The world brought to you by: THE FREEMASONS

They run it all,they built it all,and they have the secrets you'll never know.

"FREEMASONRY AND THE ANCIENT WISDOM"

Members of Masonic Study groups are naturally keen students of the origin and history
of the Craft, and a number of serious minded enquirers frankly admit that a perusal of
the available literature on the subject has left them confused and unconvinced. In this
paper, therefore, it is proposed to trace a rough outline of a movement which is as old
as humanity itself and the purpose and doctrine of which are still faithfully if very
rudimentarily preserved in our Masonic system. By this means an endeavour will be
made to answer the main questions asked by many students who are genuinely seeking
for fuller enlightenment, such as; What was the nature of the Ancient Mysteries which
modern Freemasonry is claimed to perpetuate? Can we justify the need for their
perpetuation today? For what purpose was Initiation instituted? Did it at any time serve
any real purpose or can it do so now? On a satisfactory solution of these problems
depends, to a great extent, a comprehension of the aims and ideals of the Masonic
Order.

Now one of the first things to impress itself upon any student of Masonic literature and
comparative religion is the remarkable-presence of common factors, common beliefs,
doctrines, practices and symbols, in the religions of all races alike, whether ancient or
modern, civilised or barbarian, Christian or pagan. However separated from others by
time or distance, however intellectualised or primitive, and however wide-their
differences in important respects, each people is found to have employed and still to
be employing certain ideas, symbols and practices in common with every other. A close
examination of Masonic literature confirms and amplifies this impression, for the student
will find that numerous authors connected with the Craft have demonstrated that there
isa close correspondence to be found in the various apparently unrelated systems, and
they have further emphasised how ancient and universal are the ideas, symbols and
practices which are embodied in our modern system of Freemasonry. There is one
thing, however, that the student invariably has great difficulty in determining, and this
is the reason for the antiquity and universality so clearly in evidence according to the
existing records. It is unfortunate that the majority of those who have written
treaties on Masonic history and purpose have neglected to give an explanation on this
point, and since it furnishes us with the essential clue to the entire problem of the
genesis, the history, and the reason for the existence of Freemasonry, it is so important
to clear up the matter before proceeding with the general outline of our subject.

If one perseveres with research and reflection, it will become apparent to the student
that the universality and uniformity noted by historians are due to the fact that at one
time, long back in the world's past, there was implanted in the minds of the whole
human family - which was then, doubtless, much more concentrated than at present -
a root- doctrine in regard to the nature and destiny of the soul of man and its relation
to the Deity. In all Scriptures and cosmologies the tradition is universal of a "Golden
Age", an age of comparative innocence, wisdom and spirituality, in which racial unity
and individual happiness and enlightenment prevailed; in which there was that open
vision for want of which it is recorded that a people perisheth, but in virtue of which man
were once in conscious conversation with the unseen worlds and were shepherded,
taught and guided by the "gods" or discarnate superintendents of the infant race, who
imparted to them the sure principles upon which their spiritual welfare and evolution
depended. The testimony concerning this "Golden Age" is found to be recorded in all
languages, and it is unanimously stated to be the period of the early beginnings of the
Human Race. In these early days we learn that the psychic and physical intellect in man
was dormant, and we are told that it was on this account that infant humanity was
guided and taught under the direct superintendence of divine Teachers and Instructors.
It is of particular significance to Freemasons to find that tradition affirms that it was
under the guidance of these Instructors that humanity was taught its first notions of all
the arts and sciences, and that it was They who laid the foundation-stone of those
ancient civilizations which so sorely puzzle our modern generation of scholars. This will
account for the fact that no matter how far back into the night of time
archaeological or other investigations are extended, high stages of civilisation are found,
each having an elaborate numerical system; where, according to modern scientific
theories, only the most primitive conditions might be expected. The presence of fully
developed numerical systems in ancient civilisations proves that the science of numbers
was not slowly evolved by primitive man learning to count on his fingers, as is popularly
supposed, and confirms the tradition of a fully elaborated system of computation which
was revealed to the priesthood of the early Races by the Spiritual Teachers of mankind.

We of today pride ourselves upon being wiser and more advanced than primitive
humanity. We assume that our ancestors lived in moral benightedness out of which we
have since gradually emerged into comparative light. All the evidence, however,
negatives these suppositions. In fact it indicates that primitive man, notwithstanding his
intellectual undevelopment according to modern standards, was spiritually conscious
and psychically perceptive to a degree undreamed of in our day. It is therefore
ourselves who, for all our cleverness and intellectual development in temporal mattes,
are nevertheless plunged in darkness and ignorance about our own nature, the invisible
world around us, and the eternal spiritual verities. We may, then, well enquire how it is
that we have departed so far from our original state, and once again tradition comes to
our assistance.

The tradition is also universal of the collective soul of the human race having sustained
a "fall" a moral declension from its true path of life and evolution, which has had the
effect of severing it almost entirely from its creative source, and which, as the ages
advanced, has involved its sinking more and more deeply into physical conditions. This
has resulted in its splitting up from a unity employing a single language into a diversity
of conflicting races of different speeches and degrees of moral advancement, and has
been accompanied by a progressive densification of the material body and a
corresponding atrophy of the spiritual consciousness. This tradition of our extrusion of
Fall, howsoever occasioned, from the more immediate precincts of Deity is so catholic
a one that it must have been a canon of the root-doctrine or protoevangel which lies at
the back of all the great religious systems of history. Antiquity and universality constitute;
of course, inadequate evidence of its truth for modern rationalism, but for the genuine
student testimony to it can be adduced from another quarter. This will be found in the
voluble sacrementalism of Nature where it is perpetuated and registered in such a
manner as will be readily discerned by the seeing eye and understanding mind. In our
day, evolution, or the perpetual tendency of things upwards, has came to be generally
accepted as a cosmic process. But does not the capacity for rising imply necessarily
an antecedent failing? The logical value of the evolutionary hypothesis, as of every
hypothesis can only be appraised by contrasting it with its antithesis, and the laws of
human logic, as Freemasons should well know, are shadows of those of the LOGOS,
the Divine Logician. The truth, then, of the Fall, has been perpetuated in our
phenomenal world by the fact that to fall is the property of everything material Purified
spirit alone is capable of ascension, of counteracting the law of gravitation, which, as
shown in the allegory of the flaming sword of the Cherubim guarding Eden, rigidly
excludes from ascending all that is unfit to inhabit a world more advanced than a
physical one. Thus the initial act in the earthly existence of every seed, and germ, and
egg, of every newborn animal and child, is to fall to the ground. At the very outset of
its career it therefore rehearses in its own form or person the primal Fall of Cosmic Spirit
into the plane of Nature, while its subsequent function is to rise and grow physically or
morally according to its kind.

So far as it affects humanity, the doctrine of the Fall, portrayed in the Biblical legend of
Adam and Eve and their expulsion from Eden, was not due, as is popularly supposed,
to the transgression of an individual, but was the result of a defect in the collective or
group-soul of the Adamic Race, and was a process covering vast cycles of time. Such
is the unanimous testimony of the Ancient Wisdom-tradition and despite its rejection by
many in our day, it is my conviction that we cannot adequately apprehend the divine
scheme unless we realise that the Fall was an incident thereof that was ordained by,
and that existed primally in the prescience of, Deity; that the descent of spirit and its
incarnation in the material world was a process as gradual as has been, and is, the rise,
the emergence, of spiritual life from within its present physical limitations. The
incarceration of spirit, therefore, in material conditions, involving, as it did and
does still, the struggle for emancipation and the knowledge of evil, was, and is, essential
and necessary to enable the spirit of man to become self-conscious of its own inherent
perfection and divinity, by undergoing an experience which is the antithesis of its own
birthright in a plane of existence which is the antipodes of its natural home. Hence it
follows that Redemption is the necessary complement of Creation, and accordingly we
find that tradition asserts that as a consequence of the Fall it was necessary and within
the Divine Providence that humanity should be redeemed and restored to its former high
estate, the restoration in turn requiring vast time cycles for its achievement. And it
required something further; It required the application of an orderly and scientific
method under skilled direction, and we may reasonably enquire; whence could come
that skill and scientific knowledge if not from the Divine and now invisible world, from
those "gods" and guardians of the erring race of whom all the ancient traditions and
sacred writings tell? Would not that skilled method be properly described if it were
termed, as in our modern Freemasonry it is termed, a "heavenly science" and a "noble
science", and would it not be welcomed in the words that Freemasons in fact use, "Hail,
Royal Art!" Those of our Brethren who here responsible for the inscription set out on the
Foundation Stone of the first Freemason's Hall, which was consecrated on the 1st, May,
1775, clearly recognised this fact, because in declaring the authority under which the
English Craft claims precedence and jurisdiction over the "whole body of Brethren
throughout the world", they re-affirmed the "Ancient Landmark" concerning the origin of
the Science in the significant words, "It comes down from Heaven".

To the spiritual guardians of primitive man, then, we must attribute the communication
of that universal science of rebuilding the fallen temple of humanity, and to this source
we must credit the distribution, in every land and among every people, of the same or
equivalent symbols, practices and doctrines. This was the one holy Catholic Religion
"throughout all the world", and it laid down the ancient and established "usages and
customs" to be followed at all times by everyone willing to accept its discipline. It was
the "Sacred Law" for the guidance of fallen humanity, a law valid from "time immemorial",
or, in other words, from the dawn of time till its sunset, and of which it is written,
"As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end".

This universal science is related to have originated in the East, for the East, in every
sense, geographically, astronomically, and spiritually, is ever the source of light
"Ex Oriente Lux" (Out of the East Light) - and as humanity itself became diffused and
distributed over the globe, to have gradually spread towards the West. The record of
this truth is retained in our modern Instruction Lectures in the cryptic phrase, "Learning
originated in the East and thence spread its benign influence towards the West" (Fourth
Section, First Lecture). During the process of the distribution of humanity there came
about that progressive densification of the material body and consequent atrophy of
spiritual perception already mentioned, and on account of this the influence of the
Wisdom-teaching became correspondingly diminished, although its principles remained
as valid and effective. To follow the course of its progress in any detail would require
a long treatise, and is therefore outside the scope of the present Paper, but it should
be noted that despite human vagaries and conceptions the Light, like that of a Master
Mason, has never been wholly extinguished, however dark the age, and according to
tradition the present age is spiritually the darkest of the dark ages. It is truly declared
that "God has never left himself without a living witness among men", and among the
witnesses to the Ancient Wisdom is the system we know as Freemasonry; a faint and
feeble flicker, perhaps, but nevertheless a true light and in the true line of succession
of the primitive doctrine.

The earliest teaching of the Mysteries traceable within historic time was in the Orient and
in the language known as Sanskrit - a name itself significant and appropriate, for it
means Holy Writ or "Sanctum Scriptum"; and for the very great lights on the Ancient
Wisdom one must still refer to the religious and philosophical scriptures of India, which
was in its spiritual and temporal prime when modern Europe was frozen beneath an
ice-cup. But races of men, like individuals, have their infancy, manhood and old age;
they are but units, upon a larger scale than the individual, for furthering the general
life-purpose. When a given race has served or failed in that purpose, the stewardship
of the Mysteries passes on to other and more effectual hands. The next great
torch-bearer of the Light of the world was Egypt, which after many centuries of spiritual
supremacy, in turn became the arid desert it now is both spiritually and materially,
leaving nevertheless a mass of structural and written relics still testifying to its
possession of the Doctrine in the days of its glory. From Egypt, as civilisations
developed in adjoining countries, minor centres for impacting the knowledge were
instituted in Chaldea, Persia, Greece and Asia Minor, and a record of this diffusion is
preserved in the V. of the S.L., for the EXODUS is, in one of its many allusions, a
witness to the passing on of the catholic mysteries from Egypt to new and virgin regions
for their enlightenment.

Of these various translations those that concern us chiefly are two; the one to Greece,
the other to Palestine. We know from the V. of the S.L., that Moses was an initiate of the
Egyptian Mysteries and became learned in all its wisdom, while the writings of the
Alexandrian Philosopher Philo Judaeus, called Philo the Jew, inform us that in Egypt
Moses became "skilled in Music, Geometry, Arithmetic, Hieroglyphics and the whole
circle of the arts and sciences". In other words he became in a real sense a Master
Mason and as such, qualified himself for his subsequent great task of leadership of the
Hebrew people and the formulating of their religious system and rule of life as laid down
in the Pentateuch. The Mosaic system continued, as we know, along the channel
indicated in the books of the Old Testament, and then after many centuries, effloresced
in the greatest of all expressions of the Mysteries, as disclosed in the Gospels of the
New Testament, or New Witness, involving the enfoldment, comprehension, and in
gathering of the religious past of the whole world, centralised under the Supreme Grand
Mastership of Him who is called the Light of the World, and embodying all the
characteristics, legends, and symbols hitherto appertaining to the central figures of
preceding dispensations, proclaiming the unity of all human aspiration, and formulating
in one grand system the doctrines of both the East and West.

Concurrently with the existence of the Hebrew Mysteries under the Mosaic dispensation,
the great Greek school was developing, which originating in the Orphic religion,
culminated and came to a focus at Delphi and generated the philosophic wisdom
associated with Athens and the Periclean age. Greece was the spiritual descendant of
both India and Egypt, and we know that the great Initiate who is accorded the title of
Pythagoras journeyed to India before being received in Egypt to take his final initiation
prior to founding the school at Crotona associated with him. Plato also tells us that
aspirants for initiation visited Egypt before promoting spiritual advancement in Greece.

It will not be possible to deal adequately with all the Mystery-systems in this Paper,
although for purposes of illustration in regard to our present subject a reference will
be made to one of the most famous of them, the Eleusinian, which existed in Greece
for several centuries. The word "Eleusis" means light, and therefore initiation into the
Mysteries of Eleusis proclaimed the quest of the aspirant for light, in precisely the same
sense as the Freemason today is made to declare that "Light" is the predominant wish"
of his heart. In alternative terms, the candidate sought to be endued with "a competency
of the Divine wisdom", and was prepared to voluntarily submit himself to a process
whereby he became transformed from the natural state into a spiritual state. Initiation,
therefore, meant the gearing of the consciousness of the candidate to a new and higher
principle, the making of a new man in the sense of attaining a new method of life and
a new outlook upon the universe. Speaking of this process St. Paul writes in his Epistle
to the Ephesians. "And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the
new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness". This process
of "putting on the new man" spoken of by St. Paul in the 4th Chapter of his Epistle to
the Ephesians (verses 23 and 24) involves our comprehension of the esoteric or spiritual
interpretation of an Immaculate Conception, or, in other words, the bringing to birth of
the Divine Principle to function within the organism of the natural man. In Freemasonry
this mystical birth is reproduced by the name "Lewis", which is traditionally associated
with the Craft. The word "Lewis" is an excellent example of the cryptic language
deliberately employed by the compilers of our Ritual, for on close examination
it will be found to be a corruption of Eleusis and other Greek and Latin names indicating
Light. Hence it is that in our Instruction Lectures "Lewis" is said to designate "the son
of a Freemason", but assuredly this has no reference to human parentage and sonship.
It refers to the mystical birth of the Divine Light, the Light of the World, in oneself; as a
familiar Scriptural text has it, "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given", truly an
exalted parentage. The Instruction Lectures further describe a "Lewis" as something
which "when dovetailed into a stone forms a clamp and enables the Mason to raise
great weights to certain heights, while fixing them on their proper bases", all of which
is a concealed way of expressing the fact that, when the Light of Divine Wisdom is
brought forward from man's submerged depths and firmly grafted or dovetailed into his
natural organism, he then becomes able easily to grapple with difficulties, problems and
"weights" of all kinds which to the ordinary man are insuperable.

In the time that the Eleusinian Mysteries flourished as a public institution it was regarded
as essential by the cultured to apply for initiation, on the grounds that the training and
instruction were religiously conducive to the making of good men and good citizens,
and it is worthy of mention that in our day substantially the same message has been
convoyed to the popular world through the medium of the public press by the Aims and
Relations Committee of the United Grand Lodge of England. In former times, however,
the principles of the Initiation science were not communicated to candidates, merely by
the discharge of certain ceremonial formalities, and educated men applied to enter the
Mysteries in the same way that in our day students go into residence at a University and
are required to graduate. The future development and value of the Masonic Order as
a moral force in society will depend, therefore, upon a revival, in a form adapted to
modern conditions, of the ancient Wisdom-teaching and also of the practice of those
Mysteries which became prescribed fifteen centuries ago, but of which modern
Freemasonry is the direct and representative descendant.

At the time when the Mysteries flourished, accepted candidates were graded according
to their moral efficiency and their intellectual or spiritual stature. For a period of years
they underwent disciplinary intellectual exercises and bodily asceticism, during which
they were subjected to periodical tests in order to determine their fitness to proceed
to the more solemn and serious processes of actual initiation. Initiation was
administered only to those who were duly qualified, and the precise nature was of a
secret and closely guarded character. An echo of this progress by regular stages is
found in our present day ritual, in the information given to the candidate during the
Ceremony of Initiation, stipulating that "their are several degrees in Freemasonry with
peculiar secrets restricted to each" and the accompanying reminder that these are "not
conferred upon candidates indiscriminately, but only according to merit and ability". The
education of aspirants for Initiation was directed solely to the cultivation of the "four
cardinal virtues", and this at once brings to mind the reference in our own Lectures
wherein it is affirmed that "tradition informs us" that they "were constantly
practised by the majority of our ancient Brethren". A further qualification prerequisite
to a participation in the higher order of life was the study of the "seven liberal arts and
sciences". The construction put upon these virtues and sciences was, however, a much
more advanced one than the modern mind considers adequate; and it is interesting to
note that although we have not departed from the essential curriculum in theory in the
Craft today, in the matter of practice there is a wide difference. For instance, with our
Ancient Brethren the virtue of TEMPERANCE involved the complete control of the
passional nature; FORTITUDE, implied a courage which is undismayed by adversity,
and which permits of no deflection from the goal in view; PRUDENCE, comprehended
that deep insight leading to forward-seeing and producing the prophetic faculty of
seer-ship; JUSTICE, demanded unswerving righteousness of thought, word and deed.
The "arts and sciences" were also of a positive nature, and they were termed "liberal"
because the educational curriculum was expressly designed to "liberate" the soul of the
aspirant from the illusions incident to the natural state. Thus GRAMMAR, LOGIC and
RHETORIC were treated as disciplines of the moral nature, by means of which irrational
tendencies were eradicated and candidates trained to become living witnesses of the
universal Logos and effectively speaking with the "tongue of good report". GEOMETRY
and ARITHMETIC were sciences of transcendental space and numeration, the complete
comprehension of which provided the key to both the Universe and man himself, for
each expression of life was shown to have its number, rate of vibration or wave length,
its form and particular place in the Grand Plan of T.G.A.O.T.U. The science of
ASTRONOMY not only included the observation of the heavenly bodies, but was
primarily directed to the study of metaphysics and the correct understanding of the
distribution of the forces in, and determining the destiny of, individuals, nations and the
race. Finally, MUSIC, was not confined to the study of vocal or instrumental works, but
was concerned with the adjustment of the personal life into harmony with the Centre of
All Life, God, by the living practice of philosophy.

The Eleusinian Mysteries, then, involved much more than a merely notional philosophy;
they required also a philosophic method of living, and this method was divided into
two main parts, which were known as the Lesser and the Greater Mysteries. In the
Lesser Mysteries the elementary instruction was imparted, but the object of these was
to enable candidates to proceed with the task of purifying and adapting their lives
to the truths which were disclosed to them. The Greater Mysteries related to
developments of consciousness within the soul itself, and were connected with the new
and intensified life which was the direct result of fidelity to the prescribed disciplines.
To draw a faint analogy, the Lesser Mysteries stood in the same relationship to the
Greater as our present Craft degrees do to the Holy Royal Arch. Candidates who
became proficient and properly prepared in accordance with the curriculum of the
Lesser mysteries were eventually admitted to initiation in the Greater, while those who
failed to qualify were not permitted to proceed. The decree restraining unqualified
candidates from advancement to the Greater Mysteries was not arbitrary, but was
absolutely necessary in the interests of candidates themselves because inward purity
of heart and mind, coupled with the possession of the four cardinal virtues,
was essential to the ordeals of actual initiation, which otherwise rendered the aspirant
liable to insanity and obsessions. It was for this reason that the number of qualified
candidates amounted to only a small percentage of those who entered the Mysteries,
and this law remains valid in our day for we find the same truth restated in the V. of the
S.L., which is the text book of our modern system, in the familiar words, "Many are
called, but few are chosen".

One qualification above all was demanded from those who applied to enter the
Mysteries, - humility, and it is for admission into important to note that the candidate
for admission into Freemasonry is still required to come "humbly soliciting". The reason
for this was, and still is today, that the wisdom into which the Mysteries and initiation
admit a man is foolishness to the worldly minded. To attain it a candidate must
therefore be prepared for a complete and voluntary renunciation of worldly wisdom and
this may involve his finding negated everything he has previously held to be true, and
which, furthermore, those among whom he ordinarily mingles will continue to believe,
and insist, to be true. Speaking of this manner of approach to the comprehension of
things spiritual, St. Paul, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, declares, "Let no man deceive
himself, if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool,
that he may be wise" (1st. Corinthians; Chapter 3, verse 18). The candidate for the
Christian Mysteries was instructed that he was to be content to "become a fool for the
kingdom of heaven's sake", and was to be ready to suffer adversity and ridicule, should
the necessity arise. This was one of the prime reasons for secrecy and one - though not
the only one - of the origins of the Masonic injunction as to secrecy. In the public
processions of the Lesser Mysteries of Eleusis, the sacramental vessels and elements
were carried upon the back of an ass, to signify that for the reception of divine
knowledge "humility is an essential virtue", while in the V. of the S.L., the same thing is
symbolised by the Palm-Sunday ride into Jerusalem of popular conception, of which we
read, "thy King cometh unto thee, just and having salvation; lowly and riding upon an
ass". Apuleius, in the "Golden Ass", provides the explanation when he writes, "There is
no creature so able to receive divinity as an ass; into which if ye be not turned, ye shall
in no wise be able to carry the divine mysteries".

In addition to the practical instruction included in the curriculum of the Mysteries,
another and greatly educative means employed was the expression by means of myths
of truths of the Divine world and the entire spiritual history of man. The Greek
mythologists were adepts at expressing cosmic and philosophic truths in the guise of
fables which conveyed theosophic teaching to the discerning and veiled it from the
profane. Myth-making was a science, and not, as many allege, an indulgence in
irresponsible fiction, and by their presentation in dramatic form candidates were
instructed in the fundamental verities of life. One of the best known of the Greek myths
is that of Demeter and her daughter Persephone, which was performed annually with
great ceremony at the Eleusinia. It told how the maiden Persephone strayed away from
Arcadia (heaven) and from her mother Demeter, to pluck flowers in the fields of Enna,
and how the soil there opened and caused her to fall into the lower dark world of Hades
ruled over by Pluto. The despair of the mother at the loss of her daughter reached Zeus,
the chief of the Gods, with the result that he ordained that providing that the girl had not
eaten of the fruit of Hades, she should forthwith be restored to her mother for ever, but
that if she had so eaten she must abide a third of each year with Pluto and return to
Demeter for the other two thirds. Enquiry proved that unfortunately Persephone had
eaten a pomegranate in the lower world, so that her restoration to her mother could not
be permanent, but only periodic. This myth is the story of the human soul and is of
precisely the same nature as the Mosaic myth of Adam and Eve and the apple, and, as
the parable of the Prodigal Son, neither of which have any physical reference.
Persephone denotes the human soul, generated out of that primordial incorruptible
mother-earth which the Greeks personified as Demeter, in the same way as the Mosaic
narrative speaks of God forming man out of the dust of the ground. Her straying from
her Arcadian home and heavenly mother in quest of flowers (flowers symbolising fresh
experiences) in the fields of Enna, corresponds with the same promptings of desire that
led to Adam's disobedience in the Garden of Eden and his fall thence to this outer
world, The word "Enna" signifies "darkness and bitterness", which is the result of unruly
desires, and a fuller explanation of the meaning will be found in the V. of the
S.L., where it is translated from the original as GEHENNA. Pluto, is designated the "god
of riches", meaning the riches of wisdom and experience, and it is into his kingdom that
Persephone fell. The "eating of fruit" alludes to the inferior pleasures of this lower plane
of existence, which, as the Pomegranate symbolises, is many-seeded with illusions and
vanities. Until these false tendencies are eradicated until the desires of the heart are
utterly weaned from external delights, there can be no permanent restoration of the soul
to its source, but merely the periodic respite and refreshment that physical death brings
when it withdraws the soul from Pluto's realm to the heaven-world, to be followed again
and again by periodic descents into material limitations and re-ascents into discarnate,
conditions, until it becomes fully perfected.

Freemasonry, as already indicated, being the lineal descendant of the ancient Wisdom-
teaching, follows the traditional method of imparting instruction by means of myths, and
its canon of teaching in the Craft degrees contains two such myths. The first is that of
the building of King Solomon's Temple, and the second, the narrative of the death and
burial of the Master Builder related in the traditional history. To the literal-minded, the
building of the Temple at Jerusalem appears to be the history of an actual stone and
mortar structure which was erected by three Asiatic notables, one of whom conceived
the idea, another supplying the building material, whilst the third was the practical
architect and chief of works. The two former are said to have been kings of adjacent
small nations; the third was not a royalty, but was apparently a person of no social
dignity and a widow's son. For the good of Freemasonry in general, let it be clearly
stated in the words of St. Paul, "Which things are an allegory", for the Masonic Temple
of Solomon is not one of common brick and stone. It is fashioned out of that "unhewn
stone" or incorruptible raw material out of which the Creator formed the human
organism. The Jerusalem in which this temple was built was obviously not the
geographical one in Palestine, but refers to the eternal "city of peace" in the heavens,
or, in other words, "that House not made with hands"; not, as St, Paul also affirms, "the
Jerusalem which now is", but "the Jerusalem which is above, which is the mother of us
all" (Epistle to the Galatians, Chapter 4, verse 26), and thus corresponding to the Greek

Demeter. Neither were the builders of the Temple three human personages resident in
the Levant, for their names are the personification of the Divine energy considered in its
three constituent principles, which are otherwise spoken of in our Lectures as Wisdom,
Strength and Beauty. These three principles of "Pillars" as they are also termed in the
Instruction Lectures, are personified by S. K. of I., H.K. of T., and H.A., and an
explanation of their concealed significance is necessary in order to properly interpret the
myth. Solomon personifies the primordial Life-Essence or substantialised Divine Wisdom
which is the basis of our being; this is described as "King of Israel" because Israel
means "co-operating or ruling with God". To conjoin this transcendental Life-Essence
to a vehicle which should give it fixity and form required the assistance of another
"kingly" principle, personified as "King of Tyre", who therefore may correctly be said to
have supplied the "building material". In Hebrew the name "Tyre" signifies "rock" and
refers to strength or durability, and the conjunction of Solomon and Hiram of Tyre
(Life-Essence and Mould or Matrix) therefore represents the groundwork of the soul,
which is made functionally effective by the addition of the third principle described as
the "widow's son", and personifying the active intellectual principle or Logos. Thus H.
A. is the Christ-principle immanent in every soul; crucified, dead and buried in all who
are not alive to its presence, but nevertheless resident in all as a saving force. Again to
quote St. Paul, "Christ in you, the hope of glory". The description of this principle as "the
widow's son reflects in our modern system a beautiful piece of the Gnostic symbolism,
and refers to the widowed nature of the Divine Motherhood as the result of the defection
from wisdom of her frail children. The true Gnosis informs us that only those children
who are striving while in the flesh to rejoin their Mother are worthy to be known as "sons
of the widow", and as our ceremonial rite clearly indicates, it is from these labouring at
the task that the traditional petition is addressed to all those who have rejoined her,
"Come to my help ye sons of the Widow, for I also am the Widow's son".

The Temple of the human soul, primordially constituted of the three principles
exemplified in due balance and proportion and divinely pronounced to be "very good",
has owing to the certain untoward incident, which is the subject of our central Masonic
legend, been thrown down from its primitive eminence. Its fall has been effected by the
disproportioned, unbalanced, and therefore, disorderly abuse of its inherent powers.
Thus man is now, figuratively speaking, a ruined temple, over which it is written,
"Ichabod", - "the glory has departed" for severed from conscious intercourse with his
Vital and Immortal Principle, man is a prisoner in captivity to himself and his temporal
nature; it remains for him to retrace his steps and rebuild his temple. Hence it is that
the Masonic candidate is counselled to continue no longer in bondage to his self-made
illusions and the attractions of "worldly possessions", but to become a free man and a
mason, engaged in the work of shaping himself into a "living stone" for the cosmic
temple of a regenerate Humanity. In the Craft to be installed in the "Chair of King
Solomon" means, therefore, in the true sense; the re-attainment of "that which
is lost", and this is rightly represented to be the aim of every Freemason. In fact if we
do not re-attain the Divine Wisdom during our sojourn in this world, we miss the
opportunity, since it is universally attested to that the after-death state is not one of
labour, but of refreshment and rest, where no real progress is possible. Initiation,
therefore, was instituted to impart the science of re-attainment, but we are reminded as
the Ancient Mysteries taught, that the soul that never even begins this work in this
world, will not be able to begin it in the hereafter, and will remain suspended in
the more tenuous planes of this planet, until such time as it is again indrawn into the
vortex of generation by the ever-turning wheel of life. It is for this reason that the
Masonic candidate is admonished, "be careful to perform your allotted task while it is
yet day", the implication being that stated in the V, of the S.L., "Now is the time for
salvation, for the night cometh when no man can work". The Masonic conception of the
"Grand Lodge Above" is also in accord with the teaching contained in the V. of the
S.L.concerning the post-mortem levels of existence, for we read that, "In my Father's
house are many mansions", or, literally, resting places, and that they and their
occupants are graduated in Hierarchical order according to their degree of spiritual
eminence. "As Above, so Below", affirms the ancient axiom, but unfortunately the
modern world has lost all sense of the principle of hierarchy, which, since it obtains in
the higher world, ought to be reflected in this. Freemasonry, however, preserves the
witness to this graduation in the symbolic distribution of its membership, for above the
Craft Lodge there presides the Provincial Grand Lodge, while beyond that rules the
Grand Lodge of the nation. Then theoretically higher than any of these is the Royal Arch
Chapters with the Provincial and Grand Chapters at the summit. Also in the symbolic
clothing worn by the members of each of these ranks, the observant student will
perceive the intention to give appropriate expression to the truth which is thereby
signified. Thus the pure white Masonic Apron is fringed with a pale blue in the case of
junior brethren, a pale shade of that blue which, even in physical nature, is the colour
of the heavens. In the case of the seniors of the Provincial and Grand Lodges the pale
blue of the craft is intensified to the deepest degree, and the clothing is adorned with
gold lace, thus emblematising that which is referred to by the Psalmist, "The King's
daughter (the soul) is all glorious within, her clothing is wrought of gold". Proceeding
to the Royal Arch it will be observed that the devotional blue of the craft is now indented
with red, the colour of fire denoting spiritual arbour, and the blend of these results in
purple which in both earth and heaven is always the prerogative of royalty. Thus it is,
that by their clothing in the various grades, the members of the Masonic Order are
emblematic on earth of the angels, archangels and all the company of Heaven.

And now, brethren, may I conclude this Paper, and close, as every Lodge is closed, in
peace and concord with all my Brethren, and with the ancient prayer that the Order may
be preserved of God, and its members cemented with every virtue. If, in what I have
written, Freemasonry has been given a conception spiritualised beyond the measure of
its common understanding, I have but followed the example of our Ancient Brethren,
who lifting their eyes to the hills whence cometh strength, wrought their work upon the
highest eminences of the mind and discerned the Mysteries, not with eyes of flesh, but
with the vision and understanding of the spirit. It may be that few are prepared to
ascend to those high hills today, in this more than usually troubled and dark age, but
nevertheless some are ready and eager to do so despite the great trials and tribulations
which are incident to world in upheaval, and for them I have especially compiled this
record. At the moment, the World-spirit is dominant in all institutions. Wisdom is little
apparent; for want of vision the people perish; and the quest for light has to be pursued
under conditions of peculiar adversity. But, we are reminded that there is a mystery of
darkness no less than one of Light; and, in the moulding hands of the Great Architect
of the House of Life, the darkness and the light are both alike and serve as twin pillars,
that, finally, will establish the House in strength. Those, then, who are not yet prepared
to mount the higher path of understanding the things of the Craft, are nevertheless
incorporated in our great Fraternity, for as we are reminded by the words of a
familiar Masonic Ode, we are charged and required to extend:-

"A welcome sweet to all we meet
Within our sacred walls;
May God still grant that those we greet
May haste when Duty calls."

Finally, it remains with the craft itself, whether it shall enter upon its own heritage as a
lineal successor of the Ancient Mysteries and Wisdom-teaching, or whether by failing
to do so, it will undergo the inevitable fate of everything that is but form, from which the
spirit has departed.

SO MOTE IT BE.

Get your head out of the sand and wake up to CHEMTRAILS!!

For those of you who don't know,don't care,or don't notice,there is a real and VERY dangerous operation going on over your skies no matter where you live.Nato planes such as kc-135's and unmanned global hawk remote planes(I know I've seen them spaying over our town) are dumping tons of particulate matter into the air to further the sick an sadistic means of the Illuminati.Please don't beleive that this activity is "normal" condensation or "nothing out of the ordinary". In all my research the only thing the goverment has tried to conceal with more effort than Chemtrails,was the 1947 UFO crash in Roswell New Mexico!!Weather modification is only the tip of this huge iceberg.


Aerosol and Electromagnetic Weapons In The Age Of Nuclear War

By Amy Worthington, June 1 2004

North America is now suffering its seventh year of conspicuous and dangerous aerosol and electromagnetic operations conducted by the U.S. government under the guise of national security. Concerned citizens watch in fear as military tankers discolor the skies with toxic chemicals that morph into synthetic clouds.

We continually witness bizarre meteorological occurrences as powerful electromagnetic devices manipulate both the jet stream and individual storm fronts to create artificial weather and climatic conditions. Black operations projects embedded within these aerosol missions are documented to sicken and disorient select populations with biological test agents and psychotronic mind/mood control technologies.

Part of what is happening in the atmosphere above us involves the Pentagon's secret space weapons program, designed for strategic, operational and tactical levels of war. NASA missions will soon be transferred to Pentagon control.1 The Air Force Space Command declares that, in order to monitor and shape world events, it must fight intense, decisive wars with great precision from space.2 Air Force Secretary James G. Roche has stated: "Space capabilities are integrated with, and affect every link in the kill chain."3

A glimpse into new death technologies under construction is in legislation introduced by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinch. His unsuccessful Space Preservation Act of 2001 was intended to ban space deployment of:4

electronic, psychotronic and information weaponry
high altitude ultra low frequency weapons
plasma, electromagnetic, sonic and ultrasonic weapons
laser weapons
strategic, theater, tactical or extraterrestrial weapons
chemical biological, environmental climate or tectonic weapons
chemtrails (this item was stricken from a later version, suggesting duress)
In their quest to remain top dog in the kill chain, the purveyors of perpetual war have deliberately dimmed earth's life-giving sunlight,5 and reduced atmospheric visibility with lung-clogging particulates and polymers.6 This ecological terrorism has severely compromised public health, according to thousands of testimonials. Years of mass appeals to legislators, media and military officials for information, and for cessation of catastrophic atmospheric degradation, have fallen on deaf bureaucratic ears. Public awareness of what befalls us remains as murky as our skies because those "in the know" are muzzled by national secrecy laws and Americans have no authority to challenge matters of national security. Left to gather clues, we know this much so far:

1. At least part of the aerosol project has been dubbed Operation Cloverleaf,7 probably due to its multi-faceted operations, which include: weather modification, military communications, space weapons development, ozone and global warming research plus biological weaponry and detection testing.

2. Dumping tons of particulate matter from aircraft has geo-engineered our planetary atmosphere into a highly charged, electrically-conductive plasma useful for military projects.8 The air we breathe is laden with asbestos-sized synthetic fibers and toxic metals, including barium salts, aluminum, and reportedly, radioactive thorium.9 These materials act as electrolytes to enhance conductivity of military radar and radio waves.10 Poisonous on par with arsenic and a proven suppressant of the human immune system,11 atmospheric barium weakens human muscles, including those of the heart.12 Inhaled aluminum goes directly to the brain and medical specialists confirm that it causes oxidative stress within brain tissue, leading to formation of Alzheimer's like neurofibrillary tangles.13 Radioactive thorium is known to cause leukemia and other cancers.14

3. Only a small percentage of the military's atmospheric modification projects are visibly obvious. What we can't see is equally dangerous. The ionosphere, the earth and its inhabitants are continually bombarded with high frequency microwaves used to manipulate the charged atmosphere for weather modification, information gathering and for tectonic (earthquake-producing) weaponry.15 Independent chemtrail researcher Clifford Carnicom confirms that we are also continuously subjected to extremely low electromagnetic frequencies (ELF) pulsing at 4 hertz multiples, frequencies known to profoundly affect human biological and mental functioning.16

4. There is a well-documented biological component to continuously ongoing atmospheric studies in which nations and regions are furtively inoculated via specially designed delivery systems with combinations of viruses, bacteria, fungi, mycoplasma, desiccated blood cells and exotic biological markers so that testmasters can assess human, animal and plant response.17

5. The multi-organizational megalith perpetrating these bio-chem projects against humanity includes the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and its research arm DARPA, plus the Department of Energy (DOE) with its huge network of national labs and universities. Private defense contractors and pharmaceutical companies are heavily involved.18 Cooperating governments of other nations and probably some United Nations agencies are complicit, since the aerosol projects are global in scope.

Gross chemical and electromagnetic pollution is only part of the horrific realities we endure. The sociopaths who brazenly pervert skies, climate and weather for power and profit are the same madmen who have waged four limited nuclear wars since 1991. Radioactive weaponry, declared both illegal and immoral by the entire civilized world, has been used by the Pentagon in Desert Storm, the Balkans campaign and the on-going occupation-wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. Few Americans understand the extent of carnage inflicted in their name across the planet.

By scientific definition, the missiles, tank penetrators and bunker busting bombs unleashed against Iraq and Afghanistan by U.S. and British forces in the so-called war on terror are nuclear weapons.19 Refuse from radioactive weaponry does not disperse, but remains in the atmosphere organotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic to all living flesh for 4.5 billion years.

Inhabitants of the Pentagon's two newly "liberated" nations are now slowly dying of radiation and heavy metal poisoning. Victims of U.S. weaponry used in Afghanistan have a concentration of non-depleted uranium isotopes in their bodies never before seen in civilian populations.20 Tons of depleted and non-depleted uranium contaminating their land, air, food and water guarantee their painful demise. Using data from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), nuclear scientist Leuren Moret calculates that the estimated 2,500+ tons of depleted uranium used against Iraq in 1991 and 2003 is sufficient to cause 25 million new cancers.21 Is it a coincidence that the population of Iraq, according to the CIA, is 25 million?

The quarter million U.S. and British fighting forces who have helped the Pentagon deliver this holocaust also face inevitable radiological death by slow burn. Rotated into atomic war zones since 2001, coalition troops have inhaled and ingested millions of tiny invisible ceramic uranium particles which emit alpha, beta and gamma radiation as they embed in lungs, kidneys, blood, lymph and bone.22 Radiation exposure to a single internalized U-238 (uranium) alpha particle is 50 times the allowable whole body dose for one year under international standards.23 As U-238 decays into daughter isotopes, it becomes ever more radioactive, causing cell and organ destruction to escalate over time.24 Uranium contamination leads to incapacitating, multi-organ system disorders identical to illnesses suffered by thousands of Gulf War I vets. Bodily fluids poisoned with uranium isotopes sicken spouses and visit upon offspring a genetic Armageddon.25

Who knows what a disabled and prematurely dying military population will mean to future stability and safety of USA? Yet Senator Chuck Hagel (R- Neb.) now demands that America provide more fodder for its atomic battlefields by reinstating the military draft so that "all of our citizens...bear some responsibility and pay some price" in order to "understand the intensity of the challenges we face."26

Despite disingenuous denials that biological harm will result from atomic warfare,27 the Pentagon knows full well the gruesome realities of uranium weaponry by virtue of its own voluminous studies spanning 60 years. Pentagon documents confirm that America's war establishment knowingly exposes its own troops to dangerous levels of radiation.28 The resulting illness of those now returning from the war zones is already making headlines.29

Because our military-industrial overlords brazenly poison the very grunts who make their war games possible, we must logically conclude there is virtually nothing they would not secretly and sadistically do to the rest of us. Military officials lie as perniciously about chemtrail operations30 as they do about effects of DU weaponry. If people were to consider the published science regarding chemtrails and DU, they would understand that we are all in mortal jeopardy.

Both the Pentagon's aerosol operations and its limited nuclear wars are deeply interconnected. We can trace the beginnings of Operation Cloverleaf right to the Strangelove brain of Dr. Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and proponent of nuking inhabited coast lines to rearrange them for economic projects.31 Before he died in 2003, Teller was director emeritus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where plans for nuclear, biological and directed energy weapons are crafted. In 1997, Teller publicly outlined his proposal to use aircraft to scatter in the stratosphere millions of tons of electrically-conductive metallic materials, ostensibly to reduce global warming.32

Shortly after Teller's presentation, the public began seeing frenetic chemtrailing. In 2000, CBS News admitted that scientists were "looking at drastic solutions for global warming, including manipulating the atmosphere on a massive scale." CBS confirmed that the plan to load the air with tiny particles would "deflect enough sunlight to trigger global cooling."33

Teller estimated that commercial aircraft could be used to spew these particles at a cost of 33 cents a pound.34 This gives credence to a report by an airline manager, forced by a compulsory non-disclosure agreement to remain anonymous, that commercial aircraft have been co-opted to assist the military in consummating Project Cloverleaf.35 A 1991 Hughes aircraft patent confirms that sunscreen particulate materials can be run through jet engines.36 A science textbook now used in some public schools discusses the sunscreen project by showing a large orange-red jet with the caption, "Jet engines running on richer fuel would add particles to the atmosphere to create a sunscreen." The logo on the plane says "Particle Air."37 The implications of this crucial information should not be understated. A program to make America's millions of annual jet flights a source of specially designed particulate pollution is serious business.

Cloverleaf particles and polymers saturating the air we breathe are smaller than 10 microns (PM 10) and are invisible to the human eye. By comparison, a human hair is 60 to 100 microns in thickness. Scientists and the EPA report that because PM10 and sub-micron pollution particles bypass lung filters and enter the blood stream, they cause radical changes in the endocrine and nervous systems. 38 They can trigger high blood pressure and cause heart attack within two hours of inhalation.39 They cause the blood to become sticky, making it tougher for the heart to pump and increasing the risk of blood clots and vessel damage.40 Now researchers in Taiwan document "a significant increase" in the number of stroke victims when PM10 pollutant levels rise.41 The American Lung Association confirms that we are breathing more toxic air than ever.42 No wonder nationwide asthma rates have been soaring in recent years.43

Tiny synthetic filaments called polymers are part of the brew. In 1990, a NATO report detailed how high-flying aircraft can modify the atmosphere by spraying polymers to absorb electromagnetic radiation.44 U.S. patent number 6315213 describes how cross-linked aqueous polymers dispersed into a storm diminish rain.45

Polymer chemist Dr. R. Michael Castle has studied atmospheric polymers for years. He has found that some of them contain bioactive materials, which can cause "serious skin lesions and diseases when absorbed into the skin."46 He has identified microscopic polymers comprised of genetically-engineered fungal forms mutated with viruses. He says that trillions of fusarium (fungus)/virus mutated spores, which secrete a powerful mico-toxin, are part of the air we breathe.47 Allergies anyone?

We can safely bet that into our particle-enriched air, experimenters are also dumping nanoparticles, developed for a variety of military and industrial uses. These engineered carbon molecules, as small as one-thousandth the diameter of human hair, display bizarre chemical properties and are known to trigger organ damage.48 A recent study at Southern Methodist University found that fish exposed to one type of nanoparticle suffered severe brain damage after only 48 hours.49

The military's aerosol operations have been climate altering to the extreme. Air traffic is a huge source of greenhouse pollution. Increasing that traffic exponentially in order to scatter tons of heat-trapping metallic particulates and heat-liberating barium salts have undoubtedly led to accelerated global warming. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide, have reached a record high this year.50 As carbon dioxide levels rise, oxygen levels decrease.

In 1996, Scientists for Global Responsibility compiled a report contending that dangerous geoengineering, as proposed by Teller and the Global Change Research Coordination Office, would be absolutely ineffective in mitigating global warming. The report noted that climate engineering research is funded by industry with a vested interest in continued high consumption of fossil fuels.51 The hair-brained scheme of particle engineering was contrived to ensure that industry polluters will never be forced to decrease their greenhouse gas emissions. But because warming and pollution trends have worsened drastically since the aerosol projects began, we must suspect that the warming mitigation program is a hoax and that chemtrailing is really intended, among other things, to create a series of "hobgoblins."

The establishment's modus operandi for maintaining a fierce and lucrative hold upon the collective American mind has been defined precisely by satirist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) who wrote: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and thus clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

In The Report from Iron Mountain published in 1967, just as the Pentagon's lucrative Vietnam War was being revved into high gear, establishment braintrusters confirmed that perpetual war is absolutely vital for controlling and manipulating the masses. The document even suggested a number of options for creating fictitious enemies, noting that perpetual war induces populations to give blind allegiance to political authority.52

Since the 1930s, when the Eastern Establishment, including the Bush family, used its New York banks and oil companies to secretly fund Hitler's German Nazi party,53 our controllers have employed FEAR, the concept of ENEMY and WAR to keep us in bondage. Chemtrailing is a manifestation of the Fourth Reich, an era of corporate fascism ushered in by a powerful military juggernaut, which manufactures enemies and unleashes fake terror attacks to scare us into voiceless submission.

Both Saddam Hussein and the al Queda networks have long been nourished with U.S. government and corporate funding and groomed by U.S. military and corporate advisors to play useful roles as "enemies."54 Former German Technology Minister Andreas von Bulow recently confirmed on U.S. radio that hijacked planes were able to fly around the eastern U.S. on 9/11 unimpeded by military interdiction because those attacks were part of a carefully-orchestrated "covert operation" designed to coerce America into perpetual conflict with the Muslim world.55

Now, a "secret" Pentagon report has been conveniently leaked to the media. It contends that abrupt climate change is the most fearful hobgoblin yet.56 Authored by change agents with ties to the CIA and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the report contends that abrupt climate change will lead to a global catastrophe of monumental proportions, including nuclear war and natural disasters, as whole nations disappear beneath the encroaching sea and survivors fight for dwindling food, water and energy supplies.

Yet the Pentagon has been involved for decades in the drastic manipulation of weather, climate and atmospheric conditions. The U.S. used a chemical agent dubbed Olive Oil during Operation Popeye to induce heavy rains in Vietnam 40 years ago.57 The Air Force document titled "Weather As a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025" lists its weaponized agenda for creating abrupt climate change including: Storm creation and modification, fog and cloud creation, precipitation enhancement, precipitation denial, drought inducement and artificial creation of "space weather." This document also states that the military's radical weather modification agenda will "become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications."58

Weather weapons are now routinely used in war zones. A citizen reporting from Serbia noted that during NATO operations in the Balkans, black clouds suddenly materialized out of blue skies, hailstones were the size of eggs, and surreal thunder and lightening terrified the people. He reported that scientists found that the electromagnetic field over Serbia had been punctured, causing rain systems to circumvent the region.59 In addition to manufactured drought, scientists also predict that Serbia will suffer 10,000 cancer deaths from DU weaponry used there.60

According to University of Ottawa Professor Michael Chossudovsky, the military's High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), operating in Alaska as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, is a powerful tool for weather and climate modification.61 Operated jointly by the U.S. Navy and Air Force, HAARP antennas bombard and heat the ionosphere, causing electromagnetic frequencies to bounce back to earth, penetrating everything living and dead.62

HAARP transmissions make holes in the ozone,63 creating yet another hobgoblin. HAARP inventor Bernard Eastlund described in his original patent how antenna energy can interact with plumes of atmospheric particles, used as a lens or focusing device, to modify weather.64 HAARP is capable of triggering floods, droughts and hurricanes, much to the chagrin of both the European Parliament and the Russian Duma.65

HAARP also generates sweeping pulses through the ULF/ELF range.66 In 2000, independent researchers monitored HAARP transmissions of 14 hertz. They found that when these signals were broadcast at high output levels, wind speeds topped 70 miles per hour. They watched as these same transmissions dispersed a huge weather front approaching the west coast from California to British Columbia. Although precipitation had been originally forecast, the front was seen shredding apart on satellite photos and rain did not materialize.67 The hobgoblin drought can be an enriching and empowering tool for certain corporate and governing entities.

HAARP is not only capable of destabilizing agricultural and ecological systems anywhere on the planet, but its effects can target select regions to affect human physical, mental and emotional responses during non-lethal warfare projects.68 HAARP frequencies beamed at specific targets can generate catastrophic earthquakes,69 exactly like the quake last December which killed thousands of people in Iran, a nemesis nation according to the Bush administration.

The Pentagon's warning about climate catastrophe is surely nothing more than a thinly-veiled attempt to prepare the masses for the bizarre atmospheric upheavals we can expect as the military continues to brutalize our planet and near space with its grotesque toys. And we ain't seen nothing yet. Dr. Eastlund and his ilk have developed plans for solar power satellites designed to modify the weather with electromagnetic beam output that dwarfs the present HAARP system.70 As abrupt climate change is increasingly orchestrated, we will surely need additional fascist agencies, an ever-growing military budget and more poison-particle projects that just happen to ensure population reduction as a side benefit.

Despite visual evidence that every aspect of our physical environment is being manipulated and damaged for war games, some Americans cannot accept that dangerous covert operations are being conducted by a government they still believe to be a virtuous defender of freedom. Their stumbling block is a numbing belief that their own officials would never perpetrate dangerous experimentation on humanity since "they have families too." History and the release of declassified government documents disprove such naiveté.

Although "they" had families too, the U.S. government and its defense contractors exposed citizens of the northwest U.S. to huge and deliberate releases of radioactive iodine 131 from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation where plutonium was produced for nuclear bombs.71 Those Cold War releases unleashed radiation illnesses upon thousands of downwinders, some of whom received up to 350 rads of radiation when a maximum safety dose is set at .025 rads annually.72 Between 1949 and 1952, radioactive pellets, dust and particles were tested on the hapless citizens of Utah and New Mexico.73

By 1963, 1,200 nuclear weapons tests conducted at the Nevada test site had exposed every person in the U.S. to deadly radioactive fallout, causing millions of fetal deaths, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths and birth defects.74 The U.S. government also conducted over 4,000 radiation experiments on individual human test subjects without their informed consent.75 The delayed effects of decades of radiation exposure from weapons testing are today demonstrated by a U.S. population plagued with epidemic cancer and heart disease, neurological disorders, low fertility, chronic fatigue, obesity (thyroid involvement), immune system dysfunction and learning disabilities. Approximately half of all pregnancies in the U.S. result in prenatal or postnatal death or an otherwise less than healthy baby.76 As military tankers spew white chemical plumes across America at a cost of $3,448 per hour per tanker,77 we are reminded of Dr. Leonard Cole's 1994 testimony before a Senate Committee regarding 45 years of open air testing during which military aircraft sprayed American cities with bacteria, fungus and carcinogenic chemicals.78 Between 1962-1973, the U.S. Navy conducted hundreds of bio-chem tests known as Operation SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). SHAD projects like Autumn Gold and Copper Head exposed 10,000 navy personnel to aircraft spray laden with biological and chemical warfare agents, including sarin nerve gas.79 The cocktails used in those genocidal "tests" are now linked to cancer, heart and lung problems suffered by surviving guinea pigs.

We are told that defense officials perpetrated these atrocities so that scientists could learn about how to "protect" Americans from attack. So why, in the late 80s, would our "protectors" fall all over themselves to supply Saddam Hussein's war machine with 90 shipments of chemical and biological weaponry, including sarin, anthrax, botulism, brucella and West Nile Virus?80

It will likely be years before Americans are told what is being tested upon them during our present chemtrail/space wars era. The Hanford downwinders did not learn until 1986 what had been unleashed upon them some 30 years earlier; SHAD victims filed suit in 2003 to learn the extent to which they were intentionally exposed to dangerous substances in the 60s.

To understand how our nation has arrived at this doomsday corruption, we must recall that immediately after WWII ended, the U.S. government initiated Operation Paperclip through which a large number of German Nazi scientists were imported to the United States. Once issued new identities, these death industry pros were employed in U.S. military laboratories to develop a dazzling array of secret weaponry projects.81 With congressional funding, the crowning achievement of this nexus was the creation of ghastly new bioweapons, including the AIDS virus82 and an incapacitating chronic fatigue agent engineered from mycoplasma and brucella.83

The military is empowered to continue lethal experimentation by devious wording of Section 1520a Chapter 32 of U.S. Code Title 50. The law states that the Secretary of Defense may NOT conduct any chemical or biological test or experiment on civilian populations, unless such tests are for medical, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial purposes or for research in general or for protection against weapons or for law enforcement purposes, including riot control. So DOD may not use us for guinea pigs, unless it is for any "good" reason under the sun! The law states that human subjects must give informed consent. But a nasty loophole in Section 1515 of Chapter 32 allows informed consent to be suspended by executive order during a period of national emergency, a situation under which this nation perpetually labors by deliberate hobgoblin design.

Few American test rats realize that the Pentagon's boys in Congress have now:

appropriated millions of dollars for the manufacture and testing of new "mini nukes" and bunker buster bombs.84
authorized the DOE to resume nuclear testing in Nevada.85
exempted DOD and DOE from landmark environmental laws in the development of these new weapons.86
America's 70,000 nuclear weapons manufactured since 1945 are not sufficient! As DOE gears up to develop and test fourth-generation nukes, numerous reports continue to surface about the agency's sordid corruption and mismanagement. DOE's habitual cover-up of site contamination and its devious efforts to downplay serious illnesses suffered by many of its nuclear workers are among recent scandals.87

When new "low yield" nuclear weapons (defined as being smaller than 5 kilotons) are tested in Nevada, downwinders might like to know that a mini .5 kiloton nuclear warhead would have to burrow 150 feet to eliminate atmospheric fallout. No weapon yet developed can penetrate more than 40 feet into the earth. A tested nuclear warhead that burrows to only 40 feet will throw a million cubic feet of radioactive debris into the atmosphere.88

The Pentagon's new nuke era is in the capable hands of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has so ably presided over the pre-emptive nuclear incineration of Middle Eastern Muslims. Rumsfeld has never adequately explained why his Department was unable to defend the Pentagon building despite a full hour's notice that hijacked planes were in the air. Should Rumsfeld be replaced due to the Pentagon's Iraqi torture scandal, we are assured that his Bush-appointed successor will share his have-nuke-will-travel ideology.

Working closely with Rumsfeld is a coven of pro-nukers, including his advisor Keith Payne, a vocal advocate of pre-emptive nuclear war. Payne has written that an "intelligent" nuclear offensive launched by the U.S. would result in only 20 million U.S. casualties, "a level compatible with national survival and recovery."89

Now that we have tied together the historical and political realities for which we mindlessly wave our flags, we still hope that sufficient numbers of American lab rats will miraculously awaken from their collective stupor and take stock of our appalling situation. After all, rodents have a notoriously short life span and are always killed when no longer useful to those conducting research. The irony of this horror story is that we rats are being plundered to finance our own demise. Our national debt of 7.2 trillion grows by $1.8 billion a day.90 The Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 trillion of its shadowy transactions.91 The radioactive operations in Iraq are costing $3.7 billion a month, those in Afghanistan $900 million a month.92 No one knows how many $billions are being flushed into Operation Cloverleaf and other hobgoblin projects. The U.S. spends $11,000 per second on weapons, according to calculations of celebrated author William Thomas.93

So, while we await the great awakening, have a wonderful, barium-dried summer under a synthetic tarpaulin of aluminum-white, particle-laden, electrically-charged aviation scum that passes for sky. Endure well your respiratory and ocular difficulties while staring at huge oily sun rings and smeary sundogs, the patent signature of chemical assault. Don't forget to salute and click your heels when you see tanker formations patriotically saturating the atmosphere with such a dense, micro-particulate brew that they cast black shadows alongside or ahead of themselves.

As you witness the noxious drama in the skies, remember, it's all just part of the "kill chain."


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NOTES

1. "USAF Plans to Utterly Dominate, Rule Space," Joel Bleifuss, editor of In These Times.com, 9-14-03.
2. Almanac 2000, Journal of the Air Force Association, May 2000, Vol. 83.
3. Roche's "kill chain" statement was made during his October 2002 speech at the Conference on the Law and Policy Relating to National Security Activities in Outer Space.
4. "Pentagon Preps for War in Space,"Noah Shachtman, www.wirednews.com , 2-20-04.
5. "The Theft of Sunlight," Clifford Carnicom, 10-25-03: "...Measurements show a rapid reduction in the transmission of sunlight from a value of 97% on a 'clear day' to the lower level of approximately 80% during the early stages of heavy aerosol operations....The absorption and displacement of this solar energy into environmental, military, biological and electromagnetic operations represents a theft of the natural and divine rights of the inhabitants of this planet." www.carnicom.com .
6. "Visibility Standards Changed," Clifford Carnicom, 3-30-01: "It will be noted that in October of 1997, a change in the reporting system of visibility data was reduced from a former maximum of 40 miles to a limit of 10 miles. It is a reasonable question to ask as to why that change was made, and whether or not it was made in anticipation of...large scale aircraft aerosol operations over large scale geographic regions." www.carnicom.com .
7. "A Meeting," Clifford Carnicom, 7-26-03. See www.carnicom.com .
8. "Atmospheric Conductivity," Clifford Carnicom, 7-09-01, www.carnicom.com .
9. For facts on barium toxicity, see Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, September 1995. For references on barium related to chemtrails, see www.carnicom.com for the following articles: "Barium Tests are Positive," Clifford Carnicom, 5-10-04; "Sub-micron Particulates Isolated," Carnicom, 4-26-04; "Barium Affirmed by Spectroscopy," Clifford Carnicom, 11-1-2000; "Electrolysis and Barium," Carnicom, 5-27-02; "Rainwater Metals," Carnicom, 7-30-01; "Barium Identification Further Confirmed," Carnicom, 11-28-00.
10. "The Plasma Frequency: Radar Applications," Clifford Carnicom, 11-05-01; See www.carnicom.com .
11. "Functional heterogeneity in the process of T lymphocyte activation; barium blocks several modes of T-cell activation, but spares a functionally unique subset of PHA-activable T cells," Clinical Experimental Immunology, Pecanha and Dos Reis, May 1989.
12. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Safety Data Sheet.
13. Aluminum Toxicity, Barbara Barnett, MD, 11-26-02. See www.emedicine.com .
14. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, July 1999; For information on thorium in chemtrails: "The Methodic Demise of Natural Earth," Dr. Mike Castle, 3-27-04, www.willthomas.net .
15. Angels Don't Play This HAARP, Nick Begich and Jeane Manning, 1995; "HAARP: Vandalism in the Sky?" Begich and Manning, Nexus Magazine, January 1996.
16. "Elf Radiation is Confirmed," Clifford Carnicom, 11-17-02; "Elf Disruption & Countermeasures," Clifford Carnicom 11-27-02; "A Proposal of Cascading Resonance," Clifford Carnicom, 4-21-03. See www.carnicom.com for these and numerous other frequency studies; also "Electromagnetic Waves Linked to Children's Bra in Tumor," Kyodo News Service, 6-8-03.
17. Death In the Air, Global Terrorism and Toxic Warfare, Leonard G. Horowitz, Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 2001; "Military Conducting Biological Warfare in Washington," 12-12-97, www.rense.com; Probing the Chemtrails Conundrum, William Thomas, Essence Publications, 2000, www.willthomas.net .
18. For a comprehensive list of those involved in Operation Cloverleaf and associated projects, see: "Chemtrails--Top Intel, Military, and Defense Contractors Watching Carnicom.com," rense.com, 1-12-00. Among agencies most interested in opposition to chemtrail projects is the United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute associated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. See: "The Monitors of JGI," Clifford Carnicom, March 17, 2003, carnicom.com. 19. The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War-- A paper presented at the World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference at the University of Hamburg, October 16-19, 2003, Dr. Leuren Moret. Dr. Moret is a former staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her work is highly documented with scientific papers.
20. Uranium Medical Research Centre, "Afghan Field Trip #2 Report," November 2002; www.umrc.com ; also "Astoundingly High Afghan Uranium Levels Spark Alert," Alex Kirby, BBC News Online, 5-23-03.
21. Moret, op. cit.
22. "Medical Effects of Internal Contamination with Uranium," Dr. Asaf Durakovich, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington D.C. March 1999. Volume 40, No. 1
23. Moret, op. cit.
24. "Contamination of Persian Gulf War Veterans and Others By Depleted Uranium," Leonard A. Dietz, 2-21-99.
25. Durakovich, op cit; Dietz, op. cit. Moret, op. cit.
26. "Republican Senator: Bring Back the Draft," World Net Daily, 4-20-04.
27. "Pentagon's Uranium Denial," New York Daily News, 4-27-04; "Pentagon: Uranium Didn't harm N.Y. Unit," Associated Press, 5-3-04. "Pentagon-Depleted Uranium No Health Risk," Dr. Doug Rokke; 3-15-03. Dr. Rokke was an U.S. Army DU expert (1991-1995) and he confirms that the Pentagon is lying about DU risks.
28. Documents in which the hazards of uranium and depleted uranium exposure are discussed include: U.S. Army Training Manual STP-21-1-SMCT: Soldiers Manual of Common Tasks; "Health Effects of Depleted Uranium," David E. McClain, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) Bethesda, Maryland; Marine Corp Memo Concerning DU (unclassified) 9-8-90; US Army Training Video, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project video: Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness, 1995; "Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal With Depleted Uranium Contamination," General Accounting Office, January 1993; Office of the Secretary of Defense, Memorandum from Bernard Rostker to chiefs of all military branches re: Depleted Uranium Ammunition Training, 9-09-97.
29. "Soldiers Believe Depleted Uranium Cause of Illnesses," Associate Press, 4-9-04; "Poisoned?" Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News, 4-4-04. Other stories in this series are: "Inside Camp of Troubles" and "Army to Test N.Y. Guard Unit."
30. "Air Force Increases Rank of Lie," letter by Walter M. Washabaugh, Colonel, USAF, denying the existence of chemtrails, received by e-mail on May 22, 2001 and posted at www.carnicom.com by Clifford E Carnicom, May 22 2001.
31. Begich and Manning, op. cit. p. 51.
32. Global Warming and Ice Ages: Prospects for Physics-Based Modulation of Global Change, Edward Teller and Lowell Wood, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, prepared for invited presentation at the International Seminar On Planetary Emergencies, Erice, Italy, August 20-23, 1997; also "The Planet Needs a Sunscreen," Wall Street Journal, 10-17-97.
33. CBS News Eye on America Report : Cooling the Planet in two parts: 1-15-01 and 1-16-01.
34. Teller and Wood, op. cit.
35. "An Airline Manager's Statement," Posted by C.E. Carnicom on behalf of the author, 5-22-00. Quote: "The few airline employees who were briefed on Project Cloverleaf were all made to undergo background checks, and before we were briefed on it we were made to sign non-disclosure agreements which basically state that if we tell anyone what we know we could be imprisoned....They told us that the government was going to pay our airline, along with others, to release special chemicals from commercial aircraft....When we asked them why didn't they just rig military aircraft to spray these chemicals, they stated that there weren't enough military aircraft available to release chemicals on such a large basis as needs to be done....Then someone asked why all the secrecy. The government reps then stated that if the general public knew that the aircraft they were flying on were releasing chemicals into the air, environmentalist groups would raise hell and demand the spraying stop."
36. US patent 5003186; Stratospheric Welsbach Seeding for Reduction of Global Warming, Hughes Aircraft Company, issued March 26, 1991.
37. Secondary school text book: Science I Essential Interactions, published by Centre Point Learning, Inc. of Fairfield, Ohio. See "Chemtrail Sunscreen Taught in Schools," William Thomas, www.willthomas.com .
38. "Dirty Air and High Blood Pressure Linked," Reuters Health, 3-31-01; "Bad Air Worsens Heart Trouble: Study Blames Particulates for Many Sudden Deaths," Marla Cone, Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2000.
39. "Tiny Air Pollutants In the Air May Trigger Heart Attacks," John McKenzie, ABC News 6-21-01, www.abcnews.go.com .
40. "Air Pollution 'Increases Stroke Risk,'" BBC News, 10-10-2003.
41. Ibid.
42. "Americans Breathing More Polluted, Toxic Air Than Ever," Natalie Pawelski, CNN Environmental Unit, www.cnn.com .
43. Asthma Statistics, www.getasthmahelp.org; "Asthma Deadly Serious," Spokesman Review, 7-6-97; www.asthmainamerica.com .
44. NATO paper: "Modification of Tropospheric Propagation Conditions," May, 1990.
45. US patent 6,315,213 (Cordani) issued November 13, 2001.
46. "Chemtrails, Bio-Active Crystalline Cationic Polymers," Dr. Mike Castle, 7-14-03 See www.willthomas.net .
47. Ibid.
48. "Nanoparticles Toxic in Aquatic Habitat, Study Finds," Rick Weiss, Washington Post, 3-29-04.
49. Ibid.
50. "Greenhouse Gas Level Hits Record High," 3-22-04, NewScientist.com.
51. Climate Engineering: A Critical Review of Proposals, Scientists for Global Responsibility, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA, Norwich NR47TJ, November 1996.
52. Lewin L. C et al. Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, New York: The Dial Press, 1967.
53. Trading With the Enemy, Charles Higham, Delacorte Press, 1983; Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Antony Sutton, 1976; "IBM Sued by Holocaust Lawyers --100 other US Firms Targeted for Nazi Links," Paterson and Wastel, The Telegraph, UK, 2-18-0l; "Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi Collaboration," Michael Dobbs, Washington Post, 11-30-98; "How the Bush Family Made Its Fortune From the Nazis," John Loftus, 7-2-02, www.rense.com. (John Loftus was a U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor.)
54. This is a "Google project" that can fill volumes. Go to Google and type "CIA and al Queda," then "CIA and Saddam." Do the same with "Carlyle Group" for information on the Bush family's shady dealings with the "enemy."
55. Former German Defense Minister Confirms CIA Involvement in 9/11: Alex Jones Interviews Andreas von Bulow, 2-17-21, www.apfn.net
56. "Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us," Mark Townsend and Paul Harris, The Observer, UK 2-24-04; "Climate Collapse, The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare Could change Radically and Fast," David Stipp, Fortune Magazine, 2-9-04.
57. The Dead Farmer's Almanac, Who Really Controls the Weather? Jim Larranaga, Priority Publications, 2001.
58. Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather In 2025, June 17, 1996. This report was produced by directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force.
59. "Very Weird Weather in Serbia, What's Happening?" Goran Pavlovic, 10-30-03, rense.com.
60. "The Secret Nuclear War," Eduardo Goncalves, The Ecologist, 3-22-01.
61. "Washington's New World Order Weapons Have the Ability to Trigger Climate Change," Center for Research on Globalization, Professor Michael Chossudovsky, University of Ottawa, January 2001.
62. "HAARP: Vandalism in the Sky?" Nick Begich and Jeane Manning, Nexus Magazine, December 1995.
63. Ibid.; also Castle, op. cit. Dr. Castle presents information on how HAARP punches massive holes in the open-air column ozone and how the Air Force then uses toxic chemicals to "patch" the holes it has created: Dr. Castle says: "Welsbach seeding and ozone hole remediation sciences utilize chemistries that are toxic to humans and the environment."
64. "HAARP: Vandalism in the Sky?" Begich and Manning; Researcher David Yarrow is quoted as saying that Earth's axial spin means that HAARP bursts are like a microwave knife producing a "long tear--an incision" in the multi-layer membrane of ionospheres that shield the Earth's surface from intense solar radiation.
65. U.S. HAARP Weapon Development Concerns Russian Duma, Interfax News Agency, 8-10-02.
66. HAARP Update, Elfrad Group, http://elfrad.org/2000/Haarp2.htm 6-27-00.
67. "14 Hertz Signal Suppresses Rainfall, Induces Violent Winds," 10-25-00, Newshawk Inc.; "When the Army Owns the Weather--Chemtrails and HAARP," Bob Fitrakis, 2-13-02: In this article HAARP inventor Bernard Eastlund is quoted on how HAARP can affect the weather: "Significant experiments could be performed. The HAARP antenna as it is now configured modulates the auroral electrojet to induce ELF waves and thus could have an effect on the zonal winds." Find this article with search engine at www.rense.com .
68. Angels Don't Play This HAARP, Begich and Manning, op. cit.
69. Ibid.
70. "Space Based Weather Control: The 'Thunderstorm Solar Power Satellite,' " Michael Theroux. See www.borderlands.com/spacewea.htm
71. "After 12-year Wait for Trial, Downwinders Losing Hope," Spokesman Review, 5-18-03; also "Hanford Plaintiffs Seek Details," Spokesman Review, 4-2-04.
72. "Hanford Put Area At Risk: Spokane, North Idaho Were Exposed to Significant Radiation," Spokesman Review," April 22, 1994.
73. "Sick Century," Eduardo Goncalves, The Ecologist, 11-22-01.
74. Moret, op. cit. "The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War" contains excellent statistics on the U.S. health ramifications of Cold War nuclear weapons testing and includes references to numerous scientific papers which document this tremendous damage to the national health.
75. Undue Risk, Secret State Experiments on Humans, Jonathan D. Moreno, Freeman & Co. 1999: Moreno was a senior staff member of the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments which completed in 1995 its studies of horrific U.S. government radiation experiments conducted since World War II.
76. Information reported by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine in a 2000 study titled: Scientific Frontiers in Developmental Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
77. "Trouble With Tankers," William Thomas, www.willthomas.net .
78. Testimony by Dr. Leonard A. Cole before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, May 6, 1994; also Clouds of Secrecy, The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas, Leonard A. Cole, Rowman & Littlefield, 1988.
79. "Secret Germ Warfare Experiments?" CBS News, 5-15-2000; "Pentagon to Reveal Biowarfare Tests," CBS News, 9-20-2000; "US Navy Sprayed BioWarfare Chemtrails on Its Own Ships and Men," NewsMax.com, 7-8-00; "Sailors: 'We Were Used,' " Florida Today, 1-31-03.
80. Senate Banking Committee Report 103-900 (Riegle Report) issued May 25, 1994. This 551-page document contains a comprehensive list of biological and chemical warfare agents shipped to Saddam by U.S. companies under purview of the U.S. Commerce Department for use against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war in the late 80s during the regime of George Bush Sr.
81. Moreno, op.cit. "To this day few Americans know about the special top-secret program that brought German scientists to the United States after World War II, and fewer still know that their number included medical scientists. Code-named Operation Paper Clip...hundreds of 'specialists' ...entered the United States under Joint Chiefs' protection, avoiding regular immigration procedures and requirements...It is hard to escape the conclusion that many of the German recruits were for decades important consultants on a myriad of military-medical projects."
82. Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola, Dr. Len Horowitz, Tetrahedron Inc., 1996.
83. The Brucellosis Triangle, Donald W. Scott, Chelmstreet Publishers, 1998.
84. "Bush Signs Bill for New Generation Nuclear Weapons," rense.com, 12-2-03. The Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act of 2004 allocates millions for new nuclear weapons and bolsters readiness for new weapons testing at the Nevada nuclear test site.
85. Ibid.
86. "House Approves Pentagon Wish List--Bill Includes Military Exemptions From Environmental Laws," Nick Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 11-8-03.
87. "DOE Count of Worker Injuries Inaccurate," Spokesman Review, 3-28-04; also "Book Alleges Cover-up at Nuclear Site," Spokesman Review 3-28-04; also DOE Has Record of Broken Promises, editorial, 4-11-04.
88. "Kennedy Warns on Nuclear Tests," Julian Borger in Washington, The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk , 4-30-03.
89. "Rumsfeld's Dr. Strangelove," Fred Kaplan, MSN.com, 5-12-03.
90. "Bush Drives the Nation Towards Bankruptcy," Peter Eavis, The American Conservative, 2-15-04.
91. The War on Waste, 1-29-02, cbsnews.com.
92. "Money for Iraq Fight Running Out," The Australian 2-12-04 These figures are from U.S Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker.
93. "Fight of the Century," William Thomas, www.willthomas.net.

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