June-July 97

BIZARRE BAZAAR

WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GDP . . .

For years we've been hearing happy news about the "growth" of the economy, the "prosperity" of the nation, and how the GNP (Gross National Product), now renamed the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has risen to joyous heights. When you hear this "good news," don't wonder why you aren't so prosperous. None of that refers to you, and it never did. These are economic terms that refer only to the stock market and corporations. Their wealth does not necessarily trickle down to working Americans. In fact, the less it trickles, the better for the GDP growth and prosperity.

What is good for the GDP?

#1 is War. War makes money coming and going. Munitions manufacturers and military suppliers, raised by fine fat government "welfare" subsidies, supply the killing machines that destroy buildings and infrastructures and in some cases even nations. Billions of big bucks there. One super bomber is said to cost enough to see every child in the world through adulthood. The price of one nuclear submarine equals the annual education budget of 23 developing nations with 160 million school-age children.

But that's only part of the story. When nations are smashed by the killing machines, then comes rebuilding them at pretty much the same profit. Corporations compete for the loan money or joint venture funds to rebuild them again! Very cost effective!

But there's still more to the story. Let's look at marketing. The U.S. is the biggest seller of armaments in the world, selling the latest weapons to everyone and anyone. Then it advertises the "new and improved" models of same, not only to any nation that can afford them, but to any nation that can't afford them but is willing to take out a loan at ever increasing interest rates as the loans and national indebtedness piles up. Much happy money for the banks pours in as this mentality convinces nations that they must have the latest for national security.

There is a more sinister side to the story. You cannot sell products unless they are used. Makers of war machines need wars. Therefore, wars must be manufactured-the lifeblood of the arms industry.

Think about it. Economists know that all wars, including world wars, are the result of business competition between nations. With our new world economy, add the necessity to control the sources of raw materials needed by manufacturers. For this purpose, savage dictatorships, armed to the teeth with weapons to be used against their own people, have been set up worldwide and called "democracies."

So far, the biggest U.S. business thrives apace with no fear that peace might break out. If overt military invasions seem few and far between, the unpublicized covert wars will carry the ball.

#2 is prisons. The drug wars, wars against small suppliers and users of illegal drugs, supplies most of the fodder to fill the prisons and supply slave labor for corporations that haven't yet moved to greener global markets. Our government, through its servant the media, complains about China for its prison slave labor while neglecting to mention our own. The drug war has the added advantage of supplying funds to police departments through the asset forfeiture program that confiscates all property from anyone whose premises are used for even a small amount of illegal drugs. Cost effective all around. A big bonanza for the GDP. It burns the candle at both ends and makes money at both ends.

#3 is the stock market. Citizens in need of income or rich citizens who use it as their "let your money work for you" source of income buy stock in order to collect the dividends, their share of the net profit of corporations. At the same time, they are themselves funding the same corporations that are stealing our nation out from under us, buying the Congress, creating a new world order made specifically to give corporations control over the world politically and economically. That candle not only makes money at both ends but in the middle as well. And it destroys the power of the nations, destroys the ability of citizens to control their own country-in short, destroys democracy.

#4 Other GDP aids. Marilyn Waring, former member of the Australian Parliament, in her video Sex, Lives, and Global Economics, cites one example of a GDP bonanza-the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska which spread a huge oil slick, killing many birds, temporarily destroying the fishing grounds, and larding the shores with miles of black ooze. Waring calls the Exxon Valdez "the most productive oil tanker voyage ever launched on the face of the planet." Ramming your tanker into an iceberg produces fantastic growth--the insurance costs and the new tanker, then the civil, legal, and criminal proceedings, followed by the cleanup operations, then compensations to fisherpeople and to the tourist industry, then television rights, the media exercises. A fantastic oil production voyage!

See what I mean? It all adds to growth. Nobody says, "Better subtract that disaster from the national income account." As long as activity passes through the market, it is good for growth, good for the GNP. It may not be good for the citizens or for the planet, but it's good for the credit of a nation.

That's the way our society is assessed today--by money, by profit, not by the life quality of its citizens, not by the unpaid labor of women or mothers with children. All such are disregarded in our new corporate-controlled, bank-controlled society.

HAARP: The Harp That Could Harm Us All

What is HAARP? It is the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project being developed by the U.S. Air Force and Navy in Alaska. It focuses beams of energy on the ionosphere 90 miles above earth to provide our government with a communications system to reach submarines and to provide earth-penetrating tomography. "Earth-penetrating tomography"? Yes--searching for underground tunnels and missile sites by special electronic frequencies.

Why must the U.S. search for underground missile sites? Did the Navy lose track of those the Army confiscated? Underground tunnels may account for the famous Mel's Hole in eastern Washington State. No sooner had Mel broadcast his 15-mile deep hole on Internet than the Army descended upon him, refused him entry to his own land, and threatened to arrest him for a "drug lab." Mel, a retired senior citizen, was manufacturing a nature­p;pathic tonic from a recipe used by the Indians. (He immediately sold his land and left for Australia.)

Those opposed to HAARP say the Research Project is developing a weapons system that has nothing to do with submarines or missile sites or bottomless holes. They worry about the level of intensity of the microwaves beaming to the stratosphere as well as deep into the earth. They fear that Project staff members are playing with energies they don't fully understand. In fact, a number of months ago, a scientist from the U.S. patent office was hitting every radio station asking them to contact Washington for an end to HAARP on grounds that it could knock out all electrical and radio circuits on the planet.

Dr. Nick Begich, author of Angels Don't Play This Harp, declares that experimenters admit their process will make holes in the ionosphere but claim these holes will heal themselves (just as it was claimed the holes in the ozone layer would heal-though they have not).

A number of corporations, including Raytheon, are happily employed on this Alaska project as are many Alaskans, in this manipulation of the world's environmental system.

The plan, begun in 1996, is still in its initial stages and is to continue until 2001 with added intensity up to four billion watts of microwave energy. All admit they don't know precisely what will happen, especially when they reach the higher ranges of energy with which to pluck the strings of the harp that runs our earth's basic energy system. The military is, of course, optimistic. It reminds me of the first atomic bomb test when scientists were not certain that an atomic chain reaction might occur that would destroy the earth that day. After a bit of discussion, they said, in effect, "Oh heck, let's try it anyway." Considering the problems they created that day for the future, wouldn't it have been better if second thoughts had prevailed? (No, the bomb did not save American lives; we know now that Japan had already sued for peace.)

The crux of the matter, according to Nick Begich, seems to be that probing deep into the earth through natural holes and deep tunnels, generating ground waves, then reflecting them back using the ionosphere, produces a very powerful result. Certainly a tight tie between earth's own deep energies and the magnetism of the earth's ionosphere suggests a sinister manipulation of the earth's power station--its atmosphere. Some have questioned whether our current heavy storms, hurricanes and tornadoes could be the result of HAARP experiments.

Anyone interested in getting more information about HAARP from Nick Begich can use website www.earthpulse.com or call (907) 249-9111.

Lincoln Never Slept There

They contributed a minimum of $50,000 to President Clinton's campaign fund for the privi-lege of sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom. For $50,000 they also got tea with the president and perhaps even breakfast. No big surprise! There is an acknowledged list of fees-"campaign contributions"--as payment for personal access to any of our representatives in Washington, DC.

It could be a bargain, except for one thing. The Lincoln bed! Lincoln never slept there! The March 2nd New York Times blurted out the truth. Lincoln was only autopsied and embalmed there. Imagine sleeping on an autopsy table! Don't you think $50,000 is a bit much for that? Anyone want to sleep on the table President Kennedy was autopsied on?

The Lincoln "bedroom" was not even Lincoln's bedroom. It was his study. Apparently, like all good husbands of his era, Lincoln slept with his wife in their shared bedroom. Fact is, Mary Todd Lincoln bought that bed over Lincoln's remonstrances as too costly.

As for Clinton, doesn't he have every right to entertain his friends in the White House? Who are his friends? Those who finance his election, of course. Who else?

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