
	by SOTT editors
	02 November 2008
	
	from
	Sott 
	Website
	
	 
	
	The month of October came and went leaving more 
	panic about the global economic situation - evidence of a Shock Doctrine 
	strategy necessary for the installment of a 
	New World Order. 
	
	 
	
	The US election 
	show is following its course, ready for the "grand finale" in just a few 
	days, while behind the curtain US troops are being called back home to take 
	care of any possible civil unrest.
	
	
	
	Meanwhile, the sun is still taking some time off, more fireballs are 
	lighting the sky, and we were surprised by an early arrival of 
	
	extreme cold 
	weather. 
	
	 
	
	Flu pandemic scares came with it, but we believe they are not 
	really related to the weather. There is also an increase of reports of UFO 
	sightings and cold-blooded acts by pathological individuals.
	
	But hang on, because there is always hope!
 
	
	 
	
	
	Welcome to the New 
	World Order
	
	The first thing we need to understand is that this global economic crisis is 
	not going to be solved with government bail-outs. Adrian Salbuchi is an 
	Argentinean analyst who lived through the crisis in his country, so he knows 
	what he is talking about. 
	
	 
	
	
	
	He writes:
	
		
		19 September 2008: 
		
		Henry Paulson, Bernard 
		Shalom Bernanke and Christopher Cox (chairman of the Securities & 
		Exchange Commission - SEC) submitted to Congress an urgent 3-page 
		Bail-out Plan (similar in style to Argentina's "financial armoring" of 
		December 2000 which paved the way for 2001's total financial meltdown), 
		to the tune of US$ 700 billion which is supposed to stop further banking 
		and financial failures in the US and worldwide. 
		
		 
		
		The urgency of the 
		matter could be read in their panicky faces nut the bill crashed in the 
		House of Representative which rejected it on 22-Sept-08. It has since 
		then grown to a 450-page dossier, now approved by the Senate and being 
		resubmitted to the House.
		
		Paulson and Bernanke seek "superpowers" from Congress, similar to the 
		ones that former economy minister Domingo Cavallo wrenched from 
		Argentina's Congress in 2001, which led to total collapse. In various 
		declarations, president 
		
		George W Bush stressed time and again the dire 
		situation of this "national emergency". 
		
		 
		
		When asked how the amount of US$ 
		700 billion was arrived at, Bernanke replied that it represents 5% (!!!) 
		of mortgages that have become non-performing. Independent analysts, 
		however, reckon that this 5% is insufficient to cover all bail-outs and 
		that we need to look at 10, 15 or 20 percent of non-performing 
		mortgages, which would turn bail-out figures into unfathomable amounts. 
		
		
		 
		
		Rejection of the bail-out plan on "Bloody Monday" led to a collapse of 
		the Dow Jones Industrial Index by 778 points (more than 7%) and a 16% 
		fall for financial institutions. 
		
		 
		
		Not surprisingly, in their 21st 
		September edition the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph pointed out 
		that we may be edging towards a US Government default on its entire 
		US$ 
		13.5 trillion debt. 
	
	
	 
	
	Even 
	
	Bernanke suggested that we were heading for 
	a recession and at some point in September he said they had "lost control". 
	In fact, it is bizarre that the tone of the remarks is so grim; if they want 
	the crisis to be solved, shouldn't they be speaking a bit more 
	optimistically? But no; 
	
	the IMF was actually speaking of a global meltdown. 
	
	
	 
	
	The message seems to be that we all need to panic.
	
	
	So the leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations met to come up with 
	a 'solution'. In short, they announced that they will be holding a global 
	summit that promises to be a 
	
	New Bretton Woods and reshape banking. 
	
	 
	
	French 
	President Nicolas Sarkozy declared that it should lead to "a new capitalism" 
	and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke of,
	
		
		"very large and very radical 
	changes" and urged "globally accepted standards of supervision and 
	regulation [be] applied equally and consistently in all countries."
	
	
	It's starting to look like we have all been had with a 
	
	Shock Doctrine style 
	maneuver. 
	
	 
	
	They created the problem, and now they will offer us a 'solution': 
	Something that we would not have accepted without a crisis like we are 
	seeing now. They will argue that the new technocratic, centralized and 
	authoritarian measures are "painful but necessary", that it's good for us 
	all, and that we don't have any other option anyway. 
	
	 
	
	As SOTT economic commentators Donald Hunt and 
	Simon Davies
	
	wrote recently:
	
		
		We believe that the current 'crisis' is just 
		one group of shocks in a series that will occur over the days, weeks, 
		months and even years to come. There is a discernible direction in which 
		we are being led. Gordon Brown, Nicholas Sarkozy and George Bush have 
		been busy promoting the need for a "New Bretton Woods". 
		
		
		 
		
		The 
		
		original "Bretton 
		Woods" agreed in 1944, in secret and after two and a half years of 
		planning, established the framework for the post war economic order that 
		we see today; an order that was fundamentally inequitable in conception, 
		has concentrated vast wealth in the hands of a very few and has resulted 
		in untold suffering, starvation and death for those outside the 
		privileged economies of the west. 
		
		
		 
		
		The essential tenets of this order 
		were dictated by the US as ultimate victor in the Second World War, 
		Europe having been utterly devastated physically and economically. Free 
		trade and free markets were the order of the day as was a 'pegged' 
		currency system with the US dollar as de facto global reserve currency.
		
	
	
	For more details on what this New Bretton Woods 
	may represent for us, make sure to read Hunt and Davies' 
	
	latest analysis. 
	
	 
	
	Among other interesting points, they observe that:
	
		
		We have an apparent building of differing 
		philosophical camps; Europeans want what their predecessors wanted at 
		Bretton Woods, a regulated interventionist capitalism and the Americans 
		wanting business as usual, free markets, free enterprise and free trade. 
		
		
		 
		
		The US position will win although there will be a sop to the European 
		position which will not control the powerful but will further reduce the 
		freedoms of normal people. There will be further restrictions, 
		intrusions and limitations into our private finances. 
	
	
	Indeed, it is interesting to see how these 
	changes are disguised with confusion. 
	
	 
	
	There is one theme that has appeared 
	repeatedly in several publications, and that is that 
	
	Karl Marx was right 
	after all, and now governments of the world are behaving like 'socialists', 
	because they are intervening in the banking system. 
	
	 
	
	Marx may have been right in pointing out that 
	the logic of capitalism implies recurrent crisis, but rest assured that no 
	socialism is coming our way - not if you define socialism as the sources of 
	wealth and the means of production belonging to the people.
	
	
	
	Cartoon Communism Capitalism
	Bennet / The Christian Science Monitor
	
	
	What we are witnessing, in fact, is a process by which the biggest financial 
	institutions swallow the smaller ones, becoming thus larger and larger, not 
	unlike what we call monopolization. 
	
	 
	
	At the same time, governments are also 
	engaged in assimilating segments of the financial world, all the while 
	planning to create some sort of supra-national entity that blurs the line 
	between states and banks, and which oversees all money related matters for 
	everyone. In other words, this is a process of concentration of wealth and 
	power in a few hands.
	
	It is ironic, because the sort of communism that the world has ever known - 
	think of Stalin - bears little difference with the extreme form of 
	capitalism which goes together with fascism. The extremes meet, as in a 
	circle. The wealth, the power of decision, the military, the means of 
	production: they all land directly or indirectly on the hands of 
	the pathocrats, whether they are dressed in red or blue. 
	
	 
	
	Does it really matter 
	if the elite is called state, government, bank, the People's Party, or 
	something else?
	
	This time, however, is on a global scale: the New World Order.
 
	
	 
	
	
	A bit of speculation
	
	Gordon Brown argues that "we need an early warning system for the world 
	economy." 
	
	 
	
	That is the excuse: we don't want these things to happen again. So 
	first they will offer a series of financial measures designed to regulate 
	banks and stop speculation, and everybody will nod in agreement.
	
	As time goes by though, they may wish to extend their warning system, not 
	just to the brokers of the world, but also to the masses. After all, the 
	common people take a part in the collapse or booming of an economy, 
	depending if they invest their money or hide it under their mattress. 
	
	 
	
	So, 
	given the right conditions and after a few more months or years of recession 
	and gentle conditioning, they may come up with an argument like this:
	
		
		"Banks have been in danger because of greedy 
		'loose cannon' speculators. We have taken care of them as best as we 
		can, but we have now realized that the masses in panic can also bring 
		the system down if they decide to get their cash out all at once. If 
		everybody had confidence and discipline, there would be no problem and 
		the system would go on nicely. 
		
		
		 
		
		But we cannot leave things to the whims 
		of the masses anymore. We need a system that will not allow for everyone 
		to make silly moves at the same time. We cannot trust on people taking 
		care of their own cash cause it hurts the system, and therefore it hurts 
		everyone. On top of that, we already see that many banks are having 
		trouble getting enough cash to cope, and in spite of the bail-outs they 
		are collapsing.
		
		But what is cash anyway, if not an invention of human beings? 
		
		
		 
		
		It is 
		merely an artificial representation of material goods. So we can solve 
		the problem simply by reinventing cash in a controlled fashion. We have 
		now the advantage of technology to do so. So we can create a single 
		global computerized system based on e-money, with a centralized 
		conglomerate of banks, or a single bank authority backed by the world 
		governments, which through virtual intelligence technology will 
		guarantee that individual bankers, financial speculators and the masses 
		don't make waves in the system. 
		
		
		 
		
		Besides, we have tried everything else 
		already and we are still in recession. At this moment this is our only 
		option and if we don't do it, lots of people are going to lose all the 
		money in their accounts and we will be back in the Middle Ages."
	
	
	And then, after some time of living almost 
	exclusively with e-money, they may add:
	
		
		"This new system poses practical problems, 
		such as people having to rely on plastic cards for all their money and 
		therefore risking loss, theft or fraud. To solve this, we can offer 
		people to have their accounts linked to 
		
		implants, tattoos or 
		fingerprints. It will not be compulsory, of course, but that will be the 
		trend from now on and we expect everyone to join sooner or later."
		
	
	
	You may think: So what? 
	
	 
	
	If money is just 
	artificial representation, what difference would it make if it is on paper 
	or electronically? A big one, we think. 
	
	 
	
	We would be immersed in a control 
	system in which every transaction would be under surveillance and registered 
	somewhere. We would not really be owners of our money, but we would rather 
	be 'allowed' to use a technological system over which we have no control. 
	Except that there would not be any opting out - unless you are ready to 
	starve. 
	
	 
	
	Would you be brave enough to dissent under such conditions?
	
	It would be like being forced to play Monopoly in order to pay for food and 
	shelter, except that the owner of the game makes up his rules at 
	convenience, knows everything about you, keeps your money for you while you 
	can only see your balance on a screen, and will not let you play anywhere 
	else.
	
	By the way, the propaganda is already underway:
	
	 
	
	 
	
	IBM RFID Checkout in Supermarkets
 
	
	
	
	
	It's not who votes 
	that counts
	
	The US presidential elections are upon us. 
	
	 
	
	Since we only have to wait a 
	couple of days to see how things will turn out, we decided that we wouldn't 
	propose one most likely outcome. Instead, we will point out a few 
	interesting items of the month, because some of them will undoubtedly turn 
	out to be hugely important after the fact.
	
	McCain's campaign is not doing very well. 
	
	The Palin effect seems to have 
	died down at the end of the race, and things have turned worse for the 
	Republicans as they make one mistake after another and their images worsen.
	
	
	
	McCain reacts as Democratic candidate Barack Obama 
	
	
	speaks during the 
	presidential debate on Wednesday. 
	
	He then headed the wrong way off stage
	
	
	In an ideal democracy, it would be an entirely decided game by now. 
	
	 
	
	However, 
	we do not forget that the last two elections were lost and 
	
	stolen by the 
	current occupier of the White House. We do not know if history will repeat 
	itself, but we do know that at least some are already trying to make it 
	happen. The difference is that this time, the gap between 
	Obama and McCain 
	in the polls will make the story harder to sell.
	
	The first problem, of course, is the electronic voting machines. That anyone 
	could propose them as a safe and fair method for voting - given that all 
	computers connected to a network can be potentially hacked or tampered with 
	- is beyond belief. 
	
	 
	
	Indeed, as if taken from a Simpsons episode, some early 
	West Virginia voters have found that the voting machines have a preference 
	of their own. 
	
		
		"When I touched the screen for Barack Obama," a voter 
	complained, "the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote 
	for John McCain."
	
	
	Mark Crispin Miller, author and professor of media culture and communication 
	at New York University, explains how the election can be stolen, and who is 
	interested in stealing it:
	
		
		Mark Crispin Miller: Well, basically, they use a kind of architecture that's 
	called Man in the Middle, and it involves shunting election returns data 
	through a separate computer somewhere else. This is something that computer 
	criminals do all the time with banks. Spoonamore explains that the Man in 
	the Middle setup is extremely effective and basically undetectable as a way 
	to change election results.
Now, the scariest thing is that Connell told Spoonamore that the reason why 
	he has helped Bush-Cheney steal these elections for the last eight years has 
	been to save the babies. See? We have to understand that there's a very 
	powerful component of religious fanaticism at work in the election fraud 
	conspiracy. We saw a little bit of that in Greenswald's film, where Paul 
	Weyrich was talking about how we don't want people voting.
Amy Goodman: The conservative activist.
		
Mark Crispin Miller: Well, because the majority is a majority of 
	unbelievers. They're pro-choice. They're corrupt. They're evil. They don't 
	get it. It's therefore necessary to fix election results in order to prevent 
	the unjust and the unrighteous from taking over. 
	
	
	 
	
	Notice the significance of religion! 
	
	 
	
	As we have repeatedly warned in Sott.net, Dominionist
	Palin (and others) are ready to do anything for "God". 
	So when Palin declares that the election result rests in God's hands, we 
	need to pay attention. 
	
	 
	
	Maybe she had a chat with the Big Guy and was 
	reassured that HE is doing the counting?
	
	But voting machines are not the only trick available. In Michigan, 
	Republicans are planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to prevent the 
	former owners from voting. This would most likely disproportionately affect 
	African-Americans, who more often receive subprime loans. It has also been 
	reported that Republican operatives are wielding new federal legislation to 
	systematically disenfranchise Democrats across the country. If the race was 
	close enough by election day, that would be enough to change the result. 
	
	
	 
	
	According to Laughlin McDonald, the director of the 
	American Civil Liberties 
	Union's voting rights project, 
	
		
		"there's more (attempts at voter suppression) 
	that's been going on in the lead-up to this election than any I can 
	remember."
	
	
	As Crispin Miller explains in the interview linked above, a fraud needs a 
	narrative. If the election is stolen, people need to believe that it was 
	possible that McCain won legitimately. This seems to be the only purpose of 
	a recent AP poll that reported that Obama and McCain are head to head, when 
	all the rest of polls give Obama between a six and ten point lead. 
	
	 
	
	It is 
	also for reasons of narrative that television network executives decided to 
	refrain from projecting a winner based on exit polls on election day. They 
	argue that they got it wrong with Al Gore and John Kerry - which is ironic 
	because they actually got it right.
	
	But if they cannot provide a plausible narrative, then it is unlikely that 
	they will be able to get away with a third stolen election - but not 
	impossible. Without a narrative, anger would erupt all over the country, and 
	it would likely have a racial undertone. 
	
	 
	
	This is why - in a country in which 
	Homeland Security has already assumed broad powers, effectively turning vast 
	swaths of it into "constitution-free zones" - it is unsettling that the 
	police are preparing for civil unrest if Obama loses. Considering that 
	Republican supporters are quite capable of intolerance and are being 
	channeled into a mob mentality, it is Interesting that the police is not 
	foreseeing civil unrest if McCain loses, isn't it?
	
	If Obama's victory is accepted - whether immediately or eventually - there 
	are a few things we must be aware of. 
	
	 
	
	Most remarkable are Democratic vice 
	presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden's predictions for an Obama presidency:
	
		
		"Mark my words. [...] It will not be six months before the world tests 
	Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy... Watch, we're going to have an 
	international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
		
"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might 
	originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle 
	East and Russia as possibilities.
"[...] This is more than just, this is more than - think about it, 
	literally, think about it - this is more than just a capital crisis, this is 
	more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this 
	economy.
"[...] We're going to have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first 
	two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick 
	with us."
	
	
	Biden emphasized that the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border is of 
	particular concern, with Osama bin Laden "alive and well" and Pakistan 
	"bristling with nuclear weapons." 
	 
	
	It sounds like they have been given their script should they actually get 
	the role in the play! 
	
	 
	
	That the 
	war of terror and the confrontation with 
	Russia are mentioned as part of the agenda for Obama serves as a reminder 
	that the corruption in the system is systemic. Ultimately, it doesn't matter 
	who provides a face for the presidency, as the structure of power has 
	already decided the general direction to be followed. 
	
	 
	
	Add to Biden's 
	declarations the fact that Obama's team has been briefed by Bush staff after 
	warnings about a terrorist attack, and that Colin Powell ("there are WMD in 
	this satellite picture, really!!") has endorsed Obama, and we cannot hope 
	for any real changes for the benefit of the people of the US and the world. 
	
	
	 
	
	The most we can expect is that the empire will get a new facade.
	 
	
	 
	
	
	
	Bring the troops back home - but not like that!
	
	
	
	
	police state
	 
	
	It cannot be stressed enough how significant it is that the 
	First Brigade of 
	the Third Infantry Division (three to four thousand soldiers) has been 
	deployed in the US this October - and just in time for the elections. 
	
	 
	
	This 
	army unit was the first to storm Baghdad, by the way, so they know how to 
	subdue crowds thanks to their experience with angry Iraqis. 
	
	 
	
	
	
	Naomi Wolf has 
	been sounding the alarm, pointing out that this amounts to a coup d'etat, 
	but no one seems to care enough.
	
	 
	
	 
	
	Interview - Naomi Wolf - Give Me Liberty
	
	 
	
	
	
	
	She quotes the latest official explanation for the presence of troops from 
	Northern Command (NorthCom):
	
		
		Despite conspiracy theories that this could be a first step toward martial 
	law in the U.S., there won't be tanks on Main Street or active-duty troops 
	putting down demonstrations. That is barred by federal law banning the 
	military from being used on U.S. soil for domestic law enforcement.
Instead, the soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort 
	Stewart, Georgia, have been training to back up civilian authorities in 
	providing medical care and dealing with chemical, biological, high explosive 
	or nuclear attack. 
	
	
	The first thing that Wolf notes is that this contradicts 
	The Army Times, 
	which initially reported that the First Brigade would handle domestic crowd 
	control and subdue 'unruly individuals' with 'lethal and nonlethal 
	technologies'. 
	
	 
	
	Furthermore, she makes the connection with the election 
	irregularities discussed above, and reminds us of what has happened in other 
	countries. 
	
		
			- 
			
			In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe sent troops to harass, arrest and even 
	kill voters during a closely contested election 
- 
			
			In Sierra Leone, troops and 
	militias were both deployed by the contesting political parties to 
	intimidate, beat and arrest voters 
- 
			
			The same thing happened in Azerbaijan 
	
	Bear in mind that all that may be needed for a bit of electoral harassment 
	is the physical presence of troops on the streets or around polling stations 
	- with the excuse of protecting people in that critical moment. If you have 
	ever been in front of a man with a sub-machine gun, you know how 
	intimidating it is, even without any visible tension rising.
	
	That is bad enough. But on top of that, the new NorthCom story argues the 
	possibility of attacks with weapons of mass destruction. This is not a 
	surprise, really, since we have been conditioned with terror scares of 
	various levels for at least the last seven years. And that is the reason we 
	ask: why is it now that they decide to deploy the troops? 
	
	 
	
	Especially given 
	that there are already civilian branches of government perfectly capable of 
	dealing with emergencies, should there be any.
	 
	
	 
	
	
	
	What if they gave a war and nobody went?
	
	
	For years now, we have worried about Israel and/or the US bombing Iran. 
	
	 
	
	
	It 
	didn't take a genius to see that they were using the same disinformation 
	tactics used with Saddam. The logical conclusion has been that they are 
	planning to do the same with Iran. However, while some are still warning 
	about the possibility, it is true that the neocons seem to have lost their 
	enthusiasm for war, at least in public.
	
	According to senior officials the 
	Bush administration will announce in 
	mid-November, after the presidential election, that it intends to establish 
	the first US diplomatic presence in Iran since the 1979-81 hostage crisis. 
	This is not really a friendly move as much as it is strategic; embassies 
	provide the possibility of more in-depth espionage and political 
	maneuvering. But in any case, the decision does not suggest an invasion in 
	the near future. 
	
	 
	
	
	So if an attack on Iran is indeed off the table - at least 
	for the moment - what made them change their minds when they seemed so 
	bloodthirsty?
	
	
	Ray McGovern attributes it to Russian deterrence. Particularly since the 
	Georgian war, Russia has been sending clear messages to the US that it does 
	not intend to sit down and watch. (You can read our 
	
	last
	
	three
	installments 
	for more on the awakening of the Russian Bear.) Of course, if the 
	war on 
	Iran has been canceled or postponed, that's one piece of good news (for a 
	change!).
	
	But don't go celebrating just yet. 
	
	 
	
	
	Since it's virtually a given that the 
	power in the US (and Israel) will effectively remain under the control of 
	psychopaths, an attack may go ahead anyway, deterrence or not, and things 
	could deteriorate into a world war with a Russian retaliation. Not even an 
	Obama administration would exclude the scenario, in view of Biden's 
	prediction cited above, and the fact that a top Obama adviser has endorsed a 
	roadmap to a war with Iran. 
	
	 
	
	
	And if the religious fanatics make it to the 
	White House, you can start digging a bunker, as they are quite explicit 
	about their hopes for Armageddon. Delusional and 
	
	psychopathic evangelical TV 
	preacher Pat Robertson is predicting nuclear war before Bush retires to his 
	ranch. And in spite of his delusions he may be right.
	
	At the moment, things are in the air in terms of geopolitics and war. But 
	take a mental note that while the G8 leaders are planning meetings to create 
	a New Economic Order, the military leaders are also having high level 
	meetings - except that they are doing so quietly. 
	
	 
	
	
	Surrounded by secrecy, 
	generals and admirals from at least the US, France, Germany and another 
	country, "possibly Great Britain," 
	
	met in Adirondack, N.Y. State. A few days 
	later, military leaders from the US and Russia 
	
	met in Helsinki. 
	
	 
	
	
	Will they be 
	discussing matters with Israel as well or will they leave it out of the 
	picture?
	
	Not that the US is really in need of more wars! The ongoing wars in Iraq and 
	Afghanistan are accomplishing their missions well: the destruction of both 
	countries, the destruction of the US and millions of dead people. As 
	election day approaches, the US army is opening new fronts in the middle 
	East. The not-so-covert war that started last month in Pakistan, 
	
	continues 
	even more aggressively, with at least twelve strikes in ten weeks "blamed on 
	US-led coalition forces or CIA drones based in Afghanistan".
	
	The same tactics of intimidation and bullying that were used on Pakistan are 
	now being used on Syria. 
	
	 
	
	
	On Sunday, Oct. 26, "American forces launched a 
	small ground-air attack on the border village of Sukkiraya, with military 
	helicopters disgorging a squad of troops who attacked a building and killed 
	"a man, his four children and a married couple." A few days later, US 
	officials acknowledged the raid and called it 
	
	a warning to Syria, using the 
	same lame tale about al-Qaeda insurgents crossing the borders to Iraq, and 
	Syria failing to "contain" them. 
	
	 
	
	In the US only Kucinich questioned the 
	timing of the strike, yet it is
	
	Chris Floyd who gives a very likely reason 
	for this move, referring to the recent good diplomatic relations that Syria 
	is establishing with European and neighboring countries:
	
		
		As we have often seen, whenever one of the American elite's designated 
	demons starts trying to make nice and act moderate, they are generally poked 
	with a sharp stick in hopes of making them snarl again - thereby continuing 
	their highly useful function as bogey-men to keep scaring the American 
	people into giving trillions of dollars (and the blood of their children) to 
	the Pentagon and its corporate associates in the war profiteering industry.
		
	
	
	
	
	
	Of monsters, vampires and cannibals
	
	
	As we saw in every of our previous installments, the news reported about 
	people going off and becoming murdering, torturing monsters are steadily 
	increasing as the chaos that surrounds us intensifies. It seems that the 
	unsteady conditions "activate" those unable to control certain - perhaps 
	genetic - impulses, resulting in spreading suffering around to those who 
	cross their path. 
	
	 
	
	
	
	Josef Fritzl, told his psychiatrist recently that he was 
	"born to rape" and that he held himself back for a long time, citing as an 
	excuse that his mother used to humiliate him as a child. Even if what Fritzl 
	alleges is true, still, how many people were humiliated by their parents as 
	children? With the widespread use of narcissistic parenting techniques, we 
	suspect that the number is high. Yet the large majority of them did not 
	become rapists or murderers. 
	
	 
	
	Fritzl is a psychopath: remorseless, 
	conscienceless, liar, and above all salivating for power and control over 
	others. 
	
	 
	
	Another psychopathic criminal, 
	
	Charlie Manson, once said: 
	
		
		"Remorse 
	for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that 
	give me equal right?"
	
	
	That is what it comes down to: for psychopaths, whether in police or army 
	uniform, whether in political or corporate office, whether you next door 
	neighbor or one in your life, what they take away from us - our money, our 
	lives, our sanity - they consider it their prerogative, their innate right, 
	and if ever caught and confronted, they will always say that it is somebody 
	else's fault.
	
	And so they roam among us and act out when they feel like it, or when they 
	get "activated". Here's a meager sample from the month of October. 
	
	 
	
	Note how 
	in their majority, the horrific acts are perpetrated on children and women, 
	sometimes even by young teenagers:
	
		
	
	
	Also note that a high number of the crimes are committed in the USA, a 
	place of current high instability in every sphere of life:
	
		
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	The Sun will not heat us
	
	
	Given the world economy and the instability of oil prices, it might be a 
	long winter indeed. 
	
	 
	
	
	On top of that, the ongoing lack of sunspots is an omen 
	of weather woes that are beginning to manifest. There is also a NASA report 
	indicating that the protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield 
	the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and getting 
	weaker. 
	
	 
	
	The 
	heliosphere, 
	
		
		"has weakened by 25 per cent over the past decade 
	and is now at it lowest level since the space race began 50 years ago."
	
	
	Professor Don Easterbrook, from the Department of Geology of Western 
	Washington University, using records of past climate changes deduces that 
	
	global cooling is to be expected for the first three decades of the 21st 
	Century:
	
		
		The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually 
	assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling, perhaps much deeper than 
	the global cooling from about 1945 to 1977. Just how much cooler the global 
	climate will be during this cool cycle is uncertain. 
		
		 
		
		Recent solar changes 
	suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 
	cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle. A more drastic 
	cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could 
	plunge the Earth into another 
		
		Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if 
	that is likely. 
	
	
	Some people are feeling the chilling consequences already:
	
		
	
	
	The 
	
	UK is having snow and ice in October, while 
	
	a white London makes the 
	news for the first time in decades, after an Arctic blast hits the island. 
	The most 
	
	hair raising weather story comes also from the UK, along with a bag 
	of lies to minimize the effect - but we don't think the locals will be able 
	to forget so easily such an experience. 
	 
	
	Sarah Galliford, a resident of 
	Ottery St Mary, the town hit by the hailstorm of ice, had this to say:
	
		
		I was woken up by the sound of hailstones thundering down on the roof. I 
	thought it was the end of the world. I looked outside at about 1am and there 
	was a river of ice coming down the street. It was a total freak of nature. 
	It wasn't even on the weather forecast. They said there would be rain but 
	nothing like this. It was absolutely crazy. 
	
	
	A preview of the coming Ice Age?
	
	
	Adding to the odd weather, floods have caused deaths and damages 
	
	in Vietnam, 
	and 
	
	in Yemen, 100 people died and 7,000 became homeless due to floods by 
	torrential rain.
	 
	
	 
	
	
	
	Great balls of fire
	
	Last month we cited the 
	
	noctilucent clouds as one element among many that 
	provide clues about the strange earthly weather. 
	
	 
	
	We learned the following:
	
		
		"The incidence of noctilucent clouds seems to be increasing, perhaps because 
	of global warming," says Paul M. Bellan, a professor of applied physics at 
	Caltech.
	
	
	Twenty-five years ago, researchers at Poker Flat, Alaska, discovered that 
	the clouds were highly reflective to radar. 
	
	 
	
	This unusual property has long 
	puzzled scientists. Bellan, reporting in the August issue of the Journal of 
	Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, now has an explanation: the ice grains in noctilucent clouds are coated with a thin film of metal, made of sodium and 
	iron. The metal film causes radar waves to reflect off ripples in the cloud 
	in a manner analogous to how X-rays reflect from a crystal lattice.
	
	Sodium and iron atoms collect in the upper atmosphere after being blasted 
	off incoming micrometeors. These metal atoms settle into a thin layer of 
	vapor that sits just above the altitude at which noctilucent clouds occur. 
	Astronomers recently have been using the sodium layer to create 
	laser-illuminated artificial guide stars for adaptive optics telescopes that 
	remove the distorting affects of atmospheric turbulence to produce clearer 
	celestial images. 
	
	We bring this fragment to your attention again because we did not stress 
	enough the most important implication: that there is a correlation between noctilucent clouds and micrometeors, and they are increasing. 
	
	 
	
	An increase in micrometeors means an increase in dust in the inner solar system, and who 
	knows if dust does not carry pebbles, rocks and boulders?
	
	
	
	
	all-sky view from Orangeville
	Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network, University of Western Ontario
	At 05:28 am on Wednesday morning, October 15, all seven cameras of Western's 
	Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) 
	
	recorded a bright, slow fireball in 
	the predawn sky. 
	
	In the all-sky view from Orangeville the fireball passes 
	from upper left (North) to right (West) 
	
	ending near the setting moon (the 
	brightest object at upper right).
	
	
	The highlight of the month came when astronomers accurately predicted and 
	announced (curiously only some hours before the impact) that Sudan would get 
	hit by a small asteroid. 
	
	 
	
	Well, we wonder if what they really want people to 
	believe is that they can now "spot 'em asteroids" so there is absolutely 
	nothing to worry about. Or (to be more conspiratorially minded), they could 
	assure us that a future 'impact' was absolutely not an asteroid - it was a 
	missile from (insert target country). Because if it had been an asteroid, 
	they would have spotted it with their now proven ability. There are lots of 
	disinformation possibilities to build on top of this one announcement, aren't 
	there?
	
	More impacts followed - unpredicted of course:
	
		
	
	
	For the sake of stimulating out-of-the-box thinking, we decided to include 
	the high number of strong and sometimes deadly earthquakes of this month in 
	this section (some tremors may be related to cosmic impacts):
	
		
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	Pandemic panic
	
	One of the more disturbing ideas we run into when poking around the edges of 
	consensus reality is that the elite feel that there are just too darn many 
	humans around. "Useless eaters" is the favored term, and "culling the herd" 
	the appropriate response. After all, they (we) are using up too much of the 
	earth's resources which belong (of course) to these same elites. 
	
	 
	
	But how to 
	manage it without tipping off the unruly mob? 
	
	 
	
	Even a bright cow can figure 
	out something is up when the big steel truck pulls into the farmyard. War is 
	the usual method, along with famine. But for speed and efficiency, nothing 
	beats a good pandemic. 
	
	 
	
	Look at the Black Plague: One-third of Europe's 
	population was gone in under three years. It could practically warm a 
	psychopath's heart, if they had one. And now with the resources of modern 
	science that can be brought to bear, especially genetics, there are hints 
	that this is in the works.
	
	What clues do we have? 
	
	 
	
	There have been expeditions to different parts of the 
	world to recover DNA sample from victims of the 1918-19 pandemic. That 
	period saw more deaths from influenza than the war which preceded it. 
	Furthermore, it targeted young, healthy adults. Just the sort of demographic 
	a pathocracy can do without.
	
	Research collated by Dr. Laibow gives startling insight into the current 
	
	manufactured threat:
	
		
		Our best intelligence estimate is that 
		
		pandemic Avian Flu already exists. It 
	appears to have been turned into a massive viral threat through 
	bioengineering by the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 
	Pandemic, mis-named the "Spanish Flu", with the DNA of the H5N1 virus in a 
	growth medium of human kidney cells to make sure that the virus recognizes 
	human cells and knows how to invade them.
Please re-read that paragraph again and consider the threat that poses to 
	you and your family.
 
		
		 
		
		The Spanish Pandemic Rides Again
 
		The genome of the 1918 pandemic so-called "Spanish Flu" was recently 
		intentionally resurrected. Because of that resurrection, the Avian Flu, and 
	its vaccine, are now a US government-instigated threat to life - your life.
		
The Spanish Flu, which was not Spanish at all, was created in the US through 
	an early bioweapons program and injected into healthy young men (i.e., 
	'soldiers') as the first mandatory vaccination in the military during WWI 
	(also known as the "War to End Wars" and the "Great War"). 
		
		 
		
		The "Spanish 
	Flu", which originated in Kansas on US Military bases, killed a minimum of 
	50 million people worldwide (650,000 Americans). It was one of the deadliest 
	pandemics in modern history. It was also one of the most successful 
	biological weapons ever created. 
	
	
	Scientists are 
	
	reviving extinct viruses seemingly in order to ensure that 
	
	vaccines are developed to be purchased and stockpiled en mass. If one is 
	going to create a pandemic, one may as well profit from it too!
	
	Along with the nuts and bolts research, there has been a long and careful 
	project of psychological programming. We have the annual warnings about the 
	influenza de l'annee for which everyone dutifully lines up for shots, plus 
	the heavier hitters about every third year or so; SARS, Avian Flu, etc. There 
	have also been the "be very afraid" and "be prepared" messages (our Dear 
	Leaders do love us after all), plus some guilt-tripping for the few who are 
	questioning it all. 
	
	 
	
	Then there is this: 
	
	 
	
		
		
		
		US Government Plans to treat sick people 'like 
		potential enemies'
		
		[....]"Individuals refusing to be vaccinated or treated shall be 
		
		liable for 
	a misdemeanor. [The refusing person] may be subject to isolation or 
	quarantine... An order of the public health authority given to effectuate 
	the purposes of this Section shall be immediately enforceable by any peace 
	officer."
Thus, citizens would be treated not as patients but as criminals. The 
	proposed act also included provisions that would have exempted public health 
	officials and their underlings from prosecution if their vaccine killed the 
	patient.
These provisions were removed after a public outcry, but that did not stop 
	the state of Florida from enacting the measure. Nor has it stopped the Bush 
	Administration from encouraging state governments to "update" their laws to 
	include forced vaccinations, mandatory surveillance, isolation and 
	quarantine. 
	
	
	 
	
	But mostly we are a well-trained bunch, and things should go off without a 
	hitch. 
	
	 
	
	How to get the ball rolling? "It came out of nowhere" has the right 
	note of panic. But everything comes from somewhere. In this case, how about 
	an 
	
	accident at a research laboratory? The last outbreak of foot-and mouth 
	disease in 
	
	the UK provides a precedent. Of course, that little factoid will 
	never make it to the news. Or if it does, it will be a "tragic event" among 
	many other "tragic events" where the government "did its best to protect 
	us".
	
	Still, the sheeple will need distraction while the project plays out. 
	Fomenting conflict over who is more worthy to be accorded "scarce" resources 
	during the emergency would do nicely.
	
	With efficiency being the name of the game, what other goals can be 
	accomplished at the same time? How about the perfect excuse to complete a 
	societal lock down with the blessing of the prisoners themselves? A 
	'terrorist plot' is still somewhat of a vague threat to most of the western 
	world. Seeing one's neighborhood filled with the sick and dying is all too 
	real.
	
	As always, knowledge protects. Health is the most personal of matters. Take 
	responsibility for yourself and those in your care. Find out all you can 
	about true nutrition and natural ways of healing and apply them. 
	
	 
	
	Avoid the 
	chemical poisons of allopathy as much as possible.
	 
	
	 
	
	
	
	They're 'here'...
	
	
	As if things weren't strange enough on the ground with the unfolding 
	election theater, and in the skies with the fireballs and a pink light over 
	London, it appears that 
	
	UFO sightings are on the rise, yet again.
	
	If one were so inclined, one might just think something of interest is 
	upcoming, and observers are crowding in for the 'show'. Yes, that might 
	sound ridiculous, but the increasing number of UFO sightings, both 'mass' 
	and individual is almost impossible to ignore. Even Stephenville, Texas was 
	back in the news this month with more mass sightings.
	
	For your perusal, a small sampling of sightings in October:
	
		
	
	
	 
	
	 
	
	The world is closing in but we don't have to
	
	
	
	
	surveillance
	
	
	We spoke already of the plans of the Powers That Be to slowly place every 
	single individual under total control. For a while now we have been 
	witnessing 
	Big Brother and police state tactics of control and surveillance. 
	
	
	 
	
	The reader may wish to review these relevant 
	sections to get the 
	bigger picture.
	
		
	
	
	...and on and on and on...
	
	In Orwell's fictional Oceania, from1984, nobody remembered what life was 
	before the institution of the Big Brother government. 
	
	 
	
	History had been 
	erased, and everyone living under the fascist regime was taught from 
	childhood to believe that Big Brother saved them from the capitalist 
	monsters of the past. Do you see any similarities with what we see happening 
	now? Isn't the population ripe to receive their "saviors"? 
	
	 
	
	And it looks that 
	they will arrive with an army and an iron fist rule to save us from 
	ourselves. 
	
	 
	
	In Orwell's Oceania people did not know the past, for they had 
	forgotten about it due to the constant brainwashing. They were unable to see 
	that other ways of living were possible, in which individual freedoms and 
	rights had a place. So they surrendered in hopelessness.
	
	But we know. We still remember. We are the ones who will make - or not - the 
	difference. And we are not talking about armed and violent resistance and 
	revolution. No, that is what the current pathocracies want: more excuses for 
	locking us all up under a Big Brother style control. Our readers know that 
	we are talking about a revolution in knowledge and awareness; of knowing 
	what, why, and how things are happening around the globe, and be prepared to 
	act by sharing what we learn with those who are willing to know.
	
	This revolution should not be based merely on our own personal 
	dissatisfaction for loosing the luxuries and comforts of life; it should 
	mostly come out of love for humanity and everything creative. The war, 
	despite its many disguises, is waged by psychopathic beings against 
	everything human. And it is our responsibility to find the humaneness within 
	ourselves, first and foremost, and love it so much that no matter what they 
	take from us, one thing they will never take: the human spirit!
	
	And so, dear readers, we leave you with this poem:
 
	
	
	Invictus
	
	by William Ernest Henley; 1849-1903
	
	
	
	Out of the night that covers me,
	Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
	I thank whatever gods may be
	For my unconquerable soul.
	
	In the fell clutch of circumstance
	I have not winced nor cried aloud.
	Under the bludgeonings of chance
	My head is bloody, but unbowed.
	
	Beyond this place of wrath and tears
	Looms but the horror of the shade,
	And yet the menace of the years
	Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
	
	It matters not how strait the gate,
	How charged with punishments the scroll,
	I am the master of my fate;
	I am the captain of my soul.
	
	 
	
	