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Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of June
16 2004 You have heard of the Weather Report?
Here exclusively is this week’s "Earth Report" - a short review
of the “big picture” about how the dynamic changes in the Sun and the Earth
are effecting our lives more and more intensely, with the latest
prognostications and predictions for weathermen, farmers, investors,
businessmen, and every man. You may click here for the full text of the Earth Changes Bulletin Update for this week,
or use this URL http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/2004/ecb_June_16_04.htm FLUX OF HISTORICAL CHANGE WITH BLACK ARTS TORTURE SPECIAL NOTE THIS WEEK:
There is an enormous amount of change of Major Historical Proportions
in flux this very week. Fortunately for the Bulletin Service, I have been able to stabilize formats for
the EC Bulletin and the upcoming new Earth Monitor so that I can begin to
focus on content again. This week’s
edition is primarily focused on the Black Arts Nation, the tragic situation
in On the geophysical
front, for the moment the solar
vortex forces in the Cosmos are lulling rapidly expanding and rising. The Venus | Earth alignment may be pulling
out a belated sunspot peak which may double yesterday’s number of 84 (June
15). Though weather forces are now lulling, weather dynamics will increase
during the next week and may become quite stormy before the end of the
month. On the Earth itself, shape shifting is muting out and the New
Moon Syzygy at Apogee, which begins more or less now, is likely to produce
very little in the way of seismic and volcanic activity. THIS IS THE BREAKING NEWS which
professional journalists in Very shortly, the world will be
shocked and profoundly revolted to learn that the The world will also learn that
the American government is rapidly disintegrating into impotence from the in-fighting
which is now engulfing the Imperial Faction and the Republicrats which
dominate both of the major parties. The professional journalists in Apparently, people who know have
decided that George W. Bush can no longer govern….and events are rapidly
eroding any semblance of believable authority away from the White House. The country will be politically deadlocked
until 2005 and possibly beyond. It is
highly probable that within the next several months Bush’s fall will be as
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Program Thesis: What are we trying to do with the Earth Changes
Bulletin? Most news media do not handle technical and scientific subjects
like geology and earth sciences very well. They don't understand the
causes and effects of activities in the Sun and Earth. Accordingly,
they often do not understand if, when, how, why to report earthquakes,
volcanic activity, global warming effects The treatment often sounds
absent-minded, poorly qualified, and frequently contains various technical
errors. Seldom is the treatment entertaining and genuinely educational.
Based on new scientific principles which have emerged
during the past thirty years, many of the dynamic activities of the Sun and
Earth can be linked together to see how a range of effects are linked
together. This makes it possible to paint "the big picture"
into a perspective which explains many diverse events and processes, especially
climate and weather patterns such as global warming and El Nino. From the
"big picture", long range predictions can be made for weeks and
even months ahead. The result is sophisticated cutting-edge information
which is objective, balanced, astute, relevant, and can be easily seen and
appreciated by lay audiences. The perspective is generally global,
seldom parochial. For the framework of concepts, terms, and current
conditions which are used or described in the these Bulletins, see the Earth
Changes 2003 Almanac Calendar. To see the internet resources which are used to prepare
this Update, take a look at the Earth Monitor front page http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmontor/ |
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SPONSORING: THE COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF 2006, which
puts today, tomorrow, and the trends together into the Cayce 25 year economic
cycle which will “bottom” in 2006/2007. Download from http://www.michaelmandeville.com/collapse2006 THIS BOOK STILL COOKS AND IT WILL COOK THE
POLITICIANS AND THE ECONOMY ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO 2008: This synthesis
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record on this set of predictions for 2003-2008 is running 100 per
cent. If you have not purchased this book, you will remain ignorant of
the main dynamics which are rapidly changing everything. LATEST UPDATE NOTE AS OF JUNE
16, 2004 – THE LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN THE LATEST UPDATE NOTE
june 9, 2004 – no change since this note of MAY 12, 2004: As discussed this
week and herein, the Collapse 2006 schedule, MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, IS
CURRENTLY ACCELERATING AS A RESULT OF WORLDWIDE LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN THE
ELEMENTARY COMPETENCE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS. |
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HOUSEKEEPING MANDEVILLE IS ON THE RADIO EVERY WEDNESDAY WITH Alex Merklinger (Millennium Radio) show at 6 PM Arizona
Time (also 6 PM Pacific Daylight Saving Time). Regular Weekly Update
For The Earth Changes Bulletin. To find Iway archives and stations, see
http://www.millenniumradionetwork.com/ After spending far too much time during the past four
weeks to learn how to use various web oriented software tools for
re-inventing what I do, I finally abandoned all of the new tools and reverted
to updated versions of what I have been using all along – Word, Notepad, and
Frontpage. I have found beyond doubt
that all other tools are far too tendentious for the general content user,
such as I. Dreamweaver failed, Mozilla
composer failed, Open Office Html Editor, and others, all failed. Their
organization of functions is very poor in my estimation, their “concept” or
metaphor of what you are doing is very obscure and thus there remains, after
all these years, nothing “intuitive” about their operations. What I can do with one click in Word
toolbars often took three to four levels of clicking in the other
systems. Worse, their formatting is
mutually destructive, they trash each other’s tables, formats, etc. I swore many a mighty swear in seeing
elaborately constructed templates trashed in these other setups. For my purposes, Office XP Professional Word has very
powerful web editing functions and excellent PDF conversion ability. No need even for Frontpage for straight up
web pages. These are the main tools I
will use. Using these tools, I will now begin to reformat the entire
Earth Monitor Website to accommodate a variety of web loggers and news
feeds. I have some fairly radical,
advanced concepts in mind for reinventing the nature of all informational
media within today’s cybernetic environment.
I hope to bring in many editors and contributors to systematically
access the Earth. As stated in the “Coming Economic Collapse of 2006”, the
nature of human politics reflects the communication abilities of the human
species. As we transform the media, as
we have been on the Iway, we will transform human politics and the entire
Earth. Making the way for the New
Earth is operationally equivalent to making a new Media on the Iway. Not that
that is all that there is to it. Not
by a long shot…but IT IS one of the essentials we need to dissolve the blockages
and dance around the tyrannies. PLEASE NOTE: THE
COLUMNS TO THE LEFT (NARROW YELLOW) AND THE COLUMN TO THE RIGHT (INVISIBLE –
SAME COLOR AS THE BACKGROUND) ARE INTENDED FOR BANNERS AND LINKS. These will be made available to those
offering transformative information and services. Regular paid subscribers
will be able to post links, pix, banners for their causes, interests, and
businesses. Please do not inquire just
yet. I can’t keep up with inquiries at
the moment. |
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SPIRITUAL WATCH How to converge and express the spirit of mass
transformation into manifestation, HOW to be, IS the question. How to do is
the praxis of the time. Examining this question, probing it, is the
chief trendline of this year. I wrote these words a few weeks ago: As is now plain to see,
the “Great Purification” has clearly commenced, pretty much right on the
schedule suggested by the Q’ero, the Maya, and the Hopi. For additional
discussion, see especially the commentary of May 19, 2004. How amazing that these ancient oral traditions could tune
into 2003 and June of 2004 to advise us that this was a period of profound
historical turning involving The Great Purification? THIS WEEK BRINGS THE
NEWS AND POSSIBLE PUBLIC SHOWING OF PICTURES WHICH ARE CURRENTLY IN THE HANDS
OF THE AMERICAN MASS MEDIA WHICH ARE RUMORED TO DISPLAY AMERICAN FORCES
TORTURING CHILDREN IN FRONT OF THEIR MOTHERS…. Meanwhile the U.S. Navy sanguinely reveals that it
subjected the Or how about the 5.0 plus mag quake near Quite clearly the Black Arts Nation is totally out of
control and has infected major portions of the A TERRIBLE SHIT STORM IS BLOWING OUR WAY AND IT WILL BLAST
THROUGH AMERICAN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT LIKE A MAG 10 EARTHQUAKE. AS ADVISED LAST WEEK: What is to come is genuine tragedy. Sadness, hard
times, confusion, betrayal, absurdity, and pain. None of that will go
away….until you let go the bank of the river which fixates you on the Century
20 and Century 21 illusions. Love may help YOU transform these things
in self and family, but it will not prevent the collective tragedy.
Realize the depth of the tragedy, that the human species is too crazy and too
irrational to solve its problems WITH POWER AND CONTROL. …and let go of the river banks of what you once thought
was stability. Let go of America The Greatness Uber Alles, the Let go, Bush, Kerry, and all the would-be leaders of the
Most Amazingly Stupid Oligarchy ever created. None of them will save a soul,
let alone a continent of souls. Simply
let go of the river banks of Century 20. Let it recede in the distance of
your memory. ALL IS IN TRANSISTION.
FLOW WITH IT AS YOU LET GO OF OLD PATTERNS. WORK DILIGENTLY AROUND THE DISRUPTIONS TO
BRING USEFUL CONCLUSIONS. THE NEW BASIS IS GESTATING….THE
time to link the spiritual communities of the Earth. The Whole Earth. IT HAS
BECOME URGENT TO LINK THE SPIRITUAL COMMUNITIES WITHIN A BROAD MOVEMENT WHICH
PROVIDES NEW CURRENTS OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP. |
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POLAR MOTION What is happening to the
motion of the Earth. For the overall summary of the status of polar motion GO
TO: http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#polarmotion (watch the word wrap on
the URL) To see the current graph of polar motion, see http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/topten_monitor.htm Scroll down the page until you get to the black
and white graphs with show the x and y coordinates of the North Spin Axis on
two separate graphs. After a strangely deviant "jog" in the Y
dimension, Polar Motion on the X Wave is once again more or less appearing
normal. AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED: Steady as she goes. A slow
acceleration in the shifting of the poles has been underway for perhaps the
past 100 years and the last three decades has shown an increase in the rate
of acceleration. This has appeared to accelerate even more during the
past decade. |
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MAGNETIC POLES – SHIFTING What is happening to the
magnetic fields of the Earth. For the overall summary of the status of the
changes in the magnetic field GO TO: http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/ (watch the word wrap on
the URL) No real change during the past year: a magnetic pole
shift is not something to be very concerned about within this decade at
least. |
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PLANETS &
ALIGNMENTS For background and the
current information on planetary alignments GO TO: http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/ (watch the word wrap on
the URL) See Earth Changes 2003 Almanac Calendar for
additional details http://www.michaelmandeville.com/ebooks/calendar2004/ The Almanac lays out the planets and the lunar
phases for entire year in advance to allow you to find the best and worst
periods of weather, earthquake activity, ethereal “lunar” influences, etc. We are now still decoupling from the Venus | Earth
alignment and the strong electrical circuit which these two inner planets
formed between them. Though the alignment will disappear over the next
week as Venus pulls ahead of the Earth in their mutual race around the Sun,
the coupling between their atmospheres via the long electromagnetic tail of
Venus will continue to influence the Earth for at least another couple of
weeks. There are no other significant planetary alignments during
June. The Moon this day is now near North of the Equator (its North Node) 28 days past the last New Moon
and shy a few hours of the next New Moon.
It is now approximately 405,404 KM from the Earth. It is 0% of the
Full Moon (visibility). The next New Moon is June 17 2004 at 20:38 UTC
and the New Moon will be in Apogee while 406574 km from the Earth only four
hours before the moment of perfect New Moon alignment. This New Moon in Apogee should be one of the weakest
seismic periods of the year. The Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, will be
June 21 at 00 57 UTC The next Full Moon will by July 2, 2004 at 11 09 UTC. (Perigee = the Moon’s closest approach to the
Earth during its monthly orbit which increases gravitational influence of the
Moon by as much as 15%; Apogee = the Moon’s greatest distance from the Earth
during its monthly orbit). (Berkland has a more complex formula
for syzygy and his dates are often different.) For details see http://www.syzygyjob.com/ |
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PLANET
WATCHING For background and the
current information on observable planets and planetary alignments GO TO: http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#planets (watch the word wrap on
the URL) |
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SUNSPOTS The events in the solar atmosphere which impact weather
and climate patterns, the magnetic field and auroras, including forecasts for
the week, month, and year ahead. For background information, CLICK
HERE: http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#sunspots (watch the word wrap on the URL) To follow the numbers below, view the Solar Cycle 23 Chart
at http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/topten_monitor.htm Or, get the data in a table from http://www.sec.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/DSD.txt SUNSPOT COUNT AT 84 on June 15, 2004 AND
RISING. After bobbing up to 82 on June 7, sunspot count sank to 28
on June 12 and than inexplicitly began to rise again to 84 as of yesterday. WRONG PREDICTION: …
for June. Sunspots will likely decline to below 50 and remain there,
bobbing up and down between 10 and 50. The Solar Flux, which partially determines the sunspot
count, began to rise a few days ago and is at 110 as of June 15. The steep shape of this curve suggests that
the sunspot count will continue to rise again. The appearance of two new huge sunspot
groups on the Eastern edge of the Sun virtually guarantees it. What is going on?
Hard to be certain. The
question could probably be answered if we had the solar system’s activity and
planetary relationships well modeled for the past 50 years or so (which could
be done with considerable time and some money). For the time being all I can do is hazard this guess. Currently the planetary bodies are fairly widely dispersed
at various positions around the Sun, EXCEPT for a still fairly straight
alignment of Venus, Earth, and Pluto…So far, the sunspot peak for this
alignment, which perfected about June 8, was far more tepid than I have been
predicting. A flaccid 82. ARE WE JUST NOW HEADING INTO A (LATE) If so…OH OH… |
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SOLAR ACTIVITY As reported by NASA/NOAA unless otherwise
stated. (Sudden surprises and huge
storms are always possible even during sunspot minima periods such as the one
we are currently headed into). With the sudden new rise in the sunspot count and the
emergence of two new huge areas, solar activity has once again steadily
increased. As of today, The Solar Wind was quite robust at 511.3 km/s this day but
it was pushing a mild density of 1.4 protons/cm3”. The Fluxgate Chart at the University of Alaska (which
measures magnetic disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere created by solar
winds and ion storms) showed a major disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic
field about 36 hours ago (atmospheric) (as of this
time, about 2 PM Mountain time US). Additionally, the charts demonstrate that
we are presently heading into a huge, deep, and broad ionic flux disturbance
“in the force”. To see the Fluxgate moment to moment, go to
http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/magnetometer/plotstations.cgi? NASA PREDICTS: “Two big sunspot groups, each larger than
Venus, have emerged over the Sun's eastern limb. This could signal a period
of increased solar activity in the days ahead. A solar wind gust from…a…coronal hole could
reach Earth on or about June 18th.” Probabilities for an M-class or
X-class solar flare during the next 24/48 hours: about 5% to 30%, with a 5%
to 30% probability for robust to severe geomagnetic disturbances during the
next 24/48 hours, depending upon latitude. Jan Alvestad reports: “The geomagnetic field was quiet to minor storm
on June 15. Solar wind speed ranged between 399 and 586 km/sec under the
influence of a high speed stream from coronal hole CH101. Solar flux measured at 20h UTC on 2.8 GHz
was 109.4…At midnight there were 5 spotted regions on the visible disk. The
solar flare activity level was low. A total of 1 C class event was recorded
during the day…June 13-15: No fully or partly Earth directed CMEs
observed. A recurrent coronal hole
(CH101) in the southern hemisphere was in a geoeffective position on June 12.
A recurrent trans equatorial coronal hole (CH102) was in a geoeffective
position on June 14-15.” Jan Alvestad predicts: “The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to
unsettled on June 16 and quiet to active on June 17-18 under the influence of
a high speed stream from coronal hole CH102.“ Alvestad also predicts
for the next 24 hours, 0-20% probability of coronal holes, 0% probability of
CME's, 20-60% probability of M and X Class Flares MONTHLY AVERAGES IN SOLAR CYCLE 23: (These
numbers are reported by Jan Alvestad) Over all, the sunspot average count
(ISSN) for February 2004 was 46.0. March 2004 was even higher with the
ISSN average count at 48.9 April’s count was radically lower at 39.3. The
May 2004 average count of 41.5 was SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN in April. This
was about 9% higher than predicted. Solar Cycle 23 appeared to be waning in its influence the
prior two weeks but at the moment solar activity is headed back up. |
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WORLD WEATHER SUMMARY Those who have been following the patterns have
seen that the correlations between sunspot peaks and major storm fronts
coming in off the oceans to track across the continents is roughly pretty
good, sometimes very much exactly on the mark. Accordingly, our
“sloppycasts” (approximate continental weather patterns) this past few years
have proven out to be fairly worthwhile. Plan for practically anything. Conditions are unstable
and unpredictable. EARTH WEATHER PREDICTION FOR THE NEXT SEVEN
DAYS (Northern Hemisphere) This “sloppycast” is
based on sunspot counts, planetary alignments, and visual data shown on
satellite and radar. Things appear to be moderating down into normal
patterns. BUT Plan for practically
anything. Conditions are unstable and unpredictable. EARTH WEATHER PREDICTION FOR SUMMER SEASON (Northern Hemisphere) This “sloppycast” is
based on sunspot counts, planetary alignments, and visual data shown on
satellite and radar. Things appear to be moderating down into normal
patterns. BUT Plan for practically
anything. Conditions are unstable and unpredictable. SOUTHWEST CONDITIONS for background or more details see http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm/#weather (watch the word wrap on the URL) NO CHANGE FROM LAST WEEK:
Hot alternating with wind!!!. Very little moisture is apparent,
the dry wind is sucking plants dry. Great time for drying anything…Bad
time for farms. The winds seem to be falling off…but if the sunspots keep
rising, expect another highly unusual blast of weather over |
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EL NINO & LA NINA
WATCH NEW THIS WEEK:
There was no update of the NOAA animation temperature charts this week
so this information is as June 6 2004. AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED:
The patch of cool water off the coast of ADDITIONAL NOTE: The year 2004 and/or
2005, in accordance with the 100 year X Wave Graph of the motion of the spin
axis in Chandler’s Wobble, COULD BE EL NINO YEARS. Graphs of
various El Nino periods seem to show that the beginning of temperature
build-up can occur as late as April of an El Nino year. So 2005 may not
be callable until early Spring 2005. |
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GLOBAL WARMING It is becoming obvious that we have a long term
real shift in the average temperatures and climate regions related to the
latitudes. This climate shift is creating a growing environmental
disaster in the polar zones and in the desert-prone latitudes such as in the
Pacific Southwest. KEEP WATCHING ESPECIALLY THE For the latest short review, see Earth
Changes Bulletin Update As Of May 26, 2004 |
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IONIZING SOLAR ACTIVITY & MASS BEHAVIOR AS PREDICTED: THE FOLLOWING IS NOW COMING FORTH IN WAYS
WICH ARE MAKING INCREASINGLY HEAVY WAVES. CONFIRMED: AS
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED: The ionic flux and the human contradictions of
denial have focused people into thinking and plotting intensely their next
round of moves within a highly polarized mental and emotional
atmosphere. Expect heavy choppiness in all things human. Sudden
shifts, both good and ill, everywhere. The most tangible ways in which we are currently seeing
this manifest is in the progressive, HIGHLY SKILLED AND ORGANIZED violence in
the Middle East, and the outbreak of a sort of civil war between the experts
in the To stir the pot ever more robustly, I strongly hunch that
Alqaeda will show its hand in the Now there is a definite possibility that another huge wave
of ionic influx from another sunspot peak near 150 will hit the Earth during
this coming week. This would make for a July which is even more chaotic than
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EARTHQUAKES Around the world to see the current and
potential patterns of seismic activity, with coverage of the windows of
danger. I prepared this section by pulling out the Earth Changes 2003
Calendar which has everything plotted on it. You should too.
Check out the Almanac as well, it discusses all of the windows for the year
and even spotlights the two most dangerous windows. Unless otherwise
specified, all quake activity which is discussed is based on the USGS
database charts and tables which list quake activity in excess of 2.0 mag.
and above. FOR MORE QUAKE INFO RELATED TO SYZYGY WINDOWS, Jim Berkland
calculates syzygy windows with considerably more sophistication than I
do. See http://syzygyjob.com THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ACTION OF THE WEEK is a little hard
to define. True to the pattern of a non-syzygy
period, quake activity was muted in both frequency and magnitude. The largest daily total for
quakes above mag 2.5 was only 12 quakes on June 10. The daily average
for the remainder of the last six days was way down, in the range of 6-10 per
day. Quake activity, such as it was the past seven days,
appears to have been randomly distributed in four major zones which formed
nearly a perfect X four cornered mirror of the Pacific Rim of Fire: the South Pacific zone, Kamchatka/Japan, Carib Plate, and There were only two shapeshifting quakes in the range of
5.0 to 5.5 during the past seven days in the Great Rift which winds around
the Earth across the bottom of the oceans. {The quake activity in the Great Rift is one of
the most important harbingers for the Earth Changes Watch to monitor. As the
Earth’s crust adjusts its shape in response to gravitational and spin energy
vectors, quakes in the Great Rift increase and tectonic activity all around
the world increases}’’
There were two 3 plus quakes in
the Madrid fault area of Missouri, suggesting North America is still changing
its shape as a result of the past few months of exceptional activity in
Alaska and in the Mid Atlantic. There were also several small quakes from
Northern California up to the Olympic Peninsula and the ocean floor to the
west of Unless otherwise specified, all quake activity
which is discussed is based on the USGS LOCAL AREA database charts and tables
which list quake activity in excess of 1.0 mag. and above. Generally most of
the quakes which appear in these counts are in the range of 1 to 2 in
magnitude. Seismic activity in 494 quakes in U.S./Alaska as a whole, down from 527 last
week, mostly widely scattered; 371 in California and Nevada, up from 340 last
week, widely scattered in all the usual places, but including a fairly unusual 5.3 quake on the Western edge of the Baja
Plate, well out to sea to the West of San Diego; 41 in the Pacific Northwest, up from 32 reported last
week (two week period) – these were mostly scattered along the spine of the
Cascade Mountains in Washington State and Oregon, two near St. Helens, 15 in 16 in the Unless otherwise specified, all quake activity
which is discussed is based on the USGS LOCAL AREA database charts and tables
which list quake activity in excess of 1.0 mag. and above. Generally most of
the quakes which appear in these counts are in the range of 1 to 2 in
magnitude. 22 in Yellowstone, up from 10 last week, highly focused mostly about 5 miles out of
W. Yellowstone (which is near Old Faithful). For http://www.seis.utah.edu/recenteqs/Maps/111-45.html WEEK’S MOST SIGNIFICANT QUAKES Kinda of a stumper…got any
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VOLCANOES Around the world with the most interesting and relevant
volcano stories; briefs on the likely eruptions as well as coverage of
on-going activity. For information on current eruptions, see the Southwest
Volcano Centre at: http://www.swvrc.org/cerupt.htm or see “Breaking Volcano Eruption News” at http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html (For the past couple of years I have been
counting volcanoes in the classifications used by the Southwest Volcano
Centre. But the Centre cleaned house this first week and dropped all
volcanoes off its list which it could not confirm to be in one of the three
categories as of the beginning of the year. This means that a lot of
volcanoes dropped off the lists, making the stats from this moment on
un-comparable with last year’s numbers.) OVERALL WORLD VOLCANIC ACTIVITY NOW SEEMS TO BE AT ABOUT THE SAME
PLATEAU AS LAST WEEK. There appears to be very little change
from last week’s numbers and activities, but there was one volcano added to
the active list. Despite this addition, the torpor in the others should
advise against drawing any conclusions. (This is a fairly
subjective guestimate based on the numbers and data reported by the SWVC,
quake data, and other reports) Here are the SWVC volcanic activity numbers as of June 16 2004 5 on restless list (could go on active list at
any moment) (same as last week) 43 on alert list (pre-cursors suggesting that
activity may begin), same as last week. 24 on active list (seismic, gas, steam, lava,
ash, or explosive activity) (one up from last week) Popo gave an 18 puff day yesterday. Centrapred
reports for June 16 (17:00 GMT) that “In the last 24 hours the activity of MOST ACTIVE VOLCANOES THIS WEEK from Volcano Breaking News by Volcanologist
John Seach at http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html Volcano Travel: john@volcanolive.com Dates in red are posted in Eastern Australian
Time (UT + 10 hr) Bromu and Awu remain the two most unpredictively active
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MWM: This short dispatch may
explain a lot. It certainly explains
the disruption of the internet this week.
The Navy was using us Guinea Pigs, same as they use dolphins and whales,
to test Herr Strangelove’s electromagnetic weapons for destroying practically
anything. They apparently are even
willing to disrupt the operations of major corporations. This dispatch may also explain much about
the upcoming crop of injured whale and dolphin beachings which are likely to
occur in record numbers along with the record number of Navy Armadas sailing
the Seven Seas. The first beachings should begin immediately. This dispatch may also explain the 5.6
“quake” reported off the coast of the Carolinas which has been removed from Likely, it is fair to conclude that the
not-so-invisible Black Arts Nation, from HAARP to the Navy, to the
Bush/Ashcroft prisons in Iraq/Afghanistan and Navy Comes Clean After ECTV
Disclosure…06/16/04 It appears yesterday’s ECTV
article on ‘false reading’ earthquakes and vast electronic interference, has
prompted a response from DoD’s media department. A rather unusual announcement
was released this morning, disclosing to the public for the first time, a
previous top secret testing operation in the Cmdr. Joe Murphy, U.S. Alaskan
Command reports “a new combat system is being tested. The new testing devise
is used for what is commonly known as “jamming,” the Improved Capabilities
System III (ICAP III) overloads specific hostile communication bandwidths,
causing users to temporarily lose service. “Training and testing of ICAP
III is a stepping-stone for the Navy,” said Chief Aviation Structural
Mechanic Ron Szpynda, Air Test Evaluation (VX) 9. “This is the first time we
have used this system.” VX-9's EA-6B Prowlers are being
used to test the system. The aircraft provides protection for strike
aircraft, ground troops and ships, by jamming enemy radar, electronic data
links and communications. “The system floods an opposing bandwidth
with more frequency than those operating systems release,” said Cmdr. Jim
Winship, VX-9 branch head. “This causes users to temporarily lose service.
Everything from telephones to sophisticated electronic equipment goes static,
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ECONOMY WATCH For background information, use password to go
to: (watch the word wrap on the URL) The economic bubble is still barely being
maintained. All factors and dynamics are in a
chaotic flux with no clear trendlines. Housing starts are down, interest
rates are softening again, but the corporate profits are high and the Fed is
making noises about raising rates as food and energy inflation rolls through
the economy. All of this makes splendid nonsense, suggesting strongly,
as it has all year, that this bubble is an illusion. When in doubt, always punt for the low
point. Proprodictions,
a group psychic prediction system, predicts a slow creeping upwards, with the
DJI to reach past 11,000 amidst slow job expansion, with 2005 a more robust
year. They also predict Bush will dump Cheney and Rumsfeld and win
re-election. Frankly I almost agree
with most of this, but disagree that Bush can or will win re-election. Since their track record is no better than
mine at best, sometimes worse, I will stick to my own projections. AS PREDICTED: The next 90 days is likely to be full of
contradictory news, with a lot of chops (up and down) in the stocks and
equities, with a constant jawboning of illusions of economic recovery.
A good part of the “good” economic news will be politically motivated.
Pay it little heed except for news of price increase. Those are real
and those are permanent, a definite lowering of the average standard of
living. FOR THE STAND PAT ECONOMIC PREDICTION FOR
THIS YEAR, See the Earth
Changes Bulletin Update Of May 12 2004 LONG TERM PREDICTION: As the loss of value of the
dollar accelerates, job creation in all the main old line pursuits will
become nearly impossible in the GENERAL PREDICTION DJI
AVERAGES The DJI finished today at 10,379, a mere
$11.00 higher than the close of last
Wednesday at 10,368. This chop will continue
with 100 point mood swings for the next few weeks unless a major disruption
is created by terrorists. Most likely we are in the final bubble in the DJI. The
failure of Bush to get ANYTHING from the G8 conference, at which he was
beggaring for money and troops to help bail him out of IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY, LIQUIDATE ALL STOCK
POSITIONS. Given the massive loss of confidence in the U.S. and
the Bush Administration, which is being discounted and undercut by many of
the world’s wealthiest people, it is very doubtful that the boomer bubble is
going to go much higher. As I predicted more or less in the Coming
Economic Collapse of 2006, 10,500 is about as high as it is going to
get. It could go to 11,000 or so, but
so what. You can’t possibly make much money on general stocks and you will
make yourself a nervous wreck trying to do so. AS PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED: FORMING UP NOW: As I predicted last week,
there may be one small rise left between now and the final slide, but don’t
count on it. The small rise, IF IT COMES, is likely to come this
Summer/Fall as a result of the decision of the House of Saud to support the
Bush Imperial Faction with a major expansion in the production of oil to
force a drop in the retail price. This will be even more effective than
a tax cut. It will suddenly stimulate people to do things with the
cheaper fuel prices. Lowered fuel prices will thus increase activity,
confidence, sales, gross revenues, and equity values, most esp. stock
prices. So a “timely” boomlet may form
up by October 2004, based on draconian manipulation and outright sorcery by
the Imperial forces that be. This of course will allow Bush and Company
to say, “see, we told you so, there there everything is all right after
all.” But do not expect that even this scenario will proceed
smoothly. There is too much instability and too much mass attitude
change underway, with Al Qaeda also able to jitter the market on any given week
with several hundred points of pure terror. For additional discussion, see the: Earth
Changes Bulletin Update As Of May 26, 2004 The dollar held firm this week, at 0.8335, barely above the 0.8304 per euro last Wednesday. AS PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED:
As oil prices continue to drop, the value of the dollar will probably
fall into a more stable, slow slide and it may even rebound slightly for a short
while. But the overall erosion is likely to slowly continue
through the year and may bottom at $0.65 to $0.70 per euro by the end of
2004. MUST READ: “The Dollar
Panics” in “The Coming Economic Collapse of
2006”, which lays out the dynamics of what is happening. see http://www.michaelmandeville.com/calendar/collapse2006.htm |
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SURVIVAL WATCH All prices are going up substantially this year. Government stats at the national level have become just
another “Big Brother” lie. We are adrift without real
information. This is not likely to change until the Orwellian Regime
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POLITICAL WATCH How are the sunspots likely to most effect
human affairs during the weeks and months ahead? SIGN OF THE TIMES: Ken Lay, who is now widely described as
the biggest corporate swindler of all time, is still scott free and has never
even been indicted. (ONE OF THE WORST ECONOMIC
TERRORISTS OF ALL TIME). At this time I will hazard the guess
that he will be pardoned by Bush during the final days of his
administration. ANOTHER NEARLY EQUAL SIGN
OF THE TIMES: The lawyers who have been settling the Enron
collapse for all parties, are billing the remaining net assets of Enron for
approximately $1 billion for their services. This is a new
heavenly-ordained definition for the term Chutzpah.
I CALL IT CLASS ECONOMIC TERRORISM. THIS IS BREAKING NEWS… Very shortly, the world will be
shocked and profoundly revolted to learn that the The world will also learn that
the American government is rapidly disintegrating into impotence from the
in-fighting which is now engulfing the Imperial Faction and the Republicrats
which dominate both of the major parties. The professional journalists in Apparently, the people who know
have decided that George W. Bush can no longer govern….and events are rapidly
eroding any semblance of believable authority away from the White House. The country will be politically deadlocked
until 2005 and possibly beyond. It is
highly probable that within the next several months Bush’s fall will be as
complete as Nixon’s. TomDispatch also has been able
to draw out the historical “formative’ elements in these run-amok
intelligence operations of the Black Arts Nation. They began to tool up from the massive
flows of money which the “Reagan Revolution” made available to the U.S.
Military Industrial Complex to fight populist revolutions in The veil on all of this has been
pierced…and the “Great Purification” can be brought forth if people stand
tall and refuse to be conned any longer by the toadies in government and
media. Here below are some of the
breaking news items from TomDispatch.Com.
Get some tissue paper before attempting to read this. Water-boarding in the White House This post can be found at
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1497 http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/indexprint.mhtml?pid=1497 Quotes of the week: "As early as Sept. 16,
2001, Vice President Dick Cheney, in his first interview after the 9/11
attacks, said, ‘It's going to be vital for us to use any means at our
disposal, basically, to achieve our objective'… In February 2002, Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "The reality is, the set of facts that
exist today with al-Qaeda and the Taliban were not necessarily the set of
facts that were considered when the Geneva Convention was fashioned."
(Amanda Ripley, Redefining Torture, Time Magazine) "National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice yesterday said President Bush 'has given broad authority to
a variety of people to do what they have to do to protect this country… It's
a new kind of war," she told Fox News. "We're fighting on a lot of
different fronts.' Rice's comments came after Amnesty International
questioned Bush on the Nov.3 attack using a Hellfire missile, which killed
senior al Qaeda thug Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, a key plotter in the deadly
October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. Al-Harthi and five others were killed
by a missile fired by an unmanned Predator drone operated by the CIA. Amnesty
International asked the "France, Russia, Germany,
and Canada, which did not support the war but have since labored to repair
their relations with the United States, were particularly vocal in their
criticism of the restrictions [on Iraqi reconstruction contracts], outlined
Tuesday in a Pentagon memo signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
In "The Bush administration
pledged yesterday for the first time that the "Leading this fight by
example" On Sunday, in part one of this
dispatch on our global torture system, George Orwell… meet Franz Kafka, I
wrote: "There will be so much more to learn. Already, when it comes to
Abu Ghraib, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the Pentagon keeps heaping investigations
on top of one another, each subsequent one led by a figure with a higher rank
and so more capable of investigating responsibility at higher levels, and I
think it can be said with certainty that this will only get worse -- worse
probably than anything we now imagine." As it happens, this
administration is hemorrhaging documents. It took exactly twenty-four hours
for my modest prediction to come true. In the space of a day, we
learned much more; it got significantly worse; and the Pentagon announced yet
another investigation, this time of prisoner conditions at Were the subject at hand
anything but the creation of an American torture regime (and implicitly
"high crimes and misdemeanors"), some of what's happened would be
hilarious. For instance, Attorney General Ashcroft has stiff-armed Congress,
refusing to declassify the memoranda that the administration's many legal
minds produced justifying torture and the most literal sort of imperial
presidency (to be presided over by a torturer-in-chief); and yet, in the last
day or so, these memos have sprouted like so many wretched weeds at news
sites all over the Internet. (To read several of these lengthy, tedious,
pretzeled documents posted in their grim near-entireties, go to the
Washington Post, Newsweek, or Global Beat and click away.) What they make clear is that the
Bush administration had torture on the brain. Its officials were fixated on
the subject, which went so naturally with the President's new-style,
no-holds-barred, we're-the-only-law-in-town, dead-or-alive,
assassination-and-kidnapping "war on terrorism." It's no longer a
matter of whether knowledge of the acts committed at Abu Ghraib prison reach
the President and his advisors, but of what can only be termed a complete
obsession with the subject of torture among those figures. The highest
officials at the Pentagon, in the military, in the CIA, and at the Justice
Department clearly couldn't stop thinking about torture -- as over the course
of more than a year they requested legal memorandum after memorandum, all
chewing over how to define torture so that various inhumane acts involving
the infliction of mental and physical pain would not be considered such; over
how far to go when too far was never quite far enough. In this sense, whether
they were aware of the individual acts of horror at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere
(and a number of them evidently were), they were certainly intensely aware
that acts of this nature and worse were a "necessity" of their war
(even if photos of them were not). Just to sum up the last day or
so of news on the subject: We now know from an Andrea
Elliott report in the New York Times (Unit Says It Gave Earlier Warning of
Abuse in Oh, and among the abuses the
intelligence men reported were: "electric shocks at other holding
facilities before arriving in Abu Ghraib," "burns on the body"
(recorded in photos in a prisoner's file), and the beating to bloody pulps of
five generals of Saddam's defeated military, who do, of course, fall uncontrovertibly
into the category of prisoners of war and so under the Geneva Conventions. (By the way, a phenomenon to
note: Wherever this administration or its minions conceived of or committed
horrors, there was usually someone disturbed enough to record the fact and in
some way protest it. To take but one example, as Dana Priest and Bradley
Graham reported recently in the Washington Post, "[O]n Dec. 2, 2002,
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved a set of more aggressive
interrogation methods to be used on Mohamed al Qahtani, a Saudi detainee [at
Guantanamo] who some officials believed may have been the planned 20th
hijacker in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A naval psychologist at the base
protested the use of some techniques meant to humiliate prisoners and sought
help from the Navy's top civilian lawyer, Alberto J. Mora, to stop them,
according to three defense officials knowledgeable about the debate." We now know as well, thanks to a
piece (The Torturers) by Justin Raimondo, the fierce libertarian columnist
for Antiwar.com, that New Yorker magazine journalist Seymour Hersh, who first
pushed the Abu Ghraib story into the light of day, is saying more than he's
yet written. Here is a summary Raimondo got of part of a recent Hersh talk at
the "He said that after he broke Abu
Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him this stuff. He said
he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, 'You haven't begun to see
evil...' then trailed off. He said, 'horrible things done to children of
women prisoners, as the cameras run.' He looked frightened…." So we still have on-camera acts
of horror against children to look forward to. (Is there no irony in the fact
that the Bush administration has managed, through its war on terrorism, to
feed every perverse sexual fantasy it would otherwise decry? But irony is
inconceivable when you're dealing with planners incapable of recognizing the
category of "unintended consequences.") Oh, and thanks to Time magazine,
we now know that other horrors are still to be described elsewhere in the
imperium: "A Republican Senator says charges of manslaughter and rape
may soon be brought against Thanks to Newsweek's Michael Hirsh,
John Barry, and Daniel Klaidman (A Tortured Debate), we now know something of
what went on in the White House itself after "President Bush had
declared war on Al Qaeda, and in a series of covert directives, he had
authorized the CIA to set up secret interrogation facilities and to use new,
harsher methods… The handling of [captured al-Qaeda figure] al-Libi touched
off a long-running battle over interrogation tactics inside the
administration. It is a struggle that continued right up until the Abu Ghraib
scandal broke in April -- and it extended into the White House… [Justice
Department lawyer John] Yoo's August 2002 memo [now posted] was prompted by
CIA questions about what to do with a top Qaeda captive, Abu Zubaydah, who
had turned uncooperative. And it was drafted after White House meetings
convened by George W. Bush's chief counsel, Alberto Gonzales, along with
Defense Department general counsel William Haynes and David Addington, Vice
President Dick Cheney's counsel, who discussed specific interrogation
techniques, says a source familiar with the discussions. Among the methods
they found acceptable: ‘water-boarding,' or dripping water into a wet cloth
over a suspect's face, which can feel like drowning; and threatening to bring
in more-brutal interrogators from other nations." Imagine. Water-boarding in the
White House. On Sunday, when I wrote the
first part of this dispatch, we had a vague report from the Washington Post
that, according to one military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib, the White
House had been requesting information from the prison. (This was when the
administration was in a sweat about who exactly the Iraqi insurgents, so
unexpectedly resisting, really were.) Today, thanks again to Justin Raimondo,
we have this fascinating passage from an on-line diary, a blog -- the
Internet is a kind of bizarre wonder, isn't it? -- by Joe Ryan, evidently an
employee at Abu Ghraib of a private "contractor," CACI
International. On March 30, Ryan wrote: "The other big news at work was a
message sent to us from Ms. Rice, the National Security Advisor, thanking us
for the intelligence that has come out of our shop and noting that our work
is being briefed to President Bush on a regular basis. Now if we could
declassify some of it in order to shut up these people who say we have no
business over here, that would be the best day!" Robert Fisk, reporter for the
British Independent, mentioned Ryan in late May in the following curious way:
"One of Staphanovic's co-workers, Joe Ryan – [a CACI employee] who was
not named in the Taguba report -- now says he underwent an ‘Israeli
interrogation course' before going to Iraq." And from Julian Coman of the
British Telegraph we have word that worse is yet to come, possibly sometime
this week: "New evidence that the physical
abuse of detainees in By the way, when the notoriously
close-mouthed Red Cross begins to let its private documents dribble out, you
know that we're in dire and desperate straits. Coman quotes Scott Horton,
former chairman of the New York Bar Association, "who has been advising
Pentagon lawyers unhappy at the administration's approach," as saying
that "the biggest bombs in this case have yet to be dropped." Every time there is a further
revelation, Rumsfeld piles on another insider investigation. But note --
though no one has noted it – that while the White House, the Pentagon, and
the CIA asked for all sorts of in-house legal opinions on various possible
acts of torture (in the CIA case, clearly to cover future butts and implicate
larger groups, should something slip out someday), no one in our government
ever thought to consult, say, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, or
any other group that might be considered both concerned with such matters and
not completely self-interested. While this may seem obvious indeed -- they
were, after all, planning to commit acts they knew would horrify the
international human rights community, who were seen as a bunch of namby-pamby
global sissies -- nonetheless, it's worth stating that it should never be up
to potential torturers (or lawyers in their pay) to decide what is and is not
torture. Reagan and Bush: An unnoticed
similarity In his typical manly fashion, at
a news conference last week the President bravely confronted the issue of
torture head on. Here are the two relevant passages: Q Mr. President, the Justice Department
issued an advisory opinion last year declaring that as Commander-in-Chief you
have the authority to order any kind of interrogation techniques that are
necessary to pursue the war on terror. Were you aware of this advisory
opinion? Do you agree with it? And did you issue any such authorization at
any time? THE PRESIDENT: No, the authorization I
issued, David, was that anything we did would conform to Q Have you seen the memos? THE PRESIDENT: I can't remember if I've
seen the memo or not, but I gave those instructions… Q Mr. President, I wanted to return to
the question of torture. What we've learned from these memos this week is that
the Department of Justice lawyers and the Pentagon lawyers have essentially
worked out a way that THE PRESIDENT: Look, I'm going to say it
one more time. If I -- maybe -- maybe I can be more clear. The instructions
went out to our people to adhere to law. That ought to comfort you. We're a
nation of law. We adhere to laws. We have laws on the books. You might look
at those laws, and that might provide comfort for you. And those were the
instructions out of -- from me to the government. I hope you're comforted.
"We adhere to laws. We have laws on the books. You might look at those
laws…" Actually, as we now know, Mr. Bush's lawyers did exactly that,
and assumedly when the President says we're adhering to those laws, he means
to the interpretations of those laws offered by his own people -- about which
Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale University's law school and a former
assistant secretary of state, was recently quoted in the British Financial
Times as saying, "They are blatantly wrong, It's just erroneous legal analysis.
The notion that the president has the constitutional power to permit torture
is like saying he has the constitutional power to commit genocide."
Well, exactly, and that should comfort you. You would think, given his
performance on U.N. Torture Victims Recognition Day (quoted above), that the
President might have taken to the podium and denounced torture done in the
name of his administration and anyone connected in any way with it or who
advocated anything like it. He might have insisted that they would be
prosecuted zealously and to the full extent of the law, but he preferred, for
obvious reasons, to follow the path he had already hacked through the
underbrush of the Valerie Plame case. Oh, and on that unnoticed
similarity to Ronald Reagan, don't overlook the President's wonderful,
"I can't remember if I've seen the memo or not." How about not just
that memo but any of the memos? How about not just seen, but heard about, or
heard summaries of advice from? Hmm. Can't remember if I even asked those
questions. In any case, what I think we can already see developing is the
famed Reagan Iran-Contra defense: I-can't-remember, I-don't-recall. It worked
for his hero, why not for him? In the meanwhile, for those who
think no domestic "unintended consequences" will flow from the
pseudo-legalisms developed by the White House's legal wizards and applied in Looking Back It's worth recalling how much,
in the course of Torturegate, we have chosen to forget. For instance, we
treat the Abu Ghraib photos as if they were the first shocking photos from
our offshore Bermuda Triangle of injustice, but check out a different set of
photos, slipped to progressive websites way back in November 2002. These were
remarkable photos of exactly how we transported Taliban and al-Qaeda captives
whom we had just declared non-POWs (for reasons that now put every one of the
tens of thousands of "contract workers" in Similar photos of the prisoners
on reaching "Amnesty International, the human
rights organization, went further Tuesday, calling the shackling of prisoners
and the use of goggles and ear muffs torture. 'The imposition of sensory deprivation
bears the hallmarks of known methods to break prisoners prior to
interrogation,' said Director of Policy Claudio Cordone. 'While there are
legitimate security considerations . . . we feel the measures adopted in
their regard . . . go well beyond what is necessary from a security point of
view.'" This was also the moment when
Donald Rumsfeld first insisted: "The Here's a moderate British view
of these proceedings, offering a sense of what could indeed be seen back
then, were you not locked in the American media bubble. On January 17, 2002,
Hugo Young of the Guardian wrote in part (We will not tolerate the abuse of
war prisoners: "For "Mr Roth [of Human Rights Watch]
likened the military tribunals President Bush has announced to those of a
tin- pot tyrant wanting to get rid of his political enemies - which in
another life Washington would be the first to condemn. But HRW is not the
mainstream. The mainstream all flows in one acquiescent direction. Searching
the New York Times and Washington Post websites, I can find neither an
editorial nor a column that criticised the regime Rumsfeld approves for [ Much more could obviously be
written on the subject, but consider this a modest reminder of all the
obvious clues and cues that were simply avoided, denied, ignored in this
country -- largely missing-in-action (if you weren't on the Internet or
reading a few, relatively isolated American columnists like James Carroll of
the Boston Globe or Robert Scheer of the Los Angeles Times) until the Abu
Ghraib moment which broke like a sudden storm. Just remember that those who
claim the photos did it -- which they did -- are also missing part of the
picture. Nazi doctors… Neocon lawyers? In the midst of the recent round
of revelations that began with Abu Ghraib, I've noted a curious phenomenon,
one that (as with so much else in the past year) brought the Now, variations on this Nazi
analogy are suddenly thriving -- and not in obscure political websites either.
(I've always avoided the analogy myself because it's such a minefield and
tends to send everyone flying in strange and unfruitful directions.) To take
just a couple of recent examples, columnist William Pfaff wrote in the
International Herald Tribune (When laws get in the way of torture): "The Bush administration's civilians
had been complaining about how law, international treaties and conventions,
and military norms and inhibitions, were interfering with their determination
to seize and hold anyone they pleased in secret prisons, declare them without
legal rights even when they were American citizens, torture them whenever
they wanted and keep them forever, if they liked (a totalitarian ambition,
obviously). They wanted these obstructions removed. Their complaints sounded
like the complaints of Adolf Eichmann, when he described during his trial in In the Chicago Sun Times,
columnist Andrew Greeley embedded the analogy in his title: Is US like
Germany of the '30s?; while Eric Margolis, the conservative columnist for the
Toronto Sun, in a column praising the Reagan Presidency (U.S. Honor Ambushed)
cited both of the great totalitarian systems of the previous century: "The justice department, which is
supposed to uphold the law, actually sent a memo worthy of the Nazi legal
system explaining why the Geneva Conventions and And they weren't alone. The
lawyers for this administration seem, by the evidence of their memos, to have
spent time considering the "superior orders" or "For members of the military, the
report suggested that officials could escape torture convictions by arguing
that they were following superior orders, since such orders 'may be inferred
to be lawful' and are 'disobeyed at the peril of the subordinate.' Examining
the 'superior orders' defense at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals,
the Vietnam War prosecution of U.S. Army Lt. William Calley for the My Lai
massacre and the current U.N. war-crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former
Yugoslavia, the report concluded it could be asserted by 'U.S. armed forces
personnel engaged in exceptional interrogations except where the conduct goes
so far as to be patently unlawful.'" When, in the inner counsels of
our government, lawyers find themselves pouring through the defenses of war
criminals to provide cover for "exceptional interrogations," you
might think a signal flag or two would go up in the heart of the
administration (and not just among sidelined JAG military lawyers). It tells
us much that they could include any version of the Nuremberg defense in their
advisories without blinking, and it tells us a good deal more, not so much
about historical analogies, as about the extremity of our moment that people
like Greeley, Pfaff, and Margolis, not to speak of the government's best
lawyers now find Nazism and totalitarianism creeping into their brains. A similar extreme analogization
(to coin a terrible word) happened in the In the post-9/11 moment, it was
"liberal" war hawks and administration supporters who were probably
the first to leap for the Nazi analogy, applying it and various other aspects
of totalitarianism to al-Qaeda and fanatic Islamist movements around the
world. Now, it seems, like so much else, the analogy is heading home, another
of unintended consequence to be pinned on itself like that tail on the
donkey. And, I have to admit, just
considering the Bush lawyers and their chilling documents, it's hard not to
think of those doctors who, as Robert Jay Lifton wrote so powerfully in The
Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, turned the pledge
to heal into a commitment to murder in service to Hitler's regime. The
lawyerly equivalent would be, I suppose, the turning of a commitment to
uphold justice into the protection from prosecution of those who administer
pain for our regime. While this doesn't reach the depths of those Nazi
doctors (and lawyers), it certainly is shameful; or, as Washington Post
columnist David Ignatius put it today (Small Comfort) while describing the
August 2002 memorandum, "in its dry, lawyerly way, [it] is as shocking as
the Abu Ghraib photographs." Tom (Thanks to Nick Turse for
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THE STRATEGIC SITUATION – Final Synopsis http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ (watch the word wrap on the URL)
In North America, mass numbers of Americans are bitterly
fractionating in disgust as they finally awaken to the sordid nature of their
governance by crooks, Black Arts policies, police proactive aggression
dominance techniques, and manipulation procedures which have created a
house-of-cards nation of illusions, gross deceptions, sadistic torture
chambers, and legions of Dr. Strangelove’s weaving their fascist fantasies of
global experimentation on their chattel whilst hiding anon in luxury villas
everywhere. Their government collapses in fragmentation and politics
among them will be deadlocked for the next six months. Tendencies to violence
and superb venues for it are clearly obvious. An increasingly nervous mass
broadcast media attempts still to look the other way, insisting that the
ethical and moral world of Truman, Eisenhower, and JFK still exists… somewhere…if they could only find it. But a new media now arrives, floating down the river Iway,
and with it comes a new consciousness of the world and the lies which have
driven so much of the past 50 years…. From this, the future will arise as the old world slowly
collapses. All else is fluid, in transition. Thank God Almighty! Michael Wells Mandeville, |
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