Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Fragment
Dacia
Pentru lichidarea unui popor se începe prin a-i altera, a-i șterge memoria: îi distrugi cărţile, cultura, religia, istoria si apoi altcineva îi va scrie alte cărţi, îi va da altă religie, altă cultură, îi va inventa o altă istorie (de origine
Dr. Napoleon Săvescu
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
REVOLT AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD
A thinking person must come to the conclusion to reject the current
system in its entirety. This national crisis makes a total change
necessary. The European and worldwide crisis can only be resolvable
through a radical political transformation.
What the world needs is in some ways a revival of the past. This past
may be called "mythical" in the sense that it is not the past of
official history but what the myths tell us of former ages. We
emphasize the revision of conventional history to create a true view
of the past, which has been destroyed by various developments under
the name of progess.
The nations of the modern world are largely governed by political
parties. A study of this fact will reveal that a political party is,
by definition, a body which represents part of the nation, rather than
the whole of the nation. Thus, in a typical "democracy" we have
parties which represent different interests. The party principal
promotes the division within the population to the detriment of the
National Interest, the common good and the freedom of the individual.
To the idea of division based upon class, religion or status, we
counterpoise the idea of national unity. An unity based upon the need
to seek the temporal and spiritual welfare of every citizen; upon the
notion that true unity is a consequence of an all embracing justice;
upon the recognition of a nation as a community of communities. A
political party necessarily promotes conflict and hatred; we reject
these nihilistic tendencies and seek the promotion of co-operation,
love of family and community and a sense of honour, tradition and
common cause.
Basically, one can say it is best to avoid dramatic social and
political change but the current situation and the revolutions Europe
has gone through call for a new revolution in reverse. Our aim must
not not be creating a new society and not attempting to create
revolutionary new modern state. It is necessary to restore a
traditional one. We are conservative in the sense that we try to
restore the past and in the sense that we do not belive in liberal
democracy. We reject such doctrines as liberalism, individualism,
materialism, and communism. The revolt means a struggle against
modernism, Capitalism, American-Zionist imperialism, against the decay
of the West in all its expressions: in a word, against Globalism and
Mondialism, the project of homologation of peoples and continents to
the totalitarian one-way thinking of the America-centred New World
Order.
The Wesern nations need to regain the heroic spirit of this lost past
through radical social, cultural and moral transformations. The
necessary changes cannot be brought about by tinkering within the
System, or by relying on the System's own institutions. They can only
spring from a Counter-Revolution. This revolution must begin in the
hearts and minds of individuals, then spread by example to involve
whole communities in alternative structures. Once we cease to depend
on the old State, it can be swept aside. This means to create a new
type of total culture in which values, politics, art, social norms,
and economic activity are all part of a single organic national
community. This changes must attempt to transform society in order to
overcome perceived sources of national weakness. There is hardly one
healthy part of the nation's existing political and social life to be
retained. Since a change cannot be made by evolutionary development,
we therefore try to bring about revolutionary change. In this way and
in this sense we are revolutionary and opposed to conservatism as the
strive to maintain the present state and avoid dramatic social and
political change. The decadence of our society is such that we can
only be a revolutionary movement with its objective nothing but a
total and complete transformation of our society and its life
principal.
Modern liberal-capitalist society cannot be "reformed". Between the
soul destroying materialism of this system, with its attendant curses
of mass unemployment, drug addiction, sexual deviancy, and spiritual
and cultural degeneration, and the New Social Order sought for the
good of our People, there is an unbridgeable gap. The crisis will end
and a new age will begin that restores the people to a sense of
belonging, purpose, and greatness. We need to take drastic action
against our nation's "inner" enemies. The end result of this
conservative revolution will be the emergence of a new man and new
woman. This new man and new woman will be fully developed human
beings, uncontaminated by selfish desires for individual rights and
self-expression and devoted only to an existence as part of the
renewed nation's destiny. The worst Age, the current Age of Iron would
then necessarily be followed by a new Golden Age. Though for the time
being one cannot hope to bring about the dawn of a New Golden Age he
still has the choice to fight the demons in himself and within society
to form distinguished individuals and a state of order. "I don't
believe that philosophy taken in its narrow theoretical meaning, is
able to influence politics. It has to be turned into ideology or
universal vision of the world. Such an example was given by
Enlightenment, Marxist dialectic materialism and by certain
philosophical ideas, which were included in the concept of German
national socialism." (Julius Evola, excerpt from an interview)
The "differentiated person" feels like an outsider in this society and
feels no moral obligation toward society's request that he joins what
he regards as an absurd system. Such a person can understand not only
those who live outside society's parameters, but even those who are
set against such (a) society, or better, this society. (Julius Evola,
Cavalcare la tigre, p. 179.)
"Again, we can see that the various facets of the contemporary social
and political chaos are interrelated and that it is impossible to
effectively contrast them other than by returning to the origins. To
go back to the origins means, plain and simple, to reject everything
that, in every domain, whether social, political and economic, is
connected to the "immortal principles" of 1789 in the guise of
libertarian, individualistic and egalitarian thought, and to oppose to
it a hierarchical view. It is only in the context of such a view that
the value and freedom of man as a person are not mere words or
pretexts for a work of destruction and subversion." (Julius Evola, Gli
uomini e le rovine, Rome: Edizioni Settimo Sigillo, 1990, p. 64.)
"The actual western «civilization» is awaiting for a substantial
revolution without which it is destined, sooner or later, to collapse.
It has realized the most complete perversion of every rational order
of things. Kingdom of subjects, gold, car, number, in it there no way
to breath any more, neither liberty, nor light. The West has lost the
meaning of command and obey. It has lost the meaning of the action and
Contemplation. It has lost the meaning of hierarchy, of spiritual
power, of man-gods. It doesn't know the nature anymore. This not for
the western man, a living body made of symbols, of Gods and rituals, a
splendid cosmos, in which man moves freely, as «a kingdom in a
kingdom». It has decayed in an opaque and fatal appearance, of which
the profane sciences try to ignore the mystery with small laws and
small hypotheses instead. The west doesn't know the Wisdom anymore: it
doesn't know the stately silence of the dominators of itself anymore,
the calm illuminated of the Clairvoyants, the superb «solar» reality
of those people in which the Idea made himself blood, life and power.
To the Wisdom have taken over the rhetoric of the «philosophy» and of
the «culture», the teachers' kingdom, the journalists', the
sportsmen', the scheme, the programs, the proclamation. To it have
taken over the sentimental contamination, religious, humanitarian, and
the race of the "speakers" who get excited and run, intoxicated, while
exalting the «to become» and the «practice», because the silence and
the contemplation frighten them. The west doesn't know the meaning of
State anymore. The state-value, 1'Imperium as synthesis of
spirituality and royalty as street to the «upper-world», as it was
known to the great ancient civilizations, from China to Egypt, from
Persia to Rome and to the Sacred Roman Empire of the German Nation,
has been submerged in the bourgeois poverty of a trust of slaves and
merchants. What the war is, the one war wanted in oneself as a
superior value both to win and to lose as that sacred way of spiritual
realization for which the celestial centre of Wotan, the Walhalla, is
privilege of the fallen heroes on the battleground; for this reason in
Islam the «holy war», jihad, is synonymous of «God's way»; for this
reason in Aryan India the warrior appears beside the ascetics and in
the classical ancient world the "mors triumphalis" is interpreted as
victory on the death. What such a war is, they don't know, these
formidable «activists» of Europe, that don't know more warriors but
only soldiers, and that a little war has been enough to terrorize them
and make them revert in the rhetoric of the humanitarianism, of the
pacifism and of the sentimentalism. Europe has lost simplicity, has
lost the centrality, Europe has lost life. The democratic evil and the
Semitic poison corrode it in all of its roots, even in the right, even
in the sciences, even in the speculation. Leaders, human beings that
stare out not because of violence, not because of greed for profit,
not because of ability of exploiters of slaves, but instead for
irreducible and transcendent qualities of life there aren't any.
Europe is a great headless body, possessed and shaken by an anguish
that nobody dares to express, that has gold for blood, cars and
factories for meat, newspapers for brain. A shapeless body that turns
on itself in anguish, pushed by dark and unpredictable forces, that
implacably crush anyone who attempts to oppose to it or even just to
escape the mechanism. All of this was the famous western
«civilization» able to do.
This and the claimed result of the superstition of the «Progress»,
away from the imperial power of Rome, from the Doric Hellas, from all
the other exemplary forms of the great primordial Aryan civilizations.
And the circle closes more and more around the few that are still able
to feel the great disgust and the great revolt." (JULIUS EVOLA, Pagan
Imperialism, Lipsia 1933)
It is true to say that people cannot stage a revolution without
leadership, just as the leadership cannot fulfill a revolution without
the people's forces. The leadership and the people are in fact, two
sides of the same coin.
"Our momentary situation takes the form of a great battle--a battle
which may take more than one war to resolve it, or which may be
resolved by a sudden cataclysmic happening, entirely unforeseeable to
us now. On the surface of history it is the unforeseen that happens.
The most human beings can do is to be prepared inwardly." (Francis
Parker Yockey )
ESCHATOLOGY, DAJJAL AND IMAM MAHDI
The signs are unmistakable on the not too distant horizon of the
apocalyptic events summarized by the name of the "Antichrist" (Dajjal)
and the appearance of the Savior (Jesus [a.s.], Imam Mahdi [a.s.],
Kalki, Maitreya). We must recognize the times in which we are living.
It does not follow that we know the hour of judgment, for no one can
know that. On the contrary, there are also indications of the
possibility of a "global Intifada" which would shake off the
approaching menace and thus delay the hour for several decades, or
centuries. Now, what is the Dajjal, the Antichrist? In one sense,
certainly, he will be a man, the highest ruler of the
counter-hierarchy, a negative Chakravartin, who will rule the new
world order of Mammon in person. But primarily he is nothing other
than the resistance of the ego, of materialistic cravings, against the
new irruption of eternity into time which will end this dark age and
begin a new cycle.
Obviously the preparation for the Antichrist has been helped along by
the fact that a majority of mankind is concerned only with material
things and with an ever-increasing quantity with the loss of all
quality, and furthermore, deflected from any inwardness through the
demon of the mass-media, pornography, and drug consumption. In this
spiritually poisoned atmosphere, a vague need for salvation and
liberation is felt: the "New Age" points in that direction, with
Satanism and parts of Theosophy as its conscious aspect, and a great
number of adherents of the great religions (charismatics, ecumenists,
etc.) as its unconscious. The "Antichrist" will appear in the guise of
a savior and preach one of these current parodies of the traditional
teachings. His appearance presumes several things: a globalized
civilization with the capacity for direct technical communication,
which has clearly been present for several years; an almost complete
disappearance of past moral assumptions, the so-called "change of
values" or, better, "collapse of values"; the dulling of the heart
through the incessant flooding with violent and sexual images, which
no one can escape even when rejecting this perversion. The latter
blocks any "intelligence of the heart," which alone allows one to
distinguish the Antichrist from the true Savior, as both apparently
promise the same for the masses. This applies outside the Islamic
lands, since Russia and China, too, have been infected for a decade
with the Western consumer civilization. The significance does not lie
in a sum-total of "sins" like a record incurring punishment, as those
unfortunate "Christian fundamentalists" imagine it, but in the
blinding of the inner organ of sight through dulling it and
encapsulating it in the ego.
The decision must be made today to slay the Antichrist in the great
Jihad in one's own breast, so as to be able to face him in the outer
world. The first is the spiritual duty and the legitimate initiation,
which is to be accomplished today, and not an aesthetic gathering of
the fairest spiritual blossoms that former ages have brought forth.
And last of all is the "political" task that remains: not to quarrel
about ruling systems or over Left and Right, but to oppose the "great
Satan"! The coming of the personified Dajjal can be stopped, if one
can succeed in breaking the grip of mankind's enemy on the globe. An
economic collapse at the "right" moment may be part of the plan of the
New World Order, but the world-usurer's system could also collapse at
the "wrong" moment, bringing the mega-machine to a halt. But this does
not lie in our hands. Other uncertainties include natural
catastrophes, not least a pole-shift, which is always connected with
the restitution of the Golden Age and the primordial, Hyperborean
Tradition, and which strangely enough is even predicted for the not
too distant future by materialistic science.
We are not very optimistic that the course of events will change much,
in view of the principle that the world of outer appearances is merely
the projected soul-condition of mankind. The concrete deserts are
inside us; unbridled desires preconditioned the deluge of advertising;
long before the dissolution of states, the soul-hierarchy was
destroyed within us. What appears as an obstacle may in the last
resort bring about the intended result (but also vice versa). He who
thinks that, given the depressing state of the world, he can only save
his own soul will certainly not save it, because he obviously clings
so much to his ego that he will die with it. As approaching the hour
of death, the life of the beyond already enters the dying person, so
that a happiness, inexplicable in medical terms, often comes shortly
before the final crisis, the conscious witnesses of the last hours are
blessed with the reflection of the new Golden Age of the next human
cycle. Evola speaks of this, when he closes his Revolt against the
Modern World with these reassuring words: "although the Kali Yuga is
an age of great destruction, those who live during it and manage to
remain standing may achieve fruits that were not easily achieved by
men living in other ages."
CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION
"If God does not exist, everything is permitted." (Fedor Dostoevsky)
The famous critical diagnosis of Friedrich Nietzsche that "God is
dead" and his concomitant insight into the devaluation of all values
in the name of enlightenment reason together with the experiences of
the first world war have especially led german intellectuals to
question and challenge the political heritage of the French Revolution
and the intellectual heritage of a self-destructive enlightenment
reason, as they perceived it. Against these two mutually reinforcing
paradigms of political and cultural modernity these intellectuals then
tried to reestablish a way of thinking that is premised on regaining
firm ground for social, cultural and political development in
transsubjective and transhistorical powers such as God, tradition or a
mythological notion of nature.
It is necessary to be clear as to the significance of these
ideological traditions. They embrace in fact some of the most
significant theorists of European politics: Oswald Spengler, Carl
Schmitt, Ernst Junger, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Ernst Niekisch,
Friedrich Hielscher and Otto Strasser of Germany and a veritable host
of publicists of inter-war Europe.
These thinkers have been categorized by the German New Right theorist
Armin Mohler as part of the broad 'Conservative Revolution' in 1920's/1930's
Germany. This non-Nazi German system was examined for qualities which
supported an 'anti-American'/anti-consumer capitalist /anti-liberal,
politics. Certainly, the 'revival' of the principles of the
Conservative Revolution, lie at the basis of much of the present
activism of the Euro-nationalist forces. The neo-conservative current
in the GermanWeimarRepublic babtised "Coservative Revolution" by
Mohler movement was an elitist political enterprise that sought to
restore Germany to her original spiritual and worldly standing as
leader of the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
Constituted of such intellectuals as Oswald Spengler, Arthur Moeller
van den Bruck, and Edgar Julius Jung, the neo-conservatives aimed at
destroying the foreign socio-political ethos of the
LiberalWeimarRepublic which had been forced on Germany by her foes.
In the context of Germany-before-Hitler, these theorists offered an
alternative to the disaster for any idea of European Revolution, which
Hitler symbolised, and ultimately - became. For Spengler, the issue
was not German revanchism and eastern expansion, but the international
position of the "white world"; this leader of the 'Conservative
Revolution' school desired the moulding of a new state of
'Prussian-Socialism', the inter-linked union of the classes. For
Schmitt, a new European political idea would overcome the old
narrowness of the nations; this Conservative Revolutionary saw each
state, supreme over the former divisions of class and party,
individualism and liberal weakness, perfecting a cooperative European
commonwealth. For Jünger, a new state must perfect the total
mobilization of the people towards modernization and the creation of
real social wealth; this leader of the 'National Revolution' school
saw a new 'Worker' of brain and brawn, utilizing technology to conquer
the future. For Moeller van den Bruck, the 'young peoples' of Germany
and Russia were in revolt against the Western capitalist path; this
thinker who spanned the three schools called upon youth to reject
materialism and capitalist atomism and seek a higher mission. For
Niekisch, there was the call of a new 'barbarism' against capitalist
rationalism; this prominent 'National Bolshevik' urged a revolutionary
alliance with communist Russia (he predicted it would soon become
'national'), to overturn the burgeoning international capitalism and
argued for a union within Germany of all revolutionary anti-liberal
forces against the status quo. His fellow 'National Bolshevik',
Hielscher, recognized in the various oppressed nationalities of the
earth, potential allies not enemies in a massive program to strangle
the false-international order of capitalism. For Strasser, the man who
quit the Nazi party for his principles, there was a blending of the
schools in his 'Black Front' party, a plan to revitalize Europe in a
commonweath, neither capitalist nor Marxist, based upon organic social
classes and a genuine division of wealth and responsibility.
This line of thought has not only inspired a great number of German
intellectuals in the post-war era, including famous authors such as
Oswald Spengler, Thomas Mann and Carl Schmitt, but also strongly
influenced for example the work of Ernst Forsthoff, Arnold Gehlen and
Helmut Schelsky.
__________________
Not one time will be found in our writings the word Spaniard
referring exclusively to the non Portuguese inhabitant of the
(Iberian) Peninsula. Whilst Castille was separated from Aragon, and
only later united with León, etc; we and the other nations of Las
Españas (The Spains), Aragonese, Granadinos, Castilian, Portuguese,
and all others, were by strangers and by ourselves called Spaniards;
as well as still today we call German indistinctly to Prussians,
Saxons, Hanoverians or Austrians, and as the Neapolitans, the
Milanese, the Venetians and the Piedmontese, indistinctly receive the
name of Italians. But Spaniards we are and as Spaniards we must take
pride in all of us who inhabit this Peninsula.
~ Almeida Garrett
--
Alistair Sim
"I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I
know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and
women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless
terrors of which they dare not speak."
They seek him here
They seek him there.
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?
Or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel!
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
The little things are infinitely more important."
"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for
trifles."
Sunday, August 21, 2005
The Ultimate Revolution
-- Aldous Huxley, 1959
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Worm
Microsoft's Windows operating system is circulating on the Internet, an
anti-virus software maker has said.
Trend Micro Inc. said the Zotob virus exploits security holes in
Windows 95, 98, ME, NE, 2000 and XP platforms and can give hackers
remote access to affected systems, according to Reuters.
The worm drops a copy of itself into the Windows system folder as
BOTZOR.EXE and modifies the system's host file in the infected machine
to prevent the user from getting online help from anti-virus Web sites,
Trend Micro said.
The virus can also connect to a specific Internet relay chat server
and give attackers remote control over affected systems, which can be
used to infect other unpatched computers in a network.
While early reports suggested Zotob was spreading rapidly, its
impact has actually been limited because it targets Windows 2000, an
older version of the software, Microsoft said. It poses no threat to
computers running the newer Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the
company added.
Microsoft warned of three "critical" security flaws in its software
last week, including one that could allow attackers to comandeer a
computer.
Computer users should update their anti-virus pattern files and
apply the latest Microsoft patches to fix the security flaws, Trend
Micro said. Enditem
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
FOURTEEN SIGNPOSTS TO SLAVERY
2.) Abolition of private ownership of hand guns. (Sure trying hard to get this done, in Canada it is already done!)
3.) Detention of individuals without judicial process. (DITTO, being done here now too)
4.) Requirements that private financial transactions be keyed to social security numbers or other government identification so that government records of these transactions can be fed into a computer. (Gee, this is being done now too!)
5.) Use of compulsory education laws to forbid attendance at presently existing private schools.
6.) Compulsory non-military service. (Gee, how many posts have you seen on this topic recently?)
7.) Compulsory psychological treatment for non-governmental workers or public school children. (Hmmm, in some places already a fact, others working hard on it)
8.) An official declaration that anti-Communist organizations are subversive and subsequnt legal actions taken to suppress them. (Gee, this is happening too!)
9.) Laws limiting the number of people allowed to meet in a private home.. (not aware of this yet, but in some home ownership agrements this is law, and in public places this is law in some places, and only a certain ZONe for protestors now too, usually BLOCKS waway fromt hose intended to see or witness protests!)
10.) Any significant change in passport regulations to make passports more difficult to obtain or use. (Hmm... changes, yes, harder to get... hmmm... not yet I think!)
11.) Wage and price controls, especially in a non-wartime situation. ( Not yet, but has been done in the past)
12.) Any kind of compulsory registrations with the government of where individuals work. (They already know!)
13.) Any attempt to restrict the movement of people within the United States. (Hmmm. I can say this is being done, and will be done soon, by proxy, or de facto, hassles at airports etc, make people NOT WANT to go anywhere. The first oil crisis was an experiment in controlling the movement of people within the USa, the mortgage debacle soon coming will the method they succeed in controlling your movements)
14.) Any attempt to make a major law by decree, (that is, actually put into effect, not merely authorized as by the exisiting executive orders). (GEE, This is being done also!)"
North Atlantic Water
Ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic hit an all-time high last year, raising concerns about the effects of global warming on one of the most sensitive and productive ecosystems in the world.
Sea ice off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador was below normal for the tenth consecutive year and the water temperature outside St. John's Harbor was the highest on record in 2004, according to a report released Wednesday by the federal Fisheries Department.
The ocean surface off St. John's averaged almost two degrees Fahrenheit above normal, the highest in the 59 years the department has been compiling records.
And bottom temperatures were also one degree higher than normal, according the report.
"A two-degree temperature anomaly on the Grand Banks is pretty significant in the bottom areas, where temperatures only range a couple of degrees throughout the year," said Eugene Colbourne, an oceanographer with the Fisheries Department.
Water temperatures were above normal right across the North Atlantic last year, from Newfoundland to Greenland, Iceland and Norway.
The Newfoundland data is another wake-up call on climate change, say environmentalists.
Anchorage, Alaska, has seen annual snowfall shrink in the past decade, high river temperatures are killing off millions of spawning salmon in British Columbia and northern climates around the world have noticed warming.
Meanwhile, ocean temperatures have risen around the globe, and species are already dying, said Bill Wareham, acting director of marine conservation for the Vancouver-based David Suzuki Foundation.
"I don't think there's a question about whether these changes are happening," Wareham said.
But "everyone's quite shocked at the speed at which these things are changing."
Air temperatures in the Newfoundland region were also higher than normal, but Colbourne said the results are not conclusive.
Water temperatures in the cold Labrador current were actually below normal levels. And while the other temperatures were record highs, a similar warming trend occurred in the 1960s, Colbourne said.
"We really can't say for sure if what we're seeing in Newfoundland waters is a consequence of global warming, when we've only got 50 years of data or so," Colbourne said.
"It may be related to global warming but, then again, it may be just the natural cycle that we see in this area of the world."
What is the truest definition of Globalization?
Answer: Princess Diana's death.
Question: How come?
Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whiskey, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines!
And this is sent to you by a Greek, who lives in Canada, using American technology, and you're probably reading this on one of the IBM clones, that use Taiwanese made chips, and a Korean made monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by trucks driven by Indians, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, trucked by Mexican illegals, and finally sold to you by Jews.
That, my friend, is Globalization!!!Why Our Food is So Dependent on Oil
Contributed by Norman Church
Friday, 01 April 2005
also see the article titled "Eating Fossil Fuel"
"Concentrate on what cannot lie. The evidence..." -- Gil Grissom
INTRODUCTION
Eating Oil was the title of a book which was published in 1978 following the first oil crisis in 1973 (1). The aim of the book was to investigate the extent to which food supply in industrialised countries relied on fossil fuels. In the summer of 2000 the degree of dependence on oil in the UK food system was demonstrated once again when protestors blockaded oil refineries and fuel distribution depots. The fuel crises disrupted the distribution of food and industry leaders warned that their stores would be out of food within days. The lessons of 1973 have not been heeded.
Today the food system is even more reliant on cheap crude oil. Virtually all of the processes in the modern food system are now dependent upon this finite resource, which is nearing its depletion phase.
Moreover, at a time when we should be making massive cuts in the emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in order to reduce the threat posed by climate change, the food system is lengthening its supply chains and increasing emissions to the point where it is a significant contributor to global warming. http://i.am/jah/envird.htm
The organic sector could be leading the development of a sustainable food system. Direct environmental and ecological impacts of agriculture on the farm are certainly reduced in organic systems. However, global trade and distribution of organic products fritter away those benefits and undermine its leadership role.
Not only is the contemporary food system inherently unsustainable, increasingly, it is damaging the environment.
The systems that produce the world's food supply are heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Vast amounts of oil and gas are used as raw materials and energy in the manufacture of fertilisers and pesticides, and as cheap and readily available energy at all stages of food production: from planting, irrigation, feeding and harvesting, through to processing, distribution and packaging. In addition, fossil fuels are essential in the construction and the repair of equipment and infrastructure needed to facilitate this industry, including farm machinery, processing facilities, storage, ships, trucks and roads. The industrial food supply system is one of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels and one of the greatest producers of greenhouse gases.
Ironically, the food industry is at serious risk from global warming caused by these greenhouse gases, through the disruption of the predictable climactic cycles on which agriculture depends. But global warming can have the more pronounced and immediate effect of exacerbating existing environmental threats to agriculture, many of which are caused by industrial agriculture itself. Environmental degradation, water shortages, salination, soil erosion, pests, disease and desertification all pose serious threats to our food supply, and are made worse by climate change. But many of the conventional ways used to overcome these environmental problems further increase the consumption of finite oil and gas reserves. Thus the cycle of oil dependence and environmental degradation continues.
Industrial agriculture and the systems of food supply are also responsible for the erosion of communities throughout the world. This social degradation is compounded by trade rules and policies, by the profit driven mindset of the industry, and by the lack of knowledge of the faults of the current systems and the possibilities of alternatives. But the globalisation and corporate control that seriously threaten society and the stability of our environment are only possible because cheap energy is used to replace labour and allows the distance between producer and consumer to be extended.
However, this is set to change. Oil output is expected to peak in the next few years and steadily decline thereafter. We have a very poor understanding of how the extreme fluctuations in the availability and cost of both oil and natural gas will affect the global food supply systems, and how they will be able to adapt to the decreasing availability of energy. In the near future, environmental threats will combine with energy scarcity to cause significant food shortages and sharp increases in prices - at the very least. We are about to enter an era where we will have to once again feed the world with limited use of fossil fuels. But do we have enough time, knowledge, money, energy and political power to make this massive transformation to our food systems when they are already threatened by significant environmental stresses and increasing corporate control?
The modern, commercial agricultural miracle that feeds all of us, and much of the rest of the world, is completely dependent on the flow, processing and distribution of oil, and technology is critical to maintaining that flow.
Oil refined for gasoline and diesel is critical to run the tractors, combines and other farm vehicles and equipment that plant, spray the herbicides and pesticides, and harvest/transport food and seed
Food processors rely on the just-in-time (gasoline-based) delivery of fresh or refrigerated food
Food processors rely on the production and delivery of food additives, including vitamins and minerals, emulsifiers, preservatives, colouring agents, etc.
Many are oil-based.
Delivery is oil-based
Food processors rely on the production and delivery of boxes, metal cans, printed paper labels, plastic trays, cellophane for microwave/convenience foods, glass jars, plastic and metal lids with sealing compounds.
Many of these are essentially oil-based
Delivery of finished food products to distribution centres in refrigerated trucks. Oil-based, daily, just-in-time shipment of food to grocery stores, restaurants, hospitals, schools, etc., all oil-based; customer drives to grocery store to shop for supplies, often several times a week
ENERGY, TRANSPORT AND THE FOOD SYSTEM
Our food system is energy inefficient...
One indicator of the unsustainability of the contemporary food system is the ratio of energy outputs - the energy content of a food product (calories) - to the energy inputs.
The latter is all the energy consumed in producing, processing, packaging and distributing that product. The energy ratio (energy out/energy in) in agriculture has decreased from being close to 100 for traditional pre-industrial societies to less than 1 in most cases in the present food system, as energy inputs, mainly in the form of fossil fuels, have gradually increased.
However, transport energy consumption is also significant, and if included in these ratios would mean that the ratio would decrease further. For example, when iceberg lettuce is imported to the UK from the USA by plane, the energy ratio is only 0.00786. In other words 127 calories of energy (aviation fuel) are needed to transport 1 calorie of lettuce across the Atlantic. If the energy consumed during lettuce cultivation, packaging, refrigeration, distribution in the UK and shopping by car was included, the energy needed would be even higher. Similarly, 97 calories of transport energy are needed to import 1 calorie of asparagus by plane from Chile, and 66 units of energy are consumed when flying 1 unit of carrot energy from South Africa.
Just how energy inefficient the food system is can be seen in the crazy case of the Swedish tomato ketchup. Researchers at the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology analysed the production of tomato ketchup (2). The study considered the production of inputs to agriculture, tomato cultivation and conversion to tomato paste (in Italy), the processing and packaging of the paste and other ingredients into tomato ketchup in Sweden and the retail and storage of the final product. All this involved more than 52 transport and process stages.
The aseptic bags used to package the tomato paste were produced in the Netherlands and transported to Italy to be filled, placed in steel barrels, and then moved to Sweden. The five layered, red bottles were either produced in the UK or Sweden with materials form Japan, Italy, Belgium, the USA and Denmark. The polypropylene (PP) screw-cap of the bottle and plug, made from low density polyethylene (LDPE), was produced in Denmark and transported to Sweden. Additionally, LDPE shrink-film and corrugated cardboard were used to distribute the final product. Labels, glue and ink were not included in the analysis.
This example demonstrates the extent to which the food system is now dependent on national and international freight transport. However, there are many other steps involved in the production of this everyday product. These include the transportation associated with: the production and supply of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium fertilisers; pesticides; processing equipment; and farm machinery. It is likely that other ingredients such as sugar, vinegar, spices and salt were also imported. Most of the processes listed above will also depend on derivatives of fossil fuels. This product is also likely to be purchased in a shopping trip by car.
...is dependent on oil...
One study has estimated that UK imports of food products and animal feed involved transportation by sea, air and road amounting to over 83 billion tonne-kilometres (3). This required 1.6 billion litres of fuel and, based on a conservative figure of 50 grams of carbon dioxide per tonne-kilometre resulted in 4.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (4). Within the UK, the amount of food transported increased by 16% and the distances travelled by 50% between 1978 and 1999.
It has been estimated that the CO2 emissions attributable to producing, processing, packaging and distributing the food consumed by a family of four is about 8 tonnes a year (5)
..and is unnecessarily contributing to carbon emissions.
It is not that this transportation is critical or necessary. In many cases countries import and export similar quantities of the same food products (6). A recent report has highlighted the instances in which countries import and export large quantities of particular foodstuffs (6). For example, in 1997, 126 million litres of liquid milk was imported into the UK and, at the same time, 270 million litres of milk was exported from the UK. 23,000 tonnes of milk powder was imported into the UK and 153,000 tonnes exported (7). UK milk imports have doubled over the last 20 years, but there has been a four-fold increase in UK milk exports over the last 30
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Britain imports 61,400 tonnes of poultry meat a year from the Netherlands and exports 33,100 tonnes to the Netherlands. We import 240,000 tonnes of pork and 125,000 tonnes of lamb while exporting 195,000 tonnes of pork and 102,000 tonnes of lamb (6).
This system is unsustainable, illogical, and bizarre and can only exist as long as inexpensive fossil fuels are available and we do not take significant action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
GLOBAL-WARMING AND FINITE OIL
The threat of global warming and the need to reduce carbon emissions
The nearness of the depletion stage of oil supplies
Discovery of oil and gas peaked in the 1960s. Production is set to peak too, with five Middle Eastern countries regaining control of world supply (9). Almost two-thirds of the world's total reserves of crude oil are located in the Middle East, notably in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq (10). An assessment of future world oil supply and its depletion pattern shows that between 1980 and 1998 there was an 11.2 per cent increase in world crude oil production, from 59.6 to 66.9 million barrels of oil per day (10). Current world production rates are about 25 Gb (billion barrels) per year. A simple calculation shows that if consumption levels remain constant, world crude oil reserves, at approximately 1 trillion barrels, could be exhausted around 2040 (11).
The oil crises of the 1970s when the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) states reined in their production have passed into folk memory. However, they were accompanied by massive disruption and global economic recession. The same happened in 1980 and 1991 (12).
Colin J. Campbell, a pre-eminent oil industry analyst, believes that future crises will be much worse. The oil shocks of the 1970s were short-lived because there were then plenty of new oil and gas finds to bring on stream.
This time there are virtually no new prolific basins to yield a crop of giant fields sufficient to have a global impact. The growing Middle East control of the market is likely to lead to a radical and permanent increase in the price of oil, before physical shortages begin to appear within the first decade of the 21st century. The world's economy has been driven by an abundant supply of cheap oil-based energy for the best part of this century. The coming oil crisis will accordingly be an economic and political discontinuity of historic proportions, as the world adjusts to a new energy environment(9).
The three main purposes for which oil is used worldwide are food, transport and heating. In the near future the competition for oil for these three activities will be raw and real. An energy famine is likely to affect poorer countries first, when increases in the cost of paraffin, used for cooking, place it beyond their reach. Following the peak in production, food supplies all over the world will begin to be disrupted, not only because of price increases but because the oil will no longer be there.
IS ORGANIC ANY DIFFERENT?
The organic system is more energy efficient to the farm gate...
One of the benefits of organic production is that energy consumption and, therefore, fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, are less than that in conventional systems.
The energy used in food production is separated into direct and indirect inputs. Indirect inputs include the manufacture and supply of pesticides, feedstuffs and fertilisers while direct energy inputs are those on the farm, such as machinery. One measure of the energy efficiency of food production that allows a comparison between different farming practices is the energy consumed per unit output, often expressed as the energy consumed per tonne of food produced (MJ/tonne) or the energy consumed per kilogram of food (MJ/kg).
A study comparing organic and conventional livestock, dairy, vegetable and arable systems in the UK found that, with average yields, the energy saving with organic production ranged from 0.14 MJ/kg to 1.79 MJ/kg, with the average being 0.68 MJ/kg or 42 per cent (13). The improved energy efficiency in organic systems is largely due to lower (or zero) fertiliser and pesticide inputs, which account for half of the energy input in conventional potato and winter wheat production and up to 80 per cent of the energy consumed in some vegetable crops.
In conventional upland livestock production, the largest energy input is again indirect in the form of concentrated and cereal feeds. When reared organically, a greater proportion of the feed for dairy cattle, beef and hill sheep is derived from grass. In the case of milk production, it has been found that organic systems are almost five times more energy efficient on a per animal basis and three and a half times more energy efficient in terms of unit output (the energy required to produce a litre of milk) (13).
...but not when it goes global.
So far so good - but once past the farm-gate, things begin to go wrong. Britain imports over three-quarters of its organic produce, and despite consumer demand, only two per cent of its land is organically farmed (14). As the market has grown it has been met by imports.
A study looking at the energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions when importing organic food products to the UK by plane (15) found that carbon dioxide emissions range from 1.6 kilograms to 10.7 kilograms. Air transport of food is the worst environmental option, but road transport, especially unnecessary journeys, is also bad. For example 5kg of Sicilian potatoes travelling 2448 miles emits 771 grams of carbon dioxide.
The problem is that, overall, human beings have developed a tendency to deal with problems on an ad hoc basis - i.e., to deal with 'problems of the moment'. This does not foster an attitude of seeing a problem embedded in the context of another problem.
Globalisation makes it impossible for modern societies to collapse in isolation. Any society in turmoil today, no matter how remote, can cause problems for prosperous societies on other continents, and is also subject to their influence (whether helpful or destabilising).
For the first time in history, we face the risk of a global decline.
Shocks to the system
As already stated, the three main purposes for which oil is used worldwide are food, transport and heating. Agriculture is almost entirely dependent on reliable supplies of oil for cultivation and for pumping water, and on gas for its fertilisers; in addition, for every calorie of energy used by agriculture itself, five more are used for processing, storage and distribution.
Since farming and the food industry are not famous for spending money unnecessarily, there must be a presumption that there is very little short-term 'slack' which would allow its demand for energy to be reduced at short notice without disruptions in food prices. In the case of transport and heating fuel, there is more scope for saving energy at short notice; cutting leisure journeys, for instance, wearing extra pullovers and, in the slightly longer term, driving smaller cars have a role to play while, in the longer term, there is a totally different low-energy paradigm waiting to be developed. But it is the short term that has to be survived first and, in that short term, the competition for oil for food, transport and heating will be real and raw.
Through its dependence on oil, contemporary farming is exposed to the whole question of the sustainability of our use of fossil fuels. It took 500 million years to produce these hydrocarbon deposits and we are using them at a rate in excess of 1 million times their natural rate of production. On the time scale of centuries, we certainly cannot expect to continue using oil as freely and ubiquitously as we do today. Something is going to have to change.
The same applies more widely to every natural resource on which industrial civilisation relies. Furthermore, one might think that there is a compounded problem. Not only are there more people consuming these resources, but their per capita consumption also increases in line with the elaboration of technology. We seem to be facing a problem of diminishing returns, indeed of running out of the vital raw materials needed to support our economic growth.
Almost every current human endeavour from transportation, to manufacturing, to electricity to plastics, and especially food production is inextricably intertwined with oil and natural gas supplies.
Commercial food production is oil powered. Most pesticides are petroleum- (oil) based, and all commercial fertilisers are ammonia-based. Ammonia is produced from natural gas. Oil based agriculture is primarily responsible for the world's population exploding from 1 billion at the middle of the 19th century to 6.3 billion at the turn of the 21st. Oil allowed for farming implements such as tractors, food storage systems such as refrigerators, and food transport systems such as trucks. As oil production went up, so did food production. As food production went up, so did the population. As the population went up, the demand for food went up, which increased the demand for oil. Here we go round the Mulberry Bush.
Oil is also largely responsible for the advances in medicine that have been made in the last 150 years. Oil allowed for the mass production of pharmaceutical drugs, and the development of health care infrastructure such as hospitals, ambulances, roads, etc. We are now at a point where the demand for food/oil continues to rise, while our ability to produce it in an affordable fashion is about to drop.
Within a few years of Peak Oil occurring, the price of food will skyrocket because the cost of fertiliser will soar. The cost of storing (electricity) and transporting (gasoline) the food that is produced will also soar.
Oil is required for a lot more than just food, medicine, and transportation. It is also required for nearly every consumer item, water supply pumping, sewage disposal, garbage disposal, street/park maintenance, hospitals and health systems, police, fire services and national defence.
Additionally, as you are probably already aware, wars are often fought over oil.
Bottom line?
If we think we are food secure here in the UK and other industrialised countries simply because we have gas in the car, frankly, we are delusional. Despite the appearance of an endless bounty of food, it is a fragile bounty, dependent upon the integrity of the global oil production, refining and delivery system. That system is entirely dependent on the thread of technology. Modern, technology-based agriculture produces both food, and seeds for next year's food, on a just-in-time basis. There are precious little reserves of either food or seeds to sustain any protracted interruption.
Technology and the incredibly rich tapestry it has made possible has created a false sense of security for so many of us. The thread is flawed; the tapestry is now fragile; famines are possible. We must take that seriously. . .
Our food supply, and our economic survival as a whole, depends on the steady availability of reasonably priced oil. Is oil our Achilles heel?
This means our food supply is:
Vulnerable:
The oil supplies that fuel the food system could be exhausted by 2040 (19).
In many regions oil production has peaked and most reserves lie in the Middle East. Food security is also threatened: for example, even if all UK fruit production was consumed in the UK, of every 100 fruit products purchased, only 5 will now have been grown in the UK.
Inefficient:
For every calorie of carrot, flown in from South Africa, we use 66 calories of fuel. The huge fuel use in the food system means more carbon dioxide emissions, which means climate change, which means more damage to food supplies, as well as other major health and social problems. http://i.am/jah/heal.htm
Unsustainable:
Even organic supplies are becoming hugely damaging as imports fill our shelves (17). One shopping basket of 26 imported organic products could have travelled 241,000 kilometres and released as much CO2 into the atmosphere as an average four bedroom household does through cooking meals over eight months (11495db1f.jpg .
Other problems highlighted include loss of nutrients in food, increased incidence and spread of diseases such as Foot & Mouth and other major animal welfare problems. Poor countries producing food for distant markets are not necessarily seeing benefits through increased and often intensive production for export. The report reveals how such trends could be reversed through industry, government and public action.
In other words, we won't have to run completely out of oil to be rudely awakened. The panic starts once the world needs more oil than it gets.
To understand why, you've got to fathom how totally addicted to oil we have become. We know that petroleum is drawn from deep wells and distilled into gasoline, jet fuel, and countless other products that form the lifeblood of industry and the adrenaline of military might. Its less well known that the world's food is now nourished by oil; petroleum and natural gas are crucial at every step of modern agriculture, from forming fertiliser to shipping crops. The implications are grim. For millions, the difference between an energy famine and a biblical famine could well be academic.
Independent policy analyst David Fleming writes in the British magazine Prospect (Nov. 2000),
With a global oil crisis looming like the Doomsday Rock, why do so few political leaders seem to care? Many experts refuse to take the problem seriously because it "falls outside the mind-set of market economics." Thanks to the triumph of global capitalism, the free-market model now reigns almost everywhere. The trouble is, its principles "tend to break down when applied to natural resources like oil." The result is both potentially catastrophic and all too human. Our high priests the market Economists are blind to a reality that in their cosmology cannot exist.
Fleming offers several examples of this broken logic at work. Many cling to a belief that higher oil prices will spur more oil discoveries, but they ignore what earth scientists have been saying for years: there aren't any more big discoveries to make. Most of the oil reserves we tap today were actually identified by the mid-1960s. There's a lot of oil left in the ground perhaps more than half of the total recoverable supply. Fleming says that that is not the issue. The real concern is the point beyond which demand cannot be met. And with demand destined to grow by as much as 3 percent a year, the missing barrels will add up quickly. Once the pain becomes real, the Darwinian impulse kicks in and the orderly market gives way to chaos.
Some insist that industrial societies are growing less dependent on oil. Fleming says they're kidding themselves. They're talking about oil use as a percentage of total energy use, not the actual amount of oil burned. Measured by the barrel, we're burning more and more. In Britain, for instance, transportation needs have doubled in volume since 1973 and still rely almost entirely on oil. Transportation is the weak link in any modern economy; choke off the oil and a country quickly seizes.
This wouldn't matter much, Fleming laments, "If the world had spent the last 25 years urgently preparing alternative energies, conservation technologies, and patterns of land use with a much lower dependence on transport." (He figures 25 years to be the time it will take a country like Britain to break its habit.) Instead, "the long-expected shock finds us unprepared."
SOME UK FOOD STATISTICS
UK food supply chain
UK food retailing market was worth £103,800 million in 2001
Food manufacturing is the single-largest manufacturing industry in the UK
Food supply chain employs 12.5% of the entire workforce in the UK
Food supply chain contributes 8% to the UK economy
Food and drink accounts for 21% of weekly household expenditure
Food supply chain and unsustainability
Food supply chain is the largest energy user in the UK
Food production and distribution contributes up to 22% of the UK's total greenhouse emissions
Food travels further than any other product - 129 km compared to the average product travel of 94 km
Wages in the food industry are notoriously low compared to other sectors
Nearly 30% of household waste is food waste
CONCLUSIONS
Proximity and localisation of food system would be beneficial.
The contemporary food system is inherently unsustainable.
Indicators of social, environmental and economic performance, such as food security, greenhouse gas emissions, food miles, farm income and biodiversity highlight this fact. This process could be reversed by re-establishing local and regional food supply systems and substituting near for far in production and distribution systems. This would reduce both the demand for, and the environmental burdens associated with, transportation.
The proximity principle is a straightforward concept in Eating Oil, where production processes are located as near to the consumer as possible. When applied to food supply, local food systems in the form of home-delivery box schemes, farmers' markets and shops selling local produce would replace imported and centrally distributed foodstuffs.
Taking UK food supply and trade at present, there is great potential to apply the proximity principle, in the form of import substitution. Apart from products such as bananas, coffee and tea, many of the foodstuffs that are imported at present could be produced in Britain. Many meat products, cereals, dairy products and cooking oils are - or could be - available here throughout the year. So could fruit and vegetables, perhaps the most seasonal of food groups, through a combination of cultivating different varieties and traditional and modern storage and preservation techniques.
The land currently used to produce food that is exported could be used to increase our self-sufficiency.
There is growing evidence of environmental benefits of local sourcing of food in terms of reduced transport-related environmental impact. In the case of organic produce, a survey of retailers compared local and global sourcing of produce marketed in different outlets between June and August 2001. Products were chosen that were available in the UK during these months but are at present imported by the multiple retailers. These included spring onions imported by plane from Mexico, potatoes imported by road from Sicily, onions imported by ship from New Zealand. It was found that local sourcing through a farmers market, for example, would therefore reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with distribution by a factor of 650 in the case of a farmers' market and more for box schemes and farm shop sales (16).
The value of UK food, feed and drink imports in 1999 was over £17 billion. It is clear that a reduction in food imports through import substitution would not only be of benefit to the UK economy as a whole but could also be a major driver in rural regeneration as farm incomes would increase substantially. Local food systems also have great potential to reduce the damaging environmental effects of the current food supply system.
A sustainable food system cannot rely, almost completely, on one finite energy source; an energy source which causes enormous levels of pollution during its production, distribution and use. Although food supplies in wealthy countries such as the UK appear to be secure and choice, in terms of thousands of food products being available at supermarkets, seems limitless, this is an illusion.
The vulnerability of our food system to sudden changes was demonstrated during the fuel crisis in 2001. A sharp increase in the price of oil or a reduction in oil supplies could present a far more serious threat to food security and is likely to as oil enters its depletion phase. Food production and distribution, as they are organised today, would not be able to function. Moreover, the alternatives, in the form of sustainable agriculture and local food supplies, which minimise the use of crude oil, are currently unable to respond to increased demand due to low investment and capacity.
The food system is now a significant contributor to climate change. Reducing the carbon dioxide emissions from food production, processing and distribution by minimising the distance between producer and consumer should be a critical part of any strategy to mitigate global warming.
There are many benefits to organic farming, including reduced fossil fuel energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. However, these are often overshadowed by the environmental damage of long distance transport. Organic products that are transported long distances, particularly when distribution is by plane, are almost as damaging as their conventional air freighted counterparts. Highly processed and packaged organic foodstuffs have an added adverse environmental impact.
The priority must be the development of local and regional food systems, preferably organically based, in which a large percentage of demand is met within the locality or region. This approach, combined with fair trade, will ensure secure food supplies, minimise fossil fuel consumption and reduce the vulnerability associated with a dependency on food exports (as well as imports). Localising the food system will require significant diversification, research, investment and support that have, so far, not been forthcoming. But it is achievable and we have little choice.
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16 Data for shipping and airfreight from Guidelines for company reporting on greenhouse gas emissions. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions: London, March 2001. Data for trucks is based on Whitelegg, J., 1993. Transport for a sustainable future: the case for Europe. Belhaven Press, London; and Gover, M. P., 1994. UK petrol and diesel demand: energy and emission effects of a switch to diesel. Report for the Department of Trade and Industry, HMSO, London. Data for cars from the Vehicle Certification Agency at www.vca.gov.uk; Whitelegg, J., 1993. Transport for a sustainable future: the case for Europe. Belhaven Press, London; and Gover, M. P., 1994. UK petrol and diesel demand: energy and emission effects of a switch to diesel. Report for the Department of Trade and Industry, HMSO, London.
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Compiled by Norman Church
Monday, August 15, 2005
IMPARATEASA TUTUROR ROMANILOR
pentru copii. Oricum, il recomand pentru manualele scolare ca pe o stralucita pagina de istorie.
Eugen Florescu
Trenuri trec, trec. Si povara lor pe care o duc departe, e tineretea tarii noastre, speranta caminurilor. Sunt gramaditi cu miile pe acoperisurile vagoanelor, spanzurati pe margini, atarnati in chip primejdios, dar sunt veseli cu totii. Rad in drum, canta, striga si trenuri trec, trec inainte in fiecare zi. Cu inima grea, cu mainile pline de flori plecam la gara. Am dori sa le spunem cuvinte de care sa-si aduca aminte, sa le spunem tot ce simtim in aceste clipe, dar glasurile lor care se ridica in cor le inabusesc pe ale noastre. Un strigat li se desprinde de pe buze cand ma vad: - ne ducem, plecam cu bucurie, ne ducem la biruinta, ca Tu sa te faci Imparateasa, Imparateasa tuturor Romanilor… Acesta e strigatul inimii lor, urarea care o trimit, urarea care o cred, si eu le zambesc imbiindu-i cu flori pe care le strange bratul lor viu. …Si trec… trec inainte…
Intr-o seara, cand soarele se inclina in slava lui luminoasa, poleind cu aur tot ce-i cadea in cale, ajunsei mai tarziu la gara, retinuta cum eram de alte datorii, si trenul, a carui plecare voiam s-o salut, se pusese in miscare. Tinerii soldati se ingramadeau cu veselia lor zgomotoasa in compartimente, avand la chipiu si la tunica flori pe care li le impartisem mai inainte. Chiar si tunurile si caii erau impodobiti de margarete, de flori liliachii de toate nuantele si stralucirea bogata a apusului le sporea frumusetea. Parea ca insusi cerul se incearca sa binecuvanteze plecarea acestor baieti care se duceau atat de bucurosi la moarte. Mahnita de a fi ajuns cu intarziere, ma indreptai grabnic spre vagoanele in miscare. Un strigat izbucni atunci din toate piepturile, fiindca ma recunoscura, si o ploaie de flori cazu la picioarele mele.
Ei si le desprindeau de la tunica, si le smulgeau din capela, de pe tun, aceste flori ce le pastrau ca sa acopere cu ele pe Regina lor, in vreme ce aceeasi urare urca spre cer:
- Dumnezeu sa-Ti ajute s-ajungi Imparateasa, Imparateasa tuturor Romanilor…
Si florile imi cadeau in brate, imi cadeau pe mainile care abia le mai puteau tine, se imprastiau pe pamantul ce se acoperea cu purpur. Multa vreme statui nemiscata dupa ce trenul disparuse; o dunga de fum pierduta in zarea portocalie si florile care mi se ofileau la picioare imi mai lamureau doar aceasta plecare. Ma uitam , ca in fata unui mister, la cele doua sine aruncate spre infinit, in departare imbinandu-si drumul lor despartit, si ma intrebam spre ce soarta oare se imbulzeste aceasta tinerete, ma intrebam daca se va izbandi visul lor, daca multi dintr-insii se vor mai intoarce?…
Soarele coborase, fumul se risipise, cantecul soldatilor era o amintire numai… Incetisor m-am pornit spre casa…
II.
Fiecare zi ma duceam intre raniti, treceam din sala in sala. Toti ma voiau intre dansii, fiecare soldat dorea sa vada pe Regina. Niciodata n-am lasat o chemare fara raspuns si cutreieram pretutindeni fara sa ma descurajeze vreo privire, vreo oboseala, vreun drum cat de lung.
Cate odata mi se pare insa ca ratacesc printr-un vis fara sfarsit. Ii vad culcati pat langa pat, ochii lor ma intalnesc, ma urmaresc, ma sorb… N-am stiut niciodata pana astazi ce inseamna sa fii
prada acestor ochi. S-ar parea ca privirile lor imi smulg inima din piept, le simt ca o povara pe care abia mai pot s-o indur. Ma aplec spre fata lor trudita, le strang mainile intinse, mi-asez
degetele pe fruntile arzatoare, le scrutez privirile ce se sting, ascult cuvintele soptite…
Si pretutindeni ma urmareste aceeasi urare:
- Dumnezeu sa-Ti ajute sa te faci Imparateasa, Imparateasa tuturor Romanilor… Buze inclestate mi-o spun, glasuri pline de nadejde mi-o striga: Ce inseamna suferinta noastra, daca Tu te faci Imparateasa, Imparateasa tuturor Romanilor? Sunt atat de miscatoare aceste cuvinte, cand pornesc de la patul ranitilor care vad in mine implinirea visului pentru care isi dau viata.
Ma simt asa de mica, asa de umilita in fata rabdarii lor stoice, ochii mi se umplu de lacrimi si imi dau seama ca trebuie sa multumesc lui Dumnezeu pentru maretia acestei credinte. De ce sa fiu eu cea aleasa ca sa infatiseze un ideal, de ce sa fiu eu acest simbol? Ce drept am oare sa stau deasupra lor si sa dobandesc slava cu pretul sangelui? Si astfel trec inainte, cu mai multa duiosie de la un pat la altul…
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Aceasta intr-o vreme cand speranta canta in fiecare suflet, cand entuziasmul dintai facea sa bata inimile la fel, cand credinta biruintelor glorioase ne insenina zilele. Mult mai tarziu insa, in imprejurari cu totul schimbate, in alta parte, mi-au fost rostite aceleasi cuvinte de catre un om care nu putea sa-mi vada fata in dimineata aceea cand, dupa ce suferise o trepanatie, zacea cu capul infasurat in panze insangerate. Cineva ii spusese ca Regina e alaturi, ca venise sa-l vada, sa intrebe de rana lui, sa incerce sa-i ajute de era nevoie. El intinse mana, o mana pe care am apucat-o intr-a mea, soptindu-i cuvinte de mangaiere, aplecata asupra buzelor care murmurau ceva ce nu intelegeam. Omul nu avea nici fata, nici privire, acoperit cum era de panzele patate de sange. Atunci, ca foarte de departe, venira cuvintele, aceleasi cuvinte:
Dumnezeu sa Te apere si sa Te tie, ca sa ajungi Imparateasa, Imparateasa tuturor Romanilor…
Mi s-a parut in aceasta clipa ca ceva minunat coborase deodata in inima mea zdrobita, ceva sfant si grozav, ceva care era mai mult decat puteam indura… In vremurile de nadejde, urarea aceasta era fara indoiala atingatoare, dar acum imi parea mare si sfanta, caci se rostea intr-o clipa cand cel mai intunecos dezastru ne coplesise tara, cand armatele noastre se retrageau pas cu pas in fata suvoiului dusmanilor nostri…
Si acolo, in odaia suferintei, gura aceasta pe moarte spunea nadejdea de care toti se agatau, visul, visul de aur pe care cu toate jertfele, mizeria si moartea, totusi, intr-o zi, trebuie sa-l izbandim. Nu era decat unul dintre cei multi, un glas din necunoscut, un martir fara nume, dar vorbele lui gasira drumul inimii mele. Si aplecata asupra-i, punandu-mi lin mana pe legaturile inrosite, m-
am rugat lui Dumnezeu sa-i asculte dorinta, m-am rugat ca sangele atator umili eroi sa nu se risipeasca in zadar, m-am rugat ca in ziua ori ceasul cand izbavirea cea mare va veni, un ecou al cantecelor de biruinta sa ajunga si pana la acest anonim, dincolo de marea Umbra in care se cufunda, sa ajunga, pentru ca dincolo de groapa, sa ia parte la o glorie pe care ochii lui, inca vii, nu mai puteau s-o vada...
publicat cu bunavoinata d-lui Vessa Bolduro
Friday, August 12, 2005
Hadareni, Mures
http://www.libertatea.ro/index.jsp?page=magazine&detail=article&aid=124004
Dupa 12 ani de la evenimentele tragice petrecute la Hadareni, Mures,
intre romanii si rromii din localitate, cand au murit 4 oameni, iar 13
case au fost incendiate, conflictul interetnic e pe cale sa
reizbucneasca. in urma hotararilor judecatoresti, romanii au fost
somati sa plateasca despagubiri materiale si daune morale in valoare
totala de 1,880 miliarde lei. Miercuri a inceput exe-cutarea silita a
celor zece persoane gasite vinovate pentru incendierea caselor
tiganilor, motiv pentru care mai multi politisti, jandarmi si luptatori
DIAS au fost dislocati pentru asigurarea zonei. in frunte cu vaduva
romanului ucis in '93, satenii romani si maghiari sunt indignati si vor
sa-si faca singuri dreptate. Oamenii din localitatea mureseana Hadareni
nu au uitat ca tiganii din sat l-au ucis in urma cu 12 ani pe tanarul
Chetan Craciun, care incerca sa-si apere tatal de cutitele fratilor
Gruia si Lupian Lacatus. Hotararea inaltei Curti de Casatie si Justitie
si solutia CEDO au amplificat si mai mult pornirile razboinice ale
romanilor, care au promis ca vor pune din nou mana pe topoare si furci
pentru a-si face singuri dreptate. Cea mai afectata de masura
executarii silite la care au fost supusi satenii a fost Dinuta Craciun,
vaduva romanului omorat de tigani in '93. "Eu ma simt acum vinovata
pentru tot ce se intampla. Nu au fost numai zece persoane care le-au
dat foc rromilor, ci tot satul a participat atunci la revolta. Nu este
o masura corecta. Daca ei nu-mi lasau copilul fara tata, nu se ajungea
aici. Nu stiu cat vor mai rezista oamenii in aceasta tensiune si ma
gandesc acum la tot ce e mai rau", ne-a declarat Dinuta. Femeia isi
plange si acum iubirea, dar stie ca nu mai are cum sa il aduca inapoi.
Mai afectata e fetita lor, Georgiana, care acum are 13 ani. "La noi nu
se gandeste nimeni. Copilul meu nu va mai avea niciodata tata. Mereu
imi spune ca toti ceilalti copii sunt luati de la scoala de tati, ca ii
trag cu sania sau se joaca pe drum cu ei, iar ea nu are pe nimeni.
Poate nu intelegeti suferinta noastra, dar sa stiti ca nu e usor sa
cresti fara sot si tata. De cand s-a marit mai intelege ce s-a
intamplat. Dar pana acum nu exista seara de la Dumnezeu sa nu-mi spuna
"Mami, eu de ce nu am tata, vreau sa am si eu unul"". Dinuta a inceput
sa planga si, cateva minute, incaperea in care stateam de vorba s-a
transformat brusc intr-un altar. Georgiana vedea de pasari prin curte,
dar pentru o clipa privirea copilei si a mamei s-au intersectat. si-au
zambit gingas, cu buzele tremurand de atata suferinta. Fetita
intelesese ca vorbim despre omul pe care il iubeste atat de mult, pe
care nu l-a cunoscut niciodata. S-au apropiat timid si s-au imbratisat.
Voiau sa fie cu el si au plecat. La cimitir. "Pe Romania am dat-o in
judecata, la Strasbourg. Suntem foarte multi. Daca cineva vine si iti
da foc la casa, te judeci si trebuie sa-ti dea despagubirea. Am ramas
numai cu hainutele pe noi, c-au ramas numai ziduri. Am ramas goi,
dezbracati si fara serviciu", povesteste Rostas Octavia, a carei casa a
ars in urma cu 12 ani. "Vrem si noi mai mult, ca doar cu 100 de
milioane ce mai poti sa mai faci? Sunt rromi in Hadareni la care nu-s
facute casele astazi. Pai aia-s bani, de 12 ani, 30 de milioane", e
completata femeia de sot. Copiii lor insa sunt mult mai vehementi. Unul
din ei ameninta, asa cum fac tot timpul cu oamenii din sat. "Da' data
asta nu mai suntem mici, am crescut. Ne batem parte-n parte. Sa luam
noi banii ca daca nu, acum le dam noi foc", zice Eleonora, o copila de
vreo 17 ani. Tot de la ei am aflat ca mama celor doi tigani ucisi in
bataie a pierit in urma cu cateva luni, iar tatal lor s-a mutat in
Ludus. Sora fratilor Lacatus si fosta sotie a celui de-al treilea ucis,
e plecata de ani buni in Anglia, motiv pentru care a specificat ca
despagubirile sa-i fie trimise in lire sterline. Revoltata ca trebuie
sa plateasca daune morale etniei rromilor si dupa 12 ani de la
conflict, comunitatea romano-maghiara din Hadareni a luat din nou foc.
Satenii ameninta ca pun din nou mana pe topoare si furci, iar femeile
ale caror gospodarii au fost puse sub sechestru au amenintat ca se vor
sinucide. "Nimeni nu ne intreaba daca mai putem trai cu tiganii in sat.
Ne fura, ne ameninta si tot noi trebuie sa platim. Eu daca raman in
drum ma duc si arunc in Aries. Nu mai are rost sa traiesc", a declarat
sotia unuia din cei condamnati pentru distrugere. Pentru evitarea unui
nou conflict interetnic, Hadareniul a fost luat cu asalt de politisti,
jandarmi si luptatori DIAS, care vor stationa in sat pana la calmarea
situatiei.
Propaganda marca Frank Timis la Rosia Montana
Mihai Nicut, Gilda Popa
Desi Gabriel Resources nici macar nu a depus studiul de impact, pe baza caruia guvernul decide daca ii va da sau nu voie sa scoata aur de la Rosia Montana, compania le-a comunicat investitorilor ca va incepe exploatarea in 2008.
Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC), companie controlata in proportie de 80% de catre Gabriel Resources, nu a depus inca cererea pentru avizul de mediu necesar inceperii exploatarii aurifere, desi, intr-un comunicat remis investitorilor, Gabriel Resources spune ca in 2006 va primi acest aviz.
RMGC nici nu a depus inca studiul final de impact asupra mediului. Nu pot anticipa in momentul de fata daca vor primi acordul de mediu pentru ca nu am primit documentatia , a declarat Vasile Todea, director la Agentia de Protectie a Mediului Alba.
Aurul, extras din 2008
Gabriel Resources, companie controlata de deja celebrul Frank Timis, spune ca va depune studiul de impact in acest an si ca, pe baza acestuia, guvernul va da avizul de mediu in 2006, urmind ca aurul sa fie extras incepind cu 2008. In comunicatul remis investitorilor (de la care asteapta 30 de milioane de dolari canadieni pentru continuarea proiectului), Timis nu precizeaza nici faptul ca acesta intimpina o puternica opozitie politica.
Reteta Regal Petroleum
Vindutul blanii ursului din padure nu este insa strain de Frank Timis. O alta companie a acestuia, Regal Petroleum, anuntase ca a desco-perit zacaminte bogate de titei si gaze in Grecia.
Investitorii au pompat masiv bani in actiuni Regal. Insa, dupa ce li s-au cheltuit 60 de milioane de dolari in Grecia, Regal a recunoscut ca a fost vorba de un esec. Actiunile au scazut cu 60%, adica investitorii au aruncat banii pe fereastra. Si in Romania, Regal a concesionat un perimetru imens, in nordul Moldovei, anuntind, la fel, zacaminte importante.
Pina acum, nu a gasit nimic, si, potrivit oficialilor romani din domeniu, nici sanse mari nu prea are.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
The following document, dated May 1979, was found on July 7, 1986, in an IBM copier that had been purchased at a surplus sale.
Operations Research Technical Manual TM-SW7905.1
Welcome Aboard
This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called the "Quiet War", being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought with "silent weapons."
This book contains an introductory description of this war, its strategies, and its weaponry.
May 1979 #74-1120
Security
It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery and genocide.
This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war. Furthermore, whenever any person or group of persons in a position of great power and without full knowledge and consent of the public, uses such knowledge and methodologies for economic conquest - it must be understood that a state of domestic warfare exists between said person or group of persons and the public.
The solution of today's problems requires an approach which is ruthlessly candid, with no agonizing over religious, moral or cultural values.
You have qualified for this project because of your ability to look at human society with cold objectivity, and yet analyze and discuss your observations and conclusions with others of similar intellectual capacity without the loss of discretion or humility. Such virtues are exercised in your own best interest. Do not deviate from them.
Historical Introduction
Silent weapon technology has evolved from Operations Research (O.R.), a strategic and tactical methodology developed under the Military Management in England during World War II. The original purpose of Operations Research was to study the strategic and tactical problems of air and land defense with the objective of effective use of limited military resources against foreign enemies (i.e., logistics).
It was soon recognized by those in positions of power that the same methods might be useful for totally controlling a society. But better tools were necessary.
Social engineering (the analysis and automation of a society) requires the correlation of great amounts of constantly changing economic information (data), so a high-speed computerized data-processing system was necessary which could race ahead of the society and predict when society would arrive for capitulation.
Relay computers were to slow, but the electronic computer, invented in 1946 by J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, filled the bill.
The next breakthrough was the development of the simplex method of linear programming in 1947 by the mathematician George B. Dantzig.
Then in 1948, the transistor, invented by J. Bardeen, W.H. Brattain, and W. Shockley, promised great expansion of the computer field by reducing space and power requirements.
With these three inventions under their direction, those in positions of power strongly suspected that it was possible for them to control the whole world with the push of a button.
Immediately, the Rockefeller Foundation got in on the ground floor by making a four-year grant to Harvard College, funding the Harvard Economic Research Project for the study of the structure of the American Economy. One year later, in 1949, The United States Air Force joined in.
In 1952 the grant period terminated, and a high-level meeting of the Elite was held to determine the next phase of social operations research. The Harvard project had been very fruitful, as is borne out by the publication of some of its results in 1953 suggesting the feasibility of economic (social) engineering. (Studies in the Structure of the American Economy - copyright 1953 by Wassily Leontief, International Science Press Inc., White Plains, New York).
Engineered in the last half of the decade of the 1940's, the new Quiet War machine stood, so to speak, in sparkling gold-plated hardware on the showroom floor by 1954.
With the creation of the maser in 1954, the promise of unlocking unlimited sources of fusion atomic energy from the heavy hydrogen in sea water and the consequent availability of unlimited social power was a possibility only decades away.
The combination was irresistible.
The Quiet War was quietly declared by the International Elite at a meeting held in 1954.
Although the silent weapons system was nearly exposed 13 years later, the evolution of the new weapon-system has never suffered any major setbacks.
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Quiet War. Already this domestic war has had many victories on many fronts throughout the world.
Political Introduction
In 1954 it was well recognized by those in positions of authority that it was only a matter of time, only a few decades, before the general public would be able to grasp and upset the cradle of power, for the very elements of the new silent-weapon technology were as accessible for a public utopia as they were for providing a private utopia.
The issue of primary concern, that of dominance, revolved around the subject of the energy sciences.
Energy
Energy is recognized as the key to all activity on earth. Natural science is the study of the sources and control of natural energy, and social science, theoretically expressed as economics, is the study of the sources and control of social energy. Both are bookkeeping systems: mathematics. Therefore, mathematics is the primary energy science. And the bookkeeper can be king if the public can be kept ignorant of the methodology of the bookkeeping.
All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. Beyond this remains only one issue: Who will be the beneficiary?
In 1954 this was the issue of primary concern. Although the so-called "moral issues" were raised, in view of the law of natural selection it was agreed that a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent.
Consequently, in the interest of future world order, peace, and tranquillity, it was decided to privately wage a quiet war against the American public with an ultimate objective of permanently shifting the natural and social energy (wealth) of the undisciplined and irresponsible many into the hands of the self-disciplined, responsible, and worthy few.
In order to implement this objective, it was necessary to create, secure, and apply new weapons which, as it turned out, were a class of weapons so subtle and sophisticated in their principle of operation and public appearance as to earn for themselves the name "silent weapons."
In conclusion, the objective of economic research, as conducted by the magnates of capital (banking) and the industries of commodities (goods) and services, is the establishment of an economy which is totally predictable and manipulatable.
In order to achieve a totally predictable economy, the low-class elements of society must be brought under total control, i.e., must be housebroken, trained, and assigned a yoke and long-term social duties from a very early age, before they have an opportunity to question the propriety of the matter. In order to achieve such conformity, the lower-class family unit must be disintegrated by a process of increasing preoccupation of the parents and the establishment of government-operated day-care centers for the occupationally orphaned children.
The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintain some measure of social order, peace, and tranquillity for the ruling upper class.
Descriptive Introduction of the Silent Weapon
Everything that is expected from an ordinary weapon is expected from a silent weapon by its creators, but only in its own manner of functioning.
It shoots situations, instead of bullets; propelled by data processing, instead of chemical reaction (explosion); originating from bits of data, instead of grains of gunpowder; from a computer, instead of a gun; operated by a computer programmer, instead of a marksman; under the orders of a banking magnate, instead of a military general.
It makes no obvious explosive noises, causes no obvious physical or mental injuries, and does not obviously interfere with anyone's daily social life.
Yet it makes an unmistakable "noise," causes unmistakable physical and mental damage, and unmistakably interferes with the daily social life, i.e., unmistakable to a trained observer, one who knows what to look for.
The public cannot comprehend this weapon, and therefore cannot believe that they are being attacked and subdued by a weapon.
The public might instinctively feel that something is wrong, but that is because of the technical nature of the silent weapon, they cannot express their feeling in a rational way, or handle the problem with intelligence. Therefore, they do not know how to cry for help, and do not know how to associate with others to defend themselves against it.
When a silent weapon is applied gradually, the public adjusts/adapts to its presence and learns to tolerate its encroachment on their lives until the pressure (psychological via economic) becomes too great and they crack up.
Therefore, the silent weapon is a type of biological warfare. It attacks the vitality, options, and mobility of the individuals of a society by knowing, understanding, manipulating, and attacking their sources of natural and social energy, and their physical, mental, and emotional strengths and weaknesses.
Theoretical Introduction
Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws.
-- Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743 - 1812)
Today's silent weapons technology is an outgrowth of a simple idea discovered, succinctly expressed, and effectively applied by the quoted Mr. Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Mr. Rothschild discovered the missing passive component of economic theory known as economic inductance. He, of course, did not think of his discovery in these 20th-century terms, and, to be sure, mathematical analysis had to wait for the Second Industrial Revolution, the rise of the theory of mechanics and electronics, and finally, the invention of the electronic computer before it could be effectively applied in the control of the world economy.
General Energy Concepts
In the study of energy systems, there always appears three elementary concepts. These are potential energy, kinetic energy, and energy dissipation. And corresponding to these concepts, there are three idealized, essentially pure physical counterparts called passive components.
- In the science of physical mechanics, the phenomenon of potential energy is associated with a physical property called elasticity or stiffness, and can be represented by a stretched spring.
In electronic science, potential energy is stored in a capacitor instead of a spring. This property is called capacitance instead of elasticity or stiffness.
- In the science of physical mechanics, the phenomenon of kinetic energy is associated with a physical property called inertia or mass, and can be represented by a mass or a flywheel in motion.
In electronic science, kinetic energy is stored in an inductor (in a magnetic field) instead of a mass. This property is called inductance instead of inertia.
- In the science of physical mechanics, the phenomenon of energy dissipation is associated with a physical property called friction or resistance, and can be represented by a dashpot or other device which converts energy into heat.
In electronic science, dissipation of energy is performed by an element called either a resistor or a conductor, the term "resistor" being the one generally used to describe a more ideal device (e.g., wire) employed to convey electronic energy efficiently from one location to another. The property of a resistance or conductor is measured as either resistance or conductance reciprocals.
In economics these three energy concepts are associated with:
- Economic Capacitance
- Capital (money, stock/inventory, investments in buildings and durables, etc.)
- Economic Conductance
- Goods (production flow coefficients)
- Economic Inductance
- Services (the influence of the population of industry on output)
All of the mathematical theory developed in the study of one energy system (e.g., mechanics, electronics, etc.) can be immediately applied in the study of any other energy system (e.g., economics).
Mr. Rothschild's Energy Discovery
What Mr. Rothschild had discovered was the basic principle of power, influence, and control over people as applied to economics. That principle is "when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you."
Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency or deposit loan accounts had the required appearance of power that could be used to induce people (inductance, with people corresponding to a magnetic field) into surrendering their real wealth in exchange for a promise of greater wealth (instead of real compensation). They would put up real collateral in exchange for a loan of promissory notes. Mr. Rothschild found that he could issue more notes than he had backing for, so long as he had someone's stock of gold as a persuader to show his customers.
Mr. Rothschild loaned his promissory notes to individual and to governments. These would create over confidence. Then he would make money scarce, tighten control of the system, and collect the collateral through the obligation of contracts. The cycle was then repeated. These pressures could be used to ignite a war. Then he would control the availability of currency to determine who would win the war. That government which agreed to give him control of its economic system got his support.
Collection of debts was guaranteed by economic aid to the enemy of the debtor. The profit derived from this economic methodology mad Mr. Rothschild all the more able to expand his wealth. He found that the public greed would allow currency to be printed by government order beyond the limits (inflation) of backing in precious metal or the production of goods and services.
Apparent Capital as "Paper" Inductor
In this structure, credit, presented as a pure element called "currency," has the appearance of capital, but is in effect negative capital. Hence, it has the appearance of service, but is in fact, indebtedness or debt. It is therefore an economic inductance instead of an economic capacitance, and if balanced in no other way, will be balanced by the negation of population (war, genocide). The total goods and services represent real capital called the gross national product, and currency may be printed up to this level and still represent economic capacitance; but currency printed beyond this level is subtractive, represents the introduction of economic inductance, and constitutes notes of indebtedness.
War is therefore the balancing of the system by killing the true creditors (the public which we have taught to exchange true value for inflated currency) and falling back on whatever is left of the resources of nature and regeneration of those resources.
Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency gave him the power to rearrange the economic structure to his own advantage, to shift economic inductance to those economic positions which would encourage the greatest economic instability and oscillation.
The final key to economic control had to wait until there was sufficient data and high-speed computing equipment to keep close watch on the economic oscillations created by price shocking and excess paper energy credits - paper inductance/inflation.
Breakthrough
The aviation field provided the greatest evolution in economic engineering by way of the mathematical theory of shock testing. In this process, a projectile is fired from an airframe on the ground and the impulse of the recoil is monitored by vibration transducers connected to the airframe and wired to chart recorders.
By studying the echoes or reflections of the recoil impulse in the airframe, it is possible to discover critical vibrations in the structure of the airframe which either vibrations of the engine or aeolian vibrations of the wings, or a combination of the two, might reinforce resulting in a resonant self-destruction of the airframe in flight as an aircraft. From the standpoint of engineering, this means that the strengths and weaknesses of the structure of the airframe in terms of vibrational energy can be discovered and manipulated.
Application in Economics
To use this method of airframe shock testing in economic engineering, the prices of commodities are shocked, and the public consumer reaction is monitored. The resulting echoes of the economic shock are interpreted theoretically by computers and the psycho-economic structure of the economy is thus discovered. It is by this process that partial differential and difference matrices are discovered that define the family household and make possible its evaluation as an economic industry (dissipative consumer structure).
Then the response of the household to future shocks can be predicted and manipulated, and society becomes a well-regulated animal with its reins under the control of a sophisticated computer-regulated social energy bookkeeping system.
Eventually every individual element of the structure comes under computer control through a knowledge of personal preferences, such knowledge guaranteed by computer association of consumer preferences (universal product code, UPC; zebra-striped pricing codes on packages) with identified consumers (identified via association with the use of a credit card and later a permanent "tattooed" body number invisible under normal ambient illumination).
The Economic Model
The Harvard Economic Research Project (1948-) was an extension of World War II Operations Research. Its purpose was to discover the science of controlling an economy: at first the American economy, and then the world economy. It was felt that with sufficient mathematical foundation and data, it would be nearly as easy to predict and control the trend of an economy as to predict and control the trajectory of a projectile. Such has proven to be the case. Moreover, the economy has been transformed into a guided missile on target.
The immediate aim of the Harvard project was to discover the economic structure, what forces change that structure, how the behavior of the structure can be predicted, and how it can be manipulated. What was needed was a well-organized knowledge of the mathematical structures and interrelationships of investment, production, distribution, and consumption.
To make a short story of it all, it was discovered that an economy obeyed the same laws as electricity and that all of the mathematical theory and practical and computer know-how developed for the electronic field could be directly applied in the study of economics. This discovery was not openly declared, and its more subtle implications were and are kept a closely guarded secret, for example that in an economic model, human life is measured in dollars, and that the electric spark generated when opening a switch connected to an active inductor is mathematically analogous to the initiation of war.
The greatest hurdle which theoretical economists faced was the accurate description of the household as an industry. This is a challenge because consumer purchases are a matter of choice which in turn is influenced by income, price, and other economic factors.
This hurdle was cleared in an indirect and statistically approximate way by an application of shock testing to determine the current characteristics, called current technical coefficients, of a household industry
Finally, because problems in theoretical electronics can be translated very easily into problems of theoretical electronics, and the solution translated back again, it follows that only a book of language translation and concept definition needed to be written for economics. The remainder could be gotten from standard works on mathematics and electronics. This makes the publication of books on advanced economics unnecessary, and greatly simplifies project security.
Industrial Diagrams
An ideal industry is defined as a device which receives value from other industries in several forms and converts them into one specific product for sales and distribution to other industries. It has several inputs and one output. What the public normally thinks of as one industry is really an industrial complex, where several industries under one roof produce one or more products . . .
Three Industrial Classes
Industries fall into three categories or classes by type of output:
- Class #1 - Capital (resources)
- Class #2 - Goods (commodities or use - dissipative)
- Class #3 - Services (action of population)
- Class #1 industries exist at three levels:
- Nature - sources of energy and raw materials.
- Government - printing of currency equal to the gross national product (GNP), and extension of currency in excess of GNP.
- Banking - loaning of money for interest, and extension (inflation/counterfeiting) of economic value through the deposit loan accounts.
- Class #2 industries exist as producers of tangible or consumer (dissipated) products. This sort of activity is usually recognized and labeled by the public as "industry."
- Class #3 industries are those which have service rather than a tangible product as their output. These industries are called (1) households, and (2) governments. Their output is human activity of a mechanical sort, and their basis is population.
Aggregation
The whole economic system can be represented by a three-industry model if one allows the names of the outputs to be (1) capital, (2) goods, and (3) services. The problem with this representation is that it would not show the influence, say, the textile industry on the ferrous metal industry. This is because both the textile industry and the ferrous metal industry would be contained within a single classification called the "goods industry" and by this process of combining or aggregating these two industries under one system block they would lose their economic individuality.
The E-Model
A national economy consists of simultaneous flows of production, distribution, consumption, and investment. If all of these elements including labor and human functions are assigned a numerical value in like units of measure, say, 1939 dollars, then this flow can be further represented by a current flow in an electronic circuit, and its behavior can be predicted and manipulated with useful precision.
The three ideal passive energy components of electronics, the capacitor, the resistor, and the inductor correspond to the three ideal passive energy components of economics called the pure industries of capital, goods, and services, respectively.
- Economic capacitance represents the storage of capital in one form or another.
- Economic conductance represents the level of conductance of materials for the production of goods.
- Economic inductance represents the inertia of economic value in motion. This is a population phenomenon known as services.
Economic Inductance
An electrical inductor (e.g., a coil or wire) has an electric current as its primary phenomenon and a magnetic field as its secondary phenomenon (inertia). Corresponding to this, an economic inductor has a flow of economic value as its primary phenomenon and a population field as its secondary field phenomenon of inertia. When the flow of economic value (e.g., money) diminishes, the human population field collapses in order to keep the economic value (money) flowing (extreme case - war).
This public inertia is a result of consumer buying habits, expected standard of living, etc., and is generally a phenomenon of self-preservation.
Inductive Factors to Consider
- Population
- Magnitude of the economic activities of the government
- The method of financing these government activities (See Peter-Paul Principle - inflation of the currency.)
Translation
(a few examples will be given.)
- Charge
- coulombs - dollars (1939).
- Flow/Current
- amperes (coulombs per second) - dollars of flow per year.
- Motivating Force
- volts - dollars (output) demand.
- Conductance
- amperes per volt - dollars of flow per year per dollar demand.
- Capacitance
- coulombs per volt - dollars of production inventory/stock per dollar demand.
Time Flow Relationships and Self-Destructive Oscillations
An ideal industry may be symbolized electronically in various ways. The simplest way is to represent a demand by a voltage and a supply by a current. When this is done, the relationship between the two becomes what is called an admittance, which can result from three economic factors: (1) foresight flow, (2) present flow, and (3) hindsight flow.
- Foresight flow is the result of that property of living entities to cause energy (food) to be stored for a period of low energy (e.g., a winter season). It consists of demands made upon an economic system for that period of low energy (winter season).
In a production industry it takes several forms, one of which is known as production stock or inventory. In electronic symbology this specific industry demand (a pure capital industry) is represented by capacitance and the stock or resource is represented by a stored charge. Satisfaction of an industry demand suffers a lag because of the loading effect of inventory priorities.
- Present flow ideally involves no delays. It is, so to speak, input today for output today, a "hand to mouth" flow. In electronic symbology, this specific industry demand (a pure us industry) is represented by a conductance which is then a simple economic valve (a dissipative element).
- Hindsight flow is known as habit or inertia. In electronics this phenomenon is the characteristic of an inductor (economic analog = a pure service industry) in which a current flow (economic analog = flow of money) creates a magnetic field (economic analog = active human population) which, if the current (money flow) begins to diminish, collapse (war) to maintain the current (flow of money - energy).
Other large alternatives to war as economic inductors or economic flywheels are an open-ended social welfare program, or an enormous (but fruitful) open-ended space program.
The problem with stabilizing the economic system is that there is too much demand on account of (1) too much greed and (2) too much population.
This creates excessive economic inductance which can only be balanced with economic capacitance (true resources or value - e.g., in goods or services).
The social welfare program is nothing more than an open-ended credit balance system which creates a false capital industry to give nonproductive people a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. This can be useful, however, because the recipients become state property in return for the "gift," a standing army for the elite. For he who pays the piper picks the tune.
Those who get hooked on the economic drug, must go to the elite for a fix. In this, the method of introducing large amounts of stabilizing capacitance is by borrowing on the future "credit" of the world. This is a fourth law of motion - onset, and consists of performing an action and leaving the system before the reflected reaction returns to the point of action - a delayed reaction.
The means of surviving the reaction is by changing the system before the reaction can return. By this means, politicians become more popular in their own time and the public pays later. In fact, the measure of such a politician is the delay time.
The same thing is achieved by a government by printing money beyond the limit of the gross national product, and economic process called inflation. This puts a large quantity of money into the hands of the public and maintains a balance against their greed, creates a false self-confidence in them and, for awhile, stays the wolf from the door.
They must eventually resort to war to balance the account, because war ultimately is merely the act of destroying the creditor, and the politicians are the publicly hired hit men that justify the act to keep the responsibility and blood off the public conscience. (See section on consent factors and social-economic structuring.)
If the people really cared about their fellow man, they would control their appetites (greed, procreation, etc.) so that they would not have to operate on a credit or welfare social system which steals from the worker to satisfy the bum.
Since most of the general public will not exercise restraint, there are only two alternatives to reduce the economic inductance of the system.
- Let the populace bludgeon each other to death in war, which will only result in a total destruction of the living earth.
- Take control of the world by the use of economic "silent weapons" in a form of "quiet warfare" and reduce the economic inductance of the world to a safe level by a process of benevolent slavery and genocide.
The latter option has been taken as the obviously better option. At this point it should be crystal clear to the reader why absolute secrecy about the silent weapons is necessary. The general public refuses to improve its own mentality and its faith in its fellow man. It has become a herd of proliferating barbarians, and, so to speak, a blight upon the face of the earth.
They do not care enough about economic science to learn why they have not been able to avoid war despite religious morality, and their religious or self-gratifying refusal to deal with earthly problems renders the solution of the earthly problem unreachable to them.
It is left to those few who are truly willing to think and survive as the fittest to survive, to solve the problem for themselves as the few who really care. Otherwise, exposure of the silent weapon would destroy our only hope of preserving the seed of the future true humanity...
The Household Industry
The industries of finance (banking), manufacturing, and government, real counterparts of the pure industries of capital, goods, and services, are easily defined because they are generally logically structured. Because of this their processes can be described mathematically and their technical coefficients can be easily deduced. This, however, is not the case with the service industry known as the household industry.
Household Models
...The problem which a theoretical economist faces is that the consumer preferences of any household is not easily predictable and the technical coefficients of any one household tend to be a nonlinear, very complex, and variable function of income, prices, etc.
Computer information derived from the use of the universal product code in conjunction with credit-card purchase as an individual household identifier could change this state of affairs, but the UPC method is not yet available on a national or even a significant regional scale. To compensate for this data deficiency, an alternate indirect approach of analysis has been adopted known as economic shock testing. This method, widely used in the aircraft manufacturing industry, develops an aggregate statistical sort of data.
Applied to economics, this means that all of the households in one region or in the whole nation are studied as a group or class rather than individually, and the mass behavior rather than the individual behavior is used to discover useful estimates of the technical coefficients governing the economic structure of the hypothetical single-household industry...
One method of evaluating the technical coefficients of the household industry depends upon shocking the prices of a commodity and noting the changes in the sales of all of the commodities.
Economic Shock Testing
In recent times, the application of Operations Research to the study of the public economy has been obvious for anyone who understands the principles of shock testing.
In the shock testing of an aircraft airframe, the recoil impulse of firing a gun mounted on that airframe causes shock waves in that structure which tell aviation engineers the conditions under which some parts of the airplane or the whole airplane or its wings will start to vibrate or flutter like a guitar string, a flute reed, or a tuning fork, and disintegrate or fall apart in flight.
Economic engineers achieve the same result in studying the behavior of the economy and the consumer public by carefully selecting a staple commodity such as beef, coffee, gasoline, or sugar, and then causing a sudden change or shock in its price or availability, thus kicking everybody's budget and buying habits out of shape.
They then observe the shock waves which result by monitoring the changes in advertising, prices, and sales of that and other commodities.
The objective of such studies is to acquire the know-how to set the public economy into a predictable state of motion or change, even a controlled self-destructive state of motion which will convince the public that certain "expert" people should take control of the money system and reestablish security (rather than liberty and justice) for all. When the subject citizens are rendered unable to control their financial affairs, they, of course, become totally enslaved, a source of cheap labor.
Not only the prices of commodities, but also the availability of labor can be used as the means of shock testing. Labor strikes deliver excellent tests shocks to an economy, especially in the critical service areas of trucking (transportation), communication, public utilities (energy, water, garbage collection), etc.
By shock testing, it is found that there is a direct relationship between the availability of money flowing in an economy and the real psychological outlook and response of masses of people dependent upon that availability.
For example, there is a measurable quantitative relationship between the price of gasoline and the probability that a person would experience a headache, feel a need to watch a violent movie, smoke a cigarette, or go to a tavern for a mug of beer.
It is most interesting that, by observing and measuring the economic models by which the public tries to run from their problems and escape from reality, and by applying the mathematical theory of Operations Research, it is possible to program computers to predict the most probable combination of created events (shocks) which will bring about a complete control and subjugation of the public through a subversion of the public economy (by shaking the plum tree)...
Introduction to Economic Amplifiers
Economic amplifiers are the active components of economic engineering. The basic characteristic of any amplifier (mechanical, electrical, or economic) is that it receives an input control signal and delivers energy from an independent energy source to a specified output terminal in a predictable relationship to that input control signal.
The simplest form of an economic amplifier is a device called advertising.
If a person is spoken to by a TV advertiser as if he were a twelve-year-old, then, due to suggestibility, he will, with a certain probability, respond or react to that suggestion with the uncritical response of a twelve-year-old and will reach into his economic reservoir and deliver its energy to but that product on impulse when he passes it in the store.
An economic amplifier may have several inputs and output. Its response might be instantaneous or delayed. Its circuit symbol might be a rotary switch if its options are exclusive, qualitative, "go" or "no-go", or it might have its parametric input/output relationships specified by a matrix with internal energy sources represented.
Whatever its form might be, its purpose is to govern the flow of energy from a source to an output sink in direct relationship to an input control signal. For this reason, it is called an active circuit element or component.
Economic Amplifiers fall into classes called strategies, and, in comparison with electronic amplifiers, the specific internal functions of an economic amplifier are called logistical instead of electrical.
Therefore, economic amplifiers not only deliver power gain but also, in effect, are used to cause changes in the economic circuitry.
In the design of an economic amplifier we must have some idea of at least five functions, which are:
- the available input signals
- the desired output-control objectives,
- the strategic objective,
- the available economic power sources,
- the logistical options.
The process of defining and evaluating these factors and incorporating the economic amplifier into an economic system has been popularly called game theory.
The design of an economic amplifier begins with a specification of the power level of the output, which can range from personal to national. The second condition is accuracy of response, i.e., how accurately the output action is a function of the input commands. High gain combined with strong feedback helps to deliver the required precision.
Most of the error will be in the input data signal. Personal input data tends to be specified, while national input data tends to be statistical.
Short List of Inputs
Questions to be answered:
- what
- where
- why
- when
- how
- who
General sources of information:
- telephone taps
- analysis of garbage
- surveillance
- behavior of children in school
Standard of living by:
- food
- shelter
- clothing
- transportation
Social contacts:
- telephone - itemized record of calls
- family - marriage certificates, birth certificates, etc.
- friends, associates, etc.
- memberships in organizations
- political affiliation
The Personal Paper Trail
Personal buying habits, i.e., personal consumer preferences:
- checking accounts
- credit-card purchases
- "tagged" credit-card purchases - the credit-card purchase of products bearing the UPC (Universal Product Code)
Assets:
- checking accounts
- savings accounts
- real estate
- business
- automobile, etc.
- safety deposit at bank
- stock market
Liabilities:
- creditors
- enemies (see - legal)
- loans
Government sources (ploys)*:
- Welfare
- Social Security
- U.S.D.A. surplus food
- doles
- grants
- subsidies
* Principle of this ploy -- the citizen will almost always make the collection of information easy if he can operate on the "free sandwich principle" of "eat now, and pay later." Government sources (via intimidation):
- Internal Revenue Service
- OSHA
- Census
- etc.
Other government sources -- surveillance of U.S. mail.
Habit Patterns -- Programming
Strengths and weaknesses:
- activities (sports, hobbies, etc.)
- see "legal" (fear, anger, etc. -- crime record)
- hospital records (drug sensitivities, reaction to pain, etc.)
- psychiatric records (fears, angers, disgusts, adaptability, reactions to stimuli, violence, suggestibility or hypnosis, pain, pleasure, love, and sex)
Methods of coping -- of adaptability -- behavior:
- consumption of alcohol
- consumption of drugs
- entertainment
- religious factors influencing behavior
- other methods of escaping from reality
Payment modus operandi (MO) -- pay on time, etc.:
- payment of telephone bills
- energy purchases
- water purchases
- repayment of loans
- house payments
- automobile payments
- payments on credit cards
Political sensitivity:
- beliefs
- contacts
- position
- strengths/weaknesses
- projects/activities
Legal inputs -- behavioral control (Excuses for investigation, search, arrest, or employment of force to modify behavior)
- court records
- police records -- NCIC
- driving record
- reports made to police
- insurance information
- anti-establishment acquaintances
National Input Information
Business sources (via IRS, etc):
- prices of commodities
- sales
- investments in
- stocks/inventory
- production tools and machinery
- buildings and improvements
- the stock market
Banks and credit bureaus:
- credit information
- payment information
Miscellaneous sources:
- polls and surveys
- publications
- telephone records
- energy and utility purchases
Short List of Outputs
Outputs -- create controlled situations -- manipulation of the economy, hence society -- control by control of compensation and income.
Sequence:
- allocates opportunities.
- destroys opportunities.
- controls the economic environment.
- controls the availability of raw materials.
- controls capital.
- controls bank rates.
- controls the inflation of the currency.
- controls the possession of property.
- controls industrial capacity.
- controls manufacturing.
- controls the availability of goods (commodities).
- controls the prices of commodities.
- controls services, the labor force, etc.
- controls payments to government officials.
- controls the legal functions.
- controls the personal data files -- un-correctable by the party slandered.
- controls advertising.
- controls media contact.
- controls material available for TV viewing
- disengages attention from real issues.
- engages emotions.
- creates disorder, chaos, and insanity.
- controls design of more probing tax forms.
- controls surveillance.
- controls the storage of information.
- develops psychological analyses and profiles of individuals.
- controls legal functions [repeat of 15]
- controls sociological factors.
- controls health options.
- preys on weakness.
- cripples strengths.
- leaches wealth and substance.
Table of Strategies
| Do this: | To get this: |
| Keep the public ignorant | Less public organization |
| Maintain access to control points for feedback | Required reaction to outputs (prices, sales) |
| Create preoccupation | Lower defenses |
| Attack the family unit | Control of the education of the young |
| Give less cash and more credit and doles | More self-indulgence and more data |
| Attack the privacy of the church | Destroy faith in this sort of government |
| Social conformity | Computer programming simplicity |
| Minimize the tax protest | Maximum economic data, minimum enforcement problems |
| Stabilize the consent | Simplicity coefficients |
| Tighten control of variables | Simpler computer input data -- greater predictability |
| Establish boundary conditions | Problem simplicity / solutions of differential and difference equations |
| Proper timing | Less data shift and blurring |
| Maximize control | Minimum resistance to control |
| Collapse of currency | Destroy the faith of the American people in each other. |
Diversion, the Primary Strategy
Experience has prevent that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep the public undisciplined and ignorant of the basic system principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand.
This is achieved by:
- disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design and economics; and discouraging technical creativity.
- engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by:
- unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the TV and the newspapers.
- giving them what they desire - in excess - "junk food for thought" - and depriving them of what they really need.
- rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities.
These preclude their interest in and discovery of the silent weapons of social automation technology.
The general rule is that there is a profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer solutions.
Diversion Summary
Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.
Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history.
Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level.
Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.
Consent, the Primary Victory
A silent weapon system operates upon data obtained from a docile public by legal (but not always lawful) force. Much information is made available to silent weapon systems programmers through the Internal Revenue Service. (See Studies in the Structure of the American Economy for an IRS source list.)
This information consists of the enforced delivery of well-organized data contained in federal and state tax forms, collected, assembled, and submitted by slave labor provided by taxpayers and employers.
Furthermore, the number of such forms submitted to the IRS is a useful indicator of public consent, an important factor in strategic decision making. Other data sources are given in the Short List of Inputs.
Consent Coefficients - numerical feedback indicating victory status. Psychological basis: When the government is able to collect tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal encroachment. A good and easily quantified indicator of harvest time is the number of public citizens who pay income tax despite an obvious lack of reciprocal or honest service from the government.
Amplification Energy Sources
The next step in the process of designing an economic amplifier is discovering the energy sources. The energy sources which support any primitive economic system are, of course, a supply of raw materials, and the consent of the people to labor and consequently assume a certain rank, position, level, or class in the social structure, i.e., to provide labor at various levels in the pecking order.
Each class, in guaranteeing its own level of income, controls the class immediately below it, hence preserves the class structure. This provides stability and security, but also government from the top.
As time goes on and communication and education improve, the lower-class elements of the social labor structure become knowledgeable and envious of the good things that the upper-class members have. They also begin to attain a knowledge of energy systems and the ability to enforce their rise through the class structure.
This threatens the sovereignty of the elite.
If this rise of the lower classes can be postponed long enough, the elite can achieve energy dominance, and labor by consent no longer will hold a position of an essential energy source.
Until such energy dominance is absolutely established, the consent of people to labor and let others handle their affairs must be taken into consideration, since failure to do so could cause the people to interfere in the final transfer of energy sources to the control of the elite.
It is essential to recognize that at this time, public consent is still an essential key to the release of energy in the process of economic amplification.
Therefore, consent as an energy release mechanism will now be considered.
Logistics
The successful application of a strategy requires a careful study of inputs, outputs, the strategy connecting the inputs and the outputs, and the available energy sources to fuel the strategy. This study is called logistics.
A logistical problem is studied at the elementary level first, and then levels of greater complexity are studied as a synthesis of elementary factors.
This means that a given system is analyzed, i.e., broken down into its subsystems, and these in turn are analyzed, until by this process, one arrives at the logistical "atom," the individual.
The Artificial Womb
From the time a person leaves its mother's womb, its every effort is directed towards building, maintaining, and withdrawing into artificial wombs, various sorts of substitute protective devices or shells.
The objective of these artificial wombs is to provide a stable environment for both stable and unstable activity; to provide a shelter for the evolutionary processes of growth and maturity - i.e., survival; to provide security for freedom and to provide defensive protection for offensive activity.
This is equally true of both the general public and the elite. However, there is a definite difference in the way each of these classes go about the solution of problems.
The Political Structure of a Nation - Dependency
The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country create a political structure is a subconscious wish or desire to perpetuate their own dependency relationship of childhood. Simply put, they want a human god to eliminate all risk from their life, pat them on the head, kiss their bruises, put a chicken on every dinner table, clothe their bodies, tuck them into bed at night, and tell them that everything will be alright when they wake up in the morning.
This public demand is incredible, so the human god, the politician, meets incredibility with incredibility by promising the world and delivering nothing. So who is the bigger liar? the public? or the "godfather"?
This public behavior is surrender born of fear, laziness, and expediency. It is the basis of the welfare state as a strategic weapon, useful against a disgusting public.
Action/Offense
Most people want to be able to subdue and/or kill other human beings which disturb their daily lives, but they do not want to have to cope with the moral and religious issues which such an overt act on their part might raise. Therefore, they assign the dirty work to others (including their own children) so as to keep the blood off their hands. They rave about the humane treatment of animals and then sit down to a delicious hamburger from a whitewashed slaughterhouse down the street and out of sight. But even more hypocritical, they pay taxes to finance a professional association of hit men collectively called politicians, and then complain about corruption in government.
Responsibility
Again, most people want to be free to do the things (to explore, etc.) but they are afraid to fail.
The fear of failure is manifested in irresponsibility, and especially in delegating those personal responsibilities to others where success is uncertain or carries possible or created liabilities (law) which the person is not prepared to accept. They want authority (root word - "author"), but they will not accept responsibility or liability. So they hire politicians to face reality for them.
Summary
The people hire the politicians so that the people can:
- obtain security without managing it.
- obtain action without thinking about it.
- inflict theft, injury, and death upon others without having to contemplate either life or death.
- avoid responsibility for their own intentions.
- obtain the benefits of reality and science without exerting themselves in the discipline of facing or learning either of these things.
They give the politicians the power to create and manage a war machine to:
- provide for the survival of the nation/womb.
- prevent encroachment of anything upon the nation/womb.
- destroy the enemy who threatens the nation/womb.
- destroy those citizens of their own country who do not conform for the sake of stability of the nation/womb.
Politicians hold many quasi-military jobs, the lowest being the police which are soldiers, the attorneys and C.P.A.s next who are spies and saboteurs (licensed), and the judges who shout orders and run the closed union military shop for whatever the market will bear. The generals are industrialists. The "presidential" level of commander-in-chief is shared by the international bankers. The people know that they have created this farce and financed it with their own taxes (consent), but they would rather knuckle under than be the hypocrite.
Thus, a nation becomes divided into two very distinct parts, a docile sub-nation [great silent majority] and a political sub-nation. The political sub-nation remains attached to the docile sub-nation, tolerates it, and leaches its substance until it grows strong enough to detach itself and then devour its parent.
System Analysis
In order to make meaningful computerized economic decisions about war, the primary economic flywheel, it is necessary to assign concrete logistical values to each element of the war structure - personnel and material alike.
This process begins with a clear and candid description of the subsystems of such a structure.
The Draft (As military service)
Few efforts of human behavior modification are more remarkable or more effective than that of the socio-military institution known as the draft. A primary purpose of a draft or other such institution is to instill, by intimidation, in the young males of a society the uncritical conviction that the government is omnipotent. He is soon taught that a prayer is slow to reverse what a bullet can do in an instant. Thus, a man trained in a religious environment for eighteen years of his life can, by this instrument of the government, be broken down, be purged of his fantasies and delusions in a matter of mere months. Once that conviction is instilled, all else becomes easy to instill.
Even more interesting is the process by which a young man's parents, who purportedly love him, can be induced to send him off to war to his death. Although the scope of this work will not allow this matter to be expanded in full detail, nevertheless, a coarse overview will be possible and can serve to reveal those factors which must be included in some numerical form in a computer analysis of social and war systems.
We begin with a tentative definition of the draft. The draft (selective service, etc.) is an institution of compulsory collective sacrifice and slavery, devised by the middle-aged and elderly for the purpose of pressing the young into doing the public dirty work. It further serves to make the youth as guilty as the elders, thus making criticism of the elders by the youth less likely (Generational Stabilizer). It is marketed and sold to the public under the label of "patriotic = national" service.
Once a candid economic definition of the draft is achieved, that definition is used to outline the boundaries of a structure called a Human Value System, which in turn is translated into the terms of game theory. The value of such a slave laborer is given in a Table of Human Values, a table broken down into categories by intellect, experience, post-service job demand, etc.
Some of these categories are ordinary and can be tentatively evaluated in terms of the value of certain jobs for which a known fee exists. Some jobs are harder to value because they are unique to the demands of social subversion, for an extreme example: the value of a mother's instruction to her daughter, causing that daughter to put certain behavioral demands upon a future husband ten or fifteen years hence; thus, by suppressing his resistance to a perversion of a government, making it easier for a banking cartel to buy the State of New York in, say, twenty years.
Such a problem leans heavily upon the observations and data of wartime espionage and many types of psychological testing. But crude mathematical models (algorithms, etc.) can be devised, if not to predict, at least to predeterminate these events with maximum certainty. What does not exist by natural cooperation is thus enhanced by calculated compulsion. Human beings are machines, levers which may be grasped and turned, and there is little real difference between automating a society and automating a shoe factory.
These derived values are variable. (It is necessary to use a current Table of Human Values for computer analysis.) These values are given in true measure rather than U.S. dollars, since the latter is unstable, being presently inflated beyond the production of national goods and services so as to give the economy a false kinetic energy ("paper" inductance).
The silver value is stable, it being possible to buy the same amount with a gram of silver today as it could be bought in 1920. Human value measured in silver units changes slightly due to changes in production technology.
Enforcement
Factor I
As in every social system approach, stability is achieved only by understanding and accounting for human nature (action/reaction patterns). A failure to do so can be, and usually is, disastrous.
As in other human social schemes, one form or another of intimidation (or incentive) is essential to the success of the draft. Physical principles of action and reaction must be applied to both internal and external subsystems.
To secure the draft, individual brainwashing/programming and both the family unit and the peer group must be engaged and brought under control.
Factor II - Father
The man of the household must be housebroken to ensure that junior will grow up with the right social training and attitudes. The advertising media, etc., are engaged to see to it that father-to-be is pussy-whipped before or by the time he is married. He is taught that he either conforms to the social notch cut out for him or his sex life will be hobbled and his tender companionship will be zero. He is made to see that women demand security more than logical, principled, or honorable behavior.
By the time his son must go to war, father (with jelly for a backbone) will slam a gun into junior's hand before father will risk the censure of his peers, or make a hypocrite of himself by crossing the investment he has in his own personal opinion or self-esteem. Junior will go to war or father will be embarrassed. So junior will go to war, the true purpose not withstanding.
Factor III - Mother
The female element of human society is ruled by emotion first and logic second. In the battle between logic and imagination, imagination always wins, fantasy prevails, maternal instinct dominates so that the child comes first and the future comes second. A woman with a newborn baby is too starry-eyed to see a wealthy man's cannon fodder or a cheap source of slave labor. A woman must, however, be conditioned to accept the transition to "reality" when it comes, or sooner.
As the transition becomes more difficult to manage, the family unit must be carefully disintegrated, and state-controlled public education and state-operated child-care centers must be become more common and legally enforced so as to begin the detachment of the child from the mother and father at an earlier age. Inoculation of behavioral drugs [Ritalin] can speed the transition for the child (mandatory). Caution: A woman's impulsive anger can override her fear. An irate woman's power must never be underestimated, and her power over a pussy-whipped husband must likewise never be underestimated. It got women the vote in 1920.
Factor IV - Junior
The emotional pressure for self-preservation during the time of war and the self-serving attitude of the common herd that have an option to avoid the battlefield - if junior can be persuaded to go - is all of the pressure finally necessary to propel Johnny off to war. Their quiet blackmailings of him are the threats: "No sacrifice, no friends; no glory, no girlfriends."
Factor V - Sister
And what about junior's sister? She is given all the good things of life by her father, and taught to expect the same from her future husband regardless of the price.
Factor VI - Cattle
Those who will not use their brains are no better off than those who have no brains, and so this mindless school of jelly-fish, father, mother, son, and daughter, become useful beasts of burden or trainers of the same.