by Jon E. Lewis
In her September 8, 2001, speech given on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Multilateral Treaty of Peace with Japan in San Francisco, Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka echoed the statement of Murayama by saying, “Facing the facts of history in a spirit of humility, I reaffirm today our feeling of deep remorse and heartfelt apology expressed in Prime Minister Muryama’s statement of 1995.” She also said in her speech, without elaboration, that the war has left an incurable scar on many people, including former prisoners of war – apparently the first such mentions of POWs. According to newspaper accounts, many protestors, Chinese-American groups, former U.S. prisoners of war, and others staged a conference demanding apologies and reparations from Japan. Speaking of reparations, Tanaka told reporters that based on the Peace Treaty, “the entire issue was settled.” Secretary of State Colin Powell, who joined in the celebration, said, “The treaty dealt with the matter 50 years ago,” but added, “at the same time we have the utmost compassion for the veterans who suffered.” Powell is also quoted as saying, “It is the United States position that those claims were extinguished in the San Francisco Treaty.”
USS COLE
On the sweltering morning of 12 October 2000, an inflatable boat packed to the gunnel with explosives slammed into the side of USS Cole as she was anchored in the port of Aden, Yemen. Seventeen US sailors died, as well as the two bombers.
The Yemeni police soon arrested six men, who confessed to having been trained in Osma bin-Laden’s Jihad Camp No. 1 in Afghanistan and being under telephone orders from an al-Qaeda commander in Dubai. Satellite records confirmed that the arrested men had made dozens of calls to other al-Qaeda members in Africa.
Despite the weight of evidence pointing to bin Laden’s outfit, not everyone was convinced of its guilt. The hole in the side of Cole was 40 × 60 feet, too big and too shaped (some believed) to be made by a rubber dingy full of fertilizer, and seemed to suggest a party with more bomb-making know-how and kit than al-Qaeda boasted. Who had the wherewithal to make the supposedly necessary military, shaped charge?
Shalom, Mossad. Rumours – especially in the Muslim world – became rampant that the Israeli secret service sank Cole with a cruise missile fired from a Dolphin-class submarine. That Israel should be willing to shed the blood of its American ally was not implausible: in 1967, Israeli jets and motor torpedo boats attacked the US intelligence ship USS Liberty for seventy-five minutes. The Israelis pleaded that the incident was a case of mistaken identity; since the Liberty was flying the American flag in international waters no one, up to US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, believed them. The best guess was that the Israeli Defence Force was trying to stop the Americans knowing what it was up to in the Six Day War.
According to conspiracists, the Aden attack was a “black flag” operation in which Mossad sought to frame the Yemen. Worried about improving Washington–Aden relations, Mossad staged the bombing in order to persuade the Americans that Yemen was unreliable, and a breeding ground for terrorism.
Then again, in “The Truth About the USS Cole Bombing”, Lloyd T. Vance and Steven Johnson have the US itself waving the black flag, suggesting at worst that Washington used al-Qaeda as patsy bombers, or at best a refuelling accident was opportunistically turned into a chance to blame al-Qaeda.
You may ask why the US sank its own ship? Vance and Johnson posit the reason as the desirability of getting the “Bush/Cheney junta” into the White House. The Cole calamity made Clinton/Gore look useless (just as poor Jimmy Carter had seemed in the Tehran hostage debacle) so good ol’ kick-ass boys Bush and Cheney became shoo-ins.
Mmm. Reagan might – just – have managed to persuade the Iranians not to release the Tehran hostages for his electoral benefit in October Surprise, but Bush ’n’ Cheney hiring in al-Qaeda (even if Osama was a family friend of George’s) stretches credulity.
Further Reading
www.scribd.com/doc/53626841/
The-Truth-About-the-USS-Cole-Bombing
VRIL SOCIETY
In 1947 an article by rocket engineer Willy Ley in Astounding Science Fiction remarked on an occult Berlin group in the 1930s which “called itself Wahrheitsgesellschaft – Society for Truth – and which was more or less localized in Berlin, devoted its spare time looking for Vril.”
After issuing two pamphlets, Vril: The Primal Cosmic Power and World Dynamism (about Atlantean free energy technology), and one issue of a magazine, the group seems to have gone kaput.
From these slender sources, post-War conspiracists have woven a thesis that the “Vril Society” was in contact with alien forces from Aldebaran, who instructed on flying saucer technology (shades of the Thule Society), with the power for craft supplied by said Vril. According to French authors Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels in The Morning of the Magicians, the Berlin Vril group was the inner circle of the Thule Society and connected to the English Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Bergier and Pauwels are amongst the most unreliable guides to the esoteric you could fear or find, but Vril does have an English connection, because the originator of “Vril” was Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who wrote Vril: The Power of the Coming Race in 1871.
This is an account of a super race, the Vril-ya, that live in caves inside the Earth and use a near magical form of magnetism/electricity, the Vril Force, described by Bulwer-Lytton thus:
… there is no word in any language I know which is an exact synonym for Vril (prana, chi, or qi ). I should call it electricity, except that it comprehends in its manifold branches other forces of nature, to which, in our scientific nomenclature, differing names are assigned, such as magnetism, galvanism, &c. These people consider that in Vril they have arrived at the unity in natural energic agencies, which has been conjectured by many philosophers above ground.
Vril is derived from the Black Sun, a ball of Prima Materia, that supposedly exists in the centre of the Earth. Served by robots and able to fly on Vril-powered wings, the vegetarian Vril-ya can use Vril rods to wipe out barbarians a thousand times their number. (There was some irony in the vegetarianism of the Vril; a smart ad man in the Victorian era combined bovine with “vril” to make “Bovril”, the branded meat extract.)
Bulwer-Lytton’s book is a fiction. This notwithstanding, the Berlin group believed it to be an occult bible, as do handfuls of contemporary conspiracists. Naturally, no German secret society is worth its salt unless Adolf Hitler was a member – and, guess what, historian Michael Fitzgerald has discovered that Herr Schicklgruber (“Heil, Schicklgruber!” doesn’t have quite the right ring about it, does it?) was a member of the Vril Society. A busy boy Adolf, organizing putschs, running the NSDAP, running the Third Reich, attending Vril meetings.
In The Unknown Hitler, Wulf Schwarzwaller, goes even further, declaring that Alfred, Rosenberg, Himmler, Goring and Hitler’s personal physician Dr Morell were in the same Vril Lodge as their führer. And in UFO Secrets of the Third Reich, Vladimir Terziski traces how the Third Reich made contact with the Vril through a hole in Antarctica, which allowed the Nazis to develop a series of antigravity machines culminating in the Andromeda space station.
Vril-powered moon rockets? Now there’s an idea that really is out of this world.
Further Reading
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, 1871
Michael FitzGerald, Storm Troopers of Satan, 1990
Michael FitzGerald, Adolf Hitler: A Portrait, 2006
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun, 2002
John Michael Greer, The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies, 2006
DOCUMENT: EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON, VRIL: THE POWER OF THE COMING RACE, 1871 [EXTRACT]
I have spoken so much of the Vril Staff that my readers may expect me to describe it. This I cannot do accurately, for I was never allowed to handle it for fear of some terrible accident occasioned by my ignorance of its use; and I have no doubt that it requires much skill and practice in the exercise of its various powers. It is hollow, and has in the handle several st
ops, keys, or springs by which its force can be altered, modified, or directed – so that by one process it destroys, by another it heals – by one it can rend the rock, by another disperse the vapour – by one it affects bodies, by another it can exercise a certain influence over minds. It is usually carried in the convenient size of a walking-staff, but it has slides by which it can be lengthened or shortened at will. When used for special purposes, the upper part rests in the hollow of the palm with the fore and middle fingers protruded. I was assured, however, that its power was not equal in all, but proportioned to the amount of certain Vril properties in the wearer in affinity, or “rapport” with the purposes to be effected. Some were more potent to destroy, others to heal, &c; much also depended on the calm and steadiness of volition in the manipulator. They assert that the full exercise of Vril power can only be acquired by the constitutional temperament – i.e., by hereditarily transmitted organisation – and that a female infant of four years old belonging to the Vril-ya races can accomplish feats which a life spent in its practice would not enable the strongest and most skilled mechanician, born out of the pale of the Vril-ya to achieve. All these wands are not equally complicated; those intrusted to children are much simpler than those borne by sages of either sex, and constructed with a view to the special object on which the children are employed; which as I have before said, is among the youngest children the most destructive. In the wands of wives and mothers the correlative destroying force is usually abstracted, the healing power fully charged. I wish I could say more in detail of this singular conductor of the Vril fluid, but its machinery is as exquisite as its effects are marvellous.
I should say, however, that this people have invented certain tubes by which the Vril fluid can be conducted towards the object it is meant to destroy, throughout a distance almost indefinite; at least I put it modestly when I say from 500 to 1,000 miles. And their mathematical science as applied to such purpose is so nicely accurate, that on the report of some observer in an air-boat, any member of the Vril department can estimate unerringly the nature of intervening obstacles, the height to which the projectile instrument should be raised, and the extent to which it should be charged, so as to reduce to ashes within a space of time too short for me to venture to specify it, a capital twice as vast as London.
Certainly these Ana are wonderful mathematicians – wonderful for the adaptation of the inventive faculty to practical uses.
I went with my host and his daughter Zee over the great public museum, which occupies a wing in the College of Sages, and in which are hoarded, as curious specimens of the ignorant and blundering experiments of ancient times, many contrivances on which we pride ourselves as recent achievements. In one department, carelessly thrown aside as obsolete lumber, are tubes for destroying life by metallic balls and an inflammable powder, on the principle of our cannons and catapults, and even still more murderous than our latest improvements.
My host spoke of these with a smile of contempt, such as an artillery officer might bestow on the bows and arrows of the Chinese. In another department there were models of vehicles and vessels worked by steam, and of an air-balloon which might have been constructed by Montgolfier.
“Such,” said Zee, with an air of meditative wisdom – “such were the feeble triflings with nature of our savage forefathers, ere they had even a glimmering perception of the properties of Vril!”
WATER CONTROL
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
Multinational companies taking control of the world’s water supply? Sounds like a Blofeld plotline in an 007 movie of Sean Connery vintage – but it is real. The globe’s water is being privatized at a staggering rate. Blue water is the new black. The Bushes and Pickens of Texas are far from being the only oil baronage buying up aquifers, and some of the water industry players are way bigger than Bush Inc. They include Swiss combine Nestlé, French conglomerate Veolia, and US agribusiness giant Monsanto.
Why buy into water? Easy. H2O is a commodity that is scarcer by the day. On the Blue Planet just 3 per cent of the water is freshwater and this, on the one hand, is being contaminated by agri-chemicals and industrial pollution, and on the other hand is being “abstracted” by farmers, factories (the average auto uses 350,000 litres of water in its manufacture) and an ever-increasing number of thirsty people. There is less water, and it is often bad water beyond human use. About 2.5 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. Control of this vital resource will, especially in the industrialized and emerging industrialized world (India, China, Brazil), be a source of guaranteed profits. Already the water business is worth over a cool $100 billion per annum.
Where’s the conspiracy? Well, most people consider water a natural resource, free, and even God given. Few, if any of the speculators or companies buying water admit to buying water. They just happen to buy the land above – and when they own the land above they own the water below. The effect on the communal environment can be catastrophic. Take Nestlé’s pumps for “Ice mountain” bottling plant at Stanwood, Michigan. These suck up the groundwater that should feed Lake Michigan. Truthout.org reports the following, which may be a tad connected to Nestlé’s pumping, pumping, pumping:
That the water levels in the upper lakes are falling is certain. Data from the Army Corps of Engineers website indicates that Lake Superior has almost reached its record low, set in 1926. Roger Gauthier, a project manager at the Great Lakes Commission, an intergovernmental body representing eight states and two Canadian provinces, said water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron had dropped three feet since 1999 and were about seven inches above the record low set in 1964. The persistence of low water in Lakes Huron and Michigan has been out of keeping with the larger cycles of high and low water in the basin.
For the right to withdraw water from near Lake Michigan Nestlé plays a paltry $100 a year.
Of course, he who controls the water controls what goes into the water. About 60 per cent of Americans, and 10 per cent of Brits have fluoride added to their drinking H2O. Now, some elements in the dental industry consider fluoridation a good thing because it (allegedly) prevents tooth decay, particularly in children. On the other hand, General Jack D. Ripper in Dr Strangelove, memorably asked, “Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?”
Contra Jack D. Ripper, some conspiracists consider that fluoridation is a plot by the candy industry to allow kids to eat all the confectionery they want. Or is even a CIA-inspired campaign to make a mindless America, with a little help from some old Nazi friends. Sodium fluoride was used in Nazi mind-control experiments in the Third Reich; in 1945, US scientist Charles Perkins visited the IG Farben chemical works in Deutschland and concluded about the work done there: “Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual’s power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him.”
IG Farben chemists were then reputedly exported to the USA under Project Paperclip to show the CIA MKULTRA teams how to make a Manchurian Candidate.
The list of alleged fluoridation conspirators goes way beyond the Commies, the Nazis, the CIA. Fluoride is a by-product of aluminium/uranium/steel production, and is estimated by many scientists to be a toxin. Putting fluoride in the people’s drinking water is simply a way of the metal industry dumping its toxic waste under the cover of improving health.
In their view.
Further Reading
Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World’s Water, 2003
PAUL WELLSTONE
I’m for the little fellers, not the Rockefellers.
Senator Paul Wellstone, Democratic Party
On 25 October 2002, Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed as his private jet came within two miles of Eveleth–Virginia Municipal Airport. In normal c
ircumstances few would have given the cause of the crash a second thought. But October 2002 was not a normal time, and Wellstone was no normal senator. Paul Wellstone was the first (and maybe the last) sixties radical elected to the US Senate. Wellstone was the only member of the Senate to have voted against George W. Bush’s plans to go to war in Iraq. In October 2002, Wellstone was nearing the end of his re-election campaign to the Senate, and looking like the winner. In a Senate likely to be evenly split, Wellstone was perhaps a one-man obstacle to President Bush’s stated desire to secure passage of the Homeland Security measure.
Wellstone’s death seemed too convenient to be an accident, especially as Dick Cheney, Bush’s enforcer, had reputedly told the Senator: “If you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the state of Minnesota.”
