewable energy sources, including water-fueled hydrogen cells suitable to provide all power needs for homes and businesses.
Refocus the U.S. space program on activities that support space science and the economic development of space resources.
The Last Tyranny
One final recommendation could be made, which would be to restore to our citizens the money they have been forced to borrow during their lifetimes while forgoing the benefits of a National Dividend which could have been implemented decades ago. At a current estimated value of over $12,000 per year, the lifetime amount that should be paid to each citizen by the banking system would average around $500,000 per adult in today’s dollars. This figure represents the amount of debt we have had to incur, not including interest, due to a flawed financial system.
As monetary reformers of the past have affirmed, a program like this represents a spiritual vision. It cannot be achieved by moving pieces around on an economic or political chessboard. It requires a new way of looking at humanity—as individuals, who, like oneself or one’s family or one’s nation or those of one’s religion, also have a right to a life of economic security. But this program is not Utopian. We would still have to work, plan, and make wise decisions. But distribution of the bounty of the earth would become much more fair and equitable.
Of course no one can say how much more time must pass before such a program could be implemented. The illusion of scarcity has society in its grip. Will it take another world war, likely a nuclear one, to get us to wake up? A revolution? Catastrophes from pollution or global warming? Or perhaps a combination. One thing is certain. If the U.S. political leadership so desired, they could remove the financiers from their position of control tomorrow.
For now, however, enlightened individuals must do the best they can to acquire and maintain a positive perspective and be prepared for the time when conditions ripen. Measures such as getting out of debt, creating local currency/barter systems, growing our own food, forming conscious communities, starting small businesses, and acquiring manual skills are some of the economic actions people can take to protect themselves.
Just realize that someday monetary reform based on control of credit as a public utility will be recognized as the most fundamental requirement of economic democracy and will be implemented. It’s been said that the tyranny of money is “the last tyranny.”
Copyright 2007 by Richard C. Cook. Permission granted to reprint with attribution.
Richard C. Cook is a retired federal analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, and NASA, followed by twenty-one years with the U.S. Treasury Department. His articles on monetary reform, economics, and space policy have appeared on Global Research, Economy in Crisis, Dissident Voice, Atlantic Free Press, and elsewhere.
He is the author of “Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age.” His website is at http://www.richardccook.com/ .
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
For the last nine months the author has been publishing essays on economic and monetary reform on Global Research and other websites. The essays have evoked a worldwide response, translation into a number of languages, and a readership in the tens of thousands.
“We Hold These Truths” is the concluding article of the series.
The author took on this project after retiring after thirty-two years in the field of public policy and finance. Following graduation from the College of William and Mary in 1970, he worked for the federal government and taught history. He spent over twenty years with the U.S. Treasury Department where his experience was practical rather than academic.
His basic thesis is that we have today a tragically escalating danger to democracy and world peace which stems from a flawed monetary system that is essentially a centuries-old relic.
In 1913, the nation’s private bankers, allied with those of Great Britain and continental Europe, gained nearly complete control of the monetary supply of the U.S. They did this through passage by Congress of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The immediate result was massive inflation and a huge increase in the national debt through bank financing of World War I.
There then followed the prosperity of the industrial growth of the 1920s until the bursting of a speculative bubble and contraction of the money supply brought on the Great Depression. The Depression ended, not by any action by the banks or the initiative of the private sector, but through massive government spending on social programs followed by expenditures for World War II.
After the war, the U.S. remained the world’s greatest industrial power until the 1970s. Since then, the policy known as monetarism has prevailed, by which the private financial interests reasserted the predominance they had lost during and after the New Deal.
Today those interests reign supreme. The difference is that while at the start of the Depression the financiers exerted their power by making money scarce, they have adapted to circumstances and now accomplish the same ends by inflating it out of recognition.
Meanwhile, U.S. manufacturing has been replaced by the rise of the “service economy,” with reliance on worldwide “dollar hegemony” backed by military power to finance our trade and fiscal deficits.
An economy subservient to monetarism administered at the top by the Federal Reserve System is one that is based on financial bubbles and an escalating pyramid of debt.
Consumers, businesses, and government at all levels are drowning in so much debt that the only people making any money are those who operate the financial sector and control the global corporations.
The profits of private financial interests in 2006 exceeded $500 billion in an economy with a GDP of $13 trillion. The ill effects of this drag on the economy cannot be overestimated. While the financial sector has prospered, even through the recent crisis marked by Federal Reserve bailouts of floundering investors, the producing economy of working men and women has been in recession for over a year and is bogged down in a stagflation reminiscent of the 1970s.
The author’s primary recommendation is to replace a Federal Reserve controlled by private finance with a new structure centered around the creation of a democratic currency, one based on recognition of credit as a public utility.
Such a system could be created by using the best ideas of monetary reformers from American history, elsewhere around the world, and past practices such as issuance of the Greenbacks in Civil War days and low-cost credit made available during the New Deal.
If applied worldwide, such reforms could remove many of the causes of the economic and social distress that have made the last century, though prosperous for a minority, among the most destructive in human history. To achieve the potential offered to mankind by today’s era of science and technology applied to production, the program described herein is among the most far-reaching ever presented.
What We Must Do Today
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are, or should be, the fruits of democracy. But the political democracy as defined by the Declaration of Independence has not been achieved, because economic democracy for the masses remains a distant dream. The attainment of real economic democracy is the next task for the human race in a world on the brink of destruction.
In the midst of the most productive world economy in history, the U.S. and much of the world today are in crisis, with stagnant or falling incomes, rising prices, collapse of societal purchasing power, persistent poverty, and skyrocketing debt. Many experts are predicting a worldwide economic depression, as people with money mobilize their institutions, armies, and police forces to protect themselves inside their gated communities and “green zones.”
No one in an official capacity has provided a convincing explanation of what is really going on in the world economy. In the West, we have been deceived for generations by the notion that economics is a science that operates under fixed laws that can be modeled mathematically by specialists trained in “neoclassical” methods. Many economists, especially those associated with the “Chicago School,” bow at the mention of “market forces,” assuming they are somehow “real,” though existing beyond the reach of human will and direction.
None of this is true. There are no such things as the “laws” assumed by the neoclassicists, as even Nobel laureates are starting to recognize. See, for instance, “There is No Invisible Hand” by Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, The Guardian, December 20, 2002. The concept of an Invisible Hand guiding market forces was invented by English writers of the pre-industrial age to explain supply-and-demand in a village economy. It gained ideological force because it was a convenient way to fight Marxism and keep government from interfering with the growing power of finance capitalism during the nineteenth century.
Of course there are plenty of habits and conventions, myths and prejudices in the way modern economies function. But the “laws” are the ones created by governments controlled by powerful people who work the levers of legalized influence to augment their wealth through legislative favor. Behind all the rhetoric about “markets” are a host of government-granted monopolies and cartels, especially those engaged in the lending of money, the trading of oil, and the manufacture of weapons.
The most egregious and harmful monopoly of all is the banking monopoly that controls the Federal Reserve System.
Again, the laws of the economic system are man-made. In some cases, the laws may provide benefits to those who work for a living, but in most cases not. What we forget is that any of these laws can be changed and that many of them now should and must be changed.
Besides, haven’t we learned by now that what has aptly been called “market fundamentalism” is really shorthand for the totalitarianism of money? It’s a fact that long ago control of economic life in the U.S. and other Western nations was turned over to a monetary elite who control both industry and resources through the issuance of credit that originates from the privilege of centrally-controlled fractional reserve banking.
Through this system, the people of the world, even in prosperous nations, have been reduced to the status of debt-slaves. This vestige of the financial system of the Middle Ages allows banks to produce credit “out of thin air” and lend it at a profit. Similar systems exist in communist nations like China. The only difference is that the central bank there is controlled by the government and the ruling party elite.
Within the U.S., the banks lend to consumers, businesses, investors, speculators, and to federal, state, and local governments. Under the banking laws, they generate this credit against a small “reserve base” consisting of customer deposits, government debt, and overnight deposits from corporations and government agencies known as repurchase agreements, or “repos.” The size of these deposits, along with lending potential based on them, has exploded over the last two decades in the era of electronic funds transfer.
The dependence of economic life on debt has assured that there has been a steady flow of wealth from the producing economy of goods and services into the financial web which surrounds it. Debt from lending at interest grows at an exponential rate. This is especially the case today when the banks rule the economy through the system of monetarism, where the money supply is regulated by the raising and lowering of interest rates. This is in fact a system of institutionalized usury.
Within the U.S., where the public and private infrastructures have been stripped through privatization, outsourcing, mergers, and acquisitions, every period of economic growth in the last generation has been largely a bank-created bubble. Each time a bubble bursts the financiers gain more wealth by buying assets at bankruptcy prices. The latest was the housing bubble, and we have started to see the bursting of an even larger bubble consisting of securities and investment funds. In fact, the financiers have already been taking advantage of the broad monetary collapse by purchasing bargain stocks through the fluctuations of the stock market.
Control of wealth by high finance is the main reason the bounty of science and technology has not assured a better life to the majority of the people of the world.
Despite the power of industrial processes which have the capability of providing a decent living to everyone in the world—contrary to the myth of global overpopulation—the world still lives under the illusion of scarcity. This tends to justify the senseless struggle for wealth and control of resources. But it’s one of the most glaring examples of the condition of mass hypnotism that has weighed humanity down throughout the ages.
Ethically, the illusion of scarcity leads to the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, the fight for dominance and supremacy. “Economic man,” whether capitalist or communist, still lives at the animal or sub-human level. The higher laws of human ethics, including the injunction to “love our neighbors as ourselves,” have been ignored. But they need not be forgotten if we wake up to the fact that we have it in our power to live in a much different and better world.
The present situation is just as harmful to the wealthy and powerful who hold their fellow men in bondage as it is to the debtors they oppress, for the rich as well are deprived of the benefits of living in a world where human being are free, happy, generous, and productive. Also, the system harms everyone through the gross over-consumption and waste needed to maximize profits, as well as through potentially catastrophic pollution.
The solution to the problem that cries out around the world for recognition is monetary reform based on principles of economic democracy. But such reform must include the realization that science and technology long ago removed the need for everyone on the planet to work all the time just to survive. Humanity, through its work and sacrifice, has earned the “leisure” dividend that reformers have talked about for over a century but which has yet to be realized.
Research shows that the U.S. actually had a balanced and reasonable approach to monetary matters for much of its history. The thirteen American colonies built a dynamic pre-industrial economy without the presence of a single bank. Throughout the nineteenth century, we developed the most powerful economy on earth without a large national debt. Our economy was largely capitalized by the availability of land, the capital markets, and retained corporate earnings. Money came into circulation by minting of gold and silver coins, government distribution of gold and silver certificates, Greenbacks that had been spent into circulation by the government during the Civil War, and a modest amount of bank money used to support commerce.
It took the efforts and sacrifice of the organized labor movement and even the threat of revolution, but by the year 1900, workers in the U.S. and Europe had begun to share in the bounty. Much of the world was at peace after a century of economic development, and it seemed to many that mankind stood on the threshold of epochal breakthroughs in prosperity and cooperation. Today in 2007, where people’s spirits have been crushed by decades of war, social and interpersonal conflict, and the economic rat race, we have no appreciation at all of the sense of excitement and optimism abroad in the world around the turn of the twentieth century. Even in history books, this spirit has seldom been captured, with the 965-page volume by historian Page Smith entitled The Rise of Industrial America the rare exception.
But by 1914 a world war had begun. The completely unanticipated horror and devastation of this conflict shattered an entire generation. It led to a century of war, economic turmoil, and psychic alienation that continues in full force today. In the U.S., the shift to an age of upheaval was marked by a crucial turning point which took place when Congress gave away its constitutional authority over money to a small group of private bankers known as “the Money Trust” through enactment of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
It happened on December 23, 1913, when most of Congress had left Washington, D.C., for the Christmas recess. The plans for the Federal Reserve System had been drawn up by a committee of politicians and financiers, including bankers imported from Europe to explain to the Americans how these sorts of things were done. Informed people had always known that a central bank controlled by financial interests was the road to economic tyranny, which was why both the First and Second Banks of the United States had been discontinued long ago and why the nation had operated without a central bank since the 1830s. Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., (D-MN), father of the future aviator, called the Federal Reserve Act “the worst legislative crime of the ages.” But the Money Trust prevailed.
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which had been passed earlier in 1913, created an income tax that would be needed to pay the interest on the national debt that the financiers knew would soar into the stratosphere once the Federal Reserve System had been implemented. It was a fact that throughout history, central banks, government debt, and excessive military spending had gone hand-in-hand. Not accidentally, the Federal Reserve Act marked the beginning of the tragic century of world conflict that still afflicts us.
We in the U.S. now need to reclaim our monetary system as an institution of democracy before our government and those of the great Asian land powers make the fatal error of igniting yet another world conflagration. The war in Iraq and the ongoing U.S. military conquest to control Middle Eastern oil and shore up the sliding dollar are just another episode in a sad, familiar story. Whether we do it now or in the midst of the rubble of our civilization, we must remove the central monetary controllers from their stranglehold over the economy as the first step in a return to social, political, and economic sanity.
A lifetime of involvement in public finance with the federal government has led the author to call for one basic reform to move in the direction of accomplishing this objective. In order to start redressing the damage that began in 1913, we should now abolish the privately-controlled Federal Reserve as a bank of issue and re-establish constitutional control of credit as a public utility.
Public creation of credit should be reflected in two basic policies: 1) direct issuance of credit to citizens through a basic income guarantee, a periodic National Dividend, and low-interest bank lending; and 2) direct spending by government for essential services—i.e., restoring the Greenback last seen in Civil War days and the decades following—combined with public low-interest financing of infrastructure investment.
Taking these steps would allow us to reduce much of the onerous burden of taxation at the federal, state, and municipal levels. It would also create a money supply which is properly independent of the banking system. Under a system of economic democracy, banks would have a role, but only in facilitating commerce. They would not create money through debt, and they would not dictate economic decisions based exclusively on pecuniary values.
At this point a note of clarification is in order. There are many people today who advocate a return to the gold standard but who are confused about the definition of “fiat money.”
There are actually different types of “fiat money.”
The debt-based credit created by the Federal Reserve System, often called “fiat money,” is not money at all. It is simply temporary credit with a lien against it for repayment with interest.
But real “fiat money,” like the Civil War Greenbacks or the American colonial paper currency, was true democratic money that was spent into circulation by government and was never inflationary in and of itself. Rather it allowed commerce to expand and people to prosper.
This type of fiat money created at the grassroots level to generate citizen purchasing power is actually the key to economic democracy in the modern industrial era. The question of assuring purchasing power to the masses of citizens is the key economic issue of the industrial age, though it was not recognized as susceptible of correction by national governments until the onset of what came to be called Keynesian economics during the Great Depression.
But Keynesian economics—leading to the hybrid known as the welfare state—was only a partial solution and was largely abandoned upon the arrival in the 1980s of the conservative ideologies associated with “Reaganism” in the U.S. and “Thatcherism” in Great Britain. These were really throwbacks to pre-industrial economic thinking, where it was assumed that additional “supply” would generate the purchasing power necessary to consume it—hence the term “supply-side economics.” In fact, it was the economics of the medieval manor brought back to life in the space age, with a good deal of bitterness thrown in when it didn’t work.
The results are what we see today—an escalating economic disaster where, under the monetarist system, the shortage of purchasing power is imperfectly met by bank lending at a level that ultimately bankrupts consumers, businesses, and government alike.
Instead, what the author is advocating it the issuance of grassroots credit through a basic income guarantee, a National Dividend, and low-cost bank lending, combined with self-financed government infrastructure programs that would reflect the necessary role of government in supplying the deficit in purchasing power to the economy.
This would correct the flaws in Keynesian economics by removing government deficit spending and high levels of taxation from the credit equation.
More details on this program are provided by the author’s Global Research articles, particularly the ones entitled “An Emergency Program of Monetary Reform for the U.S.” (April 26, 2007) and “Monetary Reform and How a National Monetary System Should Work” (May 11, 2007). These articles rely heavily on the Social Credit ideas of British engineer C.H. Douglas (1879-1952). Douglas, like Keynes, identified the chronic gap between prices and purchasing power as the central problem in economics, a gap whose existence had been denied by the early industrial “classical” economists such as Mill, Malthus, and Ricardo.
The existence of the gap between prices and purchasing power had been identified by Keynes as the central problem in economics in his landmark work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, published in 1935. Keynes knew that the underlying cause of the Great Depression was the fact that an industrial economy generated insufficient income through wages, salaries, and dividends for society to pay the prices firms had to charge for their output in order to secure sufficient retained earnings. A substantial level of reinvestment is an absolute necessity for firms operating in an industrial economy because of the depreciation of the physical plant and access to resources, also known as entropy. Keynes recommended that governments commit to deficit spending through borrowing as a means by which society could fill the price-purchasing power gap.
But Douglas saw this as an imperfect solution which would only add to the economy’s overall debt burden. Instead he advocated the simple expedient of a direct government payment to individuals through both a National Dividend and price subsidies. The National Dividend would be a payment against a book entry based on the overall appreciation of the value of the economy over time and, reflecting growth of societal wealth, one which would be non-inflationary and generated without recourse to taxation or borrowing. Douglas’s ideas were repressed through opposition by British and U.S. financiers who quite willing to support the Keynesian solution because government borrowing played into their hands.
Since World War II, the U.S. economy, the strongest in the world, has been a battleground between Keynesianism and monetarism, though the struggle has borne a certain resemblance to the fight to the death between the tyrannosaurus and triceratops of popular movie fare in that it’s really a struggle between two outmoded dinosaurs.
Thus we have not been able to do without massive amounts of government deficit spending, with monetarism meanwhile working to generate huge amounts of debt at relatively high interest rates compared to the New Deal era. Economic growth, which Keynesian economics relied on to stay ahead of the debt curve, has not been able to keep pace since the 1970s.
Today’s bankrupt monstrosity is the result. The solution is to do today what should have been done in the 1930s, which is to implement economic democracy, with Douglas’s Social Credit ideas a starting point. It’s the whole package of reforms which the author has come to refer to as “credit administered as a public utility.”
Reform Recommendations
The articles compiled in the Global Research essays referenced above contain numerous recommendations for actions that would restore the issuance and management of credit as a public utility under the commonwealth of American citizens which is recognized by the U.S. Constitution as the ultimate governing authority. That is what is meant by “We the People.” Credit administered as a public utility would reflect the discoveries of C.H. Douglas and other reformers and is the single most important principle that must be understood for economic democracy to become a reality either in the U.S. or the rest of the world.
The monetary system that rules the world today mainly benefits the financial controllers because credit is defined by law as their property. The principle of administering credit as a public utility, as it properly should be in a democracy, would change this. People who want to escape the status of debt-slavery should think about this principle, talk about it, and then implement it, remembering that every democratic culture in history has been based on the ability of the individual to create economic value without being under the total control of someone in power over him.
That ability still existed in the U.S. and other places around the globe until early in the twentieth century. Over the course of the last hundred years, it has been completely taken away through the twin atheistic collectivisms of finance capitalism and communism. These are really two sides of the same coin, for the banker and the commissar are both financial dictators living under the materialistic delusion.
Following is a comprehensive list of reforms that would restore the ability of economic self-direction at the citizen level within the U.S. The recommendations are divided into immediate, near-term, and long-term actions.
Note that monetary reform will make possible a large number of additional economic and political changes, including a transformation of the military posture of the U.S., since we no longer will have to fight the rest of humanity to compensate for our monetary weaknesses.
Monetary reform would also make available the tools to deal with the scourge of over-consumption and resource waste that exist because of the need to artificially inflate the GDP in order to pay down the societal debt burden.
Immediate
· Abolish the Federal Reserve as a bank of issue and reconstitute it as a financial processing bureau servicing the public and private financial sectors under the authority of the U.S. Treasury Department.
· Place all U.S. monetary operations under a Monetary Control Board that shall operate as a federal regulatory agency under the administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury.
· Abolish Federal Reserve open market operations by authorizing credit directly issued by the U.S. Treasury as collateral for all U.S. bank lending.
· Restore private banking operations in the U.S. to the “real bills” doctrine and abolish all lending for financial asset and securities speculation.
· Outlaw hedge funds.
· Replace all Federal Reserve notes by U.S. Treasury certificates.
· Place the entire U.S. national debt under bankruptcy reorganization.
· Authorize the executive branch to begin direct Greenback-type funding of selected operational programs.
· Establish a self-collateralized Federal Infrastructure Bank to lend to state and local governments for long-term projects at zero percent interest.
· Restore the pre-2005 federal personal bankruptcy law.
· Utilize an off-budget national credit account to issue an annual guaranteed basic income to all legal U.S. residents in the amount of $10,000 per adult and $5,000 per dependent child.
· Establish a National Price Commission to work toward a system-wide fair pricing policy for the U.S.
· Freeze budgets and hiring for all federal government agencies, including the military and all contractors.
Near-Term
Adopt as a primary monetary goal the backing of our currency with domestic production within the physical economy rather than the “print, loan, charge, and spend” policy of bank-centered monetarism.
Extend the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate and eliminate predatory financial practices within U.S. capital markets that are destructive to U.S. industry, infrastructure, and labor.
Use the findings of the National Price Commission to establish an annual National Dividend that provides citizens with their rightful benefits accruing from the appreciation of national productive capacity through the application of science and technology to productive processes.
The National Dividend shall utilize the amount of the guaranteed basic income as a floor in calculating benefits and shall consist in both direct payments to citizens and pricing subsidies for products sold in U.S. markets.
Establish a new federal agency to oversee and regulate mortgage funding, assure low-interest lending for housing, and protect the housing markets from predatory financial practices including the inflation and deflation of housing bubbles.
Assure funding and legislative support to implement energy-conservation actions such as those contained in the 2005 report of the Rocky Mountain Institute entitled, “Winning the Oil End-
Game: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security.”
Provide increased federal R&D funding for new energy technologies.
Provide funding for free college-level education for all U.S. citizens.
Reverse privatization of public utilities and re-regulate on a fair-price basis.
Protect and extend union collective bargaining rights.
Restore public service requirements for media broadcasting.
Establish public funding for all U.S. elections along with mandatory free air time for political candidates.
Depoliticize all agencies of the executive branch from undue corporate influence in decision-making and establish new and meaningful programs of public access and participation.
Establish federal support mechanisms allowing community banks to provide low-interest loans at one percent interest to small businesses and consumers.
Utilize a federal-state partnership to establish a series of ten regional mega-universities within the United States to serve both U.S. and international student audiences.
Reconstitute the federal budget by eliminating programs supplanted by the guaranteed basic income, utilization of direct Greenback-type funding where appropriate, and selective users’ fees.
Eliminate collateralization of private sector banking with federal debt securities. Emergency borrowing by the federal government will take place only through direct sale of Treasury bonds, not through the banking system.
Eliminate all federal, state, and municipal income taxes and replace to the extent needed with a national sales tax.
Establish a mandatory annual income ceiling for individuals and corporations.
Establish a mandatory national building and zoning code that provides for affordable housing, use of renewable energy resources, and expanded mass transit.
Recreate and revitalize the nation’s railroads.
Establish a system of single-payer universal health care that draws heavily on concepts of lifestyle and prevention.
Establish meaningful programs of center city renewal to transform “death zones” into vibrant centers of urban culture.
Abolish the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the North American Free Trade Association and replace them with an international monetary authority under the U.N. whose function is to regulate international currency exchange to the mutual benefit of all parties.
Place all outstanding loans by the IMF and World Bank under bankruptcy reorganization.
Support models of sustainable economic development among developing countries.
Begin the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from overseas bases.
Outlaw all covert warfare carried out by U.S. government agencies.
Eliminate all military programs of domestic surveillance and all overseas surveillance, detention, and torture contrary to established international law.
Reduce U.S. arms sales abroad to essential defense requirements.
Eliminate all U.S. funding of mercenary or contractor military forces.
Reconstitute the CIA and NSA as supporters of a defensive military posture and depoliticize their operations in order to assure accurate professional data-gathering and analysis.
Reconstitute the State Department as an agency to support the democratic aspirations of the people of the world.
Long-Term
Eliminate the entire U.S. national debt.
Carry out a general demilitarization of American culture.
Reduce the military budget by elimination of wars of “choice,” abandonment of “full spectrum dominance,” and restoration of a military devoted to defense of the U.S.
Work with the nations of the world on establishing democratic economic systems based on utilization of credit as a public utility in accordance with U.S. constitutional traditions.
Undertake reclamation and desalination programs to bring water supplies to drought-stricken areas.
Accomplish a permanent long-term conversion to renewable energy sources, including water-fueled hydrogen cells suitable to provide all power needs for homes and businesses.
Refocus the U.S. space program on activities that support space science and the economic development of space resources.
The Last Tyranny
One final recommendation could be made, which would be to restore to our citizens the money they have been forced to borrow during their lifetimes while forgoing the benefits of a National Dividend which could have been implemented decades ago. At a current estimated value of over $12,000 per year, the lifetime amount that should be paid to each citizen by the banking system would average around $500,000 per adult in today’s dollars. This figure represents the amount of debt we have had to incur, not including interest, due to a flawed financial system.
As monetary reformers of the past have affirmed, a program like this represents a spiritual vision. It cannot be achieved by moving pieces around on an economic or political chessboard. It requires a new way of looking at humanity—as individuals, who, like oneself or one’s family or one’s nation or those of one’s religion, also have a right to a life of economic security. But this program is not Utopian. We would still have to work, plan, and make wise decisions. But distribution of the bounty of the earth would become much more fair and equitable.
Of course no one can say how much more time must pass before such a program could be implemented. The illusion of scarcity has society in its grip. Will it take another world war, likely a nuclear one, to get us to wake up? A revolution? Catastrophes from pollution or global warming? Or perhaps a combination. One thing is certain. If the U.S. political leadership so desired, they could remove the financiers from their position of control tomorrow.
For now, however, enlightened individuals must do the best they can to acquire and maintain a positive perspective and be prepared for the time when conditions ripen. Measures such as getting out of debt, creating local currency/barter systems, growing our own food, forming conscious communities, starting small businesses, and acquiring manual skills are some of the economic actions people can take to protect themselves.
Just realize that someday monetary reform based on control of credit as a public utility will be recognized as the most fundamental requirement of economic democracy and will be implemented. It’s been said that the tyranny of money is “the last tyranny.”
Copyright 2007 by Richard C. Cook. Permission granted to reprint with attribution.
Richard C. Cook is a retired federal analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, and NASA, followed by twenty-one years with the U.S. Treasury Department. His articles on monetary reform, economics, and space policy have appeared on Global Research, Economy in Crisis, Dissident Voice, Atlantic Free Press, and elsewhere.
He is the author of “Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age.” His website is at http://www.richardccook.com/ .
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USA Soldiers Avert USA preemptive war on IRAN
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B-52 Nukes Headed for Iran, Not For Decommissioning: Airforce Refused
-- SPECIAL REPORT -- Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East theaterBy Wayne MadsenSept. 24, 2007Author's website: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted due to internal opposition within the Air Force and U.S. Intelligence Community.
Yesterday, the Washington Post attempted to explain away the fact that America's nuclear command and control system broke down in an unprecedented manner by reporting that it was the result of "security failures at multiple levels." It is now apparent that the command and control breakdown, reported as a BENT SPEAR incident to the Secretary of Defense and White House, was not the result of a command and control chain-of-command "failures" but the result of a revolt and push back by various echelons within the Air Force and intelligence agencies against a planned U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventionalweapons.
The Washington Post story on BENT SPEAR may have actually been an effort in damage control by the Bush administration. WMR has been informed by a knowledgeable source that one of the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles was, and may still be, unaccounted for. In that case, the nuclear reporting incident would have gone far beyond BENT SPEAR to a National Command Authority alert known as EMPTY QUIVER, with the special classification of PINNACLE.
Just as this report was being prepared, Newsweek reported that Vice President Dick Cheney's recently-departed Middle East adviser, David Wurmser, told a small group of advisers some months ago that Cheney had considered asking Israel to launch a missile attack on the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz. Cheney reasoned that after an Iranian retaliatory strike, the United States would have ample reasons to launch its own massive attack on Iran. However, plans for Israel to attack Iran directly were altered to an Israeli attack on a supposed Syrian-Iranian-North Korean nuclear installation in northern Syria.
WMR has learned that a U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional weapons was scheduled to coincide with Israel's September 6 air attack on a reputed Syrian nuclear facility in Dayr az-Zwar, near the village of Tal Abyad, in northern Syria, near the Turkish border. Israel's attack, code named OPERATION ORCHARD, was to provide a reason for the U.S. to strike Iran. The neo-conservative propaganda onslaught was to cite the cooperation of the George Bush's three remaining "Axis of Evil" states -- Syria, Iran, and North Korea -- to justify a sustained Israeli attack on Syria and a massive U.S. military attack on Iran.
WMR has learned from military sources on both sides of the Atlantic that there was a definite connection between Israel's OPERATION ORCHARD and BENT SPEAR involving the B-52 that flew the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale. There is also a connection between these two events as the Pentagon's highly-classified PROJECT CHECKMATE, a compartmented U.S. Air Force program that has been working on an attack plan for Iran since June 2007, around the same time that Cheney was working on the joint Israeli-U.S. attack scenario on Iran.
PROJECT CHECKMATE was leaked in an article by military analyst Eric Margolis in the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, the /Times of London/, is a program that involves over two dozen Air Force officers and is headed by Brig. Gen. Lawrence Stutzriem and his chief civilian adviser, Dr. Lani Kass, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who, astoundingly, is now involved in planning a joint U.S.-Israeli massive military attack on Iran that involves a "decapitating" blow on Iran by hitting between three to four thousand targets in the country. Stutzriem and Kass report directly to the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Michael Moseley, who has also been charged with preparing a report on the B-52/nuclear weapons incident.
Kass' area of speciality is cyber-warfare, which includes ensuring "information blockades," such as that imposed by the Israeli government on the Israeli media regarding the Syrian air attack on the alleged Syrian "nuclear installation." British intelligence sources have reported that the Israeli attack on Syria was a "true flag" attack originally designed to foreshadow a U.S. attack on Iran. After the U.S. Air Force push back against transporting the six cruise nuclear-armed AGM-129s to the Middle East, Israel went ahead with its attack on Syria in order to help ratchet up tensions between Washington on one side and Damascus, Tehran, and Pyongyang on the other.
The other part of CHECKMATE's brief is to ensure that a media "perception management" is waged against Syria, Iran, and North Korea. This involves articles such as that which appeared with Joby Warrick's and Walter Pincus' bylines in yesterdays /Washington Post/. The article, titled "The Saga of a Bent Spear," quotes a number of seasoned Air Force nuclear weapons experts as saying that such an incident is unprecedented in the history of the Air Force. For example, Retired Air Force General Eugene Habiger, the former chief of the U.S. Strategic Command, said he has been in the "nuclear business" since 1966 and has never been aware of an incident "more disturbing."
Command and control breakdowns involving U.S. nuclear weapons are unprecedented, except for that fact that the U.S. military is now waging an internal war against neo-cons who are embedded in the U.S. government and military chain of command who are intent on using nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive war with Iran.
CHECKMATE and OPERATION ORCHARD would have provided the cover for a pre-emptive U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran had it not been for BENT SPEAR involving the B-52. In on the plan to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran involving nuclear weapons were, according to our sources, Cheney, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; members of the CHECKMATE team at the Pentagon, who have close connections to Israeli intelligence and pro-Israeli think tanks in Washington, including the Hudson Institute; British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, a political adviser to Tony Blair prior to becoming a Member of Parliament; Israeli political leaders like Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu; and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who did his part last week to ratchet up tensions with Iran by suggesting that war with Iran was a probability. Kouchner retracted his statement after the U.S. plans for Iran were delayed.
Although the Air Force tried to keep the B-52 nuclear incident from the media, anonymous Air Force personnel leaked the story to /Military Times/ on September 5, the day before the Israelis attacked the alleged nuclear installation in Syria and the day planned for the simultaneous U.S. attack on Iran. The leaking of classified information on U.S. nuclear weapons disposition or movement to the media, is, itself, unprecedented. Air Force regulations require the sending of classified BEELINE reports to higher Air Force authorities on the disclosure of classified Air Force information to the media.
In another highly unusual move, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked an outside inquiry board to look into BENT SPEAR, even before the Air Force has completed its own investigation, a virtual vote of no confidence in the official investigation being conducted by Major General Douglas Raaberg, chief of air and space operations at the Air Combat Command.
Gates asked former Air Force Chief of Staff, retired General Larry Welch, to lead a Defense Science Board task force that will also look into the BENT SPEAR incident. The official Air Force investigation has reportedly been delayed for unknown reasons. Welch is President and CEO of the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA), a federally-funded research contractor that operates three research centers, including one for Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and another for the National Security Agency. One of the board members of IDA is Dr. Suzanne H. Woolsey of the Paladin Capital Group and wife of former CIA director and arch-neocon James Woolsey.
WMR has learned that neither the upper echelons of the State Department nor the British Foreign Office were privy to OPERATION ORCHARD, although Hadley briefed President Bush on Israeli spy satellite intelligence that showed the Syrian installation was a joint nuclear facility built with North Korean and Iranian assistance. However, it is puzzling why Hadley would rely on Israeli imagery intelligence (IMINT) from its OFEK (Horizon) 7 satellite when considering that U.S. IMINT satellites have greater capabilities.
The Air Force's "information warfare" campaign against media reports on CHECKMATE and OPERATION ORCHARD also affected international reporting of the recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution asking Israel to place its nuclear weapons program under IAEA controls, similar to those that the United States wants imposed on Iran and North Korea. The resolution also called for a nuclear-free zone throughout the Middle East. The IAEA's resolution, titled "Application of IAEA Safeguards in the Middle East," was passed by the 144-member IAEA General Meeting on September 20 by a vote of 53 to 2, with 47 abstentions. The only two countries to vote against were Israel and the United States. However, the story carried from the IAEA meeting in Vienna by Reuters, the Associated Press, and Agence France Press, was that it was Arab and Islamic nations that voted for the resolution.
This was yet more perception management carried out by CHECKMATE, the White House, and their allies in Europe and Israel with the connivance of the media. In fact, among the 53 nations that voted for the resolution were China, Russia, India, Ireland, and Japan. The 47 abstentions were described as votes "against" the resolution even though an abstention is neither a vote for nor against a measure. America's close allies, including Britain, France, Australia, Canada, and Georgia, all abstained.
Suspiciously, the IAEA carried only a brief item on the resolution concerning Israel's nuclear program and a roll call vote was not available either at the IAEA's web site -- www.iaea.org -- or in the media.
The perception management campaign by the neocon operational cells in the Bush administration, Israel and Europe was designed to keep a focus on Iran's nuclear program, not on Israel's. Any international examination of Israel's nuclear weapons program would likely bring up Israeli nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu, a covert from Judaism to Christianity, who was kidnapped in Rome by a Mossad "honey trap" named Cheryl Bentov (aka, Cindy) and a Mossad team in 1986 and held against his will in Israel ever since.
Vanunu's knowledge of the Israeli nuclear weapons program would focus on the country's own role in nuclear proliferation, including its program to share nuclear weapons technology with apartheid South Africa and Taiwan in the late 1970s and 1980s. The role of Ronald Reagan's Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Ken Adelman in Israeli's nuclear proliferation during the time frame 1983-1987 would also come under scrutiny. Adelman, a member of the Reagan-Bush transition State Department team from November 1980 to January 1981, voiced his understanding for the nuclear weapons programs of Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan in a June 28, 1981 /New York Times/ article titled, "3 Nations Widening Nuclear Contacts." The journalist who wrote the article was Judith Miller. Adelman felt that the three countries wanted nuclear weapons because of their ostracism from the West, the third world, and the hostility from the Communist countries. Of course, today, the same argument can be used by Iran, North Korea, and other "Axis of Evil" nations so designated by the neocons in the Bush administration and other governments.
There are also news reports that suggest an intelligence relationship between Israel and North Korea. On July 21, 2004, New Zealand's /Dominion Post/ reported that three Mossad agents were involved in espionage in New Zealand. Two of the Mossad agents, Uriel Kelman and Elisha Cara (aka Kra), were arrested and imprisoned by New Zealand police (an Israeli diplomat in Canberra, Amir Lati, was expelled by Australia and New Zealand intelligence identified a fourth Mossad agent involved in the New Zealand espionage operation in Singapore). The third Mossad agent in New Zealand, Zev William Barkan (aka Lev Bruckenstein), fled New Zealand -- for North Korea.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff revealed that Barkan, a former Israeli Navy diver, had previously worked at the Israeli embassy in Vienna, which is also the headquarters of the IAEA. He was cited by the /Sydney Morning Herald/ as trafficking in passports stolen from foreign tourists in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia. New Zealand's One News reported that Barkan was in North Korea to help the nation build a wall to keep its citizens from leaving.
The nuclear brinkmanship involving the United States and Israel and the breakdown in America's command and control systems have every major capital around the world wondering about the Bush administration's true intentions.
NOTE: WMR understands the risks to informed individuals in reporting the events of August 29/30, to the present time, that concern the discord within the U.S. Air Force, U.S. intelligence agencies, and other military services. Any source with relevant information and who wishes to contact us anonymously may drop off sealed correspondence at or send mail via the Postal Service to: Wayne Madsen, c/o The Front Desk, National Press Club, 13th Floor, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC, 20045.
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B-52 Nukes Headed for Iran, Not For Decommissioning: Airforce Refused
-- SPECIAL REPORT -- Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East theaterBy Wayne MadsenSept. 24, 2007Author's website: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted due to internal opposition within the Air Force and U.S. Intelligence Community.
Yesterday, the Washington Post attempted to explain away the fact that America's nuclear command and control system broke down in an unprecedented manner by reporting that it was the result of "security failures at multiple levels." It is now apparent that the command and control breakdown, reported as a BENT SPEAR incident to the Secretary of Defense and White House, was not the result of a command and control chain-of-command "failures" but the result of a revolt and push back by various echelons within the Air Force and intelligence agencies against a planned U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventionalweapons.
The Washington Post story on BENT SPEAR may have actually been an effort in damage control by the Bush administration. WMR has been informed by a knowledgeable source that one of the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles was, and may still be, unaccounted for. In that case, the nuclear reporting incident would have gone far beyond BENT SPEAR to a National Command Authority alert known as EMPTY QUIVER, with the special classification of PINNACLE.
Just as this report was being prepared, Newsweek reported that Vice President Dick Cheney's recently-departed Middle East adviser, David Wurmser, told a small group of advisers some months ago that Cheney had considered asking Israel to launch a missile attack on the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz. Cheney reasoned that after an Iranian retaliatory strike, the United States would have ample reasons to launch its own massive attack on Iran. However, plans for Israel to attack Iran directly were altered to an Israeli attack on a supposed Syrian-Iranian-North Korean nuclear installation in northern Syria.
WMR has learned that a U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional weapons was scheduled to coincide with Israel's September 6 air attack on a reputed Syrian nuclear facility in Dayr az-Zwar, near the village of Tal Abyad, in northern Syria, near the Turkish border. Israel's attack, code named OPERATION ORCHARD, was to provide a reason for the U.S. to strike Iran. The neo-conservative propaganda onslaught was to cite the cooperation of the George Bush's three remaining "Axis of Evil" states -- Syria, Iran, and North Korea -- to justify a sustained Israeli attack on Syria and a massive U.S. military attack on Iran.
WMR has learned from military sources on both sides of the Atlantic that there was a definite connection between Israel's OPERATION ORCHARD and BENT SPEAR involving the B-52 that flew the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale. There is also a connection between these two events as the Pentagon's highly-classified PROJECT CHECKMATE, a compartmented U.S. Air Force program that has been working on an attack plan for Iran since June 2007, around the same time that Cheney was working on the joint Israeli-U.S. attack scenario on Iran.
PROJECT CHECKMATE was leaked in an article by military analyst Eric Margolis in the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, the /Times of London/, is a program that involves over two dozen Air Force officers and is headed by Brig. Gen. Lawrence Stutzriem and his chief civilian adviser, Dr. Lani Kass, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who, astoundingly, is now involved in planning a joint U.S.-Israeli massive military attack on Iran that involves a "decapitating" blow on Iran by hitting between three to four thousand targets in the country. Stutzriem and Kass report directly to the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Michael Moseley, who has also been charged with preparing a report on the B-52/nuclear weapons incident.
Kass' area of speciality is cyber-warfare, which includes ensuring "information blockades," such as that imposed by the Israeli government on the Israeli media regarding the Syrian air attack on the alleged Syrian "nuclear installation." British intelligence sources have reported that the Israeli attack on Syria was a "true flag" attack originally designed to foreshadow a U.S. attack on Iran. After the U.S. Air Force push back against transporting the six cruise nuclear-armed AGM-129s to the Middle East, Israel went ahead with its attack on Syria in order to help ratchet up tensions between Washington on one side and Damascus, Tehran, and Pyongyang on the other.
The other part of CHECKMATE's brief is to ensure that a media "perception management" is waged against Syria, Iran, and North Korea. This involves articles such as that which appeared with Joby Warrick's and Walter Pincus' bylines in yesterdays /Washington Post/. The article, titled "The Saga of a Bent Spear," quotes a number of seasoned Air Force nuclear weapons experts as saying that such an incident is unprecedented in the history of the Air Force. For example, Retired Air Force General Eugene Habiger, the former chief of the U.S. Strategic Command, said he has been in the "nuclear business" since 1966 and has never been aware of an incident "more disturbing."
Command and control breakdowns involving U.S. nuclear weapons are unprecedented, except for that fact that the U.S. military is now waging an internal war against neo-cons who are embedded in the U.S. government and military chain of command who are intent on using nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive war with Iran.
CHECKMATE and OPERATION ORCHARD would have provided the cover for a pre-emptive U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran had it not been for BENT SPEAR involving the B-52. In on the plan to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran involving nuclear weapons were, according to our sources, Cheney, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; members of the CHECKMATE team at the Pentagon, who have close connections to Israeli intelligence and pro-Israeli think tanks in Washington, including the Hudson Institute; British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, a political adviser to Tony Blair prior to becoming a Member of Parliament; Israeli political leaders like Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu; and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who did his part last week to ratchet up tensions with Iran by suggesting that war with Iran was a probability. Kouchner retracted his statement after the U.S. plans for Iran were delayed.
Although the Air Force tried to keep the B-52 nuclear incident from the media, anonymous Air Force personnel leaked the story to /Military Times/ on September 5, the day before the Israelis attacked the alleged nuclear installation in Syria and the day planned for the simultaneous U.S. attack on Iran. The leaking of classified information on U.S. nuclear weapons disposition or movement to the media, is, itself, unprecedented. Air Force regulations require the sending of classified BEELINE reports to higher Air Force authorities on the disclosure of classified Air Force information to the media.
In another highly unusual move, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked an outside inquiry board to look into BENT SPEAR, even before the Air Force has completed its own investigation, a virtual vote of no confidence in the official investigation being conducted by Major General Douglas Raaberg, chief of air and space operations at the Air Combat Command.
Gates asked former Air Force Chief of Staff, retired General Larry Welch, to lead a Defense Science Board task force that will also look into the BENT SPEAR incident. The official Air Force investigation has reportedly been delayed for unknown reasons. Welch is President and CEO of the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA), a federally-funded research contractor that operates three research centers, including one for Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and another for the National Security Agency. One of the board members of IDA is Dr. Suzanne H. Woolsey of the Paladin Capital Group and wife of former CIA director and arch-neocon James Woolsey.
WMR has learned that neither the upper echelons of the State Department nor the British Foreign Office were privy to OPERATION ORCHARD, although Hadley briefed President Bush on Israeli spy satellite intelligence that showed the Syrian installation was a joint nuclear facility built with North Korean and Iranian assistance. However, it is puzzling why Hadley would rely on Israeli imagery intelligence (IMINT) from its OFEK (Horizon) 7 satellite when considering that U.S. IMINT satellites have greater capabilities.
The Air Force's "information warfare" campaign against media reports on CHECKMATE and OPERATION ORCHARD also affected international reporting of the recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution asking Israel to place its nuclear weapons program under IAEA controls, similar to those that the United States wants imposed on Iran and North Korea. The resolution also called for a nuclear-free zone throughout the Middle East. The IAEA's resolution, titled "Application of IAEA Safeguards in the Middle East," was passed by the 144-member IAEA General Meeting on September 20 by a vote of 53 to 2, with 47 abstentions. The only two countries to vote against were Israel and the United States. However, the story carried from the IAEA meeting in Vienna by Reuters, the Associated Press, and Agence France Press, was that it was Arab and Islamic nations that voted for the resolution.
This was yet more perception management carried out by CHECKMATE, the White House, and their allies in Europe and Israel with the connivance of the media. In fact, among the 53 nations that voted for the resolution were China, Russia, India, Ireland, and Japan. The 47 abstentions were described as votes "against" the resolution even though an abstention is neither a vote for nor against a measure. America's close allies, including Britain, France, Australia, Canada, and Georgia, all abstained.
Suspiciously, the IAEA carried only a brief item on the resolution concerning Israel's nuclear program and a roll call vote was not available either at the IAEA's web site -- www.iaea.org -- or in the media.
The perception management campaign by the neocon operational cells in the Bush administration, Israel and Europe was designed to keep a focus on Iran's nuclear program, not on Israel's. Any international examination of Israel's nuclear weapons program would likely bring up Israeli nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu, a covert from Judaism to Christianity, who was kidnapped in Rome by a Mossad "honey trap" named Cheryl Bentov (aka, Cindy) and a Mossad team in 1986 and held against his will in Israel ever since.
Vanunu's knowledge of the Israeli nuclear weapons program would focus on the country's own role in nuclear proliferation, including its program to share nuclear weapons technology with apartheid South Africa and Taiwan in the late 1970s and 1980s. The role of Ronald Reagan's Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Ken Adelman in Israeli's nuclear proliferation during the time frame 1983-1987 would also come under scrutiny. Adelman, a member of the Reagan-Bush transition State Department team from November 1980 to January 1981, voiced his understanding for the nuclear weapons programs of Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan in a June 28, 1981 /New York Times/ article titled, "3 Nations Widening Nuclear Contacts." The journalist who wrote the article was Judith Miller. Adelman felt that the three countries wanted nuclear weapons because of their ostracism from the West, the third world, and the hostility from the Communist countries. Of course, today, the same argument can be used by Iran, North Korea, and other "Axis of Evil" nations so designated by the neocons in the Bush administration and other governments.
There are also news reports that suggest an intelligence relationship between Israel and North Korea. On July 21, 2004, New Zealand's /Dominion Post/ reported that three Mossad agents were involved in espionage in New Zealand. Two of the Mossad agents, Uriel Kelman and Elisha Cara (aka Kra), were arrested and imprisoned by New Zealand police (an Israeli diplomat in Canberra, Amir Lati, was expelled by Australia and New Zealand intelligence identified a fourth Mossad agent involved in the New Zealand espionage operation in Singapore). The third Mossad agent in New Zealand, Zev William Barkan (aka Lev Bruckenstein), fled New Zealand -- for North Korea.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff revealed that Barkan, a former Israeli Navy diver, had previously worked at the Israeli embassy in Vienna, which is also the headquarters of the IAEA. He was cited by the /Sydney Morning Herald/ as trafficking in passports stolen from foreign tourists in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia. New Zealand's One News reported that Barkan was in North Korea to help the nation build a wall to keep its citizens from leaving.
The nuclear brinkmanship involving the United States and Israel and the breakdown in America's command and control systems have every major capital around the world wondering about the Bush administration's true intentions.
NOTE: WMR understands the risks to informed individuals in reporting the events of August 29/30, to the present time, that concern the discord within the U.S. Air Force, U.S. intelligence agencies, and other military services. Any source with relevant information and who wishes to contact us anonymously may drop off sealed correspondence at or send mail via the Postal Service to: Wayne Madsen, c/o The Front Desk, National Press Club, 13th Floor, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC, 20045.
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viernes, 21 de septiembre de 2007
USA Ron Paul 4 President, International Support Sites Increase
Panama 4 Ron Paul 2008
Paul's Int. Support Keeps GrowingThursday, September 20, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com
Posted September 20th, 2007 by manystromThanks to Grant Johnston who emailed me with a slew of international Ron Paul blogs. The list of sites on the blogroll on the front page now contains fifteen (15!) international blogs! What other candidate - Republican or Democrat can boast this kind of support?International Blogs:
Asia for Ron Paul,
Bavaria for Ron Paul,
Belgians for Ron Paul,
Brits for Ron Paul,
Brazilians for Ron Paul,
Canadians for Ron Paul,
Chile for Ron Paul,
French for Ron Paul,
Europe 4 Ron Paul,
Holland 4 Ron Paul,
Hungary for Ron Paul,
Indian & Pakistani Friends of Ron Paul,
Poland for Ron Paul,
Panama 4 Ron Paul 2008,
Romania for Ron Paul,
Venezuela for Ron Paul.
Grant also notes: "I discovered, by observation in meetup.com (http://ronpaul.meetup.com/about/), that a city gets a white pin, when 3 or more people are waiting for a meetup group. When the pin is white, no one has to pay. You only have to pay if a meetup group is started (it is not mandatory to start a group if interest is expressed). The pin then changes to red.It would be nice to at least have a white pin for each of the countries that have Ron Paul supporters (Brazil, Romania, etc.). Unfortunately, I cannot find contact information for them on their websites, to tell them how to get it. http://www.dailypaul.com/node/2236
Paul's Int. Support Keeps GrowingThursday, September 20, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com
Posted September 20th, 2007 by manystromThanks to Grant Johnston who emailed me with a slew of international Ron Paul blogs. The list of sites on the blogroll on the front page now contains fifteen (15!) international blogs! What other candidate - Republican or Democrat can boast this kind of support?International Blogs:
Asia for Ron Paul,
Bavaria for Ron Paul,
Belgians for Ron Paul,
Brits for Ron Paul,
Brazilians for Ron Paul,
Canadians for Ron Paul,
Chile for Ron Paul,
French for Ron Paul,
Europe 4 Ron Paul,
Holland 4 Ron Paul,
Hungary for Ron Paul,
Indian & Pakistani Friends of Ron Paul,
Poland for Ron Paul,
Panama 4 Ron Paul 2008,
Romania for Ron Paul,
Venezuela for Ron Paul.
Grant also notes: "I discovered, by observation in meetup.com (http://ronpaul.meetup.com/about/), that a city gets a white pin, when 3 or more people are waiting for a meetup group. When the pin is white, no one has to pay. You only have to pay if a meetup group is started (it is not mandatory to start a group if interest is expressed). The pin then changes to red.It would be nice to at least have a white pin for each of the countries that have Ron Paul supporters (Brazil, Romania, etc.). Unfortunately, I cannot find contact information for them on their websites, to tell them how to get it. http://www.dailypaul.com/node/2236
sábado, 15 de septiembre de 2007
USAID, la Subversion Silenciosa en Bolivia y Venezuela
patria libre socialista perú <perupatrialibresoci alista@yahoo. es> escribió: A: patrialibre patria_libre@ yahoogroups. comFecha: Viernes,14 de Septiembre de 2007 21:06:37 Asunto: [patria_libre] Eva Golinger: USAID en Bolivia y Venezuela: La subversion silenciosaUSAID en Bolivia y Venezuela: la subversión silenciosa Eva GolingerBolpressEl gobierno de Estados Unidos ha casí perfeccionado un método de injerencia que logra penetrar e infiltrar todos los sectores de la sociedad civil en un país de interés económico y estratégico. En el caso de Venezuela, esta estrategia comenzó a tomar forma en el año 2002, con el aumento en financiamiento a sectores de la oposición através de la National Endowment for Democracy (NED) y la apertura de una oficina de transición (OTI) de la USAID en Caracas. Estos esfuerzos lograron consolidar un movimiento opositor en aquel momento, que a pesar de fracasar en el golpe de estado, alcanzó causar daños severos a la industria petrolera y la economía nacional através de un sabotaje económico y un "paro" de gerentes y empresarios.Luego de una división en la oposición, la estratégia reorientó su enfoque principal hacia las comunidades de bajos recursos, los sectores chavistas, la comunicación y las necesidades en el interior del país. La embajada de EEUU en Caracas abrió una seria de "cónsulados de satélite" (American Corners) en cinco estados del país, logrando - sin la autorización del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores - tener una presencia oficial en regiones importantes para la visión energética de Washington. Esos estados, Anzoátegui, Bolívar, Lara, Monagas, y Nueva Esparta (Margarita), son ricos en petróleo, minerales y otros recursos naturales de los cuales Estados Unidos busca controlar. Estas sedes estadounidenses encontraron espacios dentro de asociaciones de abogados y alcaldías municipales de la oposición, y siguen funcionando como centros de propaganda y conspiración en contra de la revolución bolivariana.El trabajo de la USAID y su OTI en Venezuela ha protagonizado la profundizació n de la subversión contrarrevolucionar ia en el país. Hasta la fecha de junio 2007, más de 360 "becas" han sido otorgadas a organizaciones sociales, partidos políticos, comunidades, y proyectos políticos en Venezuela através del la Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), empresa contratista de la USAID que abrió una sede el sector El Rosal de Caracas en junio 2002. Desde el centro de Caracas, la DAI/USAID ha dado más de 11.575.509.00 dólares a estos 360 grupos y proyectos en Venezuela bajo el programa, "Venezuela: Inciativas para la Construcción de Confianza" (VICC). La mayoría de los programas financiados por la DAI se enfocan (según sus materiales) en "el diálogo político, el debate público, la participación ciudadana y el entrenamiento y capacitación de líderes democráticos. "Organizaciones financiadas y participantes incluyen a Súmate, Primero Justicia, Un Nuevo Tiempo, la Alcaldía de Chacao, Liderazgo y Visión, Los del Medio, Convive, Transparencia Internacional, Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, Queremos Elegir, la Universidad Metropolitana, y otros grupos generalmente vinculados con el sector opositor.La USAID-OTI también financia a los partidos partidos políticos de la oposición, como Primero Justicia, Un Nuevo Tiempo, Acción Democrática, COPEI, MAS, entre otros, através de los brazos internacionales de los partidos estadounidenses: el Instituto Republicano Internacional (IRI) y el Instituto Democrático Nacional (NDI). Desde el año 2002, más de siete millones de dólares han sido invertidos en la "asistencia técnica" a estos partidos opositores en Venezuela por parte de la USAID junto con IRI y NDI.Los llamados "defensores de los derechos humanos" en Venezuela, u ONG (organización no gubermental) , reciben gran parte de su financiamiento através de la Freedom House, otro contratista de la USAID-OTI en Venezuela. Freedom House ha patrocinado eventos como "Las Amenazas a la Libertad de Expresión del Siglo XXI, con la participación de Marciel Granier, Presidente del canal de television golpista RCTV, junto con Karen Hughes, la Sub-secretaria de Estado para la Diplomacia Pública y los Asuntos Públicos (la oficina de propaganda del Departamento de Estado que supervisa la Voz de América y otros medios propagandisticas de Washington)Freedom House también financia a instituciones estadounidenses, como el Centro Internacional para el Conflicto No-Violento (ICNVC) que enseñan las técnicas de la "resistencia" de Gene Sharp, y han asesorado movimientos de jóvenes y estudiantes en Serbia, Ucrania, Georgia, Bielarrusia y Venezuela. Su presidente del 2003-2005 fue James Woolsey, ex-Director de la CIA, y su actual presidente, Peter Ackerman, es un banquero multi-millonario que ha patrocinado los "cambios de regímenes" en Serbia, Ucrania y Georgia através del Instituto Albert Einstein y su ICNVC. El hijo de Ackerman participó en el masacre del pueblo iraquí en Fallujah.El último contratista de la USAID en Venezuela es la Fundación del Desarrollo Pan-Americano (PADF), cuyo misión es "apoyar la sociedad civil". La PADF ha otorgado $937,079,00 a 14 ONGs venezolanas desde finales del 2006. Por ahora, los nombres de estes grupos se desconocen.Los últimos informes públicos de la USAID destacan que en agosto del 2007, organizaron una conferencia con 50 alcaldes de todo el país para tratar el tema de la "descentralizació n" y las "redes populares". Muy parecido parece este tema al proyecto que Leopoldo López, alcalde opositor de Chacao, esta promoviendo actualmente. El programa de la USAID-OTI en Venezuela promete continuar con sus esfuerzos de "fortalecer la sociedad civil y los partidos políticos," "promover la descentralizació n y los consejos municipales" y "entrenar los defensores de los derechos humanos". Ya el congreso estadounidense ha aprobado $3.6 millones de dólares para esta oficina en Venezuela para el año 2007-8, algo que indica que esta subversión seguirá creciendo y amenazando la revolución bolivariana.BoliviaPero Venezuela no es el único blanco de la subversión e injerencia estadounidense através de la USAID y su millones de dólares en financiamiento a movimientos opositores. En marzo del 2004, la USAID abrió otra Oficina hacia las inciativas de una transición (OTI) en Bolivia, para supuestamente ayudar "reducir las tensiones en zonas de conflicto social y apoyar al país con la preparación de los eventos electorales. " En este caso, la USAID contrató a la empresa estadounidense, Casals & Associates, Inc. (C&A) para manejar los más de 13.3 millones de dólares que ya han otorgado a 379 organizaciones, partidos políticos y proyectos en Bolivia. C&A juega el papel en Bolivia que hace la DAI en Venezuela, y tanto como la DAI, C&A es una empresa con grandes contratos con el Departamento de Defensa, el Ejército estadounidense, la Armada estadounidense, el Departamento de Energía, Broadcasting Board of Governance, la Voz de América, la Oficina para Transmisiones (de propaganda) a Cuba,el Departamento de Seguridad Interior, el Departamento de Estado, y muchos más. Hasta hoy, C&A ha trabajado ejecutando programas intervencionistas de las diferentes agencias de Washington en más de 40 páises del mundo, incluyendo Albania, Armenia, Bolivia, Colombia, República Dominicana, El Salvador, Guatemala, Madagascar, Malawi, México, Nicaragua, Panamá y Paraguay.En Bolivia, la USAID-OTI ha enfocado sus esfuerzos para combatir e influir sobre la Asamblea Constituyente, y el separatismo de las regiones ricas en recursos naturales, como Santa Cruz y Cochabamba. La mayoría de los 13.3 millones de dólares han sido dados a organizaciones y programas trabajando para "reforzar los gobiernos regionales", con la intención de debilitar el gobierno nacional de Evo Morales; "crear enlaces entre grupos indígenas y estructuras democráticas" ; "ofrecer oportunidades económicos y desarrollo comunitaria" ; "educación cívica para líderes emergentes"; y "la difusión de información". Los nobles temas de estos programas indican que Washington esta buscando socavar el poder nacional de Evo Morales en Bolivia, penetrar e infiltrar las comunidades de indígenas, que son la mayoría en el país, promover el modelo capitalista, e influir sobre los medios de comunicación, promoviendo propaganda pro-estadounidense, pro-capitalista y anti-socialista.Abiertamente, el programa de la USAID-OTI en Bolivia apoya a la autonomía de ciertas regiones, como Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando y Tarija, promoviendo entonces el separatismo y la desestablizació n del país y del gobierno de Evo Morales. También la National Endowment for Democracya (NED), otro órgano financiero de Washington que promueve la subversión e injerencia en más de 70 países del mundo, incluyendo a Venezuela, esta financiando grupos en regiones como Santa Cruz, que abogan por el separatismo. El actual embajador estadounidense en Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, es experto en el tema del separtismo, habiendo sido jefe de la misión estadounidense en la ex-Yugoslavia que fue dividido en dos países: Bosnia y Serbia, con la "ayuda" estadounidense.El gobierno de Evo Morales ya ha denunciado públicamente esta subversión através de la USAID en Bolivia, dando aviso al gobierno de Estados Unidos que tiene que obedecer las leyes del país u optar por irse. "La puerta esta abierta", declaró el vocero del gobierno bolivano en estos días, haciendo referencia a la injerencia estadounidense en su país.Sin embargo, Washington no se irá tan facilmente. Esta red de injerencia y subversión no sera tan sencilla de erradicar. El Presidente Chávez ha propuesta en su reforma constitucional un cambio al Artículo 67 que incluye una prohibición del financiamiento a grupos con fines políticos y a las campañas políticas por parte de entidades públicas o privadas del extranjero. Es esencial definir como se tratará el concepto de "fines políticos", porque en muchos casos, las ONG y grupos que trabajan por los derechos humanos intentarán evadir ser clasificados como organizaciones con motivos "políticos". Pero nadie puede negar que los derechos humanos es un tema fundamentalmente político, y es el terreno donde más hoy en día se esconde la subversión de Washington, usando las ONG como un escudo.Lo que si esta claro es la necesidad urgente de desarrollar estrategias para impedir y sacudir esta subversión en Venezuela, Bolivia y todos los países hermanos hoy en día bajo la mira del imperio, y que luchan para expresar su propia voluntad y soberanía.Eva Golinger es abogada e investigadora sobre el tema de la injerencia de EEUU en Venezuela y América Latina. Autora de los libros El Código Chávez: Descifrando la intervención de EEUU en Venezuela; y Bush vs. Chávez: La Guerra de Washington contra Venezuela. Los dos editados en español por Monte Ávila Editores.
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