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The Agenda of the Illumination (Part 18th of a multi-series)

Marvin J. RamirezMarvin J. Ramirez

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Given the important and historical information contained in this 31-page article on the history of the secret and evil society, The Illuminati, El Reportero is honored to provide our readers with the opportunity to read such a document by Myron C. Fagan, which mainstream media has labeled it a conspiracy theory. To better understand this series, we suggest to also read the previous articles published in our previous editorials.

This is the eighteenth part of the series.

The following is a transcript of a recording distributed in 1967 by Myron C. Fagan. He had hoped that if enough Americans had heard (or read) this summary, the Illuminati takeover agenda for America would have been aborted, just as Russia’s Alexander I had torpedoed the Illuminati’s plans for a One World, League of Nations at the Congress of Vienna from 1814-15. Fagan correctly describes those members of congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch of that time as TRAITORS for their role in assisting to implement the downfall of America’s sovereignty. It’s understandable that most listeners of that period would have found it impossible to believe that the Kennedy’s, for instance, were (are) part of the Illuminati plot, but he did say that Jack had a spiritual rebirth and attempted to rescue the country from the Illuminati’s stranglehold by issuing U.S. silver certificates, which apparently greatly contributed to the Illuminati’s decision to assassinate him (his son, John Jr., was also murdered because he had intended to expose his father’s killers after he gained public office).

— Now then, Schiff and his co-conspirators did set up the “NAACP” (the “National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People”) in 1909 and in 1913, he set up the “Anti defamation League of the B’nai B’rith,” both were to create the necessary strife, but in the early years, the “ADL” operated very timidly. Perhaps for fear of a “pogrom-like” action by an aroused and enraged American people and the “NAACP” was practically dormant because its white leadership didn’t realize that they would have to develop fire-brand Negro leaders, such as Martin Luther King for one, to spark the then completely satisfied contented mass of Negroes.

In addition, he, Schiff, was busy developing and infiltrating the stooges to serve in all high places in our Washington government and in the job of acquiring control of our money system and the creation of the “16th Amendment.” He also was very busy with the organizing of the plot for the takeover of Russia.

In short, Schiff was kept so busy with all those jobs that he completely overlooked the supreme job of acquiring complete control of our mass communications media.

That oversight was a direct cause for Wilson’s failure to lure the United States into the “League of Nations” because when Wilson decided to go to the people to overcome the opposition of the Lodge-controlled Senate, despite his established, but phony reputation as a great humanitarian, he found himself faced by a solidly united people and by a loyal press whose only ideology was “Americanism” and the American way of life.

At that time, due to the ineptness and ineffectiveness of the “ADL” and the “NAACP,” there were no organized minority groups, no Negro problems, no socalled antisemetic problems to sway the people’s thinking. There were no “lefts” and there were no “rights” nor any prejudices for crafty exploitations. Thus Wilson’s “League of Nations” appeal fell on deaf ears. That was the end of Woodrow Wilson, the conspirators great humanitarian.

He quickly abandoned his crusade and returned to Washington were he shortly died an imbecile brought on by syphilis and that was the end of the “League of Nations” as a corridor into oneworld government.

Of course that debacle was a terrible disappointment to the masterminds of the lluminati conspiracy, but they were not discouraged. As I have previously stressed, this enemy never quits, they simply decided to reorganize and try from scratch again. By this time Schiff was very old and slow. He knew it. He knew that the conspiracy needed a new younger and more active leadership.

So on his orders, Colonel House and Bernard Barouk organized and set up what they called the “Council on Foreign Relations,” the new name under which the Illuminati would continue to function in the United States. The hierarchy, officers, and directors of the CFR is composed principally of descendants of the original Illuminati, many of whom who had abandoned their old family name and acquired new Americanized names.

For one example, we have Douglas Dillon, who was Secretary of Treasury of the United States, whose original name was Laposky.

Another example is Pauley, head of the CBS TV channel, whose true name is Palinsky. The membership of the CFR is approximately 1,000 in number and contains the heads of virtually every industrial empire in America such as Blough, president of the U.S. Steel Corporation; Rockefeller, king of the oil industry; Henry Ford, II, and so on; and of course, all the international bankers.

Also, the heads of the “tax-free” foundations are officers and/or active CFR members. In short, all the men who provided the money and the influence to elect the CFR-chosen ­Presidents of the United States, the Congressmen, the Senators, and who decide the appointments of our various Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of every important federal agency are members of the CFR and they are very obedient members indeed.

IT WILL CONTINUE ON THE NEXT WEEK’S EDITION.

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DREAM ACT: Dreams of craziness

by Jorge Mújica Murias

“Craziness”, Albert Einstein used to say “is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results”. Consequently, the U.S. Senate is totally nuts.

There just wasn’t a chance. The vote on the DREAM Act last week was destined to fail. It was the ninth time the Senate did the same thing, expecting a different result.

Of course, craziness does not reside in the “Senate”, that half of Congress integrated by 100 who are not a bit crazy because all of them are millionaires.

Crazy are the ones who lead the Senate; the ones who decided to put it up for a vote for the ninth time, doing the same thing expecting different results.

“The same” was to expect the enemy to side up with immigrants and favor the Democratic Party living them the Latino vote for 2012. It was to expect the Republicans to politically suicide, give Barack Obama his best re-election chance and, by the way, give them another chance to regain their majority in the House of Representatives. That’s why it was obvious. The vote in the Senate was not about the DREAM Act, but about election strategy for 2012.

We have a Democratic Party who enjoyed absolute majority for a year an a half in the Senate, and unquestionable majority in the House. To do things differently would have been to vote the DREAM on January 21 2009, the day after Obama was sworn in, or voting it in March or September or December, or at the beginning of this year or in the summer. But no. They waited until there was not a chance to get it passed. They put it up for a vote a few days before their most disastrous election, as a desperate gamble to see if they could win again the Latino vote which had given them that majority.

It did work in a couple places, like Nevada, where they would have lost the leader of the Senate. Harry Reid was re-elected with the help of the Latino vote.

Helping the Enemy

But the vote in December was destined to fail. After enjoying their majority in both chambers of Congress and the White house for two years, Democrats proved they are more interested in money and not people. Obama and his congressmen caved in on the health reform, caved in on the taxes and did not end the war, just changed it to a different country. Oh, and they did not approve anything on immigration reform. In short, promises were kept as just that, promises. But they did something differently. Between Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano, his Homeland Security chief, they managed to deport a record number of undocumented immigrants, a few less than 400 thousand this year, twice as many in the two years of his administration. By the time he starts his re-election campaign for 2012, at midyear, they would be around a million. It’s like the entire population of Detroit, more than the whole population of San Francisco.

That made me remember the stupid excuse Obama gave last time we spoke over the phone, when we bitterly scolded him for voting in favor of the border wall with México. “We have to give a little”, he said, “to get a little”. He thought that voting in favor of the Republicans he would get I-don’t-know-what in exchange.

His problem, just like Einstein said, is that he still believes that and keeps doing the same thing expecting different results. He believed that deporting 400 thousand people, family heads, mothers of children born in the Unites States, workers, the Republicans were going to wrap the DREAM Act in fancy Christmas paper and keep the Latino vote on his side to guarantee his re-election in 2012.

I think Republicans made a wiser decision. They want to get the Latino vote by putting a few Latinos to run in 2012, to compensate for all the voting against immigrants they plan to do during 2011. The most visible Latino candidate, maybe as Vice president, will be their pretty Cuban ­new boy, Marco Rubio, now Senator from Florida.

To me, that’s what defined the vote on the DREAM Act. To think that if you do your enemy’s work the enemy will help you to keep in power. The failure was that Republicans have other plans. They plan to get rid of their friend Obama in 2012, once he finishes doing their work.

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Local Hiring law passes in San Francisco

by Mark Carney

Labeled as a “New Deal for San Francisco”, a local hiring law was passed last Tuesday by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Mayor Gavin Newsom has until Dec. 24 to sign or veto the legislation­, although, as the law passed by a vote of 8-3, his veto would likely be overridden.

The law, authored by Supervisors John Avalos and Sophie Maxwell, would require city contractors to hire local workers for public works projects; beginning in 2011, the law stipulates that 20 percent of those hired be local workers, which percentage will increase 5 percent annually until 2017, when the goal of 50 percent would be reached.

The law attempts to address the problem of persisting local unemployment by utilizing the massive funding— some $30 billion over the next ten years—that San Francisco allocates for public works projects. At present, unemployment in San Francisco stands at 10 percent, but, according to Avalos, it is a great deal higher in neighborhoods such as Bayview-Hunters Point.

“For decades, the city has merely required that “good faith efforts” of contractors to increase access for local residents to wellpaying construction jobs. Despite the city’s goal of hiring 50 percent local residents, the actual level of residents participating historically has been much lower and is on the verge of dropping below 20 percent, “ Avalos said.

The law has critics outside San Francisco, however. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has urged Newsom to veto the law, and argues that it will have a negative impact on its residents. One provision of the law mandates a 70-mile radius, meaning that it would apply to San Francisco International Airport, the Hetchy Hetch water system and the San Bruno jail.

On Tuesday, Dec. 21, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution condemning the proposed law. Supervisor Carole Groom, noting that many county residents would thereby be excluded from important public works projects, urged that “This is not the time to put isolation around a community.”

In response to these concerns, Avalos, in a letter to City Clerk Angela Louis, wrote,”…hardly an exclusion when you consider that San Francisco taxpayers are making the investments on these projects.”

Assembly woman against Congestion Pricing

Fiona Ma, an assemblywoman representing the 12th District, which includes portions of San Mateo and San Francisco Counties, spoke out against the controversial proposal of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFTA) to charge drivers for entering and leaving downtown San Francisco.

Despite their recent revision of the proposal to permit free entrance and exit from San Mateo County, the SFTA proposal would still apply to drivers inside the city. “Working families cannot afford to pay outrageous fees just to drive from west of Twin Peaks to downtown. The SFTA should proceed with caution before approving any final congestion pricing plan. The reality is that many families have no other choice but to drive their children to school, soccer practice and the doctor’s offi ce, “Ma said.

Ma has vowed to block passage of the law in the state legislature.

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Cuban Music for New Year Eve

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by Mark Carney

La Moderna TradiciónLa Moderna Tradición

This year New Year’s Eve will be on a Friday, so it’s sure to be an exciting weekend. What better way to begin 2011 than by dancing to Cuban music? Orquestra La Moderna Tradicion has mastered the genre of danzon, a ballroom style of music originating in Cuba that combines Afro-Cuban rhythms with the sonorous harmonies of violins and flutes. Besides danzon, the group also plays other genres of Cuban music, including sones, songos, chacha- cha and timba. Tickets range from $25 to $28, depending on how long you procrastinate before buying one, and Café Valparaiso will be preparing a special menu for the event. La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA. For info call (510) 849-2568 or visit www.lepena.org.

Los Ramblers on NYE

If you want to see Los Ramblers on NYE, at St.Finn Barr Church Hall, you must act quickly. Tickets are available, at $55, for the show, which includes dinner and also a DJ. But, they must be purchased in advance; call (415) 826-6700, to make a reservation. St.Finn Barr Church Hall, 415 Edna St., SF, CA.

Machete DVD set for release

The revenge-drama, Machete, will be released on Jan.4, 2011, on Blu-ray and DVD. The film, directed by Robert Rodriguez, who also directed Sin City and Grindhouse,stars Danny Trejo, Robert DeNiro, and Jessica Alba. In the film, Machete, played by Trejo, is left for dead, but alas! he is not; soon, all feel his wrath: assassins, paramilitary squadrons and a drug cartel. The Blu-ray disc contains many scenes of violence and nudity edited from the movie. It will cost $39.99, and the DVD $29.98.

Art Exhibition in the Mission

Southern Exposure, a nonprofit visual arts organization founded in 1974 and located in the Mission district, will be exhibiting the works of three artists in Jan. 2011. Universal Remote, an exhibition created by Jaime Cortez, is a meditation on the life and death of pop musician Michael Jackson; Both are True, by Ginger Wolf-Suárez, deconstructs experience into its sensory particles; Every Stone Unturned, by Kenneth Lo, is a self-examination, by the artist, of his life’s purpose. The exhibitions run from Jan.7 to Feb. 11, with a reception to introduce the artists and their exhibitions on Jan. 7.

In addition, two of these artists, Cortez and Wolfe-Suárez, will present public programs. On Jan. 29, Cortez will curate a performance of Truth Be Told, which, like his exhibition, will explore the meaning of Michael Jackson’s death. Singer Cedric Brown, and authors Tisa Bryant, Joel Tan and Ignacio Valero will also be on hand to eulogize the self-proclaimed King of Pop. On Feb. 10, Wolfe-Suarez will lead a discussion, entitled Uncertainty of the Expanded Field, which will be, in fi ne, a lecture on the history of West Coast sculpture, followed by a panel discussion. Southern Exposure, 3030 20th St., SF, CA. (415) 863-2141 or ­www.soex.org.

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Cuban-American stars in primetime detective drama

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by Luis Carlos López

Natali Martínez in Deathrace.Natali Martínez in Deathrace.

ABC’s Tuesday (10/9 central) primetime crime drama Detroit 187 debuted this fall, and nine episodes in, the reviews have been fairly positive. Interviewed by Weekly Report, 26-year-old Cuban ­- American actress and Miami native Natalie Martínez talked about her featured role as detective Ariana Sánchez and what it means to be Latina in Hollywood.

What is Detroit 187 about?

It’s a gritty cop show shot on the streets of Detroit, a fresh take for a television show. Detroit is one of the cities with the toughest homicides, simply because there are not that many detectives there.

That’s why Detroit was selected?

It just adds so much. Detroit is a character. You can tell when you watch it. This place is just amazing. The city that once was, the city that is here now.

What sets this show apart from other crime dramas? What do you think is going to be its enduring quality?

It’s not only a serious procedural show, but it also has some funny parts to it that set it a little bit off real. It’s easier for people to relate.

How much research did you do to prepare for your role?

I’ve always been a fan of cop shows. I watched them all my life. I met with a lot of detectives and asked them, “How do you deal with what you see every day?” They said, “You just have to find the funny things — not that it’s funny necessarily, but you have to have a light attitude toward things.”

What has been the reaction so far?

A lot of positive feedback. Everybody loves Detroit 187.

How will the Hispanic aspect of detective Sánchez unravel?

You’ll definitely see more. It’s going to come out quite a bit.

How important is it for shows like this to have a Hispanic voice?

It’s important to have a diverse group. It makes things more Latina in Hollywood.

Does Hollywood pay enough attention to Latinos?

They are getting better. There have been a lot of opportunities that made it easier for a newcomer like me to present myself as a Cubana, as a Latina. I think they are pretty open to it.

Before Detroit 187, the actress starred Fashion House, a series for MyNetwork that marked her acting debut in 2007. Martinez was also the female lead in Death Race, a 2008 feature film for Universal, appearing opposite Jason Statham, Ian McShane, Tyrese and Joan Allen. She most recently was a recurring character in the television comedy Sons of Tucson, opposite Tyler Labine. She has also appeared in the independent films Jack Stone, opposite Shane West, and Magic City Memoirs.

What do you think your role does to inspire and motivate Hispanics?

It’s very empowering. I grew up in Miami. There aren’t that many Cubans out there doing what I do. You get a sense of power when Latinos see a minority take a lead on a show, especially with kids.

As an actress, are there any special goals you have set for yourself?

I want to try my hand at different things, pushing myself and working hard. HispanicLink.

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Boxing

­Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 — at Key West, FL (ESPN2)

Peter Manfredo Jr. vs. José Rodríguez.

Edwin Rodríguez vs. Aaron Pryor Jr.

Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 — at TBA, USA (ESPN2)

Chris Arreóla vs. Joey Abell.

John Molina vs. Raymundo Beltran.

Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 — at Pontiac, MI (HBO)

WBC/WBO light welterweight titles: Devon Alexander vs. Timothy Bradley.

Ryan Coyne vs. TBA.

Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011 — at TBA, USA (HBO)

WBC/WBO bantamweight titles: Fernando Montiel vs. Nonito Donaire.

Saturday, Mar. 5, 2011 — at Copenhagen, Denmark

Evander Holyfield vs. Brian Nielsen.

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Vision breakthrough: eye exercise improve elders’ vision in two days

by S. L. Baker
Natural News

(NaturalNews) – For decades, some natural health advocates have claimed you could actually enhance and improve vision (and sometimes get rid of your glasses) by “training” your eyes to see better. Sound like impossible pie-in-the-sky promises or even quackery?

Now there’s mainstream scientific evidence to back up the idea that you can have better sight through eye “exercise”. Research funded by a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute on Aging has just demonstrated that elderly adults can quickly improve their vision with perceptual training.

The study, “Perceptual learning, aging, and improved visual performance in early stages of visual processing,” was published in the online November issue of the Journal of Vision. According to the research team from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and Boston University, the ability of elders to improve their sight so quickly has a host of important implications for the health and mobility of older people.

Changes in vision — including contrast sensitivity, spatial vision, orientation, depth perception, dark adaptation, visual acuity, and motion perception — have long been associated with againg. However, the new study shows for the first that specific eye “exercises” can improve vision among the elderly in the earliest levels of visual processing. G. John Andersen, professor of psychology at UCR, and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments to investigate if repeated performance of certain visual tasks that are at the limits of what a person can see would result in improving the vision of elder adults. Specifically, participants (all over the age of 65) were given a texture discrimination exercise.

The research subjects were presented with stimuli consisting of a letter embedded in the center of a field of horizontally oriented lines.Besides the letter, peripherally located lines were placed diagonally to form either a vertical or horizontal object which always appeared in the same quadrant. After the research participants were shown this image, it was quickly followed with the display of a masking pattern. The task for the people in the study was to concentrate on seeing the central letter as well the peripheral object.

“We found that just two days of training in one hour sessions with difficult stimuli resulted in older subjects seeing as well as younger college-age subjects,” chief researcher Andersen said in a media statement.”The improvement was maintained for up to three months and the results were dependent on the location in the visual fi eld where the stimuli were located — suggesting that the brain changed in early levels of the visual cortex.”

The visual cortex is the part of the brian responsible for processing visual information. Improvements in vision couldn’t be explained by simply becoming familiar with the task, the researchers determined. What’s more, the improved vision following the perceptual training was maintained for at least three months. This is especially important because it shows there is a high degree of brain plasticity among older people and it strongly suggests that this vision “training” technique is useful for reversing declines in vision due to normal aging.

“Given the clear impact of age-related declines in vision on driving, mobility, and falls, the present study suggests that perceptual learning may be a useful tool for improving the health and well-being of an older population,” the researchers concluded.

Learn more: ­http://www.naturalnews.com/030770_eye_exercises_vision.html#ixzz18Wiz0Dsk.

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Chávez’s Christmas goose

­by the El Reportero’s news services

Hugo ChávezHugo Chávez

On Dec. 14, the national assembly approved in a first debate a new Ley Habilitante (Enabling Law), granting President Hugo Chávez presidential legislative decree powers for a year. Chávez formally requested the new Enabling Law under the pretext of addressing the country’s extensive flood emergency. However, he was clear that the decree powers will extend beyond emergency measures (to deal with the floods), to the economy and also to the social and political arena. The plaint assembly, which is stacked with ‘Chavistas’, is set to approve this bumper Christmas gift for the president today (15 December), before heading into recess.

Is Peru’s stability at risk?

Peru’s long-term political stability is at risk as social and political pressures mount in the run up to the general election on 11 April 2011. Macro-economically speaking, Peru goes from strength to strength: real annual GDP growth is set for around 8.6% in 2010.

However, the political hijacking of social conflict and protests, which often erupts into violence, may increase in the run-up to the elections. It is not just the elections that act as a catalyst for political instability. The recently published findings of the Latin American Opinion Project (Lapop)’s regional citizens’ survey paint a grim (and worrying) picture for Peru. One in which disillusionment and dissatisfaction with democracy, the current political system and its institutions are bubbling away below the surface ready to erupt at any time. Similar conclusions can be drawn from the latest Latinobarómetro survey published on 3 December.

Political agenda flooded in Venezuela

Only a few months ago Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez was praying for rain. Now he is praying for it to stop. Venezuela has spent much of the year suffering from a serious drought, causing widespread power shortages. Heavy rains over the course of the last three weeks have caused extensive flooding and landslides.

The government was slow to react but Chávez is now in full swing, blaming capitalism for the harsh meteorological extremes that have afflicted the country, and requisitioning hotels for the homeless. The national ­assembly, meanwhile, has been inundated with government bills to change the national power structure before opposition legislators take their seats in January and deprive the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) of an all-important two-thirds majority.

Mexico IMF request `positive’ for peso, cuts need for reserves

Mexico’s request for a larger credit line from the International Monetary Fund should be a “positive” for the peso and may reduce the need to add more foreign reserves, according to RBC Capital Markets.

The request for a $73 billion flexible credit line for two years should be approved, Eduardo Suárez, an analyst at RBC, wrote in a note to clients. The original line ends in April.

“The increase in the size of the flexible credit line means Mexico could reduce its target foreign exchange reserve level (whatever that is), which would be supportive for the peso,” Suarez wrote.

Mexico yesterday requested a renewal of the $47 billion credit line that it secured from the Washington-based IMF last year. Colombia and Poland were the only other nations that set up precautionary arrangements with the IMF under its flexible credit line in 2009. The program is reserved for countries that pursue economic policies considered to be strong by the IMF.

Mexico has been buying dollars since March, pushing reserves to a record $111 billion last week, after the peso fell to an all-time low against the U.S. currency and the economy contracted 6.5 percent last year, the worst recession since the 1930s. The economy may grow 5 percent this year, Finance Ministry Ernesto Cordero said yesterday.

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The renewable insanity of Monsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers and Craig Venter

Marvin J. RamirezMarvin J. Ramirez

FROM THE EDITOR: Dear readers: The future of humanity is at stake, as evil forces are on the works to manipulate our main ingredient for living: food. The most powerful economic forces have joined to modified the core genes of our food, produce it, patent it and therefore own the food in the planet. The following article, written by Cassandra Anderson, brings to you a little bit of what is currently going in that area, and it may helps us all to take a stance against it to help prevent it.

The renewable insanity of Monsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers and Craig Venter

by Cassandra Anderson

Monsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, Craig Venter and other investors are working behind-the-scenes to bring genetically engineered (GE) algae to market with products that include fuel, animal feed made with manure, human food and vaccines.

The US government have a stake in this enterprise, too. Obama put a moratorium on drilling for oil on federal land and voted down the Keystone pipeline, in addition to subsidizing the nuclear industry instead of increasing oil reserves.

Obama has advocated replacing 17 percent of US oil imports with oil made from algae.

Algae could be the next bottomless pit that the government flushes money down, to the detriment of the taxpayer, similar to the many solar energy scandals.

There are two major areas of algae research that the government and private entities are funding; open pond algae farms use massive amounts of freshwater, but this is the cheapest option. The second option is mutated, genetically engineered (GE) or synthetic algae that may be able to use saltwater and polluted water, but there are risks of out-of-control consequences.

OPEN POND

Obama referenced a study that suggested 17 percent of US oil imports could be replaced with algae oil using the open pond method. However, he failed to mention that these algae farms would require land mass the size of North Dakota and a continuous supply of freshwater.

It requires 350 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of algae oil! The amount of water required to replace 17 percent of oil imports is equal to 25 percent of all water in the US used for crop irrigation.

The study published by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory failed to account for polluted water, evaporation and the energy required to keep ponds from freezing.

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED (GE) / BIOTECH ALGAE

Critics of GE algae say that there are great risks that include mutation, contamination, becoming out-of-control, killing fish and polluting water systems.

The purpose of genetically engineered products is to lock up income-generating patents and to create monopolies.

Green Crude Alliances: Sapphire Energy

Monsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, the pharmaceutical giant Wellcome Trust fund and others invested $144 million in the Sapphire Energy algae oil biotech company that is based in San Diego. The US government, funded by taxpayers, gave over $100 million in corporate welfare grants and loan guarantees to Sapphire Energy.

Sapphire recently opened an operational algae-to-oil farm in New Mexico that uses non-potable (non-drinkable) water to grow algae that is mutated, but not genetically engineered at this time. However, Sapphire plans to switch over to GE strains of algae.

Sapphire Energy has partnered with Monsanto and are receiving an undisclosed “significant income stream” from them. Monsanto’s interest in the fast-growing algae is in increasing staple crop yields on an enormous level, in addition to stress tolerance.

Most people who give a rat’s-tail about their health know that Monsanto’s GE crops are harmful, as was shown in a recent 2-year study published in France in which rats were fed only Monsanto GE food and they developed horrible tumors and organ damage.

The Business of Slime: Synthetic Genomics

Craig Venter’s company, Synthetic Genomics, is also conveniently based in San Diego. Craig Venter is known for mapping the human genome and creating ‘synthetic’ life. He created artificial life by taking a disease-causing bacteria, replicating its DNA in the lab and implanting it into a host to ‘create’ a new species/disease that took over and killed the host.

Critics warn against an unintentional plague that could result from Venter’s tinkering. Some critics have also argued that he should cease his dangerous experiments until regulations are in place. It would be a pleasant change to see regulations for criminal prosecution against those who create out-of-control organisms that destroy health and the environment.

Exxon, a direct descendant of Rockefeller’s Standard oil, has committed $600 million toward Venter’s GE synthetic algae oil enterprise. Venter has also received funding from BP Oil.

In addition to Venter’s interest in algae oil, he wants to make GE/synthetic algae based food and vaccines that can be produced large-scale within hours.

Venter admits that governments will play a critical role in algae products because they can impose a tax on carbon dioxide to kill the coal and oil industries with artificially high ­prices, opening the door for expensive alternative fuels. This is the very definition of a monopoly- monopolies are dependent on government intervention to manipulate markets and discourage competition.

Pond Scum Partnerships

The J. Craig Venter Institute, Synthetic Genomics and Sapphire Energy are listed as partners with the San Diego Center for Algal Biotechnology (SD-CAB). Other partners include the San Diego Super Computer Center, General Atomics Corp, Carbon Capture Corp and Chevron (another Rockefeller Standard Oil spin-off).

SD-CAB promotes algae farming using degraded water sources such as waste-water to be used for biofuels and high-protein animal feed in California.

While algae is being pushed as an alternative fuel, animal feed and food for humans is far more profitable.

SD-CAB proposes manure from dairies and feed lots, known as Concentrated Animal Feed Operations (CAFOs), to be placed in an anaerobic bacteria digester (an oxygen-free processing container) to make a biogas to be used as a methane gas fuel. Some of the sludge could then be used as a soil supplement fertilizer.

Then SD-CAB proposes using algae ponds to recycle nutrients from the digested sludge to make high-protein omega-3 oil to be used as a cattle feed supplement. It is hard to understand how feeding cattle algae-treated manure is supposed to make better dairy products. Do these people think that the products will taste better or be more nutritious?

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Why war veterans kill themselves

by Luke Hiken and Marti Hiken

Recent figures indicate that for every soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, 25 veterans commit suicide upon their return to the U.S. That is an astonishing statistic! How can this be?

In 1971, Stanford University conducted a prison experiment to determine what the effects of imprisonment were on a selected group of students. One half of the students were chosen to act as prison guards while the other half were to be criminals convicted of serious crimes. The University had to bring the experiment to an abrupt end when it was discovered that the “prison guards” were becoming sadistic, violent oppressors, and the “criminals” were responding to the conditions of imprisonment in dangerously rebellious ways. The experiment underscored what happens to average, educated people, when they are treated without respect, and without protections. More importantly, it demonstrated the catastrophic effect that unrestrained authority, violence and corruption had on those entrusted with the roles of caretakers and guards.[1]

We are witnessing a similar breakdown of morality and judgment among U.S. troops presently carrying out our imperialist wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and elsewhere throughout the Middle East. “The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology” recently issued the report that for every soldier who was killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East over the last 10 years, 25 more veterans have committed suicide.[2] Whether or not these suicide attempts are a result of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), mental health breakdowns, or the natural consequences of having good “soldiers” turn into murdering monsters because of the conditions they are placed under (i.e. the Stanford experiment), is debatable. Yet, what is more at issue here is the fact that over a ½ million soldiers and mercenaries (i.e. “civilian contractors”) have returned home to our communities from the Middle East, and the Pentagon opines that approximately 1/3 of them suffer from some form of PTSD.

What these statistics highlight, is the moral depravity resulting from all aspects of our involvement in the Middle East, and the impact our colonial assaults have, not only on the defenseless populations we have chosen to destroy, but also on the perpetrators of those assaults as well. It is impossible for soldiers to participate in unjustified mass murder, and not be scarred by it. One would have thought that our experiences in Vietnam would have provided a clue as to the disastrous results that unjustified wars have on the men and women asked to fight in them. But no, our Pentagon and “misleaders,” have learned nothing from Vietnam, the Russian and French failures in Afghanistan, or our deceitful and shameful attack on Iraq. These “misleaders” are unaffected by the cruelty and viciousness of their overseas forays, while many engaged in these wars will spend their days contemplating killing themselves.

Recent studies conducted by NYU and Stanford have documented the fact that hundreds more civilians have been killed by the U.S. drone attacks than the Pentagon acknowledges.[3] Yet some bull-headed bureaucrat in the Defense Department, named John Brennan, has the audacity to explain to Obama that these studies are inaccurate, and that our “pinpoint” accuracy with drones is only killing terrorists, and any unwarranted deaths are “extremely rare.”

Are these pathologically absurd comments by Brennan designed to insulate Obama from his slaughter of hundreds of innocent women and children identified in the studies, or do we assume that Obama is even more of a scoundrel than we imagined, for setting up a clown like Brennan to rubber stamp the illegal use of drones?

A nation that murders civilians indiscriminately, wages wars of aggression against defenseless nations, and lies to its own people about our reasons for destroying governments around the world is not only subjecting its soldiers to resulting suicidal behavior, but destroying the moral integrity of the entire nation as well. At every sporting event where we see jet planes and U.S. flags displayed for purposes of propagandizing the American people to put up with our international war crimes, most of the people watching hang their heads in shame over the decline of what was once a great nation.

­The Stanford prison experiment was a microcosm of what is happening to the U.S. worldwide. It demonstrates what happens to citizens who become international killers and to the nation that pays them to do so.

Marti Hiken is the director of Progressive Avenues. She is the former Associate Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and former chair of the National Lawyers Guild Military Law Task Force. She can be contacted at info@progressiveavenues.org, 415-702-9682.

Luke Hiken is an attorney who has engaged in the practice of criminal, military, immigration, and appellate law.

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