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1995 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies:

Citizen X; Murder in the First; Silent Hunter; Deadly Whispers; Tales of the Wild: Legends of the North; Pocahontas; Children of the Dust; Outbreak; Johnny Mnemonic; Crimson Tide; Apollo 13; Dominion; Batman Forever; Nixon; Heat; Cutthroat Island; Sudden Death; Casino; The Quick and the Dead; Man of the House; Boys on the Side; The Walking Dead; Major Payne; Jumanji; Balto; Fists of Iron

1995 - By January,
Poisonous Caterpillars are found to be invading the southern Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. Their venom is so toxic that humans receiving a sting may die from it. While the invasion has been growing over the past year, little concern would be given to it for another year.

The use of toxic fertilizers in the regions has led to the kill off of the natural predators of the caterpillars: rats, birds, etc. By the end of the year, the caterpillars will be spreading into the urban areas from the farmlands.

Death to humans usually results when stings are left untreated.
Symptoms of high fever, bleeding from the nose and ears, and kidney failure precede death.

1995 - On January 1,
Austria is admitted as the 13th member to the ECU.

1995 - On January 3,
An 18 billion dollar assistance plan for Mexico is announced with support coming from the USA ($9 billion), the World Bank and other parties.

1995 - By the beginning of the year,
"Guaranteed Winner" postal promotions are in rising popularity through Canada and the USA.
They often get the names of their victims from mail order catalogue subscription lists.

Their strategy is as follows:
    a. You receive a card in the mail promoting a special offer;
    b. By responding to the offer you are told that you will win a prize;
    c. If you respond, you begin receiving notices that you have won prizes;
    d. You receive phone calls identifying you as a major prize winner;
    e. A stipulation of your receiving the prize is your purchase of a product;
    f. The location of all of the parties contacting you is out of your legal area;
    g. You are to pay by credit card for the article over the phone;
    h. No copies of contracts can be sent to you until they have the money;
    i. There will be a delay in your receiving the product;
    j. There will be a further delay in your receiving your prize;
    k. The addresses are all postal box numbers;
    l. Some will send photocopies of suggested cheques and use 1-900 numbers;
    m. Many will have official sounding business names;
    n. If you get a listing of prospective prizes, most will be less than $1.50.

The following is a generalized and combined program explanation of how such a fraud operates:

    A. If you responded to the card, you're targeted;
    B. Your name and address is then distributed to associates in other states;
    C. Phone and mail notices of prizes begin arriving;
    D. You are told that you have won one of three prizes: a minimum of $5000;
    E. You have to be a customer in order to get your prize;
    F. You have to buy something for $500 or more, or
    G. You have to call a $35 min. 1-900 telephone number to verify your winning #;
    H. After you have sent the money, and received a product worth much less -
    I. You receive a minor prize, or, endless delays are encountered, OR,
    J. You are informed that your prize is the low priced one.

Legally, in North America -
- If you check with the local police they will likely inform you that it sounds like a fraud because:

    o You have to buy something to win something;
    o The claims are all verbal - nothing explicit in writing;
    o Out of state = costly to prosecute, more than you've lost;
    o You're foolish to pay by credit card for something unseen.

These companies expect to defraud 80,000 people, switch state and begin all over.

1995 - On January 4,
The 104th American Congress began.
Newt Gingrich, the new House leader set out the promises which the members intended to exact relative to government administrative changes: These included:

    a) An amendment to balance the budget (intent does not make reality);
    b) No USA troops under UN command (resulting in non-American forces);
    c) Strengthening of national defense (armament industries never lose);
    d) Tax cuts for most families (negligible benefit for more debt);
    e) Taxability of seniors to be reduced to 50% max. (& more are taxed);
    f) End welfare for unwed mothers under 18 (more social unrest);
    g) A capital gains tax cut (which has not assisted economic recovery);
    h) Child support enforcement (30 years late; now difficult to start);
    i) An elderly-dependent-care tax credit (to lessen further poverty);
    j) Stronger child pornography laws (addictive behaviours not helped);
    k) "Loser pays" laws on lawsuits (intended to lessen frivolous suits);
    l) Cut crime prevention programs (public lack of awareness used);
    m) Acceptability in courts of evidence gained illegally (civil rights)
    n) Death penalty provisions (a sign of a weak and desperate society);
    o) Increased prison construction (based on decreased social programs);
    p) Additional law enforcement (behaviour is based on belief not laws);
    q) A first-ever limitation of number of terms served by legislators

(it is unlikely that bureaucrats will vote themselves out of a job).

To further cut spending, it is proposed that the Department of Energy be turned over to the Pentagon and that nuclear power reactors be privatized. This would reverse the original safeguard of having civilian-government authority over nuclear power rather than solely military and the influence of private industry on the safety of nuclear reactors in the USA has tended to be disastrous.

Fundamentally, a strong Republican Congress is opposing the Democratic Presidential administration; the last time that such happened, the Gulf War ensured the President's policy successes.

1995 - On January 17,
A 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake occurs near Kobe, Japan.
Predictive indicators are ignored as scientists look for rationalistic indicators.
Normally transparent seawater in the epicentre area turns to a dirty black-tea colour.
A huge number of small fish that had never been seen before are found floating on the water before the quake - enough that the local fishermen association organized 20 to 30 boats to harvest them. A number of instances of abnormal animal behaviour were observed on Awaji Island. These included the disappearance of the normally common rats from a sunflower seed storage room on a ranch that was later severely damaged by the earthquake. Other recent quakes in Japan were:

The earthquake was predicted 6 months in advance by Gordon-Michael Scallion, an American who had acquired prophetic visions following a traumatic personal experience in 1979.

1995 - During January,
Near Traverse City, Michigan, a large 60 foot diameter aircraft with hundreds of oscillating white lights, positions itself over the home of Tracey Cejda at a height of several hundred feet. Cejda, phones for help and Michigan State Trooper, Glenn Guldner, arrives to become a witness and request backup. Meanwhile Cejda, calls her neighbour, Mike Stelter, who makes a videotape of it. Trooper Guldner reports later that three jets flew over the site after he arrived, at the time of each the ship turned out its lights out. Once gone, the lights of the UFO came back on. It hovered for nearly an hour before suddenly turning them off and disappearing before sunrise. Other residents in the area also reported the craft.

1995 - On January 22,
Yigal Amir, a Yemeni-born Jew living in Israel with his parents and brothers and sisters, plans to assassinate the Israeli Prime Minister Yitshak Rabin at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp. Rabin cancels his appearance after terrorist bombs explode at a bus stop, killing 20 Israeli soldiers. Amir would try again.

1995 - In late January,
During an interview, Carl Sagan warns of the necessity for humanity to prepare for an impact of the Earth by a large asteroid or comet if human survival is desired. He suggests that the possibility of such an impact is 1 in 2000 within the next century whereas the chance of a passenger being killed on a commercial jet flight is 1 in 2 million. He notes that an Earth-sized effect was recorded of the Schumacher 1 kilometre wide comets which impacted Jupiter last year.

His first recommendation is that humanity begin amassing an inventory of such potential objects as soon as possible so that possible collisions can be calculated and provide a forewarning. A second recommendation is that humanity modifying and improve its cultures such that destructive technologies developed to deflect an incoming object not have the chance to become tools of a madman set on destroying the Earth. The third suggestion is that a technology be developed capable of giving the object a push when it is nearest the sun in its path towards the Earth. The sun's attraction will thus aid in the intended deflection.

About the same time, Dr. Jay Malloch, Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona, suggests that the positioning of a huge mirror and lens in space for the purpose of concentrating the sun's energy on the object, will assist in deflecting the object by boiling off material on one side of the object which will produce a slight propulsive effect. Theorized with a colleague in the USSR, the suggestion has no projection of cost (possibly 100s of billions of dollars) or of the time required to be capable of effective activation (possibly a decade). The use of a weapon capable of blasting the advancing object into bits is discouraged on the basis that what would otherwise have been a rifle shot at the Earth may now become a shotgun blast.

1995 - Early in the year,
Dr. James Watson of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, a bioengineering scientist who participated in the discovery of the DNA double helix structure, noted the following:

    1. Bioengineering is a reductionist approach to heredity and capability;
    2. There is no one caring for us so we must play god ourselves;
    3. All humans are not created equal so a concept of equality is irrelevant;
    4. Genetic manipulation threatens Communism because it could make all equal;
    5. "Wild" animals are programmed to kill (and humans are not);
    6. Scientists are future-oriented and are motivated to improving things;
    7. Biotechnology demonstrates a predictability about behaviour;
    8. The general public are negative to bioengineering because it is predictive.

Watson clearly shows the weakness of intellectualization in one's determination of constructive decision-making and its basis for a great waste of human resources during the past century.

    A. The absence of a historical awareness dooms humanity to repetition;
    B. Without a spiritual context, scientific efforts are for self-interest;
    C. Self-interest motivations are for the purpose of power and privilege;
    D. Modern self-interest motivations are largely destructive in the long-term;
    E. All life has a will to survive resulting in a balance of need and resources;
    F. Biological-ecological transfers in the past by humans have been destructive;
    G. The predictability of human behaviours is largely a factor of ignorance;
    H. The general public are weak in their capacity to cope with change;
    I. Whenever humans have acted as god rather than with God, they have messed up;
    J. Good intentions are the universal human excuse for human-directed disaster;
    K. ALL of human misery has been and is the result of a non-spiritual lifestyle.

1995 - On January 26,
A Chinese rocket is destroyed 49 seconds after liftoff, near Shanghai, by an American space satellite weapon.
Electronic sensors on the USA satellite, a top-secret Star Wars weapon, responded to the rocket as if it were a nuclear missile. The remains of the $160 million communications satellite showered down on a 25 square mile residential areas of the city killing at least 354 people and injuring many others. USA Pentagon sources apparently commented that "With the complex defense systems we currently have in space, there is always the possibility of a mistake." USA officials reprogrammed the defense satellite and the Chinese will be paid "a significant sum" to compensate them for their loss.

1995 - Near the beginning of the year,
The number of HPV VIRUS infected women in North America was estimated at 60% of the population above the age of 30 years. This virus is commonly referred to by one of its indicators: genital warts. While detectable in the results of a pap smear, it was reported that a reducing number of women were having the recommended annual procedure. While 95% curable if found in time, it is a virus which leads to Cancer of the cervix. As such, some doctors consider the HPV virus incidence to be much more alarming than the HIV Aids virus, which the media and government agencies have publicized to a much greater extent.

1995 - By January 27,
The heaviest rainfall and worst flooding in 150 years was influences France, Germany and Belgium.

1995 - During February,
Kevin Mitnick, 31, is arrested in North Carolina by the FBI for cybercrime.
He is charged with stealing $1 million worth of data and 20,000 credit card numbers through the Internet Online computer service.

1995 - By mid-February,
Diversion of Capital to mutual funds investing in developing countries is estimated to be $3 billion over the previous 18 months. Expectation of massive profit is the major motivator for most investors. The risks are largely denied, misunderstood or deceptively understated. Some of those risks include:

    A. The stock market are relatively small and loosely controlled;
    B. Political events can have a dramatic influence on trade viability;
    C. The performance of key companies may be affect the value of others;
    D. Excessive and unwarranted stock demand may push prices up;
    E. Stock prices and increases may not accurately reflect true value;
    F. Domination of local economic capitalization presents a risk of
collapse if the foreign investors withdraw.

1995 - By March,
Rodney O. Skurdal and Leroy Schweitzer of Roundup, Montana have warrants out for their arrest.
Skurdal had issued a public "citizen's declaration of war" against the federal and state governments and is wanted on a charge of promoting terrorism. Schweitzer is wanted by Federal authorities on a charge of tax evasion. Local police are wary about serving the warrants fearing that the fugitives in their mountain cabin will have more powerful weapons than they do and will not hesitate to use them. When ATF agents were asked to help, they declined for fear that another Waco, Texas fiasco would develop. There are numerous government law enforcement agencies which have overlapping authorities; this can lead to various agencies quarrelling about who has jurisdiction and authority - resulting in delays, intense emotion building, errors of judgement, and ending in accidents, or, more often, lack of enforcement.

1995 - By March,
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva reports that 1994, for the 18th year running, was a warmer year than earlier for the Earth's climate. Surface temperatures were 0.3 degrees Celsius higher than the average during the 30 years between 1951 and 1980. The Earth has warmed by an average of .5 degrees over the last 135 years. 1994 was warmer than the 2 preceding years, but less warm than 1991.

The warm up is partly attributed to the ending of the cooling effect of the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption in the Philippines in 1991, when a huge cloud of volcanic dust reduced the Sun's radiation from reaching the Earth's surface. Erosion of the ozone layer and growing concentrations of carbon monoxide are believed to be adding to the greenhouse effect.

The rise in temperature has been most marked in the equatorial central Pacific along the west coast of North America and in the central Indian Ocean. The problem is considered worst over Siberia and western and central Europe, particularly in the springtime. Small variations in global temperature can result in massive changes in global climate. It is possible that the excessive rains and flooding in the past 6 months in California and Europe are a direct consequence of this development.

1995 - By March,
Lockheed Corporation and Martin Corporation had announced the merger of their companies.
With the earlier acquisitions of Grumman and the formation of the LKEI partnership, this new Lockheed-Martin Corporation now represents the most advanced and largest aerospace/armaments manufacturing concern in the world, by a factor of at least 2. During late June, they would announce expected job layoffs of 12,000 with an intended capital saving of billions of dollars. Most of these workers will not find employment with comparable income and their standard of living will fall. Many will end up in multiple jobs or without jobs in this extended economic recession. This change will not diminish the amount of capital devoted to armaments on a global basis and it will increase the capacity for civil unrest and terrorism and the belief in political conspiracies.

1995 - In the March/April Utne Reader,
John Perry Barlow wrote of the differences between Cyberspace and Neighbourhood.

In part:

"... Obviously a great many other, less spiritual things are also missing entirely 
(from online communication), like body language, sex, death, tone of voice, clothing, 
beauty (or homeliness), weather, violence, vegetation, wildlife, pets, architecture,
music, smells, sunlight, and that ol' harvest moon.  In short, most of the things 
that make life real to me.

Present, but in far less abundance than in the physical world, which I call 
"meat space," are women, children, old people, poor people, and the genuinely blind. 
Also mostly missing are the illiterate and the continent of Africa. There is not much
human diversity in cyberspace, which is populated, as near as I can tell, 
by white males under 50 with plenty of computer terminal time, typing skills, 
high math SATs, strongly held opinions on just about everything, and an excruciating
face-to-face shyness, especially with the opposite sex.


But diversity is as essential to healthy community as it is to healthy ecosystems ....

Natural systems, such as human communities, are simply too complex to design by
the engineering principles we insist on applying to them.  Like Dr. Frankenstein,
Western civilization is now finding its rational skills inadequate to the 
task of creating and caring for life.  ....


Given that it has been built so far almost entirely by people with engineering 
degrees, it is not so surprising that cyberspace has the kind of over designed 
quality that leaves out all kinds of elements nature would have provided invisibly. ...

There are many investments - spiritual, material, and temporal - 
one is willing to put into a home one cannot leave.  Communities are often 
the beneficiaries of these involuntary investments.

But when the going gets rough in cyberspace, it is (easy to move) ...


And then there is the bond of joint suffering. 
Most community is a cultural stockade erected against a common enemy 
that can take many forms.  ... But what are the shared adversities of cyberspace? 
Lousy user interfaces?  The flames of harsh invective?  Dumb jokes? 
Surely all these can be survived without the sanctuary provided by fellow sufferers. ...


... there is that shyness factor. 
Not only are we trying to build community here among people who have 
never experienced any in my sense of the term, we are trying to build community 
among people who, in their lives, have rarely used the word "we" in a
heartfelt way.  It is a vast club, ....

And the town has been inundated with suburbanites who flee here, bringing all their
terrors and suspicions with them.  They spend their evenings ... watching television or
socializing in hermetic little enclaves of fundamentalist Christianity that seem to
separate them from us and even, given their sectarian animosities, from one another.
...


On the (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) WELL there was a topic announcing her (his
young woman great love of his life) death in one of the conferences to which I posted
the eulogy I had read over her before burying her in her own small town of Nanaimo,
British Columbia.  It seemed to strike a chord among the disembodied living on the
Net.  People copied it and sent it to one another.  Over the next several months I
received almost a megabyte of electronic mail from all over the planet, mostly from
folks whose faces I have never seen and probably never will.

They told me of their own tragedies and what they had done to survive them. 
As humans have since words were first uttered, we shared the second most common
human experience, death, with an openheartedness that would have caused grave
uneasiness in physical America, where the whole topic is cloaked in denial as to be
considered obscene.  Those strangers, who had no arms to put around my shoulders,
no eyes to weep with one, nevertheless saw me through.  As neighbours do. ...

When we are all together in cyberspace, we will see what the human spirit, and the
basic desire to connect, can create there. ... And we must remember that going to
cyberspace, unlike previous great emigrations to the frontier, hardly requires us to
leave where we have been."

1995 - On March 5,
A Sarin Gas Exposure on a subway train in Yokohama, Japan, results in 11 passengers being taken to hospital complaining of headaches and eye pain.

1995 - On March 10,
Flooding in California State from heavy rainfalls for the second time in the year results in major highway closures and washouts, power failures, sewage disruption and misdirection. BOTH this and the January storms could have been predicted from the increased global warming which had taken place over the Pacific Ocean during 1994. No warning or preparation was given or encouraged by the specialists working with the data.

1995 - On March 10,
An FBI Order to Agents advises their 57 field offices to begin gathering intelligence on right-wing militia groups in their area. It further bars agents from recruiting informants in such groups or even keeping newspaper clippings in official files until sufficient evidence has been gathered to launch a criminal investigation. These latter conditions are bureaucratically intended to safeguard the Bureau from any possibility of embarrassment which might arise if at any time in the future official files were made public through a congressional hearing.

In past similar circumstances, regardless of era or nation, human organizations with such responsibilities which have adopted similar policies have developed schizoid behaviours. The majority of the members of the organization become myopic, insensitive, self-protective, directed by routine and ineffective. In reaction, a minority of the members become paranoid, authoritarian, ruthless, and by necessity - deceptive, manipulating, conspiratorial and subject to heroics. The former lose sight of their purpose by having their authority diminished relative to their responsibility; the latter, become intense in the motivations and behaviours in an attempt to carry out their responsibilities in spite of, and in reaction to, a loss of "apparent" authority.

1995 - On March 11,
In Burundi, the assassination of a Hutu cabinet minister on a Bujumbura street re ignites the fatal confrontations between Hutus and Tutsis of 1993. In a week, a convoy of off-duty soldiers on a road south of the capital will be ambushed by Hutu guerrillas. Three Belgian civilians will be killed.

1995 - On March 20,
A Sarin nerve gas exposure in a Tokyo train station leaves 12 persons dead and 5500 sickened.

1995 - On March 24,
In Burundi, fighting between Hutus and Tutsis will leave 160 people dead in the mixed neighbourhoods of Buyenzi and Bwiza.
30,000 Hutus flee the capital westward to Zaire.
At the weekend, 50,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees left 5 camps in northern Burundi for safety in Tanzania, to the east. It promptly closed its borders. Burundi's newspapers appear to be mostly run by extremists as they print exaggerated rumours and death lists. Former dictator Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is contributing to the turmoil by funding the neighbourhood Tutsi militia and some extremist newspapers. Pierre Buyoya, Burundi's former military ruler, who introduced democratic reforms states:

"The real problem isn't the power of extremists.
It's the weakness of moderates who are afraid to denounce violence."

1995 - Late in March,
Pope John Paul II delivers his Evangelicum Vitae (Gospel of Life) in which he makes the papal sexual ethic a matter of church doctrine. ALL forms of contraception are strictly condemned along with abortion, homosexuality and euthanasia. Previous messages have been more tolerant on these subjects in that they stated the policy of the Church yet left some flexibility for matters of conscience. For several decades, non-technical forms of birth control, such as the "rhythm" method, its variations, and abstention, have been "allowed" and adopted by the majority of American Roman Catholics.

The Pope provides no advice on how the average human - lacking the privilege of perpetual financial support and care afforded to the Church hierarchy - can responsibly moderate family size to financial adequacy; can express love to one's spouse in physical and other manners; can eliminate sexual desire when one is genetically "gifted", mass media conditioned and energy-blocked motivated to be hypersexual.

Is the Roman Catholic view of Christianity one of evoking confusion, denial, rejection of the Holy Spirit, idolatry of the papacy, misery for future generations, and lack of self-awareness in the adherent? The difficulty with the expression of such authoritarian policies for humans is that they fail when not accompanied by a positive and spiritual WAY by which such goals can be reached. The fundamental question here may not be whether such principles are indicative of Christianity or revelations from God. It may rather be the question of HOW such policies can be compassionately exercised in recognition of the reality present.

1995 - During late March,
The Spread of Alpine Plants to higher altitudes was again reported as a confirmation of global warming.
Temperatures in the alps have risen more than 1 degree Celsius since 1850, leading to an "incredible climbing rate" by some species of plants. These are now growing on mountain slopes where they could not have survived even a few years ago.

1995 - During early April,
Severe Storms in Bangladesh produced lighting and tornadoes which killed 40 persons and destroyed 4,000 houses.
In one instance, a tornado cut a path through 100 villages and the city of Munshiganj, just north of the capital of Dhaka.

In the USA, late-season Arctic air dumped heavy snows in the northern states and produced a series of severe storms and tornadoes in southern and midwestern states.

In the early autumn of Argentina, the worst natural disaster to influence the region in this century occurred when a severe storm released so much runoff water in Buenos Aires province that 4,000 persons had to be evacuated with others being left stranded on rooftops and terraces.

1995 - In April,
Alan Norton, 52, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is charged with 51 counts of possession of child pornography and is alleged to be a member of a pornography ring linked by computer networks. He is also charged with sexual assault and contact charges.

Postings in Internet accessed newsgroups (categories of messages, graphics and articles) - the equivalent of computer-based bulletin boards - add up to more than 100 megabytes per day, the equivalent of perhaps 20 million words. The largest newsgroups are those on sexual subjects.

1995 - On April 19,
Richard Wayne Snell, a member of the white supremacist group, "The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord", was executed for the murder of a Jewish businessman and a black police officer.

1995 - On April 20,
A 9-Storey Federal Government Building in Oklahoma City is bombed.
At 9:04 A.M. a 400 to 500 kg fertilizer and fuel oil bomb in a cartage van exploded at the front of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. About 1/3 of the complete front, north side, of the building collapsed into a pile of rubble on the ground while some persons were blown through the back of the building into a nearby car park building and all of the glass shattered in an adjacent apartment building.

A crater measuring 10 metres wide and 2-1/2 metres deep was left where the truck had been. 500 people were employed in the building of which 200 were injured critically. Almost 300 persons may have been killed, it was first reported. In reality, at least 167 persons were killed, including 19 children. The blast was felt 45 km away. A second and near equal earth tremor to that of the blast occurred 10 seconds following the blast and was the result of the building face crashing to the ground.

Offices in the building included those of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), Secret Service, Customs, Social Security, Veterans Affairs, Drug Enforcement Administration, Housing and Urban Development, Army, Accounting agencies, Department of Agriculture, a federal employee credit union, and military recruiting offices. The White House administration immediately activated its "emergency response plan" which included the coordination of the services of the FBI, FEMA, ATF, US Marshals Service, General Services Administration (GSA) and the Pentagon. Declared a state of emergency, the president was empowered to enact part or all of the powers made available to him through all previous Executive Orders.

Timothy McVeigh would be arrested as the primary suspect in the bombing.
He was remembered as a child at school which the other kids picked on and called, "The Wimp."
He had been a thin, quiet boy. His mother left him when he was 10, moving away to Texas and then to Florida. At high school, in Pendleton, New York, he had been called "Chicken McVeigh" by the students. With such condoned negative cultural conditioning, repressed and cumulative anger in humans usually becomes hatred and the longer the period of conditioning the more intense the submerged hatred. As a reactionary defensive response - obviously, more constructive responses were not coached or mentored by parent, teacher, or community leader - Timothy began to lift weights and became obsessed with guns.

His teachers remembered him as quiet, showing initiative and enterprise.
He graduated high school in 1986 and took a job as a guard on an armored car transferring money from department stores to the local bank. Jeff Camp, a co-worker, recalled that McVeigh showed up for work one day with loaded bandoleers, a scoped rifle, a sawed-off shotgun and two pistols. Social rejection and abuse had encouraged McVeigh to compensate for the fear which others had thrust on him; to be ready for any threat.

McVeigh would continue to work with 3 weapons - one in a handbag, one strapped to his leg and one in a holster attached to a military-style belt. Camp remembered that some days McVeigh would be completely silent; others, he would talk incessantly. He obsessed about his parent's divorce and his first toy - a pellet gun. When he became angry, he would let out a high-pitched shriek and then suddenly stop, and look for something to eat.

Humans who are not taught more constructive coping skills for dealing with frustration and anger, and, who are restrained from physical release by religious admonitions against violence or parental physical retaliation - often find other methods of energy release: shrieking, running, ... Those who are further restrained from these alternatives tend to internalize the anger into growing hatred.

McVeigh took up solitary interests which would allow him technical achievements for which he could gain acceptance: computers. He took an advanced-placement course in computer programming and did well enough to earn a state scholarship to college. He dropped out after several months to pursue his interest in armaments. In 1988, he joined the USA Army, where he was known to follow orders well (and hate Communism). Like many over repressed human personalities, he became a model soldier, a perfectionist, disciplined, accepting of authority and ready to respond with enthusiasm.

McVeigh was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
His squadmates later remarked that he seemed to "take off a lot" although no one knew where he went. The base was known to be lax in security with night-vision goggles, grenades and rifles, even rocket-launchers, mysteriously disappearing. A past-time of some of the bored soldiers on the base was that of reading Soldier of Fortune , a magazine purportedly for mercenaries, and similar materials. McVeigh became familiar with the Turner Diaries , an underground publication advocating extremist military anti-government tactics and which begins by relating how the FBI Headquarters in Washington is bombed by a right-wing extremist group.

During the 1991 Gulf War, (when he was conditioned to hate tyranny: Saddam Hussein) he served as a Bradley Fighting Vehicle gunner with the First Infantry Division (noted for its ruthlessness in Vietnam), in the rank of sergeant. He was on one of the vehicles which advanced into Kuwait. The Iraqis were so hopelessly outclassed in technology, reconnaissance and strategy - that the War was a bloodbath.

What the media were not allowed to show the American people back home, was how their soldiers sometimes buried the enemy alive in their bunkers with huge bulldozers, or murdered them when they stood defenceless. On at least one occasion, McVeigh was witnessed to have shot an Iraqi who came out with his hands raised in surrender. Like many American veterans of the Gulf War, McVeigh received the Bronze Star.

Betraying his mother's influence on him, Timothy recounted to her how his armoured personnel carrier had stopped by a berm and Iraqi soldiers had emerged to surrender. But to others, the necessity to defeat those horrid cutting words to an American male of "Wimp" and "Chicken" deserved greater drama. To them, he "blew up" an Iraqi soldier and 500 others surrendered to him personally.

He had tried to qualify for the Army Special Forces in a course at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
He was either frustrated when he was not accepted, failed part of the course, or found himself unable to cope with the ego-demolishing abuse which is often part of such courses. By April, 1991, he was out. On leaving the Army, McVeigh had complained that the Army had implanted a computer chip in his buttock during the Gulf War and obviously felt concern over the negative possibilities.

Resigning from the Army, he served for a short time in the National Guard - then began to wander - and to sell guns from the trunk of his car at trade shows. He was known to modify some of the supplies which he sold in order to maximize his profit. A neighbour, Stomber, later reported finding McVeigh painting the tips of ordinary bullets black, to make them look like expensive armour-piercing bullets. McVeigh used the alias, T. Tuttle, for his gun business. The name of the rogue terrorist character played by actor Robert De Niro in the 1985 movie "Brazil", was Harry Tuttle. He set off a bomb to destroy a building full of government bureaucrats.

Without doubt it was brought to his attention how much the USA administration seemed to be working politically in concert with the USSR - even to the point of providing hundreds of millions of dollars to them for modernization. McVeigh had grown up in an area in which employment has decreased, employment skills have raised in sophistication and average income has dropped.

His travels took him to the farm town of Decker, Michigan, where at the "Poverty Nook Cafe", farmers hit by the recession complained about the government and bank foreclosures. James Nichols was among the farmers and was one of the angriest at the time. James' brother, Terry, had served with McVeigh in the Army.

The childhood of the Nichols brothers had not been happy either.
Their parents had separated; their mother had apparently gone so far as to ram the father's tractor with her Cadillac car. James was divorced, accused of spousal and child abuse by his ex-wife. Terry's stepchild, whom he gained by a second marriage, had suffocated in a plastic bag. Sued for child support, James rebelled at the government which seemed to have never been their to protect him, guide him, assist him or reward him. He declared himself no longer part of the government and renounced his citizenship to the judge in anger.

When Terry was sued for unpaid credit-card bills, he renounced his citizenship also and yelled at the judge that he would not pay and that the bank's money was worthless. Terry subscribed to radical political theories espoused by a member of the "Posse Comitatus", a violent, ant-Semitic right-wing group. To childishly vent their frustrations, suggesting that society had not afforded them better ways, the brothers entertained themselves by making homemade explosives.

After the Waco incident, in 1993, McVeigh bought a TEC-9 semiautomatic assault weapon: the only practical use for it is military. Thereafter, he always travelled armed. Employers spoke favourably of him as a follower rather than a leader: a person who "did whatever you asked him to." A September 1994 receipt from a True Value hardware store in Kingman, Arizona, for a ton of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer and an ingredient of the Murrah Building bomb, with McVeigh's fingerprints on it - was found in Terry Nichols' home, in Herington, Kansas, following the bombing. By September 30, McVeigh and Nichols had set up a military surplus business.

In late 1994, McVeigh attended a meeting at which Koernke ("Mark from Michigan"), who declares that he is a former counter-intelligence USA Army officer, promoted belief in an increasingly familiar voiced scenario. Koernke warned that a government overthrow, carried out by a conspiracy of wealthy bankers, politicians and media elites will use U.N. troops - who are really Russian troops trained on closed American military bases - flying in waves of black helicopters, to conquer America and enslave its people, who will be controlled by computer chips surgically implanted in their hands.

So, he continued, all true patriots must organize into small groups - to avoid infiltration.
As the meeting continued, Koernke is said to have challenged those present to blow up some Soviet tanks he believed were kept at a nearby National Guard base, Camp Grayling. McVeigh who had been calm and unemotional until that point, is reported to have expressed, "Let's do it!". The raid was called off.

During November, 1994, Terry Nichols flew to the Philippines for a reunion with his wife, Marife.
He left a note behind with his first wife, Lana Padilla, to be opened if he did not return. It contained financial instructions and directions to a locker in Las Vegas which contained gold and silver bullion. A letter to McVeigh said, "You're on your own. Go for it!! ... As far as heat, none that I know of."

In February, 1995, a mysterious bomb blast slightly damaged the old house which Francis (Rocky) McPeak, a friend of McVeigh's, lived in. A March receipt for a video rental of the movie "Blown Away" depicting rebellious bombers, was found in the Kingman area with evidence that McVeigh had rented it.

On April 16th, McVeigh called Terry Nichols and asked Nichols to drive him 270 miles back to the Nichols property in Kansas. During the trip, Nichols later testified that McVeigh repeated several times that "Something big is going to happen," but had not elaborated as to what he was referring to.

On April 17th, McVeigh had rented a Ryder (rental) truck with a forged South Dakota driver's license on which the date of issue was noted as April 19, 1993 - the date of the Waco incident with the ATF. Traces of fuel oil and ammonium nitrate, the major ingredients of the bomb, were found in a Kansas state park at Geary Lake near Junction City, where McVeigh had rented the Ryder truck.

On April 18, McVeigh again called Terry Nichols and asked him to clean up a rented storage shed "if I don't come back in a while."

McVeigh was believed to have been a member of the "Arizona Patriots", a paramilitary citizens group. At the time of his arrest, he owned, and was carrying, a concealed 9 mm Gloch handgun loaded with hollow point bullets. He also had neither license plates nor auto insurance. He had lived recently in Kingman, Arizona, near which the "Arizona Patriots" were known to have conducted explosives training.

A business card from Paulsen's Military Supply in Wisconsin, was alleged to have been dropped by McVeigh in the police cruiser in which he had been originally arrested. On the back, was written, "Dave ... more five pound sticks of TNT by May 1.

Officials who transferred McVeigh from Noble County Courthouse, in Perry, Oklahoma, disabled the phone lines when McVeigh tried to contact a lawyer. McVeigh was also denied his request for a bulletproof vest when the officers escorted him from jail - later leading to allegations by his lawyer, Stephen Jones, that "It was like they were hoping that Jack Ruby would come out," a reference to the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald following the assassination of USA President John F. Kennedy.

Evidence began to turn up which pointed to McVeigh and a friend, Terry Nichols, an army buddy, as the bombers. The ATF had a report for weeks previously on both Terry Nichols and his brother, James, from their local sheriff's office, near Decker, Michigan, noting their particular interest in bomb making. James Nichols was described as a good, hardworking organic produce farmer by neighbours in an increasingly impoverished agricultural region.

Witnesses stated that James Nichols' views included the belief that the government interfered too much in all aspects of the individual's life. Both the Nichols brothers and McVeigh had experimented with homemade explosives. Statements of gossip relevance suggesting that McVeigh had "a very high IQ" found their way into newsmagazine stories.

Terry Nichols had joined the "Michigan Militia", a civilian paramilitary group formed in April, 1994, and now claiming a membership of 12,000 spread over most of the states 83 counties. He was also a member of the "Arizona Patriots" paramilitary organization. A small arsenal was found at Nichols' farm: 33 firearms and a 60-mm antitank rocket launcher. He also had four 55-gallon blue plastic drums of a type used in the bombing and three empty 50-pound bags of ammonium nitrate. When arrested, Nichols reacted to the police stating that they were going to read him his rights before interrogating him by declaring that the word "interrogation" sounded like Nazi Germany.

After his arrest, Timothy McVeigh was questioned for days, held without communication with anyone other than an assigned lawyer for weeks, placed alone in a 40-cell prison block at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, shown pictures of the dismembered and torn bodies of victims of the blast, and reported to be remaining unemotional and simply repeating his name, rank, and former Army serial number and the statement that he was "a prisoner of war."

McVeigh's father appeared annoyed that the attention focused on Timothy was making it awkward for him to attend a preferred bowling tournament. McVeigh's sister, Jennifer, attending college and in her early 20's had corresponded closely with her brother and was visibly a dedicated supporter of him. A $2 million reward and 1,000 agents were mobilized to verify the case against McVeigh and find the possible second person involved in the bombing.

There are many human personalities similar to McVeigh and the Nichols in North America, the Confederation of Soviet States (CIS), Europe, the Middle East, the United Arab States, the South African States, the Central and South American States: persons who have been raised in impoverished surroundings; with broken or abusive family relationships; not provided with basic constructive coping skills; subjected to prejudice, gossip, or other toxic shame; and modeled or taught behaviours of hate and violence. In North America, thousands of these persons are banding together into cults, militias, "patriots" and "action" groups.

Overpopulation, economic hardship, abundance of weaponry, advertising and marketing of the image of material wealth, and loss of individual dignities have become endemic human problems. Americans are enraged and shocked at the deaths of 167 "innocent" persons whose families paid the taxes which sanctioned the slaughter of over 110,000 "innocent" Iraqi citizens, perhaps 1,800,000 "innocent" Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of "innocent" Central Americans.

If the Oklahoma Bombing was the work of 2 or 3 such individuals, when will the next wick be lighted?
Humans are responsible for most of their problems and ills.
The remainder could be avoided with the use of spiritual skills.
It's a matter of choice!

1995 - During April,
USA Senator, Sam Nunn, Chairman of the "Armed Services Committee", states that terrorism can be expected to increase in frequency for the foreseeable future.

1995 - On April 20,
In the Yokohama Subway Station, southwest of Tokyo, Japan, 309 persons were taken to hospital complaining of stinging eyes, coughs and dizziness following a suspected terrorist gas attack. 1-1/2 million fares pass through the station daily.

1995 - On April 24,
In an interview, USA Senator Arlen Specter (R), of the Senate "Select Committee on Intelligence" and presidential candidate for next year, states his position on the restriction of state conservative groups which are organizing in reaction to federal movements to concentrate power over the states and the individuals. He notes that at present there are hundreds of groups organizing throughout the USA which are accumulating considerable stockpiles of weapons and are voicing empathy for persons who may have been involved in the bombing of federal agency offices.

The primary group of concern is the Michigan Militia.
Specter believes that the President should make more use of the powers he already has rather than legislating new ones. No discussion is made of what those powers are or the extent of them. Specter has submitted a bill which markedly restricts individual liberties and notes that he introduced the bill with the caution that he knew some changes to it would be required.

Specter applauds the Federal Crime Bill of 1994 which has re-instated the death penalty for some crimes. He is in favour of engaging surveillance and infiltration of state militia and other anti-federal military groups of a civil nature. He believes that the government must take action against terrorism beyond what President Clinton has mentioned earlier in the day.

President Clinton gave a speech earlier in the day during which, in more than 15 instances, he referred to the obligation of the American citizen seeking peace and order, to speak out in opposition to others who would advocate violence and civil unrest to achieve their goals. While the constitution guarantees freedom of speech and the freedom to bear arms, that mandate carries with it the implied responsibilities of speaking against the use of violence to kill and injure innocent persons and for the purpose of threat as well as the use of firearms for defense rather than in provocation.

A police Sheriff had also spoken earlier of the unanimity, particularly among western state Sheriffs at a recent conference, of concern about the rising federal powers over the states. The leader of the Michigan Militia had also suggested that the explosion in Oklahoma City might have been the result of carelessness on the part of the federal authorities who were known to be centralizing their resources.

Whether intentionally planned by NSA agents or simply encouraged and allowed to happen, the Oklahoma City explosion has created a climate of concern and paranoia which could be expected to result in the reactionary move of passing of the new rights restrictive legislation and federal moves to restrict armed civil rights groups.

1995 - On April 28,
A Huge Gas Pipeline Explosion occurred near Ukhta, Russia, an oil refining centre located 1200 km northeast of Moscow.
It was portrayed by officials to the media as a "routine incident."
Flames rose thousands of metres into the air and a Japan Air Lines crew reported that they saw the flames rise as high as 7,600 metres. Local residents at first thought that war had broken out. The CIA recorded the explosion by satellite and were first to report it to the UN. The cause was unknown. Several square km of forest were ignited in the area. Almost 9 years ago today, the Chernobyl incident happened.

1995 - By May,
The USA Department of Energy publishes an estimate of the cleanup costs of humanity's venture into the development and production of nuclear weapons, in North America alone: $319 billion over a period of 75 years and covering 130 sites in 30 states and territories; that is, twice the cost spent to build the weapons. Can anything which creates a deficit twice what it cost to build, and which has failed in its intent - to bring peace to the human world - be justified by any other being except a human?

1995 - In early May,
Clifford Stoll, 44, astronomer and computer expert from Berkeley, California, and author of
"Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway", contends that the Internet is now so cluttered with trivial info - much of it in the Usenet, that it will never live up to its promise of being an information highway:

"The falsehood of the Internet is that it will provide us with close, meaningful
relationships, with cheap, good information and with useful life skills.  Within each
one of those promises is a grain of truth, but on balance, they are simply false . ...

There are plenty of things happening in the world that don't need a computer. 
When my computer goes down, I can live quite well for a day, or a week or a month. 
But when my drain plugs up, hey, I can't get by for 2 days without a plumber.  Might it
not be better to teach some basic crafts and skills rather than computer literacy?

... the Internet ... is a low-grade source of information. 
There's a lot of ore, and not many nuggets. ... By so diluting our information 
sources with trivial garbage, important literature never gets read."

1995 - In mid-May,
The American movie, "Outbreak", is released.
Based on the book "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett, the movie presents a largely implausible yet dramatic and suspenseful plot about a virulent virus smuggled into an American town by way of a monkey from Africa.

The Army medic in charge of eliminating the viral menace, a Colonel Sam Daniels, played by actor Dustin Hoffman, manages to succeed in delaying or subverting authoritarian, conspiratorial and simplistic-minded military officer staff, long enough to evade technical experts sent after him to restrain him. Co-incidental streams of staff insubordinations contribute to the improbables necessary for Daniels to control the epidemic and save the country.

Culturally, the movie models the American fascination for the individual who defies all authority and succeeds in saving the society from catastrophe and the strictures of bureaucracy and military-political authority. In short, it advocates civil disobedience and suggests that the cultural authorities are incompetent, self-centred, and irresponsible.

In addition, it succeeds in duplicating the extensive genre of American film which suggests that important achievements can only be accomplished by individuals with superhuman skills and opportunities, thus, the general population is conditioned to believe that they are worthless and should remain passive in such circumstances. Very little real factual information is imparted to the viewer - a factor which could increase one's survival skills and ability to be self-directed with relevant behaviours.

As another defeat of constructive entertainment, the movie also fails to provide the audience with the real, though minor, possibility that such a catastrophic event could occur as a result of normal genetic mutation in the environment, ecological release of a dormant virulent virus, or, the release of a biological warfare agent - intentionally or accidentally - which has intentionally been developed by humans.

1995 - On May 16,
An NSA Satellite was launched in secrecy from Cape Canaveral.
Its unannounced mission was to permit the scanning of all electronic personal communications in the United States (cellular phones, field walkie-talkies, shortwave and citizen's band). The NSA have long had computer analysis programs which can scan millions of communications per second, select individual communications according to phrase or word use, determine the identification of the participants, and digitally record the conversation in question for later human analysis. Target words commonly used, and used here also, include "murder", "kill", "explosive", ....

1995 - On May 28,
A 7.5 Earthquake destroys much of the town of Neftegorsk, on the remote Pacific coast island of Sakhalin, Siberia - long contested as territory by the Japanese and Chinese.

In a town of 3200 people, over 1000 would be found dead during the first week after the quake as resident attempted rescues with inadequate equipment. Poorly constructed apartment buildings, poor road access, no airport and ice-bound waters would mean that only ice-breakers and helicopters would be able to bring aid. Numbers of injured were close to 800. A second quake, over 4.5 would strike one week later. Little further damage could result as much of the town had already been destroyed. Numerous aftershocks continued for several weeks.

1995 - By May 30,
Additional Powers and Authorities for the FBI are included in a bill sent to President Clinton by the USA Congress.
Special provisions to assist it in combating domestic terrorism, include 1,000 new agents.
FBI Director Louis Freeh, enthuses the politicians with his persistent image of an incorruptible and "intense" hands on "genuine American hero." J. Edgar Hoover, the first and long-time director, gained much of his power through the fear raised in the public by KKK Klansmen and Black Panther militants.

Right-wing militia groups, forming and growing over the past 3 years has returned that concern: the Oklahoma bombing gave the sanction for a new extension of power. Hoover used every tactic available, from blackmail to illegal electronic wiretapping to infiltrators and informants to penetrate subversive groups. Abuses of those methods led to congressional hearings and embarrassment in the 1960s and 1970s. The bureaucracy reacted by avoiding the powers which it did have, fearful that further errors might be made and caught.

This has been Freeh's justification for more powers and resources.
Rather than introduce a better quality of decision making to minimize the possibility of errors, Freeh has argued, successfully, for authorization to use power without fear of censure from the justice system if social rights and freedoms are abused without just cause. Even before the introduction of these new powers takes place, FBI authorized wiretaps have risen in number from 106 in 1981 to 554 in 1994. The justifications for these have been almost entirely relegated to drug enforcement; few have been directed towards controlling arson, illegal weapons proliferation, covert fabrication of explosives, nor a host of other serious anti-social behaviours.

During the past 6 years, USA Federal Judges have not refused one request for permission to use a wiretap. Statistically, less than 17% of all conversations recorded yield incriminating evidence. The administrative support required for an average wiretap places its cost at $66,783. Successful prosecution percentages and severity of sentences derived from such strategies remain undisclosed.

1995 - On May 30,
Serbian Leaders Warn UN Troop Sponsors that sending more troops will result in more UN casualties.
370 UN observers have been taken hostage in recent days with small yet increasing numbers of observers being killed and openly attacked by Bosnian Serb forces. The hostages are being used to shield weapons depots and Serbian troops from UN retaliatory air attacks against Serbian troops who continue to break cease fire agreements.

USA official Warren Christopher complains that the Serbs are not following the "rules of war" while Marines train in Italy for combat duty in the disputed areas. Canada calls for greater protection for the UN troops in terms of diplomatic agreements and defends against military intervention in the area on the basis that the UN troops are in the area to promote peace, not start a war. War and genocide in the area has now continued for over 3 years. The British are preparing to land 6,000 troops to boost UN observer strength and both Britain and France are preparing a NATO Emergency Response Team of combat troops to be used to protect the UN Observers.

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demands that 6 government controlled UN "safe areas" be de militarized and for the UN to prevent illicit arms shipments to the Bosnian government.

1995 - On June 5,
The Worldwide Fund for Nature released a report which stated that Brazil's illegal Animal Trade is now worth US$500 to $700 million per year, that is, 5 to 7% of the world market.

"This illicit trade is the second main cause in the drop in population of several 
native species (in Brazil) after reduction of habitat through (human) deforestation. ... 
In absolute terms it is calculated that the trade is responsible for the 
disappearance of 12 million wild animals a year in Brazil."

The main targets of the illegal animal market are colourful birds from the Amazon River basin such as parrots, macaws and toucans. A rare bird such as a red macaw, sold at an underground (illegal) fair in Rio de Janeiro for $120, can be resold outside Brazil for $12,000. Other sought after animals include spider monkeys, South American alligators, lizards and endangered wild cats such as the jaguar. Most are seized in the Amazon basin and taken by truck thousands of miles to Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo.

About 30% of the captured animals are exported, generally to the USA, Europe, and Japan, through such Latin American countries as Panama and Argentina. The rest stay in Brazil; many die from the stress of captivity, abuse, malnourishment, and unhygienic cages. Enforcement of laws against the illegal animal trade is extremely weak as Brazil's federal environmental agency, Ibama, has only 2,000 agents in a country the size of the USA and bureaucracy and bribes take their toll against efficiency.

1995 - During June 5-9,
The Frequency of Earthquakes was high and diverse with quakes exceeding 4.3 in strength occurring in the Aleutian Islands (4.7), Alaska (5.1), off the south coast of Mexico (5.3), in southeastern Mexico (4.6), central Columbia (4.8), central Chile (5.4), western Greece (4.8), southern Iran (4.6), northwestern India (5.2), Pakistan (5.0), western Nepal (4.3), Philippines (5.0), Malaysia (5.8).

During the same period, the worst flooding to be experienced by Norwegians in 125 years, the result of heavy rainfalls and warm weather heavy snowmelts, caused massive disruption to road and rail transportation lines north and east of the capital of Oslo. Flash floods also occurred in Iran's Kurdistan province and resulted in heavy damage to farmlands, orchards, and livestock. Most fatal was a flash flood in China's southern Sichuan province which left 63 people dead and 300 injured after dozens of houses collapsed.

Kurds living in northern Iraq have also experienced an invasion of poisonous snakes recently around Sulaymaniyah. They had flourished during the mild winter in the ruins of hundreds of villages destroyed by Iraqi military.

Higher than normal temperatures and an extended dry period in north central Canada and the western half of India resulted in extensive forest fires, which will increase atmospheric warming (smoke) and may increase possibilities of soil erosion. Temperatures reached 50 degrees in the affected Indian region and contributed to the deaths of 40 more persons.

1995 - On June 8,
USAF Capt. Scott O'Grady was rescued from the northern hills of Bosnia, about 30 km SE of Bihac.
O'Grady had been shot down, by a Serb missile, during a UN patrol in an F-16C jet fighter on Sunday, June 4, almost 6 days previous. 42 combat marines in 2-CH-53 helicopters, supported by jet fighters and other higher flying craft, assisted in the evacuation to the USS Kearsarge. During the exit, the helicopters received ground rifle fire to the underside of one and several anti-aircraft missiles were fired at them. The North American mass media dramatically portrayed O'Grady as a hero and encouraged emotional support against the Bosnian Serb anti-government forces.

On the same day, the USA House of Representatives passed a bill to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian government. President Clinton had already spoken of vetoing the bill if it was next accepted by the Senate. Perhaps 60,000 persons have died in the conflict; most have been unarmed and non-resisting civil casualties. One American soldier has his life threatened - and the most heavily armed human nation on the Earth threatens to intervene, in revenge.

1995 - On June 9,
The Worst Flood in the history of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, crests.
The South Saskatchewan River, swollen by severe rains in the Rocky Mountain foothills and massive meltwaters pressed from mountain snows by recent high climatic temperatures has reached a flow volume ten times the normal peak. Hundreds of carcases, sewage from the flooded Lethbridge sewage plant and other sources, rotting vegetation and floating furniture are being swept along in the flood. Drinking water is endangered with contamination.

While some members of the community banded together to place sandbags, warn and remove people from endangered areas and assist injured persons, others, especially young adults, contented themselves with recording the event on personal video cameras or setting up lounge chairs to spectate the process. The largest flood recorded beforehand for this region was in 1902.

1995 - On June 26,
The 50th Anniversary of the United Nations was met with celebrations and political speeches.
Within the previous several days, officials responsible for UN administrative planning advisories had indicated that for the UN to regain a relevancy in the modern world, changes would have to be made. Some of these changes included the payment of allotted dues by member nations on time; for some time, many member nations have been in arrears for their dues.

Also, a restructuring of the Security Council, the main action-initiating unit within the UN, was advised in order to reflect more appropriately the power and population represented by the members. Increasing the number of Security Council permanent members from 5 to as many as 27 was noted - with some members receiving multiple seats to account for their world position.

Early in the day, President Mubarik of Egypt was attacked in an apparent assassination attempt as he was preparing to attend a conference. Escaping machinegun bullets in his bulletproof car, the President spoke a short time later in the day against terrorism and the need for increased security measures.

President Clinton addressed a large gathering in San Francisco and noted a number of factors which could be categorized as 1) political intentions, and, 2) an affirmation of social values.
Included in the former were the following:

    a) smaller national decision-making bodies to expedite decisions;
    b) less national economic regulations to enhance international trade;
    c) better (UN) global command and control systems;
    d) strengthening of UN peacekeeping forces;
    e) "quarantine" of terrorist groups and the nations which support them;
    f) concern over the discovery of biological weapons discoveries;
    g) restriction of arms proliferation;
    h) a need for a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty;
    i) increased action against illegal drug cartels.

The strengthening of UN peacekeeping forces was described in terms of both the mandate to enforce peace and the technical capability for them to effect control over national or rebel forces. This would increase the paranoia of right-wing civil independence groups which fear the totalitarianism which has historically been indicative of human imperialistic governments which sought to become global political entities.

Typical political affirmations of social values to any so-called democratic society were presented and included:

    A) a need for efforts to eliminate Oklahoma- and Japanese-style terrorist acts;
    B) a need to curtail further destruction of the Earth's rainforests;
    C) a need to strengthen internationally regulated human rights freedoms;
    D) a need to change armaments into ploughshares;
    E) a need to remove the use of land mines which promote child injuries;
    F) a need for more international cooperation;
    G) a need to honour past UN achievers and contributors.

The combination of these two central themes was climaxed by a call to agree to reform and to resist polices of isolation.

1995 - By July 7,
The Hottest and Driest Weather in 110 years has left Europe and the Middle East looking like deserts.
Beginning in the British Isles, high temperatures reached +49 degrees centigrade in El Kharga, Egypt.

The worst fire in the history of modern Israel ravaged the eastern foothills of Jerusalem and forced the closing of Israel's main highway. The worst fire in the young country's almost 50-year history destroyed 2 million trees and 55 houses and led to the evacuation of 7 villages. Extending the weather extremes, violent thunderstorms took place over parts of Italy and Romania.

During the previous week, tremors and earthquakes have been felt along most of the active volcanic ridge regions of the world. At the same time, Flooding in China's Hunan and Jiangxi provinces has resulted in an estimated $1.7 billion in damage since April and has affected 88% of Jiangxi's 16 million residents. 130,000 houses have been wrecked and 1 million hectares of crops destroyed. Heavy rains have produced a massive runoff, unmediated due to deforestation and agricultural intensification necessitated by high population densities.

1995 - During July,
The USA General Accounting Office (GAO) report resulting from an investigation which began January, 1994, following an "Unsolved Mysteries" re-creation of a proposed UFO crash cover up, was released.
It was titled:

Primary encouragement behind the authorization for the investigation arose from:

    a) a book had been published about the incident;
    b) the public had been unable to obtain relevant documentation;
    c) Repr. Schiff had himself requested information numerous times;
    d) Army Air Force Roswell Press Officer, Walter Haut, had gone public;
    e) witness, Jessie Marcel, Jr., M.D., had testified publicly;
    f) witness, Ms. Frankie Rowe, had spoken publicly about it;
    g) the "Unsolved Mysteries" re-enactment had been televised;
    h) increasing attention on the incident was focused by UFO journals;
    i) the public was increasingly expressing distrust in the government.

The "investigation" was carried out by the "National Security and International Affairs Division of the GAO."
In reality, nothing more than a request survey was carried out.
Usually, the GAO has the authorization to enter any government office, unannounced, and review any records desired and seize any which it believes should be analyzed further in its service of maintaining government accountability to the citizens.

In this "investigation", GAO officers wrote to the archival offices concerned and requested that a representative acknowledge as to whether any records concerning the 1947 Roswell crash could be found on file. IF, as was the justification for such an investigation in the beginning, a conspiracy or cover up had been carried out - such a request would be comparable to the Treasury Department asking a suspected embezzler to forward any documents they possessed implicating them in a particular embezzlement of which they were suspected. The conclusion reached after this 12 month plus letter writing campaign was that NO documents could be found ANYWHERE.

It was noted by the GAO that Army regulations require that air accident reports be permanently retained and that any such records should have been with the Army Air Force until September, 1947, when the separate US Air Force military service was created. From that time, the records should, by law, have been in the possession of the USAF. They were not. They were reported as missing. Various bureaucratic strategies were used to waste time, redirect responsibility, and manipulate the public desire for the truth.

As any office worker knows, any incriminating file can easily be "misfiled" and go missing.
As any high security installation officer knows, if it is considered a matter of national security that certain information remains sanctioned "permanently black," - and "ignorant" persons are trying to find it and threatening to reveal it, that information can be shredded, moved to another location, or, re-labelled.

A further tactic is to play "paper tag."
That is, when asked if you have an article, you deny its presence and document your suggestion for the investigator to look somewhere else, specifically. It is sufficient to respond on paper that you do not possess the information requested. The suggestion of another resource does not require documentation, unless, you are seeking the image, for yourself, of someone who has been "very" cooperative.

If you wish to be helpful, there is nothing inappropriate about picking up your phone, calling the requestor, making your suggestion, and, leaving it at that. Whether offered sympathetically, or simply out of a sense of guilt - only evidence can determine.

As one instance, on April 28, 1995, a memo to Mr. Joseph E. Kelley, Director-in-charge, International Affairs issues, General Accounting Office, stated that "in response to April 12, 1995 request for information, NSC has no records relating to the incident at Roswell ... suggest they contact National Archives, Textual Reference Division, 6501 Adelphi Road, ... (301) 713-7230."

As mentioned, such a referral is less costly and more timely to make if given by telephone.
Putting it on paper may do exactly what the issuer doesn't want if it is received by a non-bureaucrat - attract suspicion. Either way, a large amount of time, and taxpayer's money, was spent to conduct a worthless and irrelevant task: asking for self-incriminating evidence rather than seizing and reviewing the records independently.

1995 - During July,
The Sol and Sanaag regions of northwestern Somalia already experiencing a drought which will continue for many months, finds Somalians migrating out of the region toward Ethiopia, 400 km. away. Over the next 6 months, 500,000 head of cattle will die as a result of the drought. Over 900,000 people, now nomads if not earlier, will leave their homes in search of a supportive environment. Loss of cattle will deprive many of basic protein requirements for sustained health. Malnutritional diseases will become endemic.

1995 - August,
Concern for the month of August, connected to the Chinese Lunar Calendar is rising among superstitious Chinese. Political uncertainties regarding increasing capitalism, possible increases in the restrictions of individual rights and freedoms and a growing separation of attitudes between generations is increasing the cultural level of anxiety. This year the Chines lunar calendar will have two months of August to adjust for the shortness of the regular year since the last similar adjustment. That was made in 1976, the year of a strong and devastating earthquake and the year that Mao Tse-Tung died.

1995 - By August,
The Great Purification of the Earth is predicted and prophesied by leaders and representatives of numerous North American native tribes.

Jake Swamp of the Mohawk nation speaks of a future event which will "shake up the whole world."

Martin Gashweseoma, a Hopi elder and medicine man, and Emery Holmes, a Hopi tribe member, speak of an event which "will eliminate many people."

Thomas Dostou, spokesman for the Innu, tells of how humans must stop defiling nature or the Creator will allow the forces of nature to purify the Earth.

1995 - By August,
The Re-programming of most Business Software to afford the use of a 4-digit year date has been warned by a number of industry spokesmen. During the 1960s and 1970s, when computer memories and storage capacities were miniscule compared to those of today's laptops, 2-digit year indicators were utilized. This will provide substantial computer anarchy in the year 2000 if modifications are not made.

The projected cost of a global solution is US $600 billion.
Each line of code in a program using the current date would have to be changed.
Expected costs for larger companies could run from $10 to $90 million.
Failure to do so could result in billing programs charging a customer for as much as an additional 99 years of service and/or late charges. Interest-bearing investments could electronically earn an additional 99 years of interest overnight on January 1, 2000. This is because many computers, if changed currently to indicate the year 2000, would carry out their calculations as if the current date was 1900, 1938, 1980, or something unuseable and confusing.

Costs for an insurance company with 1.6 million change of date reference and calculation are expected to reach $2.5 million. Costs for the US Federal Government administrative computers are projected at $30 billion. With businesses competing with lower profit margins and a reducing market and/or larger companies (through merger - acquisition), many companies are expected to leave such changes until the last minute.

Solutions hoped for could include the production of new industry standard programs which incorporate all the administrative options acquired over the decades together with the expanded dating system. For large corporations, this could mandate the replacement of existing hardware - a cost which may or may not prove to be too great.

1995 - During the last week of August,
A Russian Submarine near the Canadian arctic territorial boundary launches an SLBM through the ice towards former Soviet territory.

1995 - On September 11,
Yigal Amir, a Yemeni-born Jew living in Israel, tries for the second time to assassinate Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin.
He arrives with his 9 mm Beretta at the opening of a roadway interchange near Tel Aviv which Rabin is attending. Finding the security too tight, he patiently decides to wait for another time.

1995 - On September 12,
"The Washington Peace Accord" is celebrated as being 2 years in duration.
In an interview, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Perez remarks:

"Any proposal which becomes known (to the public through the media) ceases to be a
solution because reactionists mobilize against it.  ....  A moral truce ... to stop
dominating the life of the Palestinians (requires) actions of courage, decisiveness,
energy (without which the Middle East) may become a Bosnia.  ...  It's a waste of
time to lose hope: life is too short as it is."

Dr. Anis al Qaq, a Palestinian authority states in an interview:

"There is now a Palestinian government and administration ... which is strengthened
by confidence and prosperity ... which are diminished by terrorism. ...  Five decades of
war, hatred, and confusion cannot be removed in 2 years.  ...  if (developments) move
quickly, cooperation throughout the area (can lead to) a new era of understanding."

Currently, in Palestine, visitors remark on the great amount of construction which is occurring, the unrelenting sun, open sewers, cinder-block houses, crowding, construction noise, the stench of abattoirs in public places, unemployment rates of 50%, the high cost of home ownership. Since the exclusion of Palestinians from the Jewish areas, many jobs held by Palestinians in Israel have been lost to foreigners. The cost of home ownership now lies beyond the reach of all but a few Palestinians as land and house construction costs now approach those more common to the USA. In the refugee camp atmosphere of the past 4 decades, it would not have been unusual for 18 people to live in a 3-room shelter.

1995 - By the fall,
The KitteLock, developed by a Swedish Doctor of Technology, Fred Goldberg, had received approval by the Swedish parliament for use in Swedish vehicles. It would soon be before the European Community Parliament in Brussels for consideration throughout Europe. North American governments were also expressing an interest - publicly as a means to diminishing the toll of drunk driving accidents, and, confidentially, as a means of controlling organized crime and terrorism.

The vehicle could be programmed NOT to start until the individual had taken an in-car breathalyzer test (e.g. if previously convicted of impaired driving). If the vehicle had been stolen, the police, informed by the owner, would be able to send a signal to the vehicle to stop it and then use triangulation of signals from different transmission towers to locate the vehicle.

The basic premise was that the "smart card" would become the renewal driver's license in each country, thus ensuring full coverage within a period of 5 years. Major car manufacturers noted that the cost of replacing the current technology with the basic version of the KitteLock ignition system would be negligible. The cost of issuing the smart card was expected to be less than $2.00 per person.

With a KitteLock system in place, a vehicle could be programmed not to start unless certain requirements were met. Through a pager in the vehicle the police could activate a disabling procedure which would alert the driver that in 30 seconds the vehicle power would be terminated. This was expected to provide the driver with adequate time to drive the vehicle onto the highway shoulder and safely stop it.

Initially, broadcast towers were expected to provide the communication link between the vehicle and the police authorities. An obvious precaution, was that any attempt to remove or disable or replace the KitteLock system would result in the temporary disabling of the vehicle, either automatically, or, a warning signal would be sent to the central authority which would activate the disabling program in the vehicle onboard computer.

1995 - In November,
A Coalfield Fire which had been burning for about 100 years in the Xinjiang region of China at the Bayanghe coalfield was finally extinguished. A 5-square-kilometer area was involved and 300,000 tons of coal per year were estimated to have been lost - approximately 26 million tons in total. Authorities estimate that 55 million tons of coal remain.

1995 - On November 11,
Yigal Amir Assassinates Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
As Rabin descends a set of stairs to waiting government cars, after a peace rally at the "Kings of Israel Square" in Tel Aviv, Amir fires his Beretta 3 times at the back of Rabin. Shortly afterwards, Rabin would die. Amir, a religious extremist and legalistic interpreter of the Torah, declares that his god has commanded him to kill Rabin.

Israeli security for the event is afterwards highly criticized.
250,000 Israelis walk the streets daily with guns, duly licensed for "protection."
Yigal has the appearance of an average Jew; he is regarded as a devout academic of high intelligence and schooling; he is considered loyal, politically passionate and of strong opinions - by his friends. Over a decade of schooling in conservative religious schools, some of which combined military service, together with service in the elite Golani "cruel ones" infantry brigade, embellished by 2 years of exposure to right-wing rallies and violence advocating groups - helped form the 25-year-old Amir.

In a country divided between right-wing paranoid imperialistic sympathizers and empathic and conciliatory peacemongers - the outcome has been inevitable. In a country formed from terrorism and the political sanction of non-local nations of the theft of territories from several Arab nations, and, the virtual subjugation of the original Palestinian population such violence has been expected for a decade.

Compulsory military training, ethnic and religious racism, easy availability of weapons, widespread and increasing poverty and population crowding, plus, decades of immigration from nations with abusive societies and governments - more violence can be expected.

1995
The Relative Ecological State of the Earth at the end of the year was as follows:

1. Humans are believed to have destroyed 50% of the Earth's wetlands havens for many species and natural wastewater treatment plants;

2. Researchers report that species extinctions are occurring between 100 and 1000 times faster now than before humans were impacting the environment;
   
   

3. By burning fossil fuels and using nitrogen fertilizers, humans introduce more than 300 million tons of nitrogen compounds per year into the biosphere contributing to acid rain, and overfertilization of some soils. That can endanger native grasses in the American prairies and artificially promote the growth of less hardy species which are more susceptible to slight climate changes;

4. 40% of America's lakes are unfit for safe swimming, fishing, drinking, ...;

5. The seasonal ozone hole over the South Pole was 66% thinner in October, 1995, than ever recorded before for that month. While Chlorofluorocarbons have been banned, the destructive influence of those already in the atmosphere will continue for at least 50 years - potentially decreasing the ozone layer to 10% of what it was prior to 1850 and increasing cell mutation rates by up to 1000%;
   
   

6. Fish catches from all oceans are decreasing as stocks have been overfished for decades in spite of warnings by oceanographers and biologists. Technology has lost the battle to provide increasing amounts of food for increasing populations. Food production is now falling behind population growth;

7. Libya now consumes 3.7 times its renewable water supply each year by draining underground aquifers.
   Other nations and states which have been doing likewise include Saudi Arabia, Yemen, California, Florida, China.
   Increased population density is the major influence.
   
   

8. It has been estimated that .6% of the Earth's rainforest disappear each year.
   In the Amazon, 11,000 square miles are being lost each year.
   Fires deliberately set in Brazil to clear more land for useless agriculture were the highest ever in 1995.
   Increasing population density is the only motivation.
   The result is increasing oxygen deprivation of the planet.

9. Worldwide, 130,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel is in some kind of storage with countless tens of thousands of tons having been dumped into oceans by both the USA and the former USSR;

10. Arctic air pollution, drifting in from North America, Europe and the CIS is creating smog and increasing pesticide, PCB, and heavy metal concentrations in the snow, soil and animals. Local chronic illness epidemics have been the result of such pollution in the past.
    
    

11. Livestock population, encouraged by a rising human population, is growing at a rate of 1.7 % per year. There are 17 billion chickens husbanded on the Earth of which 8 billion are in China.
    Crowding of chickens and pigs has long been known to be a source of viruses which are devastating to humans.

12. The Earth's refugee population has been skyrocketing and is now officially at 23 million, unofficially 50 million. Humans fleeing war, political tyranny, economic distress, ecological failure and population overextension are stripping the land of vegetation, increasing soil erosion, depleting and fouling water supplies, increasing unemployment, increasing the frequency of bacterial epidemics, viral pandemics and parasite infestations;

13. The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is now 358 parts per million, higher than it has been for at least 160,000 years, and 27% higher than it was in 1800, before the industrial revolution. The burning of fossil fuels and deforestation contributes 6 billion tons of carbon each year. The USA leads the world in emission with a record 1.4 billion tons per year. Other major contributors are Brazil, the CIS, Europe and China.

14. Land degradation by soil erosion, overgrazing, forestry destruction, and long-term use of fertilizers has destructively influenced 53% of all vegetated land on Earth. In Australia, 70% of agricultural land has been degraded. The results will be lower food production yields and higher carbon dioxide levels.

PREDICTIONS:

Predictions by humans arise from a wide range of sources: dream expectation; dream fantasy; dream-state visions of time-altered reality ; emotional paranoia; intuitive insight ; rational projection; rational theorization; spiritual meditation ; spacebeing visual transfer, and others. Most of these are incorrect or subject to factors of deception. In the following, the predictions noted have been derived from the more dependable sources; 90% of human sourced predictions have proven to be wrong when source has not been considered.

Accurate predictions can provide several benefits:
    1. Awareness of possible high-stress periods of experience;
    2. Available time to enhance one's opportunity to plan and prepare;
    3. Motivation to moderate one's behaviours in order to cope better;
    4. An improvement in the constructiveness of one's decisions.

It is emphasized here that SOME predictions involve factors and options which are beyond the control of human individuals; they may not be beyond modification by groups of humans; they may not be beyond the influence of spacebeings; they may be affected by the cooperative efforts of humans and spacebeings; they are not beyond the direction of God.

We, as a species, in our lore, DID ask for CHOICE.
One cannot have choice AND predictability as the latter presupposes a lack of choice, of destiny. Of course, having choice does not mean choosing to use it. One may be controlled by their resident energy blocks. One may be deceived by or manipulated by other humans, or, more skillful lifeforms. One may also be denied freedom by one's ignorance or pride.

If we are wise AND humble, we can ask Spiritual Guidance for the BEST answers, and CHANGE our Future by changing our Present from our Past. It is NOT spiritually correct to impose change or truth on others. You read this report. No one is forcing you to believe any of it or act on any of it. Your CHOICE. Your FUTURE.

Remember, God is responsible for the universe.
Humans have had a "freedom" of choice.
With that comes a delegation of responsibility.
It should not be expected that God would change the universe for a small species of life which has always had the availability of Direction and Grace and yet has consistently denied those options.

To the extent that humans die in catastrophes, it is because they have refused to seek spiritual direction and refused to follow spiritual counsel. Look back not in anger but in humility. Look forward in faith, hope and spiritual purpose.

Humans have the collective capacity to change what has been predicted about their future and it is their patterns of choice which have produced the predictions. What compels humans, deceives humans, confuses humans and alarms humans is a factor of humanly controllable factors.

Obsession is largely a product of inappropriate nutrition, lack of spiritual training, cultural patterning, energy block accumulation and material anxiety. So also are nationalism, ethnocentrism, aggressive-passive communication, authoritarianism, greed, chronic illnesses, substance addictions, paranoia, anxiety and depressive disorders, and crimes of violence ... including war.

Population imbalance with economy and available resources is directly the result of sexual obsession, intellectualization to the point of problem and opportunity denial, inadequate spiritual awareness and self-responsibility. Degradation of the environment, social institutions and political harmony has been promoted by population imbalance factors. Predictions may be altered to the extent that mass humanity is motivated and encouraged to change its collective attitudes and behaviour to alter the above factors.

A differentiation between PREDICTIONS and PROPHESIES is provided as follows:

Predictions are made by humans on the basis of intellectualization, dreams, visualization, astrology, paranoiac imagination, intuition, anticipation and expectation, consensus, superstition, and spurious factors. Some of these methods are quite accurate depending upon the "gift" or skill of the individual and the traditional accuracy of the method; most are not. Predictions, like rationalizations, which have not come true are usually quietly forgotten. Much mass media attention tends to dramatise predictions which hold true.

Accurate predictions are modifiable by individual or group self-directed response and negative circumstances can often be avoided or averted if the nature of the decisions for and nature of such an action is made with the guidance of meditation, prayer, the Holy Spirit.

Predictions provide for an element of choice and interaction such that a prediction could be altered or changed if the parties involved made a focused effort to do so. Predictions are made by persons who are speaking for themselves and projecting their rational and intuitive skills.

Prophesies are sometimes provided by extraterrestrial forces which have variously been referred to through recorded time as God, angels, spirits, Savour (Messiah), and a variety of spacebeings. Prophesies have ALWAYS proven to be correct, as to likelihood. Prophesies are NOT provided by Spiritual Guidance as God continually acknowledges our ability to Change our directions IF we CHOOSE.

Prophesies often extend for a long duration into the future relative to the life span of a human.
For this reason, most humans and cultures tend to "forget" about them, or, show little interest in preparing for them until they are imminent. This is also the reason that many humans regard predictions as both more immediate and more important.

A spiritual weakness of humans is that they tend to believe predictions and to discount prophesies, while the reality of their accuracy is just the opposite of the interest often shown. Prophesies are generally not modifiable. It is evident that the hope of the source supplying them is that they can be modified according to the following of specific instructions - which they often provide.

Human recorded and preserved histories have demonstrated that whatever these "instructions" are, humanity usually chooses NOT to fulfil them, to ignore them, or, in its compulsive behaviour patterns, is too weak to fulfil them. To this extent, the prophesy is mandated.

The only variation within the prophesy is the interpretation and perception of what the prophecy means by those who become concerned of it. Such concerns can only be answered by meditation or the reality of time itself. Prophesies do not appear to be alterable by human interaction. It is as if they represent elements of history driven by very stable patterns within the universe. Most humans would have to rid themselves of Energy Blocks, develop skill in accurately accessing Spiritual Guidance, and, choose to both ask for and to follow such Guidance. Prophets are "persons who speak for someone else."

Prophets are often confused with predictors by the general public and by so doing they are generally ignored until the occurrence of the events are too close to do anything about; indeed, in many cases, the event is passed before the prophesy is acknowledged.

In style, the prophet always credits the information to a source beyond themselves.
This does not determine as to who is a herald of truth and who is seeking attention and power by deception. Ultimately, one may only discern the difference by meditation, prayer, and, sometimes, by the frequency with which previous prophecies made by the individual have proven to be correct.