The Bilderbergers met in Denmark from 29 May to 1 June 2014 and in the two short months since, all hell has broken loose. That cannot be a coincidence. Whatever was going on before has ramped up an extra degree or three in intensity. It's as if a switch was flipped, the thumbs up was given for international mayhem, and flocks of demons were unleashed on the world.
What we are seeing is a desperate, multi-pronged gambit on the part of the satanic USSA/EU-NATO/ZIO-NAZI Axis to create a chaos that it controls, with the aim of both preserving and extending its economic, political and military control, a big part of which certainly has to do with protecting and continuing the global dominance of the USSA dollar, at any cost.
Can it be a coincidence that precisely in this context the USSA government's Federal Transparency website that tracks all federal government spending has in recent days announced that it cannot account for fully $619 billion of federal government spending? That is three-fifths of a trillion dollars that the USSA government cannot account for.
For those of you who live in the USSA, why are you even paying taxes? The government just loses and/or hides and/or steals and/or throws away and/or fails to account for your money by the several hundreds of billions and multiple trillions of dollars. You have absolutely no way of knowing what is, or is not, being done with your money. The government itself does not know and cannot tell you.
As to what use, or misuse, that money is being put, it seems to me that comedian Johnny Carson's early-1980s practical joke on comedienne, Joan Rivers, is very instructive. Take a look.
Johnny Carson's Practical Joke on Joan Rivers
Now imagine what sort of false realities and false scenarios can be created and maintained with a black budget of billions of dollars, or tens or hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars, with the swearing of literally millions of co-conspirators to secrecy -- on pain of prison, loss of career and/or even death -- and using the logistical resources of large, multinational corporations, global mass media organizations, major government agencies, global religions, international criminal syndicates, secretive fraternal or initiatic organizations, and the like.
I submit to you that that is exactly the situation we are in. We live in a world that is smothered in multiple, intricate, interlocking layers of fiendishly convoluted and devious levels of deeply false realities. And those multiple, intricate, interlocking layers of fiendishly convoluted and devious levels of deeply false reality are taking this planet, and the human race, down.
We are going down hard right now, don't kid yourself. Let me mention just a few of the hideously ugly, false reality scenarios that have been in the news cycle in recent days, weeks and months. I say they are false, not because these things are not happening, but because they are not happening in the way we are being told, and they are not happening for the reasons we are being told. These are massively rigged scenarios and schemes, on a global scale. The whole planet is falsely rigged and manipulated by evil, vampiric schemers who prey on us and the planet. Keep in mind that the Bilderbergers are just middle level management, so to speak. As evil and conniving as they are, there are even more evil entities that stand behind them, that flit about stealthily in the shadows, who do not appear in the news.
The Ebola Gambit -- Planned Depopulation of Africa and the World?
Could the brewing Ebola crisis have anything to do with one of the main 2014 Bilderberg topics of discussion: "Who will pay for the demographics?" After all, it is just in the weeks since the Bilderberg meeting that the Ebola crisis has suddenly been uncorked on the world.
Of course, that question begs the question as to precisely what "demographics" the Bilderberg conferees undertook to discuss.
Would that be "demographics" as in a global population that is seen as too large and which therefore must be reduced? As in, which global populations or demographic groups will pay the heaviest price for being too large, or too undesirable, i.e, which part of the herd will be culled? The desirability and undesirability of said groups to be defined by the Bilderberg attendees, to be sure.
Russia’s former chief medical officer, Gennady Onischenko, is quoted as saying:
“I am concerned about the prevalence and pathogenicity of the situation, which is too much even for Ebola. Too many people are dying. I don’t rule out that there’s something artificial here… What is happening with Ebola there, could there also be something man-made about it?”
If there is something man-made about Ebola, then that implies a high level conspiracy.
Note that at the recent Bilderberg meeting there were two Health Ministers in attendance, a high-level epidemiologist, another medical professor with a very narrow, technical expertise, and other attendees with ties to the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.
1) Paulo Macedo, Health Minister of Portugal Click the link. Notice that "Health" Minister Macedo spent his career as a high-level banker and tax administrator, before becoming a national "health" minister.
2) Edith Schippers, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands Note that Minister Schippers' academic background was in political science.
3) Heather Munroe-Blum, Professor of Medicine and ex-President of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Note that Dr. Blum was trained as an epidemiologist and is a member of the Tri-Lateral Commission.
4) Søren-Peter Olesen, biomedical professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Member of the Board of Directors of the Carlsberg Foundation, the influential Danish Foundation that runs The Carlsberg Laboratory which originally was devoted to research in the brewery industry, but which today "... has extended its scope into biotechnological production processes and biomedical science." It's enough to make you wonder exactly what sort of "biotechnological production process" the Calsberg Laboratory is brewing up these days. It appears they've graduated from yeast production to more "challenging" products.
5) Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation and Professor at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark. The Carlsberg Foundation merited two high-level representatives at the recent Bilderberg meeting. Professor Besenbacher works at an "Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center" so maybe the Bilderbergers needed his "interdisciplinary nanoscience" expertise in dealing with something that is microscopic.
6) Jørgen Huno Rasmussen, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Danish (anyone notice a repeated Danish theme to this year's meeting?) Lundbeck Foundation which supports scientific research of the highest quality, and was established by the Lundbeck pharmaceutical company. Subsidiaries include the Falck, international emergency and rescue company and Lundbeckfond Ventures which makes:
..."direct investments primarily in pre-clinical and early clinical pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical projects and companies."
The Lundbeck Foundation also has an interest in the ALK-Abelló A/S company which is "world leader in allergy vaccination (immunotherapy) – a unique treatment including a protective immune response that reduces and potentially halts the allergic reaction."
Hmm.
Those are some very interesting Bilderberg dots to connect, and I do think they are begging to be connected, given that the Bilderbergers met together in secrecy on the very eve of the explosion of the Ebola epidemic that is now threatening to expand out of West Africa.
Mind you, I am not alleging that any of these named individuals have any personal involvement with causing the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, that is now threatening to go global with a vengeance.
No, as I have said, the Bilderberg organization is a collection of global, middle managers. The Bilderberg Group simply are informed of what is to occur by their evil overlords, and are then tasked with managing events.
It is more likely that the origin of this particular Ebola outbreak can be traced to the USSA, to places like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in Atlanta, Georgia, to Tulane University in New Orleans, and to the USSA Army's biowarfare laboratory in Frederick, Maryland, the so-called US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
John Rappoport recently reported that researchers from Tulane University, along with other agencies, including the USSA Army's biowarfare lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland have been working in recent years in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, at the epicenter of the West African Ebola outbreak, to develop:
"...diagnostic test kits that will aid in bioterrorism defense against a deadly viral disease..." and that:
"As a group (they) intend to expand this program to address other important infectious agents with both clinical health issues and threat of bioterrorism such as Ebola.”
What a coincidence that an uncontrollable Ebola epidemic happens to break out in the very place where USSA bioterrorism researchers were researching the possibility of "... the threat of bioterrorism such as Ebola."
Another data point that indicates some kind of USSA military involvement in the growing Ebola epidemic, or at the very least some very informed, inside, foreknowledge was the fact that Ebola bio kits have been deployed to national guard units in all 50 states.
It looks like this whole thing has been set up way in advance, and the USSA military is in on it in some way, or at least is in the know.
And speaking of national Ministers of Health, in 2009 the Government of the USSA as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health was granted a USSA patent for "...a novel species of human Ebola (hEbola) virus." (When you click through to the patent, expand the list of applicants and you will see the USSA Government, the Secretary of the Department of Health and the Center for Disease Control are listed as "Applicants.") The "novel" Ebola virus was deposited in 2009 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
Perhaps this is a "novel" Ebola species intended for export to West Africa for field trials, with the proviso that if the field trials show promise, i.e., that the virus reliably kills a large percentage of its victims, that the "...novel species of human Ebola (hEbola) virus" could then be exported to the rest of Africa and the whole world?
Can you think of another reason why the (so-called) USSA Department of "Health" has a need for a "...a novel species of human Ebola (hEbola) virus"?
Weren't the existing species of Ebola bad enough? Why was there a need on the part of the USSA Department of (so-called) "Health" for a "novel" species of Ebola?
Maybe because the USSA government intends to do something "novel" with Ebola? Are we seeing the "novel" Ebola now?
Could the recent, massive public health "emergency drill" in New York City have anything to do with the "novelty" of it all? Are officials in big cities now aware that there is a pending, public health emergency? Are they preparing for what they fear or know is coming?
"The New York City Department of Health conducted a massive emergency preparedness drill at 30 facilities across the city on Friday. They tested the delivery of emergency medications in the event of a biological attack, such as anthrax, or other large-scale public health emergency in the city....... It's the largest surprise drill in the city's history."
Please note, as well, that deposition of the virus at the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia evidently was not carried out under established international protocol having to do with such virulent pathogens. According to the patent:
"The invention provides the isolated human Ebola (hEbola) viruses denoted as Bundibugyo (EboBun) deposited with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”; Atlanta, Ga., United States of America) on Nov. 26, 2007 and accorded an accession number 200706291. This deposit was not made to an International Depository Authority (IDA) as established under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, and is a non-Budapest treaty deposit. The deposited organism is not acceptable by American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas, Va., an International Depository Authority (IDA) as established under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure."
How irregular.
In yet another coincidence, two medical personnel who were recently infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa have been flown to Atlanta, Georgia for treatment at Emory University Hospital, which has a special isolation ward for such highly infectious cases, "built with assistance from the CDC".
This is interesting in view of the fact that the Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, Kasim Reed, was also in attendance at the recent Bilderberg meeting in Denmark. Who knows why the mayor of Atlanta was invited to the Bilderberg meeting, but undoubtedly he knows the Director of the CDC and the President of Emory University. Were they all tipped off in advance to prepare for this contingency?
Every day now brings new headlines and news stories about Ebola. It looks like it will be with us for awhile. It is a nasty disease. It kills in an especially gruesome manner. If it gets loose in the general global population, what will happen? It is the kind of viral Stygian scythe that has the potential to mow people down by the millions.
I cannot help but feel that we have seen this movie before. To wit: have we been shown this scenario at the movies, and more than once, to prepare us for what the evil overlords of this planet have in store for the masses of humanity?
I am thinking, in particular of films such as Resident Evil, in which a secret, underground genetic research lab, features prominently. The secret, underground genetic laboratory is called "The Hive," and is administered by the Umbrella Corporation (Bilderberg Group, by any other name?), with an entrance hidden beneath a mansion occupied by a mind-controlled couple. The facility is accessed by a secret, underground train tunnel, and is run by an A.I. entity named the Red Queen. A wicked T-Virus escapes the facility and wreaks violent havoc in the world.
I couldn't sleep one night here in Quito, and turned on the TV out of sheer boredom. Resident Evil was playing, dubbed in Spanish of course. I watched the whole thing and wondered to myself if the reality in the secret, underground bio-warfare and genetic engineering labs of the USSA alphabet soup agencies and military-industrial complex does not perhaps far eclipse the underlying premise of Resident Evil.
Stephen King has explored a similar theme in his masterful novel, The Stand, in which a killer pathogen escapes a USSA Army base and lays waste 99.4% of the global population. The Stand was made into a TV miniseries, but has yet to make it to the big screen. No doubt, if Ebola does sweep the planet, the cinematic rendition of The Stand would be so "yesterday" that the few miserable survivors would have scant interest in viewing it, should there even be any remaining, functioning movie industry. I didn't see the TV miniseries; I read the book in one long pull and it is a long one. I couldn't put it down. It's a page turner.
Perhaps the best of the genre is 12 Monkeys, with Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe and Bruce Willis. Both Pitt and Willis turned in exceptionally fine performances. The fundamental premise is the same, that a killer pathogen is let loose and devastates the global population. The survivors are reduced to a claustrophobic after-life in dystopian, underground cities. Bruce Willis is repeatedly sent back in time from the dystopian future, to try to nip the release of the killer plague in the bud, in order to prevent the wanton, indiscriminate slaughter it unleashes on the world.
12 Monkeys is worth viewing, if you have the spare time and the inclination.
You know, the Ebola virus is poised to go global, and if it does go global in a massive way, the "after world" of a global, Ebola pandemic would be so vastly different from anything that any of us have ever lived through, that any of us will be lucky to still be alive -- or maybe we will be very "unlucky" if we are still alive. It could depend on conditions.
Game play it out. There are 400+ nuclear power reactors in the world, 98% of them in the northern hemisphere. What happens if the Ebola virus is rampaging and people are sick, dying, or dead and can't go to work at the reactors? What happens if we have Fukushima and Chernobyl times 200?
The hospitals in the USSA (or anywhere else in the world) are absolutely not equipped to handle large numbers of Ebola patients. If it gets established on a mass basis in the USSA, or anywhere, the nurses and doctors will simply stop coming to work, especially if they are sick, dying or dead themselves. Ambulance drivers will refuse Ebola patients. Morticians will refuse the corpses. People will not go to work for fear of contracting the disease. People will stop riding buses and the subways. The whole system will crash hard and fast.
And what happens when the technicians, engineers and maintenance personnel do not report for work at the more than 100 nuclear power reactors in the USSA -- because they are sick, dying, dead or terrified to leave their house for fear of contracting the disease? What happens when/if multiple nuclear power reactors melt down and/or explode as they have at Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986 and Fukushima, Japan in 2011? What does that mean not only for the national power grid and economic productivity, but also for the environment and release of large amounts of radioactivity into the air, water, soil and food chain on the North American mainland?
How would a large, urban population under emergency, medical quarantine (whether voluntary or enforced or some combination thereof) deal with a runaway, concatenating nuclear apocalypse?
This is not an idle question. It is entirely within the realm of possibility.
The New Architecture of the Middle East
I couldn't help but notice that another of the topics at this year's Bilderberg meeting was "The New Architecture of the Middle East." I believe that means "political, social, economic and cultural architecture," but am willing to concede that it could also refer to physical architecture.
No sooner said than done: enter the deranged, Islamist, ISIS head-chopping monsters from hell, now preferring to be called IS (the Islamic State), that reared their hideous Hydra-head right on cue and roared in across the northern Iraqi and eastern Syrian desert with guns blazing and head chopping, butcher knives flashing in the merciless, summer sun. Whence came this demon spawn, and who or what is funding them, arming them and provisioning them?
Look no further than four of the USSA's biggest allies in the region. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Qatar are the primary sponsors of ISIS, funneling money and weapons to the so-called "Islamic State" that is now overrunning eastern Syria and much of Iraq. The ISIS forces are also fighting with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of USSA military weapons and hardware that they captured from surrendering Iraqi soldiers.
In other words, ISIS in Iraq stinks of a CIA/NATO ‘dirty war’ operation. It's all part of a decades-long plan to sow discord, violence and mayhem in the Middle East, the better to colonize and control the region. 'Divide and conquer' is an ancient military strategy.
In a very real way, the invasion of Iraq by the Pentagon served admirably to preposition huge amounts of USSA weaponry and military hardware for the ISIS forces to then "capture" from the Iraqi military with scarcely a shot fired, which ISIS can now turn on anyone, including the USSA military itself, should the Pentagon decide, in its infinite military wisdom, to reinvade Iraq. The whole scenario is too slick for words.
What is clear is that just about the same time that the Bilderberg meeting convened, the ISIS hordes, began their bloody rampage-from-hell across the Middle Eastern landscape.
How is that for a "New Architecture of the Middle East"? And what if they rampage right on into Mecca and throw the entire Muslim world into violent uproar by destroying the most sacred Islamic shrine of all? Who can tell what their plans are?
Oh, by the way, there is a whole boat load of crude oil beneath the desert sands of Saudi Arabia, so if ISIS manages to invade and overthrow the Saudi monarchy they will become the new owners of one of the world's major petroleum reserves.
Of course, if you are concerned with designing a "New Architecture for the Middle East," you might also want to get rid of some "Old Middle Eastern Architecture."
Surprise! The Bilderbergers met in (rotten) Denmark and soon thereafter the Jewish State commenced another hyper-violent round in the vicious, physical annihilation of Gaza and the Palestinian people, with a lot of loud support from ignorant, psychopathic, "religious" and political factions in the USSA. I am reminded of this passage from the Christian Bible:
"A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."
-- Christian Bible, Jeremiah 31:15, Matthew 2:18
This is the great crime the Jews and their equally ignorant so-called "Christian" supporters and enablers in the USSA are committing.
There is no depraved depth to which the Jewish State will not stoop. Indeed, Moshe Feiglin, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, a little pisser of a Zio-Nazi, has called for concentration camps in Gaza and the conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, as well as annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters. That would pretty well include the annihilation of all Palestinians, seeing as the masses of Palestinians certainly do not support the invading Jews who are presently slaughtering large numbers of Palestinian children and women.
Would you respect or support the Jews if they were killing your wife and your children?
I suspect not.
I was raised to esteem and honor Israel and the Judeo-Christian tradition. But now that I see how vicious, barbaric, brutal and psychopathic so-called Judeo-morality can be, I have lost all respect for Israel, and for the many Jews and so-called "Christians" who support Israel.
What we are seeing is indescribable wickedness on display. Overt evil bubbling up from the depths of hell. Israel is an abomination among the nations.
There is a photo that is out and about on the Internet, of a young Palestinian girl who has literally had her brains blown out by the Zio-Nazi assault on Gaza. Her disconsolate, despairing father has brought her limp, lifeless body to a hospital, but there is no hope for his daughter -- the back of her skull has been blown out and where her brain should be there is a bloody, gaping cavity. Time has run out for that little girl, courtesy of the evil of the Jewish State.
So much for Jewish ethics. If the Jews themselves do not put a stop to this genocide that the Jewish State is carrying out, then on what basis can they claim any moral right to tell anyone anything at all?
We are seeing a great crime: the extermination of a people and their ancient culture.
Evidently this is what the Bilderberg meeting meant by "The New Architecture of the Middle East."
It's disgusting. It's satanic.
Oh, yeah, the USSA military is heavily implicated in the Jewish State's slaughter of the Palestinians. Even as the slaughter continues the Pentagon is rearming the Israeli military with ammunition, with promises of even more military aid to come.
Ukraine -- Planned Ethnic Cleansing of Russian-Speakers?
Wait, you'll never guess. The Ukraine was another topic on the agenda at this year's Bilderberg meeting.
Why the Ukraine? Because the USSA/EU-NATO/ZIO-NAZI Axis wants to off Russia, that's why. And the Ukraine is the flashpoint they have decided to try to exploit to suck Russia into a shooting war that they can use to bring Russia to its knees, militarily, politically and economically.
This time it's for all the marbles. Total control of the world system on harsh, unforgiving terms set by the USSA/EU-NATO/ZIO-NAZI Axis
So the USSA and the EU have imposed economic sanctions against Russia -- designed to cripple Russia and bring it to its knees, like a Central American banana republic.
The only problem with that plan is that Russia is responding in kind, and has imposed economic sanctions of its own. Russia has banned fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy imports from the US, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway. One effect of that is that European, Canadian and Australian farmers who have lost their Russian market may now try to vend their crops and products to American supermarkets and food manufacturers. One possible result may be to saturate the USSA food market with a glut of food coming from those countries, that otherwise would have been sold to the Russians. This has the potential to create increased competition for farmers in the USSA, many of whom are already struggling to survive financially. We shall see what transpires.
Russia has also in recent days coordinated a major currency swap agreement with China, which provides that the two countries will conduct bilateral trade in their respective national currencies, thereby cutting dependence on the USSA dollar. This matters, because as the years go by the amounts involved will certainly run into the hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars of trade that will be conducted using the ruble and yuan -- and not the USSA dollar.
That huge sucking sound you hear is the USSA dollar swirling around and around as it is getting flushed down the great toilet hole of historical obsolescence and irrelevance.
Another development in the Ukraine crisis was the downing of the Malaysian airliner MH-17 in eastern Ukraine on July 17th. The USSA and EU governments tried to pin the downing of the airliner on Russia or ethnically Russian militias in eastern Ukraine.
However, it now appears that the airliner was shot down by the Ukrainians themselves. The attack was then falsely blamed on the Russians, or on ethnically Russian militias in the region.
In other words, the downing of the airliner was a classic false flag operation, designed to paint Russia in a negative light, in order to justify an escalation of the conflict in the Ukraine, and openly draw in NATO and the USSA.
But it was a big fizzle, as a growing body of evidence fails to support the shrill anti-Russian accusations of the USSA and various NATO allies.
Can it be a coincidence that Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the current Secretary General of NATO (the same NATO that is positioning itself for war in the Ukraine), was in attendance at the recent Bilderberg meeting? By the way, he is also a Danish politician. There's the putrid Denmark connection again.
The whole point of the USSA and NATO supported war in Ukraine is to bring military conflict right to the borders of Russia, and ultimately to bring war directly to Russia itself.
Paul Craig Roberts is right. The demented idea is that the USSA/EU-NATO/ZIO-NAZI Axis can strike first with a massive nuclear attack and cripple Russia, thereby eliminating the Russian military and government and gaining control of the world.
But what about China? Does this also imply a simultaneous, massive nuclear strike against China? If so, what about the Russian and Chinese submarines that are quietly lurking at sea, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? What happens when they launch a devastating counterstrike against targets in the USSA, Europe, Israel and maybe Australia, Japan, South Korea, etc.?
What then? How many nuclear mushroom clouds can you outrun?
USSA Border Crisis -- Designed to Destabilize USSA and Create Social Chaos?
Could the ongoing crisis on the USSA's southern border have anything to do with another 2014 Bilderberg topic of discussion: "Who will pay for the demographics?"
Of course, that question begs the question as to precisely what demographics are under discussion.
Would that be "demographics" as in a global population that is too large and must be reduced? As in, which global populations or demographic groups will pay the heaviest price for being too large, or too undesirable? The desirability and undesirability to be defined by the Bilderberg Group, to be sure.
Or does it have to do with funneling a large mass of young, unskilled, uneducated Central Americans northward into the continental USSA, to work as low-paid, easily exploitable, economic serfs in a declining economy that is losing more and more workers as the post-WW II Baby Boomer generation ages and goes into its declining years?
Once again, we are back to the Bilderberg meeting, and the presence of one Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, U.N. Special Representative for International Migration, Chairman of the London School of Economics and Former Director of the World Trade Organization.
What a coincidence.
Chairman of Goldman Sachs International.
U.N. Special Representative for International Migration.
Former Chairman of the World Trade Organization.
Chairman of the London School of Economics.
Note well: U.N. Special Representative for International Migration. This man holds and has held very influential positions. The take-down of humanity is being coordinated at an international level. The president of the USSA, the USSA Congress and the federal agencies are clearly all receiving their marching orders from elsewhere. It's a hugely choreographed carnival side show with razzle-dazzle and plenty of Sturm und Drang.
Even the Bilderberg Group is likely to be but middle level management. I don't know who sits at the very top of the global, hierarchical, organizational pyramid, or even where that would be.
It may be that the control is coming from off-planet, maybe even from outside this solar system. It's hard to say. The power structure we do see is an infernal house of mirrors, full of deception and deceit.
But wherever the control is coming from, and whoever or whatever is doing the controlling and issuing the orders, we have entered into very serious days here on Earth. The stakes are very high. There are big plays afoot for control and domination of all of humanity, and all of the planet.
We will all do the best we can.
Mañana
One of the most interesting memories I have from those days is that I had been over to the Rota and Cádiz region, which was then, and still is a major naval center for the Spanish and USSA militaries. I spent the night in a cheap hostel, and since there was nothing to do, I went out and just walked through the town. It was a chilly evening, with a biting wind whipping in off the sea. At the time, I was wearing a long, knee-length, naval officer's pea coat with gold-colored, metal buttons. It was my winter coat. I had bought it for a couple of dollars in a military surplus store. It was the real thing and very warm. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the transpiring events in the Spanish Sahara and the possibility of military conflict with Morocco over that territory, the Spanish navy had mobilized a lot of sailors and marines and stationed them on ships riding at anchor in the harbor. It was the weekend and the fleet had been given shore leave. The side walks were choked with thousands of sailors, marines and large numbers of young women (you figure it out). The interesting thing to me was that as I walked along, the throng of young military men and their women would magically part in front of me like the Red Sea in front of Moses. No one jostled me, bumped me or touched me. All of them respectfully stepped aside and let me pass freely.
Such is the power of perceived rank, of the external trappings of being a military officer. In reality I was a near penniless, 20-year old student, hitchhiking around Spain on $2 or $3 per day, sleeping in extremely cheap hostels, eating cheese and bread, and who by complete chance happened to be dressed in a really good quality, naval officer's pea coat, that I had purchased for a pittance in a military surplus store, because it was a really warm, long coat and I got it at a price that I could afford.
But the thousands of enlisted military men and their women whom I passed knew nothing of that. They saw the long, naval officer's pea coat with the big gold buttons and assumed that I was a young military officer who outranked them and unquestioningly stepped aside in respectful deference.
My Current Situation in Ecuador
After more than a year of intense struggle, the shaman who assaulted me has been indicted and has now been arraigned. There will be a charging hearing, an evidence and testimony hearing, and a sentencing hearing, if my assailant is found liable for causing me bodily harm.
I have been pushed to the wall by this ordeal, to my financial limits and beyond. The case is actually bigger than me, in that there certainly are other victims of shamanic abuse in the Amazon region. I am not the only victim. Indeed, I have already heard from another victim of the same shaman who has nevertheless declined to pursue justice or even to support me in my case. But unlike 99% of the others, I have elected to stand up and fight back, no matter the odds.
I have no illusions about what I am up against. I was almost killed. I was hurt very badly. I do not know any other place to begin to right the wrongs of this world than to engage whatever situation is right in front of me, the situation that has forced itself to my attention, front and center. That's the only way I know to proceed.
What happens in the Amazon is vitally important to what happens on this planet. The shamans of the region theoretically have an essential role to play in healing the Amazon and showing the way for humanity to deeply bond with the natural world -- but not if they themselves are abusive to the very people who come to the region to consult the sacred power plants in search of hyper-conscious communion with Mother Nature.
And so I gratefully accept your assistance. This is what I do. I write. I comment on the big issues of the day. I am an activist. That is why you come here. I certainly do need your support. I know that some of you are more than able to assist me. For USA dollar contributions please e-mail me at: dr.samizdat1618@gmail.com and I will tell you how to send a donation.
What happens in the Amazon is vitally important to what happens on this planet. The shamans of the region theoretically have an essential role to play in healing the Amazon and showing the way for humanity to deeply bond with the natural world -- but not if they themselves are abusive to the very people who come to the region to consult the sacred power plants in search of hyper-conscious communion with Mother Nature.
And so I gratefully accept your assistance. This is what I do. I write. I comment on the big issues of the day. I am an activist. That is why you come here. I certainly do need your support. I know that some of you are more than able to assist me. For USA dollar contributions please e-mail me at: dr.samizdat1618@gmail.com and I will tell you how to send a donation.