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1992 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies:

Deception; Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest; Glengarry Glen Ross; Hoffa; Home Alone 2; Robocop 3; Home Alone 2; Kickboxer III: The Art of War; Canvas; Eye of the Storm; Intruders; Wavelength; Hiroshima; Project Alien; Bitter Moon; Indochine; Sneakers; The Hand That Rocks The Cradle; Intruders; Alien Intruder; Lorenzo's Oil; The Unforgiven; The Bodyguard; The Perfect Man; Straight Talk; A Few Good Men; Howard's End; Boys of St. Vincent; Under Seige; Malcolm X; Stalin; Maximum Force; Crush; Basic Instinct; Adventures in Dinosaur City; Wild West

1992 - By January,
The Amount of Human-generated Space Debris in Earth Orbit had reached a recorded number of 21,852 pieces.
They represent the number of pieces detected, tracked and officially logged by the U.S. Space Command.
The number of catalogued Earth orbiting human generated satellites was about 7000, with a total mass of 3000 tons. Only 6% (about 420) of those were functioning. The remainder could be categorized as used rocket bodies, dead payloads, operational debris (such as optics covers and payload attachment hardware).

100 satellite fragmentations, intentional or accidental, had occurred in a period of 30 years.
At least 14 satellites were purposely destroyed in space to prevent the possibility of their being retrieved by an enemy on their re-entry, or, to test space weaponry. Many thousands of pieces of debris are too small to be detected by human-made sensors.

The USSR MIR spacestation had external shutters added over their twin-paned portholes when a window was impacted by a space particle in May, 1988. American shuttle craft are required to make avoidance manoeuvres whenever debris is "predicted" within 2 km radially, 5 km downtrack, or 2 km out of orbital plane. The STS-44 crew had to adjust their course to maintain distance from a spent rocket body during 1991. In the same year, STS-48 crew adjusted their course to avoid a different rocket body. A space station is expected to require 20 manoeuvres annually to avoid space debris. Collision avoidance information is extremely important now prior to all new space launches and may result in delays.

1992 -
When the Ground-Wave Emergency Network (GWEN), is complete in the early 1990's,
the entire civilian population of the United States will be exposed to transmissions of very low frequency (VLF) range of 150 to 175 kHz. The GWEN system consists of about 300 stations, each with a tower 300-500 feet high. These signals radiate through a 360 degree circle out to a distance of 250 to 300 miles. Geomagnetic waves are known to negatively influence human health and result in chronic symptoms during exposure. These may include emotional disorders, organ stress, allergic symptoms, environmental illness, and digestive difficulties. The dangers of the GWEN system are known but are not published for the public. The rationale for its existence is that in the event of a nuclear explosion, all local power would be shut off and, theoretically, the GWEN would supply the replacement power to complete communications for nuclear retaliation.

GWEN will supply underground "Survival" sites located across the U.S.A. with power; not the civilian population. Low frequency transmissions will have a tranquillizing hypnotic influence on above ground humans.

1992 - On January 10,
"Oscar 22", an American Transit satellite, was destroyed at the USAF Arnold Engineering Development Center by a 150 gm aluminum pellet travelling at 6 km/sec in a simulation of a space debris impact. Initial analysis showed a surprising number of micron-sized pieces.

1992 - In January,
Gases from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo are found to have condensed in the upper atmosphere and are responsible for the vivid sunsets around the world. Scientists fear that the gases will destroy as much as 10% of the Earth's ozone and lead to lowered temperatures around the world for the next 2 years. Guy Brasseur of the Canadian National Centre for Atmospheric Research said:

"I would be especially concerned this Spring since a 1% decrease in ozone leads to a 2%
increase in the amount of skin-damaging ultraviolet rays that penetrate the atmosphere."

1992 - In mid-January,
Robert Gates, USA CIA chief in open testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, summarized the current Soviet military position:

"We see a number of their modernization efforts being cut back ... for the first time in
decades there are currently no new nuclear missile subs under construction."

Due to the political independence of the former Soviets, many of which are now joined under the Commonwealth of States (CIS) and the dire economic conditions of them all, the slowdown has been imposed by non-political factors. The entire Yankee class of nuclear missile carrying submarines has been eliminated as well as the long-range land-based SS-11 and SS-17 nuclear missiles. Modernization of its long-range bomber fleet has ended also.

Deployment of the road mobile SS-25 missile and conversion of the silo-based SS-18 missile to a more accurate configuration continue. USAF Lt. General James Clapper noted that field training on mobile nuclear missiles has dropped precipitously, "due to supply shortages and security concerns."

At the same time, both Gates and Clapper stated that the "leadership protection program" and a maintenance of civil defense facilities was indicated in the continuing augmentation to existing deep-underground bunkers designed to protect the civilian and military leadership during a nuclear exchange.

The Yankee class was a USA Polaris comparable of the 1960s. 
Its significance should not be seen as great here unless you are uninformed. 
Much more efficient, faster, larger and quieter submarines of a more recent vintage
have long since replaced them. Their usefulness in a modern war would be negligible; 
their maintenance and crewing requirements likely represented substantial resources. 

The SS-N-17 Snipe was a 1977 operational ICBM. 
It also has long been replaced in design by better armaments. 
Why would the head of the CIA suggest that these were important moves for the CIS?

1992 - By February 4,
9 republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) had established an "Inter-State Space Council".
This will assist in the consolidation of the management of a space program which was left in confusion by the political fragmentation of the former Soviet Union. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrghyzstan, Tajikstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kasakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan signed the agreement.

The Ukraine's "Yuzhonye design bureau", which is responsible for the manufacture of several launch vehicles, including the SL-16 Zenit, and the strap-on boosters for the Energia SL-17 heavy-lift booster, has stopped Zenit production.

Although each republic can have its own programme, decisions by the Council will be endorsed by heads of government and will be financed out of contributions from each republic. Any expenses or profits incurred through commercial activities will be distributed in accordance "with the respective contributions" of the republics.

The agreement seems to secure the short-term future for the MIR space station, which can generate much needed foreign cash through commercial visiting missions by guest cosmonauts, and some space science projects, although the already reduced Mars 1994 mission is by no means certain.

1992 - In the February 9 issue of "Crain's Detroit Business",
An article by Julie Bennett entitled "Cellular calls: Be discreet: you may be overheard", noted:

"Beware, cellular-telephone users.
Your conversations can be overheard on inexpensive, hand-held radio scanners with 6-inch antennas.

Each day, the owners of simple radio scanners - devices that sell for as little as $139 -
can listen in on the personal and business conversations placed by the cellular-telephone operators.

Since 1986, when Congress passed the "Electronics Communications Privacy Act",
listening in on cellular conversations has been illegal, but the law is almost impossible to enforce. Although scanners manufactured since 1986 are blocked from automatically picking up the radio frequencies that carry cellular calls, that restriction can be circumvented by rearranging a few wires.

The monitoring of cellular-telephone conversations is so pervasive that Robert Grove of Brasstown, N.C., the owner of a mail-order scanner business and the editor of "Monitoring Times", a publication that provides surveillance tips to its 35,000 subscribers, said:

"You are better off assuming that your cellular call is being listened to than not. ... While talking on a cellular phone, you should never say anything about a specific stock, or anything about a public company, which could cause some movement in the stock market. In fact, you shouldn't talk about money matters at all. Nor should you give out your credit-card or telephone calling-card numbers."

1992 - By February 16,
Plans to Explore Mars during this Decade were being considered for cancellation unless $10 million in financial aid goes to the CIS. The surface and atmosphere of Mars were to be explored by robotic spacecraft and scientific instruments intended to be included in the Mars 94 and Mars 96 missions. Proton expendable rockets are planned to be used in the launches. Scientific equipment for the missions is being provided by Germany and France. Russia is alleged to have spent $16 million on the Mars missions, and an additional $10 million is necessary to complete the spacecraft to launch.

1992 - Early in the year, Ed and Janet L. Trostle of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA would be involved in the promotion of investment in "Prime Bank Guarantee of Funds Debentures". Under the company name of "E.T. & Associates" offices would be set up by the end of April in an old, second floor dirty office at

229 South Las Vegas Blvd. Suite 201, 
Las Vegas, NV 89101, 
phone: (702) 383-0003, 
fax (702) 383-2960.

1992 - By March,
Antonio Quadros, a Brazilian engineer from Rio de Janeiro, invents an engine which can use human urine for fuel.
By a process in which small amounts of oxygen are injected into a vacuum containing the urine and ignited with an electric spark, combustion proves to be both powerful and clean. No pollution or odour result and in several years the inventor will have a car prototype which can reach speeds of 85 mph. Interest is slow to develop with several manufacturers showing interest after 3 years.

Had the will and open-mindedness been available, 
such a finding could have been discovered at least 50 years earlier. 
The consequences: at least 50% less air pollution globally; 
a considerable reduction in sewage waste and treatment costs, 
and a loss of hundreds of billions of dollars in petroleum revenues.

1992 - By April,
The Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM) quickly requested as a replacement for the "Challenger" motor following the launch explosion of the "Challenger" in January of 1986, was not included on the NASA budget for fy 1993 (fiscal Year). In the interim, it had been determined that "the cause of the Challenger accident was the failure of the pressure seal in the aft field joint of the right Solid Rocket Motor," by a Presidential Commission. Redesign of the existing motor had proved both adequate and economical. The ASRM was now redundant and NASA removed further development of it from the proposed budget.

$1.3 billion had already been spent on the ASRM.
Representative Whitten, an 83-year-old congressman who had represented his electoral region for 51 years and was one of the most influential members of the government, wanted more money for his rural district. He cut $360 million from other NASA programs to keep the ASRM in development. When the program was finally killed by Congress in 1993, $3.0 billion had been spent on a redundant piece of machinery.
Why?

1992 - In May,
Seven storage tanks containing 40,000 metric tons of chemical weapons are discovered by the Soviet government at military installations.
It is enough to kill the entire population of Russia.
During the period of production, 400,000 metric tons were produced.
No one seems to know where the rest of it is.
Some of it is expected to have been poured into the Baltic Sea, once a huge clean body of water which now is a sewer of industrial chemicals.

1992 - In the USA,
National Trigger Dates set in state laws, activate, and permit regional instate banking whereby bank holding companies are allowed to acquire banks in other states on a nationwide basis, opening the door to nationwide interstate banking. This will allow for nationwide interstate conglomeration of capital for the purpose of collateralization of buy-resale transactions as well as make more difficult, or more possible, some forms of money laundering, tax sheltering, and, nationalization of redistribution of aggregate banking reserves within such a bank on a daily basis.

1992 - During May,
USA Space Shuttle on mission STS-52, tries to recover and repair the "Intelsat 6" communications satellite launched earlier on May 14, 1990. At that time, failure of a booster resulted in the satellite not reaching its intended orbit. Efforts are made to attach a replacement motor. The astronauts are unsuccessful in repeating what they had practised earlier underwater earlier using a robotic Canadarm. It results in a publicized 3-person spacewalk in which the humans manually manoeuvre the satellite as desired. A real-time display of the remote Canadarm provides synthetic 3-D images providing the illusion of vision where objects cannot be seen. Such technology is expected to be helpful in the construction of the Freedom spacestation.

1992 -
Burke Hedges in his "Who Stole The American Dream? - The Book Your Boss Doesn't Want You To Read!", promotes Network Marketing as the "greatest right of all": Free Enterprise.

The book would quickly be promoted to over 250,000 persons through the International Network Training Institute (INTI), the Amway Corporation, Interactive Distribution, and other companies. Hedges would note the following:

"There is no loyalty in corporate America anymore - and there's no security, either.
According to Paul Zane Pilzer, a world-renowned economist, we're headed for as much as 20% unemployment by the year 2000. ... Do you know that 90% of all small businesses fail in the first year ... and 80% of the survivors close their doors in the next 5? And that 80% of those never see year 10? ...

... two words that spell disaster for white collar employees: First - technology.
And second - profits . 35% of all white collar workers ... will be out of work. ...

College, corporate careers, small business, blue collar, white collar (are all diminishing opportunities) ... what's left? ... Network Marketing ... "the people's franchise".

... the American Dream is ... we want what we don't have. ...
We've made 'settling for less' a habit - a way of life! ...
The cornerstone of the American Dream has always been financial freedom -
enough money to do what you want, when you want to do it. ... one thing money does buy in a society like ours - is freedom. ...
Freedom, security, money, health and happiness.
We were never meant to be forced to pick just one or two.
We want - we deserve to have them all!

Sir James Barrie, author of the classic fairy tale "Peter Pan", once said:

'Dreams do come true ...
You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.'

... What good is having anything if you have to give up everything else to get it?
No, the real American Dream is to have it all. ...

I truly believe that each and every one of us has an inner fire, a basic survival instinct to fight back when the chips are down. ... What we need is a vehicle to help us get back our dreams. I'll tell you what I think - we're frustrated. Fact is ... we're angry! ...

We're not cowards. We're victims of a crime.
... someone stole ... our belief that we can have (whatever we want). ...
It's part of a cover-up that keeps telling us, 'Do what everybody else is doing
... Don't rock the boat ... Hey, you could lose what little you've got now - don't blow it!
... There is no other way.'

... a 'pyramid scheme' ... Dr. Karl Dean Black explains it:

'Delegation creates a multi-level pyramid. Our government is a multi-level pyramid. So ar our schools and churches. All successful businesses, because they distribute goods and services, end up shaped like a multi-level pyramid.

In any multi-level structure, the power comes from the bottom.
Our government distributes services down a pyramid, but we give it power from the bottom with our votes. Marketing companies distribute products down a pyramid, but we give them power from the bottom with our dollars. So pyramids set up a flow that runs both ways: first down, then up. Value flows down the pyramid; power, in response, flows up. If value stops flowing down, power (in the form of dollars or votes) stops flowing up, and the system collapses.' ...

Any game of chance involving money is gambling, and gambling is illegal unless it's under the vigilant eyes of local, state and federal officials. ...

The Airplane Game ... recruiting new members ... who pay $$s for a position ... and recruit others ... who by paying $$s for a position move the recruiter forward ... into a higher income ... Airplanes crash (and members lose their investment) when there aren't enough ... family and friends with $$s to spend in hopes ...

... the biggest pyramid scheme in the entire world is legal!
It's run by the United States Government. It's called Social Security.
There's not a person under 50 years of age in America who should expect to collect all of his or her Social Security benefits at retirement. Everybody knows that the Social Security Administration will be broke by the time it's their turn to collect (because the number of claimants is increasing and the number of contributors is decreasing: benefits are paid from premiums). ...

The last year (the USA) government took in more money than it spent was 1969 ...
Since 1987, the deficit has doubled. ... Congress - gave themselves a whopping 70% pay raise of $52,100 ! Plus they get a fat pension that generates them a secure retirement - even if they serve only one term ! ... their performance is at best questionable and they aren't accountable until the next election. ...

Winning the lottery ... legalized gambling ... got a better chance of being hit by lightning - twice! ... Who's really winning? The government bureaucrats ...

Charities ... hypocrites ... 33 different non-profit organizations, ... pay their directors over $200,000 per year! ... Colleges and universities are big business. And like any business, they should be judged by the quality and success of the product they produce in the marketplace. But if 90% of all the graduates are not working in what they went to school for in the first place, where's the value ... Since, 1990, the income of the average college-educated male in his 20's has dropped over $4,000 ! ... In 1960, we graduated 9,733 Ph.D.'s (in the USA) - and today, more than 36,000 each year! Where do they all go?

... there's greater job insecurity today than at any time since the Great Depression. ...
Today, it takes at least 2 incomes for us to achieve the standard of living our parents had with one paycheck. ... The 1980's saw 30% of all Americans lose their jobs ... Currently over 700,000 jobs are lost every year ...

In 1930 there were 30 million farmers in the U.S., and they fed approximately 100 million people. In 1990 - there were 300,000 farms feeding 250 million Americans plus another 100 million others world-wide! ... no security in farming anymore ... today, employment experts expect people to have 10 to 12 different jobs in 5 or 6 different careers over the course of their working lives! ... 66 out of 100 franchises are losers! ... We have to take matters into our own hands. And what that means in the simplest of terms is - if it's meant to be, it's up to me . ...

There is a way that you - whoever you are, whatever your (gender) or race or family background or social status ... no matter what your education or past history of success or failure in any endeavour - that you can begin to earn enduring, residual income right now, today ! It's called Network Marketing.

... a paradigm - the way it is - becomes "the way it was" when it doesn't work anymore.
Or when somebody invents a new, better paradigm to take its place. ... Tell me the honest truth - if you worked twice as hard as you do now, would that really make a difference? Would you be earning twice as much? ...

What Walt Disney was talking about when he said it took courage to pursue your dreams was having the courage to accept change - the courage to climb aboard a new and better idea before everybody else does ... because if you wait till everybody is doing it - it's too late! ...

Technology is simply 'a new and better way of doing something.'
Technology is the engine of change. Technology is what creates a new paradigm. ...
Throughout human history ... most new ideas have always met with resistance and rejection at first.
And the more unique and revolutionary the idea, the more sweeping and vast the change, the louder and stronger peoples opposition to it. ...

It used to be that a product's production cost was around 50% of its retail price.
... (that cost) has dropped down to less than 10 to 20% of the finished product's price ... But at the same time ... the costs of distribution and sales ... represent 80 to 90% of ... retail. ...

I'd rather run a profitable business in an unconventional industry than an unprofitable business in a conventional industry. ... The spread of Christianity throughout the world was accomplished by many of the same principles we find operating today in Network Marketing: word-of-mouth or person-to-person recommendations ... testimonials ... enthusiastic sharing ... caring for the success of others ... recognition, friendship, partnership and much more. ...

A Network Marketing company makes a product.
Then they join in partnership with a network of independent distributors, each one in business for himself or herself. The company handles all the research and development, finance, management, public relations, warehousing, production, packaging, quality control, administration, shipping, data processing, and so on ... and the company pays distributors' commission checks. The distributors, in turn, market the products for the company. ... The company gives the distributors the support they need to market the products - brochures, flyers, tapes, etc. They even train you how to do the business. ... Since individual distributors can sell only a small volume or products personally, they get other people to join them in the business as independent distributors. And the individual distributor gets a percentage of what these people sell as well. ...

Now the Network Marketing company has done something pretty brilliant here.
They've slashed a huge amount of money from their costs of distribution and sales. ... reducing overhead ... is in a cash business. They don't pay for marketing, distribution or sales until after the sale is made and the product delivered. ...

... the concept of doubling
... (The product of) A penny doubled every day for a month (30 days) ... would yield a grand total of $5,368,709.12 ... This doubling principle is the way a business grows in Network Marketing ... One good person a month - that's all it takes! (to be successful) ... by teaching each person how to sponsor and teach only one person a month, at the end of the year you would have 4,096 people in your organization!

... Murphy's Law ...
You know that 80% of all ... of your distributors are no longer selling products (at the end of the first year; however, they have continued as consumers. ... Let's assume that 90% of your group quits (leaving over 400 people) using and selling your products. ... So, if each one of these 400 people ... is moving $100 to $1,000 worth of products per month, that's a total product volume of between $40,000 and $400,000 a month! And ... the company pays you a percentage of that sales volume ... say 5% (and) you earn between $2,000 to $20,000 per month.

There are thousands of Network Marketing companies operating (throughout the world)
... Amway is one of the biggest ... with annual sales over $1 billion (in Japan). ... Network Marketing is reported to be a $45 billion industry internationally, made up of FORTUNE 500 and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) companies. Avon - the $3 billion cosmetic giant. Amway - at $4 billion plus in worldwide annual sales. Quorum ... Primerica ... Shaklee, Matol, Watkins, Rexall, Mary Kay Cosmetics ... (subsidiaries of) Colgate-Palmolive and The Gillette Company (and, by making their services available through Network Marketing companies) U.S. Sprint and MCI. ... Network Marketing companies have pioneered entire industries: natural vitamin and mineral supplements ... nutrition and diet drinks ... automotive engine additives and gas-saving devices ... cleaners and detergents ... home water filtration business. ...

One of the big reasons for the success of Network Marketing in the 1990's is that it is based on cooperation - not competition. ... career advancement ... comes directly from your helping to create success for all the people in your group, ...

Why Are People Involved in Network Marketing?

They're involved because they have a burning desire for a better way to live and work ... dared to dream their dreams could come true. ... passionate about being paid what they're really worth. ... a home-based business ...(and) because they can work spare-time, part-time, or full-time ... because they can be their own boss, set their own hours, and spend more time with their families and friends ... because somebody ... showed them the ... opportunity ... were ready to make a change. ...

You'll never create real and lasting wealth trading time for money. ... Passive income ... residual income is where it's at. ... For things to get better, you have to get better. You can blame your parents, your boss, the government and whatever. But one simple fact remains: when it becomes harder to suffer than to change, you will change . ...

The truth is that most of the people in power today are scared to death (of) losing their power. ... Let's face it. Stories (which are negative about network marketing promoted by big business and the media) are the reason you haven't been told the truth about Network Marketing. ... Today, the advertising industry is (failing) ... and (the big corporations which make contributions to politicians) are concerned. ... these traditional companies have their own rule: ' If you can't beat 'em - beat 'em up!' . ...

Meanwhile, costs in the conventional marketing world have gone crazy:

o Advertising is too expensive ...
o Distribution and sales costs are skyrocketing.
o ... products (wanted can't be marketed in a traditional manner)
o Consumers no longer trust companies or their ads ...
o Consumers are demanding more for their money ...
o Consumers are demanding better customer service ...
o And competition is getting tougher ... for everyone. ...

I admit it - there's a part of me that thinks Network Marketing is like a gold mine.
I love the fact that average people are turning their lives around - ordinary people living extraordinary lives. It's fine with me if the 'big boys' come to the party - sooner or later. But truthfully, I'm content if they make it later than sooner! Much later. Make 'em wait and sweat it out. After all, that's what they've been doing to you and me - for years . ... I want us all to get our (money first). ...

It's hard to imagine Network Marketing without credit cards, airplanes that go coast to coast in less than 6 hours, discount long-distance telephone services, copying machines, 800 phone numbers, etc.

Network Marketers today can FAX product and training information anywhere in the world in an instant. They can prospect for new partners on their car phones - while stick in traffic. A thousand people or more can get on a weekly teleconference call and invite new people to hear all about the company's products and opportunity - without leaving their own living rooms! ... train their new long-distance partners with tapes ... for a few dollars. ...

We've talked about how the odds are stacked against us in the working world today ... about glass ceilings and 'unequal opportunity'; the sand trap of using a college education to lead to a corporate career track; and the scams and schemes that rip off almost any chance we have for getting to the top and living the good life.

We've talked about the lack of real creativity and control in the work place ... and the lack of satisfaction and fulfillment available in most conventional jobs. ...

We've talked about how frustrated people are ... and how angry people are at what's happening ... and how millions of people are feeling utterly powerless to do anything about it. ...

If I offered you a (blue collar) job, would you take it?
... (If I offered you a (job that pays a million dollars a year ... your answer would be),
'Absolutely! What do I have to do?' ... (the blue collar job). ...
(You'd rationalize why it was a good job and take it.) ...

The Foundation Phase for Network Marketing itself started in the late 1940's and lasted until 1979, when AMWAY won a landmark court decision against the FTC. This decision made it clear - once and for all - that Network Marketing was a legal, legitimate system for selling products and services.

After the pioneering years come the Concentration years.
This is when the business starts ... to gain some acceptance in the masses. ...
Today, Network Marketing is at the final stage of the Concentration years - and entering the explosive Momentum years! ... which means that the next 5 or 6 years will be a period of tremendous growth ... of fantastic opportunity ... and of outrageous profits!

Mark my words: We have from now until the year 2000 to position ourselves in the marketplace with our respective Network Marketing companies and to build our businesses. ... I dare you to be rich!

The above is a noticeably one-sided view of Network Marketing.
For a Balanced viewpoint, which is required if one does not want to be persuaded by half truths, would consider the following factors at least in addition to those above:

A) The focus of the above "Lifestyle" is materialistic - every other decision is secondary. This should be recognized as an extension of the capitalist, socialist and communist systems which seek foremost to enhance the material lifestyle of the adherent. A reactionary or different approach is a Spiritually focused "Way", such as Christianity, in which the motivation for material wealth is a secondary consideration. That is, Network Marketing may enter our life as a #2 priority , or possibly as a #10 priority; that level of priority may change over time, as our Spiritual guidance dictates. There is a choice; humans just seem to be oblivious today to that choice.

B) There is an US - THEM Conspiracy theory which is participated in throughout.
This is a normal extension of the capitalist system which mandates that many people will be victims at the persuasion and opportunism of others. While all profit is not made in this manner, clearly much of it is. The author rightly targets discrimination in favour of government expenditures and big business territoriality. As Network Marketing is described, this system of privilege is not to be dispensed with; rather, the author wishes that the currently privileged will receive the "Make 'em wait," response from the newly privileged. An alternative would be a Spiritual approach in which the degree of spiritual and material wealth acquired by the individual would be according to the Grace of God through the direction of the Holy Spirit. The Spiritual approach mandates that all individuals be given an equal opportunity to enter to one of various degrees of participation, or, to avoid Network Marketing should it not be suitable for us at this time.

C) A Totally Immature Attitude (the American Dream) is promoted as a replacement for the current Self-Directed, Self Responsible winners in the capitalist system. The central description of this attitude is "we want what we don't have ... we deserve ... all." "Nothing sacrificed" appears to be included in this 'give me whatever I want' expectation. While presented in an immature ego-driven manner, it appears to be the result of psychological defenses shared by the capitalist "losers" and "victims" class. Rather than adopting the super-rational position of "I'll take whatever I can get, any way I can get it," or, the highly emotional attitude expressed above, there is at least one other alternative. A Spiritual approach recognizes that God wants each individual to be happy and contented. To that end, God's Messenger, the Holy Spirit will guide us in our decisionmaking, when we ask, such that our decisions take us on the best available path towards that goal. By following the lifestyle "Way" demonstrated by Jesus Messiah (Christ), our spirit will be challenged and will grow in strength and the path will become easier as time progresses. Part of that direction may involve Network Marketing.

D) Intense language and punctuation is used throughout the (book) presentation.
Frustration, powerlessness, and anger are exclaimed in almost every paragraph. While such drama is effective in persuading large groups to follow mob characteristics of enthusiasm verging on hysteria, or, of quickly determining whether you sympathize with and belong to the "victims'" group which yearns for change. Intense expression tends to discount tolerance and to promote a reversed role of privilege. An intense mind is incapable of requesting or finding a Spiritual alternative; a relaxed and meditatively focus mind often determines several more alternatives. It's all a matter of how much freedom of choice you want: obsession limits you to 2 choices; meditation and prayer can provide endless choices.

E) New ways to old directions are emphasized rather than new directions.
The author's use of the word 'paradigm' conveys that change only involves a new method which performs the old values of efficiency and productivity better than the old. Description of the benefits of 'technology' provide further examples. Finally, 'principles' are confused behind words which can equally reflect show business socializing or true performance. If the direction is solely material benefit, then the competition of better methods and materials will continually make losers of all of us. No matter what technology or method you adopt, eventually, a more proficient one will evolve. Changing by rebellion only tries to take for oneself that which you see others have. Rebellion, as noted, creates negativity from those who are positioned to be disadvantaged. Reactionary new direction raise little opposition because they do not directly threaten the status quo with instability. Instead, a new direction, such as a Christ-like lifestyle including reverence for God and meditative guidance - present a new option which cannot compete with the singular material emphasis of the capitalistic, material benefit singular focused form of Network Marketing expressed.

F) Fundamental variations and limitations are trivialized or denied.
There are many variations of network marketing; some do require that you look after most of your own administrative details; some charge you for the promotional materials which they have developed and which they may regulate you to use; some companies provide training for a fee. Home-based businesses are known to require certain personality traits and skills if they are to be successful. A complete commitment to anything, including network marketing, may not leave any time for friends, family or oneself - and the development period may last for years. An 80% dropout rate is not uncommon - and it demands considerable lost time to surpass. Your time must be put in with every dropout - until they drop out. Such a process can be quite frustrating and costly in the beginning for much effort may be required to begin your organization. Minimizing these facts encourages the reader to hurriedly make an important decision without adequate preparation. That only leads to more failures. A more Spiritual approach would admit to these realities and seek to prepare oneself and any prospect to constructively cope with them.

1992 - On June 28,
The Sarajevo Airport in the Serb dominated part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, between Hungary and Yugoslavia, was opened today by a small UN contingent. Food and medicine will be delivered to all sides in the Bosnian war with impartiality by the UN.

Wars continue when:

 a) superior military forces allow them to;
 b) masses of humanity are ignorant of the occurrence;
 c) masses of humanity are in denial about their responsibility for others;
 d) masses of humanity have become insensitive to the suffering of others;
 e) apparent global leaders abuse their responsibility with a passive role;
 f) mass atrocities have been allowed to continue on either/both side(s);
 g) armaments are supplied from outside nations to either/both sides;
 h) threats are made by outside nations and then not acted on.

There are only 4 spiritual roles which humans can act out in war:

 1) pray for peace and meditate on one's nature of involvement;
 2) provide opportunities for negotiation, cooperation, forgiveness;
 3) provide assistance to those willing to leave the area;
 4) leave the area such that only the combatants remain.

These actions will remove the innocent from danger, prevent further civilian casualties, and, force the combatants to kill or make peace with each other rather than victimizing the innocent and the civilian. An army without the benefit of a civilian workforce to feed, shelter, clothe, and arm it - dies from its own destructive self-centred intensity of response. If civilians and innocent persons have been removed from a contested region AND the remainder of humanity wish to end the conflict, a multinational security force can quickly take control of the contested region, temporarily imprison the perpetrators, return the civilians to the region, and mediate a dissolution of the conflict and the sentences of the imprisoned - who refused to resolve the conflict more peacefully and without endangering the lives and property of innocent persons and civilians.

Interference in the conflict by providing services to persons who choose to remain in danger, by threats which are not acted on, and by allowing a continuation of the atrocities and murders of civilians is NOT an idealistic effort to gain peace; it is a pragmatic means of politically appearing to care about the innocent persons involved while you sell, or allow others to sell, guns to the combatants. Tens of thousands of civilians would be murdered and dumped into mass graves while the rest of the world spectated and spent their money to build more sophisticated armaments: a typical human culture response for many decades.

1992 - During the Summer,
An Abduction Conference for persons interested in or having experienced an abduction by spacepersons, was held at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), organized by Harvard psychologist John Mack.

1992 - During August,
Hurricane "Andrew" swept across Florida, resulting in $16 billion worth of damage in and around Miami.
It was one of the most costly such disasters in recorded history.
Every year, as many as 50 such cyclones traverse the tropics, but seldom do they pass over heavily populated areas.

1992 - By September,
The Number of Full-Time Asteroid Researchers numbered about 12.
They had found 150 nearby objects out of a total of more than 300,000 which could be devastating to human existence. At this rate of discovery and with this degree of interest, it will take humans centuries to discover 90% of those interplanetary objects which have Earth-crossing paths and the impact with by ONE would obliterate whole state or countries with an explosive force equal to hundreds or thousands of nuclear weapons. Astronomer Tom Gehrels, who heads the Spacewatch program centred at Kitt Peak, outside Tucson, Arizona, remarked that he had "been warning people about this [danger] for 20 years."

A NASA-sponsored committee recently recommended that a network of 6 semi-automated asteroid telescopes scattered across the world be used to detect asteroids at a faster pace than has been done in the past 20 years. By using advanced photon detectors and larger telescope mirrors, they expect that the network could locate about 90% of the near-Earth passing asteroids which would be large enough to produce a global catastrophe on collision. It is believed that the fore-knowledge would provide as much as 20 years of preparation time before a likely impact. The price of such a worldwide network is estimated at $50 million for construction, plus $10 million to $15 million a year for operation.

Presently, some near misses are discovered within hours of their passing; others pass undetected until they are moving away. While hundreds of thousands of highly trained scientists are busily at work in a dozen countries developing weapons of mass destruction with budgets of billions of dollars, about a dozen scientists are trying to find interplanetary objects on a collision course with the Earth which are capable of destroying most life on the Earth. Humans have the choice of paying for insurance against a natural disaster, or, continuing to drastically increasing the odds of self-destruction. Choices - humans have choices.

1992 - On September 16,
The "Mars Observer" Satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, by a redesigned Titan 3/TOS to arrive at Mars after August 1993 for a mission formally expected to end in February, 1996. It is hoped that it will provide observations of Mars over a full seasonal cycle (687 Earth days/ 669 Mars days) to : determine the global element & mineralogical character of the surface material; globally define the topography & gravity field; establish the nature of the magnetic field; determine the time and spatial distribution, sources and sinks of volatile material and dust over the season; explore the structure & aspects of atmospheric circulation.

The fixed price Martin-Marietta launch contract of $153.6 million was to include a full set of spares, $20 million for mission-specific Titan 3 modifications and profit payments were only to begin after the first 5% of the scientific data had been communicated back to Earth. Projected to have a total cost of $350 million, the Mars Observer eventually cost almost $1 million before it was launched into space, almost a 300% price increase. This cost was willingly spent by humans who were aware of the ecological time bombs of pollution, population and political instability which threaten longer-term survival on the Earth for humans. Choices?

1992 - During the Fall,
Richard Price, an American who had experienced a spaceperson abduction in 1955, been ridiculed and ostracised for his concerns in 1964, been told to ignore a possible implant in 1981 by UFO researchers, and had kept the implant when it fell out in August, 1989, had now found someone willing to analyze the object.

David Pritchard, a scientist at MIT found that the implant was made from the common Earth elements of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and compounds of elements. Because no odd "non-earthly" elements were detected, some researchers stipulated that it must be of Earthly origin and could not be extraterrestrial in origin. This element of denial appears to be common in researchers who are more interested in petrifying their thinking than in their motivation to seek for the truth. In a display of human ignorance, they seem to bypass ALL of the findings of astronomers that the same basic elements mack up all stars and that the same energy production systems are utilized by all of those billions of entities. Yet somehow, they expect that chemical elements found on the Earth cannot be found elsewhere!

Thomas Flotte, dermatopathologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital took the investigation further and found that the implant consisted of concentric layers of fibroblasts, extra-cellular material like collagen, and some fine cotton fibers. Once again, sceptics noted that the materials were common Earth elements, that there were no apparent highly technical electronic-like apparatus, and that the fibroblasts and collagen were the components which the human body sometimes normally uses to provide protection against a foreign substance. Again, status quo conservativism seemed to receive generous media consideration.

Here is some of what the critics did not account for:

    a) Price "thought up" a medical process and equipment design at the age of 8
       in 1955 which is only acknowledged as a design possibility for the future
       by current medical designers;

    b) Spaceperson craft metals have been analyzed as more pure and more highly
       technologically manufactured than we are yet capable of understanding, 
       let alone reproducing;

    c) If a spaceperson culture can travel intergalactically in a manner 5500 times
       more efficient and effectively than we can, why would their technology
       continue to leave waste, garbage and "evidence" behind like that of humans
       does?;

    d) Humans now manufacture bio-absorbable surgical thread and bone splints - 
       Why should humans be surprised that a biotechnology, advanced 1000s of times
       beyond that of humans, might have biotech implants?;

    e) What is the reality that cotton underwear threads (6) of equal length would 
       implant themselves in a uniform fashion into a 1 mm unit of tissue beneath
       the penile skin of an 8-year-old boy and remain there for 35 years?;

    f) What does the fact that these critics are educated in an "advanced" human
       culture suggest about the intelligence and tolerance of the culture?

1992 - During the year,
Daniel S. Golden, former President of "TRW Inc.", is appointed Director of NASA by President George Bush.
TRW is a major contractor for Pentagon and NSA "Black" programs for space.
Golden is expected to bring about financial reforms and co-ordinate contractor's in a more efficient manner.
He will encourage defense contractors to work together for the benefit of the nation. Rather than incur the probable duplication of facilities and efforts in competing for the same contracts, he will encourage aerospace and armaments companies to specialize. Monopolization of technological specializations will develop globally. Contracts for specific types of technology will tend to go to the "world leaders": kings of their specialty.

Thirteen global leaders in political strength and economic monopolization of services and control technologies will complete their consolidation of strength and market to become "ten kings" by 1996.

1992 - By November,
The following prediction had come true:

New Testament, Book of Revelation, 13: 1-18.

"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea
(submarine), having 7 heads (missiles) and ten horns (MIRVS), and upon his horns 10
crowns (warheads), ...

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard (low, long and sleek), and his feet
(diving planes) were as the feet of a bear (flat, wide), and his mouth (missile launch
section with missiles pointed up) as the mouth of a lion (large, gaping, with teeth):
and the dragon (FEMA) gave him his power (missiles and nuclear energy), and his
seat (commission), and great authority (for destruction).


And I saw one of the heads (missiles) as it were wounded to death (sabotaged); and
his deadly wound was healed (repaired): and all the world wondered after the beast
(submarine).

And they worshipped (followed the orders of) the dragon (FEMA) which gave power
unto the beast (submarine), saying, Who is like (powerful) unto the beast?  who (what
nation) is able to make war with him?  And there was given unto him a mouth (a
communications satellite) speaking great things (promoting political deceptions and
promises) and blasphemies (Internet and satellite TV access to images of sexual,
violent and other anti-social compulsions); and power was given unto him to continue
42 months (3-1/2 years).  And he opened his mouth (broadcasted) in blasphemy
(irreverence) against God (the Way of Jesus Christ), to blaspheme his name (by
proudly promoting human authority), and his tabernacle (by promoting self-centred
individualism, rather than God-centred social harmony), and them that dwell in
heaven (by promoting materialism rather than an awareness and appreciation for the
spiritual reality).


And it was given unto him to make war (contention) with the saints (believers in God
and promoters of spiritual strength), and to overcome them: and power (capital and
political authority) was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.  And all
that dwell upon the earth shall worship (obey) him, whose names (of institutions and
machines) are not written in the book of life of the Lamb (Jesus Christ) slain from the
foundation of the world ....

And I beheld another beast (FEMA) coming up out of the earth (subterranean
installations); and he had 2 horns (National Security Agency and E-Systems) like a
lamb (dependents), and he spake as a dragon (tyrant, dictator).  And he exerciseth all
the power of the first beast (nuclear submarine) before him, and causeth the earth and
them which dwell therein to worship (fear) the first beast (the nuclear submarine and
its missiles), whose deadly wound (sabotaged missile) was healed (repaired).  And he
doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth
(nuclear missile attack) in the sight of men (televised), And deceiveth (make fearful
and full of awe) them that dwell on the earth by means of those miracles (of mass
communication) which he had power to do in the sight (reception) of the beast
(submarine), which had the wound by a sword (saboteur), and did live.


And he (FEMA) had power to give life (meaning) unto the image (of terror) of the
beast (submarine) that the image (fear) of the beast should both speak (give authority
or justification) and cause that as many as would not worship (obey) the image of the
beast (used to support the demands of the FEMA) should be killed (for inciting civil
disorder, as terrorists).

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a
mark (device) in their right hand (a bankcard), or in their foreheads (brainwashed
belief in materialism and credit - both of which are denials of spiritual reality):  And
that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark (a bankcard or belief in
credit), or the name of the beast (government purchase order), or the number of his
name ... Six hundred threescore and six (600 20 20 20 6 a social insurance number -
SIN).

1992 -
Japanese legal reforms make "Dango" illegal.
Dango is a business practice in which tendering companies agree to their offers amongst themselves, and thus the contract winner, before the bidding takes place. Common in public works projects, non-Japanese companies had declared that it was a major impediment to doing business in Japan.

Despite the ruling, some of Japan's largest corporations were so committed to the program of joint monopoly of the market that in 1993 bidding for electronic monitors to be used in sewage projects would become the first application of the law. Prosecutors would reveal that the companies involved would draw lots to prioritize which contracts they wanted. Charges would be laid against

   Hitachi Ltd.,
   Toshiba Corp.,
   Mitsubishi Electric Corp.,
   Fuji Electric Co. Ltd., and
   Meidensha Corp.

All would be found guilty of practising dango.
The Tokyo High Court would fine these 5 and 4 other companies a total of 460 million yen ($5.85 million) in May, 1996. Of that, 4 companies would be included in the charges on the basis of lesser involvement and would be ordered to pay 40 million yen for their part. These included;

   Yaskawa Electric Mfg. Co. Ltd .,
   Nissin Electric Company ,
   Shinko Electric Co ., and
   Takaoka Electric Mfg. Co. 

Tomikazu Nishikawa, a former deputy chief of the sewage works agency's engineering department, would be sentenced to 8 months in prison with a two-year suspension of sentence for providing information about the bids beforehand. Dango had been a standard practice amongst larger corporations and with the assistance of public officials for 35 years. It had taken legislators 8 years to outlaw it. It took 4 years for the first case to be completed in the courts. Fines against companies are written off as an expense of doing business. Only the civil servant received a jail sentence and public humiliation.

Those involved would rationalize that the process was a scientific manner of doing business.
Rather than endangering one another's profit by overcompetitiveness, they each provided a valued service to the government at a market price which guaranteed each of them a profit. It would further be rationalized that since the contracts were given by drawn lots, they were chosen by chance with each being guaranteed a contract, yet without preference according to size or influence. In reality, these companies, as a group, were provided with privilege over all other competitors. That destroyed the intent of the tender system.

The guarantee of profit without competition did not safeguard the state from the payment of lucrative profits to suppliers - another intent of the tender system. It did guarantee that contract work remained under the control of Japanese companies to the benefit of Japanese workers, investors, and government tax revenues. It also guaranteed that there would be no excuse for any Japanese bidder to retain a business loss through low bid errors made in desperation in an overcompetitive market - not uncommon in the governement tendering process.

1992 - By December,
The General Accounting Office (GAC) of the USA government had conducted a number of studies regarding NASA operations.
Some of these included:

Causes and Impacts of Cutbacks to NASA Outer Solar System Exploration Missions; 
Improving Management of Government Equipment Provided to Contractors;
Action Needed to Resolve Status of US Geostationary Satellite Program;
Management Oversight of Contract Cost and Time Changes could be Enhanced;
NASA's Financial Reports are Based On Unreliable Data;
NASA is not Properly Safeguarding Valuable Data from Past Missions;
NASA Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost Risks;
Contract Oversight and Performance Provisions for Major Work Packages;
NASA's Independent Cost Estimating Needs Improvement; ....

Donna Heivilin of the GAC noted the following:

 a) NASA's estimated cost of  each  shuttle launch was wrong by $400 million;
 b) NASA's Contract Management is of greatest concern to the GAC;
 c) NASA's Property Records on equipment or facilities provided to contractors 
                                                             is extremely poor;
 d) NASA's average program cost increase over budget is 77%;
 e) NASA's average schedule slippage (late delivery) is 48 months;
 f) NASA's executives repeatedly and openly lie to Congress about cost,
                                      capabilities, and practical possibilities.

1992 - On December 3,
"The Big Book of Mischief: The Terrorist's Handbook", written and compiled by David Richards and Vlad Tepes, was made available on the INTERNET Online access service by John Cormier. The online copy of the Chaos Industries book provided a simply written practical outline of the theory, material composition, priming, detonation and construction of explosives and various projectile weapons as well as firecrackers.

Included in the information was a description of the properties and sources of Ammonium Nitrate together with ways in which an explosive could be constructed with it. Available to thousands of online users for a minimal fee, a huge bomb would be made within 2-1/2 years and used as a terrorist weapon within the USA by American citizens.

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Memory Stimulators.
1993 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies:

Alive; Mrs. Doubtfire; Sleepless in Seattle; It's All True; Cliffhanger; Tombstone; Top Secret; In The Line Of Fire; Extreme Justice; Death Wish 5; Sister Act II: Back in the Habit; Another Stakeout; Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story; Schindler's List; Body of Evidence; Baraka; Grumpy Old Men; Ernest Rides Again; In the Line of Fire; Jurassic Park; Indecent Proposal; Look Who's Talking Now; In the Name of the Father; The Firm; The Pelican Brief; The Custodian; Pushing the Limits; The Piano; Bad Blood; Sommersby; A Woman Scorned; Born Too Soon; Running Late; My Life; Reckless Kelly; Fatal Instinct; The Secret Rapture; The Trial; The Cormorant; Coneheads; UFOs are Real; Rising Sun; Demolition Man; Hard Target; The Club

40x% of Americans have only a 1 month reserve $$$s for layoff or emergencies.

1993 - On January 1,
Risk-based Capital Adequacy Banking Standards, as outlined in July, 1988, are scheduled to take effect in the Group of Ten countries excepting Japan. The USA is late in its legislation and is expected to have its legislation passed by July. The Japanese, coming from a low adequacy position in 1988 are already prepared to meet the guidelines. Belgium is having difficulty with slow legislation. Sweden and Finland are experiencing high loan losses on residential housing; it is aggravating their position. New off balance sheet securities have become popularized throughout the 1980s and are increasingly being used by banks for investments as their lack of rating makes them comparable to "riskless" assets within the guidelines.

1993 - By this year
Controversy over the use of "Ritalin", a psychoactive drug, would again surface in the USA.
By 1976 as many as 2,000,000 school children had been prescribed the drug. Then, and now, it had come under attack because of its apparent routine use, its potential severe side effects, and its longer-term behavioural influences.

In 1976, the "Physicians' Desk Reference" had noted the following as possible side-effects of Ritalin: "In children, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, weight loss ... insomnia, and tachychardia may occur more frequently. Toxic psychosis (leading to attempted suicide and thoughts of suicide) has been reported." Ghetto parents, in the mid-1970s, had criticized that the drug was being used to drug black children into submission. The number of children on amphetamines or Ritalin had grown throughout the 1970s. School physicians, and others, had erroneously rationalized that Ritalin was an enhancer of learning ability and had been enthusiastic about its use.

A 1974 report from the "American School Board Journal" stated that paediatricians felt they were under pressure from educators and teachers who were mainly concerned about "children who act up in school or are difficult to manage." At the 1974 annual meeting of the American Medical Association, Herbert E. Rie, professor of paediatrics and psychology, reported on his 3-year evaluation of 80 children who had been on Ritalin. They had originally been diagnosed as hyperactive and were on a regimen of stimulant drugs. He reported that while the drugs seemed to calm behaviour and to increase attention span they did not improve school performance as measured on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

"The kids look like they are doing better - they're out of people's hair - 
but they are not performing a bit better. ... We believe that children 
have to be excited and involved to learn."

He speculated that the apparent dulling effect of the drugs balanced out the improved ability to concentrate.

It was also argued, in 1977, by author Vance Packard, that the use of stimulant drugs

"defeats a major goal of good education: to help children become more adept at self-control. 
If drugs are controlling their dispositions for them they may grow into adolescence deficient
in this crucial human skill."

Now, in 1993, a part of at least one whole generation of Americans had been "taught" that in order for them to be normal it was necessary to take psychoactive drugs. Was it predictable that there had developed a chronic cultural addictive illegal drug problem? And if the side-effects of drugs freely prescribed by the state, by the medical establishment and with the support of the "follower" parents and self-concerned educators included emotional numbing, depression and psychosis - was it not to be expected that they would be attracted to using illegal addictive mood altering drugs like cocaine?

The American culture had been an one example, in its choices, of the directions taken by a non-spiritual society. Its political and social leadership had been interested in CONTROL not in FREEDOM. The constructive use of freedom is only possible through self-awareness, empathy, self-assertiveness, positive self-direction, positive self-esteem and self-responsibility. These skills are all frustrated by the non-spiritual influence of control factors such as manipulation, addiction, authoritarian structure, mass media deception. The Americans, and many other nations had been given the opportunity to develop an enhanced spiritual civilization for over 40 years. The choice had been avoided. Detractors to drug dependency had gone unheeded.

1993 -
The Volume of capital flowing on the banking electronic transfer networks is estimated by Elinor Harris Solomon, professor of economics at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. to be $2 trillion a day. A given dollar may turn over 100 times a day in electronic form. FedWire and CHIPS transfer a daily average of about $1.7 trillion; retail transfers, such as debit card and ACH direct deposit send about 1/10th that amount. The two combined provide a daily flow equal to over 1/3rd of the USA gNP for the entire year. In 1980, daily payment flows were about 12 times average reserve balances; today, they are running at about 55 times. For practical purposes, the newest technologies enable an almost instantaneous delivery of vast amounts of an electronic proxy for spendable value. What would happen if the electronic network failed?

1993 - By February,
The Baer-Bauer Weapons Conglomerate, Germany, had developed a nuclear explosive bullet containing a tiny amount of plutonium and a triggering device that detonates the nuclear bullet on contact with the target. It is capable of vaporizing military equipment armour and destroying most of whatever is within a 25 foot radius. Intended for sale to armies of nations like the USA, low sales will result in it being offered to civilians by 1995. Prohibited from such international sales, a black market will undertake the distribution.

1993 - During February,
The World Trade Center in New York City is bombed by terrorists.
A rented van, parked in an underground parking garage beneath the twin office tower complex explodes.
The ensuing fire and smoke result in the deaths of 6 people and the injuring of 1000.
Four Middle Eastern Islamic men are later convicted of the crime.

1993 -
In North America, TV Infomercial product promotion becomes an increasingly popular method of advertising.
Unrestricted and unregulated, the price of broadcast time and the quality of the production are the only cost considerations of the advertisers, the media or the cultural leadership. Very quickly, quality products with accurate presentations become submerged by slick, deceptive promotions. Increasingly,

    a) The commercials lengthen to standard program length;
    b) Professional announcers and actors are added to a "news" format;
    c) A "prepared" audience is added to respond enthusiastically;
    d) Individuals are paid to give "independent" user testimonials;
    e) Actors are portrayed as authorities on the value and worth of the product;
    f) Declarations are made about the product which are suggestive;
    g) Professionals are paid for making supportive statements;
    h) The audience is not informed that any of the participants is being paid;
    i) Desire for Social Acceptance is used as the major motivating agent;
    j) Payment is taken by credit card over a 1-800 phone order line.

After more than 18 months of standardless activity, class action suits begin against a few of the sponsors. Hundreds of millions of dollars of sales have been made with no statistics and little interest in the social impact. The structure of the infomercial suggests to the casual viewer that they are watching a spontaneous live-produced newsmagazine production and builds their level of trust towards believing the statements to be made. The paid or "bribed" audience is uniformly smiling, happy, enthusiastic, supportive - there is never any criticism nor questioning of comparative value; the viewer continues to accept that the product advertised is perfect by virtue of mass acknowledgement (a human weakness).

The testimony of persons labelled as doctors, lawyers, sports professionals, teachers, nurses, ... reinforce the confidence of the viewer. Statements regarding some of the real properties of the item, made with voice inflection to indicate a special better-than-average aspect, are usually of lesser grade quality: the viewer is not qualified to judge the statement. The format, the unacknowledged paid responses of ALL of the participants, the deceptive statements about the product, and the focus on the viewer's self-image as the motivator - indicated an intentional exploitation of the public.

The normal result, indicated by past human response patterns, is that the culture will become less open to change, less trusting, more ego-centred, more defensive, and less spiritual. Lack of a strong spiritual basis to the culture invites the abuse of the medium. Lack of political and social leadership allows the abuse. The fact that abuse aggregates power dictates that it will tend to saturate the medium. The fact that abuse tends to cripple the human spirit lessens the degree of positive coping skill remaining in the culture to address future catastrophic events.

1993 - On February 28, The USA Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) mounted the biggest raid in its history to seize what it believed was a cache of illegal weapons at the Davidian compound 12 miles outside of Waco, Texas.

On February 25, 1993, a search warrant had been sought by Davy Aguilera, Special Agent with the US Treasury Department, BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), Austin, Texas, and was based "on my own investigation as well as information furnished to me by other law enforcement officers and concerned citizens."

Gene Barber, McClennan County Sheriff's Department, Waco, Texas, had received information in May, 1992 from an employee of United Parcel Service, Waco, Texas, that from April through June of 1992, several deliveries had been made to a place known as the "Mag-Bag", Route 7, Box 555-8, Waco, Texas, 76705, located on Farm Road number 2491 in the names of Mike Schroeder and David Koresh, which the UPS employee believed to be firearms components and explosives.

Aguilera and other officers had observed vehicles registered to Vernon Wayne Howell, aka: David Koresh. The packages arriving came by COD and apparently attracted attention because monies were not sent by cheque or other means to pay for the deliveries and no one from the farm went to the source of the items and physically transported them themselves to the farm.

David Koresh, an alias for Howell, operated a religious commune at a place near Waco known as the Mount Carmel Center. The name "Koresh" was ostensibly adopted by Howell as a reference to his being a messiah or anointed one of god. The UPS driver became suspicious when the parcels he was delivering to the farm became frequently redirected to the Mount Carmel Center with his arrival being affirmed by telephone before his going there. Perry Jones, and sometimes Steve Schneider, would pay the COD charges at Mt. Carmel.

When the ATF investigated further, they found that Joyce Sparks, of the Texas Department of Human Services had received a complaint from out-of-state that Koresh was operating a commune-like compound and that he was sexually abusing young girls. On February 27, 1992, she and 2 other employees and 2 Sheriff's deputies went to the compound where they met a woman who identified herself as Rachel Koresh, wife of David Koresh. Mrs. Koresh was under strict orders not to talk with anyone unless her husband was there. The investigators did speak with several children and Ms. Sparks was concerned when a boy of 7 or 8 years of age told her that all the adults had guns and were practising with them all the time and that he wished he would grow up quick so that he could have a "long gun" also.

Ms. Sparks returned on April 6, 1992, and spoke with David Koresh who said that there were few weapons at the compound and that most of the adults were unaware of them. When asked if she could view the premises, Koresh had her wait for about 30 minutes and then escorted her through the building. At one point she looked through a trap door which led into a buried school bus at the end of which appeared to be a target shooting range. There did not appear to be electricity anywhere through the compound and Ms. Sparks was shown about with the aid of a penlight. When she asked to speak with some of the children and other adults, Koresh refused on the grounds that they were not available.

Ms. Sparks further had been told by Koresh that he was a messenger from god, that the world was coming to an end, and that when he chose to "reveal" himself, the riots in Los Angeles would pale beside what was going to happen in Waco, Texas. He stated that it would be a "military type operation" and that all the "non-believers" would have to suffer.

Larry Gilbreath, the UPS agent, mentioned that 2 cases of inert hand grenades and a quantity of black powder had been delivered in May of 1992. In June, 90 pounds of powdered aluminum metal (a known explosives component) and 30 to 40 cardboard tubes as well as 60 M-16/AR-15 ammunition magazines. Gilbreath only became aware of these because of the description of them on the invoices accompanying the packages and because one package broke open when it was being loaded on his truck. Aguilera was aware that the rifles could be simply converted from semi-automatic versions to automatic weapons, an illegal firearm for civilian possession.

Dave Haupert of Olympia Arms, Inc. Olympia, Washington was then interviewed on June 8, 1992, and confirmed that 45 AR-15/M-16 rifle upper receiver units had been sent during March and April to the Mag-Bag Corporation for a cash cost of $11,107.31 COD. On the same day, Glen Deruiter, manager of Sarco Inc., Stirling, New Jersey, and, Cynthia Aleo, an owner/manager of Nesard Gun Parts, Barrington, Illinois were interviewed by Aguilera. He determined that additional gun parts had been sent to Mt. Carmel which were sometimes used to construct illegal weapons.

On June 23, Aguilera spoke to ATF compliance inspector, Robert Souza of Seattle, Washington, who described invoices to Mag Bag reflecting additional purchases of AR-15 parts. The cost for all of the known weapons, parts and explosives was over $44,300.

Recent aerial photographs of the Mt. Carmel Center showed a bus buried near the compound and an observation tower 3 or 4 stories high with windows on all sides. The remainder of the Mt. Carmel structure was noteworthy for its absence of windows or skylights. In addition to being unhealthy for the adherents, such a structure would have a psychological influence on those within of encouraging depression, paranoia and intense co-dependency.

A neighbour informed the officers that he had heard machine gun fire from the Center from January through February of 1992 during the night hours. These sounds of machine gun fire were again witnessed in early November of 1992. Near the same time, November 6, Terry Fuller, a deputy sheriff for the County, had heard a loud explosion and saw smoke rising from the north end of the Mt. Carmel property, near which he was driving.

On December 11, 1992, Aguilera interviewed Robyn Bunds in LaVerne, California, who said she had given birth to a child fathered by Vernon Howell in 1988, when she was 19. She said Howell (Koresh) became increasingly abusive and violent after that time and she left the commune in 1990. While there, she and the other members of the group were forced to view graphic films of Vietnam combat which Koresh described as "training films." In addition, Howell had forced members of the commune to stand guard 24 hours of the day with loaded weapons. She said that he was never without a weapon nearby. When she had discovered a package with parts in, she asked her brother what they were and had been told that they were a machine gun conversion kit. When she hid the kit at her California address, 3 followers arrived to pick it up.

On December 12, 1992, Aguilera interviewed Jeannine Bunds, the mother of Robyn.
She had been a former member of the Center until September, 1991, and was a registered nurse. She described the presence and use of AK-47 rifles at the Center and clearly identified such a rifle. She further stated that Howell had fathered at least 15 children from various young women and girls as young as 12 years of age; she personally had delivered 7 of the children. According to her, Howell would annul all marriages of couples who joined the commune and then take exclusive sexual access to all of the women there.

Aguilera made enquiries of a number of law enforcement databases and discovered that 40 foreign nationals had noted the Mt. Carmel Center as their point of contact. They had entered the USA from Jamaica, U.K., Israel, Australia, and New Zealand; most had overstayed their entry permits or visas, and, it was illegal for "illegal aliens" to receive or be given firearms.

On both January 1 and 3, 1993, Mrs. Poia Vaega, of Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand was contacted and interviewed by ATF agent, Bill Buford, who was assisting agent Aguilera. She told him that Koresh (Howell) had falsely imprisoned her for 3-1/2 months beginning in June of 1991. One of her sisters, Doreen Saipaia, had received physical and sexual abuse from both Vernon Howell and Stanley Sylvia on several occasions, while she stayed at Mt. Carmel. Both Mrs. Vaega and her husband had been members of Howell's group for a short time in March, 1990. Upon their arrival, they were separated from each other and not allowed to sleep together. She said that Howell preached his philosophy, which did not always agree with the Bible, for hours at a time and seemed to have exclusive sexual access to all of the females in the compound. Study sessions included the handling and admiring of AK-47 machine guns.

On January 6, 1993, Aguilera received the results of an examination conducted by Jerry A. Taylor, explosives enforcement officer, ATF, Walnut Creek, California, regarding the armaments and materials which were known to have been received at Mt. Carmel. Taylor confirmed that the components were capable of being constructed into explosives and illegal weapons, the capability of which is illegal domestically in the USA.

On January 7, 1993, Aguilera interviewed Deborah Sue Bunds, in Los Angeles, California, wife of David Bunds - brother of Robyn. She had been a member of the Branch Davidians since birth. She had first met Howell in July, 1980. Howell assumed leadership in 1987 and began to change the context of their doctrine. As early as February, 1989, she had observed Howell shooting a machine gun.

On January 8, 1993, Aguilera interviewed Marc Breault in Los Angeles, California.
He and his wife, Elizabeth had lived at Mt. Carmel from early 1988 until September 1989.
While there, Breault had participated in physical training, firearms practice, loaded weapons guard duty under orders to shoot anyone who came through the entrance gate. Howell had told him that the USA laws were ludicrous because while it was illegal to own certain types of weapons it was a simple manner for anyone to acquire the components and construct them. He also had mentioned to Breault his desire to get a copy of the "Anarchist's Cookbook", a known explosives manufacturing manual for improvised devices.

On January 12, 1993, Aguilera spoke to Special Agent Earl Dunagan, ATF, Austin, Texas and further learned that some of the companies from which Koresh (Howell) had purchased weapons were either under investigation for having illegal weapons or gun parts and several were convicted felons who continued to sell weapons parts on the authority of legal loopholes.

On January 25, 1993, Aguilera interviewed David Block in Los Angeles, California.
Block had been a member at the Mount Carmel Center from March 1992 to June 13, 1992.
During that time, he and 3 others had accompanied Howell to two gun shows, one in Houston and one in San Antonio. While at the Center, Block had seen a metal lathe, a metal milling machine, and an AutoCad-like software on a computer which Donald Bunds, another member and engineer was capable of designing and producing a sten gun with.

During that period, Howell had asked openly if anyone present had any knowledge of how to make hand grenades or covert weapons to automatic versions. Block had also seen copies of underground paramilitary magazines and heard extensive talk about the "Anarchist's Cookbook". Block also described what was identified as a British Boys .52 calibre anti-tank gun mounted on a tripod that he had seen at the compound. He had also met James Paul Jones, from Redding, California, an apparent firearms and explosives expert - at the Center.

On February 22, 1993, Aguilera was informed by ATF Special Agent Robert Rodriguez, that while acting in an undercover capacity the previous day, he had been contacted by David Koresh of the Mt. Carmel Center and invited there. Rodriguez had listened to Koresh play the guitar for about 30 minutes followed by Bible reading, then had been questioned extensively about his background, and, was told that he would be disliked by some people if he joined the group because the government did not consider the group religious and because Koresh did not pay taxes. Koresh further stated that the Bible mandated the right for anyone to possess weapons. Koresh then asked Rodriguez to view a videocassette with him produced by the "Gun Owner's Association" (GOA) which depicted the ATF as an agency which violated the rights of gun owners by threats and lies.

According to a harshly worded Treasury Department report in October, 1993, the raid was a hopeless botch from the beginning. Lax security allowed Koresh and his followers to be forewarned of the impending bust, and ATF supervisors knew it. In the shooting that followed, 4 ATF agents and 6 Davidians were killed. The Clinton administration then ordered the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team to replace the ATF, setting up a tense, 51-day standoff with the armed cult members, during which loud rock music was directed at the compound on a 24-hr basis in an attempt to confuse, disorient and fatigue the members of the Center.

FBI agent Peter Smerick, advised the FBI high command on Waco that getting tough would lead to fatalities. On April 19, after review by Attorney General Janet Reno and President Bill Clinton, the FBI was pressured to move in with tanks to force the cultists to surrender. Patience was wearing thin as the media, intolerant of negotiation and lusting for dramatic confrontation, challenged the leadership of the Presidency and the Attorney General and the efficiency of the FBI in a 51-day non-event. 80 members of the group died in the shootout and fire. The incident would become a symbol of big government tyranny to right-wing paramilitary groups.

1993 - By March 4,
A Nostradamus prediction holds that an AIDS-like virus will be "swarming" the Mediterranean.
The problem is identified as a virus carried in blood and other bodily liquids.
Wars involving the Middle East and the Greek peninsula (Bosnia/Serbia/Herzegovina) are included in the period from now to February 3, 1998.

1993 - During March,
The Conjuction of Neptune and Uranus, an event which currently happens once in every 171 years will take place.
In the USA, "the single biggest blizzard storm this century", so far, occurred.
It swept from Florida to Maine, releasing more snow, hail, rain, and sleet than any other similar phenomenon since 1888. It was followed by catastrophic flooding in the region of the Mississippi.

In astrology, Neptune is considered the god, or power, of water, particularly rivers and seas.
His mythical wife, Amphitrite, held sway over the seas as well as winds and earthquakes.

1993 - In March,
A Giant Blizzard swept from Florida to Maine states.
The USA National Weather Service called it "the single biggest storm of the century."
It released more hail, snow, rain, and sleet than any other storm since 1888.
The relentless rain brought floods to the American Midwest, resulting in so much damage that it was estimated to be the costliest weather disaster of all time.

The director of the Weather Service, Albert Friday, wondered if these events actually indicated not just a shift in the weather, but a more dramatic shift in the climate. Even with such concern, nothing would be effectively done to reduce damage to the ozone layer for at least another decade.

1993 - On March 31,
The Value of the Russian Ruble Collapsed.
The price of 100 rubles the previous day had been $180.
Today, the price dropped to $0.15 for the same 100 rubles.
By April 29, the value would fall further to $0.04/100.
Many Russians had lost their life savings.
Part of the reason for the devaluation was that the central bank had been covertly robbed of much of its gold bullion AND counterfeiting by organized crime groups had reached immense proportions.

1993 - During April,
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that about 14 million people are infected with the AIDS virus worldwide. In the USA, more than 1 million are known to be infected. The number of people expected to become infected by the year 2000 exceeds 50 million. Endemic prostitution in Thailand and several central African countries is said to be a major contributor together with male homosexual populations and receivers of blood transfusions in industrialized nations.

1993 - On April 20,
The Branch Davidian Compound near Waco, Texas, is destroyed by fire when it is attacked by federal government agents using weapons and bulldozers. Only 9 people survive while 85 men, women and children are killed - most by fire and smoke. 25 of the dead were children.

Three attempts had been made to "inject" tear gas into the buildings by having the FBI use tanks to break holes in the windowless walls of the Center. Known beforehand, much of the lighting within the building was by candle and oil lamp and the structure was mainly constructed of wood. At least one of the intrusions by the tanks collapsed a load-bearing wall resulting in considerable interior damage.

In 1994, 11 cult members were tried in San Antonio, Texas, on charges of conspiring to murder federal agents. The jury found them not guilty of conspiracy yet convicted most of them on lesser charges. US District Judge Walter Smith took the highly unusual action (shocking to some jury members) of interpreting the jury's verdict on the lesser charges as convictions on the conspiracy charge as well - and sentenced 5 of the member of the Mt Carmel Center to prison terms as long as 40 years. Sara Bain, jury foreman, also stated that the FBI and ATF had "some scalawags out of control, with the power to play games they shouldn't be playing."

In a review by former Justice department officials commissioned by Reno, the Attorney General, it was concluded that there had been "no fault during the standoff and the tear-gas assault" and concluded that Koresh was responsible for the outcome. They asserted that the FBI had no choice but to try and force the Davidians out? A 4-man arson investigation team determined that 3 fires had started at a distance from the tank intrusions and concluded that they had been intentionally set by the cultists.

In an era of increasing revelations about the secret and deceptive workings of the President's office, senior military officials and armaments industry leaders, distrust continues to build amongst the American public. Distrust encourages belief in guilt and conspiracy. Such a belief encourages the development of opposition. When political opposition seems pointless because of the slow response of the bureaucracy and the potentially autocratic power of the administration (White House staff), opposition is likely to become paranoid and militaristic towards the status quo. This is a long established human political pattern. Best not to hide the truth in the first instance and to defend your decisions with the truth when they are questioned.

In the months following, gun owner organizations and others, largely unaware of the content of the warrant, would take an increasingly resistant stand against government regulation of personal armaments. The media were partly responsible for this state of activity because it, unfortunately typical of human mass media, tended to only report those incidents which were of a dramatic and inflammatory nature, and which tend to intensify human negative emotions. While many thousands of actions were taken by a very large number of law enforcement agencies to restrict illegal gun and drug activities, about a dozen incidents involving the accidental killing of presumed innocent persons were the major and sometimes the only reports which the public were made aware of. This would encourage some of the American public to view the ATF agents as overly aggressive and over-enthusiastic in their suppression of individual rights, and, to justify their calls for open possession of firearms for individuals on the basis of self-protection.

The political leaders did not seek to remedy this disinformation by informing the public by way of public statements and documentation. In a "free" society, the mass media, theoretically have the responsibility of informing the public about matters of reality. In capital-based and authority-based human societies, this intent has NEVER been effectively demonstrated. In BOTH situations, the media has been used, by the political authorities or by the business leaders - to manipulate public opinion for the purpose of political support or economic gain. These goals are opposing in nature, yet the method used is the same: disinformation.

With the above incident, the following can be noted:

   a) The individuals concerned were within the USA;
   b) A state defines the legality of behaviours within its laws;
   c) There were testimonies that statutory rape was being committed;
   d) There were testimonies that illegal weapons were being made;
   e) On several occasions, David Koresh did not appear cooperative;
   f) Statements made by Koresh suggested a future armed confrontation;
   g) The behaviours of persons at the Center appeared to be antisocial;
   h) Parallels to the Jonestown massacre in Guyana were evident;
   i) The structure of the Mount Carmel Center was more indicative of an
              armed fortress than that of a peace-loving religious commune.

Some of the visitors and reporters to the center before the raid later reported a totally positive perspective regarding Koresh and the Center. It is a simple matter for humans to portray desired behaviour to a significant other: it's called "acting", manipulation and coerced response. As Koresh, and any other so-called religious preacher knows, those who prepare to carry violence against others often find themselves to be the victims of violence, eventually: deception encourages distrust and animosity.

1993 - On May 6,
The 15-Member UN Security Council issued "Resolution 824" which called upon UN forces in Bosnia to protect the primarily Muslim populations in 6 "safe haven", demilitarized zones. The previous humanitarian mission, doomed to be nothing more than a sustaining factor to the war, had now become an interventionist mission without authority and with little power. UN forces were mandated to observe only the actions of both sides of the conflict. Unable to protect anyone but themselves, and then only under threat of death, the UN forces would be forced by the Council to monitor the sniper- and infantry-killings of civilians and the gradual demolition of cities and destruction of utilities and food supplies. The only practical justification for NOT following the previously stated "spiritual" alternatives is that the participating nations in the Council want the freedom to respond as the combatants are now, themselves, in the future.

The protection order guaranteed that the UN forces would be seen, by their actions, to be supporting the side they were protecting in the war. The Bosnian government would quickly discover the potential for manipulation offered by such a mandate. It would use the "safe havens" to reorganize, re-equip and train its numerically superior army. They would then launch attacks from the "safe" regions against the surrounding Bosnian-Serb army. The Bosnian Serbs would retaliate, frequently against civilian targets, in vengeance against the civilians whom they could only assume had assisted their enemy - the Bosnian government troops. Refusal to follow a "spiritual" approach ALWAYS results in a destructive or negative conclusion.

1993 - By the end of May,
"The Christian Identity Group" had been formed.
An American political paramilitary group, the members believe that the Anglo-Saxon whites are a chosen people of God, rather than the Jews, and that they must help to bring on the apocalypse through their battles against the secular representatives of Satan who administer the USA. They believe that persons with genetic defects should be euthenized.

Rapid economic and social changes tend to promote affiliation of humans into such groups when basic constructive coping skills have not been provided in the member's education. Confused, depressed and desperate persons come to believe that their central government, which has pledged to protect them from such changes, is acting against their best interests. The possibility that the government might be helpless in its efforts against global factors is discounted because the politicians in question have always said that they were in control of the future.

1993 - Beginning June 5,
According to a Nostradamus prediction, and continuing until as late as June 10, 1998, with influences continuing until 2008 - a second ozone hole in the Arctic develops. The prospect of temperatures rising, crops failing, and cattle dying from thirst, starvation or heat is suggested. Indicated is the perception that the destruction which humans have done to their environment will be more devastating to their survival than any wars which may ensue.

1993 - On July 12,
A Japanese Earthquake results in a 20 foot high tsunami (tidal wave) which destroys 500 homes and leaves 100 dead. The wave hits a seashore town 15 minutes after the quake.

1993 - In his July 17,
"Toronto Star" column, David Crane, noted the following considerations regarding the health of any society:

"By looking at problems the wrong way we can often end up spending money the wrong way - and being disappointed by the results.

Our medical-care and school systems both illustrate the point extremely well. ...

An individual's capacity to cope, and the effectiveness of his or her immune system, are influenced by stress, poverty, education, income distribution and other factors, all of which are affected by the social environment, which in turn is affected by the economic environment. ... We should expect teachers to be good teachers, but we should not expect them to solve the problems of a poor social environment. ... the learning and coping skills of people are highly influenced by the 'wiring' of the human brain in the earliest years of life. Here nutrition and stimulation are critical. Children who are inadequately cared for and nurtured in their earliest years enter the school system with poorer learning skills and often anti-social behaviour. ...

In the well-being of people - their capacity for lifelong learning, their health and their ability to cope - the social environment, then, is extremely important.

But a country that neglects its economic development and fails to create the institutions and skills for an innovative, knowledge-based economy will face a deteriorating social environment."

The primary aspects of such an approach are spiritual in nature.
Quantity of information is not a constructive consideration here.
Rather, it is the relevancy of whatever amount of information as can be assembled (quality) and the skill to decide on constructive alternatives of action which an optimum social environment from a declining one.

1993 - During the summer,
A U.S.S.R. chemical engineer approached Olivia Ward, a reporter with a Moscow news bureau, and offered to supply, for a large sum of money, the plans to radar-evading technology. The material had already been tested and would allow "invisible" delivery of missiles or aircraft anywhere in the world. At the time U.S. secretary of state James Baker, suggested that the reporter contact the U.S. embassy military attaches. Ward did, only to be laughed at. Six months later, a report from Washington stated that the Pentagon believed Russia was developing radar-evading technology.

1993 - By August 1,
The flooding Mississippi River in the central U.S.A. had reached its crest at St Louis of 49.6 feet.
80% of over 1576 levees in the basin had failed, resulting in 50 people killed, 23 million acres flooded, $10 billion in damages. It was proclaimed as 1 in excess of a 100-year flood suggesting that a similar occurrence was unlikely to happen within a 100-year span. The flood influenced central and east North Dakota state, eastern South Dakota state, southern and eastern Nebraska state, central and northern Kansas, all of Iowa state, central and southwestern Wisconsin state and northern Mississippi state. 72,000 homes were lost and 36,000 square miles of land area were affected. 3200 Missouri businesses were flooded. This time many said they were considering moving to higher ground on their return.

15% of freight in the U.S.A. is normally moved by barge: millions of tons sat idle through this period which represented the wettest summer on record for rainfall. The Mississippi River flows 2350 miles from its headwaters at Lake Itasca, Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, draining 31 states and 2 Canadian provinces in the process.

In 1853, Charles Ellet Jr. wrote that

"Water that was formerly allowed to spread over many thousands of square miles of low lands is becoming more and more confined to the immediate channel of the river, and is, therefore, ... 1,576 public and private levees."

This represents, once again, the ignorance and lack of planning which typifies human cultural and political activity. The devastation and loss was totally the result of human changes to the environment, the nature of which had been signalled as long as 140 years previously. The pressures of an expansive population, expansive economy, and expansive political bureaucracy together with the overall tendency for humans to fail to show respect for true history, as opposed to "politicized" history, had once again resulted in great hardship for many humans.

This is one of the traits of humans which the Grays are completely unable to understand and one of the earliest reasons for their loss of respect for humanity, first as a partner, secondly as a worker-slave population: they now are simply waiting and encouraging humanity's self-destruction so that they can openly inhabit the remains of the planet. They are unaffected by nuclear radiation and many forms of pollution; the use of the Earth's physical, temperate surface and vast magnetic properties are their only concern.

1993 - By this year,
"E Systems", a privately owned Texas company involved in the development and marketing of intelligence devices for surveillance, was involved in "extremely dangerous" illegal drug transaction detection and arrest operations with the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency). 4 of 5 of its security guards were armed with semi-automatic weapons similar to the Kloch plastic revolver, complete with illegal hollow-point bullets.

Katrina Ariba is fatally wounded when an E System's employee accidentally fires his gun through a hotel room wall while cleaning it. All information about the case remains classified and the civil suit lodged by the husband is eventually settled out of court for $5 million. In the court proceedings, it becomes obvious that E Systems is receiving the same legal sanctions as would be expected of the highest authority agencies charged with national security, such as the NSA.

1993 - By August,
A crashed UFO and 3 Spacebeing Corpses had been found in Nepal, a nation with 8 of the highest 10 mountains on the Earth. The bodies of 2 males and a female were found perfectly preserved and frozen in a cave 20,000 feet up the side of the mountain. The cave had become exposed when a snow slide had removed the snow from the mouth. At first, the Nepalese guides, working with a party of British climbers, thought the bodies at the back of the cave must be those of some earlier lost climbers. On further examination, they realized that the bodies were not human yet because of their oddity they should be brought to a lower altitude.

When the find began to become public, the American, British, French and Soviet governments all requested permission of the Nepalese government to examine the corpses. Instead, the Nepalese decided to proceed on their own. They hired forensic experts Neil Coggins and Kurt Sholdheim. Dr. Coggins, an American, found that "their bones are much lighter and more fragile than those of humans ... suggests they came from a planet with about half the gravity of Earth." He expects that they must have landed somewhere on nearby Mt. Everest. Infrared photos of the summit of Mt. Everest reveal a massive source of radiation that may be the wreckage of a crashed UFO.

Dr. Sholdheim, an Australian expert, found that the beings have 2 hearts and vastly enlarged lungs, again suggesting a home environment with a gravity much less than that of the Earth and an atmosphere with a lower concentration of oxygen. He found their eyes to be similar to those of birds or reptiles. In addition, the female was carrying an egg internally, suggesting that they hatch their young.

1993 - By August,
Mount Elgon, southwestern Kenya, had become the site of inter-tribal violence.
The Elgon Masai had been raiding the Bukusu, an ethnic group whose people live on the southern side of the mountain - burning their huts, murdering them with automatic weapons and driving them off the land. Population densities of humans in the area had continued to rise and with that and changes in the use of the land, a quest for territory had become violent. The Masai had a long cultural heritage as itinerant herders. Large areas of what had several decades before been rainforest was now cleared and planted with corn/maise. The Kinshasa Highway which had been a gravel road, had been paved in the 1970's, shortly before the appearance of AIDS. The Highway crosses the middle of Africa, from Pointe-Noire, Congo, to Mombasa, Kenya. Human patterns of expansion and intensification of settlement were increasing the potential for rainforest-hidden virus to emerge and travel worldwide.

Local doctors now believe that 40% of the people who live near Mount Elgon are now infected with HIV-AIDS, which can have a short or long incubation period in the human. Long-distance trucking along the Kinshasa Highway, through regions devoid of most amenities and bordered by economically poor humans - has led to a destructive yet predictable development of commerce. Now, shacks made of metal and planks dot the length of the highway. At each, the traveller may buy snacks, meals, a bed for the night, a prostitute. At least 95% of the prostitutes are infected with HIV, which is transmitted by an interchange of blood or saliva. The truckers and travellers who pass these stops will go home to their families and friends in other parts of Africa and the Earth.

1993 - On August 24,
The "Mars Observer" Satellite as it neared Mars to begin an extensive mapping project, failed "to call home."
The loss was not admitted for 3 weeks while engineers attempted to reactivate it or determine what had happened. $1 billion had been lost. Probable causes included suggestions that it had been built and tested according to old principles (the status quo) in opposition to the utilization of possibilities made available from the information gained in earlier missions. The ultimate result: Mars would not be finely mapped for at least 3 more years.

1993 -
In the USA, Diptheria (virus-infected streptococci) develops into another epidemic resulting in over 10,000 incidents of infection identified and reported.

1993 - On August 28,
A photo of Asteroid 243 Ida and 1993 (243) 1, its newly discovered moon were received on Earth from the "Galileo" infrared mapping spectrometer spacecraft. The moon is the first natural satellite discovered in 1993 at Ida which is the 243rd asteroid found by humans in the past two centuries.Both Ida and its moon are composed of silicate rock and Ida measures 56 by 24 by 21 kilometres (35 by 15 by 13 miles) in size. Until now it was only a speculation that asteroids might sometimes have moons. Ida's moon is thought to be about 1.5 kilometre (1 mile) in diameter.

Ida is a member of the Koronis family of asteroids which scientists believe was created when a larger body, perhaps 200 to 300 kilometres (120 to 180 miles) in diameter was smashed relatively recently. Alternatively, it is likely that Ida was hit by a smaller object even more recently, leaving a crater on one side of the asteroid and throwing off the material that became the moon. Galileo was launched from the Earth in October, 1989, and is travelling through an asteroid belt on its way to Jupiter.

Most of the asteroids in the Solar system have NOT been recorded, no trajectory path is known for most asteroids. Occasionally, asteroids have collided with the Earth and other entities.

1993 - In September,
A university professor, Mr. Berendzen, released a book co-written with Laura Palmer
titled "Come Here: A Man Overcomes The Tragic Aftermath of Childhood Sexual Abuse".
A biography, he outlines how his mother muttered about UFOs and the C.I.A., berated her passive husband and slapped her son for no apparent reason. Wildly unpredictable, she would momentarily change from loving at one moment to rage in the next. Confused, the son went into denial by becoming compulsive, a workaholic, for which he was well rewarded socially and financially. The mother left the father and the family fell out of touch with her.

After his father died, Berendzen became drawn to studies of child abuse.
Then he impulsively started looking for women who would indicate a belief system he identified with his mother. When he found a likely candidate, he fictionalized a 4 year old sex slave which he said his wife and himself kept in the basement. In the calls he was seeking the answers to the "why" behind his mother's behaviour. He is not a pedophile. The woman, the wife of a police officer, taped his phone calls and reported him. He underwent gross public humiliation, charges were laid .. and later dismissed, and he finally received therapy to better cope with his past.

1993 -
In Burundi, central east Africa, the country's first democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, is gunned down in an attempted military coup by Tutsi supporters. At least 100,000 Tutsis and Hutus will be killed in the subsequent massacres. Political assassinations, grenade attacks and tribal clashes will continue. The tiny nation is largely poor, agricultural and desperately overcrowded. The nation has no recognized birth control programs and the despair resulting from inadequate material resources and minimal education levels simply encourage more pregnancies as the comfort and pleasure of loving momentarily raise the spirit.

1993 - On September 13,
"The Washington Peace Accord" is signed in Washington, D.C., USA, by representatives of the state of Israel and the Palestine community. Yasser Arafat represents the Palestinians as the leader of the PLO; Itzac Rabin, as leader of the state of Israel and Shimon Perez as its Foreign Minister represent Israel.

Two years later, Shimon Perez would reflect the following in an interview:

"... It is better to have many parties and one rifle than to have one party and many rifles.
... (This peace process is like) trying to make eggs from omelettes ... (or) to try and divide water. ...."

1993 - During this year,
Yigal Amin, a Yemenite Israeli, began to plot the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
His older brother, Hagai, customized the bullets he loaded his 9 mm Beretta revolver with into dumdum bullets.
Yigal began burying weapons in his parent's backyard - where his mother's 40 daycare attendees played.
He argued with friends that the commandment "Thou shall not kill" did not apply in the case of Rabin because the prime minister, by handing over Jewish holy lands to the Arabs, was blocking the redemption of the Jewish people. He argued, that even killing was justified when the greater good of humankind is at issue.

Amir continued to attend right wing rallies and listen to the Zionist rabbis which encouraged the participants. Under Jewish religious law, a "pursuer or persecutor", decreed to be a "rodef" by a rabbi, can be murdered as an act of self-defense.

1993 - After more than a year of UN Peacekeeping in Bosnia,
The Canadian Armed Forces decide to conduct the FIRST ever study of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ever conducted on UN troops in almost 50 years of activity. It is important to note that this study was initiated and conducted by a member volunteer force; it was not conducted by the UN.

Since the beginning of the action, 90 peacekeepers had been wounded or injured and 15 had been killed. The UN mandate of trying to assist both sides in the conflict with humanitarian aid and services without becoming involved did present drastic negative spiritual consequences to the witnesses. No psychological preparation was provided for the troops before their transfer to the field nor on their return.

The Canadian forces participating in the mandate numbered about 13,000.
Of these, it was later estimated that at least 2,000 returned with PTSD.
A more direct and less authoritarian approach would have discovered as many as 40%, that is 5,200 troops, experiencing these aftereffects. NOT finding them would mean that the side effect could be trivialized by bureaucrats, that the public could be reassured of the "harmlessness" of peacekeeping duties, and that the cost of providing adequate support programs and treatment opportunities could be maintained at a minimum.

The Canadian Forces medical supervisory board eventually received 8 referrals, confirming their estimate that less than 10% of those so affected would seek help. Yet a small unit of peacekeeping soldiers for whom a "counselling" telephone line had been set up, logged 15,000 calls per month for battle stress complaints. By early 1995, those individuals who had sought help for their symptoms complained that they were ridiculed, and that their complaints were trivialized by the medical establishment and the Armed Forces bureaucracy.

Yet on September 13, 1993, one of these "weak" individuals committed suicide after despairing persistently, without the help he sought, over the atrocities and terrors which he had witnessed and been compelled to remain passive about in his mandated role as a non-combatant observer. He had written in his final note that he would have rather done anything else than take his life but that he craved the peace which the flashbacks he continually experienced prevented him from having.

The study determined that of the troops sent, 15% were from the regular forces and 23% came from the reservists. While the former reported chronic depression rates of 12 to 14% on their return, the reservists reported a rate of 25%: 400% higher than the regular Canadian population. It should be noted here that in some industrialized colony-based societies the awareness of what chronic depression is quite often is minimal. Unlike acute depression, chronic depression is a generalized feeling of anxiety, confusion, discomfort and hopelessness. With the negative stresses associated with modern industrialized societies and the usual educated lack of self-awareness and concentration on external reality, it becomes easy to rationalize, for many humans, that their feelings are simply an extension of the reality they see around them.

The true reality is that their "state of mind" is capable of self-direction IF they are both self-aware and skilled in positive stress reinforcement. Less than 1% of humans in such conditions have such capabilities: they are not encouraged by their society. The end result is that many humans who are experiencing long-term generalized (chronic) depression are not aware of it - so they cannot tell someone else that they are so bothered. This is why there is a marked difference between "reported", "estimated", and "real" frequencies of chronic depression in these societies. With a society, a medical establishment, and your employer's (the armed forces) bureaucracy all waiting to ostracize you the minute you mention that you have a problem from the performance of your "duty", one is not at all encouraged to be honest in their expression of their feelings or in their attempts to remain sane. So what does contribute to this battle fatigue depression and other symptoms referred to as PTSD.

• One soldier recounted how he and others had been shown trench mass graves into which hundreds of civilians of all ages and genders had been dumped and lightly covered after being killed. The methods of death had been by a variety of means and it appeared that some of the women had been raped before being executed.

• A second soldier described how he and others, in their role of providing humanitarian service to the community, were charged with picking up the pieces of blown apart bodies and preparing a burial for the corpses.

• A third, stated that as he entered a village he saw a row of children nailed to a wall. They were dead.

• Another peacekeeper shuddered in anger and grief as he recounted having to stand by and observe while a group on one side of the combatants raped and tortured a woman.
  
  

• For still another, his repeated flashbacks included one scene in which the soldier had just come upon a woman lying beside an artillery or missile explosion crater. Her face was missing, the top of her head was blown off, her hands were torn from her arms, yet they hung attached by strands of skin, her legs were destroyed, and, the rest of her was a mass of blood and twisted flesh; the flies and worms had already started their work: yet, - she was ALIVE!

  The soldier's duty was to stay calm and try to help the woman with a first aid kit. An hour and a half later, she died. During those 5400 seconds, the soldier tried his best to relieve her suffering with an ice pack. The peacekeeper, from a foreign country, knew little of the local language - with which the slight solace of acknowledgement might have been possible. There was no way in which to bandage the pieces together and stop the bleeding in order to get her to a hospital. And the nearest hospital, had it been reached, was 2 hours distant - and short on supplies and skilled surgeons.

With point-blank experiences like these, returning to the near civilian lifestyle back in Canada presented the soldiers with extremes.

While their friends, husband, wife, or children, complained of rainy weather, or not enough salt in the dinner, or the fact that someone had sustained an injury while riding a bicycle - these concerns all seemed petty beside the flashbacks to the realities experienced on the peacekeeping mission. The past was ever present, being relived again in the present: there was no space for the present. Affected soldiers would have instant and dramatic mood swings during such flashbacks and interpersonal conflict periods. The soldier had a traumatic stress block, an obsession, for which his Armed Forces medical representative advised him or her to "get more exercise", or "don't worry about it and it'll go away." The best medical practitioners in this society which produced missiles which could strike within 6 feet of a target from a distance of 600 miles, could not understand how to release a fundamental traumatic energy block which distorted this person's personality into that of an unpredictable, undependable, destructive, "wacko".

Interpersonal abuse incidents increased, from frustration, confusion, emotional seclusion, endless grief and targeted perception. It was as if reality for that person had stood still at the moment of the horror of the scene of personal hell into which they had fallen. How could anyone else, who had not been there, possibly understand and acknowledge their personal emotional pain. And if the blockage could never be targeted or touched itself, it could never be released: it would continue to gnaw away at the very spirit of the person. 50% of spouses in contact with such persons would come themselves to be terrorized and develop emotional traumatic blocks - from the ravings or dissociations or social withdrawal which they witnessed from the person they loved.

For 9 of those men and women so affected, out of a possible 5,200, group therapy sessions were eventually initiated - many months after their return. Marriage counselling was suggested to some. The cry of all of the spouses involved was that they wanted their closest companion and confidant "back the way you were." What were the chances: a society which had bought into the military-industrial authoritarian capitalism-based ethic, would have little compassion or awareness for the individual which they had sponsored and encouraged to visit hell for them and return, without disclosure.

The decisive challenge which God presents to every human nation is whether it's leaders will encourage the development of spiritual values throughout its populace. Compassion, empathy, acknowledgement, and forgiveness are some of the skills which comprise display such values. Canada was looking at the possibility of a problem and its possible resolution. What of the other countries which simply continued to accept the status quo of denial of responsibility and encouragement of emotional death. When the emotional expression of a human is suppressed (dies), the spirit of the person loses defenses which determine its survival. The results are predictable, for humans: insensitivity, addiction, abusiveness, social rebellion, terrorism, suicide, social withdrawal, intolerance, deception, manipulation, insanity. Which would you want released into your society?

1993 - In the November issue of "Popular Mechanics",
A Swinging Tunnel Cutter tunnel-boring machine built by the Robbins Co. is first made public.
Capable of slashing through granite with ease, the "Ranging Mobile Miner" was suggestively built for the coal mining industry. Weighing 380-ton, it was first developed to make arched roadway tunnels. Operating by swinging a boom-mounted cutting wheel in a broad arc, a roadway is produced rather than a curved cylinder arc floor. Around the edge of the wheel, steel discs and ceramic cutters chew into the rock. The size of the arch-tunnel created is 39 feet wide by 27 feet high. The Miner works faster than hydraulic wedges and other rock-breaking equipment. It's also safer than dynamite for use in densely populated locations.

A nuclear powered tunnelling machine which melted the rock ahead of it was available in the 1960s. Another tunnelling machine went on the market in 1972; it received newspaper exposure in 1994, 22 years later! 138 units had been sold in the interim, worldwide.

1993 - In the November edition of "Popular Mechanics",
It was announced that a pair of Topaz II nuclear reactors had been purchased by the "Ballistic Missile Defense Organization" of the U.S.A. from the U.S.S.R. for use in a proposed spacecraft. The 6-kilowatt reactor draws power from 37 thermionic fuel elements. In each element, uranium fuel generates heat to boil a flow of electrons off an emitter, somewhat like a TV picture tube. Surrounding the reactor core are swivelling control and safety drums, which turn reaction-quelling boron-carbide to face into the hot core. For safety reasons, the fuel elements won't be allowed to "go critical" until the spacecraft reaches a high orbit of more than 3200 miles. Ultimately it will spiral up to a geosynchronous orbit.

Using ion thrusters, the spacecraft will test nuclear electric propulsion, which is expected to provide tremendous fuel efficiency. REDS and RUSTS are known to use highly sophisticated partial ion thruster propulsion devices.

1993 - Beginning in December,
Howard Glasgow, a 37-year-old research associate at North Carolina State University's aquatic ecology laboratory in Raleigh, North Carolina became ill. At first, he responded erratically, normally patient at times and abnormally impatient at others. Then, information that should have been second nature to him, like the route home from work and his home phone number, he could not remember. Possessing university degrees in biology and chemistry, his reading comprehension plummeted to match that of his 6-year-old daughter.

Mr. Glasgow had been working for two years on a toxic marine algae known for killing millions of fish off the Atlantic Coast. Invisible to the naked eye, the dino-flagellate - a phantom-like half-plant half-animal micro-organism - thrives in shallow waters along the East Coast of the U.S.A. which have been polluted with phosphates, a widely dispersed nutrient in sewage and farm runoff. The one-celled beings apparently excrete a powerful toxin into the aquarium water in the lab which eventually evaporates into the air from which Glasgow breathed it in. It took months to determine the cause and once Glasgow was removed from the environment for several months he experienced substantial improvement. Still, the toxin still had not been isolated after 4 months. Large concentrations of the dinoflagellate have been found from Delaware to Florida in bay waters that are popular with millions of swimmers.

1993 - On December 22,
Signs of Abduction by Extraterrestrials were suspected when a mother awakened her 7-year-old son.
She found dried blood on his nose and a substantial amount of blood on his pillow.
4 large bruises had appeared in his lower left stomach area which had not been present when he went to bed. On the lower right stomach area, there was a blotch of brownish/orange residue similar to that which she had noticed on her 4-year-old daughter some months before. The daughter had been found one morning with a similar blotch on her face. The mother sought the help of Dr. David Jacobs of Temple University. This time the mother had kept a sample of the strange coating and when it was analyzed it was found to have a high sulfur content, other common elements, and a significant presence of the rare element Rubidium. No organic compounds were detected.