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Friday, 20 March 2009

NAZI UFOs Part 1: Field Propulsion Saucers

NAZI UFOs 

Part 1 - Field Propulsion Saucers


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The existence of World War Two German field propulsion flying saucers is a topic which is denied by virtually every reputable authority in aviation history. It is also denied by many researchers studying German saucers. The problem is that in the years immediately following the Second World War the earth's skies suddenly began to be populated by flying craft which did some remarkable things. 

They flew at unheard of speeds. They made very sharp turns, seemingly non-aerodynamic turns, even at this extreme speed. They lacked the glowing tail of jets or rockets but they glowed or gave off light at night from their periphery or from the whole craft. They were silent or almost silent. Sometimes they gave off sounds that an electric generator or motor might make. Sometimes vehicles with electrically based ignition systems ceased to operate in the presence of these saucers. No government claimed these flying craft, yet they were seen all over the world.

The press and popular culture attributed these unusual craft to an extraterrestrial source. Yet, after over fifty years, no real proof for this assertion has ever come forth. Let's come back down to earth. By all accounts these saucers were solid and material in nature. Perhaps it is time to attribute their origin to a solid, material source.

It seems only proper to begin searching for an explanation for field propulsion saucers with the very sources which we now know built conventional flying saucers, the Germans of the Third Reich. The earliest reference to a field propulsion saucer being a German invention is from a 1960 book by Michael X in which it is described as a "flying egg" (1). Michael X., under the name Michael X. Barton, is also the author who, in 1968, wrote The German Saucer Story. In the second book he returns to the theme again (2). This time he cites a source. His primary informant, Hermann Klaas, describes twelve secret weapons to Barton.

They are:
1. The flying disc
2. A tank made entirely of one piece of metal
3. The sound wave weapon
4. A laser beam weapon
5. A flaming artificial cloud
6. A robot bomb
7. A charged cloud weapon
8. An armor piercing projectile
9. The electromagnetic KM-2 rocket
10. A paralyzing ray
11. Electronic ball lighting
12. The flying bottle, tube, sphere, etc.

Thirty-two years later we certainly know that some of these weapons did exist. It has been confirmed that the Germans were working on weapons numbered 1, 2, 3, 6, and 8 for instance. It has been confirmed that the Germans were working on x-ray or gamma ray weapons as well as another type, possible laser weapons. It has been confirmed that the Germans were working on a gaseous cloud as a means of combating enemy bombers. So in view of this track record, his claim of research on a "flying bottle" should be given serious consideration.


But what is the specific evidence which would cause us to believe that the Germans were working on a field propulsion saucer? As one paws through the literature on German saucers, some evidence is encountered which could indicate field propulsion vehicles. There are the still pictures which will be discussed later on.Here, we will focus on just three pieces of evidence, that of an eyewitness, a German pilot, who saw such things on the ground, a Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee report and an F.B.I. report. The F.B.I. report was taken years after the war but for reasons which will be discussed, there is reason to conclude this report has merit.


German Eye Witnesses

The first report comes to us courtesy of researcher Horst Schuppmann. A friend of Mr. Schuppmann's interviewed an eyewitness to German saucers during the Second World War. This report first appeared in the 1998 Geheimtechnologien.Wunderwaffen Und Irdischen Facetten Des UFO-Phaenomens by Karl-Heinz Zunneck (3).

The subject of this interview was a German pilot who flew many missions in a JU-52, taking off and touching down in rough, presumably outlying airfields. The Junkers JU-52 was an aircraft used by the Luftwaffe for many roles and could be described as a mainstay or a workhorse. It was a transport airplane, a troop carrier and even had been used as a bomber. It resembled and was used in a similar way to the American Douglas Dakota or DC-3.The main difference between the two aircraft was that the JU-52 had three engines as opposed to the Dakota's two and the JU-52lacked a traditional airframe, instead deriving structural strength from a unique corrugated metal shell, which also made the appearance of the JU-52 distinctive.

The sighting in question was reported to the author, Mr. Zunneck, by Horst Schuppmann whose friend knew the pilot of the JU-52 in question. The date was July, 1944. Accompanying the pilot on this three and one-half hour flight was a co-pilot, a mechanic,and the radio man. The airplane took off from Brest-Deblin and flew on a westerly course to Lublin. The flight was unfolding smoothly which was somewhat abnormal for the particular time and stage of the war. Over Stettin Lagoon preparations were made to land. A large white cross was sighted which was the marker for their goal, a meadow landing strip. The aircraft descended, landed normally and rolled toward a group of bushes which would hide the aircraft from view.
Then things took a decided turn to the abnormal. Harsh orders were received that the pilot, co-pilot and mechanic were not to exit the airplane. Suddenly, the radio man had vanished. The others waited an hour in vain for his return. Finally, the pilot decided to get out of the airplane and find his missing crewman,without orders, and on his own.

On the airfield itself nobody was to be seen. There was only one building visible which was a lonely hanger. The pilot, ever concerned with maintaining cover, headed straight for this hanger. Upon arrival he opened an narrow, high sliding door and entered, hoping to receive some information. No person was to be seen but what the pilot did see bewildered him so that the image was deeply ingrained in his mind.
There in the hanger stood three or four very large, round, dark dish shaped metal constructions on telescope-like leg stands. The objects were about 6 meters off the ground and the objects themselves were 12 to 15 meters in diameter. The pilot compared the shape of the objects to a giant soup dish or soup plate.

Suddenly, out of the half darkness a military guard emerged. The guard let the pilot know that he was in an area which was strictly off limits. In fact, the pilot was told, on no uncertain terms, to disappear immediately or this would be his last day on earth.

This day had started as a routine flight connecting two outlying airfields. This pilot had no expectations of seeing something so unusual that he barley had context in which to place it. Further, even as his mind was transfixed and in a process of trying to give understanding to what he was seeing, he was suddenly. jolted out of this tableau by a guard threatening his very life and ordering him to leave.

Of course the question of what those objects in the hanger really were comes back to this pilot even after almost 55 years. The pilot personally attributes it to the so called "Magnetscheibe", literally, "magnet-disk". According to the pilot rumors of these objects circulated in pilot circles since the summer of 1944 (4).

Two things can definitely be said of this sighting. First, it can be said is that this sighting seems to be of the smaller type of German field propulsion saucer as opposed to a larger version.Second, these saucers can definitely be ascribed to belonging to and in the possession of German military forces during the Second World War. At no time in this report has the word "alien" or"extraterrestrial" ever been mentioned or even considered.

Beyond that it can be said that the pilot personally believed these to be of the "Magnetscheibe" type, that is to say not powered by chemical combustion. There reasons to believe this is correct. These saucers were found on a remote and rather primitive airfield. They were in the only building present. This means that they did not need an extensive support system.

The chemically powered jet or rocket engines needed an extensive field support structure. They needed to be refueled after every flight. The two liquid fuels used by the Me-163 rocket-fighter, for instance, ignited immediately when they came into contact with each other with explosive intensity. The fuel tanks had to be washed out after each flight and separate ground crews were responsible for each type of liquid fuel. It is noteworthy that no such support ground support structure or personnel was in evidence on this occasion. All that was observed was a large structure filled with saucers and a guard. The ground support necessary for launch of these craft must have been minimal and argues for the field propulsion hypothesis.

Of course the weakness in this report is the lack of the name ofthe pilot. Even if this report is taken at a minimal level of credulity, it constitutes a rumor of German involvement with field propulsion vehicles.

The reader will recall that the research paradigm being followed is that once mention was made by a German source of a particular thing, then (and only then) corroborating information should besought from U.S. governmental agencies using FOIA.



A Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee Report

Since we have a German claiming field propulsion saucers we can now follow our research paradigm and search governmental records for corroboration. The Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee reports are a series of reports compiled by agents of the United States and Great Britain. Most were written immediately after the field work was done. The agents targeted specific things such as sites, people, specific technology or other aspects of specific interest. The agents then wrote a summary report which is what is entered into the record.

As with almost all summary reports at this level, the implications of what is being described are lacking. These reports do not set the particular technology into any context. That is, these reports doe not say how a specific technology under study was to be applied in the future in some, if not most, cases. Behind these reports must be a body of information and at least a few individuals intimately familiar with the technology in question. They were familiar with the technology and the context to which it was useful. If another government operative was interested in that topic or its implications, and if his security clearance sufficed, he would be shown the underlying material and presumably be directed to the particular individual who was its residing expert. Only slowly, if at all, was this secret science leaked or given to American industry and then only with an appropriate cover-story, one which may even supply a pseudo-inventor of that technology. This is conspiracy at its finest.

This deception is beyond the scope of this book but what is important for us now is that sometimes a mistake or slip-up was made in writing or censoring these reports and hints of things of stupendous technological worth actually surfaces. Such is the case with Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee Report number 146 regarding Dr. Georg Otto Erb and his work which is reproduced here.

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Exposing The German Tesla Anti-Gravity & Free Energy Program

Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee Report #46 Dr. Georg Otto Erb

Dr. Erb was on the cutting edge of several technologies according to this report. None of these technologies was especially exciting in 1946, however. Jets, rockets and atomic energy where the hot-ticket items of the time. Nobody cared about new sources of electrical energy. The USA had plenty of electricity and plenty of oil to generate more. It was also known by then that atomic power could be applied to generate even more electricity.Nobody cared about Dr. Erb's experiments listed under item (iii)"Apparatus for conversion of residual heat into electrical energy" or item (viii) "Electrical sources of energy of various kinds" or even item (ix) "Apparatus for turning the energy of the sun's rays into electrical energy". Since nobody cared about these things, there was really no reason not to list them in the summary report. Their significance would only be realized a generation later during the "energy crisis" of the mid-1970s and by then it was too late to censor the report. One can only wonder where this research would have led if it funding had continued over the next thirty years. Or did it continue in secret?

Of course by now many readers will have already read and grasped the significance of number (x) "Rearward impulse propulsion for vehs and aircraft".

Given the nature of Dr. Erb's other work, it is a safe bet that this "impulse propulsion" was not of the jet or rocket nature. In fact there remains little doubt that this propulsion was, in fact, field propulsion. Dr.Erb was experimenting on means to apply forward motion using rearward impulse propulsion to aircraft and "vehs" (vehicles). If this is not the smoking gun for German experiments in field propulsion saucers, it is at least a hint that there is a gun.



The Smoking Gun: An F.B.I. Report

That’s right, Fox Mulder was not the first F.B.I. agent to believe in UFOs. The files in question are F.B.I. file numbers 62-83894-383, 62-838994-384 and 62-83894-385. Their date is 11/7/57 to 11/8/57. They deal with a Polish immigrant, then living in the United States, who reported his wartime experience to the Bureau hoping it might throw some light on UFO sightings seen in Texas at about this time.

F.B.I. Reports On A German Field Propulsion Saucer F.B.I.

The time of the sighting was in 1944,
the place was Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin. The informant, whose name has been deleted, states that while he was a prisoner of war working for the Germans, a flying object arose nearby from behind an enclosure hidden from view by a 50 foot high tarpaulin-type wall. It rose about 500 feet then moved away horizontally. The only noise the object made was a high-pitched whine. The object was described as being 75 to 100 feet in diameter and 14 feet high. It was composed of a dark gray stationary top and bottom sections five to six feet high with a rapidly moving center section producing only a blur and extending the circumference of the vehicle. Notably, the engine of their farm tractor stalled during this event and the SS guards told the driver not to attempt a restart until the whine could no longer be heard.

Because of what I believe is their importance, these files have been reproduced here in their entirety. One of the most compelling reasons for taking this report so seriously is that the government of the United States of America took this report so seriously. It is hard to believe that an agency such as the F.B.I. would take and retain reports of flying saucers which had no special meaning for them. Add to this the fact that this report was over ten years old at the time it was taken and that it concerns a report originating in another country.

The F.B.I. operates within the USA and usually does not concern itself with foreign matters unless they have meaning for the internal security of the United States. Could the reason that this report was taken and retained for so many years be that it did, in fact, have meaning for the internal security of the United States? Did it have something to do with the flying saucers seen over Texas at the time which also stopped motor vehicles?

As an alternative to the security issues, could there have been another reason that the F.B.I. was so interested in flying saucers? Did the F.B.I. desperately want information on UFOs which was held by the military and other branches of the intelligence community which was not shared with the F.B.I.? It has been rumored that J. Edgar Hoover, head of the F.B.I. at the time, was very interested in learning these secrets but was held "out of the loop". It could be that the F.B.I. was already aware of German saucers through security clearances done on German scientists coming to the USA under Operation Paperclip? The ego of J. Edgar Hoover may have been a factor in the Bureau's guest to learn more on this subject. Hoover may have wanted to be on an equal footing with other intelligence chiefs.

For whatever reason, something in these reports resonated with the F.B.I. The report was taken seriously, investigated and kept. This fact alone speaks volumes for the existence of UFOs in general and German saucers in particular.





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Thursday, 19 March 2009

US Marijuana Arrests Set New Record

US Marijuana Arrests Set New Record

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For the fourth year in a row, US marijuana arrests set an all-time record, according to 2006 FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Marijuana arrests in 2006 totaled 829,627, an increase from 786,545 in 2005. At current rates, a marijuana smoker is arrested every thirty-eight seconds, with marijuana arrests comprising nearly 44 percent of all drug arrests in the United States. According to Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), over 8 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges during the past decade, while arrests for cocaine and heroine have declined sharply.

The number of arrests in 2006 increased more than 5.5 percent from 2005. Of the 829,627 arrests, 89 percent were for possession, not sale or manufacture. Possession arrests exceeded arrests for all violent crimes combined, as they have for years. The remaining offenders, including those growing for personal or medical use, were charged with sale and/or manufacturing.

A study of New York City marijuana arrests conducted by Queens College, released in April 2008, reports that between 1998 and 2007 the New York police arrested 374,900 people whose most serious crime was the lowest-level misdemeanor marijuana offense. That number is eight times higher than the number of arrests (45,300) from 1988 to 1997. Nearly 90 percent arrested between 1998 and 2007 were male, despite the fact that national studies show marijuana use roughly equal between men and women. And while national surveys show Whites are more likely to use marijuana than Blacks and Latinos, the New York study reported that 83 percent of those arrested were Black or Latino. Blacks accounted for 52 percent of the arrests, Latinos and other people of color accounted for 33 percent, while Whites accounted for only 15 percent.1

Over the years, roughly 30 percent of those arrested nationally have been under the age of twenty. The Midwest accounts for 57 percent of all marijuana-related arrests, while the region with the fewest arrests is the West, with 30 percent. This is possibly a result of the decriminalization of marijuana in western states, such as California, on the state and local level over the past several years.

“Enforcing marijuana prohibition . . . has led to the arrests of nearly 20 million Americans, regardless of the fact that some 94 million Americans acknowledge having used marijuana during their lives,” says St. Pierre.

In the last fifteen years, marijuana arrests have increased 188 percent, while public opinion is increasingly one of tolerance, and self-reported usage is basically unchanged. “The steady escalation of marijuana arrests is happening in direct defiance of public opinion,” according to Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, DC, “Voters in communities all over the country—from Denver to Seattle, from Eureka Springs, Arkansas to Missoula County, Montana—have passed measures saying they don’t want marijuana arrests to be priority. Yet marijuana arrests have set an all-time record for four years running . . .”

Meanwhile, enforcing marijuana laws costs between $10 and $12 billion a year.

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Citation

1. Jim Dwyer, “On Arrests, Demographics, and Marijuana,” New York Times, April 30, 2008.

 
UPDATE BY BRUCE MIRKEN

This story was essentially a subset of a larger annual story, the FBI’s yearly Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), and the 2006 report, released in September 2007, marked the fourth year in a row that marijuana arrests set a new record. While the UCR, as usual, got wide mainstream coverage, the only major mainstream outlet to note the marijuana arrest record was the Reuters wire service. Marijuana Policy Project staffers also did two or three local radio interviews, and the story was picked up in one form or another by a handful of other outlets—most notably Bill Steigerwald’s column in the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, an article on AlterNet, and Andrew Sullivan’s blog, The Daily Dish.

This is typical of the mass media tendency to view marijuana policy through the lens of Cheech-and-Chong stereotypes—as a trivial story of minor importance, more a curiosity than serious news. But the sheer numbers suggest it deserves more attention. Nearly 830,000 marijuana arrests are made annually, about 89 percent of them for simple possession, not sales or trafficking. That’s one marijuana arrest every thirty-eight seconds, and more arrests for marijuana possession than for all violent crimes combined. Put another way, it’s the equivalent of arresting every man, woman, and child in the state of North Dakota plus every man, woman, and child in Des Moines, Iowa, in one year—and doing the same thing every year, year after year. All of this comes at a total cost to taxpayers estimated at anywhere from $14 billion to $42 billion per year.

New national arrest statistics won’t be out until about the time this book is published, but scientific data continue to emerge that demolish the intellectual underpinnings of marijuana prohibition. Studies continue to find marijuana far less toxic or addictive than such legal drugs as alcohol and tobacco, while in Britain, where most marijuana possession arrests were discontinued in January 2004, marijuana use has steadily declined since arrests stopped, according to official government surveys. Sadly, even though the British government’s scientific advisors urge continuation of the no-arrest policy, as of this writing in May 2008, Prime Minister Gordon Brown appears determined to launch a new crackdown.

In the US, the clearest signs of progress have come from efforts to permit medical use of marijuana. Twelve states now have medical marijuana laws, and a medical marijuana initiative on Michigan’s November 2008 ballot was ahead by nearly two to one in the only public poll released so far. [When] Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama indicated he would end the federal war on these state medical marijuana laws, and fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton also indicated some willingness to rethink federal policy. Republican John McCain expressed support for current federal law.

Extensive information about marijuana policy and efforts to change our current laws is available from the Marijuana Policy Project, http://www.mpp.orgor (202) 462-5747. A more wide-ranging newsletter on drug policy issues is the Drug War Chronicle, at stopthedrugwar.org.

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UPDATE BY PAUL ARMENTANO

Since beginning my tenure at NORML in the mid-1990s, I’ve observed the growth of the annual number of Americans arrested for minor marijuana violations from a low of 288,000 in 1991 to a record 830,000 in 2006. Yet despite this nearly 300 percent increase in minor pot busts (nearly 90 percent of all marijuana arrests are for possession offenses), mainstream media coverage of these skyrocketing arrest rates remains nominal.

The media’s disinterest in this subject is uniquely troubling, given that the arrest data is derived from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, and that other aspects of this report (for example: has the violent crime rate risen or fallen?) traditionally generate hundreds of major news stories each year. Equally troubling is the media’s habit of improperly attributing these marijuana arrest figures to NORML rather than to the FBI, the law enforcement organization that actually tracks and reports said data.

Arguably, the most disturbing result of these rising arrests is that record numbers of Americans are now being ordered by the courts to attend ‘drug treatment’ programs for marijuana—regardless of whether they require treatment (most don’t) or not.

According to the most recent state and national statistics, up to 70 percent of all individuals in drug treatment for pot are now placed there by the criminal justice system. Of those enrolled in treatment, more than one in three hadn’t even used marijuana in the thirty days prior to their admission. Yet, disingenuously, the White House argues that these rising admission rates justify the need to continue arresting cannabis users—despite the fact that it is the policy, not the drug itself—that is actually fueling the spike in drug treatment.

Finally, it must be emphasized that criminal marijuana enforcement disproportionately impacts citizens by age—an all too often overlooked fact that has serious implications for those of us who work in drug policy reform. According to a 2005 study commissioned by the NORML Foundation, 74 percent of all Americans busted for pot are under age thirty, and one out of four are age eighteen or younger. Though these young people suffer the most under our current laws, they lack the financial means and political capital to effectively influence politicians to challenge them. Young people also lack the money to adequately fund the drug law reform movement at a level necessary to adequately represent and protect their interests. As a result, marijuana arrests continue to climb unabated, and few in the press—and even fewer lawmakers—feel any need or sufficient political pressure to address it.

(Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML and the NORML Foundation in Washington, DC.)


Sources:
Marijuana Policy Project, September 27, 2007
Title: “Marijuana Arrests Set New Record for Fourth Year in a Row”
Author: Bruce Mirken
National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, September 24, 2007
Title: “Marijuana Arrests for Year 2006—829,625 Tops Record High”
Author: Paul Armentano
Student Researchers: Ben Herzfeldt and Caitlyn Ioli
Faculty Advisor: Pat Jackson, PhD

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Tuesday, 17 March 2009

The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be: Living Through a Time of Cosmic Changes

The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
Living Through a Time of Cosmic Changes


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Why did you decide to be here now – living at the nexus point of galactic changes, in a planet-spanning technological civilization of competitive tribes and nations struggling to share Earth’s common wealth? Why did you decide to appear at the midnight of one epoch and the morning of another, when everything our species knows is hanging in the balance? Did you want to be in on the biggest party the planet has known, or did you come here to witness the birth throes of a newly transformed Humanity on a thoroughly altered Earth?

If we can learn to occupy our rightful place in the web of life without usurping the seats of others, we can become the wise governors of the planetary kingdoms and phyla that we have always longed to be. We haven’t quite destroyed the ecosystem yet; nonetheless, we’re all in for a wild roller coaster ride on a ghost train without safety belts, and with perforated airbags filled with CO2, formaldehyde and sulphur. Everything we’ve known is changing fast and catastrophic change is approaching.

Global warming is but an overture in a symphony of cosmic cycles which will culminate in the impending endgame of the current age, when the fat lady known as Mother Nature will sing a new anthem in the new dawn’s wan light. The same stars shine upon us all, and we all live inside the atmosphere of the Sun. Earth is a gyroscope spinning within the gyroscopic field of Sol’s system, and the vast electric sphere of the solar orb is the main driving force behind all the current and impending alterations in our planet’s climate, magnetic field, geological integrity - and all the habits humankind has developed to survive the past twelve millennia. The entire Holocene has been but a short hollow scene between the overarching acts of great glaciations – a brief bright candlelit moment of warmth sandwiched inside the long slow cold times fore and aft, when merciless icebergs will crush our temperate civilized ships of state.

This warm interglacial period that has sustained and nurtured us for more than ten thousand years is drawing to a close; this is the real issue facing our self-centred species, and all other considerations will soon be inexorably drawn into the wake of this unprecedented threat to our survival. We have been born into a time of changes so extreme that everything modern civilization has experienced thus far will soon seem like a cakewalk by comparison. Our current milieu of financial catastrophes, corporate greed and political ineptitude will be viewed with strangely nostalgic hindsight in coming decades. We’re experiencing the dawn of a new epoch as a disarmingly slow motion film of a monumental train wreck – with enough time to examine and pore over every detail of a massive collision of overpopulation, misdirected technology, willful ignorance and cosmic cycles as the dangerous curves all meet at a fateful nexus.

We live on the fragile crust of a spinning time-bomb and no imaginary bearded father figure is going to save us – but we have the tools to save ourselves, if we recognise the multiple threats bearing down on our children and change direction while we have a few moments of precious preparation time. The titanic inertia of our global civilization can still be directed away from the approaching iceberg, if we stop merely rearranging toxic light bulbs and recognise what each of us really has to do. 

A list of the current and coming changes reads like apocalyptic science fiction and the implications are so overwhelming that many will simply turn away in disbelief, while others will shrug their shoulders and avoid the real issues entirely while getting on with busyness. Some will prefer to leave the problems for their children to deal with. What will you do when you wake to the truth? Will you remove the screens from your own eyes, before removing your brother’s sunglasses?

Everything we citizens of free modern societies (or gangster-run dynastic kleptocracies, to call them by a more accurate title) take for granted will soon come to an end. Corporate clowns won’t solve anything by juggling fictitious carbon between themselves – carbon credits are viewed by the owners of dark satanic mills as just another way to turn a profit out of continuing to pollute the planet. We need to understand that the changes we face are far vaster than such marginal deckchair tinkering can possibly deal with. We need to regulate and enforce the industrial Ancient Mariners out of existence while we build a brave new sustainable vessel whose broad decks are filled with interconnected ecological lifeboats. There are plenty of jobs in the alternative route to survival, and the present course will lead to no work - or workers - at all.


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Cosmic Clock

The storm on the horizon is not confined to this planet. The solar system is changing – Mars and Jupiter are showing signs of planetary warming and the heliosphere (the Sun’s envelope of charged plasma which encompasses the planets) is shrinking at an apparently unprecedented rate.

The invisible waves our solar system is cruising through are growing choppy and the swell is rising. The sunspot cycle has shifted, refusing to conform to the cycles humans have painstakingly recorded for thousands of years. The Earth’s magnetic field is weakening; new magnetic poles are forming in totally new locations as our entire solar system makes rendezvous with the galactic plane. You don’t have to believe this on faith – take a look at the research yourself if you like; there’s plenty of truth out there for the seeker to find, in reputable scientific journals and online repositories.

Global warming may be partially attributed to changes in the Sun’s field and its attendant effects but the Sun is part of even larger gyroscopic systems. The impending reversal of the Earth’s geomagnetic poles is a result of our solar system’s periodic intersection with the ecliptic of the Milky Way galaxy. We’re entering a perfect storm, and we have to work together if we’re ever to emerge from the mouth of the serpent at the end of this precessional cycle.


However, humans are contributing to global warming in a marked way, pushing life’s envelope beyond the regional effects of cosmic weather systems. Our industrious beavering is putting far more CO2 and other more devastating greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than natural processes can deal with – particularly when we’ve been cutting the heart out of those same natural processes and turning the planet into a desertified industrial wasteland. We’ve been hacking holes in the lifeboats and selling the resultant woodchips for pennies for far too long.

Yet all the carbon dioxide spewed from all our filthy smokestacks is the merest by-blow of an incredible raft of toxins being pumped into the air we all breathe and the water we all drink, and the food that sustains our children. We’ve been tainting the biosphere with industrial poisons and outright biocides for far too long, and the time to clean up our act is truly upon us. New green energy sources, transport systems and industrial processes are waiting in the wings and it’s time to wheel them onstage now – while the corporate colossi are falling from their clay pedestals and their old rustbucket technologies are being cast onto the scrap heap of history.

We can revitalize the real economy by rebuilding our civilization from the ground up – build up our real estate with ecologically sound lifestyles and aspirations. It’s time to forget the con job of the old eCONomy – which is based on nothing more than overblown and power-drunk tyrants inspiring CONfidence in a system of never-ending growth, of all things. What a laugh – and yet all the pokie players, mortgage holders and credit card debtors in the world have willfully fallen for the same old ruse again!

Most wage slaves have been working like blind moles tunneling toward a precipice, making imaginary profit from worthless, suicidal and destructive toil. No wonder the executives of the world are laughing all the way to their Swiss bank accounts; they know that real capital, like common sense, is a rare commodity indeed. Unlike junk derivatives, variable imaginary currencies, worthless stocks and missing pension funds, the real wealth of the world – minerals and soils, an immeasurable diversity of plants and animals, clean air and water – are the priceless wellsprings from which all wealth flows.

The real ECOnomy is based on a far more a solid footing than inflated figures on fictitious computerised legers. The real ECOnomy is what we need to work with now. Everyone on the planet can enjoy the benefits of our current advanced societies – democracy, freedom, health care systems, rule of law, social safety nets and security – half-formed and relative as they may be – without destroying the ecosystem or robbing our children of their future. We can build an interconnected synergy of technologies that can raise the standard of living of everyone on Earth while repairing the damage we’ve wrought; we can’t do anything but transform our industries and clean up our act if we have a hope of surviving.

If we want to rein in the biggest elephant in our collective living room – overpopulation – without resorting to draconian measures, we must recognise that the need for smaller families automatically requires adequate social welfare systems, to take the place of the myriad benefits and ongoing support provided by the large family groups of the past. Paradoxically, all the controlling patriarchal corporations and matriarchal nanny states will have to open their jewellery boxes to their prodigal sons and prodigious daughters - and release their children from bondage and dependency – if they want to keep their national families whole, hearty and together. Any other course will incite a well deserved mutiny.

Opening Dance Didge by centrax is. 

Common Wealth

If we want to be truly realistic we must realise that our civilizations have been built on the blood, sweat and tears of ourselves, our parents, our grandparents and all our long-suffering ancestors. Everything we have created is truly our common wealth, and every citizen is owed a dividend by the corporate entity of their profit-taking nation – who usually takes more than half of their earnings in taxes (note the similarity of the words ‘taxing’ and ‘taking’).

Receiving payments from the state is no longer a disreputable matter of accepting charity. It isn’t a case of less motivated unfortunates sponging on society’s more productive members. Social justice, universal endowment and equity are dreams whose time has finally arrived, if we recognise our chance; the only alternative is a prison planet of slave labourers and greedy overseers.

Pensions and other welfare payments are a right - not a privilege – already earned by the incessant work and endless taxing of all our ancestors – and the exploitation of the planet’s resources - for uncounted generations. If we don’t share the wealth and dole it out more evenly the corporate clowns will simply bury it in Switzerland, and there’ll be nothing left to help when the excrement hits the air conditioner! It’s time we recognised that we’re all owed a guaranteed basic wage *, and accept our due with happiness and farsighted grace. The work ethic is laudable in its place, but living for the sake of working is an outmoded and deadly lifestyle which too many people have failed to transcend. It’s time for a new ethos.

Hands up anyone who realises the implications of the terms ‘automation’, ‘production line’, ‘redundancy’, ‘layoffs’, ‘cyclic recession’ - or ‘freedom’, ‘creativity’, ‘fulfilling work’ and ‘leisure time’? We need to become a far more creative little species if we’re to pass on our vast treasury of diversified genes through the next ice age – after all the massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, coastal alterations and other mind boggling changes that will occur when this warm little interglacial draws to a close over the next human lifetime.

An ice age? Isn’t the world overheating? Everyone knows the ice is melting. Everyone knows that glaciers are disappearing at an alarming rate. Many are aware that these same glaciers (and shrinking snow-melt in the currently shortening winters) are the great trickling dams which sustain many of the greatest rivers of the world. Think about the Ganges, or the Nile, the Rhine or Rhone, Yellow or Yangtse; take a look at Google Earth. All our fresh water supplies are disappearing fast, and many of these rivers will be essentially gone in a generation. Well before that happens the food will run out; in case you hadn’t noticed, it’s running out now. Palm oil plantations and unsustainable biofuel production are only small parts of the problem. Those the easiest parts of the coming changes to understand and deal with…

 Sky Undine by centrax is. 
When the River Runs Dry

After an interim warming period when the rivers and wells run dry, the world will be catapulted into an ice age. The water vapour flung into the atmosphere by warming processes will ultimately fall as mile-thick ice sheets on newly forming poles. Sea level changes will drown coastlines far more rapidly than our partially complete sciences currently predict. This alteration in the datum will trigger massive earthquakes and vulcanism – whose incidences have been increasing logarithmically for the last century – and the subsequent global axial shift will ignite every fault line on the planet. Increased albedo (reflectivity) from massing cloud cover and volcanic outpourings will rapidly lower the feverish global temperature as the temperate regions are gripped by unprecedented drought.

There’s no way to soften this blow, or to understate what we’re going to face; we’re already approaching the end-run, but have just enough time to prepare. Axial tilt is likely, along with a sudden inundation of all coastal areas that will make greenhouse seal level rises seem like a tiny ripple by comparison. Higher altitudes will be swept by unimaginably devastating winds and destructive storms will scour much of the planet.

The only route to survival – and to thriving in the coming times – lays in recognising the truth, and in cooperating to create a far more resilient civilization than the tottering behemoth we’ve cobbled together so far. We can’t afford to waste our time feeding the coffers of warmongers or working on the destructive ‘jobs’ of their interlinked toxic industries any longer. War and other equally pointlessly productive pastimes must end now, before their waste and wastes consume us all. Such infantile behaviour can no longer be tolerated, and we can’t spare any more of the enormous time and resources that have already been frittered away, playing competitive games for the entertainment and profit of egocentric oligarchs and maladjusted ideologues.

S0-called survivalists must realise that everyone’s guns must be beaten into plowshares, and that no lone gunmen or militant militias can long survive in the times to come. Raising the new humanity will require a global village, not the same old spear-carrying camp following shtick – although it will come to that, if enough of us don’t act together in time. There are doubtless very few modern women who would hearken back to the sleet-blown days and freezing nights of bombastic patriarchal tribal hooligans with anything other than a sense of dread and foreboding.

Freedom requires prosperity and plenty, and failing to act will make slaves of us all.

Naturally, most people will ignore all these warnings and be distracted by the endless entertainments vying for attention in our modern pre-apocalyptic dystopias. But maybe – just maybe – you’re one of the visionaries who truly understand and care about what’s really happening in this frantic self-mutilating world of innocent fools and predatory conmen. Maybe you’re one of the ones that will breathe a sigh of awe and relief when you look back on the rollercoaster ride we’re about to go through. Maybe you’ll do more than just read and talk, and will actually walk the work.

We all need to start planting trees – preferably food-bearing trees – yesterday. If you can’t think of anything better to do, putting down roots in a survivable location – with a permanent water supply, well away from the coasts or polar regions - is a very good idea. The most survivable latitudes lie between zero and thirty degrees from the equator. High altitudes will make for temporary refuges at best, and ‘dormant’ or active volcanic regions must be avoided at all costs.

Most cities are unmitigated deathtraps, and living nearby to a large population centre may be very unwise. Build your dwellings and other structures with floods, famines, hurricanes, fires, earthquakes and exoduses in mind, wherever you may be. If you want to learn how to live for a long, long time, begin to think with the perspective of an old growth tree – and listen to any local wise indigenous people who can bear to speak with you. It’s time to put down roots for the long term, with people you can live with for a long, long time. Do you know anyone like that? Are you someone you can live with forever?

It’s all a very big ask, I know – preparing for climactic events that may not occur for generations. Yet you know in your bones that the new world-age is coming – don’t you? You may well ask ‘when’? A more profitable line of inquiry would be to ask yourself, ‘What can I do right now to help myself and others?’, or even ‘Who am I, really?’ Living in a beautiful place with your friends and loved ones is reward enough in itself – and now is the best and only time and place in which you can actually live.

It’s actually possible to alter the cycle of glaciation without resorting to crass technological fixes (which will cause more trouble than they’re worth). It’s even possible to alter the solar cycles themselves; but we need to learn far more about ourselves and each other - and learn to evolve into the advanced entities we have the potential to be - if we’re to pursue these farsighted grail-like goals. 

The future isn’t what it used to be, but nothing is written on stone until it’s already come to pass. Take advantage of this great time of changes to alter the tack of your own destiny and ride through the coming storm to emerge unscathed, along with your loved ones. That’s the best we can all hope for, and all we really need. That’s what life is – caring and sharing.

Good luck, bon voyage, and happy trails, amigos… may you live long and prosper!

- R.Ayana

highlights by woodring.
 
* One of the arguments for a basic income was articulated by the French Economist and Philosopher André Gorz: "The connection between more and better has been broken; our needs for many products and services are already more than adequately met, and many of our as-yet-unsatisfied needs will be met not by producing more, but by producing differently, producing other things, or even producing less. This is especially true as regards our needs for air, water, space, silence, beauty, time and human contact...
"From the point where it takes only 1,000 hours per year or 20,000 to 30,000 hours per lifetime to create an amount of wealth equal to or greater than the amount we create at the present time in 1,600 hours per year or 40,000 to 50,000 hours in a working life, we must all be able to obtain a real income equal to or higher than our current salaries in exchange for a greatly reduced quantity of work...
"Neither is it true any longer that the more each individual works, the better off everyone will be. The present crisis has stimulated technological change of an unprecedented scale and speed: 'the micro-chip revolution'. The object and indeed the effect of this revolution has been to make rapidly increasing savings in labour, in the industrial, administrative and service sectors. Increasing production is secured in these sectors by decreasing amounts of labour. As a result, the social process of production no longer needs everyone to work in it on a full-time basis. The work ethic ceases to be viable in such a situation and workbased society is thrown into crisis"

Andre Gorz, Critique of Economic Reason, Gallile, 1989

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