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Volume 21, Number 1
CABPRO News
FEBRUARY 2015
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS, PROPERTY AND RESOURCE OWNERS
Electromagnetic Warfare
Volume 21, Number 1
FEBRUARY 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Local Update
Jean Gerard
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Lost Rights Restored
Chuck Frank
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My Small Christian School
Kyle Cuniberti
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The Grand Enabler Called
the Central Bank
Marc Cuniberti
Cellphone Tower — Are We
Asking the Right Questions
David Moyer
Electromagnetic
Hypersensitivity
Heather Lane
Welcome to the Matrix:
Enslaved by Technology
and the Internet of Things
John W. Whitehead
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Yes - I want to join CABPRO!
Friend of CABPRO
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Where Virtual Reality is Going
Jon Rappoport
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A Warning Tale
Jo Ann Rebane
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Local Update
Volume 21, Number 1
FEBRUARY 2015
by Jean Gerard
Happy New Year!
Along with each new year always comes new
laws. Here’s a recap of a couple of them for this
year:
Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2015
Just as momentum was building to stop the
NSA from its illegal surveillance and storage of
our emails and phone conversations, and hold
them
accountable,
what
happens?
Our
representatives decided to turn coat and make
it legal for them to do what they’re doing.
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
Did you see what was included in the ‘defense’
bill? Sixty-eight land use bills that will designate
new national parks and wilderness areas. “That
is why the package of lands bills in the National
Defense Authorization Act is vitally important to
America.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-Nev.) said. “This compromise is the chance
for the Senate to get something done.”
The bill also included a deal to give an
Australian-English mining firm 2,400 acres of
federal land in Arizona that includes Apache and
Yavapai sacred sites. Nice.
How did your representative, Doug LaMalfa vote
on these two bills? YES on both. If you’d like to
thank him, email him.
There’s
some
good
news
too.
The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lost in
its attempt to change the definition of “Waters
of the United States” to include ephemeral
streams, washes and irrigation ditches.
And, the EPA budget will be cut by $60 million $2.2 billion down since 2010. I think that might
seem like good news to some folks.
The bill also bans Fish & Wildlife from adding
the greater sage-grouse to the Endangered
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Species Act list, though $15 million was
approved
for
the
Bureau
of
Land
Management to conserve the greater sagegrouse habitat. The greater sage-grouse is
prevalent across ten Western states, and an
ESA listing would severely restrict public and
private land use.
In a January 6, 2015 news release from the
Department of Interior you’ll find this:
“Because about 64 percent of the greater sagegrouse’s 165 million acres of occupied range is
on federally managed lands, Interior’s Bureau of
Land Management and the Department of
Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service are currently
analyzing amendments to existing land use
plans to incorporate appropriate conservation
measures to conserve, enhance and restore
greater sage-grouse habitat by reducing,
eliminating or minimizing threats to the
habitat.” No need to list it as endangered.
How do they plan to do that? They have a very
the suggested
‘innovative’ way in mind. “ …
salt tax would be 1.75 cents per pound of salt
content in animal feeds and would raise about
$400,000 dollars.” Cattlemen back it.
And “…the Audubon Society is working on a bird
seed tax, which would go to the same dedicated
fund.”
In 2013 there was an article in The Wall Street
Journal entitled:
Save a Chicken, Drill a Well
‘Habitat Exchange’ Could Keep Oil Flowing While
Protecting Wild Prairie Fowl
The push to add the prairie chicken to the
endangered species list would have complicated
things for the oil companies and ranchers so a
‘stock exchange’ was proposed. “Ranchers
would generate credits by taking steps to
protect the bird’s habitat, such as tearing out
invasive Juniper trees or letting land revert to
grassland. To drill new wells, oil companies
would offset the impact on the chickens’ habitat
by purchasing these credits at auction.”
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So you see, if you have enough money, and you
play the game, you can still do what you want.
Endangered species aren’t as important as
money. And the public land that will become
national parks, thanks to the NDAA, will still be
open to the public. For awhile anyway. And for
a fee.
Here you’ll find a Tentative List of Potential
National Monuments.
Speaking of national parks, have you heard
about what’s going on in Olympic National Park
in Washington State? The Navy wants to use it
as an electromagnetic warfare testing and
training area. They’re working on getting a
permit from the United States Forest Service,
which will likely happen. Here’s a link to some
substantive comments written by a former Fish
and Wildlife employee, Karen Sullivan:
Violations of Federal Law in the US Navy’s
Procedures for Obtaining a Permit to Conduct
Electromagnetic Warfare Testing and Training
in the Olympic National Forest
“The US Navy is proposing to take large
swathes of Washington's Olympic National
Forest plus a large amount of airspace over
Olympic National Park and the communities in
the area, to run electronic warfare attack and
detection testing and training, for 260 days per
year, permanently, using at least 36 new
supersonic attack jets and radiation emitters on
the ground, in 15 locations. The Navy has
refused to hold true public hearings in affected
communities on the Olympic Peninsula, citing
not enough money in their $11.5 million dollar
budget. Each new jet costs between $68 million
and $77 million, … so the total equipment
budget is approximately $2,785,500,000. No
public notices were printed in any newspapers
that directly serve the affected communities.”
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
was bypassed completely.
And, by the way, there are
endangered species in that park.
plenty
of
You can find more information on this here.
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Investigation done by KC & Associates revealed
that this electromagnetic warfare training is
currently happening in other states. Along all
the borders: Atlantic, Pacific, Mexican and
Canadian. I guess I missed that in the news.
No membership meeting is scheduled for
February. Hope to see you next month!
Lost Rights Restored
by Chuck Frank
With Judge Dowling’s last and final property
rights ruling in favor of Lockyer and Erickson,
Nevada County administrators and lawyers
must now decide whether to admit defeat or
take the 4-year-old case to the next judicial
level, that being the 3rd District Court in
Sacramento.
After setting aside $100,000.00 or more money
to fight rounds one and two, and losing, how
much more of the taxpayers money must be
wasted by the county chasing a property rights
issue that has already been decided by the
court? If Nevada County has that much money
to gamble with then it is time for them also to
lower
property
taxes
across
the
board.
Furthermore, how much more of
taxpayer money is being used with regard to
court issues that are clearly unnecessary? Does
anyone
really
know?
Where
is
the
accountability for the county’s $200 million
dollar yearly budget where lawyers are reaping
the benefits and not the people?
It is a tragedy when once due process is finally
given, that government continues to sidestep
basic
constitutional
provisions
that
are
foundational and which were meant to protect
the people, not government!
In addition, besides an attempt by the county to
take some of Lockyer’s land over a dispute
about a visually important ridge line (VIR),
court records show that there were major
inconsistencies and contradictions in the
planning department statements, while e-mails
clearly showed among staff, a pattern of
retaliation towards Lockyer and Erickson after
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their complaints surfaced about the installation
of a cell tower in Penn Valley.
In spite of all of this, Nevada County
administrators are planning a meeting with the
supervisors later this month, and they may
attempt to go forward with a brief which seeks
to reverse Judge Dowlings ruling. This is
unbelievable!
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Our classes are a lot smaller than public schools
so we can get to know each other better and
get better individual instruction. For example, I
needed some help in my math class. I was able
to get one-on-one time after school with my
math teacher so I could understand the
concepts of the lesson better. At our school the
teachers are willing to donate their time after
school to help their students succeed.
When looking at the facts, and considering all of
the taxpayer money already spent with the
case, there is now a call for wisdom among the
supervisors to fulfill their obligation to the
people whom they represent and put an end to
a pattern of administrative overreach and
retaliation when dealing with property owners
and their rights. Also, compromise on the part
of county planning and those other departments
are fully necessary when striving to maintain a
rightful balance with a government that is for
and by the people. Property owners in Nevada
County have suffered long enough, and the
needless affliction which was placed upon
numerous individuals must be put to an end.
Each week on Wednesday our high school and
junior high join together for chapel after fourth
period. We take some time from our first four
class periods in order to do this. There we start
off with worship first and then we have a guest
speaker. It’s a time where we can come
together and worship God as a school.
In conclusion, property ordinances were never
meant to destroy people’s dreams. If the
supervisors have a pattern of agreeing with
staff when property rights are in question, I
believe it is time for them to reevaluate the
original vision of our founders; their many
grievances with Great Britain were addressed in
the Declaration of Independence which had
come about for the cause of justice and set a
standard for the entire world to follow. It is
called life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. Truly, Nevada County needs a new
vision when it comes to land use and common
sense. Yes, it is time to break new ground and
let freedom ring! After all, isn’t this America?
It is a small campus so classes are closer
together. All the staff and faculty love God, and
our principal is one of the best. She really loves
God and is sweet and very friendly. The small
classes allows them to get know everybody.
Chuck Frank is an investigative journalist.
In sports, we are a D7 school which we means
are a smaller school and mostly everyone
makes the sports teams. There are very few
cuts, so it gives us a chance to try out new
sports and helps us improve with sports we
already play. The sports teams are usually
some of the best in our league.
I like Forest Lake and I wish that all kids could
go to a school like mine.
Thanks for listening.
Kyle Cuniberti is a 14-year-old freshman at
Forest Lake Christian School.
The Grand Enabler Called the Central
Bank
by Marc Cuniberti
My Small Christian School
by Kyle Cuniberti
I go to a private Christian school called Forest
Lake Christian School. There are many benefits
in attending this school, in my opinion.
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An enabler is one who is thought to foster bad
behavior by providimg either misguided advice
or permission or by providing the tools to
continue the negative practice or practices.
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In a world of easy money, it can be said the
central banks of the world have enabled the
mega banks, hedge funds and speculators also
to also continue with their bad behaviors.
By keeping interest rates so low, it’s easy and
very cheap to borrow money.
This in turn encourages speculators which are
large banks, pension plans and hedge funds to
engage in large derivative bets on everything
that is traded.
During the crisis, the low interest rates fostered
an overabundance of home loans that couldn’t
be serviced by the borrowers. It encouraged
banks to make risky loans and enabled
questionable borrowers to take out loans that
normal interest rates would otherwise have
made unobtainable. In summary, low rates
encourage investors to buy higher yielding and
therefore riskier assets. They can also make big
time gambling by the largest of speculators
extremely profitable.
Easy money in the form of low rates could be
said to be the main cause of the housing bust
and bank blowup in 2008.
Now with oil prices plunging, we can expect
those low interest rates again to make their
effects known as a variety of loans and bets on
oil and the companies that deal in oil’s related
investments start suffering huge losses.
Much like we saw in the last crisis, low rates
have fostered a new potential for problems. The
low rates that have existed over the years have
enabled marginable oil producers to borrow
money to fund their operations. Now that oil is
plunging, these companies are finding it harder
and harder to make their loan payments and
the markets where these loans are traded are
starting to squeal.
Even more dangerous are the massive bets
speculators have made on the movement of oil.
With oil rapidly falling, many of these highly
leveraged bets are about to go up in smoke,
and with them the balance sheets of the
companies that made those bets.
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Had interest rates been normalized after the
banking crisis, many of the large bets on oil
would not have been possible. In addition,
many marginable oil companies would not have
been able to borrow money and produce oil;
that oil has now added to the glut that is now
contributing to its price plunge. Much like the
overabundance of houses we saw because rates
were so low, we are now seeing an
overabundance of oil, causing another bust
similar to the housing blowup.
Thanks to another round of low interest rates,
we may be about to witness the result of the
grand enablers which are the central banks of
the world and their artificial manipulation of
those rates.
A plethora of bad oil bets are about to blow up
due to this drastic fall in the price of oil and
much of what is to come can be blamed directly
on the low interest rates which are set by the
central banks of the world.
Until interest rates are allowed to rise to their
natural rates we will continue to see these
massive blowups, false booms and subsequent
nightmarish economic busts.
Marc Cuniberti hosts “Money Matters” on KVMR
FM 89.5 and 105.1 FM on Thursdays at noon
and syndicated on over 30 radio stations
throughout the US. He has been featured on
NBC and ABC television and on a host of made
for TV documentaries for his economic insights.
His website is:
www.moneymanagementradio.com
Cellphone Tower — Are We Asking
the Right Questions?
by David Moyer
Please stifle that yawn and read on. The Union’s
article was not very clear as to who is alleging
what in the cellphone tower controversy near
Lake Wildwood.
Was the family denied a permit to build their
home? Do they want to build their house next
to the tower? Does the county want to take part
or all of their land?
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I think it is clear that Peter Lockyer and his wife
do not want the cell tower built. But whatever
the issues are, over time they will be irrelevant
to those living near the tower. We aren’t asking
the right questions.
At one time I canvassed some homes near the
tower location. I shared some material on the
health risks associated with such a tower and
got a collective yawn from those who will be
bathed in its electromagnetic radiation.
Not having the tower is a “documented public
safety risk?” Whatever happened to the
ordinary telephone? What about the safety risk
of having the tower?
In my recently-published books, “Beyond
Mental Illness” and “10 Ways to Keep your
Brain from Screaming ‘Ouch,’” I address the
effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) to overall
health, including mental health.
For starters EMF is genotoxic, at least as much
as benzene. It increases risk of cancer.
Congress and the telecommunications industry
passed a law to specifically prevent legitimate
health concerns from being a factor in the
placement of cellphone towers. Why would they
do that?
Santini administered a questionnaire to 530
men and women. Half lived within 300 meters
of a cellphone tower and half were outside that
boundary.
Those living within the boundary reported
significantly
higher
levels
of
tiredness,
headaches,
sleep
disturbance,
irritability,
depression, memory loss, dizziness and
decreased sex drive (within 100 meters)
compared to those outside the boundary.
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Cows had significantly higher levels of
melatonin and humans reported significantly
improved sleep.
After a lifetime of research, he concluded that
EMF from different sources are risk factors for
cancers, sleep disturbance, learning difficulties,
senility, depression, suicide, cardiac arrhythmia
and heart attacks.
A 2007 study showed that pregnant women
who “moderately” used their cellphones during
their pregnancy had a 54 percent increased risk
of their offspring having ADHD.
A German study found that children exposed to
the top one quarter of EMF levels were more
than twice as likely to have behavior problems
over time.
The EMF exposure was well below established
guidelines. According to Johansson, EMF in rats,
at the level of a Bluetooth device, impairs shortterm memory and ability to navigate a maze.
The declining mental health in the culture is but
one measure of a developing ecological
catastrophe that, like the proverbial frog in the
pan of cold water on the stove, we silently
endure, even as the temperature slowly rises.
Meanwhile, the county, a family and the courts
address legal issues irrespective of the real
health threats caused by these towers.
Our congressional representatives with the help
of the K Street Lobby and the powerful
resources of mass media have assured that
such a discussion will remain moot.
David Moyer is a retired Air Force Lt. Col.
and licensed clinical social worker. He is the
author of three books, two of which are
mentioned in this article.
Women reported greater levels of headache,
nausea, sleep disturbance, appetite loss and
depression than the men.
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
In
Schwarzenburg,
Switzerland,
Cherry
assessed humans and animals before and after
a nearby cellphone tower was turned off for
three days.
Electrohypersensitivity is a term we that are
reacting to microwave radiation are not
completely fond of. It seems to blame victims of
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this pernicious military weapon technology and
also separates us from everyone else. This
particular label allows the public to consider us
the 'too sensitive others' and perpetuates a
state of denial among the few who've become
familiar with wireless dangers. As sufferers and
activists we feel compelled to inform people
across the planet about the threat to life on
Earth due to the saturation of deleterious
frequencies that now surround every living
being. We first must begin with not-so-smart
meters. Our privacy and civil rights are violated
every minute of every day with these radiation
transmitting devices.
The health issues are wide-ranging and
irreversible. Like the original microwave
weapons used on people in the Cold War, low
pulsing frequencies open the blood-brain
barrier,
cause
heart
arrhythmia
and
tachycardia, DNA breaks, damage to the pineal
gland,
endocrine
disruption,
upregulated
adrenals and hardening of cell walls via the
mechanisms of voltage-gated calcium channels.
My own experience when these meters were
installed where I lived in Vermont was dramatic.
I began to convulse at night and then 24 hours
a day, having no knowledge of their
deployment, nor of the symptoms I was
enduring. Symptoms can include, but are not
limited
to
headaches,
chronic
fatigue/fibromyalgia, difficulties concentrating,
memory
loss,
depression/mood
swings,
dermatological
symptoms,
irritability
or
sleeplessness, heart problems, poor blood
circulation, disorientation, thyroid disorders, eye
discomfort and tinnitus.
After my first exposure to smart meters, I
endured
increasing
sensitivity
to
electromagnetic fields. I was unable to be near
laundry machines, fans, stereos, televisions and
refrigerators. After moving to the West Coast, I
had a seizure when using a cell phone while
approaching a cell tower. A few months later, I
was forced to be in close proximity to another
antenna array without my knowledge and my
symptoms increased even further. I could feel
power lines as I drove near them. I could feel a
Prius pulling at my face as I followed it on the
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road and I began staying several car lengths
away from hybrid vehicles. Following overexposures, I found that all the neighbors'
devices felt even stronger and I was aware
when WiFi was on or off, or when a cordless or
cellular phone was in use.
Upon arriving in Nevada county, I connected
with other radiation reactive folks and we
formed a Stop Smart Meters chapter here.
Our aim is to get the local government and
business people involved along with other
community members to secure a ban on
broadcasting meters within the county. Another
goal is to provide homes and businesses with an
alternative to WiFi. Two possible options include
powerline routers or light frequencies for
wireless. So-called 'LiFi' is being used in Europe
and although more information would be useful,
it seems a viable option over constant
microwave radiation exposures.
I located a signal-free 'life zone' in California
and incrementally am recovering from the worst
of my symptoms. These reactions to microwave
radiation are happening all over the world. The
peer reviewed science about its permanent
biological effects is readily available. Also, I've
taken part in creating a website Ignorance and
Denial providing many links to documents and
documentaries
advising
about
microwave
dangers. Members of Stop Smart Meters
Nevada County will be voicing their concerns
at the Nevada City Council meeting on February
11th. For more information about our local group
or about smart meters you may email me at
[email protected] and please visit
Stop Smart Meters!
Heather Lane is a musician and activist
originally from Philadelphia. She lives in a
wireless free zone in rural Nevada County.
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Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by
Technology and the Internet of
Things
by John W. Whitehead
If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be
for the promise of expediency and comfort
delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell
phone signals that never drop a call,
thermostats that keep us at the perfect
temperature without our having to raise a
finger, and entertainment that can be
simultaneously streamed to our TVs, tablets and
cell phones.
Likewise, if ever we find ourselves in bondage,
we will have only ourselves to blame for having
forged the chains through our own lassitude,
laziness and abject reliance on internetconnected gadgets and gizmos that render us
wholly irrelevant.
Indeed, while most of us are consumed with our
selfies and trying to keep up with what our
friends
are
posting
on
Facebook,
the
megacorporation Google has been busily
partnering with the National Security Agency
(NSA), the Pentagon, and other governmental
agencies to develop a new “human” species.
In other words, Google—a neural network that
approximates a global brain—is fusing with the
human mind in a phenomenon that is called
“singularity,” and they’ve hired transhumanist
scientist Ray Kurzweil to do just that. Google
will know the answer to your question before
you have asked it, Kurzweil said. “It will have
read every email you will ever have written,
every document, every idle thought you’ve ever
tapped into a search-engine box. It will know
you better than your intimate partner does.
Better, perhaps, than even yourself.”
But here’s the catch: the NSA and other
government agencies will also know you better
than yourself. As William Binney, one of the
highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge
from the NSA said, “The ultimate goal of the
NSA is total population control.”
Science fiction, thus, has become fact.
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We’re fast approaching Philip K. Dick’s vision of
the future as depicted in the film Minority
Report. There, police agencies apprehend
criminals before they can commit a crime,
driverless cars populate the highways, and a
person’s biometrics are constantly scanned and
used to track their movements, target them for
advertising, and keep them under perpetual
surveillance.
Cue the dawning of the Age of the Internet of
Things, in which internet-connected “things” will
monitor your home, your health and your habits
in order to keep your pantry stocked, your
utilities regulated and your life under control
and relatively worry-free.
The key word here, however, is control.
In the not-too-distant future, “just about every
device you have — and even products like
chairs, that you don’t normally expect to see
technology in — will be connected and talking to
each other.”
This “connected” industry—estimated to add
more than $14 trillion to the economy by
2020—is about to be the next big thing in terms
of societal transformations, right up there with
the Industrial Revolution, a watershed moment
in technology and culture.
Between driverless cars that completely lacking
a steering wheel, accelerator, or brake pedal,
and smart pills embedded with computer chips,
sensors, cameras and robots, we are poised to
outpace the imaginations of science fiction
writers such as Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov.
The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas is a glittering showcase for such Internetconnected techno gadgets as smart light bulbs
that discourage burglars by making your house
look occupied, smart thermostats that regulate
the temperature of your home based on your
activities, and smart doorbells that let you see
who is at your front door without leaving the
comfort of your couch.
Nest, Google’s $3 billion acquisition, has been
at the forefront of the “connected” industry,
with such technologically savvy conveniences as
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a smart lock that tells your thermostat who is
home, what temperatures they like, and when
your home is unoccupied; a home phone service
system that interacts with your connected
devices to “learn when you come and go” and
alert you if your kids don’t come home; and a
sleep system that will monitor when you fall
asleep, when you wake up, and keep the house
noises and temperature in a sleep-conducive
state.
It’s not just our homes that are being reordered
and reimagined in this connected age: it’s our
workplaces,
our
health
systems,
our
government and our very bodies that are being
plugged into a matrix over which we have no
real control.
Unfortunately,
have failed to
on technology
not to mention
in our race to the future, we
consider what such dependence
might mean for our humanity,
our freedoms.
For instance, if you were shocked by Edward
Snowden’s revelations about how NSA agents
have used surveillance to spy on Americans’
phone calls, emails and text messages, can you
imagine what unscrupulous government agents
could do with access to your internet-connected
car, home and medications? Imagine what a
SWAT team could do with the ability to access,
monitor and control your internet-connected
home—locking you in, turning off the lights,
activating alarms, etc.
Those still reeling from a year of police
shootings of unarmed citizens, SWAT team
raids, and community uprisings, the menace of
government surveillance can’t begin to compare
to bullet-riddled bodies, devastated survivors
and traumatized children. However, both
approaches are just as lethal to our freedoms if
left unchecked.
Control is the key here. As I make clear in my
book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging
American Police State, total control over every
aspect of our lives, right down to our inner
thoughts, is the objective of any totalitarian
regime.
George Orwell understood this. His masterpiece,
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1984, portrays a global society of total control
in which people are not allowed to have
thoughts that in any way disagree with the
corporate state. There is no personal freedom,
and advanced technology has become the
driving force behind a surveillance-driven
society. Snitches and cameras are everywhere.
And people are subject to the Thought Police,
who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes.
The government, or “Party,” is headed by Big
Brother, who appears on posters everywhere
with the words: “Big Brother is watching you.”
Make no mistake: the Internet of Things is just
Big Brother in a more appealing disguise.
John W. Whitehead is a Constitutional attorney,
author, and founder and president of The
Rutherford Institute. His award-winning book A
Government of Wolves: The Emerging American
Police State (SelectBooks, 2013) is available
online at amazon.com. Whitehead can be
contacted
at
[email protected].
Information about The Rutherford Institute is
available at www.rutherford.org.
Reprinted by permission.
Where Virtual Reality is Going
by Jon Rappoport
“In the early 1960s, I was sitting in a crowded
New York theater watching one of the first
dubbed Japanese monster imports. I was
hoping the police would stop the huge lizard,
who was clomping around, wrecking the city,
toppling
buildings,
squashing
humans
I
gradually became aware that the audience was
cheering for the monster. A cultural shift had
happened. I hadn’t known about it until then.”
(The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
I want to sketch the path along which virtual
reality is going.
Right now, companies are selling improved tech
that allows a helmet-wearer to see landscape
and people in a wider perspective, and hear
layers of sounds to the left and right, and above
and below him. He can also walk inside the
virtual set up.
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He can’t touch everything he sees yet, but
that’s coming. And perhaps one day, he’ll be
able to sit down at a lavish meal and smell and
taste the food.
Sight, sound, touch, smell, taste. A five-sense
envelope.
He’ll leap off a cliff, fly through the clouds, and
attack a monster coming his way, and he’ll win.
He’ll do this over and over, and begin to control
his own attendant fear. (You can see the
obvious military use.)
But…the money men behind virtual reality will
want more. They’ll want to program the user’s
reactions AHEAD OF TIME; his feelings,
sensations,
nervous-system
responses,
endocrine outputs, brain signals.
The full package.
“Press Button A on your remote and receive the
complete experience as we give it to you.”
Eventually, there won’t be a button A. Buyers
will want what they’re given.
That’s the threshold, the crossover:
Why try to imagine and create your own
reactions? Why try to minimize your Pavlovian
responses? The VR techs already have the
answers for you.
And their answers are very much like a medical
protocol.
Entrainment on multiple levels. This is where
virtual reality is heading.
In the process, the basic principle of elite
reality-building will be expanded: cut off the
individual’s imagination; bury it; exclude it;
make it unnecessary.
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No matter what happens to this society,
civilization, and culture, imagination has to stay
alive.
There is, at any given moment, a whole level of
solution and innovation that is in a state of
hidden potential, that is uncreated and
unknown…no one knows what these solutions
are, because individuals haven’t invented them
yet, haven’t dreamed them up, haven’t acted on
them.
If, by burying imagination, you eliminate this
level, what’s left is total control over the
population.
I’ll take this a step further. Humans are
ALREADY operating with a package of preprogrammed brain signals, endocrine outputs,
nervous-system reactions, emotional responses,
and sensations. But…
The package isn’t sealed, it isn’t complete, it
isn’t final, it isn’t unalterable. There are escape
hatches. The primary path of escape is, in fact,
imagination.
It’s the ability to demote things-as-they-are, in
favor of what might be, what could be, what is
invented—and
living
through
and
by
imagination radically changes neurological and
emotional and hormonal responses.
What constituted one’s old life becomes fuel for
the fire of a new created life.
If you look at the technocratic field of braincomputer
interface,
and
the
so-called
Singularity, in which the human brain plus the
master-computer
equal
some
mystical
fulfillment, you’re really looking at a very old
notion:
The accumulation
illumination.
of
all
knowledge
brings
Why?
This is a nonsensical premise.
Because that imagination, and its ability to
invent new unpredictable realities, is ultimately
what stands between a locked-down planet and
a planet that has a chance of freedom.
The “total of accumulated knowledge” is an
infinitesimal fraction of what hasn’t yet been
created. Whether we appreciate it or not, we
swim in a vast sea of that uncreated potential;
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and hooking up to a computer via the brain
does nothing to intensify the desire to deploy
imagination and turn the potential into new
reality.
You could spend the next million years
cataloging
data,
information,
knowledge,
indexing it, comparing it, cross-referencing it,
accumulating it; and you wouldn’t begin to
approach or touch what imagination can do.
In this sense, the internal systems of a human
being are temporary baseline protocols waiting
for imagination to revolutionize them down to
their core.
The overall effect of all forms of mind control is:
inducing an acceptance that the temporary and
the provisional are permanent.
That acceptance gives you a passive human
being.
Reprinted by permission
Jon Rappoport has worked as a free-lance
investigative reporter for over 30 years. writing
articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS
Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and
other newspapers and magazines in the US and
Europe. Please see his website for a list of books he
has authored. NoMoreFakeNews.com
A Warning Tale
by Jo Ann Rebane
My husband and I recently took a winter road
trip with friends to the little high desert town of
Lakeview (pop. 2,294; elevation 4800 feet) in
south central Oregon’s Lake County. Lakeview
is located on US 395 about 45 minutes north of
Alturas, CA. We stayed in its tidy Best Western
motel, ate in local restaurants, shopped,
enjoyed long conversations with merchants, and
toured sights which were still open in winter.
Mid-January isn’t the preferred time of year to
visit Lake County as the weather is harsh, it’s
bleak and cold. The sky was grey and
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threatened rain. Nothing is green. Deciduous
trees are bare. People are hunkered down. Our
goal was to figure out what the 7,770 people of
Lake County do in their 8,358 square miles and
to answer the question - what drives the
economy in this sparsely populated, rural
county?
As happened in California, the 1990 listing of
the spotted owl as an endangered species
began restrictions on logging in Oregon. Where
logging and forest products along with ranching
had been economic mainstays, by 1995 four of
the five lumber mills in Lakeview had closed and
those good jobs disappeared.
Prominent
citizens, stakeholders, and government officials
formed study groups and coalitions in the early
2000’s with the goal of finding some way to
revive the economy. With leadership training
grants and financial help from The Ford Family
Foundation (Roseburg, OR philanthropists
aiming to benefit rural communities) and
regulatory and political nudging from Oregon
Solutions (action arm of the 2001 Oregon
Sustainability Act), in 2007 community leaders
settled on a renewable energy implementation
plan to make “Lakeview a net exporter of
renewable energy by the end of 2012.”
Since 1999 both Lake County and the town of
Lakeview had offered tax incentives to
encourage renewable energy companies to
locate there. And the town’s mission statement
concurred: The mission of the Town of Lakeview
is to provide citizens with a safe, familyoriented
community
while
promoting
sustainable development of our human,
economic
and
natural
resources.
We
progressively seek a positive future while
honoring our heritage.
By the winter of 2011, all that progressive
collaboration looked like it had succeeded.
Iberdrola Renewables committed to build a 26.8
megawatt biomass facility using sawmill waste
and forest slash to generate power. Nevada
Geothermal Power began drilling test wells for a
30 megawatt geothermal power plant to provide
future jobs. However, by the end of 2011,
Iberdrola halted construction on the bio-mass
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plant for lack of a power purchase agreement,
due to the economy and lower energy prices
nationwide.
And Nevada Geothermal faced
bankruptcy having replicated the Solyndra
model relying entirely on federal grants and
federal loan guarantees for funding.
Today, Lakeview presents a sorry face.
Businesses along Hwy 395 and “E” St are
boarded up or empty. Merchants blame town
“leadership” for buying into the sustainable
economic hope and for also accepting
dependence on government agencies and
government jobs to round out the economy.
Even the prison built in 2005 hasn’t helped.
There’s now an effort to attract outdoor
enthusiasts and tourists. In a coffee shop we
heard that that day 3 restaurants had closed
and terminated all of their employees.
A
disgruntled merchant told of watching the
population continuing to shrink as there are no
jobs or future opportunities for the youth. Two
of the three motels along Hwy 395 show no
signs of life. We were told that the county
recently
adopted
tighter
building
codes
requiring anyone wanting to sell their home to
bring it up to the new, current code which has
stifled home sales. A quick check of real estate
websites confirms that most properties have
been on the market for a very long time.
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Jo Ann Rebane lives in Nevada City and is the
2nd VP, Legislative Chair of Nevada County
Republican Women Federated.
Stop Smart Meters Nevada County
Wednesday February 11, 2015 Nevada City
Council Meeting
All are encouraged to attend and state
their concerns about the risks that Smart
Meters pose to our health, safety, privacy,
and basic civil liberties.
Finally, we wondered what role Agenda 21
played in Lakeview’s woes. Our coffee shop
source was surprised we knew of it and stated
emphatically that implementing Agenda 21
goals was responsible for Lakeview’s overall
decline. We saw it with our own eyes. Forced
loss of the timber industry, hostility to ranching,
grasping at a sustainable/renewable nonmarket based economy has had the effect of
impoverishing and depopulating Lake County,
Oregon.
I have seen a future which could also be ours in
Nevada County.
(Thank you to my husband and to Russ and
Ellen Steele for participating in the research for
this article.)
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