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       06/06/2004 
        Signs of the Times Exclusive: 
        As it turned out, a few months ago the 
        world didn't end on Thursday and all those trying to predict doomsday 
        could take a breather - for a while anyway - but the guys over at "Psyops 
        Central" like to keep us on our toes. So now that "Planet X" 
        has come and gone (so to speak), it's time to get down to the really serious 
        issues.  
      The question 
        these days is not, "Will the world end on thursday?" but rather, 
        "Will the NWO begin in June 2004?" Many "UFO buffs" 
        say that Reagan was referring to such an event when he alluded to a "threat 
        from beyond our world," crowing with glee that Reagan's comment was 
        a reference to aliens and government cover-ups. Nowadays, the question 
        is: is it possible he was talking about a slightly different celestial 
        anomaly?  
      Recently 
        the Konspiracy Korner of the internet has been all abuzz with talk of 
        the world's navies leaving their ports en masse, an event allegedly linked 
        to the "revelations" of a mysterious e-group commentator known 
        only as "Aussie Bloke".  
      Claiming 
        to be an astronomer with the inside scoop on the large dust cloud and 
        three medium sized meteorites that he declared were on a collision course 
        with the earth, the mysterious "Aussie Bloke" caused quite a 
        stir on the unmoderated Godlikeproductions.com forum where he posted his 
        "groundbreaking" revelations (pun intended).  
      A major part 
        of Aussie Bloke's "evidence" for the impending global catastrophe 
        was a radio 
        communication intercept called "Snowball" where a lone ham 
        radio operator supposedly recorded an intercept of a U.S. military SSB 
        (Single Side Band) radio transmission on 26 January of this year, referring 
        to a mysterious "countdown" to an unnamed event which (by the 
        countdown) will occur around June 19 or 20 (of this year). Other evidence 
        cited was that much of the US Navy (7 carrier strike groups) are being 
        deployed around the world this summer, with other joint exercises with 
        the navies of other nations occurring at the same time. Certainly, this 
        strikes a lot of people as odd, considering that Bush has cancelled departure 
        time for our overworked, stressed-out troops in Iraq. 
       
        USS 
          Harry S. Truman, USS Enterprise Leave Norfolk to Test Navy's Deployment 
          Capabilities 
        Associated 
          Press Writer 
        "(AP) 
          - The USS Harry S. Truman sailed Wednesday- and the USS Enterprise left 
          Thursday - in a test of the Navy's ability to have seven of its 12 carriers 
          away from port simultaneously, a major shift from the way carriers have 
          traditionally been used. 
        The two 
          Norfolk-based carriers are participating in the exercise, dubbed "Summer 
          Pulse 04." 
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        British 
          Navy heads west for 'Aurora'  
           
          26.05.04 
        "The 
          largest commitment of Royal Navy personnel since the liberation of Iraq 
          12 months ago has been sent west for huge war games in the Atlantic. 
        Eighteen 
          warships, led by Fleet flagship HMS Invincible, are taking part in Exercise 
          Aurora, stretching along the eastern seaboard of the 
          United States 
          to the Gulf of Mexico.  
        Among the 
          ships deployed are helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, assault ship HMS Albion 
          and Type 23 frigates HM ships Marlborough and Sutherland, all sailing 
          in small 'packets' to meet up in Norfolk, Virginia. 
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        Major 
          Russian armed forces exercises to be held in June  
        May 18, 
          2004 
        MOSCOW 
          - The Russian Armed Forces will hold major exercises in June 2004, acting 
          Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told President Vladimir Putin. 
        "In 
          June, permanent alert units will be redeployed from one Russian region 
          to some other by Defense Ministry transport planes civilian Il-62 and 
          Il-86 aircraft," Mr. Ivanov said at president's Monday meeting 
          with cabinet members. 
        "The 
          Russian Navy is planning major independent and international campaigns 
          in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea in August-September," 
          Mr. Ivanov said. 
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      It seems 
        a little far fetched to us to suggest that the deployment of navy ships 
        is connected with an impending meteorite impact. Summer is a natural time 
        for naval maneuvers. It is far more likely, in our opinion, that the current 
        deployment of large numbers of war ships and the conducting of naval war 
        games is for some other purpose.  
      It is no 
        secret that many months prior to the official public decision to invade 
        Iraq, the US and UK military and navy had been deployed to the gulf region. 
        To justify the war on Iraq, for which the fleet was already in place, 
        a faked terrorist attack just fortuitously occurred. Any future attack 
        on North Korea would require similar preparations. The "war on terror" 
        must go on after all. Might we expect a new, even more spectacular attack 
        this summer to be used as justification for an attack on the next "terrorist 
        state"? On this point, could it be that the names of the UK and US 
        naval exercises are suggestive of the nature of this attack? 
      Having recently 
        witnessed the Niburu and Planet X debacle, we here at SotT were initially 
        a little nonplussed by the claims of impending space rock impacts - even 
        if we think that such events have happened in the past and may very well 
        happen again. Nevertheless, our interest was piqued by the fact that the 
        details shared by "Aussie bloke" about the alleged incoming 
        meteorites contained certain specific elements that can be found in our 
        our own publications on the topic from a few years back. [See Laura's 
        Independence Day 
        commentary for a concise wrap-up of the evidence for cyclical cometary 
        impacts.] 
      We began 
        to smell a rat. 
      Within a 
        few days the debate had spread far and wide, notably onto the fundamentalist 
        Christian Bushite site and discussion board, Bushcountry.org, pondering 
        whether Jesus would be arriving on the comets themselves or sometime thereafter. 
        To their credit, some members of the Godlike Productions discussion board 
        were skeptical and demanded proof of Aussie Bloke's credentials. Apparently 
        exasperated, Aussie Bloke finally revealed himself as one Dr. Grant Gartrel, 
        (sic) possibly an Australian astronomer, but more likely an Australian 
        authority on caves and rock imaging, and a sometime blueberry farmer. 
        Of course, while a Dr. Grant Gartrell does exist, there is no proof that 
        it was the real Dr Gartrel.  
      Here is what 
        "he" said: 
       
        Aussie 
          Bloke 5/29/2004 5:19 am EDT Re: Aussie Bloke Vol.#3 
        "Ok...here 
          it is. I AM DR GARTREL. Happy now? As for what I know....I've already 
          told you. You want bloody details....you have them already. You want 
          to know what will happen?...read the above posts. You don't believe 
          me?...YOUR problem! YOU have brains...USE THEM....as I've encouraged 
          you all to do all along!!! READ THE BLOODY SIGNS>>>>>>>but 
          no...some remain flaming BLIND!!!! because they WANT TO. Wont change 
          a thing. I am screwed now...cats out of the bag now...I am who I am....and 
          who gives a ____. IM BLOODY ANGRY!!!!! DO you people have ANY BLOODY 
          IDEA at ALL what it has been like for myself and others who have known 
          about this for BLOODY TWO DECADES!!!!!!!! But no...WELL BUGGER IT ALL!!!!!! 
          For those who have patiently waited for me I am truly sorry for not 
          doing the expected. I told you all weeks ago exactly where and when...you 
          have the details already. The reason? THINK about it!!! IF I had told 
          you all back then that the information WAS in fact THE information you 
          all wanted....the site would have shut down. I had to do it this way...the 
          information has been out for over two weeks now...and the ptb can now 
          do bugger all about it. I have been around them long enough to know 
          how they think and what they would do...now they can do nothing. The 
          times locations and eta of the cloud and objects has already been posted. 
          NOW all you have to do is hope to hell that someone out there copied 
          it. NOW...GET THE WORD OUT!!!! THIS IS LEGIT. FAREWELL TO ALL. SEE YOU 
          IN ETERNITY." 
       
      Well, talk 
        about inflammatory!  
      But just 
        as the discussion was reaching fever pitch, "Aussie Bloke," 
        now calling himself "The Monitors" piped up and spoiled the 
        party by claiming it was all a big hoax, a psychological operation called 
        "Blind Skies", designed simply to test the gullibility of the 
        average, supposedly intelligent, human.  
      "The 
        Monitors" said: 
       
        "You 
          are all to be commended for your exemplary performance these past several 
          weeks. Your unwitting participation in BLIND SKIES has proven most informative, 
          and quite frankly entertaining to many project members. To say that 
          it got out of hand would be an exercise in understatement. We picked 
          GLP precisely because it was out of the way, off the beaten path of 
          usual internet surfers. It suited our needs perfectly. Unmoderated. 
          Anonymous posting. We couldn't have asked for a better testbed unless 
          we had built it ourselves.  
        Rest assured, 
          Elaine (registered owner of godlike productions) is in no way part of 
          this. She is/was as unaware of the true nature of our experiment as 
          the rest of you.  
        Our 
          initial hypothesis was straightforward enough: Given the barest minimum 
          of verifiable evidence, ordinary citizens of average to above-average 
          intelligence could be duped into wholesale belief in a catastrophe scenario, 
          provided there was ample corroboration from equally ambiguous, non-credible 
          sources.  
        We 
          never anticipated the myth spreading beyond the confines of GLP. When 
          the conservative website, Bushcountry, picked up the story, we realized 
          that our initial models had failed miserably to account for the 'word-of-mouth' 
          potential inherent in the internet. At 
          most, we thought perhaps a few other fringe sites might get on board, 
          but it's obvious to us now that it's only a matter of time before a 
          mainstream media outlet syndicates this content, at which point the 
          story will explode into something far beyond our ability to control. 
          [...]  
        BLIND SKIES 
          began with an idea. The now-legendary SNOWBALL INTERCEPT provided the 
          impetus we had been looking for, the final piece of a puzzle that had 
          been confounding us for the past 14 months. It was the perfect backstory 
          for a disaster scenario that would be easily accepted. Few people have 
          any real knowledge of astronomy. Fewer still know much about the socio-political 
          environment that modern astronomers operate within, and when one of 
          our members suggested using an invented Australian astronomer to further 
          muddy the waters, we knew it was time to release. [...] 
        BLIND SKIES 
          is not, as many have claimed, a 'PSY OP'. Although we have an affiliation 
          with the government, our mandate was not intended to be any sort of 
          disinformation campaign, mass brainwashing, or subliminal manipulation. 
          We conducted a serious experiment to study the panic reflexes of a virtual 
          community, and quite frankly the experiment ran away from us. Aussie 
          Bloke has now become our Frankenstein's Monster.  
        We applaud 
          the efforts of so many of you to find the 'facts' behind the fiction. 
          We were impressed by the fact that many people realized their lack of 
          astronomical knowledge, and sought to follow AB's advice and LOOK TO 
          THE SKIES, and INVESTIGATE FOR YOURSELVES! We cannot say that we aren't 
          pleased with our role in inspiring a new renaissance in the field of 
          astronomy.  
        Near 
          Earth Objects are a threat to our planet, and someday perhaps there 
          will be a scenario that closely matches what we created for BLIND SKIES. 
          However, that day is not today.  
        We will 
          continue to monitor these forums, along with many others, and we will 
          continue to collect the data regarding your responses. Even the release 
          of this message was factored into the experiment, however as we have 
          already stated, we never anticipated releasing it to such a broad audience. 
        One 
          interesting result that we had not considered was the various religous 
          and prophetic threads that have spawned as a result of our experiment. 
          One project member commented that it was encouraging to see that faith 
          is not dead in the world.  
        And so, 
          to you believers, I say be careful in what, and in whom, you place your 
          faith and your trust. And, to you non-believers I say, continue to keep 
          up the fight for truth and reason, because you are logic's last line 
          of defense.  
        With regards, 
           
        The Monitors 
       
      And there 
        it sat, amazing revelations of impending cometary disaster, the authors 
        pleading that they never dreamed that the story would have ever reached 
        so far and wide, even onto fundamental Christian, pro Bush sites.  
      Paradoxically, 
        it was at this point that the whole situation began to make a little more 
        sense, at least to us. We find it hard to believe that the authors were 
        unaware of the fact that sensationalist revelations spread extremely quickly 
        on the internet. As such we deduce that, despite their claims to naivete, 
        the wide dissemination and discussion of "Aussie Bloke's" meteorite 
        impact revelations, and the ultimate ridiculing of the people that believed 
        them, was the real goal.  
      There is 
        also the comment above by the authors that, "it's only a matter 
        of time before a mainstream media outlet syndicates this content, at which 
        point the story will explode into something far beyond our ability to 
        control."  
      Indeed it 
        is true that, if this story were to be reported by the mainstream media, 
        complete with the idea that the whole thing was a hoax, any future 
        comments by ANY website that suggest the reality of the possibility of 
        a meteorite impact would immediately be dismissed as simply more "hoaxery". 
      On the other 
        hand, the authors themselves state that they are pleased that the more 
        religious-minded latched onto the threat of a meteorite impact to bury 
        their heads further in religious dogma. Coincidence? As much as the authors 
        would like us to think so, we think not.  
      But the story 
        was not ready to die just yet. Not wanting to bore the seasoned internet 
        conspiracy theorist with a simple fear-based reverse psychology move, 
        another member of the Godlike Productions message board then claimed that 
        the above message from the Monitors was the real hoax and that 
        he (anonymous poster) was the one who was behind it, and that the original 
        message from Aussie Bloke was real! 
       
        The 
          Monitors Revealed 6/3/2004 10:08 am EDT Re: GLP was an "Aussie 
          Bloke" experiment! so says the Monitors 
        I have 
          no doubt that this message will be cross-posted, copied, pasted, and 
          spread just as far and wide as my original "Monitors" message. 
           
        In 
          less than 24 hours, you have all embraced an entirely fake post that 
          offered NO corroborative evidence and NO verifiable proof of anything. 
           
        Like many 
          of you, I was on the fence regarding AB, N&W, and even Lyros to 
          some extent. Part of me remains convinced that an intelligent person, 
          or group, can easily construct a plausible scenario that many people 
          will believe in, simply because it SOUNDS good.  
        I could 
          have left "The Monitors" (which, by the way, was taken from 
          an old Space: Above and Beyond episode, for those of you who remember 
          that awesome TV show), but I'm really not interested in sending people 
          into mental institutions or home foreclosure, because they lost their 
          minds over something they read on the internet.  
        This should 
          clearly illustrate to you all that you NEED to improve your BS filters 
          when you read something on the net. There are organized groups operating 
          even now that will generate a hoax just for the bragging rights of doing 
          it. If AB/N&W is a hoax, they are right now patting themselves on 
          the backs and congratulating each other.  
        Honestly, 
          I don't know if it's real, if any of it's real, but I had to throw 
          "The Monitors" into the mix to prove a point that MANY 
          other posters have been shouting at you ever since this began.  
        It took 
          me all of 15 minutes to write the "Monitors" message. If someone 
          REALLY wanted to do their homework, ask some questions, and take some 
          notes, they could create a story that most of us would be hard-pressed 
          to refute.  
        Sure, I 
          upset a lot of people, but you guys needed a wake up call. STOP 
          BELIEVING EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE INTERNET. Yes, 
          mainstream media often misses or intentionally buries news items, and 
          sites like GLP can be valuable resources in finding news that falls 
          through the holes, but stories like AB's 
          go beyond all that, and delve deeply into the realm of complete and 
          utter internet hoax.  
        Just look 
          at what the reactions to my message were. Some people refused to believe 
          that AB (aussie bloke) could be anything but the gospel. Some people 
          realized it was a hastily prepared scam. Some people saw it as a logical 
          explanation that reinforced something they'd been thinking all along. 
           
        In short, 
          your reactions to my post were very much in line with your reactions 
          to AB and the like.  
        I know 
          you'll all require proof that "The Monitors" message is a 
          fake, and that I'm the one who did it. So, here goes.  
        BLIND SKIES 
          is the proof - totally made it up on the spot, because it sounded good. 
          AB kept saying look to the skies, but so many people weren't seeing 
          anything, so it sounded good. I googled it myself, and was surprised 
          that the first hit actually had to do with asteroids. I laughed a little, 
          but then included that part about COINCIDENCE as a result of my google 
          experience. I picked it out of the blue, people, and it "hit" 
          when searched on!  
        When I 
          'quoted' AB and said LOOK TO THE SKIES and INVESTIGATE FOR YOURSELF, 
          I fully expected you to do web searches on BLIND SKIES, and quickly 
          learn that it probably doesn't exist, never has, never will. I was a 
          little surprised that the anagram hunters didn't make an appearance 
          (maybe they did and I missed it). Before I posted, I checked to make 
          sure there'd be no "hits" on anagrams, and the closest I saw 
          that you MIGHT latch onto was DISIN BS ELK.  
        I insinuated 
          government "affiliation" ("The Monitors" never stated 
          they WERE the government, yet many inferred that), because I knew that 
          would add even more credibility. Many of you are convinced that TPTB 
          are untrustworthy (and perhaps they are), so by adding that element, 
          I insured that those disaffected people would likely get on board with 
          my message. [...] 
       
      As you can 
        imagine, at this stage most people did not know what to believe. Yet again, 
        the favored psyops technique of "good cop - bad cop" is used, 
        with the public first wound up and then placated, leaving them sure 
        of nothing and open to anything.  
      Interestingly, 
        the messages from "Aussie Bloke", "The Monitors" and 
        the above unidentified individual, all stressed the same point - that 
        the conspiracy minded internet communities are extremely gullible and 
        very easily duped. They reiterated that the public can be made to believe 
        anything, and therefore they should believe nothing, or believe everything, 
        either way, the message is that they will never know for sure 
        what is happening.  
      As a final 
        dig, the above unnamed author advised subscribers to read the text below. 
        In doing so, he perhaps revealed a core aspect of the message he wanted 
        to get across.  
       
        "In 
          an introductory essay, Peter Knight, editor of the 2002 collection Conspiracy 
          Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America, attributes 
          modern conspiracism to "the pervading sense of uncontrollable forces 
          taking over our lives, our minds, and even our bodies." He writes 
          that "conspiracy thinking has become not so much the sign of a 
          crackpot delusion as part of an everyday struggle to make sense of 
          a rapidly changing world." In effect, individuals are losing 
          their sense of agency in a period of political chaos and technological 
          overload, compulsive consumerism and fear of the future, experiencing 
          a loss of self and a sense of interchangeability with other digitized 
          and horrifically surveilled humans, unable to get the big picture into 
          focus and hence fixating on an idea of the world itself as a vast, impenetrable 
          conspiracy." 
       
      So there 
        it is. Conspiracy theorists are no longer to be ridiculed but pitied; 
        they are merely suffering from the pressures of the modern world and social 
        and technological development.  
      If 
        we consider the underlying effect of the entire "Aussie Bloke" 
        episode and the lessons that may have been learned by the average seeker 
        on the net, it is that reports of anything of a "conspiratorial nature," 
        cannot be trusted - period. Additionally, any future predictions of warnings 
        of possible impending meteorite impacts and cataclysms will surely be 
        considered with more skepticism than before, even by those more inclined 
        to believe that they may contain an element of truth.  
      Yet it seems 
        that there is always more than one agenda served by psychological operations 
        of this type. We cannot discount the fact that all of this is happening 
        at a time when there has been a marked increased in ACTUAL meteorite sightings 
        and impacts - well 
        over a dozen in the past year alone.  
      It also provides 
        much needed distraction for the Bush gang from the worrying reports that 
        Bush is a man on the edge of sanity worrying that he will be tried for 
        War Crimes, with the Neocons feeling more and more that, at this point, 
        they have nothing to lose. It is certainly strange that the conservative, 
        Bush supporting, fundie Bushcountry.org website would publish something 
        like the "Aussie Bloke" rant. As Laura wrote in COINTELPRO 
        and the Speed of Light : 
       
        The first 
          thing we want to think about is the fact that the word "conspiracy" 
          evokes such a strong reaction in all of us: nobody wants to be branded 
          as a "conspiracy thinker." It just isn't "acceptable." 
          It's "un-scientific" or it's evidence of mental instability. 
          Right? That's what you are thinking, isn't it?  
        In fact, 
          I bet that the very reading of the word even produces certain physiological 
          reactions: a slight acceleration of the heartbeat, and perhaps a quick 
          glance around to make sure that no one was watching while you simply 
          read the word silently.  
        Have you 
          ever asked yourself WHY the word evokes such an instantaneous emotional 
          reaction? Have you ever wondered why it stimulates such a strong "recoil?" 
          After all, it is only a word. It only describes the idea of people in 
          "high places" thinking about things and doing things that 
          manipulate other people to produce benefits for themselves.  
        Richard 
          M. Dolan studied at Alfred University and Oxford University before 
          completing his graduate work in history at the University of Rochester, 
          where he was a finalist for a Rhodes scholarship. Dolan studied U.S. 
          Cold War strategy, Soviet history and culture, and international diplomacy. 
          He has written about "conspiracy" in the following way:  
         
          The 
            very label [conspiracy] serves as an automatic dismissal, as though 
            no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common 
            sense to this issue.  
          The 
            United States comprises large organizations - corporations, bureaucracies, 
            "interest groups," and the like - which are conspiratorial 
            by nature. That is, they are hierarchical, their important decisions 
            are made in secret by a few key decision-makers, and they are not 
            above lying about their activities. Such is the nature of organizational 
            behavior. "Conspiracy," in this key sense, is a way of life 
            around the globe. 
          Within 
            the world's military and intelligence apparatuses, this tendency is 
            magnified to the greatest extreme. During the 1940s, [...] the military 
            and its scientists developed the world's most awesome weapons in complete 
            secrecy... [...] 
          Anyone 
            who has lived in a repressive society knows that official manipulation 
            of the truth occurs daily. But societies have their many and their 
            few. In all times and all places, it is the few who rule, and the 
            few who exert dominant influence over what we may call official 
            culture. - All elites take care to manipulate public information 
            to maintain existing structures of power. It's an old game. 
          America 
            is nominally a republic and free society, but in reality an empire 
            and oligarchy, vaguely aware of its own oppression, within and without. 
            I have used the term "national security state" to describe 
            its structures of power. It is a convenient way to express the military 
            and intelligence communities, as well as the worlds that feed upon 
            them, such as defense contractors and other underground, nebulous 
            entities. Its fundamental traits are secrecy, wealth, independence, 
            power, and duplicity. 
          Nearly 
            everything of significance undertaken by America's military and intelligence 
            community in the past half-century has occured in secrecy. The undertaking 
            to build an atomic weapon, better known as the Manhattan Project, 
            remains the great model for all subsequent activities. For more than 
            two years, not a single member of Congress even knew about it although 
            its final cost exceeded two billion dollars.  
          During 
            and after the Second World War, other important projects, such as 
            the development of biological weapons, the importation of Nazi scientists, 
            terminal mind-control experiments, nationwide interception of mail 
            and cable transmissions of an unwitting populace, infiltration of 
            the media and universities, secret coups, secret wars, and assassinations 
            all took place far removed not only from the American public, but 
            from most members of Congress and a few presidents. Indeed, several 
            of the most powerful intelligence agencies were themselves established 
            in secrecy, unknown by the public or Congress for many years. 
          Since 
            the 1940s, the US Defense and Intelligence establishment has had more 
            money at its disposal than most nations. In addition to official dollars, 
            much of the money is undocumented. From its beginning, the CIA was 
            engaged in a variety of off-the-record "business" activities 
            that generated large sums of cash. The connections of the CIA with 
            global organized crime (and thus de facto with the international narcotics 
            trade) has been well established and documented for many years. - 
            Much of the original money to run the American intelligence community 
            came from very wealthy and established American families, who have 
            long maintained an interest in funding national security operations 
            important to their interests. 
          In 
            theory, civilian oversight exists over the US national security establishment. 
            The president is the military commander-in-chief. Congress has official 
            oversight over the CIA. The FBI must answer to the Justice Department. 
            In practice, little of this applies. One reason has to do with secrecy. 
            [...] 
          A 
            chilling example of such independence occurred during the 1950s, when 
            President Eisenhower effectively lost control of the US nuclear arsenal. 
            The situation deteriorated so much that during his final two years 
            in office, Eisenhower asked repeatedly for an audience with the head 
            of Strategic Air Command to learn what America's nuclear retaliatory 
            plan was. What he finally learned in 1960, his final year in office, 
            horrified him: half of the Northern Hemisphere would be obliterated. 
          If 
            a revered military hero such as Eisenhower could not control America's 
            nuclear arsenal, nor get a straight answer from the Pentagon, how 
            on earth could Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, or Nixon regarding 
            comparable matters? 
          Secrecy, 
            wealth and independence add up to power. Through the years, the national 
            security state has gained access to the wrorld's most sophisticated 
            technology sealed off millions of acres of land from public access 
            or scrutiny, acquired unlimited snooping ability within US borders 
            and beyond, conducted overt or clandestine actions against other nations, 
            and prosecuted wars without serious media scrutiny. Domestically, 
            it maintains influence over elected officials and communities hoping 
            for some of the billions of defense dollars. [including scientists, 
            universities, etc.] 
          Deception 
            is the key element of warfare, and when winning is all that matters, 
            the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. 
            When taken together, the examples of official duplicity form a nearly 
            single totality. They include such choice morsels as the phony war 
            crisis of 1948, the fabricated missile gap claimed by the air force 
            during the 1950s, the carefully managed events leading to the Gulf 
            of Tonkin resolution... [...] 
          The 
            secrecy stems from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in 
            our world, that those who are at the top of the heap will always take 
            whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo. 
          [S]keptics 
            often ask, "Do you really think the government could hide [anything] 
            for so long?" The question itself reflects ignorance of the reality 
            that secrecy is a way of life in the National Security State. Actually 
            though, the answer is yes, and no. 
          Yes, 
            in that cover-ups are standard operating procedure, frequently unknown 
            to the public for decades, becoming public knowledge by a mere roll 
            of the dice. But also no, in that ... information has leaked out from 
            the very beginning. It is impossible to shut the lid completely. The 
            key lies in neutralizing and discrediting unwelcomed information, 
            sometimes through official denial, other times through proxies in 
            the media.  
          [E]vidence 
            [of conspiracy] derived from a grass roots level is unlikely to survive 
            its inevitable conflict with official culture. And acknowledgement 
            about the reality of [conspiracies] will only occur when the official 
            culture deems it worthwhile or necessary to make it. Don't hold your 
            breath. 
          This 
            is a widespread phenomenon affecting many people, generating high 
            levels of interest, taking place in near-complete secrecy, for purposes 
            unknown, by agencies unknown, with access to incredible resources 
            and technology. A sobering thought and cause for reflection. [Richard 
            Dolan] 
         
        Consider 
          this: even if Dolan is writing specifically about America, in a world 
          dominated by the United States, it must be considered that pressures 
          are applied elsewhere from within this "national security state" 
          to comply with the demands of the US.  
        Now, think 
          about the word "conspiracy" one more time and allow me to 
          emphasize the key point: From a historical point of view, the ONLY 
          reality is that of conspiracy. Secrecy, wealth and independence 
          add up to power. ...Deception is the key element of warfare, (the tool 
          of power elites), and when winning is all that matters, the conventional 
          morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. Secrecy stems 
          from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in our world, that 
          those who are at the top of the heap will always 
          take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo. 
        And maintaining 
          the "status quo" in science HAS to be one of the main objectives 
          of the Power Elite.  
        And how 
          do they do that? By "official culture." 
         And official 
          culture, understood this way, from the perspective of elite groups wishing 
          to maintain the status quo of their power, means only one thing: COINTELPRO. 
          And here we do not mean the specific FBI program, but the concept of 
          the program, and the likelihood that this has been the mode of controlling 
          human beings for possibly millennia. Certainly, Machiavelli outlined 
          the principles a very long time ago and little has changed since.  
        The fact 
          is, I like to call it "Cosmic COINTELPRO" to suggest that 
          it is almost a mechanical system that operates based on the psychological 
          nature of human beings, most of whom LIKE to live in denial. After 
          all, "if ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." 
       
      And so, we 
        come to the idea bushcountry.org may well be a front (whether unwitting 
        or not) for the agenda of the Bush reich - the current "Conspirators" 
        in charge. 
      Of course, 
        none of the above answers the question as to the identities of the people 
        behind this most recent psyop. Without doubt there is a hierarchy involved, 
        with the names at the top of the pyramid seldom if ever revealed. But 
        there have been many cases were agents 
        and "New Age" grifters and conmen have been exposed. We 
        ourselves have experienced ongoing attacks from such disinformation artists. 
        In this case however, other than the fundie Bushcountry.org site, only 
        one other alternative website seized upon the doomsday element of the 
        story and ran with it: 
       
        Dr Gartrell 
          (Aussie Bloke) Steps Forward To Confirm His Predictions, Testified 
          To Australian Parliament 
        THE ENTIRE 
          PLANET MAY BE IN DEEP TROUBLE: a Government Coverup is Exposed  
        by Will 
          Anderson "Blueotter" 
          www.prophecykeepers.com 
          June 3, 2004 Cabool, MO  
        A senior 
          Australian Physicist/Astronomer began revealing -- first anonymously 
          and now publicly -- that his government Physics/Astronomy team had discovered 
          -- some 20 years ago -- that a HUGE Outer Space debris cloud/field is 
          headed toward us and will arrive on June 8/9, 2004 -- along with 3 heavy 
          objects that they have believed for 10 years will most certainly strike 
          the earth causing massive upheavals... *unless* they miss us by a VERY 
          close margin. Dr Gartrell said only time will tell.  
        Many N.E.O. 
          or "Near Earth Objects" have been discovered lately -- but 
          announced in the media only AFTER they passed our planet within 250,000 
          miles or so!  
        Dr. Gartrell's 
          testimony has been both broad and deep. It is all on our website at 
          www.prophecykeepers.com as he has requested publicly that it be broadcasted 
          far and wide.  
        Dr. Gartrell 
          now feels he is telling us all of this information at the risk of his 
          own life, because he was muzzled many years ago by his government -- 
          and has been threatened -- but he is at peace with God and resigned 
          to what he feels is our fate now that he has visited his family between 
          5/15 and 5/29/2004.  
        He has 
          now been further identified by www.Prophecykeepers.com Radio as "Dr. 
          Grant Gartrell" of Mount Compass, South Australia -- facts which 
          can be easily verified by anyone with a search engine.  
        Dr. Gartrell 
          is either a bonafide physicist, or he lied to the South Australian Parliament. 
          It is as simple as that. He has in the 
          past publicly testified in front of the South Australian Parliament 
          and has given his name and address... and has published 
          scientific papers along with other scientists on the subject of possibly 
          threatening outer space objects. He was testifying concerning caves, 
          as he is an amateur cave explorer who has made important discoveries 
          of Pliestocene era dinosaur bones... and that information is also on 
          the Internet for all to see.  
        He began 
          revealing his disturbing facts anonymously on 4/29/04, and as promised 
          on 5/15/04 that he would reveal his identity within two weeks -- to 
          give him time for him to visit family -- and on 5/29/04 he revealed 
          his surname as "Dr. Gartrell."  
        Prophecykeepers.com 
          Radio did some simple research and discovered his actual full name, 
          address, and phone number... and that he does operate a "pick-your-own" 
          Blueberry farm nowadays where he also manufactures wine. He originally 
          claimed his full history was freely available if anyone dug deep enough... 
          and we apparently did... and it was available -- just as he claimed. 
           
        IF you 
          *fully* read Dr. Grant's Gartrell's LONG testimony, suddenly it SHOULD 
          dawn on you, as it did on Prophecykeepers.com, that SOMETHING HUGE OF 
          EARTH SHATTERING PROPORTIONS IS HAPPENENING AND THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE 
          WORLD OBVIOUSLY KNOW ABOUT IT!  
       
      Notice the 
        headline and then notice the text in red which demonstrates how certain 
        "facts" were stitched together out of context to create an illusion. 
        We are constantly reminded that for as many people who honestly seek to 
        know the truth, there is at least one that seeks to twist and manipulate 
        that truth, either for their own ends or for the objectives of their controllers, 
        or both. Apart from the fact that, in the above, Will Anderson makes no 
        effort to analyse the story or inform his readers of the controversy surrounding 
        the "revelations" of "Dr. Gartrel", he provides no 
        evidence for his key claim that Dr. Gartrel has testified before the Australian 
        parliament about the imminent meteorite threat.  
      What is even 
        more interesting is the clever way he has twisted this idea into his title 
        - making it sound like Gartrel only yesterday testified before the Australian 
        parliament about the incoming objects. At this point, given this 
        clever twist in the presentation of the story, given Anderson's obvious 
        writing skills, we might even suspect that Will Anderson himself is behind 
        the entire hoax.  
      The fact 
        is, the only testimony of a "Dr. Gartrell" (note: with 2 "Ls") 
        to the south Australian parliament we could find, was on the subject of 
        cave 
        imaging technology. 
      And so, let 
        us ask just a few questions about Will Anderson.  
      Whois.com 
        tells us that the owners of www.prophecykeepers.com 
        are W. Scott Anderson & Betty J. Wilson, General Delivery, Cabool, 
        MO 65689 United States email: prophecykeepers@yahoo.com phone: 555-555-5555 
      A 
        search on Will Anderson turned up some very interesting information: 
         
       
        Anderson, 
          Scott  
          Date added to index: 21-4-2004  
          Names: "Blue Otter" "Running Bull" "Prophecy 
          Keeper" "Strong Eagle"  
          Claimed Tribal Affiliation: Cherokee/Pohawten/Asmonquath Cherokee  
          Current Website: wovoca.com 
        Public 
          Advisory issued by comanchelodge.com. 
        Please 
          feel free to distribute! 
        This 
          warning is issued for the public to BEWARE of the individual known as 
          William Scott Anderson, a resident of Cabool Missouri. 
        This 
          advisory is published for the protection of the general public and to 
          advise our visitors that this individual over a period of several years 
          has operated numerous monetary scams conducted in the name of American 
          Indian People. 
        Scott Anderson 
          is the current spokesperson for a false group operating out of Deltona 
          Florida using the name of Indian Creek Band of Chickamauga Cherokee. 
          Anderson has in fact been known for the solicitation of donations from 
          the public on behalf of a Convicted Sex Criminal who is a Registered 
          Sex Offender in the State of Missouri, along with several other 
          incidents of exploitation affecting American Indian People. 
        William 
          Scott Anderson, otherwise known as Blue Otter, began soliciting donations 
          over the Internet in 2001 for the legal defense of what he was claiming 
          was an issue of Religious Persecution concerning the violation of American 
          Indian civil rights. 
        The 
          incident Mr. Anderson claimed was an American Indian Issue, actually 
          took place during the execution of a federal search warrant conducted 
          by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) in connection 
          with an investigation by local law enforcement over the failure of an 
          associate of Mr. Anderson to register in his community, as is required 
          by federal law in connection with a previous 1990 conviction for a sexual 
          offense concerning a minor. 
        caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/da...22265p.pdf 
        Mr. Anderson 
          was present during this raid where over 17 illegal firearms were 
          confiscated by authorities that was in the possesion of the individual 
          in question. This then led to a Grand Jury Indictment concerning the 
          illegal possession of these firearms by the convicted sex offender to 
          which the felon then later entered a plea of guilty as charged. 
        During 
          the time prior to the entered plea of guilty by the defendant, William 
          Scott Anderson was in fact soliciting money donations online for the 
          Legal Aid of this convicted sex criminal under the guise of a Cherokee 
          American Indian cause while making the claim that the ATF raid was actually 
          a result of religious persecution of American Indian people. 
        Federal 
          court documents concerning the case prove that Mr. Andersons' online 
          solicitations for money under the guise of an American Indian cause 
          were entirely false as this was never a case that involved the Bureau 
          of Indian Affairs, but rather as a direct result of illegal firearms 
          possession by a convicted sex felon which is a violation of federal 
          law. 
        William 
          Scott Anderson has also falsely claimed to be a Cherokee Indian Chief 
          in addition to his claims to being a Cherokee Medicine Man descended 
          from Pocahontas (who he also claims was Cherokee), and he is currently 
          operating yet another monetary scam where he solicits donations online 
          via paypal under the guise of yet another Fake Cherokee Indian Tribe 
          that he claims is located in Florida. 
        Please 
          be advised that this individual was officially denounced by the Cherokee 
          Nation in the year 2000 for his heinous abuse of the free e-mail system 
          that the Cherokee Nation generously offered to the public. 
        Anderson 
          was abusing their free e-mail system to make his false claims. This 
          was quickly discovered, which then led to his account being deleted 
          by Cherokee Nation authorities. 
        Anderson 
          has claimed for several years to be a medicine man where he sold injections 
          of Tahitian Noni Juice while claiming his concoction heals American 
          Indian people of Diabetes. 
        Please 
          avoid this individual and the groups he is associated with, and please 
          be advised of Mr. Anderson's connection to numerous deplorable exploitations 
          of the American Indian People over a period of several years. 
        If you 
          have been a victim of fraud concerning the scams operated by this individual 
          named William Scott Anderson, alias Blue Otter, AKA Runningbull, AKA 
          Strongeagle, Please contact the Bureau of Indian Affairs to file 
          a report! 
        Darren 
          McCathern 
        Member 
          WorldGenWeb Advisory Board www.worldgenweb.org/ 
          Comanche Lodge www.comanchelodge.com/ 
          Creek Nation IT Project www.rootsweb.com/~itcreek/ 
          Kiowa Comanche & Apache IT www.rootsweb.com/~itkiowa/  
       
      Interesting 
        history, eh?  
      Of particular 
        note is Mr Anderson's cohort having to deal with the Bureau 
        of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (BATF), the same US 
        government department that was involved in the WACO massacre and which 
        has close connections with so called "cult deprogrammers" like 
        Rick Ross and our own 
        personal 
        COINTELPRO agent. 
      From our 
        own experiences with the above referenced charismatic , andpossibly psychopathic 
        individual, we recognize the "taste" of people like Mr Anderson. 
        We suspect that, in the case of many such types, criminal charges are 
        often used as a bartering tool by CoIntelPro agencies. Essentially, they 
        are afforded some level of immunity from the law in exchange for their 
        services in spreading disinformation and lies, in whatever way is deemed 
        necessary. The internet is their "happy hunting ground". 
      At the time 
        of writing one of our research staff received a response to our inquiry 
        from the real Dr Grant Gartrell in Australia who wrote: 
       
        Thank you 
          for your inquiry and your scepticism. I don't consider that any apology 
          is needed for your contacting me.  
        I have 
          just returned home from a week interstate caving to find my answering 
          machine full and more than 60 emails awaiting me. It has taken me most 
          of the night to find out why. 
        Thanks 
          for the kind comments about my forays into the parliamentary arena. 
          I would like to think that I wasn't wasting my time then.  
        What appears 
          below is what I have sent to a couple of places where this stuff seems 
          to be breeding. 
        Further 
          to that, I have never made any submissions to any parliamentary bodies 
          on impact threats or any other aspects of cometary debris. 
        "Several 
          people have recently contacted me, and thus have drawn my attention 
          to claims being made in my name concerning the prediction of imminent 
          cataclysmic cometary impacts. 
        "Please 
          be advised that I have no knowledge of the identity of the person "Aussie 
          Bloke" who claims to be me. 
        "I 
          am very displeased to be caught up in a hoax in this way, and while 
          I do not regard myself as a vindictive person, I do not think that I 
          would be too upset at this moment if a small "personal sized" 
          heavenly body fell out of the sky and flattened "Aussie Bloke", 
          or at least knocked some integrity into him. 
        "I 
          am one of the authors of an article on meteors which appeared in the 
          Australian Journal of Physics in 1975, but, although still interested 
          in it, have not worked actively in that field much since that time. 
          I am currently a berry grower with a serious interest in cave exploration, 
          cave science and cave tourism development and management, as well as 
          the landcare movement and the promotion of sustainable agriculture and 
          horticulture. 
        "There 
          are a number of claims made by "Aussie Bloke" in his hi-jacking 
          of my persona that are plainly incorrect and make it quite clear that 
          he does not know me as well as he would like others to believe. 
        "I 
          would like to state categorically that while I have no doubt that over 
          geologically significant periods of time there have been significant 
          impacts on earth by space debris, and that there is no reason to suppose 
          that similar events will not occur from time to time in the future, 
          I have no knowledge whatsoever of any such immediate or imminent threat, 
          or any related conspiracy. I have never even met Chicken Little, and 
          I have already started planning travel arrangements for conferences 
          I expect to attend in several years time." 
        Kind regards, 
        Grant Gartrell 
       
      So there 
        you have it - yet all this proves is that the poster on "Godlike 
        Productions" was not Dr Gartrell, and those behind this little operation 
        stated that themselves.  
      The real 
        lesson to be learned here is that this was a CoIntelPro operation, designed 
        to manipulate the very malleable minds of the public in such a way as 
        to make it more difficult for the honest seeker to separate the truth 
        from the lies. Yet it is important to note that this knowledge 
        itself affords us some protection from being too easily duped by the next 
        Psyops scam. 
      So is anything 
        of significance going to happen this summer?  
      Without doubt. 
        With George Bush and the Neocons balancing on a tightrope so as not to 
        fall into the pit of a War Crimes trial, things couldn't be more interesting. 
        But we can say with some degree of certainty that, while they remain a 
        distinct threat, there will be no major meteorite impacts, not 
        yet anyway. That is not to say that this summer and the rest of this year 
        will be smooth sailing. We have understood for quite some time that, with 
        each passing day, our planet is being pushed closer and closer to utter 
        destruction. As this happens, "the powers that be" will go to 
        increasingly extreme lengths to ensure that the population remains confused 
        and distracted from what is really going on.  
      The task 
        that is before all of is is to unravel the lies and disinformation that 
        make up the reality that the PTB would have us believe. So instead of 
        heading for the hills and stocking up on beef jerky, we suggest that we 
        all keep watching and reading the Signs and using our heads in an attempt 
        to see and understand the deeper reality that is all around us and to 
        which we all contribute by what we SEE. 
        
         
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