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SLOW IS SMOOTH, SMOOTH IS FAST
Time is precious were told, so why be in such a
rush all the time? Because, it seems, we cant help it.
With ADD, consumerism, addiction, adrenaline, and
advertising its hard not to be in such a rush. The rush
is addictive, but dangerous - shortened timeframes
dont allow for quality growth and development. Just
channel watch, ip, ip, ip, watch.
At what point should we say productivity and
emciency are more important than quality? With food?
The tech industry? Housing? Its admirable that some
foundations and philanthropists take the time to use
their money, which is earned of other peoples time,
in order to provide resources to communities in need,
but the majority of these communities are often
broken because of the time theyre denied - the time
they need to build quality family and community
rel ati onshi ps and soci al devel opment. Mari a
Konnikova tells us in her article No Money, No Time
that, E!ciency is always the more exhausting and
demanding alternative. Attention is nite. For a while I
may be more focused, but I can run on all cylinders for
only so long. If Im forced to operate under constraint
all the time, my performance will sufer - and I may not
even be capable of recognizing the decit.
So whats the lesson learned? Well, you know -
remember the tortoise and the hare story when you
were growing up? Yeah, its simple - slow is smooth,
smooth is fast. So for this issue we decided to slow it
down a bit, and hopefully the result is of a higher
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El e c t r o ma g n e t i c We a p o n s ,
Nonconsensual Experimentation,
and Targeted Individuals
By Scott Albright
The question of whether
electromagnetic weapons exist or
not no longer belongs to the tin foil
hat wearing conspiracy theorist
weirdos. Its science non-ction.
Yes, electromagnetic weapons do
exist and they are being used on
humans. Thats a known fact. What
is unknown is how many diferent
types of people have access to
these weapons, how frequently
these weapons are being used, the
power and capabi l i ty of the
weapons they have access to, and
who these weapons are being
used against.
A c c o r d i n g t o t h e
organization for Freedom From
C o v e r t H a r a s s me n t a n d
Surveillance (FFCHS), there are
thousands of people across the
planet who claim to have had
electromagnetic weapons used
against them outside the normal
bounds of the law. Posts on the
or gani z at i ons websi t e l i st
comments from people claiming to
be targets who have had electronic
signals sent to their bodies and
brains as a means of manipulating,
controlling, and causing otherwise
abnormal or unusual behavior in
them. Some of the claims seem
farfetched and from just a brief
analysis one might think these are
just patterns of mental illness and
that the alleged targets only need
proper treatment to be cured.
Many psychi atri sts wi l l even
prescribe pharmaceuticals, many
of which may have derived from
experiments during MK Ultra, a
Cold War-era CIA mind control
operation, to help cure those
victims claiming to be targets. On
closer examination however, these
patterns are beyond that of normal
mental illness and seem to be
interconnected to the defense and
communications industries, which
some of these targets have
worked for in the past.
But before we get into the
strange and unusual lets talk
about the facts. How do I know
electromagnetic weapons exist?
Because Ive used them and have
had them used on me. While
serving in the United States Marine
Corps I was issued an AN/PEQ-2,
an infrared aimer and illuminator
which attaches to a service rie
and is only visible when wearing
night vision goggles. The infrared
beam shot out of the PEQ-2 is a
pulsed energy frequency which lies
on the electromagnetic spectrum
i n bet ween t he vi si bl e and
microwave regions. An article in
Nature shows that pulsed infrared
energy can increase the electrical
capacitance in cells, depolarizing
the cells and thus changing their
c o r r e s p o n d i n g ma g n e t i c
properties.
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The efects on the
human body from focused infrared
energy are also electrical and
magnetic, making the PEQ-2 an
electromagnetic infrared ashlight.
Theres more. The PEQ-2
has a lock on it which prevents
soldiers from using the higher
p o we r e d s e t t i n g s o n t h e
illuminator. The lock can easily be
broken with the hands or a small
pair of pliers and allows for the
infrared beam to be concentrated
at a higher power on subjects. The
known efects that we were told by
our higher ups is that on these
settings and at close range the
PEQ-2 can cause a bur ni ng
sensation on the skin and even
cause permanent blindness if
pointed at the eyes for a long
enough period of time.
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In efect,
everyone who was issued a PEQ-2
had an electromagnetic weapon to
use at their disposal. And yes, I did
witness Marines breaking the lock
and using their PEQ-2s on higher
power settings, and yes, I did
witness them pointing the beam at
unsuspecting Iraqis while their
PEQ-2s were on these higher
settings. No, I was not one of
those participating in these acts,
but I have had the beam pointed at
me on the lower settings, and have
had a more obvious type of
electromagnetic weapon used on
me - a taser.
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Tasers are electromagnetic weapons because
when the electric current carried by the line from the
gun into the skin-piercing hooks is shot into the body
not only is the central nervous system afected, but
also the heart, through the electrical currents and
their corresponding magnetic properties.
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Research
shows that these tasers do indeed have an
electromagnetic efect on humans, including that of
causing disruptions to the heart and medical devices
such as pacemakers.
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When I was tasered with a
total of 12 diferent hooks at a distance of about ve
meters by two diferent cops serving on the
Albuquerque Police Department I
immediately fell to the oor. My
whole central nervous system
had been paralyzed, with the
electric currents causing me to
lose all control of my muscles. I
was able to sit up and assist the
omcers in removing the hooks
from my body and face after they
were done zapping me, but they
had taken me out all the same.
The after efects of the shocks
include permanent scars on my
face, neck, and back, as well as
the feeling of having extreme
amounts of anxiety every time
Im around police omcers. For
the following two weeks after the
cops tasered me there was a
c o n s i s t e n t , i n t e n s e , a n d
uncontrollable shaking of my arms and hands. To this
day I still feel as though my nerves dont function the
same way they did before I was tasered.
As f or t he hi gher power ed mi l i t ar y
electromagnetic weapons, there are a whole
assortment of these listed in the 2006 paper titled
US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights,
by Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton.
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The report lists crowd control weapons such as the
U.S. militarys Project Sherif active denial weapon,
which heats the skin up to intense levels causing
instant pain and in some cases heart problems and
even death. The active denial system works in much
the same way as the AN/PEQ-2, shooting out a white
infrared laser beam that can only be seen while
wearing night vision goggles. The active denial
system is more powerful though, allowing for an
immediate efect to be felt by the targets, with the
purpose of causing them to alter their course of
direction or to be incapacitated completely.
Other EM weapons listed in the report include
pulsed energy projectiles, directed acoustics, and
neurological technology used for augmented
cognition. Augmented cognition is used by the Air
Force to monitor the brain functions of pilots and to
send them commands directly to their head. In the
wrong hands such a device could potentially be used
to enter a persons mind without their knowledge or
consent. This sounds very similar to the type of
technology targets from the FFSCH website claim
are being used on them.
I spoke to one of those targets over the phone
who asked that I not identify her by her last name
even though she has been very
active in discussing the matter
on diferent internet websites,
including a whithouse.gov page
wher e I f ound her emai l
address. All the email addresses
on the page were redacted on
the government site, however a
quick copy and paste into a
new document proved the
s e c u r i t y me a s u r e t o be
inefective, making me question
the governments ability to
protect citizens privacy, also
giving some credence to targets
claims that their mental and
bodily privacy has not been
sumciently protected.
Dorothy is the name of the so-
called target I talked to. Although
I had never spoken with Dorothy before and was
unable to meet her in person, she was still willing to
divulge a lot of information about her personal life and
the torment she has gone through because of what
she suspects to be an electromagnetic attack on her
by people working with or for her former boss at the
telecommunications company she used to work for,
Ameritech Mobile.
It was only an issue of opportunity, Dorothy
explained. Most targets are chosen because they
have very little family. This is a crime of opportunity
for people that you think you can depend on and
share with. And thats why I believe she did what she
did, and also I think money was involved.
Dorothy said things started getting bad when
she left the company in 1993, but it wasnt until after
her godmother died in 2004 that all hell broke loose.
According to Dorothy, the neighborhood she was
living in had been inltrated by whoever was
conducting the experiments in order to isolate her
and send electronic signals into her body and mind.
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Dorot hy sai d she had
contacted the police regarding her
concerns after she recorded one of
her neighbors blocking her from
going into the street. Despite
Dorothys complaints, she says the
police did very little to investigate
her claims.
The crime escalates to the
point - I know this hard to believe -
they either kill you because they
put so much stress on your body
and heart, or intentionally try to
drive you crazy,
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Dorothy said.
After becoming totally isolated
following the death of her mother
and godmother, this is exactly what
this group that was harassing her
kept trying to do, Dorothy claims.
On January 2, 2005 they
started the voice to skull, she
said. By May or June of 2005
during the day three people would
be talking in my head trying to
upset me. There is a woman who is
about forty. She does 80-90
percent of the transmissions.
Theres a boy, about 30, whos
always next to her or in the
background assisting her in the
transmission torture. Another man
who sounds about 50ish, doesnt
do too much. He sits there and I
can hear him some time.
Everything is played out in
front of you through your head,
Dorothy continued. They want you
aware of certain things. Always
want to keep you in a state of
anxiety. Keep you with as much
fear as possible, on high alert.
Dorothy said that from
2005 until this very day the
woman she hears will keep saying
the word ray directly into her
head over and over. She will say
ray at least 150 times in a day,
Dorothy said. Sometimes it is a
recording where it will go over and
over, but theyre the ones playing
the recording. She does it with
viciousness. All day they dont stop
with the transmissions.
Sometimes, Dorothy says,
the transmi ssi ons wi l l go on
throughout the night, causing her
to have extreme sleep deprivation.
She says often times she is
followed in her car or in the
supermarket and that everything is
coordinated through some type of
telecommunication device, an
operation she calls gang stalking.
When asked if she ever tried to nd
the people she thought were
st al ki ng her or sendi ng t he
transmissions she said no, but
explained that it is possible by
tracing the phone numbers of her
neighbors. All these neighbors
numbers are going back to three or
four numbers, she said. These
criminals are in constant contact
with my neighbors. Its all done by
telephone.
Dorothy digressed a bit,
explaining the Ameritech Mobile -
AT&T connection and her former
bosss deal i ngs wi t h ot her
telecommunications companies
including ALCATEL, a French cell
phone company. She knew all that
mobile phone stuf, Dorothy said
of her former boss. All the inner
workings, all the functionings of
the technology.
Dorothy thinks her boss
was co-opted into the operation by
someone else who was ofering
money to bring in specimens for
experimentation. Dorothy says she
was chosen because of her
vul nerabi l i ty to i sol ati on and
because of her nances. She said
when s he was wor k i ng at
Ameritech her boss walked by her
desk and said I wish I had your
money.
I havent real l y qui t e
gured it out, Dorothy said. What
I do know is everybody thinks
something diferent. Most targets
feel that they want them to be
killed. I feel that they are capable
of killing me. She said other
targets think its a way to lighten
up the population while others
think theyre targets because
t h e y r e g o i n g a f t e r t h e i r
inheritance.
Dorot hy t heor i zed t he
reason there are so many people
being targeted is there were some
engineers or highly intellectual
types who obtained the EM voice
t o skul l t echnol ogy t hrough
research contracts at various
universities. She says this group
has gone rogue, experimenting on
their own for whatever purposes
they deem necessary. She said the
technology they use is so powerful
that they can see through her eyes
and have some type of sensory
technology that allows them to
pick up visual images of her body.
We discussed Googles acquisition
of Nest Labs, a company that
builds smart thermostats and
smoke detectors, and agreed that
it would be easy for the company
to secretly place video cameras or
other surveillance technologies into
the detectors for this purpose. In
fact, a quick Google search for spy
smoke detectors returned several
results, including smoke detectors
with built in spy cameras available
on Amazon. Further searches
reveal that Nest Labs purchased
Dr opcam ear l i er t hi s year.
Accordi ng to the Nest Labs
website, Dropcam lets you check
in on your home, no matter where
you are in the world.
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I think its conceivable that

some college kids went of on their
own, Dorothy said. They could
be in the porn business. I dont
know that I ever read a target ever
consider it. I considered it right
away. Because they know they can
see your whole body like I said,
she explained. If your having sex
with somebody they can see
everything that your doing. When
you take a bath they know exactly
where your hand is, where your
soap is. Its an ideal situation for a
bunch of sickos to buy into this. To
subscribe and all day watch you
take your bath. People who are
married - watch them have sex. I
think its a possibility.
Some might say Dorothys
claims are just delusional fantasies
and that its unreasonable to think
a rogue group of intellectuals
would go through such great
lengths to torture her, but true or
not, the possibility is still there, and
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it poses real problems for the future of individual
liberty, free cognition, creativity, psychological
development, and a whole host of other moral,
ethical, and social issues very few people are willing
to discuss. Peter Phillips, co-author of the EM &
Human Rights report, is one person who is willing to
bring the discussion to the forefront.
I contacted Phi l l i ps through a soci al
networking site to see if he had any suggestions on
how one can verify claims of electromagnetic
weapons targeting and electronic transmissions to
the brain. In his reply he wrote, WE have had many
people call regarding electromagnetic weapons. We
have yet been able to verify scientically the facts of
the claims. Despite not being able to verify claims,
Phillips and the co-authors of the EM Weapons &
Human Rights report do suggest that such claims are
of a real concern, especially
when it comes to thought
intrusion technologies. One
paragraph of the report is worth
repeating in its entirety:
Freedom of thought or
cogni ti ve l i berty i s the
natural human right of each
person to be secure in their
ability to perceive the world
to the best of their ability. To
have true cognitive liberty in
a world as complex as ours
would mean that rst we
must have access to truthful
and unbiased information
about the actions of others
and the general state of the world. The Center for
Cognitive Liberties denes this as the right of
each individual to think independently and
autonomously, to use the full spectrum of his or
her mind, and to engage in multiple modes of
thought. Without accurate representations we
cannot make independently informed choices. It is
imperative that the human body and mind be
considered sacrosanct. To invade a persons body
without their consent is an egregious human rights
crime.
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So if electromagnetic weapons are real, and
mind control technologies have been researched in
the past, how can we be sure they arent being used
on us by say a foreign government or a rogue group
of intellectuals as Dorothy theorizes? Unfortunately,
the answer to that question remains unknown. In my
email exchange with Phillips he wrote, Secret EM
testing is unproven, there is a large body of
circumstantial evidence and personal testimonies but
nothing approaching scientic fact. So I do not have
an answer to your specic question. In the email with
Phillips I had told him about my suspicions regarding
electromagnetic and other strange technology
research programs at Sandia Labs and Kirtland Air
Force Base near where I live. I said I was a little
intimidated to start asking questions to random
omcials, but gured it would be the best way to learn
more. Phillips reply was, Asking questions is very
patriotic and you should feel free to ask away in your
locale.
So ask away I did, via the Kirtland Air Force
Base website contact page. I asked why a link to a
base EM weapons & technology
fact sheet I had found while
doing previous research no
longer worked, and I asked
how I could get in to see the
technologies discussed on the
fact sheet rst-hand. So far I
have yet to receive a reply, but I
did nd the fact sheet using a
diferent url, which sent me to
t he KAFB websi t e. What
exactly is this fact sheet you
ask? Its a U.S. Air Force report
t i t l e d H i g h - P o w e r
Microwaves. It outlines some
of the features of the facility
being used for the microwave
weapons technology research
at the base of the Manzano
Mountains, only a few miles from where I live. The
report reads, This $9 million, 26,827 square-foot,
faci l i ty provi des a uni que capabi l i ty for the
development of high-power microwaves, high-energy
advanced pul sed-power (i ncl udi ng expl osi ve
devices), and very-high-energy plasmas. It also
provides a research environment for exploring a
variety of related technologies.
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The report
continues, The facilitys remote location in the
Manzano Mountains on Kirtland Air Force Base is
coupled with a unique construction, which is
designed to withstand blasts and intense radiation
from a variety of sources, including big-energy
microwaves and x-rays.
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One of the chief scientists involved in the

directed energy programs at Kirtland AFB is Dr.
William L. Baker. In an online version of an Air Force
Artist rendering of airborne EM weapon from KAFB
website.
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Horizons magazine article co-written by Baker, the
controlled efects of high energy weapons are
explored. Besides research in using microwaves
and other direct energy sources to take over and
control adversarys intelligence, command,
control, communications, and computer systems
(IC4), scientists like Baker are also exploring the
ability to take over and control the body and mind
of individual human beings. In the Horizons article
it states:
For the Controlled Personnel E#ects capability,
the S&T panel explored the potential for targeting
individuals with nonlethal force, from a militarily
useful range, to make selected adversaries think
or act according to our needs. Through the
application of nonlethal force, it is possible to
physically inuence or incapacitate personnel.
Advanced technol ogi es coul d enabl e the
warghter to remotely create physical sensations
such as pressure or temperature changes. A
current example of this technology is Active
Denial, a nonlethal counterpersonnel millimeter
wave system that creates a skin heating sensation
to repel an individual or group of people without
harm. By studying and modeling the human brain
and nervous system, the ability to mentally
inuence or confuse personnel is also possible.
Through sensory deception, it may be possible to
create synthetic images, or holograms, to confuse
an individual's visual sense or, in a similar manner,
confuse his senses of sound, taste, touch, or
smell. Through cognitive engineering, scientists
can develop a better understanding of how an
i ndi vi dual ' s cogni ti ve processes ( patter n
recognition, visual conditioning, and di#erence
detection) a#ect his decision making processes.
Once understood, scientists could use these
cognitive models to predict a person's behavior
under a variety of conditions with the potential to
a#ect an adversary's mission accomplishment via
a wide range of personnel e#ects.
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Unfortunately I havent had the time to learn
more about what goes on at Kirtland AFBs high
energy research facility, but I did sign a petition
asking the U.S. government to investigate the claims
of i l l egal el ect romagnet i c exper i ment s on
unsuspecting Americans, based on the assumption
that Cold War style mind control experiments are still
in efect and ongoing. Such an assumption is not out
of line based on the information that is available to
the public regarding high energy electromagnetic
weapons research, and because of the governments
history of being unable to pass any legally
enforceable ban on nonconsensual experimentation.
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Of the three New Mexico representatives my
petition was sent to, only one responded - Senator
Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence who formerly lled the U.S.
House representative seat for district 1, an area which
includes Kirtland AFB and Sandia Labs. Running up
against incumbent Michelle Lujan Grisham for that
seat in the November 2014 mid-term elections is
Michael Frese, whose website states that he and his
wife started NumerEx, a small business that does
computer modeling of high energy pulsed power
experiments, where we continue to work today.
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Frese also has a 401K investment in Northrop
Grumman, with the value of this asset listed as
between $50,001-$100,000 for the NG US Equity, the
same value for his Northrop Grumman NGSP
Balanced Fund 401K asset, and $1,001-$15,000 for
the value of his NGSP Small Cap Northrop Grumman
401K asset.
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A nancial disclosure lists his salary for
the current year to the 2014 ling date to be $118,900
and $90,000 for his wife. Im not quite sure what
Frese would say about EM experimentation in the
district he is vying to represent, but we do have some
clue as to how Heinrich feels about such weaponry. In
response to the petition sent to him regarding EM
weapons, Heinrich wrote an email which says:
As technology continues to advance, and as
the ability of government and businesses to know
increasingly more personal details of our lives
expands, we must take appropriate steps to protect
Americans privacy. Throughout my tenure in
Congress, I have consistently asked whether
l egi sl at i on under consi der at i on - such as
cybersecurity bills and foreign surveillance policies -
provide for meaningful oversight of information
collection and sharing and su!ciently protect
individuals privacy. I have also supported legislation
to protect employees and job applicants from
unreasonable intrusions into their personal computers
or online accounts, as well as to protect consumers in
the market place against the exploitation of their
private information.
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Although the response doesnt seem to
a ddr e s s i l l e g a l e x pe r i me n t a t i o n a n d
electromagnetic weapons attacks specically,
Heinrich does hit on the privacy issue involved in
voice-to-skull, augmented cognition technologies,
and nueroweapons. What I dont get though is
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how any of the privacy protection bills Congress
passes are going to help if they arent specically
addressing EM technologies like the ones listed
above. The bills should include clauses which allow
for the provision of shielding materials from unwanted
transmissions, information manuals about the various
EM technologies and the diferent protective
measures available, lists of companies or individuals
suspected of illegally having EM technologies, as well
as a list of where EM experimentations have taken
and/or are taking place.
So the question remains, how exactly is our
privacy being protected if someone can just point a
device at you and put thoughts in your head? What
real protective measures is the U.S. government
providing to truly ensure this protection of our mental
privacy? Remember Aaron Alexis, the D.C. Naval
Shipyard shooter and former information security
specialist who claimed he could hear voices talking
about him through walls, and that microwave
transmissions were being sent to his body before
going on the bloody September 16, 2013 shooting
rampage? His job had everything to do with
protecting information and ensuring privacy, yet
nothing was in place to protect those working at the
shipyard from the very person who was supposed to
be providing their information protection. Nor was
anything in place to protect the sanctity of Mr. Alexis
mental privacy, if EM weapons were indeed being
used on him. According to a post at the FFCHS
website, Alexis was in close proximity to people in the
U.S. military who had access to some of the
electromagnetic technologies being discussed here,
making it reasonable to think that maybe more was
going on with him than just some type of mental
illness, as the mainstream media proclaimed. Alexis
had allegedly contacted FFCHS to explain what was
going on with him before the shooting occurred.
Below is a copy of the email sent to me by a member
of FFCHS. I wrote an email to the president of the
organization who this email was supposedly sent to in
order to conrm the authenticity of it, however I have
yet to receive a reply to my request. This of course
begs the question of whether this email is real or not
and if the information available online about EM
weapons is part of a larger disinformation campaign.
Never the less I think it is worth examining the alleged
email to get a better idea of what type of possibilities
actually exist.
Subject: Need assistance on dealing with the
direct energy attacks!! September 1
Hello,
My name is Aaron. I am ex-navy, and have been
working as a contractor for the DoD. I have recently
come under attack after blowing up at Norfolk airport
in Virginia.
The rst attack started coming when I was on
assignment in Rhode Island. I was hearing what I
thought was people next door telling lies about me. In
truth I didn't know that I was under attack and
thought I could escape what I was experiencing, by
leaving the hotel I was in. It wasn't until it almost cost
me my job that I realized that one, I wasn't crazy, and
that two that I had to gure out what was going on.
I am glad I found this site, however I need assistance
because, I have not allowed them to scare me o# my
job, but I fear the constant bombardment from the
ELF weapon is starting to take it's toll on my body. I
am currently in DC now near the pentagon. I think I
know the specic group in the military that is
responsible for developing and assisting the military
with.[sic]
Any assistance you can give me and at the same time
whatever info I can give you on what I know please
contact me ASAP.
Aaron Alexis
Scribed into one side of the shotgun Alexis
used during the Sept. 16 shooting were the words
My ELF weapon! The acronym ELF stands for
extremely low frequency. According to an FBI press
release, a document acquired from Alexis electronic
media states, Ultra low frequency attack is what Ive
been subject to for the last 3 months, and to be
perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this.
16

According to the International Telecommunication
Union, the ELF frequency range is between .03 hertz
(Hz) and 300 Hz, while the Ultra Low Frequency (ULF)
range is between 300 Hz and 3,000 Hz.
17
These
frequency ranges are at the lower end of the radio
spectrum. Wavelengths are much longer at this end
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of the spectrum and get shorter as
the frequency increases before
crossing over into the optical
spectrum.
18
The FBI press release
states that ELF technology was a
legitimate program for naval sub-
tonal submarine communications;
however, conspiracy theories exist
which misinterpret its application
as the weaponization of remote
neural frequencies for government
monitoring and manipulation of
u n s u s p e c t i n g
citizens.
19

The DC Naval
Shipyard is home to
t h e N a v a l S e a
Systems Command
submarine program
e x e c u t i v e o mc e .
Besi des wor k on
sonar and acoustic
s e n s o r s , t h e
submarine omce also
designs, develops
and over sees t he
c o n s t r u c t i o n o f
El ectroni c Warfare
Systems, periscopes,
and the Photonics
Mast , under t he
g u i d a n c e o f t h e
Submarine Combat
Sy s t e m Pr o g r a m
Omce.
20
Despite previous and
current research done on ELF, ULF,
and other frequency ranges for
submar i ne communi cat i ons
systems on or near the DC
shipyard, there were few news
reports showing that Alexis did
indeed have a right to suspect
el ect romagnet i c weapons or
communi cat i ons t echnol ogy
testi ng was goi ng on at hi s
workplace. The FBI press release
dismisses all connections, making
Alexis sound like he was mentally
ill rather than someone who may
have known something he wasnt
supposed to. The press release
st at es, Ther e ar e mul t i pl e
i ndi cators that Al exi s hel d a
delusional belief that he was being
cont r ol l ed or i nuenced by
extremely low frequency (ELF)
electromagnetic waves.
21
But
perhaps he wasnt qui te as
delusional as the FBI or those in
the mainstream media pushed so
hard to make Alexis sound.
U n l i k e i n f r a r e d o r
microwave pulsed energies, which
are in the optical spectrum, ELF
energies lie along the radio wave
l i nes of the el ectromagneti c
spectrum. ELF technologies are
especially useful for deep-sea
communications. Billions of dollars
and many classied experiments
took place using various designs of
ELF submarine communications
systems during the Cold War.
A c c o r d i n g t o Ge r r y
Vassilatos, author of Secrets of
Cold War Technology, conspiracy
theories about ELF technologies
ran rampant when the public rst
began to hear of its capabilities
d u r i n g t h e 1 9 6 0 s N a v a l
communi cat i ons oper at i on
codenamed SANGUI NE, then
renamed SEAFARER in 1973.
Vassilatos disproves many wrong
a s s u mp t i o n s a b o u t E L F
technology, showing that it was
impossible to focus or triangulate
ELF or to use it for neurological
entrainment under the Navys
s ubmar i ne SANGUI NE and
SEAFARER communi cat i ons
experiments. He does explain
though that researchers recognized
certain biological efects from
exposure to ELF. In his book it
st at es, Numerous
university researchers
discovered the efects
of ELF electrostatic
and ELF magneti c
pot ent i al s on t est
s u b j e c t s . Po t e n t
emotional and mental
derangements were
observed when the
EM v ect or s wer e
s l i g h t l y mo d i e d
( Hunt ) . Numer ous
i ndi vi dual s began
hearing a strange
and penetrating hum
which could not be
r e c o r d e d
a c o u s t i c a l l y .
2 2

Vassilatos explains
f ur t her t hat ELF
cannot produce the
neurological efects of ULF at 7, 8,
9 or 10 cycles per second, yet he
does not go into further detail
about these ultra low frequencies
or whether ELF propagation can
have the same or similar efects as
ULF at a diferent cyclic rate. But
even if ELF or ULF Cold War
exper i ment at i on has l ed t o
n e u r o l o g i c a l e n t r a i n me n t
technologies it would be very
dimcult for a person like Aaron
Alexis to receive any type of
compensation for experimental
uses of these technologies by the
military, even if the experiments
were done on him against his will.
Can radio towers like these do more than just transmit signals to our
cars and homes? Are our brains able to pick up these signals?
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According to Cheryl Welsh, J.D., author of the research paper Cold War Nonconsensual Experiments:
The Threat of Neuroweapons and the Danger it will happen again, there is no enforceable legal recourse for
victims of nonconsensual experimentation in the U.S.
23
She explains how Nazi scientists were prosecuted for
crimes against humanity because of the nonconsensual experiments they performed on victims during World
War II. The Nuremberg Doctors Trial included testimony from eye witnesses who helped to bring about the
Nuremberg Code, a common code which states that certain basic principles must be observed in order to
satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts.
24
The rst rule of the code is that The voluntary consent of the
human subject is absolutely essential.
25
Despite this, the U.S. still does not have a criminal statute banning
nonconsensual experimentation. Welsh explains that time after time the U.S. government has sidestepped
any legislation that would make it illegal to conduct nonconsensual experiments for classied research. Welsh
writes:
The disturbing legacy of the Cold War experiments is that the U.S. government has never implemented
the one reform essential for providing fundamental human subject protections - a ban on nonconsensual
experiments, thus signicantly increasing the danger that such experiments could happen again. As with
any criminal statute, a ban would go far in preventing the act criminalised within the statute - in this case,
nonconsensual experiments in classied research. Many experts agree that small unethical medical studies
like the Guatemalan experiments could occur again but few believe that today's ethics would allow for
widespread unethical nonconsensual experiments. However, it can be argued that widespread experiments
may be possible if not likely given the right circumstances.
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Since at least 2001 the U.S. has been in a constant state of war. What better circumstances could a
sadistic experimentalist ask for? Its not hard to imagine people with access to EM technologies using them
for their own sick personal pleasures. But are nonconsensual experiments using neuroweapons actually
taking place on wide scales across the globe by more than just a couple of demented individuals here and
there? My guess is that its possible, but because we are in a constant state of war the other possibility is that
its not just nonconsensual experimentation, but rather electromagnetic warfare. In a world where mass
murder can be termed collateral damage, it can be assumed that electromagnetic weapons torture victims
can just as easily be minimized and deemed mentally ill by the mainstream media. But perhaps the media are
part of a larger weapon, or weapon system, into which neuroweapons also fall. Nonlethal, psychological,
information, cyber, and directed energy counter-personnel weapons could all be used by foreign adversaries,
rogue groups, or sociopathic power brokers in systematic and destructive ways not easily visible to the
average onlooker. These type of individuals are indeed already using electromagnetic warfare as part of a
larger geopolitical battle between corporate elites, criminal syndicates, military & intelligence operatives, and
even entire nation-states. The U.S. militarys use of the Project Sherif active denial system in Iraq is a case in
point, as is Russias use of cyber warfare against Georgia in 2008. China, Russia, the U.S., and other
countries continue to test and probe each others IC4 defenses in pursuit of their publicly announced goal of
controlling the electromagnetic spectrum. The ongoing wars and so-called managed conicts these
countries engage in provide their leaders with further justication for enhancing, rening, testing, and using
EM weapons at home and abroad. Its likely that EM weapons are being used on Americans without their
knowledge, even on a daily basis, given the surreptitiousness of EM attack capabilities and the popular
support among government omcials, nationalists, and other factions and organizations for more regular use of
the conventionally lethal types of weapons in the ongoing conicts, wars, and uprisings around the globe. If
the Obama administration is willing to bomb Libya, Iraq, or Syria because its an easier method than putting
troops on the ground, than why wouldnt U.S. adversaries also use similar methods of killing and torturing
Americans from a distance? If Putin can deny sending troops into Ukraine, than why think he wouldnt also
deny using EM weapons on Americans or western Europeans? No-touch-torture weapons are exactly what
people who use plausible deniability methods for attacking their enemies want. In their line of work it would
be the weapon of choice.
So the real problem is more about defense, not legal recourse or fact nding, whether the attacks are
coming from a domestic or foreign source. As when in war, rules dont apply. And at war we are, despite U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerrys announcement that the U.S. is not at war with ISIS/ISIL/The Islamic State. Its
just a counterterrorism operation, he says, apparently not part of the U.S. WAR on terrorism. But using war-
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-planes to drop bombs and shoot missiles at people
on the ground in a foreign country is an act of
warfare, and Iraq and Syria are just two places where
the U.S. is engaged in military conicts as part of their
larger geopolitical wars. So what defense is available
against EM attack for the average individual in these
wars that supposedly dont exist? The best defense is
to know your enemy of course. If the enemy chooses
to remain anonymous that could be a dimcult task,
but in the case of EM warfare one can at least study
their methods of attack.
For supposed targeted individuals like Dorothy
it makes sense to learn as much about EM weapons
as possible so she can better nd a solution to
whatever pain shes enduring. I personally dont know
if individuals are really being targeted to the degree
people claim or not, but I say its better to be
prepared than to become a victim without any
defenses at all. As these threats are real, and could
come from either foreign or domestic sources, it
would be in the best interest of government to
provide defense measures, or at least easily
attainable access to information explaining these
measures, for all individuals they are meant to serve.
It seems though that government and corporate
omcials would rather suppress the knowledge about
EM weapons needed for better individual defense,
while at the same time looking to prot from research
and production of both ofensive and defensive EM
weapons technologies. For instance, the research
done at the directed energy lab at Kirtland AFB is
experimenting with EM weapons for the purpose of
learning how to better protect military equipment and
personnel from EM attacks. Millions of dollars worth
of contracts have already been spent for this
purpose, yet little has been done to provide the public
with the protective measures they need in case there
ever is a large scale high powered electromagnetic
attack. And because EM weapons facilities like the
one at Kirltand AFB are publicly known and located
near urban areas, it increases the chance that these
very areas will be targeted by foreign adversaries, so
it would make perfect sense to provide at least the
local population with the knowledge and tools needed
to protect themselves in case of the many diferent
types of possible EM attacks that could be launched
against them. When the Israeli people were under the
threat of chemical attack from the ongoing rocket
attacks there the Israeli government sent and handed
out gas masks house to house. Perhaps the situation
is not as urgent in the U.S., but it doesnt hurt to be
prepared.
On the site ready.gov, a FEMA website, there
are some protective measures listed for both nuclear
and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks, but those
measures are very limited, and there are no protective
measures listed for other types of EM attacks such as
the ones outlined in this article. An EMP attack is
when a nuclear detonation goes of above or in the
Earths atmosphere and creates a high energy density
eld. Those protective measures listed for nuclear
attacks and nuclear fallout include getting as much
distance from the attack as possible, nding shielding
such as thick walls, concrete, bricks, and earth to
place between you and the fallout particles, and to
just wait it out, as radiation diminishes over time. For
an EMP attack the site says Although an EMP is
unlikely to harm most people, it could harm those
with pacemakers or other implanted electronic
devices, however no defensive measures are listed
other than preparing for damage to electrical
equipment and possible power outages. Similarly, the
site only lists measures of protection for loss of power
during a space weather event, which the site says
can produce electromagnetic elds that induce
extreme currents in wires, disrupting power lines, and
even causing wide-spread blackouts. If such an
event can induce currents in wires, I wonder, cant it
also induce currents in humans?
A quick search on the internet found very little
government documents listing protective measures
for the types of attacks being discussed in this article
such as voice to skull technology. The FFCHS,
however, has taken it into their own hands to advise
the public as how to better defend oneself against
electromagnetic attacks. Dr. Duncan Shielding
provides a table on the FFCHS website explaining the
mechanisms of attack, the weapon capability,
efectiveness of the attack, and defense measures to
protect against an attack. Some of those defensive
measures include: positive hypnosis against audio
cortex mapping, language bots, and computer
generated conversations known as mind viruses;
aspirin against unidentied waveforms of bio-
signaling mechanisms to human cells that increase
platelets and red blood cell count; valium and
meditation against CIA spooking and scaring scripts
as well as from beta-wave enhancers, brain
entrainments, and cyclotron heating techniques; and
shielding and jamming against addictive brain
entrainments, stress, and negative subliminal and
hypnotic suggestion using silent sound programming.
For microwave frequencies it states that no defenses
are known other than superconductor shielding.
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Other defensive measures are also listed on the
FFCHS website.
To get government to list the diferent forms of
electromagnetic attack humans could face as well as
the proper defense mechanisms may be as futile as
trying to get government to admit to the human
experimentations they have conducted in the rst
place. Welsh tells us that even if the government did
admit that the U.S. military was conducting
nonconsensual EM experiments on its own forces,
the military could call it a training exercise and that
there is no legal recourse for victims to receive
compensation when these exercises are the cause
of failing or ill health. Veterans who became sick from
nuclear testing, agent orange, or other similar military
endeavors will tell you its hard enough to receive
compensation for those claims through the Veterans
Afairs, much less to receive compensation for
something the government wont even admit to
doing. If history tells us anything there will be a day
when the U.S. government does come clean about
some of the human EM experiments and so-called
training exercises diferent agencies, organizations,
and businesses have conducted in recent times, but
those revelations will come far too late for some, will
eventually be pushed out of view of the collective
memory, and will not provide the right type of
resources f or everyone afected to recei ve
compensation. Thats just one reason why I believe it
is pertinent for those who believe themselves to be
victims of nonconsensual EM experiments or training
exercises to come forth now, so that they can speed
up the delayed process. They will still have to wait in
line though, and those who were exposed to radiation
from the high altitude nuclear testing in the 50s and
60s or from the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant
meltdown during Operation Tomodachi will tell you its
a long line indeed.
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studies done on humans used multiple simultaneous
Taser shots at close range over a one minute time
period. One study published in the journal Circulation
shows that Tasers can cause cardiac arrest and death.
For the abstract see http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/
early/2012/04/20/CIRCULATIONAHA.
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Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, 2002.
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www.kirtland.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=15869.
This link takes viewers to the KAFB library fact sheet section,
but at the top it reads Unknown Fact Sheet with the message
underneath: The requested fact sheet no longer exists or you
do not have access to view it. As of Sept. 6, 2014 the fact
sheet was available through the following link: http://
www.kirtland.af.mil/shared/media/document/
AFD-070404-036.pdf.
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happen again.
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duncan-shielding.
www.distractedmasses.weebly.com
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LOVE
What happened to love?
To destruction at rst sight?
What happened to lust?
To the freaks in
the night?
Not just a party,
A r a g e r , a
destroyer,
An earthquake
from each touch
of our souls,
A heart pumping
and connecting,
Wh o k n o w s
what it means to
be in control?
A frenzy of hate, sadistic rage,
pleasant surprises await.
Smashing between the tectonic plates.
And always feeling great.
Love or lust or psycho dynamic,
Im calm in the panic,
Balancing act of my drastic, fantastic,
egotistical plastic.
Love is something my mind aint
crackin.
Its real pure emotion, gut feeling -
more than just mind.
Youre the one in the seven billion that
I nd. My Go, Im lucky, I climb into
bed to feel our comfort,
But so blind and dumb to not know
that it would be so short.
DRUNK
Relentless monkeys in the back of my
mind,
Trusting me with their lies,
Spinning through life,
Highways and waves crashing in
nuclear tides,
Im ne.
Drinking and typing again.
Strontium beneath my skin.
In my bones,
King not on his throne,
Rebellion in mind.
Overthrow, the broken pieces wont
restore.
Humpty Dumpty fell again and again.
The devil had the drunken holograph
stuck in some kind of spin.
Moon reection, alien
d i s s e c t i o n ,
Franciscan deception
for the lying fool.
Sin for the confused
and meager looks for
the spies.
Drunk again in the
blur of life as the
wounded women cry.
ANGRY
Love money more than me?
To hell with family?
At least Im just another statistic now.
In the American dream we drown.
What a waste.
You left such an awful taste.
Now were all stuck in this nasty place.
Somewhere between blind rage and
depression.
Whats the lesson?
Dont trust or tell the truth.
Thats ammunition for em. Might as
well just yank your own tooth.
Its just as painful.
But leaving me this way helps no one
but yourself.
G r e e d y ,
nar ci ssi st i c,
psycho, cold
h e a r t e d ,
w o m a n I
t h o u g h t I
loved.
Now Im just
angry.
Thanks.
Thanks for the
buzz.
Far less painful than love.
FISHING
Searching for something,
Im not really quite sure.
Im on the tail of something hot,
But its still not the cure.
I just want an answer,
A truth of some sort.
But all of my searches,
Well, they keep falling short.
So I look for inspiration in the books.
Theyll tell me where to look.
Carl Jung says its synchronicity,
But academics say Im just shing.
Hook, line, and sinker.
Ive fallen for the bait.
More deception and disinfo.
But wait!
The answer is here,
I found it within.
It was always there,
But still they wont listen.
So, to hell with it.
Ive gone shing.
DRASTIC
Its time to take those measures now.
We can win somehow.
In the end were more than just slaves
to them.
Were their backbone,
Their function,
Their vital statistic.
They cant be that sadistic.
Or are they? I think they are.
Lets mobilize, make
movement.
Action of some sort is
the best plan.
Dont wait around to
get snatched in the
government rapist van.
Or get splattered by
t h a t c o r p o r a t e
Yuzhmash fan.
Its time to take a stand.
Measures are drastic.
We cant sit and do nothing.
Or can you? Will you?
Come on. Get up and do something!
Or, do whatever you choose to.
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MIL/CIV SATS
ASAT Test complete!
Never will we retreat.
Asymmetrical warfare,
String theory,
Delivery of the big scare.
Info ops.
To get them to hate the cops.
Divide and conquer.
It's the same routine.
Signal down the mind control beam.
Please. Military dont scare me.
In the end we all die.
Thats why theres martyrs,
Celebrated worldwide.
Thats why we all cried.
For the death of a friend,
A loved one, a country,
A community down to the
end.
Control our airspace and our
frequency,
But you dont control our souls.
I dont need your satellite or
broadcast news,
Why should we emit heat waste,
Or leave that bitter after taste?
So many more options for our civilization to
use.
Not convinced of the purpose of these tales,
Information, space station, of to Mars we sail.
Your lies dont sell.
Give me a real mission for launching these rockets,
Our population needs collaboration and a plan for the
future generations.
Don't want to be remembered in some kids lost locket.
Or end up dead from a nuke that got dropped. . . Ah shit.
VISIBLE SPECTRUM OF EMF
By Rick Albright
colors harmonizing
rounding of my thoughts
encircling and oblong
patches of reected light
soothe my senses
in a soft cocoon of brown
swirling and singing
and moving around
It's a comfortable world
Where I like to be
softly laying down
and oating away
without a care
not knowing what's next
it doesn't matter to me
when I'm here inside
my mind
Am I still here?
Alone in my head
oating thoughts
wonder at my minds
information overload,
myelination deprivation,
synapses collapses,
& data displacement.
Existing as a spectrum
of electromagnetic radiation
dening my individuality,
creating uncertainty about reality.
Maybe I am only my imagination.
I hope I am not being erased.
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TECHNIPOEMS
lulu.com/spotlight/albright
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Two of this years scariest events are probably the
Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown and the ongoing conict
in Ukraine. Both deal with the horrors associated with loss of
life, disinformation, and the threat of nuclear destruction
and/or annihilation of humans and their environment.
Unfortunately very few people pay any attention to these
events nor put in the energy needed to nd the solutions and
repair the damage thats already been done. In Ukraine a full
scale east-west military confrontation may have
already been avoided. As for Fukushima, well,
things are already out of control. Although
some things can still be done to mitigate the
problems, it will probably take decades
before anything is even close to normal
again, and right now nobody has the
technology or capacity to fully resolve the
environmental and health problems associated
with the meltdown. And thats just one reason why
Ive decided to only focus on the Ukraine issue here,
but thats not to say the two events arent interrelated. In fact
there are quite a few similarities between these events,
particularly when it comes to the disinformation and lies
being circulated throughout the media regarding the two
calamities.
1
The intent of this article is to give readers an
idea of the types of problems the oligarchs and
authoritarians are orchestrating or participating in without
the consent of the people they rule or govern. Ukraine is but
just one place in the world where these types of
confrontations and conicts are created, but currently it
seems as though the conict in Ukraine is much more likely
to lead to the needless and immediate loss of innocent and
unwitting lives by other oblivious pawns in this game of
billionaires and brutes then anywhere else in the world,
which is why I am going to outline some of the issues
involved and propose what I believe to be a broad and far
reaching solution that could work for both the short and the
long terms.
First lets get the nuclear stuf out of the way. Theres
no doubt in my mind that further escalations of
the ghting in Ukraine could lead to a nuclear
catastrophe. Remember Chernobyl is in
Ukraine. Nuclear materials and nuclear
expertise is quite available in the eastern
European former Soviet state. For example,
not too long ago, in March 2007, the U.S.
announced it would commit $14 million to
provide the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant
with 42 nuclear fuel assemblies manufactured by the
former CBS Corporation parent company Westinghouse
Electric, a group company of the Toshiba Corporation.
2

These are the same guys responsible for providing
components to the Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactors that
went into total meltdown following the massive 2011
earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. Of course youd
probably never think there was a problem if you watch CBS
news though. Ha! Ha!
But seriously, the problem goes far beyond the
nuclear energy waste and release of radioactive materials
into the environment. When the Soviet Union broke apart in
Th e c on i c t i n
Ukraine is much more
likely to lead to the needless
and i mmedi at e l os s of
innocent and unwitting lives by
other oblivious pawns in this
game of billionaires and
brutes then anywhere
else in the world.
(Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) - Article by Scott Albright
OLIGARCH WARS
NUKES, UKRAINE, DISINFO, AND THE 1%
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1991 Ukraine inherited the third largest nuclear stockpile in
the world, only behind the United States and the Russian
Federation.
3
Although a 1994 agreement to transfer those
nuclear weapons over to Russia was omcially deemed a
success, the problem of loose nukes and the nuclear
black market in Ukraine has been a serious problem for the
years before and after the supposed transfer of those
weapons and materials.
4
A 2012 article in the journal
Perspective on Terrorism by Alex P. Schmid & Charlotte
Spencer-Smith lists more than two dozen incidents of
illegal smuggling and/or selling of nuclear materials from
Ukraine or by persons from Ukraine between 1991 and
2011.
5
According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
website, all nuclear weapons grade material was omcially
removed from Ukraine and either shipped to the U.S. or
Russia in March 2012.
6
The U.S. Department of Energys
Global Threat Initiative and Russias State Corporation for
Atomic Energy (Rosatom) partnered with Ukraine in the
removal process.
7
Despite this progress, loose nuclear
materials and nuclear smuggling continue to be a concern
for the international community and a point of contention
for the U.S. and Russia. For example, a May 5, 2014
Security Service of Ukraine press release on the Ukrainian
government websi te sbu.gov.ua, states that the
Counterintelligence Security Service of Ukraine detained
nine people on April 30, 2014 in the Chernivtsi region in
connection to 1.5 kg of radioactive uranium-235 seized by
authorities, who said they could not rule out the possibility
of it being used as a dirty bomb.
8
And in what appears to
be a disinformation article on The Voice of Russia website,
it states that members of the so-called Right Sector, which
Russian media portrays as Nazi collaborators, were
arrested for attempting to seize the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear
Power Plant, Ukraines largest nuclear power plant, and
according to the Energoatom website, also the largest in
Europe.
9
So now that eastern Ukraine is a war zone, its
easy to see why the nuclear stakes could be much higher
than what is regularly being reported.
On May 14, 2014, just days after two Ukrainian
military helicopters were allegedly shot down by pro-
Russian separatists, The Diplomat reported that both
Russia and the United States were conducting large scale
nuclear deployment and deterrent drills within an unusually
close timespan of each other.
10
According to The Diplomat,
omcials from both countries said the drills were planned
well in advance and both claimed they had nothing to do
with the situation in Ukraine or any other real world
event.
11
Contradicting this is a quote in the Free Beacon
by former Pentagon nuclear strategist Mark Schneider who
said the Russian exercises appeared intended as a
political message to the west.
12
In the Free Beacon article
Schneider also says Russia usually holds their nuclear drills
in the fall and that to him the intent of the drills was
nuclear intimidation against NATO over Ukraine.
13

Despite the fact that these drills, and their intended
purpose, pose a very real threat to species survival and to
the future of humanity as a whole, there was very little
coverage of the drills themselves, and even less interest
among readers who may have stumbled upon an article
about the exercises on the internet. According to data
displayed on The Diplomats website, the nuclear drill
article only received 1,800 shares and a total of two
comments.
14
One of those commenters who uses the
handle Cuupu, which means Siberia in Russian, uploaded
a Russia Today YouTube video to the comment section.
The video shows footage of mass surface to air missile
launches and various other long range missile launches
during Russias May 2014 nuclear drill. The other
commenter who went by the handle Lavrenti, apparently in
reference to the chief of Soviet security under Joseph
Stalin Lavrentiy Beriya, wrote, Russia capable destroy
China three four times. Lavrentis user info includes the
title Mockea, or Moscow, and has a link to the Pravda
website. Pravda means truth in Russian, and is an old state
controlled news agency notoriously known for altering the
truth, history, and reality as a whole. Such commenters
makes one question how large of a dezinformatsiya, or
di si nformati on, campai gn Russi a i s partaki ng i n,
particularly in regard to their nuclear ambitions and military
actions around the Russia-Ukraine border.
15

As it is with war, the truth has become harder and
harder to recognize. For example, on July 17, 2014 a
Malaysian civilian airliner was allegedly shot down over the
eastern region of Ukraine. According to the new Ukrainian
government, headed by chocolate magnate and oligarch
Petro Poroshenko, the attack was carried out by pro-
Russian separatists or Russian nationals using a modern
Russian surface to air missile. But both the separatists and
Russian authorities are denying any involvement, with
rumors circulating on the internet that it was a false ag
operation done in order to expand the EU/NATO sphere of
inuence, reset the international economic order, and
possibly to justify war with Russia for the benet of the
billionaires and their corporate interests.
16
Other theories
state the shoot down was staged in order to distract the
worlds attention from the Israeli military ground campaign
in Gaza that started just three days after the plane went
down. Still, others say the shoot down was a false ag
operation carried out by Zionists in order to strengthen
their power grip on the worlds political and economic
order, which is reminiscent of the anti-Zionist campaigns
conducted by KGB operatives in earlier times, including
operation Zarathustra and other similar disinformation
operations used to discredit the so-called enemies of the
Russian state.
17

It seemed strange to me though that it wasnt until
after the alleged shoot down of Malaysia Airlines ight
MH17 that the media seemed to really begin paying
attention to the problems going on in Ukraine. A quick Go-
[ ] 24
-ogle News search using the term nuclear drill only
turned out a few thousand results, but the search term
Malaysia Airlines shot down Ukraine returns several
million results. Although many online news reports do
discuss the nuclear connection between the current
Ukraine conict, very few provide any signicant
background or detail to provide viewers with a realistic
picture of the threat the world faces from nuclear related
conicts. This is dangerous.
No, we shouldnt all panic and hide under our
desks every ten minutes, but the general public does need
to be aware of the reality of the dangers we face from
nuclear accidents and war. If the people are not informed
than they will not have the information needed to take the
appropriate action in order to help reduce the risk level
they face over conicts like the one in Ukraine. It is my
belief, along with many others, that it was because of the
lack of attention paid to the nuclear industry by the media
and antinuclear organizations after the end of the Cold War
that the nuclear industry became so powerful and such a
problem for the world that it is today. By the early 1980s
the world peace and anti-nuclear movements were already
on the decline, and the large anti-nuclear organizations that
thrived specically because of the nuclear threat humanity
faced during the Cold War became but splinter groups,
many of which would disintegrate completely by the time
the U.S.-Soviet conict had come to an end. Although
there has been some rekindling of interest in nuclear
pacism among global peace groups following the U.S.
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there were virtually no
protests in the United States, Russia, or elsewhere
regarding the recent nuclear drills and even fewer reports in
the media of how activists were pressuring leaders to put
an end to the juvenile-like nuclear tit-for-tat games that
continue to put the worlds population in peril. According to
nuclear pacists and scholars of the anti-nuclear
movement James Downtown and Paul Wehr, Where they
exist together, opportunity and hope can help to keep
activists involved over the long term. But threat, such as
that of nuclear war, can also be a crucial determinant of
activist commitment.
18
This is but one good reason why
the media should better report the nuclear threats we
actually face in the world today.
I agree with Downtown and Wehr completely and
believe that the mainstream media, nuclear power
company owned or not, has an obligation to make the
public aware of the real threats we face from nuclear wars
and accidents, and that the media should be using their
eforts to not just inform us of these nuclear events, but to
also encourage the public to pressure their leaders to take
the type of actions that will prevent and reduce the risks
associated with these threats. According to Lawrence
Wittner, professor of history and scholar of the the anti-
nuclear movement, if it wasnt for the global protests
against nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s and 70s, the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty may have never been
signed and the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in
Kazakhstan never closed down.
19
I agree with this
assessment as well and personally believe the media have
an obligation to help revive the antinuclear movement and
that they should place an equal amount of emphasis on the
risks associated with the continued threat of nuclear war
and nuclear accidents in every country they have a
presence in. It is the information and knowledge the media
bring to the worlds citizens that can lead to the type of
large scale social and political actions which bring about
reductions in nuclear inventories, better verication
methods, more transparency, citizen oversight, and
stronger implementation methods of laws and treaties. It is
in the interest of the media to help do this, not only for
moral reasons, but also because the media industry is
made up of real human beings who have real families and
friends who need cared for and who deserve the same
basic right to live without fear of their own annihilation
through nuclear war as do the rest of humanity, to include
the CEOs and board of directors of the largest of these
media companies.
20
But perhaps this is the problem -
people just arent thinking about humanity, but rather just
their own personal survival and the future of their wealth,
which of course brings us to the Ukraine oligarch issue.
Its clear that we love our billionaires and oligarchs
- in Ukraine, Russia, and yes, the United States as well.
The one per center billionaire club seems to be so popular
that we cant help but to keep putting them in power. Viktor
Yanukovych, Ukraines former president who was ousted
by popular protest earlier this year, was himself a bit of an
oligarch, due much in part to his ability to swindle state
funds.
21
Allegations of Yanukovychs corruption include a
personal takeover of the state owned Mezhyhiriya, a 340
acre piece of land near the Dnieper river formerly used as a
dacha for leaders of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist
Republic.
22
More than $9 million was spent on ttings and
additions to Yanukovychs Mezhyhiriya residence alone.
23

Despite Ukrainians disapproval of Yanukovychs corruption,
they had no problem electing Petro Poroshenko as
Yanukovychs replacement, an oligarch listed as the
seventh richest man in Ukraine today.
24
Petro Poroshenko,
U k r a i n e s 7 t h
richest person, has
fought to secure a
nancial deal with
the EU which set
events into motion
t h a t c o u l d v e
started a nuclear
war.
P h o t o C r e d i t :
W i k i m e d i a
Commons

[ ] 25
As of July 22, 2014 Petro Poroshenkos net worth
was valued at $1.4 billion by Forbes, placing him at number
1,283 among Forbes list of the worlds billionaires.
25
He is
the owner of the chocolate company Roshen, has interests
in a holding company called UkPromInvest, and is the
owner of the former government opposition television
channel 5 that helped oust Yanukovych from power.
26
Like
Yanukovych, Poroshenko also has a large mansion along
the Dnieper. And like Yanukovych, Poroshenko has tted
his mansion with expensive amenities and additions, while
out on the streets thousands of poverty stricken Ukrainians
can barely aford to buy one of Poroshenkos chocolates.
Its not that Poroshenko is all that popular though.
The Maidan protests were in part about getting people like
him out of power, but like many people in the U.S.,
Ukrainians werent necessarily voting for Poroshenko when
they elected him president, they just thought he was the
least threatening of the scoundrels they had to choose
from. Besides, if the oligarchs were saying it was better to
obtain their credit or pay their debts to EU banks rather
than Russian ones, than what could the common person
do about it? Everyone knows the billionaires will do what
they want anyway, no matter what the nancially average
population thinks. When oligarchs like Poroshenko came
out against Yanukovych it was pretty much over for the
Moscow-l eani ng presi dent , j ust as t he Obama
administration hopes will happen to Russian president
Vladimir Putin after his billionaire inner-circle friends
become isolated from the global market through tougher
economic sanctions and international political pressure,
something Im not so condent will happen anytime soon.
But just like Yanukovych, Putin cant survive politically
without the help of the oligarchs who keep Russias
economy rolling from the top down. Because the sanctions
are aimed specically at these people and the nancial
institutions they run, it is possible that Putin could lose the
support he needs if Russias largest banks and richest
businessmen are closed of from the rest of the western
world, but Russia has a lot of friends outside the western
world and Putins oligarchs wont stop doing business with
those friends any time soon. Important economic allies to
Russia include Brazil, India, China, and South Africa,
collectively known as BRICS. Since the U.S. and Europe
imposed sanctions on Russian omcials, businessmen, and
enterprises all of the BRICS countries have continued to do
business with Russia, including China whose omcials
recently signed of on a huge oil deal with Putin and his
oligarch friends.
One of the rst hit with U.S. sanctions was
Gazprombank, a bank which has interests or holds assets
in the defense, energy, mining, machine building, and
media sectors, among others. A 2010 Gazprombank report
states, The Bank is the support bank for the nuclear
power sector of the Russian Federation and holds
leading positions with cash ow processing for a number
of enterprises of the State Atomic Energy Corporation
ROSATOM.
27
According to ROSATOMs 2012 annual
report, Due to the operating specics of Rosatom
business and the need to protect classied information,
information on current activities of the Russian nuclear
weapons complex is not disclosed.
28
The report does say
though that the company fullled 100 percent of state
orders by the nuclear weapons complex.
Gazprombank is undeterred by U.S. sanctions
though and has its own army of spin doctors to ease any
anxiety among investors, making it dimcult to determine
what type of real efect sanctions will have on Putins
actions in Ukraine, his leadership role at home, or on the
energy and weapons industries as a whole. A July 17, 2014
Gazprombank press release headline reads US Sanctions
will not Afect Financial and Operational Stability of
Gazprombank.
29
Of course with the high level of
disinformation being circulated its impossible to know if
anything in the media regarding the Ukraine issue is true or
not, but we can at least tell that those hit by sanctions
notice them enough to provide some type of reaction so
that we know they are at least a bit annoying. However,
with economic and information warfare anything can
happen. Who knows how deep Gazprombanks
investments go into Putins global disinfo campaign.
According to the banks website, Gazprombank owns 100
percent of Gazprom Media Group, which has holdings or
interests in high speed internet, television, publishing,
advertising, and radio broadcasting.
30
With such close ties
to the state and the media, energy, and weapons
industries, theres little doubt that the banks media group
directly or indirectly employs hundreds, if not thousands, of
the so-called internet trolls hired by Russian public
relations rms to spread rumors and lies to legitimize state
policy and discredit any opposition.
31
With such an army of
spin doctors Russia can rewrite their own version of history
and push it the world over, making the sanctions appear to
be more of a bump in the road than a thorn in the side.
One infamous Russian spin doctor hit by U.S.
sanctions is Vladislav Surkov, a high dollar businessman
and the former Deputy Prime Minister to Putin.
32
According
to a 2013 Jamestown Foundation article, Surkov was
considered to be a mastermind of the strategy of pre-
empting a revolution by means of sponsoring various pro-
Putin youth movements and quasi-non-governmental
organizations (NGO), dividing and manipulating the
opposition, as well as employing modern technologies of
disinformation and deception in the omcial propaganda.
33

Surkovs sacking by Putin earlier last year came as a bit of
surprise considering his close relationship to the president,
but perhaps thats because Putin and his former KGB
colleagues have another job for him in Crimea or Donetsk
that requires some type of anonymity, but then again
speculating about the reasons he was sacked only adds to
the entropic miix of propaganda, rumors, half truths, and
lies being digitally spewed out across the cyber world. Of
course thats exactly what people like Surkov want, but by
now most know the Russians arent alone in this disiinfo-
[ ] 26
-rmation war. U.S. media groups are just as engaged in the
muckraking, framing, and nger pointing propaganda as
Russias billionaire media barons.
34

On July 24, 2014 CNN reported that one of their
freelance reporters, Anton Skiba, was captured outside a
hotel in Donetsk, Ukraine and being held by pro-Russian
militants.
35
In the same article CNN reported that the U.S.
State Department had issued a statement saying they had
evidence Russia was ring artillery at Ukrainian military
posts from across the border. When using the term Russia
res artillery Ukraine, in CNNs website search box,
several relevant articles are populated in the results list.
Interestingly, a search on CNNs website for any stories on
either Russia or the U.S. May 2014 nuclear drills returned
no related results. Thats strange, as CNN was initially
launched in 1980 by Ted Turner, the multi-billionaire media
magnate who took time out from building his Turner
Broadcasting System empire in 2001 to establish the
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
36
Part of NTIs mission is to
build trust and transparency to help fulll the goals of the
Non-Proliferation Treaty and to reduce the risk of nuclear,
biological, and chemical weapons use and proliferation,
something CNN failed to do by not reporting on the May
nuke drills.
37

Another donor to NTI whose work seems to
contradict the initiatives mission includes Fred Iseman,
former features editor for Hearst and founder of CI Capital
Partners, a private equity company which invests in
government services and defense, military armored
vehicles, logistics, aerospace, manufacturing, businesses
services, and other similar ventures.
38
Like most of the
other NTI donors, such as Peter G. Peterson, chairman and
co-founder of The Blackstone Group, Iseman is also a
member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
39
Another
interesting fact is that under the umbrella of Petersons
Black Stone Group, the worlds largest investor and asset
manager BlackRock was founded. According to the
BlackRock website, the company manages $4.32 trillion in
assets.
40
Some of those assets include the iShares Global
Nuclear Energy ETF, which seeks to track the investment
results of an index composed of global equities in the
nuclear energy sector.
41
None of the iShare Global
Nuclear Energy ETF holdings were in Russian or Ukrainian
companies, but Tokyo Electro Power Co. Inc. did make the
list.
42
Billionaire created foundations such as the Carnegie
Corporation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Google
Foundation are also donors to the NTI, a non-prot
whose donors seem to prot more from the production of
nuclear related products than they do from the reduction of
them.
But we wont even go into the details of all the
media baron billionaires inner workings in the U.S. There
simply isnt enough room here to outline the muck and
hypocrisy in its entirety. So lets go back to Ukraine for a
minute. Besides Poroshenko, there are a number of other
important Ukrainian oligarchs whove used their nancial
holdings to push a political agenda by means of media
acquisition and information dissemination. One such
oligarch is Jewish banker Ihor Kolomoisky, the regional
governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, an area with a
population of 3.3 million. Kolomoisky is a controlling
shareholder and supervisory board member of PrivatBank
and a major shareholder and board member of Ukrnafta,
the largest oil and natural gas extracting, processing and
supplying company in Ukraine.
43
Hes also held interests in
Ukrainian media, having controlled UNIAN news agency
while also purchasing several TV channels in 2010.
44

According to Forbes, Kolomoiskys net worth was valued at
$1.7 billion in July 2014.
45
Like Poroshenko, Kolomoisky is
outspoken in his opposition to the pro-Russian separatists
in the east.
46
The Wall Street Journal reports that
Kolomoisky has even vowed to take on the separatists by
ofering a $10,000 bounty for any pro-Russian militant
captured with a gun.
47

Within Kolomoiskys region is Yuzhmash, an old
Soviet era nuclear, space research, and machine building
facility turned Ukrainian missile & rocket production site.
The rocket producers biggest customer is, you guessed it,
Russia, but because of the ghting and recent defense and
technology related export bans related to the Ukraine
conict the company has cut back on employees,
signicantly reducing their output.
48
But a 2013 Bloomberg
article reports that Kolomoiskys PrivatBank was increas-
ing credit to large businesses by 10 to 15 percent for the
year, to include PO Yuzhmash, one of the banks largest
clients.
49
So despite any losses in Yuzhmash rocket sales
to Russia in the short term, the company is backed by
Kolomoiskys credit line and his position as regional
governor, giving Kolomoisky leverage not only over the
companys nancial decisions, but also, it would seem, as
a potential nancial benefactor of arms deals to people
from both sides of the same war. Perhaps hes even
already brought in some prot from Russias ring of
Yuzhmash made rockets during Putins May 2014 nuclear
drill, or perhaps the prot will come later when Russia is
willing to pay even more money for rocket components in
order to meet the goals of their military modernization plan.
Either way, Kolomoisky is in a position to at least throw in
some pretty decent size bargaining chips that can either
raise the stakes further or help to bring about a political
deal that could help end the conict and even get the
START treaty back on track.
Yuzhmash produces and sells landing gear,
casting, and dye forging products, defense related rockets,
and space and launch vehicles, including those for the
Russian R-36M/SS-18 Satan intercontinental ballistic
missile. The missile can be seen ring of during the May
2014 nuclear drills on an RT YouTube video.
50
The Satan is
the longest range ICBM in the world and is capable of
carrying ten Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle (MIRV)
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nuclear warheads, or just one really, really big one.
51
It is
the most destructive missile in Russias arsenal and one
that Yuzmash already has orders to maintain for Russias
military modernization program, so its not one that Putin
would like to be seen in the control of other countries,
particularly those that are western friendly, or among the
faction of the billionaires who may decide to raise the costs
of components at a later date. But giving up Yuzhmash and
building a new facility inside Russia wouldnt b e
economical either.
Accordi ng to a Federati on of
American Scientists report on the Satan
missile, Manufacturing of SS-18s in Russia
would be expensive, and could require 5 to
7 years of design work to begin at least
tests at a cost of 8-10 billion rubles.
52

Because of the strategic value of such a
missile production site it is easy to see
why Russia would be interested in
controlling the place it is located, but
Yuzhmash probably wont be handed
over so easily, unless Putin
b e l i e v e s t h e
benets
o f
invasion
a r e
g r e a t e r
than the costs.
Onl i ne rumors suggest
there have been some behind the
scene deals though in which Ukraine
will agree to provide Russia with
access to its defense industry in
exchange for Russia forgiving the
Ukrainian natural gas debt. So
there is still optimism that Putin will
stop short of a full scale invasion
of Ukraine, but he does seem to b e
eyeing the country with much m o r e
vigor than some of the other f r o z e n
bor der coni ct s he or hi s p r e d e c e s s o r s
initiated within eastern Europe. Its still anybodys guess as
to how far the pro-Russian separatists will go or how
many of them already have local nancial backing. After all,
Ukraine is not just a weapons making state, it is also a
natural gas corridor between eastern and western Europe
and it is a country full of nuclear related facilities and
experts in the eld.
Also in Kolomoiskys Dnipropetrovsk Region is the
state owned Eastern Mining and Processing Complex, the
only enterprise in Ukraine engaged in the mining of
uranium ore and the production of a uranium oxide
concentrate.
53
It is the largest such complex in Europe,
wi th i ts headquarters l ocated i n Zhovty Vody,
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
54
Mining and the supply of raw
materials for energy production are at the heart of
Kolomoiskys Ukranaft operation, a company that is listed
a s a ma j or c l i e nt of t he Rus s i a n c ompa ny
Stroygazmontazh, otherwise known as the SGM Group.
SGM specializes in the construction of industrial facilities,
trunk pipelines, gas and oil processing plants, and
development of gas and oil elds. Stroygazmontazh and
Ukranafts operations include pipelines, energy production
facilities, and processing plants in Crimea and along the
Ukraine-Russia border where the Dnieper-Donets Basin
lies.
55
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billion barrels of oil and 59 trillion cubic feet of gas within a
total single petroleum system.
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business partner Akhat Bragin, a man who was accused of
being a crime boss before being killed in a 1995 explosion
at his Donetsk soccer clubs stadium.
58
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death Akhmetov took over ownership of the team, some of
whose members have refused to return to Donetsk since
the ghting broke out in the area. Besides playing his
Donetsk soccer team against their Russian rivals,
Akhmetovs other dealings with Russia include the 2010
System Capital Management (SCM) purchase of Russias
Ukrainian unit of the Renaissance Credit Group based in
Donetsk.
59
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was Ukraines 104th biggest bank by assets. Akhmetovs
SCM was most likely also conducting high-dollar business
transactions with various Russian enterprises from 2004 to
2009, a time when Ukrainian outward foreign direct
investment (OFDI) in Russia increased from $94.6 million to
$165.5 million.
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The only other country to have higher
Ukrainian OFDI for that same time period was Cyprus, the
country where Akhmetovs SCM Holdings Limited is locat-
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-ed. Akhmetov owns 99% of the holding company which
belongs to the SCM Group and holds corporate rights of
all assets of the Group except for Ukraine-based SCM
managing company.
61
Besides owning the Donetsk
Shakhtar soccer club and SCM, Akhmetov also owns over
a hundred other companies, including steel mills, coal
mines, chemical plants, power stations, banks, insurance
companies, and media outlets, all together generating
$23.5 billion in revenue in 2012.
62
Like Kolomoiskys
Ukranaft, its likely that Akhmetovs companies are not only
compet i t or s t o Rus s i an compani es s uch as
Stroygazmontazh, but also major clients.
Stroygazmontazh is a supplier of pipelines to
Gazprom and is owned by Arkady Rotenberg, a close
advisor to Vladimir Putin and one of the rst individuals to
make the U.S. sanctions list. Like Kolomoisky, Akhmetov,
and Ukraines second richest billionaire, Victor Pinchuk,
Rotenberg is Jewish, which makes the disinformation
campaign about the conict having something to do with a
Communist-Fascist ideological battle seem a bit amusing
at the least. However it does give some credence to the
conspiracy theorists ideas about the Ukraine conict
having to do with a larger Zionist agenda that is
somehow tied into the Israeli Russian Jewish population
and their activities in the Middle East. The fact that the
billionaires tied to these conicts are Jewish is a neat little
coincidence, but hardly worth calling it a conspiracy of
Zionists. Its clear that the interests of these billionaires is
mostly money, however the political and social implications
of their power strokes can denitely be associated with a
cultural and perhaps even a moral (or non-moral)
upbringing that clearly inuences not only local, regional,
and global economics, but also the day-to-day lives of
those who are forced to work and live in the environments
created by these billionaires. So perhaps their is a bit of
Zionism going on, but its denitely not to the extent that
the world is going to give its full support to a global Jewish
agenda any time soon. And with people like Rotenberg,
whose success is reliant upon a government which
disdains religion of all types, it is clear that religion is not
the immediate concern of the billionaires geo-political
agenda, but rather just a tool used to either divide and
conquer or to opiate the masses with. But while everybody
else is busy ghting each other and being duped by the
social opiates of the day, the billionaires continue to rake in
huge prots from the nancial and economic wars being
fought over energy and defense.
Rotenbergs wealth has only risen since falling into
Putins inner circle, and surely Moscow will see sanctions
on him as a reason to contract out even more deals with
the man, wether its to build pipelines or to secure
weapons deals. Only a long term assessment of the
sanctions will provide any reality based idea of the efect
they are having on the oligarchs, as contracts of that sort
could take many years to fulll. As of July 30, 2014
Rotenbergs net worth was listed by Forbes at $3.7 billion,
perhaps falling slightly from before the time sanctions were
imposed, but not enough to make much of a dent in his
fortune. These controlled conicts and economic wars, no
matter how individualized they become, do not benet the
general populace, but rather just the billionaires who are
engaged in them - they keep getting richer while the poor
and middle class keep getting poorer or are killed of in the
oligarchs wars. For instance, Rotenberg is owner of TPS
Aviation, a Russian aviation company that supports
programs which produce military ghters and trainers,
military helicopters, military transports, military surveillance
and bombers, military ordinance programs, military aviation
support, and aerospace rocket and space programs.
63
As
these products become more in demand during war time,
and as export bans and nanci al sancti ons are
implemented, these products become more valuable,
helping to enrich those who provide credit lines to the
companies making these types of products.
Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Professor Emeritus
of Economics at Drake University, explains in an
Information Clearinghouse article that Ukraine is a
managed conict, mostly among the nancial elite who
tend to benet from a managed conict more than they
would from direct military intervention, however such direct
intervention is usually always left on the table. But,
Hossein-zadeh writes, Even then, however, all eforts are
made (by the major capitalist powers) to make such military
interventions controlled or manageable, that is, limited
to local or national levels. While controlled wars tend to
safeguard the fortunes of war proteers and military
spending (mainly the military-security-industrial complex
and major banks), they would not cause paralysis of
international nancial markets.
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I agree that such limited
or controlled wars do help to keep the oligarchs money
safe by providing more investment opportunities at higher
returns without the added risk involved with direct military
intervention. Just think of Halliburton and all the contracts
they received in Iraq. Now imagine the prots they would
have made if they could be contracted out private
investment rms rather than having to go through the
military. Imagine if they didnt have to worry about military
rules and conventions. Not only would they be able to work
more freely and independently of any oversight, but there
would be less risk involved in their operations, lowering
insurance and other combat related costs signicantly.
Surely U.S., Ukrainian, and Russian businessmen are all
ocking to the Ukraine investment portal opened up by the
economic sanctions and ongoing unrest. Eventually more
pipelines will need to be erected or repaired, buildings and
roads will need rebuilt, mining and energy production will
need to be secured, stabilized, or ramped up, and
weapons & munitions that are used will need replaced or
maintained. No businessman or woman, no matter what
country they are supposedly loyal to, will overlook such
potentially high yielding investment opportunities. Thats
what drives them - prot, not ideology.
As of the time of this writing it does not appear as
though U.S. or EU sanctions on Russia will have a dramatic
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impact on the countrys economy or even on the wealth of
the individual businesses and businessmen being targeted
by the sanctions, but the debate is still open. German Vice
Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel thinks the sanctions will have an
efect on the Russian economy. In an online Voice of
America article Gabriel is quoted as saying, I think they
will very quickly show an efect, because the Russian
economy is not in a good shape and of course those who
are afected by [the sanctions], the Russian oligarchs,
wont want their opportunities to move, and their
investment of money freely in Europe, to be limited.
65
But
Russias foreign ministry has said the sanctions are
destructive and that they will only lead to further
aggravation of U.S.-Russia relations.
66
Whichever
directions sanctions take us, it is clear that the billionaires
will continue to be billionaires and those middle class and
poor individuals who ght for their most favorite oligarchs
brand of wealth-driven ideologies will continue to be
maimed, mutilated, and killed in these wars, no matter how
controlled or managed they appear.
So it seems that unless you are a billionaire you
probably wont have much say in the outcome of the
Ukraine conict, but that doesnt mean the conict has to
go on, nor does it mean the billionaires will continue to
support the wars they prot from. But what is the solution?
How can we get the billionaires to stop supporting
managed conicts and wars, disinformation campaigns,
weapons procurement programs, and environmentally
hazardous energy production plans? Protests, boycotts,
name and shame campaigns, worker strikes, and apathy/
ignoring the situation hasnt seemed to be very efective in
reining in the oligarchs and their destructive behavior, but
who knows how deep the greed and devastation would be
without such oppositional activities. And those arent the
only options either. Pinchuks success in educating his
companies employees about the dangers of joining the
separatist movement is but one example we can take from
the old playbook. Unfortunately hes forcing these workers
to take sides by ofering payment and other incentives to
those who patrol the streets alongside Pro-Kiev police
omcers, but such forceable actions can be a good rst
step in managing the conict and preventing an
escalation in separatist hostilities toward the Ukrainian
population. More needs to be done though to bring the
workers, separatists, foreign agents, and international
oligarchs to the negotiating table, which is where citizen
journalism and social media come into play.
Its clear by the amount of disinformation being
distributed across the internet, radio, and television that
the major media networks cant be trusted to provide an
accurate and realistic description of the situation in
Ukraine. Despite being considered credible sources by
much of the worlds population because of their long term
durability, these mega-media outlets are anything but
credible and need to be checked by individuals brave
enough to take on the job of reporting the truth and
following the money. More investigative nancial reporting
needs to be done regarding the wealth of the worlds
oligarchs. Its easy to nd out how much these billionaires
are worth and the type of companies they own, but its
much more dimcult to see exactly how that wealth is
generated and where it comes from, especially when tied
to state-run banks and weapons making facilities.
What I propose is that citizen journalists,
alternative news outlets, social media bufs, and various
other non-prots, educational foundations, and social
justice organizations create a global media co-op where
they share a percentage of their sponsorship and delegate
dut i es vi a a l oosel y managed non-hi erarchi cal
organizational network. Such a co-op will help to nance
those reporters and journalists who would otherwise be
unable to aford to take on the duties of government,
media, and oligarch watchdogs. Such a co-op would also
make it much harder for the major networks to get away
with any disinformation campaigns being paid for by
government agents and shady PR rms, as there would be
more eyes on the ground looking for the inaccuracies and
false reports. Just educating the populace about the
nancial gains of oligarchs during wartime should have a
signicant efect, but that education must extend into the
ranks of the military who are carrying out the orders of
those oligarchs. If the people doing all the ghting
understood more about the racket of war, and how they are
the ones who lose the most in such a racket, than perhaps
they would be less likely to participate in those wars.
Overcoming the indoctrination programs force fed to
members of the military is not something that can be
accomplished over night though, so still more eforts need
to be undertaken to reduce the prospect of war, weapons
proliferation, and war proteering in the short term.
In Ukraine there are already eyes in the sky
providing satellite imagery and video footage of the
situation on the ground, but if the lead up to the Iraq war
debacle is anything to learn from, than we know that these
eyes cannot be trusted when they are owned or operated
by people in the defense and mainstream media industries.
To be more efective, ownership and operation of these
eyes must be diversied to include citizen journalists and
the average layperson so that a larger quantity and a
diferent quality of perspectives is provided to those on the
ground, in and outside of Ukraine. Theres no reason live
satellite imagery of the contested regions in Ukraine and
along its eastern border arent already fed to an open and
easily accessible website. The technology available today
is completely capable of providing the type of imagery
necessary to pinpoint the parties responsible for carrying
out hostile activities on the ground, including those who
red upon and took down Malaysian Airlines ight 17. Why
those images have yet to surface are beyond me. Since
that type of imagery is not being made available to the
public in its entirety than that job of creating a transparent
and open environment regarding the hostilities in the area
must fall upon the average layperson. Obviously it is very
expensive to operate the type of satellites that can provide
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for this type of transparent and instantaneous sort of
situation report, however there are other options.
Alternatives include using low cost drones and crude
remote ying machines armed only with video cameras.
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For those who see themselves and the countries they live
in being drawn into a conict they dont want or need to
participate in, it becomes all the more important that the
truth be told, so that nobody else is duped into joining a
dangerous and unnecessary war over money, weapons,
and resources. The people who feel this way should, in my
opinion, start sending toy helicopters, planes, remote
control cars, and other remote objects equipped with video
cameras that they can send into the contested regions so
as to get more views of those engaged in the hostilities in
order to provide a more accurate description of the
situation. Equipping a remote control airplane with a
camera that sends live video footage back via wi-
connecti on i s not undoabl e for even the most
technologically deprived. Those operating such devices
should send them in with the expectation that they will be
shot down. When they are blown out of the sky the people
viewing the imagery can at least have a better idea of
where the hostilities are actually taking place and who is
responsible for carrying out such violent acts. Without
being able to place responsibility on the hostile actors it is
impossible to take any type of efective measures against
them to prevent such future acts. It is well known that
people behave much diferently when they are being
observed, so lets really start to observe those who are
carrying out the crimes in Ukraine and work towards
maki ng those observati ons more of a behavi or
modication tool for changing those actors into peaceful
participants rather than using it for propaganda and
information warfare.
Also, although the Ukraine problem is being
downplayed and considered a managed conict, as is
the nuclear threat emanating from it, there is no reason why
the media shouldnt highlight the dangers this conict
poses in a more robust and rounded way. Arms control
advocates should see the nuclear threat as an opportunity
to ramp up negotiations over nuclear delivery system
reductions and nuclear energy security, not an excuse for
throwing in the towel and saying the nuclear arms race and
Cold War is back on. No, the U.S. and Russia have
signicantly reduced their nuclear stockpiles over the last
three decades, and although nuclear energy is becoming
more protable, the Fukushima disaster has reminded the
world once again of the problems such energy production
creates.
68
Why not use the Ukraine conict as a catalyst to
bri ng Russi an ci ti zens cl oser to thei r Ameri can
counterparts? Why not revive the anti-nuclear movement
by actually reporting on the nuclear threats stemming from
Ukraine? Those who say there is not a problem need not
forget Chernobyl. As author of The Enemy Within Jay M.
Gould explains, the Chernobyl disaster was a major
changing point in history, being a strong inuential factor in
the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Gould writes that in a
single cataclysmic moment, Chernobyl revealed the Soviet
rulers massive deception of the Soviet population, which
gave rise to the wave of civil disorder that continues
today.
69
Ukraine already had a nuclear disaster once.
Political and economic instability in the region increases
the probability that such a disaster could happen again,
accident or not. To me thats reason enough to take action,
but being that I am on the other side of the world and am
not a billionaire myself there is not much else I can do other
than to write this article.
Perhaps more attention should be given to how to
resolve the conict rather than just outlining the problems,
but it seems to me that the problem in Ukraine is one that
keeps repeating throughout history, and is one that we
need to be continually reminded of. Without those
reminders even less people will be interested in learning
how those problems can have a global efect. Without
outlining the problem and just ignoring the situation even
fewer people will take to the streets to protest and place
pressure on their oligarch leaders to put an end to the
madness. But protest is what started this whole mess you
say, so how can that help? Because protest is powerful,
thats why. Protest is what swept Yanukovych out of power
and it was protest that brought the problems of corruption
and nancial greed to the forefront. Such protest need not
be a workers rights protest, nor an anti-Communist or anti-
capitalist protest, but rather a pro-peace protest. Its hard
to send in agents and agitators into a peaceful crowd to
stir up trouble, especially if that crowd is in the millions,
synchronizing their activities on a global scale. And global
protest in not out of line for the situation at hand.
Gene Sharps How Nonviolent Struggle Works
provides strategies and techniques for utilizing nonviolent
social movements against military opponents. Sharp
writes, Against opponents using military means, always
confront them indirectly by nonviolent means, so that their
repression can be made to rebound against them to
undermine their power position.
70
In all, Sharp lists 198
methods of nonviolent action. To date, only governments
and big business are openly partaking in the economic
sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis, however if one
follows Sharps strategies for nonviolent economic
intervention than perhaps an even broader set of sanctions
should be set in place by the global peace, anti-nuclear,
and pro-economic equality movements that have evolved
and taken on new shapes and sizes over the last few
decades. Combined, these movements have the power to
inuence global events at a rapid rate, and when their
shared goals are actively pursued in reaction to specic
events, like those taking shape in Ukraine, then immediate
results can often be achieved. Some of the economic
interventions Sharp recommends include reverse strikes,
(working to excess), stay-in strikes (occupation of work
site), nonviolent land seizure, deance of blockades,
politically motivated counterfeiting, preclusive purchasing,
seizure of assets, dumping, selective patronage, alternative
markets, alternative transportation systems, and alternative
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economic institutions.
71
Such economic interventions can
create dramatic change when global activists and other
interested parties work together to determine the desired
outcome of each type of intervention, and then proceed to
efective implementation of their strategy. For instance,
Russia and the U.S. may already be implementing some of
these strategies as part of their own economic warfare
techniques, but it may come as quite a surprise when both
sides see their plans backring because of the indirect
intervention measures taken by global activists. Scenarios
of this sort include the large scale use of bit coins or other
non-standard currency not regulated by government. Wide
scale use of such currencies have the potential to
undermine the value of global nancial holdings of
billionaires, which would require them to rethink their own
investments. A seizure of assets operation could include
the peti ti oni ng for changes i n
economi c pol i cy whi ch requi re
billionaires to pay higher taxes in
order to provide the necessary public
goods which can enable regional
peace and political stability (i.e.
nuclear waste prevention and clean
up funds, arms for jobs campaigns,
and cultural & educational programs
promoting diversity, cooperation, and
collaboration). The billionaires are not
to be shunned from such actions
either, as not all billionaires and
oligarchs are war proteers or corporate despots. And their
involvement adds a new dynamic that can help reshape
future events in dramatic ways.
Sharp lists six actions holders of nancial
resources can make to help inuence events through
economic noncooperation. Those actions include
withdrawal of bank deposits, refusal to pay fees, dues,
and assessments, refusal to pay debts or interest,
severance of funds and credit, revenue refusal, and refusal
of a governments money.
72
When global activist
movements team up with billionaires to consider the
specic outcomes they desire by implementing these
actions and strategies an even greater potential for change
is achieved than if all billionaires are treated as opponents
or fence sitters. This is clearly not the case. There are
factions among the billionaires and those factions can be
exploited for securing the peace. It is my belief that war
and conict only serve the interests of the minority of
billionaires, not all of them. I dont think every billionaire
wants to increase their chances of being killed in a nuclear
war by using their power to push for more violence in
Ukraine or other similar places where an escalation of the
conict can lead to a direct U.S.-Russia military
confrontation.
Maybe the threat of human annihilation from
nuclear war is not as great as it was during the Cold War,
but more countries do have more nuclear weapons and
access to more nuclear materials then ever before, and
that is a problem that the world needs to respond to, not
just the oligarchs and so-called nuclear experts. During the
Occupy Wall Street protests there was global solidarity that
lead to the creation of the website Occupy Together, which
was international in scope and did allow for the
synchronizing of activist ventures without regard to
borders. Of course the Occupy movement is not a new
movement, but just a reinvention of an old movement that
began building momentum in U.S. modern times during the
1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. In my
opinion, and from my experience of knowing people who
participated in those protests, they were not orchestrated
by any pro-Communist or anti-American organization. They
were protests against the corporate greed among the
worlds wealthiest CEOs and the damage that greed has
done to the Earth and its global inhabitants.
Such prot est i s not a new
phenomenon. It was in the same
spirit of protest against greed that the
French Revolution was launched and
the Boxer Rebellion carried out.
Peasant upri si ngs are common
throughout history, but middle class
and low income peoples rarely rise to
power during such uprisings, no
matter what people are led to believe.
Lenin and Trotsky were not peasants
and Mao Zedong, although born into
a peasant family, was well enough of
to be able to travel the country and attend school - not
something most poor peasant farmers in China were able
to do at the time. Barack Obama may have been a
community organizer, but he never truly experienced what
it was like to live in the ghetto, and Putin is just as KGB as
Bush is CIA - hardly clubs for the common layperson, no
matter how common or average they make themselves to
appear on TV. And its not that people are corrupted once
they come to power, those who want that type of power
are already corrupted, at least in todays global political
environment. There simply is no way for the average
person to get into those positions of power without money,
as nobody can aford to run for or be appointed to national
omce unless they are backed by wealthy groups and
individuals or are millionaires or billionaires themselves. Its
just that simple, so dont think of it as an Orwellian Animal
Farm type of situation, as its not necessarily about taking
over government or corporate omces as much as it is
about taking over ones own independent agency and
using it to create positive collaboration and collective
impact. Sure, for some its about taking over the wealth of
the 1%, but a more equitable global distribution of the
wealth is just one benet from such collaboration. Peace,
economic stability, social & cultural development, and
greater planning capabilities are but just a few other
benets cooperation can bring. It is still possible to be
powerful without being in powerful positions. Together we
can make a diference.
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International News Daily, March 11, 2014 http://wtfrly.com/2014/03/11/ukraine-behind-the-headlines-disinformation-
manipulation-propaganda/#.U-5sP7xdX74. Also see Wilcox, Richard. WHO Lies Refuted: Physicians Group Predicts
100,000+ Fukushima Cancer Incidences/Deaths, rense.com, March 14, 2013. http://rense.com/general95/
wholies.html. Notice that neither of these articles come from the usual mainstream so-called credible sources of
information news outlets.
2. Westinghouse. Company Overview. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/News_Room/company_overview.shtm.
3. National Threat Initiative. Ukraine - Nuclear, last updated June 2014. http://www.nti.org/country-proles/ukraine/
nuclear/.
4. See Council on Foreign Relations. Loose Nukes, last updated January 1, 2006. http://www.cfr.org/weapons-of-
mass-destruction/loose-nukes/p9549.
5. Schmid, Alex P. and Charlotte Spencer-Smith. Illicit Radiological and Nuclear Tramcking, Smuggling and Security
Incidents in the Black Sea Region since the Fall of the Iron Curtain - an Open Source Inventory, Perspectives on
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radiological/html.
6. Nuclear Threat Initiative. Eliminating Nuclear Materials, NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index developed with The
Economist Intelligence Unit, http://ntiindex.org/progress-challenges/eliminating-nuclear-materials/. (Note: The
Economists assets are managed by BlackRock)
7. Ibid.
8. Press SAT Ukraine. Security Service seized from illegal tramc in hazardous radioactive substance, May 2014. http://
www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=124766&cat_id=39574 (translated by Google Translator).
9. Energoatom. Zaporizhzhya NPP, 2014. http://www.energoatom.kiev.ua/en/nuclear_plants/npp_zp/info.
10. Keck, Zachary. Russia, US Conduct Nuclear Weapon Drills, The Diplomat, May 14, 2014. http://thediplomat.com/
2014/05/russia-us-conduct-nuclear-weapon-drills/. Besides the helicopters being shot down, ghting had spread to
the infamous Russian arms export port city of Odessa, where a petrol bomb was supposedly the cause of a large re
that killed 31 people. See Tsvetkova, Maria. Dozens die in Odessa, rebels down Ukraine helicopters, Reuters, May
2, 2014. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/02/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA400LI20140502.
11. Ibid.
12. Gertz, Bill. U.S. to Conduct Strategic Bomber Exercise, Free Beacon, May 11, 2014. http://freebeacon.com/
national-security/u-s-to-conduct-strategic-bomber-exercise/.
13. Ibid.
14. Keck, Zachary. Russia, US Conduct Nuclear Weapons Drills, The Diplomat, May 14, 2014.
15. For further reading on Russian dezinformatsiya operations see Pacepa, Ion Mihai and Rychlak, Ronald J.
Disinformation, Washington D.C.: Wind Books, 2013. Of particular interest is how the new Ukrainian government is
being framed as Nazis by media spin doctors, just as Pacepa claims many Catholic priests were framed as Nazis by
Russian intelligence following WWII. According to Pacepa, these framings are at the heart of Russian dezinformatsiya.
16. For more see Dyer, Jay. MH17: Malaysian Airlines False Flag Straight Out of BBCs Sherlock, 21st Century Wire,
July 21, 2014. http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/07/21/mh17-malaysian-airlines-false-ag-scripting-straight-out-of-
bbcs-sherlock/.
17. Pacepa (2013).
18. Downtown, James Jr. and Paul Wehr. Persistent Pacism: How Activist Commitment is Developed and Sustained.
University of Colorado, Boulder. http://www.colorado.edu/conict/persistent_pacism.htm.
19. Lawrence S. Wittner, Confronting the bomb: a short history of the world nuclear disarmament movement (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2009), 110. Also see Wittner, Disarmament movement lessons from yesteryear, Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists, Jul. 27, 2009. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op- eds/disarmament-movement-
lessons-yesteryear and Wittner, The Power of Protest, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August (2004): 25. See
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Kimball, Twenty Years After the Closure of Semipalatinsk the Case for the Test Ban Treaty is Stronger Than Ever,
Arms Control Association, prepared remarks, Sept. 8, 2011. http://www.armscontrol.org/events/Twenty-Years-After-
Closure-of-Semipalatinsk-the-Case-for-the-Test-Ban- Treaty.
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20. Some media companies may benet nancially from nuclear disasters and the decommissioning and clean up eforts
that takes place afterward, but the long term costs of a nuclear accident or use of a nuclear weapon usually outweigh
any benets those companies may see in the short term.
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-25/ukraines-elite-living-in-luxury-all-across-europe.
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poroshenko/.
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2014/05/the-chocolate-king-who-would-be-president-106998.html#.U8ykpoBdV18. For more on Poroshenkos media
interests and the media purge under Yanukovych see Mykhelson, Oleksandr. Media & Acquisitions, The Ukrainian
Week, July 8, 2013. http://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/83970.
27. Ibid. For more on Poroshenkos media interests and the media purge under Yanukovych see Mykhelson, Oleksandr.
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www.ukrainianwinnipeg.ca/22-acts-disinformation-russian-media-on-ukraine/.
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Reputations, The Intercept, February 24, 2014.
35. Watson, Ivan, Sara Sidner and Victoria Butenko. U.S. has evidence that Russia is ring into Ukraine. CNN, July 24,
2014. http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/24/world/europe/ukraine-malaysia-airlines-crash/.
36. CNN Library. Ted Turner Fast Facts, updated March 21, 2014. http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/10/us/ted-turner-fast-
facts/.
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membership/roster.html?letter=P.
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239749/ishares-global-nuclear-energy-etf.
42. Ibid.
43. Forbes. Prole: Igor Kolomoisky, Forbes, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/prole/igor-kolomoisky/. Note: There are a
number of diferent spellings for Ihor Kolomoisky, including Igor for the rst name and Kolomoyski, Kolomoiskyi,
Kolomoyskyi, and Kolomoyskyy for the last name.
44. Mykhelson, Oleksandr. Media & Acquisitions, The Ukrainian Week, July 8, 2013. http://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/
83970.
45. Forbes. The Worlds Billionaires - #1046 Ihor Kolomoyskyy, Forbes, July 26, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/prole/
ihor-kolomoyskyy/.
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46. Baczynska, Gabriela. Jewish Oligarch Spends Millions on Militia To Hold Onto Ukraine Province, The Jewish Daily
Forward, May 23, 2014. http://forward.com/articles/198812/jewish-oligarch-spends-millions-on-militia-to-hold/. Also see
Rudenko, Olga. Billionaire Kolomoisky takes over in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, blasting Putin and Yanukovych, Kyiv
Post, March 3, 2014. http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/billionaire-kolomoisky-takes-over-in-dnipropetrovsk-
oblast-criticizing-putin-and-yanukovych-338261.html. One commenter on this article who goes by the handle Rearose
Aguilar wrote, ODESSA KILLING-HE WAS INVOLVED? The comment insinuates that Kolomoisky was somehow
responsible for the Odessa violence, which made me wonder if this commenter was part of some larger disinformation
campaign. When I clicked on the commenters handle I was directed to the Rearose Aguilar Facebok page. On the
Facebook page there are numerous references to Vladimir Putin, Mother Russia, and other pro-Russian content. This
doesnt necessarily mean Aguilar is a paid Russian internet troll, but the fact that the Kyiv Post shows this person as a
top commenter makes me suspicious.
47. Cullison, Alan. Ukraines Secret Weapon: Feisty Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, The Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2014.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-secret-weapon-feisty-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-1403886665.
48. Grove, Thomas. In east Ukraine, arms maker walks ne line between Kiev and Moscow, The Globe and Mail, May
27, 2014. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/in-east-ukraine-arms-maker-walks-ne-line-between-kiev-and-
moscow/article18866618/.
49. Choursina, Kateryna and Daryna Krasnolutska. Privatbank to lift 2013 Corporate Lending 15%, CEO Says,
Bloomberg, March 6, 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-06/privatbank-to-lift-2013-corporate-lending-15-
ceo-says.html.
50. Yuzhmash. Products, 2014. http://www.yuzhmash.com/. Information Resistance. Dmitry Tymchuk: On the Question of
YUZHMASH Technology, April 9, 2014. http://sprotyv.info/en/news/994-dmitry-tymchuk-question-yuzhmash-
technology. For RT video see YouTube. Video: Russia test-launches missiles during planned military drills May 8,
2014, Uploaded by KCsFieryFurnace JesusInTheFireWithMe, May 8, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=TwW7j_6c3Dw.
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52. Ibid.
53. Nuclear Fuel. The state owned Eastern Mining and Processing Complex, 2009-2012. http://www.nfuel.gov.ua/en/
content/state-owned-eastern-mining-and-processing-complex.
54. Ibid.
55. Stroygazmontazh. Projects, http://www.ooosgm.com/projects/ AND Ukrnafta. Map of Assets, http://
www.ukrnafta.com/en/business/map_of_assets.
56. Ulmishek, Gregory F. Petroleum Geology and Resources of the Dnieper-Donets Basin, Ukraine and Russia, USGS,
2001. http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/2201/E/.
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10, 2014. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-10/in-ukraine-separatist-war-rinat-akhmetov-walks-ne-line.
58. Ibid.
59. Krasnolutska, Daryna. Akhmetovs SCM Buys Ukraine Unit of Russias Renaissance Credit, Bloomberg, December
24, 2010. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-24/akhmetov-s-scm-buys-ukraine-unit-of-russia-s-renaissance-
credit.html.
60. Kononov, Oleksiy, Outward FDI from Ukraine and its policy context, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable
International Investment, Columbia FDI Files, November 8, 2010. http://ccsi.columbia.edu/les/2014/03/
Ukraine_OFDI_Prole_Final_Nov_8_2010.pdf.
61. System Capital Management. SCM Holdings Ltd., November 1, 2012. http://www.scmholding.com/en/about-us/scm-
holdings-ltd/.
62. Kravchenko, Stepan and Henry Meyer. Ukraines Top Oligarch Walks a Fine Line, Bloomberg Businessweek, July
10, 2014. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-10/in-ukraine-separatist-war-rinat-akhmetov-walks-ne-line.
63. TPS Aviation. Production Programs Supported with Parts & Components, http://www.tpsaviation.com/pages/
programs.html.
64. Hossein-Zadeh, Ismael. A World War Between Classes, Not Countries, Information Clearinghouse, 2014. http://
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38763.htm.
65. VOA News. Russia Lashes Out at Latest Western Sanctions, Voice of America, July 30, 2014. http://
www.voanews.com/content/russia-lashes-out-at-latest-western-sanctions/1968471.html.
66. Ibid.
67. The College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers a Drone
Journalism Lab which explores how drones could be used for reporting. See Drone Journalism Lab. About the
Lab, http://www.dronejournalismlab.org/about.
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68. See Bracken, Paul. The Second Nuclear Age, Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics. Times Books, 2012.
Bracken says there is no threat of a nuclear war between Russia and the U.S., which is exactly why I think it is
pertinent for the media to highlight the threats that do exist while they are in the forefront of current affairs. Without the
threat of nuclear war there is less of an incentive for the nuclear opposition to speak out and inuence policy, but if the
media highlights the other nuclear threats that do exist than more people should come forward to confront the
problems associated with these threats, without having to deal with the emotional anxieties attached to nuclear war,
which is a good thing. Bracken breathes hope into an otherwise dismal and dark subject, although he is perhaps a bit
too nonchalant on the subject for me. In my opinion some urgency should be noted before another Fukushima,
Chernobyl, or Hiroshima-size disaster occurs.
69. Sharp, Gene. How Nonviolent Struggle Works, The Albert Einstein Institution, 2013. http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/01/How-Nonviolent-Struggle-Works.pdf.
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid.
WWII-era propaganda posters at the National Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque. Photos by Emma Leiby.
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According to several news
reports, on December 29, 2011 a U.S.
Embassy sta# member and 3 U.S.
Mari nes pi cked up a group of
prostitutes. One of the prostitutes was
Romilda Aparecida Ferreira. According
to statements released by her lawyer,
Ferreira was pushed out of a moving
vehicle by one of the Marines and run
over after some type of argument
ensued inside the vehicle. Ferreira
su#ered from a broken collarbone, two
broken ribs, and a punctured lung from
the incident. In publicly released
statements former U.S. Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta admitted the
guilt of these men.
The following article is about a
Freedom of Information Act request
put in to nd out the name(s) of the
Marine(s) responsible for Ferreiras
su#ering, the punishment for their
crimes, and where those men are now
and the positions and rank they hold if
they are still in the military. In addition,
a request was put in to nd all the
names and ranks of Marines and
Sailors and the punishment they
received for committing sex crimes, to
include pandering to a prostitute,
under the Uniform Code of Military
Justice (UCMJ).
According to the Associated
Press, the Obama administration has
done little to improve its record of
releasing information to the public
under the Freedom of Information Act.
In a report released mid-March the AP
noted the government cited national
security to withhold information a
record 8,496 times - a 57 percent
increase over a year earlier and more
than double Obamas rst year.
T h e r e p o r t s a y s t h e
information returned to requestors is
being censored more than ever before,
and that important information is not
being provided fast enough for its
analysis and distribution to be relevant
to events making headlines. In other
words, the i nformati on i s bei ng
withheld until the public conscious is
focused somewhere else. As an
independent student researcher ling
an FOIA request, I too found it
frustrating to have to wait as long I did
to hear a response. By the time I did
get an email back it was too late, as
the paper I needed the information for
had already been handed in and
graded, and the semester had come to
a close.
The response I nally did
receive was dated Jan. 16, 2014,
some 48 days after my initial FOIA
request. The response came via email
from an FOIA analyst who, instead of
pr ovi di ng any answer s t o my
questions, asked me a few questions
of her own. She wrote, Specically, is
there an Arti cl e 134 vi ol ati ons
(specic) you are looking for? There
are 53 diferent Article 134 violations.
Are you referring specically to Article
134 (Pandering and Prostitution)?
At the time I was in the middle
of a move and wasnt able to read my
emails regularly. Although I was
looking at my inbox a couple times a
week, I somehow missed this email,
so the analyst assumed I was just not
responding.
When I was able to nally nd
my missed emails I noticed another
one from the same FOIA analyst, this
one dated Jan. 23, 2014. In the email it
stated my request would not be
processed properly until clarication
is made regarding the type of
violations I was interested in receiving
information about. I thought I had
made this clear in my original request,
as I had asked for records of all U.S.
Marines who have been convicted of
Article 134 and 120 under the UCMJ
from 2007 to the present.
Until I receive a response,
the analyst wrote in her email, your
request will be on hold. If, after
January 31, 2014, I have not heard
back from you I will close your
request.
At this point I only had eight
days to respond before my case would
be closed even though the analyst had
taken over a month and a half to
respond to my initial request. Of
course I still hadnt found these buried
emails because of the move, and by
the time I could get to them I didnt
think it mattered much anyway since
my paper was already handed in and
al so publ i shed on my websi te,
www.balancingjustice.com. But Im a
persistent person and thought why not
pursue my request? Since I had
published the paper online, at the very
least I could update what I had there.
So when I was nally able to
answer the analysts questions via a
Feb. 16 email I was determined, yet I
st i l l had expect at i ons of more
disappointment. On Feb. 18, 2014 my
expectations were conrmed when I
received a response saying, Case
2014F000163 was closed. You will
need to submit your new request using
the "FOIA On-Line" tool. Once you
have gotten to the website - just follow
the instructions to load your request
into the system. Thank you and have a
good day.
After resubmitting a new request in
which I tried to be as specic as
possible so as not to avoid the same
run-around procedure as earlier, some
of the information I wanted was nally
sent to me. Although the information
came through in a bit more timely
fashion than before, I still did not get
GETTING THE RUNAROUND: RESPONSE TO FOIA REQUEST NOT TIMELY
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everything I asked for. I received the following email response to my
new FOIA request on March 4, 2014:
Please nd the attached documents pertaining to your FOIA
request 2014-003131. If you have any questions or concerns please
let me know.
Attached to the email were two spreadsheets of names, ranks,
pleas, ndings, convictions, and sentencing of sailors and Marines
stationed at U.S. military installations across the globe. I had requested
the information for years 2007 to the present, but did not receive
information from 2007 or 2009. Most of the names were duplicated
throughout the two spreadsheets, making it dimcult to quantify the
number of people charged with sexual misconduct.
Interestingly, there was a signicant increase in the number of
Marines and sailors receiving a court martial for sexual misconduct
involving articles 134 or 120 between the years 2008 and 2010. For
2008 one spreadsheet indicated nine Marines received a court martial,
but only ve names were listed, while the other spreadsheet listed six
diferent names for the same year, none of them the same as those on
the rst. No data was given for 2009 on either spreadsheet. And then
for 2010 some 220 Marines are listed on one spreadsheet as receiving
a court martial for ofenses involving articles 134 or 120. On the other
spreadsheet 85 names are listed. For 2011 277 Marines are listed in
one spreadsheet and 89 in the other. In 2012 there were 212, and in
2013 there were 267 Marines charged with sexual misconduct
involving articles 134 or 120 on just the rst spreadsheet.
Of particular interest is the fact that I never received the rst
names of the listed Marines, and in one case a note was left that reads
hide details for Galyon, JLGaly. This Marines plea for an article 134
charge was Not Guilty, nding Withdrawn. Strange indeed.
Hopefully one day our government will stop hiding the details all
together. Until then well just have to keep digging for the truth
ourselves.
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Medical doctor Marc Siegel tells
us in his book False Alarm, The Truth
About the Epidemic of Fear that people
can fall ill and social problems escalate
when the media present news events in
a way which generate fear and anxiety.
1

He says it is important to remember that
there will always be terrible things
happening all over the world, and that
when the media report on these things
the audience needs to be aware that
there is likely no reason to immediately
start worrying about them. Siegel
explains that this constant worrying can
have very damaging consequences for
individuals and society at large. I agree
with Siegel completely, and think he
provides plenty of evidence in his book
to show why this is true, but what he fails
to also explain is how a lack of reporting
on these terrible things can also be just
as a damaging, and even more so in
cases where reporting can help aid in
protection or prevention against those
terrible things. Nor does he mention that
when there is such a failure of reporting,
or when there is an abundance of
misreporting and contradictory reports,
that mass fear-based reaction, as well as
non-action, can also occur. In the case of
the medias reporting on the nuclear
meltdown at Fukushima Daichi we have
seen a mix of all these types of reporting,
or lack thereof, which has utterly
confused the public as how to best react
to such an event.
The Fukushima Daichi nuclear
plant triple meltdown, which occurred
after a 9.0 earthquake and massive
tsunami hit the Honshu coast and
knocked out power at the plant March
11, 2011, has unleashed a torrent of
media activity which continues to debate
the severity of the accident to this day.
On one end of the debate there are
reports of increased thyroidism as far
away as the west coast of the United
States, lesions in polar bears in Alaska,
predictions of dramatic increases in
cancer rates worldwide, bans of sh
imports from Japan in South Korea and
el sewhere, i ncreased deat h and
destruction of sea life, and suicides,
tumors, and lawsuits - all stemming from
the Fukushima nuclear disaster. On the
other end of the reporting the media are
telling us the government and so-called
experts say the consequences from the
Fukushima drift and fallout are nothing to
worry about. They say all the radiation
and heavy metals from Fukushima found
in kelp, tuna, milk, and other sources of
nutrients for humans and animals is so
minimal that it will have no efect on our
health or environment. They say the
l evel s are t oo l ow t o make any
diference, and we should just keep on
eating that tuna and probably forget the
whole mess that is still going on over
there all together, so we can focus on
more important issues, like ghting a war
in Syria or talking about some celebritys
wedding.
So what should the public do
when there are such contradictory
reports, particularly when both sides of
the reporting are citing nuclear experts,
scientists, and eye witnesses who all
sound like they know what they are
talking about? What I did was study,
study, study. I read as many of the media
reports I could nd about the situation. I
studied EPA reports, left-wing and
alternative online media, conservative
news media, foreign media, bloggers,
FDA reports, TEPCO press releases,
books and articles about other nuclear
disasters, tests, industrial accidents, and
leaks such as those at Chernobyl, Three
Mile Island, Diablo Canyon, WIPP, the
Trinity Test site, and the Nevada and
Pacic nuclear testing grounds. I looked
over military documents, read books
about the medias handling of these
events, and looked around in my own
environment and compared my past
experiences with what was going in
Japan. I analyzed all this and came to
the conclusion that . . . were not being
tol d the whol e truth about what
happened at the Fukushima Daichi
nuclear plant. What were dealing with, I
believe, is an Agent Orange style cover-
up, but on a much, much larger scale.
RADIOACTIVE PLANET: Fukushima Media Fallout
RADIOACTIVE . . .
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The following article explains
just a few of the reasons I believe this
is so, and why I think the world over
needs to begin converting the entire
nuclear industry, including energy and
defense, into humanitarian, medical,
and sustainable energy industries
operated and managed by qualied
civilian oversight organizations and
corporate, government, and NGO
part nershi ps t hat have enough
experience in industry conversion to
start engineering the shift immediately.
Envi r onment al i st s, sci ent i st s,
academics, and activists have been
saying to shut down the nuclear
industry for decades already because
of thei r own research i nto the
destruction of life caused by nuclear
weapons use and testing, industrial
accidents, and the general waste the
industry creates. The thousands of
protestors who showed up in New
York to demand an end to dirty energy
and corporate waste prior to the U.N.
environment summit proves there is
huge support i n the U. S. , and
wo r l d wi d e , t o s t o p f u r t h e r
contamination of the earth by big
industry, including those industries
proting from nuclear energy and
defense. In my opinion, Fukushima put
the last nail in the comn, but the
nuclear industry is still proting and
expanding in to all kinds of new realms
and activities even as I write this. So
let me explain why I think we continue
to be misled about the real dangers of
the nuclear industry and why we
should all be paying more attention.
On Dec. 19, 24, 25, and 27,
2013 TEPCO workers reported seeing
steam rising from Unit 3 at the
Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant. A Jan.
1, 2014 RT article reported that
TEPCO was not explaining why the
steam was occurring, and that, Unlike
the other ve reactors, reactor 3 ran
on mi xed core contai ni ng both
uranium fuel and mixed uranium and
plutonium oxide, or MOX nuclear fuel.
The Reactor 3 fuel storage pond still
houses an estimated 89 tons of the
plutonium-based MOX nuclear fuel
composed of 514 f uel rods.
2
Immediately following the reports of
the steam an online press release was
issued by a so-called Turner Radio
Network, which said the west coast of
the United States should immediately
prepare for emergency measures
should the reactor blow and go into
total meltdown. Soon after, the press
release was debunked and the Turner
Radio Network owner labeled as a
racist by tons of online news writers
who said there was nothing too
unusual about the steam and that the
Turner Radi o Network was j ust
sensationalizing the event to attract
viewers to its site, to increase fear, or
for some other personal interest. By
that time TEPCO had put out its own
report detailing where the steam was
coming from, explaining that it was
most l i kel y due t o r ai n wat er
evaporating near the hot shield plug of
the primary containment vessel.
3

What I didnt fully catch at the

time though was that Unit 3 had
already blown up and gone into a total
meltdown over two and a half years
prior, sometime between March 12
and March 14, 2011, after the
hydrogen explosion millions saw on TV
had already taken place inside Unit 1.
In fact, it wasnt until Aug. 6, 2014 that
online media such as japantimes.co.jp
reported that all the fuel rods in reactor
3 melted down and fell onto the
bottom of the containment vessel
sometime after the cooling system
shut down at 8 p.m. March 12, 2011.
4

The news article states TEPCO had
previously announced that only 63
percent of the fuel had melted down
and that the cooling system in reactor
3 had shut of at 2:42 a.m. March 13,
2011, not at 8 p.m. the next day. In the
book Fukushima, The Story of a
Nuclear Disaster, it states, Although
there is some uncertainty about the
timing, by approximately 9:00 a.m. on
the morning of March 13, the fuel rods
became uncovered, triggering the
same sequence of events that had
occurred at Unit 1 some thirty-six
hours earlier: overheating of the fuel,
oxi dati on of the f uel cl addi ng,
hydrogen formation, and release of
ssion products. The Unit 3 core was
mel t i ng down, and vessel and
containment pressures were rising
fast.
5
The book says an explosion
took place in Unit 3 at 11 a.m. on
March 14, 2011. Most of the media I
found reported that there was only a
partial meltdown at Fukushima for
almost an entire year after the disaster
occurred, not a full on triple meltdown
as was the reality of the situation. In a
Scientic American timeline of the
events at Fukushima it says another
hydrogen explosion took place at Unit
2 on March 15, 2011, which was
followed by a re in the Unit 4 reactor
building. The timeline states that on
March 16, 2011 TEPCO estimates
that many of Fukushima Daichis fuel
rods have sufered damage, including
70 percent of the fuel in Unit 1 and 33
percent in Unit 2. The utility suspects
that Unit 3s core is also damaged.
6

More than likely the fuel in Units 1 and
3 were more than just damaged, and
may have al ready mel ted down
completely by the time TEPCO had
released the March 16 statement.
The hydrogen explosions that
had rocked the reactor buildings of
units 1, 2, and 3 made the buildings
too dangerous and radioactive for
TEPCO workers to enter or attempt to
remove the fuel rods from, which
partially explains why TEPCO initially
got it wrong about the timing of the
r eact or 3 mel t down, but t he
misreporting seems to be a little too
consistent for me to fully accept all
these explanations. But before I get
into the discrepancies in the reporting,
lets take a look at why Fukushima was
an awful place to have a nuclear plant
f r o m t h e g e t g o . F r o m my
understandi ng, the peopl e who
decided Fukushima was a good place
to have a nuclear power plant knew all
al ong that i t was pretty much
guaranteed that that particular location
would be hit by a tsunami when large-
scale seismic activity took place.
Large scale seismic activity is also
pretty much a guarantee, not just near
Fukushima prefecture, but around all
of Japan.
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Heres a rundown of some of
the most recent earthquakes in the
area: The Headquarters for Earthquake
Resear ch Pr omot i on websi t es
evaluation of seismic activity shows
that a 5.0 magnitude earthquake
struck Namie, Japan near the crippled
Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant on
Sept. 24, 2014 and then a 5.0
magnitude earthquake hit just an hour
later only tens of kilometers away from
the rst.
7
On Aug. 29, 2014 there was
a 5.0 magnitude earthquake ofshore
Fukushima prefecture and on Aug. 10,
2014 there was a 6.1 magnitude
earthquake ofshore Aomori
prefecture. On July 12, 2014 a
7. 0 magni tude earthquake
struck ofshore Fukushi ma
prefecture, on October 26, 2013
a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit
ofshore Fukushima prefecture,
and on Sept. 20, 2013 a 5.9
magnitude earthquake struck
H a ma d o r i , F u k u s h i ma
p r e f e c t u r e . Ni n e t y - v e
earthquakes with a magnitude
4.0 or greater were reported in
Japan for the month of August
2014. The median number of
earthquakes with a magnitude
4.0 or greater in Japan from
1998 to 2007 is 73 per month.
For the month of August 2014
there were 22 more earthquakes in
that range than the median for the
above years. The USGS measured the
March 11, 2011 Great Tohoku
Earthquake at a magnitude of 9.0. It
was located 177 km east northeast of
Fukushima near the Honshu coast of
Japan. Japan i s al so prone to
typhoons and other natural disasters
which tend to have a greater impact
on coastal areas like Fukushima.
8

TEPCO owns 17 nuclear reactors, 10
of them in Fukushima prefecture.
According to a Sept. 10, 2014
article in The New York Times, Japans
nuclear regulatory agency was taking
steps towards restarting two of the 48
oper abl e commer ci al nucl ear
reactors that were shut down after
the March 2011 triple meltdown.
9
So
despite the chaos that the ongoing
nuclear disaster has already created,
and the ongoing threat to Japans
nuclear infrastructure from more
impending natural disasters, the
regulatory agency still thinks it is
better to provide nuclear energy to
power Japan t han t o l ook f or
alternative solutions. The future truly is
frightening.
But per haps even mor e
frightening than a potentially new
nuclear disaster is the way in which
the Japanese government is handling
the current one. Several media reports,
including PBS Newshour and Reuters,
reported that Japans homeless were
being recruited to clean contaminated
areas around the Fukushima plant,
wh i c h s h o ws t h e J a p a n e s e
government has a lack of regard for
these individuals health and that it
isnt concerned enough about the
accident to provide the training and
exper t i se needed t o ensure a
successful cleanup. Also, in late 2013,
Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
rushed a state secrecy bill into law
which makes it illegal for insiders to
discuss certain national security
issues with foreign and local media,
including those related to Japans
nuclear facilities. The secrecy law not
only suppresses vital information
about Fukushima and the potential
health efects it will have on citizens in
Japan and abroad, but it also causes
f ear, prevents the f ree ow of
information from occurring, and may
prevent exposed persons from getting
the tests and necessary treatments
available to keep them alive and
healthy.
Although much information
has already been withheld from the
public, some news agencies are
keeping a close eye on the nuclear
plant and reporting their ndings,
however most are not the mainstream
western media outlets Americans turn
to for their news. One such non-
western media outlet, Al Jazeera, has
done numerous reports on the
disaster, with one online article
discussing some opposing views and
u n a n s we r e d q u e s t i o n s
concer ni ng t he efect s of
Fukushima radiation on human
heal th. The arti cl e quotes
University of South Carolina
biological sciences professor
Timothy Mousseau as saying
Contrary to governmental
r epor t s t her e i s now an
abundance of i nf ormat i on
demonstrating consequences -
in other words, injury - to
i ndi vi dual s, popul at i ons,
s pe c i e s a n d e c os y s t e m
functions stemming from the
low dose radiation due to the
Cher nobyl and Fukushi ma
disasters.
10
Mousseau is a
member of the Chernobyl +
Fukushima Research Initiative.
11

Another non-western media
outlet, RT, reported Dec. 22, 2013 that
a new leak at Fukushima reactor
number 2 was found by TEPCO
workers, with a record 1.9 million
becquerels per liter of beta ray-
emi tti ng radi oacti ve substances
detected at the reactor.
12
That leak,
which was just one among many, was
reported to be heading for the ocean,
where much of the radi oacti ve
materials from the plant have already
gone. On Oct. 21, 2013 Reuters
reported that radioactive water from
t he st or age t anks ar ound t he
Fukushi ma Dai chi pl ant wer e
overowing due to high rainfall.
According to the news report, one the
tanks that overowed contained
Stontium-90 as highly concentrated
as 710 Becquerels per liter - 71 times
higher than the level set by the
company as safe for release.
13
Storage tanks holding radioactive water at Fukushima Daichi nuclear
plant. Typhoons and heavy rainfall have caused the tanks to leak,
releasing high levels of strontium and tritium into the environment.
Photo credit: WikiMedia Commons.
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On July 15, 2013 Stars and
Stripes reported that sailors onboard
t he USS Ronal d Reagan who
parti ci pated i n the March 2011
humanitarian mission in Japan named
Operation Tomodachi were suing
TEPCO because of the damaging
health efects that resulted from their
exposure to the Fukushima fallout.
14

Sailors reported hair falling out,
abnormal menstrual bleeding, high-
pitched noises, anxiety, tumors, and
cancer as a result of their exposure to
the fallout.
15
The Department of
Defense denies the sailors claims and
says the reported health problems are
not related to exposure to radiation
from Fukushima.
15

In Hawaii where I lived for the

last four years I noticed abnormalities
in the plant life and health problems
among animals and humans alike that
may or may not be associated with
f al l out f rom Fukushi ma. Those
abnormalities included white spots on
the plant life, dead birds, a dead cow,
and a dead cat with no visible wounds
or cuts, unusually large tumors on a
turtle at Leleiwi Park near Richardson
Beach, and the consistent clearing of
the throat by chi l dren and dry
persistent coughing among kids and
adults alike, to name a few. To be fair,
the turtles in Hilo have been showing
up by the dozens with tumors long
before the Fukushima meltdown, and
a recent study says the tumors are
being caused by high levels of
nitrogen in rainwater runof, but there
have been very few studies on the
efects of radioactive fallout on turtles
or other sea life from nuclear testing or
accidents in the region. So its
possible, I believe, that radiation from
nuclear testing in the Pacic in the 50s
and 60s or depleted uranium used at
the U.S. Armys Pohokuloa Training
Area could also be a potential cause
or contributing factor to the ill health of
the turtles. Also, the lifeguard I talked
to about the turtle I found October 29,
2012 said it was unusual to see them
with tumors in that exact location. He
said they usually show up further
north, where everybody surfs. It was
the rst and only time I had spotted a
turtle with tumors, at least noticeable
ones, during the whole four years I
was in Hawaii. And I saw dozens of
diferent turtles while I was there, not
only near Richardson Beach, but at
beaches all over Hawaii.
While on the Big Island I
l i st ened t o publ i c r adi o news
broadcasts every day and scanned the
local paper regularly, however there
was little discussion of the possible
environmental and health impacts that
could emerge on the islands from the
Fukushima fallout. In fact, it appeared
to me as though we were purposely
being denied information from the
local media in order to prevent panic
and t o preserve t he economi c
relationship Hawaii has had with
Japan over the last couple of decades,
particularly within the shing industry.
Having recently read Beverly Deepe
Keevers News Zero: The New York
Times and the Bomb I realized just
how severe the ongoing misreporting
on Fukushima probably was. Keever
explains in her book that the U.S.
coverup of the environmental and
health efects of the 15-megaton
Castle Bravo nuclear test on March 1,
1954 was so immense that it took
decades to uncover just doses of the
truth, while some Pacic islanders are
still waiting for compensation due from
radiation sickness caused by nuclear
dusting and fallout.
16
Keever writes in
a wagi ngpeace.org arti cl e ti tl ed
Bravo: 60 Years of Sufering, Cover-
Ups, Injustice that:
Within days after the Bravo
shot, the U.S. cover-up had secretly
taken a more menacing turn. In an
injustice exposing disregard for human
health, the Bravo-exposed islanders
were swept into a top-secret project in
which they were used as human
subjects to research the e#ects of
radioactive fallout. . . For this human-
subject research, the islanders had
neither been asked nor gave their
i nf ormed consent - whi ch was
e s t a b l i s h e d a s a n e s s e n t i a l
i nternati onal standard when the
Nuremberg code was written following
the war crimes convictions of German
medical o!cers.
17

When I realized the potential

consequences of a Fukushima cover-
up sometime in 2013 not only did my
wife and I decide that we should hold
of on some of the sushi and poke we
were eating, but that maybe we should
leave Hawaii all together, just in case.
After reading that 300 tons per day of
radioactive groundwater from the
Fukushima Daichi plant had been
leaking into the ocean since 2011 I
thought it was crazy to not think we
were at a higher risk of being exposed.
For comparison on the fallout
coverage area, Keever says fallout
from the one-time explosion of the 15
megaton Bravo shot covered a 7,000
square mile area. Hawaii is about
2,400 miles from the Marshall Islands
where the Bravo shot was detonated.
According to the IAEA, some 150,000
square kilometers (57,915 square
mi l es) was afect ed f r om t he
radioactive fallout from the 1986
Chernobyl nuclear plant accident.
Japan is about 4,000 miles away from
Hawaii, but because much of the
F u k u s h i ma f a l l o u t wa s n o t
atmospheric or released all at the
same time, it is dimcult to determine
the exact area considered afected by
the accident. Although most of the
water-bound toxic materials from
Fukushima may travel north of Hawaii
thanks to the Kuroshio Current, much
of it could still catch a ride on
rainwater or be swept ashore from
southern swells, storms, or other
changes in the weather pattern, so
who knows how far of an area the
fallout actually covers.
F o r a n o t h e r t y p e o f
comparison, the IAEA says the 1986
Chernobyl nuclear accident, in which
only one reactor exploded and went in
Picture of a turtle found with multiple
tumors at Leleiwi Park Oct. 29, 2012.
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-to meltdown, was approximately 400
times more potent than the atomic
bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but that
the nuclear tests in the 60s and 70s
contributed 100 to 1,000 times more
radioactive material to the environment
than Chernobyl.
18
The Bravo shot
had about a 1,000 ti mes more
powerful yield than the bomb dropped
on Hiroshima. In terms of the amount
of nucl ear fuel i nvol ved i n the
mentioned nuclear accidents, there
was approximately 1,852 tons of
combined nuclear fuel in the four
reactor buildings that were destroyed
or damaged at Fukushima. The sole
reactor destroyed in the Chernobyl
accident had approximately 245 tons
of nuclear fuel inside, however omcial
esti mates say more radi oacti ve
material was released from Chernobyl
than Fukushima, at least during the
onset of the accidents. The area most
afected by the Chernobyl accident
was not inside Ukraine where the plant
was located, but in neighboring
Belarus where radiation was the
number one demographic factor
responsible for the depopulation of
the country.
19
Although Hawaii is
much farther away from Japan than
Belarus is Ukraine, the possibility still
exi sts that depopul ati on from
radiation exposure could still occur on
the island chain. My goal was to go to
New Zealand where the country has a
long history of anti-nuclearism, but
instead ended up in New Mexico,
which is ironically the same place
where the nuclear industry started out.
So why do I still feel like
people will think Im crazy if I tell them
Fukushima fallout is one of the
reasons I left Hawaii, even though
there is plenty of evidence to suggest
that I was likely to be exposed to
heavy metal contami nati on and
radioactive fallout even more than I
already was had I stayed there? Why
do I still not want to believe Hawaiians
are in any danger now? Why do I still
want to believe that the fallout we
were exposed to was safe? And we
were exposed. After all, on April 27,
2011, j ust a mont h af t er t he
Fukushima disaster occurred, the
Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported that
radioactive cesium-134 and 137,
iodine-131 and strontium-89 from
Fukushima were found in tested milk
samples taken from Hilo, the city
where I was living with my wife and
children.
20
The Star-Advertiser article
quotes a statement issued by the EPA
to Forbes blogger Jef McMahon,
which said the strontium levels were
27,000 times below the Derived
Intervention Level set by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration. The article
states the EPA had released the
measurements on its website and that
the levels of Strontium-89 were at 1.4
pico-curies per liter (pCi/L), far below
the FDAs 4,400 pCi/L action level.
There is no mention of the EPAs
Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL)
for any of the radionuclides detected
in the Hilo milk, and even more
interesting is the fact that the article
says the Honolulu EPA omce could not
conrm the readings at the time the
article was written, however it repeats
a statement allegedly issued by the
EPA to a blogger who works for an
entirely diferent publication which isnt
even located in Hawaii. In place of
getting a quote from the EPA, Star-
Adverti ser reporter Wi l l i am Col e
quotes a state health department
omcial, Lynn Nakasone, who said he
could not get through to anybody at
the EPA Honolulu omce, however it is
that same state health department
omcial who is quoted in the article as
s a y i n g I t s o f n o h e a l t h
consequence, and that I realize it is
a diferent reading and new data, but I
guess from our point of view, its not a
health risk.
21

Although the public was told

the levels were too low to be of any
concern, there is concern because,
according to a letter from dairy
farmers to milk share members on the
Big Island being circulated on the
internet, radioactive materials found in
milk is an indication that the entire
food chain is contaminated. The letter
states, Milk from the large dairies in
Hamakua and Hawi has shown
elevated levels of radiation, from 400
to 2400 times the recognized safe
levels.
22
Interestingly, Meadow Gold
dairy products produced in Hawaii
di sappeared from grocery store
shelves after the radiation levels were
reported in the milk, and initially I had
thought the letter to share members
was from Meadow Gold to milk
shareholders, but when I went back to
nd the letter on the internet I learned
that it was from the owners of a Milk
and Honey Farm in Pahoa. After
contacting several farms via email I
received a reply stating that no testing
had ever been done on any of the
farms and no further testing was
planned, making me question where
that share member letter actually
ori gi nated, as there were many
instances in which information about
Fukushi ma woul d seem to j ust
disappear of the internet or would be
blocked or jammed from some kind of
internal error.
It was exactly this type of
activity that prompted me to question
the omcial information that was being
told to the public, especially when
everybody else had seemed to have
forgotten that radioactive materials
were still being released from the
accident and that we had already been
exposed. Also, I noticed that the local
grocery stores continued to sell the
same variety of sh and seafood, but
that the labeling had changed. Most
sh was labeled by the country that it
was caught in, but some had no labels
at all, meaning it was probably from
Japan, as none of the other sh had a
caught in Japan label on them. The
food is just ne the media said, but
one just has to read the section from
Svetlana Alexievichs Voices From
Chernobyl titled A Monologue on
Taking Measurements to know that
the truth isnt always what it appears.
Former chief engineer of the Institute
for Nuclear Energy of the Belarussian
Ac a de my of Sc i e n c e s Ma r a t
Filippovich Kokhanov explains how he
continuously found high levels of
radiation in milk and food products
being sold at stores following the
Chernobyl accident, yet nobody was
informed of these readings. He says,
For a long time after that we used dry
milk powder and cans of condensed
and concentrated milk from the
Rogachev milk factory in our lectures
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as examples of a standard radiation source. And in the
meantime, they were being sold in the stores. When people
saw that the milk was from Rogachev and stopped buying
it, there suddenly appeared cans of milk without labels. I
dont think it was because they ran out of paper.
23

The higher radiation readings reported in Hilo milk

were for the month after the initial plume of radioactive
materials passed through Hawaii. Radioactive materials
continue to be released into the air and the ocean that will
inevitably nd their way into the island chains ecosystem,
yet I still feel like people will look at me funny if I tell them I
was exposed to radiation from Fukushima while living in
Hawaii - that for some reason they wont believe me. Is the
reason I feel nervous telling people why I left because
Americans are being brainwashed to believe we are safe
and I am just scared of being ridiculed and called a lunatic
by those who believe the cover-up? Is it because the
radiation levels really are safe and that there is no need to
worry about the long term efects of exposure? To tell the
truth, Im not sure, but I do know that the public is, has,
and was being lied to about the exact nature of the nuclear
disaster at Fukushima. I do know that I no longer smell the
strong odor of pesticides and insecticides that, although
regularly used in Hawaii, seemed to be even stronger
smelling throughout the Fall of 2013, a time when radio
reports kept saying there was a strong smell of vog
(volcanic steam & smoke) coming from the volcano and
that if we had sensitive lungs we should stay indoors. But
on many of those occasions there was no vog at all, at
least not on the Hilo side of the island, so again I wondered
what type of information I was being fed through the
media. After looking into the matter more, I learned that
many of those pesticides and insecticides I was smelling
contain boric acid (in of itself odorless) - an agent known
for killing cockroaches as well as preventing nuclear ssion
reactions from occurring. According to the letter to milk
share members, sodium borate was being fed to the cows
and goats and being put in kelp and water troughs to
protect their cattle from the high radiation levels on the
islands. Boron has also been detected in the water on
Oahu, but at levels too low to be considered a danger to
human health, according to the Hawaii department of
healths website.
24
Several thousand tons of boric acid
were poured on Chernobyl following the nuclear disaster
that occurred there.
25

Although there is a lot of misinformation and

confusing claims circulating the world over, I think its safe
to assume that radioactive materials from Fukushima will
end up having a negative efect on the health of humans
and animals throughout the Pacic. And because of the
low dose long term exposure, it could take decades to
identify all those efects. What convinced me that there is a
problem for Hawaii though is the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administrations Fukushima radiation
dispersion model found on its website.
26
The model clearly
shows the initial plume of cesium from Fukushima traveling
just north of Hawaii as it makes its way toward the
mainland United States. Like the initial tsunami debris that
hit the mainland before moving out toward Hawaii, the
initial radioactive water-based plume will do the same,
eventually becoming wrapped around the island chain in
its diluted form. When browsing through diferent websites
which also discussed this model I noticed tons of people
claiming that the information was false and that the model
only showed wave activity in the Pacic during and after
the 2011 tsunami, however both models exist and can be
accessed on the NOAA website. The disclaiming of the
cesium dispersion model was soon followed by posts
quoting scientists saying that the radiation would be too
widely dispersed and diluted for it to be of any health
concern, and that any levels in sh were so low that the
radiation exposure from ying on an airplane was
considered worse than that from eating a contaminated
sh.
27
There was no mention of the fact that the
radionuclides scientists are looking for are so tiny and the
sh in such great numbers in such a large area that the
probability of nding really radioactive sh is very low,
especially when only doing minimal testing from small
sample areas. So Im certain that nobody will know which
sh is the one that is contaminated from those radioactive
waters, but there are hot sh out there.
After hearing about the black sea bream sh
caught near Fukushima that had tested at 124 times over
the safe limit for radioactive cesium, I contacted the
Fisheries Research Agency of Japan to learn more. Hiroya
Sugisaki, chief of the agencys public relations section
responded with an email message stating that The report
on the cesium of black sea bream caught in Fukushima is a
kind of urgent report and we dont analyse the detail. A
link was provided to a chart showing the results in an
online pdf le. Although the chart is in Japanese, anyone
who reads in English can still observe the high reading for
Nov. 17, 2013 which shows the hot black sea bream, No.
2615.
28
The concentration levels for this reading are clearly
much higher than the concentrations in other sh caught
on or around the same day. My take is that being as far
away from Fukushima as possible and not eating too much
sh from the Pacic increases the probability that I wont
come in contact with a hot sh or piece of radioactive
seaweed, but choosing New Mexico as a nal destination
may not be so wise either.
Unfortunately, the risk of exposure from leaks at
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad and
potential leaks from the nuclear weapons facility at Kirtland
Air Force Base is extremely high. In fact, although the
government downplays the most recent leak at WIPP,
which occurred right after I returned from Hawaii, there are
some reports which indicate the radioactive material from
WIPP will inevitably end up in the water basins near the
site, while tailings from the mining of uranium have already
sickened cattle and made water undrinkable in some parts
of the state. On top of that, Ive also come across reports
showing that I was most likely exposed to depleted
uranium while serving as an infantryman in Iraq. So theres
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a good chance that Ive been exposed to a higher amount
of radioactive materials than most others, but still, I believe
that even as large as the Pacic Ocean is, there was still a
greater chance of me being exposed to more radioactive
materials by staying in Hawaii than I would living on the
mainland.
But even if Im right, the statistics regarding the
negative health efects for those exposed to nuclear related
materials in New Mexico is hard to deny. According to Jay
M. Goulds 1996 book The Enemy Within, Bernalillo County
had the highest mortality rates from breast cancer among
white females in New Mexico for the years 1985-89.
29

Gould outlines several statistical correlations between
breast cancer and radiation exposure throughout the U.S.,
showing how those living downwind from nuclear test sites
or near nuclear reactors tend to have higher breast cancer
mortality rates. Gould writes, New Mexico, now least
afected by emissions from civilian power reactors,
illustrates how persistent the delayed efects of exposure
are to man-made ssion products. It is only in the most
recent ve-year period that breast cancer mortality in New
Mexico, clearly a product of early exposure to nuclear
radiation, has begun to decline.
30
Gould explains that the
trend of decreasing mortality rates is good, and especially
noticeable in the areas downwind from the Trinity Test
sight, but with new leaks at WIPP and other forms of
radiation emissions its hard to say if those trends will
continue, that is if that type of information is still being
collected and accurately reported.
Gould explains that when there is a lack of data
being reported on radiation releases from nuclear
accidents, like the ones at Chernobyl or Three Mile Island,
it is a good indicator the radiation levels are much higher
than normal. During an investigation into abnormal
negative radiation readings at the EPA laboratory in the
years following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident,
Gould found that the government data was not only
unreliable, but that it would soon be unavailable all
together. Gould states that after a news reporter released a
story containing information on the abnormal negative
readings, no further average readings were published
thereafter, and, indeed, no further monthly measures,
positive or negative, were published after the December
1990 reading of 1.5 pCi/L for I-131, which was based on
only 33 stations as compared to 55 stations for the January
1990 average reading of 4.3 pCi/L, the highest single
average measure since the peak Chernobyl measures of
May 1986. Gould continues, It is evident that if the
laboratory sought to minimize the degree of radioactivity in
milk, it could also do so by selecting the stations for which
detectable levels could be found. But apparently after
December 1990, the laboratory decided it could no longer
nd any detectable levels.
31

Indeed, radiation monitoring stations stopped

reporting some data following the Fukushima meltdown
because, the EPA reported, radiation levels were too low to
be of any signicance. If history is any indicator, than we
should know that it is more likely that the levels are too
signicant for the public to know, at least from the
governments standpoint. But of course that is exactly
what the public wants to know - are the radiation levels in
food, water, and milk higher than normal in the areas where
they live? Nobody will know the facts for sure now, but we
can at least take a look at some of the data that is
available. Of particular interest is the data for Hawaii, as the
state legislature is working on a bill that requires the Hawaii
Department of Health to publicly post data collected from
radiation monitoring stations in the state. Hawaii Senate
Bill number 3049 states that The department of health
shall implement a radiation monitoring pilot project that
shall: (1) Measure and monitor radiation levels in items
such as food, dairy products, rainwater, aquifers, and
drainage ditches that may be susceptible to increased
radiation levels due to the March 11, 2011 Fukushima
nuclear disaster; and (2) Post periodic reports on the
departments website of those radiation levels and their
signicance to the State. (b) The pilot project shall
commence on July 1, 2014.
32
As of October 14, 2014 the
Hawaii Department of Health website did not have any of
those readings posted even though monitoring stations
have been operable throughout Hawaii for many years prior
to 2011.
33
According to the capitol.hawaii.gov website, the
Senate adopted the SB 3049 report which was received in
amended form by the House on March 6, 2014.
34
It was
referred to several House committees the next day and no
further action has been taken on the bill as of the time of
this writing.
Fortunately, the EPA does have data available for
radiation levels in Hawaii for both pre and post-Fukushima
accident dates, however some readings, such as those for
Strontium-89 and 90, were not done or are not made
available to the public for the period after April 2011.
Detectable levels of Strontium-90 were being released into
the environment from Fukushima throughout the year 2013,
particularly around the Sept. 16 time period, when a large
typhoon brought heavy rainfall and overowed the water
storage containers there which contained high levels of
Strontium-90. Also, there are several negative readings
listed in the data which make Goulds previous revelations
of negative and absent readings even more pertinent than
before. Below is a table of select EPA readings for
Cesium-137 found in pasteurized milk in Hawaii for the
years 2000-2014.
35
Notice the reading of 19.1 pCi/L for
Cesium-137 on April 4, 2011. The EPAs Maximum
Contaminant Level (MCL) for Cesium-137 is 3 pCi/L. The
FDA sets their threshold at 33,000 pCi/L.
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For Strontium-90 the EPAs MCL is 4 millirem per
year, or 8 pCi/L.
36
The EPA lists three diferent
measurements for Strontium-90 detected in Hilo milk for
the month of April 2011, but no subsequent measurements
are listed for any of the months since then. One April 4,
2011 reading shows a measurement of -1.1 pCi/L while
another reading for the same day shows a measurement of
-.45 pCi/L. An April 13, 2011 reading shows Strontium-90
to be at .16 pCi/L. Measurements taken in July of 2010 and
August of 2000 show higher levels at .3 and .37 pCi/L,
respectively.
News reporting of Strontium-89 measurements in
Hilo milk bring about questions of the accuracy of the data
reported to the public. The same Forbes blogger
mentioned in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser article discussed
above, Jef McMahon, wrote an April 27, 2011 article titled
Radioactive Strontium Found in Hilo, Hawaii Milk.
37
The
article says the EPA found 1.4 pCi/L of Strontium-89 on
April 4, 2011 in Hilo milk. In the online article there is a link
to a pdf le released by the EPA showing this result, but
when searching the EPAs radiation data on their website I
found a reading for April 4, 2011 which shows a
measurement of 6.5 pCi/L of Strontium-89 in pasteurized
milk in Hilo.
38

McMahon explains in his article that the EPA

emailed him to say the Strontium-89 found in the Hilo milk
was well below the FDAs Derived Intervention Level (DIL).
The problem with that, McMahon wrote, is the FDA does
not have a DIL for Strontium-89, but rather only
Strontium-90. So was the EPA lying to McMahon, and why
does the data not add up? When I contacted McMahon via
email to ask what he thought was going on he replied, I
cant explain the discrepancy between those two EPA
reports, and I think you would have to get someone from
EPA to explain it. Ive never got any indication that EPA is
fudging or lying about the numbers. During the Fukushima
fallout period, EPA was very forthcoming with data. Since
then its been more dimcult to access their data, but Im
not sure why that is. There could be many reasons, other
than the political one. After receiving this reply I promptly
shot an email of to the EPA radiation laboratory using the
contact information they provide on their website to see
what they could tell me about the discrepancy, and why
they havent done more testing since it was publicly
announced that TEPCO had underreported the amount of
strontium being released into the environment, well after
the last April 2011 test was conducted. As of the time of
this writing I have yet to receive a reply from the EPA. So
the questions remain, was it 1.4 or 6.5 pCi/L of
Strontium-89 found in Hilo milk on April 4, 2011? Was the
dairy farmer milk share member letter the real thing, and
why hasnt SB 3049 gone into efect yet? To me it all
seems suspicious, but then again it is the era of Stuxnet
and Prism - anything can happen.
So how much should we worry about all this?
Siegel says we shouldnt worry ourselves to death, so to
speak, but he also says the placebo efect can only work if
the time is taken to develop real medicines and remedies.
In the case of Fukushima the government and its nuclear
industry counterparts have tried to pull the wool over our
eyes to create a placebo efect that wont work, since
nobody is addressing the real problem to the necessary
degree that gives the placebo efect something to compare
itself to. In this case out of sight out of mind just doesnt
work. The problem is the killer is already out of sight, so
thats the paranoia - where is it going to come from next? A
sh? Fresh fruit? Meat? The drinking water? Ignoring the
invisible cancer causing killer elements is like walking
through glass shards thinking they wont make you bleed.
Radiation sickness is a real problem, and lying and
covering up mistakes isnt going to make it go away. The
vomiting, diarrhea, loss of hair, and eventual cancer wont
consume everyone in the path of the Fukushima fallout, but
heavy metal and radiation poisoning could still potentially
afect millions, as hot radionuclides can get wedged into
food particles and in other easily digestible forms before
making their way into the body, damaging cells and organs.
Of course the ocean does help the heavy metals and
radioactive particles to disperse and become diluted
depending on how soluble they are, and over time these
particles will decay and become part of the background
radiation, but the problem in Hawaii is that nobody knows
just how long it will take for that to actually happen. And
well, dispersion is great, that is if its not being dispersed in
your direction.
The people living in Hawaii have the capacity to
manage the situation just ne though, as SB 3049
indicates, but they need accurate information to be able to
carry out those capacities. Not having that information
made me think the threat to human health and the
environment was greater than people were being led to
believe, helping me to secure my decision to move back to
the mainland. Even though I think those in Hawaii are still
at risk from the toxic materials coming from Fukushima, Im
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The following results are based on the temporal changes in radiation level or radionuclides concentration over a specific date range
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Location Medium Sample
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HILO, HI PASTEURIZED
MILK
19-
JUL-
10
Strontium-
89 and 90
in Milk
Strontium-90 0.3 0.26 0.86 pCi/L
HILO, HI PASTEURIZED
MILK
04-
APR-
11
Strontium-
89 and 90
in Milk
Strontium-90 -1.1 1.3 5.3 pCi/L
HILO, HI PASTEURIZED
MILK
04-
APR-
11
Strontium-
89 and 90
in Milk
Strontium-90 -0.45 0.43 1.8 pCi/L
HILO, HI PASTEURIZED
MILK
13-
APR-
11
Strontium-
89 and 90
in Milk
Strontium-90 0.16 0.56 2.1 pCi/L
HONOLULU,
HI
PASTEURIZED
MILK
15-
AUG-
Strontium Strontium-90 0.37 0.21 0.69 pCi/L
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sure Hawaii will survive without too many heavy metal or
radiation related problems, so there probably isnt that
much to worry about. After all, Hawaii has been hit by
nuclear fallout before in the 50s and 60s during the U.S.
militarys nuclear tests in the Pacic, one of which took out
a streetlight in Oahu even though those tests were
conducted thousands of miles from Hawaii. And as far as I
know no Hawaiians died of cancer from those tests, only
the Marshallese and other Pacic islanders closer to the
test sites got sick or died. But most of those islanders
survived the fallout then and so did the people living on
Hawaii, so Im sure they will survive this as well. Maybe
there will be some illness and even death caused by the
eating of contaminated sh, which Hawaiians eat by the
bucketload on a daily basis, including the bluen tuna or
ahi which has been found to be contaminated as far away
as California, but it wont afect everyone. Thyroid cancer,
higher infant mortality rates, and other such problems may
arise from the fallout in the air, rain, and soil, but the
Hawaiian people will still live on, however those who say
everything is just a-OK might want to reassess the situation
again.
To understand the mentality of those who keep the
truth about nuclear accidents to themselves we once again
return to Marat Filippovich Kokhanov in Voices From
Chernobyl. Kokhanov says radiation readings were of the
charts everywhere he took measurements, yet he kept
silent. He said he tested milk and meat which he said
couldnt even be considered food items, but rather a
radioactive byproduct. Yet he didnt say a thing.
Kokhanov explains:

So heres the answer to your question:
why did we keep silent knowing what we knew?
Why didnt we go out onto the square and yell the
truth? We compiled our reports, we put together
explanatory notes. But we kept quiet and carried
out our orders without a murmur because of Party
discipline. I was a Communist. I dont remember
that any of our colleagues refused to go work in
the Zone. Not because they were afraid of losing
their Party membership, but because they had
faith. They had faith that we lived well and fairly,
that for us man was the highest thing, the measure
of all things. The collapse of this faith in a lot of
people eventually led to heart attacks and
suicides. A bullet to the heart, as in the case of
Professor Legasov, because when you lose that
faith, you are no longer a participant, youre an
also-ran, you have no reason to exist. Thats how I
understood his suicide, as a sort of sign.
39

I pray that all the naysayers are right though, that
the truth is being told, and that the cesium, strontium,
americium, uranium, plutonium, tritium, and other
radi oacti ve materi al s and heavy metal s that are
continuously being introduced to the worlds ecosystems
will have dissipated to harmless levels by the time they
reach Hawaii. I hope that, as Forbes reported, those
radioactive materials really are no more harmful than eating
a bunch of bananas.
40
Of course I dont believe this, but I
can always pray. Perhaps all of us should.
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Management_Team.html.
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References Continued
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13. Slodkowski, Antoni. Radioactive water leaks at Fukushima as operator underestimates rainfall, Reuters, Oct. 20, 2013. http://
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2013. http://www.stripes.com/in-growing-lawsuit-servicemembers-fault-tepco-for-radiation-related-illnesses-1.230512.
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of Medicine, March 11-12, 2013, YouTube, published March 15, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc-iEAZrnr4. Also see
Burke, Matthew M. USS Reagan sailors not exposed to high radiation levels in Japan, report nds, Stars and Stripes, July 17,
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nuclear tests see Keever, Beverly Deepe. The Fallout from Nuclear Secrecy, University of Hawaii Social Sciences Department,
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features/chernobyl-15/cherno-faq.shtml.
19. From Chernobyl, Belaruskaya entsiklopedia IN Alexievich, Svetlana. Voices of Chernobyl, Translation by Keith Gessen. London:
Dalkey Archive Press, 2005.
20. Cole, William. Strontium-89 from Japan found in Big Island milk, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, April 27, 2011. http://
www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/Strontium-89_from_Japan_found_in_Big_Island_milk.html?id=120842814.
21. Ibid.
22. Britton & Shekinah. Big Island Dairy Farmers ght radiation with Boron, HawaiiHealthGuide.com, May 10, 2011. http://
hawaiihealthguide.com/healthtalk/display.htm?id=915.
23. Alexievich, Svetlana. Voices of Chernobyl, Translation by Keith Gessen. London: Dalkey Archive Press, 2005.
24. Hawaii Department of Health. Trace Levels of Bromacil and Boron Detected in Several Oahu Water Systems, Aug. 5, 2014.
http://health.hawaii.gov/news/les/2013/05/TRACE-LEVELS-OF-BROMACIL-AND-BORON-DETECTED-IN-SEVERAL-OAHU-
WATER-SYSTEMS1.pdf.
25. Chernobyl Foundation. Chernobyl, http://chernobylfoundation.org/chernobyl/.
26. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Fukushima Tracers in Global RTOFS, National Weather Service
Environmental Modeling Center, Marine Modeling & Analysis Branch, last modied Dec. 19, 2013. http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/
global/tracers/. Under select view you will nd several simulation models including sea surface height and cesium-137.
27. Jacobs, Robin. After Fukushima - Is It Safe to Eat Pacic Seafood? eartheasy, Feb. 27, 2014. http://eartheasy.com/blog/
2014/02/after-fukushima-is-it-safe-to-eat-pacic-seafood/.
28. Fisheries Research Agency of Japan. Measurements of iodine concentration and radioactive cesium radioactivity of marine
products in impact studies, etc., http://www.fra.afrc.go.jp/eq/result_Cs_I.pdf.
29. Gould, Jay M. et al. The Enemy Within. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Hawaii State Legislature. A Bill For an Act, S.B. No. 3049, The Senate, Twenty-Seventh Legislature, 2014. http://
www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2014/bills/SB3049_SD1_.pdf.
33. State of Hawaii, Department of Health. Current Public Health Concerns Related to the Japan Fukushima Disaster - Main Page,
http://health.hawaii.gov/irhb/japan2011/. At the very bottom of this page is a link to Radiation Monitoring Data, which said Under
Construction. Clicking on the link takes viewers to a page with an error message.
34. Hawaii State Legislature. SB3049 SD1, Relating to Radiation Levels, 27th Legislature, 2014. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/
measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=3049&year=2014.
35. All EPA data and tables listed for radionuclides found in Hilo milk were taken from the EPAs website. Visit http://oaspub.epa.gov
to select the location, time period, and radionuclides measured.
36. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA Facts About Strontium-90, July 2002. http://www.epa.gov/superfund/health/
contaminants/radiation/pdfs/strontium.pdf.
37. McMahon, Jef. Radioactive Strontium Found in Hilo, Hawaii Milk, April 27, 2011. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jefmcmahon/
2011/04/27/radioactive-strontium-found-in-hilo-hawaii-milk/.
38. For the EPAs data showing the 6.4 pCi/L of Strontium-89 found in Hilo milk April 4, 2011 see http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/
erams_query_v2.simple_output?Llocation=State&pStation=0&subloc=HI&media=PASTEURIZED
+MILK&radi=Strontium-89&Fromyear=1978&Toyear=2014&units=Traditional. For the EPAs pdf le showing the 1.4 pCi/L of
Strontium-89 found in Hilo milk on April 4, 2011 see http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/docs/rert/RadNet-Sr-Milk-Public-
Release-4-26-2011.pdf.
39. Alexievich (2005).
40. Worstall, Tim. The Fukushima Radiation Leak Is Equal To 76 Million Bananas, Forbes, Aug. 10, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/
sites/timworstall/2013/08/10/the-fukushima-radiation-leak-is-equal-to-76-million-bananas/.
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1. A) The three international nancial institutions created in
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944 are the World
Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World
Trade Organization.
B) The World Banks function is to provide basic banking
services for international business and for state owned
proprieties such as lending, holding, and transferring
money. The International Monetary Funds basic function is
to loan money to the governments of developing countries
so they can improve their economic and social standards.
The World Trade Organization sets international trade
policies and pushes towards a more capitalistic free-
market system worldwide.
C) A bunch of rich white guys created these organizations.
2. A) Structural Adjustment Programs are plans that are
made for developing countries by the international banking
community so they can produce more capital from the
exportation of resources and other commodities that are
within these countries.
B) Globalization privatizes prots because state owned
business as well as independently owned business earns
the largest amount of money for a small amount of people.
The unfair or lack of distribution of this money creates
higher social costs (medical care, education, social
security, etc) in countries whose governments have
accepted globalization.
3. A) Geddicks means that a nation, which is a group of
people who have strong ethnic ties, are culturally similar,
and share the same language, are more likely to be in
conict with a state, which is an area dened by borders
that are controlled by a sovereign government, than
another nation, and a state is less likely to be in a conict
with another state.
B) Conicts between nations and states are usually
presented to the public through the media which is usually
controlled or strongly inuenced by the state. This control
factor causes nations to be misrepresented by the press.
Often times nations who are seeking independence or are
ghting for some other cause are presented as creating a
rebellion or an uprising. Words used to describe nations by
the media usually are not the preferred descriptors of the
nations themselves (guerrilla forces vs. FARC, armed
insurgents vs. martyrs, terrorists vs. Taliban).
4. The U.S. military-industrial complex extracts uranium,
consumes the product, and then extracts more for further
use. The extraction of titanium is another example of this
pattern of global resource consumption and extraction. The
U.S. military-industrial complex accounts for 10-20% of
U.S. mineral consumption.
5. A) The multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) is the
creation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development that wishes to dismantle barriers to
investment all over the world in order to create a more
open global economy.
B) The defense exclusion in the MAI is the continuation of
the protection of military spending and arms protection.
C) Without the defense exclusion the MAI would be more
equitable in that every legislative decision that is
incompatible with the MAI would be thrown out.
6. Geddicks solution to ecocide is social protest. By
joining movements like Flood Wall Street or some
conservation group and attending their meetings is one
way people can participate in trying to solve the problem of
ecocide.
7. A) The new geography of conict is the conict that is
occurring in newly formed regions in Africa and Southwest
Asia, but conict is not limited to these areas.
B) These conicts are new because of the technology that
allows for the quick transfer of resources and the
instantaneous networking of intelligence.
C) Klare suggests that the alternative to resource wars is
the establishment of a global system of resource
conservation and collaboration.
8. A) Leopolds sequence of the evolution of ethics
includes the relation between individuals, the relation
between individuals and society, and the peoples relation
to land and animals.
B) Human relations with land and animals has existed from
the beginning of time and has evolved into diferent ethical
perspectives throughout the globe. There is not one global
perspective that all of humankind has accepted as to what
the relation between the people and the earth is but there
are many diferent views as to what it should be and the
combination of these views has reached the third turn in
the sequence of the evolution of ethics.
C) Leopold argues that the core change in ecological
consciousness that is necessary to heal the cleavage
between conservationists is an internal change in
intellectual emphasis, loyalties, afections, and convictions.
Notes on Combating Ecocide
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Hyperspace By Michio Kaku
Review By Scott Albright
Michio Kaku begins his book Hyperspace in simple
enough laymans terms, but then about half way through
the book my mind went into total panic mode. I had no
idea what the hell Kaku was talking about. I was following
along just nd, understanding Kakus explanation of
relativity and so forth, but then BAM! all
of a sudden he goes into these
descriptions of how subatomic particles
like leptons, mesons, and positrons
function under diferent energy levels.
I t s n o t t h a t t h e w r i t i n g i s
incomprehensible, or that the concepts
are out of grasp, its just that, well,
quantum physics doesnt make a lot of
sense when trying to use Aristotelian
logic.
Kaku does just ne explaining high
ener gy par t i cl e phy s i cs , 10t h
dimensional mathematics, and the
theoretical applications of modern
science in our every day lives, but he
doesnt explain the experience. Theres
somet hi ng mi ssi ng f rom Kakus
explanation of higher dimensions that I
cant quite put my nger on. Its like he
takes me from these three spatial
di mensi ons i nto a new temporal
dimension, but then he leaves me at
out guessing as to what the next dimensions have in store
for us. Are the fth, sixth, and seventh dimension spatial
and temporal, or is another element added that no one is
explaining? How can all these dimensions possibly be
spiraled up into tiny microscopic resonances with no real
physical form if the universe itself is expanding beyond all
the normal directions in space-time that humans can
understand? Its truly mind boggling to venture into this
fantastical world of multiple dimensions and universes.
Although seemingly farfetched, these are concepts and
theories physicists continue to pursue with serious rigor.
In particular, Kaku explains the pursuit of the unication
of the forces, with superstring theory being one of the most
possible candidates for making unication possible. Kakus
description of the theory will swirl the mind into a spinning
mess of strings and spaghettis, spider webs, and pieces of
grass, and hair, slivers of glass, and world lines, laser
beams, and photon rays, sun rays, light waves, and
everything else that looks thin and string-like in
appearance.
The world is just a big ball of giant spinning
spaghetti noodles, I told my 5-year-old
son, who was also seeing strings in
everything around us after I tried to
explain the concept to him. Digits,
codes, html:km7501010101010101.
Strings of language, strings of energy.
Break the symmetry. . . Yes, the book
will take the brain all over the place. Its
nuts!
But Kaku doesn't stop with
string theory. He goes on to talk about
bl ack hol es, war p dr i ves, t i me
machines, diferent civilization types,
and all sorts of other wonderful and
fantastical futuristic things in the world
of mat h and physi cs. I hi ghl y
recommend this book for anybody
interested in particle physics, higher
dimension mathematics, quantum eld
theory, and cosmology. I personally
didnt get the technical aspects of the
book, especially when getting my pages
mixed up with those I was reading in
The Tao of Physics at the same time, but conceptually
Kakus Hyperspace is easy to grasp even for non-
physicists.
One of the most interesting parts of the
book for me was Kakus few lines about his experience in
the military. According to Kaku, hed been drafted in the
Army to go to Vietnam, while many of his scientist
colleagues were forced into jobs not well suited for their
skills because of the war. He talks about how he was
running equations through his head during his machine-
gun training. On page 165 Kaku writes, Infantry training, I
discovered, is rigorous; it is designed to toughen the spirit
and dull the intellect. Independence of thought is ground
out of you. I couldnt agree more. Thank goodness for
books like Kaku which can reinvigorate the intellect for all
those whove had theirs dulled!
BOOK REVIEW
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Select Chapter Summaries of
Primo Levis The Periodic Table
By Scott Albright
Primo Levi compares events in his life as a prisoner
during the holocaust to the periodic table of elements.
The following are summaries of a select few of these
elements.
Phosphorus:
At the beginning of this chapter
Levi is looking for a new job, which he
nds and talks about throughout the
reading. He briey discusses his
experience as a Jew working in a new
environment under the time of Starace.
Most of the chapter involves Levis work
in nding a cure for diabetes. He also
spends a lot of time discussing diferent
relationships he has with the new
people at his job.
One new relationship is with a
woman named Giulia, who Levi takes a
liking to. When Giulia asks Levi what he
is thinking about after an ordeal
i n v o l v i n g h e r l o v e r h e s a i d ,
phosphorous. Levi didnt want to hear
her good news. He blocked it out in his
head, but later on reects on the
situation with a more positive outlook.
He wrote, . . . a veil, a breath, a throw
of the dice deected us onto two
divergent paths, which were not ours. Here he is talking
about fate.
Gold:
Levi is taken captive by Nazi militiamen and held
as a prison inside a camp of some kind. Levi describes
the life of captivity and explains his experience with other
prisoners. One of the other prisoners is a contraband
smuggler who pans for gold in the warmer months.
Levi writes that he courageously awaits death,
and that he would gladly try to pan for gold, not to get
rich, but to try a new experience. In this chapter I see a
spark of hope resonating in Levis mind even though
death is at hand. This inkling of hope that rests in the
spirit of man is what many prisoners, including those at
Auschwitz, used to help them through the day. To help
them survive.
Cerium:
Two years later Levi is still a prisoner, using his
skills as a chemist to make money by selling matches.
He spends night after night ddling with the cerium to
produce his ints, all the while expecting to die at any time. It
is the hunger that drives him to steal the cerium in order to
make ame for others.
Whether Levi knows it or not, he is using the match
as a metaphor for his little spark of hope that remains within.
The hunger for food, the hunger to survive, it is this that
keeps him working, keeps him alive. He speaks of the
Russian liberators and the freight cars that transported the
surviving prisoners, yet he does not speak of his own destiny
at this time. This chapter is sad because of the death and
misery, but also something to rejoice because of the tales of
survival and life.
Sulfur:
This short and strange chapter has
varying degrees of meaning, but I
particularly like the quote about the
smell of sulfur: The B 41 (sulfur) was
already weighed out, in three cardboard
boxes: he put it in cautiously and,
despite the mask, which may have
leaked a bit, immediately smelled the
dirty, sad smell that emanated from the
mixture, and thought that maybe the
priest was right too, when he said that
in Hell there is a smell of sulfur: after all,
even the dogs dont like it, everyone
knows that.
In this chapter I made a connection
between the worker and the servant,
that the worker was but a servant in
hell, angrily pushing along through the
day just to start it all over again the
next.
Uranium:
In this chapter Levi talks about a man named Bonino
who sends him a package claiming it is uranium. Levi soon
nds that the metal is actually cadmium but allows the man
to tell the story as if the metal were truly something special.
I nd this chapter to be interesting because it lacks
the same direct link to the chapter name and the element it
relates to. I think Levi is trying to suggest that uranium is truly
a sneaky element with a potential to afect human behavior
to the point of lying. It also suggests that although man is
susceptible to such lies, many people may play along with
the lies, as does Levi in this chapter.
Carbon:
Levi ends the book by using the ow of carbon
through life and death and back to life as an example of the
universe itself. I like the way he shows how the elements not
only shape us, but lives beyond us. Perhaps in the end we all
become but another one of the elements.
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Life speeds by pretty quick. Cars, bikes, trains, birds, bees, comets, rockets - everythings zooming by at the speed of the
universe. Are we as humans supposed to be moving this fast? Smart phone, ringtone, deadline, train ride, freeway, zip line. How in the
heck are we supposed to keep up? Well, by slowing down of course. The following exercises and mental tricks can help ease the mind,
improve concentration, and help you to be more productive and effective in achieving your goals. These tricks and exercises are
inspired by my brother who has dedicated his life to being a physical fitness instructor, the numerous books written by qi gong master
Mantak Chia, and the many others who have guided me and challenged me to concentrate on the more important things in life.

1. Sleep: Get plenty of rest. Letting the body and mind sleep helps it to recover from a hard days work.
2. Physical Exercise
2.1. Qi Gong: Learn Mantak Chias teachings on the inner smile and microcosmic orbit.
2.2. Soccer - Team sports can help to improve social relationships, encourage collaboration, can unite rivalrous
factions, and teach loyalty, respect, and good sportsmanship.
3. Mental Exercise
3.1. Meditation - Deep breathing, concentration, relaxation. The more one can focus the more likely they will be
able to see something through to the end, whether it be a political or social issue, or a personal one.
3.2. Study - Knowledge, spiritualism, ideology, philosophy, culture, etc. Reading can help one to escape from reality
while at the same time delivering reality-based information. Study all aspects of the issues (i.e. right/
left/asymmetrical politics), discover truth through rigorous examination of diferent perspectives, and
increase ones mental capacity to learn in more complex ways.
3.3. Puzzles - Helps overcome confusion & deception. Can help to improve logical & rational thinking, problem
solving, and multi-step analytical thinking skills.
4. Emotive Exercises
4.1 Love - Unconditional for all.
5. Creative Exercises
4.1 Art - Were a creative species. We wouldnt be here if that wasnt true. Express yourself and breathe the rhythm of
life. The universe demands no less!

FOCUS: Tricks for Concentration
The art on this page comes courtesy of Randy Rambo, an art
student at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. The center-middle
piece is titled Louis-S-Olive Bathroom and the work to the left is
called Yellow Eye.
To see more of Randy's work visit ickr.com/randyrambo
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DISINFORMATION: By Ion Mihai
Pacepa and Ronald J. Rychlak
Review by Scott Albright
Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest ranking Soviet
intelligence omcer to ever defect to the United States of
America. He was a Lieutenant General in the Romanian
intelligence agency known as the DIE. He was in charge of
running disinformation operations for the KGB out of his
DIE omce during the U.S.-Soviet Cold War. His revelations
about the KGBs use of disinformation, propaganda, and
lies to discredit and attack their enemies is shocking, but
not all that surprising considering the literature available on
U.S. disinformation operations during the
same time period.
Whats so shocking about what Pacepa
writes is the incredible lengths to which the
Russians would go to cover up their own
operations and discredit their enemies in the
Vatican and in the U.S. government.
Pacepa reveals a ton of information
about the deception and dirty tricks used to
frame Pope Pius XII as a Nazi collaborator
and shows how others working for the
Vatican also had their names smeared and
histories recreated by the KGB. The rst half
of the book is dedicated to explaining how
the KGB got away with this re-writing of
history for so long using plays, movies,
books, and various literature to inuence the
beliefs of the global masses.
The narrow focus of this book allows the reader to
learn about KGB disinformation operations in descriptive
detail, however readers should not absorb the information
in this book alone if they want to know the larger picture of
what was going on at the time. Stonor Saunders book The
Cultural Cold War is highly recommended, as it will provide
a balance to Pacepas revelations by showing what the
CIA. was doing in Europes pre-internet media and literary
world after WWII. It is also important to question Pacepas
own motivations for writing the book, who edited and
cleared the book for publication, and the accuracy of the
i nf or mat i on i t sel f . I s Di si nf or mat i on j ust more
disinformation? Who knows, but knowing what both sides
were allegedly doing is important for understanding the
type of disinformation campaigns that are going on today.
Pacepa leads up to the modern disinformation
campaigns by way of explaining his role in spreading the
conspiracy about U.S. President John F. Kennedys
assassination. He says the conspiracy was created to help
cover up KGB involvement in the act. Apparently Pacepa
helped to spread the theory that JFK was assassinated by
radical rightists inside the CIA. He says Jack Ruby was a
Cuban agent used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald in case
Oswalds KGB ties were revealed. Pacepa says this is a
classic case of how the KGB regularly blames the other
side for the crimes they commit, using the nastiest tricks
possible to cover everything up. This is fairly apparent from
the news coverage we get in the U.S. of the ongoing crisis
i n Ukrai ne, but how much of that i s Ameri can
disinformation is questionable as well, making me wonder
how well any of these disinformation campaigns work if
nobody believes anything their told in the media anymore.
Pacepa claims that for the JFK conspiracy to work the
KGB had people like I.F. Stone and Mark Lane on their
payroll. Stone and Lane wrote several articles and books
accusing rightist elements within the U.S. government of
assassinating Kennedy. Oliver Stones movie JFK, which
claims the Kennedy assassination was a local conspiracy
of the highest degree, was inspired by a book written by
Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District
Attorney who was helped by Mark Lane in
the arrest of Clay Shaw for his alleged
involvement in the conspiracy. According to
imdb.com, JFK brought in $205,405,498 in
box omce sales worldwide, all on a $40
million budget.
If what Pacepa says is true than who
knows how many movies have been
inspired, supported, or funded by foreign or
domestic elements of the intelligence
community. As for the more modern acts of
KGB disinformation, Pacepa says he was
personally involved in the spreading of anti-
Americanism in the Middle East and across
the globe by disseminating propaganda like
the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and
supporting terrorist groups like Hezbollah and the
Palestinian Liberation Organization in their ght against
Israel and the U.S. He also claims the protest movements
against the wars in Vietnam and Iraq were created through
KGB disinformation operations. Pacepa says the U.S.
Democratic party has been infected by this disinformation
disease.
Its easy to see why Pacepa is strongly anti-Communist
and politically to the right, but I disagree with his theory
that Obama is a secret socialist and that calls for the
redistribution of the wealth is a bad idea. First of, Obama
is not very secret about his socialist-like policies, but in the
end capitalism has absorbed his socialist aims, just as
representative democracy has absorbed the anti-war
movements. Capitalism is the global economic system
every country uses. China absorbed it into their Communist
system, just as American capitalism absorbed socialism,
which is more of a government program intended to
provide a social safety net for the people rather than just
serve as an economic system. And the American social
safety net has worked far better than Russias or Chinas
under Maoism, Stalinism, or Putinism. This is not a bad
thing at all, but rather a great asset which should continue
unhindered.
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Drone journalism is a scary thought to some. The right
to privacy is the rst thing most people worry about when
it comes to news reporters operating remote aircraft, but
do the drawbacks of drone journalism outweigh the
benets? That question was asked on the Drone
Journalism Lab website when discussing the
airspace closure and restrictions placed
on journalists in Ferguson, Missouri
whe r e pr ot e s t or s ha v e be e n
demanding the arrest of police omcer
Darren Wilson who gunned down 18-
year-old Mike Brown in early
August. The author of the
website article writes:
Do rules restricting the
airspace in the interests of pilot
safety apply if theres no pilot to
keep safe? Speci cal l y i n
Ferguson, if gunre closed the
airspace, can a news organization choose to risk their
drone getting shot by someone on the ground?
And, how much does the publics right to know weigh
in here? What are the ethics here? Is there an argument for
a journalist to violate the TFR to report on a news event
that is being blocked from the public view?
Of Course There Is. Who doesnt think otherwise? It
would be silly to think diferently, but drone journalism
probably wont be accepted so easily anytime soon, even
if the drones are quieter than the news helicopters already
in use. My guess is though that drones will be used more
and more as time goes on, and not just by mainstream
media outlets, but by citizen journalists, hobbyists,
emergency workers, and many many others. I believe we
should embrace the movement, but that it should be well
regulated with signicant oversight procedures in place to
prevent misuse of these technologies. When information
access is denied, what other options do journalist have?
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